TOP TEN FOR 2007: My bad taste pays
The Sirens from Detroit: Number 1 on a very limited edition hit parade.
The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop 2007 critic's poll is now published and my ballot is here.
It has virtually nothing in common, as has been the case for the last seven years, with what the great mean of professional music critics choose to ballyhoo. This should come as no surprise. Does the style of this blog seem to have anything in common with what passes for mainstream music journalism?
Of course not. How silly. (In fact, it's proven by math. See the eccentricity index.)
The Sirens captured the top slot followed by Foghat, the famous arena boogie band from the Seventies. Yes, two of the original members -- including Lonesome Dave Peverett, the man who sang "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Slow Ride" -- are dead. But the ringers and the leftovers in the band carried the torch onward in 2007 more than adequately.
Leading Foghat is Charlie Huhn, an old Ted Nugent sideman. And speaking of Ted Nugent, the Charlton Heston of rock 'n' roll also made DD's Top 10 with Love Grenade, in at number seven with a pack of beef jerky.
Classic rock has been hiding in modern country for the past five to ten years. As a result, Brad Paisley, Sugarland, Big & Rich and Jack Ingram all made my list. In the past they would have been considered fit for the regular section of the record racks. Now you find classic rock split between the prime slots and the country subcategory, the best of 'em usually being found slumming in country where they still outdraw and outsell all the collegiate alternative pocket-protector rock stumblers and this year's intellectual liberal arts critics' urban melting pot choices sopping up ink in the weekend sections of big newspapers.
Covered on this blog and reviewed in paying rags elsewhere this year were The Sirens here, George Brigman here, and The Other Side from Minersville, Pennsyltucky, here.
Sample pocket-protector nerd music and Pepto-Bismol for your urban sophisticate's mind and soul ballot choices, not scientifically chosen: See here, here, and here.
The Sirens from Detroit: Number 1 on a very limited edition hit parade.
The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop 2007 critic's poll is now published and my ballot is here.
It has virtually nothing in common, as has been the case for the last seven years, with what the great mean of professional music critics choose to ballyhoo. This should come as no surprise. Does the style of this blog seem to have anything in common with what passes for mainstream music journalism?
Of course not. How silly. (In fact, it's proven by math. See the eccentricity index.)
The Sirens captured the top slot followed by Foghat, the famous arena boogie band from the Seventies. Yes, two of the original members -- including Lonesome Dave Peverett, the man who sang "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Slow Ride" -- are dead. But the ringers and the leftovers in the band carried the torch onward in 2007 more than adequately.
Leading Foghat is Charlie Huhn, an old Ted Nugent sideman. And speaking of Ted Nugent, the Charlton Heston of rock 'n' roll also made DD's Top 10 with Love Grenade, in at number seven with a pack of beef jerky.
Classic rock has been hiding in modern country for the past five to ten years. As a result, Brad Paisley, Sugarland, Big & Rich and Jack Ingram all made my list. In the past they would have been considered fit for the regular section of the record racks. Now you find classic rock split between the prime slots and the country subcategory, the best of 'em usually being found slumming in country where they still outdraw and outsell all the collegiate alternative pocket-protector rock stumblers and this year's intellectual liberal arts critics' urban melting pot choices sopping up ink in the weekend sections of big newspapers.
Covered on this blog and reviewed in paying rags elsewhere this year were The Sirens here, George Brigman here, and The Other Side from Minersville, Pennsyltucky, here.
Sample pocket-protector nerd music and Pepto-Bismol for your urban sophisticate's mind and soul ballot choices, not scientifically chosen: See here, here, and here.
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