December 2011
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Top 10 Albums of the Year
2011 was a year where music was set by club music for most of the time. Look at Billboards Top 100 songs of the year. Most of the songs are basically about dancing and having sex at clubs. I don’t care for club songs. And typically, no one cares about the albums those songs came from. So these are my choices for my best albums of the year, which I feel manage to not be “singles”...
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Album Review: In the Court of the Crimson King
Prog Rock has two main influences in albums; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Quarrymen, and Days of Futures Past by the Moody Blues. Both brought very important qualities of prog into rock music, with Sgt. Pepper bringing the concept album and the concept album, and Futures Past with a symphony. But Prog truly started in 1969 with King Crimson’s first album, In the Court...
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Lil Wayne: An Outside Analysis
Lil Wayne is a controversial subject in music today. Many have called him a musical genius, a man to shape rap as we know it. Others call him a talentless idiot who makes all his talentless friends, like Drake and Nicki Minaj, fellow superstars. I am in neither of these groups. Mostly, I don’t care either way about Lil Wayne or his Young Money Roster. I am an outsider in this subject. So,...
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Top 10 Most Overrated Songs
No one has the exact same taste as anyone else. This is a fact. Not even The Beatles are universally loved at this point in time. So I know that next to no one will fully, or even partly, agree with this list. But these are my opinions, and no one will change these choices. But please wait to send your hate-filled comments until the article is finished. So, lets begin this list.
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100 Greatest Guitarists (Rolling Stone)
Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Guitarists” list has the “privilege” of being called the worst list that they had ever made. While people will complain about their other lists, but none has received the raw, unnerving hatred from nerds on the internet than this. So what could could Rolling Stone do but release a new version. And somehow, the new version is actually worse....
