On New Year's Eve I posted my five favourite tunes of 2003. My only rule was that the song had to have been released in 2003. Songs released in 2002 that experienced most of their airplay in 2003 were ineligible. To refresh your memory, here was my top five. The
In 2003, much like the previous 12 years, most of the music I listened to was recorded in the early 90s. I listened to a lot of Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, The Tragically Hip and Soundgarden. That's not to say I didn't listen to any current music. I
I just read the AFI Movies of the Year Official Selections. I haven't seen a single movie on their list. Has my life deteriorated to this point? Despite my disinterest in "Lord of the Rings", how did I manage to miss all nine of the others on their list? I
Rolling Stone magazine has just listed what they consider to be the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Lets take a close look specifically at their top 100, shall we? Rolling Stone likes The Beatles. The four mop-tops from England account for eight albums in the top 100, including four
I'm listening to Alice in Chains' Dirt while sitting at my pc awaiting the start of the Raptors game. I listen to the 13 tracks on this album rather frequently. In fact, I find myself returning to the same few albums over and over and over again. Not counting albums
No sooner did I post a blog entry on crappy sitcoms (see September 30, 2003 / 15:20 EST) than I came across the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy's list of the best 20 sitcoms of all time. Now the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy is a British publication,
MTV2 in the USA just aired a countdown of the "22 Greatest Bands" since MTV's inception in '81. It's quite the list. They didn't get it perfect, but came much closer than I expected. The fact MTV2 airs only in America excuses the lack of Canadian bands like The Tragically
Blender Magazine recently named what they consider to be the 50 worst music acts of all time. I appreciate what Blender is trying to do, but can't we leave decent bands like Live, The Doors and Blind Melon out of it? How the hell did Ricky Martin escape this list?
