The way people intake their music has traveled full circle since I was a kid. When I was growing up (as if), my music world was AM radio, cheap 45rpm record players, and a smidgen of TV. My music was gobbled up one song by one artist at a time for lotsa years. Today, it’s cherry-picked streaming and self-made or corporate playlists. The average music consumer is back to wanting one song by one artist at a time. It’s the years between I want to focus on here, what I like to ca

I opted for as little control as possible over this post. Random numbers, unforeseen circumstances, roll the dice or spin the wheel - and...

Nobody likes all the music. To start with, nobody hears everything there is to hear. If you’re a typical music fan, with a life to live...

When I started Earworm City, I had two things in mind as the focus. One, to try and convince music-lovers from my peer group that popular...

I’m indulging in a quick year-end wrap-up, since that seems to be a social media thing to do. My method for determining what my favorite...

There was a time when these two Beatles compilations were all your LP collection needed, if you weren’t a completist or obsessive. A lot...

The Rolling Stones, Hackney Diamonds (10/20) – When the announcement was made back in September that the Rolling Stones would be...

Nope, not Hackney Diamonds yet. I passed up all opportunities to stream or download it ahead of yesterday's vinyl release date, so I'm...

Rather than trying to create a Top Ten list from Sir Elton’s entire catalog, I decided to limit my ranking to his first ten albums. Why?...