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Neil Rajala
Dec 19, 20236 min read
ECity 2023: The Music That Stuck!
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...
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Neil Rajala
Nov 5, 20237 min read
ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: Hackney Diamonds
The Rolling Stones, Hackney Diamonds (10/20) – When the announcement was made back in September that the Rolling Stones would be...
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Neil Rajala
Jan 1, 20232 min read
BEST OF 2022: Reissues, Box Sets, Etc.
This best-of-2022 batch includes the stuff record companies dug out of their vaults and released, often for the first time; remasters...
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Neil Rajala
Nov 15, 20226 min read
DIRTY DOZEN: 12 Bad Records by Great Bands
I don’t typically dabble in negative reviews – life’s too short and there’s too much great music out there to talk about - but I was...
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Neil Rajala
Oct 14, 202213 min read
TAMING THE BEAST: Rocks Off
Anyone who knows me knows this is a big one, probably THE big one. I’ve been an obsessed fan and unashamed apologist for the Stones since...
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Neil Rajala
Sep 7, 20229 min read
WITH A LITTLE LUCK: Unexpected Vinyl Finds
Any personal collection of music in a physical format is a quirky microcosm, both of the collector’s tastes and of the music world as a...
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Neil Rajala
Aug 3, 202210 min read
LIVE SHOTS: A Dozen Favorite Live Albums
This list started out as five albums, then ten. Finally, after some agonizing, I settled on a dozen. It’s killin’ me to leave off some...
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Neil Rajala
Jul 19, 20227 min read
SHORT TAKES: More random thoughts on the current state of fandom.
• Hear Me Out: I'm raising a glass to one of my all-time favorite albums, and the one least likely for any reader of this blog to have...
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Neil Rajala
Jul 11, 20229 min read
CELLULOID HEROES - 10 Favorite Concert Films
This list’s pretty self-explanatory, just a couple of quick things to mention. I included films that are pretty much all live performance...
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Neil Rajala
May 27, 20226 min read
ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: A May’s worth of earworms.
Some new discoveries, some old favorites. Here are the albums that got stuck on my personal playlist in May. No particular order, I just...
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Neil Rajala
May 5, 20224 min read
JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAST - Pre-stardom Faces
Gotta love the magic of the internet. With a little excavation, you can go back in time to see your favorite artists long before the...
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Neil Rajala
Apr 10, 202210 min read
LIVE SHOTS: My top ten favorite concerts, Part One - 1977 to 1984
Not counting acts like local bands in bars, or city festivals with bands rotating on and off makeshift stages during the day, I’ve seen...
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Neil Rajala
Apr 6, 202214 min read
DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE: (aka) Writing About Music
From what I’ve been able to dig up, the quote “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” likely originated with either...
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Neil Rajala
Feb 23, 202210 min read
Record Store Day releases for 2022 - The Good, the Bad and the WTF?
This year marks the 15th anniversary of Record Store Day, a joint promotion between record labels and independent record stores around...
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Neil Rajala
Jan 3, 20225 min read
Tiptoe through the bootlegs, with me.
This post is a response to the late-2021 news about Eric Clapton being a giant wanker, sort of. The original story was that a woman...
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Neil Rajala
Sep 28, 20212 min read
Rolling Stones: The Next Generation
What happens to the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World without Charlie Watts? I worry about such things. Mick, Keith, and Ronnie...
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