A couple days ago, I wrote a few thoughts down about the top ten music artists (someone's opinion based on Cleveland Hall of Fame list) and where they fit into my own world... Here is a continuation of the list (judged by influence, quality, etc etc) and where I consider them to be in my overall list (basically judged on importance in my life or ( Read more... )

Right... It's been a bit over a year since I made my last update. So I spent a little time mulling over it and am making some slight changes ( Read more... )

Looking back at my journal which I started about 30 years ago...  My July 31, 1986 entry had a bit to do with music.  That's something that hasn't changed much in 30 years... my interest in music ( Read more... )

Next, for the Song Hall of Fame, I'm adding two songs... "Tommy's Holiday Camp" and "We're Not Gonna Take It" by the Who ( Read more... )

Back in October of 2010, I made a list of my top 100 favourite recording artists, then in January 2014 I revised the order of the rankings.... And now, here I am back again revising the list ( Read more... )

Finally, here's the list of music artists that are in my top 100 that I rank more than 10 places worse than *this website*...

Diff in rankings My rank Artist-12 16 Chuck Berry ( Read more... )

A few days ago I posted an update to my top 25 favourite recording artists...  Well, I've prepared an update to my next 25...  and here they are with the big movers noted ( Read more... )

A website I look at asked people to compile their lists, so I spent some time this morning arranging it thusly  (as well as a short early influence list at the bottom):

ranking of my 100 favorite "rock" artists (Oct 26, 2010)

1 The Beatles
2 Bob Dylan
3 The Doors
4 John Lennon
5 Ramones
6 The Beach Boys
7 Leonard Cohen
8 The Kinks
9 The Clash
10 Johnny Cash
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For my Song Hall of Fame...  "Love, Reign o'er Me" by The Who ( Read more... )

As you may know, I have this little project of going back into my journals and then chronicling what I was doing 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago... so when I'm done, I'll have all that information together... for whatever reason.

Anyway, here's what I was doing 20 years ago:

July 1989

- We go to see The Who play at Foxboro.

- F and I are living at this ( Read more... )