When listening to Achtung Baby, I am immediately taken to the first time I traveled to Los Angeles. The day before I flew out there, I had put my signature on about 150 pages as a finishing touch to the purchase of my home. To celebrate the occasion I went to see the concert film … Continue reading You Should Listen To: U2, “Achtung Baby”
In my life I feel like I have easily seen over five hundred concerts. At one point I kept a log of who I saw and who the openers were. I wish I kept that up as it was amazing to see how many times I would see a band in an opening slot but … Continue reading I Meant To Listen To: R.E.M., “Monster”
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to see Kiss with him. Internally, I was quick to think about passing. Kiss has always been that band that I would immediately recoil when thinking about them. I mean who would want to see them unironically? What is this, their twentieth … Continue reading I Meant To Listen To: Kiss, “Destroyer”
For the sake of ease, here is the list of all my favorite albums of 2019 in one post. To read about albums 20-16, go here. To read about albums 15-11, go here. For albums 5-10, here is where you'd go for that. 20. Brittany Howard - Jaime 19. Denzel Curry - Zuu 18. (Sandy) … Continue reading My Favorite Albums Of 2019: The Complete List
Every year as I make my resolutions for the new year, I tend to make a list of things that are both attainable and something to strive for. Brush my teeth before bed? Hopefully I can nail that one. Travel the country by train? Eh, more wishful thinking than anything. I like to think myself … Continue reading You Should Listen To My Favorite Album Of 2019: Sturgill Simpson, “Sound & Fury”
It’s amazing what one year can do. If you told me a year ago that I would not only enjoy, but love albums from artists like Tyler, The Creator and Lana Del Rey, I would have scoffed at first, but then probably would be excited to know exactly why. One of the things I wanted … Continue reading You Need To Listen To My 2nd Favorite Album Of 2019: Lana Del Rey, “Norman Fucking Rockwell!”
When Sharon Van Etten released Remind Me Tomorrow earlier this year I was floored. It was a beautiful blend of fragility served with a bold, unwavering strength. The day the album was released, I proclaimed to anyone that bothered to check out my Instagram stories that this was indeed one of the best albums I've heard. Imagine … Continue reading You Need To Listen To My 3rd Favorite Album Of 2019: Sharon Van Etten, “Remind Me Tomorrow”
One of the better things about delivering mail is seeing all the magazine covers. For the fourteen years I donned the postal blue I was one of the first people to lay eyes on upcoming issues of print material and it was something I relished for sure. Catching a glimpse of an upcoming issue would … Continue reading You Need To Listen To My 4th Favorite Album Of 2019: Jenny Lewis, “On The Line”
(For albums 15-11, click here) (For albums 20-16, click here) 10. Weyes Blood, Titanic Rising If you wanted to hear what Carole King and Karen Carpenter would sound like in 2019's landscape, look no further than Titanic Rising, the fourth album by Weyes Blood. Titanic Rising really hit with me because the blend of folksy, album-oriented radio of the … Continue reading My Favorite Albums Of 2019: Albums 10-5
(To see albums 16-20, click here) Where were we? Oh yeah... 15. Jay Som, Anak Ko I've been a fan of Jay Som for a little bit, but I still wasn't prepared for how incredible Anak Ko was. This album is a bedroom-pop masterpiece. I just loved how every track flowed into each other expanding itself into … Continue reading My Favorite Albums Of 2019: Albums 15-11
