Tag Archives: Bruce Springsteen
Tom’s Top 10 of 2014, Pt. 1
In December 2013, as regular readers may recall, I decided to catch up on the state of contemporary music by listening to and reviewing an album every day for a month. My listening in 2014 was more evenly spread out … Continue reading
Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2009
2009 is a surprisingly thin year for me. The following albums completely deserve their Top 5 rankings on objective merits. But as I was putting the list together, I came to the realization that I didn’t actually own that many … Continue reading
Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2007
If you’ve been keeping track of these lists, you’ve probably ascertained I’m a big Paul McCartney fan – apart from dominating with the Beatles during the 60s, of course, he made a strong showing on my lists for 1973, 1982, … Continue reading
Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2002
The fact that the following list is filled with older artists (or artists working in older idioms) doesn’t mean that I haven’t heard anything more “hip” or contemporary from 2002. Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is probably their best album; but … Continue reading
Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1984
Morning in America, huh? How about Mourning in America? It may not have quite on the order of Orwell’s Oceania (although it was uncomfortably reminiscent in at least a couple respects), but in 1984 the Neoliberal Revolution continued to stamp … Continue reading
Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1978
1978 is the first year so far where I’ve noticed a really significant drop-off in overall quality in the pool of potential selections. The albums here are excellent, and well deserve their places on this list. But they wouldn’t have … Continue reading
Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1975
After all this talk of other years being Rock’s Greatest Year Ever, 1975 actually ends up contributing more albums to my theoretical Top 25 Albums of All Time list than any other. I think ’71 or ’69 were still stronger … Continue reading
Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1973
For many Americans, 1973 is remembered as the year that Watergate broke. In my home state of South Dakota, it’s remembered as the year that American Indian Movement activists faced off against federal marshals at Wounded Knee II. These two … Continue reading
Album Review: Bruce Springsteen, “High Hopes”
From the first chorus of the first track on High Hopes (2014), you know Bruce Springsteen is trying something different with this one. First off, “High Hopes” is a cover of a little-known L.A. band from the 90s, the Havalinas; … Continue reading
Album Review: David Ford, “Charge”
The art of songwriting consists largely in the art of making the particular universal and the universal particular. To see through our own experience to the heart of the human experience, to see our own stories reflected in the Great … Continue reading
Revolutions Per Minute 