Tag Archives: pop

Tom’s Top 5’s: Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 (Addendum!)

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Tom Emanuel

Upon posting my Top 10 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015, friends questioned why I hadn’t included several other exciting new releases scheduled for the coming year. In my defense I can offer only ignorance: in most of these cases, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Aleksander Vinter, Astoria, blues rock, Dire Straits, dubstep, EDM, electronica, glitch hop, Here's to the Zeros, hip-hop, indie, Invasian, Josh Ramsay, Macklemore, Marianas Trench, Mark Knopfler, Neal Morse, pop, Pop 101, pop-rock, prog, progressive rock, Ryan Lewis, Savant, singer-songwriter, symphonic prog, The Grand Experiment, The Heist, Tracker | 2 Comments

Tom’s Top 10 of 2014, Pt. 2

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Tom Emanuel

It’s a blustery, snowy day here back home in South Dakota. So what better time to bundle up indoors with a cup of tea and finish up my Top 10 Albums of 2014? The first half of my Top 10 … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Albums of 2014, Best Albums of 2014, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Christopher Tin, classical, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, GOASTT, Into the Lime, Jukebox the Ghost, Midnight Sun, neo-psych, New Mendicants, pop, pop-rock, power pop, psych rock, retro, Sean Lennon, Sun Structures, Temples, The Drop That Contained the Sea, The Great Unknown, world music | 1 Comment

Album Review: Foster the People, “Supermodel”

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

Caught in a materialistic economy we did not create, faced with a job market that still offers us primarily low-wage service-sector drudgery, many Millennials find themselves wondering if something more is not possible, whether our modern society has rather radically … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged A Beginner's Guide to Destroying the Moon, Are You What You Want to Be?, Ask Yourself, Best Friend, Coming of Age, Foster the People, indie pop, indie rock, Mark Foster, pop, pop/rock, Supermodel, The Angelic Welcome of Mr. Jones, The Truth, Torches | 1 Comment

Track Spotlight: MIKA feat. Ariana Grande, “Popular Song”

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

I love Wicked (and get to see it a week from Saturday – YAY). I also love MIKA, though I haven’t really kept up with his career since “Grace Kelly” and Life in Cartoon Motion. But nobody told me that … Continue reading →

Posted in Track Spotlights | Tagged Ariana Grande, Broadway, Grace Kelly, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Life in Cartoon Motion, MIKA, pop, Popular, Popular Song, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked | Leave a comment

Track Spotlight: Lady Gaga, “Applause”

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

This summer I’m head of the counseling staff at a church camp in the Black Hills, and part of my job is to design program for the high school camp. So this year I went with the theme “The Theology … Continue reading →

Posted in Track Spotlights | Tagged Applause, Artpop, EDM, Lady Gaga, pop, Stefani Germanotta, Top 40 | Leave a comment

Track Spotlight: Tonbandgerät, “Halbmond”

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

Great music is a language beyond language, comprehensible whether you can understand the lyrics or not. That’s certainly the case with Hamburg-based quartet Tonbandgerät’s (German: tape recorder) and their truly delightful “Halbmond,” one of the singles from their 2013 debut … Continue reading →

Posted in Track Spotlights | Tagged Deutsch, German, German music, guitar pop, Halbmond, Musik, pop, Tonbandgerät | Leave a comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1983

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

1983 is the first year in which I find myself really stretching. The following albums are all quite solid, a couple of them positively excellent. But outside of the five listed, there are a) relatively few records from 1983 I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged An Innocent Man, Billy Joel, Bonnie Tyler, Faster than the Speed of Night, Genesis, Jackson Browne, Jim Steinman, Lawyers in Love, Marillion, neo-prog, pop, prog, progressive rock, Script for a Jester's Tear, Top 5 Albums of 1983 | Leave a comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1977

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

1977 is a harbinger of things to come. The first Apple computer goes on sale; Steve Biko dies in police custody in South Africa, giving new life to the movement against Apartheid; Deng Xiaoping comes to power in China, kicking … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Aja, Anthony Phillips, Bat Out of Hell, Billy Joel, Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, jazz, Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf, Out of the Blue, pop, prog, progressive rock, Steely Dan, The Geese & the Ghost, The Stranger, Top 5 Albums of 1977 | Leave a comment

Track Spotlight: Bruno Mars, “Treasure”

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

Yes, you read that right. I’m spotlighting a song by Bruno Mars. Why in the hell would I do that, you ask? Because last year’s “Treasure” is so 1979 it hurts. Maybe I’m just been in a disco phase lately … Continue reading →

Posted in Track Spotlights | Tagged Bruno Mars, disco, Earth Wind & Fire, Michael Jackson, pop, Top 40, Treasure | 1 Comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1971

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

As mentioned before, I’m hard-pressed to say that 1971 isn’t the single best year for rock & roll. It wasn’t a year of earth-shaking changes in popular music. It’s simply a year in which incredible artists released incredible albums, from … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Alice's Restaurant, Aqualung, Billy Joel, Cold Spring Harbor, hard rock, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV, Linda McCartney, pop, progressive rock, Ram, singer-songwriter, The Who, Top 5 Albums of 1971, Who's Next, Zoso | 2 Comments

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