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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #780 to #777

February 3, 2019 Dan Seeger

780. China Crisis, What Price Paradise (1986) When China Crisis set out to record their fourth album, What Price Paradise, they were coming off a release that supposedly conferred upon them a sort of official endorsement from the upper echelon … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #780 to #777

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This Week’s Model — Emily Reo, “Strawberry”

February 1, 2019 Dan Seeger

Here’s the thing about working in higher education, as I did for about fifteen years: You get to feel booming pride for a whole fleet of young adults who go out and start putting dents in the world. Sometimes, that … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Emily Reo, “Strawberry”

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The New Releases Shelf — Remind Me Tomorrow

January 30, 2019May 14, 2019 Dan Seeger

Sharon Van Etten has an intimacy issue, of a sort. Her previous studio efforts (and there’s a big batch of them, including self-released material and stray demos) are filled with stark and beautiful songs. Many of them are also so … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Remind Me Tomorrow

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #784 to #781

January 27, 2019January 28, 2019 Dan Seeger

784. Aerosmith, Night in the Ruts (1979) Well before their unlikely mid-nineteen-eighties comeback, Aerosmith was band that didn’t just court disaster. It got down to one knee and gave disaster a full-hearted proposal of marriage at first sight. The Boston … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #784 to #781

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This Week’s Model — Better Oblivion Community Center, “Dylan Thomas”

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 Dan Seeger

Maybe someday Phoebe Bridgers will appear on every record, or at least every record worth buying. In the last sixteen months, Bridgers released her solo debut, gave all the sad kids new treasures as one-third of boygenius, and now arrives … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Better Oblivion Community Center, “Dylan Thomas”

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #788 to #785

January 20, 2019January 5, 2020 Dan Seeger

788. Stevie Nicks, The Wild Heart (1983) At the time Stevie Nicks recorded The Wild Heart, her second solo album, there was little doubt that she was emerging as the dominant member of Fleetwood Mac, the band that could still … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #788 to #785

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This Week’s Model — Strand of Oaks, “Weird Ways”

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Dan Seeger

The way Timothy Showalter tells it, creating new music to be released under his preferred moniker Strand of Oaks wasn’t his idea. On his website, Showalter even openly ruminates on the possibility that he might have reached a creative endpoint … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Strand of Oaks, “Weird Ways”

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Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Closer”

January 15, 2019 Dan Seeger

These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. Trent Reznor didn’t expect to make hits. … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Closer”

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #792 to #789

January 13, 2019 Dan Seeger

792. Eric Clapton, Backless (1978) Eric Clapton’s career was on steady ground when he made the 1978 album Backless. He’d spent several years with essentially the same backing band, he was working on the second straight album with producer Glyn … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #792 to #789

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This Week’s Model — Sharon Van Etten, “Seventeen”

January 11, 2019March 13, 2019 Dan Seeger

“Seventeen,” the new single from Sharon Van Etten’s album Remind Me Tomorrow, sneaks up. Gradually growing louder in volume at the beginning, the track is all beautiful tension at first, which is Van Etten’s creative comfort zone.  It holds promise … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Sharon Van Etten, “Seventeen”

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