Five Songs from 2024
Waxahatchee and four others delivered some of the best tracks of the year Continue reading Five Songs from 2024
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Five Songs from 2023
In handing out plaudits around these here digital parts, the rundown of favored albums is typically followed by a set of similarly beloved tracks from the year just past. Unlike yesterday’s top ten assemblage, what follows here is not ranked, … Continue reading Five Songs from 2023
Five Songs from 2022
As the curtain falls on 2022, tradition holds that I offer up a few of the songs released during the span of the calendar coming off the wall. Steering away from the artists who were represented in yesterday’s tally of … Continue reading Five Songs from 2022
Five Songs from 2021
Although the most cursory click-around on this digital slab of opinion makes it clear that I have no reservation about ranking the pop culture artifacts that stir my soul, the exception to that sorting rule comes when I look back … Continue reading Five Songs from 2021
Five Songs from 2020
Using the common nomenclature of my little corner of the digital world, consider what follows This Year’s Models. Tradition holds that I commemorate the first day of the new year with a look back at the songs from the previous … Continue reading Five Songs from 2020
Five Songs from 2019
Around these the digital parts, tradition holds that the tolling of a new year means a quick look back at the old. As accompaniment to yesterday’s listing of favored albums, I present a quintet of songs that spun me around … Continue reading Five Songs from 2019
Five Songs from 2018
As usual, the final reflection on a calendar year’s worth of music comes in the form of a quintet of songs. I’m not offering these as my personal choice for the best five tracks of 2018. Instead, these are just … Continue reading Five Songs from 2018
Five Songs from 2017
Keeping with tradition, the final words I offer on a just-closed year of music come in the assembled as a celebration of a quintet of tracks that stood out for me. I’m not proclaiming these to be the best five … Continue reading Five Songs from 2017
Five Songs from 2016
There is a way we do these around these here digital parts. My list of the top ten albums of the year is followed by the sharing of a quintet of songs, probably not featured on one of those albums, that I think are also among the significant highlights of the music year just past. I’m not claiming these are the five best singles or songs of the year. Instead, it’s simply a batch of tracks that, at one point or another, grabbed me and wouldn’t let go. Lucy Dacus, “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore” Dacus saunters through … Continue reading Five Songs from 2016
Five Songs from 2015
And so we come to another tradition in my stream of year-end rituals. The day after sharing my top ten albums of the year, I turn to the individual songs that thrilled me the most. In this instance, I don’t intend or purport to name this quintet as the absolute best of 2015, although they can certain all jockey for that title. Instead, this is simply a way for me to celebrate a few more exceptional musical creations. That means I’m largely eschewing music from any of the ten albums cited yesterday. As with most rules, there is an exception. … Continue reading Five Songs from 2015
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