1972 1972 Briefly Revisited: AotY This is officially the year there's too much music to revisit. If you only listen to one song: "What's Going On (Live)", Marvin Gaye Too much music I've
Revisited 1971 Briefly Revisited: AotY The 1971 award cycle was a decent year for music. If you only listen to one song: "Pullin'", Aretha Franklin The Beatles Let It Be sounds very un-Beatles-ish
One Man Academy 1970 Briefly Revisited: AotY OMG Zeppelin Yes. If you only listen to one song: "Prologue, August 29, 1968" and "Someday (August 29, 1968)", Chicago The history in the music The
Revisited 1969 Briefly Revisited: AotY This project often becomes an exercise in wondering: Wow... how in the world did y'all get this So Wrong?? If you only listen to one song: "(You Make Me
Revisited 1959-68 Revisited: Richard, Berry, Diddley, Domino There's a lot to say about rock and roll -- obviously. Originally, this post was going to revisit British Invasion rock and roll. Then it was going to revisit "
1959-to-1968 1959-68 Revisited: Christmas Tunes "Not a single Christmas song? Otherwise I approve of the list." Some wrongs must be set right. The current One Man Academy (OMA) project is listening to the
Revisited 1959-68 Revisited: Elvis Elvis is really good. Although, for the record, if one of his movie characters sings to you "Cross my heart, I hope to die, well I wouldn't tell you
Revisited 1959-68 Revisited: Nina Simone While writing about Ray Charles and how nobody sounds like him, I knew I wanted to listen to Nina Simone, next. While Nina doesn't sound like Ray, she created music
One Man Academy 1959-68 Revisited: Ray Charles Featured songs[1] from this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: "I Believe To My Soul", Ray Charles After deciding to revisit what I could[
AotY OMA Programing Note: 10 Years In Today, a friend pointed out to me how cool it was that I'd gone through 10 years of Album of the Year nominees and contemporary music. In the fog of listening and writing, it's easy to lose track of that sort of thing... but
1968 1968 Briefly Revisited: AotY Featured songs from this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: Heroes and Villains, The Beach Boys All of the following albums are pretty good, for some reason or another, and were released during the 1968 Album of the Year award cycle.
Revisited 1967 Briefly Revisited: AotY Featured songs from this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: "Be My Husband", Nina Simone Rubber Soul, The Beatles Rubber Soul is the other album often-referenced-OMA-friend Jess recommended when she was schooling me on The Beatles. Live at the
1966 1966 Briefly Revisited: AotY Featured songs from this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: "Part II, Resolution", John Coltrane The Beach Boys' Christmas Album, The Beach Boys I know it's not Christmas anymore, but this albums is great. If all Christmas music sounded
One Man Academy 1965 Briefly Revisited: AotY Featured songs from this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: "Country Boy", Muddy Waters This revisit features a lot of albums worth your time. Here's a very quick list of them. Ballads, Blues and Boasters, Harry Belafonte There's a
1964 1964 Briefly Revisited: AotY, part 2 Playlist(s) of music in this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: Autumn Serenade, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman A list of better albums Imagine how awesome it would have been if these albums were the 1964 nominees. Green Onions, Booker
One Man Academy 1964 Briefly Revisited: AotY (part 1) (Abreviated) Playlist of music in this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: "Senor Blues" by Anita O'Day Excitement Building When I think of my favorite music of the 1960s, I think of soul music. Specifically: driving bass lines, tambourine
Revisited 1963 Briefly Revisited: AotY Playlist(s) of music in this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: "Night Time Is The Right Time", Ray Charles Ray Charles and The Cosby Show One "I Believe To My Soul", contains one of my favorite
Songwriting Assassin 1962 Briefly Revisited: AotY Playlist(s) of music in this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: Frankfurt Special, Elvis Presley Elvis and Sinatra Elvis somehow released three albums in the 1962 awards' time frame. His Hand in Mine[1], Elvis Presley G.I. Blues, Elvis
Revisited 1961 Briefly Revisited: AotY Playlist(s) of music in this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: "Fever", Elvis Presley Two (more) of the Four Titans of 1959 When we revisited 1960, we talked about the documentary 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz, which
One Man Academy 1960 Briefly Revisited: AotY Playlist(s) of music in this post: Spotify If you only listen to one song: "I Dig Chicks" by Jonah Jones Two of the Four Titans of 1959 There's a documentary called 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz and it's about the
One Man Academy 1959 Briefly Revisited: AotY Playlist of music in this post: Spotify Rock and what, now? Let's take a look some of the music that could have been nominated for 1959's Album of the Year. A quick Google search of 1958's albums pulls up: Buddy Holly, Buddy Holly One
