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OMAs: 1975 Revisited

I'm offended no one ever told me how much KIϟϟ rocks. Albums, Revisited Here are 7 albums I like, that also could have been nominated for 1975's Album of the Year award. Kiss, Kiss I had no idea this is what Kiss sounds like. (It's only their debut album, so

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1974 Briefly Revisited: AotY

There was a ridiculous amount of really good music released during this award cycle. If you only listen to one song: "Distant Lover" Live In Amsterdam, Marvin Gaye Albums, Revisited Here are 14 albums I like, that also could have been nominated for 1974's Album of the Year.

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1973 Briefly Revisited: AotY

1973 is yet another year the Grammys nominated 5 mediocre albums and ignored almost twice as many very good ones. If you only listen to one song: "Superwoman", Stevie Wonder Albums, Revisited Here are 9 albums I like that could have been nominated for the 1973 Album of

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 been changing my approach to these Briefly Revisited posts for a while. This post, however, marks an official, conscious shift:

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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 to me. At the very least, the songs sound unfinished. This may be one of the first Beatles albums that

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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 Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago One of the things I continue to love about this project are the moments when the

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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 Feel Like) A Natural Woman", Aretha Franklin[1] The Grammys got 1969 very wrong Quick review... here are the

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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 "all" of rock and roll, whatever that means. In the end, the post is fairly short and the playlist

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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 Grammy's Album of the Year nominees and re-choosing winners, absent of historical context. In the 1959-68 Revisited series, we relisten

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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 no lie", that character is probably lying to you. The current One Man Academy (OMA) project is listening to

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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 in a decently broad range of genre and sound, much like Mr. Charles. I had vague hopes that, in becoming

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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[1:1] of Ray Charles' work through the first ten years of the Grammys, one of my first goals was

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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 it is cool and it's flown

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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. Je m'appelle Barbra, Barbra Streisand Adam's

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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 Regal, B.B. King B.B.

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 like this I would like Christmas

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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 song on this album called "

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 T. & the M.G.'s

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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 claps, and people yell-singing... essentially the

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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 types of blues lyrics: Last night

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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 Presley Something for Everybody, Elvis Presley

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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 is about the following four albums:

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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 following four albums: Mingus Ah Um,

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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 Dozen Berrys, Chuck Berry King Creole,