TO MARK ITS 25th anniversary, Spin magazine posted the 125 best albums of the past 25 years. Even though it’s merely the opinion of the magazine’s editors and contributors, the reaction has been caustic in some cases, chiefly because the magazine named “Achtung Baby” by Dublin’s U2 as the top album. Of course, the...
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I RECENTLY SAW a video of an acoustic version of the Foo Fighters’ “Best of You,” which is easily my favorite song by the band. But it was one of those things. I had forgotten how much I like the song until I saw the video today. There’s nothing especially groundbreaking about the song....
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BEST COAST REMINDS me of everything that is indispensable about pop music. It’s easy to forget why you fell in love with music in the first place. It happens when you’re a kid. It’s usually one song, or maybe a couple of songs, that make you feel something new and exciting and enlivens a...
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