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Album Review: St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
Here at Ranting About Music, I haven’t talked about “strange” music for awhile. Cue St. Vincent (stage name for singer/multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark)’s third album Strange Mercy. St. Vincent’s...
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7 Favorite/Best Albums of 2011
Ranting About Music’s year-end round up reaches its penultimate entry today with my list of what I think are the best/my favorite albums of the year. Such a list isn’t going to be definitive,...
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Album Review Round Up Q1 2014 (Pharrell, Beck, St. Vincent, Against Me!)
Pharrell – G I R L Well, let’s not all act surprised. Hell, once Pharrell’s third big name collaboration was released last summer, I started wondering if he was sitting on an album already. But no, in...
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Top 11 Favorite Albums of 2014
Welcome to Listmas Day Five, where we’re finally leaving the gridlock of the charts and song-by-song analysis for the open territories of entire albums. As with Listmases long, long ago, the albums...
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2015 Grammy Recap
Behold, your Grammys in five seconds. Credit: Billboard.com The image of Sam Smith and Mary J. Blige cruising through an extra cushy version of Smith’s already Ambien-friendly ballad “Stay With Me”...
View ArticleThe Gibby Fifty: 50 Favorite Songs of 2017
Hey all, and welcome back for day 2 of Listmas 2017! I imagine that most of us are going to spend the day abuzz about Star Wars, or staying off the internet to avoid Star Wars spoilers. I get that! So...
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Ranting About Music’s 30 Favorite Albums of the 2010s
It is the fall of 2009, and I am in a university computer lab. I am a freshman English major working on a paper while listening to music on my mp3 player through corded headphones. At the same time, I...
View ArticleFifty Favorite Songs of 2020–The Gibby Fifty
Hello all and Happy New Year! We’re back with part 2 of our Listmas 2020 coverage for my 50 favorite songs of 2020. As much as this was a good music year, it also soared on a song-by-song basis, and...
View ArticleThe Gibby 50: My 50 Favorite Songs of 2021
Hello there! And welcome back to Listmas 2021, RAM’s end of year coverage. Today’s entry is pretty straight forward, it’s my 50 favorite songs of last year. All a song had to do to make the list was...
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