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Top Ten Thursday: Worst Grammy “Songs of the Year”
The Grammy’s are mostly an awful exercise in big record labels congratulating themselves on which records sold the most units. Sure, so great songs get recognized, because not all top-selling records...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Raptors (Combination Rapper/Actors)
Rappers often have larger than life persona’s and create characters in the public eye somewhere between legitimate acting roles and professional wrestling bravado. With that being said, its...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Film Scores
So it’s another awards week with the Oscars this Sunday, and while it doesn’t directly pertain to music, there is always some sort of connection. Last year, we gave you our ten favorite movie...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Nine Inch Nails Songs
After a hiatus of nearly 4 years, (Has it really already been four years?!) Trent Reznor announced this week that he and a new lineup of all stars will be bringing Nine Inch Nails back to life for a...
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Top Ten Thursday: Top Ten Posthumous Albums
With the posthumous release this week of Jimi Hendrix’s People, Hell and Angels, which admittedly none of us has really dug into yet, we decided to explore the strange wonderful world of albums...
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Weak List Wednesday: The 5 Best Bowies
In honor of David Bowie’s newest release, we’ve dedicated our lists this week to the legend. David Bowie is a man who has spanned many generations with his music. In doing so, he has also taken on many...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Bowie Albums
It’s a freaky deaky kinda Bowie week here at LxL. Yesterday, we brought you the five best Bowies (or Bowie characters), and Tuesday came Bowie’s first release in over a decade. We will bring you a...
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Top Ten Thursday: The Ten Best Songs Produced by Phil Spector
There is no question that a lot of evil is involved in the music industry. And I am not talking about the bands that mothers don’t want their kids to listen too. I am talking about the money grubbing...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Solo Careers
After dropping our Review Royale of the new Justin Timberlake album this week, we thought it would be a good idea to tackle artists that have gone solo for our list this week. We already broke down...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Spring Songs
Ahhh…the spring. The time for birds chirping, flowers blooming, and of course, the start of a new music festival season. Last year at this time of year, we gave you our favorite spring albums, and many...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time
With the music trend increasingly shifting back to psychedelic rock lately, we decided to put our heads together to come up with our favorite psychedelic rock albums of ever. Surprisingly enough, every...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Best Artists of the Aughts (2000-2009)
This was a particularly tough list to put together. On average, order one of our Top Ten lists takes about 45 minutes. Over an hour and a half into our last meeting, we still only had the top six...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Legendary Live Performances
We lost a legend this week in freedom fighter/folk singer Richie Havens, who had a long yet somewhat under-the-radar 45 year musical career that remains pegged to one iconic moment: his performance...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Best Album Covers
Album covers are an interesting thing. Some artists choose to not put a lot of time into them and just throw any old picture of themselves on there (Bob Dylan). Others try and go for the shock factor...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Duets to Die For
We decided it was finally time to make a list concerning the combination of kindred vocals. Duets that is. A guy and a girl is the most popular concoction, but there is certainly room to wiggle with...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Album Three Peats
The great Chicago music podcast “Sound Opinions” had a really good baseball themed episode about music “Grand Slams”, where a band released four excellent albums in a row. While we won’t rip them off...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Daft Punk’s Best Tracks
If you follow us at all, you have probably figured by now that this list was inevitable. Our month-long love fest for Daft Punk is now wrapping up, so here we are. We determined this list by all...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Arrested Development Characters…In Song!
We at LxL are all huge Arrested Development fans. And while the highly-anticipated fourth season resurrection may have come in under expectations, we thought we would still honor the effort with a...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Best Summer Songs
Summer of ’69. Boys of Summer. Under the Boardwalk. Summer in the City. Wipeout. These are all hugely famous summer songs, and strange enough, you won’t find a single one on this week’s Top Ten...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Top Ten Rick Rubin Produced Albums
No, that picture above is not Ernest Hemingway and Steve Earle’s love child. It is in fact uber-producer Rick Rubin, the man who has successfully navigated alt-rock, hip-hop, country, and just about...
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