Apologies for the long delay

We thought a trip would be a great opportunity for us to listen to a lot of music and really get ahead of the game. It turns out that just the opposite was true. Since visiting CL's Mom in Bozeman we've really slipped in the amount of music we've been listening to and obviously that has translated to some dead air on the blog here.

Our apologies for being away for so long. We have been getting back to the music and CL did a lot of work inputting the most recent ratings to our spreadsheet. I will update the rankings after I complete this post.

An interesting article today from the SF Chronicle by Steve Sande lists 20 New Rock Classics to be debated along with the iconic albums by The Beatles, Stones, et al. I wrote to Steve but didn't list my version of what those 20 albums would be.

Here they are:

The Stone Roses - self titled
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
The Clash - London Calling
Television - Marquee Moon
The The - Soul Mining
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
The Pixies - Doolittle
David Bowie - Low
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
Marmoset - Today It's You
M.I.A. - Arular
Radiohead - Kid A
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
REM - Murmur
The White Stripes - De Stijl
The Strokes - Is This It?
Cornelius - Fantasma

My choices are decidely more recent than those listed by Steve and therefore up for more scrutiny as it's difficult to say if an album like Arular will stand up to the test of time. But I am pretty confident that I'll still be listening to all of these albums ten and twenty years from now.