I love that this list wasn’t meant to happen. I quit writing lists, wrote my coda, and was on to the next project. But it’s fitting that… Read more “The Best Songs of 2013”

On Tuesday, I will release my next book, 1997: An Ordinary Year in Film, an in-depth set of reviews on the films of 25 years ago. It… Read more “Contact/Event Horizon: To Confront the Alien”

2012 was a year flooded with an almost violent optimism. That was true on the hot 100 year end list. It’s true on my list. We were… Read more “The Best Songs of 2012”

We are at the edge of the end. After this, one more entry. And if I’m honest, I would have stopped the project at 2009 if these… Read more “The Best Songs of 2011”

There comes a point where pop culture isn’t for you. It’s not a sudden stop. But it sputters and you get off the culture. That’s what these… Read more “The Best Songs of 2010”

And so the last full decade of this project ends. For the record, starting next week I will cover 2010-2013 but I’m scaling them back to lose… Read more “The Best Songs of 2009”

2007 was a year spent fighting depression hard. 2008 was a year spent fighting depression and anxiety hard except I had a job at the end of… Read more “The Best Songs of 2008”

And so we hit this era. You have to have extra emotion connected to one of the most traumatic years of your life. I spent the first… Read more “The Best Songs of 2007”

2006 is a year I once thought was like 2000 in how incredibly mediocre the films were and how mediocre everything seemed. That makes sense. Both years… Read more “The Best Songs of 2006”

I feel freed. 2004 was such a long year to write about and the songs weren’t that interesting to write about. Like they were good but not… Read more “The Best Songs of 2005”