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”

I swear I’ve never hated doing one of these lists like I do 2004. To the point it took me two weeks to write this. It’s not… Read more “The Best Songs of 2004”

If 2002 was hell to pick through then this was paradise. Music in 2003 was just plain great and working on this list was a blast. Honestly… Read more “The Best Songs of 2003”

My the contrast we have here. 2002 was a year of nonstop joy for me. I won a bunch of contests. I had several great trips. I… Read more “The Best Songs of 2002”

2001! How would I describe my taste this year? Pretty bad. This was basically a holding pattern year until I got into comics. I mean I had… Read more “The Best Songs of 2001”

And I’m back. I often joke that 2000 was a dead zone for culture. It’s not. Great year for comics. Great year for tv. Even the movies… Read more “The Best Songs of 2000”