Glen Thrasher

What a year was 1977. My top 20 or so choices could easily be #1 choices in a lesser year. Standing alone, the year would be remarkable enou...

BIRD OF THE DAY From The Birds by Camille Paglia (BFI Film Classics series) During production of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds , "A...

After messing around for a month on the now, it is time to return to the then and my long history of pop & jazz with lists. Rereading so...

A horrid, unnamable decade has come to an end. A unique opportunity for all the makers of lists arises with its finish. For reasons that ar...

To be so presumptuous to post a list of "the best" books of a year, when that year is still 12 days short of completion, is to be ...

It is about time I step back into to the present and the year presently coming to a close. I don't know how history will perceive the m...

I first heard Patti Smith's masterpiece and debut Horses played on 96 Rock, WKLS, Atlanta in December 1975. The station was standard ...

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy was not regarded as an instant classic when released. Like many of the best records it was mostly ignored...

In 1974 for my 15th birthday, my Mom drove me to Peaches Records and Tapes in Buckhead. Peaches was one of those wonderful, giant record emp...

In Pulp Fiction the Uma Thurman character, Mia Wallace says there are two kinds of people, Elvis people and Beatles people. She says you ca...

Let me take a moment to say Barack Obama deserves the peace award. Not for what he has accomplished. Heck, what has he had time to accomplis...

The ‘70s get a bad rap in traditional rock music histories, with good reason. Likewise, I always considered mid-decade to be the nadir of th...

In 1970 I turned 11 years old. By the end of that year I was already quite the little record collector geek. I spent every dollar I received...

The usual cliché ridden way of retelling the death of “the sixties” is to mention the murder at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival. A man w...

Procol Harum: Shine On Brightly (A&M, 1968); Procol Harum: Procol Harum (Deram, 1967) Let’s put this into the category of “one is ne...

1968 was a year of enormous upheaval and tragedy, a year that defined the “60s” as an idea, not simply as an historical moment. 1968 was als...

According to standard retellings of the history of pop music, 1967 is a pivotal year. To my ears it is pivotal more for the years that spin ...

The long project I began with the previous post continues below. My “best of” lists are in order of preference. If I return to a list month...

A while back I hinted that I might at some point post my "ten best lists" of records for previous years. After about five minutes ...

Paul Hemphill: Nashville Sound (Simon & Schuster 1970/everthemore 2005) A Cappella Books and Atlanta lost a great friend and talent wi...