The Dog Star Omnibus Guide to Music

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"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods / they kill us for sport."

- Shakespeare (quoted recently by the even-more-eternal-now Eric Cantona)

1.

THINGS OF THIS NATURE

-  007 Mix
-  Albums I Listened To in... (July, August, September)
-  Halloween Mix

-  Oregon Emporium (1998) Mix
-  Songs from my Senior Year
-  Ten Soundtracks
-  That Ten Albums Thing (Ended up being that Fifteen Albums thing.)
-  Twelve Christmas Albums
-  2004 Mix

2.

RANDOM OVERVIEWS 

or LISTEN-THROUGHS

Like a lot of people my music tastes are eclectic, and the below doesn't give an altogether accurate picture of what I listen to with week-to-week regularity. That's probably true of everything in this Table of Contents post, actually; how the heck does such a thing happen? 

Just for fun, here's a quick list of listen-through projects begun (all albums acquired, time staked out (i.e. one hour in the morning and afternoon of my workweek dedicated to listening/ notes-scribbling, one hour on the weekend or free-weeknight to research, spreadsheet created with all the bells and whistles, yadda yadda) but abandoned: B.R.M.C., Budgie, Girlschool, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, U2, and ZZ Top. In most cases, these were abandoned because there's only so many ways I can write (to paraphrase a friend, who was paraphrasing Chris Farley) "Dude, this song is awesome. TOTALLY AWESOME." Other cases, I just don't have all that much to say; there's tons to say about all these bands and their catalogs but maybe I didn't just didn't have it in me.

Or: maybe one or all of them will still show up one day, given world enough and time.

In alphabetical order of the ones that did get completed:

- Not an overview of my own, but links and notes for two exceptional overviews of The Beatles.  
- The Beach Boys in the 1970s, pt. 1 pt. 2  

- Robert Cray (Ten faves. "Start the Day with Cray" was a thing I did for a year or so.)
- The Doors (my favorite band my junior and senior year in high school. Thanks, Oliver Stone.)
- Harold Faltermeyer (As recently as yesterday I listened to like an hour of this guy; my girls know "Crockett's Theme" and the "Top Gun" theme at least as well as they know "Old Town Road" or the "Sophia the First" theme.

- Genesis in the 80s
- Shooter Jennings and Stephen King, "Black Ribbons". 
- Kraftwerk (my eldest daughter's one-time favorite band.)
- Oasis (The Aharon Klum Invitational)
- The Rolling Stones: 1968 to 1982
- Sade (Studio and Live)
- The Shining (the opera)

- Sonic Youth
- Bruce Springsteen (with Bryant Burnette and may I say I'm particularly proud of that project; take a bow, Bryant!)
- Ten Songs of the Van Hagar Era
- Fifteen Songs of the Van Halen David Lee Roth Era

3.

MUSIC VIDEO

At one point I seriously considered turning the blog over into an all-music-video-review format. I thought it'd be a fun way to dive back into the MTV years of my youth. Buuuut, like so many things, the idea kind of came and went. In theory I'd love to do more videos. (I had a Huey Lewis trilogy planned - I still think about dissecting that "Heart and Soul" video sometimes. Anyway.)

- "Self Control" - Laura Branigan
- "The Wild and the Young" - Quiet Riot

4.

PROG ROCK

My love letter(s) to a much-maligned genre.

- 25 Prog Rock Albums For Your Collection
- Rush (My Favorite Albums)
- Whatever Happened to the Prog-Men of Tomorrow? (i.e. the 80s and Beyond)

And speaking of much-maligned genres:

5.

METAL AND HAIR METAL I'VE KNOWN

My first love, musically. (Followed by Men At Work, Men Without Hats, and the Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack. I can still recall when those three albums - along with Judas Priest's Sin After Sin - were the only ones I owned.) 

- 30 Essential Hair Metal Albums 
- Black Sabbath in the 1970s:  (1) Black Sabbath  (2) Paranoid  (3) Master of Reality  (4) Vol. 4  (5) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath  (6) Sabotage  (7) Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die!

- "Hysteria" by Def Leppard
- Iron Maiden: (1) The Di'Anno Years (2) The Bruce Years, pts. 1, 2, and 3, and (3) The Blaze Bayley Years
- Judas Priest: My Favorite Albums
- Kiss (also some more Iron Maiden)
- New Wave of British Heavy Metal

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Last Edited 11/3/2019