For the third year in a row I’m starting the year with a 40-years-later retrospective #ListeningQuest, listening to 8x albums (not being fussy about counting EP’s and the like as “albums”) from 198x in their entirety. I’m trying to listen to the track listing/sequence of the original U.S. vinyl edition…

I finished 2022 with a small #ListeningQuest of 20 albums turning 30 — not 92, and not even 29, because I didn’t have the time or interest and it is perhaps relevant that ’92 was the first full year after I’d sort of stepped back from feeling like it was…

After starting 2022 by listening in their entirety to 82 albums from 1982, I decided to push back the calendar a little bit further for a new warm-weather listening quest. Thus, 72 from 1972. My ground rules: I’m listening to the albums listed below in a semi-random order I will…

After starting off 2021 by listening (over 54 days) to 81 albums from 1981, I decided to start 2022 in approximately the same way, by listening to 82 albums from 1982, which was the year I turned 17. Ground rules: Listen to the albums listed below (okay, some are actually…

Late last year I decided, for whatever reasons, to begin 2021 by listening to 81 albums from 1981 in their entirety, to try to appreciate and maybe understand in a new light the varied range of rock and rock-adjacent music that had first been released that year. I came up…