[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]
I've talked ad nauseum about the impact the Violent Femmes' 1983 debut had on teenage me, an album that seemed to break every rule of rock music right around the time I was enmeshed in exploring music well beyond the classic rock tropes I'd been absorbing on my bedroom stereo for the past five years. But if album-opening "Blister In The Sun" (and its follow...
Published on March 28, 2025 07:29