The Rewind Button

The Rewind Button: Sunrise

June 2, 2012

Ah, Elvis.  Probably the best known pop artist in history that only needs a first name.  Sure, Madonna is big.  Sting.   Prince.  And the artist formerly known as Prince.  But Elvis.  He meant so much to so many.  Had so many looks and distinctive periods in his career.  Perfect to create a series of [...]

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The Rewind Button: The White Album

May 21, 2012

The Rewind Button: The Beatles White Album This album is called “The Beatles” but really it’s an album by the solo artists: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and, yes, even Ringo Starr. This is their break-up album. Although this wasn’t actually their final album, I consider this their break-up album as it marks the [...]

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The Rewind Button: Blonde on Blonde

May 15, 2012

The Rewind Button is a group blogging project instigated by Rachel Tynan. We’re writing our impressions of Rolling Stones top 40 albums of all time every Thursday. This week: Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde I’m gonna keep this one relatively short. For I refuse to be caught in a web of Bob Dylan lyrics [...]

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The Rewind Button: London Calling

May 5, 2012

The Rewind Button is a group blogging project instigated by Rachel Tynan. We’re writing our impressions of Rolling Stones top 40 albums of all time every Thursday. This week: The Clash – London Calling The Clash is one of the most appropriate band names in history.  There are many aspects of this band that indeed clashed.  [...]

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The Rewind Button: Exile On Main St

April 27, 2012
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The Rewind Button is a group blogging project instigated by Rachel Tynan. We’re writing our impressions of Rolling Stones top 40 albums of all time every Thursday. This week: The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street I don’t like the Rolling Stones.  There I said it.  I know it might be blasphemy within the brotherhood [...]

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Rewind Button: What’s Goin’ On

April 20, 2012
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The Rewind Button is a group blogging project instigated by Rachel Tynan. We’re writing our impressions of Rolling Stones top 40 albums of all time every Thursday. Today:  Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On” Having portrayed Phil Ochs, one of the figureheads of the protest music genre, I learned a fair bit about albums and songs of [...]

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The Rewind Button: Rubber Soul

April 13, 2012
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The Rewind Button is a group blogging project instigated by Rachel Tynan. As part of her New Years’ Resolutions for 2012, she set out to listen to Rolling Stone’s top 50 albums of all time. I thought it would be fun if a group of bloggers listened to the same albums at the same time, then [...]

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Highway 61 Revisited: Revisited

April 4, 2012
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  I don’t belong to the cult of Dylan.  I’ve always viewed the phenomenon of Dylan to be a little bit of an emperor’s new clothes scenario.  For every fan who really dug Dylan’s music, there were 10 more who were too afraid too admit that they didn’t get it and bought the record anyway [...]

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The Rewind Button: Revolver

March 29, 2012
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Revolver.  Now here is an album I can write an entire review for that I need not listen to this week.  But, of course, I did anyway The Beatles are my favorite band.  I enjoyed their music when I was a child in a very pure way, kind of as I described last week – [...]

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The Rewind Button: Pet Sounds

March 23, 2012
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The Rewind Button is a group blogging project instigated by Rachel Tynan.  As part of her New Years’ Resolutions for 2012, she set out to listen to Rolling Stone’s top 50 albums of all time.  My sister, Reb Stevenson, thought it would be fun if a group of bloggers listened to the same albums at the [...]

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