Subject: RE: 74 Of ’74 For an interesting exercise, compare this 50-years-after-the-fact list with the Top Album list Rolling Stone actually issued in 1974. The original list had jazz or jazz-fusion albums in each of the top five spots. In this list, the top-rated jazz album is Miles Davis at 32 – and Miles wasn’t […]

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ELECTION Mainstream media doesn’t reach everybody, even though the Democrats thought it would. MUSIC BUSINESS Print means nothing, TV little, except for SNL and CBS Sunday Morning, yet the labels keep focusing on these outlets. As for radio… Find me anyone under 20 who listens to terrestrial radio, I can’t. But labels keep focusing on […]

“The 74 Best Albums of 1974”: https://t.ly/F9W5j This article could not be more wrong. I’ll make it simple, the second New York Dolls album, “Too Much Too Soon,” is #8, and Bad Company’s debut didn’t even make the list. Everybody knows it’s about the first Dolls album, produced by Todd Rundgren, with “Personality Crisis,” the […]