This is the maiden voyage of what will hopefully become a new series. I'm not sure how often this will happen quite yet. There's a bunch of work that has gone into this entry. So, I hope there's something here for everyone. (Sorry, Lady Gaga fans) Enjoy.
1. Joe Strummer
2. Paul Simonon
3. "Oh baby don't it feel like heaven right now, don't it feel like something from a dream"
4. & 5. Speaking of Tom Petty, Members of the Heatbreakers, Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell
6. When the scene of a movie has perfect music.
7. Tom Dowd, Producer
8. The Temptations precision
9. Christine McVie's vocals
10. Jonathan Richman's Love Songs
11. The Who and their appetite for destruction
12. Sly and the Family Stone's message
13. The Beatles sense of humor
14. Brian Wilson's amazing talent
15. Stewart Copeland playing with a Police cover band
16. The quirky success of They Might Be Giants
17. The first musical prodigy I heard
18. The background vocals in the New York Dolls song "Trash"
19. Joan Jett
20. "I have my books and poetry to protect me"
21. The Glimmer Twins
22. The haunting vocal by Elvis Presley on "Blue Moon"
23. The blue eyed soul of Hall & Oates
24. One Hit Wonders
25. Boston Symphony Orchestra
26. "John McLaughlin," the song and guitarist
27. Howlin' Wolf
28. The harmonies of the Bee Gees
29. The Singing Brakeman
30. The pop genius of, ABBA
31. KISS in full makeup
32. Christmas time songs
33. Blondie's drummer, Clem Burke
34. The technical ability of RUSH
35. "That silly school boy crush wasn't just pretend"
36. The Duck Walk
37. Iggy Pop
38. Duane Eddy and his "twangy guitar"
39. John Williams
40. Hank Williams III making his grandpa proud
41. You Really Got Me
42. Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat
43. James Brown on the good foot
44. "What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore"
45. Juliana Hatfield
46. Great DJ's, blow my mind
47. Heavy Classical
48. Frank Zappa
49. David Lee Roth can really put a band together
50. Call It Stormy Monday
51. Dave Pirner's lyrics
52. Because Paul Gilbert can play anything
53. Keyboards can be a valuable tool
54. Songs that you can't get out of your head for days
55. Girls can rock
56. The unique Keller Williams
57. Mr. Quincy Jones
58. The many faces of David Bowie
59. It Makes No Difference
60. Disco Rod Stewart
61. "I was never cool in school, I'm sure you don't remember me"
62. Mr. Cool, Chris Isaak
63. Iron Maiden's mascot, Eddie
64. Monterey Pop
65. Ravel's Bolero
66. Beck's Bolero
67. Why don't you Take Five from reading?
68. The Rock Musical
69. A lesson in showmanship by Jerry Lee Lewis
70. James Jamerson and the Funk Brothers
71. The power of Led Zeppelin
72. "The people will survive"
73. The Murder Ballads
74. When commercials use good songs
75. Roger Dean's Artwork
76. There's only one At Budokan
77. When it's educational
78. Double lead guitar harmonies
79. The other Elvis
80. "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes"
81. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal or "NWOBHM"
82. Queen at Live Aid
83. We want The Funk
84. The heaviest two notes in music
85. Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
86. Motown
87. John Peel
88. The Band of Gypsys
89. The Holy Wars
90. The Go Go's
91.The Brothers Everly
92. Signature Songs
93. Power trios
94. "Life is the crummiest book I ever read"
95. Glam rock
96. Woodstock
97. Everybody Knows
98. A guitar sound that can rip your face off
99. Television Debuts
100. Reimagined Christmas Classics
101. Music can be inadvertently funny, but great at the same time
Editor's note: If you looked at all the links and/or have a new appreciation for something here. I truly thank you.
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