Daniel Brody
@danielwbrody.bsky.social
Counting down the 1000 greatest rock and roll songs of all time and making other lists of my favorite tunes and albums. Rock and roll is my favorite genre but I truly like a little bit of everything, from classical and cumbia to honky-tonk and highlife.
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The Best 100 Rap Albums List: Recast as Rock Albums.
@sonraw.bsky.social runs through Pitchfork's recent rewiring of the rap canon and re-imagines it by applying the same list-making decisions to rock albums.
8,000 words of inside baseball brilliance.
www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/14/t...
@sonraw.bsky.social runs through Pitchfork's recent rewiring of the rap canon and re-imagines it by applying the same list-making decisions to rock albums.
8,000 words of inside baseball brilliance.
www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/14/t...
The 100 Best Rap Albums Of All-Time List – As Rock Albums | Passion of the Weiss
"They'd never have the balls to do this to rock music." Son Raw dissects and inverts the new canon.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The Best 100 Rap Albums List: Recast as Rock Albums.
@sonraw.bsky.social runs through Pitchfork's recent rewiring of the rap canon and re-imagines it by applying the same list-making decisions to rock albums.
8,000 words of inside baseball brilliance.
www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/14/t...
@sonraw.bsky.social runs through Pitchfork's recent rewiring of the rap canon and re-imagines it by applying the same list-making decisions to rock albums.
8,000 words of inside baseball brilliance.
www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/14/t...
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Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
I guess Get Up With It and Big Fun are technically odds and sods collections of extraneous tracks from the Electric Miles era, but they are every bit as good as any official album released around the same time their tracks were recorded.
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I guess Get Up With It and Big Fun are technically odds and sods collections of extraneous tracks from the Electric Miles era, but they are every bit as good as any official album released around the same time their tracks were recorded.
Clearing my sinuses this morning
Directions (Live at the Fillmore East, New York, NY - March 1970)
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
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November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Clearing my sinuses this morning
Did anyone ever attempt to critically rehabilitate the Clash’s Cut the Crap? Did the War on Drugs ever cover any of its songs? Seems like Combat Rock has recovered from being considered a big sellout but making the case for Cut the Crap is a much harder sell.
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Did anyone ever attempt to critically rehabilitate the Clash’s Cut the Crap? Did the War on Drugs ever cover any of its songs? Seems like Combat Rock has recovered from being considered a big sellout but making the case for Cut the Crap is a much harder sell.
I would add that most people don't want the "radio station/MTV programmed by DJs with good taste entrusted to choose the songs" that I tend to gravitate towards either. They actually trust the TikTok algorithm or Discover Weekly or whatever. Deeply depressing, feels more dinosaur than it should.
yes I think @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has talked about this, it's deeply alienating to find out that the vast majority of people do not want the curated timeline / engagement / discussion version of social media that I find to be the only good version of the experience
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I would add that most people don't want the "radio station/MTV programmed by DJs with good taste entrusted to choose the songs" that I tend to gravitate towards either. They actually trust the TikTok algorithm or Discover Weekly or whatever. Deeply depressing, feels more dinosaur than it should.
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yes I think @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has talked about this, it's deeply alienating to find out that the vast majority of people do not want the curated timeline / engagement / discussion version of social media that I find to be the only good version of the experience
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
yes I think @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has talked about this, it's deeply alienating to find out that the vast majority of people do not want the curated timeline / engagement / discussion version of social media that I find to be the only good version of the experience
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People say taste is subjective, but no, this is what good taste is.
In his Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech, Jack White shouted out over 30 acts that inspired the White Stripes – none of whom have been inducted
www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
People say taste is subjective, but no, this is what good taste is.
725/1000 The Units, "High Pressure Days" - Keyboards got a bad rap for the longest time as the refuge of artsy fartsy prog rockers and other poseurs who doubted the transcendental primacy of the guitar, but this song shows just how obnoxious and punk a synthesizer can be. #brodystoprock1000
The Units - High Pressure Days
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November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
725/1000 The Units, "High Pressure Days" - Keyboards got a bad rap for the longest time as the refuge of artsy fartsy prog rockers and other poseurs who doubted the transcendental primacy of the guitar, but this song shows just how obnoxious and punk a synthesizer can be. #brodystoprock1000
Enjoying conservative crashouts about the election as much as anyone, but is any conservative at all earnestly engaged in some introspection? Mostly I just see racist sour grapes about importing a new electorate, sarcastic good luck wishes to NYC and Virginia, etc. Do they want to learn anything?
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Enjoying conservative crashouts about the election as much as anyone, but is any conservative at all earnestly engaged in some introspection? Mostly I just see racist sour grapes about importing a new electorate, sarcastic good luck wishes to NYC and Virginia, etc. Do they want to learn anything?
Woke up this morning in a Cousin Brucie state of mind…
AM Radio by Daniel Brody on Apple Music
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November 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Woke up this morning in a Cousin Brucie state of mind…
Frank Zappa released multiple compilations of his guitar solos removed from their original songs and concert recordings and then edited to play one after the other completely free of whatever context they were originally played in. Why would he do this? Who would enjoy music organized like this?
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Frank Zappa released multiple compilations of his guitar solos removed from their original songs and concert recordings and then edited to play one after the other completely free of whatever context they were originally played in. Why would he do this? Who would enjoy music organized like this?
What if you fused NY hardcore punk with hip-hop and made sure the rapping was some of the worst ever, and added some saxophones? Sure, why not, beat nu-metal to the punch why don’t ya?
Dog Eat Dog No Fronts
YouTube video by Dog Eat Dog
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November 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
What if you fused NY hardcore punk with hip-hop and made sure the rapping was some of the worst ever, and added some saxophones? Sure, why not, beat nu-metal to the punch why don’t ya?
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my favorite student praise when i was teaching a history of rock course was "your class helped me understand my dad better"
This is how it felt teaching zoomers about punk in my pop music class today
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
my favorite student praise when i was teaching a history of rock course was "your class helped me understand my dad better"
At the stage in my Zappa obsession where I am becoming an Ike Willis stan. Boy did that guy soften some rough edges.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
At the stage in my Zappa obsession where I am becoming an Ike Willis stan. Boy did that guy soften some rough edges.
"Pop music is just as capable as rock music of reaching transcendence" and "Popularity itself is a meaningful reflection of quality that deserves respect" are 2 separate arguments that get conflated by proponents and critics of each all the time, and mostly result in people arguing past each other.
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Pop music is just as capable as rock music of reaching transcendence" and "Popularity itself is a meaningful reflection of quality that deserves respect" are 2 separate arguments that get conflated by proponents and critics of each all the time, and mostly result in people arguing past each other.
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Multiple things can be true:
1) There were a bunch of good albums and songs that came out in 1989
2) The most enduring music isn't always what tops the charts
3) The top 20 from Billboard's 1989 year end chart is particularly dire
1) There were a bunch of good albums and songs that came out in 1989
2) The most enduring music isn't always what tops the charts
3) The top 20 from Billboard's 1989 year end chart is particularly dire
People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Multiple things can be true:
1) There were a bunch of good albums and songs that came out in 1989
2) The most enduring music isn't always what tops the charts
3) The top 20 from Billboard's 1989 year end chart is particularly dire
1) There were a bunch of good albums and songs that came out in 1989
2) The most enduring music isn't always what tops the charts
3) The top 20 from Billboard's 1989 year end chart is particularly dire
726/1000 Bill Withers, “Lovely Day” - One of those songs where the singer’s performance is so guileless that their simple joy is infectious, even if your inborn cynicism would otherwise wretch at such earnest contentment. The lingering high notes at the end are cathartic. #brodystoprock1000
Bill Withers - Lovely Day (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BillWithersVEVO
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October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
726/1000 Bill Withers, “Lovely Day” - One of those songs where the singer’s performance is so guileless that their simple joy is infectious, even if your inborn cynicism would otherwise wretch at such earnest contentment. The lingering high notes at the end are cathartic. #brodystoprock1000
Didn't realize Jim Hopper and Lily Allen were a couple until her Blood on the Tracks came out a few days ago. My brain is not really computing it? Even before you get to the TMI subject matter around the divorce. I'm flummoxed.
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Didn't realize Jim Hopper and Lily Allen were a couple until her Blood on the Tracks came out a few days ago. My brain is not really computing it? Even before you get to the TMI subject matter around the divorce. I'm flummoxed.
You Can't Do That Onstage Anymore Volume 6 is Frank Zappa's entry into "the all-time worst skits on an album" competition and no rapper comes particularly close. Just endless amounts of Zappa rhapsodizing on his bawdy fantasies and bad takes on gender relations, nary a funny punchline in sight.
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You Can't Do That Onstage Anymore Volume 6 is Frank Zappa's entry into "the all-time worst skits on an album" competition and no rapper comes particularly close. Just endless amounts of Zappa rhapsodizing on his bawdy fantasies and bad takes on gender relations, nary a funny punchline in sight.
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Peak Indie, in @ericdharvey.com’s essay about @chrisdeville.bsky.social’s book, is 2010. Spotify entered the US market in July 2011. Streaming killed the music blog star - the blogs themselves - and ultimately nearly all music writer jobs in journalism. We are reduced to writing books and substacks
October 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Peak Indie, in @ericdharvey.com’s essay about @chrisdeville.bsky.social’s book, is 2010. Spotify entered the US market in July 2011. Streaming killed the music blog star - the blogs themselves - and ultimately nearly all music writer jobs in journalism. We are reduced to writing books and substacks
There's a few I have never really understood. Candy corn tastes like bad cake icing. York Peppermint Patties taste like brushing your teeth after eating a lot of chocolate candy. Good and Plenty kind of tastes like medicine. Charleston Chew and Milk Duds feel like they'll pull your teeth out.
In the spirit of @crushbort.bsky.social post about antagonizing Trick or Treaters with bad candy, what's your bottom of the barrel candy, the one that fills you with rage and disappointment in equal measure?
For me it's Circus Peanuts. Styrofoam peanuts sprayed a sickly shade of orange isn't candy
For me it's Circus Peanuts. Styrofoam peanuts sprayed a sickly shade of orange isn't candy
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
There's a few I have never really understood. Candy corn tastes like bad cake icing. York Peppermint Patties taste like brushing your teeth after eating a lot of chocolate candy. Good and Plenty kind of tastes like medicine. Charleston Chew and Milk Duds feel like they'll pull your teeth out.
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hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
RIP, this fusion era of Miles Davis - one of the greatest runs of any recording artist in any genre ever - would not have been the same without DeJohnette.
DeJohnette drumming on Miles' "Yesternow," with John McLaughlin, Sonny Sharrock, Bernie Maupin, Chick Corea, Dave Holland: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdye...
Yesternow
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
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October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
RIP, this fusion era of Miles Davis - one of the greatest runs of any recording artist in any genre ever - would not have been the same without DeJohnette.
727/1000 Skid Row, “18 and Life” - The band proposed that hair metal might be better by only softening up the metal a little bit for their power ballads and subtracting the most garish fashion and makeup choices from their wardrobe. Wrong on both counts but this is still a banger. #brodystoprock1000
Skid Row - 18 And Life (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
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October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
727/1000 Skid Row, “18 and Life” - The band proposed that hair metal might be better by only softening up the metal a little bit for their power ballads and subtracting the most garish fashion and makeup choices from their wardrobe. Wrong on both counts but this is still a banger. #brodystoprock1000