50albumsfor50years

This album comes from the suggestion of my friend Alex Johnson who tweeted his love for the band. Like so much music from the 70s, this was a band I knew of but knew nothing about and so, on to the list they went. Badfinger Straight Up 1971 Let's do a mini-review on this one first. I dig the album, the music, and the band in general. I was jamming along to the songs as they played and was enjoying it. I especially loved the alternating lead singers. Is there a modern band that does this with any regularity or is this truly an artifact of a bygone age? Send me your counter-factuals. Anyway, it was all good and enjoyable and I was writing the review in my head when track 9 started, Day After Day . Hmmm, I know this song, I thought. It is very familiar. That intro is unmistakable. And then the singing. And then, wait...this is...surely it's not...this can't be...Badfinger? Oh dear readers, I must confess, and I swear as god as my witness, I thought this was a Beatles

One of the joys of doing this exercise is that I have opened myself up to a lot of musical possibilities I might never have discovered otherwise. My basic philosophy is if someone mentions music I am not familiar with, I check out the year in which it happened and if I have an opening, I snag it (or something else by the same artist in an empty year.) This can be suggestions from friends, twitter follows, or even family. Which leads to this week. My son approached me a few weeks ago and said, "Do you want to hear what I have been listening to lately?" Um, "YES!" And so he played me the music of Skylar Spencer and I said thanks, I now have 2015 covered. Skylar Spence Prom King 2015 Skylar Spence seems to have started his career as an artist named "Saint Pepsi" which one imagines he was forced to abandon after a "cease and desist" letter or two from some megacorp. Rebranding as Skylar Spence he released an album called Prom King. At least I