Feeling Groupie

In the past, I have avoided discussing holiday music on either Groupie and Harmony or Feeling Groupie for a few reasons.  The largest reason is because I don’t often listen to the genre much in my spare time and I kind of detest the widespread commercialization related to the genre given the origins of the Christian holiday.  That said, I ultimately figured it would be something to write about on the blog, so I caved. Given how I apparently am more of a Grinch related to Christmas music than most would like to admit, it is appropriate to wonder how I ranked these songs, especially since I clarified that it is my top 20.   Did I go with my favorite songs, songs that I find well-written, songs that have a personal impact on me, songs I find funny, or songs I am most happy to hear around the holiday?   The answer is yes.   In short, I took a strange combination of those and ordered them how I valued them in some strange combination of those. I have a few final ...

Now that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022 has been inducted, I think it is a fair time to speculate about the class of 2023.  In this post, I will discuss artists who are eligible for the Hall for the first time and whether I think they have a shot of being nominated this year.  Artists are eligible if their first release was released 25 years prior; in this case, this would be 1997 or earlier (25 years before 2022, when the committee normally meets).  Typically, there are 15-18 artists nominated and 2 who are eligible for the first time, though this does not always happen (i.e., last year Eminem was the only newly eligible artist nominated). In this post, I am only considering artists who either released their first album in 1997 or are included in the site Future Rock Legends’ list of artists eligible for 2023.   As such, there are some artists who I discussed in previous editions of this annual post or who haven’t yet released a debut album but had t...