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DOUG'S MUSIC BLOG
Top Music of 2025
2025 Playlists Spotify Links: Top Music of 2025 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2GZkbgaeNljYll6SQX3fQP?si=85be8e74063d4008 2025 Music Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6owwH1ln6BKahZav4CZRqR?si=5f82f8925ad346b6 Top Music of the 2020s...so far https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78eLOVk2sNm3aEiYPHGzm8?si=dfec9cf75dd54d79 Top Albums of 2025 Alex Williams - Space Brain - Fun Outlaw Country versions of Hard Rock Classics Ally Venable: Money & Power - Rockin Blues with
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Dec 21, 20256 min read
Buddy Guy
The Enduring Legacy of Buddy Guy: A History and Discography I. Introduction: The Living Legend of the Blues George "Buddy" Guy, born on...
Doug
Jun 28, 202525 min read


College Radio
College Radio - The 1980s (125+ Hours) - Hit Shuffle in Spotify! Celebrating the 40th anniversary of WEIU-FM and in memory of Kevin and...
Doug
Jun 17, 202525 min read
Top Music of 2024
Mega 2024 Playlist Top Albums of 2024 49 Winchester - Leavin This Holler - Country Rock Albert Cummins - Strong - Blues Rock Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness - Punk Rock Anders Osborne - Picasso's Villa Armchair Boogie - Hard Times & Deadlines - Americana Avett Brothers - The Avett Brothers - Americana Barnstar! - Furious Kindness - Americana Billy Strings - Highway Prayers - Americana Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here - Country Rock
Doug
Jan 12, 20252 min read
Top Music of 2023
Top Songs of 2023 Playlist Mega 2023 Playlist Artist Album Rating Genre Drayton Farley Twenty on High Best Americana Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Weathervanes Best Americana John R. Miller Heat Comes Down Best Americana Lori McKenna 1988 Best Americana Lucero Should've Learned By Now Best Rock\Pop Mae Simpson Chandeliar & Bloom Best Americana Rock Marty Stuart and his Fabolous Superlatives Altitude Best Americana A
Doug
Dec 31, 20235 min read
Top Music of 2022
Mega 2022 Playlist Top 20 Albums of 2022 (no order) The Boy Name If - Elvis Costello The Blues Don't Lie - Buddy Guy Fear of the Dawn - Jack White Palomino - Miranda Lambert Just Like That… - Bonnie Raitt Paint This Town - Old Crow Medicine Show Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? - Tyler Childers American Heartbreak - Zach Bryan Bell Bottom Country - Lainey Wilson Young Blood - Marcus King Bleed Out - The Mountain Goats Chicamacomico - American Aquarium Emotional Creatur
Doug
Dec 17, 20223 min read
Top Music of 1999
Top 20 Albums 1999 Summerteeth - Wilco Fight Songs - Old 97's The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against the Machine The White Stripes - The White Stripes Fly - The Dixie Chicks Human Clay - Creed One From the Modern - Ocean Colour Scene By Your Side - The Black Crowes Burn to Shine - Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers There Is Nothing Left to Lose - Foo Fighters Broken Things - Julie Miller Mule Variations - Tom Waits Get Skintight -
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Dec 31, 19995 min read
Top Rock Music 1998
Top 20 Rock Albums 1998 1965 - Afghan Whigs Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams Wide Open Spaces - The Chicks Dizzy Up the Girl - Goo Goo Dolls 5 - Lenny Kravitz Dose - Gov't Mule Devil Without a Cause - Kid Rock Life Won't Wait - Rancid Stunt - Barenaked Ladies Celebrity Skin - Hole Before These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too - New Radicals Bob Mould - The Last Dog and Pony Show Jump Jive an' Wail - Brian Setzer Orchestra El
Doug
Dec 31, 19985 min read
Top Rock Music 1997
Top 20 Rock Albums 1997 Too Far to Care - Old 97s Straightaways - Son Volt OK Computer - Radiohead Marchin' Already - Ocean Colour Scene Urban Hymns - The Verve Reload - Metallica Heavy Soul - Paul Weller The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters Blue Moon Swamp - John Fogerty In It for the Money - Supergrass The Bottle & Fresh Horses - The Refreshments Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind So Much for the Afterglow - Everclear Strangers Almanac - Whiskeytown Nimrod - Green Day Wh
Doug
Dec 31, 19975 min read
Top Rock Music 1996
Top 20 Rock Albums 1996 Being There - Wilco Moseley Shoals - Ocean Colour Scene New Adventures in Hi-Fi - R.E.M. Sublime - Sublime Yourself or Someone Like You - Matchbox 20 Turn the Radio Off - Reel Big Fish Odelay - Beck Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow Pinkerton - Weezer Bringing Down the Horse - Wallflowers Load - Metallica Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican - Stone Temple Pilots Eventually - Paul Westerberg Down On the Upside - Soundgarden I Feel Alright - Steve Earle Three Sn
Doug
Dec 31, 19964 min read
Top Rock Music 1995
Top 20 Rock Albums 1995 Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis A Boy Named Goo - Goo Goo Dolls A.M. - Wilco Trace - Son Volt Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins The Bends - Radiohead ..And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid 311 - 311 Tigerlily - Natalie Merchant I Should Coco - Supergrass Collective Soul - Collective Soul Relish - Joan Osborne Presidents of the United States of America - Pr
Doug
Dec 31, 19955 min read
Top Rock Music 1994
Top 20 Rock Albums 1994 Dookie - Green Day Superunknown - Soundgarden Smash - Offspring Sixteen Stone - Bush Cracked Rear View - Hootie and the Blowfish Throwing Copper - Live Vitalogy - Pearl Jam Definitely Maybe - Oasis Weezer - Weezer Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails Purple - Stone Temple Pilots Monster - R.E.M. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement Four - Blues Traveler File Under: Easy Listening - Sugar Mellow Gold - Beck Amorica - Black Crowes Grace - Jeff Buckley Wha
Doug
Dec 31, 19944 min read
Top Rock Music 1993
Top 20 Rock Albums 1993 Vs. - Pearl Jam In Utero - Nirvana Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins Anodyne - Uncle Tupelo Gentlemen - Afghan Whigs Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz Wild Wood - Paul Weller Superstar Car Wash - Goo Goo Dolls August and Everything After - Counting Crows Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair Feels Like Rain - Buddy Guy 14 Songs - Paul Westerberg Tales of Ordinary Madness - Warren Haynes Kerosene Hat - Cracker Where
Doug
Dec 31, 19935 min read
Top Rock Music 1992
Top 20 Rock Albums 1992 Core - Stone Temple Pilots Hollywood Town Hall - Jayhawks Southern Harmony & Musical Companion - Black Crowes Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Automatic for the People - R.E.M. Fully Completely - Tragically Hip Copper Blue - Sugar Grave Dancers Union - Soul Asylum Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement The Chronic - Dr. Dre New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms Bricks Are Heavy - L7 Kiko - Los Lobos March 16-20, 1992 - Uncle Tupelo Amuse
Doug
Dec 31, 19925 min read
Top Rock Music 1991
Top 20 Rock Albums 1991 Nevermind - Nirvana Ten - Pearl Jam Metallica (a.k.a. The Black Album) - Metallica Achtung Baby - U2 Still Feel Gone - Uncle Tupelo Out of Time - R.E.M. BadMotorFinger - Soundgarden The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr. Fly Me Courageous - Drivin N Cryin Pocket Full of Kryptonite - Spin Doctors Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet The Sky Is Crying - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Rumour and Sigh - Richard Thompson Struck by Li
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Dec 31, 19915 min read
Top Rock Music 1990
Top 20 Rock Albums 1990 Black Sheets of Rain - Bob Mould Shake Your Money Maker - Black Crowes Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy 13 songs - Fugazi All Shook Down - The Replacements No Depression - Uncle Tupelo Still Got the Blues - Gary Moore Stolen Moments - John Hiatt The Neighborhood - Los Lobos Goodbye Jumbo - World Party Bossanova - Pixies Time's Up - Living Colour Flood - They Might be Giants Hindu Love Gods - Hindu Love Gods Social Distortion - Social Distortion Th
Doug
Dec 31, 19905 min read
Top Rock Music 1989
Top 20 Rock Albums 1989 In Step - Stevie Ray Vaughan Workbook - Bob Mould Doolittle - The Pixies Don't Tell A Soul - The Replacements Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz 11 - The Smithereens New York - Lou Reed Spike - Elvis Costello 13 Songs - Fugazi Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt Freedom - Neil Young Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys Yellow Moon – The Neville Brothers There Goes The Wondertruck.. - Mary's Danish Tin Machine -Tin Machine Brave
Doug
Dec 31, 19895 min read
Top Rock Music 1988
Top 20 Rock Albums 1988 Green - R.E.M. Vivid - Living Colour Short Sharp Shocked - Michelle Shocked It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy Copperhead Road - Steve Earle Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A ...And Justice For All - Metallica See The Light - Jeff Healey Band Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys Surfer Rosa - Pixies Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams If I Should Fall From Grace Wit
Doug
Dec 31, 19885 min read
Top Rock Music 1987
Top 20 Rock Albums 1987 Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses The Joshua Tree - U2 Pleased To Meet Me - The Replacements Document - R.E.M. Bring The Family - John Hiatt Diesel And Dust - Midnight Oil Warehouse: Songs And Stories - Hüsker Dü Sign O' The Times - Prince Kick - INXS By the Light of the Moon - Los Lobos Tunnel Of Love - Bruce Springsteen Sentimental Hygiene - Warren Zevon The Lonesome Jubilee - John Cougar Mellencamp Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson Franks W
Doug
Dec 31, 19875 min read
Top Rock Music 1986
Top 20 Rock Albums 1986 Lifes Rich Pageant - R.E.M. Graceland - Paul Simon Candy Apple Grey - Hüsker Dü Guitar Town - Steve Earle I Against I - Bad Brains Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C. Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams - Bodeans Master of Puppets - Metallica So - Peter Gabriel Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths King of America - Elvis Costello & The Attractions Guitars, Cadillacs, etc., etc. - Dwight Yoakam Especially For You - The Smithereens License
Doug
Dec 31, 19865 min read
Top Rock Music 1985
Top 20 Rock Albums 1985 Tim - The Replacements Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp Fables Of The Reconstruction - R.E.M. This Is The Sea - The Waterboys Rain Dogs - Tom Waits Lost & Found - Jason & The Scorchers Tales of the New West - Beat Farmers Strength - Alarm Centerfield - John Fogerty Little Creatures - Talking Heads The Dream Of The Blue Turtles - Sting Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits Flip Your Wig - Hüsker Dü Once Upon A Time - Simple Minds Soul To Soul - Stevie Ray V
Doug
Dec 31, 19856 min read
Top Rock Music 1984
Top 20 Rock Albums 1984 Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution Let It Be - The Replacements Reckoning - R.E.M. How Will The Wolf Survive - Los Lobos Declaration - Alarm The Unforgettable Fire - U2 Learning To Crawl - The Pretenders Couldn't Stand The Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan A Pagan Place - Waterboys Ride The Lightning - Metallica Red Sails In The Sunset - Midnight Oil Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen New Sensations - Lou Reed
Doug
Dec 31, 19845 min read
Top Rock Music 1983
Top 20 Rock Albums 1983 War - U2 Murmur - R.E.M. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - Midnight Oil Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes Uh-huh - John Cougar Mellencamp Hootenanny - The Replacements Let's Dance - David Bowie Synchronicity - The Police Waterboys - Waterboys Kill 'Em All - Metallica Eliminator - ZZ Top Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits Soul Mining - The The Infidels - Bob Dylan The Crossing - Big Country Speaking In Tounges - Talking Heads More Fun In
Doug
Dec 31, 19835 min read
Top Rock Music 1982
Top 20 Rock Albums 1982 1999 - Prince Thriller - Michael Jackson Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen Chronic Town - R.E.M. The Nightfly - Donald Fagen Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello and The Attractions Shoot Out the Lights - Richard & Linda Thompson Showdown - Rank and File American Fool - John Cougar Night And Day - Joe Jackson Peter Gabriel (IV)/Security - Peter Gabriel Combat Rock - The Clash Blackout - Scorpions Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw Long After Dark - Tom Pett
Doug
Dec 31, 19825 min read
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