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Music Morphine is a place for all those songs I wish I could inject straight into my veins. I do album reviews, song reviews, track rankings, and “You Should Listen To”, a segment where I sing the praises of a particular artist. If you like reading about music in a visual and auditory world, you’re in the right place!
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Some choice reviews and thought pieces
Are the Black Keys Still Good?
The better question is: were they ever good?
Michael Jackson’s HIStory Is Underrated
Did Michael Jackson make any history with his album HIStory? I’ll be the judge of that!
Track Rankings: “After Hours” by The Weeknd
There are only 2 “great” songs on this album. What does that tell you? It tells you I’m clickbaiting you. Okay, stop reading this excerpt and just click on the link.
Songs I Can’t Stop Playing #3
Jazz fusion, Arab Trap, Egyptian deities, two gacha game soundtracks?? Quite the smorgasbord.
You Should Listen To: Pistol Annies
Whether or not you like country music, you need to hear the Pistol Annies.
Album Review: The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger (Plus Track Rankings)
Album reviews are for “new-to-me” albums that I’m experiencing and digesting for the first time. For eleven years, the Raconteurs were absent from musical relevance. While their official hiatus wasn’t announced until 2011, their last album, Consolers of the Lonely, was released in 2008 and saw them slowly fade from the limelight. They spent a good…
First Impressions: “Medicine At Midnight” Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters made another good rock album. Yawn.
My Two Anthems of 2020
And they’re both called Sunday Best!
Album Review: “Obviously” by Lake Street Dive (with Track Rankings…Obviously)
I mentioned this band in my 2020 anthems post about the songs that summed up my 2020. I had already discovered their song “Making Do” late in the year and thought it would be a contender for 2021 anthems. Since then, I heard Lake Street Dive’s latest single “Hypothetical” and fell in love with the…