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Bob Lefsetz Believes In Rock Again After A Concert, Episode 1,829

Bob Lefsetz Believes In Rock Again After A Concert, Episode 1,829

Dave Lifton September 7, 2011 2

In sports, there’s nothing more annoying than a fan who jumps on the bandwagon of a winning team, then overcompensates for the time he missed by being even more obnoxious than the longtime fans.

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CHART ATTACK!: 11/20/76

Jason Hare November 20, 2009 43

A duck, a muskrat, and Rod Stewart in a bowtie -- the only thing that could save this Billboard Top 10 is a four-minute talkbox solo. It's all in Jason Hare's latest edition of

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Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 53

Dave Steed May 27, 2009 44

We move into year two of Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ‘80s, with one of the best weeks we’ve had in a while, in my opinion. How about we continue with the

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CHART ATTACK!: 2/27/71

Jason Hare February 27, 2009 24

Howdy, everybody! I tend to stick to the ’80s when writing CHART ATTACK!, as they’re the years I remember best. But this week, I decided to pull up something from the early ’70s and

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Spooky Songs: Gordon Lightfoot, “If You Could Read My Mind”

Matthew Bolin September 18, 2008 13

I don’t think any other song scared me more as a child than “If You Could Read My Mind,” the moody ballad that became Gordon Lightfoot’s first self-sung hit in the United States (peaking

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Chartburn: 2/15/08

Jeff Giles February 15, 2008 12
Mainstream Rock: Eric Clapton, “Pretending” (1989) Will: I’ve always felt like this song was the point where Clapton finally began to escape from the “we need a pop

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