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Rant: Music — Where The Hell Is It Heading To (20 Years After)? (An Anniversary Essay)
[Reprinted from my September 1, 2019 post on the now-defunct Only Solitaire blog.
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Only Solitaire in 2025: What’s On The Horizon
A brief New Year's post on the current state of things for Only Solitaire.
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Special Announcement: possible temporary break
Hey guys,
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Review: The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)
"And to think that all it took was to change from matching suits to suede jackets!"
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Interlude: Life During Wartime...
...Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog
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Guestbook Post
This is just a pinned post where you can ask any general questions, wish any general wishes, or leave any general criticisms of the project.
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A Slice Of Life Update: 2023
Time for a little «me and the world» digest for the readers, mainly to keep in mind that all these Chad & Jeremy reviews do not grow in a vacuum.
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Review: The Beatles - Help! (1965)
"It is quite telling that the closer the Beatles got to their peak, the more fleshed out their individual styles would become..."
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Farewell, 1961: Another Year In Retrospective
1961 could probably be considered one of the worst years for pop music... but, as usual, the full story is far more intriguing and complicated.
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Farewell To The Fifties: A Brief Recapitulation
This week’s reviews have more or less exhausted my collection of popular music from the 1950s as limited to the genres of rock’n’roll and its immediate…
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Review ("The Greats"): The Who - My Generation (1965)
"We make Serious Art, and we’re not afraid to come out and say it directly".
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The Life Of A Song, Vol. 1: Fleetwood Mac - "I'm So Afraid"
The beginning of a little side project, which may or may not be continued in the future - we'll see.
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