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Doug's Music Snobbery

Come along to discover tunes, talk music and read my strong opinions.

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Original Lineups vs. New Blood: How Replacement Members Impact a Band’s Credibility
Original Lineups vs. New Blood: How Replacement Members Impact a Band’s Credibility

Would you go see your favorite band with only 2 original members? 1? NONE? If you feel like there’s a credibility issue sometimes with the “brand” of the band you likely have a legitimate beef. Doug breaks down a few examples of the Good, the Questionable, and the Ridiculous…

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Why Prince's The Beautiful Ones Might Be The Best Power Ballad Of All Time
Why Prince's The Beautiful Ones Might Be The Best Power Ballad Of All Time

Doug makes a declaration about what might very well be the best power ballad of ALL TIME - The Beautiful Ones by Prince! If you disagree you’re probably wrong. Read on and find out why. Hehe…

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Doug's 2020 Music Recap! New Stuff and New-To-Me Stuff...
Doug's 2020 Music Recap! New Stuff and New-To-Me Stuff...

2020 was obviously a crazy and difficult year, but there WAS great music made, so Doug recaps his favorites from the year along with some older stuff he discovered for the first time in 2020!

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Music, Music ListsDoug CohenM10 Social2020, Alternative Music, H.E.R., All Them Witches, KRS-One, Third Root, The Muggs, Cornershop, Nada Surf, Pearl Jam, Mark Lanegan, William Duvall, Drive-By Truckers, Allman Betts Band, Rugged Man, Scott Weinrich, Metal Church, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Bob Kulick, T Rex, Marc Bolan, The Pretenders, Steve Kilbey, Gareth Koch, Smashing Pumpkins, The Secret Machines, Rose City Band, The Psychedelic Furs, R.A. The Rugged Man, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Greyboy Allstars, Fuzz, Ty Segall, Azymuth, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge, AC/DC Comments
Doug's Top 10 Transitional Albums
Doug's Top 10 Transitional Albums

Doug loves the rare and true transitional album - a perfect moment in time that captures a musical artist in transition between two styles, genres, or directions that can’t be replicated… Here he names his top 10 in this small category!

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Doug’s Top 60 albums of the decade 2010-2019!!!
Doug’s Top 60 albums of the decade 2010-2019!!!

Here they are - Doug’s epic list of his top 60 albums of the past decade from 2010-2019!!! Let the debating begin!!!

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Music, Music ListsDoug CohenM10 SocialSwervedriver, New Order, Band Of Horses, The Church, Beck, NaS, Damian Marley, Prince, Tom Petty, Steven Wilson, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Tool, Radiohead, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Gov't Mule, The Flaming Lips, Brad, Jane's Addiction, Black Sabbath, Ice Cube, Joe Walsh, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Depeche Mode, Jack White, Drive-By Truckers, Anthrax, Rose City Band, PIL, The Black Ryder, Wilco, Ty Segall, David Bowie, King Princess, Kings Of Leon, The Woodentops, The House Of Love, Queens Of The Stone Age, Warren Haynes, Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark, Death Cab For Cutie, Superchunk, Underground Lovers, Clutch, Stephen Marley, American Aquarium, The Wombats, The Muggs, A Tribe Called Quest, Filter, Sublime With Rome Comments