Music Like Bacon

"Music, like bacon, makes everything better." -- Me

It's one of the more enduring truisms of life, is it not?  In fact, I'm surprised this blog title was even available.  My purpose in creating this blog was to offer my reviews of music in my library.  Because let's face it:  The world can only be a better place if I'm helping it know what music to listen to. 

I'm not necessarily going to give in-depth analysis of the artistic value of each song; if you really want that, subscribe to Rolling Stone.  What I want to do is tell you how the music hits me -- good, bad or in-between.  In the process, I'll probably reflect a little on my life because music isn't meant to be a static phenomenon to be placed on a shelf or admired in a vacuum; it's meant to interact with the ups and downs of our daily lives -- the high highs, the low lows, and yeah, even the mundane shuffling of our feet from one task to the next as we travel down the path to our reward in heaven.  Along the way, I'll probably take myself WAY too seriously, but hey, you're getting this for free so don't complain.

I'm going to pull, from my own collection, which includes music from several eras, but mostly the 1970s to present day.  So, the objects of my treatments may not be the newest releases, but unless your musical taste is exactly like mine, it could be new to you.  I'll probably offer more reviews on albums I like rather than dislike, since you don't necessarily need my help to find crappy music (just turn on the nearest radio) but I'll go after a few turkeys as well, just to keep things interesting.

I'm going to mostly offer reviews of entire albums, because I believe in committing to an album, not just cherry-picking the popular songs we hear on the radio.  Without giving a whole album the chance to invade our lives, there's too much potential to miss a great song just because some record company executive didn't think it would appeal to the lowest common denominator of the cattle known as radio listeners.  That said, I might throw in a few comments on some singles if I feel so inclined.

One more note:  I would love to hear your takes on this music too, so I strongly encourage posting of comments.  Tell me if you agree or disagree and why.  I want to hear it!