video:
https://youtu.be/5oLAAmEnj8M
The American Mixtape - Topics in American Lit
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022
The Ms. Smith List - 30 Albums By Women
Artist - Album
Etta James - At Last
Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues
Tina Turner - Feel Good (with Ike)
Patti Smith - Horses
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel
Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner’s Daughter
Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
Janis Ian - Between The Lines
Bernice Johnson/Sweet Honey In The Rock - Breaths
Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
Lady Gaga - The Fame
Madonna - Ray of Light
Pink - I’m Not Dead
Rihanna - Anti
Alicia Keys - Songs in a Mirror
Tanya Tucker - What’s Your Mama’s Name? Or Delta Dawn
Brandi Carlile - By The Way I Forgive You
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
The Runaways - Queens of Noise
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones (self-titled)
Go Gos - Beauty and the Beat
Cindy Lauper - She’s So Unusual
Bikini Kill - Revolution Girl Style Now
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On
Roberta Flack - First Take
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
40 More Albums To Choose From - the Honorable Mentions
Format: Artist - Album
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
Buddy Holly - Greatest Hits
Dolly Parton - Just Because I Am A Woman
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
John Prine - John Prine
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Allman Brothers Band - Revival
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young- Deja Vu
Velvet Underground & Nico
Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
Staple Singers - Freedom Highway
John Denver - Greatest Hits
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
DC Talk - Jesus Freak
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Morphine - Cure for Pain
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
Big Star - #1 Record
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Widespread Panic - Ain’t Life Grand
Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks - Buckingham Nicks
Boogie Down Productions — By All Means Necessary
De la soul - 3 feet high
Kanye West - Graduation
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
John Mayer - Continuum
My Morning Jacket - Z
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
Neville Brothers - Brother’s Keeper
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Sunday, February 6, 2022
50 American Albums - curated by Mr. Smith & the Music Nerds Collaborative
50 American Albums
Sample some songs here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5RrroiNeZQyKvTJzCTVy50?si=7f08041c8e13419d
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5RrroiNeZQyKvTJzCTVy50?si=7f08041c8e13419d
Artist
Album Title
Year
"Key Track"
Marvin Gaye
What’s Goin’ On
1971
“Inner City Blues”
Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1963
“Masters of War”
Stevie Wonder
Songs in the Key of Life
1976
“I Wish”
Bruce Springsteen
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
1978
“Promised Land”
Robert Johnson
King of the Delta Blues Singers
1936
“Me and the Devil Blues”
John Mellencamp
Scarecrow
1985
“Rain on the Scarecrow”
R.E.M
Murmur
1983
“Radio Free Europe”
The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds
1966
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
Nina Simone
Anthology
2003
“Mississippi Goddam”
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
“The Message”
1982
(just one song as an album, a nod to the birth of hip hop)
Public Enemy
It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
1988
“Prophets of Rage”
Liz Phair
Exile on Guyville
1993
“Divorce Song”
Prince
Purple Rain
1984
“Let’s Go Crazy”
The Doors
The Doors
1967
“The End”
Beyonce
Lemonade
2016
“Formation”
Raphael Saddiq
The Way It Is
2008
“Staying In Love”
Carole King
Tapestry
1971
“Beautiful”
The Hold Steady
Boys & Girls In America
2006
“Stuck Between Stations”
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry’s Golden Hits
1967
“Johnny B Goode”
Ray Charles
Modern Sounds In Country
Music
1962
“You Win Again”
Wilco
Summerteeth
1999
“Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)”
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
2015
“King Kunta”
Grateful Dead
American Beauty
1971
“Friend Of The Devil”
Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls
1989
“Kid Fears”
Adia Victoria
A Southern Gothic
2021
“Troubled Mind”
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
1957
“Blue Suede Shoes”
Paul Simon
Graceland
1986
“Boy In The Bubble”
Metallica
Metallica
(“the Black Album”)
1981
“Nothing Else Matters”
Green Day
American Idiot
2004
“Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority
1969
“Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is”
Gil Scott-Heron
Pieces of a Man
1971
“Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
Aretha Franklin
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
1967
Steely Dan
Aja
1977
“Aja”
Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1998
“Doo Wop (That Thing)”
The Replacements
Let It Be
1984
“Unsatisfied”
Kansas
Leftoverture
1976
“Carry On Wayward Son”
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
1988
“Talking About A Revolution”
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Californication
1999
"Californication"
Nirvana
Nevermind
1991
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Bob Seger
Night Moves
1976
“Mainstreet”
Eagles
Hotel California
1976
Hotel California
Jason Isbell
Southeastern
2013
“Cover Me Up”
Talking Heads
Remain In Light
1980
“Once In A Lifetime”
Television
Marquee Moon
1977
“Marquee Moon”
Tom Petty
Wildflowers
1994
“Wildflowers”
2Pac
All Eyes On Me
1986
“California Love”
Taylor Swift
Red
(Taylor’s Version)
2021
“All Too Well”
Steve Earle
Guitar Town
1986
“Guitar Town”
Jimi Hendrix
Are You Experienced?
1967
“Are You Experienced?”
Pearl Jam
Ten
1991
“Alive”
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Fans & Collectors & Critics - Class 9
Supplemental Videos:
Almost Famous/Lester Bangs:
https://youtu.be/Nvuv0357O8I
Amanda Petrusich:
Lecture Video:
https://youtu.be/YGEUH79pnns
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