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Daniel Brody

@danielwbrody.bsky.social
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Counting down the 1000 greatest rock and roll songs of all time and making other lists of my favorite tunes and albums. Rock and roll is my favorite genre but I truly like a little bit of everything, from classical and cumbia to honky-tonk and highlife.

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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 7h
RIP. I once made a pilgrimage to the Burbank karaoke bar near NBC studios where he would pop in to sing and heard him do a nice version of "Piano Man." Saved by the Bell being on reruns after school for basically my entire childhood has seared those characters into my brain.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 7h
625/1000 The Killers, "Mr. Brightside" - With its quizzical guitar riff and despairing heartache, the Killers touched a nerve and made maybe the most enduring indieish alternative anthem of the oughts. I've certainly heard it belted at the top of someone's lungs more than a few times. #brodystop1000
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The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheKillersVEVO
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 23h
it will take more time to read this than it does to post an oh so witty quip, but you will definitely learn something if you decide to click bsky.app/profile/auge...
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
54 Turnstiles outtakes?!? Even as someone who grew up on Long Island this strikes me as a bit much. "Summer, Highland Falls" is maybe my favorite Joel song though.
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was gritting my teeth through a lot of this at the time and hoping that the Strokes and White Stripes would wash all of this away and create the space for Sigur Ros and Pinback to blow up, but whenever most of these songs come on now I turn the volume up. bsky.app/profile/nasb...
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
626/1000 The Monkees, "Pleasant Valley Sunday" - Written by Goffin & King after a depressing move to New Jersey. Bold of the Monkees to mock someone in the burbs with a "TV in every room." It's all still true, hypocritical of them, could've been even more vicious and rocks anyway. #brodystoprock1000
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Pleasant Valley Sunday
YouTube video by THE MONKEES - Topic
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
627/1000 France Gall, "Laisse tomber les filles" - Serge Gainsbourg wrote this propulsive Yé-yé anthem where a girl tells off a lothario that he'll get his heart broken one day too. The mysterious & slinky rhythm seems to anticipate the Mission Impossible theme by a couple years. #brodystoprock1000
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France Gall - Laisse tomber les filles 1964
YouTube video by ForeverMusicJukebox
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A lot of fairweather music fans that would have heard by osmosis the pop song that had topped the charts for months a couple decades ago are now much less likely to do so because of media fragmentation. It’s not all that different from what is happening in politics.
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shy🎀 @shy.center · 27/09/2026
Lost one of my heroes today. Slinger Francisco, also known as Mighty Sparrow, passed away at 91. Trinidad's most famous calypsonian, always infusing his songs with sharp political wit and humor. A friend and influence to many, including Van Dyke Parks. Here he is performing "Jean & Dinah."
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The rule is that if your parents have a blue Wikipedia link you're a nepo baby. Below you can find the daughters of a billionaire and a Hollywood producer.
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The One True Poster @onetrueposter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listening to Muddy Waters' 1977 album Hard Again. This is like the platonic ideal of a blues album. This is exactly what one imagines when one imagines a blues album
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Would love to watch more TV and have more opinions about it. It's hard to keep up though. That aside, I've always thought Breaking Bad was pretty good, not the greatest of recent times. Whereas the first 3 seasons of The Wire were amazing and I could see the case made for it being in the top slot.
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
628/1000 Rick James, "Give It to Me Baby" - The MC Hammer sample and Chappelle's Show skits obscured for my generation that Rick James' sleazy funk jams are full of nasty basslines, chirping disco synths, and outrageous personality. He should have done a duet with David Lee Roth. #brodystoprock1000
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Rick James - Give It To Me Baby
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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And billboard’s inscrutability is symptomatic of the industry not caring where it finds its micro-pennies, just that it did. There simply isn’t a music mass culture to chronicle, which pundits on autopilot are incapable of grasping beyond confirmation bias (like many things).
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chicago (the band) got a bad rap for some of its biggest, corniest, schmaltziest, and treacliest pop hits. And I even like some of those songs (You're the Inspiration is a banger). But they did some straight on jazz and even got funky sometimes and it seems like nobody remembers. Chicago VII rocks!
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Italian from New York
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Femi and the Foundation @femiandfoundation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Legendary album from a legendary band, one of our biggest influences.
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of those cases where the album that got me at an impressionable age was not the artist's critically acclaimed classic or best seller. "Ocean," "Willing to Wait," and honestly pretty much every Barlow song on Harmacy made me swoon for a few seasons right around now 30 years ago. #brodys1996
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
629/1000 White Zombie, "Thunder Kiss '65" - Making the heavy metal equivalent of schlocky horror movies is this band's one good trick, and their leader eventually just made those films himself, but I unfailingly rock my ass off every time I hear this. Thanks Beavis and Butthead. #brodystoprock1000
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White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65
YouTube video by WhiteZombieVEVO
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
30 years ago tomorrow, Weezer released Pinkerton. Widely regarded as a sophomore slump because it didn't get much radio/MTV play, I nevertheless had 2 friends whose nickname was "Weezer + their name" obsessed with it anyway, maybe reflecting its eventual retroactive reconsideration. #brodys1996
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Weezer - El Scorcho (Director's Cut)
YouTube video by WeezerVEVO
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
630/1000 Bad Religion, "Do What You Want" - Green Day and the Offspring were my first punk bands, but I ultimately worked back to the band that inspired their generation of punks. They had some mainstream success too but the magic is in their late 80s oozin' aahs and power chords. #brodystoprock1000
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Do What You Want
YouTube video by Bad Religion - Topic
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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New playlist THE BEST OF ADULT CONTEMPORARY 1987-1992 Sincere, mature, and dramatic songs about love A nearly extinct style of music, people are too cynical now 💝 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5S5... ❤️ Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ❤️‍🩹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
631/1000 Simon & Garfunkel, "The Boxer" - Even more than Dylan, S & G are my platonic ideal of folky yet poppy singer-songwriter troubadours from the 60s and 70s. This song is so whiny and the production feels like it has shag carpet on it but I have often taken some comfort here. #brodystoprock1000
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Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (Audio)
YouTube video by SimonGarfunkelVEVO
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don’t want to make art for the general public, who I hate. I want to make art for guys like me, who somehow I hate even more
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kinda mesmerized by this selection of cassettes
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John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨BUZZKILL ALERT🚨 The NYT’s move towards big canon-making feature lists is frankly depressing, a waste of resources for one of the last remaining US newspaper arts sections that has them. Boutique crowd sourcing, online argument starters…who cares?
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This song is ok but I always thought it was kinda cheesy how blatantly it ripped off "Soul Kitchen." It's among the several tunes on the "Smash Mouth Essentials" playlist I can enjoy before their bland full-on cover versions enter the picture.
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RIP. "Barely Breathing" only peaked at #16 at the time, but it feels like one of those '90s songs that will endure for another half a century, as long as there are drugstore playlists: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56 (Gift Article)
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
632/1000 The Beatles, "Eleanor Rigby" - No regular instruments here. The Beatles hired a classical string ensemble and left their rock gear behind. Taking a cue from the shrewd social observations of the Kinks, the strings backed a haunting, moving dirge about human loneliness. #brodystoprock1000
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The Beatles - The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (From "Yellow Submarine") [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy 20th birthday to the song that made you feel old when you first heard it 20 years ago
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The Killers - When You Were Young (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheKillersVEVO
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fallin' into a new instance @o-c.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RIP Peter Max. World Cup '94 poster illustration.
Illustration of a male figure kicking a soccer ball into the air over an abstract globe
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026
midnight in a perfect world is maybe one of my favorite songs ever?
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Strangers with Candy
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
elite journalists can’t even shazam… and people wonder why i don’t trust music coverage from non specialists (it’s “baba o’riley” ffs!!!)
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Would love it if a site like Pitchfork, even the version that exists now, would take a stab at counting down the greatest songs of the 1950s. Would be interesting to see what they think stood the test of time, got underrated, was unexpectedly influential, was overrated by boomer rock history, etc.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026
lost in all of the ai boosters’ thinking is the fact that human imperfection can be beautiful and meaningful, that people are fucked up and we do things that are weird and ambiguous and messy. it can often lead to unreal breakthroughs and ingenuity. frictionless is soulless
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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1929 - Bessie Smith - St Louis Blues A standalone performance on set with a story and a cast built around the song, is this the first music video? Cant think of anything with a better claim to the title. Even if you don't think so, what a performance!
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m not a culture critic but this obsession with rebooting things is a sign of deep malaise. Let’s just cultivate new things. Nobody is going to be improving on Point Break.
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‘Point Break’ Series Greenlit By AMC & France’s Canal+ From Alcon
This comes after Deadline revealed in December that it was developing a series based on the iconic Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves surf heist thriller.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can we all admit that he was cooking on this one? I like football and porno and books about war I got an average house with a nice hardwood floor Poetry
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some further Sugar thoughts: -as a person whose brain does some internal screaming every day about how much I hate the phenomenon of aging, I think it was good for me to see 3 guys deep into their 60s step onstage and just kick ass with no reservations
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
633/1000 Frankie Ford, "Sea Cruise" - New Orleans stride piano (played by Huey "Piano" Smith!) and horns that almost sounds like proto-ska, complimented by a ship's bell and foghorn to make it really sound like you are at sea. Oo-ee baby! Just a rollicking good time. #brodystoprock1000
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Sea Cruise
YouTube video by Frankie Ford - Topic
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years. I was there that morning; what I wrote about it. bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/a...
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America
America (Simon and Garfunkel, 1968). America (1-2-3, live, the Marquee Club, 1967). America (Bowie, the Concert for New York City, 2001). America (Bowie, Robin Hood Benefit, 2002). Those towers wer…
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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The novelty of streaming is probably the most universal of my reasons for a lost musiccrit decade, the barriers of entry to investigate personal interests and ignore anything else were totally erased even compared to file sharing
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
634/1000 Descendents, "Hope" - Has any optimistic lyric ever rung more falsely than this song's "I know my day will come / I know someday I'll be the only one"? Punk at its most self-loathing and yet somehow also self-absorbed. So precise it makes me not miss being a teenager. #brodystoprock1000
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Descendents - Hope
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
30 years ago tomorrow, REM released New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and if I'm honest I never really warmed up to it, and prefer both Monster and Up over it. But the line "20th century, go to sleep" only seems to reverberate louder in my head every year. #brodys1996
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R.E.M. - Electrolite (Official HD Music Video)
YouTube video by remhq
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
635/1000 Joni Mitchell, "Help Me" - Joni didn't always go pop but when she did she went all out. This song is so elegant and busy. Every listen I pull out a new detail I fall in love with: the tasteful electric piano, the little flute trills, the seeds of doubt planted everywhere. #brodystoprock1000
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Help Me (2022 Remaster)
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we had decades of the cultural zeigeist in larges parts of entertainment and academia being 'you can't trust THE MAN' and it did absolutely nothing whatsoever to make people more resistant to actual no-shit authoritarian and corrupt politics and leaders, and I wish more people would reflect on this.
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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
636/1000 Nirvana, "About a Girl" - Supposedly written after a night binging Meet the Beatles, tho I suspect REM was also lurking in the back of Kurt's mind. The band would rarely get this jangly again, a shame because they also were bitchin' power poppers when they wanted to be. #brodystoprock1000
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About A Girl (Remastered)
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