MVC now has 238 posts: Here are the favorites and least favorites

Some of My Vinyl Countdown’s top posts.

As of today, here are songs taken from the most-clicked on and the ones that received the most reaction, some judgement calls here by me.

So we’ll have Top 12 music reviews from my 678 records. This is followed by the Top-12 blog essays.

And we’ll also throw in the bottom 5 in both categories.

(Click on the names to go to the full blog post).

Top 12 Album reviews

Dave Davies Kink’s guitarist solo albums are surprise here at No. 1

Dolly Parton Country music legend, and that’s without hyperbole.

The Allman Brothers Band No surprise that this iconic Southern band is high on the list.

The Alarm The Welsh rockers with their big hair and their big anthemic songs are apparently well loved.

Dickey Betts Allman’s great guitarist.

King Sunny Ade He was making world music before it was cool.

Aerosmith Steven Tyler seems like he’s on TV all the time. But that was decades after this hard rocking album, arguably one of their best.

Bo Diddley Underappreciated in his time, his record stands – on records.

Joe Cocker This man felt the music. It was like he plugged himself in.

Joan Baez Distinctive strong voice that was one of many voices of the 1960s and civil rights protests.

T Bone Burnett Major producer for others. Lesser known for his own excellent discography.

Big Audio Dynamite BAD, Clash remainders forge new sound and funny crazy video.

When Particles Collide A husband-wife rock duo from Maine. (with some local connections).

Top 12 Blog Essays

Gordon Hayward, broken bones and Lewy body dementia

Life lessons of adaptation from a serious injury.

Title says it all.

Strange coincidences crop up in my life.

The billion dollar question.

Tips from 35 years of playing pick-up basketball.

A wonderful tribute to my wife Catherine

Some People are Mean Yes, there are mean people and I describe one.
Porter and Me Writing about the death of a child from over the course of years prepared me to face my own prognosis.
Lewy Lewy. Come on, call it by its name! It’s mysterious, baffling and wrong but for some reason Lewy body dementia has become the disease no one will name.
How the heck am I doing? The word FINE may not mean what you think it means.
Today is Silent Saturday It’s a tradition I did not know about.