Blender's Completely Random List Of Things We're Thankful For
Thankful this Thanksgiving? So are we. We're thankful for...
+ The realization this week in the wake of Adam Lambert's AMAs performance that pop music can still shock society.
+ Particularly preposterous and pretentious album liner notes. We're looking at you, ...Nothing Like The Sun by Sting.
+ Becoming a convert to an opening act you'd previously known nothing about.
+ The best song of 2009.
+ This video by John Bonham's drum tech that explains how Bonzo got THAT sound on those Led Zeppelin recordings.
+ Running into people you know at concerts.
+ Having your shuffle play give you two songs in a row that are perfect together.
+ The guitar solo in Wilco's "Impossible Germany."
+ Teenage Fanclub's early 90s cover of "Like A Virgin."
+ Sonic Youth's cover of "Into The Groove."
+ Gatefold vinyl.
+ Song search apps like Midomi and Shazam.
+ Yacht Rock.
+ This remake of the original ten minute mini-film Kilroy Was Here that played before every show on Styx's 1983 tour of the same name. It's by New York Styx tribute band "What Not To Do To Your Roboto."
+ Reading old magazines and finding reviews of now-classic albums.
+ Having friends over and listening to records with football on with no sound.
+ Drum solos.
+ Pop stars, rappers, indie bands, jam bands, hippies, hip-hop dudes, hipsters, stoners, music nerds, and everyone else, too.
+ Weird Al Yankovic on Twitter.
+ Songs that everyone knows the words to.
+ The Muppets' cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody."
+ Ya boy Bangs.
+ Neil Young.
+ And finally, the magic power of music. Happy Thanksgiving.
