Sean Murphy
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Past articles by Sean:
The 25 Best Classic Progressive Rock Albums
For me, the initial and still-golden era of prog rock starts in 1969 and ends in 1981, and these are the 25 best progressive rock albums of that era. → Read More
What Gets Heard When Men Won’t Speak
Rare is the man who can say the word love without feeling it, having never known it. → Read More
Ric Ocasek and the Cars: Just What We Needed
That mullet, those shades, the slender build, and his angular mug in those epic videos from the days when MTV ruled. The Cars' Ric Ocasek was the picture boy of '70s and '80s new wave / power pop. → Read More
The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 4, 40-21
Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. Its the 100 best classic progressive rock songs. → Read More
The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 3, 60-41
Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. Its the 100 best classic progressive rock songs. → Read More
The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 2, 80-61
Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. Its the 100 best classic progressive rock songs. → Read More
The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 1, 100-81
After gamely attempting to track the 25 best old-school progressive albums of all time, it's inevitable we turn our attention to the best songs of the genre. → Read More
All Hail the King: Chuck Berry Reinvented Music, and America
After Chuck Berry, rock music would forever be a gumbo of competing and complimentary source points, but his first-person flights of fancy still represent its most undiluted potential. → Read More
Led Zeppelin Loathed, Loved, Copied, Scrutinized and Glorified
For Zeppelin fanatics, Marc Roberty’s book will become an enduring bible of the good times, the bad times and even the boring times. → Read More
One Shot: Remembering Michael Cimino's Masterpiece, 'The Deer Hunter'
The Deer Hunter gets war, yes, but it also nails the beautiful, if banal simplicity of working class existence. → Read More
Edgar Allan Poe's 10 Best Stories
Edgar Allan Poe endures as an artist who made his life's work a deeper than healthy dive into the messy engine of human foibles, obsessions and misdeeds. → Read More
Edgar Allan Poe's 10 Best Stories
Edgar Allan Poe endures as an artist who made his life's work a deeper than healthy dive into the messy engine of human foibles, obsessions and misdeeds. → Read More