See the Top 50 Neil Young Songs | Or, to read the introduction to this list, see the Top 100 Neil Young Songs I agonized over this Top 10 list of the Greatest Neil Young Songs. Every one of these songs would likely be in my Top 15 or Top 25 if I did it …
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The Top 50 Neil Young Songs of All Time
This list of the Top 50 Neil Young Songs has been narrowed down from the hundreds of songs he wrote over time. I had a really hard time making it and many songs in the “Honourable Mentions” section of my Top 100 could have easily been on here instead. That Top 100 was a bit …
Neil Young’s 100 Best Songs
I attended a live recording of Slate’s Culture Gabfest recently in which Carl Wilson argued we are waiting too long to celebrate our greats once they’re dead, we should celebrate them while they’re still alive. Hence, this celebration of Neil Young. Bob Dylan is the Greatest (English language) Songwriter of All Time, changing the way …
Top 33 Maple Leafs Draft Picks of All Time
More than a little while ago now (this past summer), Scott Wheeler (of PPP, etc.) claimed that Mitch Marner might be the most talented hockey player ever drafted by the Maple Leafs. And now that the Leafs have the #1 overall pick for the first time in over 30 years, Marner might be only the …
BBC Culture’s 100 Greatest American Films
So the BBC released a list of the 100 Greatest American Films (of the last 100 years, by the way) two months ago. It’s a pretty decent list, all things considered, but it’s hardly perfect, by any means. I am presenting the list below, with my thoughts:
The Top 5 Raptors Draft Picks of All Time
The other day, I covered 10 of the “best” 15 draft picks the Raptors have made. Today we’ll be talking about the Top 5 players the Raptors have drafted, a couple of whom might actually make it into the Hall of Fame some day. I will be using a different format for covering these players, …
Is Alex Ovechkin the Greatest Pure Goal Scorer of All Time?
A few weeks ago, Alex Ovechkin joined some elite company, he became only the fifth player in NHL history to score 30 goals per season in his first 10 seasons. More recently, he joined even more elite company, he became only the sixth player in NHL history to score 50 goals six times. Now while …
The Greatest Horror Movies of All Time…that I’ve seen (as of 2013)
In honour of Halloween, but really inspired by a Facebook discussion earlier today, I figured I would write a brief little list of the greatest horror films ever made. (With the obvious qualifier that, while I have seen a lot of movies – 3,500 is probably a conservative estimate – I have by no means …
On Artistic Greatness
Greatness means many different things to many different people and certainly conceptions of greatness vary from field to field. Most of our associations with greatness are no doubt based upon feelings rather than rational reflection. If we don’t have a mutually acceptable concept of greatness, then you can hardly agree or disagree with me about …
The Beatles Are the Greatest Rock Band of All Time and I Can Prove
I used to take the greatness of the Beatles for granted. Though I would often drunkenly argue in their favour, I assumed my interlocutors were merely arguing with me because they were drunk, and not because they really, truly believed any band could be more significant to the history of “rock” music than the Beatles. …
Bob Dylan
Though I regard the “medal of freedom” as a rather laughable thing – and would like to think that if I were as famous and inscrutable as Bob Dylan I would not have accepted it – I feel like now is as good a time as ever to say: Bob Dylan is the greatest “rock” …
Riley’s Essential 271 Movies
So I guess maybe you’re wondering what my Greatest Movies of All Time list would look like. Well, first I must say that it wouldn’t be ranked unless of course someone was going to kill me unless I ranked it. But here it is at this moment, and it changes constantly FYI. Keep in mind …
Best Documentaries of All Time
Inspired by my recent viewing of Tony Kaye’s outstanding Lake of Fire, here is my list of the best documentaries as of June 2010. No, I have not seen Nanook. 1. Capturing the Friedmans This is my vote for the greatest documentary of all time (if I had to pick one). It is one of …
My own attempt at a list of great movies as of 2007
Since the AFI list has come out, I have been thinking that I should at least put forward my suggestions. What I have done is come up with an incomplete list of directors and their films. My intention is to suggest them, this is by no means definitive. It is not definitive because some of …
TV
In the CD player: Cult by Apocalyptica I think I have to add Twin Peaks to my list of best tv shows ever. I’m addicted to it. I haven’t seen an episode in a few days and it’s driving me crazy. This despite the fact that I know what happens since I’ve seen the prequel, …