75 Things in Music that I’m Thankful For

1. 

   The Beatles

2. Any song accompanied by a piano and violin
3. The chord progression of George Michael’s “Praying for Time“
4. “Come On Eileen”
5. Key changes
6. Mike Viola
7. The Edge’s guitar playing
8. Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound
9. The British Invasion of the 80s
10. “Isn’t it a Pity” by George Harrison (both versions)
11. The 7/4 signature of Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill”
12. Handclaps
13. Aimee Mann’s angst
14. The final measures of “The End,” the final song from the Beatles’ final album, Abbey Road
15. Morrissey
16. Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work“
17. Steve Eggers from the Nines
18. The ability of the Cure to sound both Goth and bubblegum
19. “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” by the BYU Combined Choruses
20. Multi-layered harmonies
21. The dream in which Paul McCartney composed the melody to “Yesterday”
22. Freddie Mercury
23. “Come on Eileen“
24. A beautiful song from an artist you’ve never heard of
25. Radiohead
26. The voice of Boston lead singer Brad Delp (R.I.P.)
27. The cello
28. Mozart’s Requiem
29. A major chord changing to a minor chord
30. A minor chord changing to a major chord
31. Alison Krauss’ voice
32. Losing your voice at a concert
33. Basia’s “Time and Tide“
34. A suspended chord
35. The harmonies of the Beach Boys
36. Anyone who mimics the harmonies of the Beach Boys
37. The Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack
38. Foreigner, Journey, Styx and other classic rock bands of the 70s and 80s
39. The voice of Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze
40. Kelly Jones’ “There Goes My Baby“
41. Covering songs using an acoustic guitar or piano
42. The few albums we got from Nick Drake and Elliott Smith before they died
43. Paul McCartney’s Ram
44. Jellyfish’s “Joining a Fan Club“
45. The Brill Building era
46. “That Thing You Do!”
47. Joe Pernice when he’s off his meds
48. The retro-Motown vibe of Lenny Kravitz’s “It Ain’t Over till It’s Over”
49. One-hit wonders
50. Marshall Crenshaw’s “Someday, Someway”
51. Two-minute power pop from Myracle Brah
52. The mandolin
53. Any slow song by Peter Gabriel
54. Tracy Ullman’s “They Don’t Know“
55. Randy Newman’s soundtracks
56. Michael Jackson circa 1982
57. “She May Call You Up” by the Left Banke
58. Chamber pop
59. Colin Hay’s acoustic version of “Overkill“
60. Girl groups
61. Paul Carrack’s voice
62. Armed forces in Iraq filming a video to “Is This the Way to Amarillo?“
63. Prince’s “Raspberry Beret”
64. Susanna Hoffs
65. The French horn solo in the Beatles’ “For No One”
66. The simplicity of Sinead O’Connor and the Edge’s “Heroine”
67. “The Things We Do For Love”
68. Maria McKee’s Life is Sweet
69. A song that makes you cry
70. Paste Magazine
71. R.E.M.
72. The quiet guitar arpeggios in Radiohead’s “(Nice Dream)” and “No Surprises”
73. Karen Peris from the Innocence Mission
74. Lisa Loeb’s acoustic tape
75. The Beatles. I get to mention them twice.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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