Welcome to my blog. Here's an intro.

What's up? I'm Brad. If you're reading this, you're probably a friend who found this blog through Facebook.

Music is a huge part of my life. I've got some musical ambitions of my own that I'm slowly making progress on...but I won't get too far into that here.

I listen to a ton of music, but most of it falls within the confines of pop, rock, alternative and folk from the 1980s to the present day, with a healthy knowledge of classic rock hits going back to the 60s. But I wanted to do something to increase my knowledge of older popular music...so I thought doing a blog based around listening to Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and writing about them might be a good way to do it.

Then, I thought...why not just make it a blog about thoughts I have about songs in general?

I have lots of thoughts about music in general, and many years back I'd sort of tried to start a music blog. I kind of stopped because I just got busy and didn't care enough about it. Looking back I can see that I was really unfocused and, uh, very inexperienced in developing ideas...there were two posts about a very undercooked idea of an extremely fanciful, hypothetical type of technology. It was too much freedom and I had no idea what I wanted to do with it.

Since then, I'd had thoughts about writing about music, but I countered it in my mind with, "I don't want to become known for writing about other people's songs...I want to become known for writing great songs myself."

And that's still true--I haven't given up that ghost.

But it's fun to write about music. And I don't feel a need to make this a huge thing.

Just a repository for some of the many opinions I have. We'll see how it goes.

So I'll do the Rolling Stone's Greatest 500 Songs of All Time thing, starting from 500 and working my way down, trying to do one per day, but giving myself some leeway and just taking however long it takes. And then if I happen to have some thoughts on any other songs that capture my attention, I'll write about those too.

Hope you enjoy whatever small insights into music you might gain. I'm not setting out to do any groundbreaking writing here though, and I will likely sound pretty naive about a lot of things--ha!