About Me
Charles Olney, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law and Judicial Politics at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley (academic website). This is a blog about music, politics, and the law. I also write about women’s soccer at Backline Soccer and Stars and Stripes FC.
Twitter: @dr_olney
Soundcloud: olneyce
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Greatest Hits
- Beatles from worst to first
- Top 25 albums of the decade
- Top 50 songs of the decade
- Top 10 Bruce Springsteen songs
- Top 10 Modest Mouse songs
- Top 10 Tom Petty songs
- Top 10 Carissa's Wierd songs
- Top 10 Paul Simon songs
- Top 10 Bob Dylan songs
- Top 10 breakup songs
- Top 20 albums of 2005
- Top 30 albums of 2006
- Top 40 songs of 2006
- Top 25 albums of 2007
- Top 40 songs of 2007
- Top 25 albums of 2008
- Top 40 songs of 2008
- Top 30 albums of 2009
- Top 40 songs of 2009
- Top 25 albums of 2010
- Top 40 songs of 2010
- Top 15 albums of 2011
- Top 40 songs of 2011
- Top 20 albums of 2012
- Top 40 songs of 2012
- Top 30 albums of 2013
- Top 50 songs of 2013
- Top 25 albums of 2014
- Top 50 songs of 2014
- Top 30 albums of 2015
- Top 50 songs of 2015
- Top 15 albums of 2016
- Top 40 songs of 2016
- Top 25 albums of 2017
- Top 50 songs of 2017
- Top 30 albums of 2018
- Top 50 songs of 2018
Music links
- Hype Machine
- elbo.ws
- Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good
- Can you see the sunset from the southside?
- Hits in the Car
- A Certain Romance
- Herohill
- Speed of Dark
- Lost in your Inbox
- Vague Space
- Skatterbrain
- I Guess I'm Floating
- Largehearted Boy
- Neon Gold
- Another Form of Relief
- Cover Lay Down
- The Monsters Under the Bed Are Not Real
- Yellow Stereo
- Quick Before It Melts
- Knox Road
- Sand is Overrated
- Shake Your Fist
Recent Comments
- my blog on Top 20 Albums of 2005
- Heather on The Beatles from worst to first
- Documentcmh on Review: Restorations – LP5000
- bukauser on With four worn out limbs and not one love song
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In Soviet Russia, night watches you!
I haven’t posted about books in a long time (since Harry Potter 7, I believe). And I’m still working on an internet connection that makes uploading MP3s a bit dicey. So here’s a quick summation of what I’ve been reading. … Continue reading
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Top 30 albums of 2006
After weeks of agonizing (and despite a gnawing fear that tomorrow I will hear a record so good that I’ll feel intense guilt for leaving it off), here’s the list. I know 30 is sort of a weird number, but … Continue reading
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JS Bach – The Brandenburg Concertos
Douglas Adams might be my favorite writer, but he’s also been pretty important to me musically. It was he that turned me onto Dire Straits, and the way he talked about Bach in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency convinced me … Continue reading
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Music and Fractal Landscapes
It’s My Way of Staying Connected – She, Sir It’s not too often that I’ll hear to something and instantly love it–usually it takes a few listens before I really get into a song–but this song by the Austin-based She, … Continue reading
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Riding into the sun on a raft made for one
Continuing on the theme of female artists that I’m secretly in love with, today the focus is on Laura Veirs, a former geologist who now makes amazing music. I know the easy crutch in discussing an artist is the “reminds … Continue reading
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Top 20 Albums of 2005
I’ve been compiling my “favorite new music of 2005” list, and in doing so discovered just how many great music blogs there are out there. For some reason, this inspired me to want to add one of my own. I … Continue reading
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