Rebirth

A nearly empty room. A single spotlight shines on the lone microphone stand in the centre. A figure approaches from the shadows. They tap twice on the microphone. A gentle cough. Feedback whines, and gets shut down. 

Yes, about seven years after I last used this blog, I'm back to strip the dustsheets off, let it hum into life once more and fix any blown fuses ahead of a dozen or so new posts between now and the end of the year. The content I have in mind isn't relevant for my other blog (http://jamesvt.blogspot.com/) as that's primarily concerned with running...and this harks back to a series that I began publishing in October 2009.

I'll be updating the series for songs released between January 2010 and December 2019 (roughly) and publishing them once a week leading up to the end of the year. Each post will include a Youtube and Spotify link to the song where possible, and as well as a paragraph about the song, may also include a brief piece about other songs by that artist that missed out - because yes, I'll be sticking firmly to my one song per artist name rule, and as per usual I'll be finding loopholes to my own rules. 

An artist can only feature once under a particular name, but can appear again if the group name changes, if they have a "featuring on" credit on a song, if they have a solo release as well as one under a band name, and any other excuse I can think of. For example, Ed Sheeran could appear with a solo song, as part of his featuring on credit for an Eminem song, and as the duo credited as "Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber". Bieber could also additionally appear as a featured artist on another song, as a joint credit on Despacito and as a solo artist - but if that happens then he'd be ruled out of having another song as lead artist with a featuring on credit, such as "Justin Bieber ft Chris Brown".

Don't worry, none of the above artists or songs will make it into my top 100 for reasons of taste and decency, those are merely examples. 

I aim also to do two additional rundowns - one of songs that missed out on last decade's countdown, that I've since discovered and regret not including looking back, and one of songs/artists that missed out on this year's countdown for various reasons.

This post is also a test to see if my blogger to Twitter applet just works on my running blog, or is for everything on my blogger account.