Craig Manning

My Life In 35 Songs, Track 3: “Hide” by Creed For the third installment in his

Part 3 of the "My Life In 35 Songs" series is about Creed, a band I loved when I was 12 that I wandered away from with time. I wrote about their wild career arc, from massively successful but widely derided turn-of-the-century rockstars to their post-COVID comeback story.
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Damn right it does!

Speaking the truth!

The 50 Greatest Minivan Rock Songs This was the dependable, generation-spanning pop/rock that filled in the gaps at the turn of the century between some of the more meteoric musical careers shooting off around it. We call it Minivan Ro...

Special shouts in this one to @augetoffmygold.bsky.social and @jasonlipshutz.bsky.social and my favorite Billboard feature of all time, about the 50 greatest "minivan rock" songs.

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My Life In 35 Songs, Track 2: “Hanging By A Moment” by Lifehouse For the second installment in his autobiographical essay series, Craig Manning talks about Lifehouse's gargantuan 2001 hit,

When I was 10 years old, I spent an entire summer listening to the American Top 40 countdown on Sunday mornings in hopes that "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse would top the charts. It never did, but I still love that song. Wrote about it for my new essay series.

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My Life In 35 Songs, Track 1: “One Headlight” by The Wallflowers Craig Manning launches a new essay series about his

Kicking off a new series of essays today over at @chorusfm.bsky.social, about 35 "life soundtrack" songs that have mattered profoundly to me over the years. Part 1 is about my very first favorite song, "One Headlight" by The Wallflowers.
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In retrospect, it's pretty much been unusable since he got rid of real account verification and allowed dweebs to buy blue check marks to make themselves feel important.

How fucking dare they with that cover art.

I just got to the point where I wanted to put my fist through a wall any time I went on Twitter (I refuse to ever call it X) so I figured it was time I got the hell out of there.

Craig Manning’s Top Albums of 2024 Chorus.fm contributor Craig Manning runs down his top 30 albums of 2024.

For instance, Twitter got so bad that I never even shared my favorite albums of 2024 list over the years. I guess I'll share i here instead! Featuring @donovanwoods.bsky.social, @kelseaballerinivip.bsky.social, and 28 more!

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Haven't posted on Twitter in months, but I delayed in abandoning ship and coming over here. The current garbage dump situation we're having here in America convinced me it was finally time. 😒