The Rewind Button is a group blogging project that I’m participating in. We’re taking on Rolling Stone‘s Top 40 albums of all time and writing our own reviews of them.

I used to think I wanted to write professionally about music. The Rewind Button project helped me discover that I don’t want to do that. I’m enjoying this; however, I prefer listening to music rather than deconstructing it. The Great Twenty-Eight by Chuck Berry is a perfect example of this feeling.

Listening to this album makes me want to dance. It’s fun, and my foot can’t stop tapping. Sure, some of the songs have the same beat, but I don’t care, because its energy overwhelms any stagnation. The piano trills, that stand-up bass, those blues-based chord progressions…this is rock-in-roll to me. This album should be in the top 10 of Rolling Stone‘s list.

We’re halfway through our list, and I’m not going to stop reviewing the albums. But I am going to stop beating myself up for not offering an intellectual discussion of the albums. Some of these don’t warrant that. Some of them are pure emotion. The Great Twenty-Eight is one of those.

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