Huh?
No, you didn't miss out on the biggest-band-you-never-heard-of. The Identifiers are not one band, but three acts that I identified with at some point in my life, each of which could have been included at #27, but missed a self-imposed deadline.
During the last week in February I resolved to write about Peter Gabriel. His recordings in the 80s and 90s sounded, in real time, familiar, as if I'd heard them in a prior life. I liked his big hits like 'Sledgehammer', and felt his 'Big' and 'Biko', for example, were fantastic, the latter a masterpiece in solemn expression.
But, there was Bonnie Raitt. What a voice. She was so 'me', too.
And Jackson Browne. During my college years he set the pace and was decidedly 'me'.
Well, my end-of-February deadline came and went. It's now March and the window has closed.
By the way, #24 will also be left blank, but this time because the acts are, to put it simply, The Other Ones, acts that I liked but that were outside my own sense of what was especially good music. They could all qualify for #24, but will instead all be mentioned and the number left blank.
Counting down continues, next time, with #26, after I get some zees.
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