This (as in today’s) blog found its voice or muse while reading my friend’s “Fridays with Fred” blog.

I did a number of blogs around likes and more recently dislikes.

My post comment raised lists as natural provocateurs of conversation. Recall all those top ten lists on late night show.

Indeed Fred and I share a secret list aptly named and only we know who gains placement and why (See his reply to my comment on his blog.

Some lists I maintain remain personal: Concerts attended. Setlists from most of those shows. My LPs. My 45s. My audio albums of all kinds (LP, CD, Computer only).

My website includes a number of fun lists (at least in my view) all related to music.

On my Links page, find:

• Songs To Ring In The New Year (first posted for New Year 2013, verified 2016-12-23)
• Happy Holidays in song (posted first December 2015; updated December 25, 2016)
• Songs of Love (first posted 2017-01-02).

My iTunes includes several song lists that mirror those listed above and more. One groups songs I curated for a Gotham Spring Cocktail Party. Of course find one also posted somewhere on Gotham website that were used during a Gotham Story Week (when all the bloggers – before my time as one of them blogged a chain story and in 2012 I devised a counter story in the comments.) I also reprise another on my YouTube Channel: (One day Inspiration will get added to the website.)

On my Commentary page, since 2011 find my top ten concerts. That means you get so far my thoughts also on 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

I can stop at this fun stuff but the site also includes some serious stuff. For those interesting in issues – since I write frequently on the topic, I collected my work on real estate tax reform (a major topic of interest this political year in NYC in on list linked on this page). I also list (in the websites Project section) public policy work from my time in government at the Bronx Borough President and NY City Council (also shows the projects and programs delivered in the City Budget.). On the “Government & Public Affairs Projects” page I further link to work on behalf of my private clients, and for one client, find a link to much of the programs and projects delivered in less than four years as an elected official.

Off the grid, I also maintain a list of quotes by others that inspire and my own sayings.

I even found – here on the Gotham site, a list with its own story that concludes this blog:

“At Gotham GREEN on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at the Friars, tribal co-leader Fred Klein blurted out that Gotham Got Soul. It moved me to post a list of songs I could recall and/ or had on my iPhone that included Soul in the title. Some Gothamites added some other via Fredslist or off-list. This PDF includes mostly YouTube links so you can enjoy. Find the list in ABC order by title except that Fred suggested Soulshine which leads as the song. In some cases, the familiar version of a song gets superseded by a later, live version.”

Enjoy!