Diary of Musical Thoughts

I am extremely proud of my ranking of  Sibelius Fifth Symphonies , but it was an exhausting post to write.  I had planned to turn it into a ...

I had a yen to hear Sonic Youth’s "Total Trash", which quickly spiraled into a YouTube-assembled playlist of late ’80s/early ’90s ...

As I alluded to a few weeks ago, I could keep this blog going indefinitely by revisiting and reevaluating CD's from the 90's. For in...

I have been thinking a lot about a new format for this blog.  The correct choice seems to be taking the entire thing to a video format on YT...

I will never catch up with contemporary music ever again, I am checked out on that front. I'm too far behind even with the music release...

Every year, the Vienna Philharmonic presents a New Year's Day concert of light music based around Strauss-family waltzes and polkas.  Th...

I used to obsess over my year-end lists, but now, I don't miss them in the least.  Non-listmaking friends and online acquaintances used ...

I don't know why I have never written about this album before, seeing as it influenced my buying habits for years afterward.  If memory...

Of course it’s an advertisement for his upcoming world tour, and yes, he surely got a boatload of money from Netflix for doing it. But set t...

In 1991, Milli Vanilli became the first and still only act to be stripped of a Best New Artist Grammy.  Now, more than three decades later, ...