Diary of Musical Thoughts

Somehow, I've always associated Third Eye Foundation with abrasive guitar terrorism over nosebleed breakbeats. In fact, the number of su...

Kevin Shields is playing UK gigs with Primal Scream. This must be a wet dream.

I can scarcely believe that I am about to write this, but "That's the Way It Is" is surely the best Celine Dion song ever. Nob...

Nobody associates a bands' "greatness" with their lyric writing ability. The Beatles are an excellent test case. There is no d...

What exactly is the difference between Much Music and Much More Music? Not much, as far as I can tell. MM plays Korn, and M3 doesn't. Oh...

I have figured out why Korn exist. Korn exist so that young people threatened by genres such as pop and techno can say "See? Rock rulz ...

I don't understand Yo La Tengo. They have no truly unique musical ideas. Everything they do has been done before by MBV, Velvets, etc. S...

Stereolab's "Cobra and Phases..." has been out for a few months now, and it continues to sound better with each and every list...

Ha! I've been saying for years that Kevin Shields' brand of guitar noise is hugely influential on the way ALL rock music is conceive...

I've discovered the deep connections between the founders of techno and the founders of quantum mechanics. Schroedinger/Atkins: The gene...