Diary of Musical Thoughts

The contents of my ballot were never in doubt (exactly as they appeared in last week's posts), but there was still the matter of assigni...

In the same way that I don't really care for songs like "Stairway To Heaven", songs like "Brand New Bag" and "I...

More fun and dancing ... 10. Mark Henning, "Kartoffelzuppe Smackdown" (from "Curveball EP") It's minimalist, but unp...

In contrast to the past two years, I'm reverting back to a top ten, rather than a top twenty. It was a bit of a strange year, perhaps b...

No, not that! It's time for the TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2006 Except not right this instant, because I'm going away for the weekend ... th...

I can understand the anger that many people feel toward the Village Voice and their new, um, editorial direction. On a professional/literar...

You decide: The 10 Million+ "seller" The new release "Hey" is a fairly crap Pixies song that probably spawned a million ...

I don't understand the middling praise for this record, as in "it's decent, but less than the sum of its parts". In light...

I have patiently and repeatedly requested an Animal Collective album composed of nothing but two-minute pop songs plus a couple of twelve-mi...

A couple of weeks ago, one of my longest ever music-related searches finally came to a close. Tracking down the precursor compilation to on...