Diary of Musical Thoughts

At first I couldn't see the reason or logic behind expanding the semi-finals from 24 to 36 competitors, only to give them one chance to ...

I said I couldn't believe it could happen even once , but one fine day, I browsing through some of my blog archives, and there it was: ...

This post is to document the most eclectic night out, music-wise, that I've had in quite a long time. It's an evening that began wi...

The list is here , and my proposal for one of my favourite albums of the 1970's, "Free To Be ... You and Me" by Marlo Thomas a...

This is really old news by now, but I had this story bookmarked for a while and still wanted to write a few words about it. In the weeks be...

I've seen bits and pieces of "Woodstock" countless times, in large part because my Dad used to watch it regularly, either on t...

If there's been a better album of hard, dark, isolationist techno released in the past couple of years, I've yet to hear it. Depend...

The Pazz & Jop poll has become a lot more predictable in the last few years due to no fault of its own, owing to the eleventy billion o...

It wasn't much of a surprise that Lou Reed finally decided to stage this album in its entirety -- much like "SMiLE", its event...

I'll say something about the actual poll results at another time ... first, I want to share a few words about some of the comments , and...