Diary of Musical Thoughts

This blog celebrated twenty years (!) this past January.  Even though I've been really terrible when it comes to introducing and complet...

I know this is late, but I couldn't let this one pass ... Celebrity producers have been around for decades, often upstaging the acts the...

I get it, I really do.  It's rare to hear an album that sets out such a lush, gorgeous mood and can sustain it song after song.  The mus...

This is the first book written by Peter Hook in his three part autobiographical series, albeit read by me in reverse order.  The Joy Divis...

All the best stores in Hamburg seem to be in or around the neighbourhood of Sternschanze, northwest of the city's downtown.  This helps ...

Eight years ago, I looked for a common thread that connected critically acclaimed albums .  I felt there was were two "sweet spots...

With each passing year in the '10's, I became more estranged from whatever passes for the critical albums consensus these days.  In...

I wasn't consumed by feelings of grief and misery in 2019, although it might seem that way while scanning over this list of albums.  The...

My father was the record buyer in our family.  The shelves in our family room were stocked full of 50's and 60's rock and soul recor...

Earlier this month, I was binge listening some CD-R's that I burned in 2005 and early 2006.  I've written about late-2003/early-2004...