Diary of Musical Thoughts

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

"Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened", dir. Chris Smith

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I finally got around to watching this, and I can safely say that I've never seen a documentary come across more like a horror film.  I c...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

"Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert", dir. Chris Perkel

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The release of this Youtube Original documentary coincided with the scheduled start of Coachella's first weekend.  Right now nobody has ...
Monday, April 06, 2020

Moby, "Then It Fell Apart" (book)

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Moby's first autobiography, "Porcelain", was in many ways not even about him .  Big parts of it were about chronicling the ear...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Amorphous Androgynous, "Tales of Ephidrina"

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This blog celebrated twenty years (!) this past January.  Even though I've been really terrible when it comes to introducing and complet...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

RIP Andrew Weatherall

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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...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Weyes Blood, "Titanic Rising"

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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...
Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Peter Hook, "The Hacienda -- How Not to Run a Club"

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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...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Music in Hamburg

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All the best stores in Hamburg seem to be in or around the neighbourhood of Sternschanze, northwest of the city's downtown.  This helps ...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

B-factor revisited

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Eight years ago, I looked for a common thread that connected critically acclaimed albums .  I felt there was were two "sweet spots...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

The only end of the decade list that matters?

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