Diary of Musical Thoughts

These days, most listicles are pseudo-spam, featuring dry, flaccid writing increasingly composed by AI-generated content farms. But this par...

The Eurovision final delivered the goods last night: strong performances, an unusually balanced jury vote that left the competition wide ope...

I am completely unqualified to write about this topic, let's get that out of the way now.  However, a potential connection between the P...

I am extremely proud of my ranking of  Sibelius Fifth Symphonies , but it was an exhausting post to write.  I had planned to turn it into a ...

I had a yen to hear Sonic Youth’s "Total Trash", which quickly spiraled into a YouTube-assembled playlist of late ’80s/early ’90s ...

As I alluded to a few weeks ago, I could keep this blog going indefinitely by revisiting and reevaluating CD's from the 90's. For in...

I have been thinking a lot about a new format for this blog.  The correct choice seems to be taking the entire thing to a video format on YT...

I will never catch up with contemporary music ever again, I am checked out on that front. I'm too far behind even with the music release...

Every year, the Vienna Philharmonic presents a New Year's Day concert of light music based around Strauss-family waltzes and polkas.  Th...

I used to obsess over my year-end lists, but now, I don't miss them in the least.  Non-listmaking friends and online acquaintances used ...