Diary of Musical Thoughts

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...

Outside of a few scattered mentions, my last post focusing on Blur was over eight years ago .  I can't recall how it started, but this w...

Yazoo's "Don't Go" hasn't really left the radio in the thirty seven (!) years since its initial release.  What seemed ...

Springsteen fans claim that he can sing in front of a stadium full of people and make everyone feel like he's singing directly and only ...

I found out about Ric Ocasek's passing via a tweet from Weezer's Twitter account.  I'd forgotten that Ocasek was a producer of s...