#Harkive: My day in music 21st July 2015

Excellent, it’s Harkive day, or at least it was yesterday. For those that don’t know (how could you have missed last year’s thrilling update?), Harkive is a day where people are asked to make a record of the music they listen to and how they listen...

Top 12 Albums of 2014 (yes 12)

The one thing that is certain with this blog is that I will knock out a list of albums at the end of the year. This year I decided to mix up the format a bit and go for 12 albums. You might think that would mean one album for each month, you’d be wrong. I just...

1045 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

I should make clear that nothing about this advocates on any level that there are any number of albums you should hear before you die. The numerical consumption of popular culture in no way signifies a successfully completed life. Last year I had a bit of time on my...

#Harkive: My day in music 15th July 2014

I have a feeling that my two annual updates to this blog are likely to be my contribution to Harkive and my yearly list of music I like. That’s probably enough  for most people to take in. If you’ve not heard of Harkive it’s an annual day where...

2013- It’s All About Albums

It  doesn’t seem like THREE blog posts since I last did my annual list of albums, but it is. As  many as three completely different people asked me if I was going to do a list this year, I admit I prompted two of them into asking me. With that sort  of...

Harkive: My day in music 9th July 2013

I really liked the Harkive idea of trying to catalogue how people listen to music these days. You can, of course, click on the link but for the lazy; they asked people all over the world to submit a whole days worth of music listening stories. It looks like people...