2012 – My Year in Albums

My consistent obsession with imposing a decimal format on my annual music buying is, as it turns out, a good opportunity to gauge my commitment to keeping this blog updated. A quick glance at the dashboard shows that, since my Albums of the Year 2011 post I’ve...

Home Taping

If you’re as old as me then you probably remember when all the music died. Not Don McLean’s rambling nonsense about…. I have no idea what American Pie is actually about. I mean the 80s when home taping killed music.  Do you remember when there used...

Albums of the Year

It’s the time of year where I habitually start making a list of my favourite albums of the year. Closely followed by other random lists, because everything is better when it is in a list. I started thinking about this list a few months ago and had come to the...

Home of Metal

I thought it might be an idea to write something on here that wasn’t based on my simplistic 6th Form analysis of recent political events.So instead I’m going to write about Heavy Metal, which is much more sensible. Yesterday I went to visit the Home of...

Bring Me the Music of 2010

I’m not sure if it is legitimate to persist with “best of 2010” lists this far into 2011. It seems like the moment has gone. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to bother this year, it just means I recognise it is an unseemly use of the worlds precious web space. I think...

Blues

It’s fair to say that as soon as I stated recording games I’ve finished I lost interest in playing games really quickly. As nothing seems to have got completed in ages I decided to make a playlist. I used to obsessively listen to Blues. It was the  music...