Obsessively chronicling one man’s exploration of popular music.
Welcome to Aphoristic Album Reviews, where I discuss highlights from the last sixty years of popular music. I write album reviews, highlight my favourite albums, blog regularly, and make lists.
Recent Album Review Pages
Paramore
Emo turned to technicolour pop.
John Martyn
Idiosyncratic 1970s folk-jazz artist.
Marlon Williams
New Zealand’s country-tinged crooner.
Albums Ranked From Worst To Best
What’s Tom Waits’ least impressive album? What’s Kate Bush’s best record?
Recent Blog Posts
Book Review: In Love With These Times – My Life With Flying Nun Records by Roger Shepherd
Note: In Love With These Times was released in 2016, but I only read it recently. Flying Nun is a…
10 Best Split Enz Songs
Split Enz first reached New Zealand’s attention with an appearance on the New Faces talent show in 1973, where they…
Music Quiz: Artist by Badly Drawn Song 2000s
Congratulations to Jamie from https://themusicinmyears.wordpress.com/, who pipped Rich for the fastest time last week. This week we’re back to badly…
New Music Reviews: Manchester Orchestra, tUnE-yArDs, and Wolf Alice
Welcome back to new music reviews, with three recent albums. Manchester Orchestra’s earnest stadium rock, tUnE-yArDs’ eclectic indie-soul, and Wolf…
Nuggets: Louie Louie by The Kingsmen
Before he became Patti Smith’s bass player, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First…
Music Quiz: Follow That Lyric Song Titles II
Since Sporcle doesn’t measure micro-seconds, it looks like we had a dead heat last week. Congratulations to Rich Kamerman and…
