Aphoristic Album Reviews

Obsessively chronicling one person’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.

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The Shuffle the Music Tag #2

Way back in October 2017, I was invited to participate...
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Van Morrison It's Too Late to Stop Now

Nuggets II: Sad by The (Australian) Playboys

The success of Rhino’s 1998 Nuggets boxset justified a follow-up...
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Music Quiz: Women of Pop Music

Can you link the first and last names of famous...
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Recent blog posts

The Shuffle the Music Tag #2

Way back in October 2017, I was invited to participate...
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Van Morrison It's Too Late to Stop Now

Nuggets II: Sad by The (Australian) Playboys

The success of Rhino’s 1998 Nuggets boxset justified a follow-up...
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Music Quiz: Women of Pop Music

Can you link the first and last names of famous...
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The Shuffle the Music Tag

I was invited to participate in the Shuffle the Music...
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Jazz Queen

New Music Reviews: Ratboys and Mandy, Indiana

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It’s an uncharacteristically rocking week. Ratboys play rootsy rock and...
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Low by Flo Rida (featuring T-Pain)

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Every New Zealand #1 single 4 Low by Flo Rida...
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Recent review pages

Michael Omartian Album Reviews

Michael Omartian has a vast resume as a producer and...
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Midnight Oil Album Reviews

Rob Hirst and Jim Moginie formed Farm in Sydney in...
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The Last Dinner Party Album Reviews

The Last Dinner Party were the breakout UK stars of...
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Recent review pages

Michael Omartian Album Reviews

Michael Omartian has a vast resume as a producer and...
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Midnight Oil Album Reviews

Rob Hirst and Jim Moginie formed Farm in Sydney in...
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The Last Dinner Party Album Reviews

The Last Dinner Party were the breakout UK stars of...
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Hayley Williams Album Reviews

Hayley Williams is best known as the lead vocalist of...
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Wolf Alice Album Reviews

Wolf Alice started in 2010 as an acoustic duo when...
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The Go-Go’s Album Reviews

The Go-Go’s emerged from the late 1970s L.A. punk scene...
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Graham Fyfe has been writing this website since his late teens. Now in his forties, he’s been obsessively listening to albums for years. He works as a web editor and plays the piano.

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10,000 Maniacs Album Reviews

10,000 Maniacs have one of the most misleader monikers in...
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Christian Contemporary Music – Miscellany

Album reviews of CCM artists who don’t qualify for their...
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100 Best Albums of All Time

Here are my 100 favourites from the albums that I’ve...
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Brian Eno Another Green World

Brian Eno Album Reviews

Brian Eno started his musical career as a member of...
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Brian Eno Another Green World

Brandy Clark Album Reviews

Brandy Clark was born in Morton, Washington, a small logging...
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Tirzah Album Reviews

As a teenager, Tirzah Mastin was on the path to...
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Neil Young: Five Best Albums

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Neil Young has enjoyed a long and erratic music career...
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Great B-Sides: Hello in There by 10,000 Maniacs

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Folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs often recorded covers for their b-sides;...
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Warren Zevon Albums Ranked from Worst to Best

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Warren Zevon emerged later than most of his LA singer-songwriter...
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10 Best Stevie Wonder Songs

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Michigan’s Stevland Hardaway Morris started his recording career young –...
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Stevie Wonder Innervisions

10 Best Songs by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

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In 1979, The Soft Boys released their debut album, A...
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Grendel by Marillion: Great B-Sides

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Marillion were named after JRR Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, and were...
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