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.

Music Quiz: Three Dog Night songs

Sporcle

I often try to steer away from single-artist quizzes. But...

Nuggets II: I Wish I Was Five by Scrugg

Nuggets II

The success of Rhino’s 1998 Nuggets boxset justified a follow-up...

Teddy Lester’s Quotes

Miscellany

I have an irrational love for John Finnemore’s Teddy Lester...

Music Quiz: Three Dog Night songs

Sporcle

I often try to steer away from single-artist quizzes. But...

Nuggets II: I Wish I Was Five by Scrugg

Nuggets II

The success of Rhino’s 1998 Nuggets boxset justified a follow-up...

Teddy Lester’s Quotes

Miscellany

I have an irrational love for John Finnemore’s Teddy Lester...

Music Quiz: Third in Line

Sporcle

Can you identify 20 artists by their third album? https://www.sporcle.com/games/pdigoe/born-to-sporcle...

10 Best Fleetwood Mac Songs from the Buckingham-Nicks Era

1970s,1980s,Song Lists,The Ten Best Songs By...

On New Year’s Eve 1974, Mick Fleetwood invited guitarist Lindsey...

Warren Zevon Albums Ranked from Worst to Best

1970s,1980s,Album Rankings

Warren Zevon emerged later than most of his LA singer-songwriter...

Midnight Oil Album Reviews

1970s - Punk and New Wave

Rob Hirst and Jim Moginie formed Farm in Sydney in...

The Last Dinner Party Album Reviews

2020s

The Last Dinner Party were the breakout UK stars of...

Hayley Williams Album Reviews

2020s

Hayley Williams is best known as the lead vocalist of...

Midnight Oil Album Reviews

1970s - Punk and New Wave

Rob Hirst and Jim Moginie formed Farm in Sydney in...

The Last Dinner Party Album Reviews

2020s

The Last Dinner Party were the breakout UK stars of...

Hayley Williams Album Reviews

2020s

Hayley Williams is best known as the lead vocalist of...

Wolf Alice Album Reviews

2010s

Wolf Alice started in 2010 as an acoustic duo when...

The Go-Go’s Album Reviews

1970s - Punk and New Wave

The Go-Go’s emerged from the late 1970s L.A. punk scene...

Able Tasmans Album Reviews

NZ #1 hits

Graeme Humphreys started his musical career in the Whangārei band...

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Brandy Clark Album Reviews

1970s – Punk and New Wave

Joy Division Album Reviews

1980s

Marshall Crenshaw Album Reviews

2010s

Lana Del Rey Album Reviews

1980s,1990s,New Zealand

Straitjacket Fits Album Reviews

2010s

tricot Album Reviews

2020s

Black Midi Album Reviews

1960s

Scott Walker Album Reviews

1970s

David Bowie Album Reviews

1970s

Bruce Springsteen Album Reviews

1990s,Album Rankings

Red House Painters Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

1970s,1980s,Album Rankings

Roxy Music Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

2000s,2010s,2020s,Album Rankings

Paramore Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

2000s,2010s,2020s,Album Rankings

Jenny Lewis Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

1970s,Album Rankings

Yes Albums Ranked from Worst to Best

2000s,2010s,2020s,Album Rankings

Vampire Weekend’s Albums Ranked

Album Rankings

Lindsey Buckingham Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

1990s,Album Rankings

Fountains of Wayne: Albums Ranked from Worst to Best

2010s,Album Rankings

Miranda Lambert Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

1990s,Album Rankings

10 Best Karla Bonoff Songs

1980s,Miscellany,Song Lists

10 Worst Songs of the 1980s

Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express The Go-Betweens

1980s,The Ten Best Songs By…

10 Best Go-Betweens Songs

1960s,1970s,The Ten Best Songs By…

10 Best Aretha Franklin Songs

1980s,Song Lists,The Ten Best Songs By…

Five Best Songs by The Front Lawn

The Ten Best Songs By…

10 Best Billy Joel Songs

1980s,The Ten Best Songs By…

10 Best Paul Kelly Songs: Part 1, 1985-1992

1960s,Index

1960s Album Reviews

Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness First Finale

1970s,Index

1970s Album Reviews

1970s – Punk and New Wave

Punk and New Wave Reviews

1980s,Index

1980s Album Reviews

1990s,Index

1990s Album Reviews

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2000s Album Reviews

2010s,Index

2010s Album Reviews

2020s,Index

2020s Album Reviews

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Aphoristical

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.