Category Reviews

Haiku Reviews

Here’s a brief summation of recent reviews on this review blog, in haiku form. As my wife pointed out, you can’t get much more aphoristic than a haiku. I’ve haiku’d nine records below, an assortment of more obscure efforts by…

Blog Dylan: Live in 1966

Bob Dylan’s a major musical figure who I haven’t covered on this blog yet. He has a huge discography, brimming with greatness – and I’ll tackle his 1960s albums and later highlights sometime. But I wanted to participate in blog dylan, a…

Ben Folds Rocking the Suburbs

Male, Middle Class, and White

Right now, I have created 63 artist pages on this blog, and 59 of them are white. Two of the four non-white artists covered are relatively obscure New Zealand acts. And here’s a random selection of ten songs that my…

Run DMC Tougher Than Leather

Site Updates: 500 Ratings and a New Domain

Aphoristic Album Reviews has had a couple of significant milestones this week. 500 Ratings I’ve been keeping a record of this site’s album ratings, and I just hit 500 ratings this week. This is a graph of all the album…

The Beatles Revolver

Rating The Beatles’ Albums

Obviously The Beatles are the most celebrated and analysed pop band in the history of music, and I don’t have anything especial to add to the conversation. The main reasons that I’m covering them is that I like them –…

An Explanation and a Plan

An Explanation I wanted to provide an explanation to my fellow bloggers who may have noticed that this blog has undergone a name change, and that I’ve had to un-follow and re-follow your blogs. A few weeks ago, I noticed that I…