Good disco vs. bad disco |
Today I found myself in the city centre at 10.20am without having had any breakfast, so I thought I'd do something I have never done: go for breakfast in a diner. I was sitting in the diner enjo...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:37:00 PST |
Leonard Cohen and incompetent people |
I have been working with some very good and competent people lately, but also with some total incompetents, and it always bugs me that in my line of work - where, for various reasons, there are no abs...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:27:00 PST |
Punk!!! |
This is actually my favourite Minutemen album, probably for the same sentimental reasons that ’Please Please Me’ is my favourite Beatles album, i.e. it’s the first one by that partic...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:37:00 PST |
Thelonious Monk |
Listening to this great artist play his sure-fire slam-bang hit tune, ’Round Midnight’, I reflect that it’s taken me something like 15 years to learn this tune. It’s not that ...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:25:00 PST |
Stuff you listened to back then that turns out to be still good |
This particular Rory Gallagher album is very dear to the hearts of Irish music fans of a certain age, because the opening track ’Follow Me’ was used for years as the theme song to a show c...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:24:00 PST |
Music you listen to because of a lover |
I was in love with this girl in school, and I mean insanely in love - everything reminded me of her. I remember asking her at one point what kind of music she liked, because that was the only kind o...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:15:00 PST |
The author listens to somebody he’s never listened to before |
I think the title track of this album is simultaneously one of the fucking funniest and one of the fucking saddest songs I have ever heard.
Posted by Alex Johnston on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:06:00 PST |
Music and showmanship |
I bought this budget box set of early Dizzy this afternoon while on my way to a meeting about totally unrelated-to-music matters. I really like the shop where I bought it (Spindizzy Records in the Ma...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:21:00 PST |
Dedication |
I'm listening to 'Chasin' the Trane' because I'm reading Ben Ratliff's book on Coltrane and it's making me think like I've wasted my life not practising enough, which on the recorded evidence is demon...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:53:00 PST |
The worst music in the world |
Not this album, this album is great, a weird and alarming set of charts for Stan Kenton's orchestra by little-known composer Bob Graettinger. Some of the spookiest sort-of-jazz you'll ever hear.No, I...
Posted by Alex Johnston on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:32:00 PST |
