Seven Days In

 I’m am slightly in awe of the way we are becoming a TV watching proletariat. Though that’s a discussion for another time. I decided to see...

I don't buy much music these days, my collection is huge and I am selling a lot of CDs I bought on Discogs . I've written previousl...

Seems like a fair question. I once said that CDs were the McDonaldisation of music, MP3 and digital music even more so. All of a sudden alb...

Working from has got me listening to CDs again. I did start listening digitally , and because my record player is downstairs , vinyl is...

I'm not sure why , maybe because I'm a sexist , male chauvinist misogynist , but I find some of the phrasing and vocabulary of ...

One of the things about working from home is that I was listening to 6Music a lot , and my inherent laziness means that unless a CD is ...

No, I'm not bored ( je m'ennuie is French for I'm Bored in case you were wondering what I am on about)  but I think others ...

Today people often try and share Spotify playlist with me. I don't contenance Spotify, it's not my inner Ron Swanson but the fa...

On twitter I keep seeing a poll for what is the best streaming app, Spotify , Amazon or Apple Music (or whatever it's called this ...

Switched on 6Music this morning and Chris Hawkins was playing "Gravel-Pit" by Wu-Tang Clan which for some reason reminded me ...

I am definitely becoming lazier and lazier. Also while I have a large CD and digital music collection, there are big chunks of it I ha...

Today is the thirtieth anniversary or the World Wide Web as we know it, and it came into my head that my two wonderful daughters are b...

Walking to work this morning was very quiet, almost deathly silent. I wasn't sure whether there were any buses running until I hit...

Three years back I wrote a history of music media in a post here , and at the weekend I nipped into Vinyl Guru and got talking with ...

The sky is a uniform grey (or is it gray), surfaces outside still are covered in rain / dew, the lawn is finally looking very well but...

This was going to be the third post I posted yesterday for #August50 ,which I think I've decided will probably be impossible with...