Sometimes serendipity falls in your lap and it's better than luck. I logged this playlist a couple days ago, logged all the remaining albums, actually, just to give myself a bit of breathing room for the weekend. I more or less chose the albums with but a tiny goal in mind and that was to put this thing together in as haphazard and random a fashion as I could. Random it ain't. Haphazard? Hardly.
Yet I did manage to avoid the triteness of more or less similar sequences of artists or genres, thus possibly making the ride a tad less…

So we've arrived at Volume 4, which looks to be an eclectic mix. Hope you enjoy.

I'm starting Volume 3 with my favorite Stones album, "Some Girls". Little to say today, so just be satisfied with me hoping you enjoy. Peace

Yep, here's Tommy! Eight more killer discs of wax set to spin off into the webosphere. Lots of Jazz today. You've probably never heard of much of this set. I've included the first entry from The Grateful Dead today, along with more Phish, the unlikely dark horse Coldplay, and has anybody ever heard of Train? Enjoy. More to come!

When I was whittling down this list of 1,800+ albums to a more manageable number, I knew from the start that Paul Weller (The Modfather) would have a very sizable presence in any list I eventually decided to publish. If I absolutely had to choose a favorite rock guitarist, and believe me, I'd be quite reluctant to take on that monumental task (because, well, where does one begin?), but Mr. Weller would most certainly sure to figure in the short vote of any list I'd compile. For those who don't know of whom I'm speaking, he was originally the founder/lead…

I couldn't really narrow down my favorite albums list to just a mere twenty or twenty five. Well, I could, probably, some day, but I'm lazy and I don't owe you anything anyway. I did, however, come up with a list of fifty-one albums that I listen to all the time (or consider some of my undisputed all-timers), and then decided for the sake of symmetry to make it a list of fifty-six; that works out nicely to eight albums a day for a week (or seven days in case I don't get to all of them in consecutive days).…

Have you ever taken the time to consider what your favorite song of all time is? Favorite album? How about top five of each? Top ten? Today I'm beginning a five installment journal series intended to confront just that proverbial question: What are my twenty-five favorite albums of all time, in order, and what brings me to that conclusion? What are the stories behind those albums that make them so singular, so laden with importance, and what is it about them that brings them to mind for me so immediately?
I'll return in a little while with the first installment,…

A couple days ago I decided to try my hand at forming a group on last.fm. I hoped for but didn't expect much in the way of response or membership enrollment, yet miraculously, two new members joined rather quickly! Awesome. Today I'm feeling rather sluggish and kinda blue from an aching kidney and a motherfucker migraine that just seems to get worse by the hour. I shared "Truckin' Up To Buffalo" with one of my new friends and made arrangements to share more Dead with him in the future. Right now I'm listening to Phish live in Prague, July 6,…

Today HP notified me via email that they had sent the prepaid packaging thru 2-day shipping so that I can ship my laptop back to them for warranty service. It's also Columbus Day. So, today I'm just playing as much online poker as I can tolerate, although any tournaments for which I might qualify will be instantly moot because it'll be about two weeks before I have my computer back. I guess this is just a practice in futility. The musical agenda for today: new music I procured over the weekend through the bittorrent system, namely three installments of the…