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It took me almost 10 long years to realize that the best Genesis album is the haphazardly put-together Abacab, and it still sounds fresh as ever, perhaps even more so since I first listened in 2015.

Everyone's secret favorite Genesis album. Despite the quartet-during-1976 being my favorite band during all eras of their five-decade tenure, a real fan would tell you the album(s) has a lot of problems compared with their live material. In the studio the music is either too polished or too amateur sounding but live it's a completely different story. I believe the Lyceum gig that happened in 1980 was perhaps the best live gig they ever did.

The original mix is dated as heck with everything ... read more

For a brief period of time this was my favorite album in the metal genre and it probably still is. Its initial splendor has worn off on me now but I still come back to it with a warm embrace. It's one of the few pieces of art from 2019 that handles climate change in a tasteful way, unlike It's Coming It's Real off Swans' "Leaving Meaning" which didn't land for me unfortunately, and even though the end result is simplistic the passion in the recording makes me think otherwise.

I'm too poor to get into Taylor's Version of her breakout album Fearless, actually I could afford it but my money is going to more esoteric things and less mainstream; so I dusted off my Platinum CD + DVD and put it on my Toshiba HD-A1, an HD-DVD player yes but it has a killer DAC, and I was transported back to 2009 when I gave my sister the set for Christmas. Surprisingly this holds up pretty well for being derivative of itself. I still have problems with how samey the songs sound but I have ... read more