Tim Truxell, Author at FlannelEnigma

10 11 albums that shaped my musical taste

Album Challenge: choose 10 albums that greatly influenced my taste in music – one album per day for 10 consecutive days

As usual (two years running at least), I’ve compiled a list of my 20 favorite albums of the year.

The Atlantic provides a great list of thing they learned in 2023 that were just mind boggling.

Here are the cities I visited this year. I know the year isn’t over yet, but unless something serious happens, this shouldn’t change.

Previous posts viewed my collection at a very high level. Here is the distribution of my collection over time at a much more granular level.

Today, 2002. The day we lost Joe. Twenty goddam years we’ve missed him (and Lord he would have had a lot to say in that time).

A Recap of the lists provided by other music sites: NPR, Paste, Pitchfork, and Stereogum. And then comparing them to my own list.

Now that the World Cup is over, I thought I’d round up some of the best stories that caught my eye about it over the last week or so.

ChatGPT has kicked off a fresh round of hand wringing by content professionals, but I’m not sure the news is all bad.

Every so often, I will post quick links to interesting stories that don’t rise to the occasion to merit a full post on their own.