#1016 Joanna Newsom – Ys

Joanna Newsom released her second album Ys in 2006. The album has only five songs and it is almost an hour long. The album charted on the low end of Billboard 200, but it was on almost every critics year-end chart, except Rolling Stone magazine and Robert Christgau, who seems to hate everything good in […]

#155 Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin is the band and the eponymous debut album. I was super excited when I saw them in the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. At the time of its release the critics wrote mostly harsh things in regards to the album and the band members. Rolling Stone magazine writer John Mendelsohn was […]

1001 Albums #87

The Velvet Underground & Nico from The Velvet Underground is out of order in the book of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The problem is that the book is wrong on the order of some of the albums. I think I will make more changes with the next post. The Velvet Underground has risen from an underappreciated band that was briefly managed by artist Andy Warhol to one that […]

London – Hyde Park to Chinatown

The third day in London i had decided to see Westminster Abbey, so i hoped on the train and headed in that direction. i took the fast train from Ealing to Paddington (Bear) Station. It was much faster and the same price, i think. i exited the station and started walking. i did my usual […]