"What's your favourite album?"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Drawing heavily on that discussion we had on Poptimists a week or two ago, here's my latest Pitchfork column. I wanted something straightforward after last month's reaction-free one (which I'm still quite pleased with) and I appear instead to have accessed my inner Nick Hornby.

Comments

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

I really liked this week's column, Tom. Simultaneously manages to personalize without subsuming the ideas totally. I'm not sure if "access[ing] your inner Nick Hornby" is supposed to be a criticism of the piece, but if so, you're being a bit hard on yourself. Hornby can be quite insufferable about music.

Didn't have a CD player into the house until 8th grade (00=01ish), so early favourites were defined by the parent's vinyl collection (Simon & Garfunkel, Beatles, etc.). First purchased album was Paul Simon's Graceland, and a bunch of classical.