Record Reconstructor

This Week:  Influential albums by black women, a great recommendation, more musical titans pass away and other mad ravings. As particularly narcissistic theories go, this past month has been brewing in my mind a terrible concept;  that somehow, future historians find these writings, one of the few records left after a great cleansing or censoring of all recorded history by right wing authoritarians because it's far too insignificant to bother covering up.  What if the vague allusions to world events I've scattered throughout these articles ends up being one of the few primary sources left in 2355 when historians look back on this time from their habitation bunkers and ask what the hell we were all doing?  If that is true, future historians, let it be recorded that this week, somewhere between the 10th and the 15th of July 2025 is when stuff got really scary.  From Israel and Iran toying around with the big button marked "World War 3" to political activists imita...

Dashboard! Yes, I'm putting two up on the same day, look, time has got away from me this week a little and we have guests arriving today who I'll need to socialise with this evening so this is going to be a more truncated than normal weekly wrapup, but fortunately its only seventeen albums so that shouldn't take too long.   On with the show. I listened to my 200th unique album in its entirety since January 1st on Monday this week, driving back from Manchester after watching the Superbowl, and as a special treat (and to keep my .swifties.com tag on Bluesky validated) I decided to listen to the most recent Taylor Swift album.  First, a couple of notes - I understand the machinations of releasing multiple versions of albums to keep them in streaming charts longer and produce limited run vinyl and the like.  When I am listening to albums, if there are multiple versions, I'll almost universally choose the studio version over any extended cut that is available (though with...