Category: Listas

  • My favorite albums of the decade.

    My favorite albums of the decade.

    I had a personal relationship with my iPod Classic. When listening to playlists at random, it always knew the one I wanted, or even ordered them in the best way possible. It fell from my bicycle once. A friend of mine listened music with it while playing football. It had at least 5 different cases.…

  • My favorite songs of the decade.

    My favorite songs of the decade.

    You can fit 1,752,000 regular 3-minute songs in 10 years. And although that seems like a large amount, is likely that we’ve heard that much in the past decade, specially in Mexico. Of course, the length and nature of your favorite songs can vary greatly, and mine, as evidenced by the following list, does too.…

  • My favorite albums of 2019.

    My favorite albums of 2019.

     Why will you remember 2019? What will make you think back to it and have a warming feeling? What meaning does it have to ‘end’ a decade?   Here we are. At another finale. A change that doesn’t mean a lot, but we give it significance in order to make sense of everything that happens…

  • Not from 2018: 10 albums of past years that I listened and loved.

    Not from 2018: 10 albums of past years that I listened and loved.

    There is one bad thing about year-end lists that nobody talks about. They are a snapshot of what you listened to mostly all year, but only from new releases. Music, as an art form, is timeless, and that simple fact makes it difficult to ignore older records during a particular year. An album a friend…

  • 2018: My favorite albums in a divisive year.

    2018: My favorite albums in a divisive year.

    There will ever be a peaceful year?  Our measurement of time is completely relative to what we see and feel of nature. But, actually, the universe doesn’t care. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades…none of those has any influence in the grand scheme of things. But we give it importance, we give it…

  • My (20) Favorite Albums of 2017 (Part 2)

    My (20) Favorite Albums of 2017 (Part 2)

    In no time at all, this’ll be the distant past. The importance of the next ten albums is how easy for me was to enjoy them in this 2017 filled with emotions, situations and opportunities for reflection. I had nothing to do but to sit, put on my headphones and hit the play button.   …

  • My (20) Favorite Albums of 2017 (Part 1)

    My (20) Favorite Albums of 2017 (Part 1)

    Whatever happens on Earth, stays on Earth. There goes another eventful year. 2017 was a great year for music. I listened to a lot of it, maybe more than previous years, and encountered with the strange situation that I liked many albums. This is, in my opinion, because in an era where the digital formats…