"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway." --Heart of Darkness

I've started this blog with a mission: to listen to one album per day, and record my thoughts, feelings, and impressions.

The albums to which I will listen are albums I already have in my iTunes library. I will listen to albums alphabetically, to ensure I listen to every album I currently own. I will listen only to complete LP's--random singles and EP's contained in my library will not be included in this project. New albums that I will inevitably purchase during the course of this marathon review will be placed in the alphabetical "queue," as it were. If I have passed an album's place in the alphabet, I will listen to it immediately, and continue the next day where I left off the day before. In keeping with the iTunes system of organization, albums beginning with numbers and symbols will be at the end of the listening order.

Let there be no pretense about this endeavor: this is nothing more than intellectual masturbation for me. The albums I will listen to are by no means new (though many of them will be new to me), and I will not be taking into account what the critics have already said. My "reviews" will be purely my opinion on each album.

Now that I've made my opening move, I encourage you to give me your feelings on my work and to listen to these albums for yourself. Tomorrow I'll be listening to Muse's Absolution.

Enjoy!