The Listening Log

A quiet space for music, speech, memory, and reflection.

Listening without algorithms. Writing without noise.

Created by writer Derek Franklin

Recent Entries

  • Slow Emotion Replay

    Battling a June cold, miserable weather and post-holiday blues, while The The, Whitney Houston, The Amps and The Mothers of Invention provide the necessary medicine.

  • Miserable Monday

    Home from Brazil, back in rainy Salford with a sleeping dog in the back seat, Black Lace on the stereo and the grim reality of unread work emails looming ever closer.

  • Open Up

    A Brazilian afternoon of beer, Jason Donovan, Graham Central Station, Tom Waits and Mozart, while quietly trying not to think about work next week

  • Isolation

    An overcast Brazilian morning featuring John Lennon, Erasure, Sepultura, Frankie Knuckles and the startling discovery that some music legends have been dead for years without anybody bothering to tell me.

  • Washington Wobble

    The Listening Log returns internationally from Brazil with BB King in the headphones, relatives chatting in Portuguese nearby and Duke Ellington transporting me back almost a century.

  • New Music Friday #1

    A slight change of direction for The Listening Log this week as I wander through Spotify obscurities, vocoder fog and promotional write-ups more entertaining than the music itself.