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Tue Aug 25 2020
Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
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Wed Aug 26 2020
Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
4
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Thu Aug 27 2020
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4
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Fri Aug 28 2020
You Are The Quarry
Morrissey
2
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Mon Aug 31 2020
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
1
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Tue Sep 01 2020
Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
Classic beats taking you back to better times.
5
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Wed Sep 02 2020
Celebrity Skin
Hole
Utterly generic grunge pop, of its time
2
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Thu Sep 03 2020
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
I know it’s quality and all that, I just don’t enjoy listening to it.
2
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Fri Sep 04 2020
En-Tact
The Shamen
The single stand out (but is dated). The rest is generic DJ mixtape from the early 90s forgettable content. Not great
1
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Mon Sep 07 2020
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
5
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Tue Sep 08 2020
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
Of its time but timeless. Huge fun.
5
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Wed Sep 09 2020
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
Kind of ok. Sure Shot is a fab, classic tune
3
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Thu Sep 10 2020
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
Dismal tedious prog rock jazz whatever music for chinscratchers
1
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Fri Sep 11 2020
Third
Portishead
Solid quality music, if not quite as good as Dummy
4
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Mon Sep 14 2020
Rocks
Aerosmith
Classic mid-70s rock. Don't like it, but cant deny its effectiveness at being what it is
3
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Tue Sep 15 2020
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
Forgive me for I hate it.
2
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Wed Sep 16 2020
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
Surprisingly listenable Oasis-lite
4
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Thu Sep 17 2020
Face to Face
The Kinks
It’s another Kinks album. Quality but perhaps over-familiar
3
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Fri Sep 18 2020
Crazysexycool
TLC
Efficient, formerly ubiquitous mid-90s R&B. Not my thing, but can’t argue it’s not good at what it does
3
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Mon Sep 21 2020
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
The start of a new era in music. Dated but essential.
4
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Tue Sep 22 2020
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
Gosh early 80s hair metal was terrible
1
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Wed Sep 23 2020
Madman Across The Water
Elton John
Ugh horrible saccharine garbage
1
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Thu Sep 24 2020
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
Jazzish bluest vocal and piano singalongs. Inoffensive.
3
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Fri Sep 25 2020
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
Very solid early 70s rock’n’roll
4
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Mon Sep 28 2020
The Coral
The Coral
Super assured retro psych/Brit beat debut
4
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Tue Sep 29 2020
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
However great they became, this is mostly horrific to modern ears
2
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Wed Sep 30 2020
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J
Hasn’t stood the test of time. Boring by numbers hip hop. I remember it as better than it sounds now
2
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Thu Oct 01 2020
Suicide
Suicide
Essential
5
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Fri Oct 02 2020
Moon Safari
Air
High quality if slightly overfamiliar burbling
4
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Mon Oct 05 2020
School's Out
Alice Cooper
The first of a great run of albums.
3
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Tue Oct 06 2020
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
Top quality, influential punk/post-punk/funk. And a few standout tunes.
4
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Wed Oct 07 2020
Treasure
Cocteau Twins
Good stuff from essential band. Never really into them but can’t really criticise it’s uniqueness or quality
3
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Thu Oct 08 2020
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Beautifully crafted but also smug and soulless. Not much fun
3
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Fri Oct 09 2020
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden sounding like Iron Maiden albeit rougher about the edges.
3
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Mon Oct 12 2020
Blur
Blur
Decent Blur changing track. Some memorable tunes.
4
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Tue Oct 13 2020
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
It’s good stuff just not my stuff
3
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Wed Oct 14 2020
90
808 State
Hmmm....not as good as I expected
3
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Thu Oct 15 2020
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
Vile
1
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Fri Oct 16 2020
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
Great stuff from a band in their prime
5
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Mon Oct 19 2020
Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
Noisy world changing rock n roll
4
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Tue Oct 20 2020
The Clash
The Clash
Hate the clash but this isn’t a bad album for a bunch of posh boy pub rockers
4
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Wed Oct 21 2020
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
Safe middle class parent music. Really well done but not for me
3
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Thu Oct 22 2020
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
Dismal. How was this ever popular?
1
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Fri Oct 23 2020
Out of Step
Minor Threat
Still super fresh US hardcore punk
4
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Mon Oct 26 2020
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
It has a sound. Leaves me a bit cold mind
4
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Tue Oct 27 2020
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
Very decent album from very decent band
5
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Wed Oct 28 2020
Moondance
Van Morrison
The origin of FM rock. Very listenable/ as was I think intended.
4
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Thu Oct 29 2020
Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
Patchy but in place great. Nice to encounter something new from the list
3
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Fri Oct 30 2020
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
In the 70s NY was on fire
4
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Mon Nov 02 2020
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
Bland unengaging RnB. Inexplicably popular
2
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Tue Nov 03 2020
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
Top notch angry political tub thumping musically pioneering rap
4
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Wed Nov 04 2020
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
It’s good and that but not super engaging
3
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Thu Nov 05 2020
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
Simple fun
4
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Fri Nov 06 2020
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
Fantastic voice but bland bland production. Decent album though
4
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Mon Nov 09 2020
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
Classic garage rock and roll
5
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Tue Nov 10 2020
Forever Changes
Love
Very decent indeed.
5
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Wed Nov 11 2020
Graceland
Paul Simon
Ugh. Sanitised world music for middle class drones with no imagination and less soul. Horrible
2
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Thu Nov 12 2020
If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian
Sweet, inoffensive stuff. Background music at best. But good background music
3
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Fri Nov 13 2020
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
Blah
2
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Mon Nov 16 2020
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
Hi quality vintage hip hop
4
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Tue Nov 17 2020
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
Pretty cool.
4
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Wed Nov 18 2020
Rapture
Anita Baker
Awful reminder of how bad some parts of the 80a s living experience was
1
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Thu Nov 19 2020
Van Halen
Van Halen
Ugh, horrific pedestrian plodding enlivened with what are now rather hackneyed guitar solos. Of its time. Not one to tolerate now.
1
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Fri Nov 20 2020
Dry
PJ Harvey
Better as it ages. Nick Cave-esque
4
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Mon Nov 23 2020
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Dull. If you put your thumb over Paul Simon's face, it makes Art Garfunkel look like he has massive moustache
2
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Tue Nov 24 2020
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
Solid prime era Stones
4
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Wed Nov 25 2020
Revolver
Beatles
Apart from Yellow Submarine, one of their best
5
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Thu Nov 26 2020
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
Plodding, dull. How was this ever a phenomenon?
2
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Fri Nov 27 2020
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
Dreary but efficient background electronica
3
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Mon Nov 30 2020
The Doors
The Doors
Boringly familiar
2
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Tue Dec 01 2020
Parallel Lines
Blondie
Quality pop
4
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Wed Dec 02 2020
The Real Thing
Faith No More
Just a bit dreary and ordinary really. Clearly influential. But not of anything I particularly like.
3
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Thu Dec 03 2020
Jack Takes the Floor
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Superb folk tunes from one of the best of his era
5
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Fri Dec 04 2020
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Solid proto-post-punk. More important than many records of that era
4
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Mon Dec 07 2020
Scott 4
Scott Walker
Scott Walker. Nuff said
4
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Tue Dec 08 2020
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
Great great album
5
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Wed Dec 09 2020
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
Great but dont like Tom Waits
3
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Fri Dec 11 2020
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
Yawn
4
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Mon Dec 14 2020
Thriller
Michael Jackson
4
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Tue Dec 15 2020
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
Good stuff again from PJH
4
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Wed Dec 16 2020
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
Big fab and stupid
3