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Wed Jan 13 2021
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
Jammier than I would normally pick for myself, but to expect anything else would be naive. I found myself getting into the groove of a 20 minute song.
I dig it.
4
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Thu Jan 14 2021
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
This dude FEELS. I felt more romantic having listened to this album. Wish I'd found it sooner
5
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Fri Jan 15 2021
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
Very soulful vocals. Funny jokes about relationships.
5
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Sat Jan 16 2021
Forever Changes
Love
Definitely of its time. Not really my taste, but I enjoyed all the positive vibes and grooves.
3
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Sun Jan 17 2021
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Classic for a reason
5
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Mon Jan 18 2021
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
A tribe called quest is awesome. Early '90s backpack rap always makes me nod my head.
5
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Tue Jan 19 2021
Harvest
Neil Young
I really enjoyed Old Man. I'm sure the lyrics were very relevant at a time. I know Neil Young can write some bangers, but this style is not really for me overall.
3
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Wed Jan 20 2021
Moving Pictures
Rush
I have to admit to a certain technical proficiency in Rush's music. Tom Sawyer comes out of the gate strong, but they're not all bangers.
3
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Thu Jan 21 2021
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
I had assumptions about this band, and I was wrong. This album slaps for a horn-driven album. Free Form Guitar was a bit much, but I get it.
4
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Fri Jan 22 2021
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
A really fun psychedelic, sitar driven trip.
4
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Sat Jan 23 2021
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
Had a touch of Irish to it. I thought to myself, "Dad would have liked this." Then I looked up the band's bio and lo and behold, Richard Thompson was one of the the guitarists. Thompson was one of dad's favorite musicians. It felt like learning something about Dad from beyond the veil.
4
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Sun Jan 24 2021
Viva Hate
Morrissey
Not my jam
2
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Mon Jan 25 2021
Faith
George Michael
Very '80s, very culturally important, but again not for me.
2
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Tue Jan 26 2021
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but it's electronica. Amazing electronica sounds marginally more impressive than pretty good electronica. Good background noise, but I probably won't be back for more.
3
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Wed Jan 27 2021
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
This was fun. I forget how many hits this album generated (She's Crafty, Girls, FFYRTP, Brass Monkey, Paul Revere, and No Sleep til Brooklyn). Also, Aesop Rock gave a nod to Rhymin' and Stealin' in Rings. "Rhymin' and stealin' and bein' a clod. Distractions free to maraud."
5
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Thu Jan 28 2021
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
Not my favorite member of the Wu-tang clan, but the lyricism is undeniable. It is laced with a significant amount of homophobia and misogyny, but I accept that a bit of that came with the time. Good beats, but a little too long to maintain my interest.
4
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Fri Jan 29 2021
Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
Funky and punky
4
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Sat Jan 30 2021
Goo
Sonic Youth
This was a really fun listen. I have this album, but it's been awhile. The trading off of lead vocals was really fun. Knowing the story behind Kool Thing added depth to the song.
5
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Sun Jan 31 2021
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
He's a really good crooner. Did this album is pretty much exactly what you'd expected to sound like. It doesn't really do anything for me, but it doesn't offend me either.
3
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Mon Feb 01 2021
Live At Leeds
The Who
Perhaps the peak of 70s arena rock. It's respectable for what it is, but this sort of music doesn't really excite me anymore.
3
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Tue Feb 02 2021
Maxinquaye
Tricky
Always excited to listen to Tricky. Dude can make a beat, and he has a voice like none other. He recruits great vocalists as well.
5
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Wed Feb 03 2021
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
He's good. A later album played after this one. He got better.
3
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Thu Feb 04 2021
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
5
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Fri Feb 05 2021
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
This album is still great. It's wild that this was once considered dangerous music. White people... smh
5
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Sat Feb 06 2021
Face to Face
The Kinks
Fun music. They sound like The Beatles who were more willing to take risks with weird lyrics. Toward the end of the album, they took some musical risks that I really enjoyed. Dead End Street and Big Black Smoke were standouts for me.
4
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Sun Feb 07 2021
Dance Mania
Tito Puente
It's good for what it is. I am not a dancer. Therefore it is not for me.
3
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Mon Feb 08 2021
Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer
Really great guitar work!
4
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Tue Feb 09 2021
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
I completely misread what kind of music T. Rex made. This is very chill, super fun guitar driven jams. There's a through-line of vulnerability in the music. I enjoyed this very much.
5
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Wed Feb 10 2021
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
Most of the messages on this album do not age well. Misogyny, homophobia, violence, toxic masculinity run rampant throughout. The approach was not the best, but the message of the cops vs. the black community still rigs true today. The level of frustration in Compton that spawned the movement of gangsta rap must have been great. The rhyme schemes in today's rap almost make this album feel corny despite deliberate and aggressive violent lyrics.
4
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Thu Feb 11 2021
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
This album is a classic for a reason, and David Bowie deserves every ounce of fame he ever received. He reinvented himself completely for 1 album. He's the man.
5
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Fri Feb 12 2021
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
Meh
2
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Sat Feb 13 2021
The Doors
The Doors
I've had enough of Jim Morrison for a lifetime
1
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Sun Feb 14 2021
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
Super fun... reminded me of college
4
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Mon Feb 15 2021
New Wave
The Auteurs
Brit pop. It's good.
3
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Tue Feb 16 2021
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
A few of these songs resonated with me, but overall Joni Mitchell is too mellow for my taste.
3
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Wed Feb 17 2021
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
You'll never hear me complain about this first album. I remember the first time I heard this when Ben Skinner let me listen to his CD in health class. It has rocked since then.
5
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Thu Feb 18 2021
Technique
New Order
Really great album. I've never heard any of these New Order songs before. There were synthesizer sounds on this album that I've legit never heard before.
5
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Fri Feb 19 2021
Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday
She's very good at what she did. The instrumentation is... honest. There's no subtlety here, and there need not be. There's no need to cloak anything in metaphor. These are across-the-plate songs about love and loss of love.
5
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Sat Feb 20 2021
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
I enjoyed this album a lot more than I thought I would. Cowboy music is actually pretty fun. Though most of the songs and in tragic death.
4
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Sun Feb 21 2021
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
I love this album.
5
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Mon Feb 22 2021
In Utero
Nirvana
Obviously, I love this album. It has some of my favorite non-hit Nirvana songs on it. Very Ape and Milk It really stand out.
5
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Tue Feb 23 2021
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
I'm glad I listened to this album through my good headphones. The instrumentation is more interesting than I've given it credit for in the past. Dad loved Wilco, and I'm glad I can finally connect with it too. I'll listen to this album again.
5
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Wed Feb 24 2021
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
It's never gonna be for me.
1
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Thu Feb 25 2021
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
Amazing
She's leaving home deserves another listen
5
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Fri Feb 26 2021
Picture Book
Simply Red
Simply 80s... Fine for what it is, but it does nothing for me.
2
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Sat Feb 27 2021
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
I love this album!
5
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Sun Feb 28 2021
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Unlistenable. This sounds like Woodstock and the Renaissance Fair had a baby.
1
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Mon Mar 01 2021
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
not as good as goo, but not bad
3
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Tue Mar 02 2021
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
There are some classics off of this album, but I went through my Jefferson Airplane phase in college.
3
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Wed Mar 03 2021
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
Love this album overall. Freedom Rock lives in my head rent free.
5
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Thu Mar 04 2021
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
I'm still not a fan, but I tried to listen to this with an open mind. Ultimately, it's just dumb fun.
2
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Fri Mar 05 2021
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
Most of it just sounds like a Beatles facsimile, but a couple of these rock pretty hard.
3
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Sat Mar 06 2021
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
One of the best
4
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Sun Mar 07 2021
Heroes
David Bowie
This was more '80s than Bowie. some song sound like he's flirting with a space Odyssey, but some of them are the most annoying part of the '80s.
3
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Mon Mar 08 2021
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
Good
4
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Tue Mar 09 2021
Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
It's really good. It's not really a style that resonates with me, but there's no denying the talent here.
4
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Wed Mar 10 2021
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
I guess this is punk without the aggressive/fast music. Also, the riff on the last track sounded like Republica's "Ready to Go"
4
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Thu Mar 11 2021
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
I never really thought of them as a British band (having only ever heard Come on Eileen before), but they have a fun and consistent sound that occasionally reminded me of XTC.
4
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Fri Mar 12 2021
Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. The vocals were cool from time to time, but I hated the piano/organ sound.
2
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Sat Mar 13 2021
Let It Be
The Replacements
Really rad. Timeless piece on gender and a very dated bit on answering machines.
4
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Sun Mar 14 2021
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
One of my first cassettes. It's interesting what seemed progressive at the time comes off as behind 30 years later.
4
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Mon Mar 15 2021
There's A Riot Goin' On
Sly & The Family Stone
Funky
4
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Tue Mar 16 2021
Raw Power
The Stooges
Big fan
5
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Wed Mar 17 2021
The Rise & Fall
Madness
I read somewhere that this was their most experimental album, and that tracks. It feels like they threw everything at the wall to see what stuck. They got their only hit out of it, but the album lacks any cohesion.
2
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Thu Mar 18 2021
Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
If these EDM albums are the ones that make the list, I'm confirming that I am not into EDM.
2
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Fri Mar 19 2021
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
Really good music from a man with a voice like gargled glass.
4
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Sat Mar 20 2021
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
Smooooth. I really enjoyed this.
5
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Sun Mar 21 2021
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
I guess they're talented, but I don't know what I'd do in the audience.
2
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Mon Mar 22 2021
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
Not as good as the other Dexy's album. Too much trumpet, not enough revelry.
2
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Tue Mar 23 2021
In Rainbows
Radiohead
Putting the rad in Radiohead.
5
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Wed Mar 24 2021
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
Really good music. I don't have a lot to add here. Great voice, good tunes.
4
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Thu Mar 25 2021
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Honestly, I didn't get through the whole album. Janis never resonated with me. It's good, but doesn't grab me.
3
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Fri Mar 26 2021
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
Nothing like the sound of someone else's suffering to cheer you up. This was a really good time.
5
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Sat Mar 27 2021
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
Amazing... a lot more love songs than I expected.
5
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Sun Mar 28 2021
Scott 4
Scott Walker
Ok
3
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Mon Mar 29 2021
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
Good fun 70's rock. I bet this show was a blast.
4
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Tue Mar 30 2021
Blackstar
David Bowie
Amazing. It sounds so sad. I will listen to this one again.
5
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Wed Mar 31 2021
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
Great!
5
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Thu Apr 01 2021
Shadowland
k.d. lang
My only reference point for KD Lang was that my friend's lesbian mom listened to her. I had no idea what she sounded like, but she is far more soulful than I imagined.
4
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Fri Apr 02 2021
La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to. The sounds are so smooth and calming. I'll keep this in my back pocket for studying/relaxing music.
5
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Sat Apr 03 2021
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
I think my memory of Bob Dylan's voice was all spoofs of Bob Dylan's voice. This is better than I thought it was going to be.
4
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Sun Apr 04 2021
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
Not what I expected based on the cover, but surprisingly smooth jazzy sounds
4
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Mon Apr 05 2021
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
This album didn't turn turn turn me on.
1
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Wed Apr 07 2021
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
Great songs, but the first half of the album is obviously the best.
4
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Thu Apr 08 2021
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
2
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Fri Apr 09 2021
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
3
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Sat Apr 10 2021
Hysteria
Def Leppard
Meg
2
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Sun Apr 11 2021
Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
4
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Mon Apr 12 2021
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
Yeah
5
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Tue Apr 13 2021
2112
Rush
1
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Wed Apr 14 2021
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
4
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Thu Apr 15 2021
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
3
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Fri Apr 16 2021
Purple Rain
Prince
5
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Sat Apr 17 2021
Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
4
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Sun Apr 18 2021
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
5
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Mon Apr 19 2021
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3
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Thu Apr 22 2021
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
5
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Fri Apr 23 2021
The Wall
Pink Floyd
4
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Sat Apr 24 2021
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
3
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Sun Apr 25 2021
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4
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Sun Jun 06 2021
Being There
Wilco
Found a Boogie Monster outro riff
4
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Mon Jun 07 2021
Live!
Fela Kuti
5
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Tue Jun 08 2021
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
Not for me
2
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Wed Jun 09 2021
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
5
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Thu Jun 10 2021
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
4
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Sat Jun 12 2021
Is This It
The Strokes
5
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Sun Jun 13 2021
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On Wax
1
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Mon Jun 14 2021
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
4
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Tue Jun 15 2021
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
3
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Wed Jun 16 2021
Sincere
Mj Cole
2
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Thu Jun 17 2021
Black Metal
Venom
5
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Fri Jun 18 2021
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
5
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Sat Jun 19 2021
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
4
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Sun Jun 20 2021
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
4
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Mon Jun 21 2021
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
3
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Tue Jun 22 2021
The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
4
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Wed Jun 23 2021
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
4
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Thu Jun 24 2021
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
3
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Fri Jun 25 2021
Third
Portishead
4
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Sun Jun 27 2021
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
2
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Mon Jun 28 2021
The Blueprint
JAY Z
5
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Tue Jun 29 2021
Central Reservation
Beth Orton
4
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Wed Jun 30 2021
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
5
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Thu Jul 01 2021
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
5
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Fri Jul 02 2021
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
1
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Sat Jul 03 2021
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
4
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Mon Jul 05 2021
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
4
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Sat Jul 10 2021
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
3
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Wed Jul 14 2021
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
3
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Fri Jul 16 2021
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
Great!
4
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Sat Jul 17 2021
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
4
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Wed Jul 21 2021
Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz
4
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Tue Jan 18 2022
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
5
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Sun Jan 23 2022
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
4
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Fri Jul 08 2022
The Yes Album
Yes
4
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Wed Jul 12 2023
Quiet Life
Japan
Brooding early goth edm?
3
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Thu Jul 13 2023
Traffic
Traffic
Lots of musical variability, but every song sounded very 1970
3
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Fri Jul 14 2023
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
4
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Tue Jul 18 2023
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
5
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Thu Aug 10 2023
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
4
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Sun Aug 13 2023
Kimono My House
Sparks
2
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Wed Aug 16 2023
Devotional Songs
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2
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Thu Aug 17 2023
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
4
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Sun Sep 03 2023
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
4