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Wed Jan 13 2021
Bossanova
Pixies
4
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Thu Jan 14 2021
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
3
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Fri Jan 15 2021
Dummy
Portishead
4
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Sun Jan 17 2021
Grace
Jeff Buckley
"So Real" is pretty good at least.
2
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Mon Jan 18 2021
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
3
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Tue Jan 19 2021
American Idiot
Green Day
4
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Wed Jan 20 2021
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
3
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Thu Jan 21 2021
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
5
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Fri Jan 22 2021
Close To The Edge
Yes
This album is super important for what it is and also what it isn't. What it is is one of the most pure distillations of prog rock and rock's musical excesses (if not necessarily the chemical excesses). But its overwritten, ornate Baroqueness helped to inspire punk music as a reaction against this brand of complex-for-the-sake-of-complex tryhard bullshit. Prog and punk happen to be my two favorite subgenres, so this one is extra meaningful to me.
Beloved for three perfect songs (out of a possible three, hah!), if not any semblance of brevity. One more thing before I hit submit: early on in the title track there is a happy, sweet guitar melody that could have been a lead on a Queen song. Much later the same motif returns as a more sinister and dissonant version with ugly-sounding harmonics from a ring modulator. It's fuckin sick and it demonstrates my favorite joke about prog rock. If you don't like what you're hearing, wait five minutes.
5
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Sat Jan 23 2021
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
4
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Sun Jan 24 2021
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
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Tue Jan 26 2021
C'est Chic
CHIC
3
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Wed Jan 27 2021
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
1
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Thu Jan 28 2021
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
4
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Fri Jan 29 2021
Phrenology
The Roots
4
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Sat Jan 30 2021
Goo
Sonic Youth
4
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Sun Jan 31 2021
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
2
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Mon Feb 01 2021
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
5
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Tue Feb 02 2021
Sea Change
Beck
I definitely prefer eclectic genre-shuffling upbeat Beck (Odelay, Guero) to Sadboi Breakup Beck (Sea Change) but this is still really darn good!
4
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Wed Feb 03 2021
Elephant
The White Stripes
4
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Fri Feb 05 2021
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
4
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Sat Feb 06 2021
...And Justice For All
Metallica
3
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Sun Feb 07 2021
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
2
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Thu Feb 11 2021
Reign In Blood
Slayer
3
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Fri Feb 12 2021
Sail Away
Randy Newman
3
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Sat Feb 13 2021
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
5
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Sun Feb 14 2021
Signing Off
UB40
3
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Mon Feb 15 2021
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
3
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Tue Feb 16 2021
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
5
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Wed Feb 17 2021
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
4
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Thu Feb 18 2021
Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
2
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Fri Feb 19 2021
Sister
Sonic Youth
4
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Sat Feb 20 2021
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
4
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Sun Feb 21 2021
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3
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Mon Feb 22 2021
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
4
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Tue Feb 23 2021
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
5
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Wed Feb 24 2021
Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
2
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Thu Feb 25 2021
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J
4
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Fri Feb 26 2021
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
2
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Sat Feb 27 2021
Thriller
Michael Jackson
5
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Sun Feb 28 2021
Third
Portishead
4
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Tue Mar 02 2021
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
4
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Fri Mar 05 2021
Blur
Blur
3
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Sat Mar 06 2021
Being There
Wilco
4
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Sun Mar 07 2021
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
4
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Wed Mar 10 2021
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
3
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Thu Mar 11 2021
Berlin
Lou Reed
3
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Fri Mar 12 2021
16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
4
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Sat Mar 13 2021
OK Computer
Radiohead
The best
5
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Sun Mar 14 2021
Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star
4
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Mon Mar 15 2021
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
5
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Tue Mar 16 2021
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
4
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Sat Mar 20 2021
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
5
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Sun Mar 21 2021
A Wizard, A True Star
Todd Rundgren
Okay, why did nobody tell me about this album until now?! An absolute kaleidoscope of sounds and styles, but all rooted in a really warm-sounding psychedelic pop/rock.
I just wish someone had told me "hey, the first half on this album is basically side-B of Abbey Road, but for weirdos, and then it segues into a second half dominated by a medley of playful soul covers and an absolute power pop stomper ("Is It My Name?")
Yeah it's weird stuff, which might explain the low rating. But if any of that sounds appealing, give this one a chance.
5
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Wed Mar 24 2021
Young Americans
David Bowie
5
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Fri Mar 26 2021
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
3
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Sat Mar 27 2021
Rubber Soul
Beatles
5
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Sun Apr 04 2021
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
4
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Mon Apr 05 2021
The Real Thing
Faith No More
4
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Thu Apr 08 2021
Before And After Science
Brian Eno
The comparisons to Bowie's "Low" are clichéd enough, but for my money this album has an even better "poppy"/not-as-experimental A side than Low. And that would mean this album is pretty great.
5
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Sat Apr 10 2021
The Wall
Pink Floyd
4
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Sun Apr 11 2021
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
4
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Mon Apr 12 2021
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4
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Tue Apr 13 2021
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
5
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Sat Apr 17 2021
Scott 4
Scott Walker
OK we get it, you're a sadboy.
1
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Sun Apr 18 2021
Harvest
Neil Young
5
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Tue Apr 20 2021
Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday
4
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Fri Apr 23 2021
The Cars
The Cars
5
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Sat Apr 24 2021
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
3
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Sun Apr 25 2021
The Yes Album
Yes
Not peak Yes (ie Close to the Edge) but still very good!
4
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Mon Apr 26 2021
Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
4
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Fri Apr 30 2021
Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
5
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Sat May 01 2021
Faith
George Michael
3
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Sun May 02 2021
Clandestino
Manu Chao
3
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Mon May 03 2021
Pearl
Janis Joplin
4
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Tue May 04 2021
In Rainbows
Radiohead
The androids find life, love, and oblivion all at once.
5
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Fri Mar 25 2022
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
5
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Sat Mar 26 2022
Elastica
Elastica
3
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Sun Mar 27 2022
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
3
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Mon Mar 28 2022
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
5
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Tue Mar 29 2022
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
4
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Wed Mar 30 2022
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
3
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Thu Mar 31 2022
Chelsea Girl
Nico
2
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Fri Apr 01 2022
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
US version with Paint it Black, but I'd probably give the same rating to the UK version. Hard to rate because there's some truly great garage rock and bluesy songs on here with some genuinely interesting instrumentation, and also some of the nastiest misogyny I've encountered on this journey. It probably deserves a strong 4 on musical merit and a 1 for Mick being (at best) a pissy little emotional abuser who was mad that his girlfriend wasn't choking him the way Brian Jones' girlfriend was.
3
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Sat Apr 02 2022
The La's
The La's
4
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Sun Apr 03 2022
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
2
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Mon Apr 04 2022
The Slider
T. Rex
4
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Tue Apr 05 2022
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
Dem Beachy Bois really took a massive step forward here. They still had the heights of Pet Sounds in front of them, but it's clear that on this album they were already moving towards that Wall of Sound production style. Very strong 4 from me. "Kiss Me Baby" is probably the highlight here. Ignore the last track, you can skip it and miss nothing.
4
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Thu Apr 07 2022
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
This is probably my favorite album of the last 15 years, and I don't say that lightly. Kendrick is the best lyricist working today and this is his finest work in that area by far. My favorite tracks on this are "i", "Wesley's Theory", and "How Much a Dollar Cost", but the quality is so consistent across the nearly hour and a half album that I'll probably pick a different three the next time I listen.
5
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Fri Apr 08 2022
Low-Life
New Order
4
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Sat Apr 09 2022
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
Also highly recommend Mdou Moctar if you like this stuff!
4
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Sun Apr 10 2022
Pretenders
Pretenders
4
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Mon Apr 11 2022
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
The decision to make a jaunty whiteboy-blues song about societal unrest in general (and the Kent State Massacre specifically) is honestly one of the dumbest things they did in their (famously uneven) career but the rest of this is probably worth a 4. Interesting spacey arrangements and the usual tight vocal harmonies.
But that Student Démonstration Time song is, like, as bad as the song in that "Deficit Rag" bit from the Simpsons
3
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Tue Apr 12 2022
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
3
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Thu Apr 14 2022
Sound Affects
The Jam
3
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Fri Apr 15 2022
Close To You
Carpenters
This album is where that "why do birds suddenly appear" song comes from. It's not a half-bad song if you're okay with cheesy over-commercial schlock.
Yeah, she had a pleasant enough voice and it's very sad that her eating disorder ended up killing her, but this album genuinely sucks, right?
1
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Sat Apr 16 2022
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Lazer Guided Melodies
Spiritualized
4
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Wed Feb 07 2024
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
2
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Dear Science
TV On The Radio
5
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Fri Feb 09 2024
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
4
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Sun Feb 11 2024
Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter
4
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Mon Feb 12 2024
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
Love the One You're With is kinda annoying but the rest of the album is surprisingly good!
4
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Tue Feb 13 2024
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
4
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Wed Feb 14 2024
London Calling
The Clash
Formerly my number one favorite album of all time, still holds up!
5
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
Extremely Brave and Iconoclastic Middle-of-the-Road Review:
The arrangements and guitar playing are kinda nice, but wow, Morrissey is annoying.
3
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Fri Feb 16 2024
With The Beatles
Beatles
Beetoes are good innit
4
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Sun Feb 18 2024
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
4
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Mon Feb 19 2024
The Predator
Ice Cube
5
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Tue Feb 20 2024
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
Cheesy 80s Americana music, but I'm quite surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Helps to know that the title track is actually a protest song and not the jingoistic garbage that media-illiterate types seem to think it is. And Glory Days is probably the best song written about people who peaked in high school.
4
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Wed Feb 21 2024
Arular
M.I.A.
2
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Thu Feb 22 2024
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
Classic rock and roll from the real King (according to Elvis)
4
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Fri Feb 23 2024
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
3
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Sat Feb 24 2024
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
A lot of great stuff here (first six tracks might have you hovering over the 5 stars - and that doesn't even include the best track of the bunch, "1979"), but there's just SO. MUCH. FILLER! One of the most "double album-y" double albums of all time.
3
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Sun Feb 25 2024
Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera
1
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Legalize It
Peter Tosh
4
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Stardust
Willie Nelson
3
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
4
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
2
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Sat Mar 02 2024
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
4
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Mon Mar 04 2024
Trans Europe Express
Kraftwerk
4
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
4
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Sat Mar 09 2024
Murmur
R.E.M.
3
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Sun Mar 10 2024
Graceland
Paul Simon
4
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Mon Mar 11 2024
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
4
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Tue Mar 12 2024
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
5
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Sun Mar 17 2024
Disintegration
The Cure
5
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
5
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Tue Mar 19 2024
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
4
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Wed Mar 20 2024
Sheet Music
10cc
4
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
4
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Sun Mar 24 2024
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
For my money, the best guitar-driven pop/rock album for at least 10 years on either side of it.
5
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
5
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Tommy
The Who
3