Jan 13 2021
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
4
Jan 14 2021
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
4
Jan 15 2021
Street Life
The Crusaders
2
Jan 18 2021
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
3
Jan 20 2021
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
3
Jan 22 2021
Shadowland
k.d. lang
3
Jan 25 2021
Murmur
R.E.M.
3
Jan 26 2021
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
4
Jan 27 2021
Iβve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
3
Jan 28 2021
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
4
Jan 29 2021
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
3
Feb 01 2021
Parklife
Blur
4
Feb 02 2021
Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear
5
Feb 03 2021
Faith
George Michael
3
Feb 04 2021
Boston
Boston
3
Feb 05 2021
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
3
Feb 08 2021
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
4
Feb 09 2021
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
3
Feb 10 2021
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4
Feb 11 2021
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
4
Feb 12 2021
The Specials
The Specials
5
Feb 14 2021
Rio
Duran Duran
4
Feb 16 2021
Brothers
The Black Keys
4
Feb 17 2021
American Idiot
Green Day
4
Feb 18 2021
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4
Feb 19 2021
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
3
Feb 20 2021
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
4
Feb 23 2021
The Predator
Ice Cube
3
Feb 25 2021
The Yes Album
Yes
3
Feb 26 2021
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
4
Feb 27 2021
A Seat at the Table
Solange
4
Mar 02 2021
Vespertine
BjΓΆrk
3
Mar 03 2021
Never Mind The Bollocks, Hereβs The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
4
Mar 04 2021
Pump
Aerosmith
3
Mar 05 2021
British Steel
Judas Priest
2
Mar 06 2021
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
2
Mar 09 2021
Risque
CHIC
4
Mar 10 2021
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
2
Mar 11 2021
Fuzzy
Grant Lee Buffalo
3
Mar 12 2021
Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers
1
Mar 13 2021
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
3
Mar 15 2021
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3
Mar 16 2021
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
4
Mar 17 2021
Scum
Napalm Death
3
Mar 18 2021
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
3
Mar 19 2021
Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
2
Mar 20 2021
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
5
Mar 23 2021
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
4
Mar 24 2021
Opus Dei
Laibach
2
Mar 25 2021
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
5
Mar 26 2021
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
3
Mar 27 2021
Third
Portishead
4
Apr 06 2021
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
Apr 07 2021
This Is Hardcore
Pulp
3
Apr 08 2021
Parallel Lines
Blondie
4
Apr 09 2021
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
2
Apr 10 2021
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
3
Apr 13 2021
No Other
Gene Clark
2
Apr 14 2021
Sex Packets
Digital Underground
2
Apr 16 2021
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
3
Apr 17 2021
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
3
Apr 20 2021
Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart
4
Apr 21 2021
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
2
Apr 22 2021
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
2
Apr 24 2021
Hms Fable
Shack
3
Apr 29 2021
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
1
May 01 2021
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
3
May 06 2021
Melodrama
Lorde
4
May 07 2021
Country Life
Roxy Music
3
May 08 2021
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
3
May 11 2021
The Last Broadcast
Doves
2
May 13 2021
Kilimanjaro
The Teardrop Explodes
3
May 14 2021
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
4
May 18 2021
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
3
May 19 2021
The Blueprint
JAY Z
3
May 20 2021
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
3
May 21 2021
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
4
May 22 2021
Grace
Jeff Buckley
3
May 25 2021
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
2
May 26 2021
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
4
May 27 2021
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
3
May 28 2021
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
3
Jun 04 2021
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
4
Jun 05 2021
Headquarters
The Monkees
3
Jun 08 2021
Tical
Method Man
3
Jun 09 2021
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
2
Jun 10 2021
Who's Next
The Who
4
Jun 11 2021
London Calling
The Clash
3
Jun 12 2021
Bad
Michael Jackson
3
Jun 16 2021
Drunk
Thundercat
2
Jun 18 2021
Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
2
Jun 19 2021
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
1
Jun 22 2021
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
3
Jun 23 2021
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
4
Jun 24 2021
Connected
Stereo MC's
3
Jun 25 2021
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3
Jun 26 2021
Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
3
Jul 08 2021
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
4
Jul 09 2021
LP1
FKA twigs
2
Jul 10 2021
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
3
Jul 15 2021
With The Beatles
Beatles
3
Jul 16 2021
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
4
Jul 20 2021
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
4
Jul 21 2021
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
3
Jul 23 2021
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
4
Jul 27 2021
The Visitors
ABBA
2
Jul 28 2021
Ray Of Light
Madonna
3
Jul 29 2021
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
2
Jul 30 2021
Superunknown
Soundgarden
2
Jul 31 2021
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
2
Aug 03 2021
Revolver
Beatles
4
Aug 04 2021
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
1
Aug 06 2021
Arrival
ABBA
3
Aug 10 2021
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
2
Aug 11 2021
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
3
Aug 12 2021
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
3
Aug 13 2021
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
1
Aug 17 2021
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
4
Aug 19 2021
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
3
Aug 20 2021
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
I've been using this site to listen to an album a day for a month or two now and have never written a review until now. I'm motivated to do so here because of how negatively skewed it seems like reviews of this album are.
I'd heard of The Fall before this but never bothered to try listening to them. I assumed they were like an Echo and the Bunnymen or Police situation -- pretty straight-forward guitar rock but lumped into more unique company because of their time period. This album was a surprise and after reading more, I'm excited to hear other albums from their decades of activity.
The best of this sounds more like Can or Suicide or VU than I would have guessed. It's not mainstream rock masquerading as art. It's more like art in a rock and roll coat.
They also remind me of other niche-90s acts like Lungfish, Dave Fridman era Mercury Rev, and other "talky-singer" bands but the fact that the Fall has decades of catalog interests me a LOT
Granted, some tracks (A Past Gone Mad) are dated "madchester" sounding relics, but I'm guessing those tracks were their concession to the times. Overall there's some timeless stuff here. Standouts for me:
It's a Curse
League of Bald Headed Men
I'm not rating 5 because it's not a GREAT or PERFECT album but I'm rating 4 because it's surprisingly good and wayy better than I would have guessed.
4
Aug 22 2021
Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
I gotta give it at least a 4 because Trouble Every Day is a straight up jam and the best Zappa song I've ever heard. I like the second disc in general more than the first. The first is more straight up satire that ends up sounding really dated since they reference a lot of pop music tropes that are no longer common. The second disc is straight up experimental and it boggles my mind that they were able to get away with this in '66.
4
Aug 24 2021
Pelican West
Haircut 100
I remember when this came out. I bought it in a bargain bin year's later (90's sometime). I've listened to it a few times and it's fine but in no way do I think this is critical listening for anyone LOL.
This is coming from an 80's kid who still unironically plays a lot of 80's music. Not sure what the fuss is. I'm assuming they were a much bigger deal in the UK than in the states and so the creators of this list maybe had more nostalgia attached to this or the songs were more cultural touchstones there. For me-- meh
Standout tracks:
Baked Bean - Like Talking Heads with more horns
2
Aug 25 2021
The Rise & Fall
Madness
3
Aug 26 2021
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Iron Butterfly
If you don't like 60's Psychedelia, you won't like this.
I do like 60's Psych so I love this. Of course the title track is the loss-leader to get you in the door and it's great but my favorite here has always been "My Mirage". It's a banger all around and I'm surprised no hip hop act has ever sampled that riff. It's hot and heavy.
4