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Thu Jan 14 2021
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
5
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Fri Jan 15 2021
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
3
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Mon Jan 18 2021
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
1
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Tue Jan 19 2021
Purple Rain
Prince
4
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Wed Jan 20 2021
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
2
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Thu Jan 21 2021
The Stooges
The Stooges
1
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Fri Jan 22 2021
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
4
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Mon Jan 25 2021
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
5
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Tue Jan 26 2021
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
4
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Wed Jan 27 2021
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
3
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Thu Jan 28 2021
Connected
Stereo MC's
4
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Fri Jan 29 2021
Bad
Michael Jackson
4
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Mon Feb 01 2021
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
3
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Tue Feb 02 2021
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
3
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Wed Feb 03 2021
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
4
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Thu Feb 04 2021
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
5
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Fri Feb 05 2021
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
5
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Mon Feb 08 2021
Disintegration
The Cure
4
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Tue Feb 09 2021
Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai
4
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Wed Feb 10 2021
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
5
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Thu Feb 11 2021
Screamadelica
Primal Scream
3
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Fri Feb 12 2021
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
5
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Mon Feb 15 2021
Illmatic
Nas
3
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Tue Feb 16 2021
Soul Mining
The The
5
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Wed Feb 17 2021
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
4
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Thu Feb 18 2021
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
3
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Fri Feb 19 2021
Casanova
The Divine Comedy
4
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Mon Feb 22 2021
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
4
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Tue Feb 23 2021
Aja
Steely Dan
3
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Wed Feb 24 2021
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
4
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Thu Feb 25 2021
Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney
5
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Fri Feb 26 2021
Truth And Soul
Fishbone
5
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Mon Mar 01 2021
Music From Big Pink
The Band
3
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Tue Mar 02 2021
Tidal
Fiona Apple
4
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Wed Mar 03 2021
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
4
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Thu Mar 04 2021
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
5
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Fri Mar 05 2021
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
4
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Mon Mar 08 2021
The Doors
The Doors
3
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Tue Mar 09 2021
There's A Riot Goin' On
Sly & The Family Stone
3
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Wed Mar 10 2021
Public Image: First Issue
Public Image Ltd.
2
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Thu Mar 11 2021
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
3
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Fri Mar 12 2021
Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren
3
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Mon Mar 15 2021
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
3
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Tue Mar 16 2021
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
4
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Wed Mar 17 2021
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
3
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Thu Mar 18 2021
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2
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Fri Mar 19 2021
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
4
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Mon Mar 22 2021
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
4
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Tue Mar 23 2021
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
5
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Wed Mar 24 2021
Faust IV
Faust
3
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Thu Mar 25 2021
Sea Change
Beck
4
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Fri Mar 26 2021
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
3
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Mon Mar 29 2021
Repeater
Fugazi
4
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Tue Mar 30 2021
Either Or
Elliott Smith
4
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Wed Mar 31 2021
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
4
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Thu Apr 01 2021
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
3
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Fri Apr 02 2021
Funeral
Arcade Fire
4
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Mon Apr 05 2021
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
3
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Tue Apr 06 2021
On The Beach
Neil Young
3
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Wed Apr 07 2021
A Night At The Opera
Queen
5
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Thu Apr 08 2021
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
4
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Fri Apr 09 2021
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
Bossa nova. Kind of old-school swanky, but hard to listen to.
2
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Mon Apr 12 2021
Harvest
Neil Young
3
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Tue Apr 13 2021
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4
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Wed Apr 14 2021
The Healer
John Lee Hooker
Strong blues, "long, hazy summer day" vibes.
4
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Thu Apr 15 2021
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Disappointing! War Pigs and Paranoid together made a tremendously strong, energetic start from out the outset, but all my enthusiasm was lost by the time Iron Man came on—at which point the album descended into lyrics that were edgy but shallow, and settled into that unfortunate aimless, rambly guitar/drum combo that seems to have dominated rock in the years prior. An easy five stars if the momentum had carried through, but as it stands, three is being generous.
Recommended season: Winter
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Fri Apr 16 2021
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
4
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Mon Apr 19 2021
Fifth Dimension
The Byrds
The music was... fine, but nothing stood out as remarkable. Currently trying to figure out whether I am more baffled by "Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go)" or "2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)".
Recommended season: Spring
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Tue Apr 20 2021
The Real Thing
Faith No More
Wait, you're telling me that Epic is the band's most popular song when it's the biggest dud on this album? I... I don't get it. The rest of the album bangs hard, but Epic completely kills off the early momentum. You slot it into spot four or five on the album, then maybe it works, but it's not a track two. No way.
Five stars despite this ludicrous oversight.
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Wed Jun 30 2021
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Eclectic album. Starts off with the slowest, most emotional song, and gets you comfortable with the idea that the rest of the album will carry that catharsis forward. It doesn't; it becomes largely cheery and folksy, dipping back down into more introspective territory occasionally as welcome breaks. It shouldn't work, but it does.
Recommended season: Autumn
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Thu Jul 01 2021
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
"Hmm, an experimental album from the 60s. I am not going to like this."
It's fine.
It gets a little hard to listen to toward the end, but for the most part, the album maintains direction and melody. Those, alongside the more traditional Celtic underscore, really help; it prevents the experimentality from seeming too indulgent. Still, I don't think I need to listen to it again.
Recommended season: Spring
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Fri Jul 02 2021
Vespertine
Björk
Original, emotional, introspective, magical.
Recommended season: Autumn
5
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Mon Jul 05 2021
Kala
M.I.A.
The songs are a little hit or miss for me, but a solid album overall.
Recommended season: Summer
4
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Tue Jul 06 2021
Viva Hate
Morrissey
3
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Wed Jul 07 2021
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
3
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Thu Jul 08 2021
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
3
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Fri Jul 09 2021
Quiet Life
Japan
2
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Mon Jul 12 2021
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
4
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Tue Jul 13 2021
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
3
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Wed Jul 14 2021
Very
Pet Shop Boys
I can't think of a better album if you want to dance and cry at the same time.
Recommended season: Spring
4
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Thu Jul 15 2021
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
Hey look, an album from '69 that I actually liked!
Recommended season: Summer
4
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Fri Jul 16 2021
Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
4
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Mon Jul 19 2021
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
2
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Tue Jul 20 2021
Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
4
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Wed Jul 21 2021
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
4
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Thu Jul 22 2021
Superunknown
Soundgarden
I came into this feeling like I kinda didn't like Soundgarden, but I was mostly basing this off of a dislike of Black Hole Sun. Besides, I've listened to some podcasts lately talk about what the music scene was like in their time—I was a little too young for them—and how influential they were, and I thought, okay, I'll give them a fair shake.
For a little bit there, at the beginning, I thought maybe, just maybe, I was getting it. I thought, yes, this is emotional and strong and *I'm getting it*.
...Problem is, usually when you want to convey emotion, you have an emotion in mind. "Noise" is not an emotion; but eventually, I realized that's what I was being given. The rock was too aggressive to be melancholic, but not aggressive enough to be angry. It's right in a vague middle ground that says "I want to be heard but I don't actually have anything to say."
So now I am, in fact, feeling an emotion, which is "pissed off at Soundgarden", because these angsty, entitled, self-indulgent creeps decided we needed to hear this whiny, single-note noise for over *an hour*? No. You're not as important as you think you are. Take your rambly 6-minute-long songs and get over yourselves.
And stay out of my birthday, too. You picked the wrong day to mess with me.
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Fri Jul 23 2021
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
4
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Mon Jul 26 2021
Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
Pro tip: If you're copy-pasting the same rhythm to make up the majority of the track, then it probably doesn't need to be 7 minutes long.
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Tue Jul 27 2021
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
I recognize there is some hypocrisy in praising this album when it hits a lot of the same criteria that I nailed Soundgarden to the wall for just last week, not to mention all the "psychedelic" rock I've lost patience with. Album longer than it needs to be? Probably. Tracks that run well past five minutes without much tonal distinction? Sure. Lyrics that are trying to be deep, but don't seem sincere? Very objective, but I could see it.
I can't tell you what the difference is here. Maybe it's the exceptional production. Maybe it's the track titles that inject the perfect amount of levity and bring you in on the joke. Maybe it's more palatable to my Millennial tastes, alongside a recognition that maybe rock isn't an appropriate genre for every application. Whatever the case, this album worked hard for me.
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Wed Jul 28 2021
Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
I get the criticism. Like many others, I didn't think too highly of the music or the lyrics.
But there will come a time—it wasn't today, but it will be some day, maybe even years from now—when I am going to need this album, and only this album will do. On that day... it will be perfect.
4
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Thu Jul 29 2021
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
4
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Fri Jul 30 2021
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
5
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Mon Aug 02 2021
Come Find Yourself
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4
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Tue Aug 03 2021
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
4
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Wed Aug 04 2021
In Utero
Nirvana
2
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Thu Aug 05 2021
Sail Away
Randy Newman
3
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Fri Aug 06 2021
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
5
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Mon Aug 09 2021
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
"Hi, site admin? Yeah, I just listened to Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life', and I need you to take all of the 5 stars I've given up to this point and just toss those out because those albums don't deserve them anymore."
Apparently this was Stevie's EIGHTEENTH album? Like, I think by the time you hit eighteen you're allowed to start phoning it in a little bit, you know, you've got to be running out of material, right? Not for Stevie Wonder; this magnificent bastard must have gone "Oh, actually, this one's going to be a double album because I'm just that damn creative. Actually, can we squeeze in three MORE songs on an EP and ship them all together? I need to get some of these tracks out of here, they're really cluttering up my house." That's what blows me away; despite the hour forty-five runtime, the songs never grow stale, and not a single track doesn't carry its weight.
There's a scene in the Iliad where Hephaestus crafts a shield for Achilles, and the book spends like four pages detailing the intricate scenes that the God of the Forge is able to shape into this shield. Problem is, you'll never see that god-crafted shield, and words will never be able to adequately describe its divine beauty.
With that in mind: you *can* listen to this album.
6 out of 5 stars.
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Tue Aug 10 2021
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
3
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Wed Aug 11 2021
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
4
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Thu Aug 12 2021
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
3
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Fri Aug 13 2021
Murmur
R.E.M.
5
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Mon Aug 16 2021
Infected
The The
3
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Tue Aug 17 2021
Garbage
Garbage
5
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Wed Aug 18 2021
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
4
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Thu Aug 19 2021
Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
3
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Fri Aug 20 2021
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
3
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Mon Aug 23 2021
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
3
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Tue Aug 24 2021
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
2
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Wed Aug 25 2021
Pearl
Janis Joplin
5
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Thu Aug 26 2021
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
1
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Fri Aug 27 2021
The Yes Album
Yes
4
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Mon Aug 30 2021
São Paulo Confessions
Suba
4
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Tue Aug 31 2021
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5
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Wed Sep 01 2021
Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
3
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Thu Sep 02 2021
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
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Fri Sep 03 2021
Penthouse And Pavement
Heaven 17
4
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Mon Sep 06 2021
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
5
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Tue Sep 07 2021
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
3
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Wed Sep 08 2021
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
4
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Thu Sep 09 2021
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
3
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Fri Sep 10 2021
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
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Mon Sep 13 2021
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
5
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Tue Sep 14 2021
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
4
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Wed Sep 15 2021
Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear
3
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Thu Sep 16 2021
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
4
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Fri Sep 17 2021
The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
3
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Mon Sep 20 2021
The Bends
Radiohead
3
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Tue Sep 21 2021
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
4
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Wed Sep 22 2021
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
3
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Thu Sep 23 2021
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
4
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Fri Sep 24 2021
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
"Hey, this is a pretty solid album so far, I'm really enjoying it. I sure hope they don't do something stupid like put in a seven-minute-long track of a single screeching, cringe-inducing guitar halfway through."
3
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Mon Sep 27 2021
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
"Oh come on! This is the fourth Talking Heads album I've rolled in two months. I didn't like any of the other ones, why would I like this one."
...Damn it. This album is legitimately good.
UGH I mean everything about this is smart and intentional and well-executed. Everything. This album needed to exist and it deserves to be as influential as it was.
Still, though. Damn it. I'm angry at how good this is. Argh.
4
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Tue Sep 28 2021
1984
Van Halen
4
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Wed Sep 29 2021
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4
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Thu Sep 30 2021
Chelsea Girl
Nico
4
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Fri Oct 01 2021
Maxinquaye
Tricky
3
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Mon Oct 04 2021
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
3
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Tue Oct 05 2021
Drunk
Thundercat
4
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Wed Oct 06 2021
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4
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Thu Oct 07 2021
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5
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Fri Oct 08 2021
La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
3
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Mon Oct 11 2021
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
Truly, the greatest tragedy here is that this album was generated for me on Friday, and for an entire weekend I was cursed with the knowledge of how amazing this album is; and yet anybody who happened across my stats page would pity me for either never having experienced it, or for not recognizing it as a masterpiece.
At last, Monday has come, and my anxiety can finally be dispelled.
5
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Tue Oct 12 2021
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
3
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Wed Oct 13 2021
The Grand Tour
George Jones
3
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Thu Oct 14 2021
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
Listen to the monologue at the beginning of "Jesus Built My Hotrod". They chose not to use a pop filter on the microphone when they recorded it. That had to be deliberate; nobody in the audio industry would make that mistake. That means that this album was intentionally created to be difficult to listen to.
Good job guys, you pulled it off.
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Fri Oct 15 2021
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
3
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Mon Oct 18 2021
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
5
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Tue Oct 19 2021
Done By The Forces Of Nature
Jungle Brothers
An hour-long album was a bad call here. You trim off the twenty minutes of fat that is monotonous beats and shallow rhymes, you'd have something truly tight.
2
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Wed Oct 20 2021
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
2
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Thu Oct 21 2021
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
4
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Fri Oct 22 2021
All Directions
The Temptations
4
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Mon Oct 25 2021
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
3
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Tue Oct 26 2021
White Ladder
David Gray
3
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Wed Oct 27 2021
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
4
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Thu Oct 28 2021
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead
3
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Fri Oct 29 2021
Closer
Joy Division
4
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Mon Nov 01 2021
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
The word that came to mind as I listened to this album was "juvenile". Which, yes, is an oversimplification; but the mental image I was left with was of a group of kids who broke into a studio at night and made it to the recording booth—which they never expected to pull off, and thus didn't have a plan when they actually made it that far.
Maybe this would have landed if I'd heard it when I was 14 or so, but that only furthers my point. Now, some people will be quick to point out that the tone was intended to be farcical or done as parody; but comedy as an art form can be hit-and-miss, and it ages very quickly—parody doubly so.
In the end, any brilliance in the mashup of genres or talent in sampling is vastly overshadowed by unimpressive-at-best lyrics that grow grating through the constant shouting.
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Tue Nov 02 2021
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
This must have fallen victim to the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" phenomenon; it was something so influential in its time that everything else aimed to emulate it, and now it just sounds like the most generic Classic Rock ever.
I guess we Millennials are killing Classic Rock then too. Anyway it was fine, but I'm docking a star because it wasn't fine enough to merit the double album length.
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Wed Nov 03 2021
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
3
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Thu Nov 04 2021
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
Wow. This was truly an experience.
I'm glad I already rolled a couple of Cohen's earliest albums before I got this one. I hadn't found either particularly remarkable, but having heard them made "You Want It Darker" all the sweeter. Cohen had grown better with time, apparently; his music was now more varied, yet more cohesive; his lyrics were finally engaging; even his voice grizzled into a seductive register that perfectly matched the tone.
And the end result: this album—his final album—the story of a weary, bitter man, who is finally confronting the mistakes that have haunted him all his life. He doesn't demand your sympathy; he doesn't even want it. But you give it to him, because you're still human, after all; and then it's over, and he's gone, and somehow you feel both entirely empty and overwhelmingly full.
I'm going to need some more time to mentally process this one. But that's okay. It's going to stick with me the rest of my life, and I'm perfectly happy for it to do so.
5
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Fri Nov 05 2021
Elephant
The White Stripes
3
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Mon Nov 08 2021
Rubber Soul
Beatles
3
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Tue Nov 09 2021
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
3
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Wed Nov 10 2021
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4
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Thu Nov 11 2021
Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star
2
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Fri Nov 12 2021
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
I saw a few reviews wonder what it must feel like to come into this album cold, to listen to it with fresh ears in today's musical landscape without it having been an ever-present fixture in one's life.
Hey, I'm your guy. I was born in '88. The only Beatles song I can confidently claim to have listened to the whole way through prior to starting this project was "Twist and Shout", which, upon only just now thinking to look into it, was actually a cover. They don't come any denser than me.
The eponymous intro track is a perfectly bombastic mixture of rock and orchestral that really sells the idea that this album is going to be masterful. That the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is going to be an experience. It's excellent, and sends you straight into the next track on a huge high. I straight-up love this strategy.
The first true track in question is "With a Little Help From My Friends". To me, this felt like the kind of cute, feel-good ditty you would find to close OUT the show. What is it doing here, smack at the beginning? Tonally, it's a little jarring from the solid intro that pitched to us the notion that we'd be listening to a well-oiled machine; but by itself, it's not necessarily a portent of ill omen. This could still potentially work as an opener.
But "Lucy in the Sky" is next, and here is where things are looking rough. The chorus is repetitive and musically inert, and probably isn't the focus of the song. The verses have a psychedelic bent to them, and this is my hangup. 166 album ratings in, and the 60s as a decade is sitting a solid 0.68 points below my second-lowest-rated era. It's the only decade that falls below a 3-star average for me, and this right here is why. I don't understand what is supposed to be appealing about psychedelia. Is this because I've never done drugs? Is that the key that would unlock an entire musical generation for me?
That is followed up by "Getting Better", which is rather appropriately-named, because this is more of a return to their roots and is actually pleasant to listen to. That said, it's also a fluff piece, hands-down.
"Fixing a Hole" has a good guitar riff, actually, although I didn't notice it right away. That's about the best I can say for it; otherwise it's basically filler. "She's Leaving Home" would really be a perfect track to mellow us out... except we haven't been amped up since the intro, so it's not accomplishing anything here.
Er, now hang on, that's a point. Wasn't I sold an experience? Because from my point of view, after that intro faded out, nothing has truly landed for me so far. We're halfway in already, and every single song has either been put sorely out of place, or should be functioning as the glue that would string along and prop up the memorable tracks—which are inexplicably absent.
The rest of the album plays on in a similar manner; I'm already checked out, and that was supposed to be the GOOD half. Eventually, the Club Band reprise outro comes crashing in, acting like that was a hell of a show you just heard. Honestly, it's so confident in its approach that I could almost imagine it was true. But if you compare the intro/outro to the rest of the album... I don't know. It's discordant; it doesn't match the tone at all; it makes me wonder if the opening and closing act knew what they were opening and closing FOR.
Maybe if my expectations had been different, I could have found more merit here. But the only thing louder than the hype from this album's introduction is the hype from the wall of 5-star reviews, many of which proudly proclaim "What can you say about this album?" But I suppose somebody in that mix should say *something*, because there are still a few dense people like me out there who just don't understand how to appreciate this work.
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Mon Nov 15 2021
Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
2
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Tue Nov 16 2021
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
3
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Wed Nov 17 2021
Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
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Thu Nov 18 2021
Thriller
Michael Jackson
3
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Fri Nov 19 2021
Tago Mago
Can
A compliment sandwich.
Good: "Tago Mago" is very fun to say.
Bad: I could have used that hour or so to catch up on podcasts.
Good: "Aumgn" is the perfect onomatopoeia for human moaning. I will not speculate why the track needed to contain four minutes of human moaning, because this is supposed to be a compliment.
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Mon Nov 22 2021
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode knows that if you're going to use "again" to rhyme with a word ending in an "ane" sound, you need to pronounce it "a-GANE". I'd be tempted to give it five stars just for not cocking it up like everybody else.
Thankfully the album is also very good.
5
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Tue Nov 23 2021
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
3
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Wed Nov 24 2021
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
5
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Thu Nov 25 2021
I Against I
Bad Brains
3
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Fri Nov 26 2021
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
My cat didn't really like it, but I did.
4
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Mon Nov 29 2021
Tommy
The Who
5
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Tue Nov 30 2021
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
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Wed Dec 01 2021
Grace
Jeff Buckley
3
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Thu Dec 02 2021
More Specials
The Specials
5
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Fri Dec 03 2021
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
5
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Mon Dec 06 2021
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
5
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Tue Dec 07 2021
Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
It's another cold Monday morning at the office; but as I sip my tea and put on this album, I'm transported to a place cozy and warm, and my concerns and frustrations with the mundanity of life evaporate as I lose myself in the music.
5
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Wed Dec 08 2021
Metallica
Metallica
About a decade ago, a coworker told me there was only one good Metallica song, and I laughed it off.
I never asked which song that was, but I'm starting to think she might have been right anyway.
3
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Thu Dec 09 2021
Imagine
John Lennon
3
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Fri Dec 10 2021
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
3
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Mon Dec 13 2021
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
4
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Tue Dec 14 2021
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
4
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Wed Dec 15 2021
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor
3
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Thu Dec 16 2021
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
An excellent effort by an average band.
3
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Fri Dec 17 2021
Blur
Blur
3
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Mon Dec 20 2021
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
4
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Tue Dec 21 2021
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
4
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Wed Dec 22 2021
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
3
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Thu Dec 23 2021
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Michael
3
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Fri Dec 24 2021
Treasure
Cocteau Twins
4
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Mon Dec 27 2021
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
4
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Tue Dec 28 2021
The Poet
Bobby Womack
My wife had a rough holiday weekend, so I'm making sure to treat her right this evening: I've got this album, I've got a dozen roses, and I've got a boxed macaroni and cheese dinner for two.
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Wed Dec 29 2021
Histoire De Melody Nelson
Serge Gainsbourg
4
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Thu Dec 30 2021
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5
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Fri Dec 31 2021
Is This It
The Strokes
5
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Mon Jan 03 2022
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
3
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Tue Jan 04 2022
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
4
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Wed Jan 05 2022
Trans Europe Express
Kraftwerk
2
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Thu Jan 06 2022
C'est Chic
CHIC
3
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Fri Jan 07 2022
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
2
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Mon Jan 10 2022
Station To Station
David Bowie
4
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Tue Jan 11 2022
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
3
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Wed Jan 12 2022
LP1
FKA twigs
4
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Thu Jan 13 2022
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
3
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Fri Jan 14 2022
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
4
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Mon Jan 17 2022
Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
5
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Tue Jan 18 2022
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
3
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Wed Jan 19 2022
Arrival
ABBA
4
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Thu Jan 20 2022
Live!
Fela Kuti
4
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Fri Jan 21 2022
Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
4
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Mon Jan 24 2022
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
Listen, I like the album version of Highway Star. It's not trying to do anything deep; it just wants to be a face-melting metal classic, and it does it very well. It's fun.
In this live rendition, however, all the joy and spirit they'd put into the recording is gone. This is a shell-less husk of a song, devoid of soul or enthusiasm—and this absence carries through the entire album.
Because what we are listening to is not a band performing for a crowd. It is a band who has showed up for work. It's not difficult to believe that even the sections of endless guitar-wailing and drum solos are scripted, played the same way from show to show as the band autopilots its way through the tour. At one point following a song, the vocalist engages the crowd, but even this is lacking at first; you can actually perceive the moment he mentally reminds himself that the crowd wants him to scream at them, that he needs to give them energy to feed off of.
Maybe it was one of those "you had to be there" kind of things, but nothing in this album is convincing me that going to see a band who is touring, playing the same show over and over for groups of people too large to comprehend, is the best way to experience music.
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Tue Jan 25 2022
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
3
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Wed Jan 26 2022
The College Dropout
Kanye West
4
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Thu Jan 27 2022
Low
David Bowie
4
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Fri Jan 28 2022
Whatever
Aimee Mann
4
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Mon Jan 31 2022
Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers
4
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Tue Feb 01 2022
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Base score: 5 stars. This was an excellently crafted and performed album that undoubtedly succeeded in its intentions.
PERSONAL BIAS DEDUCTIONS:
I do not enjoy the Chili Peppers' sound: –1 star
The 73-minute runtime subjected me to the equivalent of two albums' worth of Chili Peppers content: –1 star
I already hated the song "Suck My Kiss" and never wanted to hear it again: –1 star
I already hated the song "Give It Away" and never wanted to hear it again: –1 star
Oof, that's a shame. I really would have loved this album if everything about it was different.
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Wed Feb 02 2022
Maverick A Strike
Finley Quaye
3
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Thu Feb 03 2022
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
5
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Fri Feb 04 2022
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
2
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Mon Feb 07 2022
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
3
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Tue Feb 08 2022
Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday
5
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Wed Feb 09 2022
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
4
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Thu Feb 10 2022
Teen Dream
Beach House
5
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Fri Feb 11 2022
All Hope Is Gone
Slipknot
Look, I don't think this is good music; but if this is what you needed to get you through the tumultuous years of adolescence, then, fine, I'm not going to begrudge you.
But if I finish this project and don't come across a single pop-punk album to satisfy my own angsty teenage nostalgia, then I'm gonna be very unhappy.
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Mon Feb 14 2022
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
4
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Tue Feb 15 2022
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
Half a song in: "Man, this fun, Old Beatles are way better than new Beatles."
Seven songs in: "Wow, all these songs are entirely forgettable, no wonder everybody loves New Beatles."
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Wed Feb 16 2022
Elastica
Elastica
4
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Thu Feb 17 2022
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
4
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Fri Feb 18 2022
Microshift
Hookworms
5
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Mon Feb 21 2022
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
4
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Tue Feb 22 2022
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
3
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Wed Feb 23 2022
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
Somebody get that damn piano part an MVP award for carrying the rest of the album.
4
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Thu Feb 24 2022
Beautiful Freak
Eels
3
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Fri Feb 25 2022
Triangle
The Beau Brummels
3
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Mon Feb 28 2022
Dummy
Portishead
3
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Tue Mar 01 2022
Van Halen
Van Halen
5
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Wed Mar 02 2022
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
3
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Thu Mar 03 2022
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
4
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Fri Mar 04 2022
The Wall
Pink Floyd
This album is like the Mona Lisa: maybe it's an incredible technical and artistic masterpiece, but it's also a little too ugly for me to want to hang in my living room.
2
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Mon Mar 07 2022
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
4
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Tue Mar 08 2022
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
5
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Wed Mar 09 2022
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
3
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Thu Mar 10 2022
Sheet Music
10cc
3
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Fri Mar 11 2022
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
5
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Mon Mar 14 2022
NEU! 75
Neu!
5
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Tue Mar 15 2022
Diamond Life
Sade
4
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Wed Mar 16 2022
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
4
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Thu Mar 17 2022
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
4
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Fri Mar 18 2022
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On Wax
4
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Mon Mar 21 2022
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
5
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Tue Mar 22 2022
Fragile
Yes
3
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Wed Mar 23 2022
Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
4
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Thu Mar 24 2022
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
Somebody greatly overestimated how long I'd like to hear a bunch of white kids shout brags at me.
1
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Fri Mar 25 2022
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
5
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Mon Mar 28 2022
Transformer
Lou Reed
3
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Tue Mar 29 2022
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
5
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Wed Mar 30 2022
Greetings From L.A.
Tim Buckley
3
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Thu Mar 31 2022
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
3
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Fri Apr 01 2022
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
3
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Mon Apr 04 2022
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
5
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Tue Apr 05 2022
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
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Thu Apr 14 2022
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
5
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Fri Apr 15 2022
The Slider
T. Rex
3
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Mon Apr 18 2022
All Mod Cons
The Jam
3
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Tue Apr 19 2022
Moving Pictures
Rush
4
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Wed Apr 20 2022
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
3
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Thu Apr 21 2022
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2
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Fri Apr 22 2022
Moondance
Van Morrison
3
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Mon Apr 25 2022
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
3
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Tue Apr 26 2022
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
5
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Wed Apr 27 2022
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
4
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Thu Apr 28 2022
Tragic Songs of Life
The Louvin Brothers
3
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Fri Apr 29 2022
Abraxas
Santana
3
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Mon May 02 2022
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
2
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Tue May 03 2022
21
Adele
5
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Wed May 04 2022
Rocks
Aerosmith
4
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Thu May 05 2022
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
3
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Fri May 06 2022
Disraeli Gears
Cream
2
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Mon May 09 2022
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
3
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Tue May 10 2022
Zombie
Fela Kuti
4
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Wed May 11 2022
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
3
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Thu May 12 2022
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
3
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Fri May 13 2022
Hysteria
Def Leppard
3
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Mon May 16 2022
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
5
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Tue May 17 2022
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
5
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Wed May 18 2022
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
2
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Thu May 19 2022
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
5
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Fri May 20 2022
Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The depictions of violence in this album were legitimately emotionally distressing and I was not prepared for it.
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Mon May 23 2022
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
5
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Tue May 24 2022
Siembra
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3
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Wed May 25 2022
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
3
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Thu May 26 2022
Your Arsenal
Morrissey
3
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Fri May 27 2022
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
5
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Mon May 30 2022
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
4
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Tue May 31 2022
Dust
Screaming Trees
3
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Wed Jun 01 2022
Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
3
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Thu Jun 02 2022
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4
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Fri Jun 03 2022
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2
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Mon Jun 06 2022
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
4
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Tue Jun 07 2022
This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5
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Wed Jun 08 2022
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
2
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Thu Jun 09 2022
Manassas
Stephen Stills
2
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Fri Jun 10 2022
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
3
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Mon Jun 13 2022
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
4
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Tue Jun 14 2022
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
2
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Wed Jun 15 2022
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
2
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Thu Jun 16 2022
Eternally Yours
The Saints
4
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Fri Jun 17 2022
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
1
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Mon Jun 20 2022
Melodrama
Lorde
5
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Tue Jun 21 2022
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
3
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Wed Jun 22 2022
Spiderland
Slint
2
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Thu Jun 23 2022
O.G. Original Gangster
Ice T
3
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Fri Jun 24 2022
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
4
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Mon Jun 27 2022
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
3
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Tue Jun 28 2022
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
2
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Wed Jun 29 2022
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
5
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Thu Jun 30 2022
Street Life
The Crusaders
5
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Fri Jul 01 2022
Copper Blue
Sugar
4
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Mon Jul 04 2022
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
4
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Tue Jul 05 2022
Odelay
Beck
5
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Wed Jul 06 2022
Sound Affects
The Jam
3
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Thu Jul 07 2022
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
4
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Fri Jul 08 2022
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
3
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Mon Jul 11 2022
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
4
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Tue Jul 12 2022
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
4
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Wed Jul 13 2022
Eagles
Eagles
3
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Thu Jul 14 2022
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
5
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Fri Jul 15 2022
A Northern Soul
The Verve
3
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Mon Jul 18 2022
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
4
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Tue Jul 19 2022
Be
Common
4
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Wed Jul 20 2022
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
5
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Thu Jul 21 2022
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
3
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Fri Jul 22 2022
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle
"Not as unlistenable as I had expected!"
—Cover quote
I think track 5, "Dead on Arrival", is the one that really solidifies what this album is trying to do. This is when the previously-ungraspable mixing board of sounds coalesces into something melodic, in its own way. The difficulty is, sitting at nearly ten minutes in, it's all too easy to have already checked out by the time it starts up.
Yeah, weird one to rate. I didn't hate it. But if I wanted to listen to music, I'd still go with any of the albums I one-starred before I opted for this.
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Mon Jul 25 2022
Clandestino
Manu Chao
3
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Tue Jul 26 2022
The La's
The La's
3
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Wed Jul 27 2022
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
3
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Thu Jul 28 2022
Pink Flag
Wire
3
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Fri Jul 29 2022
2112
Rush
4
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Mon Aug 01 2022
The Visitors
ABBA
5
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Tue Aug 02 2022
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
5
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Wed Aug 03 2022
Lazer Guided Melodies
Spiritualized
4
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Thu Aug 04 2022
Scum
Napalm Death
2
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Fri Aug 05 2022
Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
3
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Mon Aug 08 2022
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
4
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Tue Aug 09 2022
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
5
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Wed Aug 10 2022
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
5
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Thu Aug 11 2022
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
5
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Fri Aug 12 2022
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4
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Mon Aug 15 2022
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
5
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Tue Aug 16 2022
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
4
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Wed Aug 17 2022
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
3
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Thu Aug 18 2022
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
3
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Fri Aug 19 2022
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
3
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Mon Aug 22 2022
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
3
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Tue Aug 23 2022
The Man Who
Travis
4
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Wed Aug 24 2022
Tellin’ Stories
The Charlatans
4
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Thu Aug 25 2022
Throwing Muses
Throwing Muses
5
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Fri Aug 26 2022
Headquarters
The Monkees
3
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Mon Aug 29 2022
Risque
CHIC
5
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Tue Aug 30 2022
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
4
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Wed Aug 31 2022
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
4
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Thu Sep 01 2022
American Pie
Don McLean
2
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Fri Sep 02 2022
Future Days
Can
3
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Mon Sep 05 2022
London Calling
The Clash
4
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Tue Sep 06 2022
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
4
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Wed Sep 07 2022
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
4
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Thu Sep 08 2022
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
4
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Fri Sep 09 2022
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
5
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Mon Sep 12 2022
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
3
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Tue Sep 13 2022
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
4
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Wed Sep 14 2022
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
2
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Thu Sep 15 2022
Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
3
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Fri Sep 16 2022
Pyromania
Def Leppard
3
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Mon Sep 19 2022
Vivid
Living Colour
5
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Tue Sep 20 2022
Bad Company
Bad Company
4
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Wed Sep 21 2022
Night Life
Ray Price
3
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Thu Sep 22 2022
Cross
Justice
4
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Fri Sep 23 2022
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
4
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Mon Sep 26 2022
Country Life
Roxy Music
3
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Tue Sep 27 2022
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
5
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Wed Sep 28 2022
Parachutes
Coldplay
3
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Thu Sep 29 2022
Forever Changes
Love
4
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Fri Sep 30 2022
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
4
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Mon Oct 03 2022
Different Class
Pulp
4
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Tue Oct 04 2022
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
4
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Wed Oct 05 2022
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
5
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Thu Oct 06 2022
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
5
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Fri Oct 07 2022
Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello
4
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Mon Oct 10 2022
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
5
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Tue Oct 11 2022
Homework
Daft Punk
4
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Wed Oct 12 2022
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
3
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Thu Oct 13 2022
Young Americans
David Bowie
3
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Fri Oct 14 2022
A Seat at the Table
Solange
4
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Mon Oct 17 2022
Mothership Connection
Parliament
5
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Tue Oct 18 2022
This Is Hardcore
Pulp
4
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Wed Oct 19 2022
Tical
Method Man
I drive a bog-standard Prius and the bass still blew out a couple of my neighbors' windows.
3
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Thu Oct 20 2022
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
3
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Fri Oct 21 2022
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
2
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Mon Oct 24 2022
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3
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Tue Oct 25 2022
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
5
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Wed Oct 26 2022
Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
4
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Thu Oct 27 2022
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
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Fri Oct 28 2022
Raw Power
The Stooges
4
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Mon Oct 31 2022
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
5
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Tue Nov 01 2022
Doolittle
Pixies
4
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Wed Nov 02 2022
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
4
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Thu Nov 03 2022
Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera
2
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Fri Nov 04 2022
Orbital 2
Orbital
3
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Mon Nov 07 2022
My Generation
The Who
4
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Tue Nov 08 2022
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
You could get away with playing this album at your wedding reception and not have to pay the DJ for forty minutes.
4
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Wed Nov 09 2022
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
3
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Thu Nov 10 2022
Third
Portishead
3
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Fri Nov 11 2022
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
2
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Mon Nov 14 2022
Stankonia
OutKast
3
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Tue Nov 15 2022
Live Through This
Hole
4
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Wed Nov 16 2022
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
5
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Thu Nov 17 2022
Wild Gift
X
3
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Fri Nov 18 2022
Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
2
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Mon Nov 21 2022
Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
3
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Tue Nov 22 2022
The Who Sell Out
The Who
3
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Wed Nov 23 2022
Face to Face
The Kinks
4
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Thu Nov 24 2022
The Clash
The Clash
5
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Fri Nov 25 2022
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
2
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Mon Nov 28 2022
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
5
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Tue Nov 29 2022
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3
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Wed Nov 30 2022
Paris 1919
John Cale
3
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Thu Dec 01 2022
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
5
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Fri Dec 02 2022
Ingenue
k.d. lang
5
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Mon Dec 05 2022
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
3
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Tue Dec 06 2022
Me Against The World
2Pac
4
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Wed Dec 07 2022
L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
1
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Thu Dec 08 2022
Abbey Road
Beatles
3
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Fri Dec 09 2022
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
3
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Mon Dec 12 2022
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
5
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Tue Dec 13 2022
Graceland
Paul Simon
4
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Wed Dec 14 2022
Close To You
Carpenters
2
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Thu Dec 15 2022
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
4
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Fri Dec 16 2022
Arise
Sepultura
2
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Mon Dec 19 2022
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
4
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Tue Dec 20 2022
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
4
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Wed Dec 21 2022
Ctrl
SZA
3
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Thu Dec 22 2022
Out of Step
Minor Threat
3
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Fri Dec 23 2022
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
5
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Mon Dec 26 2022
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2
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Tue Dec 27 2022
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
3
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Wed Dec 28 2022
Suede
Suede
3
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Thu Dec 29 2022
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4
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Fri Dec 30 2022
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
I came so close to rating this album 2 stars just so I wouldn't have a blatant anus spoiling my otherwise nice summary page, but I can't in good conscience give this album that high of praise.
1
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Mon Jan 02 2023
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
4
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Tue Jan 03 2023
Like A Prayer
Madonna
4
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Wed Jan 04 2023
Goo
Sonic Youth
5
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Thu Jan 05 2023
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
3
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Fri Jan 06 2023
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
4
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Mon Jan 09 2023
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
4
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Tue Jan 10 2023
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3
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Wed Jan 11 2023
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
5
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Thu Jan 12 2023
Hot Fuss
The Killers
5
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Fri Jan 13 2023
Gris Gris
Dr. John
4
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Mon Jan 16 2023
S&M
Metallica
Yes, Metallica, we're all very impressed with how you gamed the system by using an orchestra to win me over into actually liking this. Take your stupid five stars and go home.
5
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Tue Jan 17 2023
Live At Leeds
The Who
3
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Wed Jan 18 2023
Nick Of Time
Bonnie Raitt
4
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Thu Jan 19 2023
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
4
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Fri Jan 20 2023
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
3
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Mon Jan 23 2023
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
3
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Tue Jan 24 2023
Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear
4
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Wed Jan 25 2023
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
4
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Thu Jan 26 2023
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
4
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Fri Jan 27 2023
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
3
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Mon Jan 30 2023
Tapestry
Carole King
5
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Tue Jan 31 2023
Dirt
Alice In Chains
2
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Wed Feb 01 2023
Olympia 64
Jacques Brel
3
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Thu Feb 02 2023
B-52's
The B-52's
5
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Fri Feb 03 2023
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
5
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Mon Feb 06 2023
Close To The Edge
Yes
3
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Tue Feb 07 2023
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
4
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Wed Feb 08 2023
Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
1
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Thu Feb 09 2023
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
3
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Fri Feb 10 2023
Kenya
Machito
4
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Mon Feb 13 2023
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
4
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Tue Feb 14 2023
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen is incredibly divisive, but at least we can all agree that the 80s were a mistake.
2
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Wed Feb 15 2023
Butterfly
Mariah Carey
2
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Thu Feb 16 2023
Mott
Mott The Hoople
2
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Fri Feb 17 2023
When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
5
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Mon Feb 20 2023
The Joshua Tree
U2
4
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Tue Feb 21 2023
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
4
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Wed Feb 22 2023
Black Monk Time
The Monks
2
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Thu Feb 23 2023
American Idiot
Green Day
Me twenty years ago: "This album is so overrated."
Me now: "I need to add all of these songs to my library."
5
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Fri Feb 24 2023
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
3
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Celebrity Skin
Hole
5
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Tue Feb 28 2023
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
3
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Wed Mar 01 2023
Survivor
Destiny's Child
4
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Thu Mar 02 2023
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3
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Fri Mar 03 2023
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3
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Mon Mar 06 2023
Revolver
Beatles
4
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Tue Mar 07 2023
Phrenology
The Roots
3
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Wed Mar 08 2023
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
3
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Thu Mar 09 2023
Rings Around The World
Super Furry Animals
3
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Fri Mar 10 2023
The Predator
Ice Cube
3
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Mon Mar 13 2023
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
2
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Tue Mar 14 2023
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
4
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Wed Mar 15 2023
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
3
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Thu Mar 16 2023
Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
3
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Fri Mar 17 2023
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
4
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Mon Mar 20 2023
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
4
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Tue Mar 21 2023
Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
5
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Wed Mar 22 2023
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
4
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Thu Mar 23 2023
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
5
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Fri Mar 24 2023
Dry
PJ Harvey
3
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Mon Mar 27 2023
Brothers
The Black Keys
4
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Tue Mar 28 2023
Document
R.E.M.
4
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Wed Mar 29 2023
Virgin Suicides
Air
3
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Thu Mar 30 2023
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
3
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Fri Mar 31 2023
Nowhere
Ride
4
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Mon Apr 03 2023
Synchronicity
The Police
5
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Tue Apr 04 2023
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
2
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Wed Apr 05 2023
Cut
The Slits
4
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Thu Apr 06 2023
Sincere
Mj Cole
3
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Fri Apr 07 2023
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
4
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Mon Apr 10 2023
Debut
Björk
4
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Tue Apr 11 2023
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
4
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Wed Apr 12 2023
GI
Germs
2
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Thu Apr 13 2023
Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
3
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Fri Apr 14 2023
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
2
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Mon Apr 17 2023
Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
3
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Tue Apr 18 2023
Marquee Moon
Television
3
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Wed Apr 19 2023
Moon Safari
Air
5
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Thu Apr 20 2023
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4
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Fri Apr 21 2023
Dear Science
TV On The Radio
5
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Mon Apr 24 2023
Pornography
The Cure
2
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Tue Apr 25 2023
If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian
4
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Wed Apr 26 2023
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
5
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Thu Apr 27 2023
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
4
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Fri Apr 28 2023
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
5
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Mon May 01 2023
Sister
Sonic Youth
2
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Tue May 02 2023
Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
3
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Wed May 03 2023
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
5
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Thu May 04 2023
Truth
Jeff Beck
Blues for Boomer Dads: The Album
1
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Fri May 05 2023
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
2
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Mon May 08 2023
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
2
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Tue May 09 2023
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
4
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Wed May 10 2023
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
4
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Thu May 11 2023
Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2
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Fri May 12 2023
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
1
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Mon May 15 2023
Dare!
The Human League
3
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Tue May 16 2023
Liquid Swords
GZA
3
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Wed May 17 2023
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
5
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Thu May 18 2023
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
3
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Fri May 19 2023
New Boots And Panties
Ian Dury
3
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Mon May 22 2023
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
This album is the audio equivalent of ranch dressing. It's a unique flavor and I completely understand why some people would dig it, but I can't imagine a single food where some other topping wouldn't fit way better.
2
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Tue May 23 2023
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
4
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Wed May 24 2023
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
5
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Thu May 25 2023
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
5
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Fri May 26 2023
Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
3
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Mon May 29 2023
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
3
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Tue May 30 2023
No Other
Gene Clark
4