Jan 14 2021
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
5
Jan 15 2021
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
3
Jan 18 2021
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
1
Jan 19 2021
Purple Rain
Prince
4
Jan 20 2021
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
2
Jan 21 2021
The Stooges
The Stooges
1
Jan 22 2021
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
4
Jan 25 2021
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
5
Jan 26 2021
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
4
Jan 27 2021
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
3
Jan 28 2021
Connected
Stereo MC's
4
Jan 29 2021
Bad
Michael Jackson
4
Feb 01 2021
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
3
Feb 02 2021
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
3
Feb 03 2021
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
4
Feb 04 2021
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
5
Feb 05 2021
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
5
Feb 08 2021
Disintegration
The Cure
4
Feb 09 2021
Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai
4
Feb 10 2021
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
5
Feb 11 2021
Screamadelica
Primal Scream
3
Feb 12 2021
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
5
Feb 15 2021
Illmatic
Nas
3
Feb 16 2021
Soul Mining
The The
5
Feb 17 2021
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
4
Feb 18 2021
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
3
Feb 19 2021
Casanova
The Divine Comedy
4
Feb 22 2021
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
4
Feb 23 2021
Aja
Steely Dan
3
Feb 24 2021
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
4
Feb 25 2021
Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney
5
Feb 26 2021
Truth And Soul
Fishbone
5
Mar 01 2021
Music From Big Pink
The Band
3
Mar 02 2021
Tidal
Fiona Apple
4
Mar 03 2021
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
4
Mar 04 2021
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
5
Mar 05 2021
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
4
Mar 08 2021
The Doors
The Doors
3
Mar 09 2021
There's A Riot Goin' On
Sly & The Family Stone
3
Mar 10 2021
Public Image: First Issue
Public Image Ltd.
2
Mar 11 2021
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
3
Mar 12 2021
Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren
3
Mar 15 2021
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
3
Mar 16 2021
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
4
Mar 17 2021
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
3
Mar 18 2021
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2
Mar 19 2021
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
4
Mar 22 2021
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
4
Mar 23 2021
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
5
Mar 24 2021
Faust IV
Faust
3
Mar 25 2021
Sea Change
Beck
4
Mar 26 2021
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
3
Mar 29 2021
Repeater
Fugazi
4
Mar 30 2021
Either Or
Elliott Smith
4
Mar 31 2021
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
4
Apr 01 2021
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
3
Apr 02 2021
Funeral
Arcade Fire
4
Apr 05 2021
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
3
Apr 06 2021
On The Beach
Neil Young
3
Apr 07 2021
A Night At The Opera
Queen
5
Apr 08 2021
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
4
Apr 09 2021
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
Bossa nova. Kind of old-school swanky, but hard to listen to.
2
Apr 12 2021
Harvest
Neil Young
3
Apr 13 2021
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4
Apr 14 2021
The Healer
John Lee Hooker
Strong blues, "long, hazy summer day" vibes.
4
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
3
Apr 16 2021
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
4
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
2
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.
5
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
4
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
3
Jul 02 2021
Vespertine
Björk
Original, emotional, introspective, magical.
Recommended season: Autumn
5
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
Jul 06 2021
Viva Hate
Morrissey
3
Jul 07 2021
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
3
Jul 08 2021
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
3
Jul 09 2021
Quiet Life
Japan
2
Jul 12 2021
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
4
Jul 13 2021
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
3
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
Jul 15 2021
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
Hey look, an album from '69 that I actually liked!
Recommended season: Summer
4
Jul 16 2021
Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
4
Jul 19 2021
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
2
Jul 20 2021
Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
4
Jul 21 2021
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
4
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.
1
Jul 23 2021
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
4
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.
2
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.
5
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
Jul 29 2021
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
4
Jul 30 2021
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
5
Aug 02 2021
Come Find Yourself
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4
Aug 03 2021
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
4
Aug 04 2021
In Utero
Nirvana
2
Aug 05 2021
Sail Away
Randy Newman
3
Aug 06 2021
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
5
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.
5
Aug 10 2021
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
3
Aug 11 2021
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
4
Aug 12 2021
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
3
Aug 13 2021
Murmur
R.E.M.
5
Aug 16 2021
Infected
The The
3
Aug 17 2021
Garbage
Garbage
5
Aug 18 2021
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
4
Aug 19 2021
Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
3
Aug 20 2021
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
3
Aug 23 2021
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
3
Aug 24 2021
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
2
Aug 25 2021
Pearl
Janis Joplin
5
Aug 26 2021
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
1
Aug 27 2021
The Yes Album
Yes
4
Aug 30 2021
São Paulo Confessions
Suba
4
Aug 31 2021
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5
Sep 01 2021
Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
3
Sep 02 2021
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
Sep 03 2021
Penthouse And Pavement
Heaven 17
4
Sep 06 2021
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
5
Sep 07 2021
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
3
Sep 08 2021
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
4
Sep 09 2021
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
3
Sep 10 2021
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
Sep 13 2021
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
5
Sep 14 2021
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
4
Sep 15 2021
Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear
3
Sep 16 2021
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
4
Sep 17 2021
The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
3
Sep 20 2021
The Bends
Radiohead
3
Sep 21 2021
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
4
Sep 22 2021
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
3
Sep 23 2021
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
4
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
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
Sep 28 2021
1984
Van Halen
4
Sep 29 2021
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4
Sep 30 2021
Chelsea Girl
Nico
4
Oct 01 2021
Maxinquaye
Tricky
3
Oct 04 2021
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
3
Oct 05 2021
Drunk
Thundercat
4
Oct 06 2021
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4
Oct 07 2021
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5
Oct 08 2021
La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
3
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
Oct 12 2021
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
3
Oct 13 2021
The Grand Tour
George Jones
3
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.
1
Oct 15 2021
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
3
Oct 18 2021
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
5
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
Oct 20 2021
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
2
Oct 21 2021
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
4
Oct 22 2021
All Directions
The Temptations
4
Oct 25 2021
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
3
Oct 26 2021
White Ladder
David Gray
3
Oct 27 2021
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
4
Oct 28 2021
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead
3
Oct 29 2021
Closer
Joy Division
4
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.
1
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.
2
Nov 03 2021
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
3
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
Nov 05 2021
Elephant
The White Stripes
3
Nov 08 2021
Rubber Soul
Beatles
3
Nov 09 2021
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
3
Nov 10 2021
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4
Nov 11 2021
Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star
2
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.
2
Nov 15 2021
Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
2
Nov 16 2021
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
3
Nov 17 2021
Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
Nov 18 2021
Thriller
Michael Jackson
3
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.
1
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
Nov 23 2021
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
3
Nov 24 2021
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
5
Nov 25 2021
I Against I
Bad Brains
3
Nov 26 2021
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
My cat didn't really like it, but I did.
4
Nov 29 2021
Tommy
The Who
5
Nov 30 2021
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
Dec 01 2021
Grace
Jeff Buckley
3
Dec 02 2021
More Specials
The Specials
5
Dec 03 2021
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
5
Dec 06 2021
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
5
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
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
Dec 09 2021
Imagine
John Lennon
3
Dec 10 2021
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
3
Dec 13 2021
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
4
Dec 14 2021
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
4
Dec 15 2021
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor
3
Dec 16 2021
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
An excellent effort by an average band.
3
Dec 17 2021
Blur
Blur
3
Dec 20 2021
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
4
Dec 21 2021
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
4
Dec 22 2021
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
3
Dec 23 2021
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Michael
3
Dec 24 2021
Treasure
Cocteau Twins
4
Dec 27 2021
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
4
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.
5
Dec 29 2021
Histoire De Melody Nelson
Serge Gainsbourg
4
Dec 30 2021
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5
Dec 31 2021
Is This It
The Strokes
5
Jan 03 2022
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
3
Jan 04 2022
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
4
Jan 05 2022
Trans Europe Express
Kraftwerk
2
Jan 06 2022
C'est Chic
CHIC
3
Jan 07 2022
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
2
Jan 10 2022
Station To Station
David Bowie
4
Jan 11 2022
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
3
Jan 12 2022
LP1
FKA twigs
4
Jan 13 2022
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
3
Jan 14 2022
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
4
Jan 17 2022
Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
5
Jan 18 2022
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
3
Jan 19 2022
Arrival
ABBA
4
Jan 20 2022
Live!
Fela Kuti
4
Jan 21 2022
Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
4
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.
1
Jan 25 2022
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
3
Jan 26 2022
The College Dropout
Kanye West
4
Jan 27 2022
Low
David Bowie
4
Jan 28 2022
Whatever
Aimee Mann
4
Jan 31 2022
Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers
4
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.
1
Feb 02 2022
Maverick A Strike
Finley Quaye
3
Feb 03 2022
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
5
Feb 04 2022
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
2
Feb 07 2022
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
3
Feb 08 2022
Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday
5
Feb 09 2022
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
4
Feb 10 2022
Teen Dream
Beach House
5
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.
2
Feb 14 2022
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
4
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."
3
Feb 16 2022
Elastica
Elastica
4
Feb 17 2022
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
4
Feb 18 2022
Microshift
Hookworms
5
Feb 21 2022
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
4
Feb 22 2022
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
3
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
Feb 24 2022
Beautiful Freak
Eels
3
Feb 25 2022
Triangle
The Beau Brummels
3
Feb 28 2022
Dummy
Portishead
3
Mar 01 2022
Van Halen
Van Halen
5
Mar 02 2022
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
3
Mar 03 2022
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
4
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
Mar 07 2022
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
4
Mar 08 2022
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
5
Mar 09 2022
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
3
Mar 10 2022
Sheet Music
10cc
3
Mar 11 2022
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
5
Mar 14 2022
NEU! 75
Neu!
5
Mar 15 2022
Diamond Life
Sade
4
Mar 16 2022
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
4
Mar 17 2022
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
4
Mar 18 2022
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On Wax
4
Mar 21 2022
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
5
Mar 22 2022
Fragile
Yes
3
Mar 23 2022
Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
4
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
Mar 25 2022
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
5
Mar 28 2022
Transformer
Lou Reed
3
Mar 29 2022
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
5
Mar 30 2022
Greetings From L.A.
Tim Buckley
3
Mar 31 2022
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
3
Apr 01 2022
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
3
Apr 04 2022
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
5
Apr 05 2022
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
Apr 14 2022
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
5
Apr 15 2022
The Slider
T. Rex
3
Apr 18 2022
All Mod Cons
The Jam
3
Apr 19 2022
Moving Pictures
Rush
4
Apr 20 2022
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
3
Apr 21 2022
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2
Apr 22 2022
Moondance
Van Morrison
3
Apr 25 2022
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
3
Apr 26 2022
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
5
Apr 27 2022
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
4
Apr 28 2022
Tragic Songs of Life
The Louvin Brothers
3
Apr 29 2022
Abraxas
Santana
3
May 02 2022
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
2
May 03 2022
21
Adele
5
May 04 2022
Rocks
Aerosmith
4
May 05 2022
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
3
May 06 2022
Disraeli Gears
Cream
2
May 09 2022
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
3
May 10 2022
Zombie
Fela Kuti
4
May 11 2022
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
3
May 12 2022
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
3
May 13 2022
Hysteria
Def Leppard
3
May 16 2022
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
5
May 17 2022
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
5
May 18 2022
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
2
May 19 2022
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
5
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.
1
May 23 2022
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
5
May 24 2022
Siembra
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3
May 25 2022
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
3
May 26 2022
Your Arsenal
Morrissey
3
May 27 2022
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
5
May 30 2022
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
4
May 31 2022
Dust
Screaming Trees
3
Jun 01 2022
Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
3
Jun 02 2022
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4
Jun 03 2022
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2
Jun 06 2022
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
4
Jun 07 2022
This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5
Jun 08 2022
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
2
Jun 09 2022
Manassas
Stephen Stills
2
Jun 10 2022
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
3
Jun 13 2022
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
4
Jun 14 2022
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
2
Jun 15 2022
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
2
Jun 16 2022
Eternally Yours
The Saints
4
Jun 17 2022
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
1
Jun 20 2022
Melodrama
Lorde
5
Jun 21 2022
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
3
Jun 22 2022
Spiderland
Slint
2
Jun 23 2022
O.G. Original Gangster
Ice T
3
Jun 24 2022
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
4
Jun 27 2022
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
3
Jun 28 2022
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
2
Jun 29 2022
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
5
Jun 30 2022
Street Life
The Crusaders
5
Jul 01 2022
Copper Blue
Sugar
4
Jul 04 2022
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
4
Jul 05 2022
Odelay
Beck
5
Jul 06 2022
Sound Affects
The Jam
3
Jul 07 2022
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
4
Jul 08 2022
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
3
Jul 11 2022
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
4
Jul 12 2022
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
4
Jul 13 2022
Eagles
Eagles
3
Jul 14 2022
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
5
Jul 15 2022
A Northern Soul
The Verve
3
Jul 18 2022
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
4
Jul 19 2022
Be
Common
4
Jul 20 2022
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
5
Jul 21 2022
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
3
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.
3
Jul 25 2022
Clandestino
Manu Chao
3
Jul 26 2022
The La's
The La's
3
Jul 27 2022
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
3
Jul 28 2022
Pink Flag
Wire
3
Jul 29 2022
2112
Rush
4
Aug 01 2022
The Visitors
ABBA
5
Aug 02 2022
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
5
Aug 03 2022
Lazer Guided Melodies
Spiritualized
4
Aug 04 2022
Scum
Napalm Death
2
Aug 05 2022
Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
3
Aug 08 2022
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
4
Aug 09 2022
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
5
Aug 10 2022
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
5
Aug 11 2022
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
5
Aug 12 2022
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4
Aug 15 2022
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
5
Aug 16 2022
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
4
Aug 17 2022
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
3
Aug 18 2022
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
3
Aug 19 2022
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
3
Aug 22 2022
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
3
Aug 23 2022
The Man Who
Travis
4
Aug 24 2022
Tellin’ Stories
The Charlatans
4
Aug 25 2022
Throwing Muses
Throwing Muses
5
Aug 26 2022
Headquarters
The Monkees
3
Aug 29 2022
Risque
CHIC
5
Aug 30 2022
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
4
Aug 31 2022
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
4
Sep 01 2022
American Pie
Don McLean
2
Sep 02 2022
Future Days
Can
3
Sep 05 2022
London Calling
The Clash
4
Sep 06 2022
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
4
Sep 07 2022
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
4
Sep 08 2022
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
4
Sep 09 2022
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
5
Sep 12 2022
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
3
Sep 13 2022
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
4
Sep 14 2022
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
2
Sep 15 2022
Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
3
Sep 16 2022
Pyromania
Def Leppard
3
Sep 19 2022
Vivid
Living Colour
5
Sep 20 2022
Bad Company
Bad Company
4
Sep 21 2022
Night Life
Ray Price
3
Sep 22 2022
Cross
Justice
4
Sep 23 2022
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
4
Sep 26 2022
Country Life
Roxy Music
3
Sep 27 2022
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
5
Sep 28 2022
Parachutes
Coldplay
3
Sep 29 2022
Forever Changes
Love
4
Sep 30 2022
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
4
Oct 03 2022
Different Class
Pulp
4
Oct 04 2022
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
4
Oct 05 2022
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
5
Oct 06 2022
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
5
Oct 07 2022
Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello
4
Oct 10 2022
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
5
Oct 11 2022
Homework
Daft Punk
4
Oct 12 2022
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
3
Oct 13 2022
Young Americans
David Bowie
3
Oct 14 2022
A Seat at the Table
Solange
4
Oct 17 2022
Mothership Connection
Parliament
5
Oct 18 2022
This Is Hardcore
Pulp
4
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
Oct 20 2022
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
3
Oct 21 2022
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
2
Oct 24 2022
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3
Oct 25 2022
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
5
Oct 26 2022
Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
4
Oct 27 2022
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
Oct 28 2022
Raw Power
The Stooges
4
Oct 31 2022
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
5
Nov 01 2022
Doolittle
Pixies
4
Nov 02 2022
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
4
Nov 03 2022
Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera
2
Nov 04 2022
Orbital 2
Orbital
3
Nov 07 2022
My Generation
The Who
4
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
Nov 09 2022
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
3
Nov 10 2022
Third
Portishead
3
Nov 11 2022
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
2
Nov 14 2022
Stankonia
OutKast
3
Nov 15 2022
Live Through This
Hole
4
Nov 16 2022
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
5
Nov 17 2022
Wild Gift
X
3
Nov 18 2022
Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
2
Nov 21 2022
Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
3
Nov 22 2022
The Who Sell Out
The Who
3
Nov 23 2022
Face to Face
The Kinks
4
Nov 24 2022
The Clash
The Clash
5
Nov 25 2022
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
2
Nov 28 2022
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
5
Nov 29 2022
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3
Nov 30 2022
Paris 1919
John Cale
3
Dec 01 2022
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
5
Dec 02 2022
Ingenue
k.d. lang
5
Dec 05 2022
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
3
Dec 06 2022
Me Against The World
2Pac
4
Dec 07 2022
L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
1
Dec 08 2022
Abbey Road
Beatles
3
Dec 09 2022
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
3
Dec 12 2022
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
5
Dec 13 2022
Graceland
Paul Simon
4
Dec 14 2022
Close To You
Carpenters
2
Dec 15 2022
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
4
Dec 16 2022
Arise
Sepultura
2
Dec 19 2022
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
4
Dec 20 2022
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
4
Dec 21 2022
Ctrl
SZA
3
Dec 22 2022
Out of Step
Minor Threat
3
Dec 23 2022
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
5
Dec 26 2022
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2
Dec 27 2022
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
3
Dec 28 2022
Suede
Suede
3
Dec 29 2022
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4
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
Jan 02 2023
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
4
Jan 03 2023
Like A Prayer
Madonna
4
Jan 04 2023
Goo
Sonic Youth
5
Jan 05 2023
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
3
Jan 06 2023
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
4
Jan 09 2023
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
4
Jan 10 2023
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3
Jan 11 2023
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
5
Jan 12 2023
Hot Fuss
The Killers
5
Jan 13 2023
Gris Gris
Dr. John
4
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
Jan 17 2023
Live At Leeds
The Who
3
Jan 18 2023
Nick Of Time
Bonnie Raitt
4
Jan 19 2023
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
4
Jan 20 2023
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
3
Jan 23 2023
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
3
Jan 24 2023
Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear
4
Jan 25 2023
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
4
Jan 26 2023
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
4
Jan 27 2023
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
3
Jan 30 2023
Tapestry
Carole King
5
Jan 31 2023
Dirt
Alice In Chains
2
Feb 01 2023
Olympia 64
Jacques Brel
3
Feb 02 2023
B-52's
The B-52's
5
Feb 03 2023
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
5
Feb 06 2023
Close To The Edge
Yes
3
Feb 07 2023
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
4
Feb 08 2023
Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
1
Feb 09 2023
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
3
Feb 10 2023
Kenya
Machito
4
Feb 13 2023
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
4
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
Feb 15 2023
Butterfly
Mariah Carey
2
Feb 16 2023
Mott
Mott The Hoople
2
Feb 17 2023
When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
5
Feb 20 2023
The Joshua Tree
U2
4
Feb 21 2023
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
4
Feb 22 2023
Black Monk Time
The Monks
2
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
Feb 24 2023
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
3
Feb 27 2023
Celebrity Skin
Hole
5
Feb 28 2023
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
3
Mar 01 2023
Survivor
Destiny's Child
4
Mar 02 2023
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3
Mar 03 2023
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3
Mar 06 2023
Revolver
Beatles
4
Mar 07 2023
Phrenology
The Roots
3
Mar 08 2023
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
3
Mar 09 2023
Rings Around The World
Super Furry Animals
3
Mar 10 2023
The Predator
Ice Cube
3
Mar 13 2023
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
2
Mar 14 2023
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
4
Mar 15 2023
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
3
Mar 16 2023
Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
3
Mar 17 2023
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
4
Mar 20 2023
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
4
Mar 21 2023
Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
5
Mar 22 2023
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
4
Mar 23 2023
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
5
Mar 24 2023
Dry
PJ Harvey
3
Mar 27 2023
Brothers
The Black Keys
4
Mar 28 2023
Document
R.E.M.
4
Mar 29 2023
Virgin Suicides
Air
3
Mar 30 2023
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
3
Mar 31 2023
Nowhere
Ride
4
Apr 03 2023
Synchronicity
The Police
5
Apr 04 2023
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
2
Apr 05 2023
Cut
The Slits
4
Apr 06 2023
Sincere
Mj Cole
3
Apr 07 2023
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
4
Apr 10 2023
Debut
Björk
4
Apr 11 2023
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
4
Apr 12 2023
GI
Germs
2
Apr 13 2023
Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
3
Apr 14 2023
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
2
Apr 17 2023
Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
3
Apr 18 2023
Marquee Moon
Television
3
Apr 19 2023
Moon Safari
Air
5
Apr 20 2023
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4
Apr 21 2023
Dear Science
TV On The Radio
5
Apr 24 2023
Pornography
The Cure
2
Apr 25 2023
If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian
4
Apr 26 2023
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
5
Apr 27 2023
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
4
Apr 28 2023
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
5
May 01 2023
Sister
Sonic Youth
2
May 02 2023
Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
3
May 03 2023
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
5
May 04 2023
Truth
Jeff Beck
Blues for Boomer Dads: The Album
1
May 05 2023
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
2
May 08 2023
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
2
May 09 2023
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
4
May 10 2023
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
4
May 11 2023
Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2
May 12 2023
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
1
May 15 2023
Dare!
The Human League
3
May 16 2023
Liquid Swords
GZA
3
May 17 2023
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
5
May 18 2023
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
3
May 19 2023
New Boots And Panties
Ian Dury
3
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
May 23 2023
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
4
May 24 2023
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
5
May 25 2023
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
5
May 26 2023
Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
3
May 29 2023
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
3
May 30 2023
No Other
Gene Clark
4
May 31 2023
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3
Jun 01 2023
Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4
Jun 02 2023
xx
The xx
5
Jun 05 2023
I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
4
Jun 06 2023
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
5
Jun 07 2023
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
4
Jun 08 2023
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
2
Jun 09 2023
Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
4
Jun 12 2023
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
"Wow Eminem, you've been blessed with this great gift! What are you going to do with it?"
"Well, you know, I've thought really hard about this. And I have to say, I'm feeling drawn to produce an album that can only be truly appreciated for what it's worth by teenage boys. Like, right in that 13-15 range? I've always felt that these are the kind of people I truly connect with, and I'd really like to lean into that."
1
Jun 13 2023
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
5
Jun 14 2023
Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
Do I understand some of the criticism here? Yes sir I do.
Do I honestly want anything more out of an album than an insanely tight 30 minutes of high-energy rock? No sir, I do not.
5
Jun 15 2023
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
4
Jun 16 2023
The Idiot
Iggy Pop
2
Jun 19 2023
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar
5
Jun 20 2023
#1 Record
Big Star
This album is the audio equivalent of going to a restaurant named "Top Chef Fine Dining" and ordering a meal called "Taste Bud Explosion" and then being served boxed spaghetti with Ragu from the jar.
2
Jun 21 2023
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
2
Jun 22 2023
Permission to Land
The Darkness
5
Jun 23 2023
Parallel Lines
Blondie
4
Jun 26 2023
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
2
Jun 27 2023
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
3
Jun 28 2023
So
Peter Gabriel
4
Jun 29 2023
Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds
Hang on, the Byrds used to be good? What the hell happened?
4
Jun 30 2023
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
3
Jul 03 2023
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
3
Jul 04 2023
Bright Flight
Silver Jews
4
Jul 05 2023
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
4
Jul 06 2023
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
This is the least-cool thing I have ever heard.
I think that's supposed to be the point, but it still doesn't make me want to listen to this.
2
Jul 07 2023
Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
3
Jul 10 2023
Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
3
Jul 11 2023
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4
Jul 12 2023
Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
4
Jul 13 2023
Da Capo
Love
Is nobody going to talk about how the guy in the center of the album cover was clearly the inspiration for Han Solo?
4
Jul 14 2023
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
4
Jul 17 2023
Before And After Science
Brian Eno
3
Jul 18 2023
Achtung Baby
U2
5
Jul 19 2023
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
5
Jul 20 2023
Skylarking
XTC
3
Jul 21 2023
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
5
Jul 24 2023
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
4
Jul 25 2023
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
5
Jul 26 2023
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
3
Jul 27 2023
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
4
Jul 28 2023
Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets
3
Jul 31 2023
Low-Life
New Order
4
Aug 01 2023
Devotional Songs
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
4
Aug 02 2023
Scott 4
Scott Walker
3
Aug 03 2023
Black Metal
Venom
3
Aug 04 2023
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
3
Aug 07 2023
Jack Takes the Floor
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4
Aug 08 2023
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
4
Aug 09 2023
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
3
Aug 10 2023
Kilimanjaro
The Teardrop Explodes
3
Aug 11 2023
Fun House
The Stooges
2
Aug 14 2023
Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
2
Aug 15 2023
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
2
Aug 16 2023
Shadowland
k.d. lang
4
Aug 17 2023
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
3
Aug 18 2023
Blunderbuss
Jack White
4
Aug 21 2023
Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers
3
Aug 22 2023
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
4
Aug 23 2023
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
3
Aug 24 2023
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
5
Aug 25 2023
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3
Aug 28 2023
Water From An Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
5
Aug 29 2023
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
4
Aug 30 2023
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
2
Aug 31 2023
Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
3
Sep 01 2023
Calenture
The Triffids
3
Sep 04 2023
Timeless
Goldie
4
Sep 05 2023
Chris
Christine and the Queens
4
Sep 06 2023
Hot Shots II
The Beta Band
2
Sep 07 2023
Slipknot
Slipknot
For something I hated listening to, it wasn't that bad.
2
Sep 08 2023
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
4
Sep 11 2023
You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
3
Sep 12 2023
The Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies
4
Sep 13 2023
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
2
Sep 14 2023
Traffic
Traffic
3
Sep 15 2023
Who's Next
The Who
5
Sep 18 2023
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
4
Sep 19 2023
Amnesiac
Radiohead
2
Sep 20 2023
One World
John Martyn
3
Sep 21 2023
Vauxhall And I
Morrissey
3
Sep 22 2023
So Much For The City
The Thrills
4
Sep 25 2023
Kenza
Khaled
4
Sep 26 2023
Pretenders
Pretenders
2
Sep 27 2023
Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine
2
Sep 28 2023
Space Ritual
Hawkwind
2
Sep 29 2023
What's That Noise?
Coldcut
5
Oct 02 2023
Urban Hymns
The Verve
4
Oct 03 2023
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
5
Oct 04 2023
The Score
Fugees
3
Oct 05 2023
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
4
Oct 06 2023
Vento De Maio
Elis Regina
4
Oct 09 2023
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
4
Oct 10 2023
Bummed
Happy Mondays
2
Oct 11 2023
McCartney
Paul McCartney
3
Oct 12 2023
Protection
Massive Attack
3
Oct 13 2023
Shleep
Robert Wyatt
4
Oct 16 2023
Woodface
Crowded House
3
Oct 17 2023
L.A. Woman
The Doors
3
Oct 18 2023
Ramones
Ramones
5
Oct 19 2023
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
4
Oct 20 2023
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
5
Oct 23 2023
With The Beatles
Beatles
3
Oct 24 2023
The White Room
The KLF
4
Oct 25 2023
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
5
Oct 26 2023
Kid A
Radiohead
Damn I really dug the first three seconds of this album.
3
Oct 27 2023
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys are BACK
If it ain't broke DON'T FIX
Pushing THIRTY but still
SHOUTING 'bout OUR DICKS
1
Oct 30 2023
The White Album
Beatles
3
Oct 31 2023
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
2
Nov 01 2023
School's Out
Alice Cooper
3
Nov 02 2023
The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
5
Nov 03 2023
Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
4
Nov 06 2023
Fuzzy
Grant Lee Buffalo
2
Nov 07 2023
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
4
Nov 08 2023
The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
3
Nov 09 2023
16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
4
Nov 10 2023
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
3
Nov 13 2023
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
4
Nov 14 2023
The Libertines
The Libertines
3
Nov 15 2023
Picture Book
Simply Red
4
Nov 16 2023
...And Justice For All
Metallica
3
Nov 17 2023
Madman Across The Water
Elton John
4
Nov 20 2023
Justified
Justin Timberlake
4
Nov 21 2023
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.
1
Nov 22 2023
Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
3
Nov 23 2023
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
2
Nov 24 2023
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
The Residents
It's too early in the morning for this shit.
1
Nov 27 2023
Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
4
Nov 28 2023
I See You
The xx
4
Nov 29 2023
Here, My Dear
Marvin Gaye
4
Nov 30 2023
Bossanova
Pixies
4
Dec 01 2023
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
4
Dec 04 2023
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti Politti
4
Dec 05 2023
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
Didn't really care for his collab work with Bing Crosby and Ogden Nash, but this album kinda slaps.
5
Dec 06 2023
Real Life
Magazine
4
Dec 07 2023
Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
4
Dec 08 2023
OK Computer
Radiohead
3
Dec 11 2023
Medúlla
Björk
4
Dec 12 2023
OK
Talvin Singh
3
Dec 13 2023
Signing Off
UB40
You know you're in for a bad time when you check your progress after what feels like 45 minutes just to find that you're only halfway through track two.
2
Dec 14 2023
A Date With The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
4
Dec 15 2023
Roots
Sepultura
2
Dec 18 2023
All Hail the Queen
Queen Latifah
5
Dec 19 2023
Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
4
Dec 20 2023
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Bland-ass classic rock rips off REM to stay relevant
2
Dec 21 2023
Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter
3
Dec 22 2023
Ten
Pearl Jam
3
Dec 25 2023
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
4
Dec 26 2023
Slayed?
Slade
4
Dec 27 2023
90
808 State
You threw enough British electronic albums at me, I was bound to like one of them eventually.
5
Dec 28 2023
The Coral
The Coral
4
Dec 29 2023
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
4
Jan 01 2024
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
3
Jan 02 2024
Street Signs
Ozomatli
5
Jan 03 2024
Go Girl Crazy
The Dictators
Bold debut album strategy to make the listeners think you've exhausted all your original content by track two.
2
Jan 04 2024
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
3
Jan 05 2024
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
3
Jan 08 2024
The Rise & Fall
Madness
3
Jan 09 2024
Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kings of Leon
3
Jan 10 2024
Born To Be With You
Dion
3
Jan 11 2024
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
5
Jan 12 2024
Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon
4
Jan 15 2024
Trio
Dolly Parton
4
Jan 16 2024
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
3
Jan 17 2024
Seventh Tree
Goldfrapp
5
Jan 18 2024
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
I have, at this point, completed 730 albums.
Long gone are the days where each morning provided promise of something exciting and new.
I now trudge blindly through the endless desert sands of indistinguishable guitar riffs, noodled by equally-indistinguishable men, that dominated the late 60s and early 70s. I hear nothing. I feel nothing.
I yearn for water.
But there is only Happy Trails.
2
Jan 19 2024
Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
4
Jan 22 2024
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4
Jan 23 2024
The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
4
Jan 24 2024
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
5
Jan 25 2024
New Forms
Roni Size
2
Jan 26 2024
Trafalgar
Bee Gees
3
Jan 29 2024
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
3
Jan 30 2024
Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
2
Jan 31 2024
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp
3
Feb 01 2024
I Should Coco
Supergrass
3
Feb 02 2024
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
5
Feb 05 2024
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
5
Feb 06 2024
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
4
Feb 07 2024
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
4
Feb 08 2024
Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2
Feb 09 2024
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
3
Feb 12 2024
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
3
Feb 13 2024
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
5
Feb 14 2024
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
4
Feb 15 2024
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
2
Feb 16 2024
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
2
Feb 19 2024
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
4
Feb 20 2024
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
3
Feb 21 2024
Kollaps
Einstürzende Neubauten
1
Feb 22 2024
Pieces Of The Sky
Emmylou Harris
3
Feb 23 2024
Machine Head
Deep Purple
3
Feb 26 2024
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
4
Feb 27 2024
Back to Basics
Christina Aguilera
3
Feb 28 2024
Queen II
Queen
3
Feb 29 2024
Music
Madonna
I played this during my morning commute and now I am SO HYPED for writing INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL for SOFTWARE
5
Mar 01 2024
Arular
M.I.A.
3
Mar 04 2024
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
Sometimes I get too busy to really focus on listening to music, so I appreciate an album that actively encourages me to tune it out.
2
Mar 05 2024
Back In Black
AC/DC
Look, all the tracks on the album sounding the exact same is only a *bad* thing when the songs stink.
5
Mar 06 2024
Inspiration Information
Shuggie Otis
4
Mar 07 2024
The Next Day
David Bowie
2
Mar 08 2024
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
2
Mar 11 2024
Dance Mania
Tito Puente
This is just plain fun, and anybody who is going to be a snob about not liking it is not worth having in your life.
5
Mar 12 2024
Pelican West
Haircut 100
3
Mar 13 2024
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
5
Mar 14 2024
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
4
Mar 15 2024
White Light
Gene Clark
3
Mar 18 2024
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3
Mar 19 2024
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
3
Mar 20 2024
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
3
Mar 21 2024
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
3
Mar 22 2024
Mask
Bauhaus
2
Mar 25 2024
Basket of Light
Pentangle
3
Mar 26 2024
Being There
Wilco
4
Mar 27 2024
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
4
Mar 28 2024
Happy Sad
Tim Buckley
2
Mar 29 2024
Fly Or Die
N.E.R.D
3
Apr 01 2024
Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
3
Apr 02 2024
Nixon
Lambchop
2
Apr 03 2024
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
5
Apr 04 2024
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
3
Apr 05 2024
...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears
4
Apr 08 2024
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
"Now hang on," I can hear you say. "You rated Led Zeppelin's fourth album 5 stars, but Led Zeppelin II was a 1-star album for you? Are you an absolute lunatic?"
The answer is likely yes, but I can justify it in one sentence: The rest of the band decided to show up.
From what I've gathered, much of Led Zeppelin's strength lies in their guitarist. The first couple albums seemed like little more than excuses to showcase a string of guitar solos. Now, if you're into killer guitar solos, Led Zeppelin is your band. If you're not... well, those albums don't have much else for you.
By the time you get to Led Zeppelin IV, you can tell the rest of the band has figured out where they fit into the picture. That's not to say the stellar guitar work is gone; it still dominates throughout. But now the album feels like it has intention and clarity, and it makes all the difference.
5
Apr 09 2024
The Undertones
The Undertones
4
Apr 10 2024
evermore
Taylor Swift
5
Apr 11 2024
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
3
Apr 12 2024
Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart
4
Apr 15 2024
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
4
Apr 16 2024
High Violet
The National
5
Apr 17 2024
California
American Music Club
Joel, this album really isn't very good, is it?
2
Apr 18 2024
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
5
Apr 19 2024
Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
2
Apr 22 2024
Henry's Dream
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4
Apr 23 2024
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
5
Apr 24 2024
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
3
Apr 25 2024
The United States Of America
The United States Of America
2
Apr 26 2024
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
3
Apr 29 2024
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
For somebody who claims not to be into Lynyrd Skynyrd, I sure do like a lot of their songs.
5
Apr 30 2024
Pump
Aerosmith
4
May 02 2024
Ys
Joanna Newsom
4
May 03 2024
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
4
May 06 2024
Sulk
The Associates
2
May 07 2024
Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
4
May 08 2024
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
5
May 09 2024
Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2
May 10 2024
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
4
May 13 2024
The Sensual World
Kate Bush
3
May 14 2024
Odessa
Bee Gees
4
May 15 2024
Follow The Leader
Korn
Suddenly I understand why all the other boys in my grade were the way they were.
1
May 16 2024
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
4
May 17 2024
Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren
This feels like what would happen if Microsoft's marketing department produced an album to promote diversity.
3
May 20 2024
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
3
May 21 2024
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
4
May 22 2024
Kimono My House
Sparks
3
May 23 2024
Guitar Town
Steve Earle
3
May 24 2024
Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer
2
May 27 2024
Green
R.E.M.
3
May 28 2024
Only By The Night
Kings of Leon
3
May 29 2024
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
"I wrote a new song that doesn't have any substance and could be about any prison really but you're going to like it anyway because I wrote it for you. Also despite it clearly being the weakest song in the set I'm going to play it twice."
I don't know. The man has a few good off-the-cuff lines between songs, but the crowd seems to be feeding on an energy that isn't being brought by Cash, who sounds like he's just going through the motions. Maybe you just had to be there.
3
May 30 2024
Immigrés
Youssou N'Dour
5
May 31 2024
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
5
Jun 03 2024
Djam Leelii
Baaba Maal
4
Jun 04 2024
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
5
Jun 05 2024
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
2
Jun 06 2024
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
2
Jun 07 2024
Smash
The Offspring
4
Jun 10 2024
In It For The Money
Supergrass
4
Jun 11 2024
Dookie
Green Day
4
Jun 12 2024
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
2
Jun 13 2024
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
5
Jun 14 2024
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
3
Jun 17 2024
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
4
Jun 18 2024
Sex Packets
Digital Underground
4
Jun 19 2024
1989
Taylor Swift
5
Jun 20 2024
Lost Souls
Doves
3
Jun 21 2024
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
I'm sorry, is that a PUNK SAXOPHONE?!
Talk about things you never knew you needed in your life...
5
Jun 24 2024
Talking Timbuktu
Ali Farka Touré
4
Jun 25 2024
You Are The Quarry
Morrissey
3
Jun 26 2024
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3
Jun 27 2024
All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2
4
Jun 28 2024
Highly Evolved
The Vines
3
Jul 01 2024
Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
2
Jul 02 2024
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
3
Jul 03 2024
Heroes to Zeros
The Beta Band
3
Jul 04 2024
The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
3
Jul 05 2024
Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
2
Jul 08 2024
In Rainbows
Radiohead
3
Jul 09 2024
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
5
Jul 10 2024
Play
Moby
4
Jul 11 2024
British Steel
Judas Priest
4
Jul 12 2024
A Little Deeper
Ms. Dynamite
4
Jul 15 2024
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
5
Jul 16 2024
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3
Jul 17 2024
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
Sure, it was a decent punk album that pretty much gives you what you'd expect.
But at such a short runtime, I had plenty of time left over to tackle another album, so now I'm going to review Diamond Life by Sade, which I also listened to for the first time today. Maybe it's on the 1001 Albums list, but if it's not, it should be. It's silky-smooth 80s pop that relies on the saxophone, but doesn't insist upon it, which is an important distinction. The balance is perfect and makes it a quintessential album for this era without opening itself to parody. 5/5 stars.
3
Jul 18 2024
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
5
Jul 19 2024
Remedy
Basement Jaxx
4
Jul 22 2024
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
3
Jul 23 2024
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
3
Jul 24 2024
Palo Congo
Sabu
3
Jul 25 2024
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Hell, I'm so burnt out on indistinguishable 4-piece rock groups from this era that even if this album was just an hour of some guy playing a mildly-impressive kazoo, I'd still be looking up vinyl prices right now.
5
Jul 26 2024
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J
4
Jul 29 2024
Boston
Boston
It only now occurs to me, as I'm about to rate an album I've heard so often, maybe I should have taken this opportunity to try listening to literally anything else Boston has done. Whoops.
5
Jul 30 2024
Dog Man Star
Suede
2
Jul 31 2024
Third
Soft Machine
4
Aug 01 2024
Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine
Cee Lo Green
5
Aug 02 2024
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
5
Aug 05 2024
Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3
Aug 06 2024
Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
4
Aug 07 2024
Who Killed...... The Zutons?
The Zutons
4
Aug 08 2024
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Bill Callahan
4
Aug 09 2024
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
4
Aug 12 2024
Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
5
Aug 13 2024
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
5
Aug 14 2024
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
4
Aug 15 2024
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
This album truly is analogous to America. How on earth could something with so many good ideas behind it turn out so cringey?
2
Aug 16 2024
Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
4
Aug 19 2024
Electric
The Cult
4
Aug 20 2024
25
Adele
5
Aug 21 2024
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
4
Aug 22 2024
The Band
The Band
3
Aug 23 2024
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon
2
Aug 26 2024
Parklife
Blur
4
Aug 27 2024
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3
Aug 28 2024
Nevermind
Nirvana
Uh oh. I used to not care for this album when I was younger, but now I actually understand it. I don't like the implications of this.
4
Aug 29 2024
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Liars
2
Aug 30 2024
In Our Heads
Hot Chip
5
Sep 02 2024
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
4
Sep 03 2024
Talk Talk Talk
The Psychedelic Furs
4
Sep 04 2024
Leftism
Leftfield
4
Sep 05 2024
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
4
Sep 06 2024
Yeezus
Kanye West
2
Sep 09 2024
Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
Is it possible that my memory of this album was blurred by my having it on in the background while I took a Covid-induced nap? Perhaps. But damn if it wasn't an amazing nap.
5
Sep 10 2024
Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem
Maybe one day, years later, they woke up and realized that they spent months of their youth compiling two hours of flavorless and unoriginal beats like it was the greatest thing anyone had ever done, and they pulled it from streaming services out of sheer embarrassment. Have we considered this possibility yet?
1
Sep 11 2024
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
3
Sep 12 2024
Apple Venus Volume 1
XTC
4
Sep 13 2024
Chore of Enchantment
Giant Sand
4
Sep 16 2024
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
5
Sep 17 2024
The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
3
Sep 18 2024
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
4
Sep 19 2024
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
3
Sep 20 2024
Gold
Ryan Adams
3
Sep 23 2024
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
4
Sep 24 2024
Atomizer
Big Black
3
Sep 25 2024
Another Green World
Brian Eno
2
Sep 26 2024
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
Whew, imagine being able to just put out sixty-nine solid bangers all at the same time. Kid Rock couldn't even manage to do one.
5
Sep 27 2024
The World is a Ghetto
War
4
Sep 30 2024
The Stranger
Billy Joel
5
Oct 01 2024
Myths Of The Near Future
Klaxons
4
Oct 02 2024
Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
5
Oct 03 2024
Want One
Rufus Wainwright
3
Oct 04 2024
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
Spirit
4
Oct 07 2024
En-Tact
The Shamen
4
Oct 08 2024
Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
Oct 09 2024
The Cars
The Cars
4
Oct 10 2024
The Blueprint
JAY Z
5
Oct 11 2024
Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs
3
Oct 14 2024
A Wizard, A True Star
Todd Rundgren
2
Oct 15 2024
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
3
Oct 16 2024
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
4
Oct 17 2024
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
2
Oct 18 2024
Rip It Up
Orange Juice
5
Oct 21 2024
Lam Toro
Baaba Maal
5
Oct 22 2024
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
5
Oct 23 2024
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
3
Oct 24 2024
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
3
Oct 25 2024
1977
Ash
4
Oct 28 2024
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
Man, if you can't get into some good, old-fashioned blues, I really don't know how to help you.
5
Oct 29 2024
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow
3
Oct 30 2024
Broken English
Marianne Faithfull
3
Oct 31 2024
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
3
Nov 01 2024
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
3
Nov 04 2024
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
4
Nov 05 2024
We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
2
Nov 06 2024
GREY Area
Little Simz
5
Nov 07 2024
BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
4
Nov 08 2024
Violator
Depeche Mode
4
Nov 11 2024
Junkyard
The Birthday Party
At 940 albums in, I think it's finally safe to admit to myself that this list isn't going to offer me a history lesson via popular albums that were emblematic of the cultural zeitgeist at their respective times. Instead it's just going to keep giving me slop like this.
2
Nov 12 2024
Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie
5
Nov 13 2024
Eliminator
ZZ Top
5
Nov 14 2024
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
4
Nov 15 2024
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
5
Nov 18 2024
D
White Denim
This sounds like it could have been released in the 60s. If it was, I wouldn't have liked it. But since it was released more recently, I like it? Even though it sounds exactly like something from that era? Why am I like this?
5
Nov 19 2024
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
Girls Against Boys
4
Nov 20 2024
Heroes
David Bowie
4
Nov 21 2024
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis
3
Nov 22 2024
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
5
Nov 25 2024
A Girl Called Dusty
Dusty Springfield
3
Nov 26 2024
Moby Grape
Moby Grape
4
Nov 27 2024
Konnichiwa
Skepta
4
Nov 28 2024
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
3
Nov 29 2024
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
5
Dec 02 2024
Faith
George Michael
4
Dec 03 2024
Snivilisation
Orbital
3
Dec 04 2024
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
4
Dec 05 2024
First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
4
Dec 06 2024
Sunshine Hit Me
The Bees
5
Dec 09 2024
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
Okay, but on the other hand, I could be listening to Sharp-Dressed Man on repeat for fifty minutes.
3
Dec 10 2024
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
3
Dec 11 2024
Berlin
Lou Reed
2
Dec 12 2024
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple
3
Dec 13 2024
John Prine
John Prine
3
Dec 16 2024
Hotel California
Eagles
3
Dec 17 2024
The Only Ones
The Only Ones
3
Dec 18 2024
Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz
5
Dec 19 2024
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3
Dec 20 2024
World Clique
Deee-Lite
The Beatles broke up in disgrace after hearing this album
5
Dec 23 2024
Solid Air
John Martyn
3
Dec 24 2024
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
4
Dec 25 2024
Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
5
Dec 26 2024
Central Reservation
Beth Orton
5
Dec 27 2024
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
3
Dec 30 2024
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
4
Dec 31 2024
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
4
Jan 01 2025
Rapture
Anita Baker
4
Jan 02 2025
Django Django
Django Django
5
Jan 03 2025
Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
3
Jan 06 2025
Crazysexycool
TLC
5
Jan 07 2025
Feast of Wire
Calexico
4
Jan 08 2025
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
2
Jan 09 2025
Suicide
Suicide
2
Jan 10 2025
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3
Jan 13 2025
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
2
Jan 14 2025
Blue
Joni Mitchell
5
Jan 20 2025
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
5
Jan 21 2025
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
5
Jan 22 2025
Moss Side Story
Barry Adamson
3
Jan 23 2025
Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
3
Jan 24 2025
Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons
3
Jan 27 2025
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
2
Jan 28 2025
Ray Of Light
Madonna
3
Jan 29 2025
Teenage Head
Flamin' Groovies
Aren't I done with this stupid project and all its stupid mediocre rock albums yet
*checks* *994 albums rated* uuuuugghh
2
Jan 30 2025
Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
3
Jan 31 2025
Destroyer
KISS
3
Feb 03 2025
Walking Wounded
Everything But The Girl
5
Feb 04 2025
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
3
Feb 05 2025
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1
Feb 06 2025
Guero
Beck
4
Feb 07 2025
Hms Fable
Shack
3
Feb 10 2025
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
5
Feb 11 2025
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
2
Feb 12 2025
New Wave
The Auteurs
3
Feb 13 2025
Hypnotised
The Undertones
3
Feb 14 2025
Opus Dei
Laibach
3
Feb 17 2025
Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
3
Feb 18 2025
Shalimar
Rahul Dev Burman
3
Feb 19 2025
Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
4
Feb 20 2025
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
5
Feb 21 2025
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
2
Feb 24 2025
Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds
3
Feb 25 2025
The Last Broadcast
Doves
3
Feb 26 2025
Hunting High And Low
a-ha
4
Feb 27 2025
Horses
Patti Smith
4
Feb 28 2025
Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
4
Mar 03 2025
Fromohio
fIREHOSE
3
Mar 04 2025
Legalize It
Peter Tosh
3
Mar 05 2025
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
3
Mar 06 2025
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
YouTube started playing an Alka-Seltzer ad halfway through and I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be part of the album or not.
2
Mar 07 2025
Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
3
Mar 10 2025
Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
4
Mar 11 2025
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
2
Mar 12 2025
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
3
Mar 13 2025
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
I'm so tired of the 60s, folks. I'm just so done.
1
Mar 14 2025
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
2
Mar 17 2025
Take Me Apart
Kelela
4
Mar 18 2025
Stardust
Willie Nelson
3
Mar 19 2025
Vulnicura
Björk
3
Mar 20 2025
Smile
Brian Wilson
4
Mar 21 2025
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
3
Mar 24 2025
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
5
Mar 25 2025
Let It Be
The Replacements
3
Mar 26 2025
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
4
Mar 27 2025
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
3
Mar 28 2025
Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
2
Mar 31 2025
Blackstar
David Bowie
2
Apr 01 2025
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
2
Apr 02 2025
1999
Prince
5
Apr 03 2025
Movies
Holger Czukay
2
Apr 04 2025
A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy
3
Apr 07 2025
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
4
Apr 08 2025
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
4
Apr 09 2025
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
4
Apr 10 2025
Next
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3
Apr 11 2025
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
Artist sounded a little too much like The Doors for my taste.
2
Apr 14 2025
Idlewild
Everything But The Girl
3
Apr 15 2025
Porcupine
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
Apr 16 2025
Stripped
Christina Aguilera
3
Apr 17 2025
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
4
Apr 18 2025
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Hüsker Dü
3
Apr 21 2025
Psychocandy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3
Apr 22 2025
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
5
Apr 23 2025
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
4
Apr 24 2025
The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
4
Apr 25 2025
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3
Apr 28 2025
Blood And Chocolate
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3
Apr 29 2025
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
4
Apr 30 2025
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
4
May 01 2025
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
2
May 02 2025
Scott 2
Scott Walker
The entire time I listened to this album I couldn't stop thinking about Roger Moore as James Bond and I can't for the life of me figure out why
3
May 05 2025
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
3
May 06 2025
Savane
Ali Farka Touré
5
May 07 2025
Penance Soiree
The Icarus Line
2
May 08 2025
Rio
Duran Duran
4
May 09 2025
3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
5
May 12 2025
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
3
May 13 2025
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
3
May 14 2025
G. Love And Special Sauce
G. Love & Special Sauce
I think we can all agree that every single aspect of this album—every song, and even down to the cover art—deserves to be remembered as a timeless classic, the truest shining example of this art form.
(yes this is sarcasm)
2
May 15 2025
Make Yourself
Incubus
3
May 16 2025
American Gothic
David Ackles
3
May 19 2025
Peter Gabriel 3
Peter Gabriel
3
May 20 2025
Damaged
Black Flag
2
May 21 2025
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV On The Radio
4
May 22 2025
Frank
Amy Winehouse
3
May 23 2025
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
2
May 26 2025
The Sounds Of India
Ravi Shankar
4
May 27 2025
Reign In Blood
Slayer
It's always a good idea to thoroughly rehearse your presentation so that it feels fluid and natural when it's time to perform for others. Here, Slayer is playing through their songs too quickly—a sure sign of nervousness that indicates they were not fully prepared. This makes the songs themselves difficult to understand and is the reason the album finished much earlier than the audience anticipated.
2
May 28 2025
War
U2
3
May 29 2025
Technique
New Order
4
May 30 2025
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
3
Jun 02 2025
Dirty
Sonic Youth
3
Jun 03 2025
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
5
Jun 04 2025
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
3
Jun 05 2025
Among The Living
Anthrax
3
Jun 06 2025
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Iron Butterfly
3
Jun 09 2025
The Specials
The Specials
5
Jun 10 2025
Hejira
Joni Mitchell
4