Jan 14 2021
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Odelay
Beck
4
Jan 15 2021
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Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
4
Jan 18 2021
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Abraxas
Santana
4
Jan 19 2021
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The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
I've never really been a Smiths person. I do like the production quality of the album.
3
Jan 20 2021
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Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
It's much as I remembered it. One good album, then 30 years of WTF.
3
Jan 21 2021
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Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
Of the albums on this list so far, I liked this the most. But I've always liked Hendricks, I had "Smash Hits" when I was in eight grade. I've heard some of these songs (probably) hundreds of times.
5
Jan 22 2021
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Violator
Depeche Mode
I bought this album way back in the nineties, I've probably listened to it a dozen or more times. It's not my favorite thing, nor was Speak & Spell, which I also owned on vinyl, in the early eighties. I did actually see DM perform once, in 1988.
4
Jan 25 2021
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Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
There's nothing really wrong with this and I do like 'Fire and Rain', but if I'm listening to albums I'd rather listen to America or Gordon Lightfoot.
3
Jan 26 2021
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
3
Jan 27 2021
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Another Green World
Brian Eno
Meh. I have never liked his voice. I do like "King's Lead Hat" and "Baby's on Fire", but those songs are not on this album. It's not a terrible album, it's just not to my taste.
2
Jan 28 2021
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Smash
The Offspring
I have had this album since it came out.
4
Jan 29 2021
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Marquee Moon
Television
Meh. I've never been into Television. I don't think that they are bad or unskilled, but it's never grabbed me. If I want to listen to New York style new wave from the late seventies, it's going to look for something like early Blondie.
2
Feb 01 2021
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Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Baez isn't, and has never been, my kind of thing. She's too earnest.
2
Feb 02 2021
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Paranoid
Black Sabbath
It's hippy music, but it's classic hippy music.
4
Feb 03 2021
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Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
I still have my copy of this around the house, somewhere.
4
Feb 04 2021
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The Coral
The Coral
I have already begun to forget this album. I don't think it's bad in a technical way, it just doesn't work for me.
1
Feb 05 2021
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Pornography
The Cure
3
Feb 08 2021
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Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
To me, the most memorable song on the album is "School Girl", which is memorable for the wrong reasons. I'd much rather listen to "Pet Sounds".
1
Feb 09 2021
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Sound Affects
The Jam
I have liked this album since I first heard it in the early 1980s.
5
Feb 10 2021
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Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
Meh. I'd rather listen to "Songs To Learn and Sing". I have all 11 songs on STLS marked as favorites.
3
Feb 11 2021
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Celebrity Skin
Hole
Meh. I prefer "Live Through This". To me, it has a more raw feel and grunge was about "raw".
3
Feb 12 2021
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Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Meh. It's violent and depressing.
3
Feb 15 2021
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Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
I remember "Coconut" being kind-of popular back in the seventies. For me, the stand out track on this album is "Jump Into The Fire". I don't think I'd had heard it until Martin Scorsese used it for the cocaine-fueled meltdown scene in the movie "Goodfellas".
3
Feb 16 2021
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The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
3
Feb 17 2021
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Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
This has three of my favorite post-Beatles McCartney songs on it.
4
Feb 18 2021
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C'est Chic
CHIC
Meh. Disco doesn't bother me but it's not usually very memorable, either.
3
Feb 19 2021
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Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
2
Feb 23 2021
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Superunknown
Soundgarden
I've had a copy of this album since it was released.
4
Feb 24 2021
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Sex Packets
Digital Underground
Everyone loves the Humpty Dance, but I don't remember listening to the whole album before.
4
Feb 25 2021
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Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
Meh.
2
Feb 26 2021
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Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
I am pretty sure that I've heard a couple of these songs over one thousand times.
3
Mar 01 2021
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Highway to Hell
AC/DC
3
Mar 03 2021
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Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
I think the last time I listened to this entire thing was 1978, when I was in middle school. To me, "Sweet Emotion" is the only memorable track. Meh.
3
Mar 04 2021
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It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I thought this was pretty good. I think that pretty much everyone knows "Heads Will Roll", but I hadn't heard any other song. I would rather listen to this again than "Toys in the Attic" again.
3
Mar 05 2021
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Eagles
Eagles
Meh. Never loved the Eagles. The quality of the recording is very nice, there's a lot of banjo in there that I never noticed before.
3
Mar 10 2021
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Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
I had never heard of these guys, so I listened to this with some interest. It was fine, but forgettable.
3
Mar 11 2021
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
Wow. I had an actual vinyl copy of this, with the inner sleeve with the window people printed on it, in the late seventies. That's the sort of thing that didn't work well in the CD era and now, in the streaming era, it's not a thing. I liked the album more than I remember liking it.
4
Mar 12 2021
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Grace
Jeff Buckley
Meh. Not my kind of maudlin.
2
Mar 15 2021
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Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
I liked this more than I guessed I would. It is more old-school than a lot of urban/hip-hop titles that this site suggests. But, I'll still probably never listen to it again.
3
Mar 16 2021
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All The Young Dudes
Mott The Hoople
Meh.
3
Mar 17 2021
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
I've never been huge on Floyd. I did have a copy of The Wall when I was in middle school. I presume that will pop up on this site, at some point. I'd listen to it again, but I wouldn't go out of my way to do so.
4
Mar 18 2021
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Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
I liked it more than I thought I would. I liked two more songs, which I vaguely remembered from my childhood.
3
Mar 19 2021
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A Night At The Opera
Queen
Queen is OK. The highlight of this is you-know-what. Within the week, I just saw that scene from Wayne's World for the first time in 20 years.
3
Mar 22 2021
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Aqualung
Jethro Tull
The last time I listened to whole thing, it was 1978. Actually, I liked this more than I thought I would.
3
Mar 23 2021
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Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
I've been hearing BH for over 50 years, but I'd never heard the album before.
3
Mar 25 2021
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Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
Meh. In the mid-to-late eighties, I won a copy of this on cassette, as a door prize at a bar. I gave it to my mother.
2
Mar 26 2021
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Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
My dad had this, on vinyl, back then. Listening now, I'm very impressed by the quality of the recording. I also like the dis on MTV, which they co-opted and ran with. I'd say that this is better than "meh", but not "life-altering".
4
Mar 29 2021
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
I thought this was pretty good, and I'd listen to it again.
3
Mar 30 2021
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Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
Meh.
2
Mar 31 2021
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Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would.
3
Apr 01 2021
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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Meh. I like Marakesh Express the most of these songs, but it does feel like a Simon & Garfunkel song.
3
Apr 02 2021
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Suede
Suede
Meh. I've already forgotten it.
2
Apr 05 2021
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The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
I was obsessed with this album for about two weeks in 1999.
5
Apr 07 2021
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Murmur
R.E.M.
It's fine.
3
Apr 08 2021
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Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Meh.
3
Apr 09 2021
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Street Life
The Crusaders
Meh. I feel like I've heard at least one of these songs, perhaps on a movie soundtrack.
3
Apr 12 2021
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16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
2
Apr 13 2021
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More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
While I like various TH _songs_, I have never been crazy about the albums.
3
Apr 15 2021
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Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J
I had two songs favorited on album. I favorited a new one when listening to the entire thing, for the fist time.
So, pretty good but not life-altering.
4
Apr 16 2021
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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
So nice I listed to it twice. It's only 35 minutes long. I had this, on vinyl. In 1980. Maybe even earlier.
5
Apr 19 2021
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Risque
CHIC
Meh. There are lots of albums that have that _one_song_. This is one of those. This was released late late in the disco 'era' and it seems that disco had already run it's course.
2
Apr 20 2021
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Close To The Edge
Yes
This isn't for me. It isn't ear-wormy enough.
2
Apr 21 2021
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Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
Keep On Movin'
3
Apr 22 2021
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The Specials
The Specials
This album is awesome.
5
Apr 23 2021
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Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
It's fine, but I don't remember much about it, here on Monday.
3
Apr 27 2021
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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
Meh.
2
Apr 30 2021
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Hunky Dory
David Bowie
Not my favorite Bowie album, but pretty good.
4
May 03 2021
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Hunting High And Low
a-ha
Meh.
2
May 04 2021
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Ace of Spades
Motörhead
Pretty good, but songs other than Ace of Spades kind of blur together and a song named "Jailbait' isn't cool.
2
May 05 2021
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Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
I'd never heard of this before. It's reminiscent of Alice in Chains or Jane's Addiction. Still, no song on the album really jumped out at me and I'm unlikely to go back to it, so I'm not giving it a mediocre rating.
3
May 06 2021
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Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
While I've heard a few of these songs a few thousand times, I've never listed to an entire RS album this old. There's nothing wrong with it, but I don't find it memorable-I'd rather listen to a different Stones album.
2
May 10 2021
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Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine
Meh.
2
May 12 2021
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
A blast from the past. Worth listening to every few years.
3
May 13 2021
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Midnight Ride
Paul Revere & The Raiders
Meh.
2
May 18 2021
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Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Meh. Bored.
2
Apr 17 2024
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Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
3