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Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
I am pretty sure I’m pro-Bowie..I am not anti-Bowie or Bowie-neutral. I am however still seeking the album that REALLY gets me into Bowie. I believe I am someone who can and should be really into Bowie. Aladdin Sane is coming across my musical path I think at the right time for me to discover MY Bowie album. Is this it? Time will tell - but I am inspired now to dig back into this catalogue.
3
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Berlin
Lou Reed
I #respect Velvet Underground and Lou Reed’s contribution to music and the influence of so many of the bands I love. I don’t dislike this but it’s not for me. I’ll keep trying. The dish of a cooky deep voice guy is best served by Iggy Pop for this reviewer
2
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Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
Good for Kate Bush
2
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Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
4
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Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4
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The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
4
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The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
4
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Tragic Songs of Life
The Louvin Brothers
3
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Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
3
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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
5
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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
3
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Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
5
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Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
3
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The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
3
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White Ladder
David Gray
Oh! That song is called Babylon. Someone likes Dylan, got it.
4
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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
5
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Come Find Yourself
Fun Lovin' Criminals
5
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Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
3
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The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
3
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The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
4 out of 20 if ya KNOW WHAT I MEAN
4
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Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
3
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A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy
3
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Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5
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Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
3
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Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4
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A Date With The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
4
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A Girl Called Dusty
Dusty Springfield
4
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Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
3
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All Hope Is Gone
Slipknot
Was going to give you a three but the album just kept going, Slippies must enjoy a long album
2
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3
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Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
Cool! Then weird.. Then cool! Then scary
3
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Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
Jazz
4
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Rings Around The World
Super Furry Animals
FUN
4
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Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
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Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
3
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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
It’s jazz!
4
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At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
3
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
5
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Diamond Life
Sade
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would
4
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L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
Je ne sais pas
1
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3
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S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
I too have listened to the Beatles
3
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Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
Fuckin love this
5
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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
3
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New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
3
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I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor
3
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3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
4
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A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
3
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A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
3
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Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
4
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Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz
Safe 90s rock is better than some, worse than others
3
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The Sounds Of India
Ravi Shankar
I like music I like sitar I like learning
4
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Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
Every year I get older I get more into James Taylor. A quintessential attribute of my suburban white dad final form I have to assume
5
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Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
If you liked this, check out the history of rock in Latin America documentary on Netflix. I’ve got a corresponding playlist on Spotify too. If you didnt like this, also check out that documentary and then maybe you will
5
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Live!
Fela Kuti
Gimme this all day. Added to the Drinking and game playing rotation. Good candidate for vinyl purchase
5
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Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Making an assessment based on the three songs on Spotify. I think it get it
3
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Moving Pictures
Rush
I mean..it’s Rush..cmon now
5
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Pink Flag
Wire
I enjoy reading the wiki entries on each of the albums and this one was a good one that reinforced why this album stands out from the rest of the random late 70s to mid 80s British bands that have an entry on this list. tldr; “Richard Hell but good. See Black Flag, Robert Pollard, and Franz Ferdinand”
5
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Low
David Bowie
Holy Eno, Batman. Tommy likey
5
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Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Don’t know if it’s how little music I listened to this week or if it’s just a bunch of bangers right in a row. Bob rules
5
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Arise
Sepultura
Compared to what I thought this was gonna to sound like starting off, this album was actually really badass. Every time I thought they were about to lose me they hit a guitar solo or breakdown that was hitting the spot. Definitely will go back to this when I’m in the mood
4
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Graceland
Paul Simon
I go back and forth between “Paul Simon is so good” and “okay, Paul Simon..I get it”
4
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Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
Music for airports got me through a lot of grad school coding projects and has served me well when I’ve needed to call on it since. Good stuff, aptly named. I Stan Eno
5
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Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
3
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Penance Soiree
The Icarus Line
2000s Brit rock got it
3
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Midnight Ride
Paul Revere & The Raiders
Groovy
3
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3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers absolutely kick ass always
5
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Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Beautiful, haunting, above my mental pay grade
4
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Orbital 2
Orbital
If I ever need to pick music at a luxury resort ocean / poolside happy hour I have my album
3
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The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
“Bust a nut inside your eye to show you where I come from”
…cmon now
5
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Copper Blue
Sugar
File under : 90s on 9
3
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Pretenders
Pretenders
Pretending I remember a song from this album, fun listen but nothing memorable to this reviewer
3
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Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
Young Neil + Stephen Stills = Less refined CSN&Y magic
4
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Private Dancer
Tina Turner
Fun 80s Tina Turner ROMP
4
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Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
Randy Newman -thank you for your service. My third and final wish is to set you, and us all free
3
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Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
New space music for coding, blessed
5
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Sea Change
Beck
Always been Beck-neutral. Nothing changing here
3
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Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
Hell yea
5
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Dog Man Star
Suede
File under ‘we get it buddy, you’re from London and like weird late 70s early 80s shit’
2
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Parachutes
Coldplay
Coldplay puts me back in a very specific time
4
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Hunting High And Low
a-ha
[Michael Bluth looking into bag marked ‘The a-ha album with take on me on it’
“I don’t know what I expected”
3
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Dear Science
TV On The Radio
This is good and nice and fine but the kind of modern alt radio sound that doesn’t quite get me and that’s okay. I can hear the Bowie in them, that’s cute
3
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The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Hell yea
5
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
Nothing but love & respect for Lou Reed & the gang
5
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Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
I wonder what it’s like to have written the album that inspired 10 Fast & the Furious movies
3
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Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
Spook synth with lots of non-commercial stuff on purpose according to the Wikipedia article. Plus 1 star for naming it music for the masses when the intent was the opposite
4
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Blood And Chocolate
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Elvis Costello neutral
3
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Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
A pleasant listen of early rock n roll / soul
3
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Hunky Dory
David Bowie
A delightful Bowie time
4
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Casanova
The Divine Comedy
Ben Folds does a great cover of Songs of Love so this gets an extra star. Pleasant listen, something different
4
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Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
I’m okay
2
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The Slider
T. Rex
Catchy pop hooks in some classicest of rocks. Nothing to complain about but nothing to fawn over
3
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Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
Lots of people get super horny for the Stones. Not this reviewer so much. Good album - calm down
4
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Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Extremely uncomfortable but also very good. I am torn. Might go back to this. 3 for now
3
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Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
Peace sign emoji
3
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Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
A pleasant 60s folk
4
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My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
Actually kinda liked this one
4
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
Weird how I’ve only ever heard Where is my Mind off this album just kidding. Extra points for being only 1/2 an hour long
3
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Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
Absolute fucking classic
5
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Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
I only have one ‘the boss’ and it’s MY WIFE!!! Am I right, fellas?? Never really been a Bruce guy. Sorry
3
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A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
‘Stay with me’ was already a classic in this house, love the cover of ‘Memphis’ and the supporting tracks on this album. Rock on
5
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Face to Face
The Kinks
A fun album from 1966 that sounds like a fun album from 1966
4
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A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
I don’t necessarily love or not love Coldplay but as I’ve reviewed the other album(s) their music takes me back to high school era days very distinctly. Points for that
4
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Spiderland
Slint
Talking over hard riffs
3
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Much love to Bob & crew always
4
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Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
Decided I’m a guy who really likes Talking Heads now, saved to my albums
5
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Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
It’s the Rolling Stones
3
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Paranoid
Black Sabbath
This album is great because it also contains the 1001 greatest guitar riffs you must listen to
5
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John Prine
John Prine
Loved it. Saved forever
5
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Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
This is what the goths in Letterkenny listen to, but not what I listen to
2
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Trans Europe Express
Kraftwerk
Absolute classic
5
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James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
I feel good
4
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1989
Taylor Swift
Overall some of that good catchy pop stuff in here that bothers me less when it isn’t the 1000th time I’ve heard it that week. I still cringe every time she says haters or players or ‘fa sho’
4
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Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
3
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Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
Had it on at work, nothing stood out as good or bad
3
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Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
Fun!
4
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Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
File under 90s rock
3
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Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
File under 60s rock
3
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The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
Gary Numan kicks ass
5
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No Other
Gene Clark
Very Stephen Stills, pleasant
3
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Back In Black
AC/DC
Absolutely kicks ass
5
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Chris
Christine and the Queens
Ooh la la
3
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Remedy
Basement Jaxx
Playing in the background
3
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
Paul Simon - always good, but calm down
3
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Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Always here for some Young Neil
4
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Stardust
Willie Nelson
Indifference where I feel I should have more feelings
3
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Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
It played in the background of me working, thanks
3
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From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
A delightful rainy morning listen
4
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The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
I am #always #available for some Joni
4
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Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
4
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Shaft
Isaac Hayes
Some really fun stuff in here, only complaint is it felt kind of long but it is a soundtrack so I DUNNO
4
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Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
Like all Rolling Stones albums - A fine Rolling Stones album
3
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Either Or
Elliott Smith
I’m not moody enough for this on the regular, but maybe with winter coming up, maybe
3
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That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
3
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Protection
Massive Attack
This was fine but file under electronic that’s on this list because UK
3
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Moondance
Van Morrison
Some good tunes, minus points for Van Morrison being insane
3
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Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
If this excitement has taught me anything it’s that I guess I like Rod Stewart
5
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Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
Carried largely by the two big hits, the rest is great if I’ll be having a little somethin somethin beforehand
3
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Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
Gotta give it up
5
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Tapestry
Carole King
Absolute bangers
5
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Different Class
Pulp
Some standard Brit pop for me
3
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Definitely Maybe
Oasis
Giving Oasis the edge here in the Brit pop battle because Rock and Roll Star will always make me think of You All Everybody
4
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Highway to Hell
AC/DC
This is a classic rock album
4
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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
Good stuff
4
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GREY Area
Little Simz
Anyone who is friends with Michael Kiwanuka is a friend of mine. This is the rap I’m here for
4
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Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
All I can think is that these are songs that Ben Folds would do a cover of
3
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Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
I looked up why this is considered an important album, and that’s fine, but that doesn’t mean I have to care
2
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Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
File under St Paddy’s Day
4
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Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
When it’s time to rage there is no more aptly named band or album
5
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Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
I got a little bored SORRY
3
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Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
This is the shit I am here for
5
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The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
Some of the hits, overall kind of weird to listen to in the modern era
3
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This Is Hardcore
Pulp
I don’t remember any of this
2
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Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
The most redeeming thing about Bruce is how easy he made it for people to do funny impressions of him. While I made it through this one easier than the last, my guy just isn’t anything more than okay to me
3
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American Idiot
Green Day
Absolutely fantastic shit that I ignored for so long just because I hated how beloved it was in middle school or whatever
5
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Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
A good reminder that Bruno Mars only exists because Marvin Gaye gave him permission
4
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Sound Affects
The Jam
The Wikipedia page references this album being a mix between Off the Wall and Revolver, I hear it. A cooler description than sounds in actuality
3
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Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
I mean, great. Someone had to do it I guess. But of the ding dong beep boops to work or study this isn’t the one I’d choose first
2
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Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
A peaceful drive home
3
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The Blueprint
JAY Z
Same feelings as The Marshall Mathers LP but better
4
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Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
A fine collection of Yachty delights
3
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First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
I like the cardis
4
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Beautiful Freak
Eels
I’m into this - but I’m also a little high. I’ll try again later to make sure
4
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White Light
Gene Clark
A delightful folky journey
3
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Blue Lines
Massive Attack
Pretty chill Brit boy sample hop
3
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Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
A funky good time
3
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
File under ‘horny albums’
3
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Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
Groovy baby
4
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Heavy Weather
Weather Report
Birdland is fun still
3
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AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
Here for it
4
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Superunknown
Soundgarden
Identifying Soundgarden - Yep, it’s Soundgarden
3
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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
See also : the Motown Christmas album
3
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Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
Jazzy blessings that are almost instrumental Chicago tracks at times. Fun!
4
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Dirt
Alice In Chains
It’s Alice In Chains!
3
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Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
If you’re getting a little high and shoveling snow - this is for you
4
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Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
Most of this was “ooooooooohkay” but there were some fun riffs and lines (“I wasn’t born with enough middle fingers” hits hard some days). I checked a few times hoping it was the last track though so 2 stars from this local critic
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Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
As stated in the title this album has ‘Layla’ and other songs
3
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Metallica
Metallica
A selection of Metallica-style songs off the album Metallica by Metallica
4
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Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
File under electronic music to play at Luxury Resort pool area
3
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For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
This one of those albums where they are exactly in between so many genres that I’m not quite sure who it’s for. Not me I don’t think
2
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
These guys totally ripped off Greta Van Fleet!!!!!!
4
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Cross
Justice
Toe tappin electric dancing time
4
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Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
I’m much more attuned to this sort of post punky uh oh the 80s are here style sort of stuff, which makes it easier to know that I just don’t care too much for this one
2
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The Real Thing
Faith No More
File under : 89X
3
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Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
If you’re looking for an album by The Cure, this is one
3
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Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
Good garage rock renaissance but not my new favourite band
3
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Tago Mago
Can
Although I love me some funky riffs, this was all over the board and far too long
2
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No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead
If you’re seeking a live Motörhead album - this is one. Would be three stars but two hours long is too long
2
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Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
You know me
4
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Music From Big Pink
The Band
A collection of vibin ditties perfect for setting the tone on a weekend morning
4
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1977
Ash
File under 90s on 9. I have an affinity for the middle of the road 90s rock and this one started with a Tie Fighter so extra points
4
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Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
Identifying Cypress Hill : It’s the album Cypress Hill by the band Cypress Hill
3
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The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
Peaceful, charming
3
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Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
Really enjoyed this one. Love some funky bluesy folky soup
4
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Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
It’s Buzzcocks!
3
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Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
There’s something about this that I really like and I can’t figure it out
5
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Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
Gotta give it up
5
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Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
It’s Megadeth!
3
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A Night At The Opera
Queen
One of the good ones
5
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Dust
Screaming Trees
An adequate spin through 1996 American Rock
3
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Moon Safari
Air
File under the spacey tunes they play at boutique hotel pools. Bumped up during my lunch time walk around the office and it took me away which adds bonus star
4
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Teenage Head
Flamin' Groovies
You can draw a direct line from this to my sweetheart Detroit 90s-00s rock scene. Hell yea
5
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Psychocandy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
I guess not for me
2
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Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds
It played, I listened, I moved on
3
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Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
This album is a great guitar solo, don’t think I needed to hear it though
2
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Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
Absolutely here for it
4
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Thriller
Michael Jackson
MJ, Paul McCartney, Eddie Van Halen, Quincy Jones, Vincent Price, and a couple of the guys from Toto walk into bar. The fuck did we think would happen?
5
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Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
This would have been a great album in 1965
3
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The La's
The La's
There She Goes and other songs by the band who did There She Goes
3
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Wild Wood
Paul Weller
You know when you’re at an art and food festival and you have to walk past the small stage where some band is playing to get to where you really want to be
3
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Dirty
Sonic Youth
Like it not ready to love it
4
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The Visitors
ABBA
Identifying ABBA : it’s ABBA! Couple of hits and a whole Scandinavian easy listening experience
4
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A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
It’s jazz!
3
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Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
Right in my sweet spot, post punky power poppy with catchy choruses not trying to be anything it isn’t. Saved to the ol Spotify albums which is criteria for 5 stars
5
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Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
I’m not quite sure who this is for? Kind of a collection of songs that would play during movie scenes that last a little too long? I didn’t turn it off (which is my criteria for a 1) but I did a lot of checking to see how close to the end I was
2
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Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
Not sure where I land on this one, but tldr; a long album
2
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The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Extremely badass
5
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Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
Big ups for a 29 minute album
3
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Fragile
Yes
Do you want to listen to Prog Rock today?
———> Yes
3
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Basket of Light
Pentangle
This is the album that ended the hippy movement
2
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Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Michael
The fact that you call it that tells me you’re not ready
3
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Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
This cd is stuck in some grandma’s car
1
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A Seat at the Table
Solange
I’m not the target market here, decent background play
3
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Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
Always #available for some B&S
4
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Go Girl Crazy
The Dictators
You know I’m here for it
4
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Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
You know this is the shit I’m here for
4
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It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah gotta love it
4
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Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
Identifying Smashing Pumpkins : It’s Smashing Pumpkins
3
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Under Construction
Missy Elliott
[nodding head] 2002 Missy
4
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Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
24k gold, one of if not the first vinyls I remember purchasing. Bless up
5
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Frank
Amy Winehouse
Turns out I love this
5
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I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
Somewhere in the multiverse is a me quietly wiping down a bar off an isolated state road while two people play darts off in the corner and this album plays overhead
3
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Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
I am bored by this
2
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Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
Some good ass soul. Otis is the man
5
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American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
Forgot how fucking good the American albums are
5
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Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
As described in the album title
3
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Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
Yes
4
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Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
Bored Teenagers would have been a great song as a bored teenager. Gary Gilmore’s eyes, woof. Safety in Numbers maybe birthed new wave? Fun stuff.
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In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
This should have been the 420th album, huge miss random album selecting algorithm
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Zombie
Fela Kuti
This list could be 1001 Fela Kuti albums and I’d still do it
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Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
This guy was pretty good at guitar
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Phrenology
The Roots
Always salutes the Roots
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Opus Dei
Laibach
This is bonkers. Thanks Germany
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Suicide
Suicide
Like Dear Zachary, Suicide by Suicide is a good piece of media that is difficult to consume more than once
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
Whenever I get asked what is something most people love and you don’t I say Bruce Springsteen. I’m tired of having to say this, please randomly give us something else
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This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
Sunday Monday Happy Days
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NEU! 75
Neu!
1001 albums that got us from The Damned to Flock of Seagulls
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Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
‘Burning’ sounds like a Bruce Springsteen song but I enjoyed listening to it so three stars
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Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
Identifying Prince : Yep, it’s Prince
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Guitar Town
Steve Earle
File under : Albums I’ll keep in my jukebox in the scenario I play in my head sometimes where work goes sideways and I move far up north or down south and open up a bar where someone is always in the corner playing darts
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Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
The scene : cleaning my car in my garage, pretending to be in a Fast & the Furious montage
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Screamadelica
Primal Scream
I always forget Primal Scream isn’t actually screaming and get pleasantly surprised
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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
Chill good times
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Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
Identifying Elvis - it’s Elvis
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The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
Folksy and alright
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Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
Country Byrds are country
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Pyromania
Def Leppard
Identifying Def Leppard : it’s Def Leppard
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Inspiration Information
Shuggie Otis
Funky & smooth & chill
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The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is FINE
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Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
I love me some fuzz but this was largely background noise with some occasional ear pleasing hooks. Bless ‘em
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Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
MC5, very important yadda yadda
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Clandestino
Manu Chao
You know I’m here for the Spanish vibes that are also French sometimes
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The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
VIBIN (get it?) to what I assume has been used as the soundtrack to a quirky indie movie at least once
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Rust In Peace
Megadeth
File under : the kind of metal that has aliens and shit on the cover for some reason
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The Man Who
Travis
This is what you hear in your head when you’re in a coma
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
This is the stuff right here
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
It’s well known Paul Simon picks album tracks with Mad Libs - There’s no other way to get a bossa nova song about Frank Lloyd Wright. Anyways, love the hits could take or leave the rest.
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The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
This could easily be any synth poppy album of the era
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Celebrity Skin
Hole
You can really taste the Billy Corgan
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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
If this was just one album split in half, probably a three stars but this is just too much. Some good stuff in here but it’s a lot SORRY
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At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
A delightful bluesy treat
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
When I listen to the rock and roll music on this record I say “classic”
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
Amazing album as always
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Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
That late 80s early 90s sound that sounded so good on a lo-if KMart speaker
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At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
This would be lovely to have on vinyl and play while sipping a cocktail by the fire and holding a pipe that makes bubbles etc etc
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Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
For those playing along you may notice I loathe a double album, this one didn’t hurt like normal. First half was a little rocky blusier and the second half more mellow all along feeling like a good gothy time
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Elephant
The White Stripes
One lunch in early high school Joel Meersman was humming the riff to Seven Nation Army and tapping on the table and I had to know what it was. The rest as they say..is history
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Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
Folk off, mate
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C'est Chic
CHIC
Gotta give it up for Disco. It gave hip hop tons of great samples and made New York teens so pissed off they had to invent punk. This is a smooth listen but not too much too it
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Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
Absolutely love this album. The thought of the MFrs doing this in 1965 brings me so much joy and has so much impact on all the music I love that came after it. 🤘
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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
Identifying Sinatra albums : It’s a Sinatra album !
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Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
Funky, chunky, trippy, you already know
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Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple
Sounds just like an album titled ‘Deep Purple In Rock’ from 1970 should
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Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Added to jazz playlist
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Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
Didn’t get it then, don’t get it now
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Interesting an album from 2020 made it, this is up and down for me. Overall enjoy me some Fiona
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Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
You know I’m here for it
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Homework
Daft Punk
Ya know ya love it
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In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
Identifying mellow Sinatra : it’s mellow Sinatra
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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
Devo is nuts, love em forever
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Band On The Run
Paul McCartney
A beautiful collection of catch Faul McCartney pop tunes. Let me roll it
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Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
This was the good hip hop
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The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
It’s Iron Maiden, baby
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Group Sex
Circle Jerks
Great album to have on here when you’re trying to play catch-up, other than that some fine hardcore
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Fromohio
fIREHOSE
This is an album that exists
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The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
You can taste the decades of Brit pop that ooozed out of this record
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