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Mon Jan 18 2021
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
4
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Tue Jan 19 2021
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
the windmills of your mind is a great tune, son of a preacher man is good
4
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Wed Jan 20 2021
Elephant
The White Stripes
The sound of the 2000s. Its iconic. duh. In the cold cold night is a good one. ball and biscuit has serious hendrix envy
3
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Thu Jan 21 2021
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
this was okay i guess
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Fri Jan 22 2021
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
Coltrane's sax texture is all over the map in the best possible way. THE BASS SOLO ON PART THREE!
5
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Mon Jan 25 2021
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
THIS ALBUM HAS GROOVE FOR DAYS
5
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Tue Jan 26 2021
Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
This is real good. Three Bricks is an awesome closing track
4
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Wed Jan 27 2021
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
I spent most of this album hoping for it to end
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Thu Jan 28 2021
Ten
Pearl Jam
This reminds me so much of Darren. wild and thoughtful, occassionally way too obtuse for me to get it
4
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Fri Jan 29 2021
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
R.E.S.P.E.C.T! I wanted that album like 15 more times on repeat. fabulous all the way through
5
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Mon Feb 01 2021
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
god this album is dark. Its Em processing his fame and celebrity while still digging into his own desperate childhood. Bitch Please II is iconic gangster rap song. Kim is graphic and disturbing and i never want to hear it again in my life
4
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Tue Feb 02 2021
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
Opening thought: this is the perfect boat rock album
4
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Wed Feb 03 2021
Grace
Jeff Buckley
Jeff's voice is weird, reminds me of like a 60s singer but the title track has this crazy prog rock sound. Lilac Wine is a good tune
4
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Thu Feb 04 2021
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
god damnit do i have to? The guitar work has some nice fills on only the strong survive. bleh
2
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Fri Feb 05 2021
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
This is probably the best, ballsiest sounding live record around. Big Eyes has huge energy on a weird guitar part that takes over the room like a big animal. turns out the audio is from Osaka and not at the Budokan, the recording there was a failure. FABULOUS ALBUM
5
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Mon Feb 08 2021
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
I mean basically every song is a single, its all stoner rock, so i cant really say its for me a 5 star album. it gets a little languid in the middle, but hey its great
4
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Tue Feb 09 2021
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple
This one fell flat for me. lots of guitar shredding, but just felt bland. maybe because all of the classic rock i listened to when i was younger
3
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Wed Feb 10 2021
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
Rock 'n' Roll Star: wtf? Oasis used to sound like this? what happened! rest of the album: oh this is why, because they sound like every other alt rock stadium band, though its hard to tell because they have always been aggressively generic. Married With Children is look ahead at the Oasis sound of (What's the Story) Morning Glory
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Thu Feb 11 2021
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Finally a good electro pop album. Zero checks a lot of boxes for me. HEADS WILL ROLLL. The album starts to peter out after that but its got great electro rock grooves throughout
4
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Fri Feb 12 2021
Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
first track is very solid. Yea this is great in the pocket horn playing jazz. oh man this is great atmosphere. yea this thing is great not just good I feel like i am listening to something really special on track nine Maesha
5
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Mon Feb 15 2021
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
first blush is that it sounds like a concept album. interested to see where it goes. I really have no idea what to make of this album, will need to listen to it again sometime
4
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Tue Feb 16 2021
The Real Thing
Faith No More
the first punk record so far! actually its got a more stadium heavy/alt metal feel. great cover of war pigs. its just not really my jam, its just too close to bad religion without actually being bad religion. like the mass market version
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Wed Feb 17 2021
The Blueprint
JAY Z
First thought is that this sounds nostalgic, even though i have never heard it before. I like the opening groove on ruler's back, so richly textured, though the trumpets and brass is cheap sounding. The Takeover is one of those great follow-up tracks with a Fame callback. so good. Dude every track is incredibly crafted. I think that the track Renegade is the weakest one on the album
5
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Thu Feb 18 2021
New Wave
The Auteurs
This sounds like The Postal Service. Yea, I'm not super about this sound, but I can see it was ahead of its time for 1993.
3
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Fri Feb 19 2021
Moving Pictures
Rush
Its great its everything its toasted its wonderful
5
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Mon Feb 22 2021
Sea Change
Beck
The Golden Age is big space cowboy vibes. very much a low key breakup album, nice for zoning out but I didnt really get much out of it
3
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Tue Feb 23 2021
Harvest
Neil Young
Im not crazy about the tonality of neils voice but the tracks are wonderfully arranged. Heart of Gold deserves all the praise it gets. Alabama is a good diss the south country song. Great guitar work on the whole album
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Wed Feb 24 2021
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
This big band record catches me in the right mood. Dude this album was great to sit and fill out a really angry company survey to.
5
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Thu Feb 25 2021
The Slider
T. Rex
Big and up front 70s rock and roll sound. Feels like a fun album, definitely in the boat rock glam feel of things. Spaceball Ricochet is very David Bowie like. Yea this is peak boat rock
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Fri Feb 26 2021
Vespertine
Björk
Its very much like sound as texture. like ASMR. Its cool but I am not quite sure what it makes me feel. I feel sort of lost in these sounds, can't quite predict how the songs will go. Its Not Up To You is a good track. Pagan Poetry is intense. Good album to have on in the winter. Yea this album is a lot about getting busy, and the songs themselves individually don't have the same impact as the whole thing in its totality.
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Mon Mar 01 2021
Dear Science
TV On The Radio
Yea this is cool. Its like a more electronic, funk inspired They Might Be Giants. Its just not striking me in the right way today.
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Tue Mar 02 2021
Illmatic
Nas
Its that bridge to modern hip-hop. Halftime is rad. Memory Lane is rad. Aint hard to tell is a great closer
4
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Wed Mar 03 2021
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
ooooooooooo that bass sound. dude this album is great.
5
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Thu Mar 04 2021
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
Freddy's tone on Brighton Rock isnt great. Killer queen is incredibly, duh. Stone Cold Crazy is a cool thrash piece. Bring Back Leroy Brown is wacky. some good tracks but it didnt really leave me with much as a whole
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Fri Mar 05 2021
Another Green World
Brian Eno
Weird proto-electronica sounds on the first track, though the drums sound way better played by a human. Also the bass is doing some weirdness. St. Elmo's Fire is such a weird track, I love it. wild and weird the whole way though.
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Mon Mar 08 2021
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
Greeeeeeeeeeennnnnn ONNNNNIOOOONNNNNSSSSS! this song is everywhere. this is sold rhythm and blues. Comin' Home Baby is fucking solid
5
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Tue Mar 09 2021
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
I don't immediately hate this. the first track is pleasant. Fever is a good restrained second track. yea this was okay.
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Wed Mar 10 2021
The Score
Fugees
Yea this is good. Ready or Not, Killing Me Softly, lots of good tracks. Cowboys is a good track. NO WOMAN NO CRY!
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Thu Mar 11 2021
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
america is calling is cool, mea culpa sucks. The album is a cool expirament with sampling. Jezebel spirit is a rad track. A secret life is really rubbing me the wrong way
3
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Fri Mar 12 2021
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
push it along/luck of lucien are a great 1-2 combo. its very much lyricist as a story teller and the poetry is nice. Pubic Enemy I could do without
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Mon Mar 15 2021
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
yea as far as jam band records go this was better than most. "Sittin´ here thinkin´ of my love is a giant pile of dogshit track. i might dock this album a star just for this bonus track. yea the end of this album went from okay to just languid. there is too much actual skill in here to say it is 1 star but hot damn
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Tue Mar 16 2021
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
Immigrant Song. though the rest really feels like a southern rock/blues record. Plant has some cool vocal lines. a solid record but its not really a zepplin one that i like
3
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Wed Mar 17 2021
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
no. goddamnit no. I could go an entire lifetime not listening to a single damn sinatra song and be happy as a clam. The band and arrangements are good, but sinatra ruins it with his too-smarmy-for-you vocal texture crooning. These lyrics are ridiculous, see Old Devil Moon
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Thu Mar 18 2021
My Generation
The Who
yea this is good. I wish it wasn't mono, its a little flat. My Generation is a killer single. Please, Please, Please, Please Me is a good cover. THAT GUITAR TONE ON THE OX!!!
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Fri Mar 19 2021
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
NEEEEEWWWW WWWWAAAAVE. I like his ridiculous accent. I like how loose and shambolic this album feels
5
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Mon Mar 22 2021
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
OH YEAAAAAAAAA. Lively Up Yourself. No Woman No Cry, though I don't know that I have every heard it this upbeat and gospel. it almost feels rushed. dude this fucking album is so great.
5
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Tue Mar 23 2021
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
Its fun! Yea i like this Bakersfield sound. Good one two punch on this album. Yea this was a great honky tonk album
5
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Wed Mar 24 2021
Penthouse And Pavement
Heaven 17
BARNSTORMIN. WE DONT NEED THAT FACIST GROOVE THANG! solid electropop sound. lots of intense slap bass. Song With No Name is definitely weird. it gets weirder and weirder the longer it goes.
4
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Thu Mar 25 2021
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
Oooo I wonder if Katie would like this? Matty Groves is a good tune. yea this is cool as a 60's acid rock folk album
4
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Fri Mar 26 2021
Manassas
Stephen Stills
yea this album is good and polished, I am just not finding anything that i would latch on to. Those blues man is great tune.
3
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Mon Mar 29 2021
Screamadelica
Primal Scream
meh im not really into house. dear god this is aggressively 90s. Come Together aggressively wears out its welcome after about minute 5. Damaged has the worst vocalist ever. guy isnt even close to in tune. These songs are forever long, especially if there isnt something that grabs you. totally over self indulgent in its sound. jesus thank god thats over
2
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Tue Mar 30 2021
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
Its very REM. I guess i dont mind it but i dont really like it much either
3
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Wed Mar 31 2021
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
Meh. Eric's guitar is cool, but man is the blues boring. god damn. this album would be a good exercise to pick apart just the guitar parts and clapton's playing, but really I'm bored out of my mind
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Thu Apr 01 2021
Queen II
Queen
Really getting a lot of the operatic influence on their sound. The guitar tone is thick and heavy, almost sludgey. Some day one day is a cool track. Ogre Battle kicks ass. The March of the Black Queen is a wild song
4
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Fri Apr 02 2021
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
I generally like this album, there area few good guitar licks. though i cant say i will ever listen to it again
3
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Mon Apr 05 2021
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Everything put together is great song. ME AND JULIO!
3
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Tue Apr 06 2021
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
This is very cold play esque. Mirrorball is a good, chill tune.
3
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Wed Apr 07 2021
Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday
oh yesss. am i going to listen to a billie holiday album and not give it 5 stars? i dont think so. its just perfect. he casual mastery of her instrument is incredible. the orchestration does just enough.
5
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Thu Apr 08 2021
Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
yea im not into this album.
2
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Fri Apr 09 2021
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Iron Butterfly
meh. so much of the albums strength relies on the final 17 minute track. which i mean is super iconic but i dont really like it
3
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Mon Apr 12 2021
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
If I Had A Heart has some cool edge with its stereo panning. Its a cool album but I'm not super into it.
3
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Tue Apr 13 2021
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
You know, I think I would like a lot more of this album if not for the wild, out of place, forever long intros. See like on Beginnings, I don't mind the extended outro, but a whole minute of the same groove just to do a super slow fade out? come on! Free Form Guitar is one of those tracks critics love and I don't get because its not pleasant to listen to. I'm docking a star for a 14 minute jam song at the end.
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Wed Apr 14 2021
Odessa
Bee Gees
opening track has promise. yea i think this album needs another and deeper pass in order for me to really get it, but the sonic atmosphere is pleasant. though there is a bigger sonic change midway into the second side of the 1st LP. Give Your Best comes out of nowhere. nice climactic finish. yea i just missed a lot of the concept album stuff just listening to it at work
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Thu Apr 15 2021
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
The bass on this is killer. great tone. I never knew that Morissey was my defacto english new wave vocalist. Yea holy cow the bass work is awesome. i like how the album shifts dynamically and it doesn't fail to grab me.
5
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Fri Apr 16 2021
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
ehhhhhhh, this is a cool defy genre kind of piece, but its just not my vibe. From Rags to Riches is weird and cool. meh just not my style
3
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Mon Apr 19 2021
Tidal
Fiona Apple
hell yea fiona apple kicks ass! great debut album. Criminal is awesome. just a banger. The First Taste is also a good one
5
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Tue Apr 20 2021
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
Hell yea. This is so good. Noise, Noise, Noise is a great tune. I love this landmark statement of British punk rock.
5
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Wed Apr 21 2021
The Poet
Bobby Womack
Ooooooooo. funkay. Love the funk R&B on Secrets. So Many Sides Of You is a great opening track. I actually don't love If You Think You're Lonely now, but I still love this album. Great album, I had a blast listening to it.
5
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Thu Apr 22 2021
Moby Grape
Moby Grape
1967 guitar tone and styling. This is a pleasant listen but I didn't really take anything from it.
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Fri Apr 23 2021
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
Alt rock, meh. I find this album flaccid and boring. Magic in the Air is a pretty decent song. Disillusion is more my speed.
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Mon Apr 26 2021
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
an oldie but a goodie. its amazing. Changes to Oh! You Pretty Things is a classic 1-2 punch. Life on Mars. Kooks. Andy Wahol. You cannot hide from the hits!
5
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Tue Apr 27 2021
Mothership Connection
Parliament
This album is just so good i think my words fail me
5
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Wed Apr 28 2021
Parallel Lines
Blondie
How do you turn off One Way or Another and a Heart of Glass? Though a lot more of the album just sort of passes me by.
4
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Thu Apr 29 2021
1999
Prince
1999 into Little Red Corvette is great 1-2. Delirious is a lot of fun, cool album
4
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Fri Apr 30 2021
Abraxas
Santana
its good just not my style.
3
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Mon May 03 2021
Dookie
Green Day
Soundtrack to my child hood. a punk meets world album.
5
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Tue May 04 2021
Eternally Yours
The Saints
Know Your Product is a great opening track. This is a real straight ahead, classic punk album, with the first sounds of ska. No, Your Product has a truck full of balls. The bonus tracks are kind of samey but i still liked some of it
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Wed May 05 2021
Hypnotised
The Undertones
The vocal tone is killer. I'm digging the bass work. There Goes Norman is a bop! Man, I am having a lot of fun listening to this album.
5
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Thu May 06 2021
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J
This is a solid groove right between the gangster hop of later rap albums and the older sounds of earlier hip hop. Murdergram is a nice change from the more laid back rhythms. Mama Said Knock You Out is one of those cultural touchstones with a huge reach. Illegal Search is 31 years old and still applies to today.
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Fri May 07 2021
Parachutes
Coldplay
The opening 2 tracks are nice. Not wild, not provacative, just nice. Yellow is basically the album but in miniature. Everything's Not Lost is a great closer.
3
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Mon May 10 2021
Transformer
Lou Reed
Its cool. Walk On The Wild Side is a generational tune. The Bowie connection on this album is strong. Its a good album that has that late 70's new york city metro sexual vibe.
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Tue May 11 2021
Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
meh. This is soft rock plus cheese synth 2 tracks in. Yea this kinda sucked eggs.
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Wed May 12 2021
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
Some pretty rad guitar on the solo for Speakin' Out. Roll Another Number (For The Road) is great. New Mama has a cool ending. Solid Neil Young album, but I'm not huge on him. Would say I liked it better than Harvest.
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Thu May 13 2021
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
This album is just such a thundering monster in the best way. Good Times Bad Times hooks hard. Dazed and Confused is a muddy, spooky masterpiece. Communication Breakdown sets the stage for an explosion in music.
5
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Fri May 14 2021
Connected
Stereo MC's
Connected is a bop for sure. yea this album fades into a funky backbeat groovathon.
3
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Mon May 17 2021
Diamond Life
Sade
R&B soft rock. meh. She has a cool unique vocal sound tho. good bass parts.
3
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Tue May 18 2021
The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
cool drum pattern to start off Happiness Is Easy. Life's What You Make It is a good pop single. though some tones on that track come out of nowhere. This is good laundry folding music, or back yard barbequing music. Chameleon Day is very, very different from the rest of the album. Not a big fan of an 8 minute operatic ending on an album fueled by synth pop hits
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Wed May 19 2021
NEU! 75
Neu!
Its like a stadium soundtrack for an empty stadium. an audience of 1 or no one. Ambient rock. which is cool if that's your thing. Its a cool contrast between desolation and life. order and void.
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Thu May 20 2021
Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear
I think Southern Point is the first indie rock album opener I have liked in about forever. AH! I remember Two Weeks taking over the world for a hot second. This album has groove, though its a late 2000s indie album. Yea this album was cool.
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Fri May 21 2021
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
TC and Honeybear reached out and grabbed me. Where Dreams Go To Die has awesome lyrics and an uncomplicated soundscape to drive the focus on the lyrics. great tune. Then right on its heels Sigourney Weaver just comes in with the silliest lyrics. This album kicks ass.
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Mon May 24 2021
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
Oh man this album is a lot. Shore Leave is wacky. 16 Shells is super cool, like an absolute killer song. from there it dumps into Town With No Cheer, which is totally different. lots of musical whiplash. In The Neighborhood is an encapsulation of the album as a whole. Frank's Wild Years is the happiest nightmare I ever did hear. Rainbirds is an excellent closer.
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Tue May 25 2021
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
Ehhh. I'm not super into it at the halfway point. Coconut is cool.
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Wed May 26 2021
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
I'm A Lonesome Fugitive is the seed of every cowboy country song. Yea this album is a solid encapsulation of the change of country from the blues to the outlaw.
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Thu May 27 2021
Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
Visions Of You does a good job of setting up the rhythmic style of Relight The Flame, but the vocals on Relight are a huge bummer. Bomba is cool. Ungodly Kingdom was a fun listen. Sweet Divinity has all the problems of Relight the Flame but none of the charm.
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Fri May 28 2021
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Somebody That I Used To Know features some killer acoustic guitar work. I liked L.A. meh its just not for me.
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Mon May 31 2021
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
Death of a Clown and Harry Rag are my two favorites off the front side. David Watts I wasn't too impressed by. Musical shift to the more relaxed on the B side. Afternoon Tea is a bop.
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Tue Jun 01 2021
John Prine
John Prine
Illegal Smile has me hopeful about this album. I'm liking this wayyyyy more than Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks. Sam Stone is a great tune. Your Flag Decal would be a good punk cover song.
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Wed Jun 02 2021
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
muahahahahahaha oh hell yea. gosh the bass line on Invaders is just everywhere. Goddamn even two songs in you can tell this is one of the best black metal albums ever made. Number Of The Beast still kicks the most ass.
5
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Thu Jun 03 2021
Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star is a wild awesome groove that sets the hooks in deep. CTA-102 comes in outta nowhere with the weird. hard to see where it fits. lots of great time signature and rhythm work. Hot shit the late 60's was just a genre soup where every band borrowed every texture and sound under the sun. Yea a real landmark of an album
5
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Fri Jun 04 2021
Melodrama
Lorde
I really wish this wasn't today's album, but that's just personal circumstances. Green Light and Sober is a good 1-2 punch. The Louvre is.....uncomfortable right now at time of writing. Its good though. Then Liability happens. Jesus. THIS ALBUM IS AWESOME!
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Mon Jun 07 2021
Skylarking
XTC
Summers Cauldron and Grass feel like a part 1 & 2 of the same mellow opening. The Meeting Place takes the next step in the journey. Ballet For A Rainy Day into 1000 Umbrellas is a fun counter point to the front of the album, though i like Ballet as a song better than 1000 Umbrellas. Then the album takes this really weird psychadelic space turn culminating in Another Satellite. Mermaid Smile has a great guitar intro. Cool concept album overall, one worth revisiting but first blush is a meh. Yea without Dear God as the final track, how does this album wrap itself up?
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Tue Jun 08 2021
Teenage Head
Flamin' Groovies
Yep this sounds like a knock off Rolling Stones or Aerosmith. not really my vibe. Yea its a louder, faster blues album.
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Wed Jun 09 2021
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
This is basically an Elvis album. I can see how this is a bridge into R&B but I'm just bored
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Thu Jun 10 2021
Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren
World music meets hip hop? ok. I mean its cool just not really my speed or style. Double Dutch has a cool hypnotic groove. Punk It Up is infectious. The second half of the album is starting to warm on me, with Jive My Baby. might be worth another listen at a later time, good summer party album. Duck For The Oyster would be fun to hear at a party but in a "wtf is this?" sense.
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Fri Jun 11 2021
Jack Takes the Floor
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
American roots album. The Boil Weevil is a good tune. New York Town with Woody Guthrie is a great tune.
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Mon Jun 14 2021
Spiderland
Slint
uhhhhhhhh. This is very much Dan Hart music. roomy, heavy, weird. Don, Aman is a great, unnerving ride of a song. Good Morning, Captain feels so weird and strange. like walking through swamps with muddy boots
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Tue Jun 15 2021
With The Beatles
Beatles
I can see how this would cement The Beatles as icons. This sound is even still so unique and them. Till There Was You is a great cover.
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Wed Jun 16 2021
American Pie
Don McLean
American Pie is a perennial bop. Vincent is a tear jerker. This whole album is sad! Babylon is a choral piece.
3
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Thu Jun 17 2021
The Rise & Fall
Madness
Blue Skinned Beast is a pretty cool song, though this is not the best Madness album. That will always be One Step Beyond. Though Our House may well be the best Madness song. New Delhi is okay. yea the second half of the album drops way off after Our House.
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Fri Jun 18 2021
Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
funky and mad rhythm right off the bat. this album grooves so hard. Kiss Me On My Neck is a good groove. Yea this album slaps
5
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Mon Jun 21 2021
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
crazy to go from Green Eyes on Mama's Gun to All I Really Want. I'm hooked immediately. Her rage just drips from every single note and vocal stab. Loads of different layers. It feels beat up and triumphant at the same time. Head Over Feet, You Outta Know, Ironic? All on the same album?
5
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Tue Jun 22 2021
British Steel
Judas Priest
Sounds exactly like Iron Maiden, though its big hair metal. Breaking The Law case in point. Quite honestly, its interesting as a piece of metal history but I'm not particularly taken with the album.
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Wed Jun 23 2021
Technique
New Order
Cool dance/house album sounds. I am big into the sound and feel after the first two tracks. Run is a great track to get lost to. Man what a great album to ride through. will have to give it another spin at some point
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Thu Jun 24 2021
Disintegration
The Cure
I'm not sold on this album or the band's sound. Yea its tone goes out of its way to be the most over the top sad thing you could think of. Bleak, washed out guitar tones makes the whole thing feel like a gloomy rainy day in March or November. Fascination Street is actually my speed though. Growling bass fills a more harsh and aggressive soundscape. Yep this is teenage angst turned up to 11.
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Fri Jun 25 2021
A Night At The Opera
Queen
It fucking kills it. Thats it
5
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Mon Jun 28 2021
Bad
Michael Jackson
5
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Tue Jun 29 2021
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Spellbound is a cool opening track and I am excited for it. I am digging the dark moodiness, very like The Smiths. Night Shift is a great moody tune. Head Cut is another cool spooky tune.
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Wed Jun 30 2021
Idlewild
Everything But The Girl
More 80s brit pop. okay. Its got good technique and a well crafted sound, but damn it is so soft rock-y that i cant latch on to it. She has a great voice but the content is just so smarmy I can't deal. Apron Strings I can see being a cool wedding song.
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Thu Jul 01 2021
Tellin’ Stories
The Charlatans
More British alternative. Its basically a harder and heavier Oasis. One To Another is a good track. Yea this is like listening to a lost Oasis album, which means I'm pretty bored with the sound.
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Fri Jul 02 2021
Scum
Napalm Death
Its early grindcore! I think its pretty alright 4 songs in. I wouldn't want to be at the show, but the album is a great showcase of the emergence of grindcore. I think a lot of people bitch and moan about how you cant hear what they are saying on most of the album but no one talks about how it makes them feel. Thats grindcore, an explosion of rage. Seige Of Power is a great track. Huge sonic difference A side and B side. A side is like a mad max car, B side is a lawnmower covered in underwater chainsaws. Dragnet is a good closer.
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Mon Jul 05 2021
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
Take Me Out is a personally formative rock and roll tune. Funk roots and grooves sort of blend the first 4 tracks in my mind. Cool theramin into Auf Achse, which is a great track. Michael hits the right vibes. 40' is a great closer.
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Tue Jul 06 2021
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
Its cool. Afro Brasilian lounge jazz. Taj Mahal is a time capsule.
3
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Wed Jul 07 2021
The Bends
Radiohead
Radiohead is one of those bands that comes with a lot of baggage, so I will try to give it a fair listen. I like singing along to High and Dry. I will say, Thom York as a vocalist is very good. The album at mid way has a good sense of dynamism, even if it feels restrained. Just strikes me as very weird. My Iron Lung is a good tune. This album would be worth a revisit but right now I am just so sick of this English alt rock sound.
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Thu Jul 08 2021
The Clash
The Clash
One in the punk rock firmament. How could I not love the shit out of this album. The A side just comes out with so much panache and energy, it's infectious. The B side is equally solid. Love the hell out of it.
5
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Fri Jul 09 2021
Kilimanjaro
The Teardrop Explodes
Its hard to come up with an immediate reaction to the first two tracks. There is a sense of foreboding in the upbeat jams. Like a dance party in a cave. There is almost like a ghoulish, halloween feeling to this album. See Second Head for reference. I get sort of lost after that song. Thief of Baghdad was pretty cool, I guess? Reward comes and sonically breaks up the languidness of the back half of the album. the bonus tracks i have no idea what to do with.
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Mon Jul 12 2021
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
Theme from Shaft is rad. 3 songs in and I am hooked! Great song structure, interesting motifs, and a sense of grounding and authenticity in the sound. Man what a pleasure to listen to.
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Tue Jul 13 2021
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Holy Moly this is basically 2 albums. I love Nashville Blues. Tennessee Stud is another great song. Nine Pound Hammer, Tennessee Stud, Black Mountain Rag all kick ass. Though just the length of this double album is a workout; 2 hours is a lot of fecking bluegrass.
5
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Wed Jul 14 2021
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
welp space music it is. just not my speed. I'm docking a star for a 17 minute long, languid album closer.
2
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Thu Jul 15 2021
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
Cash proves he is every measure the legend on this record. Even though the vast majority is covers, his crowd work is great and you can hear a pin drop on The Long Black Veil. Jackson is a cool duet. booing the warden on the last track is great
5
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Fri Jul 16 2021
Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
Got that earlier 70s sense of groove. Tudo O Que has my interest. Cravo E Canela is a good tune. Um Girassol Da Cor Do Seu Cabelo has this wacky break section in the middle of the song and comes back with authority. Side 3 sort of breezed by me. Side 4 has some really weird parts. I would say side 1 and maybe side 2 deserve a relisten.
3
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Mon Jul 19 2021
Zombie
Fela Kuti
Cool Afrobeat record, but I feel like there is a lot of subtext that I miss.
3
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Tue Jul 20 2021
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
Blister In The Sun! Great bass work on the album and is really a treat to listen to. Excellent sonic balance. Ugly is a great, loud, and loose track.
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Wed Jul 21 2021
Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
This is probably my least favorite punk record so far on the list. in that I like it but I don't immediately love it. The soundscape overall is very tinny and scratchy.
3
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Thu Jul 22 2021
Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney
Dig Me Out is a super strong opener. Though I don't really love the dual guitar no bass setup, sonically it works. Though Corin Tucker's vocals cut like a frenzied, razor sharp knife. Not What You Want is great multi-layered track. I do love how the backing vocals are so distinctive on the album in general. Jenny is a strong closer.
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Fri Jul 23 2021
Kenya
Machito
Wild Jungle starts the party off right. Great trumpet tone. Kenya, Oyeme are excellent grooves. Holiday puts a smile on my face. Excellent album.
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Mon Jul 26 2021
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
Ok! Freak Scene. Good song. They Always Come sounds like an indie J-rock song. Don't is five minutes of feedback, which I could do without. Though its the better closer. The bonus track is kind of slapped on the back.
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Tue Jul 27 2021
Garbage
Garbage
MMMMM this feels like mid 90s alt comfort food. Stupid Girl partial writing credit is Joe Strummer from The Clash! Queer is an excellent song. Only Happy When It Rains is another great track.
5
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Wed Jul 28 2021
Pearl
Janis Joplin
Janice has a great blues voice. A Woman Left Lonely is a wild tune, transcending the genre. Half Moon Comes in with this funk rock intro and I'm all for it. Wow what a back half of an album.
5
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Thu Jul 29 2021
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
That classic rock and roll sound. But no Peggy Sue?! Yea this album is a great time capsule but lacks the punch of his singles.
2
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Fri Jul 30 2021
Your Arsenal
Morrissey
Much different from The Smiths sound of Morrissey. We'll let you know has some very not PC overtones. I mean its a great Morrissey album, its just if you are on the fence about him like I am, then its hard to say if it shifts it for me out of 3 territory.
3
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Mon Aug 02 2021
Parklife
Blur
I vaguely remember Boys & Girls from my childhood. I do like it more than some of the other Britpop of the era, but I'm sort of done with the genre in totality. Bank Holiday is pretty dope. However, To The End is boring as hell.
3
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Tue Aug 03 2021
Eagles
Eagles
Take It Easy, Witchy Woman is hard to beat in terms of a 1-2 punch. I mean the Eagles have a way of creating a laid back groove with ease. Yea these harmonies are where its at. Early Bird is real weird but i like the banjo.
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Wed Aug 04 2021
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
Race For The Prize has me interested. Three tracks in and I can feel the album really has musical legs that it is stretching. The lyrics of this album are really good. By the end of this album, I was hooked. Will merit a second listen.
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Thu Aug 05 2021
Third
Portishead
4 tracks in and I am still waiting to grab onto something. I don't find the acid club/industrial rock genre incredibly compelling in album format. I am sure they would be much different live, with a lot of sweaty people doing drugs and losing their minds. Deep Water with the surprise ukulele! yep the rest of the album is the same and I couldn't wait for it to end.
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Fri Aug 06 2021
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
Oh man very familiar with this album. Fucking pristine tracks cover to cover. Have A Talk With God up next to Village Ghetto Land is lots of whiplash. Contusion!! Sir Duke sparkles like a new copper penny with lush orchestration and feels just as joyful as when it was first made. Then to hit the listener with I Wish. Past time Paradise is a great track. I mean everything on here is a great track. Even the Extra LP tracks add a bunch of great tunes.
5
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Mon Aug 09 2021
Dare!
The Human League
This is the kind of synth pop that is unapologetic in its sounds. angular, refusing to blend. the task then is more in stacking them, which sounds like what I am in for. This almost feels like a less fun DEVO. Or like listening to a very poetic retro gamer stream. Some songs have interesting hooks but I'm just not super interested in the sounds. Don't You Want Me Baby keeps this from being a 2 star for me. Seconds is a good track.
3
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Tue Aug 10 2021
Pornography
The Cure
Oh boy One Hundred Years really sets the tone here. Too gloomy for me.
2
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Wed Aug 11 2021
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
Very Garage-y aesthetic. Let It Slide is good. The low recording quality makes all of the songs sound exactly the same. Shoot The Moon is more my speed, but Move Out was good too. The harmonica does a lot to add something bright and cutting with everything else being fuzzed out, like in Pokin' Around.
3
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Thu Aug 12 2021
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
Cool rock electronica fusion. I appreciate the roomy kit sound. Playground For A Wedgeless Firm is probably my favorite track.
4
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Fri Aug 13 2021
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
Cool blues/roots punk. Sex Beat is a treat of an opener. great formational album of a lot of the grunge and alt rock.
4
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Mon Aug 16 2021
Sail Away
Randy Newman
I can never take Randy Newman's voice seriously. Lonely At The Top is a dark carnival soundscape. Its a charming album, I just don't think I really care for most of it.
3
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Tue Aug 17 2021
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
Girl Punk! YaY! like an early Bombpops kind of sound. Almost hypnotic looping on Hot Topic. One of the founders was in Bikini Kill, so that explains the similarities in sound. The The Empty is great. Artist at Free University is also great. this will need another spin to say if it is a 4 or a 5 in my book.
4
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Wed Aug 18 2021
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Concrete Jungle and Stop That Train are solid Bob hits, even if they arent the cultural juggernaut that some of his other songs are. Stir It Up is in that pantheon of greatest grooves ever conceived. Midnight Ravers kicks ass.
5
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Thu Aug 19 2021
Water From An Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
Mandela doesn't sound like anyone is playing in the same time. the downbeats are all mixed up. Song For Sathima is alright! Water From An Ancient Well is the axis about which the entire album turns. the ultimate chill and jazz album. Sameeda is a weird closer. I like it but man it is weird in the context of the entire rest of the album.
3
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Fri Aug 20 2021
Roots
Sepultura
The vocals are so clear in this mix. i think its because the kick drum is so soft on the attack. Roots, Bloody Roots has my attention. Ratamahatta is a real cool groovy. Ambush has some classic hardcore metal gang vocals. I feel like I am obligated to take off a star because of a 12+ minute album closing canyon jam session, though one of the instruments is a gun?
4
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Mon Aug 23 2021
Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
Love Sick into Dirt Road Blues is an excellent contrast in tones. I still don't like Bob's diction. And after a while its just the blues. Tryng To Get To Heaven is a perfect example of Bob Dylan ruining a perfectly good song with his voice. Jesus I can't stand this guy's voice. Cold Irons Bound is a good tune, which I think is the only real reason I don't give this a 1 star. Highlands is bullshit.
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Tue Aug 24 2021
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
They have the early 2000s alt sound lined up and nailed. Date With The Night is abound with lipstick and neon. Maps is a great tune. Cool album, will need another spin
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Wed Aug 25 2021
Low
David Bowie
Bowie plus Eno. Really hear it on Breaking Glass. I am really feeling this sonic landscape. Warszawa and the second side where this album really stretches out its legs. Need to re-spin it.
5
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Thu Aug 26 2021
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
I like Thrasher a lot. The acoustic side is really roomy and sounds great. The Crazy Horse side is probably the best version I have heard of Neil Young yet. Welfare Mothers is a weird song though.
4
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Fri Aug 27 2021
Nixon
Lambchop
this is weird but also somehow pleasant? this is basically room music for me. its more just boring and strange.
2
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Mon Aug 30 2021
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
I am digging the sonic landscape of Elvis Costello. Really dig The Long Honeymoon. Lots of the album just feels like it lacks punch.
3
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Tue Aug 31 2021
The Man Who
Travis
very alt british sound. kind of an oasis clone but i think a little more nuanced. Luv is a good track.
3
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Wed Sep 01 2021
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
So I had to bootstrap this album together from different sources on youtube so the listening experience is way out of wack. Spanish Castle Magic finally gets the album started with some really modern sound guitar. Little Wing is a forceful beautiful song. Jimmy's guitar work is outrageous how relevant is still is.
4
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Thu Sep 02 2021
Teen Dream
Beach House
Its that laid back alt sound. I like how Norway opens up. Meh.
3
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Fri Sep 03 2021
You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
Here's the thing about american rock in the 80s. lots of it sucks. but at least it has an edge. Brit rock of the era is so polished its boring. Little Fury Things is exhibit A of why American rock at least had something interesting when it sounded about. The Kracked is a great punk track with a psychedelic guitar solo. The Lung is like listening to proto-Nirvana. Poledo is a great time. Good cover of Just Like Heaven for the reissue closer.
3
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Mon Sep 06 2021
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
Save The Life Of A Child is a cool way to start off. The production quality gives the album this sheen. Great dynamics on Old Friends. Punkys Dilemma gets overshadowed by the meteoric hit that is Mrs Robinson. a Hazy Shade of Winter has the sounds of a single that never took off.
4
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Tue Sep 07 2021
Ray Of Light
Madonna
Ray of Light is a pop hit, though these sounds are such a time capsule of late 90s electronica. Nothing Really Matters is the first track that I think the whole sound grooves for me. To Have and Not to Hold paints in the same sonic space as the soundtrack from Nier: Automata
3
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Wed Sep 08 2021
Come Find Yourself
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Cool hip-hop rock fusion sounds. Scooby Snacks is a great single. We Have All The Time In The World is a really refreshing mid album break.
4
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Thu Sep 09 2021
Kimono My House
Sparks
I'm not really in a glam rock kind of mood. this is a fine album.
3
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Fri Sep 10 2021
Done By The Forces Of Nature
Jungle Brothers
Aw yea. The simple kick snare pattern starts this trance like background where instruments and voices come in and fade out. sneaky Parliament sample at the end of Sunshine. Good Newz Comin' is a house beat jam. damn what a cool album.
5
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Mon Sep 13 2021
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
To me this feels like a weaker Janis Joplin vocal record. Piece Of My Heart is one of those rock and roll songs that will stay forever. But this album is mostly the blues. I still don't see what people find interesting about the blues. Janis's vocal tone is one in a billion, which you hear right in front on Ball And Chain.
3
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Tue Sep 14 2021
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
Oh hell yea. So Far Away is actually a great opener, Money For Nothing stuffs you right in the face with its hook in the most pleasant way, and Walk Of Life keeps it breezy and honky tonky. Your Latest Trick and Why Worry tread some pretty slow, cheeseball synth footsteps. Also Why Worry takes about a million years for noodling. docking a star for that. The Man's Too Strong is a great tune and doesn't get the respect it merits. Brothers In Arms is a little overly saccharine for me
4
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Wed Sep 15 2021
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
The first two tracks are soooooo boorrrrrring. This is the simplified song structures of punk, but slowed down and all the fun or edge taken out. its like a masonry wall or a piece of concrete that is just there. How To Handle A Rope connected with me. What the hell this sucked.
2
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Thu Sep 16 2021
Leftism
Leftfield
House album so tracks are long. And its house music from the mid 90s, so it all feels like the backing tracks to the club scene from blade. The best parts of the album are when it leans into its afro inspired samples, but these beats just sound dated and stale. I am sure at the time this shit was ground breaking but now its just dull. very dull
2
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Fri Sep 17 2021
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
The recording quality on this is the best but i will give it some slack being 60+ years ago. Not having the best jazz ear, I don't know that I would be able to pick a song in here that I latched onto. Though I do like jazz and miles davis.
3
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Mon Sep 20 2021
Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
Is this a synthwave album? this might be a synthwave album. Hell yea. Though its not like some cheeseball synth emulation, there is actually a really well crafted sonic vision on this one. The Architect slaps. Ravenspoint is weird.
4
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Tue Sep 21 2021
The Doors
The Doors
Break On Through To The Other Side!! I like how visceral these songs feel. That organ is used like a cannon! Wild and licentious.
5
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Wed Sep 22 2021
Hotel California
Eagles
Hotel California and Life In The Fast Lane cement this album in the American psyche. Wasted Time is just one of those lazy ballads. I hear that Parliament synth tone in Pretty Maids All In A Row. The Last Resort is another overly saccharine effort.
3
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Thu Sep 23 2021
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow
Opening track has some biiiiiiiig Sara Bareilles energy. Strong Enough is a certified banger. Its really interesting to hear her in her release. So much of her sonic landscape feels so different from what it would become. The country elements are there, but its such a pop record. All I Wanna Do is also certified banger status for good reason. We Do What We Can really sticks out on this album. In general a solid album with a set of weird closers.
4
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Fri Sep 24 2021
The Cars
The Cars
Oh yea Let The Good Times Roll. I hear DEVO and hair rock in this, blended together for mutual benefit. The first 3 tracks on this album are some of the best openers ever. This album kicks ass. Its like a best of but its the first release.
5
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Mon Sep 27 2021
Blue
Joni Mitchell
Joni's vocal talent is way out in front, highlighted by sparse instrumentation. California basically ripped out my heart. This album should be required listening in schools. A Case Of You is another absolute thunderously emotional track. The Last Time I Saw Richard hits harder when i thought this album was out of punches. "Only a phase these dark cafe days"
5
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Tue Sep 28 2021
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
Looks like I am in for a real ride on this one. Yea this is all over the map in terms of genres and feels. Locked Inside is a groove at the end of the universe. Cold War is a great track made mediocre by too much heavy handed mastering compression. Tightrope is a banger. Come Alive is a another one. yea all of Suite II is good, lets see Suite III. I don't get Make The Bus. I like the vocal texture on Wonderland. I got lost about halfway through Suite III. It launches into these lavish soundscapes, and if you haven't been locked into the story, you will feel lost. But Monae's voice is so rich and plays so nicely with the the elegance of the soundscape.
4
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Wed Sep 29 2021
Sex Packets
Digital Underground
The Humpty Dance is a bop. Gutfest 89 is fun. The sheer amount of Parliament samples is quite impressive. Doowhutchyalike is a send up to early 90's hedonism. Its an afrofuturistic hedonistic album about sex and unrequited desire.
4
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Thu Sep 30 2021
Marquee Moon
Television
So the seeds of an alt movement are in there. It almost gives off a proto math rock jazz vibe with a lot of counter melodies in the guitar voices. The vocal texture is okay. It has an early 60s vibe, but maybe a touch more focus. Marquee Moon is a track where it all comes together, the other tracks on the A-side don't feel harmonious(?) like the orchestration isn't paced out.
3
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Fri Oct 01 2021
Tragic Songs of Life
The Louvin Brothers
Its classic, but I'm not getting much from it. Its well built and has a solid tone, I just don't find it interesting.
3
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Mon Oct 04 2021
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
Holy shit a dylan album where he can actually sing?! This is actually a real delight to listen to, the songs have a great personality and life. Desolation Row goes on about 3 verses too far.
4
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Tue Oct 05 2021
Van Halen
Van Halen
Running With The Devil!!!!! This album is a masterpiece of hair and guitar shredding. Atomic Punk I think is the sleeper hit on this album. deep, moody, shreddy and paints a clear story.
5
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Wed Oct 06 2021
The Who Sell Out
The Who
This is really cool. not a 5 for me but definitely cool.
4
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Thu Oct 07 2021
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
I could listen to Bob albums all day. Jamming!!!! One Love, a song that completely barnstormed the entire world, just barely over 3 minutes. All of these tracks are a pleasure to listen to, i wish there was more of it.
5
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Fri Oct 08 2021
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar
Interesting to hear rap in a different language but to hear it use a similar music language as lots of other rap music at the time, but MC Solaar's vocals are just sooooooo smooth. Caroline immediately grabbed me. La devise is a solid close to a killer album.
5
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Mon Oct 11 2021
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
Yea this is fine. His guitar work is great, I am just not into sad boi brit rock.
3
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Tue Oct 12 2021
London Calling
The Clash
Love it. The beating British punk heart. Goddamn this album is good.
5
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Wed Oct 13 2021
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
Not feeling this blues rock. really not feeling it. The whole album feels like its not interested in making a statement sonically. Ship of Fools and Land Ho! are the lamest Doors songs. Its lazy southern blues rock. Dear lord get me out of this album.
1
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Thu Oct 14 2021
Orbital 2
Orbital
Lush 3-1 is a good track. Its a cool sonic atmosphere but i just cant find it in me to put a house album above a 3
3
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Fri Oct 15 2021
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
Sloppy, hairy, excessive. This band is like a house made double cheeseburger and loaded fries. In the moment, its deeply satisfying. On closer inspection, its very bloated and doesn't say or offer anything new. But hot damn You Give Love A Bad Name hits like few other hair metal tunes do. And Livin' On A Prayer deserved to take over the world. Raise Your Hands is a sleeper hit on this record.
4
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Mon Oct 18 2021
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
Shining Star is hitting the right vibes on this friday. All About Love intro sound exactly like one of my coworkers. Africano's woodwinds is really nice. This was a fine album but not the best one by this band.
4
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Tue Oct 19 2021
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Breakdown is still a great song, but Tom hadn't found his iconic vocal style on this album. I like the hammond organ on Luna. American Girl batts last on the record and is a perennial favorite of mine.
3
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Wed Oct 20 2021
Go Girl Crazy
The Dictators
This albums is great, if not just for the craziness and sophmoric silliness that surrounds its creation. Its 100% a birthplace of punk. Master Race Rock is oddly endearing(?) not actually problematic. California Sun is the best song here, and really nails the punk sound to come.
4
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Thu Oct 21 2021
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
This is excellent. Great feeling RNB that strikes the right balance sonically. Jonz In My Bonz is a song that I don't fully get, maybe its just a song about boning. Cruisin' is good but When We Get By is waaaaayy good
4
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Fri Oct 22 2021
One World
John Martyn
I like everything going on except the vocals. They sound weak and winded. Like the guy just ran 6 flights of stairs to get to the studio. Big Muff is a good tune. I am really torn on this album, but I think there is enough here to merit me coming back to it.
4
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Mon Oct 25 2021
Nevermind
Nirvana
Unapologetic and raw. Boisterous and moody. Authentic grunge right from the well.
5
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Tue Oct 26 2021
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
Genre bending all in the service of this intense introspection. Don't Shoot Gun Sound then turns that into an immediate regrounding in the physical. This is cool to listen to as an art piece, but I don't know that I would come back to it. Clearly its a masterpiece.
5
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Wed Oct 27 2021
The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
This feels like a pretty forgettable big band record. Am I Blue is a great song
3
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Thu Oct 28 2021
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
This album has a fun infectiousness. Bjork sounds right at home in front of a post punk band. Delicious Demon is a sleeper hit. That was so fun!
4
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Fri Oct 29 2021
Achtung Baby
U2
This is boring and toothless. God its the softest rock conceivable.
1
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Mon Nov 01 2021
C'est Chic
CHIC
GROOVE. Le Freak is a great time. The bass tone is great, and the singles kick. I don't think there is enough variety to make it a 5 star, but I thoroughly enjoyed this. At Last I Am Free lingers longer than it should, but being a ballad i guess that's just a personal preference. [Funny] Bone is a good track.
4
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Tue Nov 02 2021
Heroes
David Bowie
2nd of the Berlin Triology and hot off recording Lust for Life by Iggy Pop. Opening track is synth to the face, but that inescapable rock groove makes for a weird space age dance club. Heroes the single nails this sounds, creating a sonic horizon forever wide. The back half is a wild, Eno filled miasma. Secret Life of Arabia is a final french kiss dance hall ender for the album.
4
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Wed Nov 03 2021
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
Love And Affection is a good track. Its hard for me to put this album in a box 3 tracks in. Join The Boys has a mysterious groove behind it to kick off the back half of the album.
3
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Thu Nov 04 2021
Drunk
Thundercat
Oh yea! Uh Uh is a breakneck bass odyssey. Tokyo is funny. Friend zone is a huge lazy neon groove. The lyrics are so discrete. DUI is the shambling, triumphant and just weird af ending to a real trip of an album.
4
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Fri Nov 05 2021
Headquarters
The Monkees
Its pleasant, but if I wanted more of this sound and better I would listen to the Beatles
3
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Mon Nov 08 2021
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
Cool Afrobeat textures and sounds. Rock solid groove. Stubbor Problems is a gem.
4
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Tue Nov 09 2021
White Ladder
David Gray
Babylon is a dated hit. Boorrrring soft rock nonsense. technically and sonically competent.
2
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Wed Nov 10 2021
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
YESSSSSS! The title track sets up this celtic rock masterpiece. Turkish Song of the Damned is a thundering folk piece. Fairy Tale of New York is a ballad of a drunk sung by a drunk. Like quite honestly, his voice is sooooooo bad. Fiesta is a lot of fun. Worms is a great closer.
5
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Thu Nov 11 2021
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
This is a high mark on this style of sound. I Really Don't Want To Know is begging for a modern cover. Tomorrow Never Comes is a stage for Loretta to really air out what she can do. The Devil Gets His Dues has this awesome major 7th root vocal movement and it kicks ass. This whole album is great!
4
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Fri Nov 12 2021
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
Yea its fine, I'm not into it.
3
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Mon Nov 15 2021
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
Again, Its fine. great vocal harmonies. Time Of The Season is a thundering hit in an album that is the quintessentially sixties experiment.
4
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Tue Nov 16 2021
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
I don't really know what to take from this album. Is it iconic because this sound was the first in a wave of bands cutting albums like this later? This album has interesting stuff in terms of sonic textures but I don't see the cohesive whole where I care about it? I don't give a shit about this album.
2
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Wed Nov 17 2021
In Rainbows
Radiohead
15 steps and Bodysnatchers are really good tunes and a nice 1 2 punch. Once it hits Nude, it all slows way down to ballading grandeous sounds into All I Need, which are interesting but I don't think Thom sounds good on this record.
3
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Thu Nov 18 2021
Lazer Guided Melodies
Spiritualized
This is like if english pop and house had a baby. And then the Space Rock part happens. its pretty boring.
3
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Fri Nov 19 2021
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
Time to Pretend is an earnest repudiation of fame and fortune from someone who feels trapped inescapably. I am really digging this blown out eletro pop sound. Of Moons Birds and Monsters provides a lot of needed breathing on the album as a whole, though the back half, with the exception of Kids, is kess impressive than the first half.
4
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Mon Nov 22 2021
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
This is ok.
3
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Tue Nov 23 2021
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
An album with more singles than it knows what to do with. Taken by themselves, these songs are well written and have a fully formed sonic vision. Too much personal exposure blunts their impact on me now but something needs to be said for their ability to command attention. Its not a 5 star album for me because all of their low tempo acoustic stuff all sounds the exact same!
4
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Wed Nov 24 2021
Goo
Sonic Youth
Dirty Boots into Karen is a strong 1-2. This album definitely has my attention.
4
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Thu Nov 25 2021
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
This was a good relaxing time.
3
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Fri Nov 26 2021
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
Dog Eat Dog has some excellent beat and bass work. This sounds like the sound track for the lost boys in Peter Pan.
5
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Mon Nov 29 2021
Dummy
Portishead
The bells on Sour Times sounds like the Taskmaster TV show. And is also a cool groove! It's A Fire is another groove. Glory Box is a nice closer, though I personally feel this album as a whole is lacking.
3
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Tue Nov 30 2021
Brothers
The Black Keys
I like how this album brings the bass fuzz on Next Girl and is very comfortable in it's sonic atmosphere. Howlin For You is an excellent showcase of the power of this sound. I like Too Afraid To Love You, though it leans in heavy on a 60s nostalgia vibe. I love the story about the band getting plastered and asking their manager for a harpsichord. recorded at Muscle Shoals. I go back and forth on whether this is a 4 or a 5. I will be generous this morning.
5
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Wed Dec 01 2021
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
Starting your album off with a cover? bold choice. Though its so transformational that its a nice setup for the rest of the album. Girl VII is infectious. I like Nothing Can Stop Us. Kiss And Make Up is fun as well.
4
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Thu Dec 02 2021
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
I like the blend on his voice in Time Has Told Me. River Man is a lot more of his second album sound, which was so damn depressing. I am a little sad about not being able to give this album a totally blank slate as work kept getting in the way. The guys has guitar chops, its just I am not into sad wistful rock.
3
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Fri Dec 03 2021
Tapestry
Carole King
I Feel The Earth Move and You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman! Home Again has some pretty forward, dumb lyrics however. Where You Lead! Will You Love Me Tomorrow! wow this album is studded with hits.
4
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Mon Dec 06 2021
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
This is of so much in electronic music ethos in here. Crazy to think of how much impact this style would basically take over the world and put music on its head. Changeling is a cool track and doesn't overstay its welcome even at over 7 minutes. Stem/Long Stem goes into some weird cool places. The Organ Donor theme comes up a couple times previously but the track itself is the power of a compelling hook. What Does Your Soul Look Like is a relaxed groove.
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Tue Dec 07 2021
The Stranger
Billy Joel
MOVING OUT! and Scences From An Italian Restaurant. This album is basically all hits, though I don't know that I find Billy Joel especially compelling. It's supremely polished, no rough edges, and all about appealing to the widest audience possible. Which is a valid approach, but not one I find super compelling.
4
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Wed Dec 08 2021
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
I don't remember the huge extended musical intro to this album, though its got that early 70s grit. This album is so grand in vision scope and sound. It goes everywhere. Its incredible.
5
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Thu Dec 09 2021
Make Yourself
Incubus
The bass work is really wild. They have a great sense for song dynamics on Nowhere Fast. The album gets kind of same-y in the middle. Drive gives a breath of free air to this album. Battlestar is way out of place.
3
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Fri Dec 10 2021
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
This album is the mount olympus of music. Soaring highs, crushing lows, and the depth of human connection birthed from the most totured of circumstances.
5
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Mon Dec 13 2021
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
WE ARE THE ROBOTS. This album is all angles and geometry. Metropolis sounds way ahead of its time. Goddamn that specific song has been copy pasted to a wide variety of success about a billion times. The album as a whole is a great showcase of this sound and style. The influence it has on electronic music is hard to overstate.
4
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Tue Dec 14 2021
All Mod Cons
The Jam
This was meh. They have 1 good song, thats spread out between 12 songs. like too much bread and not enough butter.
3
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Wed Dec 15 2021
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
This album in it's entirety is more than Will The Circle Be Unbroken. Jesus what am in for? I am going to break this into two days of listening, because I am currently playing catchup so 2 albums a day isn't too bad. First 23 are filled with quirky and wonderful little songs like Reno Dakota, Chicken With Its Head Cut Off, etc. Come Back From San Fransico. Very TMBG vibes. Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side slaps. First 23 songs is good, though kind of tapers off the last third. 2nd album starts with Roses and Love Is Like Jazz, puts this on a darker and weirder footing. album 2 is super dark, Noone Will Ever Love You, If You Don't Cry and others. Long Forgotten Fairy Tale is G R O O V E. Papa Was A Rodeo is beautiful. I Shatter is a great way to end the 2nd album. Third album puts the album into an electronica space, very spacey and etherial. More groove in this one than album 2. Album 3 is just all over the place, like flying over the concept of love from 30,000ft away. Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin perfect example. Zebra is a fantastic, weird, shambolic, perfect way to end this towering weird monument to love songs.
5
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Thu Dec 16 2021
Dirty
Sonic Youth
I really don't understand the critical appeal of this band. Wish Fulfillment is the only song on the album to grab me even a little this far into it. This is like punk but without the point. Dear god this album sucks. Chapel Hill keeps this from being a 1 star album.
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Fri Dec 17 2021
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
System Of A Down had their sound basically fully formed on this album, in time to lead as kings of the nu metal scene. They have this sense of dynamism and groove that is so rare in this space. Tankian's voice soars on Spiders. Soil and War? both have powerful lyrics. Mind I am not too fond of.
4
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Mon Dec 20 2021
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
I don't see what the big deal of this band is, but maybe its more of an influence thing than an actual product thing. Of course, when Andy motherfucking Warhol makes your album art I guess that's a good sign. Venus In Furs is not great as a song but cool as an artistic expression. Heroin is a legitimate masterpiece work of art. European Son is minutes of aimless noodling and feedback. I am docking a star for that bullshit.
2
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Tue Dec 21 2021
The College Dropout
Kanye West
The narrative intro on this album is really engaging, I'm hooked. Jesus Walks comes in like a bomb on the first third of the album. I think the album feels bloated in the middle. Get 'Em High is pretty bland. The New Workout Plan is pretty fun and very influential. Slow Jamz kicks ass. I really like School Spirit. Through The Wire is really impressive. Last Call is nuts and I love it.
4
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Wed Dec 22 2021
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
southern boogie rock. its fine if thats your thing. Layla is a perennial hit.
3
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Thu Dec 23 2021
Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
This album was shoegaze. its was lame and boring.
2
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Fri Dec 24 2021
Paris 1919
John Cale
Paris 1919 is good. everything else is meh
3
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Mon Dec 27 2021
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
Probably the best sounding and arranged version of all of these songs. Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers is a weak song in general, even with the Phil Spector treatment. During the holiday season this is a 5, post holidays its a 3
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Tue Dec 28 2021
Tommy
The Who
I have a difficult time with concept albums, especially with linear story lines. I don't feel there is enough for me to grab on to and follow through in the music. The guitar work ranges from great to mediocre, but i think this would be worth another spin. Undertone is a good self contained groove. Pinball Wizard kicks ass. Sally Simpson is a cool groove. We're not Gonna Take It/See Me, Feel Me doesn't feel powerful enough musically to match the lyrical content cap of the album.
3
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Wed Dec 29 2021
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
Blues rock band featuring Rod Stewart as the front man. Smart and tight performed, this gives good vibes with a blues sound. Stay With Me is pretty gross, mainly because it puts the image of Rod Stewart having sex in my brain, which I could do without.
2
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Thu Dec 30 2021
Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
Alt Country? What in hell? This sucked ass
1
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Fri Dec 31 2021
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Hüsker Dü
This is fine. The guitar tone doesn't cut at all, so the sound seems a little too round for the style. Their sound is really reminiscent of a lot of bands, especially the vocal tone. Some of these songs I think could be really good, but the overly compressed sound and poor dynamic choices really hamstring this album's impact. Tell You Why Tomorrow is a perfect example.
2
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Mon Jan 03 2022
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
The title track has me curious. Looking For The Perfect Beat has a great intro. Renegades Of Funk is one of those great covers that couldn't be more different in its original version. The album leans in as hard into the new electronic production techniques of the time like on Go Go Pop. It sounds dated to modern ears but has a charm in its unabashed big boom hip hop styling.
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Tue Jan 04 2022
A Girl Called Dusty
Dusty Springfield
Dusty has a great soul voice. You Don't Own Me is a great tune. Will You Love Me Tomorrow and Wishin' And Hopin' are both classics. The album has great singles but there is not a unifying theme that ties the whole thing together.
3
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Wed Jan 05 2022
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
The third Nick Drake album! This I feel has the best sound of the three. It has a laser focus on nick's guitar work and his voice. The lyrics are more artistic and the songs in general more expressive. Things Behind The Sun for me is a standout track. Free Ride is another great example of this growth in sonic style.
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Thu Jan 06 2022
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
If you are into the melding point between Southern and classic rock, here it is. Walk This Way is too big to be ignored. The boogie is real on Big Ten Inch Record. Sweet Emotion is the other pillar of this album. It's just not something I'm interested in. The singles keep this from being a 2 star.
3
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Fri Jan 07 2022
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
48 minutes of ambient music, eh? well I guess. Eno says that this is music "Really, it’s music to resign you to the possibility of death." Its very calming after a while, so thats nice. Wow that album passed me by in a flash. Defintely soothing.
4
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Mon Jan 10 2022
The White Album
Beatles
In an album of stunning rock monuments and some of the most iconic pop culture statements, you get the colossal stinker Why Don't We Do It In The Road. Wild Honey Pie is in the same vein. The thing about this album is that the Beatles still had expiraments they wanted to do. It doesn't sound like a band ready to explode and splinter. Helter Skelter kicks so much ass. Revolution 1! Goddamn the final act of a cultural juggernaut.
5
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Tue Jan 11 2022
Pretenders
Pretenders
Love this sound! Precious is tight, great jagged guitar tones! This is everything I love about punk in the 80s. Personality. Great songs. A real great ear for how to orchestrate something as simple as 2 guitars, drums, bass, and vocals. Brass In Pocket is a great tune. I had so much fun listening to this album!
5
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Wed Jan 12 2022
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
The lyrics are actuallly quite clever in service of aggressively generic themes. In fact, the lyrics are to clever for the stories he's singing about. I Got You is a great example. Though it hits like a brick when you dig in on the title track. I hate the instrumentation. The Streets Of Bakersfield is underwhelming.
2
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Thu Jan 13 2022
Eliminator
ZZ Top
Give Me All Your Loving is a great boogying tune. Its not just the singles that have this deep and abiding sense of groove. What a kickass album.
5
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Fri Jan 14 2022
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
Thrashcore jazz? What in god? Holy shit, I guess we are in for a violent, unhinged jazz onslaught. Good Old Days takes a little off the gas pedal for some more synchronized power. The drums are just SO BOOMY! They sound like they are 50 feet away! This is a fun album to just sonically surf through. Ecars is a fun tune with the heaviest end beat imaginable. Mob Job is like a pulling up to the station as the last act of this jazz rollercoaster of bodyblows and razor blades.
4
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Mon Jan 17 2022
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
This album is like balm for the soul. The funk rock is just what I needed on this Friday.
5
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Tue Jan 18 2022
Be
Common
I love Common's beats, even if his vocals get kind of buried. They don't have that super in front compression. Oh shit it was produced by Kanye. That would make sense. Go is a great song. Testify kills.
4
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Wed Jan 19 2022
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
How is this better than Nirvana's Nevermind, Spin Magazine? It's watery garage rock. Yea this is like shitty Oasis.
2
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Thu Jan 20 2022
Ingenue
k.d. lang
Okay first track has me intrigued. Miss Chatelaine has a sort of easy riviara mood about it. Wash Me Clean has a nice hook.
4
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Fri Jan 21 2022
21
Adele
Adele has this million in 1 vocal presence. Its got so much color while sounding so effortless. The song writing is kind of 1 speed though. Its all ballads. The singles (4 of them) are stadium shakers, but this album as a whole doesn't seem to shift out of that mood. I'll Be Waiting is sonically what this album needed more of.
3
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Mon Jan 24 2022
Beautiful Freak
Eels
This is okay? Has an early Ben Folds vibe. Spunky Is probably my favorite track, but the whole album is at once pleasant and forgettable.
3
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Tue Jan 25 2022
Virgin Suicides
Air
First two tracks have me curious about where this going to go. Lots of elements in the sonic landscape that are being pulled in and blended. Dirty Trip has these chords that don't ever feel like home. Sets me on edge and I kind of dig it! And then the tension release on Highschool Lover is just everything! Suicide Underground is just a cool song, even wrapping in a synopsis.
4
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Wed Jan 26 2022
Soul Mining
The The
Uhhhhhh. There is some cool vocal melodies in here, but its just not for me.
3
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Thu Jan 27 2022
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
fuck this tedious and boring POS.
1
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Fri Jan 28 2022
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough is pretty explosive. Rock With You is another one. Off The Wall is buttery smooth. Damn this whole album is a pop disco masterpiece.
4
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Mon Jan 31 2022
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
Sally MacLennane is a great song. This album depends on your mood for that Irish folk style. right now this is hitting me on an above average day because it's friday.
4
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Tue Feb 01 2022
Low-Life
New Order
This is bland english dance pop right in the front. Face Up was probably the only track that I found interesting.
2
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Wed Feb 02 2022
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
Listening to these guys is 2022, they sound dated as hell. Like a last gasp of that southern rock sound. Hard To Handle is a hit but belongs back in the stone age. My issue is that this band's sound is so derivitive that its goes beyond homage. She Talks To Angels is the same spirit that this album needed more of. Alas, its more of the same after.
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Thu Feb 03 2022
Live Through This
Hole
Violet immediately hooks me with the great dynamics in the song writing. The acoustic guitar work is a real highlight, they use it to cut the sonic atmosphere of the booming guitars and drums and make it a real treat for the ears.
4
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Fri Feb 04 2022
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
very relaxing first two tracks, though with the average song being over 6 minutes, we are going to see if this album starts to wear out its welcome. Staralfur has the sappiest strings and is really effective right now, though the end leaves me cold. The rest of the album just sort of meanders aroud.
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Mon Feb 07 2022
Young Americans
David Bowie
Oh hell yes. Young Americans is a GROOVE. This whole album is a great reinvention of Bowie out of the glam and into soul. again proves that Bowie is the ultimate musical chameleon. The Across The Universe cover is killer. Fame is a great funk closer.
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Tue Feb 08 2022
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Alrighty, cant say I know much about this guy other than hallelugia. Master Song is kinda trippy and intriguing. This album was pleasant, but not really my thing.
3
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Wed Feb 09 2022
Doolittle
Pixies
Debaser has me smiling this morning. This is a terrific thrash around punk album with great breakbeats, song structure, and a killer sense of song and album dynamics. Gouge Away leaves a yearning feeling in its wake.
5
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Thu Feb 10 2022
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
This album is so bouncy and fun, constantly weaving these grooves from all over. Radio is a jam. A Different Feeling reminds me of old Daft Punk. Frontier Psychologist is a favorite. Etoh into Summer Crane is smooth like butter.
5
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Fri Feb 11 2022
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
Don Fagan, of Steely Dan fame, cutting tracks on his own. The recording style is T I G H T. I.G.Y feels meticulously crafted, with not a beat out of place. This album is very best of this style of sound. There is something so perfect about it, it feels stripped of its spontaneity.
4
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Mon Feb 14 2022
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
Holy shit a 2 hour double album. well strap in I guess. Unhappy is a mix of busy melody, groove, and a really interesting rape flow structure. The Way You Move is on this album? This is great. Church is a really cool, odd sounding song. Speakerboxx, great rap album. The Love Below is much more expiramental and I don't know where to latch on to it. The guy shouting ICE COLD on Where Are My Panties is my hero. Prototype slaps. Hey Ya kicks so much booooootaayy and then is followed up by Roses. She's Alive is a poignant song. A blistering backbeat on My Favorite Things adds a pretty awesome dimension to the song.
5
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Tue Feb 15 2022
No Other
Gene Clark
A classic country album. Silver Raven has some interesting vocal moments. Halfway in and I can't say I have found anything that really grabbed me thus far. Some Misunderstanding is another standout song. meh
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Wed Feb 16 2022
Thriller
Michael Jackson
Ok so we are going to do the greatest pop album thats ever been made. Coolcoolcoolcool. Baby Be Mine has a couple wild transitions in the middle that caught me way off guard. The middle of this album is so stacked with hits that it is hard to ignore. I don't find it as good as Bad but better than Off The Wall if I had to do a shootout of MJ albums.
5
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Thu Feb 17 2022
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
Let's go Missy! The sampling on this album is really heavy on the soul and jazz which gives the songs this sense of cool thats hard to beat. Work It is a generational groove. Back In The Day is just all up in my face with Jay giving the opening rap. Pussycat is incredibly explicit, but Missy comes in with an explainer. Aight cool. This album was great I loved it a bunch.
5
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Fri Feb 18 2022
Street Life
The Crusaders
Street Lights is a poppin' 70s groove. There is plenty to groove on in this album but nothing really feels spicy or exotic in the jazz styling. It feels closer to jam band music than jazz.
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Mon Feb 21 2022
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
Oh yea buddy. What Is and What Should Never Be is a great example of the range that Zepplin found in being able to explore this heavy sonic space. There is a lot of blues in this, which is not my favorite; see The Lemon Song. Ramble On is a perfect song. Moby Dick is a shit song. This album is just so blues heavy that I cant say i loved it. Good album I can appreciate the sonic space they were staking, but its not for me.
3
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Tue Feb 22 2022
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
Band On The Run is a fine song and album opener. Dear lord, this side A is boring. Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me) has some fun shifts and textures.
2
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Wed Feb 23 2022
Basket of Light
Pentangle
Same kind of folk sound like some of the earlier folk albums on the list from the same time period. Pleasant folk noodling. Folk noodling. Aghhh this is just not my cup of tea. Its fine?
3
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Thu Feb 24 2022
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
Lyrics by Woodie Guthrie, music by Billy Bragg, with Wilco as the backing band. What a wacky idea. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key has a familiar melody and is a great song. Birds And Ships is great. The compression on Hoodoo Voodoo basically sucks the life right out of it. She Came Along To Me has a knock at the facists. Thanks for that Woodie, kind of crazy how of all the things coming back into fashion, thats one of them. Eisler On The Go, Hesitating Beauty. Lots of great songs on this record.
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Fri Feb 25 2022
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
The Ace Of Spades sets the tone and boy does this album never shift out of that gear. Jailbait is a rather unfortunate song. This album is peak 80s mysogeny, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. (We Are) The Road Crew is a nice send up for the tough life of a stage crew.
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Mon Feb 28 2022
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Plenty of personal history with this album. Greased funk bassline grooves with Anthony's mercurial lyrical delivery comes together to make a really sonic statement. Power of Equality into If You Have You Have To Ask is smooth and sets the tone for the real groove flexibility the Chili Peppers display on the album. Breaking The Girl is a titan of a song. Suck My Kiss is another. The connective tissue on this record does the important work of creating the space for these monster hits. I Could Have Lied is a sleeper hit on the record. Give It Away punches us all in the face with how it takes over, with the most absolute insane soundscape. Followed immediately by Under The Bridge. Goddamn the hits literally cannot be stoped. The best part is there is this true thread that runs through all of these songs. They're Red Hot is a nice little bow on the end of the sprawling Mr Psycho Sexy. What a goddamn album.
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Tue Mar 01 2022
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
There is a huge laundry list of artists on this one. Also 4 different production teams? Tina's vocal delivery is POWER. What's Love Got To Do With It is a killer sad song. Can't Stand The Rain has that horns in a can sound, but it's only just on the verge of being too much. Let's Stay Together is a wild cover. Again, it borders on too much and I think crosses that line. Steel Claw is a raccous boogie. Though there is a lot of lyrically whiplash on this album. The Help! cover is not my favorite. The 1984 cover I think is spot on. So on balance I have no idea where to put this album. Will need to revisit this.
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Wed Mar 02 2022
Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
Double Vegetation has a cool 90's alt vibe. The whole album is like that, so it gets a little old by the middle of the album.
3
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Thu Mar 03 2022
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
This is good morning music. I am finding it a useful tool to focus my energy where I want it after a grumpy start this morning. All The Pictures On The Wall is a good tune. Shadow Of The Sun is another one.
4
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Fri Mar 04 2022
Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
Mostly haunted and not really dancehall
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Mon Mar 07 2022
The Wall
Pink Floyd
Time to scale The Wall, I guess. To break this album up into tracks is almost a disservice. The story is so well told, a perfect marriage of lyrics and music. The orchestration allows for the lyrics to be clear as day and all of the associated background, atmospherics only furthers the narrative. Mother is the most disturbing rock song. The perfect concept album against which every single one after will be compared to.
5
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Tue Mar 08 2022
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Blue Rondo A La Turk is such a fun time piece. This is the home of the complete door busting hit Take Five. Damn this album is good.
5
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Wed Mar 09 2022
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
The lyrics are poetic with a delivery that is genuinely catches me off balance. I have heard this album is a slow burn so I will see. Death To Everyone is good and creepy. Black is good. I get the lyrics, but it didn't really convince me of anything. Maybe worth a relisten?
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Thu Mar 10 2022
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
Back At The Chicken Shack doesn't ever say anthing interesting as it remains locked to its 12 bars like a weight around its neck. When I Grow To Old To Dream is a good track. Minor Chant is also a good listen, though I am generally not a huge organ jazz kind of guy. Yea I enjoyed every track on this other then the title track. Does it go wild off kilter places? no. But this was absolutely pleasant.
4
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Fri Mar 11 2022
Tago Mago
Can
Interesting blend of rock and out there ambient expiramentation. Cool as a museum piece. Aumgn is a deep trip down the rabbit hole. Peking-O is a bundle of trash falling on a crazy cat lady.
2
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Mon Mar 14 2022
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
Big Iron is a fun song. There are some actually really nice musical progressions and modulations. All the songs have these tight narratives, and are just so enjoyable. The Master's Call is christian fan fic, though a god killing 100 cattle with a lighting bolt is pretty rad. El Paso is really violent for such an upbeat song. This was a great time.
4
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Tue Mar 15 2022
Phrenology
The Roots
This is one of those rap albums that better lyrically minded listeners can parse. The album goes a lot of musical directions with its orchestration and is definetly a kitchen sink style. Definetly worth a revisit. Break You Off is so smooth.
4
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Wed Mar 16 2022
Damaged
Black Flag
YESSSSSSS!!!!! Rise Above punches people in the face. TV Party is funny. This is a decent punk record and you can hear the seeds of something more approachable and also the start of the more modern hardcore movement. But as an album on its own? not my favorite punk record.
4
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Thu Mar 17 2022
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
Surfside beach blues tunes. The thing about Clapton is these songs are not locked to a blues traditionalist pattern and the ornamentation is more thoughtful. Still, the songs are that consistent mid tempo dad rock that is very mood dependent for me. I Shot The Sheriff is a great tune. the back side of this record is pretty dull.
3
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Fri Mar 18 2022
Black Monk Time
The Monks
This is a punk album before punk even knew what it was. Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy is a perfect example. Complication is a sound straight out of the 80s almost 15 years before its time. Drunken Maria is another one.
4
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Mon Mar 21 2022
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
This is cool as a museum piece. Like looking at a fossil of rock and picking out elements in it that would be refined over and over. The songs themselves are fine but I'm pretty full of this kind of sound. the fact that its in mono is also a bummer. Shangri-La is a good track. This would be a fun concert.
3
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Tue Mar 22 2022
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
Ugh can i get out of the 60s yet? Its a decade that I cant seem to hate but also cant seem to wholly love. Honestly every song has this mid tempo genre soup with that one overdrive guitar sound. the mixes are great on this album.
3
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Wed Mar 23 2022
Scott 4
Scott Walker
Blergh. This album is pretty boring.
2
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Thu Mar 24 2022
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
This album is like 80s bjork and a little sarah bareilles. Suspended in Gaffa is really a wild ride. Night Of The Swallow hits its stride right at the last third of the song. Houdini is Kate Bush letting it R I P. Man what a weird art rock album. Maybe worth a relisten?
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Fri Mar 25 2022
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Absolutely smashing drums. Dave grohl storming the scene. That double overdrive guitar. Sounds like the band that took over the world. Crazy to think dave recorded all the parts himself and only brought a band together to play it live.
5
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Mon Mar 28 2022
Sound Affects
The Jam
Love that bass tone. Set The House Ablaze kicks ass. Music For The Last Couple starts way in left field. The back half of the album sort of loses its way but that was excellent!
4
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Tue Mar 29 2022
L.A. Woman
The Doors
Its a return to the Doors blues roots. Changeling has some of that magic that brought this group to superstardom. Love Her Madly is another catchy tune. But we hit Cars Hiss By My Window and things slow waaay down. L.A. Woman is a good tune. L'America is bullshit. Snake King and WASP are bullshit. Riders Of The Storm makes no sense as to why it's as big a hit as it is.
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Wed Mar 30 2022
Kenza
Khaled
kinda cool, never heard of an Algerian artist before. straight ahead pop with a mix of this almost bollywood style vocal sound. But then C'est La Nuit is a totally different vocal texture. Kind of a straight up cover of Imagine, but sure it's nice. Trigue Lycee is a fucking bop. This album goes a lot of places sonically. Goulalah - Dji is a prefect example. Wow what a great listen!
5
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Thu Mar 31 2022
Who's Next
The Who
Baba O’Riley is a stadium shaker. And then Bargin is the two and cements this as one of the strongest opening one-twos in all of rock. The Song Is Over has the worst synth tone for a ballad. Getting In Tune strikes the right balance for a slower, more operatic feeling song. Behind Blue Eyes is great. Won't Get Fooled Again is another fanstastic stadium closer. Honestly, the strength of the Lifehouse songs on this is more than enough to merit a 5 from me.
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Fri Apr 01 2022
Arise
Sepultura
That vocal just sits in the perfect spot in the mix. Dead Embryonic Cells is as heavy as any song could get get at this time. Digging the into on Desperate Cry. However this album really feels repetitive. It doesn't go anywhere. The wild solo on Subtraction could have had more room to breathe. The Orgasmatron cover puts it into the same sonic style as the rest of the album, which felt like a chore to listen to.
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Mon Apr 04 2022
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
How was Shame On A N***a ever given a radio friendly version? The sampling on this record is awesome. The way they break this up with different long form interviews and samples, this is more than an album. It's a manifesto. Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta Fuck Wit is the start of and a high point in the entire gangsta rap genre. Its also an incredibly DARK album, especially on the break right before M.E.T.H.O.D. Man.
5
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Tue Apr 05 2022
Bossanova
Pixies
Woah there is some chugga in this opening track. Velouria is a cool 90s track. Is She Weird is a real power fun example of this 90s proto alt sound. Havalina is a good closer.
4
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Wed Apr 06 2022
Suede
Suede
Britpop the band. yep, its brit pop alright.
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Thu Apr 07 2022
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
A cool like country roots album. "I need to spend some money and it won't wait" The title track is a good groove with excellent and grabbing lyrics.
4
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Fri Apr 08 2022
Live!
Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti clocking in another smooth funk masterpiece. Ginger Baker absolutely kills it on the drums.
5
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Mon Apr 11 2022
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
Story of Isaac sucks ass. I really don't see the appeal of this guy. He is continually flat, has the intonation of a dead goldfish and is just not interesting to listen to. Tonight Will Be Fine adds insult to injury with a goddamn recorder and whistle solo.
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Tue Apr 12 2022
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
Stop is a strong opener. Ain't No Right is way out there. This album really is not afraid to graft a new sound or texture onto the core of straight ahead hard rock. 3 Days is a great song and then straight into Then She Did. Classic Girl is a wonderful send up.
5
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Wed Apr 13 2022
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
I am struggling to find anything to say about this album. Its just such a blatant doors ripoff. I got through the album no problem but cant say that I would want to go back to it. The Toonerville Trolley is a real piece of shit and is a star demerit.
1
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Fri Apr 15 2022
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
Early dub and ambient. music to have a psychotic beak with reality to.
3
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Mon Apr 18 2022
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Talking About A Revolution into Fast Car is awesome. Behind The Wall is awesome. Very nice album.
4
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Tue Apr 19 2022
Horses
Patti Smith
This opens like its from the 70s. Redondo Beach is a fun forward feeling song. Birdland is a strange song choice for the third spot, but if a spoken work poem is more your speed then its fine. It has fun dynamics at least. Break It Up is a cool ballad. I'm on the fence on if I want to hear this one again.
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Wed Apr 20 2022
The Undertones
The Undertones
Let's go baby. The drums on Family Entertainment is the big hook. A collection of grooving, uptempo old school Brit punk.
5
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Thu Apr 21 2022
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
OOOOOOO great album. The expiramentation lends the album this off kilter, shambling kind of feel. Reminds me of a Tom Waits feeling. Relay is probably the song that grabs me the most. For Her is a heavenly blend of harmonies and rage.
5
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Fri Apr 22 2022
High Violet
The National
Terrible Love is an interesting song to put in the 1 spot. Sorrow was a single I remember fondly. Im just not really into it.
3
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Mon Apr 25 2022
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Let's go Kendrick. I don't have the best ears for lyrics, but Kendrick's beat and instrumentation is a real treat for the ears. i is such a release from a lot of the heaviness inside the album.
5
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Tue Apr 26 2022
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
Em's ultraviolent LP is a full exploration of the Slim Shady character is twisted, disturbing, and full of hot button celebrity culture chicanery. The songs themselves are tight and the samples come together to have incredible sonic textures; see Just Don't Give A Fuck. I can't tell if I was angry when I started listening to this album or if listening to this album made me angry.
4
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Wed Apr 27 2022
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
fun dub record. if dub is your thing. Bussing is feeling my speed this morning.
3
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Thu Apr 28 2022
Rapture
Anita Baker
That bass is killer. That's about it. kind of like a knock off diana ross
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Fri Apr 29 2022
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
Things Done Changed is a song for history books. Gimme The Loot is a rad song. Biggie's flow was very beat and rhythm focused. There is a great sense of where a word falls in relation to the beat and he can choose where on it he falls. His story telling is crystal clear, though I don't really find the story he's telling all that interesting halfway through. Method Man's appearance on The What is killer. Juicy is a stellar track. Everyday Struggle starts to show the cracks in the character of Biggie, which is the drama his story telling. It's just not interesting to listen to someone tell a story about how great he is at sex or whatever, see One More Chance. There is no tension, no struggle. It becomes more of an advertisement than a story. Big Poppa is a huge single. Friend Of Mine is kind of a trash song. Suicidal Thoughts is the fall of a titan, and is the only proper way to end this album.
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Mon May 02 2022
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
I love that Steely Dan sound. Smooth, elegant, barbs in all the right places. The whole thing polished like a disco ball. Do It Again into Dirty Work is a great one two. Reelin' In The Years is another amazing classic. What a collection of great songs on the same sonic effort.
5
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Tue May 03 2022
Risque
CHIC
Good Times!! This is a album full of peak 70's disco boogie funk goodness.
5
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Wed May 04 2022
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
oh man and the hits keep coming! I am such a sucker for this Steely Dan sound. Barrytown, Night By Night are great first side sleepers and the East St. Louis Toodle-OO is a really fun jazz cover. Parkers Band and Charlie Freak are both bouncing jazz fueled pop sendups. Its just such a short stinger of an album.
5
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Thu May 05 2022
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
I remember this being a huge album in the college environmental community. God I hated that music. time, distance, and a general broadening of my musical horizons might give me a better chance to listen to this. The harmony work right off the bat is ethereal and tight. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song is a good tune, I just don't like it. These high harmonies and the spacy open verb are good and I can see the appeal, I just don't really like it. its like modern church choir music.
3
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Fri May 06 2022
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
This is an interesting sound. if dub is your thing then this is your album. Hymn Of The Big Wheel is dope.
3
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Mon May 09 2022
The Specials
The Specials
STOP YOUR MESSIN' AROUND! The drums sound like they were recorded in an alley for Do The Dog. Nite Klub has that party ska sound that just took over the world. Much of this album is like a single speed bike. This is not an album for range but its very fun for a pleasure cruise. Stupid Marriage is good. Too Much Too Young. I didn't know Little Bitch was a Specials song!
4
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Tue May 10 2022
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
This is really upbeat for a Smiths record. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others is a certified banger!
4
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Wed May 11 2022
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
This album is disturbing and glam. The title track has the extended free jazz solo that sounds like razor blades falling down a bunch of stairs. Panic In Detroit is probably my favorite song on the album. No, it's Cracked Actor. No, Let's Spend The Night Together is it. No, it's Jean Genie! this album goes to some fabulously depraved places with a vaudeville sensibility. Almost to say "Come See The Freak Show, Watch The Descent From The Bottom Up!"
5
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Thu May 12 2022
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
Come As You Are is heightened by it being acoustic. The Man Who Sold The World takes on a whole new meaning when Kurt sings it. Something In The Way is a good cut. Never knew Lake Of Fire was a cover, specifically this version coming from a live album.
4
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Fri May 13 2022
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
Dreamer is a cool song. Thoughts Of You follows up and is also really stretches its dyanmic muscles. Decent album but im not really into the Wilson brothers mystique
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Mon May 16 2022
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners is one of the odd ball tunes. Its so spikey and angular, especially in 1957. I love this album just like I love all of Monk's music.
5
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Tue May 17 2022
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
Keep The Car Running is a good tune. My big thing with Arcade Fire is that I am not up for trying to parse their lyrics and dig into what they are trying to say. There is a fair amount of depth in their instrumentation. Honestly, this album seems like some great elaborate attack that completely missed me.
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Wed May 18 2022
Guitar Town
Steve Earle
Honky tonkin guitar from the 80s. if thats your vibe then boy howdy do we have an album for you. Its well produced, and Steve's voice has a charm, I just dont like this hyper prodcued country sound.
3
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Thu May 19 2022
Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
Avalanche is great guitar work with dumb vocals. "The crumbs of love" yes indeed, Lenny. "Like the shy one at an orgy". Another classic line, Lenny. Diamonds In The Mine sounds like he is going nuts.
1
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Fri May 20 2022
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
I'm feeling the groove on Mr. Self Destruct and then on Piggy. Closer is an awesome genre bending single. Hurt is a banger.
4
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Mon May 23 2022
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
Goddamn I love Matthew Bellamey's voice. His falsetto is so clean, I hate it! Starlight is great. Supermassive Black Hole is entertaining. Soldier's Poem is very Queen-esque. Knights of Cydonia is just so good. Gosh this album was such ear candy I can't help giving it a high ranking even if it doesn't converge on some grand ideal.
4
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Tue May 24 2022
Bad Company
Bad Company
BLUUUUEEEEESSSSSS RROOOOOOCCCCCCKKKK. Bad Company is at its best when they stretch out their songwriting chops and get a little more ballady. And hey if blues rock is up your alley then these guys are what you want. if not, boy you are in for a long time. Crazy thing is they were english, even though I associate them with the Southern Rock sub genre. This is an album for divorced uncles.
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Wed May 25 2022
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
Wouldn't It Be Nice is a great masterclass in harmony. I'm Waiting For Today has a couple weird lyrics but is a solid song. Let's Go Away For A While is a song? God Only Knows is a killer song. Caroline, No is another cool track. Definetly worth a respin. Weird album though.
4
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Thu May 26 2022
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cinnamon Girl and Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere are a goo pair of openers, by Down By The River is 9 minutes about nothing. Again I don't get why so many people have a hard on for this sound. Cowgirl In The Sand is 10 minutes of bullshit.
2
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Fri May 27 2022
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
Heard It Through The Grapevine is given an upbeat cover and I don't hate it! meh on the whole album.
3
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Mon May 30 2022
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
Oh god damnit. His version of Girl From Ipanema is not terrible but there are other versions that i enjoy way better. The orchestration on the track is good. I still think Frank Sinatra is hilariously overrated because he is at best a 2nd rate vocal talent. However, his voice on this record is tempered by the softness of the orchestration. This modulation to a less forceful vocal texture makes his voice more palatable, at least to me. Also a change-up to a bossa nova record allows for a different viewing of the same voice. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars and Meditation almost sound the same, though the latter has more of Frank's "upper register" which basically is just the sound of peanut butter melting on a string section. I Concentrate On You fucking sucks. Once I Loved also fucking sucks. Bossa Nova is a great music genre I will have to look more into and I still hate Frank Sinatra.
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Tue May 31 2022
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
4 songs for Herbie Hancock to lay it down. Chameleon is a solid funky groove all the way through and changes its stripes at set intervals. Watermelon Man is cool. Vein Melter also very cool.
4
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Wed Jun 01 2022
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
Feels wacky having this be the second album after Herbie Hancock's Headhunters today. This guy is smooth and with a silky upper register. Til The Cops Come Knockin' is a song that drips.
4
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Thu Jun 02 2022
Rip It Up
Orange Juice
kind of a col mix of Bowie and Talking Heads. Breakfast Time sucks. Yea I am not into this by Flesh Of My Flesh.
2
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Fri Jun 03 2022
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Pretty cool swing and lyrical delivery. Nice acoustic stylings in a straight ahead, not presumptuous manner.
4
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Mon Jun 06 2022
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
Darkness Darkness and Smug is a solid 1-2. The middle is pretty meh with the exceptional line "If the world was peanut butter/We'd be sticking by each other".
3
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Tue Jun 07 2022
Close To The Edge
Yes
oh holy shit 3 songs, 37+minutes. what in tarnation? Close To The Edge is heckin rad! woah what an incredible album
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Wed Jun 08 2022
Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Song Of Joy gets this off to a spooky start. Curse Of Millhaven is rad. Wild Rose is okay but not my favorite on the album. O'Malley's Bar is a long string of murderous delight.
4
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Thu Jun 09 2022
Wild Gift
X
Some Other Time is a cool song. pretty bland punk sound.
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Fri Jun 10 2022
Smash
The Offspring
17 year old me is screaming right now. Nitro still kicks ass, Bad Habit is still morbid fun. I find a lot of the albums brightest songs are the non-singles. Something To Believe In, Killboy Powerhead, So Alone are all fun songs. The singles on the album I feel are pretty dusty and tired but there is still a lot of nostalgia driven love for this album.
5
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Mon Jun 13 2022
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
OoOoOoOOOOOOOO. I feel a little uncomfotable listening to this in the morning of a work day. but oooooooo Let's Get It On has gotten countless hopeless fools laid so its irresistable. Marvin's upper register is woah! If I Should Die Tonight is a great song.
5
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Tue Jun 14 2022
Hejira
Joni Mitchell
Really cool guitar tones on this one. Blue Motel Room is a sweet low swung song. totally worth a revisit.
4
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Wed Jun 15 2022
Yeezus
Kanye West
As much as I hate Kanye's ego, the first two tracks have me interested. BLKKK SKKKN HEAD has a great, light swing with very grounding textures. New Slaves has a big juicy hook. Bound 2s music video is stupid, but the song is alright. pretty solid record on the whole. a lot of musical texture to give it body.
4
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Thu Jun 16 2022
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
The youtube link is all fucked. so I'm not going to get a clean run at this album. Though thats not a huge loss, three tracks in and its a big boring nothing burger so far. It lacks any apprechiable drive, or forward thrust. just sort of floating noodling. Then Revolution happens and the whole space thing is dissolved into something just as aimless but with rhythm. I don't think I have liked a single track thus far and its time for the 11 minute song Suicide. God, what a turd.
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Fri Jun 17 2022
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
This album kicks ass. The aimless noodling on Moonchild is a bit much though. come on guys. Court of the Crimson King is just so good.
4
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Mon Jun 20 2022
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
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Tue Jun 21 2022
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
Shout has me off the bat interested in where this album goes. Everybody Wants To Rule The World is a perenial hit. The rest is just sort of filler.
3
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Wed Jun 22 2022
Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
This is fun in a barn party sort of way. depends heavily on how into barn parties you are into at time of listening. Motor City Burning is just a heavy blues song.
2
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Thu Jun 23 2022
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
this is a fine early punk album.
3
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Fri Jun 24 2022
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
These guys suck on an album. Behind The Door is the only song so far that has gotten my interest. The story of early punk and hardcore band beef is honestly the dumbest shit.
2
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Mon Jun 27 2022
Siembra
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
OOOOO the slick funked out groove immediately has my attention. I like this salsa. I have absoltely heard Pedro Navaja before. And it fucking slaps.
5
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Tue Jun 28 2022
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
oh god its a live blues rock album. It's actually surprisingly tolerable if you just go ahead and ignore it, which is pretty easy to do. God I wish this stupid guitar solo would stop. Dear lord, its me. I am trapped in this neverending blues extravaganza. Down here, a Hammond organ and the blandest overdriven guitars do basic pentatonic solos with occassional blues notes follwed by 1 4 5 4 progressions. There is no color. There is respite. There is no where to hide. Only the blues. This was like 15 mins of music stretched out to almost 2 and a half hours.
1
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Wed Jun 29 2022
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On Wax
This is a laid back, slow burn of an album. This is actually great for getting work done to.
4
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Thu Jun 30 2022
Homework
Daft Punk
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO. This is an album I have loved for so many years. They took the world by storm and laid the foundation for the electronica explosion that was to come. Around The World has the best video.
5
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Fri Jul 01 2022
This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The songs are upbeat, driving and have a sense of purpose. Pump It Up is a killer hit. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea is a good showcase of brit punk/pop. Great album, will need to revisit
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Mon Jul 04 2022
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
Sympathy For The Devil is pretty tired at this point, No Expectations wisely takes things into a lower gear. There is a lot of roots american and blues acoustic on this record. Prodigal Son is a great song.
3
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Tue Jul 05 2022
Urban Hymns
The Verve
Bittersweet Symphony is a throwback hit. This is like a slower, proto-Muse. Its pretty inoffensive.
3
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Wed Jul 06 2022
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
First song is a hit. the rest is just psychadelia.
2
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Thu Jul 07 2022
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
This is really cool sounding, like a Foo Fighters, but the vocals are this light airy thing balanced on these guitars that want to take off on a heavy Nirvana track. This was really enjoyable
4
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Fri Jul 08 2022
A Northern Soul
The Verve
Its 90s brit rock. if its for you its for you. It sort of bounces off me. I am not a huge fan of the lead singer's upper register.
3
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Mon Jul 11 2022
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
I wouldn't want to be the follow-up album to Rumors either. Over & Over starts on a pretty somber and slow foot. Its very ethereal and transitory. 10 songs in and Sisters Of The Moon is the first song I have liked on this. Tusk is a lot of fun. Ultimately, the album itself is not bad, not great, with a couple fun songs and other I'm not very keen on.
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Tue Jul 12 2022
Me Against The World
2Pac
The title track is a huge hit. Too Many Tears is also really introspective and fresh sounding. Heavy In The Game and Lord Knows are both songs I enjoy. This album is a no holds bared look into Tupac, similar in vision to Biggie's Ready To Die. Outlaw I am not too enthused about.
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Wed Jul 13 2022
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
I don't really like the Stones. Gimmie Shelter is like all of the backing parts of a song just got fully fleshed out but no song in the middle of it. Country Honk makes me want to die. I am really not in the mood for these clowns this morning. You Can't Always Get What You Want is a great tune. and that is what keeps this album from being a 1 imho.
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Thu Jul 14 2022
LP1
FKA twigs
Weeeeiirrrd. Okay so a sort of tight vocal electronic sound. This is like Ellie Goulding but wayyy more art. The electronics are way more angular, grooves more alien. The vocal textures are at times so lush but always so crystal. This was really great music to read the new chainsaw man to.
4
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Fri Jul 15 2022
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
Bombast has me feeling the groove. The hooks are a lot like what I used to write when I was just learning guitar. In fact, these songs sound like a bunch of songs that any modern garage band could come up with. I am not particularly taken with it but I don't really hate it either.
3
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Mon Jul 18 2022
Murmur
R.E.M.
This is a good album and has a lot of good things going on, I am just not in the right headspace to take it in. 9-9 is a great song. This album was good, so i will throw a 4 on it so i can revisit it.
4
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Tue Jul 19 2022
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
This was good, if a bit wistful and short.
4
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Wed Jul 20 2022
Hunting High And Low
a-ha
This starts with Take On Me? Wow that's a high mark to keep up. Hunting High and Low is deceptively complex. Every time I seem to wane interest in the sound, there is a new thing thrown in.
4
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Thu Jul 21 2022
Amnesiac
Radiohead
Is this a house or industrial album? Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors is very odd. This feels pretty irritating. God I hate Thom Yorke. Dollars And Cents is self important, self indulgent, and fucking boring. Living In A Glass House is way out in nowhere in context of the rest of this album.
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Fri Jul 22 2022
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
Four Women is indeed unforgettable. What More Can I Say is a soaring ballad, though its place on the tracklist is strange. The Lilac Wine cover is excellent. Why Keep On Breaking My Heart is Nina showing off. Wild Is The Wind is very nice. Great Album!
5
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Mon Jul 25 2022
Either Or
Elliott Smith
I am really hooked by this sound in the first few songs. Interesting vocal textures. Rose Parade is another great tune. Say Yes is a great tune! What an excellent album!
5
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Tue Jul 26 2022
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
With Mr. Blue Sky being on this album, the more important thing is trying to figure out the non-hits. Its got a lot of duwop and tight Brian Wilson like harmony. Jungle is a fun song. Summer and Lightning is a great tune.
4
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Wed Jul 27 2022
Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
the first track still has me 4 minutes in. though holy shit your first two tracks are combined almost a half hour!? Confusion The Waitress is a solid dub/jungle sound. Its a pretty inocuous album but I have been able to get some solid work done this morning.
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Thu Jul 28 2022
Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart
I don't like their voice. I really don't like this. Yep, still don't like it even with it being in spanish and 4 and a half songs to go. This folk singer songwriter sound has never appealed to me and its sort of nice to know that it still very much does not.
1
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Fri Jul 29 2022
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
This is pretty bland and generic, though its not as much of a torture session as yesterday's
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Mon Aug 01 2022
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Cecilia is a hit. This album has a lot of sonic whiplash in it. some songs are these upbeat dance hall jams, then you hit So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright like a brick wall. The Boxer is a killer song. Bye Bye Love is another good tune. This was a good album!
5
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Tue Aug 02 2022
Let It Be
The Replacements
This is a very digestible punk album. lots of sonic grit that is mixed very well, 3 tracks in.
4
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Wed Aug 03 2022
Nowhere
Ride
This was upbeat enough to keep me entertained but it doesnt do much for me. Vapor Trail is a good track.
3
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Thu Aug 04 2022
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave is a story teller seemingly out of time. His lyrics are sooooo cryptic. "And I slid my little songs out from under you" is a good line. This is a concept album that has well and truely flown right over my head. I like Nick Cave's voice and the way he delivers his words. will have to come back to.
4
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Fri Aug 05 2022
Snivilisation
Orbital
Cool house/trap sound.
4
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Mon Aug 08 2022
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
Title track is a fucking bop. The Passenger is fucking bop. The rest I can do without.
3
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Tue Aug 09 2022
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
holy shit sarah sounds great! Sarah Vaugn makes each song leap to life and is just so effortlessly musical. That and so playful with her skat and call outs to various artists and flubs.
5
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Wed Aug 10 2022
OK
Talvin Singh
This is a very refreshing album this morning, Travelor is very busy yet free at at the same time. Its lush sound really just hit right today.
5
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Thu Aug 11 2022
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
RAGE! Filled with heavy hitting singles and an overtly political sensibility, Rage synthesized a rap-rock sound that only has sparsly been replicated with success by others.
5
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Fri Aug 12 2022
Microshift
Hookworms
Big Kraftwerk energy. very boppable and enjoyable.
4
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Mon Aug 15 2022
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
Cool textures and rythms are found throughout.
5
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Tue Aug 16 2022
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
Cities is a real bop. The Talking Heads really lean into this funk disco sound on the open tracks on this album. Life During Wartime is rad.
4
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Wed Aug 17 2022
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
This album has a lot of baggage for me but here's hoping I have fresh ears to listen. I think the non-singles on this are really solid. I remember Anarchy in The UK being a dogshit song and I wrote off the rest of the album. Three songs in and its pretty solid! Yep, still a piece of shit song. Its a pretty single note album, but its a landmark. I mean its not something I would pick out but its not something I would turn off.
3
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Thu Aug 18 2022
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
The day has come. I mean saying fuck 48 or whatever times i guess is an accomplishment. Having just listened to Rage's self titled, there are so many sonic parallels, but replacing Zach D with Fred Durst is almost a crime. So its the complete vapidity of the lyrics, coupled with Fred Durst having a voice for silent film makes me feel so down about this album. Like the instrumentals are actually pretty competent and the sonic structure is sold. It's not just the lyrics, I also don't think his voice is a good fit for this style. Rollin' is a bonafide piece of shit song. It'll Be Okay has some great hooks, and if it had Chester, I would believe that this was a Linkin Park track. Jesus, why is there a 9min outro?!
2
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Fri Aug 19 2022
Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs
peak 90s alt sounds.
3
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Mon Aug 22 2022
Back In Black
AC/DC
What am I, 12 again?! The sexism is pretty blatant, but the guitar riffs I find immediately hookable. Back In Black into You Shook Me All Night Long is a classic 1-2 punch right in the middle of the album. Its just over so quick!
4
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Tue Aug 23 2022
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
weird brit psychodelia. Its fun to listen to but ultimately missable.
3
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Wed Aug 24 2022
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
Sweet Thing has an extended hommage to Blackbird. An okay folk album, not really my scene but totally fine.
3
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Thu Aug 25 2022
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
Its a send up of a lot of classic rock sounds from the late 70s and early 80s. The hard rock sounds are somehow nostalgic and new. While i think it goes hard, I havent found something to really latch onto. I am also not a huge fan of the singers voice with this sound.
3
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Fri Aug 26 2022
2112
Rush
Cool to know this is the first instance of the "Rush sound". Overture definitely has that boom, geddy's wild voice, cryptic fantasy lyrics, ripping guitar solos.
4
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Mon Aug 29 2022
The La's
The La's
I am immediately intriuged. Oh its the There She Goes band. This was good but i don't know that I liked it enough to relisten.
3
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Tue Aug 30 2022
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
This is pretty good. Sufjan experiments widely with textures, rythyms, and instrumentation to make an indie darling of an album. Reminds me of the genre fluid soup sounds of the 1960s.
4
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Wed Aug 31 2022
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
AQUALUNG! Honestly, I dont really care for the rest of the album.
3
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Thu Sep 01 2022
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
The bass is in your face, the drums are fast, and the guitar lines are hooky. The vocals are distinctive. This is an album genetically engineered to get a high score from me. I like the harmony on Lust To Love. They Got The Beat is still a fun song, even if it was drilled into me from guitar hero. A great album I had fun all the way through.
4
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Fri Sep 02 2022
Bummed
Happy Mondays
This is a sold meh from me.
2
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Mon Sep 05 2022
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
Butter is the first song that really grabbed me this morning. Their instrumentation and sampling is almost jazz like. I don't really care about their lyrics, a lot of them feel very static, with sort of dead end end rhyming schemes.
3
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Tue Sep 06 2022
Stardust
Willie Nelson
Blue Skies and All of Me are standouts. The arrangement is generally sparse, letting Willie do his thing. On the Sunny Side of the Street is another highpoint.
4
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Wed Sep 07 2022
Here, My Dear
Marvin Gaye
This album is about ripping itself open and exposing all the ugly pieces of love falling apart, through a funk soul lens. This demands a second chance. Sparrow is a good track. This album does require some committment though.
4
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Thu Sep 08 2022
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
I don't really give a shit about Amy Winehouse. After hearing her disasterous cover of A Message To You Rudy, I haven't cared. Great voice on the record, a shame she didn't get a hold of her demons. Wake Up Alone is a B-side I can get behind.
3
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Fri Sep 09 2022
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
Bring The Noise is great. This rap album is incredible. Chuck D's voice is just so damn powerful. Prophets Of Rage is a great song.
5
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Mon Sep 12 2022
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
Oh god, what do people see in this guy?! His delivery is so wooden. Thank the lord that this is the last of his albums that I need to suffer through.
1
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Tue Sep 13 2022
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
Billy Jack immediately has my attention with a bass tone that is just a hook machine. This is such a groovable record, So In Love is a laid back R&B track with a pocket so deep you could fall in it. How do these R&B singers get this damn high?! Great minor colors on Blue Monday People. Fabulous album.
5
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Wed Sep 14 2022
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
This is a cool singer songwriter bop of a record. Great and effortless access to her head voice. Lonely Women is a great track. All these tracks are tight and powerful!
5
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Thu Sep 15 2022
Whatever
Aimee Mann
50 Years After The Fair Sounds like Tom Petty could be the guest vocalist. I am not a huge fan of the guitar sounds, reminds me a lot of country guitar from the 90s. The overall effect of her sound is this feeling of toothlessness.
3
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Fri Sep 16 2022
Copper Blue
Sugar
Hoover Dam is a good tune. I'm not a huge Huskar Du fan so this sort of leaves me in the lurch. Its a pleasant sound at least.
3
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Mon Sep 19 2022
Face to Face
The Kinks
This album sounds so damn dated. The styling and sound is peak 60s. so if thats your thing this probably a 10/10 record. and there are parts I like. Its just that there are more things I am not liking.
2
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Tue Sep 20 2022
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog is a song with a lot of history for me. The roots of so much rock that was to follow is here in this album. Rock and Roll is like the proto sound of southern rock and alternative at the same time. Battle Of Evermore is the perfect lead into Stairway. Stairway is pinnacle of Zepplin and that is so strange to think about. Misty Mountain Hop is arguably the worst Zepplin song the band ever made. When The Levee Breaks is the sound of hip hop.
5
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Wed Sep 21 2022
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
Oh shit guess we are in it now with Singapore. Clap Hands sounds really familiar. This one is more snappy and to the point than Swordfishtrombones, which was a good one. Gun Street Girl is killer. Walking Spanish is so evocative.
5
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Thu Sep 22 2022
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
Cool DJ stylings and the enduring hit Rockafeller Skank. Soul Surfing is good. This is a great get shit done album. Praise You is also a great track. Acid 8000 is pioneering.
4
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Fri Sep 23 2022
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
This album is fine for Headheads. Psycho Killer is a hot tune. Everything else is just kind of forgettable. Maybe worth a relisten?
3
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Mon Sep 26 2022
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
Damn okday the title track is a strong start. Rococo has this big booming stadium sound. and then into Empty Room! what a banger! Sprawl I and II are also great. This album is fabulous, I need to relisten to get a full sounding of it.
5
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Tue Sep 27 2022
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
dude wtf is this?
2
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Wed Sep 28 2022
En-Tact
The Shamen
I'm digging these 90s dance vibes.
4
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Thu Sep 29 2022
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
This album is a 5 just out of nostalgia alone. The way that Metallica was able to weave tension into their music was like a bomb going off in my tiny little brain.
5
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Fri Sep 30 2022
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
20 mins in and its just sort of in this space rock groove. Still haven't gotten it yet. half an hour in and i still don't get it and im really starting to not like it. seriously what the hell was that?
1
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Tue Oct 04 2022
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
This is a nice respite from the rap of the era. The lyrics are comical and humorous. The sampling is slick and varied. Somehow I am just not in the mood for it this morning.
3
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Wed Oct 05 2022
Black Metal
Venom
Iconic, not heavy enough. also the vocals are way back in the mix and it generally sounds not great. super roomy sound that the angular sound just doesnt fit well in.
2
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Thu Oct 06 2022
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
Voodoo Child is a powerful blues songs and its goddamn forever long. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp is pretty good. Still Raining, Still Dreaming sucks.
2
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Fri Oct 07 2022
The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
Meh. Da Bitchez has the best groove but I hate all the lyrics. You Can't Stop the Prophet is a great song. In general there are a lot of other, better rap albums of the era out there.
2
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Mon Oct 10 2022
Imagine
John Lennon
Oh god. Imagine is a legitamately good and uplifting song that has been beaten to death by replays ever since it aired. Crippled Inside blows that away with a jangly, honky-tonk song about emotionally stunted. The feel of the first side is more of like a bluesy jam band kinda vibe, but without all the extra fluff. arrangment on I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier, Mamma is pretty open. Oh Yoko sucks ass.
3
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Tue Oct 11 2022
The Predator
Ice Cube
Im not into this album. Dirty Mack is good, Check Yo Self is classic
2
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Wed Oct 12 2022
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is fun! generally a pleasant album, kind of forgettable.
3
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Thu Oct 13 2022
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
This album is going to be work. I hear Tom Waits in here. And there is no groove. its less songs and more every instrument floats in its own space and they sort of flex in and out of time with each other. It's anti-harmony. Wow Captain Beefheart was a terrible human. God this album is grating. She's Too Much For My Mirror is almost a song? There are several almost conventional songs but holy hannah is this an exercise in patience. The best part is when it ends.
1
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Fri Oct 14 2022
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
Well almost anything would sound good after Captain Beefheart. I thought This Year's Model was way better than this. Its fine, if pretty dated sounding. Its like a 50s rock star came forward into the future.
3
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Mon Oct 17 2022
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
The opening is really slick heavy R&B. in the middle Lauryn really opens up her rap chops. on the whole its pretty good!
4
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Tue Oct 18 2022
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
lots of 4 on the floor banging away. Time To Get Away has me interested. Someone Great was a radio hit. Watch The Tapes is another banger.
4
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Wed Oct 19 2022
Aja
Steely Dan
This album is killer. Deacon Blues is a masterpiece. Peg is great. All these songs are awesome.
5
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Thu Oct 20 2022
Chris
Christine and the Queens
(S)he has great tone. The tone is that electro pop rock sound. a couple tracks in and im intrigued but not blown away yet.
4
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Fri Oct 21 2022
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
oh man. all the songs thus far are like the intros to songs that end up being just the songs. About halfway into Towers and I just want it to stop. Man this stinks. some of it is followable, others is just a wall of sound.
2
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Mon Oct 24 2022
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
I like the Gorillaz sound, its sort of a soothing low energy bleakness. Like walking in the rain. See Tomorrow Comes Today. Clint Eastwood and Rock The House are two great singles. A good album all round.
4
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Tue Oct 25 2022
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
Really leaning into this staccato delivery. Artists Only grabbed me. This album is a great Talking Heads album, so I would revisit it. But a very reasonable person could just as easily pass on this. A fun listen, but not one to sell you on the Talking Heads imho.
4
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Wed Oct 26 2022
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
Cool piano forward jazz-pop stylings. A Gospel is fucking bullshit. Here's One That Got Away is very Goo Goo Dolls.
3
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Thu Oct 27 2022
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
The lead singers voice is pretty bad. Like just talentless. he doesn't really sing, more rhythmically talks. All the other instruments play with different textures, and are pretty passable.
2
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Fri Oct 28 2022
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
This has that old record charm. That trumpet on The Face I Love. I wish this album was like 10x longer.
5
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Mon Oct 31 2022
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
I am a big Parliament fan so the production is really cool. I dig the flow, and its cool to see the launch of Snopp Dogg's career. The lyrics are pretty damn crass, but that lends to its "realness". The middle of the album starts to feel pretty slow, especially with the sketch. The Roach is a great homage.
4
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Tue Nov 01 2022
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
This is an instant 5 for me. The evocative tones, groove for days, and phenominal orchestration are just to die for. So What has these little jaunts into different key centers, like trying on different coats at a store. Flamenco Sketches is a song with so much internal story telling it is impossible to ignore. This worst part is that the album ends. Bill Evans on the piano for most of the recording is such a treat.
5
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Wed Nov 02 2022
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
Oh god. This is going to be a test of endurance. It's the worst of the rap rock fusions. His rhyming and vocabulary together make it the worst combo. "A garden hose made out of 24 karat", fuck you Kid Rock. What?! Eminem is on this album?
1
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Thu Nov 03 2022
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
This is alright.
3
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Fri Nov 04 2022
São Paulo Confessions
Suba
Why is this person whispering in my ear? This album is also fine. nothing in particular is grabbing me.
3
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Mon Nov 07 2022
Dance Mania
Tito Puente
have to say, this album left me kinda flat as well. I generally enjoy this stuff and if i were in a different mood my feeling of it would be different.
3
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Tue Nov 08 2022
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
The guys had so much dynamism in his voice. The lyrics to Tutti Frutti sound so alive! God he is so vivacious, that the record can barely contain his voice. His band really suffers from the recording tech of the time. What a treat live he must have been.
4
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Wed Nov 09 2022
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
Oh boy the lyrics are a real wild ride already. wtf is this album? its real weird, like old hippie at a renaissance fair weird. This guy has a weird thing for lemons. Really starting to lose me by the 39 minute mark. That was kinda bullshit but I can see why others would like it. My ranking is from my perspective.
2
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Thu Nov 10 2022
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
Soul filled hammond and a reverence that speaks to the lyrics is how it opens and it is captivating. This piano on Rivers Of My Fathers is wild. Dude what a wholesome and uplifting album. OH THE WATERGATE BLUES IS THE BEST! wow what a great musical expression.
5
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Fri Nov 11 2022
Legalize It
Peter Tosh
How can i not enjoy a reggae album. its a little more one dimensional than a bob album but there is something so soothing about this sound. This was just kinda there, for me.
3
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Mon Nov 14 2022
American Idiot
Green Day
This album was the soundtrack of my youth. an exhuberant, dread inducing, landmark of the bush era that says no to war, no to isolation, and a send up to the human spirit.
5
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Tue Nov 15 2022
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
Cypress Avenue is a 3 chord vamp for about 20 minutes. Van Morrison is one of those artists that I just can't like. He made Brown Eyed Girl, but honestly. This album in particular I find bland and boring. classical instruments noodle aimlessly, while Morrison plays 4 chord songs and prattles on while occassionally screeches.
2
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Wed Nov 16 2022
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
Pete sounds good on this recording. Talk box was super innovative. some hits, but kinda forgettable.
3
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Thu Nov 17 2022
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
What in hell? alrighty then. The opening track loses its way about half way and then finds itself again. Great now these weird assholes are now singing about milk. Produced by professional weirdo Brian Eno. The Sound Of Someone You Love Who's Going Away And It Doesn't Matter is a pretty soothing song 3 minutes in and so far its my favorite on the album. you know the last 3 tracks were quite nice and pleasant. Zopf can fuck right off a bridge.
2
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Fri Nov 18 2022
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
ok boss ok. Its that sort of stadium crooner sound of the 80's, talking about how your car is great and your girl is great and how your town is going to shit. Bruce's songs to me are important as historical artifacts but to me his songs are overly saccarine and sentimental without a purpose. It's a story just to make you cry. Not to inspire, not to cast blame, not to offer hope for a future. These are songs meant for and from the present.
3
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Mon Nov 21 2022
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
Im a sucker for this pop, glam 70s style of music, so mambo sun has this record on the right foot. interesting that the next 2 tracks are more downbeat. Bang With A Gong is such a bop. the rest of the album is that sot of midtempo meh.
4
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Tue Nov 22 2022
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
This album has this really rough, handcrafted feel. Even with the sampling, the lyrics are angular, plosive. They sit in odd spots in the mix. Its real nice. Psychobeatabuckdown.
4
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Wed Nov 23 2022
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Solsbury Hill is a banger. Peter's voice is both so iconic and so well produced that its one of these distinctive sonic signatures in rock and roll. Down The Dolce Vita is also a banger. "stranded starfish have no place to hide."- Here Comes The Flood could be a fun cover.
4
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Thu Nov 24 2022
Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain is a complicated song. well complicated in that he admits to being an unexpected father and not really caring? Phantasmagoria in Two is real good. In order to understand Jeff, you need to at least hear time. this album on its own isnt really my thing, but i am glad i heard it.
3
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Fri Nov 25 2022
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
This album kicks so much ass! aggressive, in your face, lyrics are to the point, and the overall sound is a punk afro boom beat.
5
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Mon Nov 28 2022
Dirt
Alice In Chains
This is peak 90s rock. Down in a Hole is so damn downbeat. There is so much of that early thrash metal sound in this record. Slayer and Metallica are all over the guitar sounds. Rooster is really where that unique Alice In Chains sound really congeals and becomes its own. Would is great album closer.
4
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Tue Nov 29 2022
OK Computer
Radiohead
Two tracks in and I like the guitar stylings. I have also been able to make out 1 in about 6 lyrics as they go by. Which i guess is a plus. Thom's moaning and wailing seem to fit this speed. Karma Police is recognizable. No Surprises is okay. The Tourist is a nice chill ender to put this album to bed. This was probably the second most enjoyable Radiohead album I have had, so its not innoffensive but not my bag either.
3
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Wed Nov 30 2022
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
The opening track is a little listless but Identity puts the album on a firmer footing. The album is a punk classic and has that proto-second wave ska sound that still manages to bring it. Some of the songs feel pretty worn out on me, but i suppose thats more me than the recording. I see their influence on Mustard Plug and hear a lot of similarities to the British two tone bands.
3
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Thu Dec 01 2022
Like A Prayer
Madonna
Like a Prayer is the lead single, and its the peak of 80s cheese synth. Cherish is also in that same vein. Honestly, this is a summer bubblegum album. Listening to it in winter seems a little wistful and not quite appropriate. Spanish Eyes kinda sucks. Summer I could see this being a 4. winter its a meh.
3
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Fri Dec 02 2022
The Joshua Tree
U2
The first three songs are stadium shakers. Bullet the Blue Sky has Bono get some deep growly color which is cool. Red Hill Mining Town is boring. as is generally the back bit of the album.
3
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Mon Dec 05 2022
Moon Safari
Air
This is super nice. The downtempo doesnt ever feel like heavy baggage. Its like they found a way to float by going slow.
4
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Tue Dec 06 2022
The Idiot
Iggy Pop
A not necessarily Bowie album, recorded just before Low. Sister Midnight is a cool tune. Iggy's delivery on Funtime sucks eggs. Its so stilted. China girl is another good song with really trash vocals. Dum Dum Boys is rad. The intro on Mass Production is some wack bs but also kind of a funny prank on record listeners. Man hard to tell. this felt like extras or a proto bowie record. hard to say will need a revisit.
3
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Wed Dec 07 2022
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
ah my old nemisis, the blues. still pretty boring. yep.
1
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Thu Dec 08 2022
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
Jesus, Sign O'The Times has the bleakest lyrics of any Prince song I have ever heard. The whiplash is even further enhanced because of Play In The Sunshine. Prince's lyrics are this amazing blend of specificity and impeccible groove. The effect is this really enrapturing musical experience. That slap bass on The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker. Starfish And Coffee is a great song. U Got The Look is killer. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man has the magic. The Cross is a nice respite, but a little tooooooo religious feeling for me.
5
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Fri Dec 09 2022
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
Its very hooky. its not that sort of stuck in the muck blues style. It actually feels like its going somewhere, about something. Ai Tchere Bele has some crazy polyrythmisim going on. That was good!
4
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Mon Dec 12 2022
The Band
The Band
Southern Rock. If thats your thing, go right ahead. Up On Cripple Creek is a cool tune.
1
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Tue Dec 13 2022
Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
The cover of Apache is cool. Dear god what were the 70's? where you had a charting bongo cover band?
4
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Wed Dec 14 2022
Gris Gris
Dr. John
Not loving this psycho-folk stew right off the bat but lets let er run. "...this boogaloo crap?" yea. Dr. John is subversive and dark and moody. Counter cultural. Who gives a shit.
1
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Thu Dec 15 2022
B-52's
The B-52's
The surfer heartbeat of this band has so much groove. The contrasting vocal styles is like you took everything about 60's surf culture, polished it to a mirror, and shot it back at the world. This album kicks ass.
5
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Fri Dec 16 2022
Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
The grooves are Thicc. The spoken word interludes are a cool play on the form of the "concept" album work. The album is a deep dive on relationship dynamics and goes to some genuinely thought provoking and interesting places.
5
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Mon Dec 19 2022
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
I like where this album is going already. This album has no need to go this damn hard.
4
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Tue Dec 20 2022
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
What is this tim signature in the first song? the second and thrid track kind of blur but this 4th track is pretty cool.
4
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Wed Dec 21 2022
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
This is a fine album, kind of in that downbeat style of the early 2000s.
3
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Thu Dec 22 2022
School's Out
Alice Cooper
An iconic guitar riff opens to a shockingly young growling Alice! wow. Gutter Cat vs. The Jets has a killer bass tone, but the overall tone of the song just sounds so dated. Though props for going at a showtune like that. WHO IS THIS BASS PLAYER?! Damn this album really opens up into these breathy bluesy wide soundscapes in the middle of the album. Grande Finale is not something I would have expected on this album. Big important listen for rock and roll history. for blues rock fans this is an easy 5. I'm not a blues rock fan.
2
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Fri Dec 23 2022
Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren
Ok side 1 is kinda bullshit. Side two is a more Steely Dan vibe, just without the goove. It's like someone put music of the era and put it in a blender and then portioned it back out. The really banal hooks are what kill me, see "Saving Grace". Black Maria sucks. This album sucks and it will not leave. This part 4 is like souless Billy Joel and that is saying something.
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Mon Dec 26 2022
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
Fats sounds great! This is a great album to reset and come back to ground on core rock and roll sound. The relentless blues changes sort of start to grate on me after a while but thats the blues.
4
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Tue Dec 27 2022
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
This is a great album. Kendrick's flow, story telling, and beat and rhythm work are all top notch. I too wish I could fuck the world for 72 hours. m.a.a.d city does a great job of spinning an engrossing yarn of a terrifying existence, and then totally flipping the atmosphere less than halfway through. A story of violence, redemption, and retrospection. Wow.
5
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Wed Dec 28 2022
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
this reminds me a lot of the OG Oasis stuff. Why do all british alt bands seem to be cut from the same cloth? They are super dancable. Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But... is a standout track for me. If I heard this when it debuted, it would have been a 5 for me, but I'm a crusty old man now and its just a 4 this morning.
4
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Thu Dec 29 2022
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
A good old fashioned snooze of a country music record. Boring and dull with only flashes of fun ideas.
2
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Fri Dec 30 2022
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
These are really fun songs! The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight is not my favorite single by them but its fine. EVERYBODY HURTS!!!! The back half of the album is a little wishy washy for me. Man On The Moon and Night Swimming are both killer songs.
4
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Mon Jan 02 2023
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
This album is a much looser concept album than the wall, though its trappings are so conceptual that its hard to pierce this morning after not a lot of sleep. Us And Them feels appropriately triumphant. Yea I just didnt get it. worth a relisten just for the culture around this album.
4
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Tue Jan 03 2023
In Utero
Nirvana
The last nirvana album. honestly I can respect the process for wanting to take a newer, angrier, noiser sound than Nevermind. Takes artistic balls. I think that of the two, this is the better grunge album. I think I like Nevermind more personally, but the craftsmanship in this album is more evident. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter is a personal favorite track.
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Wed Jan 04 2023
Mask
Bauhaus
I am digging the groove right off the bat. shit that started me on the third track! I am still digging the groove. THE PASSION OF LOVERS IS FOR DEATH!!! In Fear of Fear is another cool tune. Great album really toroughly enjoyed that.
5
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Thu Jan 05 2023
Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
This album has me with a smile on my face, especially with the ska sections. I don't love how the lead singer sounds, but the grooves are punk and chunky.
4
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Fri Jan 06 2023
In It For The Money
Supergrass
This is a really fun album!
4
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Mon Jan 09 2023
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
Subterranean Homesick Blues is a great song which Bob sounds great on. I don't like Maggie's Farm as a song.
3
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Tue Jan 10 2023
Graceland
Paul Simon
Graceland the single fucking kills it. Gumboots is killer. Under African Skies slays. This album is so full of rich texture.
5
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Wed Jan 11 2023
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
whatever.
2
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Thu Jan 12 2023
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
This is very french. I'm pretty over this stupid record by track 11. This is such a boring ass record.
1
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Fri Jan 13 2023
Synchronicity
The Police
What the fuck is Mother? The opening of this album is fun up to that song. Every Breath You Take is a creepy fucking song. Tea In The Sahara is cool.
2
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Mon Jan 16 2023
Closer
Joy Division
The singer is perpetually out of tune but exudes aesthetic. The songs are great at evoking emotions, the the voice of the lead singer makes it feel like its an actor filling in for the actual lead singer.
3
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Tue Jan 17 2023
Purple Rain
Prince
This is a perfect album.
5
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Wed Jan 18 2023
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
Yep its metal alright. The back half had me more interested than the front bit. My Last Words has a pretty amazing bass line. This album is probably worth a revisit.
4
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Thu Jan 19 2023
Signing Off
UB40
Some easy reggae. Burden of Shame is great. Madam Medusa is also a bop.
4
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Fri Jan 20 2023
Reign In Blood
Slayer
Thrash me. This is a great album! The recording is clean, the guitars are shreddy, Tom Araya sounds like a heavy metal priest.
5
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Mon Jan 23 2023
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
Great a bunch of hippie dippy bullshit. the stereo guitar is fun on Friend Of The Devil. I hate all the gang vocals. So I am surprised that i am not actively pained by this music like some other 1 star albums which is a major positive. This is still a bunch of dumb bullshit songs that i would rather not be forced to listen to, but its more an annoyance if anything.
2
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Tue Jan 24 2023
Hot Fuss
The Killers
An album I am pretty familiar with, and an interesting double header with Born In The USA. Mr. Brightside is a slick hit. All These Things That I've Done is another one. This whole album is one hit after another, so smooth and polished it's like an orb. Ponder the ORB!
5
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Wed Jan 25 2023
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
Fuck this racket.
1
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Thu Jan 26 2023
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
Yea sure this is music. Pleasant even.
3
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Fri Jan 27 2023
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
California Dreamin' is like a song out of a collective memory. Spanish Harlem is a creepy as fuck song. Its a fine 60s record.
3
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Wed Feb 01 2023
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
I feel like I am listening to my mom's music. Bruce Springsteen sings powerfully about an America in decline, but rather than do anthing about it or offer some hope as to how to fix anything, he can't abandon his framing of one man versus the system and the system wins. His music is good his message sucks ass. Glory Days is a perfect example. His lyrics are all about repression, regression, yearning, and loss. He stirs a pot hoping to have a listener respond and fill in the gaps. It's effective, but i don't like it. It feels like I am being dragged through living all my worst moments.
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Thu Feb 02 2023
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
Yea I like this sound. I can clearly see its influence in King Gizzard, and its a cool rock opera sound. Defecting Gray is H E A V Y but is a bonus track.
4
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Fri Feb 03 2023
Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
This kind of feels like I am listening to Steven Tyler. Its a fine album, even thrilling in parts. I just think its not my thing.
3
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Mon Feb 06 2023
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
This albm is great. A real slick cool groove soul record that always feels like it is driving towards something, even with only 4 songs and a 45 minute runtime. The extended story telling of this songwriter is a little boring though.
4
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Tue Feb 07 2023
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
I'm into this. very 70's sound. Piano Joint is great tune. Hero is another one. An album that is worth a re-listen, as it kind of went just above my head.
4
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Wed Feb 08 2023
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
This is a lot of energy and noise that doesnt seem to get anywhere. Its not that it doesn't sound fine, it just leaves me flat.
3
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Thu Feb 09 2023
Pieces Of The Sky
Emmylou Harris
I'm here for this song Bluebird Wine. It's kind of amazing that this is an album of almost all covers, but it's counted as a debut. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down is a fun one. Queen Of The Silver Dollar is solid. The bonus tracks are killer.
4
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Fri Feb 10 2023
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
BB is so dynamic on this record. Its a lot closer to a rock and roll record. I have some room in my heart for the king of blues I guess.
4
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Mon Feb 13 2023
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Green Shirt is killer. Everything feels so right in the pocket and Elvis has this iconic singing style. The snare on Sunday's Best is like a gunshot.
4
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Tue Feb 14 2023
1989
Taylor Swift
Ok Taylor. We have really come a long as way from country superstar. Blank Space is a hit but her lyricism is so....textureless? Its like if you took Hailey Williams, put her at like 90% output, and make her sing lyrics written by a toddler. Style I can get behind. I'm not super impressed with Out Of The Woods, though I am such a fan of Jack Antonoff normally. Shake It Off kicks so much ass as a club banger, burn the house down tune. Bad Blood is a song that I want to dislike but it's fine and enjoyable, though jesus her lyrics are so damn bland. Wildest Dreams I think is the first track on the album where there is this distinctive texture that is definitively Taylor, and it feels like her voice as a performer stands up to the task of carrying a pop song on its shoulders. I Know Places sounds like a rejected Linkin Park song. Man, I am conflicted about this album. When it is good its great and when its not good it sucks hard.
3
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Wed Feb 15 2023
New Forms
Roni Size
Brown Paper Bag is cool. DnB isn't really my bag but sure I can work to this. Digitial drags. Heroes is okay. This album is pretty dull and repetitive midway through with the occassional bright spot.
2
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Thu Feb 16 2023
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
I like the concept. Country tunes in a big studio orchestra style. Worried Mind is a good one. Hey Good Looking is also great.
4
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Fri Feb 17 2023
Moondance
Van Morrison
I can't believe this guy made the jazz standard moondance! everything else is pretty forgettable and bullshit.
2
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Mon Feb 20 2023
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
I am really digging Cherry-coloured Funk. I am really digging this entire album! It was a great time!
4
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Tue Feb 21 2023
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Ok this is genetically engineered to make me like it. If you love your mother break in She's Fresh is hysterical. Scorpio I don't love as much. Its cool mix of humor, funk, proto hip hop, RNB.
5
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Wed Feb 22 2023
Play
Moby
This is a fun electronica album.
4
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Thu Feb 23 2023
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
Oh hell yea. Great big but also tight drum sound. Cyndi's voice just cuts so well and is so expressive. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is a hit of hits. When You Were Mine is a great cover. Time After Time kicks a lot of ass. She's Bop isn't my favorite, but i like that its kind of a dirty sound. He's So Unusual into Yeah Yeah is everything. That album was amazing.
5
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Fri Feb 24 2023
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
Rock Box is a really cool hip-hop rock mashup. In general im not a huge fan of this big boom kick sound. Yea this album becomes a slog after Rock Box and its kind of grating on me.
2
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Elastica
Elastica
Im digging this. It's like a long lost punk album that young George would have ate right up. Annie is a fun song. I hear shades of a 2000s rock sound like Bad Religion in here.
4
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Tue Feb 28 2023
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
So this is the album that made Springstein a household name. This guitar tone on Thunder Road is just so fogey. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out is a fun tune. My problem with Bruce's voice on Born To Run is that his diction is terrible! it sounds like his tongue is too big for his mouth. The song is a pretty compelling hit though. The rest is just whatever. Fine Bruce you got a 3 star from me congratulations.
3
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Wed Mar 01 2023
Scott 2
Scott Walker
This guy sucks. Every song is this grandeous sweeping gesture over acted horse water.
1
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Thu Mar 02 2023
Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera
Walk is a good song. Rise got me going this morning. As heavy an album as any on the list, this is a foundation of modern metal. As only a passing metalhead, I can't say I felt it move me to a 5 star but I found it enjoyable enough for a 4.
4
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Fri Mar 03 2023
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
This is dull.
1
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Mon Mar 06 2023
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
Its a cool proto punk album, though its a little clunky and sludgy for me.
3
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Tue Mar 07 2023
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
15 minutes in and I can't say anything has either grabbed me or repulsed me. same thing 50 minutes in.
2
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Wed Mar 08 2023
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
Ripping accordian part on the first track. This is really pleasant and i like it. This is a really refreshing and lovely album. La Muerta Del Angel is just this beautiful icing on this total cake of an album!
5
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Thu Mar 09 2023
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
This is proto indie alt. its a solid meh from me.
3
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Fri Mar 10 2023
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis
A mid 70s concept album. Counting Out Time is killer. The first part is pretty unintelligible for me. As well as most of it. its really wild and worth a re-listen when i am less distracted.
4
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Mon Mar 13 2023
Inspiration Information
Shuggie Otis
I am in for this ride. It goes from being a boogie soul album to a waiting room musak record?
3
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Tue Mar 14 2023
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
really into it by the track Incident At 66.6 FM. Damn what a masterclass in hip hop and race relations.
4
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Wed Mar 15 2023
Truth
Jeff Beck
Do I have to listen to Rod Stewart blather and wail? Jeff's cover of Greensleeves is pretty good. Wow what a chore and a half.
2
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Thu Mar 16 2023
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
I have a history with this album. One of the founding albums in an old romantic relationship. Which did eventually fall apart and then be built back into a good friendship. Cat's music has this loose, shambling rythym, which does well with his voice and subjects. Hard Headed Woman is a great song. Miles from Nowhere is another good one. The ending of the album I wish let its triumphant harmonies breathe a little more on the back end but such is life.
5
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Fri Mar 17 2023
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
whatever
3
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Mon Mar 20 2023
Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
I get why these guys are foundational to electronic music. I don't like this album. Its dull and industrial, without a sense of evolution or progression. It just sounds like a rave in a machine shop.
2
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Tue Mar 21 2023
Fun House
The Stooges
Its what I imagine is just rock. not classic rock, not stoner rock, not punk rock, not fusion, not anything else. Just rock. which is kinda weird tbh.
3
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Wed Mar 22 2023
Django Django
Django Django
Pleasant psychodelia electronica with a sense of movement. Zumm Zumm is weird and infectious.
3
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Thu Mar 23 2023
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
Yea primitive sounding is a good descriptor of this album. Very chunky in parts, with Meg's sparse and boom style drums. Little Room plays this to its highest effect. It also adds in some genre expiramentation with the acoustic tunes. Aluminum is basically all down beats. Cool garage beat down of an album. not a 5 for me but this would be gasoline for a more impressionable person.
4
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Fri Mar 24 2023
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
I am a little burned out on early gangsta rap so this more a slog than I would hope. the funk and excellent background track beats is awesome. Though I am pretty tired of hearing about Easy-E's dick. 8-Ball sucks. Express Yourself is awesome.
3
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Mon Mar 27 2023
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
This is a terrible mix but the songs are fun. Sweet Dreams is a killer hit. The rest? This Is The House finally has some low end and that makes all the difference. This City Never Sleeps is an ambient track, so if you want an extended postlude this is for you. I'm not enthralled by it.
3
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Tue Mar 28 2023
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
This is a piano bar but on a recording and Jerry is the maestro par exellence.
5
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Wed Mar 29 2023
Station To Station
David Bowie
Ohhhhh Yesssssssss. Station To Station into Golden Years is just perfect. The whole thing is just perfect. Chef's kiss.
5
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Thu Mar 30 2023
Da Capo
Love
Ok so its a Door's sound. cool a 45 minute jam session on the back. The last track is actually not the worst jam I have ever heard and I didnt mind it on the album. I also didnt think too much of the album but such is life I guess.
3
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Fri Mar 31 2023
Pump
Aerosmith
I am sick as a dog today and don't want to listen to Steven Tyler sing about fucking broads. Don't Get Mad, Get Even showcases that the only lyrics this band is capable of making are cliches.
1
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Mon Apr 03 2023
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
Oh hell yes. Living For The City is one of the most compelling songs ever written. Higher Ground is great. The whole thing stem to stern is impeccable.
5
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Tue Apr 04 2023
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp
I'm digging this dance record this morning. Yea I dug this.
4
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Wed Apr 05 2023
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
Is it Fun Fun Fun On Ze Autobahn for 20+ minutes? I don't think so, but its so ground breaking its hard to believe.
3
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Thu Apr 06 2023
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
Something Against You is the track that hooks me in the beginning. Broken Face into Gigantic is pretty cool. Where Is My Mind is a total banger. I totally understand how this laid the groundwork for grunge's mainstream explosion.
4
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Fri Apr 07 2023
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
I'm not really getting anything super impactful from this.
3
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Mon Apr 10 2023
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
The sampling is pretty cheeseball but it is refreshing to be less accosted by early 90s rap. Rainy Revolution is catchy. U is pretty lame. Tennessee is a pretty alright track.
3
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Tue Apr 11 2023
Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers
That bass tone is nasty! This album drips with swagger. Peaches is a good song.
4
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Wed Apr 12 2023
Boston
Boston
More Than A Feeling is a hell of an opener. Then Peace Of Mind has the first two tracks swinging for the fences. Foreplay/Longtime is a rollicking good time though the back half feels like a thin premise held afloat by various stage tricks. Rock And Roll Band is pretty lame. I feel like that is the turning point of the album. Super influential, love that guitar sound. But I feel it plays all its cards in the first couple songs and then just recycles them
4
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Thu Apr 13 2023
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
For 1973 this is lightyears ahead of its time. kind of a listless, floating soundscape. not really my thing but sure.
3
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Fri Apr 14 2023
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
This style is cool. Big boom grime and smooth english rap. Its a good combo that holds up even at a lower, more listenable volume. I Luv U is a standout track. Jus A Rascal is another banger.
4
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Mon Apr 17 2023
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
A wonderful vocal texture. Its basically a world jazz vocal album, and her voice just sounds great. Where Does It Lead kills. House of The Rising Sun is a great cover. The laughing on One More Dance is charming, and her voice soars. What a fabulous album.
5
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Tue Apr 18 2023
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
Very 60's garage. These guys fly through Good Golly Miss Marley. I can see why they are as influential as they are. Sort of a band's band. but meh I could pass this as just another early garage band.
2
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Wed Apr 19 2023
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
Smooth as the day is long.
4
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Thu Apr 20 2023
The United States Of America
The United States Of America
Hard Coming Love is really grating on me this morning. this album is a visionary pioneer of 60's noodling, noise, and bullshit. Love Song For The Dead Che is fine.
1
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Fri Apr 21 2023
Celebrity Skin
Hole
Celebrity Skin is a great song. This album fucking rocks. See: Reasons To Be Beautiful. Northern Star is a good one. You can really tell Billy Corgan's fingerprints on this album.
5
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Mon Apr 24 2023
25
Adele
Hello is thunderous. Send My Love is great. The front half is a completely air tight pop sound scape. The back half is more ballady but this is a really good album!
4
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Tue Apr 25 2023
GI
Germs
This is hardcore? okay. This is a punk album much like other punk albums on the list. This album gets dull in the back half.
3
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Wed Apr 26 2023
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
Waits ability to drill down to the most excruciating detail is what takes this from artifice to a painting with sound that comes alive. Putnam County kills. Thoroughly great beat proto rap jazz club quintessential Tom.
5
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Thu Apr 27 2023
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
I love all of these lyrics. The sampling im not super into but i will take it. Its sad how little translation is required from something that came out in '92 and listening to it in '23.
4
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Fri Apr 28 2023
Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
The opening has me interested. Welcome To The Pleasure Dome is a cool song. Relax is a good single, dripping with 80s cheese and hedonism. The covers are wild. Cool album for sure.
4
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Mon May 01 2023
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
This music is magnificent. Its like a future, alien earth with humanity in such a different context. The harsh verb feels like its for this purpose of finding humanity in a bleak and dehumanizing sound context.
5
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Tue May 02 2023
We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
I honestly have no idea what the fuck to do with Zappa's work. There is a lens that you need to view his work through and boy I don't got it. This is satyrical, absurd, and a real chore to listen to.
1
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Wed May 03 2023
When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
Cool facets, but feels like a very small work.
3
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Thu May 04 2023
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti Politti
This is like male Madonna stuff. very clinky and synthy. how ultimately dull.
2
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Fri May 05 2023
Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
Pretty cool street recording with house dub. Freaknik has this piercing synth that is just not pleasant.
2
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Mon May 08 2023
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
Frustration has my attention. Tainted Love has me in its claws. Seedy Films backs off of that stadium sound too much and just sort of feels bare. Sex Dwarf recaptures that sound that I think suits them best. Pretty rad!
4
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Tue May 09 2023
Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
This fucking sucks. This really fucking sucks.
1
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Wed May 10 2023
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
The refreshing middling tones of brit pop to bring me back to even keel. Speedboat stinks, and Rattlesnakes could be good if the singer wasnt so....bland? Like pudding with raisins in it. Forest Fire is the first song that really gelled for me. over all its pretty meh, but i will take meh.
3
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Thu May 11 2023
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
super political is how i like my punk and i hit the jackpot
5
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Fri May 12 2023
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
A folk album with a big single in Everybody's Talking. its pleasant for sure but I am not planning on revisiting this. Why was there a point in the mid 60s where everyone thought it was a good idea to end an album with like a 10 minute raga?
2
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Mon May 15 2023
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
Wow a Zappa album I can get behind. The Gumb Variations gets a little played out towards the end but sure.
4
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Tue May 16 2023
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
Cherub Rock is a killer. Today is a landmark of a song. Hummer is actually kind of cool. Diasarm fucking kills it. The set-up into Silverfuck and then the execution was one of my favorites on the album. Luna kinda sucks and is a weak closer, but still this is a 5 for me.
5
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Wed May 17 2023
Stripped
Christina Aguilera
Can't Hold Us Down is pretty tight! Fighter is another bop. Impossible is good. It generally comes off as a cusp of adulthood sort of album, with naive songs on the first fulfillment of love, the stripping away of the dumb rougeishness of young affection, but also wanting to be swept up in that all encompassing way that is just too exhausting for a full adult. Beautiful is a nostalgic hit. Her ballads are just not my thing, otherwise. On the whole, its an ambitious album that I don't think has the chops to back up the ambition. It's spread thin.
3
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Thu May 18 2023
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Blue Suede Shoes is a perenial hit. His vocal delivery is both iconic and divisive. Its a little too artificial and forced for me. So he just took the blues and played it faster and boom: Rock and Roll. Yea this sucks as an album but important as a museum piece.
2
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Fri May 19 2023
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
Chain Chain Chaiiiiiiiinnnn! This album is such a treat. A Natural Woman is a great song. Every song is a soul bop.
5
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Mon May 22 2023
Street Signs
Ozomatli
Who's To Blame with a Chali 2na verse! The rest of the album is meh but pleasant.
3
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Tue May 23 2023
Central Reservation
Beth Orton
This singing sounds exactly like Katie's. Sweetest Decline is a cool downbeat song. This is a very nice downbeat album, though it's something that doesn't call attention to itself. Blood Red River grabbed me. I would add this to the stable to come with.
4
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Wed May 24 2023
Djam Leelii
Baaba Maal
Its an afro-islamic styling on some mid tempo stripped down world music. its cool i don't think it stirs enough in me to give it more than a three though. I really like the track Taara, glad i dug for it.
3
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Thu May 25 2023
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
This sucks. The covers are the bright spots.
1
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Fri May 26 2023
Raw Power
The Stooges
Search And Destroy! The whole thing sounds dated and beat to hell but i guess that's its appeal. To me this is another museum piece.
3
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Mon May 29 2023
Casanova
The Divine Comedy
God I am so tired of Brit-pop. This is just a slog of smarmed up bullshit. The operatic grand The Dogs & the Horses is the smelling cherry on top of this truely terrible album.
1
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Tue May 30 2023
Gold
Ryan Adams
This is fine, though its so smoothed out that there really isn't much to latch on to.
2
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Wed May 31 2023
White Light
Gene Clark
if I get really into the Byrd's then this will be higher on the list and worth a revisit. right now it feels kind of slow and plodding.
2
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Thu Jun 01 2023
The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
The heavy synth glam sound is cool.
4
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Fri Jun 02 2023
Vulnicura
Björk
Lionsong is cool. Bjork songs are so hit or miss to me, always these huge swings and their either connect hard or miss the mark. Atom Dance is cool.
4
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Mon Jun 05 2023
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
A modern day throwback album. Nostalgic in a totally alien way. Pretty boring, but not grating, like a ferris wheel ride.
3
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Tue Jun 06 2023
Kollaps
Einstürzende Neubauten
Cool just the album for me this morning T_T. Literally the next song starts with a jackhammer. This album makes me want to crawl out of my goddamn skin. Music for people to chop their ears off to. This garbage is an assault to the concept of music, and its only merit is in its contrarian attitude. The listener is subjected to a sonic waterboarding experience. The best part is when it ends.
1
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Wed Jun 07 2023
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
Now in stereo! They really lean into the stereo panning effects. Weird story telling. The fanciful language is a nice balm after the fucking brutal beatdown that was yesterday's album but this is weird.
3
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Thu Jun 08 2023
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
Is the album more than the single? Walk All Over You has a strong showing. Beating Around The Bush is another strong track. Night Prowler is a strong closer. So this album is mid at best, but I am partiatal to the AC/DC sound. The lyrics are pretty cringe at times but I love that classic guitar tone.
4
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Fri Jun 09 2023
Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine
Cee Lo Green
A fast RNB rap album. Cee Lo's distintive voice is a little much across an entire album, though his singles have punch and his rapping is skillful. Childz Play is a standout track.
3
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Mon Jun 12 2023
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
Self important drivel. The music video for Seven Seas is extra bad.
2
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Tue Jun 13 2023
Trio
Dolly Parton
This fucking slaps. Three totally perfect singers join voices in a sort of voltron esque creation of unstoppable country music. Telling Me Lies is the perfect example.
5
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Wed Jun 14 2023
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
Shadow of a Doubt is cool. Starpower is cool. I think this album is where I finally start to see the appeal of Sonic Youth. In the Kingdom #19 is pretty odd. Maybe after this is done will do another pass at the Sonic Youth. There is something here that caught me, i just dont really know what.
3
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Thu Jun 15 2023
Trans Europe Express
Kraftwerk
This feels like an ancient record. Again, landmark in electronic music. But this doesn't grab me with its bleeps and blooping synth tones.
3
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Fri Jun 16 2023
Rubber Soul
Beatles
Yea this album kicks ass. Like seriously, Nowhere Man is a thundering killer track. Michelle is another banger, but every track has a sparkle, a little sheen.
5
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Mon Jun 19 2023
Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
This is cool. unfortunately it never shifts out of this peddling midtempo like your mom's new dirt bag boyfriend sort of cool.
3
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Tue Jun 20 2023
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
Thumping! Laura starts with the big hooky swinging and I am here for it. The lead singer's voice is so fucking high. Lovers In The Back Seat has so much groove. THERE AIN"T NO TITS ON THE RADIO!!
4
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Wed Jun 21 2023
Rio
Duran Duran
Rio kills it. That slap bass sound is just so commanding. My Own way carries the sound from Rio forward, making a nice opening one two. Hungry Like the Wolf is about as big a hit as anyone can manage. Hold Back The Rain is also thunderous. This album is hit after hit after hit.
5
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Thu Jun 22 2023
Viva Hate
Morrissey
Everyday Is Sunday is quite mopey. The whole affair is pretty mopey, sonically complete though.
3
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Fri Jun 23 2023
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
Ok, so a soundtrack to an imaginary movie. The Vibes Ain't Nothin' But The Vibes is a song? I guess? It's Business As Usual is not my cup of tea. The problem I am encountering is I am trying to treat this like an album when really its a movie, just without the movie parts. Fucking hell, what a chore. Vermillion Kisses is such a fucking tease. The Sweetest Embrace is the closest to an actual listenable song, because it has Nick Cave on it.
2
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Mon Jun 26 2023
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
Play For Today is good but this album keeps coming in and then jumping into the background. Like I don't give a shit about The Final Sound or Three, but A Forest is a total bop!
3
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Tue Jun 27 2023
American Gothic
David Ackles
Love's Enough is a tight song. This gives me the feel of like a sad clown variety show. Pulling Montana Song out for an entire album maybe would have been more of a connecting album. the effort of the thing as a whole feels weak.
2
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Wed Jun 28 2023
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
This morning I'm just not into country.
2
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Thu Jun 29 2023
Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
Hell yea. Boston Rag is where I need it this morning. Like all Steely Dan albums, this thing is so polished its a goddamn disco ball. it kills. every song is perfect.
5
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Fri Jun 30 2023
Ctrl
SZA
I really like the vibe on the first track Supermodel. Doves In The Wind is a little...simplistic? Not my thing. Music video is tight. Normal Girl is good. in fact the last 3 songs are killer.
4
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Mon Jul 03 2023
Follow The Leader
Korn
Freak On A Leash is a hit, even with the scat break that sounds like a dog eating a bowl of lumpy rocks and ice cream. Got The Life has a fun dance beat. Dead Bodies Everywhere sucks ass. God this album is cringy to listen to. Woof this thing is awful in the back half.
2
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Tue Jul 04 2023
evermore
Taylor Swift
A cottagecore T.Swift album about closure? Swift almost feels like the second coming of the Beatles, or Michael Jackson. Or maybe the female Meatloaf? Totally in control of the pop stylings of a generation. I personnally have this predisposition to be pretty critical of her more intimate, sadder songs. Like Jesus Taylor, you are a bajillionaire and your daddy is a rich asshole. What the hell gives you the right to comment on normal people issues? But that's me being classist. 'tis the damn season tapdances with being too cloying. no body no crime is the same thing, though in the styling of an old gun fighter revenge ballad, which i guess i can get behind. happiness is a good song. I actually like her lyrics on ivy. But on other tracks the pithiness of her lyrics are so cringe inducing, see long story short. Making a song that is constant cliches is just not my thing. Ultimately, there are some good tunes on here but I had to work to get through this thing.
3
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Wed Jul 05 2023
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
This album is a solid midtempo soft alt. I really liked An Ocean In Between The Waves. The songs stretch out for days, so its easy to zone out in the middle of something. Eyes To The Wind has big Bruce meets Bob energy. In fact that is a nice summation of the whole album. I don't really dig the Americana sound but sure its nice.
4
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Thu Jul 06 2023
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
This is pretty sick 2 tracks in. Its a heavy goth ambient record, see She's Lost Control. Pretty cool!
4
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Fri Jul 07 2023
Out of Step
Minor Threat
This album is going to be a quick one. But hella killer. Look Back And Laugh is awesome. Out Of Step is awesome. This is out of this world for punk albums.
5
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Mon Jul 10 2023
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
All right let's get this over with. Though to be fair to these guys this album is stacked with hits. Its only a question if you like this genre. If you do, this album is heaven. If you don't mind it, its fine. If you hate the genre this thing is dogshit. For me this is somewhere between a barn party with my uncles and being waterboarded. So a rating is hard to come up with. Would I come back to this album? No. Did I hate it? No. Did it make me feel things? I guess? FREEEEEEEBIIIRRRRRRDDDDDD
3
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Tue Jul 11 2023
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
YESSSSS! JACO!!!!! Every song on here is beautiful and I love this mess. Teen Town kills it. Havona is so good. Damn this album is just so tight.
5
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Wed Jul 12 2023
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
Man to go from such a high to such a low. Fuck. Frank. Sinatra. Though it is very gratifying to hear him sing songs about him being a sad mopey piece of shit. halfway through and the novelty has left and I am just trapped in a cage with frank sinatra music.
2
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Thu Jul 13 2023
Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kings of Leon
This is a Kings Of Leon record alright. They have never done much for me other than Your Sex Is On Fire, and this album so far is not doing much to change that. Their rock and roll is fine, but the lead singer sounds like his mouth is full of mothballs. What a bland time.
3
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Fri Jul 14 2023
Olympia 64
Jacques Brel
I'm up for some french accordian music this morning. This is very forceful, french is being sung in such a muscular way. It's both refreshing and surprising. Tango Funèbre is a standout track.
4
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Mon Jul 17 2023
Ramones
Ramones
Blitzkrieg Bop is the bone marrow of every punk song. Beat on the Brat is a great follow-up. This whole album kicks ass in that old school cool way.
5
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Tue Jul 18 2023
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
New Stone Age opens the album on an interesting note. There is this pervasive atmosphere permeating these songs. Even upbeat ones like Souvenir have this wispy, ghost like textures. The banging on an empty grain silo at the end of Sealand is really tonally upsetting because its just so damn loud. the rest of the album is sort of a wash out for me.
2
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Wed Jul 19 2023
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
fuck yea. and Flea was a bass player on this?! Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) really feels like the album is in full swing, but then immediately drops back. The obsessions with swinging 3s makes for a rythmically engaging sound. This album has a much more approachable sound than something like Francis The Mute. Eriatarka is my favorite track so far. Cicatriz Esp has this weird downtempo ambient section that just feels like a filler. The back end of Take The Veil Cerpin Text also feels a little languid.
4
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Thu Jul 20 2023
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
This is really mid.
3
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Fri Jul 21 2023
Picture Book
Simply Red
Come To My Aid into Sad Old Red is a really weird transition. This album is this really weird bland mashup in this 90s fashion. Money's Too Tight (To Mention) is just the most 90s song you could imagine. This kinda sucks.
2
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Mon Jul 24 2023
Faust IV
Faust
This is pretty Krauty. god its so stylistically pure. I am feeling pretty spent about halfway through Lauft... Heisst Das Es Lauft Oder Es Kommt Bald..Lauft. It's A Bit Of A Pain is a real fucking stinker of a song because of the damn drone.
2
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Tue Jul 25 2023
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
oh boy more electronic noodling, my favorite! Harry Flowers is a good track. nice music to dissassociate to, not really listen to. like the elevator music from outerspace.
3
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Wed Jul 26 2023
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
This really failed to move me in any meaningful way.
3
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Thu Jul 27 2023
Funeral
Arcade Fire
I can tell there is something deep in here. Wake Up is a good tune. That closer was so powerful, this is worth a deeper dive.
4
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Fri Jul 28 2023
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
This is kind of a cool concept. like a melting classic golden age of hollywood soundtrack. I am feeling this album this morning, its a fun ride!
4
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Mon Jul 31 2023
BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
Pretty Hurts is a lackluster tracks because of the hook, but I am digging the sonic landscape queen B is putting out. Haunted and Drunk In Love are killer, though I think Jay-Zs verse in it is weak. Blow rocks, No Angel is an impressive vocal line but I'm not taken with the song. Partition is fine but Jealous is so good. Rocket is so good! She is so masterful in her control of rythmic dissonance. Heaven is minamilist lyrics wrought to devasting effectiveness. what a killer record.
5
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Tue Aug 01 2023
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
This has kind of a Blur vibe, which is pleasant. In fact all this aims for is pleasant. One Of God's Better People has some nice acoustic guitar work.
3
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Wed Aug 02 2023
Debut
Björk
Human Behaviour didn't do much for me, but I can dig the hook on Crying. This is a really tame Bjork album by the standards of her others, with things being relatively straightforward beats and recognizable song structures. You can see the start of her expiramentation with the medium, but its just a glimpse. The back half of the album is kinda stale. Violently Happy is probably my favorite track on the album, but the rest of it i dont care either way.
3
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Thu Aug 03 2023
Triangle
The Beau Brummels
meh.
3
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Fri Aug 04 2023
Protection
Massive Attack
Some English electronica. Heat Miser is cool, Protection is cool, the rest is just mid.
3
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Mon Aug 07 2023
xx
The xx
Ugh I'm really not about this gloomy ambient coldplay knockoff sound. This generic washed out guitar tone just grates at me. Nighttime is a passable song.
3
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Tue Aug 08 2023
Palo Congo
Sabu
If you are up for come handdrumming, boy you have come to the right place.
3
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Wed Aug 09 2023
The Visitors
ABBA
A solid album with some really solid synth work and bobs.
4
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Thu Aug 10 2023
Maxinquaye
Tricky
I'm not such a fan of Massive Attack, so this effort feels a little wasted on me. It has some cool moments, and is generally a cool way to do a down tempo hip hop ambient record. It just didnt move me.
3
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Fri Aug 11 2023
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
This album's success is entirely underwriten by the black artisits that contributed the original songs for the Stones to then cover. It has arguably 3 songs writtn by the Stones, and so its pretty damn disengenious to call this a product of them, let alone to call them England's Newest Hit Makers. I think this is one of the few albums on this list to actually make me mad.
1
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Mon Aug 14 2023
Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
I am here for this opening track! THIS IS SUCH A FUN DREAMY PROG ROCK ALBUM!
4
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Tue Aug 22 2023
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead
This is probably the only way to listen to motorhead.
4
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Wed Aug 23 2023
Justified
Justin Timberlake
Oh lord, it's a whole album of Justin Timberlake. The mouth clicking sounds on Cry Me A River are ewww. Rock Your Body is fine, but holy moses this is a slog.
1
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Thu Aug 24 2023
Dog Man Star
Suede
The opening feels like a mix between the Black album by Metallica and a U2 record. it starts cool and then settles into something a little less than a bother but also less than inocuous.
2
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Fri Aug 25 2023
Moss Side Story
Barry Adamson
Cool in concept. It definetly feels overdone. The Swinging Detective is pretty rad. But the issue is that this isn't a movie score. It is desperately trying to be one, but is not. So it feels the need to add on this extra cheese layer. It feels more suited to a video game soundtrack if anything.
3
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Mon Aug 28 2023
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
One More Chance is a bop. I am actually really into this, and not just for the loose critique of Thatcherism. Kings Cross is a good song.
4
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Tue Aug 29 2023
Butterfly
Mariah Carey
Fuck this stupid album. (Lora left me yesterday).
1
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Wed Aug 30 2023
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
fuck you Changes. Supernaut and Cornucopia are metal visionary songs. Snowblind is surprisingly heartfelt. That was a good Sabbath album.
4
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Thu Aug 31 2023
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
Ocean Size was cool. Standing in the Shower... Thinking is also cool. I'm just happy this album didnt make me cry this morning.
4
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Fri Sep 01 2023
1977
Ash
I am getting big Foo Fighters vibes from this. The back end of I'd Give You Anything just seems to descend into guitar noodling for a little too long. Angel Interceptor is probably my favorite on the album.
3
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Mon Sep 04 2023
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
Girls Against Boys
I am here for this bass tone. Satin Down I'm not so into. Bullet Proof Cupid is a cool song.
3
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Tue Sep 05 2023
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
Too proto-punk for me.
2
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Wed Sep 06 2023
Pink Flag
Wire
Jesus this thing goes by fast. Some songs I liked but on the whole I could leave this album.
3
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Thu Sep 07 2023
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
I can get down with this opening track. Love At The Five And Dime is a great tune! More Than A Whisper is such a strong lyrical song. Banks Of The Pontchartrain is another fucking banger. Goin' Gone is a great tune but it's a little hard for me to listen to right now. Something that shows through in her work is her effortless mastry of blending melody accents and lyrics. It shows off her sterling lyric work and usually catches me. One Of These Days kills. Damn what a fine album.
5
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Fri Sep 08 2023
O.G. Original Gangster
Ice T
ICE-T 1991 FOOL! Ice really lays out his personal manifesto, with deep love and also hatred for his native South Central. His chops are real, his sampling is on point. The general vibe is a little dated but still decent. The end shout out track is the punkest thing recorded in the 90s.
4
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Mon Sep 11 2023
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
Wow a ska record made it on this list? I dont like the mouth noise on I'm Just Looking. Mid shit really.
3
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Tue Sep 12 2023
Sheet Music
10cc
This is kinda cool weird 70s pop. but there are too many gear shifts so the whole thing feels really lumpy and uneven.
3
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Wed Sep 13 2023
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
This is a cool album. I really did dig this.
4
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Thu Sep 14 2023
Music
Madonna
oh man the autotune on this record is atrocious. This is real bad. The only song I enjoyed was What It Feels Like For A Girl.
2
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Fri Sep 15 2023
Who Killed...... The Zutons?
The Zutons
These guys are fine.
3
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Mon Sep 18 2023
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
Nuuuuuuuu Metalllllll. God damn Manson using the N word in '96? The Beautiful People is a banger. But the rest of this album is fucking tedious. The Reflecting God is okay, from like a doomer perspective.
3
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Tue Sep 19 2023
Ys
Joanna Newsom
I really like the tone and feeling of the record, all the harp is entrancing and the harpist is fucking shredding the whole time. The lyrics are dense and I can't seem to penetrate them on this listen through. Cosmia I could see Katie covering.
4
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Wed Sep 20 2023
Green
R.E.M.
Man this album is a total time capsule. REM is such an odd band sonically, so its just lodged in my brain that their sound has this time period stuck to it. Nothing really got out of second gear for me, sorry REM.
3
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Thu Sep 21 2023
Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
This is a cool dance album. Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat is a banger.
4
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Fri Sep 22 2023
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
This is probably the best i have heard Rod sound. The guitar work is good. Maggie May is a hit, though it already sounds tired. meh like the rest of his work.
3
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Mon Sep 25 2023
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
The Eath Died Screaming is a haunting track. This album is such a workout. Waits is determined to go under every rock to scratch the holes. A Little Rain is so totally out in left field. In The Colesseum is a killer, ramshackle dirge.
4
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Tue Sep 26 2023
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
Holy Wars is one of the iconic guitar riffs. Poison Was The Cure has a cool opening bass line. Tornado Of Souls is killer. If I am in a heavy metal mood, this album should be in rotation.
4
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Wed Sep 27 2023
Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
This sucks. It just doesnt go anywhere. Her music is just so tired sounding. Flower is just really uncomfortable to listen to.
2
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Thu Sep 28 2023
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
The opening tracks have this fun jangle pop rock quality that is infectious. Phenomenal Cat is stupid as hell.
4
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Fri Sep 29 2023
Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
This opening song sucks ass. The rest of the album isn't much better. Wow that stunk.
1