Apr 04 2025
Misplaced Childhood
Marillion
Kayleigh has some chops. Not really my thing.
3
Apr 07 2025
Don't Throw Stones
THE SPORTS
This album makes me want to throw stones at it.
2
Apr 08 2025
Before These Crowded Streets
Dave Matthews Band
Groan. Okay so Dave's music has a lot of baggage for me, so he is perpetually an artist that I just cannot for the life of me give a fair listen to. There is a lot of good texture sonically, I just cant take Dave's vocal delivery, texture, or really anything about it seriously. This is the guy that literally took a shit on Chicago. When he gets the orchestra involved on Halloween its overstuffed. The Stone is good. Its just this kitchen sink over the top instrumentation. See Crush. And also Dave its okay to make a song that's 5 minutes or less come on. Also multitracking your scatting is bullshit.
3
Apr 09 2025
Korn
Korn
another hour of Korn? aRe yOU rEaDY?!?! The drum and bass tones dovetail really nicely together. Crazy to think this was '94. Shoots And Ladders is pretty cool.
4
Apr 10 2025
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Tally Hall
I am into this! I vaguely remember listening to this after finding another Tally Hall album, maybe Good & Evil, definitely because of Turn the Lights Off ? A very cool and weird little album.
4
Apr 11 2025
Nuyorican Soul
Nuyorican Soul
Yea this is killer. It's Alright, I Feel It is a great track. This was an absolute delight.
5
Apr 14 2025
1, 2, Kung Fu!
Boy Azooga
This is pretty rad. at the very least its better than fully half of the Brit pop on the regular list.
4
Apr 15 2025
Don't Say No
Billy Squier
Ok Steve, we are off to a strong start here. This is The Stroke guy?! Yea this is fun and there is nothing wrong with that.
4
Apr 16 2025
22, A Million
Bon Iver
Boney Iver, you've locked away in your tiny hoooooommmmeeee. Honestly, this sounds like a knockoff Kanye album. Tbh, I have never really been into Bon Iver. Something about his music always feels just so....overworked? overwrought?
2
Apr 17 2025
Ungodly Hour
Chloe x Halle
Love that intro on Baby Girl. Ungodly Hour is another bop. This album absolutely kills it.
5
Apr 18 2025
Phantom Power
The Tragically Hip
Some solid Canadian Dad rock. Poets, Fireworks, Escape Is At Hand, all incredible tracks. I love the sort of plainspoken lyricism and delivery. Emperor Penguin is a solid closer.
4
Apr 21 2025
Chet
Chet Baker
This is good, cool, and relaxing as all get out. The Time On My Hands rendition is a good one.
5
Apr 22 2025
Spilt Milk
Jellyfish
overstuffed doesn't even begin to describe it.
2
Apr 23 2025
All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats
yea fuck this.
1
Apr 24 2025
Pushin' Against a Stone
Valerie June
This is really cool. An album filled with refreshing country ballads with real feeling and soul.
4
Apr 25 2025
Currents
Tame Impala
There are some solid mid teens synth indie bangers on here.
3
Apr 28 2025
Comfort To Me
Amyl and The Sniffers
hell yea, lets go. Security is a great track. Hertz rips.
5
Apr 29 2025
Being Funny In A Foreign Language
The 1975
The mix is a little lean for my taste in this genre. Looking For Somebody (To Love) is a good single, almost like The Bleachers meets Michael Bolton. But I wish that bass and kick had a little more body on the low end in the natural mix. Oh Caroline and I'm In Love With You are limp and overproduced. This album came out hot as a pistol and then totally vanished into the ether.
3
Apr 30 2025
Savage Sinusoid
Igorrr
oh letttsssss gooooooooo. ieuD is way out there. Who ever made this has lost their mind in the greatest way possible. Trip hop samples, opera, killer break downs and an incredible ear for musical pacing. Wow.
5
May 01 2025
We Like It Here
Snarky Puppy
I'm into jazz fusion. great drum work by Larnell on this album.
4
May 02 2025
Come On Over
Shania Twain
OHHHHH BOOYYYYY. Man! I Feel Like A Woman! earns its credit as an anthem. The guitar tone and work on I'm Holding Onto Love (To Save My Life) is rock solid. This is the soundtrack to every barn party of my youth from its release until like 2004. This album is pop country goodness if that's your thing.
3
May 05 2025
Silent Alarm
Bloc Party
YESSSSS! I love this fucking album. excellent dynamics and mix, great clean guitar tones, honey smooth vocals, crazy synth blats and textures.
5
May 06 2025
Dogrel
Fontaines D.C.
This is really cool.
4
May 07 2025
Forced Witness
Alex Cameron
ok buddy, lets take it easy with the cheese tones on that synth. What is Runnin' Outta Luck. Is this homage or is it derivative? "Love is a dragon dressed in suede and leathery?" What in the hell?
2
May 08 2025
RΓͺver mieux
Daniel BΓ©langer
Its cool but I didn't find it was super compelling.
3
May 09 2025
Emotion
Carly Rae Jepsen
I totally forgot she had a career. Run Away With Me is a solid song. Why was I Really Like You a hit? Her stance as a narrator keeps shifting track to track. Like are you vulnerable, heartbroken, in love, over it? It makes it hard to connect with emotionally when there are so many different perspectives that don't have any kind of discernable regularity. its a necessary maturation album.
3
May 12 2025
Sublime
Sublime
a solid white boy reggae album. Is it deep? no. Is it ground breaking? no. Is it enjoyable? oh yea.
3
May 13 2025
The Evil One
Roky Erickson
ehhhh. psych rock for a B horror movie.
2
May 14 2025
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
SOPHIE
Wow this is mega pop. This is really a forward looking album sound, but good god is it sonically grating at times. Though I guess you know its really pushing into something new if it occasionally pisses old guys like me off. Immaterial is club banger. You can definitely hear this album's fingerprints on Chali XCX's BRAT.
3
May 15 2025
The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings
Louis Armstrong
a true and thorough jazz blues time.
5
May 16 2025
Yeti
Amon DΓΌΓΌl II
Lots of like proto heavy emerging sounds. reminds me of the Velvet Underground. Its just not my thing.
2
May 19 2025
Night Drive
Chromatics
I love that kick tone on I Want Your Love. This is hard to put into one camp of electronic music, which is why it feels very scattered sonically.
3
May 20 2025
Human Racing
Nik Kershaw
Woah there cowboy, what is with these drum samples? Wouldn't It Be Good is a hit pitched right down the middle. Drum Talk is WILD. Cloak And Dagger is a fucking bop. This was such a strong 4 star for me that some of the songs deserve a special call out.
4
May 21 2025
Get Fucked
The Chats
yea this is feckin punk rawk. I enjoyed it but cant see myself coming back to it.
3
May 22 2025
Give Up
The Postal Service
As one of my former coworkers used to say "Tomm'd up kid singing about being tomm'd up about some dumb shit." This sucked.
1
May 23 2025
The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman coming on the scene and tearing jazz a new asshole is one of my favorite things.
5
May 26 2025
Spanish Train And Other Stories
Chris de Burgh
What even the fuck? A charming and occasionally jarring series of vignettes and story telling. Worth a revisit.
4
May 27 2025
Re
CafΓ© Tacvba
I mean sure, I know nothing about Latin rock. but this is really hard to believe the billing as "The White Album for Latin Rock".
3
May 28 2025
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Big Thief
This is like listening to your hippie friend at a folk fest campfire. If you are high by they time they take out their synthesizer, its a good time. If you would rather sleep in your tent and try to forget how gross you are, its pretty damn tedious.
2
May 29 2025
Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens
A touching tribute, but in a form and package that I don't have much a connection to or a passion for.
3
May 30 2025
Relatives in Descent
Protomartyr
Night-Blooming Cereus was a good song. The rest? fine.
3
Jun 02 2025
Bloody Kisses
Type O Negative
Very goth and heavy i guess? Summer Breeze cover was....unexpected. Broadly, I think it falls prey to a really thin 90's metal mix that just doesn't seem to gel sonically.
3
Jun 03 2025
Toxicity
System Of A Down
Yea this is absolutely should be on the regular list, but glad it got picked up by the listeners. A real high water mark for nu metal.
5
Jun 04 2025
L'autre...
Mylène Farmer
Like a French Kate Bush. pretty cool.
4
Jun 05 2025
City Of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold
oh come on. The drum work? incredible. The whole album is basically a sonic time capsule of when pop metal jumped the shark. this is the metal kid equivalent to ska. Mother of christmas I hate that album.
1
Jun 06 2025
Fuzz
Chucklehead
This is about the funkiest I have ever heard a bunch of dudes from the 90s get.
3
Jun 09 2025
Sing To God
Cardiacs
What is this trash? See Eat It Up Worms Hero. This is like a goofy carnival hosted by a stadium rock version of The Smurfs. Why do their vocals sound like that? and that's side 1. Side Two starts with Dirty Boy doing more of the same and boy is that ending vocal harmony held forever. Nurses Whispering Versus is actually a song I can get down with. Wow I am happy that is over.
1
Jun 10 2025
AmarElo
Emicida
This is cool, though understood none of it. The Portuguese is cool to listen to.
4
Jun 11 2025
Frengers: Not Quite Friends But Not Quite Strangers
Mew
Halfway through and this is a down beat indie record like a lot of the rest. I don't have a good ear for this genre and i don't think it has improved after getting through the project. This sounds so very generic. Comforting Sounds is like a downbeat Killers track.
2
Jun 12 2025
World Of Echo
Arthur Russell
Yea there was a time I thought John Cage was cool too. There is something sort of hauntingly beauty to these songs, see Being It. But boy does this thing overstay its welcome with the bonus tracks, and the closer on the regular album Let's Go Swimming is no prized peach either. Fuck this thing.
1
Jun 13 2025
Things We Lost In The Fire
Low
just an album of bummer songs.
1
Jun 16 2025
Moffou
Salif Keita
Yea this is cool but its so outside my regular musical palette that I have no idea what to do with it or what to rate it.
3
Jun 17 2025
Clarity
Jimmy Eat World
This is a really cool showcase to see what the punk kids really have. It serves as a fun idea and a challenge to 4 chord bands to ask "What kind of music do you really want to make?"
4
Jun 18 2025
10,000 gecs
100 gecs
This opening track is such a banger. Wow this album is such a sonic blender. They are really taking as many sounds from the 2000's and 2010's as they can. Billy Knows Jamie is a honest to god nu-metal song. And then I Got My Tooth Removed is a thirds wave ska/ carnival polka song? Wow what a cool album.
5
Jun 19 2025
Angel Dust
Faith No More
RV is a weirdo song. This album is odd sounding, like somewhere between Freaky Styley by the Chili Peppers and the Black Album by Metallica. There's a song called Crack Hitler? come on. And the Easy Cover? this is a hard pass from me, dawg.
1
Jun 20 2025
Metallic K.O.
The Stooges
Iggy Live bringing the power and the DANGER. Way to antagonize the crowd Iggy, I wish I sounded this good if people were throwing shit at me. 1! 2! FUCK YOU PRICKS! Dude is there a riot happening in the background?! This is an insane record.
4
Jun 23 2025
Grand Prix
Teenage Fanclub
This is very easy to listen to.
3
Jun 24 2025
I Need to Start a Garden
Haley Heynderickx
This is cool but not my thing. Great vocal tones!
3
Jun 25 2025
Out Of Time
R.E.M.
Losing My Religion is still a monster hit. Shiny Happy People is also a great tune. The non singles are not super impressive.
4
Jun 26 2025
The Beautiful Letdown
Switchfoot
Christian rockers Switchfoot do the contemporary music. Though they do you a kindness on the opening track Meant To Live by talking around the whole Jesus bit. But goddamn this cheese ball.
1
Jun 27 2025
Hammersmith Odeon, London '75
Bruce Springsteen
Holy god Bruce, you sound like a really aggressive Tom Waits. After that 2 hour tour de force, my ears are tired and sore. That man rocked the shit out of those brits.
4
Jun 30 2025
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
The Caretaker
I've heard this album before, a real triumph of artistic vision and fucking freaky reality. A complete masterpiece.
5
Jul 01 2025
Oncle Jazz
Men I Trust
Cool easy indie jazz fusion. Pines is a nice song. The whole album stays in this dreamlike easy downbeat indie space sonically, so if you are up for it; it delivers for 70ish minutes
4
Jul 02 2025
People Watching
Sam Fender
People Watching sounds like a British, softer Bruce. The sax also adds to the comparison
3
Jul 03 2025
Join Us
They Might Be Giants
ALL RIGHT! TMBG are the greatest nerdiest musicians in the game and really any of their albums could be on this list. When Will You Die is such a rad song. What a goofball album.
5
Jul 04 2025
Set Yourself On Fire
Stars
The guitar tone is very much indicative of the mid 2000s combined with a snappy articulate melodies with a fair amount of variety of sonic textures thrown in. I don't find it super captivating but its nice. The First Five Times is a song where all these elements come together for me. Reminds me of a Canadian style Death Cab For Cutie.
4
Jul 07 2025
Les deux doigts dans la prise
Les sheriff
French classic punk
3
Jul 08 2025
Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise
The Dear Hunter
Big Coheed vibes on this record. about halfway between a Broadway musical and a progressive rock record. The full experience is getting into the story and understanding the characters involved and i just cant do that working.
4
Jul 09 2025
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Steven Wilson
cool album but concept albums just aren't my thing. great bass and dynamics work.
4
Jul 10 2025
We Rock Hard
Freestylers
Very cool.
4
Jul 11 2025
Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk
Okay the opening has my attention. a slow ambient intro into a swampy blues piano/guitar combo. Okay I am bought in when it hits Eden. Inheritance I'm not such a fan of. I Believe In You is a similar disappointment. Really the back half squanders what was a really promising sonic start.
3
Jul 14 2025
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Arctic Monkeys
The lyrics one the first track are kinda wild. Like most Arctic Monkeys work, watch it as it goes way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over my head.
3
Jul 15 2025
Continuum
John Mayer
ewwwwwwwwwww. My issues with John Mayer are many, the first of which is his "whaaaaaaaaawnnn" delivery. This album was the high water mark for camp fire guitar players.
2
Jul 16 2025
Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire
I never knew they were Canadian! An absolutely rock solid emo album, though that screamer sounds like he is in PAIN.
4
Jul 17 2025
Songs Of A Lost World
The Cure
Never really found anything I enjoyed much with this band and this album is no exception.
3
Jul 18 2025
Under The Pink
Tori Amos
Love a good prepared piano track in Bells For Her. Like a mix between Sara Bareilles and Kate Bush. Meh.
3
Jul 21 2025
Old No. 1
Guy Clark
Cool Texas country from a time long gone by.
4
Jul 22 2025
The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
Teenagers indeed scare the shit outta me.
5
Jul 23 2025
The Lonesome Crowded West
Modest Mouse
Scratchy aggressive indie rock progenitors. This album comes without any of the smarmy, tongue in cheek I'm better than you trappings of some of the later stuff, so it has this very aggressive shambling sound. Truckers Atlas is very, very weird.
3
Jul 24 2025
Dead Man's Party
Oingo Boingo
slick 80s bops with punchy horns. needs a revisit.
4
Jul 25 2025
Brat
Charli xcx
YAY! fabulous album. I might say something stupid exposes just how heartfelt this thing is. Charli taking over was well deserved, I think the finally the world caught up to her hyperpop DJ sensibilities. Mean girls hit me in another way this listen through.
5
Jul 28 2025
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
The Alan Parsons Project
what a goofy album. in a cool way.
4
Jul 29 2025
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Roger Waters
cool concept roger, but I'm not a concept albums kinda guy.
3
Jul 30 2025
Has A Good Home
Final Fantasy
a selection of jaunty tunes for jaunty boys.
2
Jul 31 2025
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel
This album is outrageous for 1998. What a tastemaker this album became. As a dyed in the wool not indie kinda guy, i appreciate the crap out of this album. I don't know that I love it, but the impact alone is huge.
4
Aug 01 2025
John Dawson Winter III
Johnny Winter
Honk shooooooooo. Probably hard for guys that need to use boner pills now. Lots of shredding on Mind Over Matter.
2
Aug 04 2025
Rose Mountain
Screaming Females
This is cool.
4
Aug 05 2025
Madvillainy
Madvillain
I love this fucking album. The sampling is so atmospheric and the DOOM's flow is so natural.
5
Aug 06 2025
Chocolate & Cheese
Ween
This album is pretty everywhere. Drifter In The Dark is set up nicely. Goddamn this album is all over the map! what the heck am i supposed to do with this thing.
3
Aug 07 2025
Sound Awake
Karnivool
Okay some prog metal. Change was good. The whole thing didn't feel super distinctive from like a Tool or a Dream Theatre album.
3
Aug 08 2025
Please Don't Take Me Back
Martha
A cool modern pop punk album. Loads of familiar tones in this one.
4