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Mon Jan 25 2021
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
I don’t know if Talking Heads is a group I enjoy actively listening to, but it was good as background music. And I recognized a song! So we’re off to a good start.
3
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Tue Jan 26 2021
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
I will not tell you how many songs in I was when I realized that Louis Prima voiced the orangutan king in The Jungle Book (facepalm). But this is my kind of cooking music! I particularly like the vocal quality of the female singer (Keely Smith I’m guessing?) and the harmony sections. Remarkable how many of these songs start with nearly the exact same walking bass line from the piano, just in different keys (listen to the first few seconds of #1, #3 and #6). There was an Italian grocery store down the street from our last apartment in Long Island and this is very much the type of music they played, so it was a nostalgic listen. Final thought - did “gigolo” mean something different in 1956?
4
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Wed Jan 27 2021
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith was a big influence on my favorite artist (Ben Folds), so naturally I hear a lot of similarities between the two of them, but listening to this album I can hear the influence he might have had on even more indie artists that followed him (The Shins, Deathcab, Bon Iver, Fountains of Wayne). I read he was a big fan of the Beatles, which totally comes through in his sound (“Pretty Mary Kay” especially, for me)...at times this album even felt like a darker, more contemporary Simon & Garfunkel (though I didn’t find anything to suggest he emulated them specifically). Overall I really enjoyed listening to this album. Hard to choose a favorite song, but right now I’m really felling “Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud” & “Can’t Make a Sound.”
5
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Thu Jan 28 2021
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
Really everyone should have a brass backup band IMHO. And when was the last time you heard a vibraphone solo let alone a flute/vibraphone duet? Just happy, uplifting music.
4
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Fri Jan 29 2021
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
This is not my thing at all, but I can sort of see the appeal. Honestly I thought it would be harder to listen to than it was. Perhaps the instrumentals would be more enjoyable without the vocals?
3
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Mon Feb 01 2021
All Mod Cons
The Jam
Felt pretty cool listening to this while driving around running errands. I dig it. Made me want to listen to the Killers and weirdly the Allman Brothers?
3
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Tue Feb 02 2021
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
I had friends of the Hot Topic persuasion in middle school and high school who liked the Pixies. Not my favorite overall, but I always liked Gigantic (though the version I knew might have been a cover), and Where Is My Mind is a classic.
2
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Wed Feb 03 2021
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
My parents had James Taylor in their music rotation a lot when I was little so most of this album was familiar! Easy to listen to with some pretty classic songs.
4
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Thu Feb 04 2021
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
This whole album sounded like one continuous song to me, though I’m admittedly not a huge R&B fan. Fine as background music, but not my favorite.
2
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Fri Feb 05 2021
Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
Really digging the Jesus Christ Superstar vibe of this album. But then some of the songs are very folky, a really interesting contrast. I enjoyed listening to this one.
3
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Mon Feb 08 2021
Is This It
The Strokes
As much as I’m enjoying expanding my musical horizons, it was nice to listen to something familiar with this album.
3
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Tue Feb 09 2021
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
Another favorite of my parents. S&G music is so soothing and pretty with the harmonies, almost meditative.
4
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Wed Feb 10 2021
Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
3
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Thu Feb 11 2021
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Really interesting instrumentation. At once almost like a jazz ensemble, passing solos around while a chord progression repeats underneath...but then one song borders on classic country rock, at least until the vocals come in. And all the oboe? And even an English horn??
3
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Fri Feb 12 2021
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
I can’t place who this sounds like, but very reminiscent of other bands that were popular among my circle in the early-mid 2000s. I wish I had known about them during my vaguely emo teen years!
4
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Mon Feb 15 2021
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
This was the perfect music for spending the day in the kitchen!
4
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Wed Feb 17 2021
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
4
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Thu Feb 18 2021
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
4
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Fri Feb 19 2021
Ten
Pearl Jam
They were never really my jam (see what I did there?) but it wasn’t terrible to listen to, especially with some familiar songs on this album.
3
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Mon Feb 22 2021
American Idiot
Green Day
I’m not a huge Green Day fan, but if I had to choose a favorite album of theirs it would probably not be American Idiot. A few familiar tunes, but overall not great not terrible.
3
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Tue Feb 23 2021
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
3
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Wed Feb 24 2021
Ramones
Ramones
3
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Thu Feb 25 2021
Live Through This
Hole
John actually introduced me to Hole! I liked this, had kind of a Joan Jett vibe.
4
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Fri Feb 26 2021
Rapture
Anita Baker
I tried to like this, but I’m just not a big fan of R&B.
2
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Mon Mar 01 2021
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2
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Tue Mar 02 2021
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
I really liked this! I don’t usually listen to much hip hop but I liked this album. I can see how she was so influential on later artists! (Did anyone else read that she was really close with the whole Marley family? Makes me wonder if the album sequence was intentional!)
4
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Wed Mar 03 2021
Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3
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Thu Mar 04 2021
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
3
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Fri Mar 05 2021
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
3
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Mon Mar 08 2021
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
3
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Tue Mar 09 2021
Elephant
The White Stripes
4
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Wed Mar 10 2021
Treasure
Cocteau Twins
3
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Thu Mar 11 2021
Viva Hate
Morrissey
2
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Fri Mar 12 2021
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
4
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Mon Mar 15 2021
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
4
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Wed Mar 17 2021
Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter
3
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Thu Mar 18 2021
Goo
Sonic Youth
4
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Fri Mar 19 2021
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
5
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Mon Mar 22 2021
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
2
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Thu Mar 25 2021
The White Album
Beatles
3
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Fri Mar 26 2021
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
3
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Tue Mar 30 2021
John Prine
John Prine
4
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Wed Mar 31 2021
Scott 2
Scott Walker
3
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Thu Apr 01 2021
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
3
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Fri Apr 02 2021
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4
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Mon Apr 05 2021
1999
Prince
3
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Wed Apr 07 2021
Wild Gift
X
4
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Thu Apr 08 2021
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
4
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Fri Apr 09 2021
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
4
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Mon Apr 12 2021
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
3
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Fri Apr 16 2021
Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
3
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Wed Apr 21 2021
Triangle
The Beau Brummels
3
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Thu Apr 22 2021
Broken English
Marianne Faithfull
3
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Fri Apr 23 2021
Your Arsenal
Morrissey
2
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Mon Apr 26 2021
Violator
Depeche Mode
3
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Fri Apr 30 2021
Nevermind
Nirvana
4
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Mon May 03 2021
Forever Changes
Love
3
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Tue May 04 2021
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
3
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Thu May 06 2021
Heroes
David Bowie
4
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Fri May 07 2021
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
3
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Mon May 10 2021
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
4
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Tue May 11 2021
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
3
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Wed May 12 2021
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
3
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Thu May 13 2021
Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera
1
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Fri May 14 2021
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
3
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Mon May 17 2021
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
2
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Tue May 18 2021
Boston
Boston
3
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Wed May 19 2021
Jack Takes the Floor
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3
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Thu May 20 2021
Savane
Ali Farka Touré
4
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Fri May 21 2021
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
5
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Wed May 26 2021
Fragile
Yes
3
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Thu May 27 2021
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
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Wed Jun 02 2021
Tidal
Fiona Apple
4
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Fri Jun 04 2021
American Pie
Don McLean
4
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Mon Jun 07 2021
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
3
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Tue Jun 08 2021
You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
3
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Wed Jun 09 2021
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
3
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Tue Jun 15 2021
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
3
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Fri Jun 18 2021
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
3
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Tue Jun 22 2021
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
3
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Fri Jun 25 2021
Truth And Soul
Fishbone
3