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Fri Feb 12 2021
Beautiful Freak
Eels
5
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Mon Feb 15 2021
Who's Next
The Who
I've never been especially crazy about this album. I love individual tracks on their own, but this has always felt like a Who album that happens to have their best songs rather than the best Who album.
4
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Tue Feb 16 2021
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
4
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Wed Feb 17 2021
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
I was not put on this earth to "get" Rod Stewart.
2
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Thu Feb 18 2021
Tommy
The Who
5
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Fri Feb 19 2021
C'est Chic
CHIC
3
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Mon Feb 22 2021
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
3
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Tue Feb 23 2021
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
4
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Wed Feb 24 2021
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
4
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Thu Feb 25 2021
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
3
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Fri Feb 26 2021
Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2
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Mon Mar 01 2021
Parachutes
Coldplay
3
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Tue Mar 02 2021
All Mod Cons
The Jam
5
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Wed Mar 03 2021
Scott 4
Scott Walker
5
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Thu Mar 04 2021
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3
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Fri Mar 05 2021
Da Capo
Love
3
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Mon Mar 08 2021
1999
Prince
An all timer when it comes to the album-quality vs album art ratio.
5
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Tue Mar 09 2021
The Band
The Band
4
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Wed Mar 10 2021
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
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Thu Mar 11 2021
Destroyer
KISS
2
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Fri Mar 12 2021
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
3
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Mon Mar 15 2021
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
4
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Tue Mar 16 2021
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
3
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Wed Mar 17 2021
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
4
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Thu Mar 18 2021
No Other
Gene Clark
5
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Fri Mar 19 2021
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
4
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Mon Mar 22 2021
Different Class
Pulp
5
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Tue Mar 23 2021
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
5
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Wed Mar 24 2021
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
3
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Thu Mar 25 2021
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
3
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Fri Mar 26 2021
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
4
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Mon Mar 29 2021
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
5
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Tue Mar 30 2021
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
5
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Wed Mar 31 2021
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
3
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Thu Apr 01 2021
Pearl
Janis Joplin
4
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Fri Apr 02 2021
Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs
3
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Mon Apr 05 2021
Done By The Forces Of Nature
Jungle Brothers
4
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Wed Apr 07 2021
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4
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Thu Apr 08 2021
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
4
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Fri Apr 09 2021
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
4
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Mon Apr 12 2021
Rip It Up
Orange Juice
3
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Tue Apr 13 2021
The Yes Album
Yes
5
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Wed Apr 14 2021
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
2
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Thu Apr 15 2021
Berlin
Lou Reed
4
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Fri Apr 16 2021
Virgin Suicides
Air
5
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Tue Apr 20 2021
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
3
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Wed Apr 21 2021
Tidal
Fiona Apple
5
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Thu Apr 22 2021
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
2
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Fri Apr 23 2021
Elephant
The White Stripes
5
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Mon Apr 26 2021
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
3
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Tue Apr 27 2021
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
Very good, just not my favorite Sabbath.
3
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Wed Apr 28 2021
Face to Face
The Kinks
5
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Thu Apr 29 2021
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
5
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Fri Apr 30 2021
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
5
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Mon May 03 2021
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
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Tue May 04 2021
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
4
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Wed May 05 2021
Picture Book
Simply Red
3
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Thu May 06 2021
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
2
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Fri May 07 2021
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
4
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Mon May 10 2021
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
5
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Tue May 11 2021
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
4
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Wed May 12 2021
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
4
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Thu May 13 2021
Document
R.E.M.
5
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Fri May 14 2021
The La's
The La's
3
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Mon May 17 2021
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
4
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Tue May 18 2021
Signing Off
UB40
4
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Wed May 19 2021
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
3
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Thu May 20 2021
The Joshua Tree
U2
U2 sounds like a bank commercial.
3
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Fri May 21 2021
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
4
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Tue May 25 2021
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
2
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Wed May 26 2021
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3
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Fri May 28 2021
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
One of my favorite live records ever. Sam’s got the audience in the palm of his hand.
5
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Tue Jun 01 2021
I Should Coco
Supergrass
3
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Wed Jun 02 2021
Gold
Ryan Adams
Fuck Ryan Adams.
1
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Thu Jun 03 2021
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
3
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Fri Jun 04 2021
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
4
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Mon Jun 07 2021
The Stooges
The Stooges
4
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Tue Jun 08 2021
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
3
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Wed Jun 09 2021
A Night At The Opera
Queen
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon into I'm In Love With my Car is the rock n roll one-two punch you never knew you needed.
4
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Fri Jun 11 2021
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
3
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Mon Jun 14 2021
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
5
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Tue Jun 15 2021
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
3
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Wed Jun 16 2021
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
4
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Thu Jun 17 2021
Abraxas
Santana
4
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Fri Jun 18 2021
Live At Leeds
The Who
4
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Mon Jun 21 2021
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
5
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Tue Jun 22 2021
Moving Pictures
Rush
I should like this, yet my Zappa-lovin ass will call this "too angular and chaotic."
3
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Wed Jun 23 2021
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
This is a low rating where I want to make my bona fides clear: I like 80s music, and I specifically like new wave and synthpop.
That said:
This annoys the everloving shit outta me; it sounds like Robert Smith fell into The Love Cats and couldn't get out.
1
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Thu Jun 24 2021
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
3
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Fri Jun 25 2021
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
4
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Wed Jun 30 2021
Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
3
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Thu Jul 01 2021
S&M
Metallica
Sounds like a bad James Bond soundtrack.
1
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Fri Jul 02 2021
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
3
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Mon Jul 05 2021
Leftism
Leftfield
After being real cool on much of the electronica served up to me so far, this one actually clicked. Seems like good study/coding music, but according to the reviews I'd be best off tripping face in a London warehouse.
4
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Tue Jul 06 2021
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
4
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Wed Jul 07 2021
Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers
3
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Thu Jul 08 2021
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
4
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Fri Jul 09 2021
Faust IV
Faust
4
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Mon Jul 12 2021
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
5
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Tue Jul 13 2021
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
This one sits in an awkward spot between Waits' early beat-crooner phase and his later tinpan-circus-in-a-gutter phase. Small Change or Blue Valentine do this same thing way, way better imo.
3
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Wed Jul 14 2021
Connected
Stereo MC's
2
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Thu Jul 15 2021
Casanova
The Divine Comedy
This is what you'd get if you asked me to write a Pulp parody album.
2
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Fri Jul 16 2021
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
5
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Mon Jul 19 2021
Murmur
R.E.M.
4
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Tue Jul 20 2021
Zombie
Fela Kuti
5
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Tue Aug 24 2021
Rio
Duran Duran
4
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Wed Aug 25 2021
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
3
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Thu Aug 26 2021
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
"The Rake" made me angry.
2
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Fri Aug 27 2021
Cut
The Slits
5
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Mon Aug 30 2021
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
4
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Tue Aug 31 2021
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
5
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Wed Sep 01 2021
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
4
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Thu Sep 02 2021
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
3
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Fri Sep 03 2021
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
gee wonder why David Lynch hired this guy
3
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Mon Sep 06 2021
The Poet
Bobby Womack
4
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Tue Sep 07 2021
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
5
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Wed Sep 08 2021
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
5
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Thu Sep 09 2021
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
Kinda doubt we'd remember this one had Bjork not become Bjork
2
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Fri Sep 10 2021
90
808 State
2
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Mon Sep 13 2021
Moon Safari
Air
4
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Tue Sep 14 2021
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
4
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Wed Sep 15 2021
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
4
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Thu Sep 16 2021
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
3
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Fri Sep 17 2021
Pretenders
Pretenders
3
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Mon Sep 20 2021
Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear
5
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Tue Sep 21 2021
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
4
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Wed Sep 22 2021
Sea Change
Beck
*You're* crying.
5
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Thu Sep 23 2021
Orbital 2
Orbital
Time and again this site has served me turn-of-the-90s UK electronica, and it's still yet to make an impression on me. I try to not generalize about music, but I can completely understand why music from this period gets slammed for being so repetitive.
for being so repetitive
for being so repetitive
for being so repetitive
boom-boom-boom-snap
so repetitive
boom-boom-boom-snap
so repetitive
boom-boom-boom-snap
so repetitive
2
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Fri Sep 24 2021
Chelsea Girl
Nico
3
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Mon Sep 27 2021
Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is just at this intersection between prog (my jam) and easy listening (not my jam) that does not do it for me.
3
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Tue Sep 28 2021
Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
5
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Wed Sep 29 2021
The Stranger
Billy Joel
3
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Thu Sep 30 2021
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4
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Fri Oct 01 2021
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
4
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Mon Oct 04 2021
Doolittle
Pixies
5
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Tue Oct 05 2021
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
I know this is very good, and there are some songs I really like. But, as a millennial growing up in the 90s watching truck commercials backed by AC/DC tracks, this music sounds like a midlife crisis.
3
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Wed Oct 06 2021
Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
3
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Thu Oct 07 2021
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
I need a slowed-down, soul-free version of Little Wing like I need another hole in my head. Diet blues.
1
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Fri Oct 08 2021
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
4
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Mon Oct 11 2021
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
4
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Tue Oct 12 2021
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4
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Wed Oct 13 2021
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
5
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Thu Oct 14 2021
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
3
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Fri Oct 15 2021
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
As a 90s kid growing up with 90s Aerosmith, I didn't take Aerosmith very seriously. In fact, I loathed Aerosmith. They're up there with Billy Joel as artists who I completely understand the success and reach they've had, but I really only appreciate on a cultural level rather than a musical one.
So color me surprised when I put this album on to find some real tightly played hard rock. Maybe a little unsophisticated lyrically, but you can see yourself handing the Zeppelin crown over to them.
And then Big Ten Inch Record played.
No, I was right. These guys are corny. Then comes Sweet Emotion and you see why they got so big.
4
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Mon Oct 18 2021
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
4
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Tue Oct 19 2021
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
3
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Wed Oct 20 2021
evermore
Taylor Swift
Who put this here
2
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Thu Oct 21 2021
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
5
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Fri Oct 22 2021
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
3
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Mon Oct 25 2021
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
4
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Tue Oct 26 2021
Low
David Bowie
4
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Wed Oct 27 2021
The Bends
Radiohead
It's downright frustrating how this album gets no love in the shadow of Radiohead's later, more experimental work. This is an album which exemplifies guitar-driven brit-rock, full of incendiary licks and inward-looking lyrics. It's almost as though the sheer consistency of this album is held against it compared to the zigs and zags of the following albums, even the zigs and zags within the tracks of those albums.
5
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Thu Oct 28 2021
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
4
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Fri Oct 29 2021
Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon
Seeing this pop up gave me moosebumps.
A little overlong, I tend to skip a couple of the repetitive songs. But a true classic nonetheless.
4
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Mon Nov 01 2021
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
3
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Tue Nov 02 2021
Machine Head
Deep Purple
4
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Wed Nov 03 2021
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
5
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Thu Nov 04 2021
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
It's not Megadeth's fault I'm more of a Doom / Sludge / Slow Metal guy. But, beyond technical proficiency, I just don't get the appeal of speed metal.
3
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Fri Nov 05 2021
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
This album's especially great for giving Nico multiple opportunities to say "clown" (pronounced 'klauhn')
5
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Mon Nov 08 2021
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
4
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Tue Nov 09 2021
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
3
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Wed Nov 10 2021
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
3
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Thu Nov 11 2021
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
5
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Fri Nov 12 2021
Elastica
Elastica
4
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Mon Nov 15 2021
Goo
Sonic Youth
3
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Tue Nov 16 2021
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
3
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Wed Nov 17 2021
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
3
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Thu Nov 18 2021
More Specials
The Specials
4
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Fri Nov 19 2021
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
5
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Mon Nov 22 2021
Rubber Soul
Beatles
5
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Tue Nov 23 2021
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
3
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Wed Nov 24 2021
Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
4
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Thu Nov 25 2021
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
4
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Fri Nov 26 2021
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
A band that dares ask the question: what if Sparks went ska?
3
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Wed Dec 01 2021
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
5
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Fri Dec 03 2021
OK Computer
Radiohead
5
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Mon Dec 06 2021
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
4
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Tue Dec 07 2021
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
5
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Wed Dec 08 2021
Very
Pet Shop Boys
3
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Thu Dec 09 2021
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
4
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Fri Dec 10 2021
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
4
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Mon Dec 13 2021
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
4
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Tue Dec 14 2021
Purple Rain
Prince
5
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Wed Dec 15 2021
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
3
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Thu Dec 16 2021
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
4
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Fri Dec 17 2021
A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy
Casanova felt like Pulp parody. This feels like Magnetic Fields parody.
2
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Mon Dec 20 2021
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
I hadn’t listened to Missy Elliot before this, and that’s on me.
5
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Tue Dec 21 2021
Is This It
The Strokes
5
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Wed Dec 22 2021
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
4
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Thu Dec 23 2021
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
I wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck.
Or the Creedence.
4
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Fri Dec 24 2021
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Geez people really turned on this album didn’t they. Music still seems good to me.
Weird that the current top review here knocks the lyrics for “every other word being fuck this and fuck that” when there’s… a single f-bomb across the entire album? Lots of projection going on when it comes to the content of the album; you’re telling on yourself, bro.
5
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Mon Dec 27 2021
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
5
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Tue Dec 28 2021
Harvest
Neil Young
5
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Wed Dec 29 2021
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
4
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Thu Dec 30 2021
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
4
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Fri Dec 31 2021
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
2
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Mon Jan 03 2022
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
1
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Tue Jan 04 2022
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
This is just the same song ten times and I love it.
4
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Wed Jan 05 2022
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
5
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Thu Jan 06 2022
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
4
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Fri Jan 07 2022
Happy Sad
Tim Buckley
3
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Mon Jan 10 2022
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
Love this album. Was going to give four stars since this is a classic, but on this listen I’m unfortunately feeling the runtimes of several tracks. Then Thurston Moore sang “there he goes again, my magic monkey friend” and the perfect score restored itself.
5
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Tue Jan 11 2022
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
The fadeout on He's Misstra Know-It-All is comically long
5
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Wed Jan 12 2022
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
5
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Fri Jan 14 2022
Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
2
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Mon Jan 17 2022
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
Love the low reviews from people hearing *this* phase of Miles Davis and going “whoa, mister wacky jazz, you’re going way over my head with this!”
4
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Tue Jan 18 2022
Dirt
Alice In Chains
3
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Wed Jan 19 2022
Bad Company
Bad Company
All I hear is Tom Scharpling hanging up on boring callers.
4
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Thu Jan 20 2022
Being There
Wilco
5
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Fri Jan 21 2022
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
It’s hard to say whether this album simply pales in comparison to the Gorillaz albums to come after it, or if it’s really just too slight and sketchy (I lean towards this; it feels more like Albarn and co. are exploring rather than establishing), but it’s wild that *this* is the Gorillaz album to hear before you die. St. Peter will turn your ass around and send you back if you think you’re just gonna shuffle off without hearing Demon Days or Plastic Beach.
3
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Mon Jan 24 2022
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
4
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Tue Jan 25 2022
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
4
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Wed Jan 26 2022
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
3
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Thu Jan 27 2022
Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
I should buy a boat.
4
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Fri Jan 28 2022
The Grand Tour
George Jones
4
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Tue Feb 01 2022
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
5
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Wed Feb 02 2022
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
5
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Thu Feb 03 2022
Van Halen
Van Halen
Maybe hair metal wasn’t a mistake
4
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Fri Feb 04 2022
Walking Wounded
Everything But The Girl
Is there a 90s uk sophistipop album this list doesn’t have?
2
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Wed Feb 09 2022
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
February 2022 - Clicking the spotify link for this album is as amusing as checking the 42nd president’s twitter url; it’ll never get old. F*** Joe Rogan
4
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Thu Feb 10 2022
Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
4
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Fri Feb 11 2022
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
4
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Mon Feb 14 2022
Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
4
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Tue Feb 15 2022
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
fuhn fuhn fuhn
4
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Wed Feb 16 2022
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
4
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Thu Feb 17 2022
Skylarking
XTC
3
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Fri Feb 18 2022
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
You don't often get a divorce album that leaves you 100% on the side of the artist's ex. Just picture Sara Dylan playing "Idiot Wind" at the filing.
Every time Bob goes "whoooaaaaaaaaaaa" on "You're a Big Girl Now" I picture him going down a really steep roller coaster. And now you'll hear that every time too.
5
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Mon Feb 21 2022
With The Beatles
Beatles
4
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Tue Feb 22 2022
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
3
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Wed Feb 23 2022
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
4
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Thu Feb 24 2022
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
5
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Fri Feb 25 2022
Wild Gift
X
5
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Mon Feb 28 2022
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
4
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Tue Mar 01 2022
Forever Changes
Love
4
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Wed Mar 02 2022
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
3
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Thu Mar 03 2022
Sex Packets
Digital Underground
3
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Fri Mar 04 2022
Fifth Dimension
The Byrds
4
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Mon Mar 07 2022
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
3
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Tue Mar 08 2022
I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
5
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Wed Mar 09 2022
Penance Soiree
The Icarus Line
Thanks I hate it
2
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Thu Mar 10 2022
New Wave
The Auteurs
4
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Fri Mar 11 2022
Here, My Dear
Marvin Gaye
5
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Mon Mar 14 2022
Phrenology
The Roots
3
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Tue Mar 15 2022
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3
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Wed Mar 16 2022
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
I love Michael Kiwanuka, I love this album; recency bias has me asking: is this his most essential release? One of the most essential of 2019?
Between the recent picks (which I don’t know if they come from the author of the book or the architect of this site) and the early-90s britpop, techno jazz, and art pop; the subjectivity of this list can be blistering.
4
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Thu Mar 17 2022
Third
Portishead
5
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Fri Mar 18 2022
High Violet
The National
4
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Mon Mar 21 2022
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
Psst.
Hey you.
Yeah you.
C’mere.
No, closer.
There we go, just a little closer…
Nope, even closer…
I don’t get what the big deal is with The Rolling Stones beyond their longevity. They’re fine.
3
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Tue Mar 22 2022
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
This is what every bar band thinks they sound like.
4
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Wed Mar 23 2022
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
4
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Thu Mar 24 2022
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
3
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Fri Mar 25 2022
Funeral
Arcade Fire
5
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Mon Mar 28 2022
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
3
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Tue Mar 29 2022
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
Jane’s Addiction’s creative approach seems to be “if something’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” Pump the brakes, boys.
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Wed Mar 30 2022
Roots
Sepultura
4
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Thu Mar 31 2022
OK
Talvin Singh
When the yoga teacher puts on cooldown music that isn’t as peaceful as they think.
2
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Fri Apr 01 2022
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
5
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Tue Apr 05 2022
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
4
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Wed Apr 06 2022
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
4
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Thu Apr 07 2022
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
3
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Fri Apr 08 2022
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
Sounds like Philly Boy Roy singing the Toonerville Trolley.
3
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Mon Apr 11 2022
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
The Arcade Fire: growing up in the suburbs can be alienating at times.
Aging Gen-Xers as they start to make up the majority of the Grammy voting body: holy shit yes
4
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Tue Apr 12 2022
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
3
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Thu Apr 14 2022
Horses
Patti Smith
5
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Fri Apr 15 2022
Space Ritual
Hawkwind
3
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Mon Apr 18 2022
Stankonia
OutKast
5
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Tue Apr 19 2022
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
4
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Wed Apr 20 2022
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
4
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Thu Apr 21 2022
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
3
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Fri Apr 22 2022
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4
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Mon Apr 25 2022
Revolver
Beatles
5
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Wed Apr 27 2022
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
4
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Thu Apr 28 2022
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
I used to think our cultural distaste for the hippie movement was an overreaction. Then I listened to this album.
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Fri Apr 29 2022
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
Everybody who hated this listened before 11pm
5
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Mon May 02 2022
Heroes
David Bowie
4
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Tue May 03 2022
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
Negative stars for the stage banter.
3
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Wed May 04 2022
Another Green World
Brian Eno
5
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Thu May 05 2022
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4
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Fri May 06 2022
The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
3
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Mon May 09 2022
The Clash
The Clash
4
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Tue May 10 2022
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2
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Wed May 11 2022
Nowhere
Ride
2
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Thu May 12 2022
Eternally Yours
The Saints
2
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Fri May 13 2022
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
2
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Mon May 16 2022
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
5
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Tue May 17 2022
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
3
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Wed May 18 2022
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
4
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Thu May 19 2022
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
4
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Fri May 20 2022
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
5
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Mon May 23 2022
Disraeli Gears
Cream
The British impulse to include a nursery rhyme or drinking song in every guitar-driven album.
3
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Tue May 24 2022
The Who Sell Out
The Who
What’s for tea daughtah?
5
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Thu May 26 2022
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
3
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Fri May 27 2022
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
3
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Mon May 30 2022
The Cars
The Cars
5
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Tue May 31 2022
The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
4
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Wed Jun 01 2022
Crazysexycool
TLC
4
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Thu Jun 02 2022
Tragic Songs of Life
The Louvin Brothers
2
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Fri Jun 03 2022
Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer
3
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Mon Jun 06 2022
1984
Van Halen
4
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Tue Jun 07 2022
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
4
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Wed Jun 08 2022
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
5
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Thu Jun 09 2022
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
3
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Fri Jun 10 2022
Kenya
Machito
4
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Mon Jun 13 2022
Raw Power
The Stooges
4
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Tue Jun 14 2022
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
5
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Wed Jun 15 2022
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
4
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Thu Jun 16 2022
Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
4
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Fri Jun 17 2022
The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
4
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Mon Jun 20 2022
Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
4
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Tue Jun 21 2022
Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
2
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Wed Jun 22 2022
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
4
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Thu Jun 23 2022
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
If you were going to put out an album in 1967 you had to have a song about a gnome.
4
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Fri Jun 24 2022
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
5
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Mon Jun 27 2022
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5
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Tue Jun 28 2022
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
4
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Wed Jun 29 2022
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
2
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Thu Jun 30 2022
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
5
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Fri Jul 01 2022
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
5
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Mon Jul 04 2022
Eliminator
ZZ Top
3
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Tue Jul 05 2022
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
3
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Wed Jul 06 2022
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
5
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Thu Jul 07 2022
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Hüsker Dü
2
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Fri Jul 08 2022
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
4
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Mon Jul 11 2022
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
4
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Tue Jul 12 2022
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
4
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Wed Jul 13 2022
Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
2
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Thu Jul 14 2022
Out of Step
Minor Threat
3
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Fri Jul 15 2022
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
3
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Tue Jul 19 2022
The Real Thing
Faith No More
2
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Wed Jul 20 2022
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
5
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Thu Jul 21 2022
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
4
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Fri Jul 22 2022
L.A. Woman
The Doors
3
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Mon Jul 25 2022
Arrival
ABBA
4
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Tue Jul 26 2022
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5
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Wed Jul 27 2022
Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
After learning The Divine Comedy produced this, my thought was “of course.” I never heard of The Divine Comedy before this list/site, but they’re headlining my shitlist.
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Thu Jul 28 2022
In It For The Money
Supergrass
3
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Fri Jul 29 2022
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
4
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Mon Aug 01 2022
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
4
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Tue Aug 02 2022
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
3
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Wed Aug 03 2022
Vespertine
Björk
3
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Thu Aug 04 2022
Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
My favorite band named after an Adam Sandler catchphrase.
3
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Mon Aug 08 2022
All Directions
The Temptations
4
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Tue Aug 09 2022
Kid A
Radiohead
5
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Wed Aug 10 2022
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
3
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Thu Aug 11 2022
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
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Fri Aug 12 2022
Dry
PJ Harvey
4
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Mon Aug 15 2022
Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
5
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Tue Aug 16 2022
Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4
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Wed Aug 17 2022
Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello
3
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Thu Aug 18 2022
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
5
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Fri Aug 19 2022
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
5
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Mon Aug 22 2022
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
5
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Tue Aug 23 2022
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
3
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Wed Aug 24 2022
A Northern Soul
The Verve
Some of these album selections really peg the book’s author as a British fella who came of age in the early 90s.
2
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Thu Aug 25 2022
Queen II
Queen
*see the title Ogre Battle.*
“Hey! They wrote a song about my divorce!”
3
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Fri Aug 26 2022
Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3
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Tue Aug 30 2022
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple
5
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Wed Aug 31 2022
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
4
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Thu Sep 01 2022
Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
3
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Mon Sep 05 2022
GREY Area
Little Simz
4
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Tue Sep 06 2022
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
3
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Wed Sep 07 2022
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
5
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Thu Sep 08 2022
Country Life
Roxy Music
4
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Fri Sep 09 2022
Immigrés
Youssou N'Dour
4
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Mon Sep 12 2022
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
5
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Tue Sep 13 2022
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
I've just never been that keen on the Arctic Monkeys or late-00s dance-rock, for that matter.
"Arctic Monkeys but make it baroque" did not win me over.
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Wed Sep 14 2022
Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
3
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Thu Sep 15 2022
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
3
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Fri Sep 16 2022
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
5
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Mon Sep 19 2022
Soul Mining
The The
3
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Tue Sep 20 2022
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
5
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Wed Sep 21 2022
Nick Of Time
Bonnie Raitt
5
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Thu Sep 22 2022
Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren
4
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Fri Sep 23 2022
The Man Who
Travis
What if The Bends had no teeth?
3
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Tue Sep 27 2022
Closer
Joy Division
5
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Wed Sep 28 2022
Mask
Bauhaus
3
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Thu Sep 29 2022
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
5
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Fri Sep 30 2022
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
The album that gave us THE go-to karaoke song for guys who have make their drinking problem their personality.
1
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Mon Oct 03 2022
Trio
Dolly Parton
3
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Tue Oct 04 2022
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
5
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Wed Oct 05 2022
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
4
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Thu Oct 06 2022
Medúlla
Björk
4
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Fri Oct 07 2022
Suicide
Suicide
Frankie Frankie
5
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Mon Oct 10 2022
The Score
Fugees
5
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Tue Oct 11 2022
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
Always been kinda salty that Janelle’s never really followed up on the promise of this record and has segued into straightforward pop.
5
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Wed Oct 12 2022
BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
4
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Thu Oct 13 2022
Repeater
Fugazi
4
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Fri Oct 14 2022
The Healer
John Lee Hooker
Oh shit someone let the 80s get a hold of the blues, someone get that out of its mouth before someone gets hurt.
3
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Mon Oct 17 2022
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
5
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Tue Oct 18 2022
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Good album with a whopping four closing tracks.
3
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Wed Oct 19 2022
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
4
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Thu Oct 20 2022
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
4
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Fri Oct 21 2022
Risque
CHIC
3
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Mon Oct 24 2022
Technique
New Order
3
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Tue Oct 25 2022
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
3
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Wed Oct 26 2022
Rapture
Anita Baker
Incomplete on Spotify but what’s available bops. Love to recognize the MF DOOM Hoe Cakes sample originated in…(checks notes) Sweet Love. Deborah Vance eat your heart out.
4
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Thu Oct 27 2022
Histoire De Melody Nelson
Serge Gainsbourg
3
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Fri Oct 28 2022
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
4
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Mon Oct 31 2022
Dust
Screaming Trees
Honk shoo mimimimimi
Honk shoo mimimimimi
2
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Tue Nov 01 2022
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
5
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Wed Nov 02 2022
New Forms
Roni Size
1
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Thu Nov 03 2022
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
Absolutely stunned to see people are all bottom-Drake meme with the banana album but somehow top-Drake meme with WL/WH.
5
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Fri Nov 04 2022
There's A Riot Goin' On
Sly & The Family Stone
5
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Mon Nov 07 2022
Parallel Lines
Blondie
3
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Tue Nov 08 2022
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4
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Wed Nov 09 2022
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
2
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Thu Nov 10 2022
Drunk
Thundercat
Always found this album super sketchy, like you could drop ten tracks and expand five.
3
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Mon Nov 14 2022
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5
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Tue Nov 15 2022
Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
3
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Wed Nov 16 2022
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
2
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Thu Nov 17 2022
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
3
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Fri Nov 18 2022
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
3
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Mon Nov 21 2022
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
4
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Tue Nov 22 2022
Metallica
Metallica
2
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Wed Nov 23 2022
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
I used to be such a sweet sweet thing
‘Til they
Got a holda me
4
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Thu Nov 24 2022
American Idiot
Green Day
The Dookie/American Idiot dichotomy sums up my issues with aughts-era angst and protest; where the 90s were a relatively peaceful and prosperous time, the youth were angry, didn't know why, and were ready to aim it at everything. With the destabilization of the 00s, the warmongering and conservative-christian values sinking their teeth into a weakened US, musicians descended into a brand of toothless, commercial protest music. There was so much going on at this time, yet the most trenchant observation most of these groups could muster was "the president is pretty dumb, and by proxy so are we Americans."
However, there's a whole generation of people who were in middle or high school when this album came out, and it was their first and most accessible expression of anger and dissent. But to me this sounds like a collection of zippy singalongs, peppering in midsong reminders to go hit up the festival's voter registration tent.
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Fri Nov 25 2022
Pelican West
Haircut 100
Earth, White Boys, and Fire
4
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Mon Nov 28 2022
Cross
Justice
4
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Tue Nov 29 2022
...And Justice For All
Metallica
…And Metallica for some (just not me)
2
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Wed Nov 30 2022
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
4
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Thu Dec 01 2022
Woodface
Crowded House
Woodsound
2
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Fri Dec 02 2022
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead
2
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Mon Dec 05 2022
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
3
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Tue Dec 06 2022
Protection
Massive Attack
3
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Wed Dec 07 2022
Manassas
Stephen Stills
4
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Thu Dec 08 2022
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5
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Fri Dec 09 2022
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
5
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Mon Dec 12 2022
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
3
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Tue Dec 13 2022
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
5
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Wed Dec 14 2022
Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
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Thu Dec 15 2022
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
4
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Fri Dec 16 2022
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
2
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Mon Dec 19 2022
Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai
I'm didgin' out, Jerry!
3
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Tue Dec 20 2022
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
5
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Wed Dec 21 2022
Psychocandy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4
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Thu Dec 22 2022
Dear Science
TV On The Radio
4
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Fri Dec 23 2022
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
Is this a fuckin prank
1
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Mon Dec 26 2022
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4
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Tue Dec 27 2022
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
5
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Wed Dec 28 2022
Street Life
The Crusaders
Nice, easy listening. The kind of album you don’t realize has been done for five tracks; hard to say if that’s due to the album’s influence or it’s indistinguishability from its contemporaries.
3
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Thu Dec 29 2022
16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
3
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Fri Dec 30 2022
Kollaps
Einstürzende Neubauten
3
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Mon Jan 02 2023
The White Album
Beatles
5
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Tue Jan 03 2023
Urban Hymns
The Verve
3
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Wed Jan 04 2023
Odessa
Bee Gees
2
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Thu Jan 05 2023
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5
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Fri Jan 06 2023
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
3
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Tue Jan 10 2023
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
3
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Wed Jan 11 2023
In Utero
Nirvana
4
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Thu Jan 12 2023
Let It Be
The Replacements
5
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Fri Jan 13 2023
British Steel
Judas Priest
3
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Mon Jan 16 2023
Either Or
Elliott Smith
4
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Tue Jan 17 2023
NEU! 75
Neu!
4
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Wed Jan 18 2023
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
Listen, I was once an angry teenager, demanding love/respect from others while simultaneously demanding they shut up (truly the rudest thing a kid can think to say, even when armed with all the swears), rolling all my perceived enemies and aggressors into a vague, convenient-to-critique "YOU." I am very glad I had Hybrid Theory in my Discman to remind me it was normal to be confused, angry, and above all utterly inarticulate about it.
Twenty years of reading, reflection, and cognitive behavioral therapy later, this stuff sounds like "One, Two, Buckle my Shoe."
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Thu Jan 19 2023
Ramones
Ramones
5
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Fri Jan 20 2023
Black Monk Time
The Monks
Higgle-dy - Piggle-dy, mfers
5
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Mon Jan 23 2023
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
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Tue Jan 24 2023
Liquid Swords
GZA
When cut across the neck, a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say. I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday, to hear that sound. But to have it happen to my own neck is ridiculous.
5
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Thu Jan 26 2023
Junkyard
The Birthday Party
3
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Fri Jan 27 2023
Ray Of Light
Madonna
4
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Mon Jan 30 2023
Siembra
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3
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Tue Jan 31 2023
Hejira
Joni Mitchell
5
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Wed Feb 01 2023
Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
1001 early 90s UK electronic albums to hear before you die.
2
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Thu Feb 02 2023
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
An absolute crime that Original Pirate Material isn’t on this list. A Grand Don’t Cone for Free might have an overarching concept, but I’d argue the songs don’t hold together so well; I like most of them off their own merits, but altogether a full listen can be taxing.
3
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Fri Feb 03 2023
Synchronicity
The Police
3
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Mon Feb 06 2023
Frank
Amy Winehouse
To my surprise I enjoyed this a lot more than Back to Black (which I quite enjoyed), which has such a strong reputation and I've always assumed is *the* polished work to look towards when it comes to Winehouse's discography.
Rather, the classic jazz influence is more charming with less polish/production, the humor actually caught me off guard (I always found Rehab depressing and over-obvious), and is more emotionally acute if not as raw as BIB.
5
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Tue Feb 07 2023
Hunting High And Low
a-ha
3
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Wed Feb 08 2023
L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
Symphonic metal was a mistake.
1
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Thu Feb 09 2023
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
5
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Fri Feb 10 2023
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
What if the theme from Sex and the City sounded like an hour-long panic attack?
On a serious note, there are a lot of great non-us, non-uk (I.e. “world music”) albums on this list, but just as many chintzy, late-career albums which clearly crossed over in the 80s - 90s, when the writer of the og book was coming of age. The instruments sound too crisp and synth-y, and everything is arranged with such a lack of mess. You can’t help but feel like this album was played and/or bought in a Starbucks.
2
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Mon Feb 13 2023
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
4
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Tue Feb 14 2023
Trans Europe Express
Kraftwerk
Elegance and decadence
5
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Wed Feb 15 2023
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
4
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Thu Feb 16 2023
Pyromania
Def Leppard
Gym metal. Something to make you throw up devil horns on the stairmaster.
3
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Fri Feb 17 2023
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bing-a-bong-a-bong-a-bong Burbank
Gigga gigga, gigga gigga-Glendale
3
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Mon Feb 20 2023
Back In Black
AC/DC
4
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Tue Feb 21 2023
Superunknown
Soundgarden
3
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Wed Feb 22 2023
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
4
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Fri Feb 24 2023
Amnesiac
Radiohead
5
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
The synth riff on Walk of Life is the auditory embodiment of forced fun.
3
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Tue Feb 28 2023
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
4
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Wed Mar 01 2023
Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
3
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Thu Mar 02 2023
Hms Fable
Shack
wow, look: britpop
2
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Fri Mar 03 2023
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor
Hot damn
5
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Mon Mar 06 2023
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
5
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Tue Mar 07 2023
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
My first thought was “millennial Talk Talk.” After several songs, I felt like I was watching a trick commercial.
3
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Wed Mar 08 2023
21
Adele
Two bangers followed by an Adele album
3
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Thu Mar 09 2023
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
5
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Fri Mar 10 2023
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
3
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Mon Mar 13 2023
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
5
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Tue Mar 14 2023
Close To You
Carpenters
4
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Wed Mar 15 2023
2112
Rush
This is NOT Adele's 21 played forwards, then in reverse. It's some other thing.
3
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Fri Mar 17 2023
Olympia 64
Jacques Brel
3
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Mon Mar 20 2023
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
5
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Wed Mar 22 2023
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
4
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Thu Mar 23 2023
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
Jim Morrison: patron saint for deep thinkers whose big ideas start and end at weed legalization.
2
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Mon Mar 27 2023
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
4
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Wed Mar 29 2023
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
One of my top "why do they have *this* song on karaoke and why is someone actually singing it?" moments in life has been watching a drunk ex-fratboy serviceably belt "Have a Cigar" in a NoHo bar on a Tuesday night.
5
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Thu Mar 30 2023
Illmatic
Nas
5
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Fri Mar 31 2023
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
You can tell a 00s hip-hop album by the intro, the lead single reprise, and the 11-minute outro.
3
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Mon Apr 03 2023
Hot Fuss
The Killers
3
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Tue Apr 04 2023
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
5
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Wed Apr 05 2023
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
5
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Fri Apr 07 2023
In Our Heads
Hot Chip
4
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Tue Apr 11 2023
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
The last LCD album I’d put on this list is the only LCD album on this list.
There are individual tracks here I love, but the whole thing goes overlong (which is strange to say for an LCD album).
3
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Wed Apr 12 2023
Water From An Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
3
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Thu Apr 13 2023
The Visitors
ABBA
4
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Fri Apr 14 2023
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
My days of sitting in a garage pounding shitty beer, ripping bong hits, and asking “whoa, is this still the same solo?” are behind me. It’s a me-problem, I know.
2
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Mon Apr 17 2023
Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
4
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Tue Apr 18 2023
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
All rising action; a little overwhelming as a single listen.
4
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Wed Apr 19 2023
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
I only know this beforehand because Destroyer cites Blue Nile as a big influence for Ken and afterwards. I hear the influence, and I must thank them.
3
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Thu Apr 20 2023
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
4
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Fri Apr 21 2023
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
4
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Mon Apr 24 2023
xx
The xx
This is 100% based on the music but the xx are one of the top bands that seem like they'd absolutely hate me.
5
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Tue Apr 25 2023
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
Like Sam the butcher
I’m bringin Alice the meat
5
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Wed Apr 26 2023
A Seat at the Table
Solange
I always found it odd that people hailed this very good album as a masterpiece then had nothing to say about When I Get Home, an utter masterpiece.
Anyway, this *is* a very good one. Solange deserves more.
4
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Thu Apr 27 2023
Bright Flight
Silver Jews
3
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Fri Apr 28 2023
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
5
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Mon May 01 2023
Myths Of The Near Future
Klaxons
Man the 00s really were a time where music was doing too much.
2
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Tue May 02 2023
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
If this were the only Rolling Stones album it wouldn’t be on the list.
3
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Wed May 03 2023
Django Django
Django Django
4
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Thu May 04 2023
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
2
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Fri May 05 2023
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
I know this stuff’s controversial cause they talk about the debil but this sounds like phantom of the opera to me
3
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Mon May 08 2023
Be
Common
3
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Wed May 10 2023
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
This list has been great for my music education: I now have several reasons why I hate Eric Clapton on a musical level rather than a personal level. Willie and the Hand Jive? Are you kidding???
1
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Thu May 11 2023
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
3
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Mon May 15 2023
Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
Maybe needed headphones for this one.
3
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Tue May 16 2023
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
I was twenty-seven and going through a months-long breakup the summer this album came out. Of course I’m biased.
But hot damn this album is good. Nothing like it before, nothing like it since.
5
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Wed May 17 2023
Tago Mago
Can
4
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Thu May 18 2023
Tapestry
Carole King
5
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Fri May 19 2023
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Hey guys! Whoa, 80s Brit jingle-jangle, huh? All right.... Welp, see you later!
2
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Mon May 22 2023
Nevermind
Nirvana
Listen, I was six when Kurt Cobain died. I didn't listen to mainstream radio until 8th grade. I knew Nirvana were Great and Important, but I simply never connected with them beyond the singles. I've listened to their discography, but never connected.
That changed this week. This shit. This is the shit.
5
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Tue May 23 2023
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
4
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Thu May 25 2023
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
5
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Fri May 26 2023
The Sensual World
Kate Bush
4
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Mon May 29 2023
Copper Blue
Sugar
2
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Tue May 30 2023
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
3
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Wed May 31 2023
Eagles
Eagles
god bless anyone who got all the way to Earlybird before giving this a 1 and quoting Lebowski.
god help anyone who got all the way to Earlybird and still gave this a 5.
1
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Fri Jun 02 2023
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
5
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Mon Jun 05 2023
Survivor
Destiny's Child
What’s the opposite of poptimism? Cause I’m seeing a lot of it in these reviews. Listen, I was a fifteen year-old boy when this came out: I scoffed at it. But it’d be stupid to deny this after a listen. It’s just so smooth.
4
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Thu Jun 08 2023
The Specials
The Specials
4
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Fri Jun 09 2023
Homework
Daft Punk
5
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Mon Jun 12 2023
War
U2
4
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Tue Jun 13 2023
Blur
Blur
3
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Wed Jun 14 2023
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
Damn y’all ain’t afraid of broadcasting the classism you’ve tied up with the country genre.
4
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Thu Jun 15 2023
Graceland
Paul Simon
5
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Tue Jun 20 2023
Savane
Ali Farka Touré
3
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Wed Jun 21 2023
Djam Leelii
Baaba Maal
5
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Thu Jun 22 2023
The Only Ones
The Only Ones
3
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Fri Jun 23 2023
Nixon
Lambchop
4
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Tue Jun 27 2023
Grace
Jeff Buckley
5
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Thu Jun 29 2023
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
4
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Fri Jun 30 2023
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
absolutely brutal way to find out I’m not a swingin’ lover
3
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Mon Jul 03 2023
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
5
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Tue Jul 04 2023
The Wall
Pink Floyd
5
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Wed Jul 05 2023
School's Out
Alice Cooper
4
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Thu Jul 06 2023
Idlewild
Everything But The Girl
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1
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Fri Jul 07 2023
Headquarters
The Monkees
4
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Mon Jul 10 2023
Fun House
The Stooges
4
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Tue Jul 11 2023
Fromohio
fIREHOSE
2
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Wed Jul 12 2023
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
4
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Thu Jul 13 2023
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
4
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Fri Jul 14 2023
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
Ok the average rating on this belies just how specific this album is to a certain generation of American millennials: if you were in college between 2000 and 2008 and chased anything resembling \"indie cred\" then at least one track from this album would be a staple of the mix cds you sent your crushes. Were you twee? Then you know this one.
Now here's the thing: when my older sister came back from college and had this among the cds she'd burnt for me, only disc one made it to my hands. That's the first 23 songs, Absolutely Cuckoo through The Things We Did and Didn't Do. I probably never pursued discs 2 and 3 until after college, and by then I'd lost The Glow and none of the songs hit the same as those first 23. It felt like a joke: Merritt had made one amazing album and then phoned in two more, daring the listener to actually spend time with those other 46 love songs.
So this is my first actual listen to all 69 love songs, and I gotta say disc 2 starts off so rocky I thought I was right. The ship rights itself and a few good songs stand out, but the presence of obnoxious filler gets more and more obvious. By the time you hit "Zebra," the joke isn't funny anymore, and it hasn't looped around to being funny again yet.
3
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Mon Jul 17 2023
Maxinquaye
Tricky
3
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Tue Jul 18 2023
Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
There's something I can't place about the way they sound like they're simultaneously speeding through their set and packing up their instruments.
3
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Wed Jul 19 2023
LP1
FKA twigs
4
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Fri Jul 21 2023
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
4
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Mon Jul 24 2023
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
5
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Tue Jul 25 2023
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
This is like THE album that Spotify constantly pushes under my nose, but I’m waiting til 40 to make “Dan Stan” my entire personality, thanks.
3
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Wed Jul 26 2023
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
4
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Thu Jul 27 2023
B-52's
The B-52's
5
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Fri Jul 28 2023
Vulnicura
Björk
4
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Mon Jul 31 2023
Scott 2
Scott Walker
4
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Tue Aug 01 2023
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
3
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Wed Aug 02 2023
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
Spirit
3
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Thu Aug 03 2023
Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
2
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Fri Aug 04 2023
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
5
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Mon Aug 07 2023
São Paulo Confessions
Suba
somewhere in a midwestern coffee shop the baristas are begging to play their own music and the manager is saying “why make me vet your selections when we already have São Paulo Confessions on repeat all day?”
2
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Tue Aug 08 2023
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
This is a 1 I don’t give lightly. I love Floyd, and the legend of Barrett is fascinating. But even by his own admission, this is not a representative artistic statement from him.
1
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Wed Aug 09 2023
Marquee Moon
Television
5
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Thu Aug 10 2023
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
4
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Fri Aug 11 2023
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
5
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Tue Aug 15 2023
McCartney
Paul McCartney
I was absolutely going to make a joke about how Macca Two better be on this list if you’re gonna include One and Ram. But Ram isn’t even on this list. Tug of War? Nope!
What is this f-ing list without Ram?
4
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Wed Aug 16 2023
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Would you slide your shorts down Mister Lebowski, please?
- No, no man, she hit me right here.
- I understand. Could you slide your shorts down please?
5
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Thu Aug 17 2023
Kala
M.I.A.
3
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Fri Aug 18 2023
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3
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Mon Aug 21 2023
Ctrl
SZA
Holy shit the racism in the reviews for this album. Some of you people should think twice about the things you think to say when a black woman’s singing.
5
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Tue Aug 22 2023
Timeless
Goldie
Inner city lyyyyyfe
Inner city
Pressure
Pressure
Pressure
Indistinguishable from the parodies which came after.
1
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Wed Aug 23 2023
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
4
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Thu Aug 24 2023
Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine
Cee Lo Green
Quality truly is subjective huh
2
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Fri Aug 25 2023
Ten
Pearl Jam
5
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Mon Aug 28 2023
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
2
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Tue Aug 29 2023
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
3
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Wed Aug 30 2023
Pieces Of The Sky
Emmylou Harris
4
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Thu Aug 31 2023
Blackstar
David Bowie
5
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Fri Sep 01 2023
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
3
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Mon Sep 04 2023
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
And so I took off on my bicycle,
well, to solve all my problems, to get out drugs,
cause I had enough of that,
I've had the college,
I've had the earing the money,
and the material trip,
I just decided I was going to find a new way of life
3
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Tue Sep 05 2023
Chore of Enchantment
Giant Sand
2
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Thu Sep 07 2023
Blood And Chocolate
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2
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Fri Sep 08 2023
Rings Around The World
Super Furry Animals
A life-defining moment was going on a high school writer's retreat and one of the seniors I looked up to playing the entire dvd that accompanied this album. It was my intro to SFA and the album which would soundtrack my own final high school years. They were a band my freshman roommate and I bonded over. It's an album I can always come back to and be transported to 2003.
This is all to say, I can't speak objectively about this album. It's fucking perfect.
5
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Mon Sep 11 2023
Guero
Beck
This album came out at a time where I was at my snobbiest. I'd turn my nose up at a lot releases from career-mature artists who didn't seem like they were bringing anything new to the table. In many instances, I was robbing myself of enjoyment; this is exemplified in my eventually-reversed low opinion of Interpol's Antics.
With Guero, however, I hit the nail on the head.
3
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Tue Sep 12 2023
Achtung Baby
U2
I hate hate hate Mysterious Ways. Boomer dudes will play this song at vow renewals for women who move in decidedly predictable ways.
2
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Fri Sep 15 2023
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
3
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Tue Sep 19 2023
Porcupine
Echo And The Bunnymen
4
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Wed Sep 20 2023
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar
4
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Thu Sep 21 2023
Ingenue
k.d. lang
listening to every album from 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die has taught me to avoid any album whose only Reception/Legacy fact on wikipedia is its inclusion on 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die
3
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Fri Sep 22 2023
Close To The Edge
Yes
4
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Mon Sep 25 2023
Konnichiwa
Skepta
2
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Tue Sep 26 2023
Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
4
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Wed Sep 27 2023
Legalize It
Peter Tosh
4
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Thu Sep 28 2023
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
5