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Fri Mar 05 2021
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
I was in the mood for this today. Realized one of the main reason I like a song is whether or not I could see myself playing it for people. I would love to learn these songs and play them. Especially "It Ain't No Fun to Me" that song oozes groove and cool right from the first bass notes. And I actually felt feelings when the first horn swells of Old Time Lovin' came in. I will put this album on again and let it play in the background of my life at home.
4
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Mon Mar 08 2021
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
This album feels like driving 65 in a 65 speed limit zone.
There is some really fun instrumental stuff in Across the Border.
Jungle has got a totally different feel and I dig it, but only kind of. This music just feels like corporate and soulless and sterile to me I guess. There’s no heart here.
3
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Tue Mar 09 2021
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
First notes yeah !
Wasn’t expecting a song like skeletons.
Dull life is exactly what I want out of a song.
4
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Wed Mar 10 2021
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
I did not want to listen to this and especially did not want to like it. I saw that it was 43 minutes long and only 6 songs and thought it was going to be a masturbatory fest of ugly masculine energy... and I guess it kind of is. But I kind of liked it anyway. Whoever is playing the guitar for minutes and minutes and minutes does a pretty good job, and there are some really intricate lines that are doubled on some really obscure instruments. When the singing comes in, which is fortunately few and far between, the ugly snarky ironic masculine energy comes into focus and I lose interest.
Oh yeah, and the drumming is freaking fantastic.
Jazz-Rock Fusion huh.
3
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Thu Mar 11 2021
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
My parents played this album all the time when I was a kid. This literally feels like my childhood. While listening to it I'm starting to realize how much my parents wanted to be hippies and how having us probably harshed their mellow.
I do hate lap steel guitar though.
Our house feels so good to listen to.
This is a great album though. Just different enough but just the same enough. The Harmonies are mind blowing. The guitar sounds are incredible.
4
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Fri Mar 12 2021
The Blueprint
JAY Z
Just amazing. I get kind of tired of rap bravado and self aggrandizing tho.
4
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Mon Mar 15 2021
The Predator
Ice Cube
Wasn't excited to listen to this, but then someone on Instagram had "Good day" playing in one of their stories, so now I need to listen to it. Glad I have the whole weekend to get to it.
The opening with the full cavity prison search was too much for me. Didn’t make it far into this one.
3
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Tue Mar 16 2021
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
It’s good. But it all had one dynamic. Also important lyrics for learning how to peacefully resist.
3
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Wed Mar 17 2021
Young Americans
David Bowie
Never made it through the first song. I tried twice.
2
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Thu Mar 18 2021
Parachutes
Coldplay
The only thing I ever think when I listen to music is “could I play this song and if so when and where and what would I need to do it?”
I’ve heard Yellow probably 200 times and it’s still a good song.
Trouble feels exactly like me.
I really love this album, but I feel lame and white for liking it so much. We talk about liking things as an innocuous process, but it feels political.
Kyle Stedman makes a good point though. This is private listening and liking. So I can cut myself some slack.
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Fri Mar 19 2021
Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren
Repetitive and from another culture and time and was t my thing.
2
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Tue Mar 23 2021
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
Man this one was good. I could listen to that bass groove in my left ear all day long.
4
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Wed Mar 24 2021
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
I mean yeah. It’s hi energy. Should be something I’m into but I wasn’t.
3
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Thu Mar 25 2021
Arise
Sepultura
I can see why white kids in 1991 thought this was pretty cool but not my thing
3
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Fri Mar 26 2021
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
Every song is the exact mix of sadness and love and beauty and truth and fiction that makes my heart pump. They aren’t all hits, but they are all good.
5
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Mon Mar 29 2021
Document
R.E.M.
I don't know, I wanted to like it, but I just didn't.
3
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Tue Mar 30 2021
Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
I like it. It's meditative and trance-y and somewhere between indie rock and 70s psychedelia and bedroom pop. If I listen to it again, it might be a five. The cool thing is, I could see myself listening to it closely or just having it on in the background and liking it both ways.
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Wed Mar 31 2021
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
What a big dumb nothing burger
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Thu Apr 01 2021
Sheet Music
10cc
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Fri Apr 02 2021
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5
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Mon Apr 05 2021
The Band
The Band
A little too old people day drinking in the park for me. Also full of super casual misogyny.
2
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Tue Apr 06 2021
...And Justice For All
Metallica
Felt exactly like Sepultura but better production.
3
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Wed Apr 07 2021
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
5
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Thu Apr 08 2021
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
So many of the elements of music I live seemed to have been born here. It’s bombastic and enormous and energetic and feels important and meaningful.
4
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Fri Apr 09 2021
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
2
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Fri Apr 16 2021
Signing Off
UB40
3
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Mon Apr 19 2021
Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
Seems like a powerful female record. Her voice wasn't great to listen to. Not my thing, but I can see why people would like it.
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Tue Apr 27 2021
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
4