Sep 07 2024
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Daisies Of The Galaxy
Eels
This is my first user album and I’m excited by this concept because I’m expecting some great albums that even I noticed were missing alongside some total shitpost bullshit.
As for this one, I definitely liked it more than the eels album on the list but I also only really remember novocaine for the soul, which was better than any songs on this one. Tiger in my tank was my fav from this one.
4
Sep 08 2024
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St. Jude
Courteeners
This was a fun one! Definitely a millennial that just really liked this in his formative years and wanted it on the list, not meant as a criticism. It was just a solid 2000s alt rock killers type album.
4
Sep 09 2024
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Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Not one but two songs that have been completely separated from its origin. We got ladyfingers the most nostalgic/romanticized tik tok sound and whipped cream which I’ve heard a million times but never really thought of too much. Overall not bad.
3
Sep 10 2024
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Dead Man's Party
Oingo Boingo
Hey this is my submitted album! I suppose this is a good time to explain why I chose this one. It wasn't an easy choice but I wanted something that was undeservedly left off the list while also having a low chance of having been chosen by someone else. Obviously, everyone criticizes weezer and neutral milk hotel being left off and as much as I personally love stuff like 100 gecs I don't think it quite deserves inclusion on the list so I settled on this.
Not only is this a childhood favorite of mine but I think danny elfman deserves at least some representation on this list. This album in particular is the best of 80s music and is endlessly catchy and relistenable for me. Weird science is great but I like the title track and no one lives forever even more. Honestly, this is the closest thing to hyperpop like 100 gecs I can think of for the 80s which also might be a factor. Who cares if some of the songs are a bit long or the production gets overwhelming, that's the fun of it.
5
Sep 11 2024
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Poesía Básica
Extrechinato y Tu
Sure why not. Poems set to Spanish/rock fusion are cool I guess.
3
Sep 12 2024
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Goat
The Jesus Lizard
This is one of those albums just like scum by napalm death that I can't say I liked but I couldn't stop listening. It's the kind of post-hardcore punk that makes me feel like I'm in the movie Green Room and gives me the urge to take a shower but something keeps me from turning it off and idk what.
2
Sep 13 2024
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Nuyorican Soul
Nuyorican Soul
This might be one of the more eclectic songs I've heard even counting the main list. Went from sault-type soul to pure jazz a little disco like on runaway, which was also a banger of a song. Thought this one was pretty fun.
4
Sep 14 2024
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Funeral Dress
Wussy
I have a well documented soft spot for girl rock like what was on most of this album and I couldn’t resist this. 00s indie rock will some gems like airborne on here.
4
Sep 15 2024
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The Hazards of Love
The Decemberists
This started out as almost too generic 2000s indie rock but man it really picked up in the middle third. Leaned more into garage rock stuff then ended with some country-type stuff all with great lyrics and great vocals. I guess the later parts of the album being stronger makes sense with the concept since it starts as kinda bland happy music when the couple meets then pretty intense grungy stuff as they argue with the Queen and deal with the other lady then bittersweet at the end when they drown themselves. So pretty cool from that perspective. Wanting comes in waves and hazards of love 4 were my favs which are also the two biggest plot points I guess.
The more I listened the more I loved this actually. Like I can’t stop listening to it now.
5
Sep 16 2024
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Silence Yourself
Savages
I loved this album in theory. It's female rock stuff with great instrumentals but something about it didn't work for me. I started to get tired of it halfway through and it felt way longer than 40 minutes but I'm not sure what exactly it was. I think it's because the vocals didn't really change much through the whole thing and stuck with the operatic modern heavy rock sound.
3
Sep 17 2024
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Wild Planet
The B-52's
Kinda crazy that someone listened to 1089 albums over 3 years and chose another B-52's album that also doesn't have love shack on it lol. This was good B-52's music but not terribly memorable except for give me back my man and maybe private Idaho.
Honestly I just wanted to get back to listening to the hazards of love because holy fuck its only gotten better.
4
Sep 18 2024
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Come And Get It
Rachel Stevens
This was some great mid 2000s pop. One of those where I didn’t have a bunch of standout songs (except nothing good about this goodbye) but I really enjoyed my time with it from start to finish.
4
Sep 19 2024
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El Circo
Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio
This was like Mexican Debo. Super funky and catchy rock that was a great time throughout. Mare was my fav song.
4
Sep 20 2024
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Currents
Tame Impala
This was a defining album of my college experience despite it coming out when I was starting high school. I get why it’s not included in the main list but I’d fully expect to see it there 10-15 years down the line because it’s awesome. Let it happen, only go backwards, and new person old mistakes are all classics and the rest is great too.
5
Sep 21 2024
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10,000 gecs
100 gecs
Lmaooooo im so glad someone used their user album on a 100 gecs album and I didn’t use mine on 1000 gecs (the superior of the two albums imo). This my or may not be a troll pick but idc because I genuinely think their music is great in its own right. Hyper pop to the extreme that’s very short and diabetically sweet because if it went a minute past 30 minutes it’d probably be too much. If you don’t like it go back to listening to Neil young for the millionth time grandpa. I love basically all the song but Hollywood baby is my fav
***also I said only go backwards instead of less I know the better in my currents notes which is kinda embarrassing oopsie.
5
Sep 22 2024
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Before These Crowded Streets
Dave Matthews Band
I hope this one was an actual troll because someone who chooses a 70 minute long Dave Matthew’s album that doesn’t even have any of his big hits on it deserves to be drawn and quartered. This was so boring and the more edgy heavy vibe does not work with Dave Matthew’s.
2
Sep 23 2024
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We Like It Here
Snarky Puppy
I had really high expectations for this because I wanted it to sound awesome when I was stoned but it just sounded alright—except for sleeper which was great. I still really liked it as a jazz fusion album but it wasn’t mind blowing like I was hoping which is on me for being to hopeful I guess.
4
Sep 24 2024
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Nail
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
This is either a shitpost or a submission by the most pretentious man who ever lived. Like I get that it’s super eclectic and goofy or whatever but that doesn’t make the shitty final sound and god awful vocals worth it. Oh wow you put in the hall of the mountain king in your weird song congrats. There’s literally an interlude that’s just metal chairs dragging on the floor and pots clanging.
1
Sep 25 2024
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Hammersmith Odeon, London '75
Bruce Springsteen
This is definitely some divorced dad who fell in love with this as a kid and decided to add it to the list because there’s no reason for this to be here even if it’s a good live album. Yes it’s energetic and exciting and he’s a good performer or whatever but I don’t need more Bruce Springsteen in my life. My last 2 user albums are making me very scared that the next 100 albums are all gonna be lame 70s rock stuff a bunch of boomers have fond memories of.
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Sep 26 2024
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Englabörn
Jóhann Jóhannsson
I appreciate the explanation of why the user chose this album because it made me rethink what I was expecting from the user albums. I've been getting mad at these boring bruce springsteen live albums and 80s shitposts but my personal enjoyment of my user pick heavily influenced my choice. I was kinda thinking about danny elfman being left off the list but there's no shortage of new wave and I just really liked it. After listening to 1089 albums I think we've earned the right to pick whatever we want to add to the list and if foetal wheel or whatever is their pick then so be it and it's just something I'll have to endure until i get to something like the decemberists again.
Either way, I agree that modern classical is underrepresented on the list and this is definitely a good example of that even if I found it somewhat boring. His scores are better but I appreciate someone trying to fill a gap in the list with something even they aren't a massive fan of.
3
Sep 27 2024
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1, 2, Kung Fu!
Boy Azooga
This was a super fun one. Just some solid contemporary indie rock. It's very eclectic and some of it blurs together for me but I really liked the last song and I listened to the album radio for about 4 hours while I worked on law school applications lol.
4
Sep 28 2024
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Relatives in Descent
Protomartyr
This felt like something straight out of the early 80s. Pure post punk that I didn’t love but it wasn’t terrible I guess. It all blurred together but that was kinda by design on this one with each song running into the next.
3
Sep 29 2024
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The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings
Louis Armstrong
What a hoot hollering good time. I was playing this while I did chores and walked around and it was super motivating and made me feel like I was walking through Central Park in the middle of the day in the 1940s.
4
Sep 30 2024
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A1A
Jimmy Buffett
I’m glad I finally heard some non-margaritaville Jimmy Buffett music but unfortunately I thought it was bland easy going soft rock for the most part. It just sounded so generic to where I felt like I’d heard this album a million times on the main list. However, the last song was catchy and fun and the highlight of the album.
3
Oct 01 2024
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Enema Of The State
blink-182
I remember hating the blink-182 album that’s on the list so I’m baffled why they didn’t choose this one instead. It has all of their hits, still holds up today, and is a pretty important album of the 90s so why not choose it. Everyone knows all the hits from this so I won’t repeat them here but almost everything rocked on this album. This would’ve gone even more crazy if I had been born 15 years earlier or discovered this when I was like 14. Also pretty decent walking around the park high music surprisingly.
5
Oct 02 2024
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Peasant
Richard Dawson
Apparently avant- garde for this album means a pleasant folk album with some great tracks with an occasional spurt of bullshit noise. Really liked ogre and the end of masseuse but overall enjoyed the mix of medieval folk with more modern vibes. Like I think I heard a synthesizer a couple times.
4
Oct 03 2024
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Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!
Gotcha!
Before I talk about this album I wanted to mention that I’m dumb for being so glib on Siamese dream way back when I got it. I’m listening to mayonaise and idk how I could’ve ever not loved it. I said today was overrated but man now that it’s almost fall it’s great.
This was good but not great. Definitely interesting mix of funk and hip hop but obviously not American. Higher was my fav.
3
Oct 04 2024
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A City Dressed In Dynamite
That Handsome Devil
What an odd album. It’s very hard to describe because it’s a mashup of like 10 disparate genres. Like there’s Tom waits type stuff mixed with hip hop and some psychedelic stuff almost and I don’t even really know what rockabilly is but just hearing the word describes the music tbh. Not something I’d listen to regularly I don’t think but will def remember.
3
Oct 05 2024
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A Salty Dog
Procol Harum
What an odd album. It’s very hard to describe because it’s a mashup of like 10 disparate genres. Like there’s Tom waits type stuff mixed with hip hop and some psychedelic stuff almost and I don’t even really know what rockabilly is but just hearing the word describes the music tbh. Not something I’d listen to regularly I don’t think but will def remember.
3
Oct 06 2024
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Oncle Jazz
Men I Trust
It’s weird to get an album that I’ve never heard before yet feel very familiar with. Men I trust is all over the bedroom pop playlists that I use to relax, study, and/or sleep so I’ve never actually listened to them as an artist until now. Honestly I think they work better as a part of a genre playlist because while I love bedroom pop like this, this was overlong and got slightly monotonous in a way that a playlist doesn’t. Still enjoyed it all the way through but was kinda impossible to stay actively listening the whole time.
Also congrats to the submitter for being a generational music hater. Spent 3 years listening to 1089 albums they apparently hated except like 20 of them. I need to look at submitter projects more often.
4
Oct 07 2024
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Live in San Francisco
Thee Oh Sees
This was a unique live album. Probably one of the rawest albums I’ve heard throughout almost the whole list because you really get the vibe that they’re in a sweaty abandoned building going crazy to their like 9 fans. Super hardcore but very bluesy and grungy.
4
Oct 08 2024
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Version 2.0
Garbage
I vaguely remember the garbage album on the list so I’m pretty sure it’s pop punk dance type stuff and this felt more electronica and techno but still similar to the first album. Nothing stood out too much to me but I’ve been very outspoken on my enjoyment of this type of female rock. The thirteen cover would make a cool duet with the original tho.
3
Oct 09 2024
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The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Roger Waters
According to the wiki, this movie is basically the B side to the wall and after listening to it I couldn't agree more with everything the wiki said. Picking the wall to be the pink floyd release was definitely the smart commercial move because this is a bit more out there and has a weirder concept than the wall. However, there's some stuff on here that far outshines almost everything from the wall like the title track and gone fishing. Really interesting album that I think does a pretty good job of bringing across the oddness of a bad? dream.
4
Oct 10 2024
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Dimanche à Bamako
Amadou & Mariam
I'm glad there's still world music like this in the user section because this shit slapped the same way that songhoy blues slapped. Honestly don't have much else to say about it. I could definitely tell Manu Chao helped out and really liked the first track.
4
Oct 11 2024
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Afraid Of Sunlight
Marillion
this was some of the blandest music I've heard throughout the entire list. I can guarantee I will remember nothing about this except that it's the most unmemorable stuff I've ever heard. Definitely feels like an album someone's parents had and they just happened to latch onto this one for no reason other than it being the first thing they threw in their boombox as a 10 year old.
2
Oct 12 2024
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I Need to Start a Garden
Haley Heynderickx
Usually I don’t like folk music like this but something about this one worked for me. Well written with haunting/beautiful production and vocals what more could u ask for. Not many songs stuck out but was a solid half hour overall
4
Oct 13 2024
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Vedergällningen
Garmarna
I busy most of the day so couldn’t listen to it all the way to the end but I got the gist of this album after like the second song so I don’t feel bad writing this without having heard the last couple songs. Traditional swedish folk songs turned into a modern rock album; fun sound and concept.
3
Oct 14 2024
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22, A Million
Bon Iver
I’ve only ever listened to for Emma so it was cool to hear non wistful sad stuff and listen to cool electronica type stuff instead. Fun to listen to while high too.
4
Oct 15 2024
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Don't Say No
Billy Squier
I’m surprised this wasn’t on the main list because there were a million other bland 80s power rock albums on there that were far less deserving of this. This might be the quintessential bland pop rock album but it also has the stroke which is still a great hype song. Glad someone chose to include this.
3
Oct 16 2024
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Forced Witness
Alex Cameron
I came to like this more as I listened to it but the more I listened the angrier I got about there being no Weird Al on the list. I'm glad that there was a decent number of comedic albums on the main list and this was a good user pick but I hope someone chose any weird al album at some point. Sure his music is more outright parody but if Beatles ripoffs can make the list why can't he.
Anyway, this had some great 80s pop production with basically every song being morally gross in one way or another, mainly predatory on underage girls. Studmuffin96 is a banger of a song that I feel bad enjoying so much but hey it's obviously a joke and plenty of the albums on the list were made by people who actually did the things in these songs so who cares.
4
Oct 17 2024
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Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens
Just as worthy of being on this list as illinoise imo. Great songwriting Great singing and a great time to listen to it in mid October. Death with dignity was my fav.
4
Oct 18 2024
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All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats
This has grown on me since I listened to it. At first I was rolling my eyes at the shitty sound quality and the rest of the production and vocals but the more I think about it the more I think it fits the lyrics and overall vibe they're going for. As someone from Nebraska, it captures the feeling of growing up in a small rural area pretty well even if I didn't relate the exact things they were singing about.
3
Oct 19 2024
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I And Love And You
The Avett Brothers
My basic ass mother in law loves the Avett brothers and now I know why because this was incredibly bland. Just like her Christmas food, this album didn’t taste terrible at first but kick drum heart was the turning point into the actual chewing and swallowing of unseasoned green bean casserole. That was a somewhat tortured metaphor but you get the idea, I hope whoever chose this after listening to 1089 albums enjoys their mac and cheese and chicken strips while they watch the Big Bang theory reruns.
3
Oct 20 2024
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Korn
Korn
I’m sorry I can’t be bothered to force myself to listen to over an hour of Korn. At least follow the leader had freak on a leash but after 20 minutes of yelling I decided it wasn’t worth it for a user album. If I missed some amazing Korn song in the second half of this I think I’ll live.
1
Oct 21 2024
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Racine carrée
Stromae
French rave music. If you're into this kinda stuff I'm sure it's great but not for me.
2
Oct 22 2024
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Gemstones
Adam Green
Okay comedy albums are fun sometimes but they can get old. This one just rubbed me the wrong way because it wasn't particularly fun to listen to and was more vulgar than funny to me.
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