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Thu Nov 11 2021
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Really good. Heavy emotional stuff.
4
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Fri Nov 12 2021
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
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Mon Nov 15 2021
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4
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Tue Nov 16 2021
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
4
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Wed Nov 17 2021
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
5
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Thu Nov 18 2021
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
5
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Fri Nov 19 2021
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
4
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Mon Nov 22 2021
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
4
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Tue Nov 23 2021
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
5
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Wed Nov 24 2021
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
2
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Thu Nov 25 2021
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
5
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Fri Nov 26 2021
Cross
Justice
4
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Mon Nov 29 2021
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
Ah, so the Beatles were a fluke. He's right, this band should be on the run after putting out this album.
2
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Tue Nov 30 2021
Parklife
Blur
3
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Mon Dec 06 2021
In Rainbows
Radiohead
5
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Tue Dec 07 2021
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
3
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Wed Dec 08 2021
I Should Coco
Supergrass
4
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Thu Dec 09 2021
Low
David Bowie
3
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Fri Dec 10 2021
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
4
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Mon Dec 13 2021
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
I really, really wanted to give Bob Dylan a fair shake, but by the time "Ballad of a Thin Man" hit its thirteenth fucking verse all of my goodwill was gone. We've all admitted that he can't sing for shit, but I am baffled by the claims that he's some great songwriter. Tiresome.
1
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Tue Dec 14 2021
The Poet
Bobby Womack
4
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Wed Dec 15 2021
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
4
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Thu Dec 16 2021
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
3
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Fri Dec 17 2021
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
This would get 5 stars for Natural Woman alone. My only complaint is it's TOO SHORT
5
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Mon Dec 20 2021
Bad
Michael Jackson
4
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Tue Dec 21 2021
Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear
3
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Wed Dec 22 2021
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
2
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Thu Dec 23 2021
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
5
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Fri Dec 24 2021
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
3
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Mon Dec 27 2021
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
3
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Tue Dec 28 2021
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3
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Wed Dec 29 2021
Eternally Yours
The Saints
3
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Thu Dec 30 2021
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Had been holding off on listening to this one, for fear that it would be too bleak or upsetting, based on some of the description. Surprisingly light and pleasant, definitely one to revisit with a more analytical eye.
4
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Fri Dec 31 2021
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
3
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Mon Jan 03 2022
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
4
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Tue Jan 04 2022
Rocks
Aerosmith
3
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Tue Jan 11 2022
Forever Changes
Love
3
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Wed Jan 12 2022
Rubber Soul
Beatles
its a yikes for me on that last one john
3
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Thu Jan 13 2022
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
when did this become 1001 albums that'll make you WANT to die
1
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Fri Jan 14 2022
On The Beach
Neil Young
3
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Mon Jan 17 2022
Fragile
Yes
honestly slaps
5
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Tue Jan 18 2022
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
Hey, Robert, could you speak up a little?
4
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Wed Jan 19 2022
Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
1
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Thu Jan 20 2022
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
5
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Fri Jan 21 2022
Close To You
Carpenters
Saccharine and syrupy, but also, in like, kind of a nice way?
3
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Mon Jan 24 2022
Elastica
Elastica
I really don't know what to rate this, because if I'm being honest I think there were only about five words on this album that I could understand. Extremely listenable, though.
4
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Tue Jan 25 2022
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
4
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Wed Jan 26 2022
Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
3
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Thu Jan 27 2022
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
4
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Fri Jan 28 2022
Pornography
The Cure
3
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Mon Jan 31 2022
Graceland
Paul Simon
3
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Tue Feb 01 2022
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
3
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Wed Feb 02 2022
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4
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Thu Feb 03 2022
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
Shocking, considering how insufferable I found "Freak Out!", that I would be so taken by this album. Zappa works a lot better without words for me.
5
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Fri Feb 04 2022
Third
Portishead
4
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Mon Feb 07 2022
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
3
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Tue Feb 08 2022
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
5
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Wed Feb 09 2022
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
3
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Thu Feb 10 2022
16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
2
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Fri Feb 11 2022
Machine Head
Deep Purple
5
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Mon Feb 14 2022
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
5
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Tue Feb 15 2022
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
4
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Wed Feb 16 2022
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
5
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Thu Feb 17 2022
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
3
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Fri Feb 18 2022
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
2
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Mon Feb 21 2022
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
3
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Tue Feb 22 2022
Pretenders
Pretenders
4
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Wed Feb 23 2022
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
5
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Thu Feb 24 2022
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
5
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Fri Feb 25 2022
Goo
Sonic Youth
5
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Mon Feb 28 2022
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
Should be longer
5
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Tue Mar 01 2022
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
3
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Wed Mar 02 2022
S&M
Metallica
Pretty wild to record an entire album in Simlish
3
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Thu Mar 03 2022
GREY Area
Little Simz
4
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Fri Mar 04 2022
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
3
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Mon Mar 07 2022
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
4
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Tue Mar 08 2022
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
4
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Wed Mar 09 2022
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
4
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Thu Mar 10 2022
Manassas
Stephen Stills
weirdly really vibed with this. 5 stars I guess
5
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Fri Mar 11 2022
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
2
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Mon Mar 14 2022
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
5
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Tue Mar 15 2022
Technique
New Order
3
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Wed Mar 16 2022
Brothers
The Black Keys
3
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Thu Mar 17 2022
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
4
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Fri Mar 18 2022
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
Two awful songs really weighing this down.
4
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Mon Mar 21 2022
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
4
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Tue Mar 22 2022
All Mod Cons
The Jam
4
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Wed Mar 23 2022
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Iron Butterfly
5
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Thu Mar 24 2022
Tidal
Fiona Apple
5
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Fri Mar 25 2022
Bummed
Happy Mondays
Eh, I'm not harsh enough. This probably deserves a two but I had too many moments where I wanted to be listening to ANYTHING ELSE, so fuck it.
1
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Mon Mar 28 2022
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
5
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Tue Mar 29 2022
Hotel California
Eagles
4
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Wed Mar 30 2022
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
3
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Thu Mar 31 2022
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
I can absolutely imagine this being incredible at a concert or anywhere surrounded by hundreds of people on similar drugs. Listening to this alone on my bike? Torture.
2
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Fri Apr 01 2022
Frank
Amy Winehouse
When she said "you know that I'm no good" I didn't realize she was talking about this album! Damn!
1
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Mon Apr 04 2022
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
4
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Tue Apr 05 2022
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
2
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Wed Apr 06 2022
Headquarters
The Monkees
Five stars just for "If I Learned To Play The Violin". Funniest song I've ever heard.
5
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Thu Apr 07 2022
A Seat at the Table
Solange
5
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Fri Apr 08 2022
Let It Be
The Replacements
5
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Mon Apr 11 2022
Pink Flag
Wire
4
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Tue Apr 12 2022
Teen Dream
Beach House
2
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Wed Apr 13 2022
Who's Next
The Who
5
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Thu Apr 14 2022
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
4
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Fri Apr 15 2022
Leftism
Leftfield
3
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Mon Apr 18 2022
Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
4
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Tue Apr 19 2022
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
Not my favorite Talking Heads album but that's not saying much
5
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Wed Apr 20 2022
I Against I
Bad Brains
3
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Thu Apr 21 2022
Rio
Duran Duran
5
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Fri Apr 22 2022
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
rating this 5 for the 5 year old who probably loves this
5
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Mon Apr 25 2022
NEU! 75
Neu!
4
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Tue Apr 26 2022
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
5
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Wed Apr 27 2022
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
2
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Thu Apr 28 2022
Marquee Moon
Television
3
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Fri Apr 29 2022
Gris Gris
Dr. John
5
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Mon May 02 2022
Transformer
Lou Reed
I'm sorry, my rules are strict; if you have a song with the lyric "little girl", you lose a star, no matter how good the rest is.
4
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Tue May 03 2022
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
5
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Mon May 30 2022
En-Tact
The Shamen
Not sure at the start, ended up kinda digging it.
4
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Tue May 31 2022
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
4
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Wed Jun 01 2022
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
3
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Thu Jun 02 2022
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
4
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Fri Jun 03 2022
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
4
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Mon Jun 06 2022
Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter
3
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Tue Jun 07 2022
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
2
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Wed Jun 08 2022
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
if I could only remember a single track from this album
2
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Thu Jun 09 2022
Make Yourself
Incubus
That feeling where you're like, "I know this band, right? I've heard of them, what's their big song?" all throughout the album, and then finally a song starts that you recognize and it sucks
1
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Fri Jun 10 2022
Grace
Jeff Buckley
4
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Mon Jun 13 2022
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
More heads should have rolled.
3
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Tue Jun 14 2022
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
5
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Wed Jun 15 2022
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
5
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Thu Jun 16 2022
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
Sort of terrible but sort of good? Seems to be a love it or hate it type record, so both emotions seem valid.
Suppose I'll land in the middle but I'm really reconsidering my rating strategy.
3
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Fri Jun 17 2022
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
4
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Mon Jun 20 2022
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
3
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Tue Jun 21 2022
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
4
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Wed Jun 22 2022
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
The part in Aisha that goes "aaaaaaaaa"? Five stars for that alone.
5
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Thu Jun 23 2022
Eagles
Eagles
3
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Fri Jun 24 2022
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
5
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Mon Jun 27 2022
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
This one's complicated. "Brothers In Arms" has always been my mother's favorite song, and I can't fault her for it. It's atmospheric and melancholic, reaching emotional heights that most of the other tracks in the second half fall short of.
Anyway, I listened to a LOT of Dire Straits all throughout my childhood. A lot of the 'best of' tracks came from this album. And those are great. Incredibly catchy melodies, and I finally understand that these are probably the reason why I ever considered playing the guitar (I was bad at it). I think So Far Away kinda sucks, I've always thought Walk of Life was just a bad Sultans of Swing, some other tracks bored me so much I didn't even remember what they were called. There's a homophobic slur on Money for Nothing... but that song is still Money for Nothing. And above all, the title track is actually stunning, and I've been humming it for days now. Yeah, it's hard denying that.
5
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Tue Jun 28 2022
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
5
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Wed Jun 29 2022
Signing Off
UB40
2
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Thu Jun 30 2022
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
5
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Thu Jul 14 2022
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
4
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Fri Jul 15 2022
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
5
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Mon Jul 18 2022
3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
5
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Tue Jul 19 2022
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
3
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Wed Jul 20 2022
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
4
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Thu Jul 21 2022
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
2
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Fri Jul 22 2022
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
4
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Mon Jul 25 2022
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
5
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Tue Jul 26 2022
There's A Riot Goin' On
Sly & The Family Stone
4
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Wed Jul 27 2022
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2
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Thu Jul 28 2022
Woodface
Crowded House
This album coming out in 1991 feels wrong somehow. It has a very classic sound. Not a bad thing, and quite nice to listen to. I do really enjoy "Four Seasons in One Day", I've always liked that one for some reason.
3
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Fri Jul 29 2022
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
He's white? ... he's white.
3
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Fri Aug 19 2022
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5
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Mon Aug 22 2022
The Joshua Tree
U2
I guess I get it now. This feels like an album I'd have in my car, if I had a car. I don't love U2, but this is a genuinely great album.
5
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Tue Aug 23 2022
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
There's a few really good tracks on here, but a lot of those even wear out their welcome for me by going on just a bit longer than necessary.
3
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Wed Aug 24 2022
1984
Van Halen
3
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Thu Aug 25 2022
Faith
George Michael
It's good, but I'm also, like, weirded out? But like, in a good way? So... that's good?
3
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Fri Aug 26 2022
Dirty
Sonic Youth
4
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Mon Aug 29 2022
C'est Chic
CHIC
4
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Tue Aug 30 2022
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
4
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Wed Aug 31 2022
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
1
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Thu Sep 01 2022
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
5
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Fri Sep 02 2022
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
Fuck it. Five stars. Masterpiece. Powerhouse.
5
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Mon Sep 05 2022
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
Moments of absolute brilliance in the miasma of continuous sound. At times fantastic, at times interminable. But that's art, baby.
4
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Tue Sep 06 2022
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
I had two cans of Monster today, biking back and forth between our old apartment and the new house, trying to get the last of our stuff out. Heart racing, music pumping, I mean, man, I got stuff DONE today. Was it the energy drink? Was it the riffs? I still didn't understand a single lyric because Hetfield sounds the way he sounds (not as bad here, but still).
Whatever it was, I was a beast today. Brutal.
4
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Wed Sep 07 2022
Homework
Daft Punk
2
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Thu Sep 08 2022
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
5
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Fri Sep 09 2022
Thriller
Michael Jackson
4
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Mon Sep 12 2022
Violator
Depeche Mode
5
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Tue Sep 13 2022
Disintegration
The Cure
4
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Wed Sep 14 2022
We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
I'm so confused. The first Mothers of Invention album I got made me so irrationally angry. But then I got "Hot Rats", and I found it one of the greatest things I'd ever heard. I thought I just liked Zappa instrumentally and that was it. But no, actuality, I really enjoyed the Mothers this time around. I feel like the jokes worked a lot better here. An acquired taste?
4
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Thu Sep 15 2022
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
Brilliant debut. All-time classic.
5
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Fri Sep 16 2022
The Man Who
Travis
Actually kind of pleasant. Loses a bit of steam, but eventually won me back with the bonus track.
4
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Mon Sep 19 2022
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
5
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Tue Sep 20 2022
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
mid
3
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Wed Sep 21 2022
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
3
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Thu Sep 22 2022
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
3
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Fri Sep 23 2022
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
5
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Mon Sep 26 2022
xx
The xx
5
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Tue Sep 27 2022
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
Surprisingly, I actually liked this. Mick sounds good for a change.
4
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Wed Sep 28 2022
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
It's weird. It's kind of shit.
"What if Sparks were Talking Heads", alright, that sounds fucking terrible and also brilliant. Would rather listen to either of those, but this does make sense. Blow-up doll song is stupid as hell. It rules.
4
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Thu Sep 29 2022
Harvest
Neil Young
5
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Fri Sep 30 2022
Soul Mining
The The
Whenever I think an album might be kind of shit, the reviews are inevitably full of people proclaiming it as a masterpiece. Inexplicable.
2
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Mon Oct 03 2022
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
5
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Tue Oct 04 2022
Closer
Joy Division
So the Joy part is ironic, eh?
2
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Wed Oct 05 2022
Parallel Lines
Blondie
Just utterly hilarious.
5
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Fri Oct 07 2022
Liquid Swords
GZA
4
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Mon Oct 10 2022
Dummy
Portishead
Great, especially when Gibbons does her weird Bjork impression
4
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Tue Oct 11 2022
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
5
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Wed Oct 12 2022
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
4
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Thu Oct 13 2022
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
3
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Fri Oct 14 2022
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
4
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Mon Oct 17 2022
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
3
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Tue Oct 18 2022
Aja
Steely Dan
3
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Wed Oct 19 2022
Kimono My House
Sparks
5
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Thu Oct 20 2022
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
5
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Fri Oct 21 2022
Reign In Blood
Slayer
Metal is so funny. They're all like, "I'm a real sicko! Blood and guts and gore!!! SATAN!" That edgy shit just gets funnier and funnier as I get older. Would be embarrassing if it didn't also rip.
4
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Mon Oct 24 2022
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
5
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Tue Oct 25 2022
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4
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Wed Oct 26 2022
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
5
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Thu Oct 27 2022
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
4
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Fri Oct 28 2022
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
3
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Mon Oct 31 2022
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
5
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Tue Nov 01 2022
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
5
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Wed Nov 02 2022
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
4
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Thu Nov 03 2022
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
5
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Fri Nov 04 2022
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
5
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Mon Nov 07 2022
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
4
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Tue Nov 08 2022
With The Beatles
Beatles
3
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Wed Nov 09 2022
Dirt
Alice In Chains
2
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Fri Nov 11 2022
Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2
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Mon Nov 14 2022
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
5
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Tue Nov 15 2022
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
5
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Wed Nov 16 2022
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
5
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Thu Nov 17 2022
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
3
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Fri Nov 18 2022
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
3
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Mon Nov 21 2022
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
5
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Tue Nov 22 2022
Screamadelica
Primal Scream
This album came out the same year I was born! I like to think I've aged better.
2
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Wed Nov 23 2022
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
3
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Thu Nov 24 2022
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp
4
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Fri Nov 25 2022
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On Wax
1
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Mon Nov 28 2022
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
4
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Tue Nov 29 2022
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
2
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Thu Dec 01 2022
Tommy
The Who
Everything here is pretty great, which is why it's insane that the whole thing ends on a fucking FADE OUT????
5
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Fri Dec 02 2022
Dry
PJ Harvey
Saw another review mention the mixing, but it really knocked my enjoyment not being able to fucking HEAR HER for half a song. Whether it's Apple Music or just the album, I don't know. There's a lot really good here, and as a debut too.
4
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Mon Dec 05 2022
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
5
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Tue Dec 06 2022
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
5
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Wed Dec 07 2022
Rings Around The World
Super Furry Animals
3
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Thu Dec 08 2022
Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
4
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Fri Dec 09 2022
Melodrama
Lorde
Man, I'm disappointed. I only knew Green Light off this album and always quite liked it. I thought I would really enjoy this album. It was... okay?
Pop doesn't have to be fun, and it doesn't even need to be very original. But it needs some ideas. It's like... Whenever there's a clever line in one of these songs, I'd find myself impressed and paying attention. And then immediately that line is just repeated as an incredibly weak hook. The passes/champagne glasses rhyme is cute! Don't make it your entire song!!! Come up with a chorus!!! Stop running out of ideas so fast!!! Fuck!!! And like, I still halfway enjoyed it. There have been worse albums, so it's going down the middle.
3
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Mon Dec 12 2022
No Other
Gene Clark
3
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Tue Dec 13 2022
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
5
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Wed Dec 14 2022
Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs
2
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Thu Dec 15 2022
Take Me Apart
Kelela
Probably a decent album to have sex to. But that's a really specific context, and I'm not going to go through the effort to make sure.
2
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Fri Dec 16 2022
The Only Ones
The Only Ones
3
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Mon Dec 19 2022
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
2
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Tue Dec 20 2022
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple
5
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Wed Dec 21 2022
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
4
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Wed Dec 28 2022
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
This would absolutely be okay as background music to write to or something, but also, I've heard better video game music for that purpose.
2
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Thu Dec 29 2022
Pump
Aerosmith
how embarrassing
1
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Fri Dec 30 2022
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
3
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Mon Jan 02 2023
1989
Taylor Swift
I'm being harsh, but the first song on this album made me want to immediately swerve into oncoming traffic. By some point I thought, alright, maybe there's a few hooks on here that work, and then Bad Blood started playing so traffic seemed alluring again.
1
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Tue Jan 03 2023
The Healer
John Lee Hooker
2
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Wed Jan 04 2023
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
5
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Thu Jan 05 2023
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
It's a bit of a vibe. It's a very Sfinks festival type of music, where I might want to pay attention to a song or two, and enjoy it well enough before wandering over elsewhere to grab a beer or avoid the weed smells, or just wander around to see if someone I know is nearby and has literally anything to say
3
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Fri Jan 06 2023
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
3
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Mon Jan 09 2023
Urban Hymns
The Verve
Kinda reminds me of U2, but worse. Kinda reminds me of Oasis, but worse. Kinda reminds me
2
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Tue Jan 10 2023
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
3
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Wed Jan 11 2023
Street Life
The Crusaders
Starts off promisingly funky. Loses steam pretty quickly. A shame, because it's barely 40 minutes long. Title track's great.
4
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Thu Jan 12 2023
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
4
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Fri Jan 13 2023
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
What do you call this type of music where someone plays one distorted chord over and over again for six minutes?
1
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Mon Jan 16 2023
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
5
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Tue Jan 17 2023
Synchronicity
The Police
Three or four. Dinosaur song made me laugh out loud. Not sure if that was serious.
3
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Wed Jan 18 2023
The La's
The La's
4
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Thu Jan 19 2023
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4
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Fri Jan 20 2023
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
That's it. Nice and easy. Just slam down for thirty seconds and get it over with. No edging on this record. A straightforward angry wank and you're out.
4
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Tue Jan 24 2023
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
5
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Wed Jan 25 2023
Hms Fable
Shack
Normally I feel like I need to really dislike something to give it less than three stars. It is pleasant enough, but I paused it halfway and forgot about it entirely by the time I picked it back up. Whenever I find myself thinking "is this the last track then?" several times in a row, I know it's not really for me. Again, nice enough, but just incredibly unremarkable.
2
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Thu Jan 26 2023
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
5
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Fri Jan 27 2023
The Undertones
The Undertones
4
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Mon Jan 30 2023
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
3
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Tue Jan 31 2023
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
Atmospheric, to be sure. It sounds nice, but I constantly found myself singing other improvised melodies over the undulating sequence of chords and moans. It's not Jonsi's fault that my melodies were uninspiring, of course.
3
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Wed Feb 01 2023
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
5
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Thu Feb 02 2023
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
4
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Fri Feb 03 2023
Faust IV
Faust
5
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Mon Feb 06 2023
School's Out
Alice Cooper
3
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Tue Feb 07 2023
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
4
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Wed Feb 08 2023
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Mostly instrumental, sometimes chill, sometimes spooky. Nice. Soundtrack potential.
4
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Thu Feb 09 2023
Live Through This
Hole
5
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Mon Feb 20 2023
Odelay
Beck
4
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Tue Feb 21 2023
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
4
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Wed Feb 22 2023
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
3
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Thu Feb 23 2023
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
5
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Fri Feb 24 2023
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Elephant
The White Stripes
5
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Tue Feb 28 2023
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Really struggled to decide what I'd rate this album. I've often had people around me who loved reggae, and never fully been able to buy in myself. Bob Marley certainly seemed like the most accessible one, at least, and this album is for sure. I mean, this is the answer to the question "which studio albums could also be considered greatest hits albums" because the second half is just iconic track after iconic track. I cannot deny that. I usually reserve 5 stars for stuff that I personally adore, but I cannot deny that this is a particularly strong album, one of the most deserving inclusions on the list.
5
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Wed Mar 01 2023
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
5
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Thu Mar 02 2023
Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
4
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Fri Mar 03 2023
Kid A
Radiohead
5
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Mon Mar 06 2023
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
3
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Tue Mar 07 2023
First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
4
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Wed Mar 08 2023
Hysteria
Def Leppard
2
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Thu Mar 09 2023
The Doors
The Doors
5
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Mon Mar 13 2023
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
4
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Tue Mar 14 2023
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
5
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Wed Mar 15 2023
Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine
Cee Lo Green
3
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Thu Mar 16 2023
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
2
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Fri Mar 17 2023
Survivor
Destiny's Child
It is SO funny to sing about independent women who can buy their OWN diamonds without needing a man, and about how hot your booty is, before launching into "Nasty Girl" and shaming a woman for not wearing clothes and telling her men won't respect her. Let that nasty girl have her tits out if she wants!!!
3
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Mon Mar 20 2023
The Visitors
ABBA
5
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Tue Mar 21 2023
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
4
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Wed Mar 22 2023
Guitar Town
Steve Earle
2
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Thu Mar 23 2023
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
5
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Fri Mar 24 2023
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
Honestly, a pretty good showing from Dylan here. He still indulges his worst tendencies to have songs run on endlessly, only to fade out after seventeen verses of tiresome references. Less would genuinely be so much more. The fact that he sounds like that is honestly what I mind the least about Bob Dylan. At least he tells some alright stories on this one. But please. Some radio cuts, please.
3
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Mon Mar 27 2023
Superunknown
Soundgarden
Another journey of "I know this band's name, but why? Surely not for being able to mimic what I remember Pearl Jam sounding like? Which of their songs was a hit?? Oh, this one! Yeah it's the best track on the record. Go figure!"
3
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Tue Mar 28 2023
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
5
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Thu Mar 30 2023
Roots
Sepultura
2
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Fri Mar 31 2023
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
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Tue Apr 04 2023
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
2
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Fri Apr 07 2023
Public Image: First Issue
Public Image Ltd.
Lydon can fuck right off with this
1
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Mon Apr 10 2023
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
5
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Thu May 18 2023
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
5
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Fri May 19 2023
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
4
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Mon May 22 2023
Stankonia
OutKast
5
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Tue May 23 2023
Green
R.E.M.
5
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Wed May 24 2023
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
2
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Thu May 25 2023
Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart
4
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Fri May 26 2023
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
Yikes dog
2
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Mon May 29 2023
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
4
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Tue May 30 2023
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
5
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Thu Jun 01 2023
Boston
Boston
3
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Fri Jun 02 2023
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
I'm white
3
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Mon Jun 05 2023
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
5
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Tue Jun 06 2023
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1
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Wed Jun 07 2023
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
4
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Thu Jun 08 2023
Maverick A Strike
Finley Quaye
Listenable! Unobjectionable! Some of its, dare I say, nice, even!
3
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Fri Jun 09 2023
Beautiful Freak
Eels
Kind of grew up with this, because my sister loved this album, but it still surprised me that it came out in 1996. That's a full five years before Shrek! How early in production do you think they started on the My Beloved Monster scene?
5
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Mon Jun 12 2023
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
1
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Tue Jun 13 2023
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
5
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Wed Jun 14 2023
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3
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Thu Jun 15 2023
Music From Big Pink
The Band
3
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Fri Jun 16 2023
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
on closer inspection, these are loafers
4
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Mon Jun 19 2023
Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
2
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Tue Jun 20 2023
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4
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Wed Jun 21 2023
Hot Fuss
The Killers
4
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Thu Jun 22 2023
Stardust
Willie Nelson
4
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Wed Jun 28 2023
Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
No, I'm pretty sure if you were Christian, your name might have still been Michael.
2
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Thu Jun 29 2023
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
Sounds a bit like if The Cure were neurotypical
3
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Fri Jun 30 2023
25
Adele
This is quite unexpected, but I was tempted to skip so, so many times. Just when I was getting really sick of the awful 2015 production on some of these tracks, they wisely decided to strip back the instrumentation for the last few tracks. Doesn't help much though. When "All I Ask" comes around, she sings "what if I never love again?", and I just want to shake her. Girl, have some self-awareness. Clearly, you have and you will love again. Apparently it's all you do. Calling this album 'mature' is laughable. I'm in my thirties now, and maybe I just can't handle this level of mid-twenties self-seriousness. Her stuff on 21 was better, across the board.
"When We Were Young" is just about the only song that actually resonated with me, I think especially because it's such a funny thing to say in your mid-twenties but it feels vulnerable and genuine, and it has a profound tenderness for its subject that suggests more than what it says, and that has a sense of melancholy that isnt entirely focused on her own inability to let go, or at least, understands that things are inevitably going to change.
3
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Mon Jul 03 2023
Heroes
David Bowie
2
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Tue Jul 04 2023
Abraxas
Santana
3
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Wed Jul 05 2023
Zombie
Fela Kuti
5
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Thu Jul 06 2023
You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
4
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Fri Jul 07 2023
Smile
Brian Wilson
5
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Mon Jul 10 2023
Shleep
Robert Wyatt
This one only had three reviews before I wrote this one. Presumably because most people, uh, didn't care strongly. Some of the best parts of this sound like Nick Drake, but some of it also sucks. Weird one to rate. We're gonna go mid.
2
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Tue Jul 11 2023
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
5
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Wed Jul 12 2023
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
3
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Thu Jul 13 2023
Nowhere
Ride
3
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Fri Jul 14 2023
Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons
stars for emmylou tbh
3
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Mon Jul 17 2023
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
2
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Tue Jul 18 2023
Arular
M.I.A.
2
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Wed Jul 19 2023
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
5
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Thu Jul 20 2023
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
4
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Fri Jul 28 2023
Infected
The The
2
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Mon Jul 31 2023
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
4
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Wed Aug 02 2023
Different Class
Pulp
5
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Thu Aug 03 2023
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
I didn't very much like it, actually.
2
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Fri Aug 04 2023
Risque
CHIC
Feels bad rating this so low, but genuinely each track is too long and repetitive. Some tracks aren't even that long and they still feel like they drag! Obviously what's there is good, which is why it's been sampled and reused so much, but at its core this is a record that kind of explains why disco was so maligned. I like disco, I'm European, but this was a bit tiresome.
2
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Mon Aug 07 2023
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
As S&F albums go, not really their strongest offering, but the songwriting is still top notch.
5
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Wed Aug 09 2023
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
5
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Wed Aug 23 2023
The Stooges
The Stooges
3
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Thu Aug 24 2023
Face to Face
The Kinks
3
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Fri Aug 25 2023
Repeater
Fugazi
2
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Mon Aug 28 2023
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
5
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Tue Aug 29 2023
The Stranger
Billy Joel
4
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Wed Sep 06 2023
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
2
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Thu Sep 07 2023
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
Entirely inconsequential and bafflingly identity-free
1
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Fri Sep 08 2023
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
(gif of that little girl side-eyeing the camera, the one from the video where her older sister finds out she's going to Disneyland)
1
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Mon Sep 11 2023
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
2
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Thu Sep 21 2023
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
4
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Fri Sep 22 2023
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
2
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Mon Sep 25 2023
American Idiot
Green Day
The second half is really quite bad.
3
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Tue Sep 26 2023
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5
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Wed Sep 27 2023
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
4
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Thu Sep 28 2023
The Coral
The Coral
"Dreaming of You" was one of my favorite songs, back then. It's pretty good, still.
3
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Fri Sep 29 2023
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
4
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Mon Oct 02 2023
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
4
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Tue Oct 03 2023
A Girl Called Dusty
Dusty Springfield
5
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Wed Oct 04 2023
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
5
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Thu Oct 05 2023
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
2
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Fri Oct 06 2023
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
2
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Mon Oct 09 2023
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
3
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Tue Oct 10 2023
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
4
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Thu Oct 12 2023
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
Brilliant
5
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Fri Oct 13 2023
Achtung Baby
U2
It's crazy that U2 made such a great album with Joshua Tree - and yet almost everything else they've done afterwards is unbearably boring.
2
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Mon Oct 16 2023
Live At Leeds
The Who
5
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Tue Oct 17 2023
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
5
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Wed Oct 18 2023
Blackstar
David Bowie
5
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Thu Oct 19 2023
Be
Common
3
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Fri Oct 20 2023
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
5
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Mon Oct 23 2023
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
He was like, "all right, maybe I can make my own voice sound less annoying if I contrast it with this fucking harmonica."
2
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Tue Oct 24 2023
Eliminator
ZZ Top
3
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Wed Oct 25 2023
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
4
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Thu Oct 26 2023
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
2
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Fri Oct 27 2023
Among The Living
Anthrax
Kind of fun?
3
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Mon Oct 30 2023
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
5
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Tue Oct 31 2023
Station To Station
David Bowie
5
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Wed Nov 01 2023
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
4
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Thu Nov 02 2023
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
5
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Fri Nov 03 2023
OK Computer
Radiohead
5
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Thu Nov 09 2023
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
2
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Fri Nov 10 2023
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
5
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Mon Nov 13 2023
Sulk
The Associates
2
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Tue Nov 14 2023
Fifth Dimension
The Byrds
3
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Wed Nov 15 2023
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
5
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Thu Nov 16 2023
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
5
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Fri Nov 17 2023
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
2
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Mon Nov 20 2023
Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
5
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Tue Nov 21 2023
Permission to Land
The Darkness
Albums I liked when I was 13 very rarely hold up. This one does. No notes.
5
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Wed Nov 22 2023
Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
3
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Thu Nov 23 2023
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
3