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Thu Jan 13 2022
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
It was ok, I found it a bit bland with nothing much to recommend it apart from the ones that I remember from back in the day, that were bangers when they came out (Today and Disarm).
2
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Fri Jan 14 2022
Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
I would happily never listen to this again. It wasn't a bad album, but it did nothing for me. I think it was too earnest, and I can imagine that people who understand music would really appreciate it.
2
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Mon Jan 17 2022
Here, My Dear
Marvin Gaye
This was awful. If the 70s had porn in the 'popular with women' category, this would be the soundtrack.
1
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Tue Jan 18 2022
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
It was inoffensive but dull. I can't remember any of the songs after listening apart from Sultans of Swing, which probably tells you something about this album. It reminded me of being a kid and going on holiday with Dire Straits on the cassette player in the car. I would not choose to listen to this album again but if I had to it would not be the end of the world.
2
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Wed Jan 19 2022
Debut
Björk
Enjoyable, I like Bjork's voice, it's a nice counterpoint to all the baby voiced female singers of the modern era. She sings like she really means it. She isn't afraid to leave gaps in the music and let the emotion in her voice fill it in.
2
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Thu Jan 20 2022
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
I didn't listen to the lyrics very hard as it was the soundtrack to a particularly gnarly spreadsheet and I had to concentrate. But the tunes were boppy and inoffensive. I liked the one where the girl was singing. Would put this on to help me conquer formulae again.
2
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Fri Jan 21 2022
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
This album was like listening to vertigo. I felt like I was sinking into a pit as the music burrowed into my head and changed my brain chemistry.
1 star only because it gave me the fear :-(
1
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Mon Jan 24 2022
Illmatic
Nas
I was surprised how much I liked this, as I don't usually gravitate to this sort of music other than the well known bangers. I paid no attention to the lyrics but I'd defo listen to it again as a boppy backdrop for work.
3
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Tue Jan 25 2022
Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
I blinked and missed most of this. Sounds like a kid that isn't really a bad kid having a rant at their indulgent parents in the kitchen of a nice detached house in the suburbs.
2
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Wed Jan 26 2022
Transformer
Lou Reed
It was ok. Meh+
2
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Thu Jan 27 2022
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
Started off good, I even saved a song. Then descended into such nonsense I couldn't finish it.
Seems like the band got themselves into a room and played any old rubbish and passed it off as an album.
1
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Fri Jan 28 2022
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Enjoyed this, apart from the avant garde whale song moments. If I knew how to I'd edit all the shite out of this and it'd be even better. Will listen again and try some of her other stuff.
3
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Mon Jan 31 2022
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
Listened to a few songs. Wandered off to watch some paint dry.
1
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Tue Feb 01 2022
Blue
Joni Mitchell
A few days before I got this one Joni Mitchell boycotted Spotify in protest over their anti-vax content, so I was intrigued. I really liked her voice, but none of the songs have stuck with me apart from the Christmas song.
2
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Wed Feb 02 2022
One World
John Martyn
Some quality songs on here. The amusingly titled 'Big Muff', 'Dancing' and 'Couldn't love you more' which made it onto my Spotify playlist for 2022 and made a tear come out.
I don't know what genre this is, but seems a big ole' mashup of whatever worked, and his raspy voice is nicely unusual.
3
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Thu Feb 03 2022
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
Sorry Joni, I know you are an icon but I couldn't listen to this all the way through. Got about three songs in and ditched it. Dull. Soz.
1
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Fri Feb 04 2022
You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
Not for me.
1
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Mon Feb 07 2022
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
This album should be renamed 'If bin juice made a noise it would sound like this'.
1
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Tue Feb 08 2022
Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren
Got about 3 songs in and had to abandon it. Nothing about it captured my imagination or stirred emotion.
The sound of unsweetened rice pudding with cloves in it. Spyak.
1
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Thu Feb 10 2022
Rubber Soul
Beatles
What's not to like. Even if you don't like a tune, they are super short so it's over before you know it.
3
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Fri Feb 11 2022
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
I didn't skip any tracks, but then again I didn't really listen to it as it just blurs into one amorphous supermarket rock jazz sound blob.
Blended into the background of my work and didn't interrupt.
2
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Mon Feb 14 2022
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
Sorry Femi Kuti, I just hate the saxophone.
1
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Tue Feb 15 2022
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
Ok but dull, samey jangly pop rock. Not worth a second listen.
2
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Thu Feb 17 2022
Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds
Cute. Surprisingly melancholy. Couldn't really tell the difference between the songs after Mr Tambourine Man.
2
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Fri Feb 18 2022
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
Yuk. This is the sound of walking into a hoarder house and finding a decomposing corpse. I hated it.
1
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Tue Feb 22 2022
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
Wayne's World flashbacks. Bangers (Foxy Lady, Wind Cries Mary, Fire, Manic Depression, Purple Haze) alone are worth four stars, but it's down to three cos of the filler.
3
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Wed Feb 23 2022
Sex Packets
Digital Underground
Awful. Pointless.
1
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Fri Feb 25 2022
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
Other than the bangers the ironic rock n roll Saturday night vibe is not for me.
2
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Tue Mar 01 2022
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
Started off really great with the salsa stuff but it lost steam for me about half way through.
3
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Wed Mar 02 2022
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
Loved this when it came out. Now I can only listen to Beautiful People and Antichrist Superstar. The thought of ever having being a fan of the lead singer makes me cringe.
1
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Thu Mar 03 2022
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
The sound of a fembot sipping a cocktail from a coconut next to the pool just before Austin Powers swings round the corner.
Not my bag, baby, but inoffensive and clearly well done.
2
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Fri Mar 04 2022
Live Through This
Hole
Always liked this, good tunes, great voice, great lyrics.
4
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Mon Mar 07 2022
The Yes Album
Yes
Background music. I know it was playing but it might as well have been white noise.
2
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Tue Mar 08 2022
B-52's
The B-52's
Awful
1
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Mon Mar 14 2022
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
Just ok.
2
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Tue Mar 15 2022
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
Too twee for me
2
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Wed Mar 16 2022
Play
Moby
I'd forgotten about this album. It's really rather good!
4
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Tue Mar 29 2022
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
Bland. Samey. No bangers. Warm up for the good stuff methinks
2
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Wed Mar 30 2022
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
Expected to hate this, in fact I quite liked it. A fun mellow album.
3
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Thu Mar 31 2022
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
My earholes squeezed themselves shut
1
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Fri Apr 01 2022
Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
Boring droning drivel. Are bad vibrations, going through the air because of rubbish music, the reason for all the shitty things that happen in the world? E.g. every time this album gets played someone gets closer to inventing an even more evil pesticide or invents another stupid product that we don't need.
Someone should correlate world events to when albums get released :-(
1
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Mon Apr 04 2022
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
Not for me
1
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Tue Apr 05 2022
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
The sound of the feeling of chewing a towel.
1
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Wed Apr 06 2022
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
Sound of rubbing your ear on gravel.
1
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Thu Apr 07 2022
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
Meh. Not awful but would not listen again.
2
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Fri Apr 08 2022
Sea Change
Beck
Good background music. Did not make me melancholy. I believe it was the sound of the colour of saudade, which is orangey blue. Would listen again.
3
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Mon Apr 11 2022
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
Not a bad bop. Wailed along to natural woman whilst making a brew.
2
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Tue Apr 12 2022
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
Nope.
1
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Wed Apr 13 2022
Grace
Jeff Buckley
Strange and delicate whale song.
I thought 'I'll listen to more of this guys stuff!'.
Only to discover he is dead. Very sad.
3
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Thu Apr 14 2022
Sheet Music
10cc
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope on a rope. Starts at nope and circles all the way back to nope. Not Leslie Knope but actual nope. Nope.
1
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Wed Apr 20 2022
Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday
Sadly this album reminds me a bit of a creepy restaurant I worked at that hardly anyone ever visited. One night chef didn't have the ingredients for orange chicken so he used hot concentrated OJ, the kind you get in a carton. So I associate this kind of music with a grey haired old woman with a tight perm thrusting a plate of shredded chicken floating in orange juice at me in disgust. There was no fooling her! Billie's soothing notes did nothing to diffuse the situation.
2
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Thu Apr 21 2022
Take Me Apart
Kelela
The music was too empty.
1
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Tue Apr 26 2022
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Ok but not really my thing.
2
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Wed Apr 27 2022
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
As soon as that baby started wailing in the last track I switched over to Phil Collins 'oooo yeah I wish it would rain down'....on my ears and wash all this musical cack out of them. The sound of the smell of cold Brussels sprouts.
Amazing what one late 80s power ballad can do!
1
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Thu Apr 28 2022
Either Or
Elliott Smith
Used to listen to this over and over when I was at uni. Past that phase now.
2
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Fri Apr 29 2022
Face to Face
The Kinks
Dull
2
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Wed May 04 2022
Technique
New Order
Meh.
I didn't even notice it was playing until Spotify 'album radio based on' started playing Cowgirl by Underworld.
2
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Thu May 05 2022
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
This was absolute pants. If I could give it minus stars I would. Minus one thousand stars for sounding like jellied tripe.
1
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Fri May 06 2022
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
I gave this 3 stars just because of Mr Blue Sky and Sweet talkin' woman. All the rest is acceptable filler.
3
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Mon May 09 2022
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
Melancholy but good. Not as good as Pink Moon.
3
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Tue May 10 2022
Achtung Baby
U2
It's just really good. Every track is a banger.
5
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Wed May 11 2022
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
Quite cool actually!
3
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Thu May 12 2022
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
Dull other than Mr Wendal. Didn't pay much attention to the lyrics but go the impression they were going on about god a lot which put me off.
2
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Fri May 13 2022
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
Boring, forced, scratchy and annoying, apart from the obvious ones, which are ok.
2
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Mon May 16 2022
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp
Nice
2
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Tue May 17 2022
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
Save yourself some pain and listen to Death to the Pixies
2
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Fri May 20 2022
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
Thought it was a bit boring, skip listened to most of the tracks.
1
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Mon May 23 2022
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
Hot shite
1
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Thu May 26 2022
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
I wasn't into it 30 years ago and I'm still not into it now.
2
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Fri May 27 2022
Cross
Justice
Banger
3
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Mon May 30 2022
Pyromania
Def Leppard
Save yourself some trouble, just listen to the greatest hits album.
All filler one killer.
1
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Tue May 31 2022
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
Pop music being played by people who are sliding down a hill through a temporal distortion that is stretching their faces into wisps.
90s me would've liked it, if she'd known about it. 20's me ain't got no time for the discordance.
2
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Wed Jun 01 2022
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
Dull
1
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Wed Jun 08 2022
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
dull
1