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Sun Apr 03 2022
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
I remember a lot of these tracks from the past. It’s noisy, it’s pretentious, and it’s so effing good. I think I like it now more than I did 20 years ago.
4
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Mon Apr 04 2022
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
It’s technically a good album. The band is excellent, his voice is very good. The lyrics are not very creative or complex, simple. An entire album of swinging love songs? With virtually no change in his voice from one to another? It’s Frankly on the boring side.
2
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Tue Apr 05 2022
L.A. Woman
The Doors
Always loved the Doors but can’t say I ever listened to this one front to back. Initially I was like “a little too bluesy” but dayum it picks up and Side Two is just fucking nuts. Love it.
4
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Wed Apr 06 2022
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
I’ve had to listen to this twice (so far) to appreciate it. The production is so bad at times it hurts, and my goddess turn those vocals up! However I am now starting to appreciate and like some of these songs. I’d like to read more about how it fits with other artists at the time, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Pink Floyd etc because it’s hard to tell exactly who was influencing whom - the late sixties silly psychedelic sound and all (not Dylan but I can hear Dylan’s style in a few of these tracks).
Anyway I’m going to call it a 3 for now and listen a few more times.
3
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Thu Apr 07 2022
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
I wasn’t sure what to expect but I liked it, very pleasant. Made me want to read a Western. I liked the simplicity yet the vocals have more range than a Frank Sinatra and the lyrics tell great stories. Musically decent. I’ll likely listen again.
3
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Fri Apr 08 2022
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Okay I grew up with this one. It’s still an A+ album, rocks hard, and placed in 1969 it’s no wonder it changed rock music like it did.
I still love it, especially Good Times Bad Times, but I have to finally acknowledge that Robert Plant’s orgasmic moaning and groaning and his lyrically complicated relationships with women are annoying but fortunately it doesn’t hurt the album overall. Bonham’s drums are fucking fantastic, Page and Jones are fantastic, and Led Zeppelin 1 stands the test of time.
5
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Sat Apr 09 2022
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
Quite boring honestly.
I kind of liked “As I read my S-A”
2
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Sun Apr 10 2022
First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
It was okay.
3
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Mon Apr 11 2022
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
I mean it’s 1984, it’s raw, it’s audibly simple compared to modern rap, but it’s good.
3
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Tue Apr 12 2022
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
Really smooth, very nice. I’d give it a 5 except sometimes the horns got so high pitched it literally hurt my ears and I had to turn the volume down.
4
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Wed Apr 13 2022
Connected
Stereo MC's
This is the first album that I haven’t heard that blew me away. Loved it.
5
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Thu Apr 14 2022
Happy Sad
Tim Buckley
Hadn’t heard of him before, and I honestly wasn’t that impressed. Gypsy Woman was showing promise, my favorite on the album I think but just not enough to really save it. I’m going 2 here.
2
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Fri Apr 15 2022
Smash
The Offspring
Turns out I’ve heard a few of these songs but never really heard of Offspring or this album. I missed a lot of the 90s due to drinking a lot and living in a trailer. This album was hot. Quality punk sound fast clean dirty rock really solid album I loved it.
5
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Sat Apr 16 2022
21
Adele
I have mad respect for Adele’s voice. I had to give this one a 4 though because compared to her next album it’s just a little short.
4
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Sun Apr 17 2022
The Grand Tour
George Jones
Boy oh boy. The song “the Grand Tour” is fucking epic. Brilliant. The rest of the album is kind of “meh” not bad, some songs even pleasant but if I’m rating the album and not a fantastic song that is on it I’m going to have to call it a 2. Just not my thing. The one song almost bumped it to a 3 but it’s just not there all in all.
2
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Mon Apr 18 2022
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
I’ve never given Leonard Cohen much thought, so I guess it’s ironic I would get his last album, his “death” album as my first taste.
At first it felt pretentious, but maybe that’s just Cohen. Half way through I felt I knew him and could identify. I like the global feel of the music, the darkness and starkness of the vocals and sound. I could listen to this a lot more.
4
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Tue Apr 19 2022
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
Maybe the worst Beach Boys album I’ve ever heard? “Let’s write a song about water pollution!” “Let’s write a song about student protests!” “Let’s try and be relatable and relevant to todays youth!” It just comes across as pandering and inauthentic.
Furthermore it’s obvious Brian Wilson had little to do with this, and it’s just overall a downward slide from Pet Sounds and the early Beach Boys.
2
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Wed Apr 20 2022
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
Really good stuff. Some of it is annoying but most of it is really badass.
4
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Thu Apr 21 2022
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
Very good, smooth foot tapping rap. I liked it.
4
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Fri Apr 22 2022
The Predator
Ice Cube
Good stuff
4
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Sat Apr 23 2022
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
I will always love Janis.
4
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Sun Apr 24 2022
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
It’s good, and I might like it better with a few more listens but I’m just going with a 3.
3
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Mon Apr 25 2022
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
4
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Tue Apr 26 2022
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
Do the Stones have an album better than this one?
5
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Wed Apr 27 2022
Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
Very enlightening! Entertaining!
4
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Thu Apr 28 2022
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
I went in with an open mind, but while not bad, I wasn’t impressed. Just sounds like a modern Dire Straits.
3
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Fri Apr 29 2022
Faith
George Michael
Quintessential 80s. His vocals are amazing. The production is excellent. It has several hits.
3
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Sat Apr 30 2022
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
Growing up in the 80s, discovering the Violent Femmes was like discovering drugs. It was a gateway to alternative music, a door that could never be closed again. A life of swapping cassette tape recordings of low bandwidth college radio stations, collecting bands like the Crucifux and the Dead Kennedys, all-age punk rock shows in the closest city smoking clove cigarettes and feeling alive and different.
Good stuff.
5
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Sun May 01 2022
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
So boring! I guess it started to grow on me by the end but seriously, no likey.
1