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Tue Sep 06 2022
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
I have really only ever listened to the Jimi Hendrix Experience Album Are You Experienced? Not sure why I haven’t listened to the other two albums with his band.
This is much more meandering and less straight rock focused than that album. This album seems to be mixed better. It sounds more like a studio album than their first album but in a different way than most studio albums. It sounds like the musicians are in the room with you. There is a perfectionism to the tracks while somehow sounding loose and improvisational. It is as if you are in the studio while they are playing the tracks live.
The mixing is much better than than Are You Experienced? from what I recall.
Think I might like this more than AYE
5
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Wed Sep 07 2022
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
Day 2 of a three year journey that I am now questioning.
Of course, I have heard songs from this album before I have never understood the appeal or the acclaim.
This album sounds like someone had an idea for a shitty stage musical, someone else had an idea for a shitty rock album, and a third person had an idea for a shitty pop album. Mix it all together and you get a meatloaf of shit. I just don’t get the appeal of this at all. Listening to it made my day worse.
1
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Thu Sep 08 2022
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
This is one I had heard about but never got around to listening to. Impressed with the combinations of genres. Don’t like the songs that overwhelm with too much of a wall of sound.
3
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Fri Sep 09 2022
Is This It
The Strokes
This is a great album but I still don’t think it is as groundbreaking or important as many say it is. The vocals on many songs become grating because of the effects added to his voice. The upbeat songs are bangers but the rest becomes muddled and kind of boring.
4
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Sat Sep 10 2022
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
Love this album but came to it much later. I wasn’t exposed to this growing up and started listening to The Smiths because of my wife. Easily one of the best albums of the 80s.
5
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Sun Sep 11 2022
Van Halen
Van Halen
Completely understand why this one got popular and is considered a classic but so much of it just isn’t for me. Too many of the hard rockin songs sound the same. For all of Eddie Van Halen’s talent he has never seemed to understand how to use it to its full extent to make something that sounds different.
3
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Mon Sep 12 2022
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
This was a pleasant surprise. I will admit that I’ve only heard “Come On Eileen” before listening to this one.
Well written and structured songs that embrace the past while adding a new wave edge to the sound.
4
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Tue Sep 13 2022
Diamond Life
Sade
I should like this more than I do. Too much of it sounds the same.
3
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Wed Sep 14 2022
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
5
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Thu Sep 15 2022
Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
This is just ok. I don’t get the appeal of Rod Stewart’s voice. Not sure why this was included on this list of albums.
2
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Fri Sep 16 2022
Fromohio
fIREHOSE
This one really surprised me. Never heard of this band, but the mix of 80s new wave, punk, and folk sometimes sounded like a sonic bridge to 90s grunge. No song sounded that same but it was a very cohesive album.
4
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Sat Sep 17 2022
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
Love this. Has an authenticity that is sorely lacking in most modern country music. A lot of the songs are short, but they are more effective this way. They don’t overstay their welcome or repeat the chorus over and over again.
5
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Sun Sep 18 2022
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
I get the appeal of this for some, but it sounds too much like poetry that was written separate from the music and then there was an attempt to make the lyrics fit the song without adjusting the lyrics to fit the music. Not really for me.
3
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Mon Sep 19 2022
Celebrity Skin
Hole
Just an average 90s grunge rock album. Celebrity Skin is a fantastic song but the rest of this album is kind of boring and predictable for the era.
3
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Tue Sep 20 2022
Synchronicity
The Police
One of my favorite albums of all time. I came to appreciate it long after it’s popularity. I love it more every time I listen to it.
5
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Wed Sep 21 2022
L.A. Woman
The Doors
Don’t understand all of the acclaim for this. L’America and Riders on the Storm are both well-deserving of praise, but the blues focused numbers sound like a cheap version of the blues being played by a band that doesn’t really understand the blues.
2
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Thu Sep 22 2022
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
Not nearly at the same level as The Queen Is Dead. It just sounds like they are trying too hard and Morissey sounds like he has bought into his fame and has become even more pretentious.
3
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Fri Sep 23 2022
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
Just keeps going on and on.
2
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Sat Sep 24 2022
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
Dave Matthews Band but good.
3
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Sun Sep 25 2022
Sound Affects
The Jam
Loved it.
5
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Mon Sep 26 2022
Grace
Jeff Buckley
Some fantastic songs but not the perfect album most people think it is. I think some people want this to be a perfect album because they know he had the potential to make a perfect album but never got the chance to do so.
4
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Tue Sep 27 2022
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
Gets better every time I listen to it.
5
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Wed Sep 28 2022
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
Love the music. Hate the vocals.
3
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Thu Sep 29 2022
The United States Of America
The United States Of America
There are flashes of brilliance on this but most of it sounds like a parody of the music of the time period.
2
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Fri Sep 30 2022
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
Too much harmonica.
4
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Sat Oct 01 2022
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
One of my favorites.
5
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Sun Oct 02 2022
Rocks
Aerosmith
This has been one of the more surprising listens so far. I apparently judged Aerosmith too harshly based on their later pop rock popularity, so I’ve slept on these early rock albums. After one listen, this is one of my favorite rock albums.
5
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Mon Oct 03 2022
Street Life
The Crusaders
I was waiting for someone to interrupt the music to make an announcement that there was a special on women’s blazers. Why is this on the list?
1
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Tue Oct 04 2022
Graceland
Paul Simon
Like this more than I recalled, but still not as much as most like it.
When I saw him perform Diamonds on the Souls of Their Shoes as a young teenager on SNL(?) it felt icky for some reason that I couldn’t put my finger on. It just felt like he was using these other performers who were likely not paid that well to help resuscitate his career. May not have been the case but that experience has always clouded my ability to rank this album as highly as I probably should.
4
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Wed Oct 05 2022
All Mod Cons
The Jam
Love it
5
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Thu Oct 06 2022
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
First half is fantastic. The second half of the album falls off a bit.
3
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Fri Oct 07 2022
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Not my thing. Never understood the appeal of Nick Cave.
2
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Sat Oct 08 2022
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
Love it.
5
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Sun Oct 09 2022
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
First song should have ended after two minutes. So should have the album.
Crappy music for a video game boss fight.
1
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Mon Oct 10 2022
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
My favorite Springsteen album but I still don’t love Springsteen.
4
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Tue Oct 11 2022
The Blueprint
JAY Z
Like this way more than I recall. At the time, I was more into MF Doom, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, and Eminem. Kind of avoided Jay-Z, but this reminded me that I need to listen to more of his catalog.
5
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Wed Oct 12 2022
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
One of my favorite bands of all time. An easy 5 star album.
5
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Thu Oct 13 2022
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Do I actually like Iron Maiden? Well, maybe the first half.
3
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Fri Oct 14 2022
Street Signs
Ozomatli
Nice mix of styles, but also a master of none. The rapping is pedestrian and boring. Started strong, but the quality fell off quite. Bit after the first 2-3 songs.
3
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Sat Oct 15 2022
Low-Life
New Order
Music is excellent but can’t get past the vocals. This would be so much better if he could actually sing.
3
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Sun Oct 16 2022
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
I just feel this is ok. Nothing terrible but nothing I find particularly memorable.
3
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Mon Oct 17 2022
Among The Living
Anthrax
Thrash metal has never appealed to me. This proves it.
1
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Tue Oct 18 2022
Transformer
Lou Reed
Lou Reed is one of those artists who I think is a good song writer, but I don’t like the way he performs his own songs. I almost always prefer the covers to his originals.
4
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Wed Oct 19 2022
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
Liked this A LOT. Reminds me of Against Me!
Need to listen again more closely to the lyrics, but this is a fantastic album.
5
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Thu Oct 20 2022
My Generation
The Who
4
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Fri Oct 21 2022
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
I’m not sure how important this album can be since every cover sounds way worse than the original. Get this off the list ASAP.
1
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Sat Oct 22 2022
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
This is a great album but I won’t listen to it again.
4
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Sun Oct 23 2022
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
Somehow sounds ahead of it’s time and of it’s time. Found this to be just ok.
3
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Mon Oct 24 2022
Yeezus
Kanye West
This sometimes is my favorite Kanye album depending on my mood. I could not re-listen to this after his most recent crazy-ass rants and blatant racism.
5
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Tue Oct 25 2022
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
This was a big surprise. Cross between Father John Misty and Harry Nillson
5
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Wed Oct 26 2022
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
This is a good album by Emmylou Harris but not a great one. Not sure why it is on this list. She has many other albums that are better.
3