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Thu Oct 13 2022
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
Opens with shit reverb drums. Bad sign.
Lou/Bowie influenced talk-singing.
Tyler probably thinks this is good.
2nd song ok
Pretty amateur musicians, but I guess that's their thing
Ian Curtis cult worship is odd...much like Syd.
New dawn fades sounds like something
Oh good now we've got layers of echo on the vocals
2
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Fri Oct 14 2022
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
Not sure if it is better or worse than previous. Certainly soulless, cold, at times repetitive.
2
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Mon Oct 17 2022
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
This is the best so far, but I can't go over 2 because then you might think it was good and it isn't.
Ryan wanted me to acknowledge that this is an influential album. Noted.
2
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Tue Oct 18 2022
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
Some decent beats. Occasional good funk. Samples are fine. Also includes garbage like "take it off." Best of the 4 albums so far.
2
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Wed Oct 19 2022
Pearl
Janis Joplin
Fine. Some good funk. Probably not as groovy as big brother, although musicianship is better. This leaves it feeling a bit TOO polished at times. Strong heroin-cracking vocals. Is throwaway track Mercedes Benz the most popular (not best) from this album? Possibly her worst album (not counting 1st big brother, cause that is...something). Still good.
3
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Thu Oct 20 2022
Dust
Screaming Trees
Never thought the Trees were the best creative outlet for Lanegan (see solo stuff, qotsa, mad season, etc. for that). A lot of this is pretty straightforward...power chords, dropped tuning. Etc. No great musicians aside from Martin (drummer). It's fine/good.
3
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Fri Oct 21 2022
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
Woah. Skulls! So edgy. This at times is a hybrid of punk and Sabbath, but with the added "bonus" of terrible 80s production and double bass drum pedals...barf. A good example of metal being extremely one dimensional/uninteresting. Not sure what is redeemable about this. Plus it fucked up my suggested albums algorithm
1
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Mon Oct 24 2022
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
Odd one, considering this is probably their 8th best album (and I'm assuming there won't be 7 more mac albums). It's a weird hodgepodge of stuff...definitely Buckingham's attempt to prove he was a real "artist." Sometimes works. A couple definitely sound like demos for a Vacation movie. McVie the weak songwriting link at this point. Not sure who was fucking who during the making of this record.
3
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Tue Oct 25 2022
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
Paul Ryan's favorite band! Which explains...well, nothing, other than his inability to comprehend song lyrics. Personally I just want to keep politics out of my music.
Groundbreaking on several levels. Spawned too many shitty impostors to count. First several tracks are all great, closer is great. Know your enemy. Yep. That's good shit. Gets a bit bogged down about 2/3 of the way in, and there is not a ton of nuance in the music. Morello is a genius.
4
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Wed Oct 26 2022
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
Clear line from the clash>killing joke>Jane's addiction, minus the good guitar work of Jane's. First song is fine. The growly synth vocals are not needed. Some of this navigates the space between tolerable and good. Early Nirvana vibes on The Wait. It's OK overall. Probably closer to 3 than 2 but I round down.
2
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Thu Oct 27 2022
L.A. Woman
The Doors
Great way to send the band off into the bathrub...er...sunset. Stripped down affair in comparison to Soft Parade (which is a good album). Blues and r&b generally at the forefront. Little psychedelia to be found (not that that was ever really their thing). Morrison's vocals are not as strong as the first couple albums, but bring that gravely, booze-infused warmth instead. Not a bad track here, and the title track could be their best. Oh, and there IS bass on this album, making the Kids in the Hall sketch incorrect.
5
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Fri Oct 28 2022
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
Fine. Better than most new wave bullshit. Interesting, melodic. Not their best.
3
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Mon Oct 31 2022
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
Strong, versatile voice. Good morning coffee or rainy day music. Sonics leave much to be desired, obviously.
3
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Wed Nov 02 2022
Odelay
Beck
Runs the gamut from "fantastic" to "filler." Some of it is key tracks of the 90s. Some of it is bloated nonsense. On the whole a solid album, probably overrated.
3
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Thu Nov 03 2022
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
Use of slide is an interesting differentiator from most of the other punk/New wave stuff. Blues is still a thing!
3
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Fri Nov 04 2022
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
More fine stuff. Is it something I need to hear before I die? Probably not. Frank is cool though. Saw him in 98
3
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Mon Nov 07 2022
25
Adele
Ryan sucks a bunch.
Does she have a good voice? I don't know. It's kind of annoying.
I did not need to hear this before I died.
1
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Tue Nov 08 2022
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
Groove. Funk. But also lavish production. Has the feels.
3
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Wed Nov 09 2022
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
Same problem most of the stuff from this era has...the music is played by incompetent people and is supremely uninteresting. Band has to then rely on a compelling vocalist to pass the "I won't throw these people off a bridge" test. The Cramps don't have that. Lux Interior...please. track 4 was fair. Combining an overall bad genre of music (surf) with a mediocre genre of music (punk) is not a fantastic idea. Some of it sounds like a bad version of Sha-Na-Na
2
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Thu Nov 10 2022
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
A Pitchfork special.
Tyler will give this 5 stars.
Standard "folk revival" stuff where we overproduce and always have somebody noodling high up the neck of a telecaster.
Nothing overly offensive here, but nothing actually new, innovative, or super interesting.
If Tyler put this on I'd survive and just hope he grew a pair and put on Weld.
These guys cosplay medieval European peasants.
It's fine, overall. Closer to a 3 than a 2. But I round down. Worked with Kanye verifies a 2.
2
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Fri Nov 11 2022
Black Metal
Venom
Made it through 2 songs. No.
1
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Mon Nov 14 2022
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
So now it's the Bowie-influnced stuff, I guess.
Wow, Elected completely steals the riff of Dolly Dagger.
This is fine, mostly. But not interesting or compelling.
Mr nice guy is a solid single.
Generation landslide might be best track.
Ode to Jeffrey Dahmer to close is a thing.
2
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Tue Nov 15 2022
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
Don't want to listen to this. Why does Ryan hate me?
Whatever "good" is, this is the opposite.
Generic butt rock. Every song is the same.
Never want to hear highway to hell again.
Beating around the bush steals the Oh Well riff
Not a complete abomination, so gets a 2. But no. Do better, list person.
2
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Wed Nov 16 2022
New Forms
Roni Size
What are we doing? Really?
Easy to ignore, for the most part, so props for that.
Repetitive 💩
1
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Thu Nov 17 2022
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
This is fine.
Fairly generic. Decent guitar work. Some good jams.
3 is probably too high
3
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Mon Nov 21 2022
Parallel Lines
Blondie
List should be renamed "1001 albums that made me die."
The singles are singles for a reason.
Rest is generic stuff. Pretty terrible era for music.
2
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Tue Nov 22 2022
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
Pitchfork special. Let's see what it got...HOLY SHIT A 10! So predictable. Tyler is gonna slobber all over this.
Sounds like my old band.
Sonic youth-light.
Generally fine. Nothing great. Pioneers of the noodling high on the guitar neck that became a staple in crud hipster bands, so they should be in Guantonamo for that.
Not as good as Frank Black.
Lyrics are generally nonsense.
2
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Wed Nov 23 2022
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
More of this? Feel we've been bombarded with non-melodic sludge.
Several songs sound identical.
2
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Thu Nov 24 2022
Forever Changes
Love
Orchestral folk psychedelia.
Complex arrangements, dark lyrics. Maybe the soundtrack to the scene in monty python holy grail when lancelot kills everyone.
Solid shit. Lee is boss.
4
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Tue Nov 29 2022
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
Here we go...most overrated singer/songwriter in history.
Now that Tyler lives in the NE, he loves the Boss.
Somehow he did not succumb to godawful 80s production on this, mostly. Perhaps cause it's just him on a 4 track.
This is fine. Sparse. Repetitive.
Entire album about future Trump voters...more economic anxiety here than a New York Times interview with peeps in a rural café.
3
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Mon Dec 05 2022
Heroes
David Bowie
Also a Pitchfork/Tyler special. Ryan will also overrate this because he is weak.
Sludge sound. I guess this is because he was in Germany or something.
Nice job putting 3% effort into singing (talking).
Some of this is fine. Blackout is annoying. Sense of doubt is very dumb, though sycophants will try and tell me otherwise ("wow what a genuine artist!"). Stole someone's koto for moss garden. 2nd half barely any talking...I mean singing.
Fripp not used enough to cancel out the eno influence.
2
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Tue Dec 06 2022
Pyromania
Def Leppard
Jezus.
3 tracks is enough.
1
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Fri Dec 09 2022
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
If B Starr released an album it would sound like this (hi, dipshit).
Oh, so these are the bastards that unleashed the godawful Come On Eileen song on the world? Remove their fingernails.
I'm generally not sure what to do with this because it's so stupid. It is also very annoying. This guy trying to do Freddie Mercury?
This, sadly, does not qualify as an "abomination," so it scrapes by with a 2...barely.
2
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Tue Dec 13 2022
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
Something is wrong with the list...it's an album that isn't bad.
Pulled back from hyper-electronic of previous 2.
Sail to the 🌙. Good.
Punch up has the good middle jam (too short) but otherwise a weaker track
There there is top level stuff
I will is a throwaway...cast off track from amnesiac. Leave it in dead pile.
Myxamatosis phat fuzz bass
Last 1/3 bit hit or miss
4
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Wed Dec 14 2022
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
Ryan would insist that I mention that this album is influential, so getting that our of the way.
Fantastic interplay, a musical premonition of the truly crazy shit he would do a decade later (my favorite stuff)
A chill affair...not sure if he was back on heroin for this or not.
4
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Thu Dec 15 2022
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
Needle of death inspired Ambulance Blues, so that's good.
Acoustic wizardry.
3
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Fri Dec 16 2022
Mothership Connection
Parliament
3
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Wed Dec 21 2022
The Joshua Tree
U2
Obviously strong. First 4 tracks are classic. Red Hill Mining Town pretty underrated. Peters out a bit in the second half. Probably should be a 4, but I round down.
3
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Fri Dec 23 2022
Parklife
Blur
Does this have the woo hoo song?
First track was bad.
Some straightforward brit pop. Some "avante garde" "we're trying to do magical mystery tour" shit.
2
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Mon Dec 26 2022
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
Phil Spector really kills it on this one.
4
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Tue Dec 27 2022
The Idiot
Iggy Pop
Well done sucking the soul out of most of this.
Basically a Lou/Bowie hybrid.
Probably better off just continuing to do heroin and stay away from Europe and Bowie.
2
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Wed Dec 28 2022
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
That was fine
3
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Mon Jan 02 2023
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
3
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Tue Jan 03 2023
Achtung Baby
U2
Strong album. First 4 tracks all good.
Don't need who's gonna ride your wild horses.
The fly rules.
4
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Fri Jan 06 2023
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
3
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Tue Jan 10 2023
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
Something wrong with the list...it's a good album!
Heartbreaker, WIAWSNB, Ramble On...so much dank
Living loving maid is the weak link, but still a killer riff.
Jimmy Page's birthday today.
5
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Thu Jan 12 2023
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
This is fine.
Cracked actor is probably the best track.
Most of it exists between "fine" and "good."
For Bowie it's about as good as it gets.
Supposedly this is influenced by the stones, which I do not see at all (aside from the cover song...don't be lazy Dave...write another song). Stones swing and have a groove. This is pretty sterile.
3
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Fri Jan 13 2023
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
I'm guessing this list is too stupid to have a Jeff Beck album on it, so they are compensating with this.
This is all great shit. Killer band (Faces). Great melodies. Too bad Rod moved to LA and stopped making good music.
5
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Wed Jan 18 2023
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
This is fine.
3
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Mon Jan 23 2023
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
Most overrated album in history? Could be. It is still fine, sometimes good. Probably closer to a 4 but I round down.
3
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Thu Jan 26 2023
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
This is fine.
"Don't Look Back in Anger" is really, really good. Weird how that wanker Liam isn't on it...
3
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Fri Jan 27 2023
Dookie
Green Day
The singles were chosen well by MR. RECORD EXECUTIVE. The rest of it is pretty meh. But the singles are fine. Not sure I can do 3, however. But these guys are so edgy they'll take it as a compliment
2
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Tue Jan 31 2023
The Poet
Bobby Womack
LOL at the cover art for The Poet II
80s sucked.
Dude had some good albums. Albums that had funk and soul! Why pick this? Oh right, this list creator is an imbecile.
2
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Mon Feb 06 2023
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
It's good. Not sure if 4 is too high but feeling generous
4
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Thu Feb 09 2023
The Slider
T. Rex
Ah, so this is where Bowie got all his ideas!
I don't know. This is harmless nonsense, mostly. Nothing compelling.
2
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Mon Feb 13 2023
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
Heavy, blues, acoustic, folk. Has it all.
5
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Tue Feb 14 2023
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
This was fine.
3
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Wed Feb 15 2023
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
Generally pretty good.
Pretty clearly second tier San Francisco psychedelia. Which is ok.
Country Joe.
3
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Thu Feb 16 2023
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
Some decent, jazzy instrumentals.
Track 2 has some good feels.
Lyrics/vocals pretty meh.
Too many horns.
2
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
Some solid funk jams, big-band jazzy chillness, and the voice.
"That dirty frank was a bad mutha..."
3
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Wed Mar 01 2023
In Rainbows
Radiohead
Best of em all. Only "weak" point is Videotape. But the rest is soooo good still gets 5.
5
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Thu Mar 09 2023
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Solid mental-breakdown album.
Lots of odd. Guess when he tried to kill a bandmate with an ax it shouldn't have been surprising.
3
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Mon Mar 13 2023
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3
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Wed Mar 15 2023
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
4
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Tue Mar 21 2023
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
5
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Mon Apr 03 2023
Superunknown
Soundgarden
4
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Tue Apr 11 2023
In Utero
Nirvana
5
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Tue May 09 2023
Abbey Road
Beatles
5
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Mon May 22 2023
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
OVER-RATED!
3
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Tue Aug 01 2023
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
5
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Wed Aug 02 2023
Harvest
Neil Young
4
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Wed Aug 09 2023
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
4
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Fri Aug 11 2023
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3
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Tue Aug 15 2023
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
2
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Fri Aug 18 2023
Madman Across The Water
Elton John
3
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Tue Aug 22 2023
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
2
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Wed Aug 23 2023
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
5
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Mon Sep 11 2023
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
5
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Mon Sep 18 2023
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
5
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Sat Sep 30 2023
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
2
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Tue Oct 03 2023
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
4
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Wed Oct 04 2023
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
5
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Sat Oct 07 2023
On The Beach
Neil Young
5