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Mon Jan 02 2023
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4
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Tue Jan 03 2023
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
Good album but only hints at the great things that are to come from all the iterations of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. A lot of elements on this album are repeated to greater effect on later projects. I recognize this is not judging the work on its own terms, but I can’t forget the existence of the other works and I can’t I hear the things in their later, more refined and capable form.
3
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Wed Jan 04 2023
Live Through This
Hole
Competent, by the numbers. You know, like Uptown jazz.
2
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Thu Jan 05 2023
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
I have spent a lot of time with this album in my life. Like others we’ve heard so far, this is good but only hints at how good his later work becomes.
4
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Fri Jan 06 2023
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
Superstitious is one of my favorite songs.
4
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Sat Jan 07 2023
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
3
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Sun Jan 08 2023
The Bends
Radiohead
5
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Mon Jan 09 2023
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
The shtick gets old and this one sags in the middle. “Underbelly” is great and refreshing near the end but not enough to make up for the previous 4 or 5 tunes straight with no perceptible shift in tone.
2
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Tue Jan 10 2023
Pink Flag
Wire
It struck me how meticulously clean the drums were.
3
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Wed Jan 11 2023
With The Beatles
Beatles
Dead serious. 3 stars. It’s competent and, as a Beatles fan, I love the shuffle-beat skiffle of their roots. But this s not why we love the Beatles. It isn’t why they’re iconic and it doesn’t merit being on the list of 1001 albums I need to hear.
3
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Thu Jan 12 2023
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
There’s a weird association in my head between Bragg and Robyn Hitchcock, which is strange because I listened to Hitchcock in High School and I didn’t discover Bragg until my 20s. Now, though, when I hear either I think of the other.
3
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Fri Jan 13 2023
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
I tried to like it. I really did. And any one of those songs is fine. Good, even. But, man that album felt like a slog to me. There’s just so much of it. And every song is not as [adjective] as [contemporary reference band].
2
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Sat Jan 14 2023
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
5
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Sun Jan 15 2023
American Idiot
Green Day
Like, it’s fine. This is probably the Apex of Green Day.
3
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Mon Jan 16 2023
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
Almost called a 4.
3
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Tue Jan 17 2023
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
3
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Wed Jan 18 2023
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
I don’t have Fatboy Slim nostalgia goggles?
4
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Thu Jan 19 2023
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
Really liked what was going on here. Title track was fantastic. Might be gimmicky? I might not care.
4
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Fri Jan 20 2023
The Clash
The Clash
3
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Sat Jan 21 2023
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
I think I didn’t understand what Janelle Monáe was, before.
4
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Sun Jan 22 2023
Screamadelica
Primal Scream
Probably guilty of things I’ve marked other albums down for. Don’t care, I’m real into this stuff.
4
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Mon Jan 23 2023
John Prine
John Prine
3
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Tue Jan 24 2023
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
All one volume, screamed at the tippy-top of the singer’s range. All one energy, at one of two tempos. Awful. “Eileen” is s finger and deserved hit status. The whole album is a dog. Maybe they were important for Ireland or something.
2
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Wed Jan 25 2023
Murmur
R.E.M.
Not my favorite REM album. The REM lyrical formula where they string together some unrelated phrases to simulate depth of thought is pronounced on this one. It’s fine, though. Way better than Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
3
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Thu Jan 26 2023
This Is Hardcore
Pulp
Man, I totally forgot about Pulp.
4
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Fri Jan 27 2023
OK Computer
Radiohead
My first five. I sang along with some songs I haven’t heard in 20 years. This might be too subjective a reason, but I’m going to choose to lean into it. People go on about Kid A, but OK Computer is my Kid A.
5
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Sat Jan 28 2023
Graceland
Paul Simon
The Boy in the Bubble seems weirdly prophetic. I could never hear Call Me Al again and be okay with it. A lot of gems on this album, though.
4
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Sun Jan 29 2023
Mask
Bauhaus
3
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Mon Jan 30 2023
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
3
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Tue Jan 31 2023
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
4
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Wed Feb 01 2023
Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
The album for today is a novelty album called "Bongo Rock." A bunch of covers, most of them predictable. It's an hour twenty minutes long. Most of it, mildly entertaining at best. Then it stops me entirely in my tracks with a cool 70s slow funk arrangement of "Sing, Sing, Sing." Then immediately loses me again with a lazy instrumental "(I can't get no) Satisfaction."
2
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Thu Feb 02 2023
Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs
I guess I was aware of the Afghan Whigs but never spent much time paying attention to them. Was surprised to find out this is an album about being sad about having a boner. This is Incel Rock. I didn’t care for it, and “Angst in My Pants” is my favorite Sparks song.
1
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Fri Feb 03 2023
Soul Mining
The The
3
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Sat Feb 04 2023
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
3
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Sun Feb 05 2023
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
Almost defies critique. I’ve docked other albums for sprawling of Lodi g focus, but it works here. It exists entirely within its own set of rules, so if isn’t fair to impose a set of rules onto it in order to review it. I’m going to default to five stars.
5
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Mon Feb 06 2023
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Iron Butterfly
2
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Tue Feb 07 2023
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
I love this album so much.
5
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Wed Feb 08 2023
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
I don’t know if this is the best Iggy Pop album, but The Passenger is for sure my favorite Iggy Pop song.
4
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Thu Feb 09 2023
Imagine
John Lennon
Starts and ends strong, but not even close to Lennon’s best post-Beatles work. “How?” shamelessly rehashes “Long and Winding Road.” It’s the most blatant example of how lazy this album is. Lennon, at his worst, is a sanctimonious fuck and he gets a bunch of it out of his system here.
2
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Fri Feb 10 2023
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
Every tune a single.
5
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Sat Feb 11 2023
Who's Next
The Who
Good album, but sags a little in the middle. “Going Mobile” is, generously, lazy.
3
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Sun Feb 12 2023
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
When it’s good, it’s great. But it isn’t good all the way through.
3
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Mon Feb 13 2023
The Poet
Bobby Womack
3
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Tue Feb 14 2023
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
I was going to under-rate this to make sone sort of statement, but the break after “64” to the intro of “Lovely Rita” is one of my favorite sounds.
5
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Wed Feb 15 2023
All Directions
The Temptations
Man, I totally forgot about “Run Charley Run.”
4
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Thu Feb 16 2023
Seventh Tree
Goldfrapp
It pulled me in and lost me several times, but “Monster Love” won me over.
3
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Fri Feb 17 2023
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
3
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Sat Feb 18 2023
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
4
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Sun Feb 19 2023
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
3
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Mon Feb 20 2023
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
I might have the nostalgia goggles on for this one a little bit.
5
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Tue Feb 21 2023
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
I’m not ashamed to say “I prefer their later stuff.”
2
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Wed Feb 22 2023
Elastica
Elastica
It’s fine.
3
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Thu Feb 23 2023
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
3
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Fri Feb 24 2023
Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
I don’t know enough about this music to know if this is a good example, but I had a good time listening to it.
4
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Sat Feb 25 2023
Moving Pictures
Rush
3
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Sun Feb 26 2023
Garbage
Garbage
I love Garbage.
4
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
3
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Tue Feb 28 2023
Kenya
Machito
This is an excellent example of this sort of thing.
5
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Wed Mar 01 2023
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
4
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Thu Mar 02 2023
Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
5
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Fri Mar 03 2023
Trafalgar
Bee Gees
2
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Sat Mar 04 2023
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
Inventive, interesting. Disarmingly simple in execution. Novel without being overly quaint or precious. “Sogourney Weaver” is my new favorite song.
5
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Sun Mar 05 2023
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
4
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Mon Mar 06 2023
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3
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Tue Mar 07 2023
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
3
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Wed Mar 08 2023
Destroyer
KISS
2
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Thu Mar 09 2023
A Date With The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
Pablum.
2
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Fri Mar 10 2023
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
My favorite version of Birdland.
4
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Sat Mar 11 2023
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
2
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Sun Mar 12 2023
In It For The Money
Supergrass
3
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Mon Mar 13 2023
Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
3
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Tue Mar 14 2023
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
4
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Wed Mar 15 2023
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
Pretty sure there’s a better Sonic Youth album to be on this list.
2
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Thu Mar 16 2023
High Violet
The National
3
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Fri Mar 17 2023
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
4
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Sat Mar 18 2023
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
Setting aside Biggie’s contribution to the nature of rap and what it was, this is an amazing album in terms of what makes an album interesting regardless of the specific content. It plays like a prog rock concept album in that regard. No one’s pulled it off as well since.
5
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Sun Mar 19 2023
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
3
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Mon Mar 20 2023
Dust
Screaming Trees
4
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Tue Mar 21 2023
Either Or
Elliott Smith
3
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Wed Mar 22 2023
Harvest
Neil Young
4
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Thu Mar 23 2023
Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
4
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Fri Mar 24 2023
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
4
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Sat Mar 25 2023
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
5
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Sun Mar 26 2023
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
4
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Mon Mar 27 2023
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
3
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Tue Mar 28 2023
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
3
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Wed Mar 29 2023
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
The production on the album doesn’t exactly hold up. I would have picked something more recent if there’s only one Afrika Bambaataa album listed. Putting that aside, there’s a lot here to enjoy.
4
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Thu Mar 30 2023
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
4
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Fri Mar 31 2023
Scott 2
Scott Walker
His first album is a 5, I think.
4
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Sat Apr 01 2023
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
4
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Sun Apr 02 2023
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
3
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Mon Apr 03 2023
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
4
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Tue Apr 04 2023
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
4
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Wed Apr 05 2023
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro is hard to rate, I think. I think she’s great, but sometimes an individual tune just misses me.
This album is pretty great. It coalesces into something like an over-arching narrative by the end or feels like one to me.
4
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Thu Apr 06 2023
Repeater
Fugazi
Why wasn’t I into Fugazi in the 90s?
5
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Fri Apr 07 2023
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
The Go-gos built a formula that works. Is it good? Maybe?
3
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Sat Apr 08 2023
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
5
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Sun Apr 09 2023
Kenza
Khaled
4
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Mon Apr 10 2023
Myths Of The Near Future
Klaxons
4
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Tue Apr 11 2023
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4
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Wed Apr 12 2023
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2
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Thu Apr 13 2023
American Gothic
David Ackles
4
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Fri Apr 14 2023
Casanova
The Divine Comedy
This is my kind of weird. Not what it pretends to be. There’s something eldrich lurking in the lyrics that never reveals itself.
4
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Sat Apr 15 2023
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
I mean, it’s fine.
3
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Sun Apr 16 2023
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
4
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Mon Apr 17 2023
Walking Wounded
Everything But The Girl
3
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Tue Apr 18 2023
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
I’ve always been reluctant to admit that Jane’s Addiction is good.
But it is.
4
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Wed Apr 19 2023
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
4
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Thu Apr 20 2023
The Sounds Of India
Ravi Shankar
4
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Fri Apr 21 2023
Live At Leeds
The Who
3
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Sat Apr 22 2023
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
5
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Sun Apr 23 2023
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
4
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Mon Apr 24 2023
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
I might have had the nostalgia goggles on for this one. I can’t tell.
4
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Tue Apr 25 2023
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
3
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Wed Apr 26 2023
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
3
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Thu Apr 27 2023
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3
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Fri Apr 28 2023
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
4
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Sat Apr 29 2023
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
5
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Sun Apr 30 2023
Closer
Joy Division
4
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Mon May 01 2023
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill has the goods, for sure. I’m not sure the narrative of the concept lands all the way through, but it’s a solid effort.
3
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Tue May 02 2023
Mothership Connection
Parliament
Make my funk the P-Funk.
5
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Wed May 03 2023
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
2
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Thu May 04 2023
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
Outlaw Country! Or starts out that way. Then it shifts to sad-sack country.
3
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Fri May 05 2023
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
4
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Sat May 06 2023
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
I never liked this. This listen did not change my mind. My current standard for ratings is that if it is better than Bongo Rock it gets three stars. I concede here in the notes that this album is, but I’m rating it two stars anyway. They’re lucky they aren’t getting one star for not really being better than my only one star rating, Afghan Wigs.
2
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Sun May 07 2023
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3
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Mon May 08 2023
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Liars
It just didn’t go anywhere.
2
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Tue May 09 2023
Drunk
Thundercat
4
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Wed May 10 2023
Black Metal
Venom
This is another one that was such a big deal at the time but so much came after it that it now seems quaint by comparison.
3
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Thu May 11 2023
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
4
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Fri May 12 2023
...And Justice For All
Metallica
3
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Sat May 13 2023
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
Best live album I’ve heard on the list so far. Fewer of the sort of live mishaps that generally show up (I’m looking at you, Cheap Trick at Budokan).
5
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Sun May 14 2023
Nixon
Lambchop
4
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Mon May 15 2023
Legalize It
Peter Tosh
4
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Tue May 16 2023
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
5
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Wed May 17 2023
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
4
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Thu May 18 2023
Truth And Soul
Fishbone
5
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Fri May 19 2023
Document
R.E.M.
3
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Sat May 20 2023
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
4
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Sun May 21 2023
Heroes
David Bowie
4
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Mon May 22 2023
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4
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Tue May 23 2023
Kid A
Radiohead
4
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Wed May 24 2023
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
5
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Thu May 25 2023
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
Not my kind of music, but I recognize this is a good album if I put my preference aside. It’s produced well and all the performances are sincere and proficient.
4
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Fri May 26 2023
Pornography
The Cure
3
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Sat May 27 2023
Blunderbuss
Jack White
4
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Sun May 28 2023
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
4
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Mon May 29 2023
Sister
Sonic Youth
3
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Tue May 30 2023
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
4
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Wed May 31 2023
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
4
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Thu Jun 01 2023
Doolittle
Pixies
4
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Fri Jun 02 2023
Crazysexycool
TLC
4
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Sat Jun 03 2023
The Doors
The Doors
4
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Sun Jun 04 2023
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
4
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Mon Jun 05 2023
Yeezus
Kanye West
He has some ideas and things to say, but there’s little follow-through. The beats are lazy. Even when the raps open with a strong thesis, the rhymes and construction fall flat. Overall, lazy compared to even his least-inspired previous work. He’s better than this.
2
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Tue Jun 06 2023
Arrival
ABBA
I don’t love ABBA, and I could go the rest of my life and never hear Dancing Queen again. I have to admit, though, that Bjorn can write a song. Not necessarily a song that I like, but an objective dinger nonetheless.
4
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Wed Jun 07 2023
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
4
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Thu Jun 08 2023
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
The most profound thing I’ve learned doing this exercise is that I’m kind of into Missy Elliott.
4
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Fri Jun 09 2023
Parallel Lines
Blondie
4
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Sat Jun 10 2023
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
4
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Sun Jun 11 2023
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
3
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Mon Jun 12 2023
Stankonia
OutKast
4
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Tue Jun 13 2023
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
I liked this more than I expected to. Still a 3.
3
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Wed Jun 14 2023
Damaged
Black Flag
4
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Thu Jun 15 2023
1989
Taylor Swift
I grieve for the artist Taylor Swift would have been if she didn’t get so successful so young and nail down such a focus group-formula so early. I don’t think this is Taylor Swift’s level best. I think she’s being artistically lazy. Maybe I’m wrong and this is the best she can do. Or maybe this is what she consciously aspires to.
Can’t argue with her success.
3
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Fri Jun 16 2023
Truth
Jeff Beck
When it’s good it’s great. The rest of the time it’s okay.
3
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Sat Jun 17 2023
In Utero
Nirvana
This is a very good album. But Nirvana just never hits quite the same again.
3
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Sun Jun 18 2023
...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears
Good art is made of good choices and it’s become pretty clear that Brittney wasn’t making a lot of choices.
Not a personal slam on Brittney. I think she’s great. I just don’t think this album is.
2
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Mon Jun 19 2023
The Wall
Pink Floyd
4
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Tue Jun 20 2023
L.A. Woman
The Doors
It got my mojo rising.
3
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Wed Jun 21 2023
Whatever
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann really knows how to write a song.
4
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Thu Jun 22 2023
The Stooges
The Stooges
3
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Fri Jun 23 2023
The Real Thing
Faith No More
3
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Sat Jun 24 2023
Odelay
Beck
4
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Sun Jun 25 2023
Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
4
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Mon Jun 26 2023
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
3
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Tue Jun 27 2023
British Steel
Judas Priest
5
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Wed Jun 28 2023
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
4
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Thu Jun 29 2023
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
5
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Fri Jun 30 2023
Public Image: First Issue
Public Image Ltd.
3
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Sat Jul 01 2023
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
4
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Sun Jul 02 2023
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
3
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Mon Jul 03 2023
Risque
CHIC
4
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Tue Jul 04 2023
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
5
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Wed Jul 05 2023
Abbey Road
Beatles
5
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Thu Jul 06 2023
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
Spirit
3
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Fri Jul 07 2023
Quiet Life
Japan
3
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Sat Jul 08 2023
Van Halen
Van Halen
3
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Sun Jul 09 2023
Forever Changes
Love
2
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Mon Jul 10 2023
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
4
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Tue Jul 11 2023
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
4
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Wed Jul 12 2023
American Pie
Don McLean
I’ve heard “American Pie” probably hundreds of times in the last decade or so, but so haven’t listened to it since I was a kid until this listen. It deserves to be every bit the American classic that it has become.
4
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Thu Jul 13 2023
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
4
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Fri Jul 14 2023
Music From Big Pink
The Band
4
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Sat Jul 15 2023
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
5
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Sun Jul 16 2023
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
4
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Mon Jul 17 2023
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
5
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Tue Jul 18 2023
My Generation
The Who
4
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Wed Jul 19 2023
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4
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Thu Jul 20 2023
Different Class
Pulp
3
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Fri Jul 21 2023
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
2
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Sat Jul 22 2023
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
3
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Mon Jul 24 2023
Purple Rain
Prince
4
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Tue Jul 25 2023
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
5
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Wed Jul 26 2023
Kimono My House
Sparks
4
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Thu Jul 27 2023
Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
It’s… like, almost good.
3
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Fri Jul 28 2023
Survivor
Destiny's Child
4
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Sat Jul 29 2023
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
4
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Sun Jul 30 2023
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
3
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Mon Jul 31 2023
Me Against The World
2Pac
4
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Tue Aug 01 2023
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
3
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Wed Aug 02 2023
First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
4
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Thu Aug 03 2023
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
3
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Fri Aug 04 2023
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
5
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Sat Aug 05 2023
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
5
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Sun Aug 06 2023
The College Dropout
Kanye West
When Kanye is good, he’s amazing. I wish it were a greater percentage of his stuff.
3
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Mon Aug 07 2023
All Mod Cons
The Jam
3
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Fri Aug 11 2023
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
4
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Sat Aug 12 2023
Low-Life
New Order
They’re still coming together here.
3
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Sun Aug 13 2023
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
3
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Mon Aug 14 2023
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On Wax
4
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Tue Aug 15 2023
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
4
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Wed Aug 16 2023
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
3
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Thu Aug 17 2023
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
I kind of don’t like Supertramp, but accounting for taste, it’s a good album.
4
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Fri Aug 18 2023
New Forms
Roni Size
3
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Sat Aug 19 2023
xx
The xx
Clearly influenced by a lot of groups I like, but nothing particularly ventured. It’s okay?
3
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Sun Aug 20 2023
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Michael
3
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Mon Aug 21 2023
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
When 50’s good, he’s incredible. I want it to be more of the time on this album. If you’re going to have Eminem hype you, you have to outdo him on the next verse. That being said, “party like it’s your birthday” is fully ensconced in the culture, possibly worldwide. You can’t ignore a feat like that.
4
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Tue Aug 22 2023
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
5
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Wed Aug 23 2023
Palo Congo
Sabu
4
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Thu Aug 24 2023
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
3
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Fri Aug 25 2023
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
The singles are strong, along with a couple of the other numbers.
3
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Sat Aug 26 2023
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
4
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Sun Aug 27 2023
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
3
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Mon Aug 28 2023
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
5
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Tue Aug 29 2023
The Next Day
David Bowie
3
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Wed Aug 30 2023
Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
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Thu Aug 31 2023
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
3
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Fri Sep 01 2023
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
4
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Sat Sep 02 2023
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
3
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Sun Sep 03 2023
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
5
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Mon Sep 04 2023
Achtung Baby
U2
3
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Sat Sep 09 2023
Nevermind
Nirvana
I remember hearing this album for the first time and I’ll never forget it. It’s one of those albums.
5
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Sun Sep 10 2023
Disintegration
The Cure
3
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Mon Sep 11 2023
Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
3
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Tue Sep 12 2023
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
4
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Wed Sep 13 2023
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
3
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Thu Sep 14 2023
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
4
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Fri Sep 15 2023
Sound Affects
The Jam
3
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Sat Sep 16 2023
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
It’s really probably a 3 and I don’t like the arguing “but it’s so important to stuff that happened later,” but it’s so important to stuff that happened later.
4
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Sun Sep 17 2023
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
3
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Mon Sep 18 2023
Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
I like this album except the arbitrary synth screaming. WEEEEooooWEEEEEEEEEEEOoooooWEEE-EE-EEEEEE!!
4
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Tue Sep 19 2023
Homework
Daft Punk
4
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Wed Sep 20 2023
Bad
Michael Jackson
3
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Thu Sep 21 2023
A Night At The Opera
Queen
4
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Fri Sep 22 2023
Phrenology
The Roots
5
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Sat Sep 23 2023
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
4
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Fri Sep 29 2023
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
3
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Sat Sep 30 2023
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
4
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Sun Oct 01 2023
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
4
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Mon Oct 02 2023
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
3
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Tue Oct 03 2023
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
5
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Wed Oct 04 2023
Faith
George Michael
3
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Thu Oct 05 2023
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
4
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Fri Oct 06 2023
Bummed
Happy Mondays
I liked this more than I remember liking it.
4
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Sat Oct 07 2023
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
4
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Sun Oct 08 2023
Bossanova
Pixies
4
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Mon Oct 09 2023
Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
3
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Tue Oct 10 2023
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
3
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Wed Oct 11 2023
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
3
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Thu Oct 12 2023
Nowhere
Ride
3
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Fri Oct 13 2023
Beautiful Freak
Eels
3
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Sat Oct 14 2023
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
5
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Sun Oct 15 2023
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
4
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Mon Oct 16 2023
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
4
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Tue Oct 17 2023
The Stranger
Billy Joel
3
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Wed Oct 18 2023
Djam Leelii
Baaba Maal
4
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Thu Oct 19 2023
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
4
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Fri Oct 20 2023
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
4
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Sat Oct 21 2023
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
5
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Sun Oct 22 2023
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
3
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Mon Oct 23 2023
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
4
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Tue Oct 24 2023
Blackstar
David Bowie
Bowie’s last album is challenging. But fuck it, it’s Bowie.
5
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Wed Oct 25 2023
Porcupine
Echo And The Bunnymen
Deserves all the adoration The Cure gets.
4
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Thu Oct 26 2023
Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
3
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Fri Oct 27 2023
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
3
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Sat Oct 28 2023
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5
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Sun Oct 29 2023
Face to Face
The Kinks
3
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Tue Oct 31 2023
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
5
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Wed Nov 01 2023
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
4
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Thu Nov 02 2023
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
5
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Fri Nov 03 2023
Eagles
Eagles
I can’t rate Elvis Costello’s first album up for being packed full of singles and then not do the same for this album just because I don’t particularly care for The Eagles.
4
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Sat Nov 04 2023
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
5
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Sun Nov 05 2023
1999
Prince
I almost rated this four stars because there are three or four better Prince albums. But it’s still better than more than at least 81% of everything else, so 5 stars it is.
5
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Mon Nov 06 2023
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
5
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Tue Nov 07 2023
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
5
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Wed Nov 08 2023
Suicide
Suicide
It’s a little sparse, but I like what’s going on.
4
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Thu Nov 09 2023
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
3
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Fri Nov 10 2023
Copper Blue
Sugar
I’ve panned a lot of albums on this list for being all one tone. I concede that Sugar is guilty of this, but I really like this album. I never pieced it together before, but I think the reason I don’t like Smashing Pumpkins is because they aren’t Sugar. Four stars +1 bonus star for the most aggressive tambourine playing ever recorded on a couple of those tracks.
5
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Sat Nov 11 2023
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
5
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Sun Nov 12 2023
Being There
Wilco
4
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Mon Nov 13 2023
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
3
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Tue Nov 14 2023
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
4
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Wed Nov 15 2023
We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
3
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Thu Nov 16 2023
Berlin
Lou Reed
4
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Fri Nov 17 2023
Peter Gabriel 3
Peter Gabriel
5
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Sat Nov 18 2023
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
3
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Sun Nov 19 2023
Orbital 2
Orbital
I like this sort of thing.
4
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Mon Nov 20 2023
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
4
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Tue Nov 21 2023
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
Max Weinberg is a very clean drummer.
3
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Wed Nov 22 2023
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
3