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Mon Jan 09 2023
The Next Day
David Bowie
3
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Tue Jan 10 2023
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
3
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Wed Jan 11 2023
Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
4/10. Opening track is the best on the album by a long, long way!
2
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Thu Jan 12 2023
Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
1
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Fri Jan 13 2023
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/10. Easy listening country rock. Bad Moon Rising comfortably the stand out track.
2
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Mon Jan 16 2023
White Ladder
David Gray
An absolute classic. Desert Island Disc worthy album.
5
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Tue Jan 17 2023
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
A period of time I'm never getting back. Utter dross. A generous 1/10.
1
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Wed Jan 18 2023
Nick Of Time
Bonnie Raitt
Middle of the road dullness.
2
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Thu Jan 19 2023
With The Beatles
Beatles
It’s The Beatles. Not their best, but this is still better than most.
4
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Fri Jan 20 2023
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
Not really singing. Not very good rapping. Good beats. 6/10.
3
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Mon Jan 23 2023
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
Solid 7. Enjoyable listen.
3
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Tue Jan 24 2023
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
Who doesn't love a bit of Weller?
3
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Wed Jan 25 2023
Vivid
Living Colour
2
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Thu Jan 26 2023
Back In Black
AC/DC
Second half of the album is far better than the first. 7/10.
3
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Fri Jan 27 2023
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
Not a great advert for Hip Hop.
2
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Mon Jan 30 2023
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
Some good songs, but a bit wishy washy in places.
3
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Tue Jan 31 2023
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
4
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Wed Feb 01 2023
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
Inoffensive but a bit dull.
2
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Thu Feb 02 2023
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
Bland, uninteresting but inoffensive.
2
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Fri Feb 03 2023
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
Awful. Nothing memorable of note, other than a sense of time being wasted listening to it. A generous 1 star.
1
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Mon Feb 06 2023
Fragile
Yes
The bizarre instrumentals were the interesting bit in this self-indulgent mess of a record.
1
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Tue Feb 07 2023
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
Not much to enjoy in this.
2
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Wed Feb 08 2023
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
Unenjoyable throughout.
2
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Thu Feb 09 2023
OK
Talvin Singh
Utterly dreadful.
1
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Fri Feb 10 2023
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
Excellent guitar skills on show, but a bit overindulgent at times.
3
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Mon Feb 13 2023
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
A good listen, but not more than that.
3
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Tue Feb 14 2023
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3
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Wed Feb 15 2023
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
Not a classic. 4/10.
2
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Thu Feb 16 2023
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
Really enjoyed the acoustic take on their songs.
4
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Fri Feb 17 2023
Shalimar
Rahul Dev Burman
Some half decent songs in between the dross.
2
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Mon Feb 20 2023
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
Excellent guitar-playing from Marr.
3
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Tue Feb 21 2023
Queen II
Queen
It's Queen. It's never going to be bad, but it's not up there with their very best work.
3
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Wed Feb 22 2023
Dry
PJ Harvey
I wouldn't turn it off if it was on the radio, but I wouldn't necessarily seek it out either.
3
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Thu Feb 23 2023
Low-Life
New Order
3
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Fri Feb 24 2023
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
Adore this album. Contender for the best Scottish album of all time.
5
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
An improvement on the last album I heard by them. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement though.
2
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Tue Feb 28 2023
Disintegration
The Cure
Quite a gloomy album, but the better sort of gloomy. A solid 7/10.
3
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Wed Mar 01 2023
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
Not vintage Springsteen for me.
3
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Thu Mar 02 2023
Low
David Bowie
It's Bowie. Sound and Vision easily the stand out track.
4
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Fri Mar 03 2023
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Oddly enjoyable.
3
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Tue Mar 07 2023
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
First half was ok. Then it just took a very odd turn.
3
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Wed Mar 08 2023
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
A solid album. Walk this way is clearly the stand out track though.
3
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Thu Mar 09 2023
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Very much an album of two sides. The first half is far better than the second.
3
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Fri Mar 10 2023
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
Great album. Grabs your attention and doesn't let go.
4
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Mon Mar 13 2023
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
The music is better than the vocals. And the music isn’t great.
2
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Tue Mar 14 2023
Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
Easy listening.
3
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Wed Mar 15 2023
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
Not particularly enjoyable or memorable.
2
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Thu Mar 16 2023
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
Terrible vocals. Far too shouty.
2
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Fri Mar 17 2023
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
Didn’t really grab my attention at all.
2
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Mon Mar 20 2023
Fun House
The Stooges
Not bad. 6/10.
3
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Tue Mar 21 2023
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
Solid 7/10. Easy listening.
3
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Wed Mar 22 2023
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
Reminds me a little of Self Esteem.
2
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Thu Mar 23 2023
New Wave
The Auteurs
Disappointingly dull.
2
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Mon Mar 27 2023
Moving Pictures
Rush
Odd and uninspiring.
2
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Tue Mar 28 2023
Live At Leeds
The Who
7/10. Enjoyable.
3
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Fri Mar 31 2023
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
4/10. Not one I’d listen to again.
2
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Mon Apr 03 2023
Stankonia
OutKast
7/10, with two stand out tracks.
3
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Tue Apr 04 2023
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
6/10. Waterloo Sunset is an absolute classic, though.
3
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Wed Apr 05 2023
Dust
Screaming Trees
Found this a bit repetitive.
2
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Thu Apr 06 2023
Close To The Edge
Yes
Far too experimental for me.
2
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Wed Apr 12 2023
Headquarters
The Monkees
Not great. 5/10.
2
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Thu Apr 13 2023
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
Live albums are never as good as one made in a studio, are they?
2
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Mon Apr 17 2023
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
4/10. Not a classic.
2
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Tue Apr 18 2023
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
Some incredible tracks, but a few that weren’t quite up to standard.
4
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Wed Apr 19 2023
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
5/10.
2
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Thu Apr 20 2023
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
Not his best work, but better than lots of music in this genre.
3
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Fri Apr 21 2023
Clandestino
Manu Chao
Bits of this were enjoyable, but not the songs in English.
2