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Mon Jan 16 2023
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
Loving You Too Long is the best. Interesting to hear Respect before Aretha Franklin took it over.
4
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Tue Jan 17 2023
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
Not my cuppa
4
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Wed Jan 18 2023
Back In Black
AC/DC
This album would have sold 10,000,001 copies if my momhad let me buy it when I was a teenager. Despite not owning a copy, this is one of the soundtrack albums of my younger years. Whenever I hear "Back in Black" it takes me right back there. 57 year old me doesn't blame my mom for not letting me buy the album. It is full of misbehavior and disregard of women's autonomy over their bodies. I could do without "Let Me Put My Love Into You." They busted into the '80s and then broke the mold. Bands that followed in their footsteps never quite hit the mark that they set
5
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Thu Jan 19 2023
Graceland
Paul Simon
I bought the cassette from Columbia House Records and Tapes back when this album came out. Nearly wore it out. African sounds have always been at the core of American made music - jazz, blues, rock, bluegrass (that banjo), hip-hop, rap. Sounds and rhythms brought here through the instruments and voices of enslaved humans. Whites condemned it and took credit for it when they figured out how to appropriate and profit from those who were responsible for it's roots and development. I understand how Simon also did this. I also see that he went to the source and brought forward the music and voices of those oppressed by colonization and apartheid. Would I have had the same opportunity to attend concerts and support the music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo were it not for this album? Perhaps breaking that cultural boycott opened a door that helped wake up white people and did some service toward ending apartheid.
This album helped this white girl understand better the African roots of all the music that I loved. After this album I ate up roots music, I started listening to Zydeco. Simon doesn't deserve all the credit for broadening my listening landscape. It was the African voices that this album incorporated celebrated who made me keep listening. African voices and rhythms were the best thing that happened to the over synthesized music of the mid-80s.
I still love this album
5
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Fri Jan 20 2023
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Not my fave genre. That said, I liked the mellower songs. I like Karen O's voice very much
4
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Mon Jan 23 2023
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
Best version of Help Me, Rhonda. Otherwise, meh. Beach Boys have some fun sing-a-long songs but they're often too bubble gum sounding for my tastes
3
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Tue Jan 24 2023
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
Love Needs Love Today
5
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Wed Jan 25 2023
Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
ELP have an unmistakable sound. I always liked that the psychedelic sounds were still present in the prog rock. I liked parts of this album less than other parts. I fully appreciate their musicianship and experimentation. They put out sounds that no others were making
4
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Thu Jan 26 2023
Parklife
Blur
If I'd known about this album and listened to it in 1994, I'd have thought myself one if the cool kids
4
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Fri Jan 27 2023
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
I love this album
5
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Mon Jan 30 2023
Amnesiac
Radiohead
I don't get it. This album thinks that it is hot sh!t in a champagne glass when it's actually a cold turd in a Dixie Cup
1
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Tue Jan 31 2023
Abraxas
Santana
Santana's best album, IMO. The influences he brought to rock music are significant and best showcased in this album.
5
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Wed Feb 01 2023
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
What fresh hell is this?!
1
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Thu Feb 02 2023
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
Well, they know how to rhyme. That's all I've got. Not my cuppa
2
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Fri Feb 03 2023
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
Liked the psychedelic aspects. Probably would have liked it more about 25 years ago
2
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Mon Feb 06 2023
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Good stuff
4
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Tue Feb 07 2023
Blackstar
David Bowie
There are better albums by Bowie, IMO. That said, "Lazarus" is great.
3
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Wed Feb 08 2023
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
I love the heavy use of acoustic instruments and the range of influences that are evident in their music
4
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Thu Feb 09 2023
...And Justice For All
Metallica
Not my genre anymore. If I liked heavy metal, I'd love this
3
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Fri Feb 10 2023
Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
The Allman Brothers' L.A. cousins
I like some of the bluesy guitar but that's it. No repeat listening for me
2
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Mon Feb 13 2023
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
Excellent
5
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Tue Feb 14 2023
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
2
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Wed Feb 15 2023
Berlin
Lou Reed
4
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Thu Feb 16 2023
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
4
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Fri Feb 17 2023
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
Ok, not amazing
3
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Mon Feb 20 2023
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
3
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Tue Feb 21 2023
The La's
The La's
4
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Wed Feb 22 2023
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
It's interesting until it's annoying. I think more than anything, the Velvet Underground offer a glimpse into a sub-culture
3
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Thu Feb 23 2023
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
Listened to this a lot back in 1984
4
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Fri Feb 24 2023
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
Nope
1
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
5
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Tue Feb 28 2023
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
Nope
1
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Wed Mar 01 2023
Moving Pictures
Rush
5
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Thu Mar 02 2023
Screamadelica
Primal Scream
2
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Fri Mar 03 2023
Kid A
Radiohead
Too broody
2
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Mon Mar 06 2023
Disintegration
The Cure
Definitely in my top 100
5
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Tue Mar 07 2023
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
Fantastic
5
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Wed Mar 08 2023
Pelican West
Haircut 100
Sounds like the soundtrack to most 70s/80s sitcoms that I watched
1
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Thu Mar 09 2023
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
1
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Fri Mar 10 2023
My Generation
The Who
3
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Mon Mar 13 2023
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
3
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Tue Mar 14 2023
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5
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Wed Mar 15 2023
Permission to Land
The Darkness
3
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Thu Mar 16 2023
Closer
Joy Division
2
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Fri Mar 17 2023
Opus Dei
Laibach
1
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Mon Mar 20 2023
Truth
Jeff Beck
3
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Tue Mar 21 2023
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
2
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Wed Mar 22 2023
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
3
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Thu Mar 23 2023
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
2
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Fri Mar 24 2023
Me Against The World
2Pac
2
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Mon Mar 27 2023
Boston
Boston
5
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Tue Mar 28 2023
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
2
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Wed Mar 29 2023
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
3
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Thu Mar 30 2023
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
1
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Fri Mar 31 2023
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
1
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Mon Apr 03 2023
Hotel California
Eagles
5
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Tue Apr 04 2023
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
2
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Wed Apr 05 2023
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
3
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Thu Apr 06 2023
Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
2
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Fri Apr 07 2023
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
3
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Mon Apr 10 2023
Frank
Amy Winehouse
1
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Tue Apr 11 2023
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
5
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Wed Apr 12 2023
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
3
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Thu Apr 13 2023
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
4
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Fri Apr 14 2023
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
2
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Mon Apr 17 2023
Fun House
The Stooges
2
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Tue Apr 18 2023
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
1
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Wed Apr 19 2023
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
1
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Thu Apr 20 2023
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
4
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Fri Apr 21 2023
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
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Mon Apr 24 2023
Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
Love the lyrics, just can't listen to him for very long
3
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Tue Apr 25 2023
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
This album is da bomb
5
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Wed Apr 26 2023
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
Annoying
1
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Thu Apr 27 2023
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
3
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Fri Apr 28 2023
The Sounds Of India
Ravi Shankar
4
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Mon May 01 2023
Protection
Massive Attack
5
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Tue May 02 2023
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
1
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Wed May 03 2023
New Forms
Roni Size
1
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Thu May 04 2023
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
3