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Mon Feb 13 2023
Debut
Björk
Back when this first came out I was in college, and somehow thought of this album as only meant for the people who were way cooler than me. Now I think it's right up my alley - which either means I was cooler than I thought in college, or that I've become cool, or that I was an idiot in college.
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Tue Feb 14 2023
The Undertones
The Undertones
Mezzo-mezzo on this.
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Wed Feb 15 2023
Pump
Aerosmith
For the people who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.
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Thu Feb 16 2023
Fragile
Yes
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Fri Feb 17 2023
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
There is a phenomenon about character actors where you have seen a given actor so often that you start to recognize them by face and maybe even develop an affection for them, but you don't know their name; someone once called this phenomenon "Hey, it's THAT guy!"
For me several of the songs in here have been the auditory equivalent - "Hey, it's THAT song!"
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Sat Feb 18 2023
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
There's a reason hair metal died.
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Sun Feb 19 2023
Paris 1919
John Cale
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Mon Feb 20 2023
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
Boy, some people really tried to be like the Beatles in the 60s, didn't they.
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Tue Feb 21 2023
Like A Prayer
Madonna
Let me get this straight - Madonna collaborated with PRINCE for one of the songs on this album, and THEY DIDN'T RELEASE THAT AS A SINGLE?
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Tue Feb 21 2023
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
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Tue Feb 21 2023
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
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Tue Feb 21 2023
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
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Wed Feb 22 2023
I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
Where the hell was I when this was originally released?
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Thu Feb 23 2023
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
I already know it, I already loved it. This was part of the soundtrack of my early 20s, that weird hectic messy growing-pains time where I was newly graduated from college and heady with possibility - and giddy with relief that the Cold War had ended and I was NOT going to blow up at any moment without warning; but that just paved the way for finally looking at all the OTHER ills of the world and wanting to do something about them.
Of course I was doing so under the shadow of a whole horde of media looking at us and wondering "goodness what is Generation X going to do and what are they all about," and meanwhile the Boomers were hanging on to their own jobs and positions of power and not letting us actually do anything to explore what we COULD do or find what we WERE all about.
But a lot of us tried where we could in small ways.
Oh, and "Ignoreland" is still my favorite condemnation of the Reagan/Bush years. "TV tells a million lies, the paper's terrified to report anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon, I'm just profoundly frustrated
by all this, so fuck you, man...."
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Fri Feb 24 2023
Snivilisation
Orbital
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Sat Feb 25 2023
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
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Sun Feb 26 2023
Here, My Dear
Marvin Gaye
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Mon Feb 27 2023
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
The very introduction fooled me - I thought it was going to be folky rock, but nope.
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Tue Feb 28 2023
Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
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Wed Mar 01 2023
Violator
Depeche Mode
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Thu Mar 02 2023
Atomizer
Big Black
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Fri Mar 03 2023
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
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Sat Mar 04 2023
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
I already knew I liked this; my father played this and other blues albums all the time when I was a kid and I imprinted early.
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Sun Mar 05 2023
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
I only knew of Herbie Hancock from "Rockit" and its adaptation into "Cantaloop Flip Fantasia". My eyes have been opened.
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Tue Mar 07 2023
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
There was only one Johnny Cash, wasn't there.
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Wed Mar 08 2023
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
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Fri Mar 10 2023
Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
This is a genre of music I've never really known what to do with.
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Sat Mar 11 2023
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
I miss early 90s hip-hop.
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Mon Mar 13 2023
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
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Tue Mar 14 2023
xx
The xx
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Wed Mar 15 2023
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
Sublime.
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Thu Mar 16 2023
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Back when this came out I was more into prog rock - but hoo boy this is my jam these days.
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Sat Mar 18 2023
The Next Day
David Bowie
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Mon Mar 20 2023
Abbey Road
Beatles
Fun fact: when I was a child, my father would choose this album as the dinner music whenever we had a "nice fancy family dinner" in the dining room. I am thus very likely the only person in the world who associates the song "Come Together" with steak and potatoes.
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Tue Mar 21 2023
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
3