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Wed Mar 22 2023
Station To Station
David Bowie
Best songs: Station to Station, TVC15, Golden Years
5
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Fri Mar 24 2023
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
The amount of synths on this one always bothered me but, man, there are some classics here.
4
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Mon Mar 27 2023
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
5
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Thu Mar 30 2023
Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
3
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Fri Mar 31 2023
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
1
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Mon Apr 03 2023
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
4
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Wed Apr 05 2023
Moon Safari
Air
4
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Thu Apr 06 2023
Metallica
Metallica
4
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Fri Apr 07 2023
Spiderland
Slint
4
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Mon Apr 10 2023
The Stooges
The Stooges
5
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Tue Apr 11 2023
Dance Mania
Tito Puente
3
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Wed Apr 12 2023
Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
I'll never forgive Rod Stewart for the '80s and '90s.
2
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Fri Apr 14 2023
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
5
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Tue Apr 18 2023
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
5
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Thu Apr 20 2023
Movies
Holger Czukay
2
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Mon Apr 24 2023
Tapestry
Carole King
4
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Wed Apr 26 2023
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
5
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Thu Apr 27 2023
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
Stand outs: Lilac Wine, Four Women, Wild is the Wind
5
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Fri Apr 28 2023
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
3
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Mon May 01 2023
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
3
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Wed May 03 2023
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
4
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Thu May 04 2023
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
5
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Tue May 09 2023
All Mod Cons
The Jam
4
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Wed May 10 2023
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
5
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Thu May 11 2023
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
Key songs: Brighton Rock, Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy
4
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Fri May 12 2023
Shadowland
k.d. lang
4
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Mon May 15 2023
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
5
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Tue May 16 2023
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
Key songs: Brighton Rock, Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy
5
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Fri May 19 2023
Low-Life
New Order
Key tracks: Love Vigilantes, Perfect Kiss, Elegia
5
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Mon May 22 2023
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5
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Tue May 23 2023
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
5
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Thu May 25 2023
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
Sometimes I need a record that isn’t going to challenge me emotionally, intellectually, or musically. Sometime I just want to caveman out. For these moments, there is Ace of Spades.
4
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Fri May 26 2023
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
4
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Sat May 27 2023
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
2
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Sun May 28 2023
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
5
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Thu Jun 01 2023
Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
1
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Sat Jun 03 2023
Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
5
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Sun Jun 11 2023
Dry
PJ Harvey
5
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Mon Jun 12 2023
In Rainbows
Radiohead
5
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Tue Jun 13 2023
Blur
Blur
4
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Wed Jun 14 2023
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
2
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Thu Jun 15 2023
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
4
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Sat Jun 17 2023
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
5
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Mon Jun 19 2023
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
2
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Wed Jun 21 2023
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
5
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Thu Jun 22 2023
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
5
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Fri Jun 23 2023
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
4
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Sat Jun 24 2023
Live!
Fela Kuti
3
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Sun Jun 25 2023
Chris
Christine and the Queens
1
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Thu Jun 29 2023
Thriller
Michael Jackson
5
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Wed Jul 12 2023
Green
R.E.M.
5
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Mon Jul 17 2023
Medúlla
Björk
4
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Fri Jul 21 2023
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
5
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Sun Jul 23 2023
Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren
1
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Tue Jul 25 2023
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
5
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Wed Jul 26 2023
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
If this were playing at a medieval faire, I would not leave.
1
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Fri Jul 28 2023
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
4
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Sun Jul 30 2023
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
I rediscovered The Fall with this album. Good mix of classic Fall and some new experiments. Mark E Smith is the black jelly bean of post-punk front men, and I love black jelly beans.
Stand outs:
Lost in Music
I’m Going to Spain
Light/Fireworks
4
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Thu Aug 03 2023
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
15 minutes of chaos, which is the right length. Gets more interesting from Back Against Wall on.
2
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Sat Aug 05 2023
Back In Black
AC/DC
5
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Tue Aug 08 2023
Live At Leeds
The Who
5
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Thu Aug 10 2023
OK Computer
Radiohead
Pink Floyd vs Coldplay cage match
5
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Fri Aug 11 2023
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
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Sun Aug 13 2023
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
4
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Tue Aug 15 2023
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
5
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Wed Aug 16 2023
Beautiful Freak
Eels
I really enjoy this album, but it’s a time and place for me. I like much more than some of the albums on this list, but I’m surprised it’s included.
3
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Thu Aug 17 2023
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
3
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Fri Aug 18 2023
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4
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Mon Aug 21 2023
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
5
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Thu Aug 24 2023
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
5
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Sat Aug 26 2023
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
5
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Sun Aug 27 2023
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
5
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Mon Aug 28 2023
Rapture
Anita Baker
It’s hard to hate on such an inoffensive album, it’s just not something that moves me in any particular way. I can imagine this being used at hifi stores to show off a system, but that’s pretty much it.
2
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Thu Aug 31 2023
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5
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Fri Sep 01 2023
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
4
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Sat Sep 02 2023
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
5
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Sun Sep 03 2023
Sex Packets
Digital Underground
3
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Wed Sep 06 2023
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
5
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Thu Sep 07 2023
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
I like this album, but its inclusion on this list is a bit of a mystery to me. It’s not even the second best Gorillaz album.
3
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Fri Sep 08 2023
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
Tibetan Freedom Beasties. This one loses a star because it falls off at the end after a perfect two-thirds. It gets the star back for all the memories I have attached to this album.
5
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Sun Sep 10 2023
Lam Toro
Baaba Maal
3
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Tue Sep 12 2023
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
I haven’t listened to this one in a long time and I remember enjoying it more then than I do now. There are many places where the sonic affects add color and depth to shifts in mood. Other times it feels like they’re filling lulls in songs that don’t have the stamina to speak for themselves. All that said, I think there are a lot of great songs here, Jesus, Etc and Ashes of American Flags among them.
4
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Wed Sep 13 2023
Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem
Nothings dates like dance music!
3
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Thu Sep 14 2023
Pearl
Janis Joplin
4
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Fri Sep 15 2023
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
3
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Sun Sep 17 2023
Young Americans
David Bowie
4
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Mon Sep 18 2023
Casanova
The Divine Comedy
4
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Tue Sep 19 2023
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
5
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Wed Sep 20 2023
Urban Hymns
The Verve
3
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Fri Sep 22 2023
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
4
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Sat Sep 23 2023
The Joshua Tree
U2
5
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Mon Sep 25 2023
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5
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Wed Sep 27 2023
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
4
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Thu Sep 28 2023
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
4
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Fri Sep 29 2023
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
4
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Sat Sep 30 2023
So
Peter Gabriel
4
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Sun Oct 01 2023
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
3
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Mon Oct 02 2023
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
5
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Wed Oct 04 2023
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
3
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Thu Oct 05 2023
1999
Prince
5
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Fri Oct 13 2023
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4
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Sat Oct 14 2023
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
4
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Sun Oct 15 2023
Kala
M.I.A.
4
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Mon Oct 16 2023
Ramones
Ramones
5
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Thu Oct 19 2023
16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
3
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Fri Oct 20 2023
Kid A
Radiohead
5
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Sat Oct 21 2023
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
4
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Sun Oct 22 2023
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
2
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Mon Oct 23 2023
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
5
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Fri Oct 27 2023
#1 Record
Big Star
This album influenced many bands that I love, REM, Guided By Voices, Wilco, etc, but it’s just never clicked with me. The songs are too spare, too mid-tempo — all just a bit short of hitting critical mass. Radio City is much stronger to these ears.
2
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Sat Oct 28 2023
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
5
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Mon Oct 30 2023
The White Album
Beatles
5
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Wed Nov 01 2023
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
5
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Thu Nov 02 2023
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
4
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Fri Nov 03 2023
Drunk
Thundercat
Is this what happens when an artist has lots of skill, a little bit of talent, but no taste?
2
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Sat Nov 04 2023
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
The A side here is top notch Bowie, but the B side is pretty spotty. I could really do without “Fill Your Heart”, “Andy Warhol”, and “Song for Bob Dylan”. “Queen Bitch” and “Bewlay Brothers” make it all worthwhile though.
4
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Sun Nov 05 2023
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
I like this American Dream but it’s not even the second best LCD Soundsystem record. I’m surprised it’s on the list.
3
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Tue Nov 07 2023
Fragile
Yes
3
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Wed Nov 08 2023
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
Great album, though not his best. This probably would be a five if it weren’t for Ray Warleigh’s flute and sax solos. They feel really out of place here.
4
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Fri Nov 10 2023
Closer
Joy Division
4
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Sat Nov 11 2023
Either Or
Elliott Smith
4
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Tue Nov 14 2023
On The Beach
Neil Young
4
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Wed Nov 15 2023
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
5
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Fri Nov 17 2023
Highly Evolved
The Vines
3
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Sun Nov 19 2023
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3
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Mon Nov 20 2023
A Northern Soul
The Verve
2
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Tue Nov 21 2023
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
5
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Thu Nov 23 2023
Picture Book
Simply Red
Halfway through “Come to My Aid” and I don’t know if I have the strength to go on.
I soldiered on to “Holding Back the Years”, which is passable if only because the band seems to have worn themselves out overplaying the previous 8 songs. The singer has a great voice, but this album is something I’d put on to get people to go home.
1
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Sun Nov 26 2023
Imagine
John Lennon
5
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Mon Nov 27 2023
Skylarking
XTC
5
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Thu Nov 30 2023
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
3
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Fri Dec 01 2023
Moving Pictures
Rush
Little known fact about Rush: The band was initially the brainchild of a consortium of Canadian music retailers strategizing to increase demand for music lessons and to sell more gear, particularly an overstock of kick drums and 5-string bass guitars. The rest is history. True story.
5
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Sat Dec 02 2023
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
5
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Fri Dec 08 2023
Hms Fable
Shack
1
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Sat Dec 09 2023
1984
Van Halen
4
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Tue Dec 12 2023
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
5
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Wed Dec 13 2023
All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2
4
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Thu Dec 14 2023
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
3
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Fri Dec 15 2023
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
It’s fine. Maybe it’s the result of my own ignorance, but it seems like there was a very crowded field of female singer/songwriters in this vein, at this time. I’ve haven’t connected with any of them, and they tend to blend together for me.
3
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Sat Dec 16 2023
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
3
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Sun Dec 17 2023
Triangle
The Beau Brummels
2
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Mon Dec 18 2023
Purple Rain
Prince
5
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Mon Jan 15 2024
All Directions
The Temptations
4
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Fri Jan 19 2024
Tidal
Fiona Apple
I like this better than I did in the day, but it falls off after “Criminal”.
3
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Sat Jan 20 2024
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
I like this better than I did in the day, but it falls off after “Criminal”.
4
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Mon Jan 22 2024
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
4
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Tue Jan 23 2024
Guero
Beck
4
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Wed Jan 24 2024
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
Key tracks:
Birthday
Motorcrash
Delicious Demon
2
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Fri Jan 26 2024
A Little Deeper
Ms. Dynamite
2
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Sat Jan 27 2024
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
I never understood the appeal of this album. Sounds like a bunch of acoustic hippie bullshit with some electric guitars on top.
“Jeepster” and “Bang a Gong (Get it on)” are the notable exceptions.
3
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Mon Jan 29 2024
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
Highlights:
The Cavalry Cross
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Withered and Died
5
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Wed Jan 31 2024
The Band
The Band
Highlights:
Up on Cripple Creek
Across the Great Divide
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
5
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Thu Feb 01 2024
American Pie
Don McLean
3
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Fri Feb 02 2024
Feast of Wire
Calexico
This album would be a solid 4/5, with just a little bit of editing. Pull out “Not even Stevie Nicks” and “Attack El Robot! Attack!” and it flows so much better. That said, I really enjoy this album and Calexico’s musical formula. Definitely a must hear artist, and this album is almost as good as any from this period. Alright, I’m rounding up.
4
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Sun Feb 04 2024
Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
I can appreciate how groundbreaking this might have been when it was released, but I don’t think it has aged well.
2
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Mon Feb 05 2024
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
4
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Frank
Amy Winehouse
The raw materials are here: the voice (most of the time), the lyrical subject matter, etc, but it hasn’t come together into a cohesive whole just yet. This one is a bit all over the place musically, though always “jazzy.”
2
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Destroyer
KISS
I think there’s a limited window in one’s life where they can be introduced to Kiss and have it click. I am well outside that window, but I can appreciate that this wasn’t made for me. These songs sound really basic, dated and dumb to me, but I’m sure that misses the point.
3
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Fri Feb 09 2024
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
3
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Sat Feb 10 2024
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
5
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Tue Feb 13 2024
The College Dropout
Kanye West
5
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
1
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4
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Sat Feb 17 2024
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
5
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Sun Feb 18 2024
Rubber Soul
Beatles
5
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Thu Feb 22 2024
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
4
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Fri Feb 23 2024
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
5
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Sat Feb 24 2024
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
5
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Only By The Night
Kings of Leon
2
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Thu Feb 29 2024
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
5
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Wed Mar 06 2024
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
5
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
4
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Fri Mar 08 2024
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
5
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Sat Mar 09 2024
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
2
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Mon Mar 11 2024
One World
John Martyn
I’ve heard John Martyn covers before but this is the first time I’ve listened to one of his albums. It’s much more psych rock and jazz-oriented than I expected. The album as a whole has an interesting vibe, but I think the only song I’d come back for is “Couldn’t Live You More.”
3
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Wed Mar 13 2024
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
For the genre, this album mostly holds up.
4
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Thu Mar 14 2024
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
2
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Fri Mar 15 2024
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
I still dig this album. It was such a nice break from all the pop-metal on the radio at the time, and I played the crap out of it. The first two Lenny Kravitz albums offered similar relief. The second Black Crowes album is much better, but this one served me well.
4
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Sun Mar 17 2024
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
4
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Tue Mar 19 2024
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
4
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Thu Mar 21 2024
The Clash
The Clash
5
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Hüsker Dü
2
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
5
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Dirty
Sonic Youth
5
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Fri Mar 29 2024
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
4
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Sat Mar 30 2024
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
4
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Mon Apr 01 2024
In Utero
Nirvana
5
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Tue Apr 02 2024
With The Beatles
Beatles
4
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
3
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Fri Apr 05 2024
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
3
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Tue Apr 09 2024
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
3