May 16 2023
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More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
1978
"Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" (track 1) is a keeper
Has "Take Me to the River" which is a classic
"The Big Country" is a great change of pace and is makes me think of Neutral Milk Hotel (was probably an inspiration)
4
May 17 2023
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Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Meh. Not bad, but nothing that stood out to me. The guitar was very uninteresting and Neil Young was mostly singing loud (which I find to be whiney) rather than singing softly (like For What It's Worth or Old Man).
3
May 18 2023
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Blur
Blur
Good for the most part. The sound is pretty diverse, so it doesn't get boring. Sometimes it has the feel of weird to be weird, but mostly it's interesting. Essex Dogs sucks ass. I had to skip it.
4
May 19 2023
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Urban Hymns
The Verve
Bitter Sweet Symphony is a classic, and Lucky Man is pretty great too. The rest of the album is a bit... meh. Not bad, just standard 90's pop rock sound to me. There's a little bit of synth here and there to mix things up, but nothing to adventurous.
2
May 20 2023
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Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
Good vocals and good melodies. "Wild World" is always awesome.
3
May 21 2023
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Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
All the classics. Great, but I can only take so much reggae.
4
May 22 2023
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Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
Good Chicago Blues. Apparently this is the band that Eric Clapton and a few other big names were in before they got their breaks. Vocals aren't great, but guitars and horns are pretty nice.
4
May 23 2023
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
Great band, great album. Good variety between tracks and changes in tempo.
5
May 24 2023
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Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
1960. This woman is crazy prolific. Amazing story of being exiled from South Africa and then returning after 30 years when apartheid ended. Also, she's awesome. The song "Mbube" is definitely where they stole "Hakuna Mattata".
4
May 25 2023
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Hotel California
Eagles
the song "Hotel California" is so overplayed for me it's tough not to skip it. I'll try to grit my teeth and get through it...
3
May 26 2023
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Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Cool sound. Kinda like Super Tramp but darker and more punk. Occasionally Apparently they were bigger in the UK. Definitely recognized their biggest hit, Spellbound. Good song.
3
May 27 2023
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Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
5
May 28 2023
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
This is a five star just off the track list.
5
May 29 2023
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Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
I had to skip the first 5-6 tracks and then just gave up.
1
May 30 2023
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Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
Her vocals are great, but the lyrics don't rhyme and she just rambles about God a lot.
2
May 31 2023
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The Joshua Tree
U2
Lots of hits on this one, but I just don't care for U2 that much.
3
Jun 01 2023
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Low
David Bowie
Way to synth heavy for my taste. Had some good tracks, but I would never listen to the whole thing end to end again.
2
Jun 02 2023
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The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis
This was not made for me.
1
Jun 03 2023
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Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
4
Jun 04 2023
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We Are Family
Sister Sledge
3
Jun 06 2023
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Moving Pictures
Rush
Corporate rock at its best. Every song is good to great.
5
Jun 07 2023
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Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
Mostly ambient noise stuff with intentionally distant echo-y vocals. Unique, but def not something you "have to listen to before you die".
2
Jun 08 2023
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The Healer
John Lee Hooker
Good blues album.
4
Jun 09 2023
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She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
I like Cyndi Lauper, but she's no Madonna. A few bangers, and the rest were okay.
3
Jun 10 2023
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Paul Simon
Paul Simon
4
Jun 11 2023
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Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Like a poor man's Bob Dylan. More spoken word poetry over a guitar than anything else.
2
Jun 12 2023
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Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
Pretty good album. A few really good tracks, and none that are awful.
4
Jun 13 2023
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In It For The Money
Supergrass
Good british pop/rock. Have a nice variation to the sound which was a little Blur at times and a little Arctic Monkeys on other tracks.
3
Jun 14 2023
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Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
5
Jun 15 2023
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American Idiot
Green Day
Probably the weakest Green Day album. No idea why this is here and not Dookie or Nimrod.
3
Jun 16 2023
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Let's Stay Together
Al Green
Really good R&B album. Even as background music, it got me moving a bunch of times.
4
Jun 17 2023
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Live!
Fela Kuti
Good jazz with Africa flavor.
4
Jun 18 2023
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Highway to Hell
AC/DC
4
Jun 19 2023
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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
4
Jun 21 2023
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The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3
Jun 22 2023
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Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
Couldn't finish it. Like if McClusky decided they weren't annoying and screechy enough. And also decided that melody and rhythm wasn't important. And also that it's not music if it doesn't hurt your brain.
1
Jun 23 2023
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The Sensual World
Kate Bush
2
Jun 24 2023
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5
Jun 25 2023
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Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
3
Jun 26 2023
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Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
3
Jun 27 2023
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The Score
Fugees
4
Jun 28 2023
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Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
3
Jun 29 2023
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The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
Very hair metal. Good bellowing on some and machine gun lyrics in others.
4
Jun 30 2023
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The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3
Jul 01 2023
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Parklife
Blur
okay. very british.
3
Jul 02 2023
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Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
Very good album. I'd probably give it 5 stars if I hadn't burnt myself out on the Hives years ago.
4
Jul 03 2023
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Leftism
Leftfield
Just techno stuff. I imagine it may have been groundbreaking at the time, but nothing special to me.
2
Jul 04 2023
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Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
Surprisingly good. I think "Bloody Well Right" was the only track I recognized, but I liked it all.
4
Jul 05 2023
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Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Good folk. A bit weird at times.
3
Jul 07 2023
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
4
Jul 08 2023
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Metallica
Metallica
The "Black Album". Good metal, but Master of Puppets is better. This was the age where James Hedfield adds a "yugh!" to the end of the last word at every sentence.
4
Jul 09 2023
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The Predator
Ice Cube
4
Jul 10 2023
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Paranoid
Black Sabbath
4
Jul 11 2023
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3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
3
Aug 05 2023
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Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
Probably just on this list because it was influential.
2
Aug 06 2023
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A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
3
Aug 07 2023
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Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
Great album, great band. Looking for this on vinyl.
5
Aug 08 2023
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
5
Aug 09 2023
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Definitely Maybe
Oasis
Meh. British pop rock. Didn't stand out to me.
3
Aug 10 2023
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Ys
Joanna Newsom
Slow harp stuff. Not for me.
2
Aug 11 2023
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Technique
New Order
3
Aug 13 2023
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To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
5
Aug 14 2023
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With The Beatles
Beatles
This is so far down the list of Beatles albums I would've picked. Not bad, but not Sgt. Peppers either.
3
Aug 15 2023
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That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
2
Aug 16 2023
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Hypnotised
The Undertones
3
Aug 17 2023
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Night Life
Ray Price
Good, old-school country.
3
Aug 18 2023
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Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Good background synth type 80's stuff.
3
Aug 19 2023
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Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
Fine for background music.
3
Aug 20 2023
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The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
3
Aug 21 2023
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NEU! 75
Neu!
so sick of these ambient noise albums. Who picks these for a top album?
1
Aug 22 2023
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The Specials
The Specials
70's british ska with reggae influence. Sounds like they had an impact on 311 and Sublime.
3
Aug 23 2023
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Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
4
Aug 24 2023
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Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Sounds like either the Who or The Beatles depending on the song.
4
Aug 25 2023
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At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
5
Aug 26 2023
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All Mod Cons
The Jam
Good early british pop/punk.
3
Aug 27 2023
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The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
2
Aug 28 2023
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3
Aug 29 2023
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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
3
Aug 30 2023
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Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
This album made me appreciate Bruce Springsteen. Especially the close with Jungleland.
5
Nov 11 2023
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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
3
Nov 12 2023
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The Clash
The Clash
Good british punk, but it gets old
4
Nov 13 2023
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25
Adele
This album made me like Adele. She's pretty impressive.
3
Nov 14 2023
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
4
Nov 15 2023
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Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
4
Nov 16 2023
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Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
This would be a five if I hadn't heard so many of the songs a million times.
4
Nov 17 2023
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Chris
Christine and the Queens
Artsy pop. Sounds a bit like Weekend or MJ at times, but not as good.
2
Nov 18 2023
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
4
Nov 19 2023
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Wild Gift
X
Great punk with a bit of blues or country or folk to some of it. Not too heavy and not too repetitive.
5
Nov 20 2023
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What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
3
Dec 29 2023
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Aqualung
Jethro Tull
3
Dec 30 2023
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
5
Dec 31 2023
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No Other
Gene Clark
Sounds like Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young at times and Jethro Tull (minus the flute) at others. Pretty good album.
4
Jan 01 2024
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Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
Africa music with good desert blues sound
3
Jan 02 2024
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The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
5
Jan 03 2024
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We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
I wish I could give this zero stars. Nothing but random annoying noises and bad vocals. I'm sure art snobs could call it a masterpiece, but it's dog shit.
1
Jan 04 2024
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KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
3
Jan 05 2024
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Fuzzy
Grant Lee Buffalo
2
Jan 06 2024
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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
Crazy jazz. Not for me.
1
Jan 19 2024
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Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
Good, but not their best by far.
3
Jan 20 2024
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Is This It
The Strokes
5
Jan 21 2024
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Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
Can hear similarities to King Gizzard in a few tracks. Good, light hair metal-ish pop.
3
Jan 22 2024
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Pieces Of The Sky
Emmylou Harris
A few bangers including Blueberry Wine. The rest is good, but a touch slow for me.
3
Jan 23 2024
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Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4