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Thu Aug 10 2023
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
I was never a fan of RATM. The album is okay, fair work, but it didn't move me to rush out and get their other albums. There's such a thing as something, while good, doesn't move one person, and someone else is crazy about it.
3
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Fri Aug 11 2023
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
old piece, heard it many times
4
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Mon Aug 14 2023
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
3
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Tue Aug 15 2023
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
I hate this
1
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Wed Aug 16 2023
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
Boring, monotonous. It tries to be a cheap hit, but it rarely succeeds... I realized at track 4 that this is not the first track. The start of Empty Room was promising, but then it too sank back into the commercial garbage that flows from everywhere. Up until Half Light I I had planned to somehow make it halfway through the album and give up, but by II I had changed strategy, if nothing worthwhile happened for a minute and a half, move on to the next one. Unfortunately, I still had to listen to the last song. It was a pity. I may be being nasty, but I think I'll rename the bookmark: The 1000 albums you wasted your time on - that'll be the new name.
1
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Thu Aug 17 2023
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
In 1968, as a little kid, I was listening to the mono single by The Spencer Davis Group two years earlier, Keep On Running on side A and High Time Baby on side B. Needless to say, the latter was my favourite, mainly because of the piano solo. It wasn't a bad choice on the other side of the Iron Curtain, in the middle of the pile of family records, mostly gypsy music, Hungarian lyrics and operetta. OK, I found a complete three-disc Traviata album and a couple of poetry discs, I liked those too. I have respect and admiration for Uncle Cash, but there's no way I'm going to listen to two and three-quarters hours of him. It's a good thing the recording doesn't include a conversation between the attendant and the curtain raiser about modern contraception.
Anyway, it was a good way to get back to the music of the 60s and 70s. Next up were Velvet Underground; Canned Heat; Jefferson Airplane; George Baker Selection; CCR; Donovan;, The Baytovens; Ray Charles; Question Mark and The Mysterians; Blue Cheer; Elmore James; Can; Bob Dylan; Small Faces; Sir Douglas Quintet and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. Fortunately I've managed to get the artificial stupidity down that diversity is my raison d'être.
1
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Fri Aug 18 2023
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
Flat. Forget now.
1
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Sat Aug 19 2023
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
Boring
1
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Mon Aug 21 2023
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Hmmm not bad
3
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Tue Aug 22 2023
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
One of my favorites.
5
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Wed Aug 23 2023
Scott 4
Scott Walker
I tried to listen to it at work, as elevator music, but I got so nervous about this gooey, maudlin, sentimental crap that I had to stop. I've got a new name for my bookmark: The 1000 Albums You Can Easily Die Listening to 1% of.
1
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Thu Aug 24 2023
Disintegration
The Cure
This is the 4th album on this list that I know and like every note of.
5
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Fri Aug 25 2023
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
Not bad, but forgettable.
2
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Mon Aug 28 2023
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
Not bad but too bad it's so popular.
3
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Wed Aug 30 2023
The Clash
The Clash
I listened to it, for the umpteenth time. I still like it, though it's a bit worn. My musical tastes have also changed, this album has slipped into the nostalgia category.
3
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Thu Aug 31 2023
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
I know and like it, although it's a bit popular.
4
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Fri Sep 01 2023
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
I admire his brilliant guitar playing, but I still think he's better suited to a campfire than an album.
2
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Sat Sep 02 2023
So
Peter Gabriel
A rare favourite among mainstram performers. It's been a long time, but I've heard him many times. Good to listen to again, still valid. Few people have put Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson together on the same album. Plus, I listened to the Special Edition, which has 16 live recordings.
5
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Sun Sep 03 2023
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor
Good but not the best.
4
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Mon Sep 04 2023
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
I'm sure some people like it, but I hate country music.
1
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Tue Sep 05 2023
Fragile
Yes
Nostalgia is only worth something if it is a valuable album that is still valid today.
5
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Wed Sep 06 2023
The Stooges
The Stooges
Good old music, it's not in the middle of my heart, but it's not in the bottom either.
4
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Thu Sep 07 2023
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
Very old, very professional, I even liked it, although it's not my favourite style.
4
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Fri Sep 08 2023
Water From An Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
It is a pity that the album's title track is not available on any streaming service. These seem to be banned tunes in this part of Europe. How silly! But the rest is fine.
4
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Sat Sep 09 2023
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
4
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Mon Sep 11 2023
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
I have never heard a single note from this album, or even from the artist. It was not clear what genre he would like to play, but it was almost everything: classical, jazz, rock, country, disco, musical, pop, hip-hop, new-new-wave. But whatever style prevailed within a song, sooner or later they all became inevitably swamped by the upper edge of mediocre commercialism. Despite the professional musicians, the perfect sound and the brilliant vocal skills, this is a mediocre album that can be completely forgotten in a week. It's probably destined to be, I wouldn't have lost much if it had stayed out of my life.
3
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Tue Sep 12 2023
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Old, boring. Not mine.
2
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Wed Sep 13 2023
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
Known. Good.
4
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Thu Sep 14 2023
Arular
M.I.A.
This genre isn’t mine.
1
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Fri Sep 15 2023
Nixon
Lambchop
At the end of the first track I thought: is this some kind of joke...? I was expecting some kind of anarcho-punk, but no, they were serious. What an anacronism in 2000. If I could give half a star...
1
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Sat Sep 16 2023
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
1
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Sun Sep 17 2023
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
Perfect, I have listened to it so many times, it never gets old.
5
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Mon Sep 18 2023
Slayed?
Slade
I was 10 years old when this album was released. I didn't hear it until a little later, but it was thanks to Slade, among other things, that my musical tastes were formed in great detours. Nostalgia? Not a trace.
1
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Tue Sep 19 2023
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bob Marley knew. This is a classic album. I've never listened to so many reggies in a row before, it was quite a shock.
4
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Wed Sep 20 2023
Orbital 2
Orbital
A waste of time. It was built from boring, unimaginative, hackneyed panels. They didn't even manage to make a citizen's puff.
1
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Thu Sep 21 2023
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
Bowie didn't make a bad album. It's not at the top of the list of the better ones, but for me it's in the top 100 albums of 1001.
5
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Fri Sep 22 2023
Out of Step
Minor Threat
Forgettable. I picked it up today and from the description, which I always read, I realised that I had listened to it the day before yesterday, but I can't remember a single tune. Only that it is embarrassingly meaningless, both musically and lyrically. Let's move on.
1
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Sat Sep 23 2023
The Stranger
Billy Joel
Why do I have to listen to this? I've moved on from this schematic, hit, cheap style about 40 years ago.
1