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Thu Aug 17 2023
In Rainbows
Radiohead
I know this is a celebrated album, but I just don’t get Radiohead generally. Nothing stands out on this album that would drive me to re-listen, but there’s nothing I exactly dislike either.
6/10
Okay album; okay day.
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Fri Aug 18 2023
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
Loved this, immediately added to my library to relisten.
5
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Sat Aug 19 2023
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
Wow, “on any other day” was a shitty song before the lyric, “and my fine young son has turned out gay” registered. Oof.
So far, it seems like there’s a very good reason why “message in a bottle” is the only song on this album that I’m familiar with.
No Place This Time is fun — kind of surprised this isn’t a more currently well known one.
2
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Sun Aug 20 2023
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
4
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Mon Aug 21 2023
...And Justice For All
Metallica
3
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Tue Aug 22 2023
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
I dunno, it’s hard for me to listen to Talking Heads and not hear almost a novelty band like the b52s. I know they’re not, but David Byrne’s voice is just so crazy that it’s hard for me to get past that to connect with the music. This didn’t do much for me.
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Wed Aug 23 2023
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti Politti
Immediate though on opening baseline, “God, bands fucking loved the “reggae” demo on their Casio keyboards in the 80’s.”
Track one: I hate this so far.
Absolute: WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING, IS THIS A JOKE??
Might have to stop listening to this one. Fuck I hate this.
Perfect way: okay, I can see why this is their popular song from this album, but I don’t really love it personally. I can just recognize the hallmarks of a “good” song in it 🤷🏻♂️
The very next song: WHAT IS THIS BABY VOICE???
God I hated this so much. I hope I never hear it again.
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Thu Aug 24 2023
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Track one: this feels like 4 pretty good ideas for a hook mushed into one song.
Track two: first familiar song I’ve heard in a few days doing this. Totally fine song, don’t feel any differently hearing it in context than any other time I’ve heard it 🤷🏻♂️
All in all, nothing here that compels me to revisit.
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Fri Aug 25 2023
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
Totally fine, sounds like every other bossa nova song/album I’ve ever heard, but nothing to come back to particularly.
2
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Sun Aug 27 2023
Brothers
The Black Keys
4
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Mon Aug 28 2023
A Wizard, A True Star
Todd Rundgren
2
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Tue Aug 29 2023
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
Idiot wind - Dylan diss track.
Everything on here is great!
3
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Wed Aug 30 2023
Metallica
Metallica
Fuck yeah. This album fucking rips. Not perfect songwriting from end to end, but instruments and vocals are perfect in every case. Definitely some new ones in here, good album listen.
5
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Thu Aug 31 2023
Talk Talk Talk
The Psychedelic Furs
Unremarkable 🤷🏻♂️
2
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Fri Sep 01 2023
Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
-Born in 69 is a great one
-Ooh love the crunchiness of on a rope (crunchy sax??? Sick.)
- drop out - great hook, added
- ball lightning lyric “want some cheese with your whine?” Woof. Lyrics are definitely the weakest part of this album overall, but that lyric Fucking suuuuucks
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Sat Sep 02 2023
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
I almost always skip La Grange and Sharp Dressed Man when it comes up on some random playlist, and that’s kind of 98% of ZZ Top songs I can name?
This was fine 🤷🏻♂️ They’re extremely technically proficient and the production value is unreal. I respect it for sure, but this kind of blues is not something I seek out, and this doesn’t change that.
2
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Sun Sep 03 2023
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
3
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Mon Sep 04 2023
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
4
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Tue Sep 05 2023
Pearl
Janis Joplin
4
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Wed Sep 06 2023
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
3
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Thu Sep 07 2023
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
For better or for worse, if you’ve heard “Come on Eileen,” you know exactly what to expect from the other songs on this album that you haven’t heard before.
2
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Fri Sep 08 2023
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
It goes without saying, but the vocals on this are just unreal. I have probably heard all of these songs before, but loved hearing them assembled together too.
Also great to hear the first (I think) appearance of a Beatles cover in my 1001 review!
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Sat Sep 09 2023
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
Hearing “chain of fools” as an opener to an album is such a confident, quiet first few seconds of an album, with straight fire for the rest of the song. Goddamn. I already know I’m going to listen to this again before getting to track two.
🤯 Had no idea she had a “People Get Ready” cover. Floored.
5
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Sun Sep 10 2023
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
Pretty sure this is a new album/artist for me, loving the opening track already. This is a sampling gold mine haha.
Love how musical this is, hearing samples of real instruments feels so refreshing in 2023.
3
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Mon Sep 11 2023
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
3
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Tue Sep 12 2023
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
The Smiths are great, just not something I seek out a ton. I think these were all new to me, Happy Birthday was hilarious (for a little while at least). All good, just not super “for me” 🤷🏻♂️
3
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Wed Sep 13 2023
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
It sure is short!
3
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Thu Sep 14 2023
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
Track #1: buckle the fuck up, this song is 23 minutes long and starts with random string plucking that starts to resolve into a pattern of some sort. Here we go.
Not for me. Totally fine but no fun to be had for me. Gave that “feedback” track a solid chance but it’s the only track I skipped.
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Fri Sep 15 2023
Let It Be
The Replacements
3
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Sat Sep 16 2023
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
3
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Tue Sep 19 2023
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
Good!
3
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Wed Sep 20 2023
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
Very nice, chill background music.
2
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Thu Sep 21 2023
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
3
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Fri Sep 22 2023
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
I think this is fully new to me.
I might be the first to notice, but there are very subtle political messages slipped in to some of these lyrics.
Fine album, but obviously represents a moment and a place that I have no connection to, so its impact on me was fairly limited.
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Sat Sep 23 2023
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
Boss.
4
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Sun Sep 24 2023
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
4
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Mon Sep 25 2023
25
Adele
3
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Tue Sep 26 2023
Music From Big Pink
The Band
3
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Wed Sep 27 2023
My Generation
The Who
5
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Thu Sep 28 2023
Eagles
Eagles
3
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Fri Sep 29 2023
Close To You
Carpenters
“We’ve only just begun” is a perfectly nice song that’s been totally ruined by overuse (both sincere and in parody).
God, no question why I’ve never heard this BAD cover of Help. Though this does (as always) make me wish more good bands today did covers of contemporary peers. This was such a common thing for most of the 20th century and it’s just gone now, very weird.
Close to You - wow, again, death by ironic overuse of a perfectly nice song.
Baby it’s you - Two Beatles covers (sort of) on one album, sheesh. Capitalizing on the breakup I guess?
I’ll never fall in love again - And the second consecutive Burt Bacharach cover!! Wild.
2
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Sat Sep 30 2023
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
5
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Sun Oct 01 2023
Immigrés
Youssou N'Dour
4
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Mon Oct 02 2023
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
Fine 🤷🏻♂️ added one or two songs to my library, but not really an album-wide draw for me. I like it, but it’s definitely early days for this kind of music.
2
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Tue Oct 03 2023
Moon Safari
Air
Good! My kind of thing for background/dinner party type lists.
3
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Wed Oct 04 2023
Guitar Town
Steve Earle
2
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Thu Oct 05 2023
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
Louis prima fucking rules
4
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Fri Oct 06 2023
Arrival
ABBA
The hits are great, the rest is fine.
3
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Sat Oct 07 2023
Machine Head
Deep Purple
Forever tied to the Rock Band start screen. Solid! I like the singles and the ones I don’t recognize too.
3
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Sun Oct 08 2023
A Little Deeper
Ms. Dynamite
Very message-y in an early 2000s way, which gets a little old, hut generally good!
2
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Mon Oct 09 2023
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
Sorry, skipped.
1
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Tue Oct 10 2023
Transformer
Lou Reed
2
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Thu Oct 12 2023
Drunk
Thundercat
Good! The kind of spacey bullshit I like sometimes, right in line with Tame Impala. Must be a good 🍄 listen.
4
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Fri Oct 13 2023
Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers
Oof, I dunno if I’m gonna make it through this long-ass album (which clearly is the basis for Kid Rock’s entire musical catalog, except he’s so fucking edgy bro).
#4 this fucking sucks. Patience waning.
Nah man, I’m out, listening to the hits as ID’d by Spotify and then I’m moving on.
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Sat Oct 14 2023
Blur
Blur
2
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Sun Oct 15 2023
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
3
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Mon Nov 06 2023
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
Wow, guess I’ve not been paying attention and/or have only heads censored versions of the lyrics of Money for Nothing. Gross.
2
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Tue Nov 07 2023
The Stranger
Billy Joel
2
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Wed Nov 08 2023
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
One of the last years you could spend half a verse of a hip hop song talking about how much you love your mother in the same song you do “shave and a haircut.”
2
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Fri Nov 10 2023
Blackstar
David Bowie
Intense. Kind of ghoulish in retrospect, but Bowie knew what he was doing. I like it now, I bet I’ll love it in 10 years.
3
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Mon Nov 13 2023
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
3
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Wed Nov 15 2023
I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
1
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Thu Nov 16 2023
Manassas
Stephen Stills
Gave up, totally fine but just a Stills album.
3
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Fri Nov 17 2023
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
4
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Mon Nov 20 2023
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
3
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Tue Nov 21 2023
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
5
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Fri Dec 08 2023
World Clique
Deee-Lite
3
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Mon Dec 11 2023
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
4
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Tue Dec 12 2023
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
3
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Wed Dec 13 2023
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
3
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Thu Dec 14 2023
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
2
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Mon Dec 18 2023
Queen II
Queen
3
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Tue Dec 19 2023
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
3
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Wed Dec 20 2023
Picture Book
Simply Red
I actually really liked the first track but then it just kind of devolved into cheesy 80’s music (mediocre cheesy 80’s music to be specific).
2
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Thu Dec 21 2023
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
4
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Fri Dec 22 2023
Stripped
Christina Aguilera
3
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Mon Dec 25 2023
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
4
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Tue Dec 26 2023
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
3
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Wed Dec 27 2023
The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
I don’t even dislike the “sound” of this album, I’ve definitely heard and liked some of these and the band’s other songs before. In isolation, I can vibe with their songs. But a full album is very cloying for me. Sorry CHVRCHES.
2
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Thu Dec 28 2023
Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
I have high hopes for this being a very vibey album 🤞🏼
I was correct, a lot at once but a great part of a playlist.
3
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Mon Jan 01 2024
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
3
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Tue Jan 02 2024
Heroes
David Bowie
3
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Mon Jan 29 2024
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
4
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Tue Jan 30 2024
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
4
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Wed Jan 31 2024
Damaged
Black Flag
Loved this, goddamn.
5
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Fri Feb 02 2024
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
3
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Mon Feb 05 2024
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
Meh. Not my flavor of sad music but it’s objectively pretty good.
3
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
4
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Wed Feb 07 2024
Pieces Of The Sky
Emmylou Harris
3
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Thu Feb 08 2024
The Predator
Ice Cube
4
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Fri Feb 09 2024
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3
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Mon Feb 12 2024
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
How can you give the album that birthed a classic anything less?
5