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Thu Sep 14 2023
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
3
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Fri Sep 15 2023
I Should Coco
Supergrass
4
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Mon Sep 18 2023
Rubber Soul
Beatles
Rock 'n' Roll's history has some good examples of famous bands that ascended along an arc of commercial success, and then gave us a clear inflection point in their artistic expression after which nothing would ever be the same. This list will likely point to quite a few of them, but this record arguably changed everything.
5
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Tue Sep 19 2023
Brothers
The Black Keys
3
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Tue Sep 26 2023
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
4
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Mon Oct 02 2023
On The Beach
Neil Young
4
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Tue Oct 03 2023
Moondance
Van Morrison
5
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Wed Oct 04 2023
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Over. Rated
2
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Thu Oct 05 2023
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
3
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Mon Oct 09 2023
American Idiot
Green Day
3
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Wed Oct 11 2023
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
4
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Thu Oct 12 2023
Ctrl
SZA
3
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Fri Oct 13 2023
The White Album
Beatles
It might have been the greatest record of all time if it had been a single LP.
4
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Mon Oct 16 2023
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4
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Tue Oct 17 2023
Either Or
Elliott Smith
Hugely personal record for me.
5
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Wed Oct 18 2023
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
Some great songs, but not sure it holds up over time.
3
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Thu Oct 19 2023
A Seat at the Table
Solange
If your album has a song like "Cranes In the Sky" on it, it probably doesn't matter what the rest of it sounds like.
4
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Fri Oct 20 2023
Pelican West
Haircut 100
A truly terrible band who just were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
2
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Fri Oct 27 2023
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
Sure, it's just a pop record from a certain time and place, but these people knew what they were doing
4
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Mon Oct 30 2023
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
She wasn't just ahead of her time, she invented her time.
4
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Tue Oct 31 2023
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
The mothership has landed.
4
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Wed Nov 01 2023
The Blueprint
JAY Z
They don't call him The Greatest Rapper alive for nothing.
5
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Fri Nov 03 2023
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
It's easy to take for granted how good this band was, and for how long. It's not my favorite Cure record, but A Forest might be my favorite Cure song.
4
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Mon Nov 06 2023
Purple Rain
Prince
Loved it then. Not so much now.
3
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Tue Nov 07 2023
Kid A
Radiohead
Nearly perfect and captures it's time so well.
4
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Thu Nov 09 2023
The Stooges
The Stooges
Saying that they were ahead of their time doesn't even make half the point.
4
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Mon Nov 13 2023
Pearl
Janis Joplin
I can't stand her.
1
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Tue Nov 14 2023
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
YES
5
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Mon Nov 20 2023
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
5
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Wed Nov 22 2023
Take Me Apart
Kelela
3
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Mon Nov 27 2023
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
3
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Tue Nov 28 2023
Green
R.E.M.
5
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Tue Dec 05 2023
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4
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Wed Dec 06 2023
Ingenue
k.d. lang
5
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Fri Dec 08 2023
Throwing Muses
Throwing Muses
Does it hold up? Kinda yeah!
3
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Mon Dec 11 2023
Teen Dream
Beach House
3
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Tue Dec 12 2023
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
It's not really my thing, but there's no denying that it's a classic.
5
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Wed Dec 13 2023
Highly Evolved
The Vines
I sure did love this time in music with bands like The Vines, The Strokes, The Hives playing smart catchy riff-rock.
4
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Thu Dec 14 2023
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
He's not just another singer-songwriter, he's Paul freaking Simon.
4
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Fri Dec 15 2023
Elephant
The White Stripes
3
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Mon Dec 18 2023
The Joshua Tree
U2
5
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Tue Dec 19 2023
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
Meh.
2
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Tue Dec 26 2023
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
A classic, top to bottom.
5
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Tue Jan 02 2024
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
5
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Wed Jan 03 2024
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
They say he's a genius. They are correct.
4
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Thu Jan 04 2024
Copper Blue
Sugar
Such a great 90's record. Bob is a hero. I've tried to get every band I was ever in to cover "Helpless".
4
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Fri Jan 05 2024
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
2
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Fri Jan 12 2024
The Last Broadcast
Doves
I've gotta say Lost Souls is a better Doves record.
3
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Mon Jan 15 2024
Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
3
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Tue Jan 16 2024
Mothership Connection
Parliament
3
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Wed Jan 17 2024
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
Great record from a time when people were doing stuff for the first time.
3
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Thu Jan 18 2024
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
Meh. Just meh.
3
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Mon Jan 22 2024
2112
Rush
When it's good, it's amazing.
4
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Mon Jan 29 2024
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
I see a lot of the middling reviews for this record, but I think it goes to whether or not you get the Stones. This one is all about Keith and Nicky, and if that's not your thing, you'll likely want to pass on it. Despite being overly long, it's a distillation of their thing; a record to go to if you wanted to sum up what they're about.
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Tue Jan 30 2024
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
I was a kid the first time I heard Jailbreak, and it was off this record. Phil was really something special, but the whole band is so tight on these tracks. They're like a funkier, bluesier version of AC/DC here.
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Wed Jan 31 2024
Graceland
Paul Simon
Still very sublimely great.
5
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Wed Feb 07 2024
Grace
Jeff Buckley
Tragically, he's one of those artists that you wonder what they might have had in store for us in his future.
3
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
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Mon Feb 12 2024
In Rainbows
Radiohead
One of the best of their best. Perhaps it's an answer to the question of what's The One Radiohead album to listen to, if you could only pick one to explain this band.
5
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Tue Feb 13 2024
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
4
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
I've never listened to this record before but wow the guitars sound great. The band is just as tight as some of their later records are.
3
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Fri Feb 16 2024
A Northern Soul
The Verve
3
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Mon Mar 04 2024
Bossanova
Pixies
Not their best work maybe.
3
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Illmatic
Nas
It's an East Coast thing. Total classic.
4
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
My favorite Zep record since forever.
5
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
4
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
Classic
4
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Thu Apr 04 2024
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
Not so sure this sound has aged well.
2
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Horses
Patti Smith
I'm the person I am today because of this record.
5
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Mon Apr 08 2024
Van Halen
Van Halen
Classic Rock!
5
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Wed Apr 10 2024
Eagles
Eagles
4