Sep 21 2023
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Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
3
Sep 22 2023
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Abbey Road
Beatles
5
Sep 24 2023
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Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4
Sep 25 2023
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Ramones
Ramones
2
Sep 26 2023
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
As sonic wallpaper while I worked it was fine, but I don't know why someone would deliberately sit down and listen to this.
2
Sep 27 2023
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Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
A bona-fide classic.
5
Sep 28 2023
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
I'll be honest, I had very low expectations, and half of this album met those on the nose. But once we got past the usual misogynistic dross, there were a few tunes in here that I kind of enjoyed - Super Rich Kids had me humming along, Bad Religion I liked. Enough to come back to it? I doubt it, but I don't regret listening.
2
Sep 29 2023
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Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
Admittedly Malian blues funk isn’t usually high on my list of dog walk listening material, but good work lads
4
Sep 30 2023
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In Utero
Nirvana
As a child of the 90s, Nirvana is in my wheelhouse, but I think this is the first time I’ve listened to In Utero end to end. It’s… fine?
3
Oct 01 2023
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Immigrés
Youssou N'Dour
Pleasant enough for a Sunday afternoon
3
Oct 02 2023
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Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
Meh. Didn't hate it but not likely to be coming back
2
Oct 03 2023
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Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
Just give me this one every day and we’ll call it quits yeah?
5
Oct 04 2023
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Figure 8
Elliott Smith
It feels a bit like cheating when you get an album that you already know well, but don't mind this one bit. I can see it might not be everybody's taste though, and perhaps it needed a couple more upbeat tracks to round it off.
4
Oct 05 2023
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Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
Good rock'n'roll
4
Oct 06 2023
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Meh
2
Oct 07 2023
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Tapestry
Carole King
This is already in my music downloads on my phone, because it’s a classic
5
Oct 08 2023
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The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
Nice
4
Oct 09 2023
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Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
Liz Phair, dearly beloved of mid 90s music press, but somehow passed me by. To my great regret, because I really enjoyed this
4
Oct 10 2023
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Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
Bonus point for the relief I felt when I realised it wasn’t Limp Bizkit
2
Oct 12 2023
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1989
Taylor Swift
Ignore the snobs. Pop greatness.
4
Oct 13 2023
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Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem
Fine as sonic wallpaper
3
Oct 14 2023
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Liquid Swords
GZA
If it was my sort of thing I’d probably love it, but it’s not so I don’t
3
Oct 15 2023
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1984
Van Halen
Yeah... no. This is of a time that I think is best forgotten. On the plus side, it's only 33 minutes long.
1
Oct 16 2023
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At Budokan
Cheap Trick
As someone who thinks Surrender is one of the best pop songs ever written, this has long been on my "to listen" list. Sadly I have to agree with many of the other reviewers, I don't think I've really missed out. Other than Surrender it's pretty vanilla rock'n'roll.
3
Oct 17 2023
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Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
I'll take it
4
Oct 18 2023
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Third
Portishead
Not my jam, but let's not pretend that if this was Radiohead you wouldn't be calling it the best album ever.
3
Oct 19 2023
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Sunshine Hit Me
The Bees
Nice, but I don't think I'd make a point of listening to it
3
Oct 20 2023
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Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
Being of an age to have seen RFTC live at Reading in '96, this has a certain nostalgia for me. It does fairly rock along too, although it's not the most sophisticated music going, and the well-known songs (On A Rope, Born In '69) are probably the highlights.
4
Oct 21 2023
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The Blueprint
JAY Z
Jay-Z has a small winky, pass it on.
As it happens, I was going to skip this but in the spirit of the project I ploughed on fully expecting to hate it, but ... I didn't. The music production is great, a rap record where I don't just think every song sounds the same. But, ffs guys, let's find something else to talk about than h*es and n*ggas?
3
Oct 31 2023
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All Mod Cons
The Jam
4