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Fri Oct 06 2023
Is This It
The Strokes
Pretty good but I find the structures a bit repetitive and unexciting (as with back in the day). It's not something I'd ever want to listen to more than twice.
3
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Sat Oct 07 2023
Elephant
The White Stripes
3
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Sat Oct 07 2023
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
4
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Mon Oct 09 2023
Blur
Blur
Technically admirable, but after a while I find Albarn's schtick a bit tiresome. It feels a bit forced and try-hard for the sake of catchiness, getting duller on repeat listens rather than revealing anything more.
3
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Tue Oct 10 2023
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
4
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Wed Oct 11 2023
Rio
Duran Duran
5
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Fri Oct 13 2023
Disraeli Gears
Cream
4
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Sat Oct 14 2023
Moving Pictures
Rush
I own this on vinyl and have always loved it! Those opening moments of Tom Sawyer, awesome.
5
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Mon Oct 16 2023
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
4
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Tue Oct 17 2023
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
5
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Wed Oct 18 2023
Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
Still sounds like the kind of music stoners play in flats above shops to impress each other. Or videogame music to an R-type or Wipeout game.
2
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Thu Oct 19 2023
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
Sounds like an annoying barn dance you wish you never agreed to go to, so you pretend to have a headache and leave early.
1
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Fri Oct 20 2023
Konnichiwa
Skepta
I hate aggressive music with corny lyrics forced for the sake of rhyming but made to sound meaningful via ranty delivery. It's too phony and try-hard. Not my thing I guess.
1
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Sat Oct 21 2023
Marquee Moon
Television
4
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Sun Oct 22 2023
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
5
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Mon Oct 23 2023
Blackstar
David Bowie
I'll admit I didn't think much when released. But somehow drawn to it since and has grown to reveal its brilliance. The best kind of album.
5
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Wed Oct 25 2023
Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
2
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Thu Oct 26 2023
Madman Across The Water
Elton John
1
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Fri Oct 27 2023
Timeless
Goldie
Makes me feel like I'm playing a space shootey Playstation 1 game
2
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Sat Oct 28 2023
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
Dated, sometimes good, sometimes annoying and try-hard.
3
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Sun Oct 29 2023
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
Really annoying to listen to. It sounds like Syd et al are thinking far more about themselves than the listener, in trying to be impressively quirky.
2
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Mon Oct 30 2023
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
4
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Tue Oct 31 2023
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
4
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Wed Nov 01 2023
Parallel Lines
Blondie
4
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Thu Nov 02 2023
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
4
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Fri Nov 03 2023
The Rise & Fall
Madness
1
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Sat Nov 04 2023
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The best album I've heard since Trout Mask Replica
5
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Mon Nov 06 2023
Live!
Fela Kuti
5
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Tue Nov 07 2023
25
Adele
2
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Wed Nov 08 2023
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
No.
1
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Thu Nov 09 2023
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
2
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Fri Nov 10 2023
Be
Common
2
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Mon Nov 13 2023
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
It just sound so insincere. Trying so hard to be soulful, but purely for the sake of it.
2
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Tue Nov 14 2023
The World is a Ghetto
War
4
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Thu Nov 16 2023
Achtung Baby
U2
The lyrics and singing style sound so phoney, like a massive ego pretending it has a good connection to reality.
1
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Mon Nov 20 2023
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
I've always struggled to fully embrace JD to the level I felt I should. After many tries, I feel Ive finally synced with their vibe as much as I ever will.
4
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Tue Nov 21 2023
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
4
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Wed Nov 22 2023
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
I loved Nilsson ever since watching a pirate copy of (then banned) Reservoir Dogs on a holiday in St Ives as a 14 year old. My beloved cavachon dog is called Arrow after a Nilsson song. When people ask and I explain, they've never heard of Nilsson, except this one girl who started singing the song as soon as I said Arrow. Anyway Nilsson was terrific, so many absolute bangers. If you let this album slip through your ears as "some random folksy thing" then screw you. It's better than that.
5
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Fri Nov 24 2023
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
4
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Mon Nov 27 2023
Murmur
R.E.M.
4
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Thu Nov 30 2023
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4
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Sun Dec 03 2023
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
4
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Fri Dec 08 2023
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
4
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Sat Dec 09 2023
Grace
Jeff Buckley
2
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Mon Dec 11 2023
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
I always overlooked this album, without realising how Bjorky it actually is. She's of course her earlier, kookier, excited self which is refreshing after her more recent, joyless heavy eco stuff. There are plenty of those weird little Bjork growls here. By the way, if you haven't seen her exploring the inside of a TV on YouTube, search for it now, it's the best thing on the internet.
4
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Thu Dec 14 2023
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
1
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Fri Dec 15 2023
Moon Safari
Air
I can see how it might sound a bit old and pretentious by now, but back in the day, after the peak of britpop and a wave of nu-metal it sounded so original and fresh.
4
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Sat Dec 16 2023
Eliminator
ZZ Top
1
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Tue Dec 19 2023
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
4
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Thu Dec 21 2023
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Loved it.
5
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Mon Dec 25 2023
Illmatic
Nas
4
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Mon Jan 01 2024
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3
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Thu Jan 04 2024
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
So dreary and uninteresting. I feel so many of these albums become acclaimed only because of background factors pushing their exposure.
1
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Mon Jan 08 2024
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
4
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Tue Jan 09 2024
Violator
Depeche Mode
This album bizarrely passed me by despite being an 80s kid into The Cure, a-Ha, Erasure. I caught up with it only in '23 after acquiring a bunch of free DM vinyl, and became one of my most listened to albums that year. It's nuts that I was far more familiar with Tori Amos' Enjoy The Silence than DMs. It's a brilliant record, that still sounds completely fresh and exciting.
5
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Tue Jan 16 2024
Abbey Road
Beatles
I won't dispute its classic greatness. But it's not something I'd want to listen to as much as a Captain Beefheart or NIN record for example. It's too catchy for its own good. I still prefer Nilsson.
5
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Sun Jan 21 2024
Close To The Edge
Yes
5
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Fri Jan 26 2024
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
4
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Wed Feb 07 2024
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
2
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Sat Feb 10 2024
Van Halen
Van Halen
5
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Sat Feb 17 2024
Cross
Justice
5
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Mon Feb 19 2024
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I've listened to this countless times since it's original release and have always loved it. It's just as compelling, inspired and energising now as it ever was. Seeing low reviews from people who haven't even heard of it, citing low expectations purely from the cover, makes me feel quite sad.
5
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Tue Feb 20 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
5
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
1
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Mon Mar 04 2024
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
5
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
3
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Fri Mar 08 2024
1977
Ash
I'm biased by very fond memories of the beautiful 90s.
4
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
5
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Tue Mar 19 2024
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
I listened a bunch of times on release, but this never quite clicked for me. Some of it I love, but some of it grates in that whiny Thom way.
3
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Wed Mar 20 2024
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
4
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
I always thought I hated The Smiths, but found myself enjoying this.
4
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Sun Mar 24 2024
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
I can see why this be overlooked or misunderstood to listeners not familiar with Trent Reznor's work. I wasn't keen on first listens back in the 90s, even as a fan of Pretty Hate Machine, it sounded inaccessible and chaotically angry in a way that I just didn't care for. But having listened so many more times, and being intimately familiar with the rest of his work, I have come to appreciate this as one of too five favourites of all time. Trent's meticulous attention to detail, his amazing mix of creativity and expression with an absolute perfectionist approach to production is extraordinary. Whereas lots of other 90s industrial rock efforts sound dated now, anything by NIN still sounds fresh and timeless, despite countless listens. It's a genuine masterpiece, a modern classic work of art.
5
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
4
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Boston
Boston
4
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Hunting High And Low
a-ha
I've always loved A-Ha, brilliant song craft and production which continued for decades. This album is easy to overlook and underestimate.
5
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Tue Apr 02 2024
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
I listened to this so much back in the day, and even went to a note-by-note reproduction thing by an ensemble at an arts center. Listening again now, it's a strange mix of absolute familiarity and bits I'd forgotten. Still great though. Overall, an easy five stars.
5
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Remedy
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx was the worst gig I ever went to. A friend persuaded me to go with them, around 50 miles away, and I was sucked into the whole "oh yeah, Basement Jaxx are cool! Why not!" thing. I was only mainly familiar with Red Alert and Wheres Your Head At. But everything, including those tracks, is dull, dire, soulless, phony. Everyone at the gig was so bored and distracted, drinking, it was more like a room of noisy morons with some lame DJs barely audible on the side.
This album is so boring and uninspired. I just can't imagine anyone listened to it more than twice, or had it as a favourite album. It feels like a cynical marketing ploy aimed at the weird British class-derived-inadequacy thing of identifying with bands like Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack as currency to "be cool". People would namedrop Basement Jaxx if asked about favourite bands, even if they couldn't name a single track outside of the singles.
I'm shocked/disappointed it's actually on the list. There is no cultural legacy or onward influence here to explore, it's just absolute shit.
1
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Sat Apr 06 2024
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
5
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Mon Apr 08 2024
In Utero
Nirvana
5
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Tue Apr 09 2024
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
4
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Tue Apr 23 2024
Ten
Pearl Jam
I bought one of those classic Pearl Jam 'Alive' t shirts from HMV in the mid 90s, except mine was long sleeved and have purple instead of the usual red writing. I put it on eBay a few years ago and it sold for £280. I wasn't expecting that.
This is a bona-fide classic 90s album that I adore as much now as I ever did - only a few seem to have that quality (Nevermind, Downward Spiral, Vast by Vast).
5
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Mon Apr 29 2024
Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
4
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Tue Apr 30 2024
Parklife
Blur
2
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Sat May 04 2024
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
Weirdly I asked Alexa today to play music while I took a dump in the house (drowns out the sounds for house guests) and it played Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Then I thought "damn, I need to listen to that album again". Then I checked 1001 generator and it was that album. What are the chances? Anyhow, amazing album of course, I love it.
5
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Sun May 05 2024
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
I love this album. It's honest, sincere, emotionally intelligent, fun to listen to, stands up to repeat listens, and made with genuine passion.
5
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Tue May 07 2024
Dirt
Alice In Chains
5
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Mon May 13 2024
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
I bought this on CD in my mid teens, after liking the Bob Dylan track on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. I remember thinking that all the copies in stores were bootlegs because of the weird camera shake effect that makes it look like a bad print.
5
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Thu May 16 2024
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
5
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Mon May 20 2024
Different Class
Pulp
Something about Jarvis's writing and delivery really irks me, especially the little bursts of desperate faux-sincerity he throws out to justice an awkward rhyme or give some life to the monotony. Its over-identification with the working class underdog to the point of phoniness, even smug superiority. But there are definitely some nostalgic tunes here, I just hate having to listen to more than ten minutes of it.
2
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Thu May 23 2024
Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
Somehow this led to me listening to Paula Abdul, and that Straight Up song, which is the best.
3
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Sat Jun 01 2024
1989
Taylor Swift
Come on, you don't have to be all negative and spiteful just because TS is wildly successful. As a record, this is a brilliant production full of excellent tracks. To say otherwise is just daft.
5
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Fri Jul 05 2024
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
4
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Mon Jul 08 2024
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
5
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Mon Jul 22 2024
Treasure
Cocteau Twins
Hadn't heard before, loved it.
5