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Fri Oct 06 2023
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
The hits are good ("Hurt" in particular). Pleasant listening. The covers of super well known songs (Desperado, In My Life, Bridge Over Troubled Waters) seem unnecessary. A little boring overall.
3
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Mon Oct 09 2023
The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Side one is fantastic. Ballads on side 2 get a little samey and a little over-orchestrated for my taste.
4
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Tue Oct 10 2023
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
Very good, fun record. The hits are great, but also very little filler. Maybe not much to come back to except to throw on playlists?
4
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Wed Oct 11 2023
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
Fantastic. Starts perfect through first 3 tracks. Slows down little by the end, but all great.
5
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Thu Oct 12 2023
Teen Dream
Beach House
This feels like a "vibes" kind of record and for whatever reason I'm not on their wavelength. Fine for background at a dinner party, but not something I'm going to listen to.
3
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Fri Oct 13 2023
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
Real good. Great production. Could cut off the last few songs and it might be better, but the run through the middle of the album is killer. I don't know enough about the genre to speak definitively, but hard for me to imagine a much better version of what this is.
4
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Mon Oct 16 2023
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
The hits are great, especially waiting for the bus. The rest is solid, but not especially memorable blues rock.
4
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Tue Oct 17 2023
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
Some good tracks (don't believe the hype was a favorite). More flava flav than I expected. Kind of exhausting to listen to the whole thing.
4
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Wed Oct 18 2023
Beautiful Freak
Eels
Quirky 90s pop-rock. Not really my thing. Some unusual stuff maintains interest a little, but just not enough there for me to grab onto.
3
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Thu Oct 19 2023
The Rise & Fall
Madness
Never heard of them. Ska? Nah. Our house? That song from insurance commercials? Nah. Not on Spotify? Nah. But.... This was actually pretty great. Saw it compared to the Kinks Village Green preservation society, and that seems about right. Catchy, nostalgic songs about English life, with a sense of humor. Not really any duds in the bunch. Good stuff.
4
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Fri Oct 20 2023
Gris Gris
Dr. John
Awesome. Loved this one a long time. The vibe is perfect.
5
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Mon Oct 23 2023
Parklife
Blur
Really enjoyed it. Another very British record. A little more Kinksy than I expected. May need to go back to it to see how it sounds a second time.
4
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Tue Oct 24 2023
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
Near perfect. Great as background or close listening. Just awesome
5
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Wed Oct 25 2023
Dare!
The Human League
Interesting. This seems like the ultimate synth heavy early 80s album. It was pretty great, although vocals are so front and center in the mix it's hard to ignore how dumb the lyrics sometimes are.
4
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Thu Oct 26 2023
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
Tough to rate. I liked it, but it also sort of faded into the background while I was listening. Very cool vibe. Nice vocals. Should be a bond theme.
4
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Fri Oct 27 2023
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
This is great for what it is, but I feel like I've heard the hits more than enough for my lifetime, and the rest is good and well-played, but mostly not my style. A little too soft-rocky, maybe.
3
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Mon Oct 30 2023
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
pretty great. rocked more than i thought it would. may need another listen to be sure i liked it that much.
4
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Tue Oct 31 2023
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
Some great bits, especially the title track is incredible, but not loving everything.
4
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Wed Nov 01 2023
Django Django
Django Django
Not objectionable, really, but not great. Maybe I'd vaguely heard of this band, but had no idea what to expect. To put it in the worst way... like Mumford & Sons, plus bleeps and bloops. Animal Collective + Americana. Better than it could have been, but sounded silly on occasion.
3
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Thu Nov 02 2023
Want One
Rufus Wainwright
Interesting. A little too subdued for long stretches. May take a few listens to fully absorb and may grow on me more. Really liked "Go or Go Ahead"... Sound alike Radiohead a bit.
3
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Fri Nov 03 2023
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
Weird. Kinda sounds like captain beefheart. Can't say I loved it, but it's the kind of thing that takes more than one listen. Not sure I'll give it that. There were a couple tracks that were kind fun... Wine spodyody especially
3
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Tue Nov 07 2023
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
Pretty cool. jammier than I thought it would be. Not sure it's in the permanent rotation.
4
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Wed Nov 08 2023
Follow The Leader
Korn
More to enjoy than I thought (particularly uptempo tunes had some cool hard-ass grooves), but gets exhausting, then intolerable as it goes on.
3
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Thu Nov 09 2023
Young Americans
David Bowie
Good! A few songs I hadn't heard on here that were good. Not great 100% of the way through but Fame is a classic and a few others.
4
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Mon Nov 13 2023
Funeral
Arcade Fire
It's good. I love Neighborhood 3 (Powers Out). There's just enough songs that don't really do anything for me that I always tune out. Maybe some more listens would help, but I probably wont.
4
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Wed Nov 15 2023
Ten
Pearl Jam
Cool. I've heard most of these a million times. The ones I hadn't were fine, but I'm not going crazy about them.
4
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Thu Nov 16 2023
Whatever
Aimee Mann
Eh, didn't finish it. I found the music kind of boring and offputting for some reason, outside a couple songs. I'm sure the lyrics are good, but did not do it for me.
2