Oct 12 2023
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The Yes Album
Yes
I liked some bits but they’re all over the place. Rock? Funk? Blues? Folk? Last song was too much, and the random organ solos interrupted songs I otherwise thought were okay.
2
Oct 13 2023
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Is This It
The Strokes
Never quite "got" the Strokes, I see why people do but it just doesn't do it for me for some reason. Never bought the CD or put their songs on playlists, but don't mind listening, just don't seek it out.
3
Oct 16 2023
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
Didn’t did the falsetto so much, but really like the back half, have a few new songs on playlists.
4
Oct 17 2023
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Pearl
Janis Joplin
Joplin’s singing, 5 stars. The keyboardists that had wayyyy to much input, not so much.
4
Oct 18 2023
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New Forms
Roni Size
I’ve never been a fan of the core sample used in drum and bass, so this was a harder listen. It was good as background music, but I really struggled to actively listen for some songs, and nothing really caught with me.
2
Oct 19 2023
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At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
Almost made four but the back half got too Jammy. Can totally see the roots of southern rock though.
3
Oct 20 2023
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Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
So many amazing songs, and his sound is so iconic and influential.
5
Oct 23 2023
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Let's Stay Together
Al Green
4
Oct 24 2023
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Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
I wasn’t expecting to drop 5 stars on this, but I listened to it 3 times today.
5
Oct 25 2023
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Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
Great balls of fire gets this the 2nd star.
2
Oct 26 2023
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Ray Of Light
Madonna
3
Oct 27 2023
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon
3
Oct 30 2023
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Blunderbuss
Jack White
Meh plus unoriginal. No idea why this was included, it’s not Jack White’s best work by far.
2
Oct 31 2023
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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
Great voice and some good sings, but felt pretty dated.
3
Nov 01 2023
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Vulnicura
Björk
Liked tracks 2 and 3, Tyler’s comments about sing talking were dead on.
3
Nov 02 2023
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Vento De Maio
Elis Regina
2
Nov 03 2023
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Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
Loved the first half, especially the title track. Back end gets a little chaotic but is still fun.
4
Nov 06 2023
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Be
Common
3
Nov 07 2023
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Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
Nov 08 2023
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Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Madness
2
Nov 09 2023
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Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
20 year old me would probably have liked this more, some decent stuff but nothing mind blowing.
3
Nov 10 2023
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xx
The xx
The intro song I think is really good but really overplayed, and I am suffer from over saturation like Ambika mentioned.
3
Nov 13 2023
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Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
Teenage Riot alone almost earns 5 stars for me. Love the noise.
5
Nov 14 2023
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The World is a Ghetto
War
Too scattered and 70s sounding for me.
2
Nov 15 2023
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Hot Shots II
The Beta Band
Liked Squares but the rest was a disappointment to me.
3
Nov 16 2023
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Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie made some of the songs tolerable, and there was the occasional interesting music experiment going on, but overall a really hard listen.
2
Nov 17 2023
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Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
5
Nov 23 2023
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
4
Nov 28 2023
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From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
Suspicious Minds gets this up to 3, otherwise this just sounds like a parody of itself.
3
Nov 29 2023
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Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
Not sure how original this is, mostly okay and pretty easy to listen too.
3
Nov 30 2023
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Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
I still like Love the One You're With, but the rest of the album was pretty mediocre. I am also suffering from late 60s/early 70s fatigue.
3
Dec 05 2023
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Stankonia
OutKast
Lots of great songs but some duds and too many interludes. BOB didn’t hit like it used to for me sadly.
4
Dec 06 2023
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Pretenders
Pretenders
Almost made 4 stars for me, but nothing grabbed me quite enough to add to a playlist which is my rubric for 4 stars.
Of course loved Hydne’s voice and I also liked the overall sound and punk-ish influences.
3
Dec 07 2023
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The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
3
Dec 15 2023
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Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
The saxophones or whatever woodwinds got in the way too much. I think it’s an interesting concept but just wasn’t working well with punk yelling for me.
2
Dec 19 2023
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The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
3
Dec 20 2023
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Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
Really like GBV, but they do suffer from being overly experimental at times.
4
Dec 21 2023
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Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
Too drum and bass heavy for my taste. I feel like the second half shows more of his style that is more to my liking, I liked going out of my mind, but the rest was pretty meh.
3
Dec 22 2023
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School's Out
Alice Cooper
2
Dec 27 2023
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Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
Kinda dug this a little bit, this is more my speed electronic wise
3
Dec 29 2023
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Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
Was hoping for more out of this, Red Dirt road was pretty good but rest was really tepid.
2
Jan 01 2024
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Dire Straits
Dire Straits
Really catchy, and deeper than I had assumed. I mainly think if Money For Nothing or Sultans if Swing, and was worried the album was going to be weak, but I enjoyed the whole thing.
4
Jan 02 2024
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Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
I enjoyed this, but it always faded into the background and never actively grabbed me.
3
Jan 05 2024
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Liquid Swords
GZA
3
Jan 08 2024
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The Next Day
David Bowie
2
Jan 10 2024
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Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
Sounded pretty modern at times despite a few bad songs. Not what I expected out of a 1969 folk album in a good way.
3
Jan 11 2024
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Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
Almost a 5 if not for a couple of stinkers at the end.
4
Jan 12 2024
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Blue Lines
Massive Attack
2
Jan 15 2024
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Arrival
ABBA
Dancing Queen and Fernando were okay.
2
Jan 16 2024
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Rio
Duran Duran
3
Jan 17 2024
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
3
Jan 18 2024
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In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
2
Jan 19 2024
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Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
4
Jan 23 2024
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Revolver
Beatles
Surprisingly mediocre.
3
Jan 25 2024
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In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
Great voice, just a little too sappy for my taste
3
Jan 26 2024
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At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
4
Jan 29 2024
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1989
Taylor Swift
That’s right, same as Yes!
2
Feb 01 2024
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Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
2
Feb 08 2024
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In Utero
Nirvana
4
Feb 09 2024
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Dry
PJ Harvey
I enjoyed it, but no one song quite grabbed me enough for 4 stars.
3
Feb 12 2024
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
More of a spoken word album than music. Kinda enjoyed it as mood music.
3
Feb 13 2024
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Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
Really liked her voice but the songs didn’t end up on any of my playlists.
3
Feb 14 2024
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Happy Sad
Tim Buckley
Trite lyrics ruined by excessive vibraphone and weird guitar noodling.
1
Feb 15 2024
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Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
Pretty decent, and good background music.
3
Feb 16 2024
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Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
Between the overplayed nature of some songs, a lot of it not aging super well, and the non-singles being pretty weak I’m surprisingly giving this a low rating.
2
Feb 19 2024
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Green
R.E.M.
3
Feb 27 2024
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So
Peter Gabriel
4
Feb 28 2024
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Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera
3
Feb 29 2024
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Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
3
Mar 04 2024
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25
Adele
3
Mar 05 2024
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Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
4
Mar 06 2024
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Faust IV
Faust
4
Mar 14 2024
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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
3
Mar 20 2024
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A Little Deeper
Ms. Dynamite
3
Mar 21 2024
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2112
Rush
Pretty self indulgent feeling to me, and nothing in particular grabbed me.
2
Mar 22 2024
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Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney
4
Mar 25 2024
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In Rainbows
Radiohead
4
Mar 26 2024
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Debut
Björk
3
Mar 27 2024
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Talking Timbuktu
Ali Farka Touré
4
Mar 28 2024
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Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
4
Mar 29 2024
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First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
3
Apr 01 2024
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Ten
Pearl Jam
I'm not trying to be a hater, but this album just never has done it for me. My wife is convinced I hate Pearl Jam because I always skip/change the station whenever a song from Ten comes on.
I actually like (and owned) Yield and Vitalogy back in the day, but I don't think I ever had the slightest inclination to buy Ten.
There's just something about Vedder's moaning/warbling on this album that grates me, and I probably wouldn't have such a strong opinion if the songs hadn't been etched into my eardrums for 30 years due to MTV/Alt Rock Radio/Classic Alt radio.
I had to suppress an audible "Ugh" when the Alive intro came on, and skipped half the album because I already know it by heart, despite not being a huge fan. The non-megahit songs are mediocre, and there were no hidden gems for me.
This might have been a 3 star review if I wasn't sick and tired of most of the hits, but there were multiple skips in this one for me.
2
Apr 02 2024
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Some great songs, but not all.
4
Apr 03 2024
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Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
Some interesting bits, but mostly noodly experimental non-songs.
2
Apr 04 2024
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Reign In Blood
Slayer
I liked a lot of the guitar, but the high pitched wailing and dumb lyrics spoiled it.
2
Apr 11 2024
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m b v
My Bloody Valentine
3
Apr 15 2024
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C'est Chic
CHIC
Pretty fun listen, but not anything I’d regularly listen to.
3
Apr 24 2024
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90
808 State
2
Apr 29 2024
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Either Or
Elliott Smith
5
Apr 30 2024
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Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Hard to hear it for what it was in its era, but overall enjoyable.
3
May 01 2024
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One World
John Martyn
1
May 02 2024
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Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
1
May 06 2024
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Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Surprisingly meh.
3
May 07 2024
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Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
I knew the couple hits and liked then, but the overall album was pretty weak and disappointing.
3
May 08 2024
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Van Halen
Van Halen
3
May 13 2024
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Abbey Road
Beatles
4
May 17 2024
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Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
This was pretty meh aside from the two singles.
3
May 21 2024
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Master Of Puppets
Metallica
4
May 22 2024
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Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
3
May 28 2024
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Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
4
May 29 2024
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Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3
May 30 2024
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Under Construction
Missy Elliott
3
Jun 03 2024
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Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
3
Jun 04 2024
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Sea Change
Beck
4
Jun 05 2024
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Permission to Land
The Darkness
3
Jun 07 2024
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Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
5
Jun 10 2024
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Live At The Regal
B.B. King
4
Jun 12 2024
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Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
Too far into noise, there were some good parts, but it never managed to be coherent enough for me.
2
Jun 17 2024
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
5
Jun 18 2024
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Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
4
Jun 20 2024
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(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
3
Jul 01 2024
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To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
4
Jul 02 2024
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3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
Closer to a 3.5, some catchy songs.
3
Jul 03 2024
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I See You
The xx
3
Jul 04 2024
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The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
4
Jul 08 2024
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
4
Jul 09 2024
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Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
3
Jul 10 2024
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Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4
Jul 11 2024
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At Budokan
Cheap Trick
3
Jul 18 2024
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Skylarking
XTC
1
Jul 23 2024
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Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
3
Aug 05 2024
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Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
Might be nostalgia, might not, but can listen to this all the way through still.
5
Aug 13 2024
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Pink Moon
Nick Drake
5
Aug 16 2024
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Funeral
Arcade Fire
Didn’t hit quite the same as it did 18 years ago, but still pretty good.
4
Aug 21 2024
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Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets
This was really interesting and a unique sound, but had trouble separating it from the Nirvana unplugged songs.
3
Sep 05 2024
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It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
I've got a soft spot for Drug Buddy and It's a Shame about Ray, but overall is meh and feels super dated.
3
Sep 06 2024
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Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
4