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Mon Oct 16 2023
Parallel Lines
Blondie
4
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Tue Oct 17 2023
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
2
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Wed Oct 18 2023
Live!
Fela Kuti
Super funky and a joy to listen to!
5
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Thu Oct 19 2023
Graceland
Paul Simon
3
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Fri Oct 20 2023
Be
Common
3
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Mon Oct 23 2023
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4
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Wed Oct 25 2023
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
Melodic, folksy, and pleasant.
3
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Thu Oct 26 2023
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Pleasant, jangly mixture of guitar based folks and rock, with country thrown in.
3
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Fri Oct 27 2023
The United States Of America
The United States Of America
Experimental 60s pop. Very Sergeant Pepper but without the melodies.
2
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Mon Oct 30 2023
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Folksy warbling. Not my cup of tea.
1
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Tue Oct 31 2023
Document
R.E.M.
4
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Wed Nov 01 2023
Connected
Stereo MC's
4
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Thu Nov 02 2023
Transformer
Lou Reed
Now I see why They Might Be Giants write some songs as they do! Phenomenal writing here, with occasionally beautiful melodies.
4
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Fri Nov 03 2023
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
Beautiful, unexpected, and so smooth!
5
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Mon Nov 06 2023
The Wall
Pink Floyd
Prog rock. Regular rock with a story and weird sound effects thrown in on top of a story...kinda?
3
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Tue Nov 07 2023
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
Fantastic easy listening bossa nova vibes!
4
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Wed Nov 08 2023
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
Occasional delights but mainly David Byrne's weird cadence waddling all over meandering melodies while Brian Eno tries to make sense of the mess of it. Lightning occasionally strikes but it's too seldom for me.
2
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Thu Nov 09 2023
You Are The Quarry
Morrissey
Surprisingly jaunty album with acerbic lyrics. Morrissey is too clever for his own good, too often, like Jeremy Corbyn who, if he were Morrissey, might produce something more folksy and less accessible than this.
3
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Fri Nov 10 2023
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
Screamy metal with occasional delights…but mostly screamy metal.
2
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Mon Nov 13 2023
Dookie
Green Day
Teen angst rock. Bleurgh.
1
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Tue Nov 14 2023
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
Some really nice rhythms and bass lines here but the strong religious and R&B vibes ain't my favorite. Easy listen, though.
3
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Wed Nov 15 2023
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
Surprisingly diverting rock. “Elected” is really a fun song with more incisive lyrics than I’d have attributed to Alice Cooper!
3
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Thu Nov 16 2023
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
4
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Fri Nov 17 2023
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
An astounding range of wit, soul, and polemicizing wrapped in Simone’s phenomenal voice. Too few songs truly pierce my ears but almost every one takes hold of my attention.
4
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Mon Nov 20 2023
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
As much as I appreciate that the album is an ode to Syd Barrett after his exit from the band, the whole concept strikes me as ponderous self-indulgence. From the schoolboy lyrics lamenting the band’s experience of their own success to the guitar licks that have inspired overbite-air-guitaring for generations, it’s insufficiently interesting and not especially engaging.
3
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Tue Nov 21 2023
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
A more pop-oriented album than I’d expected, with songs like I Started Something and Girlfriend in a Coma leading the way. Overall too jangly and underplayed bass lines for me, however.
3
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Wed Nov 22 2023
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
Tremendously listenable funk.
4
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Thu Nov 23 2023
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
Almost every song is one idea repeated ad nauseum. Sure, that’s a fine thing in jazz when variations are layered through the performance but here it’s simple repetition with vocal gymnastics as the center of attention. It’s tiresome. Lyrically it’s moribund. “Superstition” is of course a hoot, and other tracks occasionally pop with funk, but nonsense like “You’ve Got It Bad Girl” and “Maybe Your Baby” are juvenile.
2
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Fri Nov 24 2023
Repeater
Fugazi
Screamy, angry punk rock that connects with me on zero levels.
1
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Mon Nov 27 2023
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
Overbite rock that likely was quite a divergence from the norm at the time but now is the soundtrack to Boomer age despair and complaints about the state of the world. Musicianship? Sure. But borders on easy listening too often.
3
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Tue Nov 28 2023
Madman Across The Water
Elton John
Elton John and Bernie Taupin write some great songs but this album contains none of them. Their romantic fascination with the Old American West is on full show, with John’s faux American singing accent dominating every song, like a crooner at an English working men’s club on a boozy singalong night, while Taupin tries to ape the Great American Songbook’s storytelling-in-song but never quite gets there. Too many themes and too little story. “Tiny Dancer”, for example, occasionally delights but is smothered in its wrapper of New Orleans piano pastiche. I can see why this was not popular in the UK and sold like hotcakes in the US.
1
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Wed Nov 29 2023
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
Some interesting diversions here! “Freedom” is fantastic. But rap isn’t my favorite.
3
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Thu Nov 30 2023
1977
Ash
Loud. Boisterous. Says little.
2
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Fri Dec 01 2023
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
New-wave/punk that sounds like a student band practicing in their dorm room.
1
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Mon Dec 04 2023
Metallica
Metallica
Metal metal metal! After a while it all sounds the same.
2
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Tue Dec 05 2023
American Idiot
Green Day
Angst rock. Occasionally melodic but too one note in sound and themes.
2
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Wed Dec 06 2023
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
I could listen to this all day every day and never get bored.
4
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Thu Dec 07 2023
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
Rock / funk combination that disappears so far up its own backside it can see the back of its own teeth.
2
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Mon Dec 11 2023
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
3
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Tue Dec 12 2023
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
Don’t Cry Daddy is creepy AF. Otherwise pretty much your standard Elvis crooner fare. Meh.
2
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Wed Dec 13 2023
Fly Or Die
N.E.R.D
A mix of genres lobbed into a stew. It sometimes works but mostly seems juvenile to me. And the lyrics are some of the worst adolescent poetry I’ve ever heard.
2
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Thu Dec 14 2023
Whatever
Aimee Mann
Every song sounds like the last one, with plaintive lyrics that warble on. And “Jacob Marley’s Chain” steals its main melody from Nik Kershaw’s “The Riddle” almost wholesale.
2
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Fri Dec 15 2023
Your Arsenal
Morrissey
Surprisingly fun listen, with plenty to pick apart in the music and lyrics. Morrissey confounds me. Sometimes I think he's a genius and others he seems aimless.
3
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Mon Dec 18 2023
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
An unexpected delight. Joplin wailing over some psychedelic blues riffs…what’s not to like?
3
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Tue Dec 19 2023
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
I need to listen to this more.
3
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Wed Dec 20 2023
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
I’ve always liked this album, though it flits between delights that are almost perfect and odd curiosities that only barely work. His later albums tended more to the latter but this remains a gem of the 80s.
4
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Thu Dec 21 2023
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
Meh. A mish-mash of under-produced melodies.
2
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Fri Dec 22 2023
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
Fascinating listening. Jazz and blues mixed with political poetry. Not my jam but eminently listenable with a ton of depth.
3
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Mon Dec 25 2023
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
Pleasant melodic pop rock. Remarkably consistent throughout and definitely the sound of its age.
4
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Wed Dec 27 2023
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
It's a fine album. Not really my jam.
3
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Fri Dec 29 2023
Disintegration
The Cure
More poppy than I’d anticipated!
4
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Mon Jan 01 2024
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
Adolescent.
2
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Wed Jan 03 2024
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
Sample noodling in its earlyish days. Occasionally grooves but it’s more experimental than musical. Notable for what it helped pioneer but not for its own musical merits.
2
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Thu Jan 04 2024
Stripped
Christina Aguilera
I just don’t care. Saccharine, whiny relationship bollocks. Sure it’s got Hugh production values and clearly they hired a bunch of talented songwriters. But it’s pop R&B. For over an HOUR. Yikes.
2
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Mon Jan 08 2024
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
Bigmouth Strikes Again remains a staple of the 1980s. Morrissey being his usual dour self, with adolescent angst as the main course. Johnny Marr raises the stakes throughout.
4
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Tue Jan 09 2024
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
Hauntingly beautiful. Cohen's poetry, delivery, and the orchestration of "You Want It Darker", "Treaty", and "Steer Your Way" are absolutely amazing. Definitely an album for shadowy rooms and brooding moods.
4
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Wed Jan 10 2024
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
More engaging than I was expecting, a pleasant throwback to 1980's rock/synth pop. Too many single idea songs here, though, drawn out for far too long. And maudlin. SO. MAUDLIN.
3
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Thu Jan 11 2024
So Much For The City
The Thrills
It's pleasant enough. Weird to have a band from Dublin croon about Santa Cruz and LA but fair enough. I can see why George W Bush had a track on his iPod -- jangly guitars and so on.
3
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Mon Jan 15 2024
Violator
Depeche Mode
Violator was such a surprise when it was released and it is still an exceptional album these many years later. Gahan’s lyrics, shot through with his addiction and fascination with heroin, are suggestive and grimy, set amidst synths and dance beats that have been dragged into back alleys where addicts are slumped against damp, graffiti’d brick walls. But there they spring blooms in shafts of sunlight, truly lying in the gutter but looking at the stars. “Policy of Truth” is a marvel. “Personal Jesus” is wry and threatening. And “Enjoy the Silence” blends romanticism and the confessional. Flood’s production is daring and orchestral, making the band’s electronica speak to the heart and groin. There are some low points in the album but they are transcended by the huge heights of its epic wonders.
5
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Tue Jan 16 2024
25
Adele
Incessant warbling. I get that Adele’s voice is a marvel but it’s overused, melodies and phrases are repeated as nauseum in service of it, and the lyrics are far from poetry. Boring.
2
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Wed Jan 17 2024
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
Some true gems here. Aside from the novelty “Coconut” record, “Without You” is a classic, but it’s the range of styles and themes that’s most impressive. I feel like I’ve missed out on a whole world by not appreciating Nilsson before now.
5
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Thu Jan 18 2024
1984
Van Halen
Juvenile.
1
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Fri Jan 19 2024
On The Beach
Neil Young
It's...fine. Young's lyrics are sometimes comically silly and simple, which makes it hard to get to the root of what he's trying to say. The melodies are...fine.
3
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Mon Jan 22 2024
Frank
Amy Winehouse
I’m not a huge fan of jazz. Correction: I’m not a fan of jazz. But there’s something about Amy Winehouse that is irresistible. “Valerie” is wonderful. “Fuck Me Pumps” is fantastically ascerbic. “You Should Be Stronger Than Me” is a song for the ages. This is eminently listenable in so many moods.
4
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Tue Jan 23 2024
Green
R.E.M.
I wish I could like REM more but I cannot get past Michael Stipe's voice. It grates. It's uni-tonal. It's atonal. "Stand" is a fun song. "Orange Crush" has moments. But almost everything else seems like whiny college navel-gazing.
2
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Wed Jan 24 2024
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
3
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Thu Jan 25 2024
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
Chun-chun-chun-chunnnnnng! For an hour. No.
1
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Fri Jan 26 2024
S&M
Metallica
Chun-chun-chunnnnng with an orchestra trying to make itself heard in the background. For 2 hours and 13 minutes. It's a novelty record.
1
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Mon Jan 29 2024
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
Pleasant, folksy, humdrum of an album. "Homeward Bound" is of course lovely. "A Simple Desultory Philippic" is a funny and acidic contrast to most of the album. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" is luscious and sweet. And "The 59th Street Bridge Song" is, of course, groovy. The 1966 production is not stellar, however; I felt that the instrumentation was unnecessarily tinny, while the harmonies were weedy and not sonorous, which makes me like almost every song less. It's clearly a product of its time, and I'm too picky.
3
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Tue Jan 30 2024
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
So much better than so many of their contemporaries, The Kinks drive a dagger through the heart of the English establishment with this opus.
3
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Wed Jan 31 2024
School's Out
Alice Cooper
School's Out, and so am I.
1
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Thu Feb 01 2024
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
Always liked The Police but never really listened to an album from start to finish with focus. And still haven't. The hits override everything else here, Message In A Bottle and Walking on the Moon taking up all the airspace. The Bed's Too Big Without You is a surprising loveliness amidst all of this.
4
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Fri Feb 02 2024
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
Not my cup o’ tea, though it’s funny and groovy in spots.
2
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Mon Feb 05 2024
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
Funky stuff interspersed with lingering soliloquies. Fun as a concept and shimmering in spots.
3
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Garbage
Garbage
Such a fun album! "Queer" is maudlin, and "Happy When It Rains" still slaps. I'm not sure what else they were shooting for on this album but it remains a very fun listen.
3
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Wed Feb 07 2024
The Last Broadcast
Doves
The production on this is awful. The vocals are whinging blah. Britpop gave us many great things and some may say Doves is one of them. Sadly not me. I simply don’t get it. Average composition, dirge arrangements, and a mix that could only have been produced on a Commodore 64.
2
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
There are some pop hits that remain fun. But the whole Bon Jovi schtick is tiresome.
2
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Fri Feb 09 2024
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
What a tremendous album! I'm not a hip-hop aficionado by any means but this had me grooving along nicely. Hugely impressive lyricism and beats that beg huge rooms of people to nod their heads in sync. Marvelous.
4
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Mon Feb 12 2024
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
2
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Tue Feb 13 2024
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Pleasant. Nowt special.
3
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Queen II
Queen
Boring, from start to finish. The loose theme of emotional "side A" songs and fantasy "side B" material makes no sense, the guitar work is (to my ears) generic and presages Metallica and the like, all of whom are emotionally vacuous and musically grinding. Queen made wonderful songs throughout their careers and none of them are here.
1
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Thu Feb 15 2024
...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears
Presumably, if Sabrina was American her debut album would be on here too, then? "Baby One More Time" is of course iconic but the rest of this mass-manufactured, Disney production line pop is muzak for big box store shoppers.
1
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Fri Feb 16 2024
Zombie
Fela Kuti
I find myself humming and nodding along to this quite pleasantly. It's not al album I'd put on out of the blue but it definitely takes me elsewhere in the world and head.
3
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Mon Feb 19 2024
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
A bit DJ Shadow-y with more focus on samples and cuts than mixes. It’s sometimes groovy and sometimes mellow, and continuous. After a while I got bored of the aesthetic (unlike Shadow).
3
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Tue Feb 20 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
Maudlin and repetitive. The worst of 80s emo indulgencies.
2
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Wed Feb 21 2024
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
The Northern soul and ska influences should make me live this album. But Kevin Rowland’s idiosyncratic vocal style grates quickly throughout the highlights. “Geno” is great and other tracks could shimmer and strut. But there’s no escaping Rowland’s deliberate squeaks and off-tone quips.
2
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Thu Feb 22 2024
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
A more fun and engaging listen than I had expected.
3
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Fri Feb 23 2024
Tago Mago
Can
What the hell is this?
1
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Mon Feb 26 2024
OK Computer
Radiohead
As an admitted skeptic when it comes to Radiohead no Thom Yorke’s voice especially, I am pretty bowled over by OK Computer upon a complete listen. I need to listen a lot more, and a lot more carefully, because I’ve missed out here. Badly.
4
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
Dull. SO dull. Meandering, burbly melodies, with that irritating electronic piano burping in the background and throwback 70s guitar licks trying to create any sense of momentum. I once liked Stevie Wonder. Now I resent him when I see one of his albums on this list. 2 stars but only because I have a daughter, and she is indeed lovely.
2
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
3
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Thu Feb 29 2024
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Repetitive (uhn), rhythmic (uhn) meanderings (uhn, uhn-uhn), interspersed with appeals to God (God) and phrases interrupted (uhn) with random uhn’s (uhn) and words repeated (repeated) for lack of syllables (bals). Gets tired quickly.
2
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Mon Mar 11 2024
The Stooges
The Stooges
Notable only for its place between rock and punk, and for introducing Iggy Pop in such an explosive fashion. Imagining myself as a listener in 1969, I’d be completely taken aback by the viciousness of the production while recognizing themes that, today, are tired and loathsome — almost every track is about some girl or woman, or spending the night with a woman, or drugs. So late 60s, but angry and somewhat whiny rather than purely hedonistic. As a listener today, it fails to capture attention as much as derision, but such is the case for all pieces of art outside their time. What’s more unforgivable is that modern bands like The Strokes and White Stripes try so hard to recreate this sound, as some sort of homage. MOVE. ON. Won’t listen again but glad to have done so.
1
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Tue Mar 12 2024
Van Halen
Van Halen
Relentless chunggh-chunggh blues with the lyrical sophistication of a broken brick.
1
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Wed Mar 13 2024
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
What a little jewel this is! Extremely pleasant and jolly.
3
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Mon Mar 18 2024
The World is a Ghetto
War
Bassist: "So, lads, I'm gonna lay down some bumbly rhythms."
Dummer: "Coolcoolcool. I can tiddly-bop on the top of that."
Bassist: "Nice. Now, Sax?"
Sax, presently cutting his toenails: "Huh?"
Bassist: "We'll need you in a few minutes. Cool?"
Sax: "Yeah, I guess. Kinda busy. But anyways..."
Bassist: "Ay-right. Guitar dudes, you're up!"
Guitar dudes: "On it, big man. We'll doodly-dop on top of your bumbly-bips."
They play. Minutes pass.
Bassist: "Sax, now!"
Sax, baking a cake, in a flour-covered apron: "Aw crap. Now?!"
Bassist: "Yes! Now!"
Sax wipes flour off his nose and starts to honk-hunk.
Bassist: "That's some nice hunk-honking, Sax!"
Sax looks at Bassist witheringly.
And so it goes for minutes at a time until the oven dings, the cake is ready, the group loses interest in each other, and the music fades out through lack of any other plan or intention.
2
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Tue Mar 19 2024
Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
Yawn.
2
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Wed Mar 20 2024
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
I love this album. Absolute game changer for electronic music at the time, demanding to be listened to from start to finish.
5
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Quiet Life
Japan
Foreshadowing and pioneering so many of the artists that dominated the 80s, this album is a window into the 70s music world in transition. I can’t say that I love much of this album — I didn’t at the time and still don’t, even with a more mature listening ear — but there’s no doubting the debt owed to Japan by Nik Kershaw, Duran Duran, and so many others.
2
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
Twang.
1
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
One sound. Over and over again in different forms. Freddie harmonizing. Brian May twerdling up and down the fretboard. More harmonizing. A lyric about some imagined tragedy or yearning. A reference to a poem or historical event, or something vaguely satanic. And that sound again. Repeat.
2
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Tue Apr 02 2024
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
I get that this album represents the genesis of heavy metal. And that “Iron Man” and “War Pigs” are thematically important. But this is boring, right? I mean, soul-crushingly, navel-gazingly dull. Right? Hello?
2
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
Meh. Pleasant enough but absolutely nothing that grabs the attention and keeps it. Derivative and unexciting.
2
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Thu Apr 04 2024
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
As usual with Albarn, I’m not sure how much of this I like versus tolerate. There’s a lot of throwing ideas against the wall and seeing what sticks without any clear intention behind a bunch of it. As a depiction of London in the 2000s, it’s myopic and overly concerned with angst…which is often where Albarn loses me. Where’s the optimism? Where’s the energy of the city? Interesting collaboration but forgettable beyond the people involved.
2
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
Music by which to eat Panera. It’s satisfying without ever delighting, some interesting flavors but determinedly tailored to moderate tastes that demand frissons of exoticism (red wine vinegar pickled onions, usually). That’s Paul Simon’s entire ouvre.
3
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Wed Apr 10 2024
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
Fantastic recording of a time and sound that, in the moment, must have been electrifying.
3
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Thu Apr 11 2024
Damaged
Black Flag
No. Depressing guitar grind, AGAIN.
1
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Fri Apr 12 2024
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
Nope, I don’t get it. Dylan’s influence is everywhere. I wish it wasn’t.
2
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Mon Apr 15 2024
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
More depressing rock, this time with lunatic cymbals crashing all over every track like hooligans cascading down a football terrace.
2
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Teen Dream
Beach House
An album for which the word “mid” was made. It’s pleasant. It’s fine. But it’s thoroughly unexciting, like a trip to DSW for a pair of shoes.
2
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Fri Apr 26 2024
Hunting High And Low
a-ha
When A-Ha are writing bangers, they’re writing BANGERS. Most everything else is uninspiring in all the ways, lyrically and melodically.
3
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Mon Apr 29 2024
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
4
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Tue Apr 30 2024
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
Prog rock was, I suppose, *necessary* for rock to evolve and avoid the trap that US country music now finds itself — self-referential anaemic reverence of tropes so worn out you they’re like muslin in the sun. But did it have to be so outright dull? There are two ideas, maximum, on each of these tracks. And then there’s buggering about on a keyboard, committed to tape, and regarded as some sort of innovation. No. This says nothing, means nothing, evokes nothing. Dirge.
1
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Wed May 01 2024
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
I love me some experimental electronica. I like juxtapositions between rock and rave. But this is a CD of background music played in an arts and crafts store that’s trying to be edgy. Was disengaged throughout.
2
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Thu May 02 2024
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
I can’t. I just can’t with this. WHY do people revere Led Zeppelin to such a degree? It’s wailing nonsense. Jimmy Page pleading for someone to take his love, with far too many “baby”s thrown in at every lyrical pause, is tiresome after the first two minutes of the album. This is an album for people whose tastes were cryogenically frozen in 1972 or in the middle of their goth period in high school.
1