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Mon Oct 23 2023
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Not a massive reggae fan, I find it all a bit same sounding.
Nice and relaxing, but not my go-to genre
3
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Tue Oct 24 2023
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
Pretty good album, I like talking heads, haven’t put this on for a long time! I get fed up with the remixes at the end of albums
3
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Wed Oct 25 2023
Arrival
ABBA
when I kissed the teacher - lol
4
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Thu Oct 26 2023
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Enjoyable for a change - might be a classic but not my thing
2
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Fri Oct 27 2023
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
I enjoyed listening to this album much more than I thought I would. I think its probably my favorite so far in this 4 year challenge, which says more about the previous 4 albums than this one!!!
4
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Mon Oct 30 2023
All Directions
The Temptations
This album was excellent! I loved it and it is the very reason I undertook this challenge. This is the first album in the challenge I am grateful for being introduced to. Live track 2 and 3 the most!
So much groove!
5
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Tue Oct 31 2023
25
Adele
A beautiful album. Lacks the impact of her first 2 album but the songwriting is much more mature.
Fav track - hello
4
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Wed Nov 01 2023
Sunshine Hit Me
The Bees
I liked this album, very easy to listen to.
Not my ‘go-to’ elevator music but I’m glad I heard it.
2
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Thu Nov 02 2023
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
Great Album, more from a nostalgic sense than any other. I like the Pet Shop Boys but probably more of a 'greatest hits' fan.
fave track - Its a sin ;-)
3
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Fri Nov 03 2023
Metallica
Metallica
Fuck yeah! Metallica’s most awesome album! Not a bad track in there (actually there 5 tracks I never listen to, but the other tracks more than make up for them!)
5
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Mon Nov 06 2023
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
Although I have heard the occasional song, I have never listened to a Joan Armatrading album start to finish. I loved it! Really great guitar playing and sound.
Made me want to pick up my guitar.
Loved - tall in the saddle
Edit - what a great album for a lazy Saturday morning lay in bed!
4
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Tue Nov 07 2023
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Considering how acclaimed this artist is its strange that I have never heard of him. Strong late Beatles vibes. Interesting death!!!!
Fav track - Son of Sam
2
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Wed Nov 08 2023
Fragile
Yes
No
See what I did there! lol
Listened to it a few times, I think that was the problem.
1
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Thu Nov 09 2023
The Poet
Bobby Womack
Short listen - the first three tracks were GEO locked :-(
I really liked listening to this and it made me realise that I don't listen to enough Soul!
So COOL!
4
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Fri Nov 10 2023
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
I do like the bet shop boys but found this album to be a little boring?
2
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Mon Nov 13 2023
The Predator
Ice Cube
This is an awesome album and artist. Love this old school hip hop with the skits between tracks.
Great listen!
4
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Tue Nov 14 2023
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
Not my thing. Nice background music
2
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Wed Nov 15 2023
Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday
This is a beautiful album, such an iconic voice. I really enjoyed this album her voice is so emotional. Recorded in the last year of her short life. Pretty special
4
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Thu Nov 16 2023
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Looking forward to this one!! You can hear the influence they had on some of my favourite bands like Radiohead, the cure and joy division. Cutting edge stuff for the late 70s.
3
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Fri Nov 17 2023
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
I’m not exactly sure why I would need to listen to this album before I die? It was OK, but pretty bland jangle pop. Meh from me.
2
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Mon Nov 20 2023
Play
Moby
I was obsessed with this album in 99!
I feel Ike I know it backwards. There are some absolute bangers on this album.
I know there is controversy around his sampling (and not paying) which is pretty shit, but he made some great tunes with them!!
Did a bit of reading about Moby over the weekend, he sounds like an absolute twat! lol
4
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Tue Nov 21 2023
Revolver
Beatles
Almost my fav Beatles album! This was great to listen to and it made me realise how long its been since I popped a whole Beatles album on!
Loved it!! I imagine most of their discography will be in this project.
4
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Wed Nov 22 2023
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
Sorry just didnt like this one at all.
WTF is the Coconut song!!
1
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Thu Nov 23 2023
Pearl
Janis Joplin
Ahh Janis, such an amazingly soulful voice.
At 27 she died so young and this album was released 3 months after her death.
What an amazing singer songwriter !
Awesome!
4
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Fri Nov 24 2023
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
Such a beautiful, emotional, honest voice. Nina Simone is gorgeous blues soul music I could listen to anytime.
The song four women is very powerful.
3
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Mon Nov 27 2023
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
Another album I think I may have been fine to go to the grave without listening to. Might have scored better whilst watching a good spaghetti western!
1
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Tue Nov 28 2023
Zombie
Fela Kuti
I quite enjoyed the energy behind this album and I do love a long track like Zombie.
Not my usual thing but I’m glad I listened to it.
awful to think that this album led to the murder of his mum :-(
3
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Wed Nov 29 2023
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
I hadn’t heard this album before but hire enjoyed it. I get a bit fed up with the gangsta language and nonsense between tracks but on the whole thought this was quite a fun album.
I enjoy doggystyle ;-)
3
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Thu Nov 30 2023
Quiet Life
Japan
This was very interesting, I could hear Duran Duran, Roxy music, David Bowie, ultravox all through this album. The New Romantic synth pop era. Love it!
3
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Fri Dec 01 2023
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
Here we go again, probably a bit too soon after snoop. As much as I enjoy Doggystyle, this is much better, seems a bit more focused and serious.
I’m tired of the misogyny and the constant use of language that is not acceptable these days.
I enjoyed this album but I’m happy to have a rest from hip hop !
3
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Mon Dec 04 2023
Is This It
The Strokes
What a fucking awesome album!
I forgot how much I like the strokes
3
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Tue Dec 05 2023
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
I struggle with Bob Dylan. He is a folk singer/songwriter and as such should be right in my wheelhouse BUT.....
Having seen and heard so many parody's and memes, its hard to take is distinctive singing style seriously. Just sounds like he is taking the piss?
3
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Wed Dec 06 2023
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
This is the first album in this challenge (33 albums in) that I actually own a physical copy of!!
I lived in the uk at the height of this album’s battle with blur and listening to it again after so long was very nostalgic.
I saw them live at Shane festival and Liam Gallagher was a bit of a knob.
A nice slice of time!
3
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Thu Dec 07 2023
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
OMG I really enjoyed this album.
Highlight for me was Ted…just admit it.
There is an amazing remix/mash up version on the ‘natural born killers’ soundtrack.
What a great album!
4
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Fri Dec 08 2023
Arise
Sepultura
I remember being in a band in the very early 90's and trying to sound like Sepultura! Not my fav genre of music but I enjoyed the nostalgic listen! Double bass drumming and guitar shredding at its finest.
We used to think this stuff was so serious, dark and edgy, now it just looks and sounds a bit silly. Orgasmatron lol
2
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Mon Dec 11 2023
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
This was a very funky listen and obviously a pretty influential album. I do like old school hip hop. I'm ashamed to say that this is the first time I have listened to this record and my fav track is Eye Know, but they are all awesome!
3
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Tue Dec 12 2023
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull is a bit of a blind spot for me and im not sure why. I absolutely loved this album! I love a bit of Prog Rock and it reminded me a bit of early genesis. Who would have thought a flute would be center stage in a rock band lol!
3
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Wed Dec 13 2023
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
Ha ha ha… Skidmarks on my heart ;-)
I really enjoyed this album and am so glad for this challenge as don't think they would have found their way onto my radar without it!
...Skidmarks on my heart
You can hear Belinda Carlisle trying to break free!
I think ill have a listen to some of their other stuff, when this challenge is over.
3
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Thu Dec 14 2023
The Stooges
The Stooges
Well, they say that the first taste is with the eye - what an album cover! lol
I fucking love the track - wanna be your dog - and came across it on the lock stock soundtrack.
I love Iggy pop but don’t listen to him much
3
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Fri Dec 15 2023
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion but I just don't know why Nick Cave is so revered. He just seems to spend an awful lot of time making sure he looks and sounds angst ridden and edgy. I like some of the soundtracks he has produced but find this solo stuff too 'up itself'. Cheer up Nick
2
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Mon Dec 18 2023
Madman Across The Water
Elton John
I don't know why, but I don't like Elton Johns music as much as I think I should! He has some absolute bangers and 'Tiny Dancer' is no exception. I often find myself belting out his songs, I loved the recent movie Rocketman and even read his biography last year. Despite this, I dont think I have ever put on an Elton John album on to listen to!!! It's very supermarket/elevator music and I enjoy it very much in the background, where I feel it belongs.
That said, he has much better albums than this one!
2
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Tue Dec 19 2023
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
CCR - Here we go! I don’t hate CCR, I think the problem I have with them is because when I was young and interesting, I was in a band and we used to play covers of a lot of their songs so I think I overdosed on them! lol
They are a great band and have some absolute bangers, most of which are on this album.
3
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Wed Dec 20 2023
Young Americans
David Bowie
There is a lot to love about this one, it's Bowie's soul album. Fame (the single was his first number 1 single). It's not my favorite Bowie album so i sincerely hope that there are a few more coming up in this challenged.
I love Young Americans (the single) and John, I'm only dancing. It's unfortunate that he decided to cover Across the Universe because its an awful version!
It gets a 4 just because its Bowie.
4
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Thu Dec 21 2023
McCartney
Paul McCartney
I love this album - its the best! 5 stars!!
(That was an account hack from someone I very much respect the opinion of, except when it comes to Paul McCartney albums x
Ok, full disclosure, I’m not a fan, but I can also acknowledge and respect musical genius. Imagine the pressure on this first album, post Beatles !!!
I listened to it twice and probably enjoyed it less the second time around. He is a legend but I’m just not that into him.
2
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Fri Dec 22 2023
Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
What a way to end the week! Tank Battles was up against it right from the start as I had to listen to it via YouTube, an experience almost as irritating as some of these tracks.
I actually liked the album, it was like listening to a play with its peaks and troughs of emotion. I loved some tracks (Mother Beimlein and the opening whitewash track) but have no idea why!
I read a bit about it and it appears that the YouTube clip I listened to was only half the songs (30mins) but the full album is almost an hour. I spent a few minutes contemplating searching for the remaining tracks and then came to my senses.
I gave this a 3 because I like people brave enough to stick their heels in and produce avant- garde work.
2
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Mon Dec 25 2023
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
I love queen! This is a great album. Such a camp album cover, sweaty and serious all at the same time! They look like they are playing twister!
Not the best, not the worst.
Its queen, its a solid 4!
4
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Tue Dec 26 2023
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
I loved this album and it dropped at just the right time. He may have a thing for gunplay and occasionally accidentally murder romantic partners, despite this he certainly knows how to produce a record. What an awful human being.
My three stars are for the performers on this album.
3
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Wed Dec 27 2023
American Pie
Don McLean
Full disclosure, American pie is a very sentimental track for me, so regardless of the rest of the album, this was always going to rate well.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the rest of the album is awesome! He has such a beautiful voice and his songs tell such sincere stories. I love folk rock and this album hits a sweet spot.
I really enjoyed listening to this record!
4
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Thu Dec 28 2023
Grace
Jeff Buckley
Full disclosure, I have always resisted Jeff Buckley, it just sounds so whiney and emo for me.
Whilst listening to the album, almost every track sounds like a lame, try hard version of a Radiohead song with pseudo Thom York vocals.
Then I put the timelines together and realised that the Jeff cart came before the Radiohead cart! Mind blown!!
I’m not saying that I have become a die hard Buckley fan, because I’m not, it just too whiney, miserable, emo, angst ridden for me to be into, but I have given him a three star review because, he MUST have influenced Radiohead, so for this he needs to be recognised.
It is a shame that he died so young, it would have been interesting to see in what direction his next couple of albums went!
I’m glad I listened to this whole album.
3
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Fri Dec 29 2023
Butterfly
Mariah Carey
This was quite amusing. I popped this album on this morning and started to do a bit of work, occasionally pausing to zone in on the ridiculous high and irritating vocal whistling technique she is famous for.
Almost every song sounded the same, the evidence for which was accidentally listening to it 2.5 times without even noticing!
I'm sure her voice is unique, amazing and celebrated but the songs on this album were just so 'background'. Nothing stood out for me.
I didn't hate it and I do have a soft spot for her Christmas album and for that reason I award it 2 stars!
2
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Mon Jan 01 2024
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
I enjoyed this album, possibly because it followed Mariah Carey?
I’m not a big fan of country rock but I am a fan of guitar solos and there are plenty of those.
I’m not sure I would listen to this again but I’m glad I have listened to it once.
On reflection, (I’m listening to free bird as I type this) the guitar solos bang on a bit too much.
This album was getting a three, but I have reduced it to a two based on the needless monotony of the free bird solo.
This review was started at the beginning of the free bird solo and it’s still going!!
It’s just at that really high fast twangy bit and starting to come down a bit.
Oh, it’s starting to fade, I hate a fade as a way of dealing with a song ending, but I’m going to give this one a pass, I just wish it had faded sooner.
2
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Tue Jan 02 2024
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
I loved this album. I can’t believe I had never even heard of Nick Drake.
I could listen to this for weeks!
What a lovely new year surprise!
4
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Wed Jan 03 2024
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
I like sampling in music, but when I read that this single album contains over 900 samples - that’s next level.
It’s not my ‘go-to’ music but it’s very easy to listen to whilst chipping away at work.
This album reminded me of a cross between moon-safari (Air) and play (Moby) but not quite as good as either of them.
Another album that played 3 times because one track just merges into the other.
3
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Thu Jan 04 2024
Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
I enjoyed this album more than I thought I would!
I don't mind a bit of country blues (I don't tell anyone!!)
Listened to it a couple of times. Reckon I'll pop this one on, time to time.
The slide guitar is a little grating, for that it gets a 2
:-)
2
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Fri Jan 05 2024
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
I quite like a bit of post-punk.
I enjoyed the raw chaos of the tracks.
I really enjoyed the track - paintwork!
:-)
3
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Mon Jan 08 2024
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
I love Joni Mitchell, although this is not my favourite album of hers.
She seems so sincere and powerful and reckon she would be ace around a campfire with that guitar!
This may have scored higher with me but I had to listen to it via YouTube and it’s surprising what a shit experience that is.
3
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Tue Jan 09 2024
War
U2
This is an awesome album. Listening to it, you can hear the roots of U2.
Although it’s their third album I feel like this is the beginning for me, the next 5-7 albums (depending on my mood) take this formula and build on it and the eventuate into one of the biggest bands is history.
I know that U2 is almost Christian rock and that Bono can be a bit of a dick, but this is an awesome album and delivers some great social messages and a very politically unsettling time.
Love it!
4
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Wed Jan 10 2024
Bossanova
Pixies
I liked this album much more than I was expecting, its first couple of tracks are a little intense, especially 'Rock Music', but then it settles into a cool alternate rock album.
I know that there is a lot of fuss made about the Pixies and their influence on just about every band ever. Personally I don't see what all the fuss is about but they do have a couple of banger tracks!
3
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Thu Jan 11 2024
Connected
Stereo MC's
This was a great album, slightly overstayed its welcome with some very repetitive sounding tracks. Regardless, it was great to listen to whilst cracking on with some work - great vibe!
3
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Fri Jan 12 2024
Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets
Mmm... CowPunk
No thanks.
1
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Mon Jan 15 2024
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
I love Neil Young, and respect his stance on streaming media, but listening to music on YouTube is just awful!!!!!
This is a great album, Neil Young has such a beautiful and simple way of delivering vocals over very intimately written songs.
Love the album
Hate YouTube (free)
3
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Tue Jan 16 2024
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
Pretty groovy! Great album to pop on whilst cooking and having a glass of wine or as a pre going out ‘warm up’.
Loved it
3
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Wed Jan 17 2024
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
one of the funkiest, coolest artists ever!
16 album in 1972 this dude has been around!
This was great and you can hear its impact on may artists today.
what a dude!
Love = higher ground!
4
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Thu Jan 18 2024
Lam Toro
Baaba Maal
I really loved this album, I absolutely love world music.
About half way through there were some very distracting synth horns? But the rest of the album was so beautiful I’m still giving it a 4
4
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Fri Jan 19 2024
L.A. Woman
The Doors
I LOVE the Doors.
Saying that, this is not my favourite album of theirs. You can hear Jim Morison decline which makes the album much more raw and in some ways fun.
Some of their best tracks are on this album, some of their worst too!!
Loved them when I was 15 and still love them just as much today. I remember listening to this album on my Walkman when visiting Jim’s grave in Paris whilst on my Doors pilgrimage. 😂
Has to be a 5.
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Mon Jan 22 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
I think this album is an excellent introduction to the sound of the cure.
I love so many of these tracks.
Favs = forest and play for today.
Solid three (probably lost a point because when I saw them live in Melbourne in 2000’s(?) they were crap - worst concert I have been to!
3
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Tue Jan 23 2024
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
I love kate bush and I love this album.
Some of the tracks and the ‘cutting edge’ audio treatments have not aged too well but it still makes for an interesting listen.
Bold, beautiful and probably a little crazy, she is a beautiful songwriter.
It’s a 3 star album but a 4 star artist! Discovered by the legendary David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
4
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Wed Jan 24 2024
Being There
Wilco
Wow, this was a slog!
Its not that is was an awful album or a genre that I don’t like, it was just such a vanilla, boring album!
This should be right in my wheelhouse, guitar based rock, but it was such a boring album.
Sorry, it might be amazing, but it was lost on me.
Vanilla shite
1
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Thu Jan 25 2024
Parallel Lines
Blondie
Considering how iconic Blondie is, I was a little disappointed in this album, I expected a little more ‘wow’ factor, that’s probably on me!
Solid 3
Solid album
3
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Fri Jan 26 2024
Purple Rain
Prince
Not a massive prince fan, but it must be said that he is an absolute musical genius. I wish I was more into his music.
Also wish the movie was better!
I enjoyed listening to the album in its entirety. Not my thing, but it and he is amazing!
Solid 4
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Mon Jan 29 2024
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
Not my bag at all although I love a concept album.
2
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Tue Jan 30 2024
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
This was a great listen!
The toe-tapping, and handclapping was out of control!
It sounds like it would have been an amazing concert to have attended.
What a performer - I was familiar with about 1/3 of this albums songs and I listened to it all morning!
Loved it!
3
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Wed Jan 31 2024
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
I wanted to like this album more than I did. There were moments of absolutely genius mayhem! I absolutely loved the intense humming of evil and many of the songs intros and outros
Some of the tracks were greenday, some of them were Robbie Williams and some the sex pistols.
Too incoherent for me but I’m glad I listened to it.
2
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Thu Feb 01 2024
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
Good background rock album.
I wanted to like it more than i did, just found it a bit soft?
Listened to it all day, still not convinced!
2
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Fri Feb 02 2024
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
It was OK but I think its the weakest of his 3 albums. I admire his musical genius but just find his sound (especially his solos) a bit to raw and messy for me.
This should be right in my wheelhouse alongside all the other late 60s psychedelic rock bands that I love, but its not.
I think I'm probably a Jimi Hendrix 'Greatest Hits' kinda guy.
2
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Mon Feb 05 2024
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
When I first put this album on, I started to enjoy it and get into the vibe of what must have been an excellent concert to attend. However, as the album continued and the improvised guitar solos got longer, I started losing interest. It was like listening to a very long rehearsal, just a bunch of dudes jamming.
This album has me questioning my love of guitar solos!
2
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
Probably bad timing, this album turns up just one after another self indulgent, guitar solo dominated album live and extended album.
Enough!
The same track, three times on disc 2? Really?
Fuck drum solos
2
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Wed Feb 07 2024
Truth
Jeff Beck
It's a bit of a tricky one. I love Jeff Beck, but I'm not just reviewing the artist and his amazing guitar skills, I'm reviewing the album, and it was just OK. I would probably listen to it again, I don't mind the late 60s blues, and Jeff Beck is one of the all-time greats.
Not sure what I think of Rod Stewart.
I'll give it 3, but I wish I could rate it higher.
3
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Wild Gift
X
Nah, not really a fan of punk.
Didn't hate it, and listened to it a couple of times just to make sure.
Just not my thing.
They should Elon for appropriating their name!
2
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Fri Feb 09 2024
I See You
The xx
I think this may be the most recent album I have listened to in this challenge to date.
I’m surprised in its inclusion in this challenge. It’s a good album but I’m not sure it’s a ‘must listen to’ album?
Sounded a bit vanilla to me?
2
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Mon Feb 12 2024
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
I loved the first track and thought I was in for an amazing treat.
I did enjoy the album but I think the first track lulled me into a promise that it just didn’t deliver.
I’ll listen to it again and perhaps some of her other albums. Her thoughts on androids are quite interesting!
3
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Tue Feb 13 2024
Imagine
John Lennon
The title track is a timeless classic (if not a little overplayed!). John Lennon was one of the wealthiest music celebrities, living in his mansion whilst writing about how great the world would be without possessions and greed. Hypocrite warning!
John Lennon was a complex dude and was pretty appalling to women.
In his own words
"I used to be cruel to my woman ... any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn’t express myself, and I hit. I fought men and I hit women.”
Both these stars are for the title track only.
2
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Wed Feb 14 2024
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
Another painful YouTube listen!
I found that many of the tracks sounded similar to each other, and some were a little too long (most were a little too long).
A fun listen
3
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Rocks
Aerosmith
I hate this music.
I hope that's the last one from Aerosmith in the 1001 challenge. Two so far seems a stretch?
1
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Fri Feb 16 2024
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
This was good, but not as good as the previous one we listened to in the challenge.
It was great to listen to as I chipped away at my work.
Funky Friday!
3
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Mon Feb 19 2024
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
This was a great album and a real surprise. I had never heard of A Tribe Called Quest before, but I listened to this album all weekend! I'll certainly be listening to them again. Jazzy Hip Hop, loved it!
4
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Tue Feb 20 2024
The Bends
Radiohead
It's my perfect album.
The album is sublime, with no fillers.
Highlights are definitely Fake Plastic Trees and Street Spirit (Fade Out).
This would be one of my Desert Island Discs (google it millennials).
❤️
5
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Wed Feb 21 2024
Fromohio
fIREHOSE
This was such a strange album. I didn't hate it, I didnt love it.
I just kept listening listening to it to see if I could get into it but i didn't.
It was just odd, I felt like I should have liked it, but i didn't.
Im confused!
2
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Thu Feb 22 2024
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
Yeah, I loved this album; it is so funky and cool to listen to while chipping away at work.
Some of the songs were super cool, and some were dated and embarrassing!
On the whole, this was awesome and will get another spin soon!
3
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Fri Feb 23 2024
The Doors
The Doors
I love The Doors and love this album. This band really captured my imagination when I was first starting to gig in bands. We thought Jim Morison was some sort of shaman when it turns out he was just a dude with an ego and a drug problem.
I love it when bands remaster albums however, this album has been tinkered with, they have added lots more of Jim’s ad lib sounds/grunts/ words (beyond the sung lyrics) etc, which I think detracts from the original and make some of the tracks sound a bit try hard and cheesy.
Still, it’s the doors so it gets a 5 from me!
Try to run
Try to hide
Break on through to the other side!
5
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
This was a great listen. I'm a little more familiar with their later stuff which I prefer.
Great fun for a debut album!
3
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Tue Feb 27 2024
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
Perfect.
5
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
Fuck that noise. 2 hours and 15 minutes too long.
1
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Thu Feb 29 2024
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
Hard not to love this blues guitarist. The recording is so raw and packed full of the feels.
Loved it!
3
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
This is a classic album, and I love it. Every track a winner with Robert Plant sounding as late 60's as ever, singing about Golumn and juice running down his leg! lol
Whole lotta love and Ramble are my standout tracks.
Listened to it all day!
4
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Mon Mar 04 2024
Aja
Steely Dan
I quite enjoyed this album. Pretty vanilla sounding 70s jazz rock.
Just funny to think that the band was named after a "revolutionary" steam-powered dildo mentioned in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.
Steam powered!
3
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
Second album for this artist, served up by this challenge. I can’t believe I had never heard of him before the 1001.
He is such an amazing singer songwriter and I find his songs so emotionally engaging.
Just beautiful.
This dude, may be one of my favourite songwriters!
5
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
I thought I would like this album, reading a bit about it before listening. How wrong I was.
How this album made it into this challenge is beyond me.
1
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
What a fucking annoying album
1
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
This was a bit of a surprise! I had heard of Donovan but never listened to an album.
As cheesy and whimsical as it was, it reminded me of very early Bowie and Syd Barret. He sings with such conviction that it's hard not to go along with his journey. Some songs were like listening to a fantasy audio book.
I am not saying it will be on high rotation, but I will definitely have a poke around his work.
3
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Mon Mar 11 2024
Blackstar
David Bowie
Just listen to it! The perfect epitaph.
Just listen to how much he is enjoying himself on side B!
5
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Tue Mar 12 2024
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
Yikes, 2 Steely Dan albums within 6 days of each other!
I was going to give this 2 stars, but I'm warding an additional star for making this album short and sweet. (just 34 minutes)
I didn't hate it, probably just a little to close to the previous one.
Don't mind bit of the 70's cheese rock.
3
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Wed Mar 13 2024
A Night At The Opera
Queen
I Love Queen and this iconic album.
One of my fav Queen tracks, Love of my life ❤️
"I'm in love with my car", what were they thinking? 😂
4
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Thu Mar 14 2024
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
Just vanilla britpop.
Heroine might be passe, but so is this album.
Next please.
2
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Fri Mar 15 2024
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
I enjoyed this album much more than I thought I would. I happily had it on rotation all day.
It’s background music with nothing really standing out and nothing too awful.
I’m not interested in listening to additional remixes, but in the spirit of the challenge, I did it just the same.
3
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Illmatic
Nas
I had never heard of this album or this artist (my bad?).
I loved this album and listened to it over most of the weekend.
It's great to listen to it in detail with interesting lyrics about social poverty and gang life. The album also works well as a passive listen while doing other things.
Pretty cool to have debuted with such an incredible album at such a young age!
3
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Tue Mar 19 2024
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
I found this to be a pretty boring album!
The only track I loved was the last track (watching the Detectives), which didn't even appear on the original album, so it probably doesn't count!
1 star for the bonus detective track.
1
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Wed Mar 20 2024
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
Fuck this album was good! It came along at a perfect time in my week. I love the Rolling Stones (greatest hits kind of fan) and really enjoyed listening to this all day.
So what if these white male dudes want to pretend to play honky tonk blues - it’s fucking awesome!!
Loved it
4
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
OMG - hated this album, just so wank!
1
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Kala
M.I.A.
I loved this album; reminded me of the frenetic band Die Antwoord!
Paper Planes is a clear favorite, but honestly, I loved all the tracks!
That's why I joined this challenge!
4
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Mon Mar 25 2024
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
Loved this album. Highlights were
Lust for life
Tonight
Passenger
Neighbourhood threat.
Bowie’s buddy
4
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
Awesome album. I couldn't quite remember what propelled this album into the zeitgeist in the late 90s, but I clearly remember it! Everyone seemed to have a copy of it. I was working in Operating Theatres at the time and remember it being on VERY high rotation!
loved it
3
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Suede
Suede
Ha Ha, this was a surprise! I enjoyed this album so much today. It was great for a change and most of the tracks were pretty catchy.
I'm not sure about the album cover; I had some strange looks from office staff peeping at my Spotify browser app.
Loved it
3
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
I enjoyed the nostalgia of this album. I didn’t think I would enjoy a whole album of psychobilly rock but I did!
Probably wouldn’t go looking for it, but it was nice to find it!
Again - fuck those bonus tracks!
2
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Fri Mar 29 2024
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
This album was such a big deal to me and the band I was playing in when it came out.
There are some awesome, energy filled tracks and listening to from start to finish takes me back to my teenage years instantly!!
Welcome to the jungle has one of the best intros and although overplayed I have a soft spot for sweet child of mine.
Love it!
4
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
Love this album. Although not their best album, it was my entry point to dire straits. It was the second cd I ever purchased!
I love mark Knopfler’s unique style of playing and I have tried to master the ‘brothers in arms’ solo many times!
A couple of average filler songs, must mostly awesome!
5 stars from me and most of those are for brothers in arms (the track)
5
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Tue Apr 02 2024
The Score
Fugees
I really enjoyed this album. Imagine crafting Enya into an awesome Hip Hop track - Genius!
I loved the skits and in-between bits and wish more albums would incorporate this in their storytelling. (Shout out to The Killers—Pressure Machine!)
I'd be happy to listen to this again outside of this challenge, and I'm sure glad it was on the list.
4
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Wed Apr 03 2024
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
I usually get through the challenges album a few times in the day, not this one.
Apart from the fact that I had to listen to it through YouTube, being punctuated by advertisements, I just found it too miserable.
I may not have been in the mood for this album. This just seemed too depressing with no sonic or lyrical payoff.
Not today.
2
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Thu Apr 04 2024
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
This was a pretty cool album.
One of the first psychedelic rock bands, leading the charge for other bands like T-Set, Syd Barret and The Pink Floyd.
Pretty awesome!
3
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
This is a tough review, and I will do my best to separate Brian Hugh Warner from the art that the band Marilyn Manson (and its 5 members) created and the 11 other people whose contributions made this album. I won't judge the album based on my negative feelings for 1/5 of its members. The 1/5 band member Brian Hugh Warner appears to be an awful human being (beyond his persona as Marilyn Manson) with issues involving violence and the abuse of women. I have no intention of diminishing their allegations or experiences because I enjoy this art.
This album is art, a concept album, and the first part of a trilogy. I love industrial rock, and Trent Reznor, one of the album's producers, is among my all-time favourite artists. I'm not sure this album would have been as successful without him; you can hear his influence in every track. The album's concept is awesome and very much suits the music and lyrical style. A supernatural being—a demagogic rockstar—who seizes all political power from humanity to initiate an apocalyptic event. Let's face it: if you don't like the sound of that, you're not going to like this album. I don't think this album is as good as Mechanical Animals, but it introduced an element of death metal and industrial rock into the mainstream.
4/5 for the art
0/5 for Brian Hugh Warner, a vile human being.
4
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Mon Apr 08 2024
Ramones
Ramones
The Ramones are a beloved part of punk rock history and have certainly left their mark on music and influenced many artists.
They were also I nice palate cleanser after the last album.
I enjoyed this album. It's not my go-to genre, but it played about ten times today and over the weekend.
3
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Tue Apr 09 2024
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
I absolutely love the song Heronie, and I do like Lou Reed (except when he is channelling Bob Dylan)
I know this is another beloved band, but I just don't get it.
The track 'All Tomorrows Parties' seemed just to drone on forever.
Not a fan.
These stars are both for Heroine
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Wed Apr 10 2024
All Hail the Queen
Queen Latifah
I liked this album. I hadn't heard it before; in fact, I'm ashamed to say that I only knew of Queen Latifah from her beautiful voice acting with the character Ellie in Ice Age!
So far, although I'm only 122 albums in, I don't think this challenge features enough women. The music industry is dominated by blokes (mostly white!), so it's nice to have a bit more representation of women in this album choice.
I'd probably still prefer to listen to her as Ellie, who has a very special place in my heart from so many viewings with my children!
3
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Thu Apr 11 2024
Brothers
The Black Keys
I really enjoyed this album, I think I’d like to listen to more of their stuff.
All 4 of these stars are for the track ‘I’m not the one ’ and its use in the series the leftovers. The track plays to plastic dolls being made and sold, one lucky baby to be swaddled as baby Jesus and placed in a nativity scene.
The baby is stolen - I’m not the one x
4
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Fri Apr 12 2024
The Rise & Fall
Madness
I have said this a few times during this challenge, as a completionist, fuck those bonus tracks and remixes, it almost doubled the length of this album!
I like the novelty aspect of Madness and their greatest hits and the sentimentality of some of their tracks, but I’m not a fan of ska.
2 stars for ‘our house’
The album cover is a bit problematic these days 🤭
2
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Mon Apr 15 2024
Marquee Moon
Television
A good album I have never heard of!
I enjoyed it but only only enough to put it on an occasionally repeat!
I thought it would be better based on community reviews
3
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
I fucking hate jazz.
(But I appreciate the talent of the musicians)
2
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Wed Apr 17 2024
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar
Pretty cool listening to rap in French.
A little bit to jazz for me.
2
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Thu Apr 18 2024
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
I really enjoyed this album, it was fun and the idea of having tiny songs is a bit of a novelty!
28 songs in 41 minutes - Bravo!!!
3
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Fri Apr 19 2024
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
Fucking hippies
1
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Mon Apr 22 2024
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
What an awesome album. Consider it in the context of the year it was released! It was soooo HEAVY and broke new ground!
This is my favourite Black Sabeth album by a long shot.
Tony Iommi is awesome with his replacement fingertips, what an amazing sound.
A true landmark album
4
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Tue Apr 23 2024
Machine Head
Deep Purple
Anyone who owns a guitar MUST give this album a minimum of 3 stars for the number of times we have all played the riff "Smoke On The Water"
🎸
3
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Wed Apr 24 2024
Music From Big Pink
The Band
Not my usual thing, Americana Roots Rock, but I did enjoy it and listened to it a few times today. Just OK.
Probably won't pop it on again.
2
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Thu Apr 25 2024
Heroes to Zeros
The Beta Band
Meh.
2
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Fri Apr 26 2024
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
This was a roller-coaster!
Before even listening to a single track I was so looking forward to the nostalgic anthems "Shout" "Head over heels" and of course "Everybody wants to rule the World".
Those tracks did disappoint, but as I listened to the other tracks, my interest started to wane. and I began to think I had misplaced my faith in this being a BANGER of an album.
I listened to it another few times, and with each listen, the unfamiliar tracks grew on me!
The production of this album is awesome. It sounds so fresh for an album that was put together in 1985!
I am sure my score is still influenced by nostalgia and memories of listening to this with my first girlfriend, but this album has been such good fun to listen to that I have to give it a 4.
One for each of the anthems above and the other star for the mullet sported by Roland Orzaba.
4
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Mon Apr 29 2024
Mothership Connection
Parliament
This is one crazy funk album, and I loved it! The album cover sets the scene: one of the funkiest bands of the 1970s in a mothership, flying through space trying to find the mothership connection—wild!
Short and sweet, what an awesome album!
4
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Tue Apr 30 2024
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
I reviewed the original album, not the 2002 remaster, I get a bit tired of the bonus mixes and tracks.
This is a landmark album. Its social commentary on the realities of life in Compton is powerful.
Its lyrics and performance is timeless, and although misogynistic, homophobic and violent, it needs these elements to convey the experiences of the band in that time and place.
It's not woke, but to devalue it for that would be a dick move.
5
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Wed May 01 2024
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
Just like the previous Wilco album I have trouble understanding this album it’s so boring and yet mysteriously popular.
Hope it’s the last Wilco on the list.
1
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Thu May 02 2024
Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine
Just noise. What an unpleasant mess.
1
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Fri May 03 2024
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
I enjoyed this album a lot, that may be because the challenge served up the previous two abominations, and this was a welcome return to music.
I like Hip-Hop, and it's great to see some gender representation in a very male-dominated genre.
3
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Mon May 06 2024
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
I loved this album and it might even be my fav White Stripes album.
It's so raw, genuine and imperfect that it's beautiful.
I listened to it about ten times this weekend and loved every spin.
4
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Tue May 07 2024
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
I only wish there was an option for 6 stars.
5