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Mon Oct 16 2023
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
5
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Tue Oct 17 2023
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
Includes two of the all-timers in the "long ass songs" category. A great album for driving, cleaning, cooking, background noise at a small gathering.
4
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Wed Oct 18 2023
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
I'll take others' word for it that it's seminal and influential for a lot of things I've enjoyed since it was released, but no thank you never again
1
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Thu Oct 19 2023
Back In Black
AC/DC
AC/DC songs are just a vehicle for Angus to play a guitar solo. They really are best consumed as a closing pitcher's entrance music instead of by the album.
3
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Fri Oct 20 2023
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
You can draw a straight line from this album to The Decemberists and I think that's neat. I stole this CD from my Dad when I was 11 and have loved it ever since.
4
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Sat Oct 21 2023
Vespertine
Björk
The whole album sounds like one song. Which is different from saying the songs all sound the same. It sounds like one hour-long song.
3
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Sun Oct 22 2023
Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
Live albums are rarely good and this one is not an exception
1
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Mon Oct 23 2023
Disraeli Gears
Cream
Quintessential 60s classic rock sound
3
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Tue Oct 24 2023
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
A nonsense 13 minute long opening track is exactly why nobody likes prog rock
1
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Wed Oct 25 2023
The Cars
The Cars
Almost entirely bangers.
4
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Fri Oct 27 2023
Ten
Pearl Jam
Bands that got massive radio play in the 90s are weird because some of them (Pearl Jam included) are precious to me, and some of them were so overplayed that I cannot stand them now (Creed).
Start to finish fantastic rock. Unique, bordering on weird in a way that was important to me as a kid.
Of Alice In Chains' Layne Staley, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, it seems cruel that the one who got his shit together and became a vegan and insufferable and might now be immortal is the latter.
5
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Sat Oct 28 2023
Low-Life
New Order
It played on repeat like 2 and a half times before I realized? It was fine, with some moments.
3
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Sun Oct 29 2023
Music From Big Pink
The Band
The intersection of easy listening classic rock, southern classic rock, and radio classic rock.
3
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Mon Oct 30 2023
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
FULL ADMISSION: I made a big mistake. I read the "about" blurb on spotify before listening to this. The "about" blurb on spotify for The War On Drugs appears to have been written by the band (and given that all the photos are of the lead singer, one presumes by him specifically). It is nonsense from start to finish, and negatively colored my impressions of the record thoroughly, so I recommend not doing that.
Perhaps their other albums show off their skill as "this century's great rock synthesists," but the start of this record is nondescript middle of the road indie rock.
Then suddenly, the warning signs: an extended Dire Straits impression on "An Ocean In Between The Waves." The almost-unique vocals now sound like they're trying to be something specific.
And then inexplicably it turns into Bob Dylan tribute music on "Eyes To The Wind." If you inexplicably turn into (bad, I might add) Bob Dylan tribute music in the middle of your record I will give you 1 star every time.
If you then, after an unearned instrumental interlude, turn into Bruce Springsteen tribute music on the very next track, I'll wish I could take that 1 star away.
This album infuriated me in a fun way. 5 stars for the experience, 1 star for the album
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Tue Oct 31 2023
Ramones
Ramones
Foundational and iconic and all that, but it's not really listenable as an album.
3
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Wed Nov 01 2023
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.
Not my thing. I'm giving it an extra star because it absolutely succeeds at the band's goal of creating an "anti rock" sound.
2
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Thu Nov 02 2023
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
It's endlessly odd to me while listening to the album straight through that Simon & Garfunkel put stuff like 'bridge over troubled water' and 'so long frank lloyd wright' on the same album as stuff like 'cecilia' and 'keep the customer satisfied,' and then i remember they broke up acrimoniously.
the boxer is a perfect song. the lyrics are almost conversational but flow with the music perfectly like a gentle downhill stream in a way i don't think anyone else has ever come close to matching.
most of it is listenable, a lot of it is good, and bridge over troubled water is one of the most annoying songs ever recorded.
3
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Fri Nov 03 2023
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
It was fine. Mostly charming. I'd go to a tavern to see it live. Another case of "I'm sure several artists I enjoy cite them as an influence."
3
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Sat Nov 04 2023
All Directions
The Temptations
Easy listening, no complaints
3
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Sun Nov 05 2023
Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kings of Leon
Weird album for me. I think it's important as a bridge between a time when alt rock had become very samey and when actually-alternative alt rock became widely commercial and popular. Some of the guitar work is very foundational for the alt rock of the 2010s. The AltNation SiriusXM station and many of the bands they play regularly owe a lot to Kings of Leon.
Unfortunately, Caleb Followill's voice is unfuckingbearable.
2
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Mon Nov 06 2023
Play
Moby
If you can set aside the cartoon character that is Moby, I believe there is a 4 or 4.5 star album here, but there's so much useless underground electronic DJ set filler squeezed into the cracks that drags it down.
3
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Tue Nov 07 2023
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Classic, mostly great outside of extended noodling sessions
3
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Wed Nov 08 2023
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
It was great
4
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Thu Nov 09 2023
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
enjoyed it from start to finish. type o negative vibes
4
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Fri Nov 10 2023
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
irredeemable garbage from start to finish
1
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Sat Nov 11 2023
Guero
Beck
Solid, but not nearly as good as 2005 Mason thought it was
3
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Sun Nov 12 2023
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
Another in the "i understand that it's foundational and influential but i'll stick to the things that built upon its foundation and were inspired by it thank you"
3
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Mon Nov 13 2023
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
I have no particular attachment to either artist, but at least once or twice I thought "Man Adele really stole her whole vocal sound didn't she"
Me and Mr. Jones gets the album an extra star all by itself. "What kind of fuckery is this" is a wonderful line
4
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Tue Nov 14 2023
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
yep, that's a beastie boys album
3
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Wed Nov 15 2023
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
love an english punk band where you can hear their accents (meegraine)
3
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Thu Nov 16 2023
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
I want to rate this higher. I didn't dislike it, it shines in a couple spots. But it can't escape sounding like the solo effort of a guy who does his best work collaborating with other artists (which it is)
2
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Fri Nov 17 2023
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
*shrug* if you say so
2
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Sat Nov 18 2023
I Should Coco
Supergrass
fun all the way through
3
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Sun Nov 19 2023
Third
Soft Machine
prog rock is a tool of the devil. jazzy prog rock is a WMD.
1
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Mon Nov 20 2023
Konnichiwa
Skepta
one of the best grime albums ever. bonus points for putting a recording of a cod lobby on a track
4
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Tue Nov 21 2023
Blue
Joni Mitchell
2
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Wed Nov 22 2023
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
no skips
5
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Thu Nov 23 2023
Back to Basics
Christina Aguilera
did not realize christina aguilera was making christiany pop albums
a couple of these songs felt kinda.... pandery? weird vibe. i like the risk taking with the sound though, it's not exactly what you expect from christina
a song full of voice mails from fans is a CHOICE.
2
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Fri Nov 24 2023
Woodface
Crowded House
bland and offputting in a way i'm not sure how to explain
1
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Sat Nov 25 2023
Doolittle
Pixies
one of the ones where you just go "yeah of course this is one the list"
5
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Sun Nov 26 2023
OK Computer
Radiohead
I was excited to sit down and listen to this as an adult. I know there are some bangers on here, but as a young'n Radiohead was the annoying boring stuff that interrupted the loud grunge on the radio and the music video for paranoid android was highly unsettling to me.
It really drags at the end, but there's a lot of great stuff here. It has an emblematic 90s non-music interlude track which I appreciate on principle. It hearkens to a time when people made albums instead of singles
4
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Mon Nov 27 2023
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
i have a generally positive opinion of the kinks from the singles i'm familiar with and their appearances on wes anderson soundtracks, but i hated this
1
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Tue Nov 28 2023
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
the beatles fall into a category of foundational, influential inspirational media where i consumed everything it inspired before i consumed the media.
boring, but i don't hate it.
2
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Wed Nov 29 2023
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
when talking heads works it works really well. when talking heads doesn't work it is the most annoying music on the planet. this is an entire album where it doesn't work.
1
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Thu Nov 30 2023
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
The bangers are banging, the bops are bopping
I've never listened to this album all the way through, so I did not expect a Chuck Mangione joint on track 4
3
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Fri Dec 01 2023
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
The spotify version doesn't have oh bondage up yours on it, so what's the point?
2
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Sat Dec 02 2023
Homework
Daft Punk
I know that this genre of music simply isn't for me, and also I shouldn't be listening to it while I do my fake email job at 1pm on a Thursday, but even so I cannot fathom why this album is held in such high esteem by those who are into it.
There's a 7 minute 33 second song of the same 8 count of noise repeated over and over with nothing but various effects and additional percussion layered onto it. Most of the album just isn't compelling if I'm not at an EDM show and on drugs.
Extra star for Da Funk and Around the World tho
2
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Sun Dec 03 2023
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
I went through a middle school kid who got super into the rat pack phase and nothing from this album was ever of interest to me. also it's really sleepy
2
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Mon Dec 04 2023
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
Absolutely love the vibe of a dude named fred releasing an album called fred with a song that includes "(fred's tune)" in its title. It was fine.
2
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Tue Dec 05 2023
War
U2
I was aware of Bono and The Edge as kind of insufferable before I was aware of U2's good music, and it definitely colors my impression of them. This is a pretty good album though.
3
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Wed Dec 06 2023
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
Yep. That's a new wave album.
2
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Thu Dec 07 2023
Feast of Wire
Calexico
The platonic ideal of the kinds of albums I let ruin my mood throughout the 00's. No thanks!
2
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Fri Dec 08 2023
John Prine
John Prine
an all timer, one of the kings of sad as fuck country still being a good time
5
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Sat Dec 09 2023
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
yep, that's a led zeppelin album
3
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Sun Dec 10 2023
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
Enjoyable throughout
3
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Mon Dec 11 2023
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
I would never choose to listen to this again, it simply doesn't interest me, but it's not bad.
2
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Tue Dec 12 2023
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
pretty hard to mess up blues
3
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Wed Dec 13 2023
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
I like a lot of the guitar work, but this album feels like when a good character in a show disappears and comes back but now they're dark and brooding cause they've been through some shit.
Shouldn't have broken up the pixies, francis
3
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Thu Dec 14 2023
Superunknown
Soundgarden
This is one of the most precious albums to me of all time. There is so much there beyond the singles. The sludge of 4th of July, the creeping opti-pessimism of The Day I Tried To Live, the groove of Let Me Drown... No skips. All timer. 6 stars.
5
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Fri Dec 15 2023
GI
Germs
3
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Sat Dec 16 2023
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
First couple tracks were great, but Nina Simone's vibrato is not for me for extended periods of time
2
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Sun Dec 17 2023
Country Life
Roxy Music
mostly fine, sometimes irritating
2
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Mon Dec 18 2023
I Against I
Bad Brains
I am convinced that the vast majority of the punk included in this list was done so as an afterthought to avoid the author getting yelled at about it
2
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Tue Dec 19 2023
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
How can there be so much Bob Dylan yet only Tangled Up In Blue is good
1
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Wed Dec 20 2023
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
I know that arctic monkeys know how to use distortion on their guitars because they do it on this album and yet they spend so much time opting instead for the most annoying guitar tone ever recorded
2
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Thu Dec 21 2023
Synchronicity
The Police
There are a lot of albums we've heard so far where I could see why it would be enjoyable to someone, but this is the first one that just fucking sucks and I cannot fathom enjoying it. ZERO stars I never want to hear any of these songs again.
1
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Fri Dec 22 2023
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
all of the rough edges of a live performance with none of the energy, but mostly fun to listen to
2
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Sat Dec 23 2023
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
Better than the last one but still some real questionable stuff in here
3
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Sun Dec 24 2023
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
one of the best albums of the 00s. And I love an album with some acoustic versions at the end
5
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Mon Dec 25 2023
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
Live albums are rarely good and this is not an exception. That being said, extra star for space truckin. Space truckin is never not good
2
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Wed Dec 27 2023
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
mostly agreeable listen
2
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Thu Dec 28 2023
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
I didn't mind most of this, though I don't particularly enjoy when an otherwise good if not weird song descends into noise making for no good reason in the middle.
I am ten thousand percent positive that wayne coyne lyrics and vocals would make every single track a certified banger. i think i expected the flaming lips to show up on every single track.
2
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Fri Dec 29 2023
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
I love the guitar work throughout most of Bowie's career, I just don't like when he sings over it throughout most of his career also.
2
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Sat Dec 30 2023
Aja
Steely Dan
There was nothing wrong with anything on this album I just wouldn’t ever choose to listen to it again and “would listen again” is my bar for 3 stars so…
2
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Sun Dec 31 2023
Fragile
Yes
I hold these men personally responsible as the progenitors of most prog rock
1
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Mon Jan 01 2024
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
Every single Tom waits song is simply wait(s)ing for the right scene in a movie or tv show of which to be a theme song. It all feels like it’s missing context when you’re just listening to the album.
2
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Tue Jan 02 2024
The Wall
Pink Floyd
I’ll take the layne Staley Tom morello version of another brick from 1999’s criminally underrated The Faculty, but an extra star for producing the original so it could be used in a movie about alien teachers attacking students instead of protest
3
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Wed Jan 03 2024
British Steel
Judas Priest
Probably the third best Priest album. I remain shocked this was picked as their appearance over others. If I ever run into Rob Halford in San Diego again I will ask him about it.
3
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Thu Jan 04 2024
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
There's not really much that moved me outside of the singles (BUT THE SINGLES ARE ALL TIMERS)
4
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Fri Jan 05 2024
Vulnicura
Björk
Pretty listenable, but a lot of making weird noise for weird noise’s sake
2
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Sat Jan 06 2024
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
pretty fun the whole way through, and a perfect album to listen to while doing house work
3
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Sun Jan 07 2024
Signing Off
UB40
Just not for me in album form
2
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Mon Jan 08 2024
Hotel California
Eagles
I’ve never listened to this in its entirety and I probably haven’t heard anything but a snippet of hotel California on the radio in a store or something in years.
I think it’s one of those songs that younger people just sort of take on faith as being an all timer but it is exactly as good as your dad says it is.
The rest of it is decent 70s rock ranging from listenable to pretty good.
Also it’s weirdly fun to listen to good music when you know the people making it utterly despise one another. But then less so when you know what a bunch of assholes they are.
3
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Tue Jan 09 2024
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
Try as I might to give this an unbiased listen The Beach Boys are simply “my dads music” from a time when I was starting to choose “my music.” Didn’t really enjoy my time here, but didn’t dislike it as much as I thought I would
2
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Wed Jan 10 2024
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
I enjoyed this quite a bit
3
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Thu Jan 11 2024
Scott 4
Scott Walker
I did not expect to enjoy this but it was quite lovely to make soup to
3
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Fri Jan 12 2024
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
Don’t think consuming the pogues in album form is for me, but I really enjoyed quite a few songs
3
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Sat Jan 13 2024
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
In the ghetto is one of the most insane songs ever penned. Just totally wild that was a hit even accounting for “it was a different time”
It always makes me laugh to hear Elvis plead with the recipient of a song to believe him or cry about his partner being suspicious of him, ELVIS PRESLEY.
Only a couple songs on here that really drag. Great overall
4
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Sun Jan 14 2024
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
Was having a much better time with this talking heads album until warning sign. And the song after that. And the one after that. And then I was like ah fuck yep this is a talking heads joint. Then it recovered a bit! I would listen to some of these songs again, but never in album form.
2
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Mon Jan 15 2024
Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter
There was some really fun stuff here but the rest of the album sounded like the fun stuff but not as fun.
2
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Tue Jan 16 2024
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
I’ve always been vaguely sure I don’t like Springsteen now I know for sure. It all sounds the same and it’s not great. A lot of it is quite bad. Why does the melody in jungleland sound directly ripped from tiny dancer? Why is the title track held in such high regard? And why is one of the e street band members a main character in The Sopranos?
1
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Wed Jan 17 2024
Berlin
Lou Reed
Some real standouts amid a lot of dullness
2
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Thu Jan 18 2024
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
Really didn’t enjoy any of this
1
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Fri Jan 19 2024
Phrenology
The Roots
My room mate played this album a lot in college. It's very enjoyable.
3
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Sat Jan 20 2024
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
A personal top 5 album of all time. As a kid learning to play guitar but not being very good or fast and only having metal and grunge in my musical tastes, Mick Ronson was revelatory.
I would say the ziggy era is the only Bowie I really like, but even Aladdin Sane abandons so much of what makes me love this album.
Five years is one of the best songs ever recorded.
5
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Sun Jan 21 2024
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
This album and band have an outsized reputation that neither really meets. What’s good is pretty good, and what’s bad (when they go full talking heads, my disdain for which is already stated in these records) is pretty bad. The rest of it is fine, but nothing revolutionary or legendary like I’d been led to believe
3
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Mon Jan 22 2024
xx
The xx
Chris isaak I wanna fall in love the album
2
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Tue Jan 23 2024
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
Too long, but almost entirely enjoyable. Can I kick it is an all timer
3
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Wed Jan 24 2024
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
Live albums are rarely good and this is not an exception. Love Johnny tho
2
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Thu Jan 25 2024
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
didn't mind any of this, very much enjoyed the vocals and the instrumentation
3
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Fri Jan 26 2024
Hot Fuss
The Killers
might be my favorite album of the 00s
5
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Sat Jan 27 2024
The Blueprint
JAY Z
the late 90s/early 00s is an era of hip hop that doesn't really interest me, but hov interests me more than the rest. You can only hear Jay-Z talking about beating the charges so many times before you get tired of it, but I will readily admit he is the best at it.
3
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Sun Jan 28 2024
Marquee Moon
Television
Too much jam bandy noodley guitar work on too-long songs, but I liked some of it. Wouldn’t reach for it again
2
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Mon Jan 29 2024
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
This is one where I want to find a copy of the book and find out what about it makes it an album you should hear before you die. In a genre that I would describe as "fancy hotel lobby music" or "tv/movie incidental music," is this particularly exemplary? was there special drama in its recording? I enjoyed it, but it's not immediately clear to me why I needed to hear it before I die.
2
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Tue Jan 30 2024
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
absolutely not. the whole idea bothers me in principle.
1
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Wed Jan 31 2024
The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
It went on a little too long, but it's good overall and there's some real bangers
3
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Thu Feb 01 2024
Pyromania
Def Leppard
i found it very hard to take this album seriously. i recognize logically that def leppard is probably the target sound for every tv commercial or show that wants 80s rock-sounding incidental music, but the whole album sounded like that.
2
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Fri Feb 02 2024
Tommy
The Who
Easily the biggest delta so far between the reverence most folks have for the album and the depths of my distaste for it.
Roger Daltrey is unbearable both as a singer and a human being. The story is boring. The music is fine. I never want to hear it again.
1
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Sat Feb 03 2024
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
It was a fun listen, but not something I'd ever reach for
2
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Sun Feb 04 2024
A Wizard, A True Star
Todd Rundgren
Definitely bottom 5 so far. Just a terrible experience sonically.
1
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Mon Feb 05 2024
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
Not my favorite Common. Doesn’t help that it’s full of problematic language. He has thankfully publicly realized that was a problem and resolved not to use homophobic slurs anymore. A couple great ones here though
2
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
My dad in 1997: why do you have my fender and a monkey wrench in your room Mason stop messing with my stuff!
Me: *all of 11 years old and doing tom morello shit to the fender with the wrench* FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
5
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Wed Feb 07 2024
The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
Mostly had a bad time, from some of the stuff I was reading it sounds like they had a bad time making it too. I do enjoy some of their other work though (which would be perhaps much to Mark Hollis' chagrin)
2
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Thu Feb 08 2024
B-52's
The B-52's
I was surprised by how regularly bothered I was listening to this. I really love Kate Pierson's voice, but she spends so much time using it to make annoying noises in addition to her singing. Hero Worship is a great song! Rock Lobster is a gimmick that simply does not need to be almost 7 minutes long!
2
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Fri Feb 09 2024
Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
2
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Sat Feb 10 2024
Transformer
Lou Reed
The instrumentation is wonderful (because it’s largely Mick Ronson of David Bowie fame), but that’s about all I enjoyed
2
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Sun Feb 11 2024
The Man Who
Travis
Pretty forgettable but not disagreeable. Because I listened to this the other day and then got 3 songs into it before realizing I’d already listened to it
2
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Mon Feb 12 2024
Maxinquaye
Tricky
New pet peeve unlocked it’s a guy talking while a girl sings the same words
1
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Tue Feb 13 2024
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
Spanish Harlem was incredibly unsettling to me as a child and I never really clocked why and yep as an adult it’s still a kinda creepy song. Everything else is great except The In Crowd
3
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
Neil Tennant is simply a non starter for me
1
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
this is like the platonic ideal of 60s rock. right down the middle. and i do not enjoy it.
1
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Fri Feb 16 2024
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
2
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Sat Feb 17 2024
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
an all timer
4
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Sun Feb 18 2024
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
2
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Mon Feb 19 2024
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
Going into this I thought “surely Brian Eno won’t let David Byrne ruin an entire Brian Eno record” and I was right, but multiple songs sound like 5 minute long intros to a Talking Heads song and that’s just such a waste of the time these two had together I expected better
1
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Tue Feb 20 2024
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
I am 100% confident if you gave Elliot smith the drummer from That Thing You Do! and he made him play everything faster his music would be really really great instead of just good, mood depending
3
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Wed Feb 21 2024
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
Loved it!
3
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Thu Feb 22 2024
In Utero
Nirvana
Most of this isn’t actually that great but the quarter of it that is good s EXTREMELY fucken good
3
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Fri Feb 23 2024
Immigrés
Youssou N'Dour
I enjoyed almost all of it
2
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Sat Feb 24 2024
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
My vote for the widest gap between the good and the bad so far. The iconic songs are iconic, the ones that aren’t are nigh unlistenable
2
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Sun Feb 25 2024
Survivor
Destiny's Child
This album is so full of judgy weird like internalized misoginy I had no idea
2
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Bad Company
Bad Company
Perfectly fine classic rock
3
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Proud Mary keep on boinin is one thing, but thirty people toined to stone is too far. There wasn’t much especially disagreeable but I’d never reach for it and you gotta be replayable if you want 3 stars from me
2
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
A fun listen once
2
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Thu Feb 29 2024
A Seat at the Table
Solange
3
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
This made me feel like my atoms were out of position
1
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Sat Mar 02 2024
The White Album
Beatles
I know it’s sacrilege and everything I like stands on the fossilized bones of The Beatles, but I just really can’t stand these guys. And even the remaster sounds like it was mixed to evoke the record being played on Walkman headphones with the volume all the way up but lying on the counter of a bathroom instead of on your ears.
The lyrics of Glass Onion seem to indicate that the Beatles were openly contemptuous of their stardom and fans, and then Wild Pie Honey, Piggies, and Happiness Is A Warm Gun removes all doubt. A reluctant extra star for Rocky Raccoon, I’m So Tired, and Helter Skelter
2
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Sun Mar 03 2024
Eagles
Eagles
What a snooze fest
1
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Mon Mar 04 2024
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
3
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Tue Mar 05 2024
In Rainbows
Radiohead
truly unbelievable lows after such highs in their career
1
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Close To You
Carpenters
did they just not make any good music in 1970 why is this momentous in any way
1
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
cain't so no to any waylon, tbh. this is one of his more listenable albums from start to finish
3
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Mothership Connection
Parliament
Give the people what they want when they want and they wants it all the time
3
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Sat Mar 09 2024
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
2000 is about when we got the internet at home and i was finally able to begin discovering and choosing my own music and drifting away from what the alternative rock radio station was playing. violently rejecting linkin park is like one of my first conscious musical choices and i'm committing to the bit. i do not like this.
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Sun Mar 10 2024
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
Feel like there was a better way to tell the story of mongoloid without the word mongoloid even in 1978. Devo is very much like talking heads where when they do it good it’s great and when they do it too much it’s unlistenable. Thankfully they do it much more infrequently!
2
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Mon Mar 11 2024
Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
So very many crimes were committed in the mixing of albums in the 1970s. This is fun though.
3
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Tue Mar 12 2024
With The Beatles
Beatles
absolutely as good as the beatles get in my ears
2
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Wed Mar 13 2024
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3
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Thu Mar 14 2024
Graceland
Paul Simon
This my dads music. I can’t stand the instrumentation for large portions of this album, but I do enjoy all of the vocals
2
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Fri Mar 15 2024
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
way better than the last elvis
3
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Sat Mar 16 2024
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
Bonus star (up from zero) because I got to make my gf experience this for the first time. This is legitimately one of my least favorite albums (and bands) ever recorded
1
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Sun Mar 17 2024
Garbage
Garbage
this album is connected to so many wonderful memories. but nostalgia is a toxic impulse (you can never go back). shirley manson was one of my first celebrity crushes.
5
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Arrival
ABBA
fernando valenzuela used to enter baseball games to fernando, 3 stars for that song alone
3
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Tue Mar 19 2024
Liquid Swords
GZA
It’s pretty enjoyable for the parts where you can zone out and not hear all the NGE/nation of Islam hate group stuff
2
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Wed Mar 20 2024
Clandestino
Manu Chao
3
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Thu Mar 21 2024
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Fun instrumentation but sorry Damon your voice doesn’t do it for me if it’s not a blur song
2
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
i am 38, this can only be chore music for me now
2
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Sat Mar 23 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
a pretty good album, but vastly overrated on the strength of two songs. i've never been a huge maiden fan, they are fischer price baby's first metal to me. some of the best song writers ever in the genre, i just don't like their sound.
3
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Sun Mar 24 2024
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
pretty much has everything you expect from a p funk album, a true album experience from start to finish
3
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Mon Mar 25 2024
Gris Gris
Dr. John
Cajun Tom waits is a no for me
1
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Frank
Amy Winehouse
This is a tough listen with hindsight. Underproduced too. Just feels too light since we know what can be with Black
2
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
On the Wikipedia entry for Wings one of their ever rotating guitarists claims Wings sounds like a band and not a solo McCartney project and that is only true on the songs that sound like Beatles songs. Mostly boring!
2
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Dookie
Green Day
Somewhat slow start and then 7 straight classics. One of the best albums of the 90s
4
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Fri Mar 29 2024
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
this is kind of exhausting to listen to now because of the time it represents, but it is a formative experience
3
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Sat Mar 30 2024
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
fun and engaging throughout. perfect blend of musicianship and showmanship to keep it entertaining the entire time. shouts out to all middle schoolers currently going through a weird rat pack/lounge phase you're doing great
3
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Sun Mar 31 2024
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
this is unarguably the worst white stripes album why have the authors of this book done this to us? it's fine. it's got a couple singles that were fine to hear in a 00s alt rock shuffled playlist, but they are scattered throughout a desert of jack white being unproductively weird. a horrendous full-album listening experience.
1
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
u gotta be kidding me
1
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Tue Apr 02 2024
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
i don't live a lifestyle conducive to sitting around listening to an hour of post rock songs anymore unfortunately, but i fondly recall when i did
3
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
more musicianship than you expect from punk of the era, it's really great throughout
3
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Thu Apr 04 2024
Seventh Tree
Goldfrapp
Dreadfully boring almost the entire time. We’re getting RNG’d here but this is a lot of “why on earth would you pick this album from this artist” entries recently
2
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
An entire album of the same rhythm is not fun to listen to
1
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Sat Apr 06 2024
Parallel Lines
Blondie
Almost nothing of note besides the singles. A very puzzling entry to the list.
2
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Sun Apr 07 2024
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
some of this is still pretty damn infectious, but it all sort of generally sounds like a lot more like shit than i remembered. just wildly under and/or poorly produced.
2
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Mon Apr 08 2024
Street Life
The Crusaders
this was fine. after the opening track, which i enjoyed in substance if not length, i was not exactly expecting an easy listening album having seen it described as jazz. i wish all jazz was like this.
2
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Tue Apr 09 2024
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
this wasn't as bad as i was expecting, but then again the basic ingredients of reggae are like nails on a chalk board to me
1
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Wed Apr 10 2024
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
it's all a little samey, but in the comfortable way that it sounds like a complete album to listen to rather than "the songs all sound the same" if that makes sense. the music is exactly as shoegazey as i want my rock before it goes overboard and i just want it to be post rock instrumentals. it perfectly blends a lot of different ideas and ends up unique. it's very good.
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Fri Apr 12 2024
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
It’s weird how we got the weird jam band album first and then we got this one and this one is bad because it also sounds like a jam band (and because Neil Young is singing). Some nice instrumentation though
2
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Sat Apr 13 2024
Blunderbuss
Jack White
this sounds like white stripes b sides, which perhaps provides some clarity for why this list includes the lesser white stripes albums. i think that jack white is supremely talented, but it feels like he got famous for being a weird lil guy at a time when we didn't have enough weird lil guys and i can't help but wonder if he's chained to his schtick or if this is just really what he's after when he records for himself.
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Sun Apr 14 2024
The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
Some of this was VERY fun, but dissonance and noise rock has always been widely available to me and so i don't think it has the same uniqueness it probably did when people discovered it in its time.
2
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Mon Apr 15 2024
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
the phrase "heavy lifting" doesn't come nearly close enough to describe what the eminem singles do for the rest of his backlog
2
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
3
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Wed Apr 17 2024
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
Sufficiently different from the other beastie boys albums on the list to be interesting, but idk that it holds a candle to either of them
2
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Thu Apr 18 2024
One World
John Martyn
i hated all of my time with this album.
1
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Fri Apr 19 2024
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
I keep wondering if the 60s had anything interesting to offer and 60s bands keep saying “nope”
1
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Sat Apr 20 2024
Stankonia
OutKast
B.O.B is undefeated, and the rest of it is good too
3
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Sun Apr 21 2024
Repeater
Fugazi
Fundamental guitar work for a lot of what else came in the 90s. Enjoyable throughout
3
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Mon Apr 22 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
I can’t think of a way to describe this album besides “mostly interludes.” It felt like I was constantly waiting for an actual song to start and it only did a couple times.
2
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Tue Apr 23 2024
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
I enjoyed this a lot. I can imagine putting this on the record player while you're having friends over and it being the perfect compliment to a nice little party.
3
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Wed Apr 24 2024
Rocks
Aerosmith
It requires setting aside some notions about Aerosmith and Steven Tyler from the intervening years, but this is a pretty good classic rock album. It relies on superior guitar work and a unique vocalist without forgetting the rest of the band entirely. It's got grooves and riffs and it feels emblematic of the time.
3
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Thu Apr 25 2024
Movies
Holger Czukay
each song had a good half that went off the rails, but I mostly was fine with this. it came very close to scratching the itch that I normally get from shoegazey post rock instrumental bands these days. proto-post-rock is a funny concept.
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Fri Apr 26 2024
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
astoundingly inoffensive for a live album. doesn't go too overboard with jam banding. produced and mixed well. no excessive faffing about between songs.
2
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Sat Apr 27 2024
Sea Change
Beck
Flatly insane to include this album on this list. It would only meet the criteria if there were more than a thousand Beck albums and then you could be like wow what a step outside of the box for Beck. Honestly beck has certainly earned the right to make this album, but it is not what I want when I go to the “Beck” section of the music store. Get it outta here
1
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Sun Apr 28 2024
Document
R.E.M.
Yep that’s an rem album
2
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Mon Apr 29 2024
Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
One of my favorite albums. Her voice, the writing, the way it pulls from country tradition yet also subverts quite a lot. Pieces here have a distinct songwriting character, yet still manage to span a breadth of country song types. It’s an album where I think yeah this definitely should be on the list and should be heard by everyone.
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Tue Apr 30 2024
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
A 3 because it has very high peaks and is the bedrock of a lot of stuff I like, but I don’t particularly enjoy listening to it as a full album
3
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Wed May 01 2024
Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
A nearly perfect album. One of the first tapes I bought for myself, a formative “choosing my own music” moment. 50 ft queen is a banger
4
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Thu May 02 2024
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
This is maybe not the thing I’m supposed to take away from an Aretha album but I really liked the harmonies
3
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Fri May 03 2024
Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
there were some moments, but i don't think i'd like to hear the vast majority of this again. i'm just not sure how you could pick this as what you need to hear from brian eno given his entire repertoire
2
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Sat May 04 2024
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
giving this two stars because it made me feel like my atoms were out of place, but not as far out of place as i expected it too, and i found myself bopping along a couple times.
2
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Sun May 05 2024
A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy
there was so much weird stuff (respectfully) in here. not something i probably would have come across outside of this exercise
2
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Mon May 06 2024
Sound Affects
The Jam
i feel like i almost liked this multiple times
2
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Tue May 07 2024
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
i think i judge single instrument noodley virtuosos on a 2 axis matrix. they're all really good at their thing by definition, so from there it's:
are they cool, and are they just technically skilled and making masturbatory music or is there artistry involved
so for instance: yngwie malmsteen... one of the least cool people you've ever seen in your life (and also a dickhead), and he's just up there noodling for noodling's sake to prove that he can. your enjoyment and even your presence is irrelevant to him.
jimi hendrix, one of the coolest people you've ever seen in your life, and he's pouring himself into it.
0 stars for yngwie malmsteen on principle if he ever pops up on this list, 3 stars for this particular jimi album
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