View Album
Fri Jan 05 2024
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
5
View Album
Sun Jan 07 2024
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
5
View Album
Mon Jan 08 2024
The Next Day
David Bowie
4
View Album
Tue Jan 09 2024
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
5
View Album
Wed Jan 10 2024
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
5
View Album
Thu Jan 11 2024
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
3
View Album
Fri Jan 12 2024
Moondance
Van Morrison
5
View Album
Sat Jan 13 2024
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
3
View Album
Sun Jan 14 2024
Abraxas
Santana
4
View Album
Mon Jan 15 2024
O.G. Original Gangster
Ice T
4
View Album
Tue Jan 16 2024
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
5
View Album
Wed Jan 17 2024
Pretenders
Pretenders
3
View Album
Thu Jan 18 2024
Shalimar
Rahul Dev Burman
2
View Album
Fri Jan 19 2024
Traffic
Traffic
2
View Album
Sat Jan 20 2024
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
5
View Album
Sun Jan 21 2024
New Forms
Roni Size
4
View Album
Mon Jan 22 2024
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
4
View Album
Tue Jan 23 2024
Illmatic
Nas
5
View Album
Wed Jan 24 2024
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
5
View Album
Wed Jan 24 2024
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
I listened to it yesterday, and thought I’d be giving it a four. But not that I’m sitting down to rate it, I can’t remember a bleedin lick of the damn thing. Not that memorable, I guess.
3
View Album
Thu Jan 25 2024
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
I went on a rollercoaster with this album- which is surprising, given that it’s only 33 minutes.
I love this album. I listened to it twice. But I almost didn’t finish it at all because, in the first listen, I hated the first two tracks. They sounded ugly. And while God loves ugly, I just wasn’t in the mood. I also couldn’t take the first two tracks because, whenever they sing about bones, all I could think of was that Tim Robinson where he sing about the day all the skeletons came to life. It’s a funny sketch; if you haven’t seen I Think You Should Leave, please do. So, those first two tracks were ugly and I was fighting back laughter the whole time. Not a great start.
But the rest of the album was banger after banger and it left me wanting more, which is why I jumped right back in. Hadn’t heard it before and it is probably my favorite album so far.
5
View Album
Fri Jan 26 2024
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
2
View Album
Mon Jan 29 2024
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
3
View Album
Tue Jan 30 2024
Low
David Bowie
It only gets this high a rating because I could listen to the last four tracks forever. The rest of it is completely ignorable. I think if someone else made this, some rando instead of Bowie, it doesn’t get listed here.
3
View Album
Wed Jan 31 2024
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
4
View Album
Thu Feb 01 2024
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
3
View Album
Fri Feb 02 2024
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I guess I got a type; this is the second album I listened to twice back-to-back. The first was Surfer Rosa.
5
View Album
Mon Feb 05 2024
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4
View Album
Tue Feb 06 2024
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
4
View Album
Wed Feb 07 2024
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
5
View Album
Thu Feb 08 2024
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
3
View Album
Fri Feb 09 2024
Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren
3
View Album
Mon Feb 12 2024
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
Not an expert of jazz, don’t know much about it at all, but this is basically what I imagine when you say jazz.
5
View Album
Tue Feb 13 2024
2112
Rush
My wife’s favorite album from her favorite band. We have Fly By Night framed on the wall and Neil Peart quotes in her band’s classroom. The impact Rush has had on my life through their impact on her is huge. Even if I were inclined to try for ‘objective’ ratings, with this band, I could not.
5
View Album
Wed Feb 14 2024
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
2
View Album
Thu Feb 15 2024
A Date With The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
Why listen to this when Buddy Holly exists?
3
View Album
Fri Feb 16 2024
Siembra
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4
View Album
Mon Feb 19 2024
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
4
View Album
Tue Feb 20 2024
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
5
View Album
Wed Feb 21 2024
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
4
View Album
Thu Feb 22 2024
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
4
View Album
Fri Feb 23 2024
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
5
View Album
Mon Feb 26 2024
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
3
View Album
Tue Feb 27 2024
Pretenders
Pretenders
3
View Album
Wed Feb 28 2024
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
4
View Album
Thu Feb 29 2024
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
Lmao what? Nah.
1
View Album
Fri Mar 01 2024
Arular
M.I.A.
3
View Album
Mon Mar 04 2024
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
5
View Album
Tue Mar 05 2024
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
4
View Album
Wed Mar 06 2024
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
I’ve never listened to Neil Young before. This album told me that there’s probably an album of his out there that I would love. Just not this one.
3
View Album
Thu Mar 07 2024
Liquid Swords
GZA
4
View Album
Fri Mar 08 2024
Different Class
Pulp
3
View Album
Mon Mar 11 2024
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
This is the style of hip-hop I can listen to forever.
5
View Album
Tue Mar 12 2024
The Wall
Pink Floyd
Mesmerizing. Transportive.
5
View Album
Wed Mar 13 2024
Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4
View Album
Thu Mar 14 2024
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
I’ll just copy+paste my thoughts from another thread:
“I had a weird experience with Weather Report, where my estimation of the album declined in retrospect: I listened to it on Spotify, and liked it well enough, but was surprised it was such a long album, so I checked how much was left- it had ended eight songs ago! Spotify had started an automatic playlist of similar songs. So similar, in fact, that I couldn’t tell any of the artists apart. I don’t know if this is a Seinfeld situation, where Weather Report sounds generic because they had massive influence, but realizing that half the songs I liked weren’t even Weather Report- and I couldn’t tell the difference- made me judge it a little bit harder.”
3
View Album
Fri Mar 15 2024
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
Started off strong, captured the feeling of a live show quite well. Overstayed its welcome.
3
View Album
Mon Mar 18 2024
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
Wonderfully charming.
5
View Album
Tue Mar 19 2024
Is This It
The Strokes
Solid album, great musicians. I would have liked to have been able to understand the vocals a bit more.
4
View Album
Wed Mar 20 2024
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
I’m not sure quite how to rate this. It has a lot going for it that I enjoy. But I listened to it in headphones, and the stereo was shockingly bad. I almost quit on that alone. I think if I’d listened to it in mono I would have probably loved it. So, I’m not sure how to rate it: High because of the potential, or low because of the actual?
This is already one of my longest reviews and I’ve said actually nothing. Fine. I’ll go with a four and call it good.
4
View Album
Thu Mar 21 2024
Trio
Dolly Parton
Perfectly fine. I just couldn’t engage it as anything more than background music.
3
View Album
Fri Mar 22 2024
Want One
Rufus Wainwright
What a pretty voice. Tremendous control over his instrument.
4
View Album
Mon Mar 25 2024
A Night At The Opera
Queen
Third album to get repeat listens. This is also one of the few albums I knew going into this project. Even the songs with which I am overfamiliar because they play on every rock station ad nauseam- cough, Bohemian Rhapsody- don’t become less magnificent because of that familiarity. I love this album like Roger loves his car.
5
View Album
Tue Mar 26 2024
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
Easy listening. I will return to this, I’m sure.
4
View Album
Wed Mar 27 2024
The United States Of America
The United States Of America
Had stuff going for it, but it was very uneven. Some songs I couldn’t stand. Some were catchy. I definitely didn’t enjoy this one enough to revisit.
3
View Album
Thu Mar 28 2024
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
I wanted to like this more, and Tina Turner is a force, but the rest of it really left me flat.
2
View Album
Fri Mar 29 2024
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
This is right up my alley.
5
View Album
Mon Apr 01 2024
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
5
View Album
Tue Apr 02 2024
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
3
View Album
Wed Apr 03 2024
Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
Aural celery. The moment it ended, I forgot everything about it and hungered for real food.
2
View Album
Thu Apr 04 2024
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
4
View Album
Fri Apr 05 2024
1999
Prince
Just listened and am now pregnant.
4
View Album
Mon Apr 08 2024
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
Passions of youth carry this album to greatness. Sounds dated, because it is, but it transcends the mid-90s artifacts that threaten to drown it.
4
View Album
Tue Apr 09 2024
Nevermind
Nirvana
Insanely catchy. Half the album’s already classics that play on every rock station, which I didn’t know, never having gotten into Nirvana. I thought that maybe they’d had a series of albums that all had a hit- nope. This could be a greatest hits album with how stuffed full of classics it is.
4
View Album
Wed Apr 10 2024
Basket of Light
Pentangle
Indebted to the artifacts of its era in much the same way that Private Dancer was, and much to similar flat effect. I just happen to like folk more than drum machines, so an extra star.
3
View Album
Thu Apr 11 2024
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
I enjoyed the vibe and will probably keep that Matty song available.
3
View Album
Fri Apr 12 2024
Tommy
The Who
Gosh golly that was an ambitious album, wasn’t it? There were moments where the musicality felt genuinely timeless, like a piece of classical music.
5
View Album
Mon Apr 15 2024
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
Damn.
5
View Album
Tue Apr 16 2024
Synchronicity
The Police
Fourth album to get back-to-back listens.
5
View Album
Wed Apr 17 2024
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
I’m glad I l heard this, though I’m not sure I can say that I enjoyed this. I take that back- I did enjoy this, and there were enough experimental and creative moments that it kept me engaged throughout. It felt like it was made with a proper punk ethos, which I respect, though this was genrefied as post-punk. Was punk already dead in ‘78?
3
View Album
Thu Apr 18 2024
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
Like a British Woody Guthrie. I liked it.
3
View Album
Fri Apr 19 2024
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
I rolled my eyes when I saw yet another British folk album and, before I even heard it, I decided I was going to give this album a one-star review as a sort of protest vote. Sorry Richard Thompson, nothing personal, you’re just the wrong album at the wrong time. Three folk albums in one week? Are you kidding me? 1001 flavors of folk, is that what we’re doing? Aren’t there more genres than British folk and British rock? Good luck telling that to the dudes who made this list.
So that’s where I started with this album.
But it got a three. It won me over even through my folk fatigue. I thought the duo’s voices were perfectly complimentary, the songs were folksy charming, and that it didn’t outstay its welcome. If I had gotten it fresh out of the oven, instead of getting it as the third folk album this week, I probably would have given it a higher rating.
From this list, so far, this is probably my favorite album that I will never listen to again.
3
View Album
Mon Apr 22 2024
Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
Transports me to a smoky jazz club, puts a whiskey on the rocks in front of me, and a cigar in my hand. I could stay in this club all night.
5
View Album
Tue Apr 23 2024
Station To Station
David Bowie
Quite good.
4
View Album
Wed Apr 24 2024
School's Out
Alice Cooper
I’m surprised by how good this album was, given how little I liked the other Alice Cooper album. Billion Dollar Babies? Not gonna look it up, but I think that was it. This one was dynamic, creative. I enjoyed and didn’t expect the bluesy, jazzy, soulful elements.
4
View Album
Thu Apr 25 2024
L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
It was interesting, and for that I am grateful. I’d rather listen to an interesting misfire than a too-safe nothingburger.
I don’t know how to feel about this album. It did not entrance me like one of the great albums, but I am relistening to Les Enfants right now. There’s maybe something to this album, maybe even something special, but I don’t think I caught it in my first listen and I don’t know if I care enough to search for it.
I think this album probably deserves a deeper review after it has time to digest, rather than a review on first-taste.
3
View Album
Fri Apr 26 2024
Virgin Suicides
Air
My least favorite Air album. It is a soundtrack and feels like it- by which I mean, background noise. Le Voyage Dans La Lune, 10000 HZ Legend, and Moon Safari are all better albums by the same band.
3
View Album
Mon Apr 29 2024
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3
View Album
Tue Apr 30 2024
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Pretty freaking good.
4