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Fri Jan 05 2024
Marquee Moon
Television
A classic….melodic and jarring
5
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Sat Jan 06 2024
25
Adele
Huh…hadn’t taken the time to listen before and therefore didn’t appreciate the emotional range of her singing or the vulnerability of her lyrics
4
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Sun Jan 07 2024
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
Torch songs not usually my thing, but I get the appeal
3
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Mon Jan 08 2024
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
Wow…
4
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Tue Jan 09 2024
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
A Feast from first to last
4
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Wed Jan 10 2024
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
What amazes me is that what was viewed as such a stylistic, and genre, leap sounds so natural and honest…I suppose that’s a measure of his creative genius
4
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Thu Jan 11 2024
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Hüsker Dü
I’m a fan, but this one doesn’t fire me up as much as others…dunno why, maybe at times it seemed less urgent, less poetic
3
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Fri Jan 12 2024
The Grand Tour
George Jones
A great example of 1974 Nashville sound: impeccable production, session musicians at the top of their game, and Jones’s voice is incredible….BUT the subject matter and the way it’s approached; damn I need a drink…
3
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Sat Jan 13 2024
Dummy
Portishead
My second listen (popped up on a friend’s list the other day and he was already a fan, so….)….not sure I’m getting all of it; I see the appeal, but it’s not what I’d reach for ordinarily…definitively British, and I like the melodies and approach, but for me something is missing and I don’t know what
3
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Sun Jan 14 2024
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
I don’t get it…it’s okay, but I don’t hear anything that might have been groundbreaking or otherwise significant…it’s a pleasant enough listen, and competently produced, but what makes it, per NME, one of the 500 best…not sure I need to spend time researching that…maybe I’m just a rube
3
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Mon Jan 15 2024
Music From Big Pink
The Band
What’s left to say?..a critical moment in the evolution of rock, Americana, alt-country…take your pick…also a demonstration of what can happen when you allow a group of musicians to percolate and figure out what they want to play and how they want to play it…
5
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Tue Jan 16 2024
Low
David Bowie
It was not my cup of tea in 1977…today I appreciate it as a step in the development of a unique artist who, like Ray Charles somewhat, was always reinventing his art, his style, himself
4
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Wed Jan 17 2024
More Specials
The Specials
Didn’t care for it….stylistically all over the place and the musicianship was not very good…I’ll double back and give it another listen, but for today…
3
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Thu Jan 18 2024
Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
What to make of this?..world-music vibe but his background is so punk…probably another one that deserves a 2d listen
3
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Sat Jan 20 2024
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
What’s not to like?..funk, musicianship, fresh air
4
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Sun Jan 21 2024
Ingenue
k.d. lang
Not usually a fan of torch songs, but her voice is so clean and this is so well produced
4
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Mon Jan 22 2024
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
Not much of a singer, but an inspired poet…R.I.P
4
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Tue Jan 23 2024
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
Thought they were just another grunge band…didn’t realize the scope of their stylistic competence…reminds me of one of my favorite breweries; if you don’t like the beer you’re drinking it’s because you don’t like that style, it’s not because they made a bad version of it..
4
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Wed Jan 24 2024
John Prine
John Prine
Amazing
5
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Thu Jan 25 2024
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead
My guess is this is one of the best examples of the type; it’s just not anything I was interested in…seems to be a lot of frustration and anger in there, much like punk and some New Wave; it’s just a different form of expression
4
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Fri Jan 26 2024
You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
Reminded me pretty quickly of Husker Du, who’d been playing for 5 years or so when these guys got together…will need a closer listen to sort out how lyrics compare, content- and poetry-wise
3
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Sat Jan 27 2024
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
Hardest working man in show business
4
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Sun Jan 28 2024
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
4
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Mon Jan 29 2024
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
First time through I never get rap lyrics, but the mix is great
3
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Wed Jan 31 2024
Calenture
The Triffids
Australia must have been a post-apocalyptic Mad Max musical wasteland in the mid- to late-80’s
2
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Thu Feb 01 2024
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Love her voice…great breakout album
4
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Fri Feb 02 2024
Microshift
Hookworms
To me, sounded like EDM cut with angry lyrics…somebody might have it on their 1001 Album list, but not me
3
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Sat Feb 03 2024
Stardust
Willie Nelson
It’s Willie, for fuck’s sake
5
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Sun Feb 04 2024
Be
Common
Not my cup, although it’s starting to grow on me…
3
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Mon Feb 05 2024
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
It’s Dylan
5
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Tue Feb 06 2024
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
Interesting…don’t know that I’d ever listened to the whole thing before…if it was the starting point for prog-rock I get it, though I’m pretty sure Genesis and Yes already had their thoughts in mind by this point…they all seemed to be coming at it from different points, no doubt because of different influences and goals
4
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Wed Feb 07 2024
Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem
I’m sure many people appreciate how well produced this is, how precise the playing is (?is there a human in there?), how you could dance all night to this if you had the right dose of X…but it’s just not what I’m into
4
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Thu Feb 08 2024
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
Kind of interesting, but not terribly
3
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Fri Feb 09 2024
La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
Really liked this…would be nice if my Spanish was better and I could understand what they’re saying, but I still liked it a lot
4
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Sun Feb 11 2024
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
Don’t think I knew before reading the article that this is an album of covers…excellent musicianship, and Clapton’s vocals belie the 3 year heroin binge preceding the recording
4
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Mon Feb 12 2024
NEU! 75
Neu!
Thought this was surprisingly enjoyable…not sure what I expected, maybe either heavy EDM or nasty metal, but this wasn’t either of those…very clean I thought
4
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Pornography
The Cure
Thought it sounded a bit of a mess…
3
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Tago Mago
Can
I won’t say it’s complete rubbish; I’m sure somebody somewhere could find some redeeming aspect or quality, or sort out what makes this particular release significant enough to merit inclusion on this list…but that’s not me…no hooks, no melodies, nothing about the arrangements…stack this against Neu! and it is definitely worse than second best
1
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Fri Feb 16 2024
Illmatic
Nas
I see now what all the fuss was about
4
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Sat Feb 17 2024
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
I think this was a concept album of some sort…workmanlike, competent effort, but I don’t get the concept
3
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Sun Feb 18 2024
G. Love And Special Sauce
G. Love & Special Sauce
That’s a fun listen
4
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Mon Feb 19 2024
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
I know, I know…great album, extraordinarily popular…I’ve just never been a fan
4
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Tue Feb 20 2024
Moondance
Van Morrison
Another classic, by all accounts
4
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Wed Feb 21 2024
Faust IV
Faust
More KrautRock….not as good as Neu!, but better than than last pile of shit…nothing memorable
3
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Thu Feb 22 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
It’s the Cure…not as scattered and at cross-purposes as the last one that made the list, so a bit easier to listen to…but still pretty whiny
4
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Fri Feb 23 2024
Dirt
Alice In Chains
I see the appeal, and it’s really well done, but it’s not what I’d pick to listen to
4
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Sat Feb 24 2024
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
The product of one man’s fevered imagination, and vision…incredible
5
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Document
R.E.M.
The hard thing to remember, after all the years and all the listens, is how fresh and eye-opening this sounded when we first got our hands on it
4
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Thu Feb 29 2024
The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
Sounds like a Roxy Music clone….well produced and catchy, but sounds very much like Roxy Music…I wonder how the timelines sort.
3
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
I can’t listen to it anymore…he can’t decide if he’s Leonard Cohen or Lou Reed or somebody-the-fuck else, and the arrangements, and playing, are all over the map…it’s not pretty
1
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Sat Mar 02 2024
Blackstar
David Bowie
Maybe not his best, but all things considered still a very fine piece of work
4
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Sun Mar 03 2024
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
Stopped before the end of the third song, if you want to call it that…what a bloody shambles…if this is what is needed to help my neuroplasticity, I think maybe I’d rather go petrified…not even worth a star, but the app won’t allow me to go lower
1
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Mon Mar 04 2024
Melodrama
Lorde
It’s very slick, at least at first listen….but that seems to strip the emotion out of it….very very cool, but is there any meaning?
3
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Tue Mar 05 2024
L.A. Woman
The Doors
4
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren
Interesting, very interesting…seeing McLaren’s name I was afraid it would be a shambles…but no…it’s very listenable, very catchy, a very subtle way to start people listening to genres they might not otherwise have explored
4
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Fabulously sweet
4
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Viva Hate
Morrissey
Wow!!..talk about dark; I was just listening and I wanted to cut my throat…great production, great voice, but I found myself wondering how they could write music that was fairly catchy when the lyrics were so melancholy…
4
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Sun Mar 10 2024
Sound Affects
The Jam
Love the Jam
4
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Mon Mar 11 2024
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4
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Thu Mar 14 2024
Basket of Light
Pentangle
3
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Fri Mar 15 2024
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
Great album…can see why for so many it’s a touchstone
4
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Sat Mar 16 2024
All Directions
The Temptations
Stone Soul Groove
4
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Sun Mar 17 2024
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
Sounded a lot stranger back in the day…wonder what that means
4
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Wed Mar 20 2024
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
Too bad Syd went down the rabbit hole…wonder what they could have done if he hadn’t lost himself
4
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
4
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Fri Mar 22 2024
A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy
Didn’t care for it…seemed average
3
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Sat Mar 23 2024
Stankonia
OutKast
Pleasantly surprised
4
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Sun Mar 24 2024
Parachutes
Coldplay
All very earnest and sincere, hoping your girlfriend will allow you a glimpse of titty
4
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Mon Mar 25 2024
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
What could I add?
4
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Just don’t dislike the world, or myself, that much
3
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Wed Mar 27 2024
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
Doesn’t hold a candle to Tommy, and there’s no way Townshend wasn’t thinking about and planning Tommy before he ever heard this…a pale comparison
3
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Closer
Joy Division
Pretty dark…dunno if I would have listened to more than once back in the day
4
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Fri Mar 29 2024
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
It’s Willie, for fuck’s sake
5
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Sat Mar 30 2024
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
Liked it more than I thought I would…wasn’t ready for it, or open to it, in 1990
4
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
I liked it…reminded me of the first time I heard King Sonny; no idea what they’re saying, but the music is infectious…
4
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Tue Apr 02 2024
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
Bittersweet listen now
4
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Chris
Christine and the Queens
Didn’t really touch me…interesting concept, and well executed and produced…but it didn’t touch me
3
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Thu Apr 04 2024
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
Infectious fun, and it brought a lot more women out on the New Wave dance floor
4
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Live At Leeds
The Who
Great stuff…heard a rumor some years ago that the show in Hull the next night is considered by some to be even better…hard to imagine
4
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Sat Apr 06 2024
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
That was fun!
4
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Sun Apr 07 2024
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
3
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Mon Apr 08 2024
Heroes
David Bowie
Really enjoying catching up with Bowie
4
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Thu Apr 11 2024
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
I tried…I really tried…but I couldn’t finish…it’s not the electronica, it’s that it sounds like soulless drivel to me
1
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Fri Apr 12 2024
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
Loved it…just wish I knew what they’re singing about
4
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Mon Apr 15 2024
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
Sounds confused…must have been a bad year for this to be one of the best
2
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
Wasn’t into it when it dropped, but now I see the appeal
4
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Fri Apr 19 2024
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
Great stuff…what I like is that the style around him can change but you can always recognize his horn
4
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Sun Apr 21 2024
Street Signs
Ozomatli
That was fun
4
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Mon Apr 22 2024
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Thought it was rubbish
2
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Tue Apr 23 2024
Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
4