Jan 11 2024
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Odelay
Beck
I know one Beck song and it is "Loser" because it would play a lot on the rock radio that I would listen to, but this album was pretty bad, something that you would maybe write while not at all present on Earth (on drugs). There were a few songs that had some really annoying sounds that made me decrease the volume quite a lot. I would rate this 2/5. It may have been cooler back in those late-90s days while you were enjoying smoking weed on the weekend but it's not really my thing.
2
Jan 12 2024
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Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
Nice and chill, enjoyed it. It's a bit sad that Superstition was not in this album, but hey - we're discovering completely new albums. Stevie did a wonderful job!
4
Jan 15 2024
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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
I would say that this whole album was off-key and very annoying, and we struggled listening through the whole thing. Yes, it was a good thing that there were only 4 songs but also they were sooooo long, we may as well have listened to 15 songs. I like jazz music and I find it very smooth and relaxing sometimes, but this was a bit too much :D
1
Jan 16 2024
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That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
The beginning of the album was great - very chill, very nice, very relaxing... but then things started getting a bit too much towards the end because there were too many instruments at the same time, but that was just the last 2 songs, I think. Overall - better than this jazz guy that we got last time.
4
Jan 17 2024
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Dire Straits
Dire Straits
Ah, I love Sultans of Swing... I also love how pretty much all of the songs have this Dire Straits sound. The guitar play is majestic, the songs are very relaxing and chill. You can't really have perfect songs throughout the whole album, so they have their ups and downs in the album, but overall great sounding album.
5
Jan 18 2024
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Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
I had veeeeery low hopes for this, given the name of the artist and the album and also the person speaking in the beginning of the first album haha HOWEVER... the beautiful guitar work in the first song really got me intrigued. It kind of had a slightly more expanded Jimmy Hendrix sound to it. The second song was nice but then the rest were a bit too much :D too many instruments playing over there, it was a bit overwhelming, and also the last 3 songs weren't available for my region on Spotify, so I had to look them on Youtube. Things started off well but, as the name suggests, this is more for whenever you are on drugs and want to have something to make things worse in the background. On top of everything, the Wars of Armageddon song had farts and toilet flushing sounds, which was too much, alongside the too many instruments playing at the same time. The last three tracks that were unavailable for me on Spotify are actually Bonus Tracks to the album, and they were actually very nice and normal, so that's great.
4
Jan 19 2024
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A Date With The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
Very nice relaxing 60s vibes. I had no idea that Love Hurts was originally performed by the Everly Brothers. I can see myself listening to this album a lot if I was a teenager during those times. All of the songs have the same sounding vibes but it's either a bit slower or a bit faster, but that was popular so no wonder people were shaking their ankles to it.
5
Jan 22 2024
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Rubber Soul
Beatles
I mean... what can I say, it's The Beatles after all. Of course, there are some songs that aren't absolutely top (S) tier but I don't that anyone can do a full 10/10 album. Also, it really helps knowing the songs because it makes you a bit biased when rating them but some of the songs sound so good that even if it was my first time listening to them, I would've still enjoyed them. There aren't that many guitar solos, but I love the ta ta Ta Ta TA TA Ta Ta ta ta bit towards the end of Girl. Compared to some of the albums that we have gotten the last few days, this is amazing.
5
Jan 23 2024
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In Rainbows
Radiohead
I am surprised by how not-too-depressed (as I thought) Radiohead would be. I don't think that I have listened to any other of their songs, apart from Creep, but this wasn't too bad. A couple of the songs were a bit too much but the rest were decent.
3
Jan 24 2024
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3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
Yeah, so... this is not really my type of music and I didn't really enjoy it, but I am sure there are people out there who listen to that kind of music, so as long as they enjoy it - party time woo
1
Jan 25 2024
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Nice and relaxing music. I know that Bob Dylan has some really great hits, but these hit hard back in his day.
4
Jan 26 2024
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Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
Kind of neutral, to be honest. It was nice but I wouldn't say that it was absolutely the best. This sounds like something they would play on Absolute Classic Rock Radio, which is great.
3
Jan 29 2024
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American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
Very nice and chill Johnny Cash album, I enjoyed having this as my background music during the duration of all the songs.
4
Jan 30 2024
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
The album started off very nicely - chill, groovy, jazz vibes... but at some point they started using too many instruments at the same time and it got a bit overwhelming, so 5 stars for the first song and then the rest re a bit... meh
3
Jan 31 2024
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Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Actually not too bad, feels like the anarchist, punk culture in the UK. At some point, things got a bit too much, but overall - pretty cool.
3
Feb 01 2024
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Doolittle
Pixies
The album started off a bit meh but later on got alright.
3
Feb 02 2024
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Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds
I really enjoyed this album. I checked the year and was shocked to see that it was from 1966. The guitar work is amazing and the singing it okay too. Sounds amazing at loud volume.
4
Feb 05 2024
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Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
The first song in the albums started off super quietly, so I completely forgot that I was listening to music, and it jumpscared me when it got a bit louder. Overall - nice songs, and it's clear that they are quite old, but still good though.
4
Feb 06 2024
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
I didn't expect to see Eminem here, but that was a pleasant surprise. I used to listen to him when I was young but now I just give him a little listen every now and then. I have to admit that I hadn't listened to most of the songs from this album, but enjoyed listening to some of the songs. No wonder Eminem is so popular, some songs are very nice.
3
Feb 07 2024
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Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
Oh wow, I wasn't expecting this album in this list, but here we go - I like the song with Aerosmith... who doesn't... but all songs had their own typical style, so they were pretty similar to listen for the first time. Back then - pretty cool album, but nowadays - doesn't impress me that much.
3
Feb 08 2024
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Autobahn
Kraftwerk
I was very confused when listening to this album. It was more of a background type of music, that you would enjoy having on while doing something that requires you to focus, as it doesn't really have too much singing, or at least you don't notice it at a lower volume. It was... a different type of experience and I feel like it's aimed at specific people, but it sounds like it would mainly be used as background music in movies.
3
Feb 09 2024
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En-Tact
The Shamen
The album was meh at first, then it kind of got a little bit better, and then it started getting super annoying because everything was the same 10 seconds repeated for a few minutes. When I listen to this, I imagine empty clubs with maybe 5-6 people here and there. I didn't find this album that great.
2
Feb 12 2024
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Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
I was surprised to find out that there were quite a lot of familiar songs in this album, and the rest pretty much sounded the same.
4
Feb 13 2024
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The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
actually, not too bad.. I was a bit confused by the beginning of the album, as it started off with classical-ish music and then there were a few songs that sounded as if the instrumental was good enough but there was also this person singing over it, but then things got a bit better, so not a bad album
4
Feb 14 2024
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Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
4
Feb 15 2024
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Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
Very nice and chill album, I had it playing in the background and enjoyed listening to it.
4
Feb 16 2024
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Dookie
Green Day
pretty cool album, basically what I would expect from a green day album.. this is what a large portion of music around the year 2000 sounded like
4
Feb 19 2024
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Eliminator
ZZ Top
Very nice, familiar-sounding zz top album, liked the music but I might be biased because I like that kind of music.
4
Feb 20 2024
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Superunknown
Soundgarden
Alright album, not too bad, I guess you could listen to the sound of Soundgarden in your garden, but if it's too loud, the neighbours might complain... they always do :(
3
Feb 21 2024
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Very
Pet Shop Boys
Actually not too bad but this album was a bit weak, in my opinion.
2
Feb 22 2024
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Mothership Connection
Parliament
Nice and groovy, enjoyed this as background music. Wasn't too harsh but wasn't too soft, so it was nice doing other stuff while this was playing.
4
Feb 23 2024
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At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
It's a good thing I was doing other things while listening to this because it was a very lengthy album with basically the same type of songs, so if you weren't familiar with Sarah's music, you wouldn't be able to tell that it's not the same song on repeat. I know that this would have been an epic album 67 years ago but.. yes, personally didn't enjoy that much today.
2
Feb 26 2024
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Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
Amy's voice is just.. where does all of that come from? Anyway, great album, amazing voice, songs were bops. Would recommend.
4
Feb 27 2024
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Definitely Maybe
Oasis
It was alright, there was one familiar song and the rest was a bit generic-sounding nowadays
3
Feb 28 2024
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Hypnotised
The Undertones
Holy.... this album was so long that I could barely go through the whole thing, it took 45 minutes to go through the whole thing (well, I took break, so it took me a few hours). It's not bad but the whole thing sounded like a very generic album, which could've been fine for its time but it was too much for me. It started off alright but by the end, I had already understood their whole thing. The most exciting feeling that I felt today was when I realised that the album had ended.
1
Feb 29 2024
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For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
This whole album was just a bunch of sounds, or noises in some cases even, it was a very disorienting experience, there was only one good bit, I think during the first song, where there was a pleasant-sounding experience.
Update - the second to last song was actually pretty good most of the time, so that's why it's 2 stars and not less, but then the last song ruined everything again.
2
Mar 01 2024
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Different Class
Pulp
This was alright, not too bad but also wasn't incredibly impressive to listen to. It was a nice background album to listen to though.
3
Mar 04 2024
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Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
well... it was alright but nothing really happened throughout the whole album, it was more like just music to fill up a whole album. I thought that it was a bit meh
1
Mar 05 2024
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Tommy
The Who
wow... not only did they give us a Deluxe album, but a Super Deluxe one, and it has 3 discs in it for a total of 3 and a half hours... definitely way more than I wanted it to be (fortunately, I couldn't listen to disc 2 because it wasn't available on spotify and didn't show up in a google search) but after listening to it, I am slightly disappointed, as I was expecting a good The Who performance. I really like a couple of their songs and this was a bit too generic, nothing too exciting, nothing really happened throughout the whole album. I know that this was probably great for 1969 but I feel like it was a bit meh listening to the whole thing today.
UPDATE - turns out that the Super Deluxe edition is just the same album but repeated three times - Disc 2 is Demo versions, and Disc 3 is the whole album but the live versions from Canada in 1969.
3
Mar 06 2024
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So Much For The City
The Thrills
Okay, so this album was chill, it's a nice little background jam but nothing too exciting happens in there, it's as if they're singing just for the sake of singing haha
3
Mar 07 2024
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The Coral
The Coral
WOAH, I genuinely was very pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this album. It's not something that a lot of people would appreciate, but I just liked the vibes. I don't think that there was anything special that day but I just felt hyped up when listening to the first two songs of the album. Of course, things started going downhill from the third song onwards, but I didn't expect it to be a perfect album, which is why I am giving it 5 stars. Pretty exciting getting an album that is not difficult to listen to :D
4
Mar 08 2024
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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
This was alright to listen to, not too bad, but it kind of lacked any exciting things. It was chill for background music.
2
Mar 11 2024
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This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
This sounded like the typical 50s album. It was nice but it was pretty much the same throughout all the songs.
2
Mar 12 2024
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Either Or
Elliott Smith
This was chill but it was a bit too dead at times. It was nice as background music but nothing too exciting.
2
Mar 13 2024
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Legalize It
Peter Tosh
I don't know... it was alright for just having in the background because it was chill but at the same time, it wasn't anything exciting, so I don't know if I can rate it higher.
2
Mar 14 2024
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Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
so.. this was mainly instrumental, but listening to a whole album that sounds like the intense movie chasing scene background music that you used to get in the early 2000s is a bit too much, so I didn't really enjoy it, but at the same time, it wasn't THAT bad to rate it 1 star... and the songs that weren't chasing scenes, it was super annoyingly repetitive, saying the exact same things over and over again. The one song that started off nice and peacefully "Alaska Street" had some super annoying sounds throughout the song towards the middle of the song.
2
Mar 15 2024
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Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
I was surprised twice today - once when I realised that I don't think I have listened to Van Morrison before, and also when I realised that Van Morrison's music is not what I expected it to be. I am quite satisfied with this album, pretty happy with the vibes, enjoyed having this in the background while I was doing other stuff.
4
Mar 18 2024
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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
I postponed listening to this for two days (it showed up on a Friday) because it's an hour of basically the same type of music. I am not old but this is not really my type of music. I know that this was very popular for its time but I was listening to the rap music that came out 15 years after this. It sounds alright but it's definitely not something distinctive.
2
Mar 19 2024
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KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
I thought that this wouldn't be too great, based on the first few songs in the album, but the song Hero was quite nice, although it was quite repetitive. It's okay though, but the rest of the songs are a bit meh.
3
Mar 20 2024
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Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
Actually very nice and smooth for background listening. I wouldn't listen to this on my headphones but playing this on my speakers while chilling in bed, for example. Pretty relaxing album.
3
Mar 21 2024
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Madman Across The Water
Elton John
Even if you didn't know who Elton John was, you could tell why these songs were popular back in the day. The only one that was familiar was the first one in the album. I am happy with this album, and given that this was released in 1971, this was massive back then.
4
Mar 22 2024
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Harvest
Neil Young
The only song that I knew from this playlist was Heart of Gold. Pretty chill for background music.
4
Mar 25 2024
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Green
R.E.M.
Pretty cool having this album in the background, it was nice.
4
Mar 26 2024
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Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I left this running in the background while I was doing stuff, and when I looked at what song was playing, it was towards the middle of the second disc, so I was very happy that the songs had gone by super quickly. I then later realised that I had shuffle on, and in fact I had only played a couple of songs. It's not too bad, and I especially love the extensive singing in the background, it really adds a lot of extra weight.
3
Mar 27 2024
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69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
I was extremely disappointed that I had to listen to almost 3 hours of this album, which consists of 3 disks. It wasn't THAT bad, but would've enjoyed it just as much if it was only 15 minutes long. Kinda chill, it's nice that the songs were relatively short. Definitely very weird at times, and although I was going to rate it 1 star, it kind of made me not hate it too much after bonding with the album for almost 3 hours...
2
Mar 28 2024
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The College Dropout
Kanye West
I don't think that I had listened to a full Kanye album, maybe a few songs separately, but actually it's not too bad. People keep saying how he's talented and although I wouldn't really sit down and listen to the whole album again, it wasn't something that I would hate. I enjoyed the "Never Let Me Down" song with Jay-Z and J. Ivy the most, but yes.. it's alright.
3
Mar 29 2024
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At Budokan
Cheap Trick
It was alright, most of the songs sounded pretty generic but I feel like it's because it sent me to the live performance album recordings of the songs. Overall okay though.
3
Apr 01 2024
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Oh yeah, I knew quite a lot of the songs from this album. I am very happy with this suggestion. Even pretending like I am not biased, I enjoyed the album. HOWEVER, there are better Elvis albums, which is why this is not a 5-star rating.
4
Apr 02 2024
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Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Nice little playlist, most of the songs weren't familiar, but I would've jammed to them back in the day.
3
Apr 03 2024
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Drunk
Thundercat
This was... just sounds that were probably meant to be the electronic version of a jazz note jumping up and down but it just sounded horrible to listen to. I'm sure there are people out there who would enjoy this and it would have made more sense if this was released in the 80s when someone may have experimented a bit, but 2017.. naah. I realised why this album is here - the Them Changes song towards the middle of the album is relatively popular, so I guess that bumped up the album quite a lot.
1
Apr 04 2024
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Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
This was a bit of a weird album, definitely for background music in movies and not just for listening for fun. There were a couple of interesting songs, which is why this doesn't get 1 star, but a little bit of a confusing album that has a very niche audience, I guess.
2
Apr 05 2024
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The Poet
Bobby Womack
Very nice and chill album, relaxing for background listening. Would recommend, although half of the album was unavailable for me for some reason.
3
Apr 08 2024
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Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
Has some Elvis vibes, sounds nice, makes you want to shake it, pretty nice. Even though the album is live, it's pretty good.
3
Apr 09 2024
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Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
I have rated this as if I don't know, and don't like, the two famous songs that they have. Without knowing that they are popular, you would think that the Little Ghost song sounds relatively smart but that's it, not a very exciting album, but it's nice and peaceful.
2
Apr 10 2024
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Kimono My House
Sparks
I really like the guitar solo towards the end of the Complaints song, but the rest of the songs are not too great. The most annoying song was easily Equator.
2
Apr 11 2024
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Close To You
Carpenters
The "Help" song confused me a bit but I double-checked and the Beatles had released it 5 years before this album came out, so yes.. had to check, just in case I was wrong. Overall, decent album, nice little background vibes, nothing too exciting.
3
Apr 12 2024
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Violator
Depeche Mode
It's just Personal Jesus, Enjoy The Silence and I guess Policy of Truth that were okay, the rest of the songs were a bit meh. Nothing really too exciting, although these songs became quite popular, but hey, you can't have a whole album that's good.
3
Apr 15 2024
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Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
Okay, I know that 30 years ago this was revolutionary because they were direct, they sounded cool, but... I don't know, I prefer the more rhythmic type of rap, so if I had to rate how annoyed I was because of how monotonous this album was, listening to the whole thing, I would give it 1 star. The only reason why I don't feel so bad about it is because Spotify played "Sorry Ms Jackson" when the album was over and I jammed to it, so it distracted me a little bit. I know that this was an important album in the history of rap music, but it's not really my thing.
2
Apr 16 2024
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Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
Interesting in a way, maybe a lot better for just background listening, maybe for soundtrack type of stuff, but if you are doing something and have this in the back, it's alright.
2
Apr 17 2024
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Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
This is... an interesting album, it is just stuff happening but not necessarily in a good way most of the time. I understand that this is quite an old album, but it is not something that I would choose to have in the background. It's not too great, but some work has been put into it, yes.
2
Apr 18 2024
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
Very nice little album, enjoyed it and there were even some songs that I recognised. I can imagine how much people would've enjoyed this album 50 years ago, and it's still pretty bop-y.
4
Apr 19 2024
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Want One
Rufus Wainwright
That was an okay album, not too bad, and you can see how the author aged over the years in the Spotify profile picture things.
2
Apr 22 2024
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Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
Very nice little chill album, enjoyed having it in the background while I was doing stuff early in the morning.
3
Apr 23 2024
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I Should Coco
Supergrass
This album sounds like those generic rock music that all bands were releasing around the year 2000. I like bands that have their own distinctive sound and it could be that I haven't gotten use to listening to this band but it was overall a bit meh, nothing special.
2
Apr 24 2024
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Back In Black
AC/DC
Oh my gosh, yes! I was very excited about getting an album that I am perfectly familiar with, and that would be this album, among others of course. AC/DC was my favourite band when I was in high school but I still love jamming to their music and know pretty much all of their songs perfectly. I am very biased for this album.
4
Apr 25 2024
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Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
There are definitely faaaaar better jazz albums, and this sounded like it was just relatively monotonous bass in the background, and the saxophone (or whatever is being played by the other person) just going up and down without making very nice rhythm, and also some drums in the spare time. I understand that this is more than 65 years old, so it would have been cooler but nowadays it doesn't sound that great to me.
1
Apr 26 2024
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The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
Started off pretty decently, but then things became really bad whenever every single song sounded pretty much the exact same way - music in the background and just shouting (or talking) and overall wasn't a great experience. Normally I would rate this 1 star but because I had really low expectations in the beginning, the first 20 seconds didn't seem too disappointing.
2
Apr 29 2024
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Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
okay, pretty decent album, nothing too exciting but it was nice old-sounding having it in the background, so not too bad
2
Apr 30 2024
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Thriller
Michael Jackson
I am surprised that so many hits (and also familiar songs) are only from this one album. Pretty amazing album, great jams, would recommend.
5
May 01 2024
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Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
Wow, the whole album was a guitar and drums doing the exact same thing throughout all of the songs and this guy singing in the foreground. You could say that it was very much out of tune but I am sure there was some weird tune that I couldn't catch properly. Anyway, this represents the average British band in the 80s and it is just... not very appealing.
1
May 02 2024
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Entertainment
Gang Of Four
I got basically the same album yesterday - a British rock band from the 80s (roughly) that has some guitar and drums in the background and someone talking stuff over them. This is one step further, which is why I have rated it one star more, as it is overall slightly more decent, but still pretty meh.
2
May 03 2024
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S&M
Metallica
Very nice experience. For some reason this is the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, but also live, and it would been an even better experience if this was recorded in a studio, but it's okay, I still jammed through those 2 hours and 13 minutes. Overall pretty good album.
4
May 06 2024
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Zombie
Fela Kuti
I got excited when I saw that there were only 4 songs in the album, but it's pretty much the same length as a normal album, so that was pretty disappointing. Nice little jazz album, nothing too exciting, enjoyed having it in the background.
3
May 07 2024
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American Idiot
Green Day
Very nice album from back in the day, but half of the songs sounds like it is from a American Pie movie. That is not a bad thing, but it throws you back to what all songs sounded back then. I was a fan of slightly more "classical" type of rock at the time, but you can't deny the number of hits in this album. Although American Idiot has the most listens, I like Boulevard of Broken Dreams more.
4
May 08 2024
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Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
Nice little blues album, nothing too exciting, although the singing person sounded like he was trying to make his voice deeper and it sounded like he was straining it a lot, although I assume that it is not the case. It was not too bad, it was nice having this in the background.
3
May 09 2024
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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
I don't know what to say about this album - it was a bit meh as an overall experience but at the same time it wasn't too bad just music-wise. I would say that it was a bit mid, nothing too exciting.
2
May 10 2024
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...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
A lot of sounds and quite weird, sometimes even trippy, but I guess there is an audience for this album. Overall, didn't enjoy it that much, but instead had a neutral feeling about it, apart from the bits where it was just monotonous background music - then it was negative.
2
May 13 2024
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Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
Relatively quick listen, as this is not a lengthy album. Enjoyed having this in the background. Willie Nelson is a legend, and I found his songs enjoyable, as they were chill.
3
May 14 2024
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Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
I had to go to find a full playlist with all the songs on Youtube because half of the songs were unavailable on Spotify. I know that this is a great album for the ones who love that kind of older rap music but I haven't really liked that thing where they basically just talk. There is nothing catchy and I personally didn't enjoy it that much. I don't like the rap that is popular now either, but instead I like the more melodic one. Of course, there were some songs that were alright, and I think that Big Poppa is the most famous one.
3
May 15 2024
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Scott 4
Scott Walker
Nice, peaceful music. Enjoyed having this in the background. Nothing amazing, but it was okay.
3
May 16 2024
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Hard Again
Muddy Waters
This album was great for background listening. I enjoyed having this playing and I was also bopping my foot to it. The cool thing is that when the album ends (on Spotify), it continue playing similar music, which I enjoyed as well, but I think that you need to have Shuffle and Repeat off. Very nice.
4
May 17 2024
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Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
Nice little album to have playing in the background. I only knew one of the songs in the album, but I bopped to this while cleaning the house.
3
May 20 2024
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
First of all, this was 2 hours because it had 2 disks. Secondly, it sounded very generic and it was a bit meh. There were some interesting guitar solos here and there, but overall not very exciting.
2
May 21 2024
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Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
I think that the first time of I heard of Duke Ellington was in Big Mouth where one of the characters is his ghost. This album is just 2 hours of jazz music from the 50s, so it is very old school but it's nice having this in the background.
3
May 22 2024
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Blue Lines
Massive Attack
The first song (and a couple of other songs in the album) are quite similar to a parody talk that Reggie Watts had at POP TECH where he was saying a bunch of nonsense and was making that kind of music on-stage but it was very nonsensical. I don't think that the album was absolutely amazing, but I am sure it has an audience. There was nice little music in the background and then someone would appear and say things relatively quietly, and sometimes the things would rhyme.
2
May 23 2024
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Live At Leeds
The Who
This was a good album with a few very nice guitar solos, but because it is recorded live, it is pretty bad quality (not audio-wise). Overall, a bit meh.
3
May 24 2024
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Vento De Maio
Elis Regina
The overall vibes of this whole album was just artsy people who are also hipsters and use special homemade soap. It was overall alright having this in the background but a bit meh. The one song that was decent was O Trem Azul but the whole thing was also in Portuguese, so it's just meh.
2
May 27 2024
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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
Very nice and chill album. None of the songs were familiar but I still enjoyed the smooth jazzy vibes. I can only imagine how great this sounded more than 60 years ago (not sound-wise, but just music-wise).
4
May 28 2024
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Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
Really nice album, enjoyed jamming to it. You can imagine how people were listening to this back in the day.
4
May 29 2024
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Slipknot
Slipknot
I knew what this album would probably be like, and yet I was still positive about it... I thought that if I gave it another chance now, after having tried listening to Slipknot 15 years ago, things would be different because I enjoy greater range of music nowadays. Unfortunately, I still see that kind of music as way too intense for no reason, people are just screaming in your ear, it is not really enjoyable. There are some nice guitar bits here and there but not enough to deserve a second star. I like some metal but this is way too much, as I prefer (more relaxed) heavy rock. I think that this kind of music would be enjoyed by a 15-year old who is mad at the world for having to do their chemistry homework, although there are older people who listen to this, but I am not sure what they are mad at.. maybe their neighbour for squeaking with their bed at 4am. Overall though, I am not happy with this, I did not enjoy that it was an hour long, but I lowered the volume a bit, so I could get through the day. I guess it's alright if it's playing in the background quietly.
1
May 30 2024
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Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
First of all - '69... nice! I enjoyed listening to this album, the first song was a good choice and made me feel welcome. Although there were some meh songs, the ones that were really good very very enjoyable. Apart from the name the name of the band being a mouthful, my dad likes their music so got me into listening to that kind of old school rock. It was nice having this playing in the background while I was doing things.
4
May 31 2024
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Yeezus
Kanye West
The second song, Black Skinhead, has a nice relatively catchy tune, but the rest are a bit meh. Nothing really happens in the songs.
2
Jun 03 2024
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Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
Actually a pretty nice album, very jazzy, enjoyable having this in the background, makes you want to tap your foot to the beat.
3
Jun 04 2024
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Be
Common
This was an okay album, and every song sounded like it would playing during a cinematic shot of Las Vegas in a movie, or towards the end credits. I would say that it was maybe below average, but it was okay.
3
Jun 05 2024
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Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
That's the album with the "Psycho Killer" song, but I had no idea what the name of the band was. I would say that this is a bit of a meh album, nothing too exciting but not too bad either. It's alright for having it playing in the background.
3
Jun 06 2024
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Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
Not really my type of music, and also not really my type of rap, but it was nice and chill, perfect for just having it in the background. I enjoyed some of the background tunes.
3
Jun 07 2024
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Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
I've heard of a few of these songs on the radio but had no idea they were theirs. Nice little album, nothing too exciting but pretty good. If there was a 3.5, I would give it that but 4 is usually for albums that I enjoyed quite a lot.
3
Jun 10 2024
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Bad
Michael Jackson
I am actually surprised that every single song from this album was a hit. As I knew all of the songs and enjoyed listening to them all, there is no other way - I have to give this album 5 stars. I really didn't want to as I am not really a huge Michael Jackson fan, but it's okay, it's a great album.
5
Jun 11 2024
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Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
Overall a bit meh, although there were a few songs that were nice.
3
Jun 12 2024
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Pelican West
Haircut 100
Nothing too exciting, not too bad for background music. It has some nice saxophones in the back. Overall, a bit meh.
3
Jun 13 2024
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Hunky Dory
David Bowie
I know that David Bowie is great but this whole album was a bit mid - nothing too exciting, there were some filler songs. As I am rating the whole album, I am giving it a pretty meh rating, as there were a couple of songs that were good but not that great.
3
Jun 14 2024
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The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
This was nice as background music but not too great. There wasn't really happening in the songs but it is a very old album, so it's okay.
2
Jun 24 2024
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Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
I had to listen to all songs twice because they were uploaded twice in the album - mono and stereo. Overall, nothing too exciting, nice little background listen, one familiar song and that's it.
3
Jun 25 2024
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Live!
Fela Kuti
At first I was sure that this was something from at least 40 years ago, but then Spotify said 2009, so I was very confused, but it's probably because the live recording is from that year. The album is indeed from 1971 and it's a nice little background listen. There are some moments when nothing exciting happens but it wasn't too bad overall.
3
Jun 26 2024
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Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
I've only heard of one of the songs from this album, and although the rest weren't too amazing, it was a pretty decent listen. Very nice guitar towards the middle of one of the songs towards the end of the album but I didn't notice which one it was.
3
Jun 27 2024
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Scott 2
Scott Walker
Not too bad, slightly movie themed music with a lot of (actual real, musical) sound effects. I felt like in a fairy tale with some of them, and also as if I was in Tom&Jerry travelling with a train to another place. Overall, very nice background listen.
3
Jun 28 2024
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Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
This sounded very familiar and I was wondering why but it's because of the "You've Got a Friend in Me" song from Toy Story. Quite a nice album, nice having this in the background. I thought that I knew this way of singing because of a Family Guy sketch, and yes - that is correct as well.
3
Jul 01 2024
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Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
I know that Linkin Park is the light and acceptable version of all those super heavy metal bands, but they are sometimes a bit too harsh for me nowadays. I remember when I heard of In The End for the first time when I was in school, and I also really hard very heavy metal at some point, but then I grew out of it because it was very repetitive and didn't really have that much variety in the tune. This was nice, overall a bit meh but good.
3
Jul 02 2024
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Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Very peaceful album, nice and chill for background listening. Nothing too exciting nowadays but at least it's relaxing, so not too bad.
3
Jul 03 2024
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Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Nice little background listen. Definitely not super amazing to have as the main thing playing in your headphones while you're doing something, but having it on speakers on the side while you're working, for example, is nice. Very peaceful album, and the one song that I knew was "No Woman No Cry".
3
Jul 04 2024
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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
I like that this was a pretty short album. Pretty outdated album nowadays, it feels like, but I am sure that this was popular back in 1967. Wasn't too bad as a background listen though.
2
Jul 05 2024
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Murmur
R.E.M.
Not too bad, but definitely not as good as the R.E.M. album that I got a couple of weeks ago. Overall, it is a nice album that is good as a background listen.
3
Jul 08 2024
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Pink Moon
Nick Drake
The album was half the length of other ones that we've been getting, so I was very happy. This whole album was very chill, nothing really happened, it's like someone is sitting nearby and is just jamming in the woods (yes, you're in the woods as well, for this scenario). Nothing amazing, but pretty good as a background listen.
2
Jul 09 2024
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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
Definitely a very mid album, nothing interesting happened. I started listening to this at 7am on a Monday and the first song was a baby crying, which was very annoying, so that was already a bad start. Then the people were just talking about stuff but I guess it was decent for a background listen if you are not really paying too much attention.
2
Jul 10 2024
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Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
I didn't expect this album to be very good but it was half the length of normal albums that we have been getting (so it was quicker to listen through), it was nice and jazzy, fairly quick tempo-y (made you want to shake it a bit), and all that - from a 1962 album.
3
Jul 11 2024
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Myths Of The Near Future
Klaxons
I have to say that the first song in the album - Two Receivers, captured me with the harmonisation (multiple-people-at-different-tonations) because they were running around the octaves up and down and it was a very pleasant experience. I have to say that I was also very pleasantly surprised by how much they were running up and down the melody and because it was multiple people harmonising, the melody was extra pleasant . Overall, very happy with this, even though it was just another album with generic 90s rock band-ish sound, but they made it a lot better. This is from 2007 but if it was made 10 years earlier, they may have been a lot bigger. I was just confused by the last song - Four Horsemen of 2012, which was music in the beginning, absolutely nothing for the majority of the song and then some sounds towards the end, very weird but I assume that there is a backstory behind it since it is almost 20 minutes long.
4
Jul 12 2024
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Shalimar
Rahul Dev Burman
I had very low expectations for this album because of the album artwork and it also being from 1978, but I am sure this was a huge bop of an album when it came out because it sounds very interesting. Now, is it an absolutely great album - I don't really think so, but I just found it very intriguing for its time and the first half of the album sounds relatively nice.
2
Jul 15 2024
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Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
I have to say that this is not as good of an album as the previous Stevie Wonder one that we had on here. The last one that we got was an absolute bop whereas this one is slightly disappointing and it might be because this one was an earlier one. Overall, pretty nice though, not too bad, I enjoyed listening to it.
3
Jul 16 2024
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Illmatic
Nas
This album is from 1994 and this is when that music was popular, but nowadays this is very outdated. I have also moved away from rap music, as I have gotten older, and I don't think that it was very exciting to listen to. Quite meh but alright in the background, I guess. Nothing too exciting, just a bunch of yapping but I do understand that this was the rap music that was popular back then.
2
Jul 17 2024
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Sound Affects
The Jam
So this started relatively promising but then ended up being an album that sounds pretty much the same throughout. Nothing too exciting but this was released in 1980 when it would've been pretty cool to hear.
2
Jul 18 2024
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Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
Not too bad as a background listen, but when you actually focus on what is happening throughout the album, it feels very weird and not too satisfying listening to it. There are some good rhythms but overall a bit meh. It can definitely be worse though, so not too bad.
2
Jul 19 2024
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Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
Very nice album, enjoyable jazzy at times, it was great having this in the background. Things go a bit slowly but overall a pretty good album, especially for 1966.
3
Jul 22 2024
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
That's not really my type of music, so I didn't really enjoy the album, but I know that people like it. I think that it's pretty mid overall. There are some background rhythms that sounds pretty nice, so it wasn't the worst album that I've been recommended here, for sure.
3
Jul 23 2024
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Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
A nice and simple album with 5 songs, but each was around 10 minutes long (apart from one that was 5 minutes). Overall, nice jazzy experience, so I am happy with this album. I would prefer to have this in the background, instead of actively listening to it, but it was nice.
3
Jul 24 2024
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Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
The album is a normal length but the songs are really short, even though this is from 1996. Also, some songs have a nice instrumental base part of the song but for some reason they've ruined them all with extra instrumental sounds and then the singing is a little bit weird at times, but overall not too bad, could definitely be worse.
2
Jul 25 2024
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Hejira
Joni Mitchell
Not too bad, just a bit meh of an album. Nothing too exciting, but it's a decent album just for leaving in the background.
2
Jul 26 2024
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Before And After Science
Brian Eno
I accidentally had the first song on loop for half an hour because I had "loop everything" on and thought I turned it off but I clicked it one extra time and it switched to "loop song". The album is not too bad, okay for background music but no real essence to the songs, so slightly meh. The ending of "Energy Fools the Magician" sounds a lot like what older movies had as intense music whenever someone was sneaking into a very well-protected area - either a quay with explosives that can blow up the whole of Florida, or a yacht where the key to the biggest safe is stored but everyone is asleep apart from guards with guns outside. Music just went bam bam and the singing people would just make sounds over there but because this is a British band that wanted to just shout things, you can't really understand anything.
2
Jul 29 2024
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Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
Actually not too bad, pretty decent album where only the first song (Do It Again) was pretty nice but the rest were a bit meh, although quite enjoyable to listen to, regardless. Overall, a pretty nice album, there were a couple of songs that were pretty nice, so I am not disappointed.
3
Jul 30 2024
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Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
Very nice little album, pretty much every song made me want to do a little bum shake, so definitely got me a bit excited when listening to it. I am pretty happy with it, and there even were a few popular songs that I recognised. If this makes me want to a little dance nowadays, imagine what it was like in 1957. The automatic Spotify suggested songs after this album ended up being very shakey as well, so I continued enjoying that kind of music even after the album was over.
4
Jul 31 2024
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On The Beach
Neil Young
Nice little background jam, nothing too exciting. It was not bad but there definitely wasn't anything that made it stand out. Overall, pretty decent, especially for 1974.
2
Aug 01 2024
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Clandestino
Manu Chao
Actually a nice Latino music, very enjoyable and made me want to do little dance moves. Somehow they made all of their songs really melodic and also the switch from one song to another was absolutely flawless. I then continued listening to other recommended (by Spotify) songs and I jammed for another hour or so, very good stuff. I was a bit tired that day but this album made me feel very excited, but it also matters who you're with when you're listening to this.
4
Aug 02 2024
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Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
I know that Bob Dylan was amazing back in the day, especially given that this was released in 1975, which is a year after AC/DC showed up, but nowadays I feel like I can't give his albums more than a 3. I enjoyed having this in the background but that's all.
3
Aug 05 2024
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Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
I love Led Zeppelin and this album is very nice but because I only really like 3 of the songs from it (the rest are also good but they're not 5-star worthy), I am giving this whole thing a 4, as the best songs are really good and the other ones are nice when they're just playing in the background.
4
Aug 06 2024
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Liquid Swords
GZA
This is not really my type of music and although it is from 1995, I never really liked rap where they just talk, which used to be norm up until some point but I like the ones that have more rhythm and more things happening throughout.
2
Aug 07 2024
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São Paulo Confessions
Suba
Okay, this is a bit mid - it's great for having it in the background or playing it in a street art gallery that focuses on indie pieces of work, but if you really sit down and try to listen to only this, you might go crazy from the repetitiveness and eeriness sometimes. Art gallery background - 5 stars; actually listening to it properly - 2 stars.
2
Aug 20 2024
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Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
First of all, WOW! In a bad way - this was over 2 hours long with two Discs and took forever to go through, as it was also painfully annoying at times. The reason why I am giving the album such a high rating is because of this one song - Safesrufer, that gave off good vibes during the guitar solo but then the dude started singing again. Basically, if you were to listen to the instrumental only, you would rate this 3-4 stars, but because there is singing involved, which ruins the whole vibes, this is getting only 2. It would be 1 but this one song was alright. "If You Loved Me At All" was a song that you could only (maybe) enjoy while on drugs, but I guess there is a market for this kind of music, it's just not my kind of music.
2
Aug 21 2024
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The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
I have to say that I am extremely disappointed when I saw that this is more than 3 hours, as it has 6 Disks (!!!), but it's alright, not too bad. It is very outdated because this is from 1959 but it's a nice relatively jazzy (sometimes) background listen, so if you don't want to listen or watch anything else while you're doing stuff throughout your day, this is an okay album.
3
Aug 22 2024
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
This is a very nice Billy Joel album. I like a couple of his songs but this was a nice listen, even though it was released 47 years ago. I like that it was a short album, so it was a quick listen, although I wouldn't mind a few more songs on there, as we have had 3-hour albums that have been worse than this.
4
Aug 23 2024
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Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
Nothing too exciting, but not bad either. The album was alright, nothing really happened but we have had far worse ones, so I would say this goes somewhere in the middle.
3
Aug 26 2024
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Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
Very nice and fresh album, although it is not as exciting as I thought it would, but it was still pretty good. There were some very slow tracks, but there were also some great bops. I never knew that Gangsta's Paradise was sampled from Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise, 19 years later.
3
Aug 27 2024
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My Generation
The Who
Keeping in mind that this album is from 1965, it is slightly outdated because of the crazy rock stuff that came out 10-20 years later, but it is overall quite nice. I enjoyed it but I would say that it was definitely better listening to this back in the day than now.
3
Aug 28 2024
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American Beauty
Grateful Dead
Okay, this wasn't tool bad in the beginning but then later on towards the end of the album started slacking quite a lot. This was probably cool in 1970 but now is quite outdated.
3
Aug 29 2024
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Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
Very nice little album. I really like Money For Nothing from back in the day whenever I listened to it when I was young, but there were a few other popular songs as well, which I was surprised to see in one album. The rest of the songs sounded relatively familiar, but I think it's just the "Dire Straits sound". I enjoyed listening to all the songs in the background, very good stuff.
4
Aug 30 2024
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Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Great album, so many popular songs, and it's not like you can party with it, but it's just an enjoyable album to listen to.
4
Sep 02 2024
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
I really like Led Zeppelin and the thing is that although pretty much all of their songs are nice, the majority are pretty meh, especially compared to the really great several hits that they have. There is one song that is really good in this album, and also 2-3 ones that are half good, and because I am rating this whole album, I have to give it a mid rating, unlike this one Led Zeppeling album that I rated, which had a few really good songs.
3
Sep 03 2024
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The Cars
The Cars
Nice album, especially for something that you leave playing in the background. Overall, not too bad but nothing really exciting happened, apart from one cool instrumental moment in the Moving in Stereo song, but that was it.
3
Sep 04 2024
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Tapestry
Carole King
Nice little background music. I wish I could give a rating out of 10, or even halves up to 5, so that I could give the better meh albums a 3.5 and the worse meh albums - a 2.5, but I can only rate in full numbers, so this is more of an okay album that is nice playing on the side and not really something main to concentrate on, although it is not too bad.
3
Sep 05 2024
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Funeral
Arcade Fire
Not a bad background listen, although nothing too exciting happened. Pretty melodic and consistent.
3
Sep 06 2024
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Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
I don't know what to say about this album. I was thinking of giving this a 2-star rating because I was thinking that the singing absolutely ruins everything that is happening, but then I realised that the instrumental is mostly not that great either - everything is a complete mess. I don't know what purpose this music serves because usually when an album is relatively bad, it is still decent for background listening. This is annoying playing in the background even, but the good thing is that there are only 10 songs and the whole length of the album is 35 minutes. I wish we could have skipped this album in the first place, but now we were blessed with this "wonderful" 1-star experience.
1
Sep 09 2024
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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
Overalll, not too bad but I am not really into that kind of rap music, although that was popular at around that time. I was disappointed that the album was 2+ hours and had 2 Discs but I had it playing in the background. Then things turned into jazz at some point and after that - just weird stuff, where you weren't even sure what you were listening to anymore. The weird stuff was better than the beginning of the album, and the whole thing was decent while playing in the background, but overall a bit meh.
2
Sep 10 2024
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Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
This was not too bad, pretty nice album for a background listen. I would say that nowadays it is a bit okay-ish, and given that this came out right as AC/DC were formed, you can tell that times were simpler back then.
3
Sep 11 2024
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Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
Very nice little album, great guitar work on most of the songs. I haven't heard of any of the songs, and the one that I had - Changes, I didn't know that it was theirs. I can't really give this album 3 stars because it is good, but at the same time, I wish there were middle ratings, so this would be 3.5 and other slightly better albums would go for 4.
3
Sep 12 2024
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The Idiot
Iggy Pop
I had high hopes for this album because Iggy Pop has some pretty good hits from back in the day, but this album was very disappointing. Nothing really exciting happened and on top of everything it ended with a really bad song and that just brought my idea of the album really low. I feel like you can't really enjoy this unless you're on drugs, really don't care about music or are an Iggy Pop fan.
2
Sep 13 2024
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Survivor
Destiny's Child
Actually a nice diversion from the otherwise very bad or old albums. This is an absolute materpiece of an album compared to what I sometimes get. I jammed to pretty much every song and I knew quite a lot of them. The thing here is that it's not really ABSOLUTELY amazing but it's pretty good on its own. I would give it 3.5 stars but I can't give halves, so I will give it the benefit of the doubt for getting me to bop to most of the songs.
4
Sep 16 2024
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Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
That's the first DJ album that I've seen in here and I really expected some (at least) decent performance. Unfortunately, it is another one of those albums where you have to be on drugs to actually enjoy it. It was definitely too much and definitely less than meh.
1
Sep 17 2024
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21
Adele
The album started with a 5-star track, had another one in the middle and another one in the end, but the rest were 3.5 and 4-star songs. I hadn't listened to Adele's full albums, but singing-wise - incredible. Overall enjoyability, pretty good and because I am rating the full album, I am bringing the rating down slightly.
4
Sep 18 2024
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
I really like Led Zeppelin, but some of their songs in their albums are a bit meh. I absolutely love a few songs from each album, but because I am rating the whole album, I can't really give it 5 stars because it would have to be absolutely perfect, whereas some songs feel a bit meh compared to the major hits.
4
Sep 19 2024
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The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Not a bad album, it was alright having this in the background while I was doing stuff. It was a slower version of a Beach Boys album. I understand that this was released 55 years ago, so this was enjoyable back then. Nowadays, it's a bit meh.
3
Sep 20 2024
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White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
Not too bad of an album, there were a couple of pretty okay songs but none that were absolutely amazing. I would say that this particular album was a bit mid, but maybe a bit more towards a 3,5-star rating.
3
Sep 23 2024
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Frank
Amy Winehouse
Okay, so I got another Amy Winehouse album a while ago and it was beautiful. This one is a bit more mid-tier. Nothing too exciting, it's okay to play in the background though. It is one of the few post-2000 albums that we get on here but it is a little bit not too exciting.
3
Sep 24 2024
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Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
This album is immediately set for failure because of the first song, which was definitely a 1-star track, and it was also way too long (7 minutes). Then the songs were 1.5-star ones, so nothing too special, but because there were a couple of decent-sounding track (the majority just being repetitively annoying where nothing happens) I would rate this 2 stars, and I am very generous.
2
Sep 25 2024
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Purple Rain
Prince
Pretty okay album, with Purple Rain being the only song that I knew. Nothing too exciting, although I know that this was pretty amazing-sounding for back in the day. I would say that overall the album is a bit meh, which is why I am giving it a lower rating, but I would give it 3,5 stars if I could give halves.
3
Sep 26 2024
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Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
Tom Waits but it doesn't sound like he waits for anything - he just very aggressively started the album with a bunch of stomping and shouting. Overall, I guess the album wasn't terrible, although there were songs that definitely were. I was very confused as to what kind of an album this is and on top of everything, two songs were unavailable on Spotify so I had to go and listen to them on Youtube - I would not recommend bothering. This could have definitely been a 1-star album but there were a couple of songs that could be deemed decent, I guess.
2
Sep 27 2024
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Berlin
Lou Reed
Okay, so there are some weird songs, but a few other ones are pretty decent, so that slightly makes up those unenjoyable minutes and this is why I have decided to rate this slightly higher.
2
Sep 30 2024
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Blur
Blur
Blur's Song 2 was recorded as a joke but it ended up being their greatest hit. The rest of the songs on the album are a bit meh, nothing too exciting but not too bad either.
3
Oct 01 2024
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Rio
Duran Duran
Not too bad of an album but not that great either. I have always heard the name Duran Duran from my dad but it has always been a part of the joke about why it's repeated twice - well, so that we can remember it easier. I have never actually heard their music on purpose but I have heard of Hunry Like The Wolf on the radio, which is not a bad track. I would say that it is a pretty decent album and it would have been nice back when it came out.
3
Oct 02 2024
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Stardust
Willie Nelson
This was a nice and short album, but it was a bit too meh because nothing exciting really happened. Of course, Willie Nelson is a legend but I like it when things are a bit more dynamic.
3
Oct 03 2024
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Urban Hymns
The Verve
Overall, the album was a bit meh, apart from the one song that is their (I think) only popular song, which also had over a billion stream on Spotify - Bitter Sweet Symphony. That one song is a great jam and boosts the rating of the whole album slightly. Nothing too exciting overall and nice just having it in the background, as it is relatively chill.
3
Oct 04 2024
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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
Okay, so I used to listen to this album and similar ones when I was in elementary school, or at least to the two popular songs from this album, which seem to have around a billion listens on Spotify, and maybe one or two other ones that have a nice rhythm. Nowadays, most of the songs from the album seem very meh and nothing too exciting, but I guess it's a classic now.
3
Oct 07 2024
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A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
Okay, so listen. This is their third album, but it just sounds a bit meh, apart from maybe the first song. This album just sounds very generic from around that time, and I just can't give it a higher score because if this was another band with similar songs, I would've leaned more towards 2, whereas now I lean more towards 4.
3
Oct 08 2024
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Blackstar
David Bowie
Okay, so David Bowie has had some great songs throughout the years but as his last album from not that long ago, I didn't think it was THAT amazing. I am rating it solely by itself and completely disregarding all precious tracks of his. The first track was very disappointing and brought my whole rating down to 1 star, but then things pushed things a bit. Nothing too exciting, but it is supposed to be a slower album.
3
Oct 09 2024
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Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
I don't think that this album was that great, it was at most very mid, nothing really happened, but I guess it was alright for a background listen, and it was also nice that it was a fairly short one, so it went by relatively quickly. I would give it three stars but it didn't catch my excitement from the beginning.
2
Oct 10 2024
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Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
I would say that this sounded like an average album from around this time. This is before things got a bit more interesting with AC/DC showing up 7 years later. Still, not too bad and okay as a background listen.
2
Oct 11 2024
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La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
Actually a pretty nice album. I had a very low expectation for this and so I was pleasantly surprised. Pretty mid still, but nice tango-ey vibes, definitely a great listen if you just leave it in the background.
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