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Thu Jan 11 2024
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
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Fri Jan 12 2024
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
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Mon Jan 15 2024
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
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Tue Jan 16 2024
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
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Wed Jan 17 2024
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
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Thu Jan 18 2024
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.
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Fri Jan 19 2024
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
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Mon Jan 22 2024
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
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Tue Jan 23 2024
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
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Wed Jan 24 2024
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
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Thu Jan 25 2024
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
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Fri Jan 26 2024
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
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Mon Jan 29 2024
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
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Tue Jan 30 2024
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
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Wed Jan 31 2024
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
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Thu Feb 01 2024
Doolittle
Pixies
The album started off a bit meh but later on got alright.
3
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Fri Feb 02 2024
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
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Mon Feb 05 2024
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
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Tue Feb 06 2024
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
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Wed Feb 07 2024
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
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Thu Feb 08 2024
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
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Fri Feb 09 2024
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.
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Mon Feb 12 2024
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
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Tue Feb 13 2024
The ArchAndroid
Janelle MonĂ¡e
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
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
4
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
Very nice and chill album, I had it playing in the background and enjoyed listening to it.
4
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Fri Feb 16 2024
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
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Mon Feb 19 2024
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
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Tue Feb 20 2024
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
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Wed Feb 21 2024
Very
Pet Shop Boys
Actually not too bad but this album was a bit weak, in my opinion.
2
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Thu Feb 22 2024
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
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Fri Feb 23 2024
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
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Mon Feb 26 2024
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
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
It was alright, there was one familiar song and the rest was a bit generic-sounding nowadays
3
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Wed Feb 28 2024
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
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Thu Feb 29 2024
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
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Fri Mar 01 2024
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
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Mon Mar 04 2024
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
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Tue Mar 05 2024
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.
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Wed Mar 06 2024
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
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Thu Mar 07 2024
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
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Fri Mar 08 2024
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
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Mon Mar 11 2024
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
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Tue Mar 12 2024
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
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Wed Mar 13 2024
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
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Thu Mar 14 2024
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
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Fri Mar 15 2024
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
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Mon Mar 18 2024
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.
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Tue Mar 19 2024
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
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Wed Mar 20 2024
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
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Thu Mar 21 2024
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
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Harvest
Neil Young
The only song that I knew from this playlist was Heart of Gold. Pretty chill for background music.
4
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Mon Mar 25 2024
Green
R.E.M.
Pretty cool having this album in the background, it was nice.
4
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Tue Mar 26 2024
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
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Wed Mar 27 2024
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...
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Thu Mar 28 2024
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
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Fri Mar 29 2024
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
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Mon Apr 01 2024
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.
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Tue Apr 02 2024
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
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Wed Apr 03 2024
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.
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Thu Apr 04 2024
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
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Fri Apr 05 2024
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
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Mon Apr 08 2024
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
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Tue Apr 09 2024
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
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Wed Apr 10 2024
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
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Thu Apr 11 2024
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
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Fri Apr 12 2024
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
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Mon Apr 15 2024
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
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Tue Apr 16 2024
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
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Wed Apr 17 2024
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
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Thu Apr 18 2024
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
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Fri Apr 19 2024
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
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Mon Apr 22 2024
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
Very nice little chill album, enjoyed having it in the background while I was doing stuff early in the morning.
3
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Tue Apr 23 2024
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
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Wed Apr 24 2024
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.
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Thu Apr 25 2024
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
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Fri Apr 26 2024
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
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Mon Apr 29 2024
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
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Tue Apr 30 2024
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
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Wed May 01 2024
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
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Thu May 02 2024
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
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Fri May 03 2024
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.
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Mon May 06 2024
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
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Tue May 07 2024
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.
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Wed May 08 2024
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