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Mon Jan 15 2024
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Didn’t realize I knew every song on the album as being on the same album. Listened while grading papers, which was kinda nice.
Obviously lots of the same elements, but lots of “important” songs all in one place. Glad to have tuned in.
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Tue Jan 16 2024
The Next Day
David Bowie
This album had an awful lot of really cool parts to it. It was fun to listen to but I’m not sure if anything was hits hits. He’s obviously got a lot to say musically.
4
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Wed Jan 17 2024
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
It was really nice getting back to this. What a treat!
4
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Thu Jan 18 2024
Illmatic
Nas
Man, what an absolute treat. No skips. I’d forgotten he was still making music, so this led me down the rabbit hole of listening to his most recent release. Not the same, of course, but still amazing.
5
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Fri Jan 19 2024
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
It holds up. I didn’t *need* to listen to this album. But I did, anyway.
5
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Mon Jan 22 2024
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Didn’t realize how much activism there was in this debut work. Good listening. Can’t believe it’s 35!
4
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Tue Jan 23 2024
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
I’d heard of Keith Jarrett before. But I hadn’t heard this somehow. I will purchase this record next time I see it. Couldn’t tell who was making the noises but it turns out it was him the whole time!
A great find.
4
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Wed Jan 24 2024
Microshift
Hookworms
Trippy and fun soundscapes here. I’ve heard *of* these guys but never *heard* these guys. Some fun stuff throughout for sure. Almost like Porcupine Tree lite at moments.
4
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Thu Jan 25 2024
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
There were some really good, famous songs on this album. There were also other songs as well.
3
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Fri Jan 26 2024
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
What in the Sam Hill am I listening to. Who signed these guys?
1
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Mon Jan 29 2024
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
This was incredible. Breakneck pacing, just ripping through the set, almost as if something were going to happen if he didn’t fight it back with music. Such incredible energy throughout from SC and the crowd, too. I needed this on a Friday!
5
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Tue Jan 30 2024
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
The (arguably) most famous song on this album sounds nothing like the rest of it. I could hear so many influences through the earlier part of the album. A really nice listen overall.
3
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Wed Jan 31 2024
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
Sublime. What a thrill. Can’t believe this album is 32.
5
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Thu Feb 01 2024
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
There are so many swear words on this album. It felt great listening to it at work.
4
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Fri Feb 02 2024
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
It’s hard to describe other than amazing.
5
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Mon Feb 05 2024
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
Ooh. This felt like it took me right back to five years before I was born. The trebled-out bass tone, the poppy lyrics with that edge underneath it all… tons of fun!
4
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Superunknown
Soundgarden
This is an outstanding album from growing up, obviously. But it hit on a day when I really needed it. What a voice. Music is great, but what an absolute voice.
5
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Wed Feb 07 2024
Blur
Blur
This album was a true two-outcome hitter. Grand slams, or swinging so hard and missing you tear the muscle fibers from your bones as you shred whatever ligaments and tendons used to exist in peaceful harmony there. And no I’m not just talking about “Song 2”.
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Scott 4
Scott Walker
This whole goddamn album sounds like why Mike Myers made the character of Austin Powers. Baroque pop, aggressive, Andy Williams, Tom Jones motherlover.
Which isn’t to say I didn’t like it. I really did. What a fascinating dude and a fascinating album.
3
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Fri Feb 09 2024
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
Perfection. No skips. Beautiful. Simply divine.
5
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Mon Feb 12 2024
Graceland
Paul Simon
Aside from “You Can Call Me Al” being about five minutes longer than mostly anyone remembers (except me, since C and her dad danced to that at our wedding), I’m afraid I don’t see the hype. Nor do I hear it.
Maybe I’m just a little too young? I feel bad. I just don’t like it.
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Tue Feb 13 2024
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
Lots of funky stuff here! What a fun album!
4
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Olympia 64
Jacques Brel
Man, this guy sounds like he really has something to say. I really wish I knew what he was saying. He tossed a few words in there I caught, which was cool. Otherwise, I’m pretty sure I found the perfect soundtrack if I were ever getting dumped while bullfighting at a carnival sideshow on Christmas morning.
Can’t really top that, I suppose.
3
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Gris Gris
Dr. John
I can hear the actual inspiration/influence on lots of other artists in this record. Kinda cool.
3
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Fri Feb 16 2024
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
I did not like this album. It was the same song for 58 minutes. It didn’t clurb hard enough nor did it 1960s hard enough.
3
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Mon Feb 19 2024
The Doors
The Doors
Felt like an important album. Forgot that the last two minutes of “The End” was just Morrison screaming the F word over and over again. Sorry sophomore class. Eek.
3
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Tue Feb 20 2024
Rubber Soul
Beatles
Exactly as I remembered. As a best friend said, their best stuff lays in the non-hits.
3
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Wed Feb 21 2024
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
This is an awful lot of music. Which isn’t to say it’s awful. Lots of it is really cool, and genre-bending. But it’s just like… a lot.
4
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Thu Feb 22 2024
School's Out
Alice Cooper
I had no idea it was so cinematic and had such groovy attitude. I know his deal, and I know his hits, but this was like a complete rock opera almost and was just a total blast. So pleasantly surprised by all the blues and jazz influences, too. Completely silly but also amazing. Wild to think he was 24 but it was like his third or fourth album already.
5
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Fri Feb 23 2024
Be
Common
Man. This was incredible. So melodic, so intense, so uplifting. Early on in this experience, I’m realizing that I might really be into hip hop and rap. Which I knew, but it’s rewarding having data to start backing it up.
5
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
I know the album; it was cool to listen to in one sitting. Someone recently told me how psychedelic it was but cover notwithstanding, it felt way bluesier than I recall. Not a bad thing!
4
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Pearl
Janis Joplin
Okay, I gotta admit. I was pleasantly surprised by this one. I thought I knew what I was getting into, but this was a pretty solid blues album overall. It did just make me want to listen to Bonnie Raitt, but I get the hype a bit more than I think I did for the first 37 years of my life. Very solid.
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Truth
Jeff Beck
Maybe I’m way off. It was really good. But the highlight for me was Rod Stewart singing on these tracks. I was a little whelmed by the album, but perhaps it just didn’t hold up like I thought it might.
3
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Thu Feb 29 2024
Bummed
Happy Mondays
It’s no Stone Roses. Or even The Cure. But at all times, part of it tried to be. I think I’m not not that into the whole Madchester thing. But I felt like there were a lot of Danny Boyle moments on the record.
Panicked when Spotify told me it was 2 hours but then noticed that was the Deluxe Reissue or whatever, with 12 different Hallelujah remixes. Phew, I think.
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Michael
Great tunes. Great voice. The sound of an era, maybe even two. Cool balance of some different styles. Just a great listen.
4
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Mon Mar 04 2024
Document
R.E.M.
Tons of funs. Just a fun album overall. Hits and not. What a meaningful band.
4
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
With the exception of the instrumentals, which honestly were highlights, and Sabotage, which mostly speaks for itself, this was like 50 minutes of the same sounding song.
2
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
Man, this sounded like a lot of fun. The breaking glass sounds effects off an old cheap keyboard sorta took me out of it a few times, but I gotta say, this felt more like the elements of Graceland in the ways it should have. Seems to be an interesting cat as well.
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Woodface
Crowded House
This was a really fun pop album. Totally knew some of the songs that weren’t their “hits”. Just a nice listen! Last track got kinda weird but everything was fun.
4
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon
Okay. Conceptually this was incredible. Not exactly my style, but this whole album was on the attack and I gotta say, for a Black dude to be putting this out in all its glorious nerdiness in 1996/7, that’s pretty amazing. Some real hooks, mixed in with the weird sampling from straight up pornography.
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Mon Mar 11 2024
A Night At The Opera
Queen
You know, this was a good collection of songs. So much versatility on display in one album. I don’t know why everyone hates “I’m in Love With My Car”?
4
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Tue Mar 12 2024
Moon Safari
Air
One of the rare ones I’ve gone back and listened to immediately again. Slowcore Daft Punk vibes throughout. Made for a good start to the week. Highly recommend.
5
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Wed Mar 13 2024
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
If you liked the Black Saint part wait until you get to the Sinner Lady part. Fire energy. Really cool melodies across the whole ensemble.
5
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Thu Mar 14 2024
The Last Broadcast
Doves
If you liked the Black Saint part wait until you get to the Sinner Lady part. Fire energy. Really cool melodies across the whole ensemble.
4
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Fri Mar 15 2024
I Against I
Bad Brains
I must admit. Ive only heard them in the background before, never actively listened. This was pretty rad, to say the very least.
5
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Parachutes
Coldplay
I will admit. I rolled my eyes when this popped up. And I will lead with the end… it kind of fizzled. But holy cow, the first half of this record brought me back to an incredibly specific time and place in my life when they’d just hit it big and they were *everywhere*. Didn’t hate listening to it.
4
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Tue Mar 19 2024
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
This was fine. Certainly no Sam Cooke at the Harlem, that’s for sure. Some good energy. The announcing of the setlist before they played anything was interesting to say the least.
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Wed Mar 20 2024
Pink Flag
Wire
Strange
Lowdown
Mannequin
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Pretenders
Pretenders
Aside from those really popular ones, there were some really cool tracks on this one. A really nice edge to the record on the whole. Lots of fun to explore the debut!
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Some nice highlights on here. I have a hard time with the vibrato and tone of his voice. I get that he’s an important artist. I just don’t usually seek out chances to listen to him. Some cool parts but also lots of parts I didn’t find particularly cool at all. 🤷🏻♂️
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Mon Mar 25 2024
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
This was totally fun. As the great individual who turned me on to this site said, “I think I’m actually a huge fan of 1980s-90s hip hop. Me, too, my friend. Me, too.
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
I know folks love these guys. I love certain moments by these guys. This album more brought me back to where I was when it was released than reminded me of the strength of the music. Certainly some real strengths, of course, and I remember the big deal when the album came out. But the unremarkable songs seem to cast a giant shadow. Probably just me.
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Quiet Life
Japan
I know folks love these guys. I love certain moments by these guys. This album more brought me back to where I was when it was released than reminded me of the strength of the music. Certainly some real strengths, of course, and I remember the big deal when the album came out. But the unremarkable songs seem to cast a giant shadow. Probably just me.
4
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Outstanding. As expected.
5
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Fri Mar 29 2024
Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
Okay so I’ve always been enamored with/by Steve Winwood’s annoying voice. I can’t get enough of it. For a dude who’s been everywhere, this album was solid. The funky weird synthy basses, the works. I really like it. Nothing stands out as much as the first two tracks for me, but it just felt terrific to listen all at once.
4
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
Still amazing. Still moving. What an impression!
5
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Tue Apr 02 2024
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
Important. But still awesome. Love the banter and love the energy.
5
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
So much fun. So so much fun. I had to explore YouTube to get the full album but on top of really needing something to help me work, it was just a delight.
5
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Thu Apr 04 2024
Brothers
The Black Keys
Was fortunate enough to see these dudes at a rad venue on a three-concerts-in-three-nights run back in 2011. It was really really cool. This album brought me right back The other shows, I think, were Death Cab and the Gaslight Anthem. That was a killer week. I feel
like I have been tired ever since. Very good album.
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Faust IV
Faust
This was kinda fun! Krautrock indeed!
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Mon Apr 08 2024
Stardust
Willie Nelson
Somehow had never come across this. Some really lovely covers, and a really interesting story behind the whole album’s impetus.
5
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Tue Apr 09 2024
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
Speaks for itself. Fortunate enough to have what I believe is an original pressing of this record. Best way to listen to one of these bad boiz.
5
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Wed Apr 10 2024
Protection
Massive Attack
Started off so hot and then sort of fizzled, but this was a really amazing listen. It’s been forever since I sat with an MA album. Great grading music!
4
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Thu Apr 11 2024
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
Really interesting to hear this whole album at once. Listened while going on my first run in a very long time and it was just the right vibe, even in the dark before sunrise. The near consistent vocal stabs tracking through the background of whole album threw me off a bit, as I kept thinking someone was very close to me but it was apparently just Annie Lennox from 40 years ago. Still a fun listen that seemed to define an era, if only briefly.
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Fri Apr 12 2024
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
This was a tricky one. I know the bands name but don’t think I’ve ever actively listened. Those droning, dissonant bends made me queasy. I know that’s the point. It just didn’t hit for me. Maybe someday in the future.
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Mon Apr 15 2024
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
Such a hot start. I feel like EJ has Bruce Springsteen syndrome; if half of the material was held back instead of released, so much more of it would be amazing. Which I suppose is true. “It’s a hundred floors of frights. They ain’t all gonna be winners…”
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Violator
Depeche Mode
::Shrug emoji::
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Wed Apr 17 2024
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
Ok. I understand why it’s important. But that still doesn’t mean I have to like it. At the risk of sounding absolutely insufferable, it just sounds like I’m at a St Patrick’s Day themed amusement park. Just not for me.
2
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Wed Apr 24 2024
Treasure
Cocteau Twins
I didn’t hate hate this. But it was just noise mostly.
2
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Thu Apr 25 2024
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Another one where I wish I knew what he was saying, cause he sounded really passionate about it. I was most impressed by how different every song on this album was.
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Fri Apr 26 2024
Born To Be With You
Dion
Some good stuff on here. Some. It so good stuff on here. Some weird stuff on here. It’s so interesting to me how certain performers do their thing in this way and are both super famous but also not as famous as they “should” or at least could be. Weird.
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