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Wed Jan 10 2024
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
I like how Spotify describes The Police : "Rooted in reggae and flirting with punk, the Police also dabbled in jazz, worldbeat, and atmospheric instrumentals that nodded toward new age music..." and that is as good a description as any. They are an anomaly. Great album!
4
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Thu Jan 11 2024
Ramones
Ramones
For decades I believed my Ramones Greatest Hits CD was all I really needed. I was wrong! Awesome album! Found some new Ramones favorites that I've never heard before.
4
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Fri Jan 12 2024
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
WOW! I did not know that I liked Deep Purple. Good mix of hard rock, groove, and psychedelic. So many great riffs and solos but sorta feels like nothing really gels for me. I love Space Trucking but 19 minutes? damn. I love an extended live jam but 10 minutes in and I'm pretty Trucked out. The Truck really goes off the rails. I'm sure you had to be there. I'll have to check out some of their studio albums.
3
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Mon Jan 15 2024
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
3
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Tue Jan 16 2024
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
3
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Wed Jan 17 2024
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
3
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Thu Jan 18 2024
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
Why do the drums sound so shitty? Half the songs don't even have drums. All of the songs are half songs. I do not understand this band's genius.
2
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Fri Jan 19 2024
So Much For The City
The Thrills
Funny enough, this band is called The Thrills which is kinda opposite of the mood this singer brings. The music is not bad. The melodies are interesting, instrumentation and recording is great. Just a little too mellow & dreamy for me.
2
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Sat Jan 20 2024
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
This used to be one of my favorite albums. Hadn't listened to it in a long time. It's still one of my favorite albums. Overall I think Doolittle, Bossanova, & Trompe le Monde are slightly better albums but I'm still giving it a 5. OH MY GOLLY!
5
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Sun Jan 21 2024
Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
I liked this album alot more than I thought I would. Note: Waylon Jennings wrote the Dukes of Hazard theme song.
4
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Mon Jan 22 2024
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
What did fans say when the Beatles broke up?
Ono.
Not my favorite Beatles albums but it's got a few hits.
3
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Tue Jan 23 2024
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Overall this isn't so much my vibe. The musicality is great. I love the different songwriters and voices & how they blend into such rich harmonies. Normally this would be a 3 for me but this band is sooooo groovy they get extra groovy points to push it up to a 4. Woodstock is probably my favorite song on this album. Let your freak flag fly!
4
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Wed Jan 24 2024
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
At first listen I didn't really care for this. Not so much my vibe. They have alot to be angry about I guess. But if you take out the intro, outro, and that Hot Dog song, it's actually not a bad album. I don't understand the Hot Dog song. Are they in a gang war with Nine Inch Nails? Cool blend of rap & rawk. Recording & instrumentation is great. And after a few listens I found myself a little less angry about being angry.
3
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Thu Jan 25 2024
Follow The Leader
Korn
This band has great sound alchemy. The music is great but I'm not a huge fan of the vocal stylings and the poetry of the lyrics doesn't really grab me. The album starts off strong. I like the first 4 songs then everything goes downhill when they start bringing in the guest rappers. Favorite song is Got the Life. Wish there were more songs like that on the album. I took a listen to Korn's first album which I did like better than this one. If I ever compile a playlist for summonsing a demon, Dead Bodies Everywhere will definitely be on it.
2
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Fri Jan 26 2024
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
Great rap album!
4
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Sat Jan 27 2024
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
Monday Monday and California Dreaming are great songs but I didn't care for the rest of them. I did not know that this is the original Do You Wanna Dance. I like the Ramones version better. This band is groovy but there are many flavors of groovy. This groovy is a little too vanilla for me or something.
2
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Sun Jan 28 2024
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
When this band hits the mark, they really fucking hit it. Stop and Been Caught Stealing are awesome songs. I like the first part of the album but after 10 minutes of Three Days I'm tired of Jane and her addiction. I didn't especially like the rest of the album but they rawk out with a pretty unique sound for the first 5 songs.
3
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Mon Jan 29 2024
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
So this is Shoegaze music? So washy. So dreamy. It's OK. I prefer the songs with beats. Especially liked Only Shallow, When You Sleep, and Soon.
3
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Tue Jan 30 2024
Amnesiac
Radiohead
I remember OK Computer and The Bends being pretty good albums that I enjoyed. At some point I became a bit dis-enchanted with this band. Albums like this are probably part of the reason. Karma police, arrest this band.
2
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Wed Jan 31 2024
The Rise & Fall
Madness
This is the band that sings Our House (in the middle of the street) which is different than Our House (a very very fine house by C,S,N&Y) yet neither is House music. I digress. Great album! I love a band that can bring the horns and lay down some bumping bass lines.
4
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Thu Feb 01 2024
Cut
The Slits
At first listen I thought this was just awful. Possibly my first 1!... but then they had to go and pull out that awesome cover of Heard it Through the Grapevine. And you know why I like her version better than the original? When she says she's just about to lose her mind, I fucking believe her! So I gave the album a deeper listen. This music is just really odd. The changes are totally bizarre. The more I listen, the more I can't turn away. It's really awful but in an awful way that I kinda like. Clearly nobody with good musical taste would give this album more than 2 stars.
3
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Fri Feb 02 2024
Either Or
Elliott Smith
Nothing flashy. Just good melodies and song crafting. This hits the mellow vibe just right for me.
4
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Sat Feb 03 2024
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Not a huge Chili Peppers fan but the first four songs are great. I give this album 3.5 stars and Flea is a pretty awesome bass player soo....
4
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Sun Feb 04 2024
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
Pretty cool. Gets a little hypnotic sometimes but I like the songs that rock out (Boys Better, Every Day Should be a Holiday). I had fun playing bass to a few of the songs. I don't understand what kind of statement they are trying to make with Hard On for Jesus. I guess some people want to have sex with Jesus. OK. The song didn't especially lift to me to any spiritual climaxes. Pete International Airport is 6 minutes of ambient noise. I'm glad they enjoyed the acid. Maybe they could just save that crap for an album of all ambient noise and release it under a mystery band name like Sgt Warhols Dandy Lost Hearts Spam.
3
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Mon Feb 05 2024
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
The music is okay. Kinda weird in a way that I like but it's the poetry of his lyrics that really get me. Fuck the Jazz Police!
4
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Tue Feb 06 2024
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
right about now the funk soul brother. check it out now. the funk soul brother. right about now the funk soul brother. check it out now. the funk soul brother. right about now the funk soul brother. check it out now. the funk soul brother. right about now the funk soul brother. check it out now. the funk soul brother.
4
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Wed Feb 07 2024
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
This is the kind of album you can take off the shelf and sit and listen to all by yourself. Today's music ain't got the same soul. I like that old time... something something.
4
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
This album is called Nebraska but the second song is Atlantic City and then he's off singing about the New Jersey turnpike. We don't really know where this album takes place and neither does the E Street Band since they are not on this album. Just Bruce and his guitar and harmonica. A stripped down Springsteen. Johnny 99 is a great song. Love to hear it with a full band.
3
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Fri Feb 09 2024
Music
Madonna
Not bad. I can appreciate that she evolved her sound but I guess I like her earlier albums better.
3
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Sat Feb 10 2024
All Directions
The Temptations
The Temptations gave us hits like "My Girl" and "Just My Imagination". Those sho nuff ain't funky songs, so this album was kind of surprising. The Temptations are an all male vocal group. I don't feel like these songs are carrying the rich harmonies and vocals that they are famous for.
2
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Mon Feb 12 2024
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
I like that they are all over the place with folk, jazz, rock. But the whole thing is steeped in a grooviness that only an album from 1969 could be. I feel like this is kinda what the Grateful Dead would sound like if they didn't suck. Especially liked Trillium.
3
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Tue Feb 13 2024
Transformer
Lou Reed
3
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
If you like grungy guitaring then you would probably like Mudhoney. They are OK. Let it Slide is a pretty rock'n song. Can definitely hear how Nirvana was influenced by them and they deserve cred as one of the innovators of grunge rock. Who brought a harmonica to this party? Okay.
3
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi gets all the credit for his guitarings but the drummer, Mitch Mitchell, is incredible. Great stuff! I liked this album alot more than Electric Ladyland.
5
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Fri Feb 16 2024
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
They aren't weird they are "avant garde"... okay they are weird but I like it. This is when Brian Eno was still in the band.
4
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Sat Feb 17 2024
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
What in the name of Adult Contemporary is this crap? Grounds for Divorce is a good song. I've heard it before. Probably while I was looking for "Divorce Songs".... but did not care for the rest of the album (even if he does sound like a British Dave Matthews). I'm glad the last song is called lullaby because it pretty much reaffirmed how I felt about this album... SNORE!
2
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Sun Feb 18 2024
Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Moby Grape is soooo groovy. I dig it. No Moby Grape on spotify?! damn. breaking my heart. :(
4
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Mon Feb 19 2024
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
Their raps are kind of not that great.
I don't wanna spread no hate.
They won't sell out, or so they rap.
Two albums later, Adidas ads.
(probably not their best work but hey, everybody had to start somewhere. lots of love for these early Def Jam albums)
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Tue Feb 20 2024
Thriller
Michael Jackson
I was 9 years old when this album came out. Everyone in our generation knows this album whether you love it or hate it.
1.) Wanna Be Starting Something - One of the best songs on this album. The beat and groove is so electric. I've been singing along with Michael for 40 years on this song and I still have no idea what we are singing about. It doesn't even matter. We are starting something. Too high to get over. Too low to go under. And we are starting this something for 6 damn minutes cuz this groove just keeps giving. And I always thought that “mama-say-mama-sa-mama-coosa,” meant some wise thing in an African language but it turns out it might possibly mean"dance"... we aren't really sure... and there are copyright lawsuits involved.
2.) Baby Be Mine - such a smooth love song.
3.) The Girl is Mine - no! this is so cheezey. I will take Say! Say! Say! over this crap any day. Nobody is believing that these two are gonna rassle for a girl.
4.) Thriller - Thank you Michael Jackson for inspiring generations of kids to dress up like zombies for dance recitals. They are still doing it. Thriller will never die. R.I.P. Vincent Price
5.) Beat it! - It's impossible for me to not feel 10 years old when I listen to this song. I just want to beat it so bad.
6.) Billie Jean - Even at 10 years old I knew that Billie Jean was serious business. I should take his advice and think twice before I dance in the floor in the round. The kid is not his son! We've clearly danced into a child support issue that may require a blood test but the boogie is so hot!
7.) Human Nature - smooth. very smooth.
8.) PYT - YES! This song grooves so hard. And I want to love this song but due to the suspicions about Michael's character, it's hard to dance to this song and not feel awkward. I mean... I hear Michael saying he wants to take me there but I'm not sure I wanna go there with all the TLC on the PYTs. I never heard the chipmunk at the end of this song before. Yep. That's a chipmunk. ALVIN!!!
9.) Lady in My Life - Beautiful love song. I never listened to this one as a kid. I didn't even know it was on the album. I can appreciate it alot more as an adult. Kinda got a Stevie Wonder vibe to it.
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Wed Feb 21 2024
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
AC/DC. I like both the Bon Scott and the Brian Johnson years. Separate chapters and slightly different. Out of all of the Bon Scott albums, Dirty Deeds has got to be the best. Highway to Hell only has one "hit" on it but I think these are all just as good as the title track: Walk All Over You, Beating Around the Bush, Love Hungry Man, Night Prowler
4
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Thu Feb 22 2024
Van Halen
Van Halen
The Atomic Punk is one of the worst Van Halen songs ever. The ruler of the nether world? Give me a break David Lee Roth. You're the ice cream man.
The rest of the album rocks. Pretty awesome first album for them.
4
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Fri Feb 23 2024
Take Me Apart
Kelela
This is exactly what would be playing in a chic women's clothing store while my wife shops for leggings. This is probably a good album if you like R&B Electronica fusion which, I don't.
2
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Sat Feb 24 2024
Back In Black
AC/DC
Earlier this week we had Highway to Hell (Bon Scott's final album before his death) now we have their next album, Back in Black (Brian Johnson's first album). Two pivotal AC/DC albums in succession. For those about to rock, we salute you.
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Sun Feb 25 2024
Repeater
Fugazi
I especially like this band's drum & bass. I dig it. Favorites: Turnover, Repeater, Brendan #1, Two Beats off, Reprovisional.
4
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
I'm sure this was a very influential album back in it's day.
2
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Melodrama
Lorde
We all deserve the kind of passionate love that involves the cops.
3
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Thu Feb 29 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
I was really disappointed in this album and wish is was only 17 seconds long. It's sad and boring. Not their best work at all.
2
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
4
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Sat Mar 02 2024
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
Mr. Self Destruct, Heresy, March of the Pigs, and Closer. Really enjoy listening to those songs as loud as possible. The rest of the album was meh.
3
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Sun Mar 03 2024
Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
The songs are pretty and slow. I don't dislike old timey bluegrass music. It's not bad, but I can't really say that I like any of the songs. Nothing really grabs me.
2
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Mon Mar 04 2024
Remedy
Basement Jaxx
3
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Tue Mar 05 2024
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
3
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Wed Mar 06 2024
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
The Byrds are so groovy. Wasn't Born to Follow has been a favorite of mine for years.
3
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Thu Mar 07 2024
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
What in the caucasian fuck is this nightmare? Valuable lesson from this album: if you use the word "Incredible" in your band name, you aren't. Is this Wiccan music? No Wiccans I know would listen to this. I enjoy a good Minotaur song as much as the next person. Their Minotaur song sounds like a showtoon. Just wait till I play this for my Minotaur friend. He's gonna laugh his ass off. I wish Black Sabbath or NIN would've written a fucking Minotaur song. If you are into intangible melodies, erratic song structures, and love music with no rhythm, you'll be totally entranced by this album recorded live from Jim Morrison's bad trip. Jaw harp is one of my favorite string instruments. Cool sitar. Hare Krishna.
1
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Public Image: First Issue
Public Image Ltd.
So this is what Johnny Rotten did after the Sex Pistols.
..... not good. And by "not good" I mean it fucking sucks.
1
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Sat Mar 09 2024
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
4
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Sun Mar 10 2024
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
Garfunkel and Simon are great. Green Pleasure Machine was a fun surprise. I hadn't heard that one before. Coo Coo Ca Choo Ms. Robinson.
4
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Mon Mar 11 2024
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
Great band! Love Brian Ritchie's acoustic bass playing. Gone Daddy Gone rocks that xylophone. This has been a favorite album of mine since forever. Add it Up & Blister are alternative classics. Prove Your Love & To The Kill are also tops. Easy 5 for me.
5
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Tue Mar 12 2024
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
3
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Wed Mar 13 2024
Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
It's OK. Instrumentation and song writing is good but none of the songs especially grabbed me. 18 songs is too long and I got bored of it.
2
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Thu Mar 14 2024
Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Prog rock can be a bit of an acquired taste. I have to put my jazz ears on when I listen to it. The album definitely has it's moments. Greg Lake has some phenomenal bass playing. I did not to expect to be listening to a boogie woogie version of Tchaikovsky. The Nutcracker was a little out of season but... okay. They kind of rocked it. It's going on the Xmas playlist.
3
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Fri Mar 15 2024
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
I love this album in a modern kind of way that makes me still in love with the old world. Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole picking up girls on the astral plane. Government Center is one of my favoritest songs ever!! (they got alot of great desks and chairs) "I go to bakeries all day long. There's a lack of sweetness in my life."
This Hippie Larry thinks the singer's straight-edge, teenage angst lyrics are somewhat annoying but Jonathan Richman is unapologetically himself. He stays home and eats health food alone. OK then. The music is odd in some of the best ways. And I like their groove. Many good musics.
NOTE: the keyboardist goes on to join Talking Heads & the drummer joins The Cars. Jonathan Richman has a solo career worth checking out. I saw him live at the castle (2008?). Great show!
I thought the 3 alternate versions of the songs were better than the originals. Recording sound was better. Lyrics are clearer. And the guitar playing lets loose a bit more. I can hear more of a Velvet Underground influence (which is another band I like).
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Sat Mar 16 2024
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
Some of the best musicians are also poets.
I'm not much of a blues fan but Meet Me in the Morning is a damn good blues song. Tangled up in blues.
4
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Sun Mar 17 2024
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
So this is who sings Son of a Preacher Man. It's OK in a mellow AM gold kind of way.
3
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Kimono My House
Sparks
3
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Tue Mar 19 2024
Homework
Daft Punk
It's pretty cool. I like the grooves and the beats and bass lines. It's good party music but not really good driving in the car music. Some parts are kind of repetitive in an annoying way that makes me wish somebody would turn off their car alarm. Da Funk is a cool song.
3
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Wed Mar 20 2024
Parallel Lines
Blondie
Wow! Great album! I'm familiar with the hits: One Way or Another and Heart of Glass are favorites. Fun to hear the ones I hadn't heard before. Especially liked I Know but I Don't Know and Will Anything Happen.
5
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
I like Elvis. I like Little Richard. But I have a new favorite old time rock & sock-bop-a-lop-a-doo-wop-bam-a-lam-boom singer. Jerry fucking rocks these songs and I think it's his piano playing that puts him a notch above some of the other legends. He beats the hell out of that piano!! Awesome live album. A legend playing legendary songs. Would've loved to have been there but I wasn't born yet. (It doesn't look like the full album was on spotify. Found it on Youtube.)
5
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
I never listened to Elliott Smith before this project. I kinda like his songwriting. Favorites are Somebody That I Used to Know, Everything Reminds Me of Her, Easy Way Out, Better Be Quiet Now. All of which tend to be the ones with just vocals and acoustic guitar. He didn't need that Bye track at the end but that's fine. Did he record it in a cave?
4
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Sat Mar 23 2024
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
The Doors... what to say about the Doors? They are groovy. They are swingy. They are shaky. And they are strange. People are strange. I bet the Doors would've been an awesome band to jam with. I don't even like the blues but damnit I like it when they do it. Jim Morrison gets all the fame but his band is riffing out some incredible stuff!
Roadhouse is awesome and timeless.
Waiting for the Sun makes me wanna do acid and stay up all night and have an experience as epic and twangy as this sweeping song of static electricity and sunlight.
You Make Me Real shakes it up like an old time rock and boppa-loo-bop. Jerry Lee Lewis, eat your heart out. Love that one.
Peace Frog. Yes. I dig this boogie. Blood to our elbows, Jim. Don't even start about Chicago. Ribbit.
Blue Sunday - nope. Gong. If I was a 1970's C list actor who was guest judging on the Gong Show and the Doors were playing this song, I would fucking gong them.
Ship of Fools - boogie on the high seas in the key of D (for Doors).
Land Ho! - It's a journey inside a diddy. And you can dance to it. Here's what I love about the song writing here... Jim has one phrasing to the diddy on the first part.. then there's the middle part where the wind blows and several men possibly die... then they spot land (or maybe a ho) and he changes up the phrasing and melody of the lyrics but the diddy is the same. I hope he lands and marries that ho.
The rest of the album is pretty good in a weird and wonderful way.
I especially liked Maggie M'Gill.
"Well, I'm an old blues man and I think that you understand
I've been singing the blues ever since the world began, yeah"
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Sun Mar 24 2024
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
I like Pavement, yes I do. I have a few of their albums in my collection but this is the first time I've heard this one. It's pretty good. I like this band. I don't care what the ghost of Buddy Holly says.
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Mon Mar 25 2024
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
I looked up the lyrics to some of the songs and it just seemed like nonsense.
I'm having some difficulty understanding or relating to the material. Is he speaking in James Joyce or something?
“Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Songwriting is okayish. A little odd, but not necessarily in a good way.
His singing is not really very good. Recording quality and instrumentation is not very great.
This is just not my cup of English tea. Sorry Syd.
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
I understood Syd Barret's lyrics better. Is this guy singing in Portuguese? In any language Mr. Gilberto's voice is smooth and silky like a warm cocoa mocha. And so is his wife's. The whole album is smooth. But it's a little on the easy listening side for me and feels like the same cafe mocha served over and over. Can't just ONE song be a double espresso? I usually prefer my jazz: jumping, swinging, groovn or fucked up. But this is some of the best hold music that the 20th century has to offer. Your call is important to us. You are number (86) in the que. Please draw yourself a bubble bath and hold for the next available operator.
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
Her name is Yoshimi. She's got a black belt in karate. HEY! HEY!
Fight Test, Yoshimi Pt 1, and Do You Realize are the standout hits.
But I also like: In the Morning of the Magicians, Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell, Are You a Hypnotist?? It's Summertime is good but I mostly like the birds in that song.
Approaching Pavonis Mons & Yoshimi Pt2 are fun instrumentals. I dig a band that's not afraid to throw an instrumental or two in the mix.
Love this album. Fun to hear it again.
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Connected
Stereo MC's
3
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Sat Mar 30 2024
Rubber Soul
Beatles
It's pretty awesome how awesome the Beatles are.
5
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Sun Mar 31 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
What 13 year old boy doesn't want a full size poster of the Eddie demon crashing through his door? I had the poster AND several t-shirts. Then I listened to the music and I was like WTF? Is this "rock opera"? This blows worse than Queensryche. And that's pretty much where my 13 year old self left this band.
So listening to Iron Maiden 37 years later, do I have a difference of opinion?
I can appreciate it a little bit more than I did back then. It's OK. The songs I like the best are actually the 2 longer ones: 22 Acacia Avenue & Hallowed Be They Name. I just like the riffs and song changes better and maybe the longer songs give them time to riff through more changes which falls in line with their vibe which is this sort of opera-metal epicness. I just want them to release a one song album that's 30 minutes long!
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Tue Apr 02 2024
The Bends
Radiohead
Great album! One of their best.
5
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Come Find Yourself
Fun Lovin' Criminals
I like the music. The guitars are awesome. I like the grooves. But nothing about this music grabs me. I've never heard such great music that falls totally flat on delivery. The lyrics don't give me any poetry. Zero. The album starts with their theme song I guess. Great. I wasn't sure if I was listening to the Fun Lovin' Criminals. Yep. It's them. What's the rest of the songs about? I dunno. I should've robbed more banks for fun I guess. Why does this song start with a Pulp Fiction sample? I don't remember this song being on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Scooby Snacks? Was Scooby Doo in Pulp Fiction? I'm so confused.
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Thu Apr 04 2024
I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
You go, sister. This music is beautiful, haunting, & deeply emotional. The only one I can almost compare her voice to is Nina Simone with a dash of Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music). I like how bare and unaffected the music is. Good rich acoustic sounds. It's not overdone. But overall it's a bit slow and dramatic for me.
3
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Sat Apr 06 2024
Different Class
Pulp
ooo la la. This music is sexy, catchy, and pulpy. It's got a good beat and I can dance to it. Common People is a great song. One of my fav's. There is a version of William Shatner doing the vocals which is worth checking out.
4
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Sun Apr 07 2024
Moving Pictures
Rush
Tom Sawyer & Limelight are the hits. YYZ was a fun instrumental discovery. Didn't care for the rest of the album but it was okayish.
3
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Mon Apr 08 2024
Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
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Tue Apr 09 2024
In Rainbows
Radiohead
Radiohead's ok. Sometimes a bit too ethereal and hypnotic for me. Not real big on the slower songs but I liked Bodysnatchers and Jigsaw Puzzle Falling Into Place.
3
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Wed Apr 10 2024
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
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Thu Apr 11 2024
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
I'll just be upfront about this. I own 6 Cramps albums. But this is not one of them. I recommend Bad Music for Bad People. It's a compilation of all of their best early stuff. The sound wasn't very good on this album. I know it's supposed to sound trashy but it felt like Lux's vocals were kinda buried. Garbageman is one of my favorite songs.
3
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Fri Apr 12 2024
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
I'm just going to be upfront about this. I own 12 Sonic Youth Albums. And yes, this is one. But it's not one of my favorites. The next 3 albums: Goo, Dirty, Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star are all better albums in my book. On those albums, they come into their own as a rock band. The songs just have better hooks & I feel like that's when the band's chops were sharpest (1990-1994). Anyway, that's all a matter of taste and today we are listening to 1988's Daydream Nation. If you are into the dissonant sound that Sonic Youth makes, then this is a pretty good one. And if you really want to hear the guitar alchemy at work, then I recommend smoking some good weed and turning it up way loud. Silver Rocket & Cross the Breeze are my favorites.
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Sat Apr 13 2024
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
Wow! I've never listened to Kanye before and I don't really know that much about him but apparently he's "A Monster". I'm "So Appalled" at his incredibly innovative music. My only criticism is that it seems highly autobiographically which makes it a bit unreleatable for me and the songs didn't especially grab me enough to push it up to a 4. But I can see why people like him or used to like him or whatever.
3
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Sun Apr 14 2024
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
When this album started off I was concerned about the band's safety as they were clearly falling down a flight of stairs. But as the noise continued I realized that this is a very long flight of stairs or perhaps they were just tuning up. It turned out that it totally didn't matter if they were in tune or not because this album is a noisy piece of garbage. However, I did enjoy jumping around the room like crazy to this music. I got some pretty good cardio but it could've been so much better if Richard Simmons had been asked to do some vocals.
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
As a fan with 13 R.E.M. albums in my collection (9 of those are on cassette tapes), I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say THIS album is their absolute best. I forgot how incredible it is. I especially like Ignoreland. Can I give it a 6?
5
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Thu Apr 18 2024
Heroes to Zeros
The Beta Band
3
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Fri Apr 19 2024
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
This is one of my favorite albums from my younger days. Love the melodies & strong clear vocals. Great song writing and excellent guitarwork. Awesome bass & drums. Nothing is overdone. I have my CD. It has 13 songs on it. It's perfect enough as it is. Stop with all of the 30 song deluxe expanded editions. Good grief. Frank Mills has always been a secret favorite of mine and it would've been a great one to end the album on... but for an encore, they ROCK that Garfunkle & Simon song!
5
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Sat Apr 20 2024
Fragile
Yes
Overall, I'm a no on Yes. I can appreciate that their music is complex and interesting but not so much my thing. I like the Fish song. Long Distance Runaround is pretty good. Some great bass playing on that one.
I feel like my main criticism of Yes is that it's all kinda too much all over the place. Too many disjointed changes that don't really feel like they gel into cohesive songs (they have their moments).
2
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Mon Apr 22 2024
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
Beautiful, dramatic, and just odd enough to be very original. Good stuff! I especially liked Where Dreams Go to Die and Queen of Denmark.
4
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Tue Apr 23 2024
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
This is supposed to be a really cool album. I know because I've seen this cover on a lot of t-shirts. Is this some of that 80's goth stuff? It's OK. Shadowplay is a cool song but I like The Killers version better (Sawdust - 2007). Cool to hear the original. A few other fav's: She's Lost Control & Interzone. I Remember Nothing sounds like something from Sonic Youth's Confusion is Sex (1983). And alot of this music sounds similar to Bauhaus who release their first album a year after this one (1980) so I can definitely hear how Joy Division may have influenced alot of other bands.
3
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Wed Apr 24 2024
Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
3
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Thu Apr 25 2024
In It For The Money
Supergrass
3
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Fri Apr 26 2024
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
4
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Sat Apr 27 2024
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
3
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Sun Apr 28 2024
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
It's pretty good. I'm at about a 3.5 with this one, not sure if anything grabs me quite enough to push it up to a 4. Maybe with a few more listens but so many albums, so little time.
3
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Mon Apr 29 2024
The Blueprint
JAY Z
3
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Tue Apr 30 2024
With The Beatles
Beatles
Early Beatles. Nope. Get these guys some goddamn drugs. Mr. Postman was a number one hit by The Marvellettes in 1961. Seems weird that they are covering a song that was a hit just 2 years prior but okay. Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry did it better in 1956. Till There Was You is a beautiful song, it's also a cover. Apparently 6 of the songs on this album are covers. Not sure why it's such an influential album when they didn't even write half the songs and this is only their 2nd album.
2
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Wed May 01 2024
More Specials
The Specials
wut? wut is this? I like this. It's a bit peculiar in the right ways for me. favorites: Enjoy Yourself, Man at C&A, Do Nothing, Holiday Fortnight, I Can't Stand It, International Jet Set, and the Enjoy yourself reprisal was a great way to end the album. I would be into Sock It to Em more if I was a James Bond fan. This is a special kind of ska.
5
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Thu May 02 2024
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
It's rock'n. But I'm too old to have this much anger and angst.
3
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Fri May 03 2024
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
I can appreciate the talent but it's pretty straight forward blues. Not really my thing.
3
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Sat May 04 2024
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
It's rock'n. I'm old. My rage has turned to a seething frustration. I'm about a 3.5 with this but bonus points for being rebels with a cause.
4
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Sun May 05 2024
Gris Gris
Dr. John
Strange and spooky. I especially liked Mama Roux.
3
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Mon May 06 2024
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
Yes! Love this band's energy when they bring it on songs like Take You Higher and Sing a Simple Song. Everyday People, Stand!, You Can Make it if You Try... all groovy greats. Music with a message.
4
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Tue May 07 2024
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
It's jumpn. It's swingin. I love jazz with this kind of energy and great horns. Long before David Lee Roth was gigaloing, Louis Prima had noooooobody. Love the super fast tempo on Marie and Be Glad When You're Dead. Gotta admit I like Louis Armstrong's version of Be Glad When U R Dead a bit better but Louis Prima throws down some great trumpet in this version. The banana split song is cute. Good mix of songs.
4
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Thu May 09 2024
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams and The Walk were good songs. The rest was sorta okayish.
3
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Fri May 10 2024
Odelay
Beck
"Going back to Houston
Do the hot dog dance
Going back to Houston
To get me some pants"
YES! Everything. 5!
Note: There's a song called "Readymade" which is a term coined by one of my absolute favorite artists of the 20th century, Marcel Duchamp. Can I give this a 6?
5
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Sat May 11 2024
Hotel California
Eagles
I learned two things. It's "Eagles" not THE Eagles.
And I had no idea that I was in love with the song "Victim of Love" but it happened and I swear I am totally innocent.
4
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Mon May 13 2024
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
3
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Tue May 14 2024
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
4
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Wed May 15 2024
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
I love this band and how passionate their music is. If I had a voice that great I would sing like that too.
5
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Thu May 16 2024
Metallica
Metallica
oh this album. I saw Metallica at the Civic Center for this tour. I was pretty close to the front. It was rock'n. There is some music that I still like from when I was a teenager. There is some music that I just do not. Partly because I listened to it so much I'm kinda done with it. And that's okay for that to happen. I like the guitar work and the music but as a 50 year old adult the lyrics don't really grab me, nor take me back to fond memories. Mostly teenage angst and misplaced outrage. But hey, James Hetfield spit beer on us at that concert and I was pretty stoked about that at the time for whatever reason.
3
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Fri May 17 2024
Pretenders
Pretenders
Damn. I kinda love this album. Mystery Achievement has been a favorite of mine for the last couple years (such a great bass line). Cool to finally hear the album it comes from. I pretty much liked every song. There were a few songs on this album that I thought were a little odd at first listen (Phone Call, Up the Neck) but then I looked up the lyrics. Yes, definitely odd and I like it! Great songwriting. Very original with great energy.
5
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Sat May 18 2024
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
3
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Sun May 19 2024
Faith
George Michael
I'm about a 3.5 with this. The hits are great and the rest are ok. His voice is soooo smooth and silky. And I like that he ends the album with a timeless beautiful piano song.
4
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Mon May 20 2024
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
Everything from Rubber Soul onward is a 4 or 5. I like this one but maybe not quite as much as some of the other later albums.
4
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Tue May 21 2024
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
Great band! Robert Plant's lyrics and vocals are incredible. Jimmy Page's guitar work is phenomenal. This is definitely one of their best albums. Possibly their best one. It's great start to finish.
5
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Wed May 22 2024
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
I like the first song, Glad. The rest was ok but not so much my thing.
3
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Thu May 23 2024
Smile
Brian Wilson
I don't even know. I'm going to leave alone terms like "good" and "bad" and just say that I was very confused by this album. My ears really had a hard time hearing it. Not my thing.
2
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Fri May 24 2024
OK Computer
Radiohead
I liked this album back in the day. Hadn’t heard it for awhile. I love it even more. Great album start to finish. The moods sweep from gentle and delicate to storming rage but always through this meloncholoy dreaminess. Phenomenal guitaring on paranoid Android.
5
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Sat May 25 2024
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
I appreciate this as some good jazz music but jazz is something I only listen to on occasion. Have to me in the right mood I guess. But next time I'm feeling like some jazz maybe I'll explore more of Charels Mingus' work.
3
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Sun May 26 2024
The Doors
The Doors
Before this project, I was not much of a Doors fan. At age 50 I have discovered that I genuinely love the Doors and think they are brilliant. Jim Morrison is great but I especially love the way that keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore play together. When musicians are clicking, it's just magic and that's what I hear. Yes, I'll take that 7 minute long version of Light My Fire anyday over the 3 minute neutered radio version. Great album!
5
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Mon May 27 2024
New Wave
The Auteurs
This kinda sucked. Pretty unremarkable.
2
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Tue May 28 2024
American Idiot
Green Day
If you love pop punk anthems, these guys are the kings. This is probably their best album. Appropriate to get this one on Memorial Day. 20 year's later the American Idiocy has spiraled into American Insanity.
5
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Wed May 29 2024
1999
Prince
The songs are long cuz they are dancing grooves. Or you can fuck to them. You can dance if you want.
4
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Thu May 30 2024
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
interesting
3
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Fri May 31 2024
Lost Souls
Doves
3
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Sat Jun 01 2024
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I love this album so much. I know the first two songs. They were regular hits at the dance parties I used to have with my kiddo when they were little. And I don't really think I can play those first two songs loud enough. Cool to finally hear the rest of the album. New favorites: Skeletons, Dull Life (fucking rocks), Runaway, Hysteric. and all the other songs are good. Karen O's voice is so great. Love the music. Awesome album!
5
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Sun Jun 02 2024
On The Beach
Neil Young
3
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Mon Jun 03 2024
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
3
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Tue Jun 04 2024
Nevermind
Nirvana
It's hard to put into words how influential this album was to me. Kurt Cobain's lyrics are pure visceral poetry and his guitarwork is incredible. Those other two guys are okay too. Great album!
5
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Wed Jun 05 2024
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
I liked the Slits better. This album was not live and no witches were put on trial during the making of this album.
2
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Fri Jun 07 2024
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
I've been a fan of the title track for awhile. This album really deepens my appreciation for Elton John's work. He's pretty genius. Love the instrumentation in all the songs. Love how he switches gears from an island diddy (Jamaica Jerk Off) to a fun surf'n usa rock and sock hop vibe (Your Sister Cant Twist but She Can Rock N Roll). Awesome song. Grey Seal has great energy. Dirty Little Girl (damn). Okay. I'm a fan. Hope to hear more Elton John Albums!
5
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Mon Jun 10 2024
The Idiot
Iggy Pop
I'm at about a 3.5 with this. I don't always love his singing and sometimes think he sounds a little ridiculous. Knowing that David Bowie is involved somehow seems to make more sense now.
4
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Tue Jun 11 2024
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
3
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Wed Jun 12 2024
Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
5
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Thu Jun 13 2024
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
3
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Fri Jun 14 2024
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
I have a couple of Tom Waits albums in my collection but this is not one of them. Loved this album. It's a great mix of some sort of bizarre junkyard soul, spiritual, new orleans circus jazz. Great album!
5
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Sun Jun 16 2024
Pyromania
Def Leppard
3
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Tue Jun 18 2024
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
Wow! The tension is thick. This is some great Johnny Cash. He walks the line.
5
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Thu Jun 20 2024
Woodface
Crowded House
After reading the lyrics to the song, I think Chocolate Cake is supposed to represent greedy excesses of commercialism. And I guess maybe Andy Warhol could be laughing in his grave. With youtubes and toktiks it seems like anyone can have their 15 minutes. This album was ok. Not great. Not bad. I liked Fall at Your Feet.
3
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Fri Jun 21 2024
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
5
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Sat Jun 22 2024
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
3
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Sun Jun 23 2024
Black Metal
Venom
I'm not a big fan of the echo effect on the vocals for every song. I thought it makes it sound like a cheap-not scary haunted house. Then this Buried Alive song comes on so yeah I guess we are in some kind of haunted house of rock. I like that many of the songs are mixed so that you can actually hear the bass & vocals and everything is not drowned out by the guitars. Teacher's Pet reminds me an awful lot of Hot for Teacher. I'm wondering if this was Van Halen's inspiration. I thought Heaven's On Fire would be a Kiss cover. It wasn't. This is probably really great metal. I dunno. I'm at about a 2.5 with this. I didn't dislike it to the point that it annoyed me. I just quickly got bored of it but I'll give it bonus points for not just growling and thrashing the whole time.
3
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Mon Jun 24 2024
The Stooges
The Stooges
I like Now I Wanna Be Your Dog. It's a rock classic and Sonic Youth does a pretty good version of it. But the rest of this album kinda blows.
2
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Tue Jun 25 2024
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
The album starts off strong. Kinda lost me with Why Worry and Ride Across the River. Rest of the album was okayish.
3
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Wed Jun 26 2024
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
Love and appreciate this artist's work but prefer her more upbeat songs with more instrumentation. Nina and her piano are pretty but it's kinda slow.
3
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Fri Jun 28 2024
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
Yes! I love this old time rock and roll stuff. Fats Domino is especially good. Blue Monday has been a favorite of mine for years.
5
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Sat Jun 29 2024
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
I respect the talent and the artistry but I guess The Temptations are not so much my thing. It's good. It's probably phenomenal... but none of these songs especially grabbed me.
3
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Sun Jun 30 2024
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
Great music for napping or meditating. I wouldn't listen to it otherwise. This might have been innovative back in it's day but there's 600 youtube videos of ambient noise I can choose to fall asleep to or cleanse my astral chi.
2
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Mon Jul 01 2024
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
It's good electronic dance music. Pretty cool but not really my thing. Cool background music at a party.
3
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Tue Jul 02 2024
Doolittle
Pixies
yes. Love this band and this is one of their best.
5
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Wed Jul 03 2024
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Didn't care for this much. There's a term for this type of guitaring that I reserve for only when it's truly deserved. "Wankery"
2
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Thu Jul 04 2024
Dust
Screaming Trees
It's okay. All I Know is a good tune. I always thought this was a stupid name for a band. I still do. But their music is okay.
3
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Fri Jul 05 2024
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
I'm about a 3.5 with this but it's very original. So I'll give it a 4 for creativity. I like the first 3 songs. Jig of Life is pretty cool. Waking the Witch has some demons in it. yikes. The rest of the songs are okay. I appreciate the artistry. I like her chaotic layering of sounds and bursts of layered vocals balanced with some beautiful instrumentation & good beats. She has a kind of surreal sound. At times hypnotizing. Also... sometimes I enjoy listening to an album as Side 1 and Side 2 (like many of them were actually produced). This is a good album for this. The first 6 songs go well together. And the last 6 go well together.
4
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Sat Jul 06 2024
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
Not bad. Kinda groovy. Sultans of Swing is a great song. The rest are just okayish. Sometime a little too much blues for me. I did not know that these guys are British.
3
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Sun Jul 07 2024
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath is kind of a weird band. But weird in a good way that makes them different than other metal bands. I know that War Pigs and Iron Man are classics but my favorites are Paranoid, Planet Caravan, & Electric Funeral.
4
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Mon Jul 08 2024
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
3
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Tue Jul 09 2024
Stardust
Willie Nelson
3
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Wed Jul 10 2024
The Slider
T. Rex
4
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Thu Jul 11 2024
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I've heard of this artist for years and glad that this project got me to finally listen to him. I can get a Neil Diamond vibe on some songs. Other songs remind me more of Tom Waits or Talking Heads. He's all over the place but it's always his unique sound. I don't know that any of the songs are super catchy but they all pull me in with their melodies and unique sound. Makes me want to listen to it again. Dig it!
5
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Fri Jul 12 2024
Jack Takes the Floor
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Ol timey songs about bedbugs and boowevils. Interesting stuff.
3
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Sat Jul 13 2024
Green
R.E.M.
Great album from one of my favorite bands. Stand and Orange Crush are the hits but I really like Turn You Inside Out and I Remember California.
5
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Sun Jul 14 2024
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
3
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Mon Jul 15 2024
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4
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Tue Jul 16 2024
Station To Station
David Bowie
There are 2 things that I like about this album. 1.) It has Golden Years on it. 2.) It's a short album which is good cuz the rest of it sucks.
2
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Wed Jul 17 2024
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
2
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Thu Jul 18 2024
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
3
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Sun Jul 21 2024
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
3
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Mon Jul 22 2024
If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian
I went through a Belle & Sebastian phase where I sat in cafes on rainy days drinking Americanos and reading JD Salinger.
4
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Tue Jul 23 2024
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
T Rex is great. I only knew one of their songs before this project. Now I know several. Good stuff!
4
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Wed Jul 24 2024
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Liars
no
2
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Thu Jul 25 2024
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
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Fri Jul 26 2024
McCartney
Paul McCartney
3