Jan 10 2024
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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
Jan 11 2024
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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
Jan 12 2024
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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
Jan 15 2024
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Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
3
Jan 16 2024
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James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
3
Jan 17 2024
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Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
3
Jan 18 2024
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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
Jan 19 2024
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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
Jan 20 2024
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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
Jan 21 2024
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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
Jan 22 2024
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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
Jan 23 2024
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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
Jan 24 2024
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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
Jan 25 2024
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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
Jan 26 2024
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Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
Great rap album!
4
Jan 27 2024
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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
Jan 28 2024
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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
Jan 29 2024
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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
Jan 30 2024
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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
Jan 31 2024
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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
Feb 01 2024
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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
Feb 02 2024
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Either Or
Elliott Smith
Nothing flashy. Just good melodies and song crafting. This hits the mellow vibe just right for me.
4
Feb 03 2024
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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
Feb 04 2024
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...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
Feb 05 2024
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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
Feb 06 2024
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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
Feb 07 2024
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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
Feb 08 2024
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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
Feb 09 2024
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Music
Madonna
Not bad. I can appreciate that she evolved her sound but I guess I like her earlier albums better.
3
Feb 10 2024
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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
Feb 12 2024
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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
Feb 13 2024
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Transformer
Lou Reed
3
Feb 14 2024
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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
Feb 15 2024
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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
Feb 16 2024
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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
Feb 17 2024
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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
Feb 18 2024
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Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Moby Grape is soooo groovy. I dig it. No Moby Grape on spotify?! damn. breaking my heart. :(
4
Feb 19 2024
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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)
2
Feb 20 2024
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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.
4
Feb 21 2024
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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
Feb 22 2024
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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
Feb 23 2024
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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
Feb 24 2024
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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.
4
Feb 25 2024
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Repeater
Fugazi
I especially like this band's drum & bass. I dig it. Favorites: Turnover, Repeater, Brendan #1, Two Beats off, Reprovisional.
4
Feb 26 2024
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Autobahn
Kraftwerk
I'm sure this was a very influential album back in it's day.
2
Feb 27 2024
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Melodrama
Lorde
We all deserve the kind of passionate love that involves the cops.
3
Feb 29 2024
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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
Mar 01 2024
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Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
4
Mar 02 2024
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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
Mar 03 2024
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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
Mar 04 2024
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Remedy
Basement Jaxx
3
Mar 05 2024
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
3
Mar 06 2024
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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
Mar 07 2024
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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
Mar 08 2024
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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
Mar 09 2024
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Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
4
Mar 10 2024
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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
Mar 11 2024
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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
Mar 12 2024
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good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
3
Mar 13 2024
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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
Mar 14 2024
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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
Mar 15 2024
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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).
5
Mar 16 2024
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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
Mar 17 2024
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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
Mar 18 2024
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Kimono My House
Sparks
3
Mar 19 2024
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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
Mar 20 2024
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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
Mar 21 2024
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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
Mar 22 2024
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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
Mar 23 2024
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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"
5
Mar 24 2024
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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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Mar 25 2024
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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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Mar 26 2024
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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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Mar 27 2024
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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.
5
Mar 28 2024
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Connected
Stereo MC's
3
Mar 30 2024
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Rubber Soul
Beatles
It's pretty awesome how awesome the Beatles are.
5
Mar 31 2024
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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!
3
Apr 02 2024
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The Bends
Radiohead
Great album! One of their best.
5
Apr 03 2024
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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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Apr 04 2024
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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
Apr 06 2024
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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
Apr 07 2024
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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
Apr 08 2024
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Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
2
Apr 09 2024
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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
Apr 10 2024
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KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
4
Apr 11 2024
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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.
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Apr 12 2024
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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.
3
Apr 13 2024
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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
Apr 14 2024
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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.
1
Apr 16 2024
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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
Apr 18 2024
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Heroes to Zeros
The Beta Band
3
Apr 19 2024
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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
Apr 20 2024
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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
Apr 22 2024
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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
Apr 23 2024
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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
Apr 24 2024
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Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
3
Apr 25 2024
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In It For The Money
Supergrass
3
Apr 26 2024
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Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
4
Apr 27 2024
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What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
3
Apr 28 2024
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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
Apr 29 2024
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The Blueprint
JAY Z
3
Apr 30 2024
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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
May 01 2024
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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
May 02 2024
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Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
It's rock'n. But I'm too old to have this much anger and angst.
3
May 03 2024
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Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
I can appreciate the talent but it's pretty straight forward blues. Not really my thing.
3
May 04 2024
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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
May 05 2024
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Gris Gris
Dr. John
Strange and spooky. I especially liked Mama Roux.
3
May 06 2024
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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
May 07 2024
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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
May 09 2024
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams and The Walk were good songs. The rest was sorta okayish.
3
May 10 2024
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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
May 11 2024
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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
May 13 2024
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Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
3
May 14 2024
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Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
4
May 15 2024
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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
May 16 2024
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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
May 17 2024
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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
May 18 2024
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Paul Simon
Paul Simon
3
May 19 2024
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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
May 20 2024
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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
May 21 2024
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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
May 22 2024
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John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
I like the first song, Glad. The rest was ok but not so much my thing.
3
May 23 2024
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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
May 24 2024
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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
May 25 2024
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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
May 26 2024
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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
May 27 2024
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New Wave
The Auteurs
This kinda sucked. Pretty unremarkable.
2
May 28 2024
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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
May 29 2024
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1999
Prince
The songs are long cuz they are dancing grooves. Or you can fuck to them. You can dance if you want.
4
May 30 2024
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
interesting
3
May 31 2024
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Lost Souls
Doves
3
Jun 01 2024
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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
Jun 02 2024
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On The Beach
Neil Young
3
Jun 03 2024
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Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
3
Jun 04 2024
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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
Jun 05 2024
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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
Jun 07 2024
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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
Jun 10 2024
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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
Jun 11 2024
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Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
3
Jun 12 2024
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Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
5
Jun 13 2024
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Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
3
Jun 14 2024
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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
Jun 16 2024
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Pyromania
Def Leppard
3
Jun 18 2024
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At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
Wow! The tension is thick. This is some great Johnny Cash. He walks the line.
5
Jun 20 2024
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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
Jun 21 2024
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MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
5
Jun 22 2024
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The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
3
Jun 23 2024
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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
Jun 24 2024
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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
Jun 25 2024
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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
Jun 26 2024
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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
Jun 28 2024
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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
Jun 29 2024
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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
Jun 30 2024
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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
Jul 01 2024
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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
Jul 02 2024
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Doolittle
Pixies
yes. Love this band and this is one of their best.
5
Jul 03 2024
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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
Jul 04 2024
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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
Jul 05 2024
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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
Jul 06 2024
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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
Jul 07 2024
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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
Jul 08 2024
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m b v
My Bloody Valentine
3
Jul 09 2024
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Stardust
Willie Nelson
3
Jul 10 2024
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The Slider
T. Rex
4
Jul 11 2024
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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
Jul 12 2024
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Jack Takes the Floor
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Ol timey songs about bedbugs and boowevils. Interesting stuff.
3
Jul 13 2024
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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
Jul 14 2024
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Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
3
Jul 15 2024
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Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4
Jul 16 2024
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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
Jul 17 2024
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Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
2
Jul 18 2024
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Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
3
Jul 21 2024
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To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
3
Jul 22 2024
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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
Jul 23 2024
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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
Jul 24 2024
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They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Liars
no
2
Jul 25 2024
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Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
Jul 26 2024
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McCartney
Paul McCartney
3
Jul 27 2024
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Live At Leeds
The Who
3
Jul 28 2024
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Horses
Patti Smith
I know that Patti Smith is a legend but I've never sunk my ears into her until this project. Glad I did! Expressive, original, creative and poetic songwriting. Especially liked Gloria and Free Money.
4
Jul 29 2024
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Low
David Bowie
3
Jul 30 2024
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All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
3
Jul 31 2024
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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
I'm not a huge country music fan but I kinda love Loretta Lynn. She's not shy about speaking her mind on things regarding falling in and out of love. She's just very upfront about things in a way that probably shook things up a bit in her day. Don't Come Home a Drinkin is great. I also like Get What Cha Got and Go. Some of the other songs get a little too Connie Francis for me.
4
Aug 01 2024
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Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
3
Aug 02 2024
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Hot Shots II
The Beta Band
3
Aug 03 2024
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Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
This album has so many hits. Are they cheezy and cliche or is it sentimental and catchy? It doesn't really matter, I'm still going to sing along to Living on a Prayer in any bar. Bon Jovi was my first rock concert (Skid Row opened).
4
Aug 04 2024
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Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
The music isn't bad. It's the poetry of the lyrics that I have a problem with. He doesn't sing about anything that I care about. His songs seem to be mostly about him and how cool he is. It's pretty ridiculous. I got annoyed with it pretty quickly.
2
Aug 05 2024
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Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
Dig it. One of my favorites is Bob Dylan's 115th dream because it's just so ridiculous and surreal.
4
Aug 06 2024
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Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
What is this? Some kind of Spaz Rock? I like it.
Talking Heads are great. Lots of good ones on this album that I've never heard before. Cool to take in a full album.
4
Aug 07 2024
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Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
3
Aug 08 2024
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
I'm not a huge Elvis fan necessarily (I like his hits) and I do really like old timey rock n roll. But I don't scream like a girl when he gets sweaty. Anyway... this kinda seems like a big album. The King's first album. If you had to pick ONE album for the BIRTH of Rock and Roll.. would this be it?
Here's my favorites: Blue Suede Shoes (love playing this one on the ukulele), I'm Counting on You (great Do Wop), I Got a Woman & One Sided Love Affair... both songs have good jumping vibe. I Got a Woman is more guitar based. One Sided Love Affair is more piano. I especially like how he's playing with his vocal style in One Sided Love Affair.
Just Because (great! love it)
Tutti Fruti - okay hold up. Little Richard recorded his version a year earlier. Elvis's version is good but I'm a fan of the original. Btw, Blue Suede shoes was recorded a year earlier by rockabilly artist Carl Perkins. I Got A Woman by Ray Charles 1954. I Love You Because (don't even like this song that much), Leon Payne 1949.
WTF?! Did he write any of these songs? no. I guess not. So there's a valid criticism there but I dunno.. I guess people just played each other's songs back then?
Behind Elvis's music is alot of great guitar & piano playing. Not sure if that's him doing it or his band.
But the vocals stand out. Elvis has pretty great vocals.
There's only one other musician I've heard that is as expressive in his vocal techinque... Dave Matthews. Not just saying that cuz my wife is in love with Dave Matthews.
Blue Moon. Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart 1934.
Love Elvis's version. No one will do it better until 32 years later... The Cowboy Junkies, Blue Moon Revisited (song for Elvis) 1988.
I would give this album a 5 but try writing some original material.
4
Aug 09 2024
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Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
Overall this isn't so much my thing. Too angsty for me. I understand there's a lot to be pissed off and sad about in the world. They kind of sound like a cross between Limp Bizkit and Incubus but they sound better than either of them.
4
Aug 10 2024
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Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
Great old timey soul music. Love that this is a live album. Such great energy!
5
Aug 11 2024
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Eternally Yours
The Saints
This is some great vintage punk rock. Never heard of these guys. They sound like a cross between Stooges & Ramones w a dash of Modern Lovers. Really liked the song writing. My favorite was Ostralia!!! Love the horns in that one and wish they had more with horns!!
4
Aug 12 2024
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Raw Power
The Stooges
My favorites: Search & Destroy, Shake Appeal. Overall I like the Stooges but sometimes there's a lot of Iggy Sauce. I'm not a huge fan of Iggy Pop but he's grown on me over the years. He's been kind of an acquired taste for me and I like this Stooges album better than the last one we had.
4
Aug 13 2024
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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
4
Aug 14 2024
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Killing Joke
Killing Joke
4
Aug 15 2024
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The Grand Tour
George Jones
Dang gummit. This is a good ol country record to drink some beers to. Favorites: The Weatherman & Our Private Life.
4
Aug 16 2024
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Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie
I went from a 3 to a 4 with this album and if I gave it a few more listens I'd probably be at a 5.
But I'm just going to stop there because Lately is one of the best damn songs I've heard lately (and I've heard alot of good ones). Passionate and creative with some great song writing.
4
Aug 17 2024
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The Cars
The Cars
5
Aug 18 2024
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The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
His toxic masculinity makes him sound like a little bitch.
2
Aug 19 2024
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
yes! I like this reggae music on a Sunday morning.
4
Aug 20 2024
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Here we start off with the song called Black Sabbath on the album Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. That's hilarious. It's fine as an intro song or whatever. Mass is in session I guess? The album that follows their bell tolling painfully slow opening THEME SONG is okay but not as good as the Paranoid album. Sabbath has sort of a groovy prog rock flavor of metal. Ozzy is pretty unique as far as lead singers go. I mean he's not really a "good" singer and I don't think his lyrics are that great but it all works. It wouldn't be Black Sabbath without him but it's the guitar and bass that I like best about this band. N.I.B. is my favorite on this album and something about the guitar playing on that one sorta feels Hendrixy to me.
3
Aug 21 2024
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Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
Is this Honky Tonk music or is this some of that Masquerade imitation Honky Tonk? Sounds like the real thing to me but I'm not really experienced in the ways of the Honk and the Tonk. I especially like Boxcars, Think I'm Gonna Go Down Town, Honky Tonk Masquerade and Honky Tonk'n. I'm about a 3.5 with this album but that fucking honky tonk accordion in the last song boots it up to a 4 for me dang gummit.
4
Aug 22 2024
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She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
I did not "steal" my sister's tape cassette. I was just "borrowing" it ... for like 100 listens. I loved this album then and I love it even more today. Every song on this album is great. I love her voice and the songwriting is so catchy and creative. Fabulous instrumentation. And it's recorded so well. This is an album that you can listen to really loud and it sounds fucking amazing. She's not only unusual, she's brilliant. 6 stars.
5
Aug 23 2024
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Abbey Road
Beatles
I like late Beatles and this is some of their best. I especially like how several of the songs flow seamlessly into each other.
5
Aug 24 2024
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Disintegration
The Cure
I like this Cure album better than the other album we had. This has a couple of my favorite Cure songs: Pictures of You and Love Song. I also like Lullaby , Fascination Street, and Disintegration. The rest of the album isn't that "catchy" but I like it. It's sorta moody and dreamy.
4
Aug 25 2024
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Clandestino
Manu Chao
¡qué buena onda!
4
Aug 26 2024
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Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
3
Aug 27 2024
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My Generation
The Who
4
Aug 28 2024
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Triangle
The Beau Brummels
no thanks. not for me.
2
Aug 29 2024
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More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
I liked the first Talking Heads album (Talking Heads 77) but didn't care for this one as much. I don't think it's recorded very well. The vocals are too muffled and reverby. The songs aren't as catchy as their first album. There are many parts that I like but the sum of those parts don't really gel into a good album.
3
Aug 30 2024
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Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
I'm a graphic designer and I think this album's cover is really something. So I'm going to comment on every song.
Visions of You - mystical. groovy.
Relight the Flame - sounds sort of Leonard Cohenish
Bomba - ¿que? ... bomb?
Ungodly Kingdom - Are we on a cruise? What's happening? Why must we have courage? Does the album get worse? Oh god.
Rising Above Bedlam - (Bedlam means a scene of uproar and confusion.)
This is an art poem song with a groovy bass line. I keep waiting for it to RISE!... but it just kinda grooves down low in amongst the Bedlam. Maybe they kinda hover above Bedlam but I didn't get a rise out of it.
Erzulie - Who? Ohhh... She's the Black Madonna of Vodou. Well I'm not saying anything bad about her singing. Loved it. Great bass playing too.
Everyman's an Island - Tribal Synthy Rap Psychedelic Dance Mix. okay I'm down. Kinda sounds like Underworld when he's rapping and this song should be on the Survivor TV show soundtrack.
Soledad - it's very Spanish guitary. And then it ends in a haunted house. I dunno. yo no se.
Sweet Divinity - sounds kind of like Bauhaus (the band, not the art movement). It's pretty weird. Good job making a weird song.
Wonderful World - why is all the singing so echoey on this album? This song especially. If the world is so wonderful, come outta that cave you are singing in. This is kinda a weird little diddy. It has the melody of a kids camp song. Trying to keep the demons away, kids.
It's a wonderful world and this album's OK. I give it a 3.
3
Aug 31 2024
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
One of their best. Great album!
5
Sep 01 2024
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Rio
Duran Duran
4
Sep 02 2024
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Reign In Blood
Slayer
This is probably really great Thrash metal if you are into that sort of thing. Which I am not. I can appreciate the complex guitar work but after about 20 seconds of each song I'm done with it.
2
Sep 03 2024
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Dummy
Portishead
3
Sep 04 2024
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Junkyard
The Birthday Party
I think I like Nick Cave and his bad seeds better. This is a special kind of awful. The annoying kind. The second version of Dead Joe sounds even worse than the first. 47 minutes of Nick Cave screeching and growling like a deranged pterodactyl.
1
Sep 05 2024
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Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
2
Sep 06 2024
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Low-Life
New Order
I like New Order. Great melodies. I like that the guitar work is simple and not overly complicated. My only criticism is that it's sometimes a bit formulaic because I swear a couple of these songs sound like other New Order songs. I'm about a 3.5 with this but that instrumental (Eligia) pushes this up to a 4 for me.
4
Sep 07 2024
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Bossanova
Pixies
One of my favorite albums by one of my favorite bands! This one is maybe not quite as good as Doolittle or Trompe le Monde. I give it a 4.5 but they start the album with an instrumental. I love a good instrumental. so... cinco.
5