Jan 16 2024
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Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
Like a Time Machine to my childhood of the 70s. Stevie as a mature man and no longer the child prodigy- speaking through his art on important social subjects in songs that would become timeless and classic.
5
Jan 17 2024
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Kid A
Radiohead
I was never a fan of Radiohead, I guess I never did enough drugs to appreciate their unique sound. It’s like someone started at Pink Floyd, dropped a couple of hits of acid, washed down with some Jacks and then started to compose music. I thought maybe now older and more introspective I could appreciate it - but I was wrong. I could only manage about 75% of the way through before I had to stop listening, it was a struggle and an unrewarding one.
1
Jan 18 2024
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Van Halen
Van Halen
Wow, VH’s debut album- pure gold. Every note of every song is pure rock legend. Every girl loved David Lee and every boy wanted to be Eddie. Not since Hendrix had anyone made their guitar sound like Van Halen. In 1978 this sound came out from every car at every stop light. Just wow.
5
Jan 19 2024
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...And Justice For All
Metallica
It’s Metallica so it’s never ever going to be bad. I was never seriously into Metal anymore than I am into Hip-Hop, meaning I like the top shelf stuff and can listen to it, but I’m not a deep diver into the genre. A few songs from Metallica (such as One) from this album are on my permanent play list, but 90% of what they put out sounds all the same to me and that’s why I don’t dig too deeply. But it’s never bad, never makes me angry, and never makes me shut it off.
3
Jan 20 2024
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Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Meh. Yeah, that covers it, meh. It’s just grunge or garage band mediocrity. There’s one good track on the album (Big Me) where the lyrics and an actual melody are discernible and the rest just screaming or mumbling while the drummer bangs loudly and the guitar is played in a loud grating string of disassociated notes. This era was of a time and place and was never of broad appeal and now 25 years in the rear view is neither classic nor enjoyable.
2
Jan 21 2024
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The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
Had never of this band or any of its music. I found it curious how or why they made Rolling Stones top 500 list. There’s nothing remarkable here and the monotone voice of the lead vocalist kills what little enjoyment there is as ever song sounds pretty much like the last one. The 3 alternative versions of 3 of the album tracks are by far the best music on the disc, more up tempo and the vocals are forced to keep pace a little more. At least I know why I’ve never heard of them.
2
Jan 22 2024
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Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star
Why? Just why is this album on anyone’s list?
1
Jan 23 2024
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White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
Okay, these albums are beginning to make me feel the way I do when I visit an art gallery and I’m standing next to someone who oh’s and ah’s over a bunch of squiggly lines on a canvas and I just don’t get it. Music should make us feel, and there’s like 15 or 16 tracks here and only 1 (we are gonna be friends) made me feel anything positive, the rest are bad lyrics, drum banging, and guitar scratching that makes me feel angry or annoyed. I guess like art you can appreciate technical expertise but if sampling it doesn’t make you feel something other than angry or put upon I contend it has no value. Unless being angry is your goal
2
Jan 24 2024
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Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Still not sure of the validity of this list of 1001 albums, but at least this one didn’t annoy me. The vocals were good, and the singer can carry a tune. The melodies are mostly pleasant and the songs were lyrically good. I don’t know that I could listen to this over and over, but it was better than a lot of others I’ve gotten.
3
Jan 25 2024
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Boston
Boston
Now THIS is music that makes you feel! Every track is pure gold and you can feel the love and joy of the band members the whole way through. This is precisely what is missing in almost everything released in the past 25 years!! An album to stranded on a desert island with. Wish I could give it 6 stars.
5
Jan 26 2024
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Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
I’m not even remotely a student of Hip Hop, but can listen to it and enjoy it. I tend to prefer this style of Hip Hop. It was okay, not something I’d listen to regularly.
2
Jan 27 2024
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Live!
Fela Kuti
Unique and enjoyable- would I want to listen to it over and over? No, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
3
Jan 28 2024
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Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
The Stones just before they went from Stardom to Superstardom- it’s good, solid rock and rock with true blues influence and the album contains some of the bands best work (almost everyone of theirs does). If you don’t like it that’s a matter of taste, but there’s no denying the greatness here.
5
Jan 29 2024
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Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
Her voice is classic, but it wears on you and gets old quickly because she uses it to sing about sad depressing shit. Her music is a perfect representation of her generation.
2
Jan 30 2024
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Let's Stay Together
Al Green
Smooth soulful Al Green. Classy and timeless
4
Jan 31 2024
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Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Okay, eclectic. It is 1967 after all. Nothing I’d want to repeat but tolerable.
3
Feb 01 2024
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Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
First impressions are favorable, here’s a 21st century artist whose music is intelligible, and inoffensive, but by the end of the album it’s really kind of annoying. It’s monotonous and kind of wears on you. I’d have given it 3 stars if it wasn’t for the annoying weird white noise at the end of the last track.
2
Feb 02 2024
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Some of the tracks are enjoyable (Give it Away and Under the Bridge) but most of it leaves me flat. They clearly have talent but choose to waste it most of the time with gross lyrics and thrash guitar. They’re a west coast rip off of the Beastie Boys.
2
Feb 03 2024
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The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
Wow, an album by a group who can play their instruments without being in conflict with each other and actually sing, with intelligible lyrics to boot! How did they slip into this list? And this isn’t even one of the better Kinks albums
4
Feb 04 2024
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Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
Okay, I get what they were shooting for, the rockabilly and the surf rock sounds etc; but that doesn’t make it good. I mean, I can play baseball but that doesn’t mean I can make a living at it, nor should I pretend I can. This album is crap.
1
Feb 05 2024
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The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
It’s very different, but it’s not horrible. I’ve had much worse offerings on this list.
3
Feb 06 2024
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Finally some good old rock and roll on this list. Great riffs, catchy tunes, and the unique sound of Tom Petty. Waiting for gems like this to pop up is what keeps me going on this list.
5
Feb 07 2024
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
Ah, “The Boss” - as misnamed a musician as there is. Springsteen has got one of those unique voices, but an extremely limited range, and you either like him or you don’t. I give him his die for his energy on stage but I’m firmly in the don’t like camp. This album is no exception. It has a few good tracks on it but for every Badlands there are 3 or 4 Adam Raised a Cain which suck. I’d like to give it 3 stars but I’m going to deduct one because he’s such a douche bag.
2
Feb 08 2024
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Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
Really rather enjoyable- the lyrics are , of course, wonderful and the music provided by Billy Bragg excellent. It’s not legendary but it’s very good.
4
Feb 09 2024
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Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
If not for one track (Pond Song) almost accidentally veering toward actual music this album would be complete shit. If a negative score were possible it would get minus one stars.
1
Feb 10 2024
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The College Dropout
Kanye West
Being honest here, Rap doesn’t really have much to it musically, just a good hook and a base line is all you need, and then it’s all about the lyrics. Kanye’s lyrics are good, he has some important things to say, and says them well. As Rap goes this is among the better stuff.
4
Feb 11 2024
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Who's Next
The Who
Every word, every note, pure gold. The range and depth of the tracks on the album, especially after to listening to so much music that is less than this, amplifies the talent of the artists of the 70s. Awesome
5
Feb 12 2024
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White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
Proof that not all artists of the 60s were great - or in this case even talented.
1
Feb 13 2024
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In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
I was big into Jethro Tull in my youth back in the 70s, and this album conveyed a lot of the same vibe. Really enjoyed this one.
5
Feb 14 2024
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S&M
Metallica
Wanna love it, but in the end they choose to have the thrash metal dominate the orchestration so it’s just Metallica with a little more depth of sound. When bands like the Beatles or Moody Blues add orchestration to their music it shines and enhances it, that’s just not what you’re getting here. It’s still thrash metal, they’re still singing through clinched yeah, and you still need to look up the lyrics to have a clue what is being sung.
3
Feb 15 2024
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The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
It’s fine, it’s not great, and in fact is neither good nor bad, it’s just….okay. At least it didn’t make me feel angry, but nor did it make me feel anything positive. It’s just ….there.
3
Feb 16 2024
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São Paulo Confessions
Suba
Uhh, yeah, sure. THIS had to be listened to before I died….said no one ever. Latin Prog Synth Alt something or another.
1
Feb 17 2024
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The Wildest!
Louis Prima
Pure Joy. If music should make us feel, joyful is the best you can get, and this is what you get here. Reminds me of my grandmother.
5
Feb 18 2024
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Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
Reading the Wiki page before listening I was excited and really wanted to like this album, but I couldn’t because…well … because it’s shit.
1
Feb 19 2024
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We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
Either you like Zappa or you don’t- I do
3
Feb 20 2024
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Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
Really enjoyed this one. Nice easy listening joyful folk music. Added this one to my playlist.
5
Feb 21 2024
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The Band
The Band
Good old time classic rock and rock.
5
Feb 22 2024
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Being There
Wilco
Good music, and good lyrics, wasted on a soulless, lifeless, monotonous vocalist. You’d be happy if you walked into a bar and this were the house band, but if you paid for this you’d want your money back.
2
Feb 23 2024
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Document
R.E.M.
REM was one of the last bands that developed organically and not as some sort of Frankenstein assembled in a label’s office. They have some excellent work to their credit and some of it is on this album; but they couldn’t just entertain they had to preach and they’re such a bunch of hypocritical whiners listening to them becomes intolerable. Good riddance.
2
Feb 24 2024
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Machine Head
Deep Purple
Good solid hard rock and roll- no body screaming indecipherable lyrics, no screeching guitars stepping on everything else, no navel gazing woe is me bullshit.
4
Feb 25 2024
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Moon Safari
Air
Not sure that any actual instruments were used in this album. Just a bunch of electronic synthesizers and bland vocals
2
Feb 26 2024
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Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
It was okay, but 2 hours on one album is a bit much.
2
Feb 27 2024
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Metallica
Metallica
Ahhh, when Metallica stopped making noise and learned they had something to say. This is Metallica at its best, still load, still metal, still deep …..but finally crystal clear.
5
Feb 28 2024
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Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Labels fought over these guys? Seriously? Wow, I guess the suits and the musicians were all into Heroin back in the hippie movement in Frisco
2
Feb 29 2024
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Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
If my eardrums are ever subjected to the sound of Neil Young I assure you I will have been restrained in some manner beyond my ability to escape. I will never, EVER, willing listen to the annoying, grating voice of this douche nozzle. Fuck Neil Young now; Fuck Neil Young tomorrow; Fuck Neil Young Forever!
1
Mar 01 2024
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A Seat at the Table
Solange
Well that was trash.
1
Mar 02 2024
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Thriller
Michael Jackson
Finally! An album that should be universally adored and loved by all. This album does what great music does and makes us feel - in this case joy.
5
Mar 03 2024
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Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
Whoever produced this should be charged for crimes against humanity. Letting these clowns make music is robbing the world of ditch diggers. Jeez this horrible
1
Mar 04 2024
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Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
Well I thought I would absolutely hate this, but it wasn’t terrible. There were no signs of greatness but it didn’t make me angry which a lot of 90s alternative shit can do.
3
Mar 05 2024
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Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
Some good stuff here, but also some stuff that really needs the psychedelic drugs of the late 60s to be appreciated
3
Mar 06 2024
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The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
My wife raved about this album, so I was really hoping for something special. I was seriously disappointed. Afterwards I read the Wiki page and it was comparing this to David Bowie for concepts, and I just laughed.
2
Mar 07 2024
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Transformer
Lou Reed
I guess he was decades ahead of his time. If he came along today people would probably be “Ho hum”, and maybe even notice he can barely sing a note. I mean, seriously if you remove the sound tracks from his recordings you’d realize he’s not singing just talking through the songs. Personally I’m not sure he ever becomes what he did without Bowie’s patronage, and even then only because of his relative shock value for the times.
3
Mar 08 2024
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Survivor
Destiny's Child
I don’t see the appeal honestly. They all have beautiful voices- but they all belt out the notes at the top end of the registry and - well that’s just screeching. No balance, and frankly it’s unpleasant. It’s also hard to actually decipher the lyrics at that range, which turns out is a blessing since most of the songs are just celebrating slut culture. Beyoncé did well to leave this mess.
2
Mar 09 2024
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Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Garbage
1
Mar 10 2024
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Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
A little strange but I’ve gotten much worse off this list.
2
Mar 11 2024
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461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
Clapton- not the best Clapton but still light years ahead of most of the tripe on this list.
4
Mar 12 2024
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
With over 50 albums listened to and rated I can honestly say this was the first one that really REALLY impressed me. Lyrically intense, melodies that are subtle and complicated, and subject matter that was deep and intense. So good I listened to it back to back and again later that day.
5
Mar 13 2024
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Tommy
The Who
Solid well done concept and execution by some of the great musicians of any generation
4
Mar 14 2024
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The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
Crap music, paired with uninspired lyrics and a vocalist whose voice is like nails on a chalk board.
2
Mar 15 2024
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2112
Rush
Now THIS is greatness! Three of the world’s most talented artists, deep meaningful lyrics, strong melodic arrangements- this is just so frigging good it stands head and shoulders above so much of the crap on this list.
5
Mar 16 2024
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KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
This album is the reason I continue on with this project. Every once in a while you get an album that isn’t garbage, nor is it great and iconic but you’ve heard it a hundred times before. Here’s an artist I never heard of, but clearly should have. Good stuff.
4
Mar 17 2024
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Chore of Enchantment
Giant Sand
This album is certainly a chore, but not of enchantment. Pure crap.
1
Mar 18 2024
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1984
Van Halen
Yeah boy
5
Mar 19 2024
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We Are Family
Sister Sledge
I was in HS when this came out. I wasn’t all that impressed with Disco generally our this group in particular and wrote it off as one hit wonders. But now 40 years on, and especially after listening to so much other bad music on this list, you realize how good this is. True harmony in the vocals, and good range, snappy update music….yeah this is definitely far better than probably 3/4s of this 1001 albums. The 70s - even our bad music was better than today’s.
3
Mar 20 2024
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Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
Francis Friggin’ Albert baby! Smooth as silk!!
5
Mar 21 2024
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Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
Stringing together rhyming couplets doesn’t equate to hip hop, the lyrics still need to say something. These songs go no where, and except for the occasional almost accidental string, most of the song’s lyrics are pointless excuses to cram in references to genitalia
1
Mar 22 2024
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
So this was an award winning album huh? I didn’t think it was bad, I just didn’t think it was all that.
3
Mar 23 2024
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Different Class
Pulp
With all the truly great albums made by truly talented musicians, how the hell does some of this crap make it to this list?
1
Mar 24 2024
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The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
A little off neat but far from terrible
3
Mar 25 2024
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My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
It’s not music at all, just fuckin’ noise. Boo
1
Mar 26 2024
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Station To Station
David Bowie
Bowie - high as a kite - and yet still better than 90% of the artists are sober on this so called list.
5
Mar 27 2024
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Tellin’ Stories
The Charlatans
Sorry, I heard no greatness here, just an average House Band.
2
Mar 28 2024
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Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
Real music for real people. None of this crap you need a Doctorate in Fine Arts to grasp.
4
Mar 29 2024
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Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
Okay, so it’s dance music. If in the world of dance music you consider Michael Jackson a perfect 100, then this would come in somewhere in the 20s. It’s kinda repetitive and not all that inspiring
2
Mar 30 2024
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
Codswallop
1
Mar 31 2024
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Woodface
Crowded House
Very pleasantly surprised by this album. Real music, real melodies, real vocals- good damn music for a change.
4
Apr 01 2024
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(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ronnie’s soulful voice, the wailing of the guitar army, and some of hardest driving music to make you get up and move, all holding aloft lyrical poetry. Few finer than Skynrd. If this isn’t a 5 none exist of this list.
5
Apr 02 2024
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The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
I’d rather cut off a finger with my kitchen shears than listen to this shit again
1
Apr 03 2024
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Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
Thought I knew what this was going to be, shocked when it wasn’t, surprised by what it was. It isn’t Mozart but it’s far from terrible
3
Apr 04 2024
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Odessa
Bee Gees
I - like most people - think of Disco when we think The Bee Gees; this is definitely not Disco. This is a more Folk, at times country, oriented Bee Gees. It was impressive. New respect for an old band.
3
Apr 06 2024
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Hot Fuss
The Killers
It was fairly good, but great
3
Apr 07 2024
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Seventh Tree
Goldfrapp
Cotton candy music - no substance just fluff
2
Apr 08 2024
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BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
It’s fine for what it is, but what it is is not for me. Bubblegum pop.
2
Apr 09 2024
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Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Janis’ signature voice is always good, the acid rock music though really needs the LSD to be appreciated and listening sober it’s just noise
3
Apr 10 2024
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Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
The violin and horns give Dexys a unique sound, but in the end they’re still one hit wonders
3
Apr 11 2024
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Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
A lyrical tour de force. With each track my impressions of this rose. The Apple Music version of this album had 4 tracks that were unavailable in this country it the album was good enough that I went and found the tracks on YouTube. Awesome
5
Apr 12 2024
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Nixon
Lambchop
What a bunch of lame navel gazing crap this was. Cramming words into a song because they rhyme is not song writing and a dead man could elicit more life from a guitar.
1
Apr 13 2024
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21
Adele
I had heard her name but didn’t think I liked her…started listening and clearly this was not what I was thinking of. There are some albums on this list that simply put to shame most of the others. This is one such. I’d give it a six if I could. Her voice is so special I wouldn’t care if she were singing a newspaper article to me.
5
Apr 14 2024
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Lost Souls
Doves
Maybe if this album didn’t have the misfortune of coming to me the day after an Adele album it would have fared better- but by comparison it’s just really boring
2
Apr 15 2024
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Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
I was actually pretty surprised here, a musician who made melodies not noise; and sang lyrics not gibberish, and in a smooth deep resonant tone. And in the 21st century!!! This is a man outta time clearly.
4
Apr 16 2024
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Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
What a load of crap.
1
Apr 17 2024
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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
There are a few tracks on here that are excellent, but the vast majority are horrible extremely profane exercises in debasement. And at 2 hours and 15 minutes length that’s simply too much negativity for me. I deducted a star for that touching moment he gets a toddler to say MFer….very classy.
2
Apr 18 2024
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
The funny thing about the Stones is that living through these moments I always considered them to be one of the weaker acts amongst giants….but in this list you quickly realize just how good they are.
5
Apr 19 2024
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Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
John Fogherty doesn’t just sing, he has a distinctive and special sound. This is every man music, from a time and place where our music and the people who made it were one of us, not some rarified millionaire. This comes from the heart not an auto tuner. This album needs a 6th star.
5
Apr 20 2024
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Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
I was expecting more from this album, although to be fair I hold artists like this to a higher standard and that may be unfair. Still, other than the recognizable hits I found it to be a little less than for Stevie.
4
Apr 21 2024
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Electric
The Cult
That brought me back to my youth on Long Island and the great Bar Bands of the Clubs, only those bar bands were much better than these AC/DC wannabes. The low light of these 39 sad minutes is when they slaughter Born to Be Wild with a lifeless rendering of this classic.
2
Apr 22 2024
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Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
Kinda of like being in a Matrix movie
3
Apr 23 2024
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Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
This is Dylan the Beatnik Poet. You either get Dylan or you don’t. I do.
4
Apr 24 2024
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Follow The Leader
Korn
A more disgusting collection of filth would exist on the Dark Web. Needs zero stars
1
Apr 25 2024
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Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
I went into it with an open mind, but I just couldn’t enjoy it. Too bizarre
1
Apr 26 2024
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
Grunge is the absolute worst genre, the music is mostly thrash without melody, I mean you couldn’t possibly hum one of these songs and have people have any idea what you’re doing. And the lyrics are mostly indecipherable, a fact for which we can be truly thankful.
1
Apr 27 2024
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MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
I thought MAYBE live acoustic Nirvana might be better- NOPE. First off it’s not really unplugged, just mostly unplugged, which makes sense because you’ve gotta have real chips to play without amplification. Secondly, unplugged or not it doesn’t really matter since Nirvana songs all sound like a whiney soy boy trying to pass a watermelon.
1
Apr 28 2024
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Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
Good solid rock and roll, there was one track that was horrible the rest good but great. Perhaps if this handed come after so many days of genuine crap albums this would have been more harshly judged, but timing is everything.
3
Apr 29 2024
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The White Room
The KLF
It was alright. Not something I could listen to regularly though
3
Apr 30 2024
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At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
One of the absolute Greatest Albums of all time, and hands down the greatest live album ever recorded. This music transports us to a time and place where life was better, the people were happier, and Love was All.
5
May 01 2024
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Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
The beatnik rapper, the jester, the Lenny Bruce of Folk Music - the incomparable Bob Dylan at the height of his powers.
4
May 02 2024
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Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
Not at all as bad as what I was thinking. This list of 1001 is filled with so many festering turds that after a while you get gun shy and assume anyone you haven’t heard of is going to suck. But every once in a while you just get good old simple music, and it’s pleasant and joyful. That’s this.
3
May 03 2024
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Illmatic
Nas
If there’s one thing I got wrong about what I thought I knew about music before this list is the relative strength of Hiphop versus Grunge. With each passing album Grunge gets lower and lower and Hiphop never fails to make you feel. Being from New York myself, although certainly not Nas’s world, I can nonetheless feel it and hear it in his words. Powerful stuff.
3
May 04 2024
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OK Computer
Radiohead
Who listens to this shit?
1
May 05 2024
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S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
When I was listening I was telling myself this was a pale imitation of The Who. Afterwards I read the history and realized the Who were a better version of Pretty Things. Never for a mind did I think S F Sorrow was a “rock opera” like Tommy. When you listen to Tommy you understand the story, with Pretty Things I had no clue it was anything but bad unrelated tracks. So did the Who take from this? Yup, most likely so. But hey Edison didn’t invent the light bulb either, but he gets the credit because he perfected it. Same with The Who and Rock Opera.
2
May 06 2024
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Solid Air
John Martyn
Pleasantly surprised.
3
May 07 2024
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Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
This is Nihilism set to music, and as a theory is great stuff. I loved this album when it debuted in 87, and still listen to several of the songs regularly. They certainly lived the Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll lifestyle to the extreme - but 40 years in when we look at Axl Rose can we really say that was a good thing?
4
May 08 2024
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Mothership Connection
Parliament
A genre unto themselves- P -Funk. Some music doesn’t age well, Parliament is not among them. Big and brassy and bold.
4
May 09 2024
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Dry
PJ Harvey
The album cover art tells you all you need to know about this - like a nasty diseased set of lips you’d be well served staying as far away as possible. Complete crap.
1
May 10 2024
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Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
And I thought Radiohead was as bad as “music” could sink. This was definitely a “hold my beer” album in that regard. Utter filth.
1
May 11 2024
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Morrison Hotel
The Doors
I was never a great Doors fan. I’ll give the man his due, he certainly has a sultry and other worldly charm, and it carries over into his music; but like a lot of this late 60s stuff it feels rather pedestrian without the assistance of a narcotic haze.
3
May 12 2024
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A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
You read the album title and if you don’t know you’re probably like - oh boy, this is gonna be bad - and then in no time flat you’re like, hey this is pretty good, and 10 seconds later you’re like - hey that’s frigging Rod Stewart LOL.
4
May 13 2024
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Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
There’s always been something timeless about Van Morrison, this is quintessential Van Morrison and for my generation every note reverberates.
4
May 14 2024
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Ramones
Ramones
I’m not a great lover of Punk Rock, but the music is honest and sincere and not pretentious in any way. If you’re going to listen to Punk why not THE Punk. Solid work.
4
May 15 2024
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Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
I didn’t think much of Culture Club in 1983. Coming on the heels of the 70s it seemed really light weight. After doing over 100 albums on this list and realizing how talentless the 21st century can be I have a new found appreciation for this music. It’s well done, it’s upbeat, it’s intelligible and just good mood music.
4
May 16 2024
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Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
Fuck me! I’m suffering through this 2 hour snooze fest before I realize I’m not listening to the original release but the 30th Anniversary edition which includes extra bad music. At least The Beach Boys were uptempo- happy- joyful music. Made you feel good. This takes the worst of The Beach Boys and sings bad lounge music. This was a punishment.
2
May 17 2024
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American Pie
Don McLean
If Don McLean’s sole contribution to music was American Pie it would be enough to justify his induction into the HoF. But in point of fact the whole album is good and a perfect reflection of the early 70s and the fading hopes of the 60s. It was of its time but it stands the test of time.
5
May 18 2024
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Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
Was never really a fan of Bon Jovi - all his stuff seems pretty much the same to me. It’s not bad, certainly better than a lot of the albums on this list, but it’s not play list worthy
3
May 19 2024
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The Joshua Tree
U2
In the interest of honesty let me say I’ve never “got it” when it comes to U2. Never understood the hysteria and the hype. This album is arguably the best they ever put out and really after the first 3 tracks- which are gold and justify the raves for U2 - the rest of this album is somewhat underwhelming and pedestrian and at times borders on being little more than Bono’s navel gazing bullshit. I’d give it a 3+ but the system only allows while stars.
3
May 20 2024
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Hysteria
Def Leppard
Genre defying Def Leppard. Metal? Rock? Arena? Hair Band? Pop? Well, yes, all of the above. Quintessential 1980s.
5
Aug 29 2024
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Dookie
Green Day
Okay so I thought - meh, Green Day, never was into that. And then you listen and you realize how solid this album is. Upbeat, uptempo, songs about everyday man and everyday problems. I wouldn’t say I like Punk either but I like some Punk, and I don’t like Alternative either, but clearly some Alternative is pretty good. This is pretty good stuff.
4
Aug 30 2024
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
I remembered it better than it was. Lots of the older stuff leaves me nostalgic for bygone times, but this album just seemed different- it didn’t hold my attention- but nor did I turn it off.
3
Aug 31 2024
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Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
S&G on back to back days! I struggle to understand why they’re so esteemed. There are a couple of tracks on here that are okay, one of which would be covered better 15 years later, and one truly great track; the rest is meh to bad. They put this out a year after the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper - I mean, could you be more irrelevant?
3
Sep 01 2024
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I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
What a crock of shit- in the first 10 seconds you can tell that’s no woman singing.
1
Sep 02 2024
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Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
Okay- so basically a one dimensional bar band. If you paid a $20 cover charge and heard the set you may not leave, but you certainly wouldn’t hang around for the second set. It all sounds the same
2
Sep 03 2024
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Disintegration
The Cure
Everyone alive in the 80s has heard of them, but so what? At the end of the day they’re just another 80s band, producing weird alt rock shit that navel gazing angsty teens listen to, but adults would readily classify them as the one hit wonders they are. All these 80s bands are all either gone or still peddling their worn out crap to squeeze a living out of music. Truly great musicians of the 80s (think Sting for example) continue to produce, innovate and inspire.
2
Sep 04 2024
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Headquarters
The Monkees
The Monkees were certainly representative of a certain vision of the 1960s; a cleaner more wholesome version perhaps, but certainly still hopeful and progressive. Never treated as a real group because in the beginning they only barely were, they nonetheless have an enduring quality to them. That said, most of the tracks are subpar, but a few are very good. Pete’s Sake being my personal favorite.
3
Sep 05 2024
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The Last Broadcast
Doves
WTF is it with Indie Rick groups that makes them all sound like a bunch of soy boys in pain, singing songs suitable only to inspire a person to inflict pain on themselves. That applies to the best of the Indies….and this is far from the best.
2
Sep 06 2024
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Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
It’s really not music so much as computers- definitely not my thing for more than 5 minutes at a time.
1
Sep 07 2024
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Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
All music can make us feel, but some music is transcendent and can transport us to another time or place. This album does just that….close your eyes and you’re in a small venue, packed tight, hot as hell, and the smell of stale beer and cigarettes fills your nostrils. Sam’s on a small stage, it’s an intimate venue and you almost feel like he’s singing and talking to you. Singing some of the best music ever made. Hands down one of the best live albums EVER!!
5
Sep 08 2024
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Feast of Wire
Calexico
Never thought I’d find an Indie band that wasn’t complete crap, but the mix of Latin music, and a vocalist that doesn’t sound like he’s a boy or suicidal makes for some fine listening
3
Sep 09 2024
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Dummy
Portishead
Yeah sorry just not hearing the greatness here.
2
Sep 10 2024
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Blue Lines
Massive Attack
OMG!! What greatness! It’s practically the 2nd coming of the Beatles!….meh, it’s really not that good. It has no sense of itself, sometimes it’s R&B, sometimes Motown, sometimes hip-hop, but always with the annoying fake music that is electronic sound. Nope, not great just grating.
2
Sep 11 2024
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Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
I lived through the 80s and at the time I didn’t think much of New Wave. Perhaps having lived through the 70s and experienced the Titans of Musical Talent one can be forgiven in thinking New Wave as less than. But looking back now I can appreciate how much hope, positivity and generally up beat this music was, especially compared to what would be coming in the 90s and beyond. The Go-Gos are good solid enjoyable music.
4
Sep 12 2024
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The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
Outside of a few classic songs that resonate with me I’ve never been much of a Heavy Metal fan. Iron Maiden was always on my radar but lacked even those few classics that I could name honestly. Yet the album was solid, never had the feeling of being annoyed or impatient for it to end. A solid album.
3
Sep 13 2024
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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
Pure God given talent. Pure American music.
5
Sep 14 2024
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Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
Just when you think this list is complete BS and you want to Chuck the whole thing it gives you Loretta Lynn and Otis Redding in back to back days!! Being from the Macon GA area I am very familiar with Redding and smooth Soul sounds. An absolute delight to listen to, especially original versions of songs made famous by other acts.
5
Sep 15 2024
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Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
Fond memories of school years. Rod’s distinctive voice and the mixture or country and blues sounds as good today as it did 40 years ago. Quality music is timeless.
5
Sep 16 2024
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
1969! What a year. Miracle Mets, Moon Landing, Woodstock and Led Zep proving the critics are idiots with Led Zeppelin II. This album is Legend, pure gold. You forget just how good they were.
5
Sep 17 2024
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Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
I like Parliament ordinarily but this album by Funkadelic left me cold. I was waiting big bold and brassy, and got dark, brooding and weird.
2
Sep 18 2024
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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
Was happy when I saw it was a Pink Floyd album, but confess it left me disappointed. Their debut album, hailed by many, leaves me wanting the “real” Floyd that would come about under Waters. This album really needs the LSD to be appreciated and sober a lot of it is kinda - well I’ll go with weird.
3
Sep 19 2024
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Damaged
Black Flag
And that sucked, even for Punk Rock it was bad.
1
Sep 20 2024
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Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
Meh. Nothing special here. Made it through without skipping or turning it off, but not a single track was impressive either.
2
Sep 21 2024
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If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
God Bless the Irish. Ordinarily I’d groan to see I had a punk-alt-prog album in excess of an hour’s duration- but when it’s Irish you just know it’ll be good and the Pogues don’t disappoint.
4
Sep 22 2024
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Eliminator
ZZ Top
I don’t know anyone who dislikes ZZ Top. They kind of stand apart from the rest of the music world as their own thing. But that said it’s not exactly Led Zeppelin either. But it’s good, solid reliable rock a rock and Eliminator is ZZ Top at its pinnacle.
4
Sep 23 2024
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The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
When music was music - before the electric guitar reduced everything to the lowest common denominator- good listening here.
4
Sep 24 2024
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Tapestry
Carole King
I never appreciated King’s music at the time it was released but I confess that I knew almost every song and found myself drawn in to her voice.
4
Sep 25 2024
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Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
Okay- it was fine, easy listening, but I don’t know that it made me feel anything. None of the tracks grabbed my attention and it took me a minute to release it was over- meaning I had turned it out.
2
Sep 26 2024
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Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
“I gave my love a Cherry that had no stone”…..grab, smash, bang…..”sorry”.
If you know you know and that’s what this album reminded me of.
2
Sep 27 2024
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Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
Well, I’ll give this my highest praise for an 80s punk rock album: I actually listened to most of it. Every song the same as the last which is pretty much like almost every other punk album of the early 80s. Yawn. Wasn’t interesting then, and less so now.
2
Sep 28 2024
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Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Fuck Neil Young. What a douche nozzle.
1
Sep 29 2024
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Go Girl Crazy
The Dictators
Oh boy. Ever formed a garage band with your friends? One where one guy has some talent and the rest are there to hang out? No? Well listen to this and you’ll get to experience it.
2
Sep 30 2024
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Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
Way back in the beginning of this list I got a White Stripes album and generously assumed it was a matter of personal taste that I didn’t appreciate. But now a couple of 100 albums in and there are many legendary albums and artists I’ve yet to see and along comes a 2nd White Stripes album and I can’t help but feeling punked. This is crap. They don’t write songs they write sentences and repeat them for 3 minutes. Complete bollocks.
1
Oct 01 2024
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A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
Pure effortless gold. The Beatles of the early 60s produced perfect sound that the bands of today cannot achieve with auto tuning. Albums like this require 6 stars.
5
Oct 02 2024
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The Sensual World
Kate Bush
The longer that went on the lower and lower the score got. What an annoying grating voice. I’ll give it a 2 because I almost managed to finish it, but that last track was like nails on a chalk board.
2
Oct 03 2024
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Bad
Michael Jackson
While I personally prefer Thriller or Off the Wall to Bad, it’s still a great album.
4
Oct 04 2024
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Snivilisation
Orbital
A whooping 80k in sales? No wonder we needed this in the list. The bad news is it’s really not very good, the good news is we’re gonna give you 75 minutes worth of it. It’s not really music at all, just annoying blips and boops, with an occasional spoken word or moan added in. Even in a discount bin this is no bargain. But I managed to get through it, so 2 stars.
2
Oct 05 2024
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Zombie
Fela Kuti
For an album that is supposed to be so political in nature it is surprisingly upbeat in tone. It’s listed as “fusion” but I found it very “jazzy”. It is not I what I would consider regular listening material but it was enjoyable
3
Oct 06 2024
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Signing Off
UB40
If you asked me if I liked reggae I’d probably have said not really - but this was REALLY good. Makes you like it the more you listen to it.
4
Oct 07 2024
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Couldn’t make it through a single track and gave up on the album 3/4s of the way through. I felt like I had wandered into a coffee house on poetry night and all the performances were really BAD.
1
Oct 08 2024
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Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
I remember buying this album when I was a younger man and how much it spoke to me despite any similarity to my life experience. By the end I was saddened by how much these tracks still speak to me, only things have gotten much worse decades later. This album was not just of its time, but seemingly for all times.
5
Oct 09 2024
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3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
Not my cup of tea. Not even my cup of tea for the genre. But it’s not bad.
3
Oct 10 2024
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xx
The xx
Meh. Unlike most Indie efforts I managed to actually get through this one, so that’s gotta count for something.
2
Oct 11 2024
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Disraeli Gears
Cream
I guess I’ve just never appreciated Cream. Outside of the 2 hit tracks the rest left me uninspired
3
Oct 12 2024
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Smash
The Offspring
I know 3 chords, I can play them very fast and loud, and I can speak words at a rate so fast as to be indecipherable until the internet will be invented 20 years later. I can’t fathom how fucked up your life has to be to like this noise.
1
Oct 13 2024
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Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
I don’t mind this music, I enjoy it without ever planning on adding it to my playlist. But I do have to wonder why I’ve now had 2 Femi Kuti albums on this project and have yet to see a single album from someone like - Billy Joel?
3
Oct 14 2024
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Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
Frigging old school Rap - a turntable a mic and rhymes suitable for any street contest. Memories.
4
Oct 15 2024
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Violator
Depeche Mode
It was fine, not great, not really good even, but I didn’t turn it off.
3
Oct 16 2024
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Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Started out fairly interesting but the further into it I got the weirder it became until it reached the point of nonsense on occasion. Afterwards I researched it and saw Brian Eno was affiliated with it and it all made sense.
2
Oct 17 2024
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Sheet Music
10cc
Everything needs to be viewed in context, and in 1974 some amazing bands were releasing amazing music - and then there is this festering turd that creates the new genre of annoyance pop. Sadly it’s much better than most music today but in 74 not so much.
2
Oct 18 2024
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Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
First thought was “ugh I hate this band”; then they fool you for the first half dozen or so tracks and you’re like “wow this is good, some musicality, some decent content” and then bam, they revert to form and the whining thrashing BS is back.
2
Oct 19 2024
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She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
Some people can sing really well, some have a beautiful voice, and some have “ a sound” - Cyndi Lauper has all of those.
5
Oct 20 2024
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War
U2
Never ever found what others found in U2. The band is nothing more than average talent musicians playing repetitive music to back up one of the biggest egos in the Industry. An occasional hit but as always 95% crap
1
Oct 21 2024
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Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
Very cool, made me think of Gregg Allman and afterwards found out why.
4
Oct 22 2024
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Wow. Never even really a fan of S&G but you listen to this and you feel the greatness. Every track a new facet of a diamond with different sounds and melodies and styles. The great ones wear many hats while the pretenders have as many sides as a pane of glass. Outstanding.
5
Oct 23 2024
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You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
Gave it 3 strikes but it struck out. Each of the first 3 tracks is a nothing burger or one or two sentences repeated over literally for the length of the track and set to club beats that are great if you’re high on coke and dancing your ass off, but of little value in the normal world.
1
Oct 24 2024
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon
John Lennon after the Beatles is more personal and less commercial. His music isn’t for entertainment so much as personal documentaries. To appreciate most of it you need to research where he was in both time and space. He was so much bigger than all of us because he was real and true to himself and his values.
4
Oct 25 2024
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Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Yeah, it’s ELP alright- Hammond Organ and Mood Synthesizer and it’s iconic - but honestly as concept pieces go it palls in comparison to say Tull’s Thick as a Brick (which probably isn’t on this list). The B side is a weird collection of cast offs, only 1 of which has any merit. Of all the ELP albums to put on this list why this one is beyond me.
2
Oct 29 2024
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Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
Never met anyone that disliked ELO, but then again never met anyone that was all in on ELO either. Happy, upbeat, catchy radio music - it’s good for what it is. Certainly better than most of the junk in this list, it’s just not on my “bring it to the island” play list.
3
Oct 30 2024
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Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Another ELP album when so many great bands remain uncovered. The only thing worse than an over rated band like ELP is a live album of said over rated band. After a while you just get tired of that Organ, can they vary the sound just a little? Whenever they did they had Bonafide hits, when they didn’t it was just niche music.
3
Oct 31 2024
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Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
Elitist douche bag from Jersey writes a bunch of bad depressing songs and decides it describes the fly over part of the country. Elitist critics in NY and LA praise the album. Meanwhile the people in Nebraska don’t give a fuck what you think. Maybe life in the mid-west is hard, but for damn sure some Elitist douche from Jersey has no idea what it’s like and should keep his ideas to himself. This album is a turd, written by a clueless Jersey boy and praised by equally clueless coastal critics. Boo.
1
Nov 01 2024
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Close To The Edge
Yes
The word to describe this is pretentious. Three tracks, 38 minutes. The 2 short ones were 8 minutes and only 1 comes close to holding your attention. Just boring.
1
Nov 02 2024
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Green
R.E.M.
For all the jokes about Stipe mumbling I find his voice clear and concise. The music is solid and not over the top or imbalanced. It’s almost wrong to label R.E.M. as an Alternative Rock band because they’re much too good for that. A thoroughly enjoyable album.
4
Nov 03 2024
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The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
Most of this is entirely forgettable. Only the last track “Fools Gold” is good enough to make you divert your attention and take notice. Overall an achievement of mediocrity.
2
Nov 04 2024
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James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
It’s classic old school James Brown and therefore never going to be bad, but honestly, and especially for a live recording, it just didn’t seem to have the customary James Brown energy.
3
Nov 05 2024
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
It’s not virtual anything- it’s real people playing real music hiding behind cartoons and made up names. Pure gimmickry to hide lackluster talent
1
Nov 06 2024
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Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
I swear I could listen to someone sing nursery rhymes if it were done with an Irish Brogue- God Bless the Irish
4
Nov 07 2024
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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
I like Jazz, love jazz, and this is supposed to be “the” greatest Jazz - but it left me feeling a little disjointed.
3
Nov 08 2024
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin is pretty central to my youth. From the early ages of consciousness until I became an adult they were always present. And yet for all I was aware of them I was never a collector of their albums. They weren’t my preference despite my knowing so many of their songs. Not until you wade through so much other truly bad music on this list so you really appreciate just how talented they are, how rich and varied the music is, and awesome the songs are. Legend.
5
Nov 09 2024
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Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
This is rolling around in silk sheets. Jazz to die for.
5
Nov 10 2024
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25
Adele
First time I got an Adele album I thought she was some lame pop star like Lady Gaga and instead I was absolutely blown away by her music. This lady is in a class and genre of her own. Awesome
5
Nov 11 2024
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Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV On The Radio
Lots of things in life are about timing and this album came up on my list the day after Adele’s 25 - so it’s kinda like spending an evening sipping 25 year old single malt whisky and then the next morning someone hands you a can of warm Budweiser.
1
Nov 12 2024
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Garbage
Garbage
Oh man, that is really REALLY bad, even for the 90s.
1
Nov 13 2024
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Imagine
John Lennon
It’s Lennon and therefore never going to be that bad. Lots of people like to take swipes at John for being a hypocrite but people need to look in a mirror every once in a while. He was a flawed human being, a work in progress, like all of us. He happened to know it though. At this point in his life he was writing for himself and not for profit- so you’ll have to forgive some of the more navel gazing pieces.
3
Nov 14 2024
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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
I’ve heard worse and much better. Kinda smooth jazz level hip hop, not in your face hip hop.
2
Nov 15 2024
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Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
99% of the time I feel like I know what I’m going to get before I cue up the first track on an album, but the joy of doing a project is for those 1% that you get surprised by. This was not what I expected but was very very good.
4
Nov 16 2024
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
Its got its high points to be sure, come on it is Led Zeppelin, but quite frankly it’s not as good as their earlier albums and being a double album makes it feel like a little too much of not as good a thing. I’d rather quality over quantity.
3
Nov 17 2024
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Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
It had its moments but overall it really struck me as a parody of a lounge act in a seedy bar of the 70s
2
Nov 18 2024
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Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
To anyone alive during the 80s the Beastie Boys are simply iconic- a genre unto themselves. Attempts to make them apologize for anything are revisionist bullshit. Rock solid Gold.
5
Nov 19 2024
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Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
If you don’t like Dylan you haven’t heard Dylan, and I don’t mean you haven’t listened to Dylan.
5
Nov 20 2024
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Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
Freaks gonna freak. The albums aren’t all that great without the theatrics of the live show- but at least I didn’t have to skip any of the tracks.
3
Nov 21 2024
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John Prine
John Prine
That was some real country there and from an artist I had never heard from previously. If you like country (not what is called country today) you’ll appreciate this one, otherwise you’ll probably hate it.
3
Nov 22 2024
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With The Beatles
Beatles
Pure gold. The early Beatles before fame and their turning inward, writing songs for themselves instead of for the masses. This is beautiful harmony and simple melodies and pure joy in its simplest form.
5
Nov 23 2024
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
This album reached an audience that had no idea what life in a place like 8 mile was like - if even half of it is drawn from real life it’s horrifying. Unfortunately we didn’t hear it and fix it, we heard it and a generation embraced it. Instead of making it go away this life has been normalized and now more of the country is like 8 mile - violent, poor, and sexualized.
3
Nov 24 2024
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Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
Not terribly impressive- just kinda meh
2