Jan 22 2024
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Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
Gotta Get Up
Without You
Coconut
Jump Into The Fire
...Stone Cold Classics
Early in The Morning
Let the Good Times Roll
Super solid
5
Jan 23 2024
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Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
4
Jan 24 2024
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American Idiot
Green Day
3
Jan 25 2024
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Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
5
Jan 26 2024
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Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
4
Jan 29 2024
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Live At Leeds
The Who
4
Jan 30 2024
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Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4
Jan 31 2024
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Fly Or Die
N.E.R.D
2
Feb 01 2024
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The Predator
Ice Cube
5
Feb 02 2024
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Let It Be
The Replacements
5
Feb 05 2024
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In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
5
Feb 06 2024
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Zombie
Fela Kuti
5
Feb 07 2024
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Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear
This album came out at the tail end of the 2000s. That was a good decade, and music like this colored a lot of it. Pitchfork approved indie music.
Smarthphones were just getting going and iPods were still big. Marvel movies hadn't begun to dominate. Social Media didn't have "like" buttons quite yet.
Listening to this take me back there, and I like that.
4
Feb 08 2024
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Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Far Out Delta Blues.
4
Feb 09 2024
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Music
Madonna
Baby making music. But where are the hits, Madge?
3
Feb 12 2024
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Blackstar
David Bowie
Return to the home planet. Listen to this one with headphones, a lot is going on there.
5
Feb 13 2024
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More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
Come for David Byrne, stay for Brian Eno and the grooves.
4
Feb 14 2024
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Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
This was Stevie's 17th studio album. He was 24 when it came out. He was absurd.
5
Feb 15 2024
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Nixon
Lambchop
That's nice. Its like the Silver Jews with a strings section.
3
Feb 16 2024
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Stardust
Willie Nelson
Willie and the great American songbook.
3
Feb 19 2024
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Made In Japan
Deep Purple
In case you ever need a 6 minute drum solo, we've got you covered.
3
Feb 20 2024
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It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I liked the faster ones, in particular.
4
Feb 21 2024
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Aja
Steely Dan
After almost 2 years in the studio, and with the help of 40 studio musicians, Fagan and Becker did it. They created the ultimate music to celebrate a really terrific pair of slacks.
2
Feb 22 2024
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B-52's
The B-52's
Surprisingly normal and good new wave. The girls particularly liked it making dinner.
4
Feb 23 2024
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Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
"Wanna listen to some edgy tunes by the likes of Nick Cave and Tom Waits?"
"Yeah"
"Want me to do the songs in the style of showtunes?"
"No"
"Very well, 5,6,7,8!"
"Wait...Stop."
2
Feb 26 2024
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Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
Greatest acoustic bass in all of punk rock.
5
Feb 27 2024
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Live At The Regal
B.B. King
Lucille and BB five the crowd what it needs.
5
Feb 28 2024
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Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
"It really is a fine line between stupid....and clever."
-David St Hubbins
2
Feb 29 2024
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Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
Take 2 parts of Black Sabbath sludge and mix well with 2 parts Ramones bop. Let stand overnight to create Mudhoney.
Bonus...allow Mudhoney to ferment in the rain for 6 weeks...this will result in Nirvana.
4
Mar 01 2024
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I Against I
Bad Brains
Great fast aggressive technical music. But the vocals are the star.
5
Mar 04 2024
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Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
Listening to this alerted me to the fact that Depeche Mode is not Duran Duran and vice versa. In my mind its all the same, but when you listen, its different. Also appreciated the no-tricks Beethoven at the end.
3
Mar 05 2024
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Urban Hymns
The Verve
Peak 90s Britpop.
4
Mar 06 2024
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
Entire song dedicated to a Sex Dwarf.
3
Mar 07 2024
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What's That Noise?
Coldcut
Ok I guess. Loved these guys on the Paid in Full remix.
3
Mar 08 2024
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Shadowland
k.d. lang
KD Lang's voice is so good it got Owen Bradley off the retirement couch and back in the studio with all his old pals. I love this. Some might not vibe with this, but you have to recognize that this is a pure, honest, representation of an original American art form (even if KD is from Alberta).
5
Mar 11 2024
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Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
Smoother that Ron Burgundy and his Yazz Flute.
4
Mar 12 2024
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Fragile
Yes
YES!?
More like....maybe.
2
Mar 13 2024
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On The Beach
Neil Young
Ambulance Blues is my favorite Neil Young song on this, my favorite Neil Young album. I love many things about this record, not keast of which are the liner notes written by Rusty Kershaw on the original packaging.
"
I can't read or write very well, so I
don't quite understand why anyone would want me to write liner notes.
Except for what I saw and heard.
The first time I saw Neil his spirit was down the next time I saw Neil I tryed to Boost his sprits with my music and I did and it work.
In return Neil played, Sang and wrote, the Best of any music in a While.
Not to speak of the fun we had. We laughed so hard we all had Bruzed ribs.
On Revolution Blues, I turned inot a Python, than an aligator, I was crawling like one, makeing noise like one, Plus I was eating up the carpet and the mike stands and such. and in the meanwhiile I started to crawl up towards Neil; Which is pretty Spooky.
When your trying to Sing:
But anyways by that time the necktie people ask my friend Joe what are we gonna do about Rusty, and my friends answer was, 'Hell I don't know I'm just Hangin around to see if Hel'll Swallow Him or not.
But what the Hell I give you my word there is good music in this album.
Rusty Kershaw
R.K.
Cause B`en is My Friend"
5
Mar 14 2024
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The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
Blows my mind that this is all improvised. Also love how you can hear him grunting.
5
Mar 15 2024
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The Wall
Pink Floyd
Mother will they break my balls?
4
Mar 18 2024
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Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
Not quite sigur gross, but not really sigur VERY NICE either.
2
Mar 19 2024
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Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
Shortening to MGMT is the kind of out of the box efficiency move that has MGMT written all over it.
3
Mar 20 2024
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O.G. Original Gangster
Ice T
Im down with the Iceberg.
4
Mar 21 2024
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Amnesiac
Radiohead
From Pablo Honey to this in 4 moves. Bold move Cotton!
4
Mar 22 2024
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Microshift
Hookworms
Synth punks. I could have been convinced to drop a 4 on these guys, but these songs really didnt need to be 6,7,8 minutes long. Lets get in and out in 3, boys.
3
Mar 25 2024
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Sad she never did another one.
5
Mar 26 2024
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The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
Lovely. Calm.
4
Mar 27 2024
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Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
Mikey, I know what youbwere going for, but you didn't quite go hard enough
2
Mar 28 2024
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
Other than "The Murder Mystery" this was great.
4
Mar 29 2024
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The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
This is our second record with Siouxsie. I like this one slightly more better.
4
Apr 01 2024
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Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Amazing.
5
Apr 02 2024
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Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
What's to talk about? Stone cold classic.
5
Apr 03 2024
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Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Too much man, too much.
2
Apr 04 2024
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Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
I don't think I was in the right frame of mind to fully accept the Boys into my heart.
2
Apr 05 2024
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Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
Me and me Uncle Jamal blast Dizzee before we battle with the EastStaines Massif.
3
Apr 08 2024
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Pearl
Janis Joplin
One of a kind.
5
Apr 09 2024
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Doolittle
Pixies
A few bangers. But mostly just beyond my reach.
3
Apr 10 2024
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Sincere
Mj Cole
Not my favorite. But at least there is 72 minutes of it.
2
Apr 11 2024
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Faust IV
Faust
Is this krautrock? Do I like krautrock?
3
Apr 12 2024
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Rocks
Aerosmith
You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance sounds like.
4
Apr 15 2024
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
Cool Vibes.
3
Apr 16 2024
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
One of Mick & Keef's finest.
5
Apr 17 2024
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Orbital 2
Orbital
Started nice, got annoying in the middle, and then ended strong. Overall the least offensive techno I have ever heard.
3
Apr 18 2024
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Fun House
The Stooges
"And how many times have you heard people say of bands: “Man, what a shuck! I could get up there and cut that shit."
Well, here’s your chance. The Stooge act is wide open. Do your worst, People, falsify Iggy and the Stooges, get your kicks and biffs. It’s your night!
No takers. They sit there, wide-eyed vegetative Wowers or sullen in a carapae carapace of Cool, unafraid or unable to react, to get out there in that arena which is nothing more than life, most often too cowed to even hurl a disappointing hoot stageward. And that is why most rock bands are so soporifically lazy these days, and also why the Stooges, and any other band that challenges its audience, is the answer."
--Lester Bangs (Dec, 1970)
4
Apr 19 2024
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Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
Superfuzz got 4 stars, so this gets 3.
3
Apr 22 2024
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Purple Rain
Prince
Best of the best.
5
Apr 23 2024
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To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
This is a movie, with a story and a point of view.
5
Apr 24 2024
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Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
Rocking indie shreds.
4
Apr 25 2024
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I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
Great surprise. Soulful and emotional.
4
Apr 26 2024
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Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
Shaft us a bad mother...
4
Apr 29 2024
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Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Love it or hate it, this is a pure distilation of Red Hot Chili Peppers...pure capsaicin.
4
Apr 30 2024
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Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
Golden Era Stevie
5
May 01 2024
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Hunky Dory
David Bowie
Starman Jams
5
May 02 2024
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Rio
Duran Duran
Dammit. I wanted to hate it. Couldn't do it.
3
May 03 2024
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KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
Dont know where that came from, but loved it.
4
May 06 2024
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
Far out. Loved Watermelo Man.
4
May 07 2024
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Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
Dylan sings the blues with a chip on his shoulder. Beauty.
5
May 08 2024
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Moon Safari
Air
Pretty good tunes for not listening to tunes.
4
May 09 2024
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The Grand Tour
George Jones
Greatest country singer ever. One of his best songs ever, but not all the hits.
4
May 10 2024
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The Bends
Radiohead
Classic record.
5
May 13 2024
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Hotel California
Eagles
The dude hates the Eagles, man.
2
May 14 2024
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Harvest
Neil Young
"This track seems kinda thin."
"I hear you, what are you thinking, adding an organ or something?"
"No, we need a...shoot, what's it called?"
"Banjo?"
"It's like a banjo.."
"Mandolin?"
Snorts enormous rail of 70s Colombian bam bam...
"Ahhhh...London Symphony Orchestra....that's it. Get me those guys."
5
May 15 2024
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Come Find Yourself
Fun Lovin' Criminals
This music is a slippery slope. This one rides the ridge without tumbling into terrible.
3
May 16 2024
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Forever Changes
Love
Pretty good for dirty hippies.
3
May 17 2024
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Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
Wonder how I missed that. This was great.
4
May 20 2024
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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Open guitar tunings, 3 part harmony, and a few bricks of Moroccan hash.
5
May 21 2024
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The Band
The Band
4
May 22 2024
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Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
Music video jams
3
May 23 2024
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Shleep
Robert Wyatt
That first song almost had me. But then it was fast downhill from there. I learned that there is a term called "Wyatting" which is putting on one of Wyatt's tunes on a juke box in a bar, and then leaving. That sounds funny, but also unlikely, because these tunes wouldn't be in any jukebox I've ever seen.
2
May 24 2024
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Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
More than just the hits.
4
May 27 2024
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Rasta Vibrations.
4
May 28 2024
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Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
Pusherman is my fave.
5
May 29 2024
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Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
Interesting tunes that answer the question: "What would Billy Joel sound like if he was from Montreal instead of Long Island (and was gay)."
4
May 30 2024
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Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
Serviceable 90s Britpop. S'ok.
3
May 31 2024
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Killing Joke
Killing Joke
Grimy. But not too grimy.
4
Jun 03 2024
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
This album is a monster.
5
Jun 04 2024
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Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
No discussion. Classic.
5
Jun 05 2024
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Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
Never heard of this...listened twice. At first I thought it was a cheap Public Enemy knockoff. Then I listened again, and thought it was pretty good.
3
Jun 06 2024
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Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
There is a time and place for all music. In this case, let's say that you have to fight Liu Kang on your way through Mortal Kombat. Or, for example, you might be making your way through a crowded dance club, fighting a whole mess of Agent Smiths on your way to meet up with Trinity. In those times, this is 10 out of 10.
2
Jun 07 2024
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Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Launch of the more Canadian, hornier Bob Dylan
4
Jun 10 2024
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
Wee slice of cheese on the side of this one.
3
Jun 11 2024
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
Not a lot of mistakes in the 70s for the Zep boys.
4
Jun 12 2024
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Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
Canon.
5
Jun 13 2024
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Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
Proto pop punk.
3
Jun 14 2024
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Parklife
Blur
4
Jun 17 2024
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Parachutes
Coldplay
Dull.
2
Jun 18 2024
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Tidal
Fiona Apple
Sultry jams.
4
Jun 19 2024
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Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
Pretty watered down.
2
Jun 20 2024
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Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Over and Over is my sleeper pick for favorite Neil Young song.
4
Jun 21 2024
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Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
Easy there Lady R Kelly.
2
Jun 24 2024
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The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
Psychadelic jams.
5
Jun 25 2024
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Green
R.E.M.
Proto alternative jams.
4
Jun 26 2024
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Like Water For Chocolate
Common
Proto Alternative Jams.
4
Jun 27 2024
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Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
Never heard before. Good, Loose, Bluesy Rock 'n Roll. Really great.
5
Jun 28 2024
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Picture Book
Simply Red
Brian Eno said: "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."
Justin Yurek said: "4 million people bought that first Simply Red record, but none of them formed a band."
2
Jul 01 2024
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Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
Awesomely weird and original...poetic without being abstruse.
5
Jul 02 2024
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Abbey Road
Beatles
You don't hear the medley used in an album so much any more...
5
Jul 03 2024
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Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
Meth-y jams.
2
Jul 04 2024
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Parallel Lines
Blondie
Sunshine with a sneer.
5
Jul 05 2024
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Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The works of Edgar Allan Poe, if they were turned into a rocking musi al with gospel backup singers.
3
Jul 08 2024
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Document
R.E.M.
Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs walk into a bar...
4
Jul 09 2024
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21
Adele
Diva Jams.
3
Jul 10 2024
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The Undertones
The Undertones
My favorite candy growing up was Coffe Crisp. Its slogan was, "a nice light snack". Being that this was a Canadian treat, the slogan was also translatee into French: "Un goûter léger".
I think that suns up The Undertones: "Un goûter léger".
3
Jul 11 2024
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Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
Boomer jams. This is your dad's favorite guitar player, but for a good reason.
5
Jul 12 2024
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A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
I like this music very much, but my musical palette really isn't developed enough to tell good jazz from bad. If you told me that this was one of the most important pieces of music ever recorded, I would nod and agree. But, then again, if you told me that this was part of the Lethal Weapon 2 score, and that this piece was written to play over a montage of Sgt. Riggs looking out over the beach, sullenly, after one of his relationships fell apart - I would nod and agree that that too was true.
5
Jul 15 2024
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Aqualung
Jethro Tull
Answering the question: "what would it sound like if Charles Dickens joined a rock band, and added flute solos?"
4
Jul 16 2024
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Blue Lines
Massive Attack
Crabs and football: that's what Maryland does. Banksy and Trip hop: that's what Bristol does.
5
Jul 17 2024
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Queen II
Queen
No no. These Queens had some growing up to do yet. At this point we were not hearing fully formed Queens. These were merely princesses.
3
Jul 18 2024
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Pyromania
Def Leppard
This version of Def Leppard features yhe use of 10 band member arms. They really hit their stride on the album after this where they cut the arm number down to 9.
3
Jul 19 2024
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This Is Hardcore
Pulp
Took 2 listens, but there is good stuff here. Particularly Side A.
4
Jul 22 2024
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Bad
Michael Jackson
Have to show this record its due propers. Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Man In The Mirror, Dirty Diana, and Smooth Criminal all could virtually be standards at this point, and even the tier 2 songs like Liberian Girl, Another Part of Me, and Leave Me Alone are elevated. Even the sound effects (both from the producers, and from MJ's little yelps) are all 100% associated with this album.
5
Jul 23 2024
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Dirt
Alice In Chains
That was fun. I know rationally that this album rocks, but I had not rocked to it in person in a long long time. I'll have to revisit my entire pecking order of 90s albums because this one is moving into the upper echelons with a bullet.
5
Jul 24 2024
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Sulk
The Associates
When you take upbeat weird and give it a positive outlook and some joy, you get Talking Heads, which lives in 4 and 5 star territory. When you put upbeat weird into a minor key and make it all mopey and angsty, you get this.
2
Jul 25 2024
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1999
Prince
Interestingly, this album was released in 1982 - just like the album immediately preceding - Sulk by The Associates. Both albums sound like they came from 1982, but 1999 is welcome in the future, and Sulk is not...at some point I will sit down and think about why.
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Jul 26 2024
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American Pie
Don McLean
Waylon Jennings was hired by Holly to play bass for him on the Winter Dance Party Tour, which began January 23rd, 1959, in Milwaukee. Jennings, 21 at the time, had been in New York City recording sessions produced by Holly, and after taking a train to Chicago, met up with the rest of Holly’s band. Problems first arose when the tour buses hired to transport the group began breaking down. After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2nd, Holly decided to charter a plane for himself, guitarist Tommy Allsup and Jennings so they could fly to Fargo, North Dakota, instead of taking the long, frozen bus trip. Richardson, who was suffering from the flu, asked Jennings for his seat on the plane, and Valens asked the same of Allsup. When Jennings told Holly that he was going to take the bus, Holly jokingly told him he hoped the bus broke down, to which Jennings replied, “I hope your ol’ plane crashes.”
This story was a better use of space than a review of this ablum.
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Jul 29 2024
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Boston
Boston
Without ever actually listening to this whole album, I formed opinions about Boston. The opinions were uninformed and wrong. There is room in my life for these 37 minutes of music.
4
Jul 30 2024
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Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
What an experience! And to think, I somehow avoided sitting down and listening to this for 24 years. I shall now endeavor to avoid it for the next 24 years.
In his work, "Politics", Aristotle wrote about the wisdom of crowds: "it is possible that the many, though not individually good men, yet when they come together may be better, not individually but collectively, than those who are so, just as public dinners to which many contribute are better than those supplied at one man's cost."
Well, this album sold 32m copies worldwide. The crowd may have been confused here.
1
Jul 31 2024
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Kenza
Khaled
I liked the French songs somewhat more than the Arabic songs.
2
Aug 01 2024
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Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
Unfamiliar with this. They got my attention with the opening riff and kept it for the whole record. I started the bugger over again when it was done. I hope the rest of the discography is like this, as I'll be looking into it next.
5
Aug 02 2024
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New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
Unfortunately, I only have room in my life for one Simple Minds album, and that album contains Don't You Forget About Me. Tragically, that song was never put on a proper Simple Minds album, it was written and recorded specifically for The Breakfast Club soundtrack. So, I guess what I am saying is I don't have room in my life for a Simple Minds album.
2
Aug 05 2024
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Funeral
Arcade Fire
This album has been a fave for 20 years. I continue to enjoy it.
5
Aug 06 2024
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In Utero
Nirvana
John Beck: "Annual reminder: In utero is not a good album."
Dave Romano: "I love in utero, easily my favorite album of theirs."
JB: "What’s your favorite part? The terrible melodies, lack of hooks, or the awful lyrics?
DR: "All of the above! Really I love the artwork, the production, and the lyrics. Serve the servants, Dumb, Frances Farmer, All Apologies have great lyrics."
There are so many things that John Beck has right and Dave Romano has wrong, but this take was not one of them.
5
Aug 07 2024
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Dookie
Green Day
Peak-Pop-Punk. The state of the art. Often imitated, never duplicated.
5
Aug 08 2024
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Paris 1919
John Cale
Not that exciting. Like Kale. John Kale.
3
Aug 09 2024
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Eternally Yours
The Saints
I was intrigued with the opening number and its hirn section. The intrigue faded, though.
3
Aug 12 2024
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Different Class
Pulp
This album was really good songs, and also some overly dramatified bads ones. However, when it was all over, there was more good than bad. This stuck with me:
"She doesn't have to go to work
But she doesn't want to stay in bed
'Cause it's changed from something comfortable
To something else instead."
Clever songwriting.
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Aug 13 2024
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Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
This one was a pretty good magic trick...
"Guys, your first record was wildly successful and featured the most incrdible vocal harmonies of the whole hippy era. What are you going to do next?
We are going to add Neil Young's voice to the mix, and not even thay is going to be enough to screw this formula up."
...and it wasnt, the harmonies were still good and Young upgraded some of the songwriting.
4
Aug 14 2024
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Is This It
The Strokes
A bunch of great influences, blended together nicely, and delivered with swagger.
5
Aug 15 2024
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Remedy
Basement Jaxx
I don't know how to operate this music.
2
Aug 16 2024
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E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
I think I would be cooler if I liked more Sonic Youth. But sometimes albums like this make it hard to be cool.
2
Aug 19 2024
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Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
"Right lads, let's stop mucking about and make a proper rock song...one these geezers will listen to forever."
"Right-o, let's run through what we'll all do on it, Robert?"
"I'm the singer aren't I? Don't be a ponce, I'll sing."
"Noted, Jimmy?"
"I'll play the guitar, but a few kinds. Give me anacoustic 6, and best have a 12 knocking about, and also let's obviously have the Gibson on solo duty."
"Rock and roll. Bonzo?"
"Just set up the kit and piss off."
"Fair enough, John Paul, that leaves you with the bass, right?"
"Yep"
"Ok, soun.."
"And the electic piano..gimme a Rhoades."
"Piano, good, that'll be ni..."
"And I want recorders..."
"Recorders? Johno this is the greatest rock song of all time, not music Monday in a kindergarten."
"No recorders, then I'm out."
"Fine...have your recorders"
5
Aug 20 2024
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
The bestones are when Nico takes a break.
4
Aug 21 2024
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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
Wonderful.
5
Aug 22 2024
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Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
Exceeded expectations. The addition of Spanish influence to the bass and beats was a good idea.
3
Aug 23 2024
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Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
Sometimes I listen to tunes like this, but Neneh wouldn't be my first choice normally.
2
Aug 26 2024
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Moving Pictures
Rush
Love these goofy hosers.
5
Aug 27 2024
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Highway to Hell
AC/DC
Rock and Roll. No tricks.
4
Aug 28 2024
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Melodrama
Lorde
Pop music from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, & 90s is easily identified by the decade of its origin...even if you never heard the song before. I find the 3 decades that follow to be much harder to distinguish. 00's? 10's? 20's?
Is it because I got old? Is it because nothing sounds the same anymore because there is more variety? Is it because everything sounds the same now? Is it because of the way music can be recorded now? Is ot because of the way that music is consumed?
3
Aug 29 2024
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Synchronicity
The Police
Never listened to that all in a row like that. Good album. String of monster tunes tracks 6 thru 10.
4
Aug 30 2024
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Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
This gets an extra star because mom and dad had this cd when i was young.
3
Sep 02 2024
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Elephant
The White Stripes
I like the White Stripes. Other than the one big hit though, this album doesnt hold together strongly for me.
3
Sep 03 2024
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Odelay
Beck
He might sound like a slacker, but Beck is for serious.
5
Sep 04 2024
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Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
Mopey.
2
Sep 05 2024
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american dream
LCD Soundsystem
Traditional instruments, electronic instruments, living together. Mass hysteria.
3
Sep 06 2024
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A Seat at the Table
Solange
MESSAGE!
3
Sep 09 2024
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Blunderbuss
Jack White
Piano-forward arrangements were unexpected. Still, kinda mid, as the children say.
3
Sep 10 2024
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I Should Coco
Supergrass
Listening experience started shaky, but the last 3 songs chilled out.
3
Sep 11 2024
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It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
Short and sweet pop gems.
5
Sep 12 2024
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Djam Leelii
Baaba Maal
Nice background tunes. Wish the vocals were a little different.
3
Sep 13 2024
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Grace
Jeff Buckley
This guys stock has risen a lot in the past 25 years. Still, other than Hallelujah, nothing here really grabs me.
3
Sep 16 2024
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
Love these tunes.
5
Sep 17 2024
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MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
A beauty.
5
Sep 18 2024
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Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
Good way to get more of the Soulquarian/Jay Dilla vibe.
5
Sep 19 2024
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Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
Too sterile.
2
Sep 20 2024
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The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
Jazz jams, hold the gangta.
5
Sep 23 2024
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Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
Over 100 samples, layered together into 1 album. Great stuff.
5
Sep 24 2024
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What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
Peak Marvin. Peak Funk Bros.
5
Sep 25 2024
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At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
Sleeper hits here include "25 Minutes to Go" and "Flushed From The Bathroom of Your Heart".
5
Sep 26 2024
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Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man is my fave.
5
Sep 27 2024
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Savane
Ali Farka Touré
3
Sep 30 2024
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xx
The xx
Chill, but maybe a little flat
3
Oct 01 2024
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Music From Big Pink
The Band
One of Canada's finest.
4
Oct 02 2024
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Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
The Concept is a monster song.
4
Oct 03 2024
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White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
My favorite version of White Stripes.
5
Oct 04 2024
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War
U2
"I don't go to awards shows anymore. I'm not saying I'm better than anybody else, but you'll be sitting there at the Grammys, and U2 will beat you. And you say to yourself, 'Wait a minute. I can play that kind of music, too. I played La Crosse, Wisconsin growing up, I know how to do that, you dig? But you will not do 'Housequake.'" - Prince.
“They have the worst rhythm section in big rock. That is the most plodding, corny rhythm section ever to fill a stadium. If you look at some of those records, they’re mediocre Brian Eno records with a bad band in the way. They need a producer like Eno or Daniel Lanois to kind of prop up this cabaret singer and his one-trick pony" - Henry Rollins
2
Oct 07 2024
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Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
Preacher soul jams.
4
Oct 08 2024
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Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
I like Nick Drake. But 5 star Nick Drake is judt him, his guitar, and an alternate tuning.
4
Oct 09 2024
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Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
I had this band mentally filed besides G Love & Special Sauce.
Major filing error - way more aggression than chill on this record, and I am in to it. I will refile closer to Black Lips and King Khan.
4
Oct 10 2024
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Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
Never listened past Clapton...the piano, organ, harmonica, horns, and vocals here are all worth listening to.
4
Oct 11 2024
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Guitar Town
Steve Earle
Americana jams.
4
Oct 14 2024
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
The popular formula in England in this, the aftermath era of such successful British bluesmen as Cream and John Mayall, seems to be: add, to an excellent guitarist who, since leaving the Yardbirds and/or Mayall, has become a minor musical deity, a competent rhythm section and pretty soul-belter who can do a good spade imitation. The latest of the British blues groups so conceived offers little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn’t say as well or better three months ago, and the excesses of the Beck group’s Truth album (most notably its self-indulgence and restrictedness), are fully in evidence on Led Zeppelin‘s debut album.
- John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone 1969
Some music critics miss the mark. Here is a good example. This album rips and rocks unmerciful.
5
Oct 15 2024
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The Joshua Tree
U2
3
Oct 16 2024
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Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
Joyful Jams.
4
Oct 17 2024
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McCartney
Paul McCartney
Pretty pleasant, Paul. I kinda liked most of the instrumental songs, as well as "Maybe I'm Amazed".
3
Oct 18 2024
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La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
Some international baby making music.
3
Oct 21 2024
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A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
A few good ones.
3
Oct 22 2024
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There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
Look, I was born in Toronto. I grew up in Boulder. I live in suburban South Charlotte; not urban Mecklenburg County, we are talking across the county line in Union. And yet, putting this album on puts a pang in my soul to go directly to a car lot, buy a '76 Eldorado, and just drive slowly up and down the street while listening to Billy Jack, either until I die, or until the wheels fall off.
5
Oct 23 2024
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Street Signs
Ozomatli
There's a lot of questionable music trends all just blended in. Take your favorite aspects of Ricky Martin, then add a touch of NuMetal, including pointless dj scratching, and then add a dash of Big Bad VooDoo Daddy inspired swing. Hope for the best.
2
Oct 24 2024
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Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
Pretty soul-less. I did like the guitar solo on "It's a Plain Shame".
2
Oct 25 2024
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All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2
This list really slobs the U2 knob.
2
Oct 28 2024
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Be
Common
The Corner was a good jam. The rest was a little heavy handed with the social messages
3
Oct 29 2024
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Abraxas
Santana
One of a kind. Spiritual, soulful, mystical jams.
5
Oct 30 2024
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Dummy
Portishead
Stone Cold Classic. My favorite Trip Hop.
5
Oct 31 2024
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Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
I couldn't figure out what occasion this music fits with...even music I don't like, I can find a use for...for example, I noted earlier that Steely Dan was great music for buyin a terrific pair of slacks. Some music is good for ignoring even...but I couldn't figure out what Chicago is for. I did think Poem 58 was a good jam.
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Nov 01 2024
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Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
Earlier this year, I happened upon a well-executed interview from 2002. Carson Daly was the interviewer and his subject was David Bowie...
Here was part of their exchange:
CD: I've seen you at the MTV Video Music Awards. I think like last year I remember sitting there when N’sync or Britney Spears was on and I remember just looking over at you and thinking what does David Bowie think of this right now?
...Crowd laughs... Bowie looks around and says- "well that would be too easy" or something and smiles...
DB: Uh let me go another way with that one. I think you know a major band in this country for me anyway during the 80s were the Pixies. I thought they were absolutely necessary - a very very important band - Charles was, or Frank, whatever or however you want to refer to him, is a fantastic songwriter and they produced some really exciting music. Obviously Nirvana was terribly influenced - a number of other bands were influenced by them. But, they were never played on American radio, they never sold any albums, and they broke up.
I'm seeing that beginning to happen again over here. You got bands like Grandaddy, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips – They (Flaming Lips) are getting some kind of exposure now right this second , but if they don't get played, they don't sell albums, then, if you're not careful they're going to go under. And more creative, really inventive artists are going to disappear after 2 or 3 years because nobody's out there supporting them. The radio isn't supporting like it should be, and there is crap on American radio - real crap.
...After seeing this interview, I listened to Grandaddy, and was pleasantly surprised. Happy to see Mercury Rev posted here. Bowie was really tuned in...all 3 of those bands are cut from the same cloth, and, as predicted, all but Flamin Lips kind of faded away.
4
Nov 04 2024
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Station To Station
David Bowie
Think this is my favorite Bowie front to back. 80 lb, paranoid, Thin White Duke Bowie.
5
Nov 05 2024
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3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
70+ samples.. no clearances...because these kids were just having fun.
5
Nov 06 2024
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Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
Incredible. Needle in the Camel's Eye and Baby's on Fire are great songs. On Some Faraway Beach may be the ideal song for rolling movie credits.
5
Nov 07 2024
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Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Proto post grunge jams.
4
Nov 08 2024
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Dare!
The Human League
According to the book Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, renowned music critic Lester Bangs died of an accidental drug overdose while listening to Dare.[
"Don't You Want Me" is pretty good.
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Nov 11 2024
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Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
Sly says The Revolution will be televised, and The Revolution will be funky. Just because you are fighting the man doesn't mean you can't shake your ass. Matter of fact, if shaking your ass is wrong, Sly don't want to be right.
5
Nov 12 2024
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(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
As Brian Eno famously said: “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.” - Similarly, I heard a podcast recently that said something similar about Sublime, except it was more like..."everyone who listened to Sublime went and started a band that was terrible"...I feel like Lynyrd Skynyrd is like that...There was a lot of questionable stuff that came after this record...even from the band itself, however, just listen to this in a vacuum, its peak Southern Rock and its very good.
4
Nov 13 2024
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The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
He's an angry elf.
4
Nov 14 2024
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The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
In a vulnerable moment I confided in a friend that I didn't quite like Joni Mitchell. He said I was a bad Canadian. I think he might be right, but I still don't really get it.
3
Nov 15 2024
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Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
This went way harder than I was expecting. Dudes who take their rocking so seriously that it almost seems like parody...but it's dead serious.
4
Nov 18 2024
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Paul Simon
Paul Simon
All the elements of what you are going to get out of a Paul Simon record...a mishmash of styles, all tastefully and respectfully adopted, with thoughtful songwriting...especially on the chord profression side. 3 chords and the truth this is not.
4
Nov 19 2024
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
We played this on a family road trip driving South to see Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Katherine. It was a good roadtrip album. Roy Rogers was my favorite.
4
Nov 20 2024
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The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
A little too artsy fartsy.
2
Nov 21 2024
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American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
This whole series worked well. This one might be the best one.
5
Nov 22 2024
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Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Good. I prefer slightly more stripped down Elliott Smith.
4
Nov 25 2024
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Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
I mean, its fine, I guess. This little snippet was inferesting:
Though the album sold four million copies worldwide, and earned a Grammy nomination in 1981 for its art design in the category "Best Album Package", the band's record label deemed the project a failure, laying the blame squarely with Buckingham (considering the comparatively huge sales of Rumours and the album's unprecedented recording expense).
3
Nov 26 2024
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C'est Chic
CHIC
Nile Rodgers is a funky man.
3
Nov 27 2024
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Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
"Gimme Da Loot" Plus "Who Shot Ya" on the remaster version...those are my faves.
5
Nov 28 2024
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One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
High potency funks administered direct from the Mothership. Unavailable for conventional streaming...probably too funky.
5
Nov 29 2024
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Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Tropicalia jams.
3
Dec 02 2024
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Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
Boss Jams.
4
Dec 03 2024
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Cloud Nine
The Temptations
Didn't expect the Sly Stone/Funkadelic sound. Beauty. Unmistakeable James Jamerson on the bass
5
Dec 04 2024
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Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
Marvin having a ball.
4
Dec 05 2024
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Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
De La, but from the Westside.
4
Dec 09 2024
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At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
Classy jams. Side B is a string of swell tunes.
5
Dec 10 2024
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The Score
Fugees
This album came out when I was 16. Listening to it sparks deep nostalgia. I can smell my first car and the Case Logic CD case I kept this disc in.
5