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Thu Feb 01 2024
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
Not enough misogyny to be good
3
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Fri Feb 02 2024
Debut
Björk
This is a solid pop album. Obsessed with the diegetic break in the middle of There's More To Life Than This
4
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Sat Feb 03 2024
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
3
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Sun Feb 04 2024
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
1
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Mon Feb 05 2024
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
2
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
4
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Wed Feb 07 2024
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
But my first email address was a pun on a song off Village Green
3
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Murmur
R.E.M.
I liked this album but probably will never listen to it again.
3
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Fri Feb 09 2024
Scum
Napalm Death
not for me!
2
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Sat Feb 10 2024
So
Peter Gabriel
5
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Sun Feb 11 2024
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
This white man has so many hits for me to literally not know his name.
4
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Mon Feb 12 2024
White Light
Gene Clark
3
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Tue Feb 13 2024
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
This automatically gets a five as the blueprint for my college aesthetic and early gender fuckery murmurings.
5
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Wed Feb 14 2024
The Undertones
The Undertones
4
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Thu Feb 15 2024
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
Despite having the best song about a big black penis that was featured in iPhone commercial, I maintain the normie position that Doolittle is a more consistently good album. But also Surfer Rosa has the Albini production / inspired Nirvana cred so idk.
Update: I re-listened to Doolittle and I think the adult me prefers Surfer Rosa now shrug
4
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Fri Feb 16 2024
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Do not listen if sleep deprived. This is snoozy. Classic but sleepy. I have listened to this album too many times to feel anything. But that could also be the sleep deprivation.
3
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Sat Feb 17 2024
Zombie
Fela Kuti
4
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Sun Feb 18 2024
Sex Packets
Digital Underground
This is the epitome of music I know is good but I associate it so much with stuff my parents listened to that sounded lame as a kid.
3
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Mon Feb 19 2024
Protection
Massive Attack
3
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Tue Feb 20 2024
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
4
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Wed Feb 21 2024
Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello
I haven’t listened to this one before. A lot more Beatles vibes to me compared to his first two albums. Not a lot of hits and I had to replay “20% Amnesia” like five times to confirm he didn’t just drop the n-word (apparently Costello says “naked” like a slur).
3
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Thu Feb 22 2024
Hypnotised
The Undertones
3
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Fri Feb 23 2024
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
Not to “Boss Baby” this album but getting lesbian Kate Bush vibes for this. I def get the lineage from Tori Amos to like the current sad alt pop girlies.
5
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Sat Feb 24 2024
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
I’m glad that this exists but simply not for me
3
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Sun Feb 25 2024
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
Continuing my reductive comparison of artists I feel like this has a slight Serge Gainsbourg influence (or maybe the other way around), mainly with the cuckoo (?) noise. Another good Sunday chores album.
4
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Virgin Suicides
Air
“Dead Bodies” is sick but then I immediately had to listen to a plot synopsis of The Virgin Suicides.
4
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
This would have been a 3 but the realization that the “Big Mouth” theme song is a cover of “Changes” made me puke. I really did try to keep an open mind listening to this bc I do like “War Pigs” but nope I don’t like it sorry.
Update: The realization that System of the Down did a cover of “Snowblind” that I like infinitely more is adding to how lame I think this album is.
Update 2: Reductive comparison: This is just metal The Eagles.
2
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Garbage
Garbage
3
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Thu Feb 29 2024
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
I cannot be objective about this album.
My father would (poorly) sing You Are The Sunshine Of My Life to me as a kid. My great-grandmother would play Superstition on car trips to mandatory Sunday service. As a teen, I would replay the ending credits to High Fidelity so I could listen to the almost five minutes of I Believe (When I Fall In Love it Will Be Forever) again and again. (In retrospect, it was weird that I did this because I am pretty sure I had an iPod and was shamelessly pirating music at this time.) Luckily, I do not have to be objective about this album because, hearing it as an adult, Stevie's control of his many instruments - his voice and his synths and his keys and his drums - is so fucking masterful, that the album's brilliance shines through any hazy nostalgia.
Just like there are so many fucking layers. And he is practically doing all of them. He is doing all of the layers. Like I am just sitting here, eyes closed, picking out the complexity of all of these little sounds and then I refocus on the whole and everything sounds so natural and unadorned. Wtf.
Side note: I was curious as to why I have never heard people talk about how Big Brother is this like beautifully folksy acerbic take-down of white moderates and the answer seems to his critics tend to be white moderates! Like my dude is out here basically saying "the CIA killed MLK" and reviewers imagine an individualize critique of some hypothetical politician (or a literal Orwellian reference!) instead.
5
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Next
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
I feel like ppl who hate glam rock think all glam rock sounds like this. This would probably work for me if the lyrics didn’t suck and there was less “honky tonk”. Like T.Rex and New York Dolls both do a better version of this vibe.
2
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Sat Mar 02 2024
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
Tbh Jesus Etc. is probs the only song on this album I have actively listened to before. But also I have played/sung it many many times.
I associate Wilco (and Bright Eyes) with the vulnerable sad sack dad music (not a criticism, they need music too) that some music critics used as an example of the fall (or the evolution) of rock music because men were having feelings. On one of their live albums, Jeff Tweedy has this bit where he keeps on referring to their music as snoozy in like this extremely resentful way. Like some critic said this once and he has forever held a grudge about it.
Anyway, I like this album.
4
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Sun Mar 03 2024
Violator
Depeche Mode
4
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Mon Mar 04 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
This is showtunes
4
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Be
Common
3
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
This entire album feels predictable in its melodies and lazy in its lyrics. Like not in a guilty pleasure bumblegum pop way. In a guy doesn’t realize he isn’t all that deep way. In a guy doesn’t realize he has written a parody song of a type of guy way. You can’t just lean on the subject of your confessional folk pop album and not follow it up with any talent. I was willing to give this a 2 bc at least some of it sounds pretty but then he just said a bunch of slurs for no real reason.
1
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
2
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
Auto 5 for nostalgia/gender fuckery/yearning reasons.
5
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Sat Mar 09 2024
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
4
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Sun Mar 10 2024
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
4
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Tue Mar 12 2024
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
Having arbitrarily disliked Bob Dylan for so long, I never realized how much Lou Reed is clearly inspired him. I recognize this album is good but also I am arbitrarily giving it a 3.
3
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Wed Mar 13 2024
Graceland
Paul Simon
3
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Thu Mar 14 2024
If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian
4
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Fri Mar 15 2024
Funeral
Arcade Fire
3
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2
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Tue Mar 19 2024
My Generation
The Who
Why do they think they are black?
3
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Jack Takes the Floor
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4
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Fri Mar 22 2024
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
5
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Sat Mar 23 2024
1989
Taylor Swift
3
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Sun Mar 24 2024
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
4
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Tue Mar 26 2024
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
5
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Wed Mar 27 2024
The World is a Ghetto
War
4
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Faith
George Michael
4
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Tue Apr 02 2024
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
5
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
4
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Mon Apr 08 2024
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
4
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Tue Apr 09 2024
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
4
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Fri Apr 12 2024
Rocks
Aerosmith
2
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Sun Apr 14 2024
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
4
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Mon Apr 15 2024
Mask
Bauhaus
5
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Fri Apr 19 2024
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
4
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Sat Apr 20 2024
In Rainbows
Radiohead
5
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Sun Apr 21 2024
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar
4
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Sun Apr 28 2024
Medúlla
Björk
5