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Fri Feb 02 2024
Ramones
Ramones
1234
5
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Sat Feb 03 2024
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
5
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Sun Feb 04 2024
Goo
Sonic Youth
4
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Mon Feb 05 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
Better than I used to give it credit for
5
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Tue Feb 06 2024
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
Stodgy homework
1
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Wed Feb 07 2024
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
Prefer Atari Teenage Riot
1
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Thu Feb 08 2024
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
Couple of decent riffs but not much more
2
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Fri Feb 09 2024
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
Inventive, cleverly engineered. Roger ruins it with his dreary drawl.
3
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Sat Feb 10 2024
Graceland
Paul Simon
1
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Sun Feb 11 2024
Me Against The World
2Pac
3
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Mon Feb 12 2024
Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
2
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Tue Feb 13 2024
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
2
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Wed Feb 14 2024
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
1
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Thu Feb 15 2024
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Iron Butterfly
3
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Fri Feb 16 2024
Chore of Enchantment
Giant Sand
I wanted to like this. Gave it a good few listens. Alt country removes the brassiness and directness of country but for me if you don't go the whole hog and end up at bleak, weird or desperate you get this sort of amiable gentility that is probably good for a Gen X dinner party but makes for a boring solo listen. I didn't dislike it as much as a 2 really but could not give it a 3.
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Sat Feb 17 2024
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
If I couldn't get with its coke addled vibes then I'm not going to get with them in my decrepitude.
1
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Sun Feb 18 2024
With The Beatles
Beatles
3
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Mon Feb 19 2024
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
4
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Tue Feb 20 2024
Rubber Soul
Beatles
4
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Wed Feb 21 2024
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
5
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Thu Feb 22 2024
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
5
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Fri Feb 23 2024
On The Beach
Neil Young
5
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Sat Feb 24 2024
Tidal
Fiona Apple
Through this site I find I'm enjoying experiencing how different people's reactions can be to the same music. A lot of people seem to love this and that's cool and you certainly don't need my blessing to enjoy it. I on the other hand wanted to shove pencils in my ears by about half way through.
1
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Sun Feb 25 2024
Future Days
Can
4
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Mon Feb 26 2024
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
3
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
A fun listen. I'm looking forward to more skronk on future jazz picks.
3
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
3
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Thu Feb 29 2024
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
4
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Sat Mar 02 2024
Is This It
The Strokes
When I was a teenager listening to The Jesus and Marychain and The Primitives my mum used to shake her head at me and say, "that just sounds like the 60s. Why do young people want to listen to that? Why not listen to something original". But they were my 60s sounding stuff. I didn't want to just listen to old stuff.
When this album came out I realised I was now just a little bit more like my mum. But if you're 10+ years younger than me maybe this was/is exciting.
2
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Sun Mar 03 2024
Van Halen
Van Halen
Tasty bubblegum
4
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Mon Mar 04 2024
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
4
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
3
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
Nice to be reminded of how great Stillness is the Move is. The rest is more clever than loveable.
2
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
Found my mind wandering, wishing I was listening to Slayer or Exodus. I prefer my thrash delivered with a barely hidden sense of glee. This sounds like it hasn't drunk enough fluids or done a poo for days.
1
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Teenage Head
Flamin' Groovies
Like a missing link between the Rolling Stones and Dr Feelgood.
3
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Sat Mar 09 2024
Teen Dream
Beach House
Nice not crucial
2
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Sun Mar 10 2024
Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star
Curse you This Mortal Coil. I've been going round for years thinking this was Holocaust, Kanga Roo and a load of filler. Thank you album generator for making me reappraise. Kanga Roo is still one of my absolute favourite recordings though. Down with regular meter, up with perfectly judged feedback.
4
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Mon Mar 11 2024
Signing Off
UB40
Ali Campbell's voice is real nails on a blackboard stuff for me. That aside, I struggle to believe that Lee Scratch Perry didn't record 1001 reggae albums more deserving of a slot on this.
2
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Tue Mar 12 2024
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4
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Wed Mar 13 2024
Tapestry
Carole King
Young me would have dismissed this as MOR cheese but what did I know?
5
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Thu Mar 14 2024
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow
So boring it burns.
1
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Fri Mar 15 2024
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Nearly a 4. There are Elvis Costello albums with better non single tracks.
3
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Sat Mar 16 2024
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
3
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Sun Mar 17 2024
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
3
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
Do these smartypants only come in beige?
2
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Tue Mar 19 2024
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Urban punk Eddie was so much scarier to a junior metal kid than later fantasy Eddie.
5
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Wed Mar 20 2024
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
2
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar
4
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Fri Mar 22 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
My least favourite of the first six Iron Maiden albums. Side 2 is what makes it.
4
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Sat Mar 23 2024
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
Nice to see in the 1 star reviews how much Bobby D can still get up people's noses nearly 60 years on.
5
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Sun Mar 24 2024
Space Ritual
Hawkwind
I love that thing Stephen Morris of Joy Division and New Order said about how punk in UK took off all over the country because Hawkwind had toured so extensively all over the place in the years before and that they had seeded a few weirdos in every normally ignored town.
5
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Mon Mar 25 2024
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
3
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Closer
Joy Division
I have never listened to this a lot because it is really too much.
5
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Thu Mar 28 2024
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
I had no knowledge of or context for this. As an old fart muso it was great to be surprised and delighted by something on this. I strongly suspect the 1 star reviewer who described this as elevator music didn't go past the first track or they've been on some fairly frantic elevators. Ach they've made me do an unintended Mick Hucknall reference. Told you I'm an old fart muso.
5
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Fri Mar 29 2024
The Score
Fugees
The handful of hiphop choices are doing their best to drag up my 90s average score. Surprised at how much Wu Tang I could hear in parts of this.
4
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Sat Mar 30 2024
Liquid Swords
GZA
5
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Sun Mar 31 2024
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
5
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
4
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Tue Apr 02 2024
Dummy
Portishead
3
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Nevermind
Nirvana
There's something about the production on this that means by the time you get to Lounge Act you feel a bit like you've binged on a big bag of sweets all the same flavour. Still, take any track on its own and it's fantastic.
Streaming kind of ruins the effect of Endless, Nameless. Could they not have added a stretch of silence between it and Something in the Way like on the CD?
5
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Thu Apr 04 2024
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
3
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
What's that Lassie? A Don Henley soundalike me lacking Don's way with a hook has fallen down a well? Shall we just leave him there?
Other choices they could have from 2014 to name just a few: Sharon Van Etten (broadly similar but can write a tune), Sleaford Mods, Run the Jewels, Scott Walker & Sunn O))), etc
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Sat Apr 06 2024
1984
Van Halen
Van Halen are weird for me. I love their records but I unreservedly hate almost everything they inspired. Maybe they were just so much smarter in their dumbness than all the dummies that tried to copy them.
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Sun Apr 07 2024
Another Green World
Brian Eno
I think I prefer Eno as a collaborator. I wanted to hear Roxy Music do I'll Come Running while listening to this. The Arena theme tune is still great, if a little short.
3
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Mon Apr 08 2024
Vivid
Living Colour
I like to think of myself as open minded and that there isn't a genre I can't get with but I'm wondering if 80s/90s funk metal might contradict that. Not quite as heinous as Red Hot Chilli Peppers but still not something I can enjoy.
1
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Tue Apr 09 2024
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
One of that either makes me feel like I've been over scoring some of my 5s or that the scale isn't big enough. Unique and incredible.
5
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Wed Apr 10 2024
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
3
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Thu Apr 11 2024
Elastica
Elastica
3
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Fri Apr 12 2024
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
3
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Sat Apr 13 2024
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5
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Sun Apr 14 2024
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
I found this difficult to score cos for me there is definitely some filler and a couple of stinkers on here. Also I don't love love Led Zeppelin when they go into coldly efficient stompy blues mode. But that run from Kashmir to Ten Years Gone is extraordinary.
4
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Mon Apr 15 2024
The Coral
The Coral
3
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Document
R.E.M.
4
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Wed Apr 17 2024
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
I dislike Jagger so much but then Wild Horses...
3
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Thu Apr 18 2024
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
5
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Fri Apr 19 2024
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
3
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Sat Apr 20 2024
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence albums are almost a cautionary tale about not releasing five albums in just over two years. I saw Up Around The Bend was on this and thought "oh this will be really good". There are other good tunes but there are also a lot of 12 bar chuggers.
2
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Sun Apr 21 2024
Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie
Popular 90s rock music, the edges are too clean and sharp. I started thinking this might challenge my expectations but by half way through I tired.
2
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Mon Apr 22 2024
Tommy
The Who
This must be sacrilege to Who fans but I prefer the film soundtrack version, Oliver Reed's flat warble and all.
3
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Tue Apr 23 2024
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
I thought they seemed mysterious and cool when they made Music for a Jilted Generation. This iteration fits too well with 90s lads mag culture. Breathe is good.
2
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Wed Apr 24 2024
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
Sounds like two young guys found their grandads' old Swinging London gear. Enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to.
3
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Fri Apr 26 2024
Harvest
Neil Young
5
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Sat Apr 27 2024
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
4
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Sun Apr 28 2024
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
I found myself curious about a any demos that might have been made for this album. Sometimes the floaty reverb thing gets a bit much.
3
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Mon Apr 29 2024
American Idiot
Green Day
2
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Tue Apr 30 2024
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Aw man cool jazz for squares daddio. But irresistible none the less even if they do sometimes sound like they are going for their Tricky Time Signatures scouting badge.
4
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Wed May 01 2024
Raw Power
The Stooges
I like how this thing makes me listen to albums I love but have taken for granted for a while.
5
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Thu May 02 2024
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
I would have enjoyed more tracks like H2Ogate Blues
3
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Fri May 03 2024
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
5