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Wed Feb 21 2024
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
Wonderful instrumental album. Great for relaxing and getting lost in real (non electronic) music.
4
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Thu Feb 22 2024
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
The album is full of Elton John "classics" which I enjoyed, especially after a couple listens. The real treat are some of the lesser known (to me) later tracks like Roy Rogers and Danny Bailey. Unfortunately all the songs kinda sound the same if you listen all the way through.
4
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Fri Feb 23 2024
The Doors
The Doors
I wanted to like the whole album more than I did. Light my fire is a time machine, a psychedelic trip back to a time and place long gone but never forgotten. Unfortunately I'm not sure all the other songs have aged as well.
3
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Bad
Michael Jackson
I will preface this review with the fact that I am separating the art from the artist. That said, this is the first MJ album I've listened to and I now understand how he earned the title The King of Pop. The album is fun, energetic, and takes you on a journey perfectly curated to engage all the senses and emotions. Amazing.
5
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Tue Feb 27 2024
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
A deep, meaningful, beautiful album. I only think it suffers from being so familiar that it doesn't give the same mystery and wonder it once did.
4
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Wed Feb 28 2024
1984
Van Halen
A fun album of a time long gone, but don't look for anything deeper than some cool guitar riffs and a couple catchy chorus lines.
2
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Thu Feb 29 2024
Junkyard
The Birthday Party
This was not enjoyable at all. While I am a fan of punk and discordant music, this is just torture.
1
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
While I really appreciate what they were going for, it unfortunately still sounds like the beach boys at times, which is to day, ok. Best of the beach boys by far.
3
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Mon Mar 04 2024
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
The smashing pumpkins help create the sound of the 90s. From disarm to cherub rock, to today these dreamy, crunchy, and raw songs helped the mainstream move past the overproduced pop music of the 80s.
4
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Play
Moby
The album is fine but I have a very different taste in EDM. The significance of bringing EDM to the masses is kind of lost on me.
3
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Abraxas
Santana
This album is exactly why I wanted to use the album generator. While I have heard some mid 2000s Santana I was never impressed. This album is a work of art, brimming with passion and feeling and I am so happy to be introduced to it.
5
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Unfortunately boring and passionless. Some songs had a couple ok melodies, but the album just didn't do it for me.
2
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
I like punk, I like hardcore, this album had hints of both but didn't accomplish the goal of either. One of the features of hardcore is that the songs are short and powerful, many of these songs these were just too long. Maybe that's what "post hardcore" is but then maybe it's not for me.
3
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Mon Mar 11 2024
Stankonia
OutKast
A fun album but difficult to listen to with all the misogyny.
3
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Tue Mar 12 2024
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
Wow, what deep and meaningful songs. Neil Young expresses emotion and storytelling through all aspects of his musicianship. I really enjoyed the worlds each song built. Not one bad song on the album.
4
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Wed Mar 13 2024
Vulnicura
Björk
Beautiful music with deep passion and emotion. It felt like some lyrics or word choices seemed out of place, kind of like a translation error or if English was a first language. When her singing hangs on every word this made it a little difficult to get into.
2
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Thu Mar 14 2024
California
American Music Club
Ah another melancholy and frankly boring 80s indie rock band. Nothing to distinguish them from their contemporaries.
2
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Fri Mar 15 2024
Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
An interesting conscious hip hop / almost spoken word album. I really enjoyed the beats and tracks, many which reminded me of MF Doom, and the deeper, more political and meaningful lyrics. I haven't ever heard of Mike Ladd before and really couldn't find much about him which was a little confusing. Maybe he just doesn't have that main stream appeal?
3
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Mon Mar 18 2024
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
My favorite Kendrick album. Songs like King Kunta, Alright, and How Much a Dollar Cost are masterful, funky, and soulful, but, it is difficult to get past the misogyny laced throughout and some of the interludes just didn't do it for me.
5
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Tue Mar 19 2024
The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles voice is great but just not a fan of big band music.
2
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Wed Mar 20 2024
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
Not a bad country album. She has a wonderful voice and I enjoy the production and full band, but just a little too vanilla.
2
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
Waits' voice is unique and therefore polarizing. I am just not the biggest fan of it, but can appreciate a couple songs, Downtown being my favorite. While I do like the lyrical themes of the anti-hero and the downtrodden, it is just a little to grating to listen to the whole album all the way through.
2
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Either Or
Elliott Smith
I enjoy Smith's voice and the multi players vocals throughout which, along with the acoustic guitar and occasional drums, give the album an ephemeral feeling. Wish I could give it a 3.5, but alas a 3 it is.
3
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Mon Mar 25 2024
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
Fun, a little edgy, and makes you feel like you are listening to them at a house party.
4
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
A good album but not a great album. There just isn't enough of something but I'm not sure what it is.
3
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Hunting High And Low
a-ha
This is the embodiment of the 80s, with the clean, early electronic sounds, up beat tempo, and synths out the wazoo. The vocals have all the attitude and style you could want.
4
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Thu Mar 28 2024
Diamond Life
Sade
While I really enjoy Sade's voice and smooth operator is a banger, the rest of the album didn't wow me. Definitely great for more relaxed listening.
3
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Fri Mar 29 2024
Amnesiac
Radiohead
Enjoyable but few songs really stood out. It feels like the B-side of KidA which is apparently is what this album is.
3
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
This is time and place music. In the right time and place, the atmospheric, repetitive and ghostly sounds and vocals give a meditative and reflective feeling. In the wrong time and place these 10+ minute songs don't have much to offer to keep your attention.
3
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Tue Apr 02 2024
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
As someone living under a rock, this was my first intentional experience with David Bowie. The album was imaginative and I enjoyed he story, but the songs themselves were only ok. Starman is a banger but the rest were fine. Really reminded me of Elton John but more about the show than the music
3
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Wed Apr 03 2024
A Seat at the Table
Solange
Whole Solange has a beautiful voice, the album felt a little flat without any real sense of direction. The interludes felt out of place and forced. Ok but not for me.
2
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Thu Apr 04 2024
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
An album full of feeling and passion. Tina Turner's voice commands every track and each song tells a story. Along with the 80s synth and beat, the album keeps your attention from the faster paced songs to the slower ballads.
4
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Slayed?
Slade
Interesting album with some good guitar riffs, though the jarring swings from hard rock to blues rock to the beetles(?) felt disjointed. Great energy that never quite feels earned or fully does the job of making something special. Would probably be a 2.5.
3
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Mon Apr 08 2024
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
I like Paul Simon's voice and some of the songs that stood out, but overall the album felt a little disjointed and a little too mellow for my taste. Really liked Me and Julio.
3
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Tue Apr 09 2024
Liquid Swords
GZA
This album bleeds style, flow, intelligence, and everything I want in a hip hop album. GZA's lyrics are complex and deep, and mixed with RZA's beats create a whole world through the storytelling, ambiance, and samples. If it wasn't for the out of place bible song at the end this album would be about as good as it can get.
5
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Wed Apr 10 2024
In Rainbows
Radiohead
Haunting. Beautiful. Bold. Soft. It's so hard to describe the range of this album. By far my favorite Radiohead album if not one of my favorites of all time.
5
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Thu Apr 11 2024
Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
While parts of the album stood out, many tracks just felt... shallow? Like they were trying to emulate other southern rock / bluesy artists while they were trying to develop their own style.
2
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Fri Apr 12 2024
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
Ah post punk, all the words without any of the feeling. Unfortunately the vocals just don't lend themselves to the slower post punk style for me. I feel like I would have enjoyed it more if the tempo was increased and it had more attitude. This felt like slower complaining.
2
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Mon Apr 15 2024
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
I enjoyed some of the songs but nothing really stood out. A good indie band for sure.
3
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
Not the biggest fan of this style. Sinatra's voice is obviously great to listen to but every song sounds the same.
2
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Wed Apr 17 2024
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
Enjoyable but didn't stand out. Not a fan of spoken interludes.
2
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Thu Apr 18 2024
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
Great EDM for the time, but as a fan of more modern house and drum and bass it doesn't quite hit the spot.
3
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Wed Jun 26 2024
Being There
Wilco
While there are hints of something, I can't really find much that stands out. The first song was cool but then the rest of the album was just... Meh?
2
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Thu Jun 27 2024
Nowhere
Ride
Shoegaze, huh? My first introduction to the genre. Melodic, spacey, hammering the vocal harmonies every chance they get. Not bad, but nothing that gets the blood flowing. I might turn to it when I want something that is chill but... louder?
3
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Fri Jun 28 2024
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
A serviceable psych/classic rock album with the ridiculously distracting "electric jug" played throughout. If not for the jug it would be fine but it is so distracting...
2
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Mon Jul 01 2024
Sea Change
Beck
Dreamy and melancholic, with a little edge here and there. While the album was cohesive, I wish there was a little more variation in tempo or feeling. Solid 3.
3
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Tue Jul 02 2024
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
A classic album for many 90s kids like myself. In the album Eminem explores the similarities, differences, and blurring of lines between himself, marshall, and the slim shady character, a modern day villain. What is real, what is for show, etc. Would be a 5/5 but for the incessant homophobia and misogyny, which of course was of that time but unfortunately takes away from the timelessness.
4
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Wed Jul 03 2024
Dummy
Portishead
A great, chill, proto-lofi album.
4
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Thu Jul 04 2024
NEU! 75
Neu!
The ambient tracks were nice, but I wasn't a fan of the songs with vocals. Maybe this was good in the 70s but it doesn't really have enough content to hold up.
2
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Fri Jul 05 2024
Murmur
R.E.M.
Great, dreamy, alternative rock. A consistent album but nothing hits the high water mark of the first track.
3
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Mon Jul 08 2024
Bossanova
Pixies
A great album showcasing what feels like a more mature version of the Pixies. My favorite song on the album, Dig for Fire has all the hallmarks of what I love about them. Brash and loud swinging to quiet and melodic, with lyrics that just barely make sense.
4
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Tue Jul 09 2024
Doolittle
Pixies
Catchy, memorable, stylish. Almost every song on the album hits. Cohesive yet varied. The pinnacle of their craft. Objectively I'd have to give a 4 but my nostalgia for this album and love for the Pixies bumps it to a 5.
5
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Wed Jul 10 2024
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
Unfortunately boring and dull. Uninterested vocals, little message in the lyrics, and not much to listen to otherwise. While I can appreciate angsty teen rock, this album isn't it. Shadow of a Doubt was cool but that was about it.
2
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Mon Jul 15 2024
Pelican West
Haircut 100
Upbeat, catchy, funky jazz pop that just lacks a sense of soul. The lyrics are unfortunately about as deep as a puddle, but the music is fun to listen to.
3
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Tue Jul 16 2024
The White Album
Beatles
4
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Wed Jul 17 2024
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
3
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Thu Jul 18 2024
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
I liked this more than I initially thought I would. Almost like a precursor to math rock.
3
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Fri Jul 19 2024
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
4
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Mon Jul 22 2024
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
It's very ok. Nothing about this band or any of their albums (this is the second I've gotten) has stood out or made an impression. This is not to say this album isn't good, it sounds great but somehow it's just... boring? Much better than "Being There"
3
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Tue Jul 23 2024
Is This It
The Strokes
The album was great. I started off thinking, oh wow another alt/indie/garage band, and was pleasantly surprised with how unique they sounded. The songs are punchy, memorable, and fun. Probably as good as indie alt gets for me.
4
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Wed Jul 24 2024
xx
The xx
Fine, minimalist indie-electro-pop? Not much to it, though I did enjoy the vocals of both singers.
3
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Thu Jul 25 2024
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
The songs were groovy, funky, and soulful. Loved the string ensemble. Would have been better without the lengthy spoken interlude. 4.
4
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Fri Jul 26 2024
Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
More like a soundtrack to a musical than an album. -1 star for not being on Spotify.
1