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Thu Feb 22 2024
Abraxas
Santana
So Santana was a solid first album for this to throw my way. Carlos is a classic with one of the most distinct and recognizable guitar sounds in music. A pretty great overall album if a little short, and full of energy after a bit of a sluggish start. The Latin percussion is a lot of fun. I listened to this while i was cooking dinner and it was the perfect soundtrack for that.
4
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Fri Feb 23 2024
Debut
Björk
I was really excited to listen to this album. Trip hop has long been a genre with a lot of real-estate in my Playlist and listening time. I know she is related and influencial to/by trip hop, but I've never really given any attention to bjork. This album is.... interesting. I don't hate it, but I don't see myself returning to this or adding any songs to my personal Playlists. Some fun and interesting instrumentation and sampling, mixed with a lot of.... meh. Maybe her voice is an acquired taste, but I have yet to acquire it. It ranges from tolerable to grating. When she goes for power, which she does a LOT, it feels like more misses than hits, with some real nails on the chalkboard moments. Some of the songs have a nice mellow lounge feel and her vocalization seems... incongrous. I feel like more sultry and smooth ala beth gibbons would have served some of the songs a lot better. Overall, some interesting sound experimentation, but not my cup of tea.
2
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Sat Feb 24 2024
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
Worked well as background music during the work day. Didn't really feel like anything special. Some fun and interesting parts. Some parts that meandered and got repetitive. The moans and woos and such seemed a bit out of place and off-putting at times, but I guess that's passion?
Reading the stories about the circumstances of this particular performance make it interesting, and the fact it was entirely improvised is impressive, but still not something that blows me away.
3
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Sat Feb 24 2024
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
This album is absolutely magical. Perfect energy throughout. Incredible creativity in building a fun and interesting soundscape almost entirely through sampling. I've known frontier psychiatrist for years and had no idea how much I was missing in the other tracks. Will definitely return to this regularly.
5
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Sun Feb 25 2024
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
This was fun
4
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Mon Feb 26 2024
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
Excellent album start to finish. Have never gone out of my way to listen to Linkin Park, but definitely a few tracks to add to some Playlists. Love the energy.
5
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Tue Feb 27 2024
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
I had this album in high school and I was pleasantly surprised returning to it. I love the raw energy. A lot more musically put together than the chaos of sound I had in my 20+ yr old memory.
4
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Wed Feb 28 2024
Signing Off
UB40
Ok, so I only know UB40 from red red wine, and I didn't have high expectations for this album. I was very pleasantly surprised. Any anti-tories are cool with me, and the sound is significantly better than i expected. Some really fun tracks
4
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Thu Feb 29 2024
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
No idea how this had never crossed my path but I had never heard of this album before now. Was this written in 1992 or 2024? Sad that it is so relevant to the things we are dealing with today, and disappointing to see just how little progress we have made. If anything it shows that we've been stagnant or moving backwards for 30+ years. Love it.
5
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Fri Mar 01 2024
Dirt
Alice In Chains
Such an unfortunate loss. Layne truly embodied the persona of the tortured artist. Layne and Jerry had an incredible easy chemistry together and made some of the best music of the 90s. Still a great album 30 years later.
4
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Sat Mar 02 2024
C'est Chic
CHIC
This was a fun album. Never been much of a disco fan, but fun and energetic throughout.
3
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Sun Mar 03 2024
Hunting High And Low
a-ha
This is just.... not good. At all. Even take on me sounds so much worse than I remembered.
1
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Mon Mar 04 2024
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
Yeah, religion is a bunch of shitty bullshit for smoothbrain idiots and assholes. It took you 80 years to finally realize that? You want a pat on the back and an attaboy? Fuck off
This album is just 9 versions of the same song written different ways. 9 sad tired pathetic versions. Sorry you wasted your life believing in bullshit
2
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
I mean.... it's dolly. What a treasure
4
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Wed Mar 06 2024
The Real Thing
Faith No More
4
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Thu Mar 07 2024
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
This was pretty fun. I'm surprised I'd never heard of this album before. They fit right in with the 60s British prog rock along the lines of the moody blues, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, traffic, etc. Concept albums are definitely a relic of a bygone Era, and this feels dated, but worth the listen.
2
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Hotel California
Eagles
A few classic gems mixed in with some real bad songs.
3
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Sat Mar 09 2024
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
Her voice is silky smooth, yet strangely flat. There are a lot of notes that she hints at hitting but never quite gets there. A good album if I'm having a little insomnia. 2002 must have been a really boring year for music for this to have won all the awards it did
2
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Sun Mar 10 2024
Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
I think they just gave some microphones and instruments to a bunch of random people in the underground at 2 am and hit record. The "singers" might have some ideas about what notes are supposed to sound like, but I'm not entirely sure. At first I thought they opened with the worst song on the album, but somehow it just kept getting worse.
1
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Mon Mar 11 2024
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
A classic masterpiece. If you can't enjoy this do you even like music?
5
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Tue Mar 12 2024
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
Decent, some great songs mixed in with some not so great ones.
3
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Wed Mar 13 2024
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
I.... I just don't get it. I'm glad you all seem to love this, but I really don't know why.
2