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Sun Mar 03 2024
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
Very good music to get stoned and lay in a beam of sunlight on the floor like a cat to
4
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Sun Mar 03 2024
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
Strangely, as a person into loud guitar music, this is my first time listening to Zep 3. Immigrant Song is such a hard opener, the riff that launched a thousand ice cold Coors Banquets. Drum tone is insane throughout, I hate that dirtbag classic rock jagoffs in high school made me not want to mess with Led Zeppelin until I was like... in my 30s
5
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Mon Mar 04 2024
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan's voice is immaculate but this style of jazz kind of bores me to tears. I need cosmic exploration more than I need a rainy night in Chicago, nahmean? Also, imagine wanting to listen to any version of "Just A Gigolo" that ISN'T David Lee Roth?
2
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Tue Mar 05 2024
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
Uggghhhh, starting my morning by rolling Clapton on this one is not how I want to enter the day. Let's try to stay unbiased, despite my long running opinion of "fuck that guy".
Jesus, this album is over an hour long? Cocaine really does make folks think ALL of their ideas are great ones, doesn't it? OK OK, hitting play...
I feel like there has to be a correlation between the popularity of this album and the amount of lead paint in homes in America at the time. What an absolutely boring turd of a record. If this is one of the 1001 records I need to hear before I die, now that I've slogged through this I welcome the cold embrace of death.
(Fine, credit where due, the song "Layla" is a ripper, albeit one that could've been edited down by like a full two minutes)
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Wed Mar 06 2024
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
God, what a breath of fresh air after having to listen to fucking Derek & The Dominos yesterday. Has there been a band with a more perfect career than CCR? Get in, get out, write only total jams. "Green River" is the most immaculate dive bar jukebox song in human history. No notes, flawless piece of art.
Bonus note: the vocal production on "Sinister Purpose" sounds incredible (and Sinister Purpose would be an incredible name for a band)
5
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Thu Mar 07 2024
1989
Taylor Swift
As an extremely casual T Swift fan, this feels like maybe her best front to back album? The production is very cool, the sequencing is strong, and the bops are bops. No smarm to post here, this is a very good album, and I'm having fun listening to it.
4
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Fri Mar 08 2024
Real Life
Magazine
Now we're cooking. A masterpiece of post-punk before there was a name for such a thing. Dark, artful, weird, and still catchy as hell. "Shot By Both Sides" will never not get me hyped up.
5
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Sat Mar 09 2024
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
When this popped up as today's album, I knew today was going to be a good day. "She's So Unusual" is an absolute masterpiece of pop. Artful, emotional, a wholly unique vocal, and hooks for days. Like, the A side of this record?? Come the fuck on. So many of Cyndi's vocal twists (see: the chorus on "When You Were Mine") just send dopamine rushing out of my brain like I just ate a pressy of really pure MDMA. Also, those backing vocals on "Time After Time"??? COME ON NOW. After humanity is long dead and gone, I hope this is the artifact of our existence that the aliens find amongst the rubble.
5
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Sun Mar 10 2024
Future Days
Can
Hypnotic, driving, and mystical in that very specific Can fashion
4
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Mon Mar 11 2024
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
OK full disclosure, I'm not a Pixies fan, but went into this with an open mind, and thought this was more enjoyable than I expected... and then the reggae song comes in and I am in actual hysterics. Fuck, there are still another ELEVEN songs after this? I curse the CD era
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Tue Mar 12 2024
On The Beach
Neil Young
Depending on the day, this is maybe my favorite Neil record. The run he was on from OTB to Tonight's The Night to Zuma is maybe the best three album run anyone has ever had? Perfect album, 5 stars, no notes
5
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Wed Mar 13 2024
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
I've never spent much time with Van Morrison's music beyond the hits, but after suffering through an hour and a half of this snooze fest of a live album: I think I hate Van Morrison
1
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Thu Mar 14 2024
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
Just an absolutely insane album. The drumming is insane, the vocals are insane, the guitar shredding... also insane. Prog music for Fugazi fans
5
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Fri Mar 15 2024
90
808 State
I drank beer all day and then put this on, lad vibes are rattling through my chest. Killer fucking album innit?
4
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Sat Mar 16 2024
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
I'd always heard 70s Aerosmith described as "a hornier, American version of the Rolling Stones". Imagine my shock when, opening cut "Toys In The Attic" aside, this album was extremely tepid and boring. It made for fine background, but I can't fathom listening to this outside of the hits for fun.
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Sun Mar 17 2024
Shleep
Robert Wyatt
Perfectly fine background music for a Hudson Valley coffee shop, but not something I'll be returning to on purpose
2
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Mon Mar 18 2024
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
Equal parts ethereal new age and ripping proto-punk, all my favorite bands' favorite band (and honestly, one of my favorite bands too)
5
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Tue Mar 19 2024
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
Just a full hour of audial sunshine. This record is the logical conclusion of the "Wall of Sound" style production, just so much going on and not a single note of it could be edited out. This is as good as pop music can get.
5
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Wed Mar 20 2024
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
Possibly the most stave dive-able dance music album ever?
5
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Pearl
Janis Joplin
I was kind of dreading this album and expected patchwork skirt style white lady bl00z, but this hit more like a mix between Aretha and Dolly. I can't imagine this is a record I come back to with much frequency or ever buy, but I had a much better time than i expected with it.
3
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Fri Mar 22 2024
Psychocandy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Piercing noise, swooning melodies, and caveman drums performed by the coolest Scots to ever walk the Earth
5
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Sat Mar 23 2024
Homework
Daft Punk
This is my favorite flavor of Daft Punk, and is generally the album I go to when I'm in the mood for them
5
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Sun Mar 24 2024
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
Primal Scream's weed record. This one sounds more Bristol than Glasgow, which fits the Scream much better their prior record's Black Crowes and rail whiskey energy
5
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Mon Mar 25 2024
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
True freak music. Sounds like the inside of a schizophrenic's head. Grindcore for beatniks. A bartenders best friend for getting 4am stragglers to leave the building. Jazz as a weapon of mass destruction.
4
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Tue Mar 26 2024
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
A timeless masterpiece of an album. If "Unfinished Sympathy" isn't the high water mark of human accomplishment, I don't know what is
5
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Wed Mar 27 2024
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
Has any album ever started off better than "Maggot Brain"? Eddie Hazel was really on one writing this album, a masterclass on being a guitar god
5
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Thu Mar 28 2024
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
My big takeaways from this:
• Leather pants need to make a comeback in hip-hop
• It's absolutely insane that "Genius of Love" was basically getting sampled as soon as it came out
• "Scorpio" is a stone cold heater
• "Dreamin" is absolutely a deranged piece of music
• Did a spit take when "You Are" came on
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Fri Mar 29 2024
Who's Next
The Who
The problem with starting an album with "Baba O'Reilly" is that every other song on the album is going to pale in comparison. Much like my experience with early Aerosmith a couple weeks back, I'm surprised by just how little rocking is going on here. At the same time this was happening, Black Sabbath were putting out "Master of Reality" and the Stooges had released "Funhouse" a year prior, so like... by comparison this just seems like nerd shit
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Sat Mar 30 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
The Cure at their most echoed out and skeletal. Absolute sewer dweller post-punk for sunglasses inside types (my 4th favorite Cure album if the mood is right)
5
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Sun Mar 31 2024
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
God tier synth pop from two of the best to ever do it (and one of Peter Saville finest album covers to boot)
5
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Mon Apr 01 2024
Face to Face
The Kinks
Perfectly fine very English sounding 60s pop with some great highs (Little Miss Queen of Darkness, Sunny Afternoon) and some dull but inoffensive bits of lava lamp music (You're Looking Fine). Not my favorite bit of the Kinks catalog, but an appropriate soundtrack for Sunday morning coffee
3
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Tue Apr 02 2024
Back In Black
AC/DC
Big dumb rock music at it's biggest and dumbest. Impossible to not crush a sixer of lager during this album's 45ish minutes of play time
5
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Wed Apr 03 2024
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
Bleeps and boops and clicks and whistles from the chill out tent. I feel like I like this album more in concept than in practice.
2
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Thu Apr 04 2024
The Only Ones
The Only Ones
"Another Girl Another Planet" is an absolute masterpiece of sad eyed junkie guitar pop, and while the rest of the album doesn't reach this high, it still scratches an inch somewhere in between the Buzzcocks and Johnny Thunders pretty nicely
3
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Fri Apr 05 2024
Phrenology
The Roots
If there is a venn diagram between "extremely talented band" and "extremely unmemorable music", the Roots live right smack dab in the center
2
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Sat Apr 06 2024
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
A record who's songs are strong enough to match up with the band's lore. I haven't listened to this album in like 20 years, and it blew my mind how beautifully it's aged. These songs just blast out of the speaker, and had to have sounded completely mindblowing coming off a turnable for the first time in the late 70s
5
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Sun Apr 07 2024
Apple Venus Volume 1
XTC
I fully expected to shit on this album in my review, what with it being a late career XTC album that I'd never heard anything about, and here I am happily eating my shoe on this one. Well composed, well produced, clever and quirky Beatles-esque art pop that has me wanting to spend more time in the post 80s XTC catalog
4
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Mon Apr 08 2024
S&M
Metallica
First off, a big "get bent" to the author of this book for including a 2.25 hour long late career Metallica live album, that is absolutely cruel and unusual.
This orchestra really amplifies everything about Metallica. On the positive side, these versions of "The Memory Remains", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", and "No Leaf Clover" all completely rock. On the other side, somehow they made that turd sandwich called "Hero For A Day" even worse, and the "Loosen up maaaaan" adlib during "Enter Sandman" made me almost crash my car from violent laughter
2
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Tue Apr 09 2024
3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
Ripping guitars, flawless vocals, and a "Summer Breeze" cover? 5 stars all the way
5
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Wed Apr 10 2024
The Real Thing
Faith No More
If there's a better opening 1-2-3-4 than "From Out Of Nowhere" into "Epic" into "Falling To Pieces" into "Surprise You're dead" on an album, I've yet to come across it
5
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Thu Apr 11 2024
Before And After Science
Brian Eno
As much as I enjoy ambient Eno, I wish there were more fun art pop records like this one in his catalog. Listening to this, it's very obvious why the Talking Heads chose to work with him.
4
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Fri Apr 12 2024
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Ideal music for having a little weed with your coffee while you make breakfast
4
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Sat Apr 13 2024
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
70s studio pop that forgot to bring hooks to the studio
2
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Sun Apr 14 2024
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
Equally appropriate music for a holiday cookout with friends and family, and for macrodosing psychedelics and tearing apart the fabric of reality
4
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Mon Apr 15 2024
Horses
Patti Smith
Patti Smith as a NYC icon is much more interesting than Patti Smith as a recording artist
2
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Tue Apr 16 2024
Superunknown
Soundgarden
A perfectly fine album that's biggest fault is that it can't hold a candle to the masterpiece (Badmotorfinger) that preceded it
3
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Wed Apr 17 2024
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
The Temptations update their sound to stay current in the psychedelic era and wind up making the best album of their career
5
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Thu Apr 18 2024
Berlin
Lou Reed
I'm usually pretty ambivalent when it comes to Lou Reed, but this record was a very pleasant surprise. The orchestration here gave a very proto-Spiritualized vive, which I'm all in on. Immediately my favorite Lou Reed project I've heard.
5
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Fri Apr 19 2024
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
Smart, sophisticated pop for heartsick yuppies. I fucking love it.
5
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Sat Apr 20 2024
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
It's Johnny Cash playing in a prison, obviously this rocks
5
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Sun Apr 21 2024
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
This record makes me want to start a 12 piece band ASAP
4
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Mon Apr 22 2024
Ten
Pearl Jam
As far as I'm concerned, the only Pearl Jam album with no skips. A little top heavy? Sure, but no skips
4
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Tue Apr 23 2024
Different Class
Pulp
Wish I could give this masterpiece 500 stars
5
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Wed Apr 24 2024
The Last Broadcast
Doves
Music for folks who think Snow Patrol goes just a little too hard.
2
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Thu Apr 25 2024
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
Top tier sewer dweller music
5
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Fri Apr 26 2024
Permission to Land
The Darkness
A record that both real rockers and theater kids can agree on
3
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Sat Apr 27 2024
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
It's wild that this was my first time actually listening to this album, considering it's reputation as "the best album of all time". I don't know if I'd go that far in a world where Hatebreed's "Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire" exists, but this was pretty fantastic front to back. Turns out I don't hate all whimsical music!
5
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Sun Apr 28 2024
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
Objectively beautiful music that is also objectively boring as fuck
2
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Mon Apr 29 2024
Wild Gift
X
"Conservatism is the real punk" starter band
2
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Tue Apr 30 2024
The White Album
Beatles
A good album by a great band that would be a great album by a great band if they had even a just alright editor
3
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Wed May 01 2024
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
Probably the coolest sounding rap record of all time
5
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Thu May 02 2024
21
Adele
Expected to hate this, and was wrong, because this album kinda rules. Nothing but hits!
4
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Fri May 03 2024
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
I like Tom Waits, but an hour plus of piano noodling and beatnik rambling is too much to handle
2
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Sat May 04 2024
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
Party on the A-side, brooding on B, every single song brings it
5
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Sun May 05 2024
Vespertine
Björk
Stunning vocal performances that shine brightest when tethered to actual song structure
3
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Mon May 06 2024
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
Is there poetic license at work here, or did Marty Robbins actually kill all these men he sings about?
4
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Tue May 07 2024
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Even on a rainy day while in a terrible mood, Bob Marley still hits
4
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Wed May 08 2024
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
I dunno man, sometimes shit just rocks
5
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Thu May 09 2024
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
100% pure uncut music for people who read books at the bar
2
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Fri May 10 2024
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
An album guaranteed to make me into an absolute emotional mess
5
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Sat May 11 2024
Elephant
The White Stripes
Mediocre music for mediocre people on a mediocre planet. Wearing a White Stripes t-shirt in public is a sure fire way to make me not want to strike up a conversation with you at a bar
2
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Sun May 12 2024
Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
I probably would've liked this album more if I didn't throw all of my bongs away when I moved in with my girlfriend
3
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Mon May 13 2024
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
I exclusively want to drink in barrooms that play Loretta Lynn
5
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Tue May 14 2024
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
Jam after jam after jam after jam. How good is your album when "Queen Bitch" is only like the 3rd best song on here?
5
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Wed May 15 2024
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Looking at my cats while I listened to this record absolutely made me cry
5
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Thu May 16 2024
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
One of those rare trifectas of amazing vocals, savant musicians hip, and generally being cool as hell
5
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Fri May 17 2024
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
Actual sewer dweller music
5
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Sat May 18 2024
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
An absolutely fine 50s jazz album, but pales in comparison to the mind melting things Miles would wind up moving on to
3
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Sun May 19 2024
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
The sound of drunk driving in a 2000 Honda Civic. Would have scored this higher if it wasn't a peak CD era "make this exactly 74 minutes" overstuffed album
3
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Mon May 20 2024
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
This era of bland ass big stage indie was 100% the reason I got back into punk and hardcore after a few years of doing cocaine and listening to Ed Banger Records. To quote the immortal Jay Sherman: "It Stinks!"
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Tue May 21 2024
25
Adele
OK, the last Adele album I got on this thing surprised me with how much I enjoyed it. On the other hand: this album fucking honks. This selling a billion copies is all the proof you need that your average human being is boring beyond belief and has absolutely abysmal taste
1
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Wed May 22 2024
Traffic
Traffic
My first two albums this week totally sucked, and this album is fine but boring, which by comparison makes it a GD masterpiece
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Thu May 23 2024
Scum
Napalm Death
More grindcore and less boomer rock please and thank you. This album rules, and is only like... the 6th or 7th best Napalm Death record. The review section for this one is awesome, ya'll are a bunch of full on dweebs
5
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Fri May 24 2024
Penthouse And Pavement
Heaven 17
"Fascist Groove Thing" is a guaranteed party starter
4
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Sat May 25 2024
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
Nile Rogers at the peak of his powers + powerhouse vocals = the best full length of the Disco era and a total desert island record
5
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Sun May 26 2024
Night Life
Ray Price
4
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Tue May 28 2024
Tommy
The Who
The Who? More like The Snooze amiright?
2
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Wed May 29 2024
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
Some jangle pop gems, some sophisti-pop snoozers
3
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Thu May 30 2024
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
Sure, I'll drink 3 beers at 10am to "Alien Lanes"
5
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Fri May 31 2024
Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
I can't fathom why anyone would ever choose this album over the front to back collection of bangers that is "Back In The High Life"
2
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Sat Jun 01 2024
Mothership Connection
Parliament
Shifted between dimensions at least 5 times while this album was playing
5
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Sun Jun 02 2024
The Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies
I would listen to Margo Timmins sing delivery menus
4
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Mon Jun 03 2024
Parachutes
Coldplay
Weak ass barn wedding with twinkle lights in mason jars ass bullshit (but "Yellow" is kind of a jam)
2
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Tue Jun 04 2024
Guero
Beck
Bought three iPods and a cardigan from the GAP as a result of this boring ass record
2
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Wed Jun 05 2024
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
Paul Weller rocks. This album... ehhhhh... not so much
2
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Thu Jun 06 2024
One World
John Martyn
Man, wine dad music really had a moment in the 80s, didn't it?
2
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Fri Jun 07 2024
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
I dig the Dead, but this era ain't it for me. Take me to Bobby in jean shorts ASAP
1
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Sat Jun 08 2024
The Bends
Radiohead
Fell asleep listening to this at 4:30 in the afternoon on a Friday
2
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Sun Jun 09 2024
Soul Mining
The The
This perfectly bridges the gap between English alternative/synth pop of the era and Downtown NYC club sounds. Not a stinker in the bunch here, five stars, wouldn't mind if this was the only CD I had in my car for a cross country road trip
5
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Mon Jun 10 2024
Beautiful Freak
Eels
There is a certain sub-sect of people my age who treat the dude from Eels like he's one of the great underrecognized musical geniuses of our time. I'm very proud to call none of them my close, personal friend.
2
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Tue Jun 11 2024
Play
Moby
Free the Gwen Stefani version of "South Side"!
5
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Wed Jun 12 2024
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
Has Polly ever sounded better than she does on this record? What a dynamo
5
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Thu Jun 13 2024
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
It is unbelievably hard to not day drink when this album is on. I want to buy a house in the suburbs just to blast this on cassette in my garage while I work my way through a 12 pack of Modelos
5
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Fri Jun 14 2024
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
Rockers are 5 star, ballads are 2 star, raising this average up to a 4 star review because of how cool the Robinson bros always look
4
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Sat Jun 15 2024
Stankonia
OutKast
It's pretty wild that humanity has existed for thousands of years, and we're fortunate enough to exist at the same time as both Big Boi and Andre 3000
5
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Sun Jun 16 2024
Casanova
The Divine Comedy
Like a xerox of a xerox of a Scott Walker album. My friend Gerry's least favorite album of the 1001, for me... ehh, we'll call it a low 2
2
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Mon Jun 17 2024
The Blueprint
JAY Z
Jay-Z (and Kanye) are complete dweebs in 2024, so it's fun to time travel to a moment in history where they both made great music and didn't seem like totally unlikeable human beings
4
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Tue Jun 18 2024
Moon Safari
Air
You walk into a bar and this is on the speakers: you're not getting a cocktail for under $20
4
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Wed Jun 19 2024
Close To The Edge
Yes
I hated this so much that I might quit smoking weed just so no one ever accuses me of being a prog fan
1
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Thu Jun 20 2024
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti Politti
Pretty bottom of the bucket 80s pop. Made for TV movie quality, not Hughes film quality
2
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Fri Jun 21 2024
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
Absolute perfection start to finish. The Beatles never put out an album this good.
5
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Sat Jun 22 2024
Blackstar
David Bowie
There's something to be said for saving the best for last. A perfect sendoff to a brilliant career. Still gives me chills every time I listen
5
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Sun Jun 23 2024
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
Looking at all the 1 and 2 star reviews for this banger of an album leads me to ask the question: are any women doing the 1001 album challenge? Or is this site strictly just loser dudes in stupid hats?
5 star album, bite it you scum. Queen Tina forever
5
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Mon Jun 24 2024
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Peak "making a sad mistake for your high school crush" music
4
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Tue Jun 25 2024
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
It's 90 degrees in NYC, obviously this is hitting real hard on the speakers
5
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Wed Jun 26 2024
Kenza
Khaled
2
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Thu Jun 27 2024
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
Sure, it's art school kid music, but at least it's the fun art school kids who like to party
4
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Fri Jun 28 2024
Protection
Massive Attack
Massive Attack shows up for round 2 and brings Tracy Thorn with them for this one. That's like playing with Game Genie, it just ain't fair how good this is
5
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Sat Jun 29 2024
Revolver
Beatles
Starting an album with Taxman into Eleanor Rigby is one hell of a flex
5
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Sun Jun 30 2024
Broken English
Marianne Faithfull
Mick Jagger never made a solo record this good... or really, a good solo record, period. Team Marianne all day every day
4
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Mon Jul 01 2024
Sincere
Mj Cole
One of the heads on the Mount Rushmore of UKG, but this is a singles genre not an album one
3
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Tue Jul 02 2024
Stardust
Willie Nelson
Willie showing us that the hits are the hits for a reason
4
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Wed Jul 03 2024
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
The Twins write a full on pop album and wind up with the best record of their career
5
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Thu Jul 04 2024
The Undertones
The Undertones
I mean, one listen to Teenage Kicks and you get why John Peel had it carved into his headstone, right? Rest of the album doesn't quite reach that height, but like, that seems like an unfair standard to hold any music to. Slot "Get Over You" in your punk night DJ set between The Buzzcocks and Cock Sparrer, the crowd will thank you for your service
4
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Fri Jul 05 2024
Violator
Depeche Mode
I got nothing clever to say on this one, I just fucking love this album a whole lot
5
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Sat Jul 06 2024
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
An important album that could've used some editing. Cut this down to a tight 30 minutes and it's a perfect 5. At an hour? 3 feels right
3
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Sun Jul 07 2024
Want One
Rufus Wainwright
Yeah I dunno man, like, I didn't hate this at all, but I retained nothing from it beyond "man, this Canadian sure does sound sad"
2
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Mon Jul 08 2024
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
I consumed approximately 17lbs of cocaine while clubbing to "Drop The Pressure" in the bloghaus era, and even as someone who looks back on this music incredibly fondly, having to listen to a whole ass Mylo album is a torture I wouldn't inflict on my worst enemy
2
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Tue Jul 09 2024
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
Just mind melting production from Dre on this one. Would it be better if it was 20 minutes shorter? Story of the 90s my friends
4
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Wed Jul 10 2024
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
Sting's patois on "Walking on the Moon" = never not funny. Great record though!
4
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Thu Jul 11 2024
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
The Damned are a band that I think I just kinda like, until they're on, then boy howdy do I love The Damned. Actual vampire freak music
5
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Fri Jul 12 2024
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
What a bland fucking planet we live on where this is one of the most popular music groups of all time... but like, I'm not gonna deny that "Clocks" is an absolute banger
2
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Sat Jul 13 2024
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
Music for the mind, body, and third eye
5
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Sun Jul 14 2024
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
Absolutely deserved to beat out "Nevermind" in that Spin album of the year poll
5
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Mon Jul 15 2024
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
Still not my favorite Miles, but we're getting warmer
3
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Tue Jul 16 2024
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
I generally can't stand Zappa, but I could imagine having a moment in my early 50s where I make being a "Hot Rats" guy my entire personality
4
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Wed Jul 17 2024
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
Josh Homme figuring things out on his way to writing his masterpiece (Rated R) is still better than most of the hard rock coming out in 98. Like, when this album came out, Limp Bizkit and Coal Chamber were main stage acts at Ozzfest. By comparison this is subtle, tasteful, and as far as music that solely exists to do gravity bong hits to, pretty smart sounding
4
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Thu Jul 18 2024
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
This fucking rules. About to go rip some hash and travel the cosmos
4
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Fri Jul 19 2024
Hysteria
Def Leppard
What an a-side. Mutt Lange knows how to make big dumb music sound the biggest and dumbest
4
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Sat Jul 20 2024
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
This came up as my album of the day on a ride to the beach, and man, I might not be able to buy a thrill, but I sure can buy every Dan record ever recorded
5
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Sun Jul 21 2024
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
Countpoint to my Steely Dan review yesterday: I was AT the beach when I got this album, and now I hate the beach and the sun and this stupid planet that produced Eric Clapton
1
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Mon Jul 22 2024
Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
This is great! The Boos are a Brit band that I should know better than I do, but beyond the hits on "Wake Up" I never really spent too much time with them. This fits perfectly into that pre-Britpop moment where shoegaze and sample based stuff like EMF was happening. BRB, about to overspend on a vinyl reissue of this
5
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Tue Jul 23 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
The next few Maiden albums are really where they hit their stride, but make no mistake, Number Of The Beast still rocks
4
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Wed Jul 24 2024
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
True freaks making post-punk before punk was even codified. This direct sonic lineage between this and like... Circus Lupus is undeniable
4
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Thu Jul 25 2024
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
I full on feel like season 2 Mr Big with this playing in my yuppie NYC high rise apartment
4