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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
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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?
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Sat Apr 13 2024
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
70s studio pop that forgot to bring hooks to the studio
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Tue Apr 23 2024
Different Class
Pulp
Wish I could give this masterpiece 500 stars
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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.
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Thu Apr 25 2024
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
Top tier sewer dweller music
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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
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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!
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Sun Apr 28 2024
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
Objectively beautiful music that is also objectively boring as fuck
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Mon Apr 29 2024
Wild Gift
X
"Conservatism is the real punk" starter band
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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
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Wed May 01 2024
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
Probably the coolest sounding rap record of all time
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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!
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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
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