May 01 2024
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Station To Station
David Bowie
4
May 02 2024
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At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
Really great. Funnier than I expected.
4
May 03 2024
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S&M
Metallica
2
May 08 2024
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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
Felt like it was a tiny bit too long, which meant it can start to blur in to one at points. But otherwise great.
4
May 09 2024
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Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
Felt like I was being lectured from within a tiled room at times. Also, bass player is severely underrated. Around a 6.5/10, possibly a 6.3/10, on other days this could easily be a 5 or a 7.
3
May 10 2024
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World Clique
Deee-Lite
I don’t know much about dance music, but I’m struggling to believe that this some of dance music’s best as opposed to just some of its most famous. Feels like a dance music recommendation from someone who doesn’t care all that much for dance music. I guess it was groovy and more or less enjoyable.
3
May 13 2024
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Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Just vibes.
5
May 14 2024
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Liquid Swords
GZA
GZA with the liquid words, RZA with the liquid chords. Can’t be bothered with the film quotes stuff though, so something like an 8.5/10.
5
May 15 2024
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Reign In Blood
Slayer
A bunch of self-absorbed dweebs, hellbent on making their mothers dislike their art, stumble upon both the Nuremberg transcripts and a second brain cell. They resolve to make a completely tasteless first track in the name of being edgy. I imagine adolescent boys and maladjusted art critics spend forever trying to justify it, but literally nobody wants to be at that conference. 2 stars as a result, which is a shame, because the music was occasionally enjoyable.
2
May 16 2024
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What's That Noise?
Coldcut
The DJ scratches have perhaps aged. Some vibes I guess.
2
May 17 2024
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good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
5
May 20 2024
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Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
How to write an Aftermath song:
- Jingle Jangle
- Say something that won’t age well
- Tambourine
I feel like this is included because of the t-shirts.
2
May 21 2024
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So
Peter Gabriel
Soft rock extraordinaire. Better than that other guy Phil Foden.
4
May 22 2024
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S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
I prefer the Bowie version
2
May 23 2024
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Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
Rumour has it this man came out of the womb at 50 years old with a Marlboro Red in one hand and a Bulleit Bourbon in the other. But then you listen to something like Saving All My Love for You and you realise he’s just a big softie really.
3
May 24 2024
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Real Life
Magazine
Some sound design choices that are maybe a bit quaint by today’s standards. Had to suspend some 2024 belief to get down with it. But get down with it I did.
3
May 27 2024
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
Expected this to be so much more pretentious and insufferable than it was. Don’t judge a book by its 15 minute song, I guess.
4
May 28 2024
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xx
The xx
The Spotify algorithm put on Beach House when this finished, which is basically the same except better.
3
May 29 2024
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Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
“I hunger for your porpoise mouth and stand erect for love”
What?
3
May 30 2024
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Blackstar
David Bowie
5
May 31 2024
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Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
Maybe a bit too on the nose with the Baudrillard-type stuff but these ideas inevitably age and given the context of its time this was probably pretty god damn righteous. I don’t know, I was still a sperm in 1992.
4
Jun 03 2024
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Pretenders
Pretenders
Don’t think I’ll be listening again though I’m sure I’ll hear Brass Pocket out in the world. Private Life is really not a very good song to put it lightly. A one drop? And what on god’s earth was that guitar solo doing there? Why are you shredding right now? So very Rigs of Dad. And what in the what are those lyrics? Was the producer on his lunch break? Offended me enough to bring the whole thing down.
2
Jun 04 2024
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The Score
Fugees
Sick
5
Jun 05 2024
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Nevermind
Nirvana
I have heard this many times, but this time I noticed that Mr Cobain can be a little more emotional and sentimental than I had previously given credit for. A different perspective. Sometimes whiny though so 4 stars probably 4.5 if such a thing was allowed.
4
Jun 06 2024
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Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Sometimes a little funny, sometimes a bit nerdy. Very idiosyncratic either way, and some very cool arrangements at times. Respect, solid 3.5 that was.
3
Jun 07 2024
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Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
4
Jun 10 2024
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KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
4
Jun 11 2024
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Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
Ready To Buy what he’s selling (this album).
5
Jun 12 2024
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Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
3
Jun 13 2024
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This Is Hardcore
Pulp
3
Jun 14 2024
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Lam Toro
Baaba Maal
4
Jun 17 2024
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Preferred Natty Dread to this one I think
3
Jun 18 2024
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The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
fine
3
Jun 19 2024
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Back to Basics
Christina Aguilera
Was ok I liked the double album vibe and some of those tracks took me back to childhood in the great US of A where HOT 99.5 conquered the airwaves but at the same time it was also 1hr18mins of somebody over-singing which on the wrong day feels like purgatory to me.
2
Jun 20 2024
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The Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies
A fair few covers in there which I’d normally be inclined to get annoyed by but in this case it’s bonus points for that nice Sweet Jane cover. Album sets a mood and I feel like I’m there with them. Something like Cigarettes After Sex or similar definitely stole their flow and made it modern in that sense, kind of reminded me of that spatial, nocturnal mid/low tempo in the room with you type of production, I liked that about this album. Only difference is this was recorded in a church, that was recorded using a boss pedal (probably). Not actually sure which technique is sicker now that I type it out, but this is digressing. 4/5.
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