Jul 18 2024
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Nevermind
Nirvana
4
Jul 19 2024
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Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
I don’t like Bruce Springsteen and think he is the lesser of NJ’s 2 Native Sons who made it big in 80s rock. After listening, I respect him a little more and get more where he’s coming from, but I’m still no fan.
3
Jul 20 2024
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Blue Lines
Massive Attack
It’s extremely instrumentally interesting, drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences. It’s a cool bridge between 80s/90s hip hop, and I can hear stuff here that artists are still doing now. Lyrics are vapid af tho.
73/100
3
Jul 21 2024
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
I’ve never actually listened to Pink Floyd before this. It is practically instrumentally perfect. The arrangements and performance are incredible. The lyrics left me wanting in spots and weren’t as cohesive as I’d like.
5
Jul 22 2024
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Murmur
R.E.M.
The only remarkable thing about this record is the release date. In context, I’m sure it was a wildly revolutionary sound, but 41 years later it sounds like any other 90s alt record.
3
Jul 23 2024
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Cloud Nine
The Temptations
Instrumentally and vocally gorgeous. Marvin Gaye’s version of Grapevine is far superior though. The title track blows the rest out of the water.
4
Jul 24 2024
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The Undertones
The Undertones
This album is so much fun. I’m honestly upset that I’d never heard of this band before, it’s some of the best early punk I’ve ever heard.
4
Jul 25 2024
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Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
I liked this a lot more than I expected, as someone who doesn’t often enjoy hip hop. Maybe it’s the Britishness of it that presents some novelty.
4
Jul 26 2024
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Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
It combines all of my least favorite things about indie/alt music from the late 2000s: overreliance on poorly produced electronic elements, bad vocals, and a faux self-effacing pretentiousness. Last track is good tho
3
Jul 27 2024
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Moving Pictures
Rush
Tom Sawyer is classic
Red Barchetta is adventurous
YYZ is virtuosic
Limelight is challenging
Camera Eye is expansive
Witch Hunt is thought provoking
Vital Signs
5
Jul 28 2024
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Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
This sounds a lot like most other late 90s-early 00s rap that I’m familiar with. The beats are extremely well produced, but the most notable thing about Missy’s lyrics is the career they precede
3
Jul 29 2024
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Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
There’s a certain crassness that comes with the territory of what he’s trying to go with here, but he pushes it past its limits at certain points for a shock value that, as a contemporary of Eminem and RATM, just isn’t there.
4
Jul 30 2024
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Melodrama
Lorde
So wonderfully captures that carefree neo-boho moment of the mid teens, but low energy pop has never been my jam.
4
Jul 31 2024
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The White Room
The KLF
After reading up on The KLF, I feel like listening to this album in a relative vacuum takes a lot of the punch out of it. Interesting and eclectic genre mix that, when it works, works well, but when it doesn’t, kinda sucks.
3
Aug 01 2024
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I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
Nearly 60 years after this album came out, it sounds like cliché crying cowboy country, but I can’t help but think that it wasn’t yet a cliché in its time. The last 3 tracks are great, too.
3
Aug 02 2024
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3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
This is the kind of music I hoped I’d hear when getting into this project. It’s high energy, thoughtful, poignant, and the instrumentation and sampling are so creative and interesting without coming off as experimental.
5
Aug 03 2024
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Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
I get what they’re going for, I just don’t really like it that much. The frequent dissonance and long instrumental sections perfectly set that moody, mopey tone you expect from the cure, I’m just not crazy about it.
3
Aug 04 2024
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Dummy
Portishead
Bored to tears, tbh. It was musically very nice, but the genre just didn’t do it for me at all.
3
Aug 05 2024
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Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
Really pleasant country pop that doesn’t pretend to be something it’s not. The lyricism is excellent even if there isn’t much variation musically.
4
Aug 06 2024
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
Beautifully crafted, raw, honest examination of the central themes of relationships within the context of addiction and economic difficulty.
4
Aug 07 2024
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Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Too experimental and artsy for my taste. The high energy sections often worked very well, the guitar solos were great, but I just don’t feel like it worked as a cohesive piece.
3
Aug 08 2024
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Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers
I’m a sucker for southern rock and good storytelling. The killer guitar solos don’t hurt either. I’m definitely coming back to this one.
4
Aug 09 2024
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I See You
The xx
I’m already vaguely familiar with this record, but I confess that it’s better than I remember. Pop-leaning IDM that retains a lot of the charm of their earlier successes while not settling or sounding stale.
4
Aug 10 2024
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Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
The highs were extremely high—excellent lyricism and messaging. The lows came off as corny and gauche.
4
Aug 11 2024
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Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3
Aug 12 2024
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Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
A solid 90s alt-rock offering. Hard to beat it, but can’t call it perfect either.
4
Aug 13 2024
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The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
It’s Ella Fitzgerald and George Gershwin, how do you miss? That being said, it’s also 3 hours long so I’ll cop to not listening to all of it.
5
Aug 14 2024
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Boston
Boston
If this had been released 10 years later, it would be significantly less remarkable. But to so flawlessly capture the best parts of 80s rock in the 70s makes this exceptional.
5
Aug 16 2024
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BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
3
Aug 17 2024
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Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
5
Aug 18 2024
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Your Arsenal
Morrissey
The instrumentals were exceptional and exciting, but Morrissey just seemed vocally bored the entire time. I get how some people might be drawn to this, but it’s not for me.
3
Aug 19 2024
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Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon
90s hip hop sensibilities at its core but with a lot of interesting variations. On the edges. Still not really my thing but I can respect creativity.
3
Aug 20 2024
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Be
Common
Jazz instrumentation and general positivity make it stand out, but there are lots of pretty mainstream early 2000s hip hop elements that just don’t land with me.
4
Aug 21 2024
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Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
This was way more pleasant than I anticipated it would be. Actively calming without being sonically boring.
4
Aug 22 2024
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The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
Tbh, I feel like they did the whole Beatles-esque folky rock minstrel show better than the Beatles. A little derivative but really pleasant.
4
Aug 23 2024
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Mott
Mott The Hoople
I expected something fully unserious and got some decent groovy tunes. The guitars were especially nice
4
Aug 24 2024
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This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
I can’t tell if it’s hackneyed or influential but I know it sounds like songs I’ve heard a thousand times before in the corniest way.
2
Aug 25 2024
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Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce’s storytelling skills are without parallel, but here he decides to couch them within the most boring music you could possibly imagine.
2
Aug 26 2024
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A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
2
Aug 27 2024
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
5
Aug 28 2024
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If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
I hate that I’m starting to enjoy these late 60s/early 70s folk-based rock albums. Still a little too woo-woo for me, and I still can’t get into the airy vocals over acoustic guitars, but the more uptempo sections hit just right.
4
Aug 29 2024
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
Side A is better storytelling, side B is catchier. All in all, a solid solid album.
4
Aug 30 2024
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Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
He tries to blend rock, pop, country, and even a little folk, to the detriment of most of those genres.
3
Aug 31 2024
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The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
2
Sep 01 2024
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Django Django
Django Django
The worst of early teens indie sleaze without what made genre standouts good. It actively irritated me.
2
Sep 02 2024
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Permission to Land
The Darkness
4
Sep 03 2024
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Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
The wordplay and lyricism and instrumentation and arrangement are mindblowing, but it does feel like a bit of a relic that doesn’t sound very 2002
5
Sep 04 2024
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Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
I love punk, but man this is exceptionally mid.
4
Sep 05 2024
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Mask
Bauhaus
3
Sep 06 2024
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
5
Sep 07 2024
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The Score
Fugees
4
Sep 08 2024
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Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
5
Sep 09 2024
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Next
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3
Sep 10 2024
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Dookie
Green Day
5
Sep 11 2024
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
2
Sep 12 2024
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Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
The title track is exceptional. The rest of it, with the reggae schtick and Caribbean vocal affectation, gets old really quick.
4
Sep 13 2024
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Heavy Weather
Weather Report
Birdland is a certified classic but the rest just sounds like elevator music.
3
Sep 14 2024
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Bossanova
Pixies
2
Sep 15 2024
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Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
I can’t stand his voice and it seems like he took all of the least pleasant aspects of experimental rock at the time and smushed them together.
2
Sep 16 2024
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Out of Step
Minor Threat
So much respect for minor threat but their later stuff just hits better.
4
Sep 17 2024
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Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
Perfectly pleasant jazz. The bass player is incredible.
4
Sep 18 2024
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Shaft
Isaac Hayes
The instrumental sections were especially nice. Groovy, interesting, dynamic.
4
Sep 19 2024
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All Hope Is Gone
Slipknot
Hell yeah slipknot
5
Sep 20 2024
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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
There is practically nothing remarkable about the instrumentation, the lyrics are so-so, and her voice is downright annoying. I’m not surprised that I’ve never heard of PJ Harvey; there’s not much of not to have heard.
1
Sep 21 2024
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Aja
Steely Dan
3
Sep 22 2024
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Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
Ridiculous Halloween circus music
2
Sep 23 2024
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Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
Really pleasant, sounded like a jazzier Phil Collins
4
Sep 24 2024
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Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
It was hard to divorce what I know of the Foos from my listening experience. It’s not as good as what came later, but on its own isn’t a bad album.
4
Sep 25 2024
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Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
It would’ve been better as a concert film, but regardless, it’s wonderful. Groovy, dynamic, artistic, I’ll definitely come back to this.
5
Sep 26 2024
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Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
Regardless of any issues I take with their premises (though only a few), it’s damn fine rock and roll. The in ovation and technicality, paired with the passion and emotion, make this an incredible album.
5
Sep 27 2024
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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
I appreciate the artistry, but there was too much chaos and dissonance for me to actually enjoy it as a whole.
3
Sep 28 2024
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I Should Coco
Supergrass
Post punk but more on the punk side. I liked this way more than I expected to, despite the popular song being one of the worst on the album.
4
Sep 29 2024
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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
4
Sep 30 2024
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I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
4
Oct 01 2024
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Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
Drony whiny indie garbage
2
Oct 02 2024
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Done By The Forces Of Nature
Jungle Brothers
Just a touch too old school for my tastes, but I appreciate that they were innovative for the time.
4
Oct 03 2024
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Scum
Napalm Death
The instrumentals were excellent—raw, but passionate and well executed. The vocals sounded like a drunk Sylvester Stallone recorded them from outside the booth, and tbh did a disservice to the thoughtful lyrics.
3
Oct 04 2024
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evermore
Taylor Swift
It’s really just Taylor poppifying 2010s indie sleaze. Doesn’t mean it’s not good, but it’s neither the best TSwift album nor the best downtempo pop album of its era.
4
Oct 05 2024
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Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
3
Oct 06 2024
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White Ladder
David Gray
It’s wonderfully pleasant, but I can’t imagine how it’s possibly influential enough to be included on this list.
3
Oct 07 2024
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Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
5
Oct 08 2024
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Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
Groovy, pleasant, I kept saying to myself “hey I know that song from a movie”
4
Oct 09 2024
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Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear
2
Oct 10 2024
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The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
Truly the best of 2010s indie pop. It’s energetic and dynamic without losing its depth.
5
Oct 11 2024
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Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
3
Oct 12 2024
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The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
The storytelling and ability to stay around the central theme of the shock of fame are excellent. Beats don’t quite do it for me tho.
4
Oct 13 2024
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Kenya
Machito
It’s so dynamic and exciting and creative. I’m honestly mad at myself that I’d never heard of Machito before this.
5
Oct 14 2024
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Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds
Perfectly fine folk based Beatles style rock, but absolutely not my jam.
3
Oct 15 2024
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Raw Power
The Stooges
I wanted so badly to like it. It’s high energy alternative rock. What’s not to like? But the mixing job was absolutely atrocious and was so distracting that I couldn’t focus on anything else.
3
Oct 16 2024
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Headquarters
The Monkees
It’s just diet Beatles. Fine for others. Nor for me.
3
Oct 17 2024
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Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
Divorcing it from what I know of Aerosmith, it’s satisfyingly bluesy and more interesting than their later stuff to be sure.
4
Oct 18 2024
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Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello
So preposterously corny
2
Oct 19 2024
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London Calling
The Clash
Innovative, a great blend of punk and outside influences. I just don’t love those outside influences lol
4
Oct 20 2024
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Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.
1
Oct 21 2024
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Like A Prayer
Madonna
The high energy stuff is some of the best pop I’ve ever heard but she loses me on the ballads.
4
Oct 22 2024
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
4
Oct 23 2024
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Space Ritual
Hawkwind
Not one of the best jam bands I’ve ever heard but their energy is undeniable.
3
Oct 24 2024
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Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
5
Oct 25 2024
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Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners
Not quite country, not quite rock, not quite pop, not quite anything enough to be worth listening to.
2
Oct 26 2024
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Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
Not quite as sharp as its contemporaries. It was fine but didn’t quite hit the soulful spot as other similar notable albums.
3
Oct 27 2024
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Triangle
The Beau Brummels
The fact that the whole Beatles-esque minstrel sound was ever popular is an enduring mystery to me.
2
Oct 28 2024
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Traffic
Traffic
It’s really only redeemed by its blues influences. The whole Beatles style minstrel folk rock movement doesn’t hit with me, and it’s hard for me to be objective about how it could hit with others.
3
Oct 29 2024
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Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
I really dug the bluesy instrumentals but the vocals would’ve been bad even if I spoke the language.
4
Oct 30 2024
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Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
I really wanted to like this more than I did. The softer rock songs are significantly better than the fast paced or hip hop stuff, and the lyrics are straight nonsense across the board.
3
Oct 31 2024
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Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
I get that it was influential, but it doesn’t even sound innovative for its time. I can hear the bits and pieces of the music that followed, the just don’t quite understand why this album was the one everyone keyed in on.
2
Nov 01 2024
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S&M
Metallica
5
Nov 02 2024
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White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
3
Nov 03 2024
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System Of A Down
System Of A Down
4
Nov 04 2024
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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
3
Nov 05 2024
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Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
4
Nov 06 2024
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Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
I really like Isaac Hayes but omg why do the songs need to be 11 minutes long
3
Nov 07 2024
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Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
That first track did not age well omg
2
Nov 08 2024
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Live At The Regal
B.B. King
He’s not the king for nothing.
5
Nov 09 2024
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Smash
The Offspring
5
Nov 10 2024
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Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1
Nov 11 2024
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Pelican West
Haircut 100
Maybe it’s just because I had such low expectations but I adored this. The fusion of high energy post punk with afro and latin jazz influence is so insane and so fun.
5
Nov 12 2024
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Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
3
Nov 13 2024
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xx
The xx
3
Nov 14 2024
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MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
4
Nov 15 2024
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I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
3
Nov 16 2024
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Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4
Nov 17 2024
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Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
3
Nov 18 2024
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Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
4
Nov 19 2024
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
5
Nov 20 2024
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Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
If Bob Dylan’s voice didn’t sound like the sonic equivalent of floppy pizza, this album would be incredible.
4
Nov 21 2024
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Eagles
Eagles
4
Nov 22 2024
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Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
3
Nov 23 2024
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Ten
Pearl Jam
5
Nov 24 2024
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The Yes Album
Yes
5
Nov 25 2024
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Bad Company
Bad Company
4
Nov 26 2024
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Abbey Road
Beatles
4
Nov 27 2024
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Idlewild
Everything But The Girl
4
Nov 28 2024
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Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2
Nov 29 2024
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Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
2
Dec 01 2024
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Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Bill Callahan
1
Dec 02 2024
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Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3
Dec 03 2024
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Tommy
The Who
4
Dec 04 2024
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The Wildest!
Louis Prima
4
Dec 05 2024
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Phrenology
The Roots
3
Dec 06 2024
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Hms Fable
Shack
2
Dec 07 2024
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Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
3
Dec 08 2024
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Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
2
Dec 09 2024
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Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
4
Dec 10 2024
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Hard Again
Muddy Waters
4
Dec 11 2024
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Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
4
Dec 12 2024
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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
4
Dec 13 2024
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Rocks
Aerosmith
3