Aug 28 2024
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In It For The Money
Supergrass
Love the hell out of it (9.5) ★★★★½
4
Aug 29 2024
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
My 7th favorite Zepp album
(9.05) ★★★★½
4
Aug 30 2024
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Tapestry
Carole King
Fucking Classics 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
5
Aug 31 2024
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Remain In Light
Talking Heads
My absolute favorite Talking Heads album
5
Sep 01 2024
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Kid A
Radiohead
Well, after giving two listens, I will have to say this might be the best one I've heard to date. It starts of with everything thing in its right place. I actually love that opening track... BUT THEN, the title track is the same ok that's interesting, but it also feels cold and metallic. Maybe that was the feeling they were going for, if it was kudos, but it's not a feeling I look for in music. After that there are four key tracks that sold me, "The National Anthem", "Optimistic", "Morning Bell", and "Motion Picture Soundtrack"... But there are two tracks that lost in that me completely in that Radiohead experimental haze, "Treefingers" and "Idioteque". The other two main tracks I do like enough, though I can't say they neither added or detracted from my overall opinion of the album.
(8.75) ★★★★
4
Sep 02 2024
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Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Hüsker Dü
Man I hated every fucking second of this album. This is definitely the kind of 80s punk my friends woukd try to get me into in high school and I never liked it. It literally makes no sense to me.
(3.75) ★½
1
Sep 03 2024
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Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
Loved the mix of rock with native African melodies in top. I can really get into this.
4
Sep 04 2024
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The Predator
Ice Cube
This is really not up my alley, but I get it, and I get why it's looked up to. There are some songs I did like most noatably the opening track "When Will They Shoot" and "Check Yo Self". But for the most part thus taps into thoughts an emotions I'm not exactly comfortable with. I also think that in a way it's supposed to take me there.
I may not like listening to it, but I do respect it's place in musical discourse.
(5.75) ★★½
3
Sep 05 2024
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Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets
8.3 ★★★★
Could have been higher if I liked his vocals better, but band wise I freakin loved it.
4
Sep 06 2024
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Different Class
Pulp
3
Sep 07 2024
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Garbage
Garbage
An album I loved in my college years. Holds up pretty well for me today... At least the first ⅔ of it. The opening three songs really kick! Kind get a bit fillery at the end. But it closes nicely with "Milk" which has a nice James Bond theme sound, which would prove advantageous a few years later.
(8.8) ★★★★
4
Sep 08 2024
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Dear Science
TV On The Radio
Like with most Millennial alt, I find it kind of interesting, yet just out of my total appreciation.
(7.25) ★★★½
3
Sep 09 2024
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Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
Though I do like this album quite a bit, I've never been sold on the GOAT reputation it has. That being said Sloop John B. is a magnificent song!
(7.75) ★★★½
4
Sep 10 2024
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Hot Fuss
The Killers
8.4 ★★★★ The first six tracks are off the hook... Then only 1 of the last five. But overall quite an enjoyable listen
4
Sep 11 2024
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Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
Absolutely love this album
(9.5)
4
Sep 12 2024
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Sunshine Superman
Donovan
I thought I'd like this one more... Strangely I think side 2 was the better side. Especially with both "Season of the Witch" and "Fat Angel" on that side.
(8.1) ★★★★
4
Sep 13 2024
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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
Oooh! I listened to this last year for the first time... It was an instant fiver!
(10) ★★★★★
5
Sep 14 2024
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You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
I actually like the grooves of this album but far too repetitive for it's hour long runtime. Probably could stand it more if I had some X on hand. But I still love "Praise You" like I did way back then, and really dug the surf music samples in "Soul Surfing". I also really enjoyed "Right Here. Right Now", but that was before I realized this repetitive groove thing takes up about 80% to 90% of the album.
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3
Sep 15 2024
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Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
I really enjoyed the way this album started off, but as the album wore on I don't know if I was feeling disconnected with the changing styles or if it was just going to far in areas that for the most part don't interest me. It is beautifully produced and I can see why some people would get something out of this. But for me after "Broken Skin", "Letting Go", "Homelands" and "Tides" nothing else quite reached me. After the first five tracks, I was aiming for a strong four, but after the Journey of the subsequent seven tracks, I'm landing on a
(2.85) ★★½
3
Sep 16 2024
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Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
The Residents
Um... yeah.
(3.4) ★½
1
Sep 17 2024
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At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
Fantastic live album!
(9.2) ★★★★½
4
Sep 18 2024
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Hms Fable
Shack
Enjoyed the album, but as far as Beatlesque Brit pop goes, there were ones better and earlier than this. Not sure why this would be deemed essential.
(7.9) ★★★½
4
Sep 19 2024
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Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
I really liked the album, though this kind of low fi slacker rock isn't always my thing, but most of this fit right onto my taste. Especially some of the solos kinda sporadically sprinkled through out the album.
(8.5) ★★★★
4
Sep 20 2024
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Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
To me Janis carries the band, which to me the band gave me Jefferson Airplane vibes. In fact, I kinda feel like this album is a lesser Crown of Creation which was recorded and released about the same time. (both being Bay Area bands, there was probably some cross influence going on). The two songs where Sam Andrew takes the lead vocals are easily my least favorite songs of the set. Pretty much through the entire play... until "Ball and Chain" which is the crown jewel of this album. Not only is her vocals just on top of it, the dark distorted guitar work of Andrew absolutely kills. I think that one 9 min epic closing the album definitely lands this in 4 territory
(8.25) ★★★★
4
Sep 21 2024
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Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
Absolute classic from my middle school years! (9.25) ★★★★½
4
Sep 22 2024
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Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor [2006]
Didn't like it all that much, seemed rather derivative to me. "Just Might Be OK" reminded me of Beyoncé's "Crazy In Love". "The Instrumental" reminded me of Linkin Park. For the most part he sounds like a protege of Jay-Z maybe with a little bit of Emenem's slower flow. I dug some of the music bed and samples, but to me this is pretty much down the line aughts hip hop to me. Again I'm not a rap guy so I ain't the person this album was aimed.
With out counting the 12min of shout outs. I should because it's actually part of the album, but I'm not. There is a reason most people walk out of the movies during the credits.
Im going with a (5.5) ★★½
2
Sep 23 2024
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Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
I prefer a couple of Pixies abums to this, Doolittle and Basanova for sure. On par maybe a bit better than Surfer Rosa. Still a great album overall
(8.6) ★★★★
4
Sep 24 2024
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All Directions
The Temptations
I did like side one a heck of a list getter than side two. Still liked I "Ain't Got Nothing" and the Isaac Hayes cover "Do Your Thing" off side two as well.
(8.1) ★★★★
4
Sep 25 2024
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Survivor
Destiny's Child
What I liked about the album...
"Survivor", "Emotion" (sorry, I'm a sucker for a well written Gibb/Gibb song), and "Dangerously In Love".
I kinda dig the a capella harmonies on "Gospel Medley", I just wish there was more emotion behind it. It doesn't breathe.
What I hated... Pretty much everything else.
(5.3) ★★½
2
Sep 26 2024
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The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
Donald Fagen - Nightflyer
The first two songs on each side have the makings of five star album. "I.G.Y.", "Green Flower Street", "New Frontier", and "The Nightflyer" all have the makings of the perfect follow up to "Aja" (better than *Goucho* at least)
The rest... are... I guess fine songs. "Maxine" is the best of the rest, but the Steely Dan-ing of a Drifters/Leiber&Stoller classic is comical at best.
This comes close to matching the magic of the classic six run of Dan, but not quite
(8.7) ★★★★
4
Sep 27 2024
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For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
(3.75) ★★★½
4
Sep 28 2024
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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
(7.6) ★★★½
3
Sep 29 2024
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Either Or
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith - Either/OR (9.7) ⭐⭐⭐⭐½
4
Sep 30 2024
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New Boots And Panties
Ian Dury
I liked the album, but I can't take it seriously one bit. It reminds me of something Eric Idol would come up with for Dirk McQuickly
(7.5) ★★★½
3
Oct 01 2024
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
Side one I loved a light 4½, but the second half lost me... Except for the closer.. I loved that one.
I'm keeping the volume unit meter at 3.75 ★★★½
4
Oct 02 2024
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Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
9.5 ★★★★½
4
Oct 03 2024
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Lost Souls
Doves
Very Coldplayish
(7.8) ★★★½
4
Oct 04 2024
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Gold
Ryan Adams
Still a classic in my book
(10) ★★★★★
5
Oct 05 2024
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Blur
Blur
Back in 2022, I gave this (7.5) ★★★½ on my 1997 dive.
After giving it a relisten, we'll, it is very front loaded. The first eight tracks I was like what was I thinking... 4½ easy. But from "Chinese Bombs" on it's a flat 3½. To make matters worse I truly disliked "Essex Dogs" (ending on a song I kinda hate is a good way to bomb a score)
But this time I'm going up to a light 4... It's easily the best Britpop album we've heard so far. It's not a carbon copy of other Britpop acts. It's got it's own swagger, and I like that about this album. Even if the back half falls off a bit.
Blur [1997]
(8.1) ★★★★
4
Oct 06 2024
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In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
(10) ★★★★★
5
Oct 07 2024
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The Man Who
Travis
Well my favorite song was the hidden track "Flashing Blue Lights" the only track on this that kinds rocked it out a bit... The rest just reminded me of that kind of mopy post-Brit pop kind of in the likes of Keane (which I hope I don't jynx us and summon them up in our randomizer)
It's fine, I kinda like it, but it's a light 3½.
(7.2) ★★★½
3
Oct 08 2024
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Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
Absolute Stevie banger! (10) ★★★★★
5
Oct 09 2024
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
6.8 ★★★
It's fine well recorded, great players, but the music didn't strike me a anything out of the ordinary. Kinda by the book.
3
Oct 10 2024
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Aja
Steely Dan
Straight up fiver
(10) ★★★★★
5
Oct 11 2024
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New Forms
Roni Size
Roni Size & Resprazent - New Forms (79)
Not as bad as I was expecting
(4.01) ★★
Roni Size & Resprazent - New Forms (140)
Oh God, kill me now!
(3.25) ★½
1
Oct 12 2024
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Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
Bowie Banger (10) ★★★★★
5
Oct 13 2024
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Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
I actually really love what EC is doing on this album. And the song more centered around the guitar really burn. But quite often when the guitar was not the main focus, it feels like a lesser British pop band.
John Mayall with Eric Clapton - Blues Breakers (8.8) ★★★★
4
Oct 14 2024
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Hotel California
Eagles
4
Oct 15 2024
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The Wall
Pink Floyd
10 ★★★★
5
Oct 16 2024
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Fifth Dimension
The Byrds
8.2 ★★★★
4
Oct 17 2024
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Arrival
ABBA
I'm sorry but Abba does nothing for me as a whole. Thier music is so comically Eurovision down the line to me... Best song on the album for me was "Knowing Me Knowing You" the only other songs I actually liked were the bonus tracks (in fact I liked both of them better than "KMKY")
(5.7) ★★½
2
Oct 18 2024
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Fiver... Too easy
5
Oct 19 2024
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Blue
Joni Mitchell
Magnificently beautiful album.
(10) ★★★★★
5
Oct 20 2024
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Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
For some reason I've always held this album to a high regard but never really listen to it all that much at least not as much as *The Hurting*. And I think a lot of it has to do with the big singles definitely "Shout", my favorite, and "Head Over Heels"are just magnificent... and" Everybody Wants To Rule The World" is undeniably a perfect little pop song. But not much else draws my attention.... Side 2 itself, other than the aforementioned "Head Over Heels", seem to be more about sonic texture rather than song craft and it kinda lost me there.
High 3.5, but 4 on the app
(7.8) ★★★½
4
Oct 21 2024
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Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
If there is one thing I found Magnificent about the Tom Waits album it is the fact that it sounds so natural that it is pretty much unlike anything I associate with 1985. I absolutely adore the sonics he was going for. As for the material I'm a little less sure where I want to go as far as rating it because I enjoy it but it's not something that I would want to pull out and listen regularly. But it is rather charming in its own right. I really kind of dig a lot in the early part of the album the kind of New Orleans feel. In some ways it kind of almost made me feel like I was listening to a musical production by Tim Burton. So I imagine Danny Elfman was very inspired by this album.
I must admit I did not know that he wrote "Downtown Train" which is never been one of my favorite Rod Stewart songs. I do much prefer Tom Waits mainly because Rod Stewart at the point where he recorded it was basically making everything sound like a bland pop song where Tom Waits almost gives like this springsteen-esque delivery that gave it some urgency.
All in all it's a real solid four for me though
(8.67) ★★★★
4
Oct 22 2024
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Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
My #3 all timer 10 ★★★★★
5
Oct 23 2024
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We Are Family
Sister Sledge
I'm going (4.8) ★★
The hit was the highlight and the closer.. Thee rest did nothing fir me, in fact the slower songs were utter snooze-fests. Not my kind of Disco.
I don't find this album exemplary of disco... I'm not sure why its inclusion
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