Sep 26 2024
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Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
I agree it was probably the Muse best album, that’s not saying a lot. I found it derivative and ponderous.
3
Sep 27 2024
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
Probably the best collection of songs about the music industry and the toll it takes on artists.
5
Sep 30 2024
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That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
Loaded with iconic tracks, though not all of them hit. I can see why it’s on the list.
4
Oct 01 2024
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Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
One archetypal San Francisco sound track and two iconic Grace Slick songs surrounded by a ripoff rundown of all the best selling folk rock styles of the period. One star for being famous and a bonus star for Slick’s unmistakably genius contributions.
2
Oct 02 2024
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The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
4
Oct 03 2024
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KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
One of my favorites from my teenage years. Can’t go wrong. If I could give it 4.5 though, I’d dock it for a couple ponderous noise filler tracks. But they don’t seem worth a full point.
5
Oct 04 2024
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Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
This one was new to me. I’m a post punk, no wave fan, so it was a good fit.
3
Oct 09 2024
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Reign In Blood
Slayer
That was…interesting.
1
Oct 10 2024
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Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
First two tracks are classics and there are one or two additional decent tracks on this. Most I found to be exceedingly ponderous.
3
Oct 11 2024
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Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
Too high - DECENT
Visions - ROUGH
Living for the city - LIKE THAT
Golden Lady - DECENT
Higher Ground - STAMP
Jesus Children of American - weird but DECENT
All Love is Fair - ROUGH
Don’t you worry bout a thing - ROUGH
He’s misstra know it all - ROUGH
3
Oct 14 2024
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Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
Absolute classic.
4
Oct 16 2024
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Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
Kirkland brand Motown?
1
Oct 17 2024
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Vespertine
Björk
Classic
5
Oct 21 2024
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Stankonia
OutKast
It was fine I guess.
3
Oct 22 2024
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
This stinks.
2
Oct 23 2024
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Siembra
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
Solid 6 out of 7 tracks. And that last one wasn’t half bad.
4
Oct 24 2024
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B-52's
The B-52's
STAMP
5
Oct 25 2024
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Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
Absolute classic
5
Oct 28 2024
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Blunderbuss
Jack White
Meh.
2
Oct 29 2024
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The College Dropout
Kanye West
I don’t like Kanye. It’s official.
1
Oct 30 2024
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GI
Germs
It stinks
1
Nov 01 2024
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Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
Classic
4
Nov 04 2024
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1984
Van Halen
Much better than I expected.
3
Nov 05 2024
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The Yes Album
Yes
Much better than I would have expected
3
Nov 06 2024
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
One good song. Lots of meh ones
2
Nov 07 2024
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A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
Two famous and boring songs surrounded by not at all famous and boring songs.
3
Nov 08 2024
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Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
This stinks
1
Nov 11 2024
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Brothers
The Black Keys
3 good tracks out of 16, and more than half of those are so repetitive they could have been one or two long songs. Easily could have died without listening to most of it.
2
Nov 12 2024
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Absolute classic.
5
Nov 13 2024
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Hunky Dory
David Bowie
Great album. 7 five star songs out of 11 tracks. Not a bad score.
5
Nov 14 2024
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Purple Rain
Prince
I get why this a classic, but I can’t not see teal headbands and leg warmers when I hear this kind of music.
4
Nov 15 2024
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A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
This was a good one. I liked the feel (somewhere between Joy Division and U2) and the production quality was impressive. They could have cut down some of their songs though. The musicianship wasn’t quite enough to justify multiple 6 min + songs.
3
Nov 18 2024
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Morrison Hotel
The Doors
What’s not to love
4
Nov 19 2024
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Low
David Bowie
One or two good tracks but ambient electronica just isn’t my idea of a good time.
2
Nov 20 2024
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Kenya
Machito
Jazzy and bongorific
3
Nov 21 2024
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Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
This was terrible.
1
Nov 22 2024
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The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Interesting as a piece of music history. It blends 70’s funk and hip hop. I didn’t like it but it’s interesting
3
Nov 25 2024
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Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
4
Nov 26 2024
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Is This It
The Strokes
Fun little record.
4
Nov 27 2024
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Zombie
Fela Kuti
Nice if not my thing.
3
Nov 28 2024
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OK
Talvin Singh
Ew. I couldn’t eat to this.
2
Dec 06 2024
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American Pie
Don McLean
Wow.
1
Dec 09 2024
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Who's Next
The Who
Three out of ten songs forgettable filler, but the rest are essentially a best of record. I never realized how many of the Who songs I know from the radio came from this one record.
4
Dec 10 2024
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Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Contains at least 40% of the songs I know from the radio on one album. That’s worth something I’m sure.
3
Dec 11 2024
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1989
Taylor Swift
Good for her.
1
Dec 12 2024
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Microshift
Hookworms
Basically they found the market is for 7 minute MGMT songs, though I can’t fathom who that might be.
2
Dec 16 2024
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Thriller
Michael Jackson
It’s thriller. What are you gonna do.
4
Dec 17 2024
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
TL;DR
3
Dec 18 2024
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The Idiot
Iggy Pop
Some interesting tracks.
3
Dec 19 2024
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Hypnotised
The Undertones
Never heard of them and it had some solid tracks.
3
Dec 23 2024
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Frank
Amy Winehouse
First thing to say is that she was undeniably a generational talent. Having said that, while a couple of tracks managed to hit me in my jazz bone, in general it wasn’t to my tastes.
3
Dec 24 2024
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
My god that was terrible.
1
Dec 25 2024
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Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAH!!!
1
Dec 26 2024
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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
Great Christmas album, if you like Phil Spector’s early 60’s groups. Which I do.
4
Dec 27 2024
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New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
Pretty dull.
2
Dec 30 2024
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Revolver
Beatles
Probably one of my favorite albums ever.
5
Dec 31 2024
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Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
This is funkin’ great! One track that wasn’t my thing but the rest of it was incredible
4
Jan 01 2025
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Konnichiwa
Skepta
I don’t know much about hip hop but this is stupid.
1
Jan 02 2025
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I Against I
Bad Brains
It was alright
3
Jan 03 2025
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Stripped
Christina Aguilera
Meh
2
Jan 06 2025
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
Classic.
5
Jan 07 2025
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
I’d give it three and a half for containing that one song of theirs that everyone knows. Otherwise, a little too much 90’s post-punk Dadaism for my tastes.
3
Jan 08 2025
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Shleep
Robert Wyatt
Weird, but I liked it.
4
Jan 10 2025
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Hard Again
Muddy Waters
It’s Muddy Waters. Come on.
4
Jan 13 2025
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The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
Nice piano.
3
Jan 14 2025
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Garbage
Garbage
Made me feel like I was browsing in Spencer’s Gifts all over again.
3
Jan 15 2025
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Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
Not their best.
2
Jan 16 2025
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Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
Boo.
1
Jan 17 2025
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Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
5
Jan 20 2025
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A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
5
Jan 27 2025
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KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
Interesting start, but it kind of ended up all over the place stylistically.
3
Jan 28 2025
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Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
Classic
4
Jan 29 2025
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
5
Jan 31 2025
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Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
Boring
2
Feb 04 2025
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Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
3
Feb 05 2025
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Guero
Beck
All quality no filler
5
Feb 11 2025
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Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
Nick Drake is an incredible song writer and there are a number of great iconic songs on this one. Not a huge fan of the musical numbers though.
4
Feb 13 2025
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Low-Life
New Order
Good for what it is.
3
Feb 14 2025
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Station To Station
David Bowie
4
Feb 17 2025
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
Good band, bad singer.
3
Feb 18 2025
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Graceland
Paul Simon
3
Feb 19 2025
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This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
2
Feb 20 2025
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Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers
2
Feb 24 2025
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What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
5
Feb 25 2025
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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
5
Feb 27 2025
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Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
1
Mar 03 2025
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Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
It’s Willie Nelson, so how bad can it be?
4
Mar 05 2025
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Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
Well that was…um…something.
3
Mar 11 2025
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Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
4
Mar 12 2025
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Parallel Lines
Blondie
I definitely like elements of this kind of post-punk new wave scene but the sound is, to my taste, far too clean.
3
Mar 13 2025
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Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
I never gave PJ Harvey her dues. I regret that.
4
Mar 14 2025
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Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
3
Mar 17 2025
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Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
Decent. Nothing that stood out about it though.
3
Mar 18 2025
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The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
Goofy af
2
Mar 19 2025
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Live!
Fela Kuti
It was good but 16 minute songs are not compatible with my attention span.
2
Mar 20 2025
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21
Adele
3
Mar 24 2025
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
5
Mar 26 2025
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Make Yourself
Incubus
👌🏻 ….it stinks!
1
Mar 27 2025
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Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
Not into it.
1
Mar 31 2025
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Odelay
Beck
One of my personal favorites
4
Apr 01 2025
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Definitely Maybe
Oasis
3
Apr 02 2025
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Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds
I don’t get it.
2
Apr 03 2025
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With The Beatles
Beatles
5
Apr 04 2025
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Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
1
Apr 07 2025
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
4
Apr 08 2025
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All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
Ought to be five stars but it always bugged me that these could have three separate, really good albums, or two incredible ones.
4
Apr 09 2025
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In It For The Money
Supergrass
Super what now?
1
Apr 10 2025
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This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2
Apr 11 2025
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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4
Apr 14 2025
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Grace
Jeff Buckley
1
Apr 15 2025
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Aja
Steely Dan
No.
1