Oct 01 2024
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
I have never really listened to Cuban Music so this was an interesting start to this project. At first, I wasn't really into it but there were some songs, especially near the middle of this project that I found to be really interesting. There is a Wim Winders documentary about this album that I'm definitely going to watch. 6/10
3
Oct 02 2024
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Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
It's a hard album to hate. The only song I knew coming in was Mr. Blue Sky but a lot of the other songs have that cheery upbeat tone to them. The synth motif used throughout is interesting. Just a fun and enjoyable listen.
8/10
4
Oct 03 2024
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
Like every white boy from the Midwest, I had a huge Eminem phase in middle school. Outside of occasionally going back to the MMLP though, I don't think I've actually listened to one of his albums in full since high school. Most of these songs are classics if you can get past how bad they have aged.
7/10
3
Oct 04 2024
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Mothership Connection
Parliament
I know my dad loves this album. Never really got into funk but I actually recognized one of these songs from Always Sunny of All Places. It was alright but I don't see myself revisiting this any time soon.
6/10
3
Oct 05 2024
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Illmatic
Nas
I mean, some albums you just don't need to say anything. If Illmatic isn't the most respected rap album of all time, it's at least in the top 5. I've heard it a few times, and it's the definition of a classic. Either you like rap or you don't and it's the same probably for this album. It's full of classic after classic. Some of the sounds used for beats here are insane.
9/10
4
Oct 05 2024
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
It's fine. I've never been super into the Rolling Stones. Brown Sugar has aged badly and most of the other songs were not that memorable but it wasn't a bad listen.
6/10
3
Oct 06 2024
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Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
4
Oct 07 2024
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The Wildest!
Louis Prima
Not really feeling this. Most of the songs sound the same and the Big Band sound is not my style. I think I heard one of these songs in Home Alone or something one time, and another one which was a cover that I knew. Also sounds like a lot of these songs were originally old songs written by black artists that only got popular later when this white guy covered them.
3/10
2
Oct 08 2024
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
Meh. Some good but dragged in places. Overall I don't think I'll ever listen to it again.
4/10
2
Oct 09 2024
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
Never heard of this album, and I think had only really heard of this band in passing. I had no idea what to expect. I was blow away by it's interesting electronic sound.
8/10
4
Oct 10 2024
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Fun House
The Stooges
Now we're fucking talking. The Stooges have always been one of the best bands out there and I'm a big fan of them here. 7 songs, 37 minutes and they all slap. This might just be them at their best right here.
10/10
5
Oct 11 2024
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A Date With The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
If Music sounded like this still I might have already killed myself
2/10
1
Oct 12 2024
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Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
Super fun for the most part. A few times it just kinda felt like background music but it was definitely an enjoyable album to listen to.
6.5/10
3
Oct 13 2024
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Roots
Sepultura
For a metal album, the worst part of it is the Metal. There are basically two albums in here. One is a traditional metal album, sung in English that is meh. The other adds it's Brazilian roots to it and is amazing. More of that, please.
5/10
2
Oct 14 2024
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Clandestino
Manu Chao
3
Oct 15 2024
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Aja
Steely Dan
TBH I always thought of Steely Dan as more Southern/ Country rock but this was pretty groovy
3
Oct 16 2024
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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
Is this the best punk album of all time? If not it's top three easy, and defiantly the best Hardcore Punk album ever, as well as perhaps the one I listen to the most. I mean California Uber Alles is a top ten song all time, and you got hits like Holiday In Cambodia, Lets Lynch the Landlord, Kill The Poor and When Ya Get Drafted, all in a 35 minutes album. Perhaps the best punk band of all time at their peak.
10/10
5
Oct 17 2024
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Wild Wood
Paul Weller
I enjoyed the album but will probably never listen to it ever again.
6/10
3
Oct 18 2024
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Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
Never heard of this album but I recognized a couple of songs. It was alright.
6/10
3
Oct 19 2024
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Grace
Jeff Buckley
Always knew that this album was going to be great but this project finally forced me to listen. Didn't disappoint the dude had a great singing voice.
8/10
4
Oct 20 2024
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Tommy
The Who
WTF was this theatre core ass album?
3/10
2
Oct 21 2024
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Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
The first really long album I've run into, with multiple 6+ minute songs which were definitely the worst part. The shorter songs with more energy were a lot better tbh.
6/10
3
Oct 22 2024
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Moving Pictures
Rush
Enjoyable but outside of XYZ and Tom Sawyer it's not very memorable.
7/10
3
Oct 23 2024
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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
Honestly I only really got in 50 recently, despite the fact that he is a legend. Anyways, tons of bangers here even if it's a bit on the long side.
7/10
4
Oct 24 2024
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Apple Venus Volume 1
XTC
My first album here that wasn't on Spotify. Started out good but quickly felt like a Bettles ripoff, and also a song where the singer talks about being a fruit nut, and threatening (?) to blow someone a Raspberry. IDK.
5/10
2
Oct 25 2024
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
Very good. Velvet Underground just makes banger after banger
8/10
4
Oct 26 2024
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Zombie
Fela Kuti
Probably the best first listen I've had so far. I don't know how often I'm going to listen to 12-minute Afro-Beat songs but I'll enjoy it when I do.
8/10
4
Oct 27 2024
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Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
2
Oct 28 2024
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Remain In Light
Talking Heads
The bad part about listening to a normal Talking Heads album is everytime a song from Stop Making Sense comes on, I remember that the version on there is better, and if it isn't on Stop Making Sense I just think what a version of that song would sound like.
8/10
4
Oct 29 2024
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Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
I've never really "got" The War On Drugs. They aren't bad just never really clicked with me. I've seen them live at a festival one time and thought they put on a show but I don't really remember anything from them.
Anyways 6/10
3
Oct 30 2024
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Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
At first this was kind of a meh album, but about halfway through it clicked and I realized this album is amazing.
9/10
4
Oct 31 2024
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Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
Short but good, hard not to like
8/10
4
Nov 01 2024
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It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Yeah Yeah YEahs have been a band that I've always liked and listened to but never fully delved into until now. Came in with high expectations because of that and was not disappointed. This rocked and was very mesmerizing in a way.
8/10
4
Nov 02 2024
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Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
4
Nov 03 2024
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Opus Dei
Laibach
Well, It's good to know Yugoslavian Industrial Music is not my thing ig.
2/10
1
Nov 04 2024
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Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Solid old-school country rock not really much more to add. CCR is CCR.
7/10
3
Nov 05 2024
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The Score
Fugees
Don't honestly know why I've never really listed to the Fugees before this is right up my alley.
8/10
4
Nov 06 2024
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Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
I’ve heard some Paul Simon but this isn’t his best
2
Nov 07 2024
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Dummy
Portishead
Second time listening to this album. Better than the first time for sure. Could see myself listening a third time soon
7/10
3
Nov 08 2024
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Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
I'm not usually one for ambiant music like this, I guess I listen too intently but it wasn't bad even if it felt like music to put on in the background.
4/10
2
Nov 09 2024
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good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
This is the greatest rap album of all time. At least top 3 for me. Anyone who says TPAB is better is either pretentious or lying. I'm also shocked by the amount of low 1-2 star reviews for it on this site. I know that rap isn't for everyone but a shocking amount of them showed a lot of closed-mindedness. (which if you're going to do a project like this seems insane, at least to me. The whole point of this was to broaden my musical horizons and discover music I never would have found before). I've seen a lot of people calling the lyrics weak (are you even listening) and misogynistic/ sophomoric and like... that's the point. Kendrick is able to portray a kid growing up in the rough streets of Compton, trying to do everything to do good in his life but constantly weighed down by every single person around him. All told in a way where this album is closer to cinema than it is music to me.
I feel like it's rough to give something on here a perfect score because it always takes me a few listens to really, really truly get an album and this is the same case here but still, Kendrick is head and soldiers above almost everyone in his era of rap and this is still his magnum opus to me.
10/10
5
Nov 10 2024
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The Doors
The Doors
I was ready to give this like a 8 or 9/ 10 but then I listened to the lyrics on Alabama Song... Jim Morrison yikes my guy what are you doing?
5/10
3
Nov 11 2024
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Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
Came in expecting a Beatles rip off and it started out that way but turned a lot better in the end, mostly because this was surprisingly experimental. After that, it became a weird mix of classic and experimental that was quite interesting.
7/10
3
Nov 12 2024
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The Wall
Pink Floyd
I've always had a contentious relationship with Pink Floyd. Most of my musical taste came from my dad, who is one of the biggest audiophiles I know. The man could give you the history of everyone from Sinatra to Outkast and listened to them all. Despite this, for some reason, he haaaated Pink Floyd. I never really knew why because he seemed to like a lot of similar bands but outside of Wish You Were Here he would turn the channel every time they came on the radio.
I followed his lead for the most part when it came to music. In a way, I used him as a judgment on whether music was "good" or not so for the longest time, I considered Pink Floyd to be overrated. Then around college, I finally listened to DSOTM for the first time, and like every college student was absolutely blown away by it. I tried listening to the rest of the Pink Floyd discography but never really got into it (I was not a good listener then, and still probably not great now but whatever)
I'm glad I finally really listened to this album because while I always knew about the story of "The Wall" and the general concept I hadn't actually gotten able to listen to it fully and as someone who truly loves to listen to and hear stories in albums, it was great to here one of the best concept albums in full for the first time.
I said a lot without saying much, whatever
8/10
4
Nov 13 2024
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The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
A solid but not spectacular East Coast Hip-Hop album. It's a good listen that I could imagine listening to a few more times but compared to Illmatic, The Infamous and Enter the 36 Chambers, it's not something that's going to stand out.
7/10
3
Nov 14 2024
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Heavy Weather
Weather Report
Wallpaper music, I don't even really know anything about jazz and I'm disappointed that this is on here compared to probably better stuff.
3/10
2
Nov 15 2024
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Hot Shots II
The Beta Band
Listen to this while at work and I think that was the right way to listen to it. Not much to think about here.
4/10
2
Nov 16 2024
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Parachutes
Coldplay
People forget how good early Coldplay was before they sold out.
7/10
4
Nov 17 2024
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Tidal
Fiona Apple
I don't know what emotion I'm supposed to feel when i listen to the Police. Sad? Bored? Creeped out?
3/10
2
Nov 18 2024
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Synchronicity
The Police
Kinda boring and all over the place
3/10
2
Nov 19 2024
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
You know, compared to the next two albums they would release, I feel like Gorillaz's debut is a little bit overshadowed. It doesn't have the narrative tightness of Feel Good Inc. or Plastic Beach, and in a way, the sound here is a bit more wild and all over the place, maybe even garage/ punk. You can definitely tell the more DIY sound as Damion Albarn tries to figure everything out and I kinda miss that on the next few albums, even if they are better overall.
9/10
4
Nov 20 2024
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Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai
It's another ok but completely forgettable jazz album. Been very disappointed in their selection so far (not that I know much of anything about jazz)
6/10
3
Nov 21 2024
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In It For The Money
Supergrass
Really good, not for everyone i suspect but this was right up my alley
9/10
5
Nov 22 2024
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A Little Deeper
Ms. Dynamite
A solid record, it's honestly so hard to go bad on these old school hip hop records we should go back to that.
7/10
4
Nov 23 2024
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Be
Common
It's fine but I don't have a lot to remember or say about it.
5/10
3