Oct 29 2024
Tommy
The Who
At first, I liked it. The musicality was interesting and the 60s English folk influences were enjoyable. But then itโs just essentially a continuous flow of the same thing over and over again for an hour.
The rock opera concept itself is imo just an exercise in masturbation.
Standout songs to me were The Acid Queen and Welcome. Both of those I listened to twice but on the whole I doubt this is an album Iโd ever revisit.
2
Oct 30 2024
Kala
M.I.A.
Frenetic and unique production. Not something Iโd sink into often but thereโs some interesting textures going on. The songs that give me a more south Asian inspired vibe I like a lot (Jimmy).
Lyrical content is on the whole pretty stupid and I would say is one of the weaker parts of the album - Missy or Nicki she is not.
2
Oct 31 2024
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Why is Nick Cave so great?
Why is any artist who cut their teeth in the zero hour immediately after punk so great?
4
Nov 01 2024
Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
No.
1
Nov 04 2024
Grace
Jeff Buckley
5
Nov 06 2024
Country Life
Roxy Music
4
Nov 07 2024
Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
Some of itโs cool but thereโs just this air of tongue in cheek, pretentious heavy handedness that I find kind of boring.
2
Nov 08 2024
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
3
Nov 11 2024
Green
R.E.M.
4
Nov 13 2024
Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
4
Nov 14 2024
Blue
Joni Mitchell
4
Nov 18 2024
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
3
Nov 20 2024
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
Some of itโs fun and enjoyable, but a lot of it really drives home why this band is a one hit wonder (at least in the US).
2
Nov 21 2024
Dust
Screaming Trees
4
Nov 25 2024
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
No frills, no pretension, no overwrought production, no โcleverโ lyrical quips, no tryhard striving to create something โprofoundโ - B.B. King didnโt need any of that.
Grade A badassery, one of the pinnacles of a music genre thatโs in the genome of essentially every style of modern music in the United States and beyond.
Guy showed more genuine emotion in 34 minutes than some artists do in their entire career. And the fact that this was recorded in Chicago, a city whose Blues cred is second only to the Mississippi delta, only makes me love it more.
5
Nov 26 2024
Stardust
Willie Nelson
3
Nov 27 2024
Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
3
Nov 28 2024
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
4
Dec 02 2024
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
4
Dec 04 2024
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
4
Dec 06 2024
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
Really enjoyable low key folk, never really gave him a listen and I may explore a bit more.
3
Dec 09 2024
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
4
Dec 10 2024
Superunknown
Soundgarden
This sounds like what some dude would blast at full volume in his Impala after he just gay bashed a kid outside a bar in the mid 90s.
2
Dec 11 2024
White Ladder
David Gray
Everything sounds vaguely familiar here. I canโt tell if heโs a โmusiciansโ musicianโ that has incredible influence etc or if itโs just the late 90s. Itโs not at all bad, itโs not amazing, it just *is*. I donโt think Iโd add any songs to my regular rotation but I somewhat enjoy most of it.
3
Dec 12 2024
The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
Overall really enjoyed this. I think I like it more than Born in the USA (a previous listen on this list). Itโs possible that exposure is giving me a deeper appreciation for the artist.
Worlds apart is a song I really liked.
4
Dec 13 2024
Psychocandy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4
Dec 17 2024
Queen II
Queen
Iโll say that I didnโt completely hate it, but like the rest of Queenโs output, it really does not do anything for me. I just donโt like that 70s excess prog-ish sound. Itโs so self-aggrandizing and artificially constructed.
So while it wasnโt the worst thing Iโve listened to on this list, it didnโt change my opinion of Queen at all. Not a fan.
2
Dec 18 2024
Is This It
The Strokes
Catchy if not inventive 00s indie.
3
Dec 24 2024
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
So a lot of these songs were like โoh, this is dire straits? Yea I know this songโ and then they went on wayyyyyy too long. Every single song on this album needs to be cut by 2-6 minutes.
Shoutout to โBrothers in Armsโ being a pivotal moment in the West Wing. But thatโs about the only shoutout I can give it. This is way too adult contemporary for me and way too cheesy and schmaltzy.
2
Dec 25 2024
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
Fun and poppy. Itโs very 90s but they did some interesting things on the album and I think they married straight electronica with classic pop pretty effectively. Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Stoned to Say the Least, and Like the Swallow are standouts for me. But an honorable mention to Wilson for being batshit.
4
Dec 26 2024
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
Merry Christmas and stuff!
4
Dec 30 2024
25
Adele
Merry Christmas and stuff!
4
Jan 01 2025
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
In 2000, I was 12. This was so fucking cool to listen to and to have someone really speak to all that 12 year old suburban rage.
But now Iโm 36, and by god are the lyrics childish and terrible, the music boring, and everything about it a joke. Fred Durst is and has always been a malignant twat and this is such a boring way to be โedgy.โ
1
Jan 02 2025
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
5
Jan 07 2025
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
4
Jan 09 2025
In Our Heads
Hot Chip
3
Jan 10 2025
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
Jan 14 2025
Bossanova
Pixies
Everything about this is top tier for me.
5
Jan 15 2025
John Prine
John Prine
3
Jan 20 2025
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
3
Jan 22 2025
The Who Sell Out
The Who
I feel like people canโt actually take this stuff seriously, I donโt know.
2
Jan 23 2025
Like A Prayer
Madonna
3
Jan 28 2025
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
5
Jan 29 2025
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
2
Jan 31 2025
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
Spirit
3
Feb 03 2025
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
4
Feb 04 2025
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
Shelter from the Storm is a great song but overall this isnโt my favorite Bob record. I generally enjoy the earlier stuff. 3.8 stars, almost a four.
3
Feb 12 2025
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
4
Feb 24 2025
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4
Mar 06 2025
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
5
Mar 07 2025
Illmatic
Nas
4
Mar 10 2025
Play
Moby
2
Mar 11 2025
xx
The xx
4
Mar 13 2025
Cut
The Slits
3
Mar 14 2025
Fun House
The Stooges
4
Mar 21 2025
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
4
Mar 25 2025
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
3
Mar 28 2025
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3
Mar 31 2025
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
5
Apr 03 2025
What's That Noise?
Coldcut
Some interesting and enjoyable stuff here but itโs a bit uneven for the length.
3
Apr 04 2025
Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
3
Apr 07 2025
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
5
Apr 08 2025
Revolver
Beatles
4
Apr 10 2025
Orbital 2
Orbital
4
Apr 15 2025
1999
Prince
3
Apr 17 2025
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
4.5~
4
Apr 21 2025
In Utero
Nirvana
4
Apr 23 2025
Kimono My House
Sparks
3
Apr 29 2025
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
3
May 06 2025
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
4
May 07 2025
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
4
May 08 2025
Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers
1
May 09 2025
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
3
May 13 2025
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
3
May 14 2025
Pyromania
Def Leppard
2
May 15 2025
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
4
May 16 2025
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
3
May 21 2025
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4
May 22 2025
OK Computer
Radiohead
4
May 23 2025
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2
May 28 2025
Electric
The Cult
3
May 29 2025
Tidal
Fiona Apple
4
May 30 2025
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
3
Jun 03 2025
Pornography
The Cure
5
Jun 04 2025
Scum
Napalm Death
Iโm upset this exits and that I experienced it.
1
Jun 06 2025
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
4
Jun 10 2025
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
4
Jun 13 2025
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
3
Jun 16 2025
Debut
Bjรถrk
4
Jun 17 2025
Different Class
Pulp
Iโm about reaching my limit on 90s Brit pop. It was fine.
3
Jun 19 2025
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
5
Jun 20 2025
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
Thereโs nothing that tries so hard and yet does so little as 70s prog
2
Jun 23 2025
Never Mind The Bollocks, Hereโs The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
Thereโs nothing that tries so hard and yet does so little as 70s prog
4
Jun 24 2025
Young Americans
David Bowie
Thereโs nothing that tries so hard and yet does so little as 70s prog
4
Jun 26 2025
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
4
Jun 30 2025
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
4
Jul 01 2025
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
Ah, thereโs something about 90s rage and cynicism thatโs way more appealing than todayโs rage and cynicism.
4
Jul 02 2025
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
3
Jul 03 2025
Picture Book
Simply Red
2
Jul 08 2025
Diamond Life
Sade
4
Jul 09 2025
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
I enjoy a bit of mournful country every so often but reallyโฆ are the straights okay?
2
Jul 10 2025
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.
A bit self indulgent for sure but thereโs some interesting things happening
3
Jul 11 2025
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
Definitely a surprising like from me!
4
Jul 14 2025
C'est Chic
CHIC
3
Jul 15 2025
Nevermind
Nirvana
4
Jul 16 2025
Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers
4
Jul 17 2025
Broken English
Marianne Faithfull
Thereโs some stuff I really like here and some stuff Iโm not wild about. 3.5 or a 3.75
3
Jul 21 2025
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
4
Jul 22 2025
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
4
Jul 23 2025
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
3
Jul 24 2025
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
3
Jul 25 2025
Trafalgar
Bee Gees
It was kind of a boring experience.
2
Jul 28 2025
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
4
Jul 29 2025
Ten
Pearl Jam
I feel like I am intimately acquainted with damn near every song on this album by virtue of just being a human being alive in the 90s.
I didnโt dislike this as much as Iโd expected to. I think overall I am just not a fan of guitar driven ~*~rock~*~ music and gravelly mumbled lyrics. This is a 3 (opposed to the initial 2 I was going to give it) because 1) for better or worse, Jeremy has been stuck in my head since 8am and 2) I like Eddie Vedderโs politics.
Also, it was nice to finally learn after 30 years that itโs โJeremy spoke in class todayโ and not โtether me spoken yeah yeaaaah yeah.โ One should strive to learn at least one new thing every day.
3
Jul 30 2025
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
2
Jul 31 2025
Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
For the most part, I enjoyed this. The random YouTube playlist I found had songs in both English and German und die Lieder auf deutsch sind natรผrlich viel besser.
Super interesting Wikipedia reads on both Dagmar Krause and Hanns Eisler as well.
3
Aug 01 2025
In It For The Money
Supergrass
3
Aug 04 2025
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
3
Aug 05 2025
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
4
Aug 06 2025
Born To Be With You
Dion
Why am I listening to heโs got the whole world in his hands like Iโm eight years old and back in Sunday school? Insipid.
Iโm sure that with over 40 releases, thereโs a chance of finding something I like but Iโm surely not about to go digging.
1
Aug 07 2025
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
I donโt think Iโve ever listened to anything theyโve done. But I will say Iโm quite enjoying the sound. I like this blend of New Order/poppy Cure, Kraftwerk, and more โchallengingโ kosmische Musik.
4
Aug 08 2025
I See You
The xx
I really, really, really am not vibing with either vocalist. With no vocals, I bet the rating would be a 3.5 or a 4 for the music.
2
Aug 11 2025
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
This is the first time Iโve listened to this all the way through and I really liked it more than I expected to.
This review is without the Apple Jam. I donโt like the Apple Jam, I donโt vibe with the Apple Jam, and Iโll never listen to the Apple Jam again. Itโs the third LP and can be safely set aside and ignored.
4
Aug 12 2025
Guero
Beck
Ehโฆ..
2
Aug 13 2025
Faith
George Michael
โI want your sexโ is what a middle schooler would do when tasked with writing a song about โSex teehee ๐คญโ
Iโll just listen to Duran Duran instead.
2