Dec 02 2024
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Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3
Dec 03 2024
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Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
5
Dec 04 2024
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Hard Again
Muddy Waters
5
Dec 05 2024
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All Directions
The Temptations
4
Dec 06 2024
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Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
I feel like I'm too sober to listen to this.
3
Dec 09 2024
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Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
3
Dec 10 2024
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Urban Hymns
The Verve
Bland. Average 90's Britpop. Inoffensive background music, really.
3
Dec 11 2024
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Melodrama
Lorde
4
Dec 12 2024
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Kala
M.I.A.
5
Dec 13 2024
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Porcupine
Echo And The Bunnymen
5
Dec 16 2024
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The Wall
Pink Floyd
4
Dec 17 2024
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Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
5
Dec 18 2024
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Woodface
Crowded House
Tedious. Tiresome. Bland.
2
Dec 19 2024
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Rings Around The World
Super Furry Animals
Delightful weirdness from when the century was still shiny and new. I'd never listened to Super Furry Animals before, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to discover them.
4
Dec 20 2024
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Brothers
The Black Keys
Mediocre white men: blues rock edition.
3
Dec 23 2024
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Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
3
Dec 24 2024
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Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
This album has its ups and downs, but it's overall a decent listen.
4
Dec 25 2024
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Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
How had I never listened to this album before now? It's going in my regular rotation immediately.
5
Dec 26 2024
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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
Two things are contributing to my rating here:
1. Phil Spector was such a terrible person that the average dumpster fire seems pleasant in comparison. He'd been abusing women and children loooooooong before he committed murder at age 63.
2. On a less serious level, I can't stand Christmas music. I can't stand Christmas. Ugh. Even if it wasn't produced by a malignant person, I'd be avoiding this because it's a bad genre-to-listener mismatch for ME as a person.
In conclusion, NOPE NOPE NOPE
1
Dec 27 2024
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War
U2
Probably the best I've heard from U2, but I'm not a straight white man so I'm just not the target audience. 🤷🏻♀️
4
Dec 28 2024
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Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Decent! It's not something I'm ever going to listen to in full album form again, but there are enough classic songs on here that they'll be hanging around my playlists.
4
Dec 28 2024
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Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
I can hear why other people like this... but 50s music is NOT my thing.
3
Dec 29 2024
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The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
My rating is absolutely biased by nostalgia, I've loved this album since I was in high school... the album being 30 doesn't make it any less amazing, though! 🤘
5
Dec 30 2024
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The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
4
Dec 31 2024
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Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
4
Jan 01 2025
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Smash
The Offspring
5
Jan 02 2025
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
I am not the target audience for this.
At least I now have enough experience to state that I don't care for Frank Ocean? I didn't even know who he was before this album came up. Been living under a rock for the last 15 years, that's part of why I signed up for the 1001 albums in the first place. My middle aged horizons have been expanded in a direction I didn't particularly enjoy, but that's growth for you.
2
Jan 03 2025
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m b v
My Bloody Valentine
3
Jan 04 2025
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Imagine
John Lennon
4
Jan 05 2025
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The Undertones
The Undertones
4
Jan 06 2025
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Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
4
Jan 07 2025
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Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
If you like slower, sensual music, this is the album for you! Unfortunately, it is not the album for me - I technically listened to the whole thing but I couldn't focus. There's nothing wrong with it, just not my thing!
3
Jan 08 2025
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Skylarking
XTC
4
Jan 09 2025
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Faith
George Michael
Oof. A couple of highlights, a couple of tracks that were just plain uncomfortable to listen to, and the rest of it just seemed to highlight how huge an ego George had at the time. I know it's highly regarded, so I tried to like it, but... I'm too conflicted.
3
Jan 10 2025
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A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
Rod Stewart has terrible hair. This has nothing to do with the album or how it sounds, but I needed to get that off my chest. It's almost painful to look at him, his hairstyle is SO BAD.
Luckily, I only had to listen to him with this album!
It's pretty solid rock music. Not a stand out favorite, but good enough to add to genre playlists. Not bad, not bad at all.
4
Jan 11 2025
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
1
Jan 12 2025
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Dear Science
TV On The Radio
5
Jan 13 2025
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Blood And Chocolate
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4
Jan 14 2025
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The College Dropout
Kanye West
DNF about a quarter of the way through the album. Life's too short to listen to music you hate.
1
Jan 15 2025
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Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
4
Jan 16 2025
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Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
5
Jan 17 2025
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Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
I love Echo & The Bunnymen. I especially love The Killing Moon, a high point on an album I already enjoy.
Yeah, this is a biased review, but music taste is subjective, right? I'm happy, that's what matters.
5
Jan 18 2025
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Garbage
Garbage
Okay, look. I'm being aggressively subjective in my ratings. I'm not a professional music critic, I'm not preparing a chronicle of important developments in music history. I am but one middle-aged bisexual woman documenting her own personal taste.
That said...
You know how I figured out the bisexuality thing? The music videos for Only Happy When It Rains and Stupid Girl made me feel funny. The album with Queer on it helped me realize that I'm queer. This album is so significant to my personal history, I was honestly a bit surprised to see it come up in the generator!
I love this album to bits, obviously. 30 years later my youthful crush on Shirley Manson has faded into a warm fuzzy memory, but the music will never get old. This is absolutely my idea of a good time.
5
Jan 19 2025
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The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
Ah, the British Invasion band that wasn't, thanks to a performance ban. The Kinks stopped trying to appeal to American audiences a couple of years before this album was released.
This album is beautifully, unapologetically English, right down to the title. It's not homogeneous, either - there's plenty of variation between tracks, enough to capture my interest and leave me feeling disappointed after the last track (of 15) ended.
4
Jan 20 2025
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Tapestry
Carole King
5
Jan 21 2025
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At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
4
Jan 22 2025
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Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
4
Jan 23 2025
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The Yes Album
Yes
4
Jan 24 2025
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Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
Chester, I hope you have the peace now that you never had in life.
That said... listening to an entire album of "Gen X masculine mental health crisis" is painful in multiple ways. Hybrid Theory wouldn't exist in a world with accessible, decent, affordable psychiatric care.
1
Jan 25 2025
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Let's Stay Together
Al Green
This is very good music... for someone else's taste.
3
Jan 26 2025
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Dance Mania
Tito Puente
4
Jan 27 2025
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More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
5
Jan 28 2025
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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
Playful, fun rhyming to infectious beats.
5
Jan 29 2025
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The Predator
Ice Cube
4
Jan 30 2025
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Either Or
Elliott Smith
While I wasn't angry to be listening to this (that's my threshold for giving out a one star rating, those are all albums that pissed me off) it's not exactly anything I want to ever listen to again. Wispy tenor with acoustic guitar? Pass.
2
Jan 31 2025
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
It's great that this exists - it helped Leonard Cohen process the rapidly approaching end of his life, perhaps it can continue to help others who are grappling with the concept of death.
It's also slow, depressing, a bit too much of a reminder of how harsh life is. No escaping the senseless brutality of existence here.
Short of developing a terminal illness myself, I can't see this album in my future.
Sometimes three stars indicates mediocrity, sometimes it's uneven albums with a mix of tracks that might have gotten fives or ones on their own, and sometimes it's for good art I just don't mesh with.
Three stars. No meshing.
3
Feb 01 2025
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
3
Feb 02 2025
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The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
So tedious to listen to that it goes through boring and lands firmly in the "annoying as hell" category. Ugh.
It's not that I'm averse to bands experimenting with genre and structure - I regularly listen to Sparks, after all - but I have very little patience for slow, meandering quasi-tunes that never seem to find their way to an actual beat.
The funny thing, though... my husband has significantly more conventional tastes than I do, and I'm pretty sure he'd be fine with the tempo but be annoyed by the experimental, jazzy aspect. 🤷🏻♀️
Anyway, I'm listening to a Sparks song with a good beat to clean my ears of this nonsense.
1
Feb 03 2025
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Sunshine Superman
Donovan
Flower power folk, almost painfully earnest in its presentation. Any discussion of 60s music would be incomplete without mentioning Donovan.
For me, there's definitely a distinct sort of mood I have to be in to appreciate mellow folk like this... I had this album generated a couple weeks ago, actually, but I put it off until I finally entered one of those contemplative, under caffeinated states. It's a snow day, I've lost my voice, it's a good time to get a little wistful about the way the hippie dream got crushed by an avalanche of late stage capitalism.
4
Feb 04 2025
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...And Justice For All
Metallica
4
Feb 05 2025
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Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
Damn, this somehow manages to sound the way a combination of patchouli and dollar store incense smells. If you're the sort of person who likes this music, I'm probably questioning your life choices.
2
Feb 06 2025
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Pretenders
Pretenders
3
Feb 07 2025
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Night Life
Ray Price
A fine example... of a genre I don't care for.
I put off listening to this for over a week after it was generated, waiting until I was in a sufficiently open minded state to give it a fair chance. It's decent for country, but, you know... it's country. Sorry.
2
Feb 08 2025
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Eagles
Eagles
Fantastic background music when you're hanging out with a bunch of people over 40. As active listening goes, meh. I'm unimpressed.
3
Feb 09 2025
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Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
4
Feb 10 2025
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Sound Affects
The Jam
I love it when a band gives itself an accurate name.
R.I.P. Rick Buckler
5
Feb 11 2025
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Harvest
Neil Young
Neil Young is one of those artists I've absolutely, utterly failed to connect with or appreciate on any level. We're talking about four decades of me going "ugh" every time I hear one of his songs.
So I tried to go into this with an open mind, I really did, but... Ugh. Too slow, too melancholy, too folk/country.
I just don't like Neil Young.
2
Feb 12 2025
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1989
Taylor Swift
I sat on this one for over a month after it was generated, because I suspected I was going to hate the listening experience, but have successfully isolated myself from pop music for so long that I wasn't certain.
There's also a certain reluctance to contaminate my music recommendation algorithms, you know?
Anyway. Thirty three days later, I finally sucked it up and gave Taylor Swift a listen.
Shallow. Hollow. Overproduced. Prepackaged and sanitized for popular consumption.
I know I haven't quite made it through 10% of the albums on this project yet, and a few of my all time favorites are still in the future - so I'm going to go clean my ears by listening to one of those. Todd Rundgren, save me!
1
Feb 13 2025
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When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
I've been putting off a few albums I either know nothing about, or know I'm not going to enjoy. This is the last remaining "I know nothing" album to get me caught up.
Hmmm. Okay, first impression was not great - indie rock/Britpop isn't my favorite - but I kept going, and then the South Asian elements really kicked in and it got good.
4
Feb 14 2025
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Microshift
Hookworms
Pleasant yet forgettable; good background music. I don't think this really merits inclusion on the list. It's almost like LCD Soundsystem trying to perform while sleep deprived.
3
Feb 15 2025
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Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
3
Feb 16 2025
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Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
You need to be in a very specific mood to appreciate big beat. The Prodigy has the biggest nostalgia factor for me - elder millennial here - so The Chemical Brothers are already at a bit of a disadvantage. This sounds like playing a racing game on the original PlayStation feels: it was cool when I was a teenager but hasn't aged well at all.
Yeah, sorry, this is just as much a snapshot of the 90s as Donovan's Sunshine Superman is a snapshot of the 60s, but with a lot less heart. I'd rather leave this in the late 90s with my sequined spaghetti strap tank top where it belongs.
2
Feb 17 2025
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Country Life
Roxy Music
Damn, somehow I made it into my early forties before listening to this album. It's right up my alley - energetic, experimenting with stylistic differences between tracks while remaining recognizably coherent as the same band. The production is excellent.
Some albums I can't finish before I react to them. This album got added to my Tidal library after four tracks. Album and listener were perfectly matched today.
5
Feb 18 2025
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
Okay, this is 28 tracks long. Let's see how much of Billy Corgan's BS I can slog my way through.
... four and a half tracks before I noped out.
I'm not great at separating the art from the artist, so it's genuinely more difficult for me to hear the artistic merit in Smashing Pumpkins music with my extremely low opinion of Billy Corgan as a person. It is a pretty significant part of the 90s music scene, and very influential on later artists in multiple genres. Three stars, I guess?
3
Feb 19 2025
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The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis
Peter Gabriel going way over the top with his creative vision. I don't find it particularly appealing - I enjoy the Phil Collins version of Genesis way more - but maaaaaaaaaan, the sheer effort that was poured into this. No wonder Gabriel split from the band after this.
3
Feb 20 2025
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#1 Record
Big Star
Meh.
3
Feb 21 2025
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Immigrés
Youssou N'Dour
While this didn't knock my socks off, it's perfectly good Senegalese music. Yeah, the synth element is a bit of a giveaway that it's from the 80s, but it is what it is and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
4
Feb 22 2025
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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
So, uh, I tried to listen to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and fell asleep. Nice refreshing 7 hours, but not a great endorsement.
2002. I was 18 when this album came out, and I remember being politely baffled by all the people who loved it. It's perfectly lovely music, I don't hate it, it's just not giving off the energy I look for in music I actively listen to.
4
Feb 23 2025
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Rapture
Anita Baker
Quiet storm is typically way too smooth and mellow for my taste, but I'll give Anita a chance...
Smooth. Mellow. Great music for other people. Doesn't feel particularly essential to the history of music, unless you're specifically talking about popular 80s music that wasn't new wave.
Meh.
3
Feb 24 2025
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In Utero
Nirvana
Nirvana! A pleasant surprise for my Gen X husband, who has to deal with my eclectic tastes and my decision to take on the 1001 albums. 😅
Scentless Apprentice is brutally unpleasant to listen to. The other eleven tracks range from fine to excellent, but the screeching. The screeching! Extremely skippable track. I know this is the final finished artistic product of a tormented mind, but eeeeeeesh.
Love the Albini production, love Albini's snarky dismissal of Nirvana as a band. I was 9 when this album came out, and I liked MTV back then (before it turned into a reality show dumpster fire) so a few of these tracks are woven into the soundscape of my youth. I have my biases.
Four stars. Yeah, Scentless Apprentice is that bad.
4
Feb 25 2025
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Hunky Dory
David Bowie
Day 81 and I finally get the first of nine total Bowie albums within the one thousand and however many (since we're listening to all the albums from all editions). Also the first of those nine chronologically. Bowie was, what, 24 when he made this?
First listen was through my phone speaker while skeining my latest handspun yarn. Not the best sound quality, but the mellow meditative activity paired nicely with the softer piano melodies on the album. Gotta relisten with headphones on sometime later.
Dang. This is some good stuff. Welcome to my music library, Hunky Dory.
5
Feb 26 2025
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The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Hot damn! This is big band/swing proving - quite explosively - that it never faded into irrelevance. Phenomenal.
5
Feb 27 2025
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Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
There's something about that country guitar twanginess that I find really off-putting. I wanted to like this album more than I actually did.
3
Feb 28 2025
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Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
Hypothesis: whatever genre you happen to dislike, you will think there's way too much of it as you work your way through the 1001+ albums in this project.
I've seen people complain that there's too much electronica. Too much post-punk. Too much Bowie.
It's not Maxwell's fault that he helped me form this hypothesis, as I reacted to his music with "WTF, more R&B?!" but I did not enjoy the listening experience.
For me, the project has too much R&B. Sorry, Maxwell; it's not you, it's me.
2
Mar 01 2025
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Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
I have a pre-existing bias heavily in favor of this album.
I'm not going to fight the bias.
5/5 kickass Queen album, will absolutely keep listening to
5
Mar 02 2025
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Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
What the fuck? This came out when I was 8?
*double checks release date*
Is Michael Franti a time traveler? Did he escape from our current hellscape back to 1992 to give us a (distressingly unheeded) warning?
I'm sad now.
5
Mar 03 2025
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Cloud Nine
The Temptations
3
Mar 04 2025
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Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
Beautiful, avant garde, definitely interesting enough to hold my focus. Another delightful experience.
For the other listeners on the same journey of discovery: if you don't like Waking the Witch, never hand me the aux. I'm in my happy place here.
5
Mar 05 2025
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3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
4
Mar 06 2025
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Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren
Is this an album you must listen to before you die so you know what not to do if you make an album of your own? Yow.
1
Mar 07 2025
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Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
Boring boring bland blah beige WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
That was certainly different.
2
Mar 08 2025
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Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
It seems, from reading other reviews, that Born To Run is an album you either connect with or not, regardless of how you feel about Springsteen as a person.
I'm in the camp that appreciates Bruce Springsteen more for his personality than his music. Failure to connect. I'm not his audience.
3
Mar 09 2025
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Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
I can't.
1
Mar 10 2025
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
Okay. Led Zeppelin made some pretty fantastic music, but they also made some pretty tedious music that's difficult for my ADHD brain to stick with... and yeah, this particular album is nearly impossible for me to get through in one sitting. Good songs individually, but MAN. It's a lot.
4
Mar 11 2025
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Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
This is chill, you can definitely put this album on and get shit done, but the quality isn't consistent to my ears. Some tracks are absolutely amazing, some are meandering and lose me partway through. I think it averages out to a 4 star rating overall.
4
Mar 12 2025
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Violator
Depeche Mode
Headphones: on.
Volume: at the high end of the range that's safe for one's hearing.
Me: getting absolutely lost in the music.
My criteria for five stars seems to be a lot more lenient than some other listeners on this project. I'm not after technical skills, I'm after how the music makes me feel. Did I enjoy the album enough to add it to my library? That's a five.
Violator really needs the headphones, though. It's not the same just echoing through my kitchen while I figure out what ingredients need to be used for dinner.
5
Mar 13 2025
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Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
What the fuck did I just listen to?
I appreciate creativity and experimentation. I usually appreciate post-punk - my love of recent post-punk revival bands is what led me to this project in the first place.
It's just... on a personal level, as a listener, I'd like this album more without that infernal country-style twang.
4
Mar 14 2025
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Mask
Bauhaus
2
Mar 15 2025
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The Joshua Tree
U2
The fact that this album came up a few days ago and I saved it for my next bout of insomnia... yeah, that about sums it up. Dull but occasionally useful. 🥱
3
Mar 16 2025
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Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
The style of this album doesn't really suit me as a listener. The country and gospel elements are off-putting. It's not terrible - it lands somewhere between meh and annoying.
3
Mar 17 2025
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Disraeli Gears
Cream
This is one of those albums that's absolutely amazing if you're in the correct mood for it, and mediocre otherwise. I was not in the correct mood today. 🤷🏻♀️
3
Mar 18 2025
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
5
Mar 19 2025
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
3
Mar 20 2025
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(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4
Mar 21 2025
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Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
4
Mar 22 2025
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Goddamnit, I do NOT want to deal with more tedious white boy ego tripping bullshit. Red Hot Chili Peppers would be a lot more enjoyable if it was just instrumental - Kiedis is awful. AWFUL.
If I found this in my household CD collection, I would give it away.
1
Mar 23 2025
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Damaged
Black Flag
After the first three songs, I honestly forgot that I'd put this album on for the project instead of personal listening enjoyment. It's right up my alley, excellent stuff.
5
Mar 24 2025
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Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz
I have some money here for you, so reach into me and grab it
And I've never understood why anybody likes Lenny Kravitz
I see no reason for this to continue
I don't have anything else to put in you
Now go back home girl, and do whatever it is that you do
- from the song "Lenny Kravitz" by Electric Six
1
Mar 25 2025
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Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
5
Mar 26 2025
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Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
Meh.
Something I've realized about myself, going through this project - while music that's too smooth, like quiet storm, gets low ratings for bouncing right off of my ADHD brain, the twangy sound of "country" grabs hold a little too well, and ends up annoying me so much I automatically deduct a star. Even the finest Johnny Cash album can't squeak past four stars with me. And this is... okay, I hear the bits that influenced a lot of later acts, but I wouldn't necessarily call it good music.
What do I like? Skillful use of electric instruments, like guitars and synth. I also react more favorably to eccentricity than to mainstream pandering. I'm currently listening to the Django Django album that I know is somewhere in the generator, wishing I was reviewing something I vibe with today.
🤷🏻♀️
2
Mar 27 2025
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Mothership Connection
Parliament
Oooh, another delightful discovery courtesy of this project. A playful, fun concept album with excellent beats - no boredom here!
5
Mar 28 2025
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Very
Pet Shop Boys
Ehhh. Overproduced and sanitized, too pop. Somehow, despite the correlation with Neil Tennant coming out of the closet shortly after this album was released, it feels... bland and inauthentic? Probably the production giving me that vibe.
3
Mar 29 2025
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Debut
Björk
5
Mar 30 2025
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Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart
2
Mar 31 2025
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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
4
Apr 01 2025
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Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
5
Apr 02 2025
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Pump
Aerosmith
I have a decent tolerance for Aerosmith in small doses - which is handy, since I married a Gen X white guy who loves listening to classic rock stations in the car - but an entire album is a bit too much. Plus there's that thing where Steven Tyler is a shit human, and his vocals aren't even that good.
Yeah, there's a couple decent tracks on here, but making myself listen to the whole thing was annoying. I save one star ratings for albums I hate, and I don't outright hate Pump... but it's a fairly low 2.
2
Apr 03 2025
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Who Killed...... The Zutons?
The Zutons
4
Apr 04 2025
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Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV On The Radio
TV On The Radio! Yay!
Oh man, I haven't listened to this album in...
*checks last.fm stats*
...five whole weeks! Gosh, it's been such a long time since late February.
This time I've got my tortoiseshell cat trying to stick her tail in my eye, so it's still technically a new experience, right?
Anyway. My biggest disappointment is knowing that there's no more TV On The Radio left for me to review in this project. However, Tunde Adebimpe is releasing his first solo album in a couple of weeks, so I still have something to look forward to!
5
Apr 05 2025
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Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
4
Apr 06 2025
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Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
This list of albums you MUST hear before you die was put together by someone who really loves British post-punk, huh?
I also enjoy British post-punk, so I'm not mad about it.
5
Apr 07 2025
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Signing Off
UB40
My thoughts can be summed up by a photo of a cat with wide eyes and ears flattened back.
2
Apr 08 2025
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The Next Day
David Bowie
2013. David Bowie, in his mid-sixties, puts forth one heck of a creative effort, but he does not sound good for a man in his sixties. His health must have already been in decline; Blackstar was his farewell, this is the dark themed lead up to that farewell.
I mean, it's damned good for what it is, the musings of a powerful talent contained in a weak flesh vessel that was breaking down. It's got to be taken in context, though.
5
Apr 09 2025
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Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Oh wow, this is an album I'd put on if I had to explain what Gen X was like back in the nineties to modern kids.
I'm an elder Millennial with a Gen X husband, I've got a definite soft spot for a portion of that cohort, but I feel like I'm just a bit too young to truly appreciate this... drunken jam session? That's what it sounds like, anyway.
3
Apr 10 2025
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Next
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Good music with bad lyrics.
4
Apr 11 2025
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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
4
Apr 12 2025
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What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
The title track of this album is my favorite Marvin Gaye song, but the album overall is still smooth and gentle enough that I can't stay focused on it. I assume it's fantastic if you don't have ADHD getting in between the rest of your own brain and the music?
4
Apr 13 2025
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Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
3
Apr 14 2025
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Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
Definitely not my thing. Yeowch.
2
Apr 15 2025
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At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
Live albums are usually not as good as studio recordings.
Usually.
Muddy Waters is the exception that proves the rule. DAMN, was he ever good.
5
Apr 17 2025
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Cut
The Slits
4
Apr 18 2025
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Live At Leeds
The Who
On one hand, it's a live album. On the other hand, it's The Who, and they're being endearingly silly when they're not playing the music.
Definitely one of the better live albums I've listened to.
4
Apr 21 2025
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Heroes to Zeros
The Beta Band
2
Apr 23 2025
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Da Capo
Love
This was a tedious listen.
2
Apr 29 2025
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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
Separation of the art and the artist, ACTIVATE!
Good music! Fun, energetic punk that shook up the 70s. Thoroughly enjoyable.
5
May 01 2025
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The Slider
T. Rex
T. Rex in the glam rock era! If this project has taught me anything about my own music taste, it's that glam rock is absolutely my jam. I enjoyed the hell out of this.
5
May 04 2025
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Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
2
May 05 2025
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Sail Away
Randy Newman
Really good resource to have on hand in case of serious insomnia.
2
May 06 2025
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Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3
May 07 2025
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Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
A white English shitbag borrowing "blues" sounds does not make an album important enough to be one of the 1000+. I've heard Layla quite a few times thanks to classic rock radio, and even then it's one of those "just sit through this and we'll get back to better stuff" tracks for me.
Feel free to never listen to this before you die, friends.
2
May 08 2025
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It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
Fuck me sideways, a live double album from a musician I'm usually happy to ignore, and will happily return to ignoring very soon.
2
May 09 2025
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Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Meh.
3
May 10 2025
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C'est Chic
CHIC
3
May 11 2025
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The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
This shit was so boring and slow it actually pissed me off - I'm seeing why other reviews compared Elbow to Radiohead and Coldplay, two other bands that are so dull it's irritating. Ugh. Why did I have to listen to this?
1
May 12 2025
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Arular
M.I.A.
Catchy, danceable world fusion music, made by an artist who started out sus and has only gotten worse over time. WAY worse.
There are quite a few humorless bastards on my side of the political divide who cannot handle the thought of enjoying art by artists who are shitty, shitty humans. I've been doing my best to distance myself from that crowd. I can loathe M.I.A. while liking her music.
4
May 14 2025
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Revolver
Beatles
Is it incredibly influential? Yes.
Do I enjoy listening to Beatles music? Not really.
3
May 15 2025
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Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Haha, I had to turn to YouTube for this album: it's not on Tidal!
I can definitely tell why enjoyers of conventional music are hating this experience... this is some weird shit.
I like weird shit. This was fun, and now my YouTube recs are going to be a little bit weirder, which is also fun. What a good time.
4
May 17 2025
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Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
I made it all of three seconds into this album before I recognized the agonizing waiting room/elevator staple "Don't Know Why" and noped out HARD. New record for shortest time spent listening!
1
May 18 2025
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
The top five star review on this album is by some misogynistic Republican Boomer who seems to adore the sort of "white guys do the blues" thing that drives me up the wall... and has several of my favorite albums in his one star collection. Based on the quality of that reviewer's taste alone, I suspect I'll be giving this two, maybe three stars. Three would be a stretch.
Cover art: juvenile, tacky.
I already know "Brown Sugar" is an atrocity going in - I'd give it one star by itself - so I'll just skip that and see what the rest of this album is like.
... yeah, it's full of that white guy blues crap. Not a single track on here I could actually enjoy. Nothing else as grotesque as "Brown Sugar" and I'm not angry about listening, so it's two stars. I reserve one star reviews for the albums I'm mad about having in my streaming history.
Anyway, I'm off to listen to one of the top reviewer's one star albums to clean out my ears. Fever Ray's self-titled album appeals to me today. 🎶
2
May 19 2025
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Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
Sweet fuck, ambient electronica? I envy the dopamine content of the brains of anyone who can treat this as an active listening exercise.
Alas, I have a dopamine-starved ADHD brain. The only way I can review ambient is by putting it on while I do chores - it's actually an effective focus enhancer for tedious tasks. My rating is going to be based on how well I manage to get through the mountain of clean laundry I've been needing to put away for a couple days now. Yaaaaaay.
Okay! I was pretty productive until it reached Aquarius, now I'm distracted. 4/5.
4
May 20 2025
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To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
I've been repulsed by every single Kendrick Lamar song I've ever had the misfortune of hearing, and this is no exception.
1
May 21 2025
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The Doors
The Doors
4
May 22 2025
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Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
Girls Against Boys
Excellent music for establishing an atmosphere. Mumbling, heavy instrumentals, kinda monotonous and gloomy. If you're running an RPG set in the mid-ninties, play this to establish the mood!
I found it dull, yet inoffensive.
3
May 23 2025
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Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
Superb. This album was released when I was a mere embryo, but it sounds more like my childhood. Also A+ xylophone use.
5
May 24 2025
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Doolittle
Pixies
It's good, but something about The Pixies has always failed to captivate my interest. I can hear the influence on later music, but I'd rather be listening to that later music, you know?
I'm glad this exists, but it's not going into my library.
4
May 25 2025
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Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
Experimental music with glam rock elements and a good beat? I'm in love. How have I never listened to this pure delight before? I'm only a decade younger than this album, we should have crossed paths before now.
People with mainstream taste are going to bounce right off of this, and that's okay. I bounce right off of a lot of the really popular music. Life would be so boring without us weirdos!
5
May 26 2025
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Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
In the world of cheesy music, this is a package of Kraft singles.
1
May 27 2025
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
5
May 28 2025
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
2
May 29 2025
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John Prine
John Prine
This is one of those albums that requires active listening, as the witty lyrics are far and away the best part. Or you could just read the lyrics on Genius, that works too. The country-folk sound isn't my favorite, but the poetry! Man oh man. Four stars just for that.
4