Dec 15 2024
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
I couldn't get into this album for the longest time eventhough I really liked their albums before this. This one's good tho once I've got into it, but like it's Led Zeppelin so of course it has to be good.
My only complain is that it feels more like a compilation than a coherent album. Also double LP is kinda too long, esp with the weaker second half.
Fav tracks: In My Time of Dying, Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot, Ten Years Gone
4
Dec 15 2024
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There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
It's just not my thing at all, but the lyrics are great and I respect the artist's ideals.
Fav tracks: Jesus, Blue Monday People
3
Dec 16 2024
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Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
I'd say it's "American Led Zeppelin", but with more country and southern influences. Banger riffs, overall great album with no duds, would give a 4.5 but I can't do that so 5 it is.
Fav tracks: Lookin' Out My Backdoor, I Heard It Through The Grapevine.
5
Dec 17 2024
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Dire Straits
Dire Straits
Quite monotonous, bored my brain out for half an hour. No moment really stuck with me. That might change if I ever give it a few more listens but I have better things to do with my time than that.
2
Dec 18 2024
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Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
Eventhough I liked The Queen is Dead, this album is the most boring, monotonous and depressive-sounding thing I’ve ever listened to. There’s just no reason to be so fucking saaaaad. The guitar work is okay but Morrissey’ singing makes every song sounds the same, and the random weird noises don’t help.
There’s not even one track that stood out & I just wished this torture to be over. Bonus point for the guitar tho so 1.5/5
1
Dec 19 2024
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Parachutes
Coldplay
This one popped up on a day that I just one something fun to lighten up my mood a little, and it did just that.
Fave tracks: Spies, Parachutes, Everything's Not Lost.
4
Dec 20 2024
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You Are The Quarry
Morrissey
If you ever think your poetry is shit remember there's this 45 years old guy rhyming hamburger with hamburger.
Best track: Irish Blood, English Heart
2
Dec 21 2024
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Diamond Life
Sade
The first half was great, then the second half was definitely a lot weaker and became quite a drag. Also while Sade's vocals was not really my thing - the instrumentals kinda made up for it though. I'd say 3.5/5
Fav tracks: First 3
3
Dec 22 2024
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Risque
CHIC
It's enjoyable enough, but every track sounds same-ish and repetitive to the point that if you listened to the first song then you're more or less done with the album because it's just the same thing over and over. It's still nice and fun though, and I don't necessary not like the album but I suppose I wouldn't go back to it on my own accord.
Fav track: Good Times
3
Dec 23 2024
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McCartney
Paul McCartney
This is definitely not what I'd expect for the first Paul McCartney album. Very much incomplete, sketchy, jammy and whimsical, kinda like a compilation of all the stuff that had been sitting around in his notebook since the Beatles era but was never released. Still, there are some nice tracks on there, like Man We Was Lonely and Maybe I'm Amaze, and overall the album's not that hard of a listen.
2.75/5 rounded up
3
Dec 24 2024
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are definitely my comfort band.
Half of the album feels like you're lying on a field somewhere in the Welsh or Irish countryside unbothered by the world (Scarborough Fair, Cloudy, Homeward Bound, The Dangling Conversation, Flowers, For Emily, Poem on the Underground Wall, 7 O'Clock News), and the other half feels very whimsical and fun, which is not necessary bad (Patterns, Big Bright Green, 59th, A Simple Desultory Philippic). As you can see, they often intertwine, which, I don't even know if it's good for the album's overall narrative or not.
The opener and closer tracks are divine, and I'll love them to death. Homeward Bound is also quite nice, Big Bright Green and A Simple Desultory Philippic are definitely very fun to listen to. Other tracks might be a bit forgettable tho.
Solid 4.
4