Jan 02 2025
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
This starts damon albarns reign of terror. I honestly forgot there were remixes on here!!!
I was making rice while listening to this so i hope when i listen to rock the house in the future i think of the smell of garlic onion and pork.
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Jan 03 2025
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Moving Pictures
Rush
I had a crush on someone who was really into Rush when I was 17. I remember making a spotify playlist on it with a ton of Magnetic Fields and Car Seat Headrest. I listened to a ton of Rush and New Order cause that person really liked those bands and these bands. I listened to Tom sawyer so much while talking to them and it reminds me of that time. They did not like me back and was extremely respectable about it. After I told them my feels and got denied the feels died down and it felt nice to know that didn't make our relationship out of that all weird. Though that may have been from my POV, either way we still talked for a while til we eventually grew apart.
I was not in a good spot mentally back then and they were really nice to me and was a great friend. I can't really say why mainly because I can't remember it. All I remember is having someone to talk to and be silly with in a trying time. It's a bit strange to have such a positive emotion on a time and place based entirely off of vibes and nothing else but what can you do.
This album reminds me of that time, so it gives me a ton of good feels. Despite this, I don't really like this band at all or this album much. Like i recognize it is really cool and sounds good and I can see myself liking it but I just don't. Maybe i wasn't born with the hard rock dog in me.
For being a song i don't really care for too much tom sawyer has a huge part in my brain that triggers a nice memory.
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Jan 06 2025
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Graceland
Paul Simon
This did not sway my opinion on paul simon. infact it made it worse.
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Jan 07 2025
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The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
Dark Side of The Moon comes preinstalled with your human experience.
Not my fav pink floyd by a longshot but it's like v good.
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Jan 08 2025
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
This album is so me in highschool
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Jan 10 2025
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Smash
The Offspring
I remember being a child going to the swap meet with my grandparents to sell they made. I don't remember where it was but it was somewhere south and hot. I was super bored and hated being there and walked around all day looking at stuff. For wahtever reason fell in love with a bonsai tree.
There was a place there that sold bonsai trees and they made me feel a sense of wonder and whimsy that I can't explain. I asked the owner about them and caring about them and told me they can live for a long time if you cared for them. I
I somehow managed to get one for 5 dollars and convincing my parents to get me it.
I have a vivid memory of hearing Handlebars by Flobots in my grandpa's pickup truck while caressing the top of the tree. I can't remember what it looked like but the porcelain base of it. A blue paint on ceramic that was trying hard to look porcelain.
I feel i also heard a song off this album on the way back but im not sure. It might have been a system of the down song. It doesn't really matter but I remember that listening to this and it was a wonderful memory.
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Jan 11 2025
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Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
In my mind, no matter what I am always presented with one of two scenes.
Dark green patterns in a pitch black world. These patterns are all squares and triangles in straight lines that turn 45 degree angles at a time. These patterns continue until the world becomes nothing but angles in the darkness.
Marble pillars infinitely growing like wires tangling everything in my vision. They are engraved with vines and leaves that progressively fade as they grow. These pillars turn into a perfect striation filling my vision.
I can't remember when this started. I feel it's always been a part of my life.
I always thought the world I lived in would return to that.
When I listened to this, the marble untangled. The sharp angles became rounded. The world became saturated. This album made me learn there were more patterns.
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Jan 12 2025
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Melodrama
Lorde
I was in a bad spot I cannot describe at all when this album meant so much to me. It's hard to be vague about it, but it's a thing to note.
Something I remembered upon a re-listen is being told I lost the "you ovulate, you lose" challenge which grounded me back into reality so hard I re-evaluated a personal relationship to a life changing degree.
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Jan 13 2025
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Rip It Up
Orange Juice
The songs were awesome when the vocals ended and they were just having fun at the end.
I think this album gave me covid
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Jan 14 2025
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Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
I had a friend in Ohio who I used to talk to on around a daily basis. I don't really remember much about him other then he would frequently ask me and my friends to play league and then say brb going to get something at the store then spending an hour while we all waited for the queue not knowing what was happening.
I don't know if we ever watched movies together but I remembered one day we watched little miss sunshine. The day before we watched it his grandpa passed. I never seen it before and didn't know that exact thing happened in the movie and i felt like such an asshole but he was chill about it. He thought it was a funny coincidence that his grandpa would have enjoyed as well.
I watched that film when i was first getting into music and stuff in general. It introduced me to the band Devotchka and Sufjan Stevens.
The song off this album that's in that movies soundtrack is Chicago which got me to listen to this album initially. It was a song I would constantly listen to.
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I used to fake nosebleeds in highschool to get out of running the mile. It was easy to do because I have a blood vessel or something that breaks very easily, even to this day I randomly get them. I was self conscious of how I ran and no one really cared to show me what to do with my hands so I was stiff. I asked one time and someone made fun of me, so I tried my best to get out of running. I very much enjoyed running but the shame won.
I would download albums from [redacted] and put them on my HTCone and listen to them while sitting in the shade of the buildings surrounding the track. I never really talked to anyone so it was a solitary hour listening to this. I would think of things i'd want to draw when I get home and how life would look like if I was more active and talkative.
I never actually drew those things or made those things. They were all fleeting thoughts that I never acted on because I felt too ashamed to make anything. Thought it would be fruitless and a waste of time even though I wanted to do it.
I felt like I was made to view other peoples experiences and that I'd never experience things myself. I used to think about what if I was able to actually engage in a life instead of viewing others from a far. The song most frequently played in these moments was Chicago.
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One of my friends later on mentioned being a huge Sufjan fan in a discord call. They are from Illinois and they would talk about their life there. For whatever reason that made me realize that I live somewhere and I also have experiences. It's embarrassing to admit but I was 19 when I figured this out.
Everything I said and lived meant something to others and myself. I wasn't divorced from the world but a part of it. He doesn't know about this. No one has ever known about this until now.
I guess I never had the words for it until now. I found these words while listening to Chicago.
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Jan 15 2025
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Illmatic
Nas
I don't have much of a story here. I just remember not fucking with this album when i heard it when i was 14 cause my english teacher kept talking to me about it and I was sick to death of him talking about it.
I hope he's in prison now a bit.
Albums p awesome cool though glad i got to listen to it again.
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Jan 16 2025
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The La's
The La's
This would hit so hard if I lived in Boston and was ten years older.
Unfortunately led to the formation of oasis. so I dock one star.
I was thinking of a cute guy while listening to this though so it gets the star back
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Jan 17 2025
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Cross
Justice
I remember first hearing Genesis in the balloonshop video about the coke
( MY LAST COKE, BALLOON SHOP, 2008 ) [Cited like a painting for the academics out there]
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I remember not knowing what the song was for a long time thinking like that song was cool. I don't know how i re-discovered this album at all I just know i randomly have Justice-Cross attacks in which I have to listen to Justice-Cross or i will perish.
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I do remember hearing DANCE remixed by an furry musician and having the character accompanying it giving me strong gay feelings and not liking anything else associated with that character.
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I on occupation have bouts where I get back into producing music. Every time, without fail, I think of the production on this album. It makes me feel a certain way that makes me want to make things that very few other albums make me feel. This is also the only album that makes me feel this strongly on this website (The other ones are Crystal Castles 1-3, Snow Strippers S/t, Neo Wax Bloom, and Charmed (DJSTTDJ)
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I remember not liking DVNO when I listened to the album so I'm going to release the review when the song plays again.
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Update: I still do not like DVNO. The vocals kinda kill it for me.
Waters of Nazareth is so good it makes up for me not liking it tho.
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