Jan 06 2025
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Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
Feels like he wants to focus on both guitar and song, which leads to both sounding secondary somehow. No doubt a guitar virtuouso, but some lyrics could use work. Nonetheless I enjoyed most songs a lot, and none were bad, 6-7/10.
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Jan 07 2025
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Live At The Regal
B.B. King
B.B King lives up to his moniker! An incredible half and hour of some of the best blues. He skillfullt navigates between letting his voice and his guitar do the talking, all the while staying connected with the audience. 4.5/5, which I round up!
5
Jan 08 2025
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
Eminems debut, have listened before and it's still just as good. It's interesting to hear young, angry eminem compared to his (sometimes) more introspective later albums. He punches in every direction while being hilarious and lyrically clever. Can't really find anything to complain about, but the album is not life-changing. 4/5.
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Jan 09 2025
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Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
Quite nice and standard singer-songwriter album. He spices it up a bit with the latinesque "Bryter Layter", the jazzy "Poor Boy", and folk music-like(?) "Sunday", which I really appreciated! Otherwise nothing out of the ordinary in either direction. 3/5.
3
Jan 10 2025
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Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
I would like to describe it as "ethereal indie-rock", even if that makes me sound very pretentious. Very interesting instrumentally, with unusual melodies and sounds. Unfortunately not quite enough to lift it above 4 stars, so I go with 3.5/5, rounding to 3 in the vote.
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