Jan 09 2025
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
First Album I’m rating. I’ve resisted listening to it for a long time and now it is time.
Every Ghetto, Every City - Adding to my Playlist. Best song on the album.
Intro - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t think I need to explain anything.
Lost Ones - Not Adding to my Playlist. Not really my type of song. One of two songs I listened to before today.
Ex-Factor - Adding to my Playlist. It draws on a little too long but I like this more than Lost Ones.
To Zion - Not Adding to my Playlist. I didn’t like this song.
Doo Wop (That Thing) - Adding to my Playlist. I really like this song. This id the other song I listened to.
Superstar - Not Adding to my Playlist. I just don’t like the vocals all that much.
Final Hour - Adding to my Playlist. This is a pretty good song. Not much else to say.
When It Hurts So Bad - Not Adding to my Playlist. The vocals are kinda annoying.
I Used to Love Him - Not Adding to my Playlist. About as good as Lost Ones. Love that opening but it gets worse and worse as the song goes on.
Forgive Them Father - Not Adding to my Playlist. Her vocals are a little annoying.
Nothing Even Matters - Not Adding to my Playlist. Very long and not in a good way.
Everything is Everything - Not Adding to my Playlist. A bit better than Lost Ones.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Not Adding to my Playlist. It wasn’t that good in ny opinion.
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Not Adding to my Playlist. The song is barely not good enough.
Tell Him - Not Adding to my Playlist. Pretty bland.
All in all I liked 4/16 songs. I thought the other songs were ok though and none were bad. It would’ve been a much better album if the songs were less drawn out. Also, what is wrong with Lauryn Hill? Was she always insane?
3
Jan 10 2025
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Blue
Joni Mitchell
This is the 2nd album I’m rating and honestly I first heard about this album from Apple Music’s Top 100 Albums list. I’ve heard a lot of good things about her and now it is time to listen to her for the first time.
All I Want - Not Adding to my Playlist. Her singing is annoying. The instrumentals are nice though.
My Old Man - Not Adding to my Playlist. The way she sings is amazing and terrible at the same time. Instrumentals are still pretty good though.
Little Green - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m sorry Joni Mitchell but I can’t get over this singing.
Carey - Adding to my Playlist. This is much better. If the rest of the album goes on like this it’s a good album.
Blue - Adding to my Playlist. Titular track is pretty good.
California - Adding to my Playlist. I can see why this and Carey were the two singles from this album.
This Flight Tonight - Not Adding to my Playlist. Her singing is pretty annoying in this song. I really like the instrumental by the way. That part around 1:55 is really nice.
River - Not Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t that good.
A Case of You - Adding to my Playlist. This is as good as Blue.
The Last Time I Saw Richard - Adding to my Playlist. If she sung like this for the entire album it would’ve been much better.
All in all I liked 5/10 songs. This album was pretty disappointing, I was expecting this to be much better than what it ended up being. About as disappointing as the first album I rated, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
3
Jan 11 2025
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The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
This is the 3rd album I’m rating. I haven’t heard many Ray Charles songs but I did watch the movie with Jamie Foxx. It’ll be interesting to listen to a full album of his for the first time.
Let the Good Times Roll - Adding to my Playlist. This is a sound that I’m very familiar with and I love it.
It Had to be You - Adding to my Playlist. I have a feeling I’m going to love this album because I love classic pop.
Alexander’s Ragtime Band - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’ve always liked this song but I’ve never heard this version. I prefer the version by the Andrews Sisters. This song is good but not as good as the Andrews Sisters version.
Two Years of Torture - Adding to my Playlist. I’ve always loved big band jazz.
When Your Lover Has Gone - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the vocals in this song.
Deed I Do - Adding to my Playlist. Not much to say other than, it’s jazz.
Just for a Thrill - Adding to my Playlist. Side Two switching things up. I don’t like it as much as side one but it’s pretty good.
You Won’t Let Me Go - Adding to my Playlist. So far side two is looking pretty good.
Tell Me You’ll Wait For Me - Not Adding to my Playlist. The song is kinda boring.
Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’ - Adding to my Playlist. Not a big fan of his singing in this song but the strings arr pretty good.
Am I Blue - Not Adding to my Playlist. The singing is a bit annoying.
Come Rain or Come Shine - Adding to my Playlist. The singing is better.
All in all I liked 8/12 of the songs. This is pretty good all around and despite the fact I added four songs from each side I much prefer side one.
4
Jan 11 2025
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Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
This is the 4th album I’m rating. I’ve heard the name of this album and Minutemen before but I have no idea what genre they are or anything about them. I think I can assume they are rock and good though but now it’s time to listen to the music.
Anxious Mo-Fo - Not Adding to my Playlist. Please tell me the other 44 songs aren’t like this. I can’t do this.
Theatre is the Life of You - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like this singing.
Viet Nam - Not Adding to my Playlist. The opening is good but it just repeats for the entire song. I really don’t like this singing. Side Mike is probably better.
Cohesion - Not Adding to my Playlist. Honestly best song so far.
It’s Expected I’m Gone - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t think I’ve listened to punk before. I hate punk now.
#1 Hit Song - Not Adding to my Playlist. Shitty lyrics but I think that was on purpose. Still shit.
Two Beads at the End - Not Adding to my Playlist. With a different singer these songs would be much better.
Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want The Truth? - Not Adding to my Playlist. Mike I don’t know your full name but you have to do better than this.
Don’t Look Now - Not Adding to my Playlist. I never listened to the original but it can’t be worse than this.
Shit From an Old Notebook - Not Adding to my Playlist. There has to be a better singer they could hire.
Nature Without Man - Not Adding to my Playlist. If this album was nothing but instrumentals it would be a lot better.
One Reporter’s Opinion - Not Adding to my Playlist. Please, Mike please.
Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing - Not Adding to my Playlist. I hate you Mike.
Maybe Partying Will Help - Not Adding to my Playlist. I was hoping this album was like Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. It’s just shit the whole way through.
Toadies - Not Adding to my Playlist. Get a ghostwriter. Please. Actually, stop singing. The songs would be fine as instrumentals.
Retreat - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is a song.
The Big Foist - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is very disappointing. Maybe I’m too big of a normie to appreciate this masterpiece.
God Bows to Math - Not Adding to my Playlist. Who sings these songs? And why were they picked as the singer?
Corona - Not Adding to my Playlist. Is this album better drunk? Do I need to be an alcoholic to appreciate the album?
The Glory of Man - Not Adding to my Playlist. I hope they don’t butcher Dr. Wu because that’s a song I really like.
Take 5, D - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is by far the worst album I’ve ever listened to. I hope 69 Love Songs is better than this.
My Heart and the Real World - Not Adding to my Playlist. When is the next instrumental?
History Lesson - Part II - Not Adding to my Playlist. Punk rock is ruining my life. George you have to do better than Mike.
You Need the Glory - Not Adding to my Playlist. Imagine buying this album in 1984 and realizing you wasted your money.
The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts - Not Adding to my Playlist. Now that I think about it I listened to Basket Case and liked it.
Mr Robot’s Holy Orders - Not Adding to my Playlist. I got excited then I heard words. Now I’m depressed.
West Germany - Not Adding to my Playlist. When the only punk song I had listened to was Basket Case I liked punk. Now I hate it. I really hate it.
The Politics of Time - Not Adding to my Playlist. Underflow error. Greatest album of all time.
Themselves - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t even know what to say anymore.
Please Don’t Be Gentle With Me - Not Adding to my Playlist. It’s very short and has little lyrics. One of the best songs on the album.
Nothing Indeed - Not Adding to my Playlist. This album is way too long for and not nearly good enough.
No Exchange - Not Adding to my Playlist. Going into this I was worried I would listen to every album and have no 1-star albums. I’m not worried anymore.
There Ain’t Shit on T.V. Tonight - Not Adding to my Playlist. How did people buy albums without listening to them first when shit like this exists.
This Ain’t No Picnic - Not Adding to my Playlist. I can’t believe people paid to listen to this.
Spillage - Not Adding to my Playlist. Chaff, you have a fun name, please have better music.
Untitled Song for Latin America - Not Adding to my Playlist. Do you think I’ll ever date a hot punk girl and then I’ll have to pretend to like this album?
Jesus and Tequila - Not Adding to my Playlist. I would have to really like that girl to pretend to like this album.
June 16th - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t think I’m a good enough actor to pretend to like this album. This is so boring but it’s the second best song.
Storm in My House - Not Adding to my Playlist. Chaff, you have terrible music taste. What are these songs?
Martin’s Story - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m tired of this shit.
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love - Not Adding to my Playlist. No way people like this.
Dr. Wu - Not Adding to my Playlist. They butchered the song. What the fuck?
Little Man with a Gun in His Hand - Not Adding to my Playlist. Wow, this sucks.
The World According to Nouns - Not Adding to my Playlist. This has to be a joke being played on me.
Love Dance - Not Adding to my Playlist. Ending the album the right way. No vocals. A perfect end to a terrible album.
All in all I liked 0/45 of the songs. 80 minutes, 45 tracks, loved by hundreds, complete shit. I listened to this for 80 minutes and I don’t like any of the 45 songs. 45 songs. Forty. Five. Songs.
1
Jan 12 2025
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Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
This is the 5th album I’m rating. I have not heard of this album until now but I’m excited to listen to a full country album for the first time.
Coat of Many Colors - Adding to my Playlist. Not the biggest fan of the vocals but it’s good enough.
Traveling Man - Not Adding to my Playlist. This had a bad second half.
My Blue Tears - Adding to my Playlist. A little better than Coat of Many Colors.
If I Lose My Mind - Not Adding to my Playlist. Some pretty cool lyrics but it’s pretty boring.
The Mystery of the Mystery - Not Adding to my Playlist. The singing is a bit annoying.
She Never Met a Man (She Didn’t Like) - Not Adding to my Playlist. I didn’t like the vocals.
Early Morning Breeze - Adding to my Playlist. This song sounds really good and peaceful. Best song so far.
The Way I See You - Not Adding to my Playlist. The instrumentals are a bit repetitive and annoying.
Here I Am - Adding to my Playlist. Kinda boring but it’s fine.
A Better Place to Live - Adding to my Playlist. The opening of this song made me smile.
All in all I liked 5/10 of the songs. It was pretty good for my first ever country album and there are no songs that I actually dislike.
3
Jan 13 2025
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Electric Warrior
T. Rex
This is the 6th album I’m rating and I’ve only listened to Bang a Gong (Get It On). I’ve heard good things about the album and the song was pretty good. So I hope this’ll be good.
Mambo Sun - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t think the singing style works very well with the instrumentals.
Cosmic Dancer - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is not what I was expecting going into this album.
Jeepster - Adding to my Playlist. Sounds pretty good. I like the singing style.
Monolith - Adding to my Playlist. The opening is really good. I really like this.
Lean Woman Blues - Adding to my Playlist. I think I love this album.
Bang a Gong (Get It On) - Adding to my Playlist. Only song I’ve listened to before today. I didn’t add it before because of the lyrics but I don’t care anymore.
Planet Queen - Adding to my Playlist. The vocals in this song are fun.
Girl - Not Adding to my Playlist. Singing is a little annoying and I don’t like the instrumentals that much.
The Motivator - Adding to my Playlist. Good but the singing is a bit annoying.
Life’s a Gas - Adding to my Playlist. It sounds very nice and peaceful.
Rip Off - Not Adding to my Playlist. Not a fan of the singing in this song.
All in all I liked 7/11 songs. This was pretty good and was interesting as it was not what I expected from listening to Bang a Gong (Get It On).
4
Jan 14 2025
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This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
This is the 7th album I’m rating. I’ve heard the name but aside from that I know nothing Elvis Costello & The Attractions. I hope it’s good.
No Action - Not Adding to my Playlist. Kinda boring and I don’t like his voice.
This Year’s Girl - Not Adding to my Playlist. Not a fan of that singing.
The Beat - Not Adding to my Playlist. Cool beat but I don’t really like the vocals.
Pump It Up - Adding to my Playlist. I don’t know what he’s saying but it’s good either way.
Little Triggers - Not Adding to my Playlist. Singing isn’t great but it’s fine.
You Belong to Me - Adding to my Playlist. Sounds pretty good but lyrics are a little repetitive.
Hand in Hand - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like those lyrics.
(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea - Not Adding to my Playlist. Chelsea can’t be that bad of a city.
Lip Service - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like this singing.
Living in Paradise - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the lyrics.
Lipstick Vogue - Not Adding to my Playlist. That singing is annoying.
Night Rally - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is boring and I don’t like the singing.
All in all I liked 2/12 of the songs. This kinda sucked but it wasn’t terrible or 80 minutes long.
2
Jan 15 2025
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Opus Dei
Laibach
This is the eighth album I’m rating. I’m very excited because this is the first album where I know absolutely nothing so I’m going to go into this completely blind.
Leben Heißt Leben - Not Adding to my Playlist. My immediate thoughts are that this isn’t in English, and pretty unknown. This also feels weirdly boring for a Slovenian band i’ve never heard of.
Geburt einer Nation - Adding to my Playlist. The lyrics sound like English but the words are impossible to make out. Is this in German? I’m confused. I think it is because it’s a Queen cover. I’ve never listened to the Queen song but I can’t imagine it being anything like this.
Leben - Tod - Adding to my Playlist. This feels like metal music. I wonder if the lyrics wouldn’t sound as stupid if I spoke the language. I think the lyrics are a bit repetitive but I might be wrong.
F.I.A.T - Not Adding to my Playlist. Sounds like its from a Soviet military movie in a bad way.
Opus Dei - Not adding to my Playlist. This is definitely English and I hate it. Go back to German. Titular track isn’t great.
Trans-National - Adding to my Playlist. Sounds pretty weird but I love it. This is the type of album that you should never ever play at a party.
How The West Was Won - Not Adding ho my Playlist. It sounds a bit too repetitive for me.
The Great Seal - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is a military anthem.
All in all I liked 3/8 songs. It was weird and nothing like anything else I’ve ever listened to. However. I like it more because it’s weird.
3
Jan 16 2025
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Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
This is the ninth album I’m rating. I don’t think I’ve listened to a Stevie Wonder song before and I’ve never heard of this album. However, I have heard great things about him and I am excited to listen to it.
You Are the Sunshine of my Life - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’ve heard a Stevie Wonder song before.
Maybe Your Baby - Not Adding to my Playlist. Not a fan of those vocals.
You and I (We Can Conquer the World) - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is pretty boring. Not bad, just boring.
Tuesday Heartbreak - Adding to my Playlist. It sound nice and funky.
You’ve Got It Bad Girl - Not Adding to my Playlist. Kinda long and kinda annoying. Way too repetitive. This could be cut like 3 minutes shorter.
Superstition - Adding to my Playlist. How did I forget I listened to this? A classic.
Big Brother - Adding to my Playlist. Cool harmonica. Vocals are cool.
Blame it on the Sun - Not Adding to my Playlist. No harmonica.
Lookin’ for Another Pure Love - Adding to my Playlist. A bit boring but that’s fine. However, this could be cut a couple minutes shorter it is a bit too repetitive.
I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) - Adding to my Playlist. This song is the same as Lookin’ for Another Pure Love in my mind.
All in all I liked 5/10 songs. This was pretty boring and disappointing but not bad. I think this was a decent album.
3
Jan 17 2025
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Broken English
Marianne Faithfull
This is the 10th album I’m rating. This is an Opus Dei situation. I don’t know what this is or who made it but the album cover is looking pretty cool. I hope this is good.
Broken English - Adding to my Playlist. These vocals are getting pretty annoying and it could be cut like two minutes shorter still good though.
Witches’ Song - Adding to my Playlist. This sounds much better than Broken English. The vocals aren’t as annoying.
Brain Drain - Adding to my Playlist. I really like this song but it is a bit repetitive. I wonder how popular she is because I’ve never heard of her but these songs are pretty good.
Guilt - Adding to my Playlist. The singing confuses me. I kinda like it but I also kind hate it.
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Adding to my Playlist. This sounds pretty good.
What’s the Hurry - Adding to my Playlist. The singing is a bit weird but I like it.
Working Class Hero - Adding to my Playlist. This is the worst song on the album. I still like it though.
Why’d Ya Do It - Adding to my Playlist. There is something about here singing that just feels wrong but weirdly I like it.
All in all I liked 8/8 of the songs. This was the first great album I’ve listened to from this list and one of the worst great albums if that makes sense. I’m glad this was an album I’ve never heard of before. If Fetch the Bolt Cutters was my first I’d be a bit disappointed.
5
Jan 18 2025
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
This is the eleventh album I’m rating. I am familiar with Zeppelin 1-4. However, I have yet to listen to a full Led Zeppelin album. I’m also not familiar with this album aside from Kashmir but I hope this is as good as Zeppelin’s other stuff.
Custard Pie - Adding to my Playlist. This is definitely a Led Zeppelin song.
The Rover - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the singing.
In My Time of Dying - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is way too long.
Houses of the Holy - Adding to my Playlist. I didn’t know this was on Physical Graffiti. I always assumed this was from Houses of the Holy.
Trampled Under Foot - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is pretty boring.
Kashmir - Adding to my Playlist. I’m surprised I didn’t already add this.
In the Light - Not Adding to my Playlist. The singing sounds bad but I like the synth on this song. Also, way too long.
Bron-Yr-Aur - Not Adding to my Playlist. This sounds different and I don’t like it.
Down by the Seaside - Adding to my Playlist. A nice and peaceful song that just sounds good.
Ten Years Gone - Adding to my Playlist. A little long but pretty good.
Night Flight - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m not a fan of the singing.
The Wanton Song - Not Adding to my Playlist. Side four is pretty disappointing.
Boogie with Stu - Adding with my Playlist. I don’t know who Stu is but this sounds pretty good.
Black Country Woman - Not Adding to my Playlist. The singing was nice at first but it started getting annoying.
Sick Again - Not Adding to my Playlist. Usually I like Plant’s singing but something just feels wrong.
All in all I liked 6/15 of the songs. This was a pretty disappointing album, I expected better from Led Zeppelin, I mean it isn’t bad, just not that great.
3
Jan 19 2025
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Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
This is the 12th album I’m rating. I don’t know what this is or who this but I can tell it’s metal from the name. Actually, it might be punk now that I think about it.
Sweat Loaf - Adding to my Playlist. I got worried at the start but I was right after all. This is metal. Not a lot of genres would have a name like Locust Abortion Technician. I have a feeling that skit at the beginning is going to get annoying.
Graveyard - Adding to my Playlist. I probably shouldn’t be adding this to my playlist because now this means I can’t listen to it at church.
Pittsburgh to Lebanon - Adding to my Playlist. The voice is cool but I can’t tell what it’s saying.
Weber - Not Adding to my Playlist. Too short. Probably good if it was longer.
HAY - Not Adding to my Playlist. I can’t tell what’s going on in this song.
Human Cannonball - Not Adding to my Playlist. That singing is annoying.
U.S.S.A - Not Adding to my Playlist. Started off strong but got annoying.
The O-Men - Not Adding to my Playlist. That is some strange singing.
Kuntz - Not Adding to my Playlist. This sounds different probably because this definitely isn’t English.
Graveyard - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is pretty cool but I feel like it goes on a little bit too long.
22 Going on 23 - Adding to my Playlist. I’m beginning to rethink if this is metal or not. I am very confused from listening to the other songs. This song is very confusing to me. Those parts with the talking aren’t that great but I really like the other parts. I’ll add it because it’s fun and experimental.
All in all I liked 4/11 songs. Not the worst thing in the world but not that good either. This was better than This Year’s Model though. It started off strong but gradually got worse.
3
Jan 20 2025
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Horses
Patti Smith
This is the 13th album I’m rating. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this album and that cover is iconic. However, I know nothing about her, the album, or what genre this is. So I’m going into this almost completely blind. I’m guessing that this is either country, folk, or bluegrass.
Gloria: In Excelsis Deo - Adding to my Playlist. I’m thinking this is country.
Redondo Beach - Adding to my Playlist. I’m thinking I’m wrong. I just thought that with a name like Horses and Patti Smith it would be country.
Birdland - Not Adding to my Playlist. Way too long for my taste.
Free Money - Not Adding to my Playlist. The vocals are a bit repetitive.
Kimberly - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the singing.
Break It Up - Not Adding to my Playlist. I thought it was a little boring.
Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is too long and kinda annoying.
Elegie - Adding to my Playlist. This sounds pretty good.
All in all I liked 3/8 songs. This wasn’t that great and I would say it is about as good as Opus Dei.
3
Jan 21 2025
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The Bends
Radiohead
This is the 14th album I’m rating. I haven’t listened to any Radiohead outside of Creep, I think. However, I hear Radiohead is pretty good so this better be one of my favorite albums ever.
Planet Telex - Not Adding to my Playlist. On a different day I might like this.
The Bends - Adding to my Playlist. This sounds pretty good.
High and Dry - Adding to my Playlist. I think I heard this before. Maybe I’m thinking of that Rolling Stones song.
Fake Plastic Trees - Adding to my Playlist. This is pretty boring but good.
Bones - Not Adding to my Playlist. This sounds kinda basic but maybe its because it was really influential.
(Nice Dream) - Not Adding to my Playlist. I feel like I’ve heard this song a bunch of times before.
Just - Not Adding to my Playlist. A bit too long in my opinion. All of these songs feel pretty similar.
My Iron Lung - Not Adding to my Playlist. So far it isn’t looking good for The Bends.
Bullet Proof … I Wish I Was - Not Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t particularly memorable, interesting, or fun.
Black Star - Not Adding to my Playlist. Maybe I’m not paying enough attention but this all feels identical.
Sulk - Not adding to my Playlist. This is boring and annoying.
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - This album is not that good.
All in all I liked 3/12 songs. All of this was pretty similar and boring. It isn’t the worst thing in the world. However, it is pretty boring and the third worst album so far.
3
Jan 22 2025
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Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
This is the 15th album I’m rating. This is the second Led Zeppelin album I have gotten and I am pretty unfamiliar with it. I’ve really only listened to the Immigrant Song which I think is overrated.
Immigrant Song - Not Adding to my Playlist. Like I said before, it’s overrated.
Friends - Adding to my Playlist. This song is barely good enough.
Celebration Day - Adding to my Playlist. About as good as Friends.
Since I’ve Been Loving You - Not Adding to my Playlist. Long and not that good.
Out on the Tiles - Not Adding to my Playlist. Boring and not memorable.
Gallows Pole - Not Adding to my Playlist. The song is fine and a bit annoying.
Tangerine - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is not a good album.
That’s the Way - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is just not good.
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp - Adding to my Playlist. This feels like Bron-Yr-Aur.
Hats Off to (Roy) Harper - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is weird and annoying.
All in all I liked 3/10 of the songs. My standards might be too low I feel like I’m giving out too many 3 stars. This is a little better than The Bends.
3
Jan 23 2025
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Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
This is the sixteenth album I’m rating. I’ve heard of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and I think they’re punk. However, I know nothing else about the band so I’m going into this near blind.
Rich - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the vocals. I think I’ve criticized every single singer’s vocals so far.
Date with the Night - Adding to my Playlist. Kinda annoying but kinda fun.
Man - Adding to my Playlist. Same as Date with the Night.
Tick - Adding to my Playlist. I feel like most punk bands sing the same.
Black Tongue - Adding to my Playlist. Best song so far.
Pin - Adding to my Playlist. Pretty cool.
Cold Light - Adding to my Playlist. This is probably going to get really annoying after a bunch of listens.
No No No - Adding to my Playlist. End isn’t that good though.
Maps - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is a little boring. I don’t feel anything listening to this song.
Y Control - Adding to my Playlist. As I review more albums, the reviews get shorter and shorter.
Modern Romance - Adding to my Playlist. This sounds different in a good way. It feels familiar but I can’t quite think of what it sounds like. I hate to say it but this might be my favorite song on the album. Also, it’s annoying how its split up and the silence is gone on Spotify. I want that minute of silence and for it to one song. Where is that minute of silence for the fans who want a 7 minute song?
All in all I liked 9/11 songs. I think it’s a little better than Broken English. Cool punk album. I’m beginning to notice there is a lot of rock but then again I only listened to 16 albums.
5
Jan 24 2025
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Space Ritual
Hawkwind
This is the 17th album I’m rating. I don’t know what this is or who this is. I think it’s metal based on the cover though.
Earth Calling - Not Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t good but it feels like an introduction song. I guess this is a live album.
Born to Go - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is boring and long.
Down Through the Night - Not Adding to my Playlist. Same as Born to Go.
The Awakening - Not Adding to my Playlist. Short and bad.
Lord of Light - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the singing.
Black Corridor - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is not a good album.
Space is Deep - Not Adding to my Playlist. This song is pretty good but way too long.
Electronic No. 1 - Not Adding to my Playlist. 1973 electronic stuff sucked.
Orgone Accumulator - Not Adding to my Playlist. I tend not to like songs longer than 21st Century Schizoid Man.
Upside Down - Not Adding to my Playlist. I really don’t like this.
10 Seconds of Forever - Not Adding to my Playlist. Space Rock isn’t a real genre it’s kinda like Riot Grrrl in that way.
Brainstorm - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is too long and Space Rock sucks.
Seven by Seven - Not Adding to my Playlist. I can tell why people like this but at the same time it’s bad.
Sonic Attack - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’d rather listen to The 8th Cumming.
Time We Left This World Today - Not Adding to my Playlist. I think Pussy Whipped is a better album and I hate Bikini Kill.
Master of the Universe - Not Adding to my Playlist. I wonder if any Pop Punk is on this list.
Welcome to the Future - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is terrible.
All in all I liked 0/17 songs. This was like 10 minutes longer than Double Nickels on the Dime at 90 minutes and somehow worse. This was just a terrible album. Who thought a live double album would be a good idea?
1
Jan 25 2025
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To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
This is the 18th album I’m rating. I’m not really familiar with any if these songs except for How Much a Dollar Cost because it’s Obama’s favorite song. This is one of the most acclaimed albums of all time so this better be good.
Wesley’s Theory - Adding to my Playlist. Sounds pretty cool.
For Free? (Interlude) - Adding to my Playlist. I definitely listened to this song.
King Kunta - Adding to my Playlist. Kendrick’s good. Only critically acclaimed album that’s actually good.
Institutionalized - Adding to my Playlist. This is much better than The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
These Walls - Adding to my Playlist. I need to listen to more Kendrick.
U - Adding to my Playlist. Worst song so far but sill good. It’s looking like a top 10 album so far.
Alright - Adding to my Playlist. I hate to be the guy praising critically acclaimed albums endlessly but this is fantastic.
For Sale? (Interlude) - Adding to my Playlist. Easily the worst song. Makes sense because it’s an interlude.
Momma - Adding to my Playlist. This was bad at the start but that ending pulled me in.
Hood Politics - Adding to my Playlist. Liked the start but gradually got worse.
How Much a Dollar Cost - Adding to my Playlist. Obama’s favorite song. When I first listened to this I thought Kendrick was an asshole for not giving him the money. He’s still an asshole. Good song though.
Complexion (a Zulu Love) - Adding to my Playlist. The only things I know about Zulus are from reading Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.
The Blacker The Berry - Adding to my Playlist. Pretty good.
You Ain’t Gotta Lie (Momma Said) - Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t the greatest still good enough.
I - Adding to my Playlist. That last part wasn’t too great.
Mortal Man - Adding to my Playlist. Ending the album with a fantastic 12 minute long song.
All in all I liked 16/16 songs. This is one of the greatest albums I’ve ever listened to and in my top 10. Unlike every other album on this list it matched expectations. This was truly fantastic.
5
Jan 26 2025
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Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
This is the 19th album I’m rating. I don’t know who Frank Black is, what this album is, or what genre this is but that cover is pretty cool. I think I recognize that cover though but I might be crazy.
Whatever Happened to Pong? - Not Adding to my Playlist. Feels like punk.
Thalassocracy - Not Adding to my Playlist. Quintuple Pennies on the Nickel.
(I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plan - Not Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t that bad but mot that great.
Calistan - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is definitely worse.
The Vanishing Spies - Not Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t very good.
Speedy Marie - Adding to my Playlist. This feels basic and boring but good.
Headache - Adding to my Playlist. I don’t think it’s punk anymore.
Sir Rockaby - Adding to my Playlist. Maybe that album cover won’t be wasted after all.
Freedom Rock - Adding to my Playlist. This is so basic that its pissing me off but I like basic.
Two Reelers - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m thinking this is punk again because it feels very similar to Minutemen.
Fiddle Riddle - Adding to my Playlist. This might be actually good.
Olé Mulholland - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m annoyed by this.
Fazer Eyes - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is too boring.
I Could Stay Here Forever - Not Adding to my Playlist. Maybe not that great.
The Hostess with the Mostest - Not Adding to my Playlist. Wasn’t particularly interesting.
Superabound - Adding to my Playlist. This is ok.
Big Red - Adding to my Playlist. Pretty cool song but this album is just so boring.
Space is Gonna Do Me Good - Adding to my Playlist. Seems good enough.
White Noise Maker - Not Adding to my Playlist. I never really understood having white noise to sleep.
Pure Denizen of the Citizens Band - Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the singing but it’s cool.
Bad, Wicked World - Not Adding to my Playlist. I really don’t like the singing.
Pie in the Sky - Not Adding to my Playlist. Not a great way to end the album in my opinion.
All in all I liked 9/22 of the songs. Not as bad as Double Nickels on the Dime. Fine album but boring at times. I don’t really know who Frank Black is but I hear the Pixies are pretty cool.
3
Jan 27 2025
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Maxinquaye
Tricky
This is the 20th album I’m rating. Like Teenager of the Year I know absolutely nothing going into this. However, I’m guessing punk rock.
Overcome - Adding to my Playlist. I think I was wrong about this being punk rock. I also wasn’t expecting a woman. The production is really good.
Ponderosa - Adding to my Playlist. This could be better than To Pimp a Butterfly.
Black Steel - Adding to my Playlist. When is Tricky going to say something?
Hell is Round the Corner - Adding to my Playlist. Pretty cool song.
Pumpkin - Adding to my Playlist. Kinda boring but good.
Aftermath - Adding to my Playlist. Great production on all the songs so far.
Abbaon Fat Tracks - Adding to my Playlist. Same as the other songs.
Brand New You’re Retro - Adding to my Playlist. Not really a fan of Tricky’s voice.
Suffocated Love - Adding to my Playlist. Very cool, very nice.
You Don’t - Adding to my Playlist. So Tricky was part of Massive Attack.
Strugglin’ - Adding to my Playlist. Fantastic intro.
Feed Me - Adding to my Playlist. This is fantastic it might be the best song on the album.
All in all I liked 12/12 songs. This was fantastic and not like a lot of the stuff that I hear. It reminded me of Björk in a weird way. Although I’m unsure of whether to put this below or above To Pimp a Butterfly.
5
Jan 28 2025
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Live!
Fela Kuti
This is the 21st album I’m rating. What is this? I am going into this completely blind. This better not be a live double album like Space Ritual.
Let’s Start - Adding to my Playlist. Is that Ginger Baker from Cream? This song is fantastic.
Black Man’s Cry - Adding to my Playlist. This is a fantastic album so far.
Ye Ye De Smell - Adding to my Playlist. I think this is the only Afrobeat I’ve listened to in my life and it’s great.
Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want to Die) - Adding to my Playlist. A really fun album all around. Although it might be sad if I could understand him but I can’t hear the words in English too well.
All in all I liked 4/4 songs. Great album and one of my top 20 albums. I haven’t heard anything from this genre and it was really interesting.
5
Jan 29 2025
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
This is the 22nd album I’m rating. I’ve heard a lot of great things about this album but I don’t know anything about it. I’m predicting it’s punk though. I hope this is like To Pimp a Butterfly and not The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Sunday Morning - Not Adding to my Playlist. Well shit. This is kinda shit. He sings like me and I don’t sing well.
I’m Waiting for the Man - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m sorry to every music critic but that singing is truly bad.
Femme Fatale - Adding to my Playlist. I planned on listening to this song for a long time but I never got around to doing it. However, I had heard a little bit of it. The singing kinda sounds like Amanda Palmer but this was way before she started making music so it’s probably the other way around.
Venus In Furs - Not Adding to my Playlist. Cool instrumentals but I hate that singing. Bring back Nico.
Run Run Run - Not Adding to my Playlist. Lou Reed kinda sucks.
All Tommorow’s Parties - Adding to my Playlist. I can see how these songs influenced many musicians but they also kinda suck.
Heroin - Not Adding to my Playlist. Get someone else to sing.
There She Goes Again - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m sorry Lou Reed.
I’ll Be Your Mirror - Adding to my Playlist. Nico is better than Lou Reed but she still kinda sucks.
The Black Angel’s Death Song - Not Adding to my Playlist. I had hope but this isn’t good.
European Son - Not Adding to my Playlist. Interestingly bad.
All in all I liked 3/11 songs. It is no coincidence the 3 songs I liked were sung by Nico. Lou Reed is not that good of a singer. This was more like The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill than To Pimp a Butterfly.
3
Jan 30 2025
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Only By The Night
Kings of Leon
This is the 23rd album I’m rating. I heard this was on the list but I can’t really judge it since I can’t remember listening to the band. I probably have listened to them though since I listened to a lot of radio music like most people over 10.
Closer - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is extremely basic.
Crawl - Not Adding to my Playlist. That singing is pretty annoying.
Sex on Fire - Not Adding to my Playlist. This feels like a This Year’s Model situation.
Use Somebody - Not Adding to my Playlist. I definitely recognize this song. I hate this song. Maybe listening to this song on the radio for years is influencing my judgement but it doesn’t change the fact I dislike it.
Manhattan - Not Adding to my Playlist. I feel nothing.
Revelry - Not Adding to my Playlist. Pretty basic but something feels right but also wrong.
17 - Not Adding to my Playlist. When I imagine alt rock I’m thinking of something interesting.
Notion - Not Adding to my Playlist. I can’t listen to this album. I listened to all of these songs on the radio so much I can’t listen to them anymore.
I Want You - Not Adding to my Playlist. This singing is pretty annoying.
Be Somebody - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is more interesting but worse.
Cold Desert - Not Adding to my Playlist. Antarctica or Ice Cream.
All in all I liked 0/11 songs. Not as good as I thought it would be. The best terrible album. I’m getting kinda burnt out listening to new music I need a Fetch the Bolt Cutters or a Tidal or a Aftermath. I need something I know really well that’s really good. I don’t know what Björk albums are on here but one of them should be fine. Maybe Bitte Orca or Heaven or Las Vegas. Just something I know.
1
Jan 31 2025
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Tragic Songs of Life
The Louvin Brothers
This is the 24th album I’m rating. This is not something I know. I wished for something I know and I have no idea what this is. I’m guessing Bluegrass because I haven’t had any Bluegrass yet.
Kentucky - Adding to my Playlist. Pretty cool country song.
I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight - Adding to my Playlist. This is really nice.
Let Her Go, God Bless Her - Adding to my Playlist. Country is pretty good.
What is Home Without Love - Adding to my Playlist. A motel.
A Tiny Broken Heart - Adding to my Playlist. This all sounds the same.
In The Pines - Adding to my Playlist. This is good.
Alabama - Adding to my Playlist. This sounds like every country song.
Katie Dear - Adding to my Playlist. Best song so far.
My Brother’s Will - Adding to my Playlist. This albums feels like one long song.
Knoxville Girl - Adding to my Playlist. I always hear the name Knoxville but I don’t know where that is.
Take the News to Mother - Adding to my Playlist. The Way Things Are.
Mary of the Wild Moor - Adding to my Playlist. Great song but what’s a wild moor?
All in all I liked 12/12 songs. This is the second country album I’ve listened to and it is much better. Great album front to back.
5
Feb 01 2025
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The Wall
Pink Floyd
This is the 25th album I’m rating. I’ve never listened to a Pink Floyd song but I’ve seen a million album covers. If this is bad I’m going to be extremely disappointed.
In the Flesh? - Adding to my Playlist. Fuck. This is actually good.
The Thin Ice - Adding to my Playlist. Pretty good song.
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 - Adding to my Playlist. It’s living up to the praise.
The Happiest Days of Our Lives - Adding to my Playlist. Soap Opera.
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 - Adding to my Playlist. Interesting vocals. I wonder how old they are.
Mother - Not Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t as good.
Goodbye Blue Sky - Adding to my Playlist. This is much better.
Empty Spaces - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is pretty boring.
Young Lust - Not Adding to my Playlist. Good transition but terrible for streaming.
One of my Turns - Not Adding to my Playlist. Groupie is fun but I don’t like the song.
Don’t Leave Me Now - Not Adding to my Playlist. Side Two is terrible.
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 - Adding to my Playlist. It’s ok.
Goodbye Cruel World - Adding to my Playlist. Short but it’s fine.
Hey You - Adding to my Playlist. The singing is a bit annoying but the song is fantastic.
Is There Anybody Out There? - Not Adding to my Playlist. It’s cool but I don’t know something feels off.
Nobody Home - Adding to my Playlist. This might be the best song on the album.
Vera - Adding to my Playlist. I thought these songs would be longer.
Bring the Boys Back Home - Not Adding to my Playlist. Feels Vietnam but it’s 1979.
Comfortably Numb - Adding to my Playlist. Longest song maybe.
The Show Must Go On - Adding to my Playlist. Best song on the album if it was like a minute longer. Side Four is going to be great.
In the Flesh - Adding to my Playlist. This side is looking very good so far. This song is amazing. This is the best song on the album.
Run Like Hell - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is kinda ruining side four.
Waiting for the Worms - Not Adding to my Playlist. First two songs were good but it really went downhill from there.
Stop - Adding to my Playlist. This is extremely short. I think the second shortest song I’ve listened to.
The Trial - Adding to my Playlist. This feels like a Disney song.
Outside the Wall - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is very boring.
All in all I liked 16/26 songs. This was way too long and a lot of the songs kinda sucked. However, it is still a pretty good album.
4
Feb 02 2025
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It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
This is the 26th album I’m rating. I think I’ve heard that name before but I know nothing about Van Morrison. Hopefully this is great. Also, I’m pretty sure this is rock based off of vibes.
Ain’t Nothin’ You Can Do - Adding to my Playlist. Good thing this is actually good. I was worried this was going to be another shitty live double album like Space Ritual.
Warm Love - Adding to my Playlist. This is fantastic a double album this good could definitely enter my top 15.
Into the Mystic - Adding to my Playlist. This is really really good.
These Dreams of You - Adding to my Playlist. Very safe song.
I Believe to my Soul - Adding to my Playlist. Feels like Ray Charles.
I’ve Been Working - Adding to my Playlist. Slave breeding.
Help Me - Adding to my Playlist. Sounds like Sonny Boy Williamson the II.
Wild Children - Adding to my Playlist. Live double albums are either incredible or terrible. This is incredible.
Domino - Adding to my Playlist. I don’t even know what to say anymore these songs are great.
I Just Want to Make Love to You - Adding to my Playlist. This is from 1954?
Bring It On Home to Me - Adding to my Playlist. These songs are just great.
Saint Dominic’s Preview - Adding to my Playlist. This albums feel weirdly familiar.
Take Your Hand Out of my Pocket - Adding to my Playlist. Saxophone makes everything better.
Listen to the Lion - Adding to my Playlist. This is pretty long and pretty
good.
Hear Comes the Night - Adding to my Playlist. Pretty cool.
Gloria - Adding to my Playlist. This is probably the worst song.
Caravan - Adding to my Playlist. I hate long songs but this is good enough to overcome my hatred.
Cyprus Avenue - Adding to my Playlist. Live albums always have long songs and I hate it.
All in all I liked 18/18 songs. I went into this with low expectations due to my previous experience with Space Ritual but this was fantastic. At 92 minutes I believe this is the longest album I listened to and it is one of the best. It is going into my top 20.
5
Feb 03 2025
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Arrival
ABBA
This is the 27th album I’m rating. I’ve barely listened to ABBA but the ABBA I’ve listened to has been pretty good so I’m expecting great things from this album.
When I Kissed the Teacher - Adding to my Playlist. I hope this was a college professor.
Dancing Queen - Adding to my Playlist. Classic song and probably the most famous ABBA song.
My Love, my Life - Adding to my Playlist. I think I like ABBA.
Dum Dum Diddle - Adding to my Playlist. Fun simple song.
Knowing Me, Knowing You - Adding to my Playlist. Maybe I should watch Mamma Mia!
Money, Money, Money - Adding to my Playlist. LeBron’s favorite song maybe.
That’s Me - Adding to my Playlist. This is a really fun album.
Why Did it Have to be Me? - Adding to my Playlist. The guys are singing and it’s pretty good.
Tiger - Adding to my Playlist. Best song on the album.
Arrival - Adding to my Playlist. Interesting way to end the album.
All in all I liked 10/10 of the songs. This was a fantastic album and actually exceeded expectations. ABBA is great.
5
Feb 04 2025
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Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
This is the 28th album I’m rating. I really only know Respect but that song wasn’t that bad so this is probably pretty good. I’m glad this is short because those albums over an hour long are getting really tiring.
Chain of Fools - Adding to my Playlist. This is a fantastic song. I can see why she is so well liked.
Money Won’t Change You - Adding to my Playlist. Aretha Franklin is a fantastic singer.
People Get Ready - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m starting to get bored.
Niki Hoeky - Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t boring. Best song so far.
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Adding to my Playlist. That singing is really good.
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone - Adding to my Playlist. A part of me was wishing this album was worse because I feel like I’ve been on too good of a streak.
Good to Me as I’ve Been You - Not Adding to my Playlist. The singing is a bit annoying.
Come Back Baby - Not Adding to my Playlist. I feel like at a certain point everything begins to sound the same.
Groovin’ - Adding to my Playlist. This sounds a little basic but it’s pretty groovy.
Ain’t No Way - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m sorry but I can’t add this it’s just too basic.
All in all I liked 6/10 songs. Aretha Franklin is pretty good and I’ve had a stretch of some pretty great albums so far.
4
Feb 05 2025
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Rio
Duran Duran
This is the 27th album I’m rating. I’ve heard the name Duran Duran but like many of the musicians so far I have never heard of them. So I’m going to this blind not knowing what to expect.
Rio - Adding to my Playlist. This list is too good. All of the albums are great.
My Own Way - Adding to my Playlist. Synth-pop is pretty cool.
Lonely in Your Nightmare - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is ok and on a different day I might add it.
Hungry Like the Wolf - Adding to my Playlist. I feel like I’ve heard this song before but I don’t know where. Is it Old School?
Hold Back the Rain - Adding to my Playlist. Pretty good song.
New Religion - Adding to my Playlist. These songs are getting a bit boring.
Last Chance on the Stairway - Adding to my Playlist. This entire album feels so familiar.
Save a Prayer - Adding to my Playlist. I’m probably insane but this feels like Heaven or Las Vegas.
The Chauffeur - Adding to my Playlist. Feels like Halloween theme but rock and really really good.
All in all I liked 8/9 of the songs. Lonely in Your Nightmare is ruining what would’ve been a perfect album. Still great though. This next album better be Fiona Apple.
5
Feb 06 2025
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Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
This is the 30th album I’m rating. I just realized I said Rio was the 27th album I rated but I don’t care enough to edit it. I’ve heard of the album before but I’ve never listened to a song. Also, I’m done talking about the songs unless they are interesting because it’s too much work.
Adding to my Playlist - School, Bloody Well Right, Hide in Your Shell, Asylum, Dreamer, Rudy, If Everyone Was Listening, and Crime of the Century.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Bloody Well Right - This unbelievably good. This is amazing. That intro just sounds so good. That intro genuinely made me smile listening to it for the first time.
Crime of the Century - Fantastic way to end an album. Great all around.
All in all I liked 8/8 songs. I wasn’t expecting much going into this but it was fantastic. Every single song was great and this could potentially enter my top 5 but I’ll keep it top 10 for now.
5
Feb 07 2025
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
This is the 31st album I’m rating. If I remember correctly I’ve only listened to Feel Good Inc. and it wasn’t that great. However, I’ve heard Gorillaz is great so I have high hopes.
Adding to my Playlist - Re-Hash, New Genius (Brother), Punk, Sound Check (Gravity), Double Bass, Rock the House, 19-2000, Slow Country, and M1 A1.
Not Adding to my Playlist - 5/4, Tomorrow Comes Today, Clint Eastwood, Man Research (Clapper), Latin Simone (¿Que Pasa Contigo?), and Starshine.
Re-Hash - This lived up to expectations. This is much better than Feel Good Inc. This sounds great and a little like Tricky.
5/4 - I completely forgot but I’ve actually heard this song before. I actually heard it because it was in 5/4 and you know what it still sucks.
Clint Eastwood - I wasn’t sure if I’ve listened to this before but I definitely did. I didn’t like it at first and I still don’t.
M1 A1 - This feels like 22 Going on 23 but I don’t really like it as much. However, it is still good.
All in all I liked 9/15 songs. This was pretty good and was pretty much what I expected in quality. However, I was not ready for this much variety which was a very nice surprise.
4
Feb 08 2025
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Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
This is the 32nd album I’m rating. Surprisingly this is the first album where I’m getting a song I’ve already added to my playlist, Supermassive Black Hole. That was actually the only song I’ve listened to on this album. The song was great so I’m expecting good things.
Adding to my Playlist - Soldier’s Poem, Invincible, City of Delusion, Knights of Cydonia
Not Adding to my Playlist - Take a Bow, Starlight, Map of the Problematique, Assassin, Exo-Politics, Hoodoo
Already Added to my Playlist - Supermassive Black Hole
Starlight - Listening to this song you can tell exactly when it was made and it just feels wrong.
Assassin - This ass be assin.
All in all I liked 5/11 songs. Supermassive Black Hole misled me because this really wasn’t that great. Teenager of the Year tier.
3
Feb 09 2025
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Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
This is the 33rd album I’m rating. I think I’ve seen the cover and heard about it but that was probably years ago in a dark alley. So I don’t know what to expect.
Adding to my Playlist - Right in Time, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, 2 Kool 2 be 4-Gotten, Drunken Angel, Concrete and Barbed Wire, Lake Charles, Can’t Let Go, I Lost It, Metal Firecracker, Greenville, Still I Long for Your Kiss, Joy, and Jackson.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Right in Time - This is good but I’m expecting that singing to get annoying.
Drunken Angel - I’m sorry I said that this singing is incredible. Weirdly this made me smile but it’s just too good.
Can’t Let Go - I hate to agree with the Grammys but this is great and the best song on the album.
Still I Long for Your Kiss - Fantastic and a contender for best song on the album. Probably best song on the album.
Joy - This album just gets better and better. This is definitely a contender for best song.
All in all I liked 13/13 songs. If not for this list I might not’ve ever listened to this album. This is a top 10 album of all time for me maybe even top 5 but either way I love this album. Fuck it I’m putting it top 5. It is just so good.
5
Feb 10 2025
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Take Me Apart
Kelela
This is the 34th album I’m rating. I don’t know who this is and I’ve never heard of the album. Based on the cover I’m assuming this is like Janelle Monáe.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Frontline, Waitin, Take Me Apart, Enough, Jupiter, Better, LMK, Truth or Dare, S.O.S, Blue Light, Onanon, Turn to Dust, Bluff, and Altadena.
Frontline - I’m very disappointed this sounds so basic.
All in all I liked 0/14 songs. This is so boring. It feels like something you would hear in Walmart. How can something be this boring?
1
Feb 11 2025
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The Band
The Band
This is the 35th album I’m rating. I’ve heard of The Band and The Band before because it was apparently good and the name is stupid. I hope the music is as good as the name.
Adding to my Playlist - Across the Great Divide, Rag Mama Rag, The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, When You Awake, Up on Ripple Creek, Whispering Pines, Jemima Surrender, Rockin’ Chair, Look Out Cleveland, Jawbone, The Unfaithful Servant, and King Harvest (Has Surely Come).
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Across the Great Divide - This was not what I expected at all but it’s great.
All in all I liked 12/12 of the songs. This was great and probably the best folk album I’ve ever listened to. Great music.
5
Feb 12 2025
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3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
This is the 36th album I’m rating. I know absolutely nothing about this but I’m expecting rock.
Adding to my Playlist - That Lady, If You Were There, You Walk Your Way, Listen to the Music, What it Comes Down to, Summer Breeze, and The Highways of my Life.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Dont Let me be Lonely Tonight and Sunshine (Go Away Today).
That Lady - I was wrong but I don’t mind because this sounds great.
All in all I liked 7/9 of the songs. I think this was better than Lady Soul and the best soul album I’ve ever listened to.
5
Feb 13 2025
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Slipknot
Slipknot
This is the 37th album I’m rating. I’ve been meaning to listen to this for a really long time now. Now is time.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - 742617000027, (sic), Eyeless, Wait and Bleed, Surfacing, Spit It Out, Tattered & Torn, Frail Limb Nursery, Purity, Liberate, Prosthetics, No Life, Diluted, Only One, and Scissors.
All in all I liked 0/15 songs. This really wasn’t that good. It wasn’t the worst thing in the world but most things are better than this. As boring as nu metal can be.
1
Feb 14 2025
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All Hail the Queen
Queen Latifah
This is the 38th album I’m rating. I don’t who she is or what this is. However, I’m expecting Hip Hop.
Adding to my Playlist - Dance for Me, Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children, Come into my House, Latifah’s Law, Wrath of my Madness, The Pros, Ladies First, A King and Queen Creation, Queen of Royal Badness, Evil That Men Do, Princess of the Posse, and Inside Out.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 12/12 of the songs. It was kinda boring but in a good way. Sounds like A Tribe Called Quest but worse.
5
Feb 15 2025
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The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
This is the 39th album I’m rating. I’ve heard of the band and some great things about them. However, I don’t really know much about the music they do.
Adding to my Playlist - Mr. Self Destruct, Piggy, Heresy, March of the Pigs, Closer, Ruiner, The Becoming, I Do Not Want This, Big Man with a Gun, A Warm Place, Eraser, Reptile, The Downward Spiral, and Hurt.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 14/14 songs. This was a fantastic album and was not what I expected. It was pretty loud and pretty cool.
5
Feb 16 2025
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Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
This is the 40th album I’m rating. Who is this this? I know nothing about this and I have low expectations. I’m expecting some country.
Adding to my Playlist - Strolling Down the Highway, Smokey River, Oh How Your Love is Strong, Finches, Veronica, Alice’s Wonderland, Running from Home, Courting Blues, Casbah, and Angie.
Not Adding to my Playlist - I Have No Time, Needle of Death, Do you Hear me Now, Rambling’s Gonna be the Death of me, and Dreams of Love.
All in all I liked 10/15 songs. He isn’t a great singer but the composing is pretty good. Saved by those instrumentals.
4
Feb 17 2025
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Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
This is the 41st album I’m rating. I don’t know who this is. However, that album art looks pretty cool. Is this Spanish?
Adding to my Playlist - Tropicália, Clarice, No Dia Em Que Eu Vim-Me Embora, Alegria Alegria, Onde Andarás?, Anunciação, Superbacana, Paisagem Útil, Clara, Soy Loco Por Ti América, Ave-Maria, and Eles.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 12/12 songs. This was unlike anything I’ve ever heard before. I’ve really only listened to English songs aside from Laibach and this was very cool.
5
Feb 18 2025
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Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
This is the 42nd album I’m rating. I’ve only listened to Seven Nation Army but it was pretty good so this better be good.
Adding to my Playlist - Blue Orchid, The Nurse, My Doorbell, Forever for Her (Is Over for Me), The Denial Twist, and I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet).
Not Adding to my Playlist - Little Ghost, White Moon, Instinct Blues, Passive Manipulation, Take, Take, Take, As Ugly as I Seem, and Red Rain
Take, Take, Take - This sound stolen. I don’t think it is but it feels so derivative.
All in all I liked 6/13 songs. This was pretty basic and a little annoying at times. However, it had some great songs on it.
3
Feb 19 2025
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Roxy Music
Roxy Music
This is the 43rd album I’m rating. I’ve heard of Roxy Music and I still can’t believe there isn’t a woman in the band. I’ve never listened to the music though.
Adding to my Playlist - Would You Believe? and Bitters End.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Re-Make/Re-Model, Ladytron, If There is Something, Virginia Plain, 2HB, The Bob (Medley), Chance Meeting, and Sea Breezes.
Virginia Plain - I wonder if I should rate this because this is on the US version?
All in all I liked 2/10 songs. Wow. This really wasn’t that good. It wasn’t even that interesting either but maybe that is just because the band was really influential.
2
Feb 20 2025
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
This is the 44th album I’m rating. I’ve heard of the band but I’ve never listened to a song so this’ll be a brand new experience.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Frustration, Tainted Love, Seedy Films, Youth, Sex Dwarf, Entertain Me, Chips on my Shoulder, Bedsitter, Secret Life, and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye.
All in all I liked 0/10 of the songs. Wow this shit fucking sucks. In a way I appreciate it for exposing me to a new sound but it really sucks.
1
Feb 21 2025
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Dare!
The Human League
This is the forty fifth album I’m rating. I’ve heard some great things about the band but I’ve never listened to a song so this’ll be my first time listening.
Adding to my Playlist - The Things that Dreams are Made of, Open Your Heart, The Sound of the Crowd, Darkness, Do or Die, Get Carter, I am the Law, Seconds, Love Action (I Believe in Love), and Don’t You Want Me.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 10/10 songs. This was simply fantastic. It sound a lot like Duran Duran in a good way. This was just a fun catchy album.
5
Feb 22 2025
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Who's Next
The Who
This is the forty sixth album I’m rating. I’ve heard some good things about the band. I think that I’ve listened to one song but I might’ve listened to none.
Adding to my Playlist - Baba O’Riley, Bargain, Love Ain’t For Keeping, My Wife, The Song Is Over, Getting In Tune, Going Mobile, Behind Blue Eyes, and Won’t Get Fooled Again.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 9/9 songs. This was a great classic rock albums but below Can’t Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan for me.
5
Feb 23 2025
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Bone Machine
Tom Waits
This is the forty seventh album I’m rating. I’ve heard some good things about his songwriting but I’ve never to listened to a song.
Adding to my Playlist - Earth Died Screaming, Dirt in the Ground, Such a Scream, All Stripped Down, Who Are You, The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me, Jesus Gonna Be Here, A Little Rain, In the Colosseum, Goin’ Out West, Murder in the Red Barn, Black Wings, Whistle Down the Wind, I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, Let me Get Up on It, and That Feel.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Dirt in the Ground - This is very well written and sounds so different.
All in all I liked 16/16 songs. This was very very well written. Tom Waits in a excellent lyricist.
5
Feb 24 2025
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The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
This is the forty eighth album I’m rating. I’ve heard the name but I’ve never heard anything about the band or what music they make.
Adding to my Playlist - I Wanna Be Adored, She Bangs the Drums, Waterfall, Don’t Stop, Bye Bye Badman, Elizabeth my Dear, (Song for my) Sugar Spun Sister, Made of Stone, Shoot You Down, This is the One, and I am the Resurrection.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 11/11 of the songs. I can feel how influential this was just by listening to it. I can’t believe I’ve never heard this before because it is just do so good.
5
Feb 25 2025
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Madman Across The Water
Elton John
This is the forty ninth album I’m rating. The only Elton John knowledge I have is that movie and that he caused AIDS.
Adding to my Playlist - Levon, Razor Face, Madman Across the Water
Not Adding to my Playlist - Tiny Dancer, Indian Sunset, Holiday Inn, Rotten Peaches, All the Nasties, and Goodbye.
Tiny Dancer - I’m sorry but this is just too boring. The chorus is cool but I feel absolutely nothing.
All in all I liked 3/9 songs. I thought Elton John was good but this was just really boring.
3
Feb 26 2025
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Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
This is the 50th album I’m rating. This probably isn’t in English so this’ll be very interesting. The last foreign language album I got was fantastic so I hope this’ll be great too.
Adding to my Playlist - Papa Bonheur, Désespoir, Koweït, Rive Gauche, Qui Cherche Trouve, Élixir, Porte-Monnaie, Conte de Fées, Obrigado, and Dit Jeannot.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Papa Bonheur - My French teacher would be very disappointed in me because I don’t understand this.
All in all I liked 9/9 songs. This was kinda boring but it was pretty good and pretty fun.
5
Feb 27 2025
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The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
This is the 51st album I’m rating. Whenever I see an album cover with a woman as the focus I assume she’s in the band.
Adding to my Playlist - The Age of the Understatement, Standing Next to me, Calm Like You, Separate and Ever Deadly, The Chamber, Only the Truth, My Mistakes Were Made for You, Black Plant, I Don’t Like You Anymore, In my Room, The Meeting Place, and Time Has Come Again.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 12/12 songs. This wasn’t very interesting but it was pretty good.
5
Feb 28 2025
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Ctrl
SZA
This is the 52nd album I’m rating. I’ve heard great things about SOS but not a lot about Ctrl.
Adding to my Playlist - Doves in the Wind, Go Gina, Broken Clocks, Anything, Wavy (Interlude), Pretty Little Birds, and 20 Something.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Supermodel, Love Galore, Drew Barrymore, Prom, The Weekend, Garden (Say It Like Dat), and Normal Girl.
Supermodel - I’m have a natural disdain for radio music.
The Weekend - I lost my review while writing this and I’m annoyed.
All in all I liked 7/14 songs. This wasn’t the greatest but it was pretty good and on a different day I might rate it higher. However, I just don’t like this type of music today. I accidentally gave this 5 stars and had to edit it to 3 stars.
3
Mar 01 2025
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
This is the 53rd album I’m rating. I think I’ve only heard one Billy Joel song and it wasn’t Piano Man.
Adding to my Playlist - Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song), Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Vienna, Only the Good Die Young, She’s Always a Woman, and Get it Right the First Time.
Not Adding to my Playlist - The Stranger, Just the Way You are, and Everybody Has a Dream.
All in all I liked 6/9 songs. Billy Joel is pretty good and this album is pretty good.
4
Mar 02 2025
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Hotel California
Eagles
This is the 54th album I’m rating. I’ve only heard Hotel California and I hated it so I have pretty low expectations.
Adding to my Playlist - Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, and Try and Love Again.
Not Adding to my Playlist - New Kid in Town, Wasted Time, Wasted Time (Reprise), Victim of Love, Pretty Maids All in a Row, and The Last Resort.
Hotel California - I don’t what young me was thinking because this is great.
All in all I liked 3/9 songs. I don’t really like the Eagles. How did this album sell so well?
3
Mar 03 2025
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At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
This is the 55th album I’m rating. I’ve heard one song by the Allman Brothers Band but I can’t remember which one it was.
Adding to my Playlist - Statesboro Blues and Done Somebody Wrong.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Stormy Monday, You Don’t Love Me, Hot ‘Lanta, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, and Whipping Post.
All in all I liked 2/7 songs. Live double albums are almost always terrible. Who needs a 22 minute song?
2
Mar 04 2025
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The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
This is the 56th album I’m rating. Back to back live albums is terrible. Especially when they are this long.
Adding to my Playlist - Part II C
Not Adding to my Playlist - Part I, Part II A, Part II B
Part I - This would be great if it wasn’t so long. I just can’t listen to anything over 12 minutes.
Part II C - This sounds great and it is the perfect length for me.
All in all I liked 1/4 songs. This album would be a lot better if he had split up those songs.
2
Mar 05 2025
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Kenza
Khaled
This is the 56th album I’m rating. Back to back live albums is terrible. Especially when they are this long.
Adding to my Playlist - El Harba Wine, C’est la Nuit, Imagine, Trigue Lycee, E’dir E’sseba, El Bab, and Deurwiche Tourneur.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Aâlach Tloumouni, Ya Aâchkou, Melha, Raba Raba, El Aâdyene, Gouloulha Dji, Mele H’biti, and Leïli.
All in all I liked 7/15 songs. This album was too bloated and could’ve been cut by 25 minutes without problems. Also, I lost my full review while writing this.
3
Mar 06 2025
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The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
This is the 58th album I’m rating. I’ve listened to Steely Dan but never to any of his solo stuff but I think this’ll be great.
Adding to my Playlist - I.G.Y., Green Flower Street, Ruby Baby, Maxine, New Frontier, The Nightfly, The Goodbye Look, and Walk Between Raindrops.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 8/8 songs. Very fun and very jazzy. A lot more fun than Hitler.
5
Mar 07 2025
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There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
This is the 59th album I’m rating. I don’t really know who this guy is but the album name is incredible.
Adding to my Playlist - Billy Jack, When Seasons Change, So in Love, Jesus, Blue Monday People, Hard Times, and Love to the People.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 7/7 songs. This was just a nice chill album and there is something about his voice that I really like.
5
Mar 08 2025
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In Utero
Nirvana
This is the 60th album I’m rating. I’ve only listened to Smells like Teen Spirit but it was great so this’ll probably be great too.
Adding to my Playlist - Serve the Servants, Scentless Apprentice, Heart-Shaped Box, Rape Me, Frances Farmer will Have her Revenge on Seattle, Dumb, Very Ape, Milk It, Pennyroyal Tea, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, Tourette’s, and All Apologies.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Scentless Apprentice - I can really tell Kurt liked the Butthole Surfers.
Heart-Shaped Box - I’ve listened to this before.
All in all I liked 12/12 songs. This wasn’t what I was expecting but it was great. Kurt Cobain has a very interesting lyrical style though.
5
Mar 09 2025
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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
This is the 61st album I’m rating. I’ve listened to a couple of songs off the album but never the whole thing.
Adding to my Playlist - GhettoMusick, Unhappy, Bowtie, The Way You Move, The Rooster, Bust, War, Church, Tomb of the Boom, Knowing, Flip Flop Rock, Reset, Last Call, The Love Below (Intro), Love Hater, Happy Valentine’s Day, Spread, Prototype, She Lives in my Lap, Hey Ya!, Behold a Lady, Pink & Blue, Love in War, She’s Alive, My Favorite Things, Take Off Your Cool, Vibrate, and A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete).
Not Adding to my Playlist - Intro, Bamboo (Interlude), E-Mac (Interlude), Interlude, Bowtie (Postlude), God (Interlude), Where Are My Panties? (Interlude), Good Day, Good Sir (Interlude), and The Letter.
Already Added to my Playlist - Roses and Dracula’s Wedding.
Bowtie (Postlude) - This sounds weirdly good but it’s too short. Speakerboxxx if it was just that would be one of my favorite albums of all time. Those interludes are terrible though I’m glad that trend died out.
A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete) - Pretty good song and album. I’d probably say this is worse than Speakerboxxx though. It also suffers the same problem of terrible interludes.
All in all I liked 30/40 of the songs. This was hurt by those terrible interludes but the album as a whole was great.
5
Mar 10 2025
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Hot Fuss
The Killers
This is the 62nd album I’m rating. I’ve only listened to Mr. Brightside and I kinda hated it.
Adding to my Playlist - All These Things That I’ve Done and Everything Will Be Alright.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, Mr. Brightside, Smile Like You Mean It, Somebody Told Me, Andy, You’re a Star, On Top, Change Your Mind, Believe Me Natalie, and Midnight Show.
All in all I liked 2/11 songs. This wasn’t that good and it was too basic. If you like it I wouldn’t judge for it though you because I like The Last Shadow Puppets who are arguably more basic.
2
Mar 11 2025
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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
This is the 63rd album I’m rating. I’ve always liked swing and electro swing. Frank Sinatra has some great songs too.
Adding to my Playlist - You Make Me Feel So Young, It Happened in Monterey, You’re Going to be a Habit With Me, You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me, Too Marvelous for Words, Old Devil Moon, Love is Here to Stay, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, I Thought About You, We’ll Be Together Again, Makin’ Whoopee, Swingin’ Down the Lane, Anything Goes, and How About You?.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Pennies from Heaven
Pennies from Heaven - This is good but I like the Louis Prima version more.
All in all I liked 14/15 songs. This was just a really nice chill romantic album. It wasn’t the most interesting but it was very pleasant.
5
Mar 12 2025
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Legalize It
Peter Tosh
This is the 64th album I’m rating. I’m assuming this is about weed and not incest.
Adding to my Playlist - Legalize It, Burial, Whatcha Gonna Do, No Sympathy, Why Must I Cry, Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised), Ketchy Shulby, Till Your Well Runs Dry, and Brand New Second Hand.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 9/9 of the songs. I haven’t really listened to much reggae and this was a great introduction into the genre.
5
Mar 13 2025
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Graceland
Paul Simon
This is the 64th album I’m rating. I’ve great things about the album but I know nothing about him except for That 70’s Show.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - The Boy in the Bubble, Graceland, I Know What I Know, Gumboots, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, You Can Call Me Al, Under African Skies, Homeless, Crazy Love, Vol. II, That Was Your Mother, and All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints.
All in all I liked 0/11 songs. This is boring and not that good. Why did Paul Simon do this? I need to listen to some Fiona Apple.
1
Mar 14 2025
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Stardust
Willie Nelson
This is the 66th album I’m rating. I don’t really know what this is but I know it is country.
Adding to my Playlist - Stardust, Georgia on my Mind, Blue Skies, All of Me, Unchained Melody, September Song, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Moonlight in Vermont, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, and Someone to Watch Over Me.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 10/10 songs. This was a nice calm soothing album. Willie Nelson is pretty cool.
5
Mar 15 2025
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3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
This is the 67th album I’m rating. I haven’t listened to much but I’ve heard great things about the album and I’ve listened to The Magic Number.
Adding to my Playlist - The Magic Number, Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin’s Revenge), Ghetto Thang, Eye Know, Tread Water, Potholes in my Lawn, Say On Go, Plug Tunin’ (Last Chance to Understand), Buddy, Me Myself and I, This is a Recording 4 Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E), and D.A.I.S.Y Age.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Intro, Change in Speak, Cool Breeze on the Rocks, Can U Keep a Secret, Transmitting Live From Mars, Take It Off, A Little Bit of Soap, Do As De La Does, De La Orgee, Description, I Can Do Anything (Delacratic), and Plug Tunin’ (Original 12" Version).
All in all I liked 12/24 songs. This wasn’t nearly as good as everyone said it was. There were a lot of truly awful songs on this album.
3
Mar 16 2025
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We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
This is the 68th album I’m rating. I’ve heard Frank Zappa is great but I’ve never listened to anything he made, I think.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Are You Hung Up?, Who Needs the Peace Corps?, Concentration Moon, Mom & Dad, Bow Tie Daddy, Harry, You’re a Beast, What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?, Absolutely Free, Flower Punk, Hot Poop, Nasal Retentive Calliope Music, Let’s Make the Water Turn Black, The Idiot Bastard Son, It’s His Voice on the Radio, Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise), Mother People, and The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny.
All in all I liked 0/18 songs. This was awful but I kinda like it for what it is. It does what it does perfectly but I hate what it does. It makes fun of mainstream music well but it sounds awful.
1
Mar 17 2025
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Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
This is the 69th album I’m rating. Gin and Juice is a classic but I’ve never listened to another Snoop Dogg song.
Adding to my Playlist - Who Am I? (What’s my Name?) and Pump Pump
Not Adding to my Playlist - Bathtub, G Funk Intro, W Balls (Interlude, The Shiznit, Domino Intro (Interlude), Lodi Dodi, Murder Was the Case (DeathAfterVisualizingEternity), Serial Killa, For All my Niggaz & Bitches, Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None), Chronic Relief Intro (Interlude) Doggy Dogg World, Class Room Intro (Interlude), Gz and Hustlas, Checkin’ (Interlude), and Gz Up, Hoes Down.
Already Added to my Playlist - Gin and Juice
All in all I liked 3/19 songs. This wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be based off of Gin and Juice.
2
Mar 18 2025
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Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
This is the 70th album I’m rating. The only Fleetwood Mac song I’ve ever listened to is Tusk so this is pretty lucky.
Adding to my Playlist - Over & Over, The Ledge, Think About Me, Save Me a Place, What Makes You Think You’re the One, I Know I’m Not Wrong, Honey Hi, Tusk, and Never Forget.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Sara, Storms, That’s All for Everyone, Not That Funny, Sisters of the Moon, Angel, That’s Enough for Me, Brown Eyes, Never Make Me Cry, Beautiful Child, and Walk a Thin Line.
Sara - McVie and Buckingham are better this is a bit too long and something about her singing feels off.
All in all I liked 9/20 of the songs. Nicks is long and boring, Buckingham is weird and hit or miss, and McVie is good and a little boring.
3
Mar 19 2025
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Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
This is the 71st album I’m rating. The only Little Richard song I’ve ever listened to is Tutti Frutti so this is pretty lucky.
Adding to my Playlist - True, Fine Mama, Can’t Believe You Wanna Leave, Ready Teddy, Baby, Slippin’ and Slidin’, Long Tall Sally, Miss Ann, Oh Why?, Rip It Up, Jenny, Jenny, and She’s Got It.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Already Added to my Playlist - Tutti Frutti.
All in all I liked 12/12 songs. This wasn’t the most interesting but there is something charming about Little Richard’s nearly 70 year old sound.
5
Mar 20 2025
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Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
This is the 72nd album I’m rating. I don’t really know what this is but that name is pretty cool.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Fast Cars, No Reply, You Tear Me Up, Get On Our Own, Love Battery, Sixteen, I Don’t Mind, Fiction Romance, Autonomy, I Need, and Moving Away from the Pulsebeat.
All in all I liked 0/11 songs. This sounded like the Minutemen and I hate the Minutemen.
1
Mar 21 2025
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Savane
Ali Farka Touré
This is the 73rd album I’m rating. I don’t really know what this is but African Blues seems pretty cool.
Adding to my Playlist - Erdi, Yer Bounda Fora, Beto, Savane, Soya, Penda Yoro, Machengoidi, Ledi Coumbe, Hanana, Soko Yhinka, Gambari Didi, Banga, and N’Jarou.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 13/13 songs. This feels so familiar and it just sounds so good. I don’t understand it but African Blues and Ali Farka Touré are great.
5
Mar 22 2025
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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
This is the 74th album I’m rating. I’ve heard this is the first modern hip hop album but what about Slick Rick?
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Countdown to Armageddon (Intro), Bring the Noise, Don’t Believe the Hype, Cold Lampin’ with Flavor, Terminator X to the Edge of Panic, Mind Terrorist (Interlude), Louder than a Bomb, Caught, Can we Get a Witness?, Show ‘Em Whatcha Got (Interlude), She Watch Channel Zero?!, Night of the Living Baseheads, Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Security of the First World (Interlude), Rebel Without a Pause, Prophets of Rage, and Party for your Right to Fight.
Bring the Noise - This sounds so unbelievably dated and in 2025 I’m not sure if this is good anymore.
All in all I liked 0/16 songs. This was really dated. Maybe it was good back then but right now this isn’t very revolutionary and it just kinda sucks.
1
Mar 23 2025
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Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
This is the 75th album I’m rating. I haven’t listened to a lot of Miles Davis. I hear he’s a jazz legend but I’ve found the little I’ve heard of him a bit boring.
Adding to my Playlist - John McLaughlin and Sanctuary.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Pharaoh’s Dance, Bitches Brew, Spanish Key, and Miles Runs the Voodoo Down.
Pharaoh’s Dance - I like it but it feels a little too long and a bit bloated.
Sanctuary - I liked it and added it but it still felt a bit too long.
All in all I liked 2/6 songs. I’m glad jazz has begun to get less bloated because although this album is very good it all feels too long.
3
Mar 24 2025
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System Of A Down
System Of A Down
This is the 76th album I’m rating. I haven’t listened to anything by them but I want to like metal.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Suite-Pee, Know, Sugar, Suggestions, Spiders, DDevil, Soil, War?, Mind, Peephole, CUBErt, Darts, and P.L.U.C.K..
Suite-Pee - I really don’t like those vocals.
All in all I liked 0/13 songs. I don’t know if I don’t like metal or if I don’t like nu metal either way I don’t like this.
1
Mar 25 2025
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The Chronic
Dr. Dre
This is the 77th album I’m rating. I haven’t really listened to anything by Dr. Dre but I hear this is pretty good.
Adding to my Playlist - Let Me Ride, The Day the Niggaz Took Over, Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang, Deeez Nuuuts, Lil’ Ghetto Boy, A Nigga Witta Gun, Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat, and Bitches Ain’t Shit.
Not Adding to my Playlist - The Chronic (Intro), Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’), The $20 Sack Pyramid (Skit), Lyrical Gangbang, High Powered, The Doctor’s Office (Skit), Stranded on Death Row, and The Roach (The Chronic Outro).
All in all I liked 8/16 songs. This wasn’t that bad but it was a pretty big disappointment for one of the most acclaimed artists of all time.
3
Mar 26 2025
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Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
This is the 78th album I’m rating. I don’t think I’ve listened to a single song by the group but I’m usually open to listen to more music.
Adding to my Playlist - Peter Piper, Is It Live, Hit It Run, Raising Hell, and Proud to be Black.
Not Adding to my Playlist - It’s Tricky, My Adidas, Walk This Way, Perfection, You Be Illin’, Dumb Girl, and Son of Byford.
It’s Tricky - I’ve definitely heard this song before and it sounds good but listening to it makes me feel wrong.
All in all I liked 5/12 songs. This was pretty dated but I appreciate the influence of the album on pop culture
3
Mar 27 2025
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Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
This is the 79th album I’m rating. I got very excited when I saw this album. I thought it would take me a while before I found an album I had already listened to and liked but I got one in my first 100. I abandoned talking about every song individually a while back but I want to talk about every song here one by one because it is in my top 10 albums of all time.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Already Added to my Playlist - Cherry-Coloured Funk, Pitch the Baby, Iceblink Luck, Fifty-Fifty Clown, Heaven or Las Vegas, I Wear Your Ring, Fotzepolitic, Wolf in the Breast, Road, River, and Rail, and Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires.
Cherry-Coloured Funk - This is one of the best opening tracks of all time and it immediately tells you what kinda of an album you’re getting into. It is just perfect and I’ve probably listened to it a hundred times with how many times I’ve listened to this album. Immediately you are getting introduced to Elizabeth Fraser’s unique vocal style. Interestingly this is one of the few songs where there are official lyrics and they are in my opinion pretty cool.
Pitch the Baby - Admittedly the first time I listened to this I didn’t like it but as time has gone on I’ve grown to appreciate this song. This is such a Cocteau Twins song. By that I mean it makes absolutely means no sense. Elizabeth Fraser said that she writes songs that make no sense only thinking about the way it sounds and this song makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There is something very charming about that though and I’ve grown to appreciate it.
Iceblink Luck - Pitch the Baby was very Cocteau Twins but this is in my opinion the most Cocteau Twins song. Iceblink Luck as a phrase makes no sense and I swear I hear her say cherry cola at around the one minute mark. This is probably the group’s most iconic song. Interestingly though in this song you can definitely make out a lot more words than in their other songs.
Fifty-Fifty Clown - Elizabeth Fraser’s vocals are really quite unique in the music landscape. Her vocals helps to create this ethereal atmosphere with the way that the words are mostly unintelligible. Most musicians tend to avoid heavy effects and dense production but the band loved it and I think it creates a very unique very good album.
Heaven or Las Vegas - I might’ve lied when talking about Iceblink Luck because this song is very iconic. What does Heaven or Las Vegas mean? I’m not sure but despite lyrics that are very hard to decipher Elizabeth Fraser has said that the lyrics in the songs always hold meaning. I don’t think it matters though what Elizabeth Fraser is really saying anyways all that matters is what you think she means and how it feels. Also, Heaven or Las Vegas will always be stuck in my head because it is just so so catchy.
I Wear Your Ring - This song is a perfect example of how the band creates this really nice atmospheric vibe that dream pop is known for. Although not my favorite song on the album I think it would do really well as a blueprint for dream pop because it incorporates all of the aspects of the genre really well.
Fotzepolitic - When I first heard this song I wasn’t a big fan but I’m not sure what was wrong with me because this is just great. It creates this perfect dreamlike atmospheric vibe and it just feels good. When I listen to this song in my mind I think of spending time with the one you love and I just love it.
Wolf in the Breast - This was the very first song I ever listened to by the Cocteau Twins and it really just drew me in. It made me want to listen to more so I did research on the band and when I saw they were dream pop I stopped listening. I don’t know why but for some reason I had this really negative perception of dream pop. There was still a part of me though that couldn’t help but me drawn in and later I went back to listen to the full song. I’m glad I did too because this song is amazing. It is very very good.
Road, River, and Rail - I’ve spent a lot of time talking about Elizabeth Fraser but there are two other members of the band so lets talk about Robin Guthrie. He was and probably still is an incredible producer who handled much of the effects and let me just say the effects on this album and especially this song are great. I think that him never having any formal musical training made his guitar and compositions really interesting so thank you Robin Guthrie for not getting any sort of music education.
Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires - That moment around the 2 minute mark where the song changes is simply incredible. Don’t get me wrong it is a good song before then but that moment makes it one of the best songs of all time. Simon Raymonde describes the way the band got together ad a beautiful accident and I’m glad it happened because Fraser’s vocals, Guthrie’s guitar, and Raymonde’s bass are all perfect. Raymonde is probably one of the best writers of all tile and really the whole band wrote some truly great music together. A perfect way to end the album on a song with what I feel is a very happy vibe.
All in all I liked 10/10 songs. There isn’t much to say that I haven’t already so I’ll say this the Cocteau Twins are one of the three best groups or artists or whatever to come out of Europe.
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Mar 28 2025
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Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
This is the 80th album I’m rating. I’ve heard some good things about the album but I don’t really know what this album sounds like.
Adding to my Playlist - I Looked Away, Bell Bottom Blues, and Key to the Highway.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Keep On Growing, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, I am Yours, Anyday, Tell the Truth, Why Does Love Got to be so Sad?, Have You Ever Loved a Woman, Little Wing, It’s Too Late, Layla, and Thorn Tree in the Garden.
All in all I liked 3/14 songs. This is definitely not one of the best albums of all time. This is why every single music critic should be tortured to death.
2
Mar 29 2025
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Disraeli Gears
Cream
This is the 81st album I’m rating. I’ve heard a bunch of songs but never the whole album. I’m expecting good things because those songs were great.
Adding to my Playlist - SWLABR.
Not Adding to my Playlist - World of Pain, Dance the Night Away, Blue Condition, We’re Going Wrong, and Take It Back.
Already Added to my Playlist - Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, Tales of Brave Ulysses, Outside Woman Blues, and Mother’s Lament.
All in all I liked 6/11 songs. It feels wrong to rate this so high but at the same time when it was good it was really good.
4
Mar 30 2025
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Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
This is the 82nd album I’m rating. I don’t know what this album is or who any of these people are.
Adding to my Playlist - Panis et Circenses, A Minha Menina, O Relógio, Adeus Maria Fulô, Baby, Senhor F, Bat Macumba, Le Premier Bonheur du Jour, Trem Fantasma, Tempo no Tempo, and Ave Genghis Khan.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
All in all I liked 11/11 songs. I think I might just love tropicália because this is great. I really haven’t heard anything like this and I am glad that I listened to it before I died else I would’ve missed out on some great catchy songs.
5
Mar 31 2025
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Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
This is the 83rd album I’m rating. I hear the band is very experimental and the lyrics are absolute gibberish but I’ve never listened to them.
Adding to my Playlist - Intro, Starálfur, Flugufrelsarinn, Hjartað Hamast (Bamm Bamm Bamm), Olsen Olsen, Ágætis Byrjun, and Avalon.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Svefn-g-Englar, Ný Batterí, and Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása.
Intro - I know this album is going to be great because usually intros are awful.
Svefn-g-Englar - This is long and the entire thing sounds the same to me so I don’t know why it is so long.
Ný Batterí - Something about this feels similar to The Anchor song by Björk but it isn’t as good.
Olsen Olsen - Apparently this is all gibberish but I can’t tell the difference.
All in all I liked 7/10 songs. They weren’t as experimental as I thought they would be but the album was still very interesting. One of Iceland’s best just behind Björk.
5
Apr 01 2025
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Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
This is the 84th album I’m rating. Everybody talks about this album like it’s the greatest thing ever but I doubt it honestly because I’ve listened to Talking Book before.
Adding to my Playlist - Sir Duke, Summer Soft, Ordinary Pain, Isn’t She Lovely, and Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I am Singing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Love’s in Need of Love Today, Have a Talk with God, Village Ghetto Land, Contusion, I Wish, Knocks me Off my Feet, Pastime Paradise, Joy Inside my Tears, Black Man, If It’s Magic, As, and Another Star.
All in all I liked 5/17 songs. I swear if Stevie Wonder wasn’t blind nobody would give a shit about his music. So many of the songs felt like they should’ve ended halfway through and it all sounded the same.
3
Apr 02 2025
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Blackstar
David Bowie
This is the 84th album I’m rating. Another one of those albums everybody says is amazing. I’ve never listened to Bowie so who knows if it’ll be good.
Adding to my Playlist - Nothing.
Not Adding to my Playlist - Blackstar, ‘Tis a Pity she was a Whore, Lazarus, Sue (Or in a Season of Crime), Girl Loves Me, Dollar Days, and I Can’t Give Everything Away.
All in all I liked 0/7 songs. If Bowie never died nobody would give a shit about this album.
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