Jan 13 2025
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War
U2
Not bad. Interesting lack of The Edge’s stereotypical wankery, at its best when the Celtic influence comes forward and Bono channels some Cranberry. Drowning Man good, otherwise quite normal 80’s rock
3
Jan 14 2025
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
2
Jan 15 2025
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Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
Light. Listenable. Fun sounds and generally vibes
4
Jan 16 2025
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Synchronicity
The Police
Mother is unhinged, and for a song with EBYT on it that’s saying summat. Stings voice still grates, Copeland rocks
4
Jan 17 2025
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Mothership Connection
Parliament
4
Jan 20 2025
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Dire Straits
Dire Straits
SoS and you’ve heard the DS style. Doesn’t stop it banging
4
Jan 21 2025
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The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
The LSD laced sound of prelapsarian Reform Party wet dreams. Very Bri’ish, contemporary of the Beatles but no weird peaks or experimental fun
2
Jan 22 2025
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I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
Nice 70’s guitar folksy stuff. Good background, not so foreground
3
Jan 23 2025
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McCartney
Paul McCartney
3
Jan 24 2025
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Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
The soundtrack to the opening shot of a busy city from a 00’s romcom. Then Layla hits you out of nowhere like a truck
3
Jan 27 2025
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L.A. Woman
The Doors
Bluesy vibes all the way through
3
Jan 28 2025
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Man this list really loves its American blues inspired guitar rock doesn’t it?
3
Jan 29 2025
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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
4
Jan 30 2025
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Before And After Science
Brian Eno
4
Jan 31 2025
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Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
Variety! Fun! White boi 90’s rage hip hop! Now just add some bloke on guitar called Tom and were really raging
4
Feb 03 2025
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Queen II
Queen
Dear AI, please create some Queen B-sides. You can see why most of these aren’t on the greatest hits album
2
Feb 04 2025
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Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
1 hour lo fi pretentiousness to fall asleep to
1
Feb 05 2025
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Cross
Justice
Bit more than daft punk but not quite full wubs
4
Feb 06 2025
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Metallica
Metallica
Metal bias but so good. Pounding hard rock with some slower melodic tunes to show they aren’t just loud and shouty
5
Feb 07 2025
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Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
Lying on a 60’s country hill in England tripping balls on LSD. It’s fine
3
Feb 10 2025
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Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
4
Feb 11 2025
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Live At The Regal
B.B. King
Chill bluesy lounge vibes. I say vibes a lot…
4
Feb 12 2025
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Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
4
Feb 13 2025
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Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
3
Feb 14 2025
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You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
Nostalgic 90’s electronic mood (not vibe). A bit too repetitive without much build to be better than it is
3
Feb 17 2025
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The Clash
The Clash
Ooooh like the sex pistols but audibly musical. Not quite London Calling yet though
4
Feb 18 2025
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Purple Rain
Prince
………..i’m sure it was groundbreaking once. Can recognise Prince’s talent and influence but yikes
2
Feb 19 2025
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Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
3
Feb 20 2025
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Casanova
The Divine Comedy
Tongue-in-cheekily wierdly horny. Then Father Ted.
4
Feb 21 2025
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Treasure
Cocteau Twins
I liek.
4
Feb 24 2025
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Funeral
Arcade Fire
Sounds about indie rock circa 2001. More Radiohead than killers
4
Feb 26 2025
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
Well i guessed it was french
3
Feb 27 2025
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The Visitors
ABBA
Goodbye poppy Swedish bops. Hello melancholy
4
Feb 28 2025
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The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
4
Mar 03 2025
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Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
Wierdly MOTHERSBAUGH style vocals. Interestingly funky but needs better peaks and troughs
3
Mar 04 2025
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Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
Definitely to the blues scale of the rock/blues scale. Almost country. Hm.
3
Mar 05 2025
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Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
2
Mar 06 2025
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I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
Well yeehaw golly gosh darn it diggity woo!
3
Mar 07 2025
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Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
Country. Yeehaw. Praise jaysus n murica y’all
3
Mar 10 2025
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Murmur
R.E.M.
Like if you swapped Stipe for Morrissey it’s the smiths US edition
4
Mar 11 2025
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
“I think this LSD trip needs a soundtrack”
“Say less”
4
Mar 12 2025
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Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
I can think of at least two things wrong with that artist name
2
Mar 13 2025
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Savane
Ali Farka Touré
4
Mar 14 2025
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Elastica
Elastica
Yas girls!!! Actual vibey musical punk rock!
4
Mar 17 2025
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Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
I like. Slightly soulful funky rock, a bit heavy on the organ and slightly… dated? If that’s the word.
4
Mar 18 2025
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Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
I don’t know enough about country. But it definitely sounded country to me
3
Mar 19 2025
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
4
Mar 20 2025
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You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
It’s like listening to the birth of shoegaze
4
Mar 21 2025
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Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
It’s like a band got up onstage at someone’s leaving party, and instead of playing song played the musical equivalent of a roast while everyone got really really high
4
Mar 24 2025
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Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
4
Mar 25 2025
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
4
Mar 26 2025
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All Mod Cons
The Jam
4
Mar 27 2025
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Solid Air
John Martyn
So damn chill
4
Mar 28 2025
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Aja
Steely Dan
Funk and funk combine into chill funk
4
Mar 31 2025
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Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
I’m finding with this list it’s a good sign if I don’t notice it’s finished.
Changes is still balls though.
4
Apr 01 2025
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Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
4
Apr 03 2025
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Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
2
Apr 04 2025
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The Idiot
Iggy Pop
……interesting? Is it rock? Is it punk? Is it funk? Is it poprockpunkfunkinfusion? Yes?
3
Apr 07 2025
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Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
4
Apr 08 2025
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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
3
Apr 09 2025
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...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
This is… slightly uneasy. For the band that gave us Bohemian Like You this is not what I expected
4
Apr 10 2025
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It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
If I ever host a fancy evening dinner party this is exactly the sort of thing that would go on
4
Apr 11 2025
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A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
Hating Coldplay is a meme. They’re fine and these are some iconic bangers
3
Apr 14 2025
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Tidal
Fiona Apple
Bloody lovely
4
Apr 15 2025
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Master Of Puppets
Metallica
It’s Metallica. It’s no black album but
5
Apr 16 2025
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A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
3
Apr 17 2025
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Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
3
Apr 18 2025
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Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
4
Apr 21 2025
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Guero
Beck
Clearly I like repetitive samples
5
Apr 22 2025
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Transformer
Lou Reed
Lou, you ok?
4
Apr 24 2025
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Pretenders
Pretenders
3
Apr 25 2025
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Celebrity Skin
Hole
4
Apr 28 2025
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MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
4
Apr 29 2025
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Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
It’s just good Johnny Marr balances out Morrissey
4
Apr 30 2025
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon
3
May 01 2025
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Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
Not as banging as Ill Communication but you can see the DNA
4
May 02 2025
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London Calling
The Clash
It is fun hearing this as context for history. Punk rock with more overt Caribbean influence - it’s like you can hear where ska and pop-punk diverge
4
May 05 2025
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A Girl Called Dusty
Dusty Springfield
3
May 06 2025
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Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
May 07 2025
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Henry's Dream
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3
May 08 2025
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Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
3
May 09 2025
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Orbital 2
Orbital
You know those randomisers they do on AGDQ where like, everytime sonic picks up a ring it swaps from sonic 1 to 2 to Boom to 2016? It’s like each track it swaps from wipeout to Rez to the PS1 demo disk music
3
May 12 2025
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Highway to Hell
AC/DC
3
May 13 2025
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Odelay
Beck
4
May 14 2025
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Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
3
May 15 2025
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Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
4
May 16 2025
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Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
It’s interesting. I don’t know if that means it’s good but it’s interesting
3
May 19 2025
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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
3
May 20 2025
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At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
3
May 21 2025
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Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
3
May 22 2025
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Dog Man Star
Suede
4
May 23 2025
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Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
3
May 26 2025
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Green
R.E.M.
4
May 27 2025
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Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
4
May 28 2025
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Scott 2
Scott Walker
4
May 29 2025
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Moving Pictures
Rush
5
May 30 2025
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Paul Simon
Paul Simon
4