Jan 20 2025
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Moby
1/1001 - Mildly enjoyed it. Nothing super memorable.
3
Jan 21 2025
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Metallica
Metallica
2/1001 - Not a fan of Hetfield's voice or Metal in general. Can cut 30 seconds off the start of many songs without losing coherence.
However, the Enter Sandman riff is cool and the music is overall well produced/competently made. Solos are alright.
2
Jan 22 2025
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Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
3/1001 - Voice is very nice, not a fan of the lip smacking though. The yelling on the final song at the end was bizarre. Other than that, very nice guitar playing with tasteful orchestration sketches throughout. Overall an enjoyable experience.
4
Jan 23 2025
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(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
4/1001 The start of the loudness wars. It's alright. It was refreshing when Noel sang one of the songs instead of Liam.
3
Jan 24 2025
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The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
5/1001 An enjoyable experience! It seemed a tad-bit samey with some of the songs having a similar drumbeat and tempo. On the other hand, "Money" is stuck in my head! What a catchy bassline.
4
Jan 25 2025
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Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
6/1001 - Biggie's rapping is right in the pocket. The skits seemed unessecary, the album would have worked with just the songs. A lot of the instrumentals were nice too. (One of them switched tunings a lot of the time for some reason).
4
Jan 26 2025
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
7/1001 - The instrumentals were better than the repetitive vocal songs. "Two Hearts in 3/4 Time" was in 6/8 time. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would!
4
Jan 27 2025
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Doolittle
Pixies
8/1001 - Instrumentals are alright but the screaming/moaning vocals are annoying.
2
Jan 28 2025
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Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
9/1001 - Byrd's guitar playing is really creative and compliments the other instruments well. Not a fan of Getz's sound (way too much subtone, almost like a classical saxophone player!). Overall a cool introduction of Bossa Nova to U.S. audiences.
4
Jan 29 2025
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Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
10/1001 - The acoustic songs work better than the electric ones (the fuzz guitar stands out in a bad way). Tracks are very inconsistent (instrumentation-wise amd quality-wise) which makes sense given the tension and isolation of the band members throughout recording this. It's okay overall.
3
Jan 30 2025
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The Man Who
Travis
11/1001 - The rhythms, textures, and riffs are homogenous and could be more interesting throughout with more variation instead of relying on background woosh effects.
2
Jan 31 2025
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BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
12/1001 - It feels like most film music to me: the vocals are the most important thing (Beyoncé has good technique) and all of the other surrounding instruments have to have no rhythmic activity (or repeat the beat with barely any variation). Some songs were more interesting to me "Haunted", "No Angel", and "Blue".
3
Feb 01 2025
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Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
13/1001 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience is definitely the Ocarina of Time of psychedelic rock. Both revolutionized the landscapes they were a part of and also Jimi and Link are both left-handed.
Great improvisations, catchy melodies.
5
Feb 02 2025
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Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
14/1001 - Sounds like this band would've been fun to see live. Voices sound a bit weird, but it kinda works! Backing instruments are solid.
4
Feb 03 2025
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Psychocandy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
15/1001 - Not my style of music for sure but the guitar playing is good (voice is not since it keeps the same quality for the entire record). It makes sense why it was influential.
2
Feb 04 2025
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Blackstar
David Bowie
16/1001 - The jazz music is cool. His voice timbre is too strange for me. Unsure if I'm looking forward to 8 more albums of Bowie.
3
Feb 05 2025
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
17/1001 - Skits/intro "shop-talk" were unessecary. Background improvisations/comping sounded great. Seems like a good reference for writing country music. Much better in two different listening sessions with Disc 1 and Disc 2, still too long.
3
Feb 06 2025
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Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
18/1001 - I wish there weren't any strings. The parts would sound much better on electric guitar or piano (maybe electric piano too.) Once there are too many classical musicians in the room, it gets hard to do "feel" based music like soul or rock and the rhythm of the song suffers. Other than that, the harmonies are really cool combined with Springfield's smooth voice.
4
Feb 07 2025
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2112
Rush
19/1001 - Voice is too high and has a weird effect on it that is quite grating. Instrumentals are alright (technically very proficient).
3
Feb 08 2025
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Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
20/1001 - I liked this more than I thought I would. Chromatic riffs were cool and the backing instrumentals had a great sense pocket. Wasn't a fan of the sex moans/noises or the lower backing vocal.
4
Feb 09 2025
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m b v
My Bloody Valentine
21/1001 - Improved as it went on. Kind of reminded me of Eric Whitacre choral pieces, swap the voices with distorted guitar. Drumming is very simplistic/same-y. I don't get the appeal but I also don't dislike it.
3
Feb 10 2025
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Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
22/1001 - Fun and catchy. It would be nice if songs had B sections/more variation instead of pretty much removing or adding parts. Voice is good and some effects were cool to hear.
4
Feb 11 2025
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Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
23/1001 - I like the guitar fills. Normally I do not like redundancy too much, but I think it's done well here due to the variation in comping and "microshifts" inbetween the various phrases. I don't listen to reggae much so it was really interesting to listen to, especially with it's non-standard drum patterns (backbeat is in a different place).
5
Feb 12 2025
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New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
24/1001 - Inoffensive but quite boring. The music seems like it was produced well. Definitely "80s" sounding (and quite influential) which I dislike, but there aren't too many reverb-caked snare drums in this which is nice.
2
Feb 13 2025
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Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
25/1001 - Not sure why this is on here. In terms of influential music, it seems "Doolittle" by the Pixies, did the dynamic shifts first.
Other than that, I never liked how "talk-singing" sounded. Pick one or the other. Instrumentals are either boring noisiness or ugly Penderecki sounding contemporary-classical strings.
1
Feb 14 2025
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Scott 4
Scott Walker
26/1001 - It's alright. Voice has too much vibrato for my liking.
3
Feb 15 2025
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
27/1001 - Instrumentals sounded cool on the first song but then the voice came in and I was immediately disappointed. The singer is consistently flat throughout all of the songs, and the instrumentals become a lot more boring and passive. "Jesus, Etc." was alright though.
2
Feb 16 2025
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Third
Soft Machine
28/1001 - The weird intro was more fun than the large sections of jamming with mostly uninteresting solos. Singer is very British (gonna have to get use to that on this list). Last song was kinda cool but the intro was too long and then a random piano intro started and I realized there was 8 more minutes of the same song again!
2
Feb 17 2025
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Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
29/1001 - Enough with the sex skits. That being said, the beats weren't bad (though a couple sounded like Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg which threw me off and the "Funky Worm" (moog saw-wave with some glide) is quite irritating).
Just got to the end of "Murder Was the Case". Going down a point for that high-pitched tinnitus crap.
2
Feb 18 2025
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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
30/1001 - Energy is super high and fun. I like how the high octane rapping contrasts with the relaxed jazz and soul samples. This has some good variety due to the many different rappers contributing to this album. A few interludes seemed a bit unnecessary but they were luckily short.
5
Feb 19 2025
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Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
31/1001 - I never could get into Miles Davis. He for sure is an important person in jazz music, being a pioneering many styles (cool jazz, modal jazz, fusion, etc.), but his trumpet technique wasn't as good compared to his contemporaries, and I personally prefer proficiency a lot of the time over "new sounds." That being said, this album was influential to jazz and enjoyable to listen to (despite some occasional rhythmic sloppiness in the large ensemble).
4
Feb 20 2025
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Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
32/1001 - I try to be analytical while reviewing, but this album struck me with a strong personal response of complete neutral-ness. This is one of the most average albums I've heard. It sounds well made, they know their instruments and voices, but I don't feel one way or the other at the end of the day.
3
Feb 21 2025
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All Mod Cons
The Jam
33/1001 - This was very enjoyable. The songs seemed largely on the shorter side but they were compact. I'm gonna learn "English Rose" on piano.
5
Feb 22 2025
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Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
34/1001 - Guitar wanking, some okay funk-rock, and a bunch of screaming and farting over an unchanging cowbell groove.
2
Feb 23 2025
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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
35/1001 - A lot of the problems I had with "Rid of Me" aren't present in this album. Some instrumentals are still on the safe/boring side: providing a "bed of sound" for the voice instead of reacting to it (which to me is a lot of the fun in rock). The Thom Yorke duet was neat. I liked it more than I thought I would.
4
Feb 24 2025
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The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
36/1001 - Seems somewhat derivative of Radiohead but I mildly enjoyed it.
3
Feb 25 2025
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Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
37/1001 - Suprisingly jazzy! Lots of variation in all the types of songs and the effects were cool.
5
Feb 26 2025
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Faust IV
Faust
38/1001 - First song is 11 minutes long where nothing happens for 7 minutes, drums come in, then nothing happens for 5 minutes. Panning is super hard left and right. There are some cool things here and there but there's also way too much vamping/repetition of the same idea without any meaningful variation and it gets stale.
2
Feb 27 2025
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Technique
New Order
39/1001 - Before listening: Sometimes I'd try to imagine what the worst possible yet acceptable music is. Drum beats that aren't quite in time, messy guitars all over the place, random whooshing synths, incoherent vocalist, etc. Anyways, I listened to Joy Division and it was the bad music I was imagining the whole time! That being said, one of my friends said New Order is better than Joy Division so I'll do my best to be unbiased.
After listening: comes across to me as unfocused to have okay rock songs and dance songs. Maybe if the songs were inter-weaved (like the piano and IDM in "drukQs" by Aphex Twin) I'd like it more. Definitely better to my ears than "Unknown Pleasures" was.
3
Feb 28 2025
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Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
40/1001 - Can't understand the vocals (strong de-esser or lisp?). Can understand the loud and awesome guitars drums and flat sax.
4
Mar 01 2025
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Rio
Duran Duran
41/1001 - I thought I'd get filtered by 80's music (especially the reverb snares and absolutely everything having some sort of chorus effect) but I'm warming up to it/reevaluating my idea of what 80's music is. This has a lot of cool basslines, lots of syncopation and call and response between instruments. Side note: Save a Prayer has a really cool minor-third substitution (F# minor to B minor then F# minor to D minor). Rio gets a bit same-y sometimes but the ones that stand out really do stand out (got better on side two).
5
Mar 02 2025
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GI
Germs
42/1001 - I honestly don't know what I was expecting. Hard to hear the lyrics, but everything else is fine I guess. The ducking of the instrumentals was weird and noticeable.
3
Mar 03 2025
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Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Hüsker Dü
43/1001 - Texturally homogenous and not particularly interesting given the amount of songs.
3
Mar 04 2025
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Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
44/1001 - Weird sounding upright piano. I recognize that it's objectively good/well sung (the production and recording is pretty awful though, lots of weird compression and clipping artifacts) but I didn't like it very much.
2
Mar 05 2025
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For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
45/1001 - Cool and unique instrumentation but not a good voice and pretty uninteresting songwriting.
3
Mar 06 2025
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Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
46/1001 - This was somewhat enjoyable. The songs got VERY repetitive at times and I'd like to hear more vocal/dynamic variation and a lot more melodic variation.
3
Mar 07 2025
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The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
47/1001 - Not a fan of the children's choir. Or the voice or the instrumentation or the songwriting. Was looking forward to this based on the description but the Debussy and Bartok influence seems superficial at best.
2
Mar 08 2025
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This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
48/1001 - Would be better if he wasn't flat all the time. Very average.
3
Mar 09 2025
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
49/1001 - A little better than Doolittle (less screaming/makes more sense when screaming happens). Song structure seems samey.
3
Mar 10 2025
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Rip It Up
Orange Juice
50/1001 - I might need to re-listen. That went in one ear and out the other. Sounded okay but hard to hear lyrics.
3
Mar 11 2025
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Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
51/1001 - I listened to a "dynamic edit" by reddit user TopConcern because of the crazy clipping and weirdness going on in the original recording. (I realize it's intentional to sound like older Motown records, but I think there's a difference between using old equipment (sounds fine) and making things sorta sound like old equipment (sounds uncanny)).
Not a huge fan of her voice (specifically the way she articulates vowels) but it fits the genre. Winehouse and the backing musicians have great rhythm and feel.
4
Mar 12 2025
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Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
52/1001 - Started cool but got long-winded and same-y the longer it went on. With the exception of the free-form guitar song (I don't have an opinion on it. You probably had to be there in the 60s amongst all the counter-culture and psychadelia stuff to see this as something cool or worthwhile I'm guessing).
3
Mar 13 2025
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Let It Be
The Replacements
53/1001 - British James Hetfield voice and sloppy musicianship.
1
Mar 14 2025
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Ace of Spades
Motörhead
54/1001 - I really should have excluded Metal when I started this project. It's clear to me that I don't like the genre and as a result I'll end up muddying the ratings for any metal albums in a non-objective way. On the other hand, I can sorta see why this album was influential (some songs are very samey unfortunately like the first and last track).
2
Mar 15 2025
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Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
55/1001 - Paint it Black was cool. I could hear the unique instruments used on the various tracks and how they added to the songs but I didn't find them very interesting for whatever reason. I'll probably listen again another time.
3
Mar 16 2025
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American Idiot
Green Day
56/1001 - Some cool melodies here and there but I wish it was played by better musicians.
3
Mar 17 2025
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Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
57/1001 - I listened to her cover of Radiohead's "Black Star" first to get an idea of her sound. Honest competent guitar playing (two guitarists for sure on the album). Not a fan of the vocals and the last song could've been half as long (or a quarter since it was the same instrumental for 14 minutes).
3
Mar 18 2025
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Hot Fuss
The Killers
58/1001 - I should have realized this earlier but I now know this list isn't a "here are albums that influenced music list" or anything like that. To be fair, it is harder to determine which albums have more "staying power" the closer it gets to the present day and music today in the 20s is in a weird place societally.
I don't like this album but I respect the musicianship and competency of the musicians.
2
Mar 19 2025
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John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
59/1001 - The tenor saxophonist needs to practice long notes in the low register. Didn't like the picardy third ending on "John Barleycorn." Sequencing seemed weird to me, would be more accessible to start with a song with vocals instead of an instrumental jam. Other than that, I liked this album quite a lot; they have a great flute player and pianist.
4
Mar 20 2025
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Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow
60/1001 - Great voice. I like the rock instrumentation and the different genre songs like "Solidify" and "We Do What We Can." It is missing something and I'm not sure what (experimentation with different song forms, dynamics, general excitement, etc.).
4
Mar 21 2025
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Live At The Regal
B.B. King
61/1001 - All the songs have very similar structures but feel different and nicely varied because of the different tempos and textural choices of the musicians. Energy is great throughout.
5
Mar 22 2025
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Document
R.E.M.
62/1001 - Nothing happened but it wasn't awful sounding.
3
Mar 23 2025
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Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
63/1001 - Guitar and singing was cool but they need to find a drummer who knows more than one fill. Songs got better as the album went on. I liked it overall.
4
Mar 24 2025
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If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
64/1001 - Music has little substance and becomes redundant fast. Very competent drummer.
3
Mar 25 2025
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Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
65/1001 - Messy and samey. Opening track is very good.
3
Mar 26 2025
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Mott
Mott The Hoople
66/1001 - Competent band but that's about it. Squeaky end to the first track (fit the song imo).
3
Mar 27 2025
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Snivilisation
Orbital
67/1001 - Strange. A mix of genuinely good techno (Sad But True) and baby's first fl studio beat (Kein Trink Wasser). Good outweighs the bad in this instance.
4
Mar 28 2025
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Homework
Daft Punk
68/1001 - Lots of TR-909 and repetition on this one. I heard Discovery and RAM are better albums from them and I'll give them a listen. Around the World and Burnin' were cool.
2
Mar 29 2025
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Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
69/1001 - Beastie Boys walked so Eminem could crawl.
2
Mar 30 2025
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Connected
Stereo MC's
70/1001 - I liked it but don't understand why it's on the list. It's a bit repetitive but there's enough different layers and musical ideas to keep the songs from becoming too samey.
4
Mar 31 2025
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Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
71/1001 - I think this will grow on me. Very coherent instrumentation (can definitely hear the Reich influence) which is rare for indie music in my experience. I would have appreciated more loud vocals in certain places ad wasn't a big fan of the odd-time stuff but that's just my personal preference and not really a problem with the music.
4
Apr 01 2025
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Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
72/1001 - One reason I dislike the 80's gated-reverb snare is how artificial it sounds in rock music. It makes the drums sound like I'm listening in a large bathroom instead of a normal room or a concert venue. Songwriting seems fine but the 80s sound takes me out of the album.
3
Apr 02 2025
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Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
73/1001 - What the hell, pop music used to be so cool! Now it's just for girls and gays :(
5
Apr 03 2025
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Legalize It
Peter Tosh
74/1001 - The out of tune horns took me out of it a little. Otherwise, very straightforward reggae music.
3
Apr 04 2025
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3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
75/1001 - Something sounds weird with the mixing or it might be my ears since I can't currently hear high-frequencies due to sinus issues. I'll listen again. Some good straightforward funk music but a bit too much synth noodling for me.
4
Apr 05 2025
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Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
76/1001 - In my previous Beastie Boys album, I made a joke review which I now regret. I still didn't like "Licensed to Ill" (not a fan of stock 808 sounds and jokey covers although Paul Revere was cool due to the reversed sounds, and Eminem still sucks).
This one was better overall (the QTip feature, Sure Shot, and Sabotage were especially cool) but I feel they overall missed one of the core points of jazz music: exploration of a set of ideas. Most jazz songs have a "head" (the melody), and go through solos over the chords of the head creating a sort of Theme and Variations for each player to contribute their ideas. There are too many short ideas for this aspect of jazz music (the main inspiration of Ill Communication) to be successfully achieved.
3
Apr 06 2025
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At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
77/1089 - I don't really understand prison performances. On one hand, the pro of prison performances is treating prisons as a place of rehabilitation and providing some sort of societal connection to make it easier for prisoners returning to society possibly decreasing the chances they become repeat offenders. On the other hand... you're playing for murderers! I'll do my best to put my biases aside and listen only to the music.
After listening to this recording, I found the music to be just okay. It seemed well done for the genre it was and the murderers seemed to have fun, but it was also very samey and predictable.
3
Apr 07 2025
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Tapestry
Carole King
78/1089 - Great bass player. Cool comping on piano (both acoustic and electric), and a nice amount of variation given the genre constraints.
5
Apr 08 2025
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Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Smart use of effects to cover up Ozzy Osbourne's pitchy vocals. Some cool songwriting throughout. I also liked the more subdued drum groove on "Hand of Doom." It might grow on me.
4
Apr 09 2025
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The United States Of America
The United States Of America
80/1089 - Kinda reminds me of Stereolab. Cool bass-lines, drum breaks, and chords and I thought the canon thing in the middle was quite unique. For sure has a dated sound with the primitive electronic instruments complimenting the 60s recording. I didn't really understand all the found sounds and calliopes but it didn't get too in the way of the psychedelic experiments.
5
Apr 10 2025
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If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
81/1089 - Good but samey.
4
Apr 11 2025
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GREY Area
Little Simz
82/1089 - I'm glad it was short and didn't have any skits.
2
Apr 12 2025
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Bossanova
Pixies
83/1089 - I liked this one the best so far out of the Pixies albums on the list. Still not a fan of the main singer's voice and some chord changes seemed weird for the sake of being weird (lots of parallel shifts from major to minor that work fine theoretically but sound off-putting in execution) but I think I understand what they're about a bit better (granted this is the most mainstream sounding of their albums). I might re-listen to the other Pixies albums with this in mind at the end of this project.
4
Apr 13 2025
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Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
84/1089 - Sounds like your average classical composition major senior recital. I didn't enjoy this.
2
Apr 14 2025
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Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
85/1089 - I liked this a lot. I wish there was more micro-variation in the actual beats and that "Say Your Prayers" didn't have a flexatone every 4 bars. These wishes are more my taste than fundamental problems with the music however which is very solid throughout.
5
Apr 15 2025
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Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
86/1089 - The drummer in this band stole my Dad's socks at the gym. Anyways on to the review: It's okay. Some good songwriting here and there but some very homogeneous sounds throughout.
3
Apr 16 2025
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Tommy
The Who
87/1089 - Eh. Would've benefited from trimming the fat and making the story more concise. Pinball Wizard was cool.
3
Apr 17 2025
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Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
88/1089 - I prefer the Ravel orchestration. The Tchaikovsky "Nut Rocker" song kinda reminded me of "Cliffs of Dover" at parts.
4
Apr 18 2025
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Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
89/1089 - Why the interludes? Good music.
4
Apr 19 2025
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Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
90/1089 - I like Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin's versions better. Overall it was okay.
3
Apr 20 2025
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At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
91/1089 - This sure is blues rock.
3
Apr 21 2025
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The Idiot
Iggy Pop
92/1089 - Fuzzy. This might get me used to Bowie's voice (they're similar and work a lot together), interested to listen to more. Wish more songs were like China Girl and had some dynamic/instrumental variation throughout.
4
Apr 22 2025
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Heroes
David Bowie
93/1089 - Pretty boring, but I'm used to his voice now which will make listening to 7 more Bowie albums more bearable.
3
Apr 23 2025
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Vento De Maio
Elis Regina
94/1089 - Kinda fun to piece together this album (seems to be a mistake/oversight on the bookmaker's part). Jazz fusion is one of my favorite genres for some reason so I really enjoyed listening to this. So much variety in sounds and harmonies while still retaining catchy melodies and a great voice. I'm gonna listen again in the normal order (from the 1972/3? album).
5
Apr 24 2025
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
95/1089 - A Top 5 album for me. Very creative and catchy instrumentals, lots of different vocals from Damon Albarn and others (even the ones that sound bad/out of tune like "Gravity" fit the context of the song) and a definitive Y2K sound and message.
5
Apr 25 2025
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Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
96/1089 - Not horrible but not a fan of the voice.
3
Apr 26 2025
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Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
97/1089 - Amazing soloists. Cool harmonies. Crowd was loving it. A fun live album to listen to.
5
Apr 27 2025
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Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
98/1001 - Read that they vowed to not do drugs or alcohol... Nice, that's rare in rock music. The music itself dosen't "ramble" like they mention in their interviews but also doesn't go anywhere either. Voice was a little annoying at first but I got used to it.
3
Apr 28 2025
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Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie
99/1089 - "Rid of Me" with distortion and slurs.
2
Apr 29 2025
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Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
100/1089 - The Bossa compositions are good but I'm not a fan of the players. Both singers are super dry and lifeless to my ears. I never liked Stan Getz's "subtone-only" sax sound and playstyle either. That being said, I get why it's on the list and I enjoy playing these songs on piano every once in a while.
3
Apr 30 2025
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The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
101/1089 - Went in one ear and out the other.
3
May 01 2025
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Revolver
Beatles
102/1089 - Ah, the last one before MI5 installed the new Paul McCartney. One of the more consistent of the experimental Beatles albums. The first and last songs are really great. Cool sonic textures throughout with reversed guitar solo, string octet, sitar, tabla, french horn, canons, vocals through a leslie speaker, etc.
5
May 02 2025
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Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
103/1089 - My first Björk album so far. Pretty good but very washy textures throughout. Would have appreciated more drier staccatto sounds at points.
4
May 03 2025
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Parachutes
Coldplay
104/1089 - Very similar to Radiohead's "The Bends" but mellower and with a worse-sounding accent. That being said, "The Bends" is one of my favorite albums so I enjoyed this one too.
4
May 04 2025
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New Wave
The Auteurs
105/1089 - Wait a minute, this isn't new wave... (It's actually boring proto-britpop nonsense).
2
May 05 2025
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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
106/1089 - Take out the repeated sax/trumpet/nails-on-chalkboard/tea-kettle sample and all the interludes with absolutely nothing going on and it goes up a star or two. Annoying as fuck to listen to.
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May 06 2025
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Murmur
R.E.M.
107/1089 - It was alright. "Laughing" kinda reminded me of The Police so I really enjoyed that song over most of the album.
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May 07 2025
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Like A Prayer
Madonna
108/1089 - This sure is 80s music.
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May 08 2025
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Tellin’ Stories
The Charlatans
109/1089 - This Charlatans album sucked and was very derivative so I'll recommend some other albums that are influential/interesting and are not currently on the user list:
Bill Evans Trio - Portrait in Jazz (1960) : Changed the game for jazz combos by allowing every member to contribute as a "leader," instead of just the melodic instruments. (I like "Explorations" better but this one is more historically important)
Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (1975) : Early electronic “warm earth music for plants…and the people that love them,” made with an early Moog synthesizer. Chock-full of optimism.
Take 6 - Take 6 (1988) : Debut album of a gospel a'cappella group which had a big influence on modern vocal harmonies.
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (1996) : One of the first albums made with a digital audio workstation. Cool blend of experimental and accessible sounds.
Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005) : Loose concept album with a cool blend of alternative rock, trip-hop, and dance-pop. It also has "Feel Good Inc."
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon (2015) : Neo-soul group with a very eclectic sound and a strong vocalist.
Tennyson - Rot (2022) : Experimental electronic music by a brother (producer, vocalist) and sister (drums) duo. Amazing production skills and intriguing vocal effects. I've found a lot of the songs translate well to piano as well.
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