Feb 11 2025
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
Edgy, provocative, and humorous.
An album that leaves me feeling strange and rather disoriented.
Certainly never a dull moment.
Where Is My Mind? stood out to me.
4
Feb 12 2025
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
My first experience with reggae and I can see the appeal, however I’m not sure how much its my thing.
Some great tracks I really enjoyed while others felt boring and redundant.
The last two were my faves, High Tide or Low Tide and All Day All Night.
3
Feb 13 2025
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Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
Ooooh baby no way, third album in and it’s not only one I’ve already heard but absolutely one of my favorite albums of all time and even one of the albums that really led to me diving head first into music. This album is fundamental to my music taste. It’s been over half a century since this masterpiece came out and still nothing has even come close to recreating its beauty and artistry. Dylan is a poet and that is unarguable.
This album is truly enchanting. Dylan’s distinctive voice paired with the folksy tunes, poignant harmonica, and delicious organ (especially in the likes of Stuck Inside of Mobile) create a charming atmosphere I honestly can’t understand how anyone could dislike. People say how this album sounds “too old” for them but honestly my first reaction to this album was how on earth is this album as old as it is, it feels and sounds just as relevant, revolutionary, and powerful today as I’m sure it was when it released in 1966.
5
Feb 14 2025
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Guero
Beck
Originally was kinda annoyed by this album, and the first half still kinda annoys me for some reason, I think it’s mostly just the mix of his voice not being my favorite and all the weird sounds he used with the strange vibes, but the tail end of the album had some good songs I did actually enjoy quite a bit after some more listens.
3
Feb 15 2025
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Metallica
Metallica
This is an incredibly entertaining album from beginning to end. Exciting guitar riffs, Hetfield’s rough and angry voice, all coated in a beautiful simplicity combine to make a record that is really quite enjoyable. I honestly didn’t really know exactly what metal was before listening to this album and I’m very glad my horizons have been expanded because this was hype (after reading up a bit more on it apparently this is quite a change of pace for Metallica who were pioneers of the thrash metal genre, something quite different from this, but I’m still excited to experience that as well). Will definitely return to this and continue to enjoy it. Also despite its immense popularity I actually didn’t really love Enter Sandman too much.
4
Feb 16 2025
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Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
My golly did this album have some bangers. Also was not expecting the album to turn folk all of the sudden there?? But I lowkey loved it. Score could def become a five with more listens, I liked this way more than I was expecting
4
Feb 17 2025
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Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
One hell of a vibe. Smooth buttery and warm, an enjoyable listen fs
4
Feb 18 2025
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Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
Mid af. Really boring, nothing interesting, or standoutish.
2
Feb 19 2025
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Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
I think reggae is growing on me more but I’m not sure how great this album is still for me. It’s fun stuff but I can’t ever imagine myself returning to this.
3
Feb 20 2025
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The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
This is the kind of thing I think I could really enjoy but just with a couple listens I couldn’t really differentiate between a lot of the songs. I enjoyed the punky hard rock sort of vibes though and the strong accent of the singer was fun to listen to. So overall wasn’t too memorable butt really not too bad.
3
Feb 21 2025
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Savane
Ali Farka Touré
I enjoyed it a lot at first which I didn’t quite expect to seeing as I couldn’t understand a thing he was saying, but then because of that I think I lost a lot of interest later into the album. I must say it was still quite good though and I really did love the music and the guitar and everything. Great stuff fs, just mildly unnoticeable.
3
Feb 22 2025
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Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
I mean this is just a 5 star album through and through. Home of countless classic bops and grooves, I couldn’t help but smile or dance listening through the entire double LP. Literally walking while listening to it I think I had an actual spring in my step. There’s certainly a reason this album gets all the praise it does.
For a man who had no sight, he sure had a whole lot of vision.
Okay holy cow I get the Stevie Wonder hype completely now.
Dang these are truly songs written in the key of life, it feels like in each of his songs he tunes into some part of my soul and just sits there and lets me explore it along to the bodacious vibes he so graciously gifts me.
5