Feb 17 2025
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Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Pretty good, pretty good.
I don't like it enough to own a hard copy of it but it's more interesting than I remember.
Best solo album by a drummer since Ringo's 'Beaucoups of Blues'.
3
Feb 18 2025
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Debut
Björk
This is what I was afraid of- that I would get albums by artists that I really dislike. Bjork's debut was a difficult listen for me her annoying voice gave me a bit of a headache and it seemed to last hours. I listened to it all because well that's the purpose of the generator, but I would be lying if I said that I didn't consider just flat out quitting
I gave it ⭐️⭐️ because it's well produced and when she's not screaming/singing the music can be pretty.
2
Feb 19 2025
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Bossanova
Pixies
"O samba, a prontidão e outras bossas são nossas coisas, são coisas nossas."
Black Orpheus I mean Black Francis discovers Bossanova on the third Pixies album but outside of the use of unconventional chords in some songs with complex progressions and ambiguous harmonies it doesn't much sound like Bossanova to me.
I liked the first couple albums better, but Bossanova is a great listen just don't go expecting Joao Gilberto.
3
Feb 20 2025
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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band of Hip Hop. If you have any interest at all in Hip Hop this is an essential album. Clan in da Front!
5
Feb 21 2025
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Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
A great compilation album of tunes recorded in 1949 & 1950 that would go on to define cool jazz.
5
Feb 22 2025
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All Directions
The Temptations
So far, my favorite album from the 1001generator. Five Stars! Makes me dance like a 1960s Go Go girl!
5
Feb 23 2025
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The Undertones
The Undertones
Fun Buzzcocky punky power pop music.
5
Feb 24 2025
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
Fun synth pop new wave from the early 1980. Some very good songs (Jennifer, title track, Love is a Stranger, etc.) but some filler too that likely sounds better on the dance floor after a couple drinks.
For this kind of music, I like The Human League, Tubeaway Army, early Depeche Mode, OMD, Soft Cell, etc. better.
Not my absolute favorite genre of music but I do like it from time to time, it never bored me & went well with my Sunday morning coffee.
3
Feb 25 2025
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Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
It was OK kinda dancey some fun beats but nothing great.
3
Feb 26 2025
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The Blueprint
JAY Z
The Blueprint to shaking your ass like a fool in the living room while your cat & dog look at you like you are crazy! AKA "Dad, I'm only dancing."
4
Feb 27 2025
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Clandestino
Manu Chao
One or two clever ideas stretched too thin.
2
Feb 28 2025
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I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
To discover 'I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight' before you die is one of the advantages of being alive.
5
Mar 01 2025
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Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
To discover this album before you die is one of the advantages of being alive.
5
Mar 02 2025
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If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
Wonderful album!
5
Mar 03 2025
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Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
This album makes me want to become a stripper. One of the greatest debut albums of all time. Turn it up & shake your moneymaker!
5
Mar 04 2025
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Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
As essential to any country music library as Sgt Peppers is to any rock music library. Her voice is just perfect. Essential.
5
Mar 05 2025
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Casanova
The Divine Comedy
Welcome to the Stomach Room! Oh, look it's Scott Walker & Burt Bacharach. Hello, Burt, hello Scott! What's playing? Sounds like chamber pop mixed in (or is it up?) with a bit of Brit pop & Frank Sinatra, old blue eyes himself! Sounds so strange, yet so very familiar. Did Noel Coward show? Of course! Go say hi!
5
Mar 06 2025
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The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
On paper I should like this album better, but it remains...
One of those albums that to me it's history or rather the history of events that occurred during the album's cycle (Rickey Edwards goes missing for one) is more interesting than the music not that the music isn't pretty good (it is) it just doesn't grab me all that strongly and not something I'm likely to ever play again.
That's about it.
I listened to it twice this morning & had heard it a few times during high school and my opinion of the album is exactly the same - good album by a talented band that for whatever reason fails to resonate with me on any level.
Rickey Edwards (band lyricist, backing vocals & I guess some guitar) went missing on the first of February 1995 & was legally presumed dead in 2008. It's widely believed that he committed suicide. A body was never found/recovered.
4REAL.
3
Mar 07 2025
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Mott
Mott The Hoople
Mott 4 Ever.
5
Mar 08 2025
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Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Several songs are as good as Fast Car. I usually only like folk music from before 1980 but this is a very solid album and wildly mature and intense for such a young girl (late teens/early 20s) I felt lucky that my life has been so sheltered (and yes charmed) as I'm about the age she was when this album came out and I have thankfully never felt many of the things she experienced /felt & turned into powerful, generation defining songs.
I will buy this album maybe on RST next month and I know it will sit nicely next to my Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell albums. It's that good.
5
Mar 09 2025
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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
A perfect album.
The California sound long before The Eagles, Jackson Browne, etc. claimed it as their own (or at least Rolling Stone magazine did) & years before Mick Fleetwood discovered a young Stevie Nicks & her moody boyfriend, started selling millions of albums & every lifeform under 30 fell in love with Stevie Nicks.
Some absolutely perfect songs (the first 3 songs on the album are nearly as perfect a trio as any 3-song album opener has ever been) but the harmonies got on my nerves- I don't know why as I adore The Beach Boys and harmonies in general but by the end of side two, I was feeling a tad violent.
Is there such a thing as too perfect?
I don't know. Maybe but likely there isn't, 'Pet Sounds' is absolutely perfect and almost as good as The Beatles at their very best but I digress.
I want to give it five stars, I get how massively important this album (came out in the summer of 1969) was/is in shaping the music of the 1970s (at least in North America) but likely due to my own short comings I can't.
I rated Tracy Chapman's debut album five stars yesterday & frankly this album is way better but IMO a 5-star album shouldn't get on your nerves, and it certainly shouldn't make you feel violent.
I feel like an asshole or like that Robert Christgau fellow.
Same difference- I guess.
4
Mar 10 2025
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90
808 State
Reminded me of music aliens would play at dance parties. Simple, repetitive music that would likely drive me insane hearing it all night, but an album's worth was pretty good. Not sure I would ever buy it or even want to hear it again, but I enjoyed it a bit this morning with my coffee.
Sounds a bit like hi energy exercise music - I don't know I'll likely forget all about it before lunch.
3
Mar 11 2025
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Madman Across The Water
Elton John
3
Mar 12 2025
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A Night At The Opera
Queen
Lots of fine albums came out in 1975 (best year in Rock after '66?) & this one is near the top (Physical Graffiti being at the very top) in that magical year of living prog rock as Punk lurked about prepping for a takeover of the status quo that would fizzle out with a dull thump much as the summer of love had done a decade earlier.
5
Mar 13 2025
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Phrenology
The Roots
Too long. Too boring. A couple good songs. Too little. Too bad.
2
Mar 14 2025
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Arise
Sepultura
Este disco es bestial en todos sus aspectos, sonido , producción , composición , potencia , años dorados de los autenticos Sepultura.
En mi opinión este disco tiene más elementos de Death Metal que de Thrash, una banda con un estilo unico.
Brasil, obrigado!
5
Mar 15 2025
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Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
A fun album that would sound great at the beach, a Tiki bar or even better a Tiki bar at the beach!
Not something I would play all the time but at the right time I can see this being a great soundtrack to summer activities.
Makes me wish I was at Black's Beach skinny dipping in July!
3
Mar 16 2025
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Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter
A couple songs I really liked that had a dreampop feel to them but the rest of the album while not bad at all was just OK kinda boring indie rock vocals. I'll likely never listen to this band again.
3
Mar 17 2025
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Dry
PJ Harvey
I give DRY a one-and-a-half-out-of-five-star rating. I get that I'm supposed to like this album, but I don't - sue me.
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Mar 18 2025
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Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
Some of the music sounds fun to dance to but a lot is ruined by boring vocals & dumb lyrics. More than awful this album is just disposable.
2
Mar 19 2025
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Skylarking
XTC
Perfection.
5
Mar 20 2025
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Electric
The Cult
In late 1986 The Cult put all their influences in a big black cauldron and called Rick Rubin.
Something about a cauldron, a bunch of songs that were on the verge of getting it on, the need to break America and English pussy...
Rubin listened to the message again & called the boys back, within days Rubin started digging in that rusty beast and found hard psychedelic rock, Highway to Hell era AC DC, The Whiskey au Go Go via The 100 Club, some Led Zeppelin magic, a little Rolling Stones swagger, some T Rex, some goth rock, some T&A and started sorting it all out in his lab.
The Cult rerecorded every song they had ready for the next album under the watchful eye of Rubin and renamed the album Electric to better reflect the newly recorded music.
It rocked.
Not long after the fruits of their labor was released in America & beyond to great success. Electric was hailed from schoolyards to the New York Times as hard rock perfection.
Rubin took off his glasses and fell asleep on his shabby couch (his beard full of peanut shells) peacefully knowing that he gave The Cult his best.
The boys hit the road for months of sold-out dates and they rocked electric for Electric rocked.
5
Mar 21 2025
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I Against I
Bad Brains
Seminal Washington D.C. hardcore punk that would go on to influence everyone from Pantera to Living Color, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine & endless others.
Essential in all ways.
5
Mar 22 2025
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(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ronnie Van Zant sounds like a veteran bluesman but with his own unique style, a style that often sounds broken beyond repair & gloriously hopeful often in the same song. Just brilliant stuff.
One of the best albums from the early 1970s (1973 to be exact) and maybe the best debut album of 1973 certainly greater than the debuts by such powerhouses as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Bryan Ferry and even Queen.
No rock N roll library can be called complete without it at least not with a straight face.
This is America reminding the world that we invented rock N roll and more importantly reminding ourselves that no one rocks harder and truer than a southern man raised on boiled peanuts, king cake, country music & old 78 rpm blues records.
To call it essential seems like some grand underestimate of all the fire n skill that one finds on an album that is just over 43 minutes long.
5
Mar 23 2025
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Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
Outside of a couple decent songs (Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World) that we all know & tolerate this album is pretty dull, had a hard time getting through it but I did.
I don't need to hear this band ever again.
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Mar 24 2025
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Shadowland
k.d. lang
The Nashville sound of the mid 1950s to early 1960s (before The Beatles came along and changed the entire landscape) was brought back from the dead by K.D. Lang in the late 1980s on an excellent album called 'Shadowland' produced by Owen Bradley who produced Patsy Cline at one time which makes sense as this album has Patsy Cline all over it, from the production to the vocals and general aesthetic.
A really strong country music debut that goes down as smoothly as grits and a Martini after a day in the studio with the Nashville A Team laying it all down.
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Mar 25 2025
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The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
When the robots take over our world, they will throw a big party & allow us to join in the celebration. There will be a huge area (a sign will read Humans Allowed) with colored lights, beverages, pizza & the music on this album will be playing as the robots encourage us to dance as humans dancing greatly amuses them.
I suggest you dance I know I will.
5
Mar 26 2025
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Wild Wood
Paul Weller
Paul Weller's third act begin with the previous year's self-titled album and while it found The Jam's ex frontman in fine form it wasn't until Wildwood that Weller's rebirth was complete, an album that stands next to anything The Jam ever released and far better than The Jam's final effort (The Gift) it's that good.
Blows away anything by The Style Council for the record.
A rustic masterpiece that deeply inspired bands like Oasis & Blur and let the world know that The Modfather was back and back for good.
An essential British rock album.
5
Mar 27 2025
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Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
Grunge (REAL grunge not whiny pretty boy BS) like God intended. Filthy, hard, starved, raw, wet, buzzed and stooged up.
5
Mar 28 2025
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Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
One of the greatest albums from the 1980s or any decade for that matter. This is prime CURE and The Cure at their best was (and still is in 2025) among the greatest bands of all time up there with The Beatles, The Who, The Jam, The Rolling Stones and The Small Faces.
5
Mar 29 2025
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
It's Pink Floyd. It's one of their best albums. You are reading this. Do the math.
5
Mar 30 2025
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Hot Fuss
The Killers
A few really good songs. A few boring ones. Overall average.
3
Mar 31 2025
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Sister
Sonic Youth
Fantastic noise pop about a great Sci FI writer named Phillip K. Dick AKA 'Master-Dik' hints of the greatness they would unleash on their next album (Daydream Nation) are all the place on 'Sister' an annoying cover of Crime's 'Hot Wire My Heart' keeps it from being 5/5.
4
Apr 01 2025
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Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
Great music for an all nighter!
5
Apr 02 2025
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Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
Mind blown to smithereens!
I knew 'Come on Eileen' & a couple other songs by Dexys and liked them fine but never enough to seek out a full album... I've been missing out big time! How have I not heard this work of art in 23 years of being alive?
I've heard it three times already & will play it at least three more times today, ordering the vinyl record & CD after I click 'Comment' and submit to you my scattered thoughts.
This at once has become one of my favorite albums of all time!
I'm obsessed!
No music has hit me this hard since I discovered (and by "discovered" I mean my dad saying, "hear this." as he hands me an album, this time The Queen is Dead) The Smiths when I was 14.
Moments like this are a big reason why music is, has been and always will always be a huge part of my life.
What an eargasm!
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Apr 03 2025
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Space Ritual
Hawkwind
Ever wondered what it feels like to be on some mind-bending cosmic drugs but don't do drugs?
Fear not.
Play this amazing live album by the end of it, you'll know.
The flashbacks never end.
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