Mar 28 2025
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Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
It has a soothing quality throughout with the exception of "Cars are Cars", which was an agitating disrupter of a tune. Apart from that song the rest of the album was monotone lacking instrumental and vocal dynamism. I can't think of an occasion when I would be compelled to listen to it again.
2
Mar 29 2025
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Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
A frustrating and tedious listen.It's aptly titled in that each track feels like an introduction building to something more engaging, but the rug is pulled every time as the proceeding track is another haunted house themed slog. There are some soundtrack worthy beats.
1
Mar 30 2025
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Fever Ray
Fever Ray
One note throughout, and that not is hot oil and candle wax on the nipples!
2
Mar 31 2025
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Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
2
Apr 02 2025
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The Wildest!
Louis Prima
Conjures memories of 90's era romantic comedies and my emotionally-abusive father. Fantastic!
5
Apr 03 2025
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Dear Science
TV On The Radio
They display good range in this varied collection. If you like this, you'll love Flight of the Conchords. Irony or intention?
4
Apr 04 2025
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KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
Raw kinetic aggression from the golden age of thrash metal. If you are listening to this while sedentary, without turning it up to nearly unbearable volume, you're doing it wrong. Take your creamy shits and get back to Weenie Hut Jr. If you need to build a fence in a day, turn it on and turn it up. Would be a perfect score with a couple more face-melting solos.
4
Apr 05 2025
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Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
Credit for pioneering hard rock. This is way crunchier than the Stones or Zeppelin, but it's a bit of a snooze i'nit? As for catchy riffs or hooks, nothing really stuck with me.
2
Apr 09 2025
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The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
A pretty good piece of proto-psychadelic surf rock. What sounded like a guy making mouth bongo sounds on several of the tracks was an especially nice touch.
3
Apr 11 2025
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
Respect.
4
Apr 30 2025
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Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
I'm more impressed with where Missy went than where she got started. She's like a guest on here own album here. Mostly nice jams for slow-humpin' ya girl, but it's a little boring.
2
May 01 2025
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Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
For the artist, there is probably something deeply and personally profound about this, but musically, it's distilled shit. Why bother with the pauses between "songs" when you're going to resume with the same droll nonsense. Much like the films of Wes Anderson, this is the type of bullshit that pretentious people like because they think they are supposed to. I like the album cover.
1
May 02 2025
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If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
It's very good, but I don't do those drugs anymore.
4
May 03 2025
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Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
It's good old-head stuff, but I've been overexposed to this type of music due to many years of riding around in a crew van with the radio tuned to the classic rock station.
3
May 07 2025
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#1 Record
Big Star
The album feels like the soundtrack from one of those Cameron Crowe films in which nothing really happens, but it gets by on vibes. Feels like summer and I like it.
3
May 08 2025
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Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
I'm not sure why this album makes the list over multitudes of similar, very accessible jazz works, but it is good entry level stuff for people wanting to dip the toe.
4
May 09 2025
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Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
This is iconic stuff from the last days of the golden era of hip hop. This is iconic stuff. It's too bad the dipshit had to continue to play gangster after becoming successful.
4
May 10 2025
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Abbey Road
Beatles
Come on now.
5
May 15 2025
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...And Justice For All
Metallica
OG Metallica fans will, to a person, list Justice as their best work, and I agree. Those same fans would say it is their last good album. I include the Black album as a good album, even though it launched them into the mainstream and they've been wilting since. This is their opus.
5
May 16 2025
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Copper Blue
Sugar
What the everloving fuck is this generic 90's pop rock bullshit doing here? There was a time when one could cast a line into the ocean and inevitably reel up one of these bands. From Toadies to Meat Puppets and Presidents of The USA, this sound was pervasive and undeniably... mid. Ironic timing that this album came up following Metallica's best work, because that's how it went down, and everything rock tasted a bit worse thereafter.
1
May 17 2025
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Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
The aggregator's affinity with early works is beginning to come off as that of an SNL parody of a music snob. Focusing on what put them on the map takes away from the ultimate destination of a best-in-a-generation band, and may even dissuade new listeners. This album has a couple great tunes that will surely tickle the melancholy bone of the emo dweebs, but it pales in comparison to subsequent records, and now I have to give 3 stars to a 5-star band.
3
May 22 2025
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Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
Real Mortal Kombat type of stuff.
4
May 23 2025
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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
It comes with too much you-had-to-be-thereism to be an album one "must hear", but if you were there you know. A quick watch of the "Break Stuff" video from the horrific Woodstock '99 will give you a glimpse at the hype they had at the time. These guys along with Korn ushered in the mercilous but (thankfully) short-lived Nu Metal scene. Victims of their own success, they drowned in a deluge of imitators.
3
May 24 2025
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The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
I've managed to never intentionally hear the Smith's for my entire life thus far, and I will not begin now. Morrissey is a proper c**t.
1
May 28 2025
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Done By The Forces Of Nature
Jungle Brothers
Classic old-school with funky samples from a time when hip hop was about shakin' it, and not all your past and future crimes.
4
May 29 2025
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American Pie
Don McLean
Doesn't stand the test of time. This is the guy who brings the acoustic guitar to the party and instead of playing songs everyone can sing along with, he wants to play you some of his "originals", totally killing the vibe.
3
May 30 2025
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Highly Evolved
The Vines
Pretty good angsty teen stuff. Maybe one song too long.
4