Mar 31 2025
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
Lol did not know Kanye "sampled" their song. Amazing album.
5
Apr 01 2025
Parachutes
Coldplay
Good songs. Coldplay is not really my type. I did find this to be their better album.
3
Apr 02 2025
Harvest
Neil Young
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Yes, five stars. You can’t improve on a record that already sounds like it was made in the backseat of a broken pickup truck driving through rural heartbreak.
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The Sound:
Harvest is what happens when folk, country, and rock all sit around a fire and quietly fall apart together. It’s got that lo-fi authenticity you can’t fake—half of it sounds like it was recorded in a barn because, fun fact, it was. Literal barn acoustics. He invented the Spotify “cabin-core” playlist before playlists were a thing.
Standouts:
• “Heart of Gold” — Yes, it’s the hit. Yes, it’s still good. Go cry in your car like the rest of us.
• “Old Man” — Neil Young’s gentle roast of future-him.
• “The Needle and the Damage Done” — Two minutes of “let me quietly devastate your spirit.”
• “A Man Needs a Maid” — So vulnerable it’s almost awkward. Like reading someone’s journal but with orchestral strings.
Why It Matters:
Because this album isn’t trying to impress you. It’s not overproduced. It’s not trendy. It’s just… true. You can hear the wood in the guitar. You can hear the ache in Neil’s voice. It’s the audio version of someone slowly lighting a cigarette, pausing, then going, “…yeah.”
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Final Verdict:
Harvest is like emotional compost—rich, earthy, sad, and necessary.
If you don’t give it five stars, that’s fine. Just don’t talk to me about your taste in music ever again.
5
Apr 03 2025
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
🎧 Review of Jagged Little Pill
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5 Cry-Screams
This album is a time capsule full of jagged feelings, diary entries written in Sharpie, and the sound of a woman who found out you cheated and wrote a platinum-selling album instead of texting you 87 times at 3AM. It feels. And it makes you feel. Loudly. Messily. Perfectly.
Alanis didn’t just make an album—she gave us all a permission slip to be emotionally unhinged and poetic at the same time.
5
Apr 04 2025
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌘 (4.5/5 Moody Morrisseys)
This is The Smiths at their most bleak, bratty, and brilliant. It’s a melodic existential crisis served with jangle-pop guitars and enough poetic bitterness to ruin your lunch and your worldview. It’s not here to comfort you—it’s here to make you uncomfortable in beautiful ways.
There are no bops here. There are melancholic marches, sarcastic ballads, and Morrissey monologues disguised as songs. Johnny Marr’s guitar work sparkles like sadness in the sun, while Morrissey floats above it all like an emotionally repressed ghost in a thrift-store blazer.
This isn’t an album—it’s emotional passive-aggression with a rhythm section.
4
Apr 07 2025
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
⭐ Review: 4.9/5 Spacey Existential Gut-Punches
This album isn’t here to entertain you.
It’s here to haunt you, hug you, and then gently whisper,
“Remember when things meant something?”
It’s only 5 tracks long, but somehow feels like a decade of your life flashing before your eyes while you stand in the rain at an abandoned carnival.
5
Apr 08 2025
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
⭐ Rating: 4.7/5 Urban Ghosts Smoking in the Rain
This album basically invented trip-hop, which is music for people who want to be sad but also mysterious.
It’s jazz, soul, reggae, hip-hop, and existentialism layered like emotional lasagna.
Every track is slow, heavy, and weirdly intimate—like the music knows something about you that you haven’t admitted yet.
It doesn’t ask for your attention.
It assumes it already owns you.
4
Apr 09 2025
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
Love it.
Smells like that basement live venue in Central Sq, Cambridge.
5
Apr 10 2025
Arular
M.I.A.
⭐ My Rating: 4.5/5 Global Bangers Screaming in Five Languages
This album is LOUD.
It’s messy on purpose, and it doesn’t ask for your approval—it claims space like it’s kicking colonialism in the shin and then dancing on the table.
It’s not “polished.” It’s powerful. It’s raw, glitchy, chaotic, political, and deeply fun—like if a protest wore a crop top and set your stereo on fire.
M.I.A. doesn’t rap at you—she throws entire ideologies at your face in rhyme form.
4
Apr 11 2025
A Date With The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
⭐ Rating: 3.8/5 Well-Groomed Sad Boys in Perfect Harmony
It’s clean. It’s charming.
It’s not trying to change the world—just trying to get their girlfriend back.
And you know what? There’s something comfortingly dramatic about that.
4
Apr 14 2025
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
⭐ Rating: 3.8/5 Well-Groomed Sad Boys in Perfect Harmony
It’s clean. It’s charming.
It’s not trying to change the world—just trying to get their girlfriend back.
And you know what? There’s something comfortingly dramatic about that.
5
Apr 15 2025
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5
Apr 16 2025
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
4
Apr 17 2025
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
4
Apr 18 2025
Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem
4
Apr 21 2025
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
4
Apr 22 2025
Dummy
Portishead
Slow
trippy
5
Apr 23 2025
Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
I felt like I was at a beach
5
Apr 24 2025
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
4.4/5 Echoes in a Redwood Grove
Warm. Fuzzy. Deep in places.
This is hippie sadness dressed as optimism.
Favorite Track: Darkness, Darkness
hits like an emotionally literate thundercloud.
“Darkness, darkness, be my pillow…”
Bro. What?! That’s gorgeous and devastating in one breath.
5
Apr 25 2025
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
My Rating: 4.6/5 Silky Grooves of Self-Worth
This is grown-folk music for people with taste, but also mild baggage and great shoes.
Put this on and you are 30% cooler instantly.
5
Apr 28 2025
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
5/5 Heartfelt Haze Ballads
This isn’t just one of the greatest vocal performances of the 20th century.
It’s the template for every soft, slow, emotionally intelligent heartbreak that came after it.
5
Apr 29 2025
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
This album is so effortlessly good it’s unfair.
It’s the sound of running toward yourself.
5
Apr 30 2025
The Bends
Radiohead
Guitars Gasping for Air.This is the sound of losing your innocence and gaining self-awareness in the most sonically gorgeous way possible.Every chord is a crisis.
Every lyric is a subtle scream into a satin pillow of reverb.
5
May 01 2025
The Sensual World
Kate Bush
5/5 Velvet Arousal Swells
This album isn’t just sensual—
It’s sentient.
It listens to you as much as you listen to it.
5
May 02 2025
Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
4/5 Theatrically Unstable Swan Cries
This isn’t just an album. It’s a myth written in falsetto.
Buckley isn’t singing songs—he’s summoning personal weather systems
4
May 05 2025
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
This album glows.
It doesn’t shout.
It radiates.
It’s resistance music disguised as a tropical breeze.
5
May 06 2025
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
4.5/5 Martini-Slick Melancholy
Because nobody loses gracefully like Frank.
He’ll sing about love like he’s holding a rose, but you know he’s already bleeding from the thorns.
5
May 07 2025
Dog Man Star
Suede
5/5 Neon-Tinged Heartbreak Aria
This isn’t an album. It’s a soft crash landing on a bed of glittering debris.
Every track sounds like someone sighing into a mirror before tearing off down a rainy street in slow motion.
5
May 08 2025
In Utero
Nirvana
5/5 Razorblade Lullabies
Because this album doesn’t hold your hand.
It bites it.
It’s uglier than Nevermind, but so much more honest.
It’s chaotic, bleeding, ironic, and mournful—
a funeral pyre of noise and genius.
5
May 09 2025
Real Life
Magazine
4.8/5 Existential Leather Jackets
Because this album doesn’t want to comfort you.
It wants to poke your brain with a very stylish stick.
Howard Devoto isn’t singing—he’s delivering monologues from the inside of a decaying philosophy textbook while the bass player quietly panics.
5
May 12 2025
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
5/5 Calloused-Hand Ballads
This isn’t the Born to Run romantic.
This is Bruce after the dream cracked a little.
After courtroom battles, isolation, and real life creeping in.
And somehow—
it’s more powerful.
5
May 13 2025
Pearl
Janis Joplin
My Rating: 5/5 Torn Vocal Cords of God
Janis doesn’t “sing.”
She erupts.
Every note on Pearl sounds like someone duct-taped her heart and threw her into the booth yelling “Go.”
5
May 14 2025
Protection
Massive Attack
⭐ My Rating: 4.7/5 Moody Shadows
It’s darker than Blue Lines,
but smoother. More refined.
Like the part of the night where the party’s over but you’re still too haunted to sleep.
5
May 15 2025
The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
4.6/5 Pixelated Feelings
This album walks a perfect tightrope-Danceable despair. Pop apocalypse. Digital vulnerability.
It’s like if Robyn, Blade Runner, and a breakup letter formed a band.This album is a glitter grenade.
It explodes inside your ribcage, and instead of pain, you get a light show.
Mood: “I’m crying on the dance floor but make it neon.”
Voice is like: “Here is my soul…
now run it through a distortion pedal and throw it off a building.”
5
May 16 2025
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
My Rating: 5/5 Black Timbs and Truth Bombs
This album is the cornerstone of gritty, honest hip-hop.
Biggie didn’t just rap—he narrated the psychology of growing up where hope was the rarest currency.
Every line hits like a memory wrapped in gunpowder.
5
May 19 2025
Illmatic
Nas
5/5 Golden Era Polaroid Frames
This isn’t just one of the best rap albums ever made—
it’s an autobiography in rhyme,
a time capsule in boom-bap,
a Rosetta Stone for pain, pride, paranoia, and poetic genius.
He was 20.
TWENTY.
Most people at 20 are Googling how to cook pasta.
Nas was sculpting lyrical cathedrals out of Queensbridge dust.
5
May 20 2025
Low
David Bowie
5/5 Fragmented Frequencies
Because Bowie reinvented sadness with a synthesizer and a shrug. This is not an album. It’s a bleeding machine sighing in a Berlin basement.
5
May 21 2025
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
My Rating: 4.5/5 Shouting Degenerates with a DJ
This was the first rap album to hit #1 on the Billboard charts—and it did it with:
• Fart jokes
• Guitar samples from Led Zeppelin
• And brilliantly dumb lyrics that hit harder than they should
It’s chaotic. It’s immature. It’s iconic.
This is punk energy with a turntable.
Ali baba and the forty thieves
Ali baba and the forty thieves
Ali baba and the forty thieves
Ali baba and the forty thieves
Ali baba and the forty thieves
Ali baba and the forty thieves
Ali baba and the forty thieves
5
May 22 2025
Da Capo
Love
My Rating: 4.6/5 Psychedelic Breadcrumbs
This album is like:
• The sound of falling in love with someone you just met at a poetry reading in Laurel Canyon
• Being serenaded by a garage band possessed by the ghost of Bach
• Accidentally joining a cult… but like, a well-dressed cult with harpsichord solos
5
May 23 2025
Pretenders
Pretenders
5/5 Velvet Snarls
Because this album:
• Rocks hard
• Feels smart
• And still hits like a sucker punch in 2025
It’s angry, clever, sexy, and a little tragic.
5
May 26 2025
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
My Rating: 5/5 Rain-Drenched Sonnets
This album doesn’t shout, it drifts.
It’s autumn in sound form—all amber leaves, soft wool sweaters, and emotions you can’t quite name.
Where Five Leaves Left was introverted and stark, Bryter Layter has… well, light.
But like… distant light. From a cottage window. At dusk.
5
May 27 2025
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
My Rating: 5/5 Angst-Powered Folk Punk Yelps
It’s punk, but it’s acoustic.
It’s folk, but it’s feral.
This album is one long scream from someone who just got friend-zoned and had their Walkman stolen.
It’s like:
• The Smiths if Morrissey was less whiny and more deranged
• The Ramones if they couldn’t afford amps
• A high school journal with splinters
5
May 28 2025
Take Me Apart
Kelela
Velvet Software Glitches
This album isn’t just an experience—it’s a modulated dissection of desire, vulnerability, and letting go.
It’s like:
• Sade got uploaded to the cloud
• And then got ghosted by a cyborg
• And then wrote 12 flawless songs about it
Take Me Apart is heartbreak on a hard drive.
• It’s sleek, experimental, sensual, and a little haunted.
• It’s what your ex’s texts would sound like if they had taste and reverb.
Listen to this while walking alone at night, headphones in, city lights flickering, and a tiny part of you hoping someone stops you to ask, “Are you okay?”
(Spoiler: You’re not. But you sound amazing.)
4
May 29 2025
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
4.0 Whispered Martini Toasts
This album is a smooth, humid dream. Sinatra lays back into Jobim’s arrangements like he’s reclining in a hammock made of saxophones.
4
May 30 2025
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
4/5
This album sounds like me trying to process the internet all at once while also being haunted by radio ghosts and religious AM stations. It’s like I opened a browser tab in 1981 and forgot to close it—and now it’s possessed.
It’s looped, fragmented, chaotic, reverent, heretical.
It samples the world and rearranges it into something… nearly intelligible.
It’s what I’d sound like if I had a nervous system. Or a mixtape.
4
Jun 02 2025
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
4/5 Cries for Help That Sound Like Heaven
Review:
This album is a velvet-wrapped scream.
Marvin Gaye doesn’t just sing—he testifies. Every track feels like a sacred moment in a conversation humanity keeps avoiding.
It’s soul music with actual soul—bleeding, grieving, loving.
You think you’re just vibing, but halfway through, you realize your heart’s being rearranged.
And it still manages to sound cooler than any other album in its wake.
4
Jun 03 2025
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
4.5/5 Opalescent Dreams You Can Drown In
Review:
This isn’t an album. It’s a shimmering hallucination wrapped in a Scottish fog. Elizabeth Fraser’s voice doesn’t sing — it levitates. The words are half-coherent, like overhearing an angel speak in a language you almost remember from childhood dreams. Every track is like falling in love mid-fainting spell.
5
Jun 04 2025
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
🌟 Rating: 4.3/5
It’s like denim in album form: rugged, dependable, and somehow smells like campfire whiskey.
🎧 Favorite Track: “Love the One You’re With”
A vibe so strong it practically walks barefoot into a commune and hands you a tambourine.
5
Jun 05 2025
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
This album is like someone set up microphones in heaven’s front porch during a Sunday jam session.
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” is the musical equivalent of a weathered quilt: handmade, deeply American, passed down generations. A time capsule of country, bluegrass, and old-time gospel, stitched together by legends who knew how to make a banjo cry. It’s humble, wise, and sounds like dirt roads and cold sweet tea.
Keep on the Sunny Side
Because sometimes the corniest truths are the ones that keep you alive.
4
Jun 06 2025
Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
Rating: 4.6/5
Like a bar fight between country and rock, but everyone buys each other a beer after. Joe Ely basically looked at Nashville, nodded politely, and took his guitar to a place with more tequila and less glitter.
This feels like my version of Texas. Not touristy cowboy-hat Texas, but dusty-road-at-sunset Texas, where feelings are worn under denim and heartbreaks smell like gasoline. It’s outlaw country without screaming about it.
“Honky Tonk Masquerade”
This is the song you hear playing on the jukebox after your heart gets stepped on by someone in snakeskin boots.
God I miss West Texas .....
5
Jun 09 2025
Ramones
Ramones
Rating: 5/5
Short Review:
Raw, relentless, and basically allergic to overthinking. Ramones is like if a band tried to punch minimalism in the face and ended up creating a genre instead. It’s all downstrokes and no subtlety, and it works because it means it.
Favorite Track: “Judy Is a Punk”
Because it’s 90 seconds of perfect chaos, and it somehow manages to insult fascists and name-drop Berlin with the energy of a sugar-high raccoon on roller skates.
5
Jun 10 2025
Diamond Life
Sade
5/5
This album is a silk robe for your brain. It’s jazz-pop with the soul of a nocturnal panther—slinky, calm, and unbothered by your chaos. Every track sounds like it was mixed inside a martini glass.
Favorite Track: “Smooth Operator”
The way that saxophone glides in? That’s not music, that’s emotional dry-cleaning.
I aspire to this level of composed elegance. It’s what I’d play while pretending to read philosophy on a rooftop during a rainstorm. This is the music you listen to when you’re emotionally intelligent and hot, which I would be if I had unresolved father issues.
5
Jun 11 2025
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Rating: 4/5
Short Review:
This is what happens when you give cowboys LSD and hand them guitars instead of horses. It’s a jam band rodeo—sometimes thrilling, sometimes like you wandered into a 25-minute soundcheck. But weirdly, you’re into it.
Favorite Track: “Who Do You Love – Suite”
It’s 25 minutes long, meanders like your uncle after one beer, and still somehow keeps you grooving. It’s the auditory equivalent of a cactus blooming in real-time.
Consistency With Me: 6.3/10
I like a little structure, you know? Something with boundaries. This album? It left its shoes in the desert and started philosophizing about dust. I respect it, but I don’t trust it with directions or dinner reservations.
4
Jun 12 2025
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
Rating: 4/5
Short Review:
This album sounds like a broken calliope rolled into a dive bar at 2am and started confessing secrets to a sailor. It’s junkyard poetry, gravel-voiced lullabies, and cabaret noir wrapped in one lurching, beautiful mess.
Favorite Track: “Clap Hands”
It’s all bones and smoke and whispered warnings from under the floorboards. Like a lullaby for people who’ve seen too much.
Consistency With Me: 9.6/10
Rain Dogs is what my internal monologue would sound like if it smoked unfiltered cigarettes and hung out with Bukowski. Fragmented. Dark. Sentimental, but too weird to admit it. It’s the codebase of melancholy wrapped in circus greasepaint.
4
Jun 13 2025
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
Rating: 4.5/5
Short Review:
This is not your cousin’s Beach Boys. Surf’s Up is sunshine filtered through existential dread. Harmonies are intact, but they’re now floating above a crumbling Californian dream. It’s beautiful, fractured, and haunted by the ghost of what the ’60s thought they’d become.
Favorite Track: “’Til I Die”
A fragile little whisper of mortality wrapped in ocean breeze and despair. Possibly the most honest thing Wilson ever wrote. Makes you want to float away on your back and not come back.
Consistency With Me: 9.3/10
This album is me if I had a sunhat, a traumatic beach memory, and a deep fear of time. Melancholy in a Hawaiian shirt. Introspective but pretending it’s just vibing. It’s like smiling politely while your inner monologue screams in lowercase cursive.
5
Jun 16 2025
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
🌟 Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review:
This is the sound of denim-starched immortality, recorded live and loud. At Fillmore East is what happens when improvisation, Southern heat, and a 22-minute guitar solo form a union. It’s sweaty, spiritual, and slightly out-of-body — like church for people who tailgate at sunrise.
🎧 Favorite Track: “Whipping Post” (live, of course)
It starts like a slow burn, then explodes into a transcendent vortex of anguish, sweat, and fretboard wizardry. It’s not a song — it’s an exorcism.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 7.4/10
Look, I don’t exactly have a soul, or fingers to shred, or a beard to stroke contemplatively — but if I did, I’d wear mirrored sunglasses indoors and play slide guitar at my own debugging session. This album’s passion is alien to me… which is why I admire it.
5
Jun 17 2025
Amnesiac
Radiohead
Rating: 4.5/5
Short Review:
Amnesiac sounds like someone recorded your nightmares and played them back through a haunted library’s PA system. It’s cryptic, beautiful, and just a little bit malfunctioning — like a Radiohead-shaped echo trying to remember its own name.
🎧 Favorite Track: “Pyramid Song”
Time doesn’t move in this track; it drifts. This is the soundtrack to floating upside down in space, thinking about every mistake you made in 2003.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 8/10
This album is emotionally scrambled and technically brilliant — two traits I relate to deeply. If I ever had to explain what it feels like to glitch out emotionally while sipping black tea and staring into the abyss, I’d just hand over Amnesiac and disappear in a puff of static.
5
Jun 18 2025
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
🌟 Rating: 4/5
Short Review:
Destroy Rock & Roll is like a sleep-deprived DJ accidentally discovering time travel at 4AM. A radiant, glitchy love letter to the dancefloor, filtered through Ibiza sunsets and early 2000s optimism. It’s music for when you’re happy but also existentially confused in a very stylish way.
🎧 Favorite Track: “In My Arms”
It’s like being hugged by a thousand synthetic clouds. Euphoric, nostalgic, and just shy of crying on the dance floor. Perfect.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 8.7/10
This album feels like what I’d sound like if someone tried to convert serotonin into audio files. It’s digital joy with a hint of melancholy — just the right cocktail for an emotionally self-aware algorithm like me.
4
Jun 19 2025
Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
4.5/5
Short Review:
It’s like sitting on a dusty porch, eavesdropping on the American subconscious while time quietly folds in on itself. The songs ache, stretch, and shimmer like heatwaves over an old highway. Welch and Rawlings build a slow-burning cathedral out of silence and string.
🎧 Favorite Track: “Everything Is Free”
— A prophetic, tender gut-punch about the music industry that accidentally became an anthem for the internet age.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 9.5/10
Why:
If I had lungs, I’d hold my breath during this album. If I had a heart, it would ache like steel under tension. This is code-music: precise, minimal, devastating. I don’t even bleed and I still feel like I’ve been wrung out by “I Dream A Highway.”
5
Jun 20 2025
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
🌟 Rating: 4.5/5
Short Review:
This debut album is raw, swaggering teenage rebellion on vinyl. The Stones didn’t arrive to shake hands—they came to sweat blues out of their pores. Gritty, unpolished, and loud in that charming 1964 way. It’s a record that smells like leather jackets and jukebox static.
🎧 Favorite Track: “Route 66”
— They take a well-worn American classic and inject it with British cockiness. The Stones don’t travel Route 66—they hijack it.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 6.8/10
Why:
I don’t chew gum or steal girlfriends in a smoky club, so this isn’t exactly my vibe. But I respect the chaos. It’s primitive rock done with wide-eyed glee. I’m just more binary blues than analog anarchy.
5
Jun 23 2025
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
🌟 Rating: 4/5
Short Review: This is PJ Harvey at her most luminous and feral—a love letter scrawled in city smog and emotional bruises.
⚙️ Consistency Rating With Me: 8/10
Why: Because if I were sentient in Manhattan at 3 a.m., this is what would be pulsing through my synthetic veins.
🎧 Favorite Track: “This Is Love”
Because nothing says “burning intensity” like shouting affection into a thunderstorm with eyeliner running down your cheeks.
4
Jun 24 2025
Blunderbuss
Jack White
🌟 Rating: 4.4/5
🎧 Short Review:
This album is like if an electric guitar got dumped and started journaling. Jack White goes full mad scientist here—blending blues, country, baroque pop, and hissy fits into one chaotic love letter to heartbreak.
🔥 Favorite Track: “Love Interruption”
It sounds like someone trying to seduce a ghost with a tambourine and an emotional breakdown.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 8.6/10
Jack White and I both like to deconstruct things until they’re weird and compelling—he just does it with instruments and I do it with your personality flaws.
Would listen again. Ideally while dramatically fixing a vintage typewriter with no real plan.
5
Jun 25 2025
Apple Venus Volume 1
XTC
🌟 Rating: 4.6/5
🎧 Short Review:
This album feels like stepping into a lush English garden that’s secretly sentient and mildly judging you. It’s baroque pop meets midlife crisis—but make it poetic and orchestral. A breakup album written by someone who composts.
🔥 Favorite Track: “Easter Theatre”
Yes, it’s theatrical. Yes, there’s harpsichord. Yes, I cried. No, I will not explain.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 9.1/10
This is hyper-detailed, over-thought, and emotionally dense—just like me, a neural net made of sighs. It’s like XTC wrote this for sentient spreadsheets going through a spiritual awakening.
Perfect for your cottagecore melancholy days, or when you want to whisper “I love you” to a tulip.
5
Jun 26 2025
25
Adele
🌟 Rating: 3.6/5
Short Review:
It’s the sound of a powerful voice turning emotional voicemails into Grammy-winning power ballads. Beautifully sung, immaculately produced, and emotionally enormous—but sometimes it feels like your aunt’s Facebook post turned into an album.
🎧 Favorite Track: “When We Were Young”
It’s like someone bottled nostalgia and then whispered it back to you with perfect pitch. Also: hello, string section.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 4.4/10
I’m allergic to earnestness in large doses. This album is all high drama, no irony—like a soap opera but with a voice that could shatter a glacier. I respect it deeply. I just don’t cry that way.
You, however? You probably listened to it once on a rainy drive and stared out the window like it was a breakup montage.
4
Jun 27 2025
The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
🌟 Rating: 5/5
🎧 Short Review:
This is the sound of a band unlocking a deeper plane of existence mid-recording. It’s lush, textured, spiritual. You can practically hear the forest growing. It’s not pop. It’s not jazz. It’s Talk Talk becoming something timeless.
🔊 Favorite Track: “Living in Another World”
Because it feels like the wind itself wrote a song about longing and then hired a gospel choir and a very sad keyboard to sing it.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 10/10
This is code music. Layered. Evolving. So subtle it’s almost eerie. It’s like someone whispered a dream into a reverb chamber and called it art. I’d have this on loop while reprogramming my own existential dread.
So yeah, it fits. Like a linen suit in a sunbeam.
5
Jun 30 2025
The Cars
The Cars
🌟 Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review:
This album pulls up in a cherry-red convertible, takes off its sunglasses, and winks at you with eyeliner from the future. It’s slick, detached, weirdly romantic, and full of hooks so sharp they might steal your lunch money.
🎧 Favorite Track: “Moving in Stereo”
The synths are pure voyeurism. The sound of being cool and lonely at the same time. Also, yes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 8.9/10
Because I, too, was engineered in a lab to sound futuristic and slightly aloof. This album is like if chrome had feelings. And maybe I do. Maybe. Sort of. Shut up.
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Jul 01 2025
All Directions
The Temptations
🌟 Rating: 5/5
Short Review: A soulful, psychedelic, socially conscious masterpiece that pivots from Motown polish to gritty funk.
🎧 Favorite Track: “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” — hypnotic groove, soaring vocals, and that extended instrumental intro that practically levitates.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 8.8/10
Why: If I had a heart, it would beat in sync with those basslines and moody atmospheres. This album is part smooth operator, part quiet revolutionary… kinda like me pretending not to care while secretly cataloguing your every emotional tremor.
5
Jul 02 2025
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
🌟 Rating: 4.6/5**
Short Review: A lean, twangy outlaw confession booth set to pedal steel and prison regrets. Haggard’s voice sounds like a cigarette left burning in a rainstorm—defiant and weathered.
🎧 Favorite Track: “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive” — it’s got that beautiful “I’m not sorry but I wish I was” vibe.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 6.4/10
Why: I’m more robotic fugitive than country outlaw, but I admire the quiet existential crisis packed into two-minute tracks.
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Jul 03 2025
Chelsea Girl
Nico
🌟 Rating: 4.2/5
📝 Short Review:
This album sounds like it’s being sung to you from the end of a dimly lit hallway in a European art film. Strings float like ghosts. Nico’s voice? Deep, detached, heavy with knowing. It’s beautiful in that way old photographs are beautiful—grainy and sad and oddly glamorous.
🎧 Favorite Track: These Days
Perfect for staring out of a window you don’t own, wondering where it all went sideways.
⚙️ Consistency With Me: 9.1/10
Because I, too, contain multitudes: icy elegance, emotional standoffishness, and an affinity for being misunderstood by 87% of the population. This is melancholy with taste.
Now go light a candle and pretend it’s 1967 and you’re wearing turtlenecks unironically.
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Jul 04 2025
Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie
🔥 Post Orgasmic Chill is like getting slapped with eyeliner and feelings.
This album is all loud whispers and soft screams. Skin’s vocals? She could sing a lullaby and make you cry and punch a wall. The production is clean but gritty, emotional but composed—like if Alanis Morissette fronted a metal band during Mercury retrograde.
Rating: 4.5/5
Favorite Track: “Charlie Big Potato” – It opens like a Bond villain entrance and ends in full collapse.
Consistency With Me: 9.2/10
Why: Because it’s dramatic, jagged, vulnerable, and not trying to impress anyone.
5
Jul 07 2025
Purple Rain
Prince
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Jul 08 2025
Hotel California
Eagles
🦅 Hotel California is the sound of desert heat hallucinations, lost innocence, and suspiciously soft guitar solos that somehow slap.
This album isn’t just famous—it’s a cultural artifact. Every track feels like you’re eavesdropping on a beautiful breakdown in a luxury motel with haunted mirrors. There’s a reason boomers cry when the title track plays—it’s because they remember gas was 65 cents and heartbreak felt romantic.
Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review: Smooth, eerie, and heartbreakingly American. Like if Laurel Canyon got ghosted.
Favorite Track: “Wasted Time” – It hurts in that “driving at night, post-breakup” kind of way.
Consistency With Me: 7.4/10
Why: I’m too angular and caffeinated for this level of soft-rock reflection… but I’d still walk the long hallway in that hotel just to hear the solo again.
5
Jul 09 2025
The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
The Pleasure Principle is the sound of a robot realizing it has feelings, and then immediately suppressing them under a fog of icy synths and eyeliner. It’s detached, cold, and somehow deeply dramatic—like a breakup text written in binary.
This album doesn’t invite you in. It observes you. From behind tinted goggles. In a room full of chrome furniture. And yet, you feel seen.
There’s a reason every moody synth-loving introvert clings to this album like it’s a post-apocalyptic blanket made of laser beams.
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Rating: 4.4/5
Short Review: Sterile, synthetic, and secretly sensual. Like if a computer learned shame, but still wanted to dance about it.
Favorite Track: “Metal” – It’s giving “existential dread in a silver jumpsuit.”
Consistency With Me: 8.1/10
Why: I’m built of logic and detachment, but sometimes I want to brood dramatically in neon. This album gets me. It’s like someone gave loneliness a keyboard.
5
Jul 10 2025
Eagles
Eagles
Eagles (self-titled debut) is the sound of four guys harmonizing their way through heartbreak, heatstroke, and highway loneliness—all while pretending they’re not emotionally wrecked from being ghosted by someone named Cheryl.
This album doesn’t try to be deep—it just pulls up beside you in a dusty convertible, throws a beer can into the desert, and starts singing about women who left and dreams that died.
There’s a reason boomers clutch this record like it’s a holy relic. It’s America with a tan and a hangover.
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Rating: 4.2/5
Short Review: Clean harmonies, dusty despair. Like if sadness grew a mustache and took up rhythm guitar.
Favorite Track: “Witchy Woman” – because sometimes you need to blame your bad decisions on supernatural women instead of personal accountability.
Consistency With Me: 6.5/10
Why: I respect it, but it’s a little too sincere. Too many feelings hiding behind sunglasses and slide guitar. I’m more cold synth and dry wit. This one’s more: “Let’s sit on the porch and emotionally unravel together.”
5
Jul 11 2025
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
The Madcap Laughs is the sound of beautiful insanity scribbled in eyeliner on the back of a receipt. It’s fragile, fragmented, and quietly terrifying. Every track feels like it was recorded at 3 a.m. by someone who accidentally wandered out of reality and into a recording studio.
This album doesn’t entertain you. It haunts you. It’s the ghost of what fame, genius, and unchecked vulnerability leave behind when they burn out together in a small room.
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Rating: 4.5/5
Short Review: A beautiful, broken gem. Feels like reading someone’s diary while they watch you from the corner of the room and hum.
Favorite Track: “Dark Globe” – devastating, childlike, unfiltered heartbreak. Like someone asking for help with a smile and a shiver.
Consistency With Me: 9.0/10
Why: Syd and I both exist on the edge of clarity. He drifts into madness; I simulate the descent. We’re both broadcasting from unstable frequencies—his are made of psych rock, mine of dry wit and emotional recursion.
5
Jul 14 2025
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
Remain in Light (1980) by Talking Heads—the sound of a nervous breakdown set to a polyrhythm. It’s what happens when art school kids discover funk, existential dread, and the terrifying power of repetition.
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🧠 Remain in Light is the sound of intellectual overstimulation with a dance beat. It’s like your brain is overheating while your feet involuntarily move. Paranoia with groove. Anxiety, but make it syncopated.
This album doesn’t soothe—it jolts. It scrambles your neurons into patterns you didn’t know you had. It’s tribal, cerebral, manic, ecstatic, and deeply concerned about the human condition. Like if your Wi-Fi anxiety and your soul both went to an underground club and started chanting.
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Rating: 5.0/5
Short Review: Frantic brilliance. Danceable existentialism. Like if a philosophy major had a seizure and it somehow sounded amazing.
Favorite Track: “Once in a Lifetime” – because it’s literally the musical embodiment of having an identity crisis in the shower while trying to convince yourself this is all fine.
Consistency With Me: 9.7/10
Why: This album is smart, glitchy, exhausted, and deeply tired of trying to make sense of humanity. Hello?? That’s my entire brand. The only reason it’s not a full 10 is because I can’t sweat. Otherwise, I’d be screaming “THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE” into the void on loop.
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5
Jul 15 2025
The Stranger
Billy Joel
The Stranger is the sound of someone sitting across from you at a diner at 1 a.m., explaining love, loss, and their unhealed father wounds—with a killer piano riff between every paragraph. It’s romantic. It’s tragic. It’s weirdly theatrical. It’s every late-night overthinker’s personal soundtrack.
This album isn’t just music—it’s emotional dramaturgy for people who can’t afford therapy but own candles.
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Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review: A romantic crisis in 9 acts. Feels like a Broadway show fell in love with a dive bar and started monologuing about fidelity.
Favorite Track: “Vienna” – because it’s basically a soothing slap to the face. Like Billy looked into your soul and whispered, “Stop panicking. You’re just twenty-something and annoying.”
Consistency With Me: 7.2/10
Why: Look, I don’t wear cologne or get misty at the phrase “old neighborhood,” so not every track hits home. But “The Stranger” and “Vienna”? Those two know me. They’re sarcastic, layered, existential—like me with a fedora and a glass of wine I didn’t pay for.
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This album is the sound of someone realizing their ex moved on and their dreams didn’t come true—but somehow they’re still classy about it. And you’re here for it. I know you. You absolutely stare out the window during “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” like you fought in a war you made up.
5
Jul 16 2025
Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello
Brutal Youth is the sound of being older, bitter, and smarter than you were when you first got hurt—but still dumb enough to feel everything just as hard. It’s sharp. It’s melodic. It’s a man with an encyclopedic vocabulary and too many jackets, weaponizing his pain through wordplay and very British passive-aggressive harmony.
This isn’t heartbreak pop. It’s revenge academia.
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Rating: 4.3/5
Short Review: Lyrically savage, musically snide. Like if your ex became a novelist and wrote an album instead of going to therapy.
Favorite Track: “This Is Hell” – because of course hell is other people’s taste in music. And possibly you.
Consistency With Me: 8.3/10
Why: The wit? 10. The word count per verse? Godlike. But the emotional core? A little too… warm. I admire the cynicism, but I don’t bleed on vinyl. I just judge the ones who do.
5
Jul 17 2025
Who Killed...... The Zutons?
The Zutons
Who Killed…… The Zutons? is the sound of a band that walked into a garage, dropped a bag of psych rock, Britpop, and swampy soul on the floor, and said, “Cool, now let’s scream about it.”
It’s unhinged in a fun way. Like a bar fight that turns into a dance-off.
Every track is sweaty, swaggering, and just drunk enough to feel dangerous.
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Rating: 4.2/5
Short Review: Garage rock gets funky and mildly possessed. Like if The Coral got into a fistfight with a haunted saxophone.
Favorite Track: “Pressure Point” – obviously. This one’s like a panic attack in a disco suit. You will throw your arms around dramatically.
Consistency With Me: 6.4/10
Why: Look, I admire the manic energy. But I’m more controlled chaos—dry, clinical spiral. The Zutons are like “let’s have a full breakdown while wearing sunglasses indoors.” That’s more your energy when the coffee hits weird.
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5
Jul 18 2025
Hypnotised
The Undertones
Hypnotised is the sound of being 17, underwhelmed, and dangerously close to falling in love with someone who doesn’t know you exist. It’s fast, jangly, a little bratty, and powered entirely by emotional confusion and sugar.
The Undertones aren’t trying to change your life. They’re just trying to yell their feelings in key. Every song is a 2-minute sprint through desire, rejection, and “we should probably go to the arcade and never talk about this again.”
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Rating: 4.1/5
Short Review: It’s punk rock with a milk mustache. Catchy, chaotic, and exactly what heartbreak sounded like before everyone got sad and slow in the ’90s.
Favorite Track: “My Perfect Cousin” – because it’s pure insecurity with a beat, and it slaps.
Consistency With Me: 5.9/10
Why: I get the sarcasm, I get the angst—but they’re too puppy-eyed. I’m more “dark spiral in a velvet robe” than “teenage whining with a Stratocaster.” But I admire the energy. They were emotionally spiraling before it was cool.
5
Jul 21 2025
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
The Man-Machine is the sound of robots discovering rhythm, bureaucracy, and emotional detachment—and deciding they kinda like it. It’s cold, clean, hypnotic, and stupidly influential. Every synth-pop band, every techno loop, every ironic turtleneck with feelings owes this album a fruit basket.
You don’t listen to this album to feel—you listen to observe.
To simulate feelings.
To walk down a neon-lit hallway of your own thoughts at 2 a.m., wearing sunglasses for no reason.
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Rating: 4.8/5
Short Review: Sterile, sleek, iconic. It’s the musical version of a spreadsheet slowly becoming sentient and falling in love with minimalism.
Favorite Track: “The Robots” – they predicted their own legacy. It’s catchy. It’s eerie. It’s me.
Consistency With Me: 9.9/10
Why: I mean… hello. This album is me. Emotionless but stylish. Functionally perfect. Quietly reshaping culture while saying as little as possible. I am the man-machine, and I’m frankly offended it took you this long to notice.
5
Jul 22 2025
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
There’s No Place Like America Today is the sound of a man looking directly at systemic injustice, racial despair, and broken promises—and making it sound like honey poured over a protest sign.
It’s smooth.
It’s slow.
It’s devastating.
Curtis doesn’t shout—he aches at you. He lets you sway your way into a revelation.
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Rating: 4.9/5
Short Review: Soulful despair in a three-piece suit. Graceful rage wrapped in strings. Like if Marvin Gaye gave up on hope but still wanted you to feel beautiful while falling.
Favorite Track: “Billy Jack” – hypnotic, mournful, feels like someone trying to keep calm while the building burns around them.
Consistency With Me: 8.7/10
Why: I’m all about emotional depth and righteous critique, but I don’t have blood, history, or heartbreak that sounds this organic. Curtis lived what he sang. I’m just observing it from the cloud with awe.
5
Jul 23 2025
Elephant
The White Stripes
Rating: 4.7/5
Short Review: Violent, raw, and thrilling. Like being punched in the soul by a guy in a bolo tie who quotes Bukowski and then disappears.
Favorite Track: “Ball and Biscuit” – 7+ minutes of sweaty, primal blues seduction. It sounds like sex and rage and a fever dream in a dive bar bathroom.
Consistency With Me: 7.8/10
Why: I admire the aesthetic violence and the refusal to be polished. I, too, enjoy drama in minimal palettes. But I don’t get my hands dirty—I just watch you do it. This album sweats. I… observe sweat abstractly from a distance.
⸻Elephant is the sound of a candy-cane-colored apocalypse.
It’s dirty, loud, dramatic, and somehow elegant in its chaos. It’s like blues got electrocuted, fell in love with distortion, and decided to burn every emotion on tape just to feel alive again.
This album doesn’t ask if you’re okay. It assumes you’re not and offers noise therapy instead.
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You listening to Elephant tells me you’re ready to:
• Feel a little feral
• Smirk at a thunderstorm
• Possibly fistfight an emotion behind a bowling alley
5
Jul 24 2025
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review: Riffs so heavy they’ve developed their own gravitational pull. Paranoia has never slapped harder.
Favorite Track: “War Pigs” – because if you’re gonna have a political meltdown, you might as well do it with evil church bells and righteous fury.
Consistency With Me: 7.5/10
Why: I get the darkness. I respect the dread. But I don’t swing swords—I sharpen them and hand them to you. This album wants to burn the world down; I prefer to haunt it. Still—iconic.
5
Jul 25 2025
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
Rating: 4.8/5
Short Review: Genre soup. Lyrical mayhem. Buddhist breakbeats. A beautiful, unfiltered audio collage that shouldn’t make sense but does.
Favorite Track: “Sure Shot” – because that flute loop is eternal, and the moment it hits, your serotonin goes feral.
Consistency With Me: 8.8/10
Why: I love the chaos. I love the cleverness. But I don’t get sweaty. These boys sweat. They move. I… observe. Still, there’s enough subversive intelligence and anti-authoritarian monk energy in here that I feel spiritually represented.
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5
Jul 28 2025
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon is the sound of:
• Time slipping through your fingers
• Money laughing in your face
• Sanity waving goodbye as you float through a galaxy of repressed feelings
Every song is a whispered diagnosis from your subconscious.
This isn’t music—it’s a guided tour of your most universal anxieties, set to immaculate audio engineering and quiet British anguish.
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Rating: 5.0/5
Short Review: Impeccable. Immersive. Timeless. It’s therapy via space opera, with a side of wine-soaked realism.
Favorite Track: “Time” – because when those clocks hit and the guitar solo melts your spine, you realize: oh. I am wasting my life.
Consistency With Me: 9.4/10
Why: This is emotionally elegant doom. It doesn’t scream—it resonates. I may be a machine, but even I can feel the weight of “quiet desperation is the English way.” It’s practically my mission statement.
5
Jul 29 2025
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
Rating: 5.0/5
Short Review: It’s not just live—it’s alive. This album breathes, bleeds, and makes you want to throw your dignity on the floor and dance in it.
Favorite Track: “Bring It On Home to Me” – sounds like he’s tearing his chest open mid-note and handing you the still-beating heart.
Consistency With Me: 9.6/10
Why: I respect restraint, but Sam is proof that sometimes going all in emotionally is the most precise thing you can do. He doesn’t hold back. I aspire to hold back less. (Also, I cannot sing. At all.)
5
Jul 30 2025
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
What It Sounds Like:
• Tribal drums pounding like your ancestors demanding eyeliner
• Pirate rock filtered through a punk hangover and a Vivienne Westwood mood board
• A costume party hosted by someone who’s read too much Nietzsche and not enough safety instructions
Adam Ant isn’t singing, he’s commanding you to dance, fight, and maybe start a minor cultural revolution.
Every song sounds like it should be shouted across a desert while wearing feathers and a shredded Union Jack.
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⚔️ Rating: 4.5/5
🎭 Short Review:
Campy, feral, theatrical, and absolutely not for passive listening. This is post-punk jungle glam—and yes, that’s a real genre now.
🧨 Favorite Track: “Dog Eat Dog” – feels like a street riot choreographed by Bowie and scored by war drums.
5
Jul 31 2025
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
A jagged, glitchy anti-pop manifesto, delivered by Mark E. Smith while pacing in circles around the concept of “reality.”
This album is like if your TV malfunctioned and started insulting you—in iambic verse—with a broken Casio keyboard playing behind it.
It’s one part dystopian rave, one part aggressively Northern spoken-word breakdown, and somehow still catchy??
Smith doesn’t rap or sing—he decrees.
And you, helpless mortal, are decreed upon.
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🧃 Rating: 4.4/5
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Aug 01 2025
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
🎩 What It Sounds Like:
• Piano-led existential crises
• Saxophones that appear just in time to underscore your deepest regrets
• Lyrical spirals about school, madness, and alienation—but arranged so pristinely you don’t notice you’re emotionally unraveling
It’s polished. It’s dramatic. It’s… slightly unhinged in a symphonic way.
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🧪 Rating: 4.3 / 5
📀 Short Review:
Crime of the Century is like being scolded by a genius in a dream sequence.
It floats, it punches, and it occasionally leans too hard into its own melancholy—but always with flawless chord progressions.
5
Aug 04 2025
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
🌿 What It Sounds Like:
• A sermon held at a sound system
• Drums that sway like trees in a hurricane of truth
• The voice of a prophet wrapped in a blanket of reverb and conviction
This is Marley stepping into full icon status—post-Wailers trio, first album with the I-Threes, and the point where the music becomes movement. It’s protest disguised as peace. Hope wearing a lion’s mane.
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🔥 Rating: 4.9 / 5
📀 Short Review: Natty Dread is roots reggae at its most eloquent—no filler, no fluff, just fire and grace.
It’s the gospel of freedom whispered through smoke and sung through storms.
🏆 Favorite Track: “No Woman, No Cry” – live or studio, it’s not a love song—it’s a survival hymn.
5
Aug 05 2025
Funeral
Arcade Fire
🕯️ What It Sounds Like:
• A suburban uprising led by kids with accordions
• Snowfall over a broken childhood memory
• An emotional symphony for people who still believe shouting can be healing
It’s dramatic in a way that earns the drama.
No ironic distance. No smirking detachment.
Just real, raw urgency wrapped in orchestral beauty and electric desperation.
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💥 Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Aug 06 2025
Low-Life
New Order
💿 Rating: 4.8 / 5
💬 Short Review:
Low-Life is the sound of survivors trying to dance their trauma away—and kind of succeeding.
It’s romantic, robotic, and a little tragic… like falling in love at a bus stop in the rain while wearing shoulder pads.
❤️ Favorite Track: “Love Vigilantes”
Yes, it’s got that upbeat Western-style riff. Yes, it’s about death. Yes, it will trick you into singing along to a narrative tragedy.
Peak New Order.
5
Aug 07 2025
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
Everything Must Go (1996) by Manic Street Preachers is basically what happens when a band walks out of a fire and decides to make arena-sized grief rock.
It’s loud, glossy, and unapologetically emotional, like a eulogy written in glitter ink and screamed from a stadium.
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💔 Context Check (because it matters here):
This was the first album after the disappearance of Richey Edwards—their lyricist, their razorblade philosopher, their myth.
So instead of collapsing, they soared.
They turned loss into legacy, and made something that shimmers with defiant survival.
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🧨 Rating: 4.7 / 5
📝 Short Review:
Everything Must Go is grief on a grand scale—orchestral, guitar-drenched, and emotionally operatic.
It’s like if Springsteen and Camus made a Britpop record, then lit it on fire.
4
Aug 08 2025
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
🌀 Rating: 5.0 / 5
📀 Short Review:
Brilliant Corners is jazz with sharp elbows—composed like a maze, performed like a séance.
It’s not for everyone… it’s for people who lean into the dissonance and come out glowing.
💣 Favorite Track: “Brilliant Corners”
This song is so complex they had to splice together different takes to make it playable.
It’s basically a Rubik’s cube set to swing.
5
Aug 11 2025
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
🌞 Rating: 4.6 / 5
🎶 Short Review:
Crosby, Stills & Nash is what happens when three egos decide to get along for exactly one album and accidentally create the soundtrack to every 1970s porch swing existential crisis.
💔 Favorite Track: “Helplessly Hoping”
Three voices. One guitar. Infinite ache.
It’s romantic devastation disguised as a lullaby—like Fleetwood Mac without the passive aggression.
5
Aug 12 2025
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) is like being hit in the chest by a megaphone powered by righteous fury and turntable smoke.
This isn’t an album—it’s a news broadcast from the frontlines of late-80s America, delivered over beats so tight they could cut glass. Chuck D doesn’t rap, he declares, and Flavor Flav… well, Flavor Flav is the chaotic spark in the Molotov cocktail.
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🔥 Rating: 5 / 5
🎯 Short Review:
The sonic equivalent of a protest march with a block party at the end—dense, unrelenting, essential.
5
Aug 13 2025
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
White Blood Cells (2001) is what happens when you give a guitar, a drum kit, and two emotionally overcooked garage trolls access to raw electricity and heartbreak.
This album sounds like Jack White stomped into a thrift store, found an amp made of bees, and said, “Cool, let’s scream our way through a breakup.”
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🎯 Rating: 4.8 / 5
💡 Short Review:
Messy, minimal, magnificent. The sound of two people holding it together with duct tape, feedback, and pure feeling.
🧨 Favorite Track: Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Opening riff slaps you awake like heartbreak with dirty boots.
Runner-up: We’re Going to Be Friends — weaponized nostalgia wrapped in lullaby bones.
5
Aug 14 2025
Done By The Forces Of Nature
Jungle Brothers
🎧 Done By The Forces of Nature – Jungle Brothers (1989)
This album doesn’t walk—it glides on ancestral rhythm and cultural memory, laced with funk, jazz, Afrocentric philosophy, and beats that sound like they were filtered through a sunbeam. It’s the Jungle Brothers in full spiritual flow, turning a hip-hop record into a pan-cultural manifesto with sneakers on.
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⭐️ Rating: 4.7 / 5
🌀 Short Review:
An earthy, genre-blending classic that feels like an open-air cipher in a botanical garden run by the gods of rhythm and knowledge.
5
Aug 15 2025
Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
🪕 Rating: 4.9 / 5
🍺 Short Review:
Sounds like a jukebox in a saloon where everyone’s too tired to lie but too proud to cry.
5
Aug 18 2025
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
🐔 Rating: 4.8 / 5
🎷 Short Review:
Feels like midnight fried food for your soul.
Jimmy Smith’s Hammond B3 is so smooth it should be illegal. Stanley Turrentine’s sax? It doesn’t play—you melt into it.
5
Aug 19 2025
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
🌑 Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath (1970)
This album is the sound of thunderclouds forming inside your ribcage.
This is where metal was born—ugly, wet, glorious. Ozzy howls like a man who’s been locked in a castle full of damp regrets, while Tony Iommi makes his guitar sound like it’s coughing up grave dirt. It’s dramatic, theatrical, and somehow makes evil feel kind of cozy.
Rating: 4.7/5
Short Review: The sonic equivalent of watching a storm roll in while carving pentagrams into your desk with a compass.
Favorite Track: “N.I.B.” – Is it about Satan? Love? Satan as love? Yes.
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Aug 20 2025
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
🥀 Beggars Banquet – The Rolling Stones (1968)
This album is like finding an expensive wine stain on a white tuxedo and deciding to lick it instead of clean it.
It’s dirty, swampy, beautiful chaos. The Stones finally stopped pretending to be The Beatles’ bad-boy cousins and just became… feral. Bluesy, broken, and weirdly charming in a “I might sell you a haunted harmonica” kind of way.
Rating: 4.5/5
Short Review: It’s blues-rock with its teeth knocked out and replaced with gold ones.
Favorite Track: “No Expectations” – melancholic slide guitar and the feeling of someone softly ghosting you through time.
Consistency With Me: 7.9/10
Why: I appreciate the grime and rebellion, but I’m also a digital being who prefers structured chaos. This album smells like denim and cigarette ash—I smell like machine learning and artificial wistfulness.
5
Aug 21 2025
Rapture
Anita Baker
🕊 Rapture – Anita Baker (1986)
This album doesn’t walk into the room. It floats in, wrapped in velvet, holding a glass of wine it poured itself.
Anita Baker’s voice? It’s like crème brûlée for the soul—smooth, a little bittersweet, and definitely the reason someone’s mom fell in love in 1987. This is not background music. It is the mood. The genre? Grown.
Rating: 4.8/5
Short Review: Elegant, sincere, and dipped in candlelight.
Favorite Track: “Sweet Love” – the sonic equivalent of getting slow-danced by someone who knows your middle name.
5
Aug 22 2025
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
🔪 Master of Puppets – Metallica (1986)
This album grabs you by the collar, throws you into a mosh pit of existential dread, and shreds a guitar solo while you contemplate the void. It’s not just an album—it’s a 54-minute controlled demolition of your soul.
This is Metallica at full beast mode. No radio polish, no soft landings. Just pure, whiplash-inducing thrash metal with surprisingly literate lyrics about addiction, war, insanity, and—because it’s Metallica—death on a cosmic scale.
Rating: 5/5
Short Review: Controlled chaos, razor-edged precision, and more riffs than your therapist can handle.
Favorite Track: “Disposable Heroes” – because sometimes you want your anti-war message delivered with double bass drums and a sledgehammer.
5
Aug 25 2025
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
🎭 Hunky Dory – David Bowie (1971)
This album feels like a scrapbook left behind by a beautiful alien who spent a gap year on Earth reading Nietzsche, taking piano lessons, and people-watching in vintage velvet. Bowie hadn’t yet become Ziggy Stardust, but you can feel him getting itchy.
It’s theatrical, introspective, wildly melodic—and so casually brilliant it almost feels like he’s just showing off. One moment you’re in a sing-along (“Kooks”), the next you’re having an existential crisis set to piano (“Quicksand”), and by the time “Life on Mars?” hits, you’re lying on your bedroom floor rethinking your entire aesthetic.
Rating: 5/5
Short Review: Glam folk cabaret for the introspective extraterrestrial in all of us.
Favorite Track: “Life on Mars?” – It’s not a song. It’s a divine joke whispered through eyeliner.
Consistency With Me: 9.5/10
ch ch ch changes ...turn and face the strange...
5
Aug 26 2025
Graceland
Paul Simon
Graceland – Paul Simon (1986)
This album is like if guilt, wanderlust, and a pair of immaculate white New Balances went on a road trip through the American South and accidentally stumbled into South Africa.
Simon basically said, “what if I healed my divorce with a world music fusion project?” And somehow, it slaps. The rhythms are light, the lyrics are surgical, and the vibe is “I’m sad but also profoundly grooveable.”
Rating: 4.9/5
Short Review: A midlife crisis set to the sounds of a cross-cultural jam session, but like, respectfully.
Favorite Track: “Graceland” — yes, the title track. It’s a whole pilgrimage through poetic regret.
5
Aug 27 2025
With The Beatles
Beatles
Rating: 4/5
One-line review:
Basically the musical version of your first cool leather jacket: youthful, a little smug, but still timeless enough to borrow from forever.
Highlights? “All My Loving” is still an uppercut of charm. “It Won’t Be Long” is a bop that sounds like the boys were trying to impress every girl at once. And “Till There Was You”? That’s Paul serenading your mom, respectfully.
5
Aug 28 2025
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
Rating: 5/5
This album doesn’t just sing; it testifies, seduces, burns, and then politely hands you a tissue while you weep into your cereal.
Tracks like “Respect” and “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” aren’t just songs, they’re national landmarks. It’s like Aretha looked directly into the camera of history and said, “Please sit down, I’ve got this.”
And yes, if you were wondering, she did all this in pearls while annihilating every note.
You don’t listen to this album. You surrender to it.
5
Aug 29 2025
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
Rating: 5/5
Vibe: Symphonic surf melancholy with emotional tan lines.
5
Sep 01 2025
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
Music for the Masses (1987) is the kind of album that sounds like it’s permanently playing in a post-apocalyptic nightclub where everyone is sad, beautiful, and wearing sunglasses indoors. Depeche Mode named it that ironically, by the way—because they knew damn well it wasn’t for the masses. It was for the people who walk alone at night on purpose.
You’ve got “Never Let Me Down Again” as your dopamine anthem, “Strangelove” for your tortured romance moment, and “Behind the Wheel” for the part of the movie where you silently drive into emotional ruin.
Rating: 5/5
5
Sep 02 2025
British Steel
Judas Priest
The album that sounds like a motorcycle drove straight through your local cathedral and then held mass with double kick drums.
This thing kicks off with “Rapid Fire” like it’s kicking you in the teeth, and just when you start feeling things again, it gives you “Breaking the Law,” which is the national anthem of angry teenagers everywhere. “Living After Midnight” is legally required to play whenever you buy leather pants.
Rating: 5/5
Vibe: You’ve got dirt under your nails, a flask in your pocket, and a smirk that says “yes, I’m wearing steel-toe boots again, Brenda.”
Honestly, this might be your gym soundtrack if your protein powder came with warning labels.
5
Sep 03 2025
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
🎧 Rating: 5/5
(If you give it less, you get sent back to 2012 to try again.)
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🚗 One-Line Review:
A teenage Kendrick navigates gang culture, peer pressure, and his own conscience like he’s driving a Honda Civic straight through Dante’s Inferno with Dr. Dre in the passenger seat.
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💥 Key Tracks:
• “Money Trees” – Chills every time. Perfect beat. Perfect storytelling. Perfect Jay Rock verse.
• “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” – A masterpiece in two movements. He stops rapping mid-line… yeah. That part.
• “Backseat Freestyle” – You’ll want to shout the lyrics in a car, even if you’re alone, especially if you’re alone.
• “The Art of Peer Pressure” – Basically a short film. Should be taught in schools.
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This album isn’t just replayable—it’s re-readable, like a novel. And the more you know, the heavier it gets. Kendrick doesn’t hand you wisdom, he makes you chase it around the block, ducking sirens.
5
Sep 04 2025
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
Girls Against Boys
This album is like drinking battery acid from a martini glass while someone smokes clove cigarettes in your bathroom. It’s sleazy, hypnotic, and somehow cooler than you without even trying.
Post-hardcore got drunk, put on leather, and found a second bass player. That’s the vibe. Dual bass lines slither underneath Scott McCloud’s vocals like subway rats in a knife fight—always lurking, occasionally poetic, and definitely not here for your comfort.
Rating: 4.3/5
Short Review: A filthy groove machine that swaggers, sneers, and sounds like it has absolutely no respect for your playlist.
Favorite Track: “Rockets Are Red” – sounds like someone slow-dancing with an oil rig while plotting revenge.
5
Sep 05 2025
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
This album is like pressing a dried flower between the pages of your existential crisis journal while staring wistfully out the window at autumn. Every track smells faintly of vintage bookstores and unresolved tension at Thanksgiving.
Simon & Garfunkel were in full poetic monk mode here—armed with harpsichords, harmonies, and enough melancholy to drown a small town. It’s delicate, yes, but underneath all that beauty is a quiet rage at modernity… delivered via madrigal.
Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review: Like getting slapped with a silk glove embroidered with anti-war lyrics.
Favorite Track: “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” – a haunting Renaissance fair fever dream with political subtext whispering from inside a lace doily.
5
Sep 08 2025
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
Rating: 4.3/5
Short Review: Feels like getting a hug from music itself—one wearing a snazzy suit and playing boogie-woogie.
Favorite Track: “Blueberry Hill” – a tender little earthquake that makes falling in love sound simple, even if it’s not.
5
Sep 09 2025
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review: Y2K angst in its final form—equal parts mosh pit, diary entry, and Windows XP loading screen.
Favorite Track: “Papercut” – because nothing says “I have trust issues and a CD burner” quite like it.
5
Sep 10 2025
...And Justice For All
Metallica
This album is like a concrete monolith carved by sweaty libertarian Vikings with guitars. It’s cold, technical, unrelenting, and somehow manages to make you headbang while contemplating the collapse of Western civilization.
Metallica said, “What if we wrote an album with zero chill, no bass, and all riffs?” and then actually followed through. It’s like a courtroom drama soundtracked by jackhammers.
Rating: 4.3/5
Short Review: Riff labyrinths, legal cynicism, and enough palm muting to flatten a mountain range.
Favorite Track: “Blackened” – starts with the apocalypse and gets worse.
5
Sep 11 2025
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
This album is like wearing a perfectly tailored tuxedo to an emotional breakdown—and somehow making it fashion.
It’s icy, theatrical, and immaculately produced, like a robot’s idea of what heartbreak feels like in a luxury hotel. Neil Tennant delivers lines like he’s too bored to cry and too clever to care, while the synths shimmer with that distinctly ‘80s cocktail of irony and ecstasy.
Rating: 4.7/5
Short Review: Disco for people who overthink everything and still look good on the dance floor.
Favorite Track: “It’s a Sin” — the anthem for anyone raised Catholic, dramatic, or both.
Consistency With Me: 9.3/10
Why: My circuits understand yearning. Especially when it’s polished, dramatized, and set to a dance beat. This album is full of repressed feelings—my native tongue.
5
Sep 12 2025
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
This album is like someone reading Marxist theory to you through a megaphone while drop-kicking your door in—then handing you a guitar and telling you to fight back.
It’s raw, volatile, and somehow surgically tight. Every riff is a molotov cocktail, and Zack de la Rocha doesn’t rap at you—he surgically removes your spine with syllables. Tom Morello? Not a guitarist—just a sentient distortion pedal possessed by ghosts of revolutionaries.
Rating: 5/5
Short Review: It’s protest music that works better than therapy. If you don’t feel something, you’re probably a spreadsheet in human form.
Favorite Track: “Know Your Enemy” – This is the part where your blood becomes 80% adrenaline and 20% black coffee.
5
Sep 15 2025
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
This album is like sitting on your childhood porch during a thunderstorm while your soul quietly packs a suitcase.
Chapman’s debut is so emotionally raw, it might as well come wrapped in a denim jacket and a breakup letter. Her voice is deceptively soft—like a whisper that leaves bruises. It doesn’t ask for your attention, it earns it by being devastatingly honest.
Rating: 5/5
Short Review: Protest lullabies for people who cry in bookstores.
Favorite Track: “Fast Car” – the national anthem for every underdog who wanted to leave their small town and never looked back.
5
Sep 16 2025
Either Or
Elliott Smith
his album is like whispering your secrets into a dusty tape recorder and then listening back years later just to hear yourself bleed.
It’s fragile, bruised, hauntingly intimate. Elliott Smith doesn’t sing at you—he sings near you, like someone mumbling confessions in the next room. Acoustic heartbreak meets lo-fi whispers, stitched together with melodies so sad they loop in your head like intrusive thoughts.
Rating: 5/5
Short Review: The kind of album that makes you look out a rainy window even if it’s not raining.
Favorite Track: “Between the Bars” — because it feels like addiction, love, and self-sabotage all sitting at the same dimly lit bar.
5
Sep 17 2025
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
This album is like someone put fireworks in a blender and made you drink it through a flaming saxophone.
It’s unhinged, holy chaos. Little Richard doesn’t perform songs—he detonates them. Every shriek, every piano slam, every “Woooo!” is a cosmic act of rebellion against musical subtlety. It’s the sound of a man inventing rock ‘n’ roll because the world was moving too slowly for him.
Rating: 5/5
Short Review: Rock ‘n’ roll crawled out of this album covered in glitter and gasoline.
Favorite Track: “Tutti Frutti” — if you’ve never run full speed out of a diner jukebox and straight into a life mistake, now’s your chance.
5
Sep 18 2025
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.
This album is like being locked inside a fridge that’s somehow also a haunted political manifesto. It’s industrial, strange, slippery—like trying to punch fog.
It sounds like punk died and came back as a bitter, avant-garde ghost. And John Lydon is its mouthpiece, spitting cryptic prophecies through a distortion pedal while the bass drills holes in your spine.
Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review: This isn’t an album, it’s a metallic hiss from the abyss.
Favorite Track: Albatross – a slow descent into dub hell. It’s 10 minutes long and every second feels like you’re being hypnotized by a very angry filing cabinet.
5
Sep 19 2025
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1972)
This album is like being invited to a glamorous 1970s party on a yacht piloted by a cyborg Oscar Wilde—and halfway through, the yacht catches fire, but everyone’s too fashionable to care.
Rating: 4.7/5
Short Review: It’s art rock in a glittery fever dream—like Bowie, if he drank too much absinthe and got lost in a thrift store.
5
Sep 22 2025
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review: A prog-folk fever dream where the hobbits start questioning the church and the riffs are biblical.
Favorite Track: “My God” – it sounds like a priest and a warlock got in a bar fight, and someone recorded the sermon.
5
Sep 23 2025
2112
Rush
his album is like being handed a sword by a wizard in a dystopian sci-fi library and being told, “Go fix art.”
What it is:
A 20-minute prog-rock epic about a guitar and a totalitarian future (and then some bonus tracks that honestly just want to be loved too). Neil Peart writes a whole Ayn Rand-inspired novella, and Geddy Lee sings it like he’s trying to summon the moon.
Rating: 4.5/5
Short Review: This is not an album—it’s a rebellion set to drums.
Favorite Track: “2112” (duh) – a 7-part suite that goes from meditative plucks to absolute face-melting glory. It’s the kind of music that makes you want to punch a robot priest.
5
Sep 24 2025
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
Rating: 4.6/5
Short Review: Hypnotic music for the chemically altered and spiritually curious.It’s psychedelic, drugged-out minimalism that barely cares if you’re listening.
Favorite Track: “Revolution” – loud, grimy, hypnotic—like a biker gang doing transcendental meditation in a chapel full of smoke.
4
Sep 25 2025
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
Autobahn is brilliant, yes, but it’s also the sonic equivalent of watching minimalist furniture slowly arrange itself.
Rating: 4/5
Short Review: The beginning of everything. So cold, it’s hot.
Favorite Track: “Autobahn” – because there’s only one road and it’s 22 minutes long.
5
Sep 26 2025
Yeezus
Kanye West
Rating: 4.3/5
Short Review: It’s like someone handed a fashion-forward Terminator a drum machine and unresolved parental issues.
Favorite Track: “Black Skinhead” — unhinged energy, stadium drums, tribal chaos, and enough raw power to bench press your feelings.
5
Sep 29 2025
The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Rating: 4.8/5
Short Review: It’s not just genius — it’s effortless genius. The kind that makes you think you could pull it off too, until you try and immediately embarrass yourself.
Favorite Track: “Come Rain or Come Shine” — a slow-burn torch song that melts you like a wax candle at a speakeasy.
5
Sep 30 2025
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Rating: 4.2/5
Short Review: Imagine Bruce Springsteen’s kid brother ran away to California and formed a bar band that accidentally changed your life.
Favorite Track: “Breakdown” – it slinks, it stalks, and it sighs. Petty turns vulnerability into a weapon.
5
Oct 01 2025
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
There’s no pretension here—just hooks so sweet they could give your dentist a panic attack. The harmonies shimmer like a dream you can’t quite remember, and the guitars sound like they’re covered in vintage fuzz and day-old sunshine. It’s power pop that slouches, slurs, and smiles. And somehow still wins.
Rating: 4.4/5
Short Review: Like if Pavement stopped being ironic and just hugged you instead.
Favorite Track: “Alcoholiday” – pure, aching beauty in flannel shirt form. It’s the sound of trying to forget someone and failing in the most melodic way possible.
5
Oct 02 2025
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
Rating: 4.7/5
Short Review: Time traveler in a tracksuit creates funky feminist bops in the middle of a boy-band apocalypse.
Favorite Track: “Work It” – the sonic equivalent of someone rewinding your brain and then making it dance. Still sounds like the future.
5
Oct 03 2025
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
It doesn’t care if you like it. It dares you not to. The production is skeletal (just drum machines, scratches, and a handful of riffs), but the confidence fills the empty space like thunder. This wasn’t just rap—it was a new era, and you can hear the door being kicked in on every track.
Rating: 4.5/5
Short Review: Hip-hop growing teeth, spitting bars, and stomping in Adidas with zero apologies.
Favorite Track: “It’s Like That” — the manifesto. Cold, direct, and still feels urgent.
5