Mar 31 2025
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Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Interesting album, includes "Hey hey my my", a classic song I already knew. I was not aware of the electric version of it, and was surprised of the powerful fuzz riff.
I liked "Powderfinger" and was surprised by the punky feel of "Sedan Delivery"
The rest of songs were pleasant to listen to.
Anyway, the album might have a lot of impact on its day, for me seems a bit undefined on and some songs are just fine
3
Apr 01 2025
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Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
I really enjoyed it.
4+20 was my favorite
4
Apr 02 2025
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Good reggae record.
Some songs are great, others seem like written in the studio out of a jam.
"Stir it up" is super enjoyable.
The ones from Peter Tosh, I actually enjoyed them a lot, and got me into his career a little bit.
I wouldn't consider a must, even it is a great record.
3
Apr 03 2025
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The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
Awesome sound quality and clarity.
Surprised to hear this quality from a record from 1959.
Her voice is perfect, it blends with the orchestra in a natural way, her timing is tranquil and gets perfectly with the instrumentation.
The tone is soft and pleasant.
She sounds like the ideal of what a singer should be.
The songs flow with so much cool rhythm.
5 stars.
5
Apr 04 2025
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Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
Vol 4 is the 1st doom metal album.
If you like that genre, this is like the firing gun of the genre.
Doom Metal is a very low pitch sounding, riff oriented genre, dark lyrics, slow tempos and wailing solos.
Is not my favorite Sabbath album, and I don't know if I would consider it as one of the 1001 albums all time.
But the credit for starting a genre, must be given. Even maybe just one song, "Under the Sun" could be considered the one that defines the genre.
The production could honestly be a little better, Some guitars are out of tune "Snowblind" , "St Vitus Dance", Others "FX" and "Laguna Sunrise" are filler tracks.
It is an uneven record.
I consider myself a Sabbath lover (from 1st album to Heaven and Hell), but I wouldn't call this their best album.
On another hand, the album cover is iconic.
3
Apr 05 2025
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Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Classic, rock and roll.. with glasses.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets have influenced pretty much any band that came after them.
One of the 1st example of four guys playing their own songs.
Buddy looking super nerdy, and indie and alternative.. even starting punk rock with his energy and angst in songs like "Oh Boy".
This album with distortion and protest lyrics, could be The Clash.
The Beatles, got inspiration for a name, The Beach Boys for the harmonies, Weezer for their single and record cover, Elvis Costello for the nerdy look, and any other 4 member-group in one way or another.
A Fender and a Gibson on the cover, it's a declaration of principles which still in 2025 is the norm in rock.
Actually the Fender Stratocaster in the cover was 1st released just 3 years before this record.
All done before turning 22 years old. RIP Buddy !! gone too soon
4
Apr 06 2025
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
I am a Bob Dylan admirer, I think he is a really superb songwriter and performer.
This is the 1st record I got from him, and I enjoyed it tremendously.
Some of these songs have become favorites of mine, "Girl of North Country", "Don't think twice..", "Masters of War".
It was also the first record that I heard where there was very little instrumentation, for almost all songs, only guitar, voice and harmonica.
So, for me this is the standard for which I measure other folk records.
I bought it for "Masters of War". A song that I heard on Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert. The lyrics of "Master of War" have been in my head almost from the very first listen, I always remember them, and still surprise me how somebody being so young, could be so capable of putting all those pointing and sensible thoughts together.
The cover also felt right to me; he and his girlfriend seemed very approachable.
After 60+ years I believe it still carries a lot of wisdom and thought triggering words.
5
Apr 07 2025
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The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
Quite experimental and risky.
Considering the year it was released, this band Instead of going full punk rock, which would be the easy option, they orbit towards other fields and in a way, commit some sort of commercial suicide.
The record has interesting ideas, and they are definitely trying to explore new areas.
Curious record and, for me, inaccessible due to the randomness that exudes.
Some parts are In line with other acts of late 70's.
The band, seems to be uninterested in catching a broader audience, instead, they are investing their efforts in a sort of artistic pursue.
I can see somehow their influence on indie acts of the 80's.
Some songs (may not be actually songs), are just sonic landscapes, cinematic in some ways.
I don't imagine myself listening to them a lot.
3
Apr 08 2025
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The Clash
The Clash
Energetic, raw, streetwise and cool in several levels.
The Clash 1st album shows the combination of personalities that helped the Clash become an excellent band with their further releases until they exhausted their road.
The importance of four members each adding his personality and quality.
In the perspective of what the 70's were before the punk explosion, this album feels so fresh and spontaneous that I guess took many people by surprise.
This album is much more than punk rock.
Hear "Police and Thieves" or "Deny"
I imagine when this album came, everybody inevitably wanted more Clash.
5
Apr 09 2025
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The Healer
John Lee Hooker
Blues album of high quality, a lot of collaborations.
Santana, Los lobos, Bonnie Rait.. etc..
The album has the the type of production where everything sounds apparently perfect. Compared to early blues, it is such a contrast.
Huge respect for JLH on his 70 having the stamina and will to go for this album.
3
Apr 10 2025
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Clandestino
Manu Chao
At last something from a non-English country ! (...Does music exist beyond USA/UK ?)
Ok record, it had a big impact in its time, late 90's in Europe, and I guess also in South America
3
Apr 11 2025
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Fly Or Die
N.E.R.D
;/ Not interesting for me, nothing on it feels original.
1
Apr 12 2025
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Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
It has several cool songs. "Dreams", "Never going back again", "Don't stop.." , "Go your own way" ..
3
Apr 13 2025
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The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
Very interesting album.
Each song tell a different story
4
Apr 14 2025
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Moving Pictures
Rush
From music perspective is a great record.
I enjoy several pieces of it, some of them i really found great.
Not for everybody (what is good for everybody after all?)
4
Apr 15 2025
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Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Great record written and recorded by one single guy who was known as a drummer.
You like him or not, this is quite an achievement.
3
Apr 16 2025
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1984
Van Halen
Cool, Fun and pure 80's
Amazing guitar riffs, (Panama, Drop dead legs), air drums (Hot for Teacher), classic rock anthem (Jump)
Eddie is on it and he changed guitar forever.
4
Apr 17 2025
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Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
An icon and a masterpiece of an album.
The whole is more than the parts, some songs are amazing ("Aladdin Sane", "Drive-in Saturday"), others very cool ("The Jean Genie", "Let's Spend the night together") others are great tracks with the 70's glam vibe.
The piano arrangements and solo on the title track is the ultimate piano performance ever.
The record cover art is unique and has been forever replicated and imitated continuously.
As a collection of songs, plus the aesthetics of the cover, plus avoiding formulas.
This record deserves acknowledge and a top rating.
5
Apr 18 2025
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Dog Man Star
Suede
I like Suede however I don't seem to enjoy all of their songs.
Some work perfectly for me.. others I don't get them ;!
3
Apr 19 2025
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Hotel California
Eagles
The title track is a classic, great intro, dark lyrics and memorable solo.
The rest is at times OK or sometimes, for me uninteresting, not my thing , AOR or soft rock.. whatever..
The last songs I couldn't finish them
3
Apr 20 2025
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Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
too fabricated to me ;/
2
Apr 21 2025
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Olympia 64
Jacques Brel
magnifiqué !
4
Apr 22 2025
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Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
Classic Bruce Springsteen record.
Just for "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" it won my heart !
5
Apr 23 2025
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I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
not my thing
1
Apr 24 2025
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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
I found it insufferable
1
Apr 25 2025
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At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
For me blues gets too repetitive, but I assume in 1960 it was the coolest thing around.
3
Apr 26 2025
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Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
This album has very interesting moments
The riff and vibe of "Super Massive black hole" are top, I really enjoyed that song.
I love songs from Muse from other records, Plug in Baby or Victorious..
They are super-talented absolutely, but I have some issues with the voice, for some reason I don't relate to it.
Objectively I think it is a solid record and band.
3
Apr 27 2025
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From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
Elvis had that charisma and presence.
his 1st album is much more surprising but this one feels good
3
Apr 28 2025
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Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds
It has Jeff Beck there, rocking and being amazing as lead guitar player.
It's 1966 and he is being literally a guitar virtuoso.
Great drum/bass and guitar sound in several songs, quite an interesting drum sound for a record of that era
Interesting record.
3
Apr 29 2025
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Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
Magic, mysterious, innovative, original, to-the-point, clever and perfect.
8 superb tracks and no tittle needed
5
Apr 30 2025
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Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
Some stuff in the album is quite innovative; the production, the concept, and some themes.
In some cases, the lyrics are very original for its time.
Otherwise, it feels closer to a musical than a rock album.
You don't know if they are for real or just playing a role, in my opinion, it feels like an impersonation.
It is a solid album
3
May 01 2025
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Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Great record and great songs.
3
May 02 2025
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British Steel
Judas Priest
great album !
3
May 03 2025
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Master Of Puppets
Metallica
That should be it !
Top musicianship, songwriting, style, epic themes, literature influences, clever lyrics, dynamics ! (Welcome Home, Master or Orion), pure energy (Disposable Heroes, Battery, Damage inc.. ), Riff of the riffs (Lepper Messiah), Progessive metal ? (The thing that should not be) .
They basically evolved music to a place no one expected, a Masterpiece !
Full Respect !
5
May 04 2025
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Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
I didn't connect with it, nor the singer, lyrics, music,..
1
May 05 2025
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Made In Japan
Deep Purple
As others mentioned, this is redundant due to "Machine Head" and "In Rock" being also on this list, and many many other artists not even present once ;/
The songs here are live versions of songs present on those records, and I understand Deep Purple released it due to the demand of live performance records by their fans back in the 70's,
Is true that the versions here can at some point be even better than those on estudio (or viceversa).
In any case, either one or the other, could have been left out and the list, would be more diverse.
3
May 06 2025
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Paul Simon
Paul Simon
This one checks all the boxes in my list.
It's entertaining, calm, clever, bluesy and a great musical companion.
Very personal !
5
May 07 2025
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
sound ok for a festival, I wouldn't consider it songs or songwriting.
These songs are just collection of samples, put together with a rythm to put people to dance.
I lost the track of the songs, song names, meanings, or special features of them.
These guys just picked a lot of forgotten records, took some samples, made the loops, and pretty much all, I don't even know this is worth mentioning
2
May 08 2025
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The Joshua Tree
U2
If they had stopped at this album, or even the next one. I would rated it higher,
Unfortunately, mentioning U2 now, feels like mentioning the McDonals of music, music for the masses, easy to sing along, easy to buy and consume.
The message got diluted in the flood of opinions about everyting, interviews, albums, songs, and presence everywhere
It has gotten so flooded with them that even their good material is tainted.
3
May 09 2025
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Out of Step
Minor Threat
A few songs are cool, after a while, there is no dynamics, no contrast, i guess it's relevant in certain punk circles, but I don't know if this album transcends that.
2
May 10 2025
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Live At The Regal
B.B. King
BB King makes blues fun and interesting.
3
May 11 2025
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Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
whatever..
1
May 12 2025
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
I agree, this is worth listening... Long time ago...
A template for rock albums to come.
A bit of rocking tracks, ballads, blues references, pop/rock songs, drum solo !, amazing bass line in "the lemon song". (the standard for what a bass line should be)
"What is and what should never be", superb !
"Moby Dick" superb !
"Ramble on", "Thank you", acoustic feely, but tight, and clear, great production... Influeces by Tolkien..
"Whole lotta love", a milestone in rock music.
"Heartbreaker" , "Bring it on home".. inspired the careers of so many guitarrists..
5
May 13 2025
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Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
I always had great expectation on Public Enemy.
I feel attracted to their thing, their name, style, attitude, image.
However, their music always feels to me messy, too loaded, with no space to enjoy the parts, no space to focus on the rhymes or the instrumentation..
It seems that everything is always on top of everything else.
Moreover, the speaking parts, here and there..
Respect for them, but musically, ;/
btw, I love hip hop, I do, old school and new stuff, so they should be rated higher for me..
3
May 14 2025
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Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
He has a cool voice, and the guitar has great tone ..
2
May 15 2025
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Street Signs
Ozomatli
Oh, such an unexpected surprise !
Eclectic and so much quality.
5
May 16 2025
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Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
"bird on a wire" and "The partisan" are gold.
the others songs didn't grow on me ..
2
May 17 2025
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Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
Musically the album stylistically blends hard rock, funk and heavy metal musical styles.
An unique element, while discussing music, is Tom Morello's approach to soloing. It could be described, at times, as atonal or musique concréte, emulating special effects, such as sirens or alarms, increasing with it the feeling of urgency of the record.
The vocals are a blend of spoken word leaning styles, such as poetry reading, manifesto reading, proto-rap and the angst of hardcore and punk.
Lyrically, The album contains politically-charged content and criticism towards the establishment.
5
May 18 2025
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Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
great perfomer !
3
May 19 2025
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461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
;/
It bores me ..
1
May 20 2025
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Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
"I zimbra", is a loop and D Byrne shouting.
"Mind" is a loop and D Byrne singing on top. He sounds as if he really doesn't care.
"Paper" is something like "ticket to Ride", the intro.
Then bloody D Byrne comes all over.. with the same approach as befor ?
"Cities", another funky loop with Byrne annoying with his horrible voice.
"Life during wartime", guess what.. yes ! a loop with the same guy preaching about his stuff.
and so on..
I loved Talking Heads "77" and "More songs about buildings... ", even "little Creatures".. but this album is insufferable.
David Byrne was ok on those albums, on this ones, I can't really finish it.
The bass tone is good.
But overall, caca
1
May 21 2025
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Purple Rain
Prince
I can't stand most of the songs..
When doves cry is cool ;)
Purple rain is a great track
This could have been an EP or a single !
3