Jul 04 2025
Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
3/5
Interesting slice of life that takes you to the NY EDM dance scene of the late 90s. Very reminiscent of fat boy slim and chemical brothers. It makes for bice background music but it's not going to be something that is the sole focus of my attention
3
Jul 07 2025
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
5/5
Banger of an album! On my top 50 of all time. It's got some real head bangers.
5
Jul 08 2025
Tapestry
Carole King
Great album, a ton of songs I was already familiar with but didnt know who it was. "You've got a friend" and "Natural Woman". It's a good album to listen to with the family, seems like lots of generations could appreciate it.
4
Jul 09 2025
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
4
Jul 10 2025
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
4/5
I really like the song disorder, and reminds me a lot of the songs I love from New Order. Definitely a staple of New Wave and I'm glad these guys blazed a path that so many others followed. I think the overall gloominess of many of the songs makes it hard for me to give it a 5 but the more uptempo songs are really enjoyable for me.
4
Jul 11 2025
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
2/5
Not my kind of music but I understand that this is important in the history of rap. I was surprised by how many of the songs I recognized.
2
Jul 14 2025
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3.5/5
Really liked Into the Light. A cool goth, new wave band that I'll have to listen more to.
3
Jul 15 2025
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
Fun underground hip hop from the days of High School!
3
Jul 16 2025
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
2/5
Yuck!
2
Jul 17 2025
Dirt
Alice In Chains
5/5
Sure, the lyrics are haunting and deeply depressing, but this album slaps!
Would and Rooster would be enough to make this a masterpiece. But wait, here comes Them Bones, Down in a hole, and Angry chair to pile on even more glorious grunge ear-spank.
RIP Layne!
5
Jul 18 2025
Marquee Moon
Television
4/5
This album is pretty ahead of it's time. You can see how it influenced bands like Joy division and the Cure but took a more uplifting and jazzy approach with the songs. Lots of simple guitar chords layered with melodic guitar lines on top.
The song Marquee Moon slaps and is an epic 10 minute journey.
4
Jul 21 2025
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
3.25 / 5
While I prefer Back in Black, I think this album has some great jams and the guitar work is always fun to listen to. I think you could play this at a summer party with old dudes (myself included) and it would probably be a safe bet that people would enjoy it.
3
Jul 22 2025
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
4.75/5
This album rocks!! This has the quality of a studio album, if you didnt hear the crowd you wouldn't know it was live. There were so many great guitar solos and an epic drum solo on Sha-la-la
favorite tracks: Sha-la-la, Johnny the Fox
This was the kind of album I hoped I'd discover on this journey
5
Jul 23 2025
Scum
Napalm Death
1/5
This is a true stinker. Very hard to listen to with the drums way too heavy in the mix and the incessant and incomprehensible screaming. I'm glad this was short.
Best Song: You Suffer (because it was only 4 seconds long)
Hopefully I never have to listen to this again
1
Jul 24 2025
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
4/5
What a legend! RIP Ozzy!
3 of the first 4 songs on this album are legendary - War Pigs, Paranoid, and Iron Man. These guys blazed the path for metal music, and for that Im eternal grateful!
Favorite song - Paranoid
4
Jul 25 2025
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
3/5
Young Dolly is definitely more on the country side that she will be with future songs like 9 to 5. But she still shows off her singing chops and the songs are pleasant to listen to if a bit sacharine.
Favorite track: Coat of Many Colors
3
Jul 28 2025
Melodrama
Lorde
3/5
I'll totally play this next time I'm a teenager and my boyfriend breaks up with me
favorite song: Loveless
3
Jul 29 2025
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
3.4 / 5
Some days you just want some upbeat rhymes and that's exactly what this delivers. No crips or bloods, just some homies reminiscing on losing their wallet in El Segundo; where they learned it's not about the destination, but the raps you made along the way.
Fave Songs: Bonita Applebaum and Can I Kick it
3
Jul 30 2025
Doolittle
Pixies
3/5
It's a quirky and unique album, and it feels like the kind of album I should like more, but it just didn't hook me.
Fave song: Monkey gone to Heaven
3
Jul 31 2025
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
2.3 / 5
The fastest way to end a union strike is to make the picketers listen to this album.
The instrumentals were good but his voice and the non stop on-the-nose politics were too much
2
Aug 01 2025
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
3.75 / 5
A pretty good album overall. I love me some bluesy guitar licks
4
Aug 04 2025
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
A banger for the ages! RIP Jimi!
5
Aug 05 2025
Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
4/5
Pour yourself a Manhattan, light up a stogie, and let Duke take you back to a time of Jazzy babies and cool cats. Father O'Connor could have used way less stage time, just hand it over to Duke and the boys, they've got it from here.
Fave Song: Newport Up
4
Aug 06 2025
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
3.25 /5
Less depressing than a lot of new wave and was pretty poppy overall. A fun listen.
Fave song: Killing Moon
3
Aug 07 2025
Water From An Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
2.8 / 5
The funky baselines kept this at a 3 for me. Needed more jazz flute - call Ron Burgundy!
Fave Song: Manenberg Revisited
3
Aug 08 2025
Live Through This
Hole
3 / 5
A few hot boys but overall not one of the A tier grunge albums
3
Aug 11 2025
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
3.75 / 5
This album bring the funk! A really fun album!
4
Aug 12 2025
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
Probably important to the history of rap, but not important to me.
2
Aug 13 2025
Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
3/5
this would be great after 5 orn6 Caiprihanas. Unfortunately, my cup is empty
3
Aug 14 2025
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
2.3 / 5
Make your own fatboy slim song at home! Repeat the same line 50 times and add in one or two fills! Sass aside, none of this album has the staying power of his sophomore album which I imagine we will listen to later
fave song: going out of my head
2
Aug 15 2025
Stankonia
OutKast
This album brings me back to high school! This is pre-Fergie and definitely more on the hip hop side of things than Pop. It's cool to see how versatile BEP can be and this album has some all time bangers!
fave song: Ms Jackson
4
Aug 18 2025
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
Baroque Rock about the British Village Square! Heck yeah!
4
Aug 19 2025
Odelay
Beck
I know Beck is a musician's musician, and I want to like him more, but I find his songs more of a study of musical experiments rather than songs I would bop too. I do admire his talent and skill but I just want more toe tappin beats and less quirky, out-there musical smorgasbords
3
Aug 20 2025
Here, My Dear
Marvin Gaye
Marvin's a legend but this is not his best work. I appreciate being bold with a concept album about divorce, and wilder still that his wife got half the earnings from this album as alimony, but the album was super self indulgent. The sexy time in outter space song at the end lifted it back up to a 3.
3
Aug 21 2025
Truth And Soul
Fishbone
This album slaps! The bass solos were funky and the horns were snappy. This is the kind of hidden gem that I did this challenge for!
Fave song: Bonin' in the boneyard
4
Aug 22 2025
Walking Wounded
Everything But The Girl
So bland... so boring... so wimpy. Even elevators wouldn't tolerate this music
1
Aug 25 2025
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
Oh yeah, now this is the Marvin we love!
4
Aug 26 2025
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
Love those smooth, dulcet tones. Well done Stevie!!
Fave Song: Too High
4
Aug 27 2025
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Gimme an open road and some Neil Young and that's a pretty good time. He's not winning any voice contests but his guitar lyrics are silky smooth.
fave song: Mansion on the Hill
3
Aug 28 2025
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
Garden State anyone? I liked this album, good instrumentals and Nick has a cool relaxing voice.
fave song: one of these things first
3
Aug 29 2025
Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Ok here's the thing about Jon Spencer. He plays some songs that shows that he knows how to make a catchy song. That means that he is choosing to suck. And that's the worst kind of sucking. Some people give it their all and fall short. That's ok, it happens. Jon chose to suck, and slaps your ears with terrible noise.
2