Jun 23 2025
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
*eye twitch* Feels like I accidentally walked into a saloon during an existential crisis.
1
Jun 24 2025
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
The poster boy for whitewashing rhythm & blues. Big Mama Thornton and Sister Rosetta Tharpe did it better, louder and first.
3
Jun 25 2025
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
No.
1
Jun 26 2025
Low
David Bowie
Hmm, yes. This ambient track that sounds like a malfunctioning fax machine in a freezer? Profound.
1
Jun 27 2025
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
Victoria: ⭐⭐⭐
Shangri-La: ⭐⭐⭐
Everything else: 🫠 and a stupid hat.
2
Jun 30 2025
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
🔥🔥🔥🔥
4
Jul 01 2025
B-52's
The B-52's
Loved hearing the foundational sound that inspired the Pixies’ sharper edge. Overall a one-time listen rather than a repeat favorite.
3
Jul 02 2025
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
Definitely not something I needed to hear before I die.
1
Jul 03 2025
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
Moist boot energy all the way through.
1
Jul 04 2025
Odelay
Beck
Sonic dental surgery with no anesthetic.
1
Jul 07 2025
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
Clint Eastwood is always a win but the rest of the album just isn’t my cuppa.
2
Jul 08 2025
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
Not a Sinatra fan (sorry Ma), and I usually can't stand bossa nova, but I was pleasantly surprised by how soothing I found this album. Will I listen to it again? Probably not.
3
Jul 09 2025
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
Pretentious foonk hell.
1
Jul 10 2025
The Sounds Of India
Ravi Shankar
🤔😑
2
Jul 14 2025
Ramones
Ramones
Sneaky bubblegum sweetness wrapped inside a leather jacket.
"I wanna be your Joey Ramone, pictures of me on your bedroom door, invite you back after the show, I'm the queen of rock and roll." - Sleater-Kinney
3
Jul 15 2025
Imagine
John Lennon
Two timeless gems, and a final track that feels like I landed up in the middle of their morning cuddle, awkwardly holding toast.
2
Jul 16 2025
Signing Off
UB40
One of my aunt’s favourite albums. Feels like an audio kush-cloud hug soaked in nostalgia. Just what I needed today. 😌✨
4
Jul 17 2025
Protection
Massive Attack
Some memorable Tracey Thorn treasures… the rest are just stale now.
3
Jul 18 2025
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
I came in with hope. It left around track two.
2
Jul 21 2025
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
Certified soulful gem! This one left a mark. 🐦🔥🔥
4
Jul 22 2025
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
A velvet-voiced ego trip with a few jangly gems worth keeping. I wouldn’t be mad if it was playing in the background.
3
Jul 23 2025
Document
R.E.M.
This album should be repurposed as a coaster.
2
Jul 24 2025
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Listened to this with reverence.
Not my favourite Sabbath record, but it’s where it all began. Love how raw and heavy it is and how powerful his voice was. RIP Ozzy. A legend, always.🖤
3
Jul 25 2025
The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
I would give this album minus stars if I could.
1
Jul 28 2025
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
I’m feeling Billie Holiday on this. Too much damn brass! When it’s unbridled, it’s overwhelming. But when Basie reins it in and lets the rhythm section lead? Divine!
Midnite Blue, Splanky and Li’l Darlin’ are pure sexy noir magic.
4
Jul 29 2025
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Almost a perfect album. Paul Simon’s love letter and soft goodbye to Art Garfunkel. I’ve always resonated with Paul, his solitude, his introversion, his ache. And this album holds all of that and more.
4
Jul 30 2025
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
No.
1
Jul 31 2025
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
What Billy said with an extra star purely for Holiday in Cambodia. Is he called Jello because he constantly sounds like he's being physically shaken while singing? 🥴
2
Aug 01 2025
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
Why does Jon Bovi sound like he’s constantly straining?! Honestly, that can’t be healthy.
2
Aug 04 2025
Blur
Blur
I had to unblock Blur from my Spotify just to listen to this. I'll be generous and give it 2 stars because of Song 2.
2
Aug 05 2025
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
Yeah… I’m with Rosalie on this one.
2
Aug 06 2025
Medúlla
Björk
😭Magnificent. Genius. Masterpiece. This album is a gift.
5
Aug 07 2025
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
A mind-blowing, life-changing album for 14-year-old me. It got huge and overplayed so fast though that I lost connection with it. Still, it remains a pivotal album for me.
4
Aug 08 2025
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
This album is a cheesy, awkward mess that might be somewhat okay playing very softly in the background somewhere. Again, WHY IS THIS ON THE LIST!?
2
Aug 11 2025
Ten
Pearl Jam
The easiest 5-star for me so far. I loved this album when it came out and I’ve loved it ever since.
5
Aug 12 2025
Harvest
Neil Young
Hands down, one of the best albums of all time. 🌾✨ (ignoring A Man Needs a Maid)
5
Aug 13 2025
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
The ADHD boss battle of jazz. And I lost, abysmally. 🎺💀
2
Aug 14 2025
Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
This album is a torture device. Maximum cringe. I need to lie down.
1
Aug 15 2025
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Eh.
2
Aug 18 2025
L.A. Woman
The Doors
🦎 Tolerable feral desert raccoon vibes.
3
Aug 19 2025
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
Glorious highs buried in a haystack of filler.
4
Aug 20 2025
Bad Company
Bad Company
The album equivalent of your boomer dad going into the garage to saw a plank of wood in half for no reason.
2
Aug 21 2025
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
IT’S A TRAP! I was lured in by the brilliance of Oh Baby, but I felt like every glimmer of gold after that was steamrolled by something clunky.
2
Aug 22 2025
Close To The Edge
Yes
No. Just no.
1
Aug 25 2025
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
Starts strong, ends strong, a little soggy in the middle.
3
Aug 26 2025
Be
Common
Not my vibe. Too old school, too soul/r&b, too Kanye-adjacent.
2
Aug 27 2025
Elastica
Elastica
🤘♀️ FUCK. YES. One of those albums that shaped me. I got it as a gift from my mom for my 16th birthday. It was so much more than an album. It was acceptance and unconditional love. This will forever be on my personal list of greatest albums of all time. 🌈🖤
Oh, and Justine Frischmann is such a fucking babe! Effortless swagger, razor-sharp charm, and that beautifully blasé androgyny? YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU. 🥵🔥
While everyone was listening to BLEH and Oasis, I was listening to Elastica.
5
Aug 28 2025
Legalize It
Peter Tosh
Enjoyed the warm, rootsy vibe, but not a full album repeat listen for me. Love and saved Igziabeher, though!
3
Aug 29 2025
The Doors
The Doors
No one is more surprised than I am. Maybe it’s the ankle fracture and pain meds talking, because what?! This was actually really good in parts.
First full listen of this album, and dare I say… I enjoyed The Doors?
Two songs I’d never heard before absolutely stole the show: The Crystal Ship is a shimmering ★★★★. And then out of nowhere, Take It As It Comes dropped with full five-star energy. Consider my mind blown.
3
Sep 01 2025
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
2 begrudging stars for fumbling Frank.
2
Sep 02 2025
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
Respect for the lo-fi shimmer and sample sorcery way ahead of its time. Occasionally brilliant, but that old-school rap vibe just doesn't hit for me.
2
Sep 03 2025
Opus Dei
Laibach
Nein. I really gave this a fair shot, but that phlegmy, gravel-gargling, mucousy, over-enunciated growl seriously just grossed me out.
1
Sep 04 2025
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
If an album was an anxiety attack!
I’ve never been able to understand this kind of jazz, where it sounds like no one can hear each other, and everyone’s just soloing in their own dimension, jamming wildly, then smashing it all together in post and calling it music.
I'd personally like to launch that saxophone into the sun.
1
Sep 05 2025
Among The Living
Anthrax
Heard of Anthrax, but this was my first actual listen, and honestly? What a pleasant surprise. The thrash metal core (guitar, bass and especially drums) is SICK. Riffs sharp enough to cut bone and a rhythm section that hits like a freight train.
And then there’s Joey.
His vocals just don’t mesh with the band’s apocalyptic thrash brilliance for me. It’s giving glam hair metal while the rest of the band is summoning Ragnarok. I swear I could smell the hairspray.
Lyrically, Scott Ian crushed it on “Indians” and “One World.”
And Charlie Benante? HOLY. FUCK. Now officially one of my favorite drummers of all time. Just a complete beast. No notes. Pure drum god.
3
Sep 08 2025
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
Beautiful. Just what I needed today. This album feels like a mirror made of music. Softly devastating, gently perfect. I resonate so deeply with his lyrics and the strange safety of isolation and solitude over being misunderstood.
4
Sep 09 2025
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
I had no idea “It’s better to burn out than to fade away” came from this album. That alone gave it a certain weight going in.
I also didn’t realize how fully Neil Young leaned into that off-key, straining wail post-Harvest, and wow, does he commit. 😅
It’s a bit all over the show, but I appreciated the raw edges and the clear roots of grunge planted throughout. A bit messy but undeniably influential.
3
Sep 10 2025
Trio
Dolly Parton
Dolly’s voice is everything, Linda got me right in the feels, and while I struggled a little with Emmylou’s tone on this record, she found me in those lower registers. I’ve Had Enough destroyed me in the best way, and Wildflowers is a new favourite. Just loved the warm, golden harmony between three amazing women.
4
Sep 11 2025
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
A performance so beautiful it hurts, and so vulnerable it feels sacred. 😢🖤
5
Sep 12 2025
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
Couldn’t connect with it. Maybe just the wrong album on the wrong day.
2
Sep 15 2025
My Generation
The Who
Greasy diner jukebox-core. 🥤🍔
2
Sep 16 2025
Rubber Soul
Beatles
Full of personal echoes, past heartbreaks and previously unheard delights. Even though Girl is my favourite on this album, George will always be my favourite Beatle.
4
Sep 17 2025
The Who Sell Out
The Who
A beige blur of blah.
2
Sep 18 2025
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
5 stars for the endurance it took not to claw my own ears off.
1
Sep 19 2025
Mott
Mott The Hoople
Not nearly as terrible as I was expecting… but I am just confused.
2
Sep 22 2025
Fragile
Yes
A chaotic mess with a couple of breathers.
2
Sep 23 2025
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
An uneven ride with a few gems. From the plink plonk to the WAHHHHHH, it’s not bad, not great, but I do love the softness in his voice.
3
Sep 24 2025
You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
I mean, I know it’s a wild concept, but I feel like the singer of a band should be able to, you know… sing?
1
Sep 25 2025
Rapture
Anita Baker
80's grocery store classic.
2
Sep 26 2025
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
What in the shitty 80's family resort, sipping regret out of a piña colada hell is this?! Not the Leonard Cohen I signed up for.
2
Sep 29 2025
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
This album almost had me in the first half… until it sank into beer-belly braai vibes in the second.
2
Sep 30 2025
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
A jumbled mess of misogyny.
1
Oct 01 2025
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
Uncomfortable. A record that drags you through filth and fury, sometimes brilliant, often unbearable.
3
Oct 02 2025
Boston
Boston
The dad rock cringe is REAL.
2
Oct 03 2025
The United States Of America
The United States Of America
Who even is this band and why the fuck is this album on the list?! Ugh, why am I even surprised anymore.
2
Oct 06 2025
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Respect for the message. The bars are phenomenal. But the endless funk-jazz slog just doesn’t do it for me.
3