Jul 29 2025
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
Started listening at 2:46 PM
- it’s a lyricless album so idk how much I’ll genuinely connect to it but Ykw, I’ll see.
The beats seem to be cooking thus far so I’m not complaining
- I still don’t get why any electronica album is a must listen but I’m genuinely not mad I spent my 51 minutes on it
- Give the Po‘ man a break cooks
3
Jul 30 2025
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
Started listening at 12AM
This one has lyrics yay, also great soundtrack to catch the bus with.
Can definitely tell how people dance to it.
North American Scum stuck out to me very positively thus far. I really like the vocals and the swelling background music, very neat. While I as a filthy European don’t fully get it, there’s definitely a feel here I like.
„Don’t blame the Canadians“ lmao
„New York I love you but you’re bringing me down“ and the title song „Sound of Silver“ really bring the „fun party at the end of the world“ vibe around to the fall out for the people that mourn their future. Definitely my favorite songs on the album
4
Jul 31 2025
Eliminator
ZZ Top
Listened to it from around 1PM to 2PM nothing really memorable on the album tho it was interesting to find music to put to the „girls, girls , girls“ label.
Decent I think but not really standing out in terms of a rock album
3
Aug 01 2025
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
Listened to it once but the remastered version.
Nothing particularly stuck with me but I’ll give it a second listen as it does seem up my alley
It’s pretty good driving music that I can give it . Wild horses is the only one that stood out to me on my relisten tho
3
Aug 04 2025
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
I really liked this one , genuinely great to listen to as a whole
Fuckass coconut stuck in my brain
4
Aug 05 2025
Different Class
Pulp
Genuinely amazing , I spy is a lowkey insane song. I’ve been fucking your wife , thanks dude.
But I do like everything here, from the style to the lyrics. It’s very easily the album most like my usual music taste.
Genuinely great, the underlying theme of hating women really stuck with me
5
Aug 06 2025
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
Despite paying attention while listening everything sorta blended together and maybe that’s just a me problem but I didn’t see this one
2
Aug 07 2025
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
Definitely more of an artistic installation than pleasant to listen to music.
I wish i could have given this one more time to really click for me but I’m very sure there’s something really interesting here so I guess three stars for potential
3
Aug 08 2025
Be
Common
Pretty great!
Similarly to sound of silver there just came a point where I hit a wall of: Yeah I’m not getting this fully.
Which is great!
The way to that point was amazing tho, “Be” was amazing to listen to, the beats and rhythms connected beautifully, both familiar and odd. I am so unbelievably clueless about music production but there was something both extremely familiar and unknown to the music itself, it was perfect to listen to both while paying attention and listening to some songs in the background.
Some songs like Testify , The Corner and Chi City really stuck with me.
Yeah I guess I just talked myself into a five star rating here. Like this was awesome , definitely an album I’ll return to!
Also Faithful took me out like a pile of bricks the first time I heard it. what do you mean you would date god if she was a woman??? (Great song tho it just made me spit out my water the first time)
5
Aug 11 2025
Tommy
The Who
This one is hard to rank, as I did listen to it but not with the attention a story album really needs.
I thought the music itself was decent and the set up in the first few songs very good but I didn’t pay it enough mind to fully get what was being communicated.
But I guess not really wanting to come back to this … very long album is a ranking in itself.
2
Aug 12 2025
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
I really liked this one. I really did.
Bob Dylan is one of these names you keep hearing but when you're like me: German and stuck on the same 5 bands since 2018 you never actually had a clue who he was or what music he made.
Guess that I won't have to pretend anymore because this album was great. It was really fun to listen to and the lyrics were the exact kind of swaggy countryish story telling that I like. I know (due to Wikipedia) that this is sorta different from his usual style of music, but hey everyone has that experimental phase where they write songs about a very longwinded escape from America.
I guess it speaks to me being uncultured that "the funny songs" on this album were the most memorable to me, "On the Road Again" and "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" are by far my favorites. And maybe they aren't funny at all and I'm missing a meaning of critical importance but I suppose I might figure that out on relistens because these definitely went into the listen to again playlist.
5
Aug 13 2025
Hejira
Joni Mitchell
I thought it was , didn’t really do much to me 18$ went up in smoke is a good line , nothing else to say. Bit boring
2
Aug 14 2025
Doolittle
Pixies
Pretty great listen
Really short album but I think that enhanced the good on it
Great vocals
3
Aug 15 2025
Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
God this one bored me to tears. Maybe this hit me so bad because I really loved the last Dylan album I got here, but boy. This was tedious , long and boring and felt like there was no variety at all in the music score.
I’m likely missing out on a lot of important symbolism and meaning but this album doesn’t really inspire me to look for it.
It’s a genuine chore to listen to. I
1
Aug 18 2025
Parallel Lines
Blondie
Some other review probably put this better but the sheer variety of styles on this is impressive as hell.
Great album all in all, nothing was particularly gripping to me but nothing stood out to me as bland or bad either so yeah, good record
4
Aug 19 2025
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
For being another lyricless album this one hit me like a semi truck. The first five seconds of the first song really took a sledgehammer to my face and set the mood for the rest of the album.
And the rest of the album was good.
I’m not a fan of albums without lyrics but I very much appreciate this one. It’s definitely a joy to listen to in the background
3
Aug 20 2025
Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
Just not my type of music , probably very good for what it is.
Very ethereal just not my thing, (listened to on YouTube ) fully taste based 2 stars
2
Aug 21 2025
Rip It Up
Orange Juice
Neat!
Really happy I looked at the album now because I would have called it brit pop and get murdered by a Scotsman. Understandably so.
Good album tho, I can't say too much else. I really like it tho! Very good. Rip it up itself is a dope song!
4
Aug 22 2025
The Slider
T. Rex
A certefied Banger
4
Aug 25 2025
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
My first reaction was: YAY R.E.M! I love R.E.M (I have only listened to the one song, but I'm already hyped)
This was the absolute correct reaction, and getting this album on a Friday was even better. Not to say I didn’t love it on my first listen but getting to hear it again and again just made it better in my ears.
“Try not to breathe” is an absolutely beautiful song and while not a big fan of “Night swimming” in the beginning it grew on me fast.
This feels strangely nostalgic and yet fresher than ever. Beautiful album all and all
5
Aug 26 2025
The Next Day
David Bowie
I’m not a Bowie fan so I have nothing to compare it to but the average rock album and for being a rock album this fucks.
Genuinely some really great stuff, nothing too impactful but just as music to listen to? Awesome.
4
Aug 27 2025
Heroes
David Bowie
I’m not a Bowie fan so I have nothing to compare it to but the Bowie album I listened to yesterday and I liked yesterday’s record better.
It was fine. Or more to accurately to say between the first half of pretty neat rock songs that I liked more than average and the rather slow instruments that I couldn’t really get into it averaged out to fine.
3
Aug 28 2025
Siembra
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
I need to confess I am not only fully unfamiliar with this artist but also Salsa as a genre and Spanish as a language.
So I fear my review might boil down to my feelings on the genre more than my feelings on the record.
Non the less both are fairly positive. It’s great music to listen to and despite not understanding the vast majority of the lyrics I could understand the very base line of emotions communicated.
Honestly a great record and I swear I caught at least two literary references which makes this an easy
4 stars.
4
Aug 29 2025
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead
Rock rocks!
Fully taste based four stars , if the rock hits it hits. Ace of spades is legendary what else to say about it?
4
Sep 01 2025
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
Truly sad that the first actually experimental album on my journey thus far just wasn’t for me but hey, what can I say.
But it just wasn’t for me. It was still interesting and somewhat okay background noise but I will forget I listened to this pretty soon.
2
Sep 02 2025
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
This has been the longest album I got on this experiment and it were great two hours. OutKast is another one of these bands I somewhat hovered around for a while (I really like Hey Ya! and am aware of some other songs) but never really dug into. So two hours, of essentially two albums really gave me the chance to actually get to know their style.
And what a great style it is. I genuinely didn't expect to vibe with as many songs as I did, but seems like I am just way more into hiphop than I expected, which is at least one cool thing I learned about myself.
Unexpectedly I think the song I like individually the most on this album is Unhappy, it just has this perfect groove to it that make it listenable for hours. I overall like the second half of this album way more than the first, but I think that just speaks to how strong the second half is.
Even the ever elusive Hey Ya! gets better in context with all these other songs about love and relationships (wow I wonder if that is like... foreshadowed in the album title or something) around it. There is a bunch of stuff to dig into but I think the songs Love Hater and Happy Valentine's day make the big difference for me.
Also just to mention, this is the second album that has a song on it with the plottwist of "god is a lady" and I think there is something I am missing there but for now I just think it's kinda funny.
Overall great album, I want to take away points for being two albums in a trenchcoat but I cannot.
5
Sep 03 2025
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
Very groovey, I can give it that. The production is good and fun no question about that!
Unfortunately it sometimes felt like the songwriter was too in love with the same three lyrics that kept being repeated through the album to consider if they were any good in the first place.
“You think you’re smart, stupid stupid” should have stayed on poison arrow. Overall still decent!
4
Sep 04 2025
25
Adele
An artist I’m somewhat familiar with, yay! Also one of the first “modern” artists I got in my album listening journey.
I think a lot of people sell this particular album short, it’s not 21 that has absolute bangers like Rolling in the deep and Someone like you that are far messier and more torn about the whole break up situation.
25 is much more subdued and yet has the same emotional complexity, the wound has just healed over and the remaining feelings are weaker by now.
And I think this fits in beautifully with the albums idea of maturing/ ageing. 25 might be young to mourn your youth but 25 might be one of the first ages where the concept of “aging” becomes scary. And maybe I’ll look back on this in 30 years and go: damn I was a dumbass back then, but that will likely be the case anyways 👌
I don’t know how to describe this but while being, just sound wise, a rather standard pop album I like the subtlety of it all.
“Hello” is bitter in a different way than Someone like you was. The emotional hugeness of “Set fire to the rain” and “Rolling in the deep” aren’t reached in this album at all but I don’t think they should be.
These songs speak of fresh pain while “I miss you” , “Send my love (to your new lover)” and “When we were young” is a more reflective and “quiet” approach to them.
Even “River Lea” which is far more of an extermination of the narrators inner world (-> examining own patterns of not apologizing, blaming the outside worlds influence for their own faults) and “Water under the bridge” being a more positive look on a new relationship are deeply influenced by the “healed wound” that was open in 21.
And it should be like that! Not being over an old relationship is an interesting theme and motif in the fast lived culture of modern pop and just because Adele keeps poking at it doesn’t mean she only takes one approach.
I like this album, I like it far more than its best known hit tho. Hello is just not my kind of song. Tho it has some banger moments.
4