Jul 31 2025
Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
Not my favorite Cohen album, but obviously still great because the man was a genius.
4
Aug 01 2025
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
I listened to the BB&THC album prior to Cheap Thrills, and they really did not know what they had with Janis. They only really let her off the hook with Cheap Thrills, and it is absolutely to everyone's benefit. They're a so-so band with one of the best and most emotional vocalists of all time.
4
Aug 02 2025
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
My favorite Talking Heads album
5
Aug 03 2025
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
2
Aug 09 2025
Abraxas
Santana
Shocking little singing but irresistible rhythms. I found it boring, though.
3
Aug 10 2025
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
Beatles albums rarely feel coherent to me in any meaningful way, and Sgt Pepper’s is the worst offender. I like a lot of the songs on this album independently, but it’s lesser than the sum of its parts.
3
Aug 11 2025
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
4
Aug 12 2025
Blur
Blur
An interesting bridge to 00s indie rock, but not one I personally enjoy
3
Aug 13 2025
Third
Soft Machine
2
Aug 14 2025
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
5
Aug 15 2025
Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
How have I never heard of Neneh Cherry? This album is excellent
5
Aug 16 2025
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
Could have been a much stronger shorter album. Hindsight is 20/20, but it’s wild to not have Grace Slick on every single song
3
Aug 17 2025
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
Hard to separate my nostalgia from the objective quality of this album. It makes me move, though
4
Aug 18 2025
Be
Common
I love me some socially conscious hip-hop, but Common has always slid just a little too corny for me. Testify rules, though.
3
Aug 19 2025
The World is a Ghetto
War
So far I haven't been a big fan of instrumental or jazzy albums, but funk is a horse of a different color. I really enjoyed this one.
4
Aug 20 2025
There's A Riot Goin' On
Sly & The Family Stone
This was a fascinating album to get right after War's The World is a Ghetto. Two funk albums that are generally considered a darker turn after the collapse of 1960s Summer of Love optimism. Consider me fully emersed in the time.
5
Aug 21 2025
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
I am always simultaneously exhausted by Neil Young while also loving his music. There's an irritating pretention to After the Gold Rush that stems very directly from the fact that it was written for an unproduced movie about how a flood in Topanga Canyon would be some great global loss. Between the always excruciating snobbery of Southern Man and mother nature's silver seed in After the Gold Rush, I just can't deal with this album despite how good some of the songs are.
3
Aug 22 2025
A Night At The Opera
Queen
I love Queen, but I do find their albums messy.
4
Aug 23 2025
Madman Across The Water
Elton John
Not a super well received Elton John record, but I have no preconceived notion of what an entire Elton John album should sound like I’ve only heard the hits, and I thoroughly enjoyed all of this album except for the poorly aged Indian Sunset.
4
Aug 24 2025
Triangle
The Beau Brummels
The thing I have learned most about myself so far is that I don’t like psychedelia half as much as I thought. I understand that this album is important, but it’s mostly just like listening to Bob Dylan without the genius lyricism.
2
Aug 25 2025
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
I think it’s genuinely genius that Dolly opens this album with a song about the most loving mom imaginable followed by a mom who steals her daughter’s boyfriend and abandons her.
4
Aug 26 2025
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
Almost every double album has at least five songs that don't need to be there.
3
Aug 27 2025
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
A little uncomfortable but I love Randy
4
Aug 28 2025
Urban Hymns
The Verve
It’s…fine? It seems inessential and the only songs I really enjoy were the ones that made me wish I was listening to R.E.M.
2
Aug 29 2025
Heroes to Zeros
The Beta Band
I listened through this album three times and couldn’t tell you a single lyric or sonically interesting thing that happened. Absolute snoozer. I’m sick to death of these 90s UK bands.
1
Aug 30 2025
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
I never particularly enjoyed a Smashing Pumpkins album before or after this one. Siamese Dream was really their one masterpiece. Gish is fine.
5
Aug 31 2025
Copper Blue
Sugar
I’d never heard of Sugar before and wasn’t impressed on my first listen, but after my second listen I was fully hooked on this album.
4
Sep 01 2025
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
Nice fusion of genres. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the spoken word poetry portions but the music was irresistible
4
Sep 02 2025
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
Kurt not doing Smells Like Teen Spirit is wild, true grunge.
5
Sep 03 2025
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
Maybe my favorite album so far. I had never heard of her before and this has already made the endeavor worthwhile.
5
Sep 04 2025
The Doors
The Doors
Them: Jim Morrison is the greatest poet of his generation
Jim Morrison: Little girl I'm a cool cat / Look at my new hat
This is just to say I really can't stand Jim Morrison.
1
Sep 05 2025
Is This It
The Strokes
One of my most listened to albums of all time...kind of.
The US version of this album was engraved into my bones somewhere around 2005. Every song is a part of me, vibrating at the same frequency as my atoms. I hit New York City Cops and my body freaks out.
Imagine my surprise when I discover that there's another version of this album with a butt on the cover and a song I've never heard before. It's like feeling along the contours of your own body and suddenly there's a bizarre new, but not entirely unwelcome, appendage.
5/5 for the US version of Is This It
The Sensation of Walking Up a Staircase and Thinking There's One Last Step But You Misjudged and You Just Stepped Into Air/5 for the international version.
5
Sep 06 2025
Fragile
Yes
Prog Rock is not my favorite. My heart sank when I first saw it was a Yes album because I thought it would be an exhausting ordeal. Instead it was just...fine.
I recognize the exceptional musical ability of these guys, but that just never affects me in any meaningful way. I will always take the ugly rawness of punk over the mathematical cleanliness of prog rock.
2
Sep 07 2025
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
2
Sep 08 2025
Born To Be With You
Dion
Kind of a surprise to discover the guy I only know from WOW compilations had a more complex career than most CCM artists. This is still absolutely not my vibe, though. Sorry, Dion.
2
Sep 09 2025
Hot Fuss
The Killers
Probably not essential, but this is another albums that is just etched into the molecular structure of my body.
4
Sep 10 2025
Slayed?
Slade
Much better than I expected from a bunch of extremely goofy British glam rockers, but still not great. Their music is excessively catchy.
3
Sep 11 2025
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
Another excessively dull British rock band.
2
Sep 12 2025
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
Catchy, propulsive and innovative. It's not my favorite LCD Soundsystem album, but it's still a solid entry in his discography.
4
Sep 13 2025
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
A lot of bangers on this album but also a lot of filler too. I maintain that virtually no double album needs to exist.
3
Sep 14 2025
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
Lupe can be a little corny sometimes but this is still a crazy good debut album.
4
Sep 15 2025
The Band
The Band
I've never truly enjoyed a song by The Band. They're plenty talented, but this sound is just not for me. I can't even begin to parse the significance of a Canadian band rolling in Lost Cause muck when I can barely even stand to listen to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down on a musical level.
2
Sep 16 2025
Bossanova
Pixies
It’s no Doolittle, but I will always enjoy some Pixies
4
Sep 17 2025
Black Monk Time
The Monks
Based on my experience with other Vietnam-era psychedelic-adjacent bands I expected not to like this one. As soon as I heard the organ I had unpleasant Doors flashbacks. But this actually whips. I re-listened to this album five times yesterday.
It’s sad this is their only album, but after listening to their additional songs like Cuckoo and He Went Down to the Sea…well, maybe that’s for the best.
5
Sep 18 2025
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Absolute history. There’s a lot more R&B in this album than I knew, since I was just familiar with The Message. It was a nice surprise.
4
Sep 19 2025
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
Lou Reed was a pretty brilliant guy, I have to say.
4
Sep 20 2025
3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
I knew way more Isley Brothers songs than I thought. I love the mix of smooth R&B vocals with the rock guitars.
4
Sep 21 2025
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Very influential and important, but not an album I am ever going to enjoy listening to.
3
Sep 22 2025
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
Great beats, will never listen to again
3
Sep 23 2025
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
4
Sep 24 2025
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
Very experimental and jazzy. I prefer License To Ill by far, but this still slaps.
4
Sep 25 2025
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
Alright I was gonna be a big curmudgeon about listening to a long album by a 70s rock band I only knew from one song, but this is actually really good. The goofy back and forth between the vocals and guitar in Strange Kind of Woman ultimately sold me.
4
Sep 26 2025
The Real Thing
Faith No More
I don’t love Faith No More, but I really cannot deny their influence on a lot of bands I do like.
3
Sep 27 2025
Blunderbuss
Jack White
I’m a big White Stripes fan, but I really feel like Jack White lost the magic after TWS. This album is good, Jack White is good, but none of it is great. Meg never *seemed* to contribute a ton to the band, but it certainly seems like she’s the bay leaf that added the je ne sais quoi that made The White Stripes so perfect.
4
Sep 28 2025
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
A bunch of dull beeps and boops
2
Sep 29 2025
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
3
Sep 30 2025
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
I know it's heresy, but I'm always inclined against a musician that's considered untouchable by boomers. The album is too long and too weak in spots to be anything other than good. Jimi was an innovative guitar player, for sure, that's undeniable. Whether he actually wrote good songs is more debatable.
3
Oct 01 2025
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
Absolutely dreadful
1
Oct 02 2025
Highly Evolved
The Vines
The UK: We have Nirvana at home
It's fine though
3
Oct 03 2025
Fuzzy
Grant Lee Buffalo
This dude looks so much like Bill Hicks it's distracting
3
Oct 04 2025
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
They do some cool things with percussion but I absolutely despise their rancid vibes
2
Oct 05 2025
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
I mean, it’s one of the best heavy metal albums of all time. This is unimpeachable stuff.
5
Oct 06 2025
All Hail the Queen
Queen Latifah
It’s cheesy, but I dig the house party vibes. Socially conscious hip-hop is good and all, but I always love it most when it’s just someone gassing themselves up.
Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children is terrifying, though. A genuinely haunted song.
4
Oct 07 2025
Stardust
Willie Nelson
It’s nice and simple
4
Oct 08 2025
Tidal
Fiona Apple
I think this is a very good album overall. It may just be overexposure, but I really cannot stand Criminal.
4