Maybe "Deceptacon" wasn't used on a Tony Hawk's pro-skater soundtrack but that's the only place it exists in my memory. This is my day 1 album. Can't lie, I thought this generator thing was pretty lame based on so many of the posts on the subreddit thinking that there is some sort of magic to the "algorithm" that literally just picks one of the albums at random unless pre-empted by the death of a particular musical artist. But I kept lurking the subreddit until I found myself commenting my nostalgic feelings for particular albums and now here I am. Le Tigre was always cursory to my interests since college. I guess their album opener is the only song of theirs I had heard (in Joachim Trier’s Reprise). The rest of the album is fine. I was a little surprised by the plunderphonics of "Slideshow At Free University", otherwise nothing sparked my interest. Caught up with the Yea Right! part directed by Spike Jonze. Street skating is so damn beautiful. Necessary declaimer: I'm not much for lyrics so there may be a depth to the feminist/political lyrics that I could grow to appreciate if I payed more attention to them. EDIT: While listening to my day 2 album, NIN's Downward Spiral I got a Nissan ad with a "Decepticon" ripoff by some awful band named the Smocks. The song is such a ripoff that they shouldn't get a dime off of it.

Would have preferred Pretty Hate Machine, unlike Trent who called it "immature" before this sophomore album's release. Never been a fan of NIN but Trent has composed numerous of my favorite movie soundtracks. He is the GOAT of contemporary film scoring but has yet to top his first feature OST for the Social Network. I was quite hyped to hear some similarities between that masterpiece and this album like the synth melody at the end of "Piggy". As suggested by the album’s wiki page, I don't hear the similarities to my favorite album, Low, but I get the art-rock vibes and sorta appreciate them. Similarities unlocked around "A Warm Place" and into "Eraser" which are two great tracks. Looking forward to hearing "Hurt" for the first time in over a decade and trying to divorce it from the obviously superior Johnny Cash cover. Christ almighty I hated that music video for "Closer". Kinda defines what I always expected to dislike from NIN's music right from the jump with the pumping heart to the sounds of the "music." Industrial just ain't my vibe. I think all my favorite parts of the extended album cut were my favorites in the song.

Pretty dull. The type of shit I ate up at 14 but grew to despise by 18. Now at 34 I feel mostly ambivalent about it.

This album made me feel old when it came out and I was only 26. Still doesn't connect but "The Louvre" is a standout track. I'm just not into the High School Musicalesque soul-bearing lyrics and vocalizations.

Had LP1 on CD back in high school, grew out of classic rock in college and upon relearning to like it, I have definitely come to appreciate LP3 as a masterpiece. I may never have heard this album besides "Little Wing", "If 6 was 9" and the title track. Now that I've heard the whole album I have to admit that even "Little Wing" and the title track may have been brand new for me. And "Castles Made of Sand" was most recognizable, possibly a track my guitar teacher tried to get me to learn. Overall a fine time, I may revisit.

Chungking Express is one of my favorite movies. It's hard for me to divorce this group from being anything but the source of the song in that movie and to be completely honest, I prefer the film's other needle drop, the Cantonese cover of the Cranberries' "Dreams".

Finally, an album from the 80s which should prove to be my favorite decade of music despite the utter lack of Hüsker Dü, Phil Collins' solo or as leader of Genesis, 4 seminal Replacements records and 3 by R.E.M. missing from the list. If you can't gather, I'm all for the inclusion of many albums by a single band. I've heard bits and pieces of this album. I definitely recall Sam trying to get me into them back in my undergraduate days and he most likely put "I Can't Help Myself" on a playlist for me more recently because that's the song I recognize the most (the allusion to the Four Tops is... well, tops!). What is so far the lowest globally rated album I've received is easily my highest rated. No surprise there. Load of bangers here, it's actually surprising to me that the rating is so low but folks hate the 80s so what can ya do? "Breakfast Time" and "Hokoyo" are standouts for me. Part of the fun for me here is going to be contextualizing the day's album with others that came out the same year or a year or two before or after. This album comes at the end of '82 less than a few months after Springsteen's sparse Nebraska which he would follow up with a similarly synthy album to this one in mid '84. Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, The Fall, Mission of Burma, Misfits and the Birthday Party are keeping punk alive while the Clash gets poppy on Combat Rock. In the world of popular music, Roxy Music releases their opus, Duran Duran is something I'll have to listen to at some point, Prince releases 1999 and of course there's Thriller. Every review of this album on here seems to mention Talking Heads. I'm glad that band has grown in stature recently but I got pretty tired of their arty-ness and will have to see how I rate their albums after a few years avoiding listening to them.

Sorta always knew this band as the one that featured Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page for a time. Neither's on this album so it would obviously be advantageous to look as a showcase for Jeff Beck's guitar work whom I've never tried to get into. Nothing is standing out to me. I have a lot of catching up to do with the Blues despite my vast love for the Stones and Bob Dylan. I like "Jeff's Boogie' alright and not just because Destroyer could be referencing it on Dan's Boogie. I listened to then stereo version and hope to listen to the mono before I submit the rating but we shall see. Feeling like I might have to give this one star to accurately portray my statistics at the end of this 3 year journey.

Finally, nine days into this, an album I own on vinyl. Let’s see how many times I play it tonight and tomorrow. Shit opens with a second person narrative about a crummy dude who keeps getting fucked over in "Do It Again". Classic! The album takes its name from a Bob Dylan lyric despite this being a hip new band and Dylan being a decade into his career of waning popularity and acclaim (I'm the biggest Dylan fan, but I'm playing the historian for objectivity's case). In fact, 1972 was a year after Dylan released his second Greatest Hits album and a year of very little public activity from him. Still, that's the influence Dylan had even so long ago. Can't get into "Midnite Cruiser" the only mediocre Steely Dan song on this entire list. The 2 singles are hot enough that this is a fairly easy 4 for me. "Reelin' In the Years" is such a depressing lyric to such an upbeat track, I love it! The whole Dad rock thing is kinda funny but when you think about it, I was eating this shit up as a ten year-old boy (admittedly yes, through my father) and I may never become a dad. Across the pond in '72 Roxy Music was debuting, the Stones released their greatest album Exile on Main Street, Bowie topped himself with the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Yes' opus Close to the Edge*, T. Rex's opus The Slider, Sabbath Vol. 4 and Nick Drake laid the groundwork for the coming wave of singer songwriters with Pink Moon. In the Americas Lou Reed sorta finally breaks through with Transformer, Eagles s/t debut, Big Stars' incredibly titled Number 1 Hit Record, Neil Young's insanely well selling Harvest, Al Green releases two classics and a large amount of MPB or Música popular brasileira that I guess I need to check out. *This is what I had to jump over to immediately after the Dan.