Aug 12 2025
Real Life
Magazine
An interesting late 70s album from the former Buzzcocks vocalist. Two favorite tracks on first listen were "Definitive Gaze" (the opener) and "The Light Pours Out of Me" (which sounds like a lot of the throwback to this sound indie music from the early 2000s). Some weak tracks, but an interesting listen throughout!
3
Aug 13 2025
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
Always a favorite and has been for a few decades at this point. Love the samples and think there are 8 to 10 hip hop classics on here. Two favorite songs, which is what I'm trying to pull out for each album are "Buddy" and "Me Myself and I." Obviously the latter was a huge breakout for them, while the former is essentially a De La Quest song because Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip feature. Always fun to listen to this album.
5
Aug 14 2025
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4
Aug 15 2025
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
An album that makes me appreciate slow playing one album each day. Absolutely great album. I had never listened to it all the way through (in order). I think the "big" songs on the album (Moonage Daydream, Stardream, Ziggy Stardust) are all great, but the slightly less big (but still big) "Suffragette City" and "Lady Star" are my two tracks to pluck from this album for my 1001 greatest albums playlist. I think Lady Star is just a beautiful 70s piano pop song and Suffragette City is clearly the template for a bon of brit pop and brit rock bands 10 to 20 years later.
5
Aug 16 2025
Funeral
Arcade Fire
So strange to have an album of my younger years pop up so early. Remember seeing them in Arleneās Grocery just before this released. Still not a huge fan of the whole album but do really enjoy a few of the tracks.
3
Aug 17 2025
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
I'll give a 5 to every southern soul album on this list! "Cry to Me" is a classic and my other pick was "Beautiful Brown Eyes," which seems to preview what's to come for a lot of future deep soul ballads. Great listen and glad Burke has an album on this list!
5