Aug 21 2025
                            
                            
                                
The Village Green Preservation Society
                                The Kinks
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Aug 22 2025
                            
                            
                                
Stardust
                                Willie Nelson
                            
                    
                    
                            Already know and love this album. Have it on LP. So fabulous.
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Aug 25 2025
                            
                            
                                
Tusk
                                Fleetwood Mac
                            
                    
                    
                            It's... fine. Nothing special to really recommend it.
                    
                    There is no reason for this to be on a list of "must listen" albums. It's fine. It's a solid folk-rock album. But there's nothing special about it. It came out in 1979. It has some good songs, but doesn't pioneer, experiment, fuse, or perfect anything. Everything it does well has already been done better by earlier albums.
                    
                            2
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Aug 27 2025
                            
                            
                                
Neon Bible
                                Arcade Fire
                            
                    
                    
                            I really liked this. Didn't have enough chance to listen to it through closely to fully form an opinion, but I want to give it a closer listen.
                    
                    I did enjoy that it's a concept album. Musical variety and production quality were great.
                    
                    Didn't immediately jump out as something obviously super special. But very good.
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Aug 28 2025
                            
                            
                                
Back At The Chicken Shack
                                Jimmy Smith
                            
                    
                    
                            Great album by one of my favorite artists. Will listen again. Would enjoy owning.
                    
                    Some fantastic but approachable soul-jazz.
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Aug 29 2025
                            
                            
                                
Deja Vu
                                Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
                            
                    
                    
                            Good stuff. Will listen again.
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 01 2025
                            
                            
                                
The Stranger
                                Billy Joel
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 02 2025
                            
                            
                                
Mothership Connection
                                Parliament
                            
                    
                    
                            Funk yeah!
                    
                    Great piece of art. Great musicianship. Great arrangement. Solid production. Enjoyable to listen to, while also being hugely musically and culturally influential.
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 05 2025
                            
                            
                                
Everything Must Go
                                Manic Street Preachers
                            
                    
                    
                            This was really great. I need time to sit down and listen to it more closely.
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 08 2025
                            
                            
                                
Music From Big Pink
                                The Band
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 09 2025
                            
                            
                                
Daydream Nation
                                Sonic Youth
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 10 2025
                            
                            
                                
Ten
                                Pearl Jam
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 12 2025
                            
                            
                                
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
                                The Dandy Warhols
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 15 2025
                            
                            
                                
Green
                                R.E.M.
                            
                    
                    
                            Great album. Solid alternative rock classic.
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 16 2025
                            
                            
                                
A Love Supreme
                                John Coltrane
                            
                    
                    
                            Fabulous jazz classic. Probably not for people who aren't already into jazz. It is almost ecstatic and impressionistic at times. Going off into near pure emotion. Masterful artists walking the very edge of spinning out of control.
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 17 2025
                            
                            
                                
Fromohio
                                fIREHOSE
                            
                    
                    
                            This was surprisingly enjoyable. Lots of energy. Crazy good bassline. Raw punk energy.
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 18 2025
                            
                            
                                
Floodland
                                Sisters Of Mercy
                            
                    
                    
                            This was surprisingly enjoyable. Lots of energy. Crazy good bassline. Raw punk energy.
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 19 2025
                            
                            
                                
Young Americans
                                David Bowie
                            
                    
                    
                            It's Bowie. It's good. But not his best. Neither as experimental, or conceptual, or peak poppy as his other albums.
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 22 2025
                            
                            
                                
Hot Buttered Soul
                                Isaac Hayes
                            
                    
                    
                            So hot. This album is fantastic, start to finish. "Walk On By" is possibly one of the greatest popular songs ever recorded.
                    
                    I've heard this called "Progressive Soul". I think that might be labeling it wrong. This arguably predates Progressive Rock. It's clearly doing it's own thing, too. And I think drawing from vastly divergent influences.
                    
                    It is sweeping and epic.
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 23 2025
                            
                            
                                
Parklife
                                Blur
                            
                    
                    
                            Solid. Fun.
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 24 2025
                            
                            
                                
The Message
                                Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
                            
                    
                    
                            This is everything good about early hip hop.
                    
                    If you went out to a street corner in New York, put down a boom box, and slapped "play" on a cassette of this, you would still have a party. Slap down some cardboard, and someone would randomly start break dancing.
                    
                    One song is a ballad where five grown, straight, men sing a love letter to Stevie Wonder because, "He's the greatest." 10/10. No notes.
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 26 2025
                            
                            
                                
Deserter's Songs
                                Mercury Rev
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 29 2025
                            
                            
                                
Abraxas
                                Santana
                            
                    
                    
                            Great album. Mix of latin, jazz, psychedluc rock. It is expansive and full of passion.
                    
                    The sort of exploration where you can imagine musical rituals taking casting magicspells and transporting your consciousness.
                    
                    4.5 stars
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 30 2025
                            
                            
                                
The Clash
                                The Clash
                            
                    
                    
                            Solid punk. Not their best album.
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 01 2025
                            
                            
                                
A Girl Called Dusty
                                Dusty Springfield
                            
                    
                    
                            Solid and enjoyable Blue-Eyed-Soul. It's good stuff, but I don't think blazes many trails.
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 02 2025
                            
                            
                                
Alien Lanes
                                Guided By Voices
                            
                    
                    
                            It sounds like a demo tape. The recording is too muddy and incomprehensible to really speak to the quality of musicianship. 
                    
                            2
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 03 2025
                            
                            
                                
At Budokan
                                Cheap Trick
                            
                    
                    
                            Great live album. One of the few cases where the live recordings surpass the studio ones as the definitive versions of the songs.
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 06 2025
                            
                            
                                
Pretzel Logic
                                Steely Dan
                            
                    
                    
                            Great album. Love it. My favorite Steely Dan, but not their best.
                    
                    Has some "meh" songs (Garrytown, and Through with Buzz).
                    
                    Not their finest work
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 07 2025
                            
                            
                                
Ágætis Byrjun
                                Sigur Rós
                            
                    
                    
                            Very nice. 3 or 4. Reminds me of Radiohead or Massive Attack, but with lush strings and wind instruments. 
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 08 2025
                            
                            
                                
Time Out
                                The Dave Brubeck Quartet
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 09 2025
                            
                            
                                
Live / Dead
                                Grateful Dead
                            
                    
                    
                            Just sort of rambles. I get that that's the point, and it's exploring. But like... it's like watered down jazz.
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 10 2025
                            
                            
                                
Blood On The Tracks
                                Bob Dylan
                            
                    
                    
                            Dylan was/is very influential, but I don't care for most of his work. He opened a path, but I think he was surpassed by many other artist.
                    
                    Even among contemporaries, Paul Simon and Townes Van Zandt are better.
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 13 2025
                            
                            
                                
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
                                Wu-Tang Clan
                            
                    
                    
                            Seminal. Masterful.
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 14 2025
                            
                            
                                
At Newport 1960
                                Muddy Waters
                            
                    
                    
                            This is The Blues.
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 15 2025
                            
                            
                                
Killing Joke
                                Killing Joke
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 16 2025
                            
                            
                                
Paul's Boutique
                                Beastie Boys
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 17 2025
                            
                            
                                
Third
                                Soft Machine
                            
                    
                    
                            Nearly unlistenable.
                    
                    First track was just noise. I sat with it for a while thinking it was maybe a "Close to the Edge" type of intro, but no. Just noise.
                    
                    Later tracks the audio quality was so distorted to be unpleasant. 
                    
                            1
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 21 2025
                            
                            
                                
The Dark Side Of The Moon
                                Pink Floyd
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 22 2025
                            
                            
                                
Bryter Layter
                                Nick Drake
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 23 2025
                            
                            
                                
Play
                                Moby
                            
                    
                    
                            Does not hold up. (Wasn't sure on 2 or 3 stars. I'll say 2.5)
                    
                    This certainly did a lot to bring EDM into the mainstream, but is honestly very lackluster.
                    
                    Today, the songs sound like someone who has finally learned how to use Garage Band. They're decent, but kind of bland.
                    
                    Even in it's day, it falls well behind the quality of other contemporary or even preceding music. There is nothing this does that wasn't already being done better by other artists.
                    
                    At same time, other artists were working in the same or adjacent genres and truly pioneering new ground.
                    
                            2
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 24 2025
                            
                            
                                
Something Else By The Kinks
                                The Kinks
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 27 2025
                            
                            
                                
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
                                Arctic Monkeys
                            
                    
                    
                            At first I thought it was... fine. Sort of whatever.
                    
                    But it grew on me. It has an energy that their later music lacks. But with good playing. I found myself listening again. 
                    
                            4
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 28 2025
                            
                            
                                
Odelay
                                Beck
                            
                    
                    
                            My album before this was 'Play' by Moby. For two artists so superficially similar, these albums could not be more different. Where 'Play' was very "meh", 'Odelay' really holds up and soars.
                    
                    This is an absurdly fun album.
                    
                    It is experimental, playful, absurd, and almost poking fun at itself - but it does so with so much conviction and intention to pass through the realm of being a joke, to coming full circle to being serious art. It includes intentionally absurd samples, nonsense lyrics, or jarring and dissonant instrumentals - but it knows exactly what it is doing throwing them in.
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 29 2025
                            
                            
                                
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
                                Eurythmics
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 30 2025
                            
                            
                                
Microshift
                                Hookworms
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            3
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 31 2025
                            
                            
                                
Connected
                                Stereo MC's
                            
                    
                    
                            Good 90's Brit-hop. A bit trite, but good at what it is. If this is your sort of thing it will give happy feels, but not exceptional. If this isn't your thing, it is very "meh".
                    
                    The title track "Connected" is a certified banger though.
                    
                            4