Aug 25 2025
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Tidal was a far superior album. Heavy Ballon’s and Cosmonauts were the two best songs on the album.
3
Aug 26 2025
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
Edgy for the time. Probably canceled in today’s culture. Incredible talent with heavy doses of immaturity. I think Marshall probably used the music as self therapy.
4
Aug 27 2025
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
Coltrane is a glass of whiskey on the rocks. It’s an early evening smoke on the patio. The second I hear the opening notes I’m transported back to a dinner party with friends. The music can get chaotic and sometimes repetitive, but it’s remains woven into the fabric of our past.
4
Aug 28 2025
Is This It
The Strokes
Fun album. Simple garage rock. I remember Last Nite getting radio play
4
Aug 29 2025
Diamond Life
Sade
Just not my cup of tea
2
Sep 01 2025
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
Soulful voice. Forerunner to Tracy Chapman. The first and last two songs on the album were the best.
3
Sep 02 2025
1999
Prince
One of the first cassette tapes I owned. The first three songs are iconic. The rest of the album doesn’t really hold up well with the passage of time. When I first saw this was going to be the album for today, I initially thought well this will be a 5 star album, but as the songs progressed the rating kept dropping. The first three songs ensure a 3 star but I could be talked into 2.5 stars.
3
Sep 03 2025
Chelsea Girl
Nico
3
Sep 04 2025
Vauxhall And I
Morrissey
Easy listening. Not really my style.
3
Sep 05 2025
I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
Pretty much exaggerated vibrato
2
Sep 08 2025
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
Good samples. Long album, almost 90 mins. Holds up against time.
3
Sep 09 2025
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
From beginning to end, every single song was great. You definitely can hear some Beatles influence in some of the songs. I really enjoyed the entire album.
5
Sep 10 2025
Greetings From L.A.
Tim Buckley
I liked it. I had familiarity with Jeff Buckley, but I was unaware that his dad Tim was also a singer songwriter some of his lyrics. Remind me of pig pen from the Grateful Dead. I will explore some of his other albums.
4
Sep 11 2025
L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
It’s art, but I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it.
2
Sep 12 2025
GREY Area
Little Simz
Surprisingly dope little album
3
Sep 15 2025
Transformer
Lou Reed
Couple of iconic songs in Perfect Day & Wild Side. You can definitely hear the Bowie influence on the album. Some of the songs are a little drab. Not really an album I would return to and re-listen in its entirety.
4
Sep 16 2025
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
When the sun warms your eyelids and the salty breeze carries grains of sand across your face, Bob Marley is there—preaching kindness through rhythm. In a world heavy with sorrow, drop the needle on “Stir It Up” and catch a smile. This album is a rebellion set to melody, a call for unity wrapped in sweet grove of palm trees swaying, Marley reminds us that music can make us all Jamaicans for a moment—bound together by rhythm, resilience, and love.
5
Sep 17 2025
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
Chill vibes
3
Sep 18 2025
The Wall
Pink Floyd
The greatest rock opera of all time. One summer day of my sophomore year in high school, me and some friends went down to the city market. I had $10. I bought two cassette tapes for $5 each that would change my life. The first was Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys, the other one was Pink Floyd’s The Wall. On the way home we sparked a poorly rolled joint of Tex Mex and pushed play, nothing would ever be the same again.
5
Sep 19 2025
Tellin’ Stories
The Charlatans
Temu oasis
2
Sep 22 2025
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
Super acquired taste for his voice. It’s not something that I would seek out.
2
Sep 23 2025
Revolver
Beatles
Start to finish, a foundational pillar of good music
5
Sep 24 2025
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
Ground breaking album. Showed women can rap salty and talk about being human from their perspective.
4
Sep 25 2025
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
1994. Senior year of high school. The sound track of my life.
5
Sep 26 2025
Low
David Bowie
It was fine
3
Sep 29 2025
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
Truly groundbreaking album with some fantastic songs. I was a freshman in college when this album debuted and I had a bit of a crush on the eccentric Canadian. Re-listening to it 30 years later half the album is still fantastic while there are a few songs in which Alanis gets a little screechy and I wouldn’t consider it a first to last gem. However, I’m going to give it 5 stars for the fact that she defined a new genre of female pop rock that crossed into the main stream. I also have a nostalgia soft spot for this album.
5
Sep 30 2025
Moving Pictures
Rush
Seems like young people from this era got broken up into two different groups, you were either into psychedelic rock like The Grateful Dead, Doors, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Floyd or you went the way of getting drunk at parties and were more likely to listen to Rush, AC/DC, Yes, Three Dog Night. I grew up with the first group but the second group received more radio time. So of course I was familiar with half this Rush Album. I get the attraction. These are outstanding musicians making some really rocking tunes. At the end of the day I’m just not in love with Geddy Lee’s vocals. I don’t dislike it, but it’s not an album of first choice. That’s why it gets 4 stars.
4
Oct 01 2025
Tapestry
Carole King
Handful of good songs that defined an era.
4
Oct 02 2025
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Michael
Just no.
1
Oct 03 2025
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV On The Radio
Interesting. Hadn’t heard of them before. Not terrible.
3
Oct 06 2025
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
The Score is one of my top 10 all time favorite albums so when Lauryn released a solo project I was eager to listen. The Miseducation is good but not great album. She definitely used this platform to express an anger on behalf of an impoverished community. Her voice talent is exceptional and the melodies, samples and beats demonstrate a superior musical talent. It’s too bad that she didn’t continue to be a prolific musical artist.
4
Oct 07 2025
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
I heard it through the grapevine that I was feeling fine on cloud nine jamming these tasty grooves.
5
Oct 08 2025
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
If George Thorogood had a love child with the Sex Pistols it would sound like The Gun Club.
3
Oct 09 2025
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
6am on a Saturday morning my grandfather would fire up his 67 ford truck. The frost on the windshield running from the engine heat blowing up through the vents. We would pull out onto the gravel road leaving the farm heading to town in search of the morning paper and bag of fresh donuts. I can still hear that crackle of an AM radio as it plays Merle Haggard. What I wouldn’t give to go back and listen to my grandpa teach me about life.
5
Oct 10 2025
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
It’s unfortunate that Otis died in a tragic plane crash at the age of 26. Even though there were only 3 originals on this album you can hear a defining style to his approach to music. He had an impact with such a limited body of work. It would have been interesting to see how his sound evolved in the coming decades.
4
Oct 13 2025
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
I can appreciate a good female crooner hitting her notes in front of a live audience.
3
Oct 14 2025
Tidal
Fiona Apple
This album has some really soulful tunes. Fiona does a good job vocally controlling the pain and anger her lyrics express. Some of the beats and bass lines hit sad and sinister. I wouldn’t look to this album on a sunny day but in the right headspace she can cater to powerful emotion.
4
Oct 15 2025
Rubber Soul
Beatles
Not my favorite Beatles album, but the first time I dropped, Nowhere Man and Norwegian Wood came along for the journey.
4
Oct 17 2025
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
Spoken word over jazz. I dig it.
4