Sep 24 2025
                            
                            
                                
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
                                A Tribe Called Quest
                            
                    
                    
                            A breath of fresh air in rap music 1990.  Sound is retro and forward-looking at same time; completely innovative.  Contains many iconic tracks, overlooked gems, never loses momentum.  Sense of humor and fun-loving spirit evident throughout.  As an extra the remixes are dope. 
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 25 2025
                            
                            
                                
It's Too Late to Stop Now
                                Van Morrison
                            
                    
                    
                            Van the man in top form, letting his horn blow.  And the expensive sounding yet very loose band gives him and the other exquisite horns on display all the breathing room they need.  A fitting testament to the breath of life itself.  
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 29 2025
                            
                            
                                
Rumours
                                Fleetwood Mac
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Sep 30 2025
                            
                            
                                
War
                                U2
                            
                    
                    
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 02 2025
                            
                            
                                
Rid Of Me
                                PJ Harvey
                            
                    
                    
                            A raw and ripping emotional workout.  Feels like PJs most personal record; incisive, gutsy and cathartic.  Love her shredding on the slide. 
                    
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 03 2025
                            
                            
                                
Everything Must Go
                                Manic Street Preachers
                            
                    
                    
                    
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                            Oct 10 2025
                            
                            
                                
Happy Trails
                                Quicksilver Messenger Service
                            
                    
                    
                            Some very accomplished jamming to be sure, but stellar chops and tight grooves alone do not a classic album make.  
                    
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                            Oct 13 2025
                            
                            
                                
Blue Lines
                                Massive Attack
                            
                    
                    
                            Loved it: unquestionably arty yet approachable, International/wordly yet immediate with  multiplicity of voices uniting to form a common vision.  Seamless yet offering a new twist around every corner.   Not a particularly short record but came to an end far before I was ready.  
                    
                            5
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                            Oct 21 2025
                            
                            
                                
Aladdin Sane
                                David Bowie
                            
                    
                    
                            The Motor City meets Radio City Music Hall.  Despite this albums aesthetic being done to death subsequently by other bands (cue my beloved Mott the Hoople), its particular brew of raw rock guitars paired with campy Vaudevillian melodies that seem to call for a kick line sounds quirky if not, well, even a tad insane.  Influential for sure, but the fact its best song, the Howlin’ Wolf quoting Jean Genie, is also by far the most basic indicates for me the Thin White Duke was trying too hard on most of these.  
                    
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