Oct 17 2025
                            
                            
                                
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
                                Frank Sinatra
                            
                    
                    
                            - Light, superficial love songs; not much variation.
                    - Includes "I've got you under my skin" (the other songs are consistent with each other, but can't compare).
                    - Can't see myself listening to this very often... I definitely prefer a best of album to this one. I get tired of it really quickly - there are 15 songs, for me, it would be more enjoyable as, like, 5 or 6.
                    
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                            Oct 18 2025
                            
                            
                                
Rust Never Sleeps
                                Neil Young & Crazy Horse
                            
                    
                    
                            - I'd never heard this album, but it feels nostalgic, and I'm happy to be introduced to it. 
                    - Solid melodies and lyrics.
                    - Definitely feels more live than produced - I'd prefer more studio than live.
                    - Dislike Welfare Mothers and Sedan Delivery.
                    
                    
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                            Oct 19 2025
                            
                            
                                
Channel Orange
                                Frank Ocean
                            
                    
                    
                            - Happy to have been introduced to the album, as I definitely wouldn’t have found it on my own. 
                    - I don’t love the first handful of songs, and there’s generally too much filler (e.g., Start, End, Fertilizer, White, Not just money...), but it picks up at Super Rich Kids (minus Crack Rock and Monks).
                    - The endings of a lot of the songs were really abrupt.
                    - Wish his voice was richer and more complex - most people seem to like it, but it doesn’t do it for me.
                    
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                            Oct 20 2025
                            
                            
                                
Guero
                                Beck
                            
                    
                    
                            - Melodic and interesting instrumentals.
                    - Only a couple songs that I’d probably skip (Emergency Exit & Farewell Ride)
                    
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                            Oct 21 2025
                            
                            
                                
Ten
                                Pearl Jam
                            
                    
                    
                            - Thought Eddie Vedder was supposed to be political, but he doesn’t speak up against the genocide, so I can’t support the band anymore.
                    - I did enjoy this album growing up, and it reminds me of my sister, so that’s a shame.
                    
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                            Oct 22 2025
                            
                            
                                
Are You Experienced
                                Jimi Hendrix
                            
                    
                    
                            - Amazing guitar work, obviously, but I find it a little overbearing at times, as it kind of makes me feel anxious.
                    - Melodic and memorable songs/a lot of great hits on here.
                    
                    
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                            Oct 23 2025
                            
                            
                                
Who Killed...... The Zutons?
                                The Zutons
                            
                    
                    
                            - Don’t really remember much of it. The melodies didn’t really hit for me. Actively disliked a number of the songs, too. It also felt kind of all over the place. I’m sure I’ll never listen to it again.
                    - For me, the lead singer’s voice is a little too thin to work with the more complex instrumentation (which is what I liked best about the music). 
                    - I want the album either to be more clean or more feral. That all said, I just can’t get into jazz, so take my review for what it is.
                    1.5, I guess
                    
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                            Oct 24 2025
                            
                            
                                
Crazysexycool
                                TLC
                            
                    
                    
                            - Happy to finally get an album by women - there needs to be many more on this list.
                    - I didn’t have this album when I was growing up, but I knew Creep and Waterfalls. Really happy to hear the whole thing. The music is sexy, like everyone is saying; it is smooth and has nice melodies and harmonies. Lives up to it’s name.
                    
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                            Oct 25 2025
                            
                            
                                
Paul Simon
                                Paul Simon
                            
                    
                    
                            - Really nice, easy-going melodic tunes that are about more complicated emotions and human experiences, which is definitely my jam.
                    - I’d only ever heard Me and Julio from this album, somehow, but I think I’ll listen to it a lot more, though, I will probably skip a couple tracks.
                    
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                            Oct 26 2025
                            
                            
                                
90
                                808 State
                            
                    
                    
                            - Definitely ahead of its time, and I can see the influence on breaks/electro.
                    - I only knew Pacific 202, and it’s such a banger, but I really love Donkey Doctor! The vocals on Magical Dream are pretty great - very pre-St Etienne. Ancodia doesn’t do it for me and I find Cobra Bora a bit chaotic, but the rest, I’m into.
                    - I think my cat likes it, too.
                    
                    
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                            Oct 27 2025
                            
                            
                                
Porcupine
                                Echo And The Bunnymen
                            
                    
                    
                            - The Cutter is great - nice melody & gothy vibes… Enjoying Clay, Heads will Roll, Higher Hell, Gods will be Gods, and In Bluer Skies a lot, too.
                    - I’m getting a bit of a U2 feel from this guy’s voice in parts of the second song. So, I guess it’s like moody britpop with a lot of the Cure, the Church, and a taste of U2. I used to love U2 until I realized Bono was a prick, so I’m conflicted about that song, lol. His voice is making me think of someone else, too, but I can’t place it - I wonder if it’s just them because I had never actually listened to a full album, just heard their singles. He’s got a great voice.
                    - love the momentum of the drums, and there is some nice bass in there and cool instrumentation throughout, but the guitar can feel thinner and more twangy than I like in places, but other places it’s nice.
                    - I’ll definitely listen to it again.
                    
                    
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                            Oct 28 2025
                            
                            
                                
Vol. 4
                                Black Sabbath
                            
                    
                    
                            - I won't support Zionists. 
                    - Lucikly, I also find the music pretty boring - it just doesn’t move me, except for small parts like the sudden melody in Snowblind, and Laguna Sunrize is a pretty break from the aggro vibe throughout. I honestly don’t remember any of the album after listening to it (other than Changes, I guess, which is pretty enough, but the artless lyrics take me out of the vibe). I wouldn’t reach for this album again, even if it wasn’t off the table because of Ozzy.
                    - The solo guitar work is pretty great, though.
                    
                    
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                            Oct 29 2025
                            
                            
                                
This Is Fats Domino
                                Fats Domino
                            
                    
                    
                            - I definitely feel like this album deserves to be featured in a History of Contemp. Music course, but I don’t love listening to it as much as I appreciate it. It’s so much the prototype for what’s to come that it doesn’t really feel fresh now that there is so much music to choose from. 
                    - That doesn’t take away from the fact that the music is pleasant and well-played and sung. I also won’t deny that Blueberry Hill is still a banger, and Blue Monday & Troubles of My Own are great. Probably would have loved this album when it came out!
                    - Unfortunately, the production isn’t great, it feels pretty fuzzy, so it can be hard to hear all of the detail.
                    
                    
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                            Oct 30 2025
                            
                            
                                
Siamese Dream
                                The Smashing Pumpkins
                            
                    
                    
                            - Some great songs on here! The musicianship and songwriting are definitely there, imo.
                    - I could use a bit less distortion and understand how people don’t love Billy Corgan’s voice, but it doesn’t really bother me (I don’t, like, love it, but I think it goes with the music).
                    - The first half of the album is a lot better than the second half (except Quiet, which I find boring); after Disarm, I only really like Mayonaise and Sweet Sweet. Soma’s nice, but goes on too long. I’d rate the album higher if it was a lot shorter. 
                    - Corgan kind of seems like an ass, though.
                    
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                            Oct 31 2025
                            
                            
                                
Peter Gabriel
                                Peter Gabriel
                            
                    
                    
                            - Agree with people that this is really all over the place. It’s definitely a mixed bag.
                    - That said, I liked the majority of the songs, primarily on the first half of the album, and of course that includes Solsbury Hill. 
                    - I thought the experimentation was interesting and, for the most part, added to the interest of the songs there. For example, I thought it worked in the first song because the simple verses had that interesting effect in the background before it went all orchestral and hair band, so you expected it to veer into being experimental. And, I liked the kind of organ feel on the Humdrum, but I didn’t like when it went into the wind section. So, sometimes the experimentation worked, and sometimes it distracted. 
                    - Despite liking the majority of the songs, I hated some other ones: Excuse Me (so hokey), Waiting for the Big One and Down the Dolce Vita (and of course those two had to go on forever), I’m looking at you. They were just so extra… holy musical masturbation.
                    
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