Day 1 — Metallica — Metallica (Black Album) (1991)
Listened: Feb 23, 2026
Genre: Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Vibe: Haunting, aggressive, melodic
Highlights:
• Enter Sandman
• The Unforgiven
• Nothing Else Matters
Impression: Giant sound. Very melodic for how heavy it is. Good balance for my tastes and makes heavy metal palatable for me.
Rating: 3.0/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 2 — Norah Jones — Come Away With Me (2002)
Listened: Feb 24, 2026
Genre: Jazz-Pop / Soft Soul / Adult Contemporary
Vibe: Bluesy, jazzy, dreamy, soothing soul with a little country
Highlights:
• Don’t Know Why
• Cold Cold Heart
• Feelin’ The Same Way
• Turn Me On
Impression: Very dreamy, soothing vibe combining many favorite genres with the perfect voice for the overall vibe.
Rating: 2.9/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 3 — Willie Colón & Rubén Blades — Siembra (1978)
Listened: Feb 25, 2026
Genre: Salsa / Latin Soul
Vibe: Fun, Latin dancing, energetic
Highlights:
• Plástico
• Pedro Navaja
• María Lionza
Impression: I enjoyed it for not having listened to Salsa music much.
Rating: 2.8/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Probably
Day 4 — Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Listened: Feb 26, 2026
Genre: Blues Rock / Hard Rock
Vibe: Bluesy hard rock
Highlights:
• Whole Lotta Love
• What Is and What Should Never Be
• The Lemon Song
• Thank You
• Heartbreaker
• Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman)
• Ramble On
• Moby Dick
• Bring It On Home
Impression: Great album from start to finish. Love the blues inspired rock, huge guitar riffs, epic rhythm section and perfect voice for it all.
Rating: 4.6/5
Keep songs? Yes — all added to favorites
Revisit album? Absolutely
Day 5 — Pixies — Bossanova (1990)
Listened: Feb 27, 2026
Genre: Alternative Rock / Surf Punk
Vibe: Spacey, distorted, dynamic alternative rock
Highlights:
• Velouria
• All Over the World
• Dig for Fire
Impression: Fun, fast-paced spacey surf rock. Appreciate its cultural significance even if not fully in my lane.
Rating: 2.4/5
Keep songs? Favorites only
Revisit album? Maybe
Day 5/6 — Willie Nelson — Stardust (1978)
Listened: Feb 27–28, 2026
Genre: Country Jazz / Torch & Twang
Vibe: Chill country music with a little jazz
Highlights:
• Georgia On My Mind
• Blue Skies
• All of Me
• Unchained Melody
• Someone to Watch Over Me
Impression: Nice album of covers fusing country and jazz. Really grew on me by the third listen.
Rating: 3.7/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 6/7/8 — Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
Listened: Feb 28 – Mar 2, 2026
Genre: Folk Rock / Heartland Punk
Vibe: Chill acoustic to start with heavy lyrics leading to harder electric punk-influenced rock
Highlights:
• My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
• Thrasher
• Pocahontas
• Powderfinger
• Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Impression: Took more listens to start digesting this album. Lyrics need attention — once they land the album opens up completely.
Rating: 3.4/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 8/9 — Erykah Badu — Mama’s Gun (2000)
Listened: Mar 2–3, 2026
Genre: Neo-Soul / Funk Soul
Vibe: Chill funky R&B and soul
Highlights:
• Didn’t Cha Know
• My Life
• … & On
• In Love With You (feat. Stephen Marley)
• Bag Lady
• Green Eyes
Impression: Love the mix of R&B and soul with funk. Beautiful voice and great album top to bottom.
Rating: 3.2/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 9 — Black Sabbath — Black Sabbath (1970)
Listened: Mar 3, 2026
Genre: Proto-Metal / Doom Metal
Vibe: Dark horror heavy metal
Highlights:
• The Wizard
• Wasp / Behind the Wall of Sleep / Bassically / N.I.B.
• A Bit of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning
Impression: Great from start to finish. Great riffs and dark lyrics create an epically haunting vibe that defined the genre.
Rating: 3.5/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 10 — Goldfrapp — Felt Mountain (2000)
Listened: Mar 4, 2026
Genre: Electronica / Art Pop (Cinematic)
Vibe: Dreamy, cinematic, haunting electronic
Highlights:
• Human
Impression: Very cinematic and atmospheric with haunting vocals and unique electronic production. Feels almost like a dark movie soundtrack.
Rating: 1.0/5
Keep songs? Human only
Revisit album? No
Day 11 — David Bowie — Station to Station (1976)
Listened: Mar 6–7, 2026
Genre: Art Rock / Glam Rock / Proto-New Wave
Vibe: Cold, hypnotic, theatrical — cocaine-fueled late-night Berlin energy with soul influences
Highlights:
• Station to Station
• Golden Years
• Word on a Wing
Impression: Not necessarily my style of rock but I was able to enjoy it after a few listens. Enjoyed Golden Years right away while others grew on me.
Rating: 3.1/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 12 — Lorde — Melodrama (2017)
Listened: Mar 7, 2026
Genre: Indie Pop / Art Pop / Electropop
Vibe: Heartbreak driven and emotionally raw, empowering, melancholic theatrical pop
Highlights:
• Green Light
• Sober
• The Louvre
• Hard Feelings/Loveless
• Writer in the Dark
• Supercut
• Perfect Places
Impression: Great album from top to bottom. This is my type of pop. Great energy and lyrics.
Rating: 3.5/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 13/14 — Gillian Welch — Time (The Revelator) (2001)
Listened: Mar 8–9, 2026
Genre: Americana / Folk / Alternative Country
Vibe: Stark, sparse, literary — two guitars and two voices painting dark American portraits
Highlights:
• Revelator
• I Dream a Highway
Impression: Lyric driven folk that grows each listen. Not my favorite.
Rating: 2.2/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Maybe
Day 14/15 — Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Listened: Mar 9, 2026
Genre: Hip-Hop / Rap
Vibe: Angry, playful lyrical deep wordplay with perfect production for his groundbreaking style
Highlights:
• Kill You
• Stan (feat. Dido)
• Who Knew
• The Way I Am
• The Real Slim Shady
• I’m Back
• Marshall Mathers
• Drug Ballad
• Amityville (feat. Bizarre)
• Bitch Please II (feat. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Alvin Joiner & Nate Dogg)
• Under the Influence (feat. D12)
• Criminal
Impression: Loved this album as a 9th grader when it came out and love it now. Top to bottom great album.
Rating: 4.7/5
Keep songs? Absolutely
Revisit album? For sure
Day 15 — Korn — Follow The Leader (1998)
Listened: Mar 9, 2026
Genre: Nu-Metal / Alternative Metal / Rap-Metal
Vibe: Aggressive, angsty nu-metal being formed with metal and hip-hop being fused
Highlights:
• Freak On a Leash
• Children of the Korn (feat. Ice Cube)
• All In the Family (feat. Fred Durst)
Impression: Childhood classic and one of my first albums owned. Holds up better than expected as a defining document of the nu-metal era — the hip-hop and metal fusion was genuinely innovative for 1998. Nostalgia aside, the groove and energy still hit.
Rating: 2.9/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Probably
Day 16 — Scott Walker — Scott 2 (1968)
Listened: Mar 10, 2026
Genre: Orchestral Pop / Baroque Pop / Sunshine Pop
Vibe: Lush, cinematic late-60s orchestral pop — sweeping strings, a velvet baritone voice, and surprisingly witty, darkly comic lyrics beneath the glamour
Highlights:
• Jackie
• The Black Sheep Boy
• The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
• Next
• Plastic Palace People
• The Girls and the Dogs
Impression: Fun late 60s pop. Good voice and funny, engaging lyrics beneath the lavish orchestral production. More depth than the polished surface suggests.
Rating: 3.7/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 17 — Bruce Springsteen — Nebraska (1982)
Listened: Mar 11–16, 2026
Genre: Folk Rock / Heartland Rock / Americana
Vibe: Raw, desolate acoustic Springsteen — home-recorded demos that became a masterpiece, painting bleak portraits of working-class American desperation
Highlights:
• Atlantic City
• State Trooper
• Open All Night
Impression: Took a while to grow on me but ended up enjoying it. The home-recorded quality gives it an intimacy that polished production never could — feels like eavesdropping on someone’s darkest thoughts.
Rating: 3.4/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Probably
Day 18 — The White Stripes — White Blood Cells (2001)
Listened: Mar 16, 2026
Genre: Garage Rock / Blues Rock / Alternative Rock
Vibe: Raw, stripped-down blues-driven garage rock — just guitar and drums creating a sound bigger than it has any right to be, classic rock energy filtered through lo-fi punk attitude
Highlights:
• Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
• Hotel Yorba
• I’m Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman
• Fell in Love with a Girl
• Little Room
• The Union Forever
• We’re Going to Be Friends
• I Think I Smell a Rat
• I Can’t Wait
• I Can Learn
Impression: Great classic rock sound with great guitar riffs from top to bottom. Jack White nails the melodic guitar riffs alongside the vocals and Meg White is a perfect minimalist foil on drums. Remarkable that two people make this much noise and this much melody simultaneously.
Rating: 4.3/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Definitely
Day 19 — Ravi Shankar — The Sounds of India (1957)
Listened: Mar 16–17, 2026
Genre: Indian Classical / Hindustani Classical / World Music
Vibe: Meditative and educational — a guided journey through Indian classical music, building from individual sitar and tabla lessons into energetic, spiritual raga performances
Highlights:
• Máry-Bihág
• Bhimpalasi
Impression: Enjoyed learning how the sitar and percussion work individually and together. The narrated structure made it genuinely interesting as both a listening and educational experience.
Rating: 2.1/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Maybe
Day 20 — Drive-By Truckers — Southern Rock Opera (2002)
Listened: Mar 18–19, 2026
Genre: Southern Rock / Heartland Rock / Alternative Country
Vibe: Fun, badass double album — scorching guitar riffs and solos carrying deeply literary lyrics about Southern identity, pride, contradiction and the mythology of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Highlights:
• Ronnie and Neil
• 72 (This Highway’s Mean)
• Dead, Drunk, and Naked
• Guitar Man Upstairs
• Birmingham
• The Southern Thing
• Let There Be Rock
• Plastic Flowers On the Highway
• Cassie’s Brother
• Life In the Factory
• Shut Up and Get On the Plane
• Greenville to Baton Rouge
• Angels and Fuselage
Impression: Really fun badass double album. Had heard of Drive-By Truckers because of becoming a big Jason Isbell fan but this exceeded expectations. Great lyrics and the guitars rip throughout. A love letter to the South that doesn’t flinch from its contradictions.
Rating: 4.5/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Probably regularly
Day 21 — Jorge Ben Jor — África Brasil (1976)
Listened: Mar 19, 2026
Genre: Brazilian Funk / Samba-Soul / Afrobeat-influenced Pop
Vibe: Fun Latin music infused with funk and pop
Highlights:
• Ponta de Lança Africano
• Taj Mahal
• Xica da Silva
Impression: I enjoyed it despite not understanding the lyrics because of the relentless energy and funk infused into the music.
Rating: 2.7/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Probably
Day 22 — Ella Fitzgerald — Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book (1959)
Listened: Mar 20–22, 2026
Genre: Vocal Jazz / Great American Songbook / Traditional Pop
Vibe: Jazzy vocals and a lush orchestral big band make for a beautifully epic catalog of timeless American songs
Highlights:
• Sam and Delilah
• Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
• Things Are Looking Up
• That Certain Feeling
• Someone to Watch Over Me
• Clap Yo’ Hands
• Stiff Upper Lip
• Strike Up the Band
• He Loves and She Loves
• Treat Me Rough
• Slap That Bass
• I Got Rhythm
• They Can’t Take That Away From Me
Impression: Really grew on me the more I listened. Ella’s voice is so perfect and pristine, complemented by an epic orchestra throughout.
Rating: 3.2/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes
Day 23 — Fleetwood Mac — Rumours (1977)
Listened: Mar 23–24, 2026
Genre: Soft Rock / Pop Rock / Classic Rock
Vibe: Energetic pop rock with dramatic relationship vocals and lyrics that are raw and relatable, fueled by a strong rhythm section, melodic guitar riffs and solos
Highlights:
• Second Hand News
• Dreams
• Never Going Back Again
• Don’t Stop
• Go Your Own Way
• The Chain
• You Make Loving Fun
• I Don’t Want to Know
• Gold Dust Woman
Impression: Loved the entire album except for a couple of songs. Grew up on this album as a kid because my mom loved Fleetwood Mac and I definitely inherited that love for Stevie Nicks and the band.
Rating: 4.6/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Absolutely
Day 24 — Michael Jackson — Off the Wall (1979)
Listened: Mar 24–25, 2026
Genre: Funk / Soul / Disco / R&B
Vibe: Late 70s disco energy with classic Jackson funk, soul and R&B touches
Highlights:
• Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
• Rock With You
• Off the Wall
• Girlfriend
• I Can’t Help It
• It’s the Falling in Love
Impression: Not a big fan of pop and disco but Michael Jackson’s natural R&B, soul and funk make this an enjoyable album for me.
Rating: 4.0/5
Keep songs? Yes
Revisit album? Yes