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Fleetwood Mac · 1 likes

5/5

This is an album everyone and their mothers know. The radio mainstays (Dreams, Go Your Own Way, The Chain, and You Make Loving Fun) are well-known for a reason. They really hold up all these years later. The other songs on the album feel even more significant than the hits. Most of the other tracks have a sense of sadness, melencholy, and desparation that balances the album out. Songbird is a clear standout that gets sadder the more you understand the lyrics. Gold Dust Woman is a perfect closer. Overall, this is a classic.

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Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Starts out with a lot of funk-style guitar and rhythms, then the album ends on dark somber tracks. Sounds like Adrian Belew is in this one on lead guitar.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Their first album Definately Maybe has great moments like Supersonic, Cigarettes and Alcohol, and Married With Children. My challenge with this album is that I know their next albums will see Oasis sharpening their writing and developing these ideas int better songwriting. For those who heard the album on first release it probably made a bigger impact.

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Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

It was good, but I wish I had more musical knowledge to appreciate why. The opening track has some fun shifting tempos, and Paul Chambers' bass playing always stands out. I think I need more exposure and understanding of jazz to really understand this album.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

I'm not really into Janis Joplin, but there were some songs I liked. Piece of my Heart is amazing. Summertime is a classic. Other than that, it was a pretty freewheeling blues-rock album. Probably one that I'd put on in the background, but not an album with much more than that.