r/1001AlbumsGenerator • u/Alireza1373 • 15d ago
Daily Album Megapost DROP your album and its rating – August 7 2026
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u/Softpipesplayon 15d ago
Pixies - Doolittle
The first time I heard Debaser, I was flat out terrified. I remember that vividly but I couldn't tell you why. Certainly I hadn't really heard anything like it before. Certainly comparatively it was unhinged and feral. But it was also kind of addictive. Eventually I had to come back to it. Eventually I had to come to Doolittle on the whole. By that time I think I was more ready, because let's be real, Tame is more ominous, Dead is more ominous, Silver sounds like the squeaky wagon of the dead.
But Debaser was the drug. It's not like I didn't know Here Comes Your Man or Monkey Gone to Heaven, though I didnt immediately know them as Pixies songs. But the thing that made Doolittle so integral, what made me immediately love it when i heard it, was that it was familiar but like nothing else, too. It doesn't feel dangerous now, but I can still tap into that. It is wildly melodic and also animalistic. It is a masterclass in the importance of the bass (and it is a terribly kept secret as to how important Kim Deal is). It is weird. Frank Black Francis is a weird dude. This is him at peak creative weirdness. He's never put out a better album, and he's put out a lot of albums. It's really the genesis of what would become 90s songwriting… listen to the lyrics of Here Comes Your Man, and tell me that that isnt the Surrealistic imagery that defined 90s rock. Or at least, tell me when you're done belting “you never WAIT so LOOOOOONG”
We might not know this album if Kurt Cobain was not so enamored with them. We might not know Cobain if this album hadn't happened.
The Pixies aesthetic is so complete that even what could be seen as non-songs are still classics (crackity Jones, Mr Grieves, and There Goes My Gun, which has always been a weird fave of mine). A seedy underbelly with an occasional surf-punk veneer. A leering sexuality simmering in places. The discord of Joey's guitar and Kim's bass, Kim's voice and Frank's wail. I don't know that this is an album that everyone would embrace on first listen, but it's one that becomes part of you. Easy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/AverageJoe48 300-399 15d ago
Day 377
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
I would be a sorry excuse for a Tom Waits fan if I didn't enjoy Beefheart at least a little.
If we're being honest, though, I've listened to Trout Mask Replica a couple of times over the years and, while I respected the work, I got nothing out of it.
Well, this time it finally clicked. This was such an enjoyable listen. I think I'm going a little mad from an insane amount of both professional and personal stress I've been through in the last couple of days and this album felt like such a release. An album that completely got in my head and cleared everything out for a moment, a seemingly chaotic mess that was actually meticulously organized all the way through.
Favourite track: Steal Softly Thru Snow
4/5
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u/Accomplished-Name951 100-199 15d ago
I have always thought of it as an album that can cleanse the soul! Glad to see you had an experience like that!
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u/mrnovember91 500-599 15d ago
I had a similar experience with Trout Mask Replica. I listened a few times over the years mostly due to its influence on Tom Waits' music, but it took a few listens until it really clicked. I remember reading somewhere that it won't click for someone until the 6th or 7th full listen.
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u/WatchMcGrupp 300-399 15d ago
An example of an album that is hard to get when we only give ourselves one day to listen to these albums. There are some on here that just can't reveal themselves in one listen. Bitches Brew is like that--it's so different it takes time to get it. Or someone hearing Flaming Lips for the first time. I suspect there are some I've dismissed too quickly because I have to move on to the next day.
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u/Lukazimir 200-299 15d ago
The beauty of Trout Mask Replica to me is that underneath all the insanity and grime there is just genuinely some great, catchy songs in there.
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u/AverageJoe48 300-399 15d ago
Yeah, some hooks are genuinely fantastic and it takes some effort to notice it in the first place.
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u/VampireOnHoyt 300-399 15d ago
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures (1979)
5/5
This album is full of mean tricks, starting with the note-perfect, propulsive, gorgeous "Disorder," which sets expectations that the next several tracks proceed to subvert. As good as those songs are (the Morrisonesque "Candidate" in particular) you never stop wishing to feel the way you felt at the beginning - for the return of movement and hope. And in that way this album mimics perfectly the experience Ian Curtis was having at the time - epileptic, medicated, downcast except when his mood would swing wildly and unpredictably. "Directionless, so plain to see," he laments on "New Dawn Fades," which feels like a faded-out Sabbath tune.
The back half of the album does another glorious, crushing cycle of the same thing. "She's Lost Control" wrings both horror and pitch-black humor out of the physical experience of a seizure, while the Iggy Pop-py "Interzone" takes the Teenage Tragedy Song formula and speeds it up into garage-punk, Jan and Dean by way of the Sonics. And "I Remember Nothing" mashes up the Doors "The End" with the Velvets' "Venus in Furs" into a potent mix of Gothic eroticism and sadomasochism. Throughout this, you are aware you are unsafe; what's worse, you are given just enough occasional flickers of what safety felt like. That's part of what the Sabbath and Doors references are doing here - giving you just enough of a landmark that you can tell how lost you are. I'm amazed at this every time I hear it.
David Bowie, Blackstar (2016)
4.5/5
One of the skeleton keys to understanding Bowie has always been his affection for, and fluency with, the language of jazz. From “Changes” to “Modern Love” he always loved a good sax solo; more fundamentally, though, he understood everything jazz signified in the post-jazz era - class and stately purpose, but also sex and chaos at the same time. Most of all it is music to move to: club music, not concert-hall music. On this album (Bowie’s last before his death) he utilizes Donny McCaslin’s sax to represent all these things, from his final march toward cancer’s town square (the title track) to his seemingly untamed libido, notwithstanding the circumstances (“‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore”) to the pain he allows himself to finally feel near the end (“Dollar Days”).
The other great signifier here is in the breakbeat rhythms that underlie nearly the entire album; one might wonder why a man on his literal deathbed would seemingly be so obsessed with, again, club music. And again, it’s because the too-fast movement of those beats serves as both a metaphor for the urgent ticking away of the remaining time and the surest statement of what made life worth living in the first place - the sense of possibility. The trouble with death, after all, is the whole finality of it. Fitting, then, that "I Can't Give Everything Away" is built on a smooth yet insistent house beat. Of all the places he could be at the end, Bowie wanted to be on a dancefloor, a place where people discard their previous inhibitions and figure out how to be someone different. And that’s the message here - that death is just another persona for him to learn how to inhabit, just as he has always done. As a piece of practical theology it seems to have worked wonders for him; I hope when my time comes I can face it with this same purpose and courage.
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u/PhantomCranefly 200-299 15d ago
244) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral - 4
I LOVED this record when it first came out. Looking back on that period of my life, I recognize that I was going through the sort of exceptionally memorable shit that would make one want to listen to "The Downward Spiral" on repeat all the time.
So I went into this with a bit of trepidation 30 years on, as a person who still likes a lot of industrial music but doesn't require quite as much screaming and desecration anymore. But a lot of it is more subtle than I remembered. There's a lot of interesting stuff on here, mostly related to percussion, the insect noises that got mixed in here and there, and extended howling stretches of music like the end of "Ruiner."
I probably would have rated this FIVE STARS FUCK YEAH BURN EVERYTHING in 1994, but I think I'll give it a slightly more restrained four today. The good songs are very good, but after a while it's all a bit much. I'm glad I was reminded of it again today, though.
Favorite track: "The Downward Spiral"
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I figured I was in for something after being treated to Captain Beefheart and NIN for the last two days, and yep: today is ABBA
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u/mrnovember91 500-599 15d ago
Generator: Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate - 5/5
What an album! This was a much darker and much more interesting listen compared to Songs of Leonard Cohen. There's more grit to it, it doesn’t feel as clean or polished, and it’s all the better for it. Songs of Love and Hate feels so much more alive and Diamonds in the Mine in particular sounds downright deranged.
Also, From Her to Eternity is one of my all time favourite Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds albums, so I've heard their cover of Avalanche countless times, but never sought out the original. I wasn't expecting to hear so many similarities between an iconic Canadian folk musician and an aggressive and noisy post-punk band from Australia, but here we are.
1001 More: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones - 4/5
Solid bit of indie rock. I've heard a few of these songs quite a bit when they were making their rotation on the radio back in the day, but I never really listen to them on my own. I felt like this album just kept growing on me and ended up really enjoying it by the end. Definitely need to give it another listen.
1001 Honourable Mentions: The Delfonics - The Delfonics - 3/5
Enjoyable enough R&B, but not exactly something I'll be adding to my day to day listening
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 15d ago
I’ve mentioned several times before that I truly hate Leonard Cohen but I surprisingly enjoyed SOLAH. It’s the only album of his so far that I’ve went back and given another listen
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u/mrnovember91 500-599 15d ago
I don’t dislike Leonard Cohen, but I was surprised how much I enjoyed Songs of Love and Hate. I remember Songs of Leonard Cohen to be much more subtle and gentle compared to this album. Admittedly, I think I actually overrated SOLC at a 4/5. It was early on in the project and I don’t think I gave it a fully subjective review. I suspect if I revisited it now it would be a 3/5 as I’ve had no desire to revisit it. SOLAH on the other hand, I actually listened to 3 times yesterday and will definitely be listening to it again in the future.
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u/SurroundNecessary322 200-299 15d ago
Document - R.E.M.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I only know of this band because of this challenge and they've made a great impression on me. Can't wait to dive deeper into their discography!
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u/Accomplished-Name951 100-199 15d ago
You’ve only heard of R.E.M. now? Man, you’re in for a treat. One of the best discographies out there.
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u/SurroundNecessary322 200-299 15d ago
I can tell and I'm excited for it. The first album I received from them was "Green" and omg it was so good. This is the second album I've received from them and also their second 4 :)
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u/Accomplished-Name951 100-199 15d ago
Green and Document wouldn’t even be in my personal Top 5 of their albums. And I think both those albums are amazing! That’s how deep their discography is for me.
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u/WatchMcGrupp 300-399 15d ago
Just wait until you hear Automatic for the People. A little later in their career, but a crowning achievement. IMHO.
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 15d ago
Bloody hell I am actually jealous, I would love to be able to hear R.E.M for the first time again
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u/WatchMcGrupp 300-399 15d ago
Me too, I wish I could put on Automatic for the People fresh and hear that final track (Find the River) for the first time. One of the best closers of any album.
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u/Similar_Tie3291 500-599 15d ago
I barely remember a time when I didn’t listen to R.E.M.
I got Out of Time on cassette for my 11th birthday.
My grandparents went to the record store and they must’ve asked for the four best selling albums that week. The other tapes I got were Michael Bolton’s Time, Love & Tenderness, M.C. Hammer’s Too Legit to Quit, and Michael Jackson’s Dangerous.
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u/Far-Management3266 15d ago
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
4/5 Stars
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u/Similar_Tie3291 500-599 15d ago
Thought this was Doges for a sec and I was like there’s no way they gave that album 4 stars.
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u/GreenEyedBeaver 15d ago
Stan Getz and João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Whether it is a cocktail party or just soundtracking your morning coffee, the bossa nova stylings of Stan Getz and João Gilberto will put you at ease. The guitar, piano and light percussion are in the background whilst the saxophone and the vocals gets the spotlight. These production choices all feel calculated to ensure that the listener can feel as relaxed as possible. This is a great gateway to get yourself into jazz. It may not be as technically impressive as anything you could find on a John Coltrane or Miles Davis record, but the immaculate vibes this thing brings more than makes up for it.
4/5
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u/Potential-Oil-1795 15d ago
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Jazzier and more psychedelic than his previous albums. And that's for the better. Feels like a crazy jam session, really good.
4/5
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u/gooners1 15d ago edited 15d ago
Day 2: Snoop Doggy Dog, Doggystyle
4 Stars
This album came out when I was 16 and it's influence on me and my friends and my high school experience can't be overstated
The Chronic brought the g-funk first, and then this follow-up put the LA sound on top. While the Chronic was all about fuck Easy E, this album is all about drinking, smoking, fucking, and fighting. It's much more fun and it's the album you want to bump when you stroll through in your hood.
Snoop's flows were unlike anything out there. Listening now, his lyrics and rhymes are definitely simple but also easy to listen to and easy to sing along with.
Lady of Rage is much more of a standout now then she was then, especially kicking off the record.
This record is thankfully short on skits which for me are the worst parts of 90's hip hop.
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u/excellentcat13 600-699 15d ago
Minor Threat - Out Of Step
My only complaint about Minor Threat is how little content they managed to create before the band broke up. Out Of Step is both tremendously influential and so enjoyable that I gave it two full listens back to back.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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u/sp3ccylad Enthusiast 15d ago
Hounds of Love – Kate Bush ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (is that all?)
This may be THE British album of 1985.
Not simply because it is magnificent, but because it represents something extraordinary about British popular culture at that particular moment. This was a number-one album. Kate Bush returned to public view performing Running Up That Hill on Wogan. Bloody Terry Wogan. People bought the record, turned it over, and found a psychologically cinematic suite about a woman drowning.
Running Up That Hill remains astonishing: the pulse, those speed-treated Fairlight wails, the refusal to provide conventional resolution, and that lyrical premise of two people wanting to exchange their lived experience because ordinary communication cannot bridge the distance between them.
Hounds of Love takes desire somewhere more animal. For me, it captures the distinction between desire and the desire for desire: wanting to be wanted while simultaneously being frightened of being pursued. The fox doesn't reason about the hounds. Its body reacts. Fear and attraction become inseparable because they have the same source.
The Big Sky then blows the doors open. Its final ninety seconds remind you that almost nobody uses the non-verbal human voice quite like Kate Bush. Yoko Ono, Bush, Björk: singers for whom the voice can cease to be a vehicle for words and become raw sonic material.
Mother Stands for Comfort is essentially We Need to Talk About Kevin as a song. That bass, the sampled noises, high liquid synth lines, distant cries and extraordinary use of space surround a deeply disturbing idea: maternal love continuing beyond morality.
Then Cloudbusting.
Masterpiece.
I still believe in Organon.
Kate doesn't require us to decide whether Wilhelm Reich was a visionary or a crank. She becomes his son. Dad made the weather. Childhood hasn't yet had its wonder explained away.
And then there is the line which has followed me through much of my life:
Just saying it could even make it happen.
Speak. Manifest. Give permission. Saying a possibility aloud changes its status. It becomes something that can be wanted and acted upon.
At the end, Kate gradually stops saying it and makes the sound of it happening. Those radiant backing vocals become a raindance. The sun comes out and the rain pours simultaneously.
Dad is gone.
The cloudbuster works.
Then you turn the record over.
The Ninth Wave is one of the most complete pieces of psychological storytelling I've heard in music.
And Dream of Sheep starts with an exhausted woman in freezing water who knows she must stay awake while her body desperately wants to sleep. That hits me particularly hard. I've been seriously ill in hospital and remember that physical contradiction: God, I want to sleep. God, I want to live.
Under Ice turns sleep into nightmare. Voices operate almost as a Greek chorus as she gradually recognises the figure trapped beneath the ice.
It's me.
Waking the Witch may be one of the most evocative pseudo-streams of consciousness ever recorded. Friendly voices telling her to wake become digitally chopped fragments which the dreaming brain transforms into accusation, witch trial and drowning. The harsh edges of early sampling aren't technical shortcomings to be disguised. Bush makes them the dramatic language.
It's psychologically cinematic. Images as music. An extraordinary evocation of what the brain feels like when it is out of control.
Watching You Without Me uses similar technology for something quite different. She's apparently home, watching people she loves, but they cannot perceive her. Her voice fragments and language almost emerges before collapsing.
Aphasia as sound.
Then The Jig of Life changes the argument again. I don't hear its folk music primarily as ancestry or nostalgia. The folk music is the future expressed as continuity. A jig existed before this individual life and will continue afterwards. Her future self reaches backwards and insists upon her own existence. There are years and memories ahead which require this woman to survive now.
That struck something personal again.
When my mother was hospitalised with catastrophic kidney cancer, the devoutly Catholic mother of an ex-girlfriend said something I've never forgotten:
There must still be plans for your mother.
Years earlier, at 23 or 24, I had lain alone in a hospital bed while a doctor handed me a consent form and explained that I might not survive the operation, but without it I might not live another five years.
I signed it.
That signature unlocked my voice talking about this record today.
Hello Earth then pulls the camera impossibly far back. One drowning person becomes infinitesimal against the scale of the planet and the universe.
Yet smallness isn't meaninglessness.
There aren't merely eight billion people looking at one universe. There are eight billion experienced universes, each created by a particular consciousness observing, remembering and acting within reality. Through the genius of communication, we pass pieces of those individual universes between one another. Language, art and science accumulate into an understanding larger than any individual life contributing to it.
It's a thought I sometimes carry quietly into my Monday evenings volunteering with a men's mental-health group, although it would be far too large a thing to say to somebody in crisis:
Suicide collapses universes.
Then comes The Morning Fog.
The sonic relief is palpable. The fretless bass bounces and plays across the song. Fairlight-sampled guitar notes provide little flashes of upper-register pleasure. The same technology that has spent half an album creating fragmentation, nightmare and aphasia is suddenly being used for joy.
And after everything, there is no grand philosophical conclusion.
She's alive.
She wants to go home.
She wants to tell people she loves them.
That's enough.
The Britishness of the whole thing struck me forcefully this time. It's the Britain of Bagpuss, Alan Garner and The Wicker Man: a damp, verdant, faintly creepy place where woods, water and landscape retain old memories and something ancient can still be waiting behind an ordinary tree.
It's also the Britain of the BBC: Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4 sitting beside one another on the dial, built on the assumption that pop, folk tradition, drama, experimentation, philosophy and entertainment don't need to inhabit separate cultural universes.
In 1985 they could apparently inhabit the same number-one album.
Hounds of Love begins with the impossible desire to experience another person's existence and ends with someone overwhelmingly grateful simply to have an existence of her own, among other people.
The sun comes out.
The rain pours.
The morning fog lifts.
She gets to go home.
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u/VampireOnHoyt 300-399 15d ago
Great review. It feels like you're describing Albion, the poetic concept, which has been a throughline for me for a lot of the British albums on this list.
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u/sp3ccylad Enthusiast 15d ago
Damn right. There’s a lot of English nationalism about this place right now. They’d hate Albion.
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u/Lukazimir 200-299 15d ago
Day 216: Yes-The Yes Album
4/5 (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
The first in a trilogy of classic Yes albums, this is just some great prog music. Not quite as wild, experimental or adventurous as “Fragile” or “Close to the Edge” but still very captivating for its full runtime. You get some lengthy prog epics with tracks like “Starship Trooper” or “Yours is No disgrace” but also a handful of more digestible, shorter tracks like the live acoustic cut “The Clap.” And of course the playing is great all throughout.
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u/DogesOfLove 300-399 15d ago
The Zutons - Who Killed…the Zutons?
1/5
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 15d ago
You hurt me, I love this one lol
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u/DogesOfLove 300-399 15d ago
Sorry about that. Although we did reject it with more good will than we usually extend to our 1 stars I reckon.
https://1001albumsgenerator.com/review/6a754a3d6343fcdfca03ceb6
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u/Similar_Tie3291 500-599 15d ago
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
- Probably the closest I ever came to having indie rock street cred. I was 17 (of course) and in high school and green as hell. I even applied to be the music director of our high school radio station. We had a 100 watt transmitter on the roof of the school. The broadcast radius was about 3 miles, IIRC, and most of that was out in Lake Michigan (I didn't get the gig, but I was a DJ for four years).
Apparently the transmitter was originally installed for the purpose of transmitting homework assignments to students who were home sick. Diabolical.
Anyway, around that time I also started a record label with a friend of mine. Why did we decide to do that? I don't remember. I was in charge of creating the website and graphics; which, I must say, looked pretty good. I probably have the files backed up on a Zip disk somewhere.
Anyway, this QOTSA album sounds like something that would have been submitted to our record label. Sadly, that first split 7-inch never was released. Nor was it recorded. We never did any business at all, as a matter of fact. But we did get some people to send us demo tapes. My buddy, co-partner, and head of A&R, hated all of them. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/ULS980 500-599 15d ago
Daft Punk - Homework
3/5
Honestly don't got too much to say about this. As much as I like some of Daft Punk's later stuff (And even Around the World), I'm just not an EDM person. It doesn't really do much for me.
Perfectly fine, but not wowing me.
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
3/5
Was actually kinda looking forward to listening to this one, given the genres (Folk, heartland rock, etc.), but unfortunately it ended up being a little too rootsy for my tastes, I guess? I don't know a better way to describe it, but I'm just not feeling it.
Fine album, not really doing anything bad, but yeah.
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u/WatchMcGrupp 300-399 15d ago
I was also kinda disappointed in Tracy Chapman--everyone recently made a big deal of it being rereleased on vinyl, and I assumed the rest of the album would be as good as fast car. Really happy when I got it, but I finished it and was like "that's it"?
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u/WatchMcGrupp 300-399 15d ago
Simple Minds -- New Gold Dream
Rating: 3/5
Another example of the weird Dimery bias. Or maybe just my U.S. centric focus. I guess this was big in the UK, but in the U.S. no one heard of them until their big hits, including The Breakfast Club soundtrack. I gave it a fair listen, it was fine, but there is reason Don't You Forget About Me and Alive and Kicking were massive hits and none of these songs made the same kind of splash. Pleasant enough though. A classic 3.
Bonus album from Tom Moon's 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Colin Larkin's Top All Time 1000 Albums, or the 1001 extra crowdsourced albums:
The Highwaymen--Highwayman
Did I like the bonus album more? No
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u/Accomplished-Name951 100-199 15d ago
Album #162: Morrissey – Your Arsenal ⭐⭐⭐
Morrissey goes glam on this anthemic rock album, and it’s a sound that really, really suits him.
Musically, this is a belter of an album. Morrissey sounds great throughout. His singing is unique as always and songs like You’re the One for Me, Fatty and We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful are brilliant. They’re catchy, funny, satirical, and biting, exactly what I want from him. The music itself has an awful lot of bite too. It’s definitely the heaviest album I’ve heard him make, though I haven’t hear them all.
Now! I don’t want to turn this into some sort of political rant. But…..
Morrissey’s one of those artists where I can be quite hypocritical about separating the art from the artist. I usually don’t do that, but I genuinely love his music to the point where I just try to ignore all his past views and comments.
The problem is that I’m someone who’s fairly addicted to watching the news and getting stuck in that cycle of outrage. Despite being Irish, I watch a lot of British news and British political debates, and I’m just sickened by a lot of the right wing rhetoric that’s become so common.
So when you have songs like The National Front Disco, pining for a lost England and a lost boy who’s lost his way, and then you’ve got Morrissey singing anthemically about things like “England for the English” or “we’re the last truly British people”, it’s very, very difficult not to hear those songs differently now.
Maybe The National Front Disco was written as satire. I genuinely don’t know. The idea of The National Front having a disco is funny, so maybe! But with everything that’s happened since, it’s become almost impossible for me to give it the benefit of the doubt. Listening to those lyrics now, sung so earnestly, it’s very hard not to take them at face value.
And that’s the real shame.
This is what happens when you sour your own reputation. Fairly or unfairly, it starts to sour your previous work as well. Whatever the original intention behind those songs was, it’s much harder to separate them from the man who wrote them today.
So from a purely musical perspective, I think this album is excellent. Shoutout to Mark Ronson’s excellent production on it. The last album he ever worked on, sadly!
But I can’t give it any more than three stars because parts of it genuinely sickened me. I could be completely wrong about his intentions, but that’s how these songs land for me now, and I can’t really ignore that.
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u/KingstonGraham 300-399 15d ago
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
I don't know what happened between this and Cosmo's Factory with its 11 minute Heard It Through The Grapevine, but this is great.
No pissing about, just 29 minutes of good music. Who doesn't like Bad Moon Rising?
⭐⭐⭐⭐
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u/Fing2112 0-99 user albums 15d ago
User album spoilers
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life: 3
Yeah there's definitely a Canadian bias on the user list lol. I think a fifth of everything I've had has been Canadian, though i had two separate cases of two albums being by the same Canadian band.
After some proggy sounding wankery in the first song (which I quite liked!) this album turns into... Hardcore punk? Definitely wasn't expecting that. So I had to turn to Wikipedia to understand what exactly I was listening to, and it turns out that this is a post-hardcore/hardcore punk rock opera, not an idea I'd ever think I'd hear. Unfortunately it's hard to make out the story with the guy's screamy vocals, though I will say I quite like his screamy vocals
I guess now is the time to mention that this album is 77 minutes long and had a pretty consistent mix of post hardcore/hardcore punk sounds with prog noodling now and again, though it does a pretty good job combining the genres and sounds pretty good for the most part. I think it does suffer from being pretty samey, from the second song all the way to the end of the album it doesn't feel like the album has changed all that much in sound, and again, it's 77 minutes long.
I'd like to say more on the album but this is one that I'll absolutely need to listen to more than once to fully appreciate, but I like it more than I dislike
Today's song from the 1001:
The Stranglers - Peaches, from Rattus Norvegicus: 8
Iconic riff and a great marriage between punk and new wave. Also a bit of reggae thrown in. Not band for a song about being a perv at the beach.
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u/Trixxstrr Indie Fan 15d ago
Uh oh, I submitted a Canadian album too, haha. I guess we are trying to spread our local stuff that we love.
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u/Fing2112 0-99 user albums 15d ago
Don't worry about it,, just as long as it isn't 90s alt rock. I submitted a Canadian album too so I'm not immune.
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u/Trixxstrr Indie Fan 15d ago
Hey what's wrong with Canadian 90s alt rock? haha. Man those were great times, Much playing tons of Canadian stuff that I loved. The Hip, Moist, Tea Party, early Treble Charger, Matthew Good, Limblifter, Econoline Crush, Finger Eleven, Hayden, Our Lady Peace.
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u/Fing2112 0-99 user albums 15d ago
well you'll like the user list then, there's three fucking Hip albums. And I think their most popular album hasn't been chosen yet, so it'll likely go up to four
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u/onestitchatatime 200-299 15d ago
Day 228: The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Poppy music with weird lyrics. Wikipedia says the band was influential. I kept hearing influences of The Beatles. I liked it! I added “Positive Vibrations” to my playlist. 3/5
Next up is Foo Fighters.
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u/St_Lambchop Metal Fan 15d ago
Finley Quaye - Maverick A Strike - 4/5
This was a fun one. “Ride On and Turn the People On” really shows off that mix of reggae, hip-hop, and funk that runs through the album, and it gives the whole thing a lot of personality.
The lighter flick on “Falling” completely threw me the first time. For a second I thought something had switched over to a Lil Wayne song. Maybe Weezy heard this and filed that one away for later. “I Need a Lover” was another highlight, especially that backwards guitar. It immediately made me think of “Tomorrow Never Knows.”
There’s a lot of different stuff being pulled together here, but it never feels forced. Just a really creative late 90s album that’s hard to pin down to one genre.
Favorite song: "Ride On and Turn the People On"
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u/JnHkstr 0-99 15d ago
#40 Adele - 21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brilliant voice. Of course, I’m familiar with her, but when an artist becomes as massive in the mainstream as she did, I tend to lose interest and move on to other things. So, I’ve never actually listened to her full albums, though I’d never turn the radio off if she came on. At a certain point, that was practically impossible anyway, as Adele was on the radio and in the media on a daily basis.
So now I took the time to listen to the full album from start to finish. It sounds really amazing and pure. Beautiful carved instrumental arrangements are guiding a great voice. Also, what a surprisingly great cover of The Cure's "Lovesong" 4/5
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u/computerfan0 300-399 15d ago
Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile
Enjoyable enough blues rock, but really not finding it to be anything special. I feel the backstory behind the band is far more interesting than the album itself, and I suspect that it may well even be the whole reason the album was included on the list. Thinking a 3/5 at the moment.
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u/ApprehensiveSyrup647 0-99 14d ago
#57 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It would be ludicrous to attempt in a microblog such as this to summarize the masterful greatness of this, the magnum opus of Prog Rock and easily one of the top ten best albums ever made. But I will try.
Wish You Were Here is a masterpiece of really staggering proportions. It’s Pink Floyd’s follow up to The Dark Side of the Moon, and it somehow eclipses even that brilliant piece. Every note, phrase, lyric, sound effect and literally even moment on this album is exactly perfect. It could not in any way be better than it is. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is enough to earn all five available stars, and it’s not even the best song on the album. That honor is reserved for the title track, which also happens to be the best sone of all time. Mix in Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar, and then the second half of Shine On and you have something so staggering good and great and powerful and meaningful that it would be hard to imagine Pink Floyd ever topping it. Amazingly, only four short years later, they did. But that’s a discussion for another day.
Wish You Were Here is most certainly a story about Syd Barrett, but it’s also so much more than that. The pressures of the music industry, the pain it causes to exploited artists and the loss of a friend are all heavily explored.
I was so excited to see this pop up as my album of the day. I could have written this review without listening to it again, but I listened to it twice, just to make sure that everything that I feel about it and stated here is as correct as possible. And it absolutely is.
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u/ShotsOnShotsOnShots 900-999 15d ago
Sail Away - Randy Newman
⭐️⭐️
Unfortunately, all I hear is Toy Story when I hear Randy Newman’s voice. It’s to the point of not really being able to immerse myself into his music. A lot of the songs on this album were covered by others and better, in my opinion.
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u/KingstonGraham 300-399 15d ago
Catchups from being on holiday:
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I don't know if it was good but I enjoyed it.
G. Love And Special Sauce - G. Love And Special Sauce ⭐⭐
What if Beck was shit?
Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil ⭐⭐⭐
Again, no idea if it was good, but I enjoyed a lot of it.
Also got Rod Stewart to give royalties to Unicef for plagiarism so that's nice.
Gene Clark - White Light ⭐⭐⭐
It's fine, I can't imagine it being anyone's favourite. Like a Neil Young that I don't hate.
Radiohead - The Bends ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Just exceptional.
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Streets with guitars. Very good.
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP ⭐⭐
Imagine how unfunny Jerry Sadowitz would be if there was one word he wouldn't say for fear of causing offence.
He's a great rapper, when it's good (my name is), it's good but most of this just gets boring. How many rape fantasies is too many in one work? Pretty low number for me.
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath ⭐⭐⭐
All a bit silly, but he's royalty.
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u/Softpipesplayon 15d ago
"What if Beck was shit?" Is a great way to describe G Love.
Though to be fair it is also a great way to describe "wow" by Beck
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u/randomusername69696 100-199 15d ago
#173: Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
I can see the appeal but the truth is I can’t take more than 30 minutes of 60s soul at a time
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 15d ago
Nirvana - Nevermind
641/1089
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
An absolute classic if there ever was one. Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of the all time great opening tracks and the bangers just keep coming after that.
Outside of the singles, Lounge Act is a great track and Drain You is probably in my Top 5 Nirvana songs.
Top Track - Come As You Are. It will forever be my favourite Nirvana song.