One of the albums of all time.

Pink Floyd's "The Wall"

Steely Dan 4/9: Nice chill sounds on this Steely Dan album. Our boys continue to be masters of their draft on Katy Lied. Honestly, this record is solid all around with great jazzy instrumentals and enjoyable hooks aplenty. However, this record didn't particularly excite me for most of its runtime. I found this one to be very good background music, but I probably wont rush to come back to it anytime soon. Doctor Wu is my favorite moment of this album, but nothing here is bad.

David Bowie 25/25: I admit I have a special bias in favor of Blackstar, as it was the first and only David Bowie album that I feel like I participated in the release of. I remember listening to this the day it dropped and loving the whole thing. I still love this record, it's probably one of the most honest and revealing explorations of death that anyone has ever made. He experiments here with a very foreboding form of jazz that fits the atmosphere perfectly and really makes for a great listen. ... read more

David Bowie 24/25: This is a fantastic return to music for Bowie. I really love the harder, more rocking sound that Bowie returns to for this album. This record is also consistently great unlike almost any Bowie record maybe since "Heroes" and definitely since Scary Monsters. I really appreciate the reflective tone here and the album cover is brilliant (not lazy ffs). I found the songwriting to be some of his best ever here, certainly more world-weary than he has been before. Some ... read more

David Bowie 23/25: The last album before his decade long hiatus from music. This one was surprisingly much better than I had expected. I was impressed with a lot of the sound of this album and thought it held up pretty well next to Heathen (though that album is better). I feel that this record is at it's weakest in the two songs after the intro, but after that it only improved and it kept my attention for the rest of its runtime. The most enjoyable songs here are New Killer Star, The Loneliest ... read more

Talking Head 1/8: Wow this album is a lot of fun. David Byrne's energy is all over the place and I already love it. The second half easily beats the first in terms of both enjoyment and overall song quality, which is a bit of a drawback. Still, the strength of the second half quickly makes up for some of the first's weaknesses. I really like the funky backing tracks that the band are able to create here. A strong star for Talking Heads. Top songs are Don't Worry About the Government, Psycho ... read more

David Bowie 22/25: Heathen is actually a pretty damn good record. Finally Bowie returns to the weird places that made him a star. This is Bowie's first album in a while were I find myself excited to see where he will go next. This is undoubtedly his best release since Let's Dance and I would say is even more consistent than that album. Heathen is a very solid return to rock for David Bowie. The tracks here that I most liked were Sunday, Cactus and Heathen (The Rays).

Led Zeppelin 2/8: Wow, this felt like a huge step down from their first. I recognize that they worked more on the experimentation, but it doesn't feel like it really helps the band much. I didn't get the fun energy that I got from the first album here at all. Really listening to this I didn't feel anything at all. I wouldn't be surprised if I end up disliking this band if they continue in this direction.

David Bowie 21/25: I am pretty disappointed with this one honestly. With 1. Outside and Earthling, Bowie was really starting to climb his way back up into fantastic music, and it very much feels like he threw that all away here. This might be the only record by Bowie so far that felt truly and completely generic without any of the usual spark that Bowie brings to the table. I can't even give any song recommendations this time, because for me there weren't any highlights. Absolutely a low point ... read more

David Bowie 20/25: It's pretty hard to rate Earthling, it really does get some things right, while failing miserably at others. This is probably the most interesting and experimental Bowie has been since the Berlin Trilogy. However, that being said Earthling is not as thoroughly enjoyable the whole way through as records like Scary Monsters or Let's Dance. One problem with this project is that the second half is much weaker than the first and I often find myself getting bored around "The ... read more

Steely Dan 3/9: This is my favorite Steely Dan album so far. Some really incredible tunes in here, cool jazzy production as well as vocals. This record is extremely smooth and it makes it easy to groove out to the tracks on here. Some easy highlights are Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Any Major Dude and Pretzel Logic. Some of my personal favorites were Barrytown, which has great storytelling and an infectious hook, and Charlie Freak which has an great building tension throughout the song.

David Bowie 19/25: Bowie finally bucks the trend of bad albums with 1. Outside. While not his best, this record certainly is a huge improvement over the last few and is the best thing he's done since Let's Dance. One big issue with this album is you really feel it's length once you get deeper into the project. I feel that adding as many interludes as Bowie did wasn't really necessary and really makes the record drag after a while. With all that said, I love tracks like Hallo Spaceboy, We Prick ... read more

David Bowie 18/25: On first listen this is probably the most "nothing" album I've heard from the guy. It's not shockingly bad or anything, it's just that I expect better from someone that I consider to be one of the most creative and talented music acts of all time. I suppose I might rate it less harshly were it not David Bowie making this record. I also kind of like the weirdness of Pallas Athena, which is my favorite track here. Overall, it's an improvement over his last two, but ... read more

David Bowie 17/25: Another poor showing from David Bowie. Really not much to say here, It's not bad enough to really be worth listening to ironically. Similarly to the last album, I only like one song on the entire album, and this time it's Time Will Crawl. Nothing else stuck out to me while listening and it felt like Bowie really wasn't giving it his all.

Led Zeppelin 1/8: Admittedly I have never really been able to get into Led Zeppelin before this revisit, however I was really quite impressed by their debut. This is an extremely solid blues rock record. Jimmy Page really sticks out as an incredibly talented guitarist right from the first album. The songs that stood out to me where Babe I'm Gonna Leave You and Dazed and Confused.

David Bowie 16/25: Man this one is quite weak, it's really a much less interesting Let's Dance. Other than Loving The Alien, which is a good song, nothing really stands out to me much. While listening to this record, I couldn't help but feel bored for most of its runtime. I can easily say that this is his worst work since his debut by far. There isn't much else to say about this album, Loving The Alien is worth a listen, but absolutely skip everything else.

Steely Dan 2/9: If anything, this record gives me a newfound appreciation for Can't Buy a Thrill. I really didn't get anything out of a good number of these tracks. To me the fantastic hooks that inundated the debut are all but missing here. Along with this, the jazz sound was a good direction for Steely Dan to go in, but on this record it didn't seem like they experimented very much with that sound and a lot of the album comes off as very homogeneous because of that. That being said, I really ... read more

David Bowie 15/25: Many consider this to be the beginning of the weaker second half of Bowie's discography, and while it doesn't reach as high as earlier records, it's not bad in any sense. I would argue that a lot of his stuff before this is timeless, especially the late 70s run from Station to Station to "Heroes", this, however is not. Let's Dance is very much a product of its time and revels in 80s cliches. The first half of this album is actually quite strong with an excellent run ... read more

Swans 15/15: From the start Leaving Meaning is presented with the impossible task of following up from the excellent Swans trilogy that just preceded it. Despite the somewhat more mixed reception of this project, I actually quite like this album. That being said, I certainly didn't get quite as much from this record as the three preceding it. Admittedly, it seems like Swans are looking for a new direction for the band and haven't quite found it yet, at least as of 2019. Some of the best moments ... read more