The Historian's JukeBox Stop #10 1970

We hit a milestone today! Our tenth album is this long and possibly never-ending project, we celebrate this achievement in 1970 with Simon and Garfunkel's acclaimed separation album "Bridge Over Troubled Water".

Being my first full album listen from the duo, I was honestly surprised by how diverse this project is given the singles that they are widely known for. There are the slow, soulful folk/singer-songwriter ballads as expected, ... read more

After no album length releases since 2011 I wasn't expecting Cascada's comeback project to be a cover album but *shrug* the trend continues of forgotten 2000's artist trying to revitalize their career with mid albums.
It's decent when it comes to cover albums; her voice is still great, but her dance-pop renditions of mostly disco songs don't add anything to the already existing songs.

Not offensive, but really not needed.

The Historian's JukeBox Stop #9 1998

Jumping ahead around 20 years, this time we listen to the universally beloved House M.D Soundtrack! I mean uh Mezzanine.
I'm always reading about and being told how awesome this record is, but I will admit I never bothered giving it a listen due to it's hour runtime and personally disturbing cover art. But! Finally having an excuse where I'm force- I mean encouraged to listen to this; here we go!

While not everything on this album is ... read more

The Historian's JukeBox Stop #8 1974

Dolly, oh Dolly. Finally we have our first entry in the 70's and what a strong start with Jolene! Her most acclaimed work; it's an easy instant listen!

Dolly Parton is known as the Country music's sweetheart for a reason. While never having the commercial and critic success of The Queen herself (Reba McEntire) ; Dolly has always been around, charming her way into the media's hearts with her sweet country ballads and glam that she ... read more

When will people on this site finally give up and admit they like Theater core and Prog? This entire album literally is produced like a stage play where the PoV character stops the scenes to sing their musical numbers. "Blues" is this album's Alexander Hamilton. Theater kids showing their true colors with this one. Oh right, "it's only good when my favorite artist does it." Whatever. It's pretty solid if not a bit lengthy.

Our PoV character needs some ... read more

The Historian's Juke Box Stop #7 1994
Relisten Review #10
70 -----> 80
Weezer Project #1

Here we are in 1994! This was a really tough album to decided upon. It was going to be this, Illmatic or Grace. And while we decided on a Blue Album relisten, we're for sure going to come back at some point and give those other two iconic albums a listen. So let's welcome back a familiar face.....Weezer.

Oh The Weezer Blue album. One of the big introductions into my music delving ... read more

Instruments are cool; but here we are again. Continuing the trend of trash human beings told to be accountable for their actions; so they make a form of media expressing how they are canceled to provoke like-minded individuals to defend their heinous acts and opinions. "This isn't about accountability. It's about being cancelled" ~ some random quote I just made up that I assume some guilty person said at one point.

Clarence Clarity is another one of those names I keep being told to check out but haven't gotten around to it.
This album reeks of 2000's Electropop and R&B. Very like, if backstreet boys fused with Glitch Pop. Think Exile! Yeah! Listen to Indestructible by Exile and tell me it doesn't belong on this album!

While I'm not a fan of everything on here; it does fill me with nostalgia of the late 2000's and while I appreciate the nostalgia trip, I also have an ... read more

Um, it's coldplay. It's better then most of their albums, but I still have no idea what this album has to do with the moon; or music that comes from the moon.
Honestly starts off pretty strong and quickly loses it's luster fairly quickly after track 3 with it's Art Pop take on production and "La, La lala.La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La lala. La, La ... read more

The Historian's Jukebox Stop #6 1980

We apparently keep jumping back and forth from the 80's and the 2000's lol
So here we are back in 1980. I wasn't really familiar with a lot of the releases from this year; so we decided on Remain In Light.
A funky New Wave punk album about having a mid-life crisis.

My exposure to Talking Heads is very minimal, only knowing a select few tracks from their entire discography, and while I'm still have trouble getting into this ... read more

The Historian's Jukebox Stop #5 2003

Continuing to stay in the 2000's. Fate has decided today we would be zapped back to 2003! With the height of Linkin Park, 50 cent, OutKast, Xiu Xiu and the strokes!....we got The Postal Service.

So this is the famous Postal Service, huh? The influential album that shaped and inspired the indietronica scene and synth-infused pop. I'll be transparent and upfront when I say that this is my most negative review so far in this project. ... read more

Edit: I've never listened to The Cure, so I really don't get the references that others are pointing out. Sorry

Smitten is basically if Speak Now-Red era Taylor was written by a lesbian and joined a indie pop band.
It blends perfectly the bubblegum type of fantasy romance lyrics of early era Taylor, the echoey synth production of the 80's, and dramatics of Similar Kind to make such a fun and accessible Indie Pop-Rock album that keeps you engaged.

Besides a couple tracks being ... read more

The Historian's Jukebox Stop #4 2012

Our first stop in the new millennium; we kick off our post y2k experience with Frank Ocean's 2012 hit album channel Orange.

A first time listen for me and a newcomer to Frank Ocean's discography as I am ignorant of his work besides a few singles.
From my understand this is a defining album in 2010's R&B, and I see can why. While slow and moody R&B isn't quite my genre of choice, I totally understand the merits here and when ... read more

Feeling Not Found is collage of Emo, Pop Punk and metal that someone keeps it's identity all the way through.
While I feel the album starts insanely strong with it's constant switch-ups and fake outs (keeping the vibe fresh), it started to falter a bit after the half-way point.

While most of the record at that point is serviceable, it just feels as though it started to lack creativity and treaded very repetitive ground.
My negativity out of the way; there is so much on this project ... read more

Honestly a really solid debut. I've been really enjoying Nerissa as a personality and she is quite a decent vocalist brought down by some mediocre production.
Hopefully she'll continue to improve, evolve and her producers will have a better understand of her sound.
Better then most V-Tuber music projects.

Coming off the extreme commercial success of Million Dollar Baby, Tommy Wiseau delivers us his most underwhelming project since The Room. Wait, wrong tommy? oh, I mean Tommy RICHMAN, gives us a POOR Synth R&B album that while decent sonically, fails to keep my attention with it's repetitiveness and low mixed vocals that blend into the background a bit too much.

A few tracks on here are fun however; like tracks 7 & 8, the rest sounds pretty samey and low effort. Personally seems ... read more

Boop a do wop bang beep was never actually clever or fun, and it still isn't in 2024.
I'm a defender of some old doo wop swing music, but I also understand that it's a relic of it's time and needs to stay in that time capsule. It doesn't translate well to modern music theory and just comes off as corny.

That's not all this album has to offer though. We have some Trad-Pop here, some sweet vocal jazz ( I will never mock Lady Gaga's vocals. She is an extremely ... read more

The Historian's Jukebox Stop #3 1985

Not but only a year later since our last musical trip. We found ourselves in 1985 and decided to give A-ha's "Hunting High and Low" a full listen.
I don't need to say much about Take On Me. It's a perfect blend of New Wave music that balances the scale between iconic and an absolute mess that great 80's Synth and New Wave is known for. Still holds up even now.

I was really surprised by the inspiration of Opera Rock on ... read more

The Historian's Jukebox Stop #2 1984

We landed today in 1984's must hear album Born in the U.S.A by Bruce Springsteen himself.
While knowing a few songs from this album, this is my first time listening to it in full and it is really cool to explore some of the peak in Heartland Rock. ( A much meme'd-at genre)

While I will admit I missed some of the deeper meaning on this record as I was a bit distracted with other things. Something about the nostalgic instrumentation and ... read more

As to be expected from The Alchemist. It's solid, it's good quality, it's easy to distinguish his style, I'm just a bit over his excess of output lately and wish he would take a break.