Random Albums Ranked, Season 4 #3 (#553 overall)
"Dust Bowl Ballads" (1940) By Woody Guthrie
There's a reason people still mention this album 86 years after it came out. It really is the first album in the modern sense, and the first concept album at that.
Since the album is also loosely based on Guthrie's own experience of the Dust Bowl, we are able to extract such intricate stories of that time, which helps these records act as a primary source of information for that ... read more
Random Albums Ranked, Season 4 #3 (#553 overall)
"Dust Bowl Ballads" (1940) By Woody Guthrie
There's a reason people still mention this album 86 years after it came out. It really is the first album in the modern sense, and the first concept album at that.
Since the album is also loosely based on Guthrie's own experience of the Dust Bowl, we are able to extract such intricate stories of that time, which helps these records act as a primary source of information for that ... read more
Random Albums Ranked, Season 4 #2 (#552 overall)
"Blue Wall" (2022) By Noah Guthrie
This attempt sounds like every other Country album released this decade. He doesn't strive for anything new here, instead opting for the low hanging fruit of whatever this god awful genre of Country is. I'm just referring to the sound and production obviously, I don't have a reason to dislike Noah Guthrie himself.
He has a good voice at some points, but otherwise it's just a ... read more
RAR #550
May 11th, 2026 - I accidentally deleted my review of this album, and I don't feel like devoting any more thoughts to this mid record
Random Album #551
"Minecraft - Volume Alpha" (2011)
(8.68/10)
Is this what true beauty is?
This album evokes a pure feeling of nostalgia that is so powerful yet so very painful to feel. Nearly every track on here brings me back to a simpler time in life. A time when I had no worries, no stress, no commitments, and friendships were much easier to maintain. The unifying factor in that equation of course being the game Minecraft. I never really played the game all that often as a ... read more