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Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
1966 | Psychedelic
Rolling Stone's 2nd greatest album of all time
Fantastic album, and one I have spent a lot of time listening to. Indeed, on this listen I immediately went back and listened to it again. From the sublime Wouldn't It Be Nice, to the sombre Don't Talk and the story of Sloop John B and the uplifting I Know There's an Answer (or as I prefer, the Hang on to Your Ego version). Every song is a singalong classic and I would encourage everyone to give this a few listens.
  
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Adam DeVine recommended Ghetto D by Master P in Music (curated)

 
Ghetto D by Master P
Ghetto D by Master P
1997 | Rap
3.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I have that shit, I love Southern rap. For whatever reason that just connects with me. I’m like, ‘Yes, no, mama does make crack like this.’ That makes the most sense to me. I’m just a little white kid growing up in the suburbs and I’m like, ‘Yes, mama makes crack likes this.’ ‘What’s that, Adam?’ ‘Nevermind, mom.’ “Basically, I feel like when I started smoking weed and drinking beer, I fell in love with every album. Every album is between 98 and 2003, it’s a real turning point in my life.”"

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Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
1975 | Alternative, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
7.7 (3 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"This is my favourite album ever. I spent the end of my teenage years and my early twenties listening to old music – rockabilly music, stuff like that. Then I discovered folk music when I was 25, and that led me to Dylan. He totally blew me away with this. It’s like the great album from the second period, y’know? He did that first run of albums in the Sixties, then he started doing his less troublesome albums – and out of that comes Blood On The Tracks. It’s his masterpiece"

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Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
1987 | Rock
7.8 (5 Ratings)
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Paradise City by Guns N' Roses

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"The climax. The euphoria that comes from that intro. You know everything's going to be OK. You can feel they've gone through this hell, and they've arrived at this place that didn't really do them any good. They broke up, but it's a massively positive song, and it's absolutely fantastic. People say they didn't fulfil their potential - Keith Richards says bands don't stay together long enough - but really? They didn't have to. That one album is up there with Never Mind The Bollocks, with with any classic debut album. It's up there. Totally.""

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Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths
Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths
1987 | Rock
8
8.7 (3 Ratings)
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Rolling Stone's 369th greatest album of all time
Good compilation of early Smiths classics, featuring the superb Panic, and a number of their other well-known songs - Ask, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, William It Was Really Nothing and Pleasex3 Let Me Get What I Want.
At times, Morrissey comes across as an annoying whiney child, and even looking at the song titles bears this out. I do wonder if he was breast-fed too long maybe.
Overall a great album if you can give him a little leeway with his whining.
  
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Ross (3284 KP) rated War by U2 in Music

Jun 5, 2020  
War by U2
War by U2
1983 | Alternative
Rolling Stone's 223rd greatest album of all time
I really don't like U2. But I have come to realise it is the 2000s version of U2 I don't like, when they became self-righteous hypocritical parodies of a rock band.
This is a decent rock album, enough to keep the listener engaged between the bigger songs.
Disclosure: I realised listening to this I have never heard the full version of Sunday Bloody Sunday, only the chorus, and Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine's cover. I didn't recognise it for quite a while.
  
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Ross (3284 KP) rated Quadrophenia by The Who in Music

May 28, 2020  
Quadrophenia by The Who
Quadrophenia by The Who
1973 | Rock
8
4.5 (2 Ratings)
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Rolling Stone's 267th greatest album of all time
I haven't seen Quadrophenia so this was a new experience for me. The soundtrack album had a bit of a Bat out of Hell feel to it, very "rock opera" in style. Great songs telling a story, which means at times the song gets a little abandoned for the sake of the story. But with Townsend writing it all, this was less of an issue here. Great songs well performed. A nice change to have Townsend on vocals at times.
  
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Ross (3284 KP) rated Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z in Music

May 29, 2020  
Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z
Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z
1996 | Hip-hop, Rock
6
7.5 (4 Ratings)
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Rolling Stone's 250th greatest album of all time
Fairly tedious hip hop debut by Jay-Z. Most of the lyrics are about making money (legally or otherwise) or spending it. Most songs include lists of designer labels, Cristal etc etc. I think this set the mentality for the next generation of rappers, and while there is at one point a note that "crime is bad", it is fairly well hidden and the rest of the album does somewhat glorify crime and set the goal in life as being "having things".