Tangerine Dream Phaedra (1974):
Clean W for team continental. Twenty years later a bunch of brits who grew up with this kind of music would start making a lot of drum & bass techno albums, then 30 years after that, I would get very bored by most of those while listening for this project. For some reason, the French and the Germans are just extremely good at making this kind of thing.

Foo Fighters Foo Fighters (1995):
Foo Fighters

The Jam All Mod Cons (1978):
Didn't stand out much to me, but I could see the case for someone who was young in '78 feeling about this the same way that I do for something like Franz Ferdinand

Machito Kenya (1957):
More good hot weather patio music

Orange Juice Rip It Up (1982):
Might have liked it more if I hadn't learned by experience by now that Scottish 80s pop/post-punk is one of the most overrated and over-represented scenes on this list. Had some highlights, but I'm over it.

Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power (1992):
Stupid

Spiritualized Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (1997):
Pleasant! Didn't think the UK had this in them during this era

The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream (2014):
Noodling around the kind of stuff that built up to that one Weeknd song. Wish I hadn't seen someone in the peanut gallery point out that the drums are basically identical on each song, because they were right and it became really distracting.

The Mars Volta Deloused in the Comatorium (2003):
Finally a band that understands title capitalization rules around prepositions and articles. Fuck!

Legendary album, these guys rule.

Ice Cube The Predator (1992):
Also a legendary album

Hole Live Through This (1994):
Fuckin watch me! Not as good as their other album on the list and Garbage, but solid. Girl grunge good

The Beta Band Heroes to Zeroes (2004):
Not Bad, but baffling inclusion

Pet Shop Boys Behavior (1990):
God I hate these guys

Sepultra Roots (1996):
Decent, but I don't think Sepultra needed two albums on this list. Keep this one, ditch Arise, imo

Fun Lovin' Criminals Come Find Yourself (1996):
Checks out, they do seem like they're having fun

Justin Timberlake Justified (2002):
It's not Black Eyed Peas bad, but it's down there. iconic album of a dreadful era

Joni Mitchell The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (1978):
I don't really get Joni Mitchell, I don't think. A lot of these sounded fine, but extremely aimless and unstructured. Made me bored. Couldn't settle into the right wavelength for it.

The Go-Gos Beauty And The Beat (1981):
80s pop of the good variety.

Cream Disraeli Gears (1967):
Yeah, yeah, hi clapton.

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin (1969):
Unimpeachable

PJ Harvey Rid Of Me (1993):
I think this wraps up all the PJ Harvey on the list. I'd probably benefit from doing a marathon chronological listen of her stuff at this point--there's a shortlist of artists with a bunch of albums on the list, and for me she's at the David Bowie level of "ok I actually did kind of need to listen to so many of these to get the hang of this artist"


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