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they/she. 26. Cartoonist and music lover. Mostly just random thoughts.
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#MWE 26/28
I don’t have much to say about this one. Excellent punk album with banger riffs and radical satire. Really short but it leaves its mark on you. Great stuff!
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yeah that’s p much wallen 😭
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I think what helped a lot of those previous songs is that despite his gripes it’s still pretty obvious he’s the truly miserable one drowning in his self-pity but this one is more defensive and shoots right back. It ups the hostility to a really uncomfortable level. And it’s also just no fun.
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#MWE 25/28
The only country album I went with this year but it was very much worth it. k.d. lang has such a striking, impressive voice and Owen Bradley’s production is a clean, perfect fit. A quick collection of some fantastic country tunes by one of the biggest queer legends in the genre.
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American Life will certainly be a fun one lmao
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I haven’t! I’ll have to dedicate a big dive for her other albums
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It’s like we never left
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#MWE 24/28
After a series of big ambitious albums, it’s nice to go lower stakes and just listen to a quick selection of pop bangers. Really fun album full of hits and hidden gems. Very classic kind of pop album I always welcome in my library.
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#MWE 23/28
I had little to no context on Slick Rick until very recently so it was great to hear one of the pioneers of hip-hop with very fresh ears. This was a lot of fun and Slick Rick's storytelling skills are excellent. Probably would love it more without "Indian Girl" nuking the whole vibe.
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#MWE 22/28
Last year I became obsessed with "Invisible Touch" and it became one of my most-played songs of last year. I repaid the favor by listening to the rest of the album and turns out Genesis appeals very directly to me and my pop sensibilities. God, I wish we had more albums like this!
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#MWE 21/28
Holy shit. That's the best album of this selection thus far. Achtung, Baby! is such a tremendous album from beginning to end. Ridiculously catchy, incredible guitarwork, songs that get better and better with every passing second, and every song on here is an absolute knockout. Bravo.
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Ngl I felt a little bitter when there was that mass Xodus that drew in a bunch of new users here going “omg the vibes are so chill here!!” cuz I knew it was only a matter of time until we brought back the site’s worst impulses and habits
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#MWE 20/28
I was not expecting this one to really blow me away. A chaotic, strange, but gorgeous album that shows off Kate Bush’s incredible flexibility as a vocalist on top of some wildly inventive production and concepts. I’m gonna be thinking about The Dreaming for the rest of the month.
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As someone who played it during New Years: you’re absolutely right
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#MWE 19/28
Obnoxious. Stupid, brainless, loud bullshit. Nasal shouting from three aggressively Boston accents full of trashy parties and leering at babes. I loved it. Just the right amount of troublemaking spirit to bring out the best in rap rock. That said, I prefer Paul's Boutique a lil more.
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WHAT
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I’m fine with this tbh ScarVi and SwSh are both games held back by rushed developments so if Legends Za has more polish and less quirks it gives me a ton of optimism for Gen 10
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Had to double check my account to make sure I didn’t accidentally do this 😭
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#MWE 18/28
This was SUCH a fun album! I have a big soft spot for when rap was all about making dope rhymes and sucka emcees and this had so many great shining moments that became a foundation for what rap is today. Lots of jammincats to this album
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#MWE 17/28
A lot of my favorite artists were directly inspired by this album and now that I've heard it I can understand why. Choosing to listen to this late at night was a great choice on my end too. Very nocturnal, pensive, dark album but also intensely gripping. Long live the harmonica.
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#MWE 16.5/2
To my surprise, not only did I love this album, but I also thought I might like it more than Disintegration. The grimy, desperate, melty vibes of this album really hit me after a rough day and I was eating up all of its angst and misery. Fantastic album, love it to pieces.
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#MWE 16.5/28 (yeah yeah i doubled up again dw this is the last one)
I was surprised to honestly not be that big on this album? It's very good, "A Forest" has become one of my favorite Cure songs, but it didn't really kick in for me until the second half and by that point the album was almost over.
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#MWE 15/28
This was the album I was most excited about. At first I really liked the first disc but wasn’t sure why it was considered Prince’s magnum opus. Then I got to the second disc and it all clicked. Masterwork of pop music. Amazing he was able to release this at all with his stature.
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#MWE 14/28
Control by Janet Jackson was very fun! Tight package of bops and bangers. Though I preferred the ambition and scale of Rhythm Nation a little more. Still deserves to be more talked about and hyped up than she currently is.
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#MWE 13/28
Really loved … And Justice For All. I could listen to this band just rip all day. Couple mixing gripes keep me from this being a favorite but it still fueled my growing metalhead phase.
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#MWE 12/28
I’ve never been more convinced by the brilliance of a band I had no prior attachment to than Stop Making Sense. The way these songs built on each other and were sequenced throughout the show, also sounding AMAZING live on stage is phenomenal. Will have to watch the actual movie too
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#MWE 11/28
To my surprise, I ended up liking the commercially disappointing, less pop focused De La album this month! Their beatwork really shines here and the group is more focused than ever on proving that they can stand up to the new school. It doesn’t beat 3 Feet High but it still really hits
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#MWE 10/28
Another absolutely stellar Madonna album. Holy shit, she was really on a roll, wasn’t she? Knew exactly who she wanted to be and how she wanted her world to sound. Pure pop bliss.
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#MWE 9/28
In which Prince got a new band and decided to make ridiculously long jams for an hour and it RULED. No matter how indulgent 1999 got, it never lost my attention. Crisp grooves, wild howls, and horny bliss. Love love love this album.
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#MWE 8/28
Now here’s a fun twist! An album I didn’t like at all! The greatest hits comp is nice but the actual new album is so bogged down by unpleasant songs about the accusations and lawsuits, and when it’s not doing that it’s giving cheeseball boring ballads. Some songs to salvage, mostly dull.
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#MWE 7/28
Turns out, between Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets, I’m a Master of Puppets girlie! The solos and guitarwork on this album seriously knock my socks off. Plus one of my favorite instrumental songs I’ve heard in recent memory in “Orion”.
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#MWE 6/28
Speaking In Tongues has been growing on me a lot since I listened to it. Ridiculously catchy and jammy. Tons of songs that get your head bobbing and your feet tapping. One of the most fun albums I’ve heard this month.
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#MWE 5.5/28 (I doubled up cuz I accidentally scheduled 30 albums and didn’t have the heart to make cuts sorry 😭)
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is even more ambitious and huge in scale than their previous albums and the band exceeded in delivering on those scales. Absolutely incredible experience.
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#MWE 5.5/28
Powerslave was my favorite album I heard from MWE last year so I had to listen to even more Iron Maiden. Number Of The Beast didn’t blow me away like Powerslave did but it still kicked ass and I adored it.
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#MWE 4/28
De La Soul Is Dead is a weird one. Sort of a departure from 3 Feet High and Rising but not really. Lots of fucking around and doing whatever they want but still with the core of De La. I had a lot of fun with it, even if I probably won’t go back to it that much.
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#MWE 3/28
One of the main lessons I’ve learned with my 80s dive is that Madonna is everything I love about pop music. The style, the glamor, the hooks, everything. It is nuts to me how these amazingly perfect pop beats were made by random DJs. What a marvel.
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#MWE 2/28
Absolutely loved Dirty Mind by Prince. Incredibly tight, catchy as hell package of songs that showed the early signs of Prince’s phenomenal talent. Could have done without “Sister” though.
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#MWE 1/28
My theme for MWE this year is a follow up to last year when I did all 80s. Now I’m doing 80s-90s of artists whose albums/discogs I started last year.
First up was Dangerous by Michael Jackson. Very ambitious, fascinating backstory, but not my favorite Michael album. Little too long.
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You’ve popped up on my personal Tumblr feed more than once which is crazy cuz I don’t even follow any music related blogs there
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Their harmonies on the chorus are so off
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Happy birthday!!!
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I did like “I Love You, I’m Sorry” but even then that’s mostly cuz she’s building off a story she’s been singing about for a while. Plus it’s not as good as my favs from Chappell, Sabrina, Charli etc. so I don’t feel the need to salvage it lmao.