The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project

Lee Newman said:
There is also a difference in the artifice of production. Vig and company are trying to manufacture both Manson and a synthesis of what was cool about 90's alternative pop. Barrow and company are using a synthesis of what they think sounds cool to support Gibbons. One feels contrived, the other feels natural. at least to me, but ymmv. They are also relative contemporaries so they just strike me as a natural comparison. Both vocalists are the actual focus of the albums and the material presented.
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Huh, I've never considered Shirley Manson as manufactured. My take was always that she was a force of personality enough to be the face of the band and put an edge to the slick production. Both always sounded natural to me.
 
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3-17-2023
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Dummy - Portishead | Album | AllMusic

Dummy by Portishead released in 1994. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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I love this one too. 5/5
 
About Garbage. I know this has come up before but I really had no idea the album was so polarizing? In defense of Garbage's S/T - Yes the album is rock / alternative - Maybe you can argue that they refined & designed the music for the masses - but isn't' that what Pop is? You can put them in whatever box you think it belongs in but Garbage is pop. This album was huge in the 90s and I think with good reason.

With that said, I was an impressionable 90's MTV generation teen when this came out and it rocked my world. I remember first seeing Queer on MTV (back when they played music videos) and I was love lol. The sound / style I'd argue probably defined my taste in music for years to come, so to me, this is a very important album. The S/T is my favorite of theirs and is actually one of my favorites of all time - it's easily a 5/5 for me.
 
Portishead Dummy is a 5/5 for sure. I always did prefer listening to their S/T album but only because I think that album is perfect. There's nothing I don't like about this album though - but I do end up listening to songs from this vs the whole album usually - but that's because some of my favorites from them are on this as well.

I do need to relisten to Third again. I feel like the album was so different that it never clicked as well as the first 2 did. But I have a feeling I'd have a different perspective all these years later.
 
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I do need to relisten to Third again. I feel like the album was so different that it never clicked as well as the first 2 did. But I have a feeling I'd have a different perspective all these years later.
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Came up recently on my personal 1001 and I was in a similar space as this. Really clicked this time. Hope it does for you too!
 
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list 1
1. 1/20/2023 Artic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (3.11 stars)
2. 1/23/2023 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (4.41 stars)
3. 1/24/2023 Miriam Makeba - Mariam Makeba (2.8 stars)
4. 1/25/2023 Wire - Pink Flag (3.71 stars)
5. 1/26/2023 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (3.44 stars)
6. 1/27/2023 Nick Drake - Pink Moon (4.29 stars)
7. 1/30/2023 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (4.29 stars)
8. 1/31/2023 Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (3.38 stars)
9. 2/1/2023 Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (2.6 stars)
10. 2/2/2023 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (3.88 stars)
11. 2/3/2023 Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (3.93 stars)
12. 2/6/2023 Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile (3.23 stars)
13. 2/7/2023 Fiona Apple - Tidal (4.41 stars)
14. 2/8/2023 Leftfield - Leftism (3.13 stars)
15. 2/9/2023 Love - Forever Changes (3.86 stars)
16. 2/10/2023 Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (3.08 stars)
17. 2/13/2023 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (4.23 stars)
18. 2/14/2023 Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove (3.5 stars)
19. 2/15/2023 Van Halen - 1984 (2.94 stars)
20. 2/16/2023 Michael Jackson - Thriller (3.86 stars)
21. 2/17/2023 Jeru the Damaga - The Sun Rises in the East (3.17 stars)
22. 2/20/23 The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (4.55 Stars)
23. 2/21/23 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (3.5 Stars)
24. 2/22/23 Ray Price - Night Life (3.57 Stars)
25. 2/23/23 PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (3.55 Stars)
26. 2/24/23 Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (4.14 Stars)
27. 2/27/23 Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (3.27 Stars)
28. 2/28/23 Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn & Party - Devotional Songs (3.33 Stars)
29. 3/1/23 Slint - Spiderland (3.8 Stars)
30. 3/2/23 The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (3.23 Stars)
31. 3/3/23 Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? (2.5 stars)
32. 3/6/23 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (4.07 stars)
33. 3/7/23 Sepultura - Arise (3 stars)
34. 3/8/23 The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (3.33 stars)
35. 3/9/23 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul (4.67 stars)
26. 3/10/23 Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka (3.93 stars)
27. 3/13/23 Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
28. 3/14/23 Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
29. 3/15/23 Circle Jerks - Group Sex
30. 3/16/23 Garbage - Garbage
31. 3/17/23 Portishead - Dummy
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Scores updated. As expected, Aretha went to #1. Tribe falls to tied for third with Fiona. Brubeck moves into #2.

Todd Rundgren is still last with Brian Eno right ahead of him.
 
3/21/23
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps


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Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young, Crazy Horse released in 1979. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Neil Young albums are also available on Amazon and, of course, through the Neil Young Archives.

Here's a youtube if you have none of those:


The vinyl is pretty great as well :p

RIYL:
 
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