albumÖFcukers4.0★This album is meant for late nights where you can move your ass freely. The mix of live drums and guitar with sexy synth and electronics is perfect for anyone looking for electronic music that incorporates live instrumentation should give t…Nov 4 · 69 plays
albumZIRP!DIIV3.5★Being produced by A.G. Cook I honestly expected it to be more electronic and possibly dancy but alas that moment never came showing Cook's ability to NOT produce hyperpop, for better or for worse (I would've loved to hear that version of th…Nov 3 · 12 plays
albumBasieCount Basie3.5★This is the happiest jazz album ever. To think that Count Basie had been putting out music for over two decades at this point is a testament off the bat. Count Basie himself plays piano, and he is never over bearing or trying to steal the l…Nov 3
albumBrilliant CornersThelonious Monk3.0★This reminds me of the Count Basie jazz album if it was being directed by Christopher Nolan. It keeps bending in weird ways that you’re not expecting and is an album that requires multiple listens for you to really be able to get into it. T…Nov 3
albumOriginal Jazz Sound: Birth of the CoolMiles Davis4.0★Miles Davis played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie before he put his own group together with other “side” players. This record is great. The horn lines are at times insane in speed and pizazz. On other tracks though they lead us thr…Nov 3
albuma hemorrhage in the brain becomes a contusion for allGlaz Almaz3.0★I was in this band so this is my honest review of my own record: This Baltimore based drum and guitar/vox duo attempted to bring their raucous and noisy live sound to a studio without giving up the integrity of the live music with expansiv…Nov 3
albumHere’s Little RichardLittle Richard3.5★This is the debut album by the legend Little Richard and to think that he was dropping songs like Tutti Frutti in 1955 seems pretty radical if you think about it. Rock and roll simply wasn’t a thing, and it certainly wasn’t mainstream. Then…Nov 3
albumDance Mania, Volume 1Tito Puente4.0★The rhythms on this album are outstanding. Sometimes outstandingly simple and simply layered, other times intricately woven and asking the listener to journey through a percussive dance of metallic and wooden tones, the constant upbeat of t…Nov 3
albumLady in SatinBillie Holiday1.5★Billian Holiday may have once had an amazing and beautiful voice but on this album, meant to be a come back for the singer, she sounds like an old woman who has a vry limited range. Turns out using heroin is bad for your singing capabilitie…Nov 3
albumJack Takes the FloorRamblin' Jack Elliott1.0★I’m just not a fan of this style. It’s folk, basically. He’s singing while strumming an acoustic guitar. And it’s not particularly compelling, well sung, interestingly arranged, etc. Maybe in 1958 this was amazing but in 2019 I have “liked”…Nov 3
albumSarah Vaughan At Mister Kelly's (Live / Expanded Edition)Sarah Vaughan4.5★I bet Sarah Vaughan would be a lot of fun to hang out with. This recording is a compilation from tracks recordinded during a week long set at Mister Kelly’s, a hotspot in Chicago. Tracks included her scatting and even stopping singing early…Nov 3
albumElla Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin SongbookElla Fitzgerald3.5★Her voice is great but what really makes the album special are the songs. These are all songs from Broadway musicals (I assume) and have lots of fun lyrics with very descriptive and interesting word play. She is backed by what sounds like a…Nov 3
albumThe Genius of Ray CharlesRay Charles4.0★This album is great. It starts off with a bang and doesn’t let up for much of it. The instrumentation is really great, Ray can obviously play and his voice is emotional, fun and raw. I guess by this album he had dabbled and succeded in seve…Nov 3
albumKind of BlueMiles Davis3.0★You know what is great about jazz recordings like this? They are really, achingly live. Even if the recording was done in a studio, even if multiple takes were done, the recording feels like a live band sitting in a room with you taking you…Nov 3 · 1 play
albumGunfighter Ballads and Trail SongsMarty Robbins2.0★These are “cowboy” songs (a mix of traditional Americana songs and song written by Robbins himself) that my Dad would probably love. I admire the fact that Robbins wrote a few of the songs truly taking on the cowboy gunslinger persona but i…Nov 3
albumTime OutThe Dave Brubeck Quartet4.0★This feels like a happy Sunday morning with tea or coffee and toast on a balcony or porch with birds chirping in the background. This feels like the inspiration for the music for Up. The album is easy to listen to and fun, upbeat. The brush…Nov 3 · 4 plays
albumJoan BaezJoan Baez2.0★Joan sounds like what I imagine the ‘siren song’ may have sounded like. She has this hauntingly beautiful voice but it ended up getting on my nerves. The album is just her and a guitar. I’m sure the lyrics get really deep and meaningful, in…Nov 3
songAmandaReptar4.0★My first live Reptar show was at an event for a sadly no longer existent Atlanta monthly known as Creative Loafing. The event was celebrating the best of Atlanta which included time of amazing food and performances by four Atlanta acts incl…Nov 3 · 11 plays
albumElvis Is Back!Elvis Presley4.5★I was super hesitant to listen to this album, like putting off work. Halfway through the first song I regretted it (just like putting off work!). The band is solid, the recording is great and the songs are all over the place from the radica…Nov 3
albumMiriam MakebaMiriam Makeba2.0★This album is basically African wedding songs with a few ‘standards’ thrown in (House of the Rising Sun, interestingly enough, for example). From what I can tell the big draw here is the fact that Miriam’s voice is beautiful and she uses th…Nov 3
albumHARDCORE HEALINGhorsegiirL2.0★I thought it was going to be a hardcore punk record. I was disappointed from the jump but listened through. It's kind of a jumbly mess of a record with songs going from tabla to pan flute to silly distorted guitar without the tongue in chee…Nov 3 · 4 plays
albumA Date With The Everly BrothersThe Everly Brothers2.0★These guys are singing the sweetest, or saddest depending on the song, most G rated songs about love and loss. Maybe I missed some underlying nefariousness but to me it just sounded like the goody goody boys were here to sing me back in tim…Nov 2
albumBack At The Chicken Shack (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)Jimmy Smith3.0★First of all, OHHHHHH, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack was named after this record… That was a revelation. Man, I love learning new things!!! This is not an album I would likely put on for fun but it is really good. First, it’s some upbeat jazz with…Nov 2
song1,000,000Nine Inch Nails5.0★1,000,000 (lyrics here) is the second song on the album The Slip and is about suicide and feeling a million miles away from actual emotion and feeling. The song starts with rocking live drums and a fuzzed out guitar. Trent’s vocals come in…Nov 2 · 3 plays
song1-800 SuicideGravediggaz5.0★Gravediggaz, accompanied in the chorus by a KRS-ONE sample describe tons of ways to off yourself from the mundane to the redonk. Lyrics here. Their flow and rhymes are so great, the bridge is a quote from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off that they…Nov 2 · 2 plays
song1-800-273-8255Logic5.0★Logic is super talented. This guy has an amazing flow and his ability to take such important, depressing and serious subject matter and turn it into a hit is, in a word, incredible. I sincerely hope people got help because of this song and …Nov 2 · 1 play
song#1 Crush (Nellee Hooper mix)Garbage5.0★I, like everyone I know, was introduced to this song with this remix (although I don’t remember the radio ever telling me it was a remix…) tha as released on the excellent 90s alternative soundtrack to the Baz Luhrman Romeo & Juliet. Man, t…Nov 2
albumHissing Prigs in Static CoutureBrainiac5.0★This record influenced the way I write music. Discovering it as a teenager was seminal in setting my musical knowledge and path. I ended up getting tattoos of the characters in the art on the back cover.Nov 2 · 51 plays
songI Am a Cracked MachineBrainiac5.0★I have honestly never known what Timmy Taylor from Brainiac has been singing let alone the meaning behind it. Unlike the more popular songs I’ll encounter on my journey of Every Song Ever this one had zero annotations on genius.com. So I de…Nov 2 · 5 plays
albumMuddy Waters at Newport 1960Muddy Waters4.0★This is some classic blues at an outdoor venue where a lot of famous recordings were made. You can literally hear the wind blowing into microphones on some tracks. Every song sounds like something the Rolling Stones would later try to repl…Nov 2 · 6 plays
albumSunday At The Village Vanguard [Keepnews Collection]Bill Evans3.5★I’m just not into jazz. What makes this album particularly interesting are the insane bass solos, the ability for the group to easily maneuver from quick paced to solemn and slow and the live audience who you can hear chatting on the quiet …Nov 2
albumModern Sounds in Country and Western MusicRay Charles4.0★I thought this would be Ray playing in the style of country and western but instead it’s him raucously covering the songs of those genres from the time. The album starts with a bang with the upbeat jump around dance beat of Bye Bye Love and…Nov 2
albumGreen OnionsBooker T. & The MG's2.0★Everybody knows the main jam from this record but who knew it was just a literal jam the band, a house band for Stax records, had come up with on the fly while waiting for an artist to show up and record with them. Everyone at the studio lo…Nov 2 · 14 plays
albumJazz SambaStan Getz4.0★The musicianship on this record is outstanding. The you upbeat tempo and generally happy keys on each song beg you to stand up and do your best South American dance moves. I don’t know how exactly you define Samba but here it’s conveyed to…Nov 2 · 29 plays
albumNight LifeRay Price3.0★This album is dripping in honky tonk slide guitar sadness. It’s about losing love and living in the night out at the place where people live their night life. The album starts in a very interesting way with Ray Price introducing the album i…Nov 2 · 14 plays
albumWith The BeatlesThe Beatles4.5★Every song really feels distinct while maintaining the undeniable Beatles sound filled with harmonies, rock guitar and shuffle drums. Being an early album, it’s filled with covers they were playing live all the time. The hand claps on song…Nov 2 · 52 plays
albumNEVER ENOUGHTurnstile5.0★It's like the Turnstile kids discovered The Police and leaned into that sound hard and it works really well.Nov 2 · 391 plays
albumThe Age of PleasureJanelle Monáe2.5★This is a sex album that didn’t make me horny. It sounds like it was produced by a non musician like me in their basement. Songs skip around to multiple genres without a real cohesive feel. Lyrically she over uses foul language instead of c…Nov 2 · 14 plays
albumLet's Start Here.Lil Yachty4.0★This shit is so spacey. Ethereal, pad heavy, chorus drowning, vocoder vocals, tremolo effects and Hendrix style solos over down beat samples of stars exploding. But where’s the single with the chorus I want to sing, Lil Yachty!?!Nov 2 · 18 plays
albumCracker IslandGorillaz3.5★I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad Gorillaz album and it’s honestly hard to find faults in any songs. Every track is a bop and the features are excellent from Stevie Nicks on Oil to Thundercat on Cracker Island to Tame Impala on N…Nov 2 · 104 plays
albumDesire, I Want to Turn Into YouCaroline Polachek4.0★This album feels like a journey that you take on the back of Caroline’s uniquely high vocals. Bunny Is A Rider sounds like Caroline wanted a song that sounded like Timbaland had produced it. Fly To You features Dido and Grimes and is a drum…Nov 2 · 303 plays
albumBubblegumBiig Piig3.5★Bubblegum is a great album title as this is really just pop. Although this is labeled as a mixtape and not an album or Ep, whatever that means. Her lyrics don’t have a lot of depth but the production is good and the melodies are sing-a-long…Nov 2 · 42 plays
albumThe Art of ForgettingCaroline Rose4.0★I love the fun rock band with an organ sound of Caroline Rose but that is not what this album is. This is Caroline moving from being a songwriting musician into being a more layered artist. The arrangement on Everywhere I Go I Bring The Rai…Nov 2 · 65 plays
albumTomorrow Never ComesRancid3.5★Kicking off with attitude, this Rancid release is every bit as good as their recent albums. Songs leave you knowing that you would be thrashing around a pit if you were watching it being played live. I know they are a punk rock band but a l…Nov 2 · 31 plays
songPulse Drips QuietSleigh Bells5.0★This closer feels like a full-circle moment, a final breath dedicated to Bunky Becky, to loss, to everything that’s passed. There’s something sacred in the vow “I’ll be true till death.” It’s love in its rawest, most desperate form. This on…Nov 2 · 29 plays
songHi SomedaySleigh Bells4.5★This one really got to me. The opening reminds me of The Police’s “Synchronicity II”, and that line “every day is just like someday, someday” hits way too close. I’ve got a pile of “somedays” in my life I keep putting off. This song might b…Nov 2 · 13 plays
songReal Special Cool ThingSleigh Bells2.5★This one’s fine. I love the COOOOooooOOOOOOl part, it’s catchy and fun, but the rest doesn’t land as deeply for meNov 2 · 12 plays
songBlasted ShadowSleigh Bells3.5★Alexis gets primal and emotional here. She’s calling on her inner wolf, baring her fangs, and embracing the parts of herself she used to hide.Nov 2 · 12 plays
songBadlySleigh Bells4.0★Party anthem #2, and it goes hard. It deserves to be on every party playlist in 2025. Andrew W.K. should cover it… but if he did, we might witness the collapse of time itself. Also, “vicious delicious” is such a perfect phrase. Burn it int…Nov 2 · 15 plays
songCan I ScreamSleigh Bells3.5★Brutal, honest, and yelping with tension. The line “there’s no shame or escape in escape anyway” floored me. It’s about facing yourself when you’ve run out of exits.Nov 2 · 15 plays
songThis SummerSleigh Bells4.0★Feels like a call to the last time you might ever have fun. It’s a hot, wild, maybe-the-world’s-ending summer anthem. Political dread bubbles under the surface (looking at you, “power trip type might bomb the masses”), but it still dares yo…Nov 2 · 17 plays
songRoxette RicSleigh Bells3.5★This one feels like Alexis singing to herself, like a friend reminding you not to give up on your pop-metal dreams. There’s tenderness wrapped in tough love.Nov 2 · 19 plays
songLife Was RealSleigh Bells4.0★Alexis dives deeper here. She’s singing about being young, falling in love, and realizing what it means to be emotionally vulnerable—especially when your peers are starting to develop that big kid power and can now hurt you in real ways.Nov 2 · 19 plays
songWanna Start A Band?Sleigh Bells4.0★This was the first track that made me think: this album could be another killer one. It’s nostalgic without being soft, a punk rock scrapbook page. Feels like a love letter to when Sleigh Bells started, making noise with nothing to prove.Nov 2 · 18 plays
songBunky PopSleigh Bells4.0★Kicks it off with a fucking party. Turns out it’s a funeral party, but grief and joy are often intertwined in our lives. This one was written in honor of Alexis Krauss’s late dog, Riz (nicknamed Bunky Becky) and now I really wish I’d met th…Nov 2 · 6 plays
albumBunky Becky Birthday BoySleigh Bells4.5★Sleigh Bells have always made noise sound like magic, but on Bunky Becky Birthday Boy, they do something even more impressive: they make chaos sound like closure. This album is a sugar-rushed, grief-stricken, gloriously glitchy meditation …Nov 2 · 171 plays
albumTheft WorldLip Critic5.0★The entire vibe of this record is reckless enjoyment. I can't get enough of the songs Jackpot and Charity Dinner but a full album listen requires exactly zero skips. Without looking into the group I hope this is performed with live acoustic…Nov 2 · 55 plays
albumHormoaningNirvana4.0★I remember ordering this from my local record store. It took a month to arrive and cost $40. Worth it for one new song I had never heard before!!!Nov 1
albumBleachNirvana4.0★Floyd The Barber showed me everything I needed to know about Nirvana.Nov 1 · 27 plays
