The Charlatans - Tellin' Stories (1997)

Blur - Blur (1997)

Orbital - Snivilisation (1994)

I'm loathe to review this album partly for reasons I'll get into later. For now, knowing nothing about what Orbital is I will say a band or artist who names an album something like Snivilisation attempting to be clever usually winds up making music that sounds like crap. Just a guess.

Gene Clark - No Other (1974)

Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)

David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)

The Shamen - En-tact (1990)

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory (1970)

Youssou N'Dour - Vol. 8: Immigrés / Bitim Rew (1984)

George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 (1990)

The Gun Club - Fire Of Love (1982)

Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (2001)

I knew this would happen. Turns out there's a new edition of 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and a bunch of albums need to be added to my list. Since it's not really fair to those new albums for them to wait until I'm done with my current list, I decided to reshuffle my random order to include the new albums. Not that it really matters, or that you, dear reader, would notice the difference.

Justice - Cross (2007)

Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)

I'm skipping ahead a bit because I don't really feel like doing the next album on my list right now, it being a dance music album. Since I was going online to find a cleaner copy of Jethro Tull's epic "Aqualung" and the Aqualung album was on my big list, I decided to just acquire a copy of the full album and do my review.

The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk (1981)

Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream (1995)

Pixies - Doolittle (1989)

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)

Arcade Fire - A Wrap Up

So I've been curious about Arcade Fire for a few years now. For the most part I assumed their popularity was mostly based on hype. I combine the facts that they play mostly sad music, they use a lot of different instruments in their music, and their concerts can feature about a dozen people on stage at any time, and I figure that people were simply lulled into believing they must be awesome. Well, I no longer condemn their fans for liking them, but I still don't think Arcade Fire is as totally awesome as everyone thinks.

Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire EP (2003)

Arcade Fire - Reflektor (2013)

As of this writing, Reflektor is the only Arcade Fire album not included in 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The most recent edition of the book was put out before the album existed of course. Knowing how much music critics love saying how much they love Arcade Fire I'm shocked that in 2010 they didn't leave a place holder for Arcade Fire's next album.

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)

Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)

First up in my Arcade Fire list is Funeral. Catchy title.

Arcade Fire - An Intro to an Interlude

I've mentioned this before- I'm quite worn down by my music project lately. I've acutally enjoyed a lot of the recent music on the list. But even that can be seen as a sign that I'm wearing down. In my recent reviews of A Grand Don't Come For Free and Welcome To The Afterfuture I admitted to sorta liking them, and they're rap albums. I'm definitely getting soft. When the next album on my randomly generated order turned out to be by Wu Tang Clan, I decided it was time for a break.

And I've decided to vacation with these people. They look fun, right?

Terence Trent D'arby - Introducing The Hardline According to Terence Trent D'arby (1987)

Astor Piazzolla & Gary Burton - The New Tango (1987)

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (1969)

Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972)

I think I've burned myself out over this project. My recent reviews have been much longer than my early reviews and I find myself not wanting to listen to new music. It's become a chore to come up with paragraphs to write about music I don't really find appealing. It's been a while since I've heard something on the list I hadn't heard before and really wanted to hear again.

Laura Nyro - Eli And The Thirteenth Confession (1968)

Mike Ladd - Welcome to the Afterfuture (2000)

Faust - Faust IV (1973)

ABBA - The Visitors (1981)

Ali Farka Touré With Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu (1994)

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (2004)

It's all too clear to me. Hip-hop and rap really do strive to destroy all music. A Grand Don't Come For Free opens with bombastic brass orchestration which is hacked up and pasted together to fit the song's beat. The editor must have been using a cassette tape and a pair of scissors to do such a shitty job pasting this together. It only took 5 seconds for this album to send me off into another angry rant.

The Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock (1973)

Fun Loving Criminals - Come Find Yourself (1996)

Fela Kuti - Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 With Ginger Baker Live! (1971)

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)

Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun (1999)

John Prine - John Prine (1971)

Finley Quaye - Maverick A Strike (1997)

Germs - (GI) (1979)

The Stooges - Fun House (1970)

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (1972)

Jacques Brel - Enregistrement Public à l'Olympia 1964 (1964)

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Oh Christ, Bob Dylan.

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs (1959)

Madonna - Music (2000)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Scream (1978)