A friend turned a group of us onto this, and now we’re all signed up and going through this thing.
Basically, it randomly picks an album from the list every weekday, and you listen to them and rate them. I’ve been doing it not quite a week. Gotten some good stuff and some interesting stuff. One album I already own on LP (‘Stardust’ by Willie Nelson).
One album I think was kind of a dud: ‘Tusk’ by Fleetwood Mac. A perfectly solid album, but not anything truly special. All the others are ones that - if I were talking to another music lover I could say, “This may not be your usual style, but it’s definitely worth your time to listen to.”
Everyone gets an individual album pick for the day.
Today, mine is ‘Back at the Chicken Shack’ by Jimmy Smith. Which is awesome. He’s one of my favorite musicians, but I’ve not given this album a close listen to before.
I’ve been doing the one album a day for probably two years and found some great bands through it..
I think Primal Scream was the first one and more recently Kasabian but also albums from artists I like but hadn’t listened to
But it’s pretty low hit rate I wouldn’t say I really like most albums of the day but still try to listen through even if it’s not really my thing but that will always be the way with this kind of thing
When you rate albums, do you do it based on how much you enjoyed it? Or do you try to be objective of how good or “must listen” an album is?
The biggest dud I got was ‘Tusk’ by Fleetwood Mac. It’s just… fine. A solid album, assuming you’re into folk rock. But doesn’t do anything that a bunch of earlier albums hadn’t already done better.
I don’t really do the ratings besides giving the occasional 5 for amazing albums.. it does give you some stats but otherwise didn’t see much of a point
