Sammie Dee Wallinga

bring back polished chrome fonts

who up slaying they spire (2)?

Hell yes, we all needed this

akg d112 & her progeny, c408

don't talk to me or my son ever again

Album cover of Ozomatli's Street Signs shows, predictably, a street sign. A male and female figure are walking clutching their squares as a squiggle escapes the male figures chest.

1001 #64: Ozomatli - Street Signs
Mixed bag of movie credits music, albeit with heart. Loved the rap songs and the Chali 2na collab, got a little too Santana Ft. Rob Thomas for my tastes other times. Three stars. Favorite Track: the unbridled aughts energy of the Saturday Night music video

A saiga antelope roams the tundra

there's something about an illegitimate war of neocon aggression gets me reading about megafauna extinction events but here's a bit of hope and joy in that this glorious motherfucker, the saiga antelope, escaped the pleistocene and still roams the earth

yess I saw them putting it up the other day! Love my town 🥲

This is a joke for maybe a dozen people on the internet but troubleshooting some Dante network discovery issues at the studio today and googling "DADMOM connection issues" has led to some very kind and concerned targeted ads

Bill Callahan's 'My Days of 58' 2XLP sits atop a stereo receiver with a turntable next to it.

One Big, Beautiful Bill Callahan 2XLP

Yeah, we love these dogs

Album cover depicts a silver Zippo lighter with "The Wailers Catch A Fire" etched on the top cover.

My rating reflects that version and that original vision. If you're gonna listen, listen to the originals. Five stars. Favorite Track: Concrete Jungle

No doubt common knowledge to real Bob heads but turns out there's a whole earlier version of the album as originally recorded, and holy shit, it's outstanding. It's got edge, the harmonies are way up front, they're freaking LOCKED. So much better than the white-guy'd down version for 70's America.

#63: The Wailers - Catch A Fire
I don't go deep with Bob Marley beyond the hits. Listening through the album was kind of like, yeah, okay, this is chill, groovy. But at the very end (at least on Tidal), I hear High Tide or Low Tide (Jamaican Version) and it's way different, so I looked it up --

Album cover depicts a side profile of Randy Newman in the 70's rocking a curly bob and shiny sunglasses.

#62: Randy Newman - Sail Away
@1001albumsgen.bsky.social served me up a double header of Ne[uw]mans. I don't even have anything snarky to say about this one, earnestly enjoyed it front to back twice in a row. No skips, no filler. Five stars. Favorite track: Burn On.

this Street Sharks reboot looks wild

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Album cover depcits a smokey-eye'd, hoop-earring'd Gary Numan in a double-breasted gray windowpane suit jacket and gray tie. He contemptuously eyes a faintly red-glowing pyramid object on the black laminate desk before him.

#61: Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Hell yeah synthesizer man, this rules. The canon sound of The Future™ I grew up thinking about. Gary's smokey eye serving Contempt For The Pyramid makes for an unbelievable banger of an album cover. Five stars. Favorite track: M.E.

key lime la croix tastes like lazer tag fog machine fog tastes, IYKYK

browsing auction catalogs is a wild ride. who knew that for an estimated two to three hundred dollars you too could own a PURITAN BABY VENDOR

Album cover just says "Franz Ferdinand"

#60: Franz Ferdinand - S/T
it's still 2007 and I'm trapped under a mountain of pinstripe ringer tees in an urban outfitters. they won't let me leave. turns out I'm not particularly nostalgic for the aughts post-punk thing. catchy though! Three stars. Favorite track: Michael.

Album cover reads: Spiritualized® Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space B P (white line circles overlap on a blue background) 1 tablet 70 min

#59: Spiritualized - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
This album rules and was a perfect thing to set as your facebook status in 2007 to let everyone know you liked indie music. And you know what? I still do. Five stars. Favorite track: I Think I'm in Love.

americans watching other parts of the world do justice

Album cover of You Want It Darker features Leonard Cohen in black suit, hat, and sunglasses leaning out a window with a cigarette.

#58: Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
This one was tough. Stunningly intimate deathbed confessional production. But all I could really think about was how he logged off at the right time before getting a chance to really lean into his zionism. Four stars. Favorite track: Treaty.
Free Palestine.

it's like the alien frog from the Daniel Johnston cover but instead it says "sup, bitch"

Album cover of orange, yellow, and black abstract art

#57: Stan Getz / João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
I've heard The Girl From Ipanema a hundred times, but never this whole record. Stan Getz sure sucks but boy could he play a saxophone. Justice for Astrud. The mono mixes are better. Five stars. Favorite track: Corcovado.

Stellartone ToneStyler?

It felt a little bit like running into a childhood friend who never made it out of the town you grew up in. Anyway, five stars, RIP. Favorite track: 2006 - Angeles; 2026 - Ballad of Big Nothing

But I, graciously, don’t smoke or get that kind of sad any more. I didn't cry this listen. Having grown older than Elliott lived to be and uncovered newer, more exotic sadnesses, I guess I'm desensitized to the songs, drawn instead to memories of a different life long gone.

#56: Elliott Smith - Either/Or

This album comes with a lot of baggage. Tonight was my first time listening in many years, having cried SO MUCH to this album as a Sad Art Teen. It taught how me to fingerpick, and kept me company sneaking cigarettes behind the dumpster at shitty minimum wage jobs.