DAY #900: Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
Another 100 days, and another listen through Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black. This is the second listen-through I’ve had of it, the last being 100 days ago and overall her singing performances and writing on here still landing good as hell. Still lots of super hard-hitting writing, still lots of super great vibes and production all across the album, and I’ve definitely been returning to songs like He Can Only Hold Her, Just Friends, and the title track (as well as a good couple more) a whole bunch. Lots of good stuff on here and overall an amazing album to come back to, excited to hear it again in another 100 days.
DAY #898: From The Private Collection of Saba and No ID by Saba and No ID
NEW SABAAAAAAAAAA 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Have been dying to hear this new Saba project after the first single dropped TWO YEARS AGO, and overall it’s just an incredibly consistent, incredibly sweet project. Nothing too insane conceptually like his last 3 albums, just him enjoying and thriving in the spot he’s garnered over the years over some amazing production from the legendary No ID. Lots of great vibes, lots of great writing, lots of sweet songs, and overall a lovely project.
dum dum boys deadass one of my fav instrumentals ive heard all year, still a good couple songs on this iggy pop project ive been goin back to constantly
DAY #863: The Idiot by Iggy Pop
Idk how I got here tbh but this Iggy Pop project pretty damn solid. Lots of grittier, interesting deliveries from Iggy that make for a super interesting dynamic overtop of Bowie’s production on every song, whether it be something super gritty like on Nightclubbing or something extremely off-kilter like on the closer Mass Production. I feel like they worked super well together though and it made for a lot of super solid rock/post-punk songs all across the album.
I feel like the main two I see myself returning to are Dum Dum Boys, Nightclubbing, and Funtime, but probably not much else to be completely honest even if I did generally like the entire project.
Solid album overall, maybe I’ll have to tune into Lust for Life sometime soon.
have been going back to a solid 10-12 songs off MUSIC from Carti, not a lot considering its 30 songs but that shit been in constant rotation, definitely a lot of super solid highlights on here and glad he pulled through considering how much hype he built up for himself
DAY #888: MUSIC by Playboi Carti
Whether you love him or hate him, you gotta give it to him that there is not a single person out sounding like Carti. While I definitely feel like 30 tracks was pushing it obviously, I do feel like MUSIC is a pretty solid project with a lot of great takeaway tracks.
It’s a complete crash between his sound he had been building since WLR and ATL Trap and the results are definitely mixed at points, but I do feel like the boundary-pushing nature of some of the tracks as the highlights do make up for the bloat in many respects.
Like one thing that I loved about Carti’s performance all across the album was the dynamic nature of his vocal deliveries. Like between the deeper-voice inflections, the more smooth deliveries in that inflection, the higher-pitched deliveries, the Future bites, Carti works in SO many different delivery styles and while some like the Future copies do kinda take away from what he was doing a little bit, I appreciate how unique they make what he does compared to most other trap artists. The production from Cardo, Ojivolta, F1LTHY, and more across this album had a lot of great highlights that Carti worked super nice with in a number of instances.
With that being said though, this shit is still 30 songs and it definitely feels like he just threw 30 darts at the board knowing his fanbase would eat that shit up, even if not every dart landed to the majority of listeners. I think it’s a very good album, but I’d understand why some people would hate a lot of content on here.
DAY #897: MUSIC - SORRY 4 DA WAIT by Playboi Carti
(Just the new deluxe songs)
Another couple songs tagged onto MUSIC to make that shit 34 songs LMAO. They are all pretty good though, most of them were already released and were just finding their way to DSP’s and overall while I do like most of them, I don’t really see myself returning to these over my favs from the core album. Good deluxe tho, really surprised he actually dropped these.
DAY #896: Fast Lane Juugin by Young Scooter
RIP Young Scooter. I wanted to visit something of his in light of his passing cuz I always loved the features he brought all throughout Future’s catalog and overall Fast Lane Juugin definitely lands very nice. It’s pretty much a glorified compilation album composed of a bunch of mixtape songs, both songs I’ve never heard as well as super iconic songs like Packs In (or more commonly known as Work) with Gucci that just land amazing. Pretty solid early-trap project though with a lot of really nice Scooter performances and some nice-ass Zaytoven beats.
DAY #895: Babyface Maniacs by Yung Lean
I keep trying to get the attraction with Yung Lean’s music and I fear I never will. That’s completely okay with me.
DAY #894: Abbey Road by The Beatles
In many ways this was exactly what I was expecting Abbey Road to sound like lmao, but overall a very great album. I think one thing that I constantly found myself appreciating more than almost anything was the production all across the album was amazing, super consistent all the way through and had some amazing song-to-song transitions especially once you get into that latter half of the project. How the second half of the album plays out definitely was the most unexpected part of the album, with many super great transitions song after song and it makes the shorter tracks feel like a very full, energetic, and interesting stretch for the album.
I don’t really know how often I would return back to this album to be honest, but I still do understand why people hold it in such high regard and there are still definitely tracks like Oh! Darling or She Came In Through The Bathroom Window that I would appreciate if they ever popped on. Great album.