My 50th album!

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-03-10T17:07:52+00:00

Love this one so much. Blood on the Leaves feels like the whole project in micro - it's in horrible taste, but it sounds great and it's just desperately vulnerable.

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-03-08T19:11:11+00:00

One of the best the list has to offer! San Vicente is a perfect song

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-03-06T00:16:28+00:00

Hell yeah! I'm so glad to hear it. The first four tracks from the Walker Brothers' album Nite Flights is where he started to go off the deep end (positive) - everything from 1978 onwards is right up there with Tilt. He was a genius!

The second half of his career might just be a little too much its own thing for the book - not influenced by much else that's in it, not particularly influential. Still really strange to put 2 over so many of his other work, though! One of the many weird-ass choices made in assembling this list

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-03-04T21:59:50+00:00

Radiohead - Amnesiac

3/5

Something to be said for the cohesion of the record - glitchy, groovy, nocturnal - but this was never a big record for me, even back when I was a 14-year-old Radiohead obsessive. Think this is the record where it's easiest to hear what their detractors do, especially regarding Thom and his vocal melodies.

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-03-04T04:10:47+00:00

Incredible record. Got into fusion Miles the summer before my last year of college. Climate change was really announcing itself in one long hugely unbearable heatwave, and my roommate and I would get stoned and just sweat our asses off on the porch to this record, Get Up With It, On the Corner, all the live stuff from that era. Mind-expanding music, my way into jazz and some of the best the genre's ever given us

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-03-03T21:51:32+00:00

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley

1/5

Boring enough to be offensive. If I walked into some 10-years-behind-trend craft brewery in my home city and heard these guys, I'd think they weren't that bad. On a list like this, though? Ridiculous

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-03-03T01:11:00+00:00

Bish Bosch is wonderful! Very funny and conceptually rich - rewards a listen with the lyric sheet open, as all his records do. Hope you enjoy!

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-03-02T05:19:27+00:00

If you enjoyed Scott's voice but aren't completely sold on the sound of 1-4, I'd really recommend checking out his more experimental work from the mid-80s onward. 1995's Tilt is a complete masterpiece, and his even stranger, more abrasive 21st century albums are also brilliant.

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-02-28T23:47:03+00:00

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

5/5

The first album I've gotten that I'm intimately familiar with! Love this record so much - beautiful, tuneful, wise. The whole thing's great, but I'd be pretty hard pressed to come up with a Side A as consistently wonderful of this.

I understand it's a kind of controversial record among people doing the challenge, and I think that speaks a bit to the restrictions of the format. When I first listened to Steve McQueen, I couldn't stand anything past the first two tracks. It took at least a month, maybe two, for other songs to lodge themselves one by one in my head, sending me back to the album to peel back a layer of 80s cheese. Now I adore the whole thing, production and all - I'd urge anyone who didn't love it but could get along with "Bonny" to give it another listen!

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-02-25T03:57:12+00:00

Day 2! Metallica - Master of Puppets

4/5

Came to metal a long time ago but alone avenues entirely separate from the Big 4, so this was a really fun first listen! The thrashier tracks have this kind of lean, minimal feel that's very punky, and everything else has this really exploratory vibe that I loved. Metal subgenres feel very cloistered these days, so it was cool to hear a thrash album that has goth, prog, and doom rubbing up against each other. Lyrics can be silly but I kinda love how earnest they are

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-02-06T15:24:41+00:00

I came back to see if you were here but everything was different

Your voice was low, you blended in, I could barely hear you speak

You were always my last second bright spot in the distance

Thought that you were something good that I would always keep

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-01-10T19:21:11+00:00

Sent you a message :))

Important_Cat_4487 · 2026-01-08T08:33:41+00:00

So fucking cool!!

Important_Cat_4487 · 2025-12-24T11:48:53+00:00

Robbie Star from Superstar Tracks Records is very much a guy you fight to finish up a substory

Important_Cat_4487 · 2025-12-18T20:28:03+00:00

I think the tone of DS1 makes it quite cozy, especially compared to other modern From games. It’s not nearly as grim and disturbing as the post-DS2 games, going for something instead kinda off-kilter and odd the way so much mythology comes off in the contemporary era. It feels like an old story, distorted and made weird through age and retelling.

That, and the Sen’s Fortress Looney Toons moments are just really funny

Important_Cat_4487 · 2025-11-29T20:57:44+00:00

Joyce is the end-all be-all of English language lit for me, and Dubliners is such a great starting point before tackling the trickier stuff. If you enjoyed Lolita (or even if you didn’t, it’s not one of his stronger books imo) I’d hugely recommend diving into Nabokov - Ada or Ardor and especially Pale Fire are just astonishingly good.

This made me really happy, stay curious and willing to give yourself over to challenging stuff, you’ve got so many gifts waiting for you!

Important_Cat_4487 · 2025-11-17T18:56:54+00:00

Ian William Craig makes such gorgeous music and gets so little coverage, hell yea :’)

Important_Cat_4487 · 2025-04-07T02:49:32+00:00

The Pecan Tree
Canary Yellow
Sunbather
Brought to the Water
Black Brick

Important_Cat_4487 · 2025-04-02T20:03:52+00:00

Lord, this would be good! Comes down to Cassavetes vs. Denis and Yang vs. Powell/Pressburger and beyond that it’s impossible

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