The idea is to return to the time before playlists as it pertains to listening to music… first we had vinyl, play side one, then flip the record over and listen to side two… that was the sweet spot I think… cassettes dovetailed into vinyl with the same two-sided experience… then came CD’s where you would listen to an entire album in its entirety… all three of these mediums lent themselves to artists ‘sequencing’ albums in a start to finish manner that became the presentation for that collection of songs… but with the advent and now complete proliferation of streaming, playlists became the thing… the equivalent of what we used to call the ‘mixtape’… although mixtapes were much more labor intensive to put together, so there weren’t that many of them relatively speaking… but playlists, ultimately just collections of favorite songs… supplanted the act of listeners enjoying albums as a whole, in sequence, as the artist intended for them to be heard… so in my life, I’m making a concerted effort to listen to complete albums again… usually while I’m exercising, one or two a day… the following are the albums I’ve listened to this year, organized by decade so I can visually keep listens balanced.

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Updated : 10/13/25 @ 17:49
2025 Running Total : (414)

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2020’s

• The a&O – Jool (2020)
• Challengers (OMPS) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (2024)
• the 8th cumming – cumgirl8 (2024)
• No Obligation – The Linda Lindas (2024)
• My Method Actor – Nilufer Yanya (2024)
• Snoop Cube 40 Short – MOUNT WESTMORE (2022)
• Strange Burden – Font (2024)
• The Band Feel EP – The Band Feel (2024)
• EUSEXUA – FKA Twigs (2025)
• Out From Underneath – Prism Shores (2025)
• Future Stunts (EP) – Neato (2024)
• Heavy Metal – Cameron Winter (2024)
• Everyone’s Getting Involved : Stop Making Sense – Various Artists (2024)
• LOWER – Benjamin Booker (2025)
• moMINTs – Tobe Nwigwe (2022)
• No Name – Jack White (2024)
• TANGK – IDLES (2024)
• Mirror Starts Moving Without Me – Pom Pom Squad (2024)
• Mammoth II – Mammoth WVH (2023)
• Lucky For You – Bully (2023)
• Mayhem – Lady Gaga (2025)
• Dead Channel Sky – clipping. (2025)
• Dance Macabre : Deluxe – Duran Duran (2024)
• Peeled Back – Allie Goertz (2024)
• This Is How Tomorrow Moves – beabadoobee (2024)
• The Squirrely Years Revisited – Ministry (2025)
• Romance – Fontaines D.C. (2024)
• If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power – Halsey (2021)
• Radical Optimism – Dua Lipa (2024)
• Glasgow Eyes – The Jesus and Mary Chain (2024)
• CRAWLER – IDLES (2021)
• Big Mess – Danny Elfman (2021)
• Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? – Fantastic Negrito (2020)
• The Death of Slim Shady – Eminem (2024)
• You’ll Have to Lose Something – Spirit of the Beehive (2024)
• Made of Rain – The Psychedelic Furs (2020)
• 72 Seasons – Metallica (2023)
• We Will Always Love You – The Avalanches (2020)
• We Do Not Fear Ruins – Mobley (2025)
• Rush! – Måneskin (2023)
• If You Asked For A Picture – Blondshell (2025)
• Divisive – Disturbed (2022)
• >>>> – Beak> (2025)
• Cover The Mirrors – Ben Kweller (2025)
• JAY – Jay Kanabay (2025)
• Album of the Year #1 Funkateer – Bootsy Collins (2025)
• Blue Electric Light – Lenny Kravitz (2024)
• Virgin – Lorde (2025)
• Imaginal Disk – Magdalena Bay (2024)
• The Tipping Point – Tears For Fears (2022)
• Phonetics On and On – Horsegirl (2025)
• Nickel on the Fountain Floor (EP) – illuminati hotties (2025)
• Black Sky Over the Projects : Apartment 2025 – Public Enemy (2025)
• Dream Into It – Billy Idol (2025)
• Golden Wolf – Dope Lemon (2025)
• Be the Love You Want – Southern Avenue (2021)
• Two Star & The Dream Police – Mk.gee (2024)
• BITE ME – Renee Rapp (2025)
• Wet Leg – Wet Leg (2022)
• WOOF. – Fat Dog (2024)
• Bigger. Messier. Deluxe. – Danny Elfman (2022)
• 99 Nights – Charlotte Cardin (2023)
• The Program – BRKN LOVE (2025)
• The Gloss – Cola (2024)
• The Tipping Point – Tears for Fears (2022)
• Kimosabe – Dope Lemon (2023)
• Silver Shade – Peter Murphy (2025)
• Refisted – Local H (2025)
• Every Five Seconds – The Fixx (2022)
• TRON : Ares – Nine Inch Nails (2025)
• You’re Weird Now – Guerrilla Toss (2025)
• BURN ALL THE SHIPS – Headstones (2025)
• The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet (2024)
• moisturizer – Wet Leg (2025)
• viagr aboys – Viagra Boys (2025)
• The Catastrophists (EP) – Tom Morello & The Bloody Beetroots (2021)
• As Days Get Dark – Arab Strap (2021)
• Conspiranoid (EP) – Primus (2022)
• Enemy Radio : Radio Armageddon – Chuck D (2025)
• All That Is Over – SPRINTS (2025)
• The Secret of Us – Gracie Abrams (2024)

2010’s

• Treehouse – Sofi Tukker (2018) (2)
• Born to Die : Paradise – Lana Del Rey (2012)
• St. Vincent – St. Vincent (2014)
• Pure Heroine – Lorde (2013)
• DAMN. – Kendrick Lamar (2017)
• Maraqopa – Damien Jurado (2012)
• The Ghost Who Walks – Karen Elson (2010)
• ANTI – Rihanna (2016)
• Strange Mercy – St. Vincent (2011)
• Brutalism – IDLES (2017)
• Run the Jewels 2 – Run the Jewels (2014)
• Add Violence – Nine Inch Nails (2017)
• Thank You Happy Birthday – Cage the Elephant (2011)
• Black Pumas – Black Pumas (2019)
• Free – Iggy Pop (2019)
• Love This Giant – David Byre & St. Vincent (2012)
• Poptone – Poptone (2018)
• The Gereg – The Hu (2019)
• Born This Way – Lady Gaga (2011)
• Lemonade – Beyoncé (2016) ★★★★★
• A Reality Tour (Live) – David Bowie (2010)
• 4:44 – Jay-Z (2017)
• channel ORANGE – Frank Ocean (2012)
• Kamikaze – Eminem (2018)
• Sonic Highways – Foo Fighters (2014)
• M3LL155X (EP) – FKA twigs (2015)
• AM – Arctic Monkeys (2013) ★★★★½
• Relative in Descent – Protomartyr (2017)
• First of My Kind (EP) – Miles Kane (2012)
• When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – Billie Eilish (2019)
• The Agent Intellect – Protomartyr (2015)
• M3LL155X (EP) – FKA twigs (2015)
• InnerSpeaker – Tame Impala (2010)
• Not The Actual Events (EP) – Nine Inch Nails (2016)
• Dodge and Burn – The Dead Weather (2015) ★★★½

2000’s

• Fallen – Evanescence (2003)
• With Teeth – Nine Inch Nails (2005)
• The Slip – Nine Inch Nails (2008)
• The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance (2006)
• Toxicity – System of a Down (2001)
• Marry Me – St. Vincent (2007)
• Easy – Cowboy Mouth (2000)
• Fate and the Arsenal – Mechant (2007)
• The Last Star – Halfcocked (2001)
• Untrue – Burial (2007)
• Strays – Jane’s Addiction (2003)
• Black Holes & Revelations – Muse (2006)
• R – Queens of the Stone Age (2000)
• Eat At Whitey’s – Everlast (2000)
• The Fame Monster – Lady Gaga (2009)
• Dear Science – TV on the Radio (2008)
• Actor – St. Vincent (2009)
• Circus – Britney Spears (2008)
• Bubblegum – Mark Lanegan (2004)
• 3121 – Prince (2006)
• Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys (2006)
• Under Rug Swept – Alanis Morissette (2002)
• To The 5 Boroughs – Beastie Boys (2004)
• Trust No One – Dave Navarro (2001)
• Oh, My Girl – Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter (2004)
• Find the Groove – FunkMasters (2001)
• Hot Fuss – The Killers (2004)
• Favorite Worst Nightmare – Arctic Monkeys (2007)
• Scary Baby – Supermercado (2004)
• Elephant – The White Stripes (2003)
• Wolfmother – Wolfmother (2005)
• Renegades – Rage Against the Machine (2000)
• Year Zero – Nine Inch Nails (2007)
• Mescalero – ZZ Top (2003)
• Stankonia – Outkast (2000)
• Searching For the Young Soul Rebels – Dexy’s Midnight Runners (2000)
• Subhuman – Recoil (2007)
• The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem (2000)
• The Hor-Ned One – Pivot Man (2006)
• The Menace – Elastica (2000)
• Stay Human – Michael Franti & Spearhead (2001)
• Felt Mountain – Goldfrapp (2000)
• Flavors of Entanglement – Alanis Morissette (2008)
• MACHINA/The Machines of God – Smashing Pumpkins (2000)
• The Blaqprint – Blaq Poet & DJ Premier (2009)
• Some Mad Hope – Matt Nathanson (2007)
• They Can’t All Be Zingers – Primus (2006)
• Phrenology – The Roots (2002)

1990’s

• Broken (EP) – Nine Inch Nails (1992)
• Gravity Kills – Gravity Kills (1996)
• Antipop – Primus (1999)
• Cats and Dogs – Royal Trux (1993)
• Dummy – Portishead (1994)
• Richard D. James Album – Aphex Twin (1996)
• Tales from the Punchbowl – Primus (1995)
• Wretch – Kyuss (1991)
• Dookie – Green Day (1994)
• Adore – The Smashing Pumpkins (1998)
• When the Pawn… – Fiona Apple (1999)
• Riddles Are Abound Tonight – Sausage (1994)
• Cure For Pain – Morphine (1993)
• Purple – Stone Temple Pilots (1994)
• A Little Ain’t Enough – David Lee Roth (1991)
• The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails (1994)
• Kill At Will (EP) – Ice Cube (1990)
• Pills ‘n Thrills & Bellyaches – Happy Mondays (1990)
• The Stone – Babble (1994)
• El Oso – Soul Coughing (1998)
• Core – Stone Temple Pilots (1992)
• Elemental – Tears for Fears (1993)
• Sailing the Seas of Cheese – Primus (1991)
• Stain – Living Color (1993)
• Neurotic Outsiders – Neurotic Outsiders (1996)
• Welcome to Wherever You Are – INXS (1992)
• Unsound Methods – Recoil (1997)
• Bricks Are Heavy – L7 (1992)
• Step In the Arena – Gang Starr (1991)
• Some Friendly – The Charlatans (1990)
• Bloodline – Recoil (1992)
• Evil Empire – Rage Against the Machine (1996)
• Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick (1997)
• Laughing Stock – Talk Talk (1991)
• Coming Down – Daniel Ash (1990)
• Holy Smoke – Peter Murphy (1992)
• Sarsippius’ Ark – Infectious Grooves (1993)
• Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – Pavement (1994)
• Midnite Vultures – Beck (1999)
• Unboxed – Sammy Hagar (1994)
• Tidal – Fiona Apple (1996)
• The Lonesome Crowded West – Modest Mouse (1997)
• Sweet Oblivion – Screaming Trees (1992)
• Mezzanine – Massive Attack (1998)
• The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Lauryn Hill (1998)
• Undertow – TOOL (1993)
• Home – Spearhead (1994)
• 2001 – Dr. Dre (1999)
• Music For Hangovers – Cheap Trick (1999)
• Goodbye Jumbo – World Party (1990)
• Frizzle Fry – Primus (1990)
• Dirt – Alice In Chains (1992)
• Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle (1991)
• Welcome to Sky Valley – Kyushu (1994)
• Second Coming – The Stone Roses (1994)
• Chocolate Supa Highway – Spearhead (1997)
• Houdini – Melvins (1993)
• Disintegration – The Cure (1998)
• Remixed Hits – Missing Persons (1999)
• Tales from the Punchbowl – Primus (1995)
• One Hot Minute – Red Hot Chili Peppers (1995)
• Fear of a Black Planet – Public Enemy (1990)
• o(+> – Prince & The New Power Generation (1992)
• Adore – the Smashing Pumpkins (1998)
• Amused to Death – Roger Waters (1992)
• Ten – Pearl Jam (1991)
• The Globe – Big Audio Dynamite II (1991)
• 100 Miles And Runnin’ – N.W.A. (1990)
• Apocalypse 91 – Public Enemy (1991)
• Doggystyle – Snoop Dogg (1993)
• Give a Monkey a Brain – Fishbone (1993)
• Alive at Twenty-Five – Jane’s Addiction (1990)
• Doubt – Jesus Jones (1991)
• Viva! La Woman – Cibo Matto (1996)
• Fashion Nugget – CAKE (1996)
• Only Heaven – The Young Gods (1995)
• OK Computer – Radiohead (1997)
• Definitely Maybe – Oasis (1994)
• Innuendo – Queen (1991)
• Doppelgänger – Curve (1992) ★★★½
• Bloodletting – Concrete Blonde (1990)
• Miscellaneous Debris (EP) – Primus (1992)
• Ænima – Tool (1996)
• Midnite Vultures – Beck (1999)
• The Fragile – Nine Inch Nails (1999) ★★★★
• Ill Communication – The Beastie Boys (1994) ★★★★
• Saturnine Martial & Lunatic – Tears for Fears (1990)
• Ruby Vroom – Soul Coughing (1994) ★★★★½
• Hours – David Bowie (1999)
• Mellow Gold – Beck (1994) ★★★

1980’s

• War – U2 (1983)
• Pyromania – Def Leppard (1983)
• Earth Sun Moon – Love & Rockets (1987)
• Black Celebration – Depeche Mode (1986)
• Tonight – David Bowie (1984)
• So – Peter Gabriel (1986)
• Dirty Mind – Prince (1980)
• Big World – Joe Jackson (1986)
• Surfer Rosa – Pixies (1988)
• Genesis – Genesis (1983)
• Wild Planet – The B-52’s (1980)
• The Lion and the Cobra – Sinead O’Connor (1987)
• Listen Like Thieves – INXS (1985)
• Songs from the Big Chair – Tears For Fears (1985)(2)
• The Dream of the Blue Turtles – Sting (1985)
• Changes Two Bowie – David Bowie (1980)
• Life’s Too Good – The Sugarcubes (1988)
• Power, Corruption & Lies – New Order (1983)
• Blaze of Glory – Joe Jackson (1989)
• Welcome to the Pleasure Dome – Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)
• The Blues Brothers (OMPS) – Various Artists (1980)
• Once Upon a Time – Simple Minds (1985)
• Earth Sun Moon – Love & Rockets (1987)
• 1984 – Van Halen (1984)
• Tattoo You – The Rolling Stones (1981)
• Master of Puppets – Metallica (1986)
• To Live And Die In LA (OMPS) – Wang Chung (1985)
• Lovesexy – Prince (1988)
• Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981)
• Seven and the Ragged Tiger – Duran Duran (1983)
• Love and Rockets – Love and Rockets (1989)
• Pretenders II – The Pretenders (1981)
• Paul’s Boutique – Beastie Boys (1989)
• Peter Gabriel 4 : Security – Peter Gabriel (1982)
• All Shook Up – Cheap Trick (1980)
• Shuttered Room – The Fixx (1982)
• Emotions In Motion – Billy Squier (1982)
• Rebel Yell – Billy Idol (1983)
• Mother’s Milk – Red Hot Chili Peppers (1989)
• Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (1983)
• Music for the Masses – Depeche Mode (1987)
• Combat Rock – The Clash (1982)
• Into The Gap – Thompson Twins (1984)
• Nothing To Fear – Oingo Boingo (1982)
• Murmur – R.E.M. (1983)
• Spring Session M – Missing Persons (1982)
• Liverpool – Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1986)
• Prayers on Fire – The Birthday Party (1981)
• Saint Julian – Julian Cope (1987)
• Face Value – Phil Collins (1981)
• Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week – The Sugarcanes (1989)
• Truth and Soul – Fishbone (1988)
• Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me – The Cure (1987)
• Psychedelic Jungle – The Cramps (1981)
• Faith – George Michael (1987)
• Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits (1985)
• A Decade of Rock and Roll : 1970-1980 – REO Speedwagon (1980)
• Pornography – The Cure (1982)
• Live at Rockpalast – The Fixx (1985)
• Hell With the Lid Off – MC 900 Ft. Jesus (1989)
• Hysteria – Def Leppard (1987)
• Duke – Genesis (1980)
• Business As Usual – Men At Work (1981)
• Max Q – Max Q (1989)
• …And Justice for All – Metallica (1988)
• Operation : Mindcrime – Queensrÿche (1988)
• The Power Station – The Power Station (1985)
• Sonic Temple – The Cult (1989)
• Dream Into Action – Howard Jones (1985)
• Fair Warning – Van Halen (1981)
• A Walk Across the Rooftops – The Blue Nile (1984)
• Made In America – The Blues Brothers (1980)
• Don’t Say No – Billy Squier (1981)
• Blackout – Scorpions (1982)
• Seventeen Seconds – The Cure (1980)
• Pictures at Eleven – Robert Plant (1982)
• Shabooh Shoobah – INXS (1983)
• Pleasure Victim – Berlin (1981)
• Sign O’ The Times – Prince (1987)
• Standing on the Edge – Cheap Trick (1985)
• Remain In Light – Talking Heads (1980)
• All Shook Up – Cheap Trick (1980)
• Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo (1985)
• My Nation Underground – Julian Cope (1988)
• Hot Space – Queen (1982)
• Mirage – Fleetwood Mac (1982)
• Eye in the Sky – The Alan Parsons Project (1982)
• Music for the Masses – Depeche Mode (1987)
• Abacab – Genesis (1981)
• Bark at the Moon – Ozzy Osbourne (1983)
• Stop Making Sense (Live) – Talking Heads (1984)
• Faith – The Cure (1981)
• Rain Dogs – Tom Waits (1985)
• One On One – Cheap Trick (1982)
• Queen Elvis – Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians (1989)
• Rage for Order – Queensryche (1986)

1970’s

• Motorhead – Motorhead (1977)
• You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish – REO Speedwagon (1978)
• Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! – The Rolling Stones (1970)
• Presence – Led Zeppelin (1976)
• Deguello – ZZ Top (1979)
• Damn the Torpedoes – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1979)
• No. 1 In Heaven – Sparks (1979)
• Over-Nite Sensation – Frank Zappa & The Mothers (1973)
• Aja – Steely Dan (1977)
• Head Hunters – Herbie Hancock (1973)
• Apostrophe’ – Frank Zappa (1974)
• Lovedrive – Scorpions (1979)
• Who’s Next – The Who (1971)
• Stained Class – Judas Priest (1978)
• Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd (1975)
• A Space In Time – Ten Years After (1971)
• Aqualung – Jethro Tull (1971)
• Hunky Dory – David Bowie (1971)
• Pink Flag – Wire (1977)
• Cymande – Cymande (1972)
• Low – David Bowie (1977)
• Powerage – AC/DC (1978)
• Boston – Boston (1976)
• The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys – Traffic (1971)
• Paranoid – Black Sabbath (1970)
• Candy-O – The Cars (1979)
• Band On The Run – Paul McCartney & Wings (1973)
• Presence – Led Zeppelin (1976)
• Goat’s Head Soup – The Rolling Stones (1973)
• #1 Record – Big Star (1972)
• One Size Fits All – Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (1975)
• Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac (1975)
• Hotel California – Eagles (1976)
• The Wall – Pink Floyd (1979)
• Frampton Comes Alive! – Peter Frampton (1976)
• The Stranger – Billy Joel (1977)
• Nasty Gal – Betty Davis (1975)
• Fear of Music – Talking Heads (1979)
• Breakfast In America – Supertramp (1979)
• Idlewild South – The Allman Brothers Band (1970)
• The Wall – Pink Floyd (1979)
• Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen (1975)
• Ahh… The Name is Bootsy, Baby! – Bootsy Collins (1977)
• The Long Run – Eagles (1979)
• This Year’s Model – Elvis Costello (1978)
• Montrose – Montrose (1973)
• A Night at the Opera – Queen (1975)
• Blood On the Tracks – Bob Dylan (1975)
• Love You Live – The Rolling Stones (1977)
• Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin (1975)

1960’s & Earlier

• Disraeli Gears – Cream (1967)
• Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin (1969)
• Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones (1969)
• The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady – Charles Mingus (1963)
• At Folsom Prison (Live) – Johnny Cash (1968)
• Hot Rats – Frank Zappa (1969)
• Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys (1966)
• Look-Ka Py Py – The Meters (1969)
• The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground (1967)
• Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles (1967)
• Vincebus Eruptum – Blue Cheer (1968)
• The Doors – The Doors (1967)
• Revolver – The Beatles (1966)