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Album 938



Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Year: 2005

Few people have the balls to name say that a specific album is their defining piece. Especially if they then go forth and continue to make more music. It takes guts, but you've also got to kind of respect how right Mr. Grohl was. Sure, it tries a bit to hard, and it's not perfect, actually it's far from perfect. But it showcases exactly what the Foo Fighters are all about. Not too complex, and full of emotion. It's a two disc effort, with the first being electric and the second acoustic. The divide doesn't exactly feel that natural, but the quality of the second disc really does shine out more on it's own than it would in the midst of distorted guitars. At times this album feels like it's coming from a defeated man who is definitely living in the past. Perhaps I'm reading far too deep into an album that could be shelved with thousands of other generic rock pieces. But perhaps I'm right, I think it's special, and I definitely think it deserves it's place on the list.

3 Choice Tracks: DOA, Friend of a Friend, Razor

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Holy shit Comus is posting again.
Also I never took you for a Foo Fighters fan.

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Comus

Album 937



Nat Adderley - Work Song
Year: 1960

Hard bop has been very firmly established by the start of the 60's, and many (including me) would say that the best already came and went. But there are still going to be some gems to be found. This is definitely one of them, featuring Wes Montgomery performing magnificently on guitar. But what makes this album great is the cohesion, there's often very little going on, but these moments of calm are performed so well it's hard to see them ever going wrong. It's not as cool as say Coltrane or Davis, but it's far more cheeky. It feels a bit immature and off the wall, and that's really refreshing when it comes to Jazz. Great little album.

3 Choice Tracks: Work Song, Mean to Me, Violets for Your Furs

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Album 936



Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Year: 2007

I almost, almost put Only by the Night Up here, as a warning, an interesting study into selling out. But I was afraid people might think that I was endorsing it (2022 Comus: I can't believe that dumpster fire was added to a revised 1001, what a disaster), I'd also not be able to do any choice tracks. I gave this album 7.4 in my review corner. Something which I feel is fair when compared to the rest of the albums there. KoL were really onto something, they finally started putting their ideas together into one cohesive unit. Had they kept going this way their fourth could very possibly have been album of the decade, but we all know what happened there. They've taken the unrefined, inconsistent high energy of the first two efforts and worked it into something presentable as a complete album, while still retaining that raw southern rock swagger. Very atmospheric, and a very good effort from a band that could have been great.

3 Choice Tracks: Knocked Up, The Runner, Arizona

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Album 935



Santana - Caravanserai
Year: 1972

Career suicide has never ever sounded so damn good. This album killed Santana as a hit maker and radio sensation, but what a way to go! Now regarded as possibly their finest moment. Santana was never one for fixed line-ups, but there is such a sense of chemistry within the "band" as this is very much a studio album in the sense of the complexity and instrumental work load. I almost chose III simply because of how straight up it hits you, but this is a far more sutble album, it's so layered and while it might take a few listens. It will definitely sink in. From Canterbury Prog style vocals into the latin-jazz guitar stylings of Santana this is certainly an interesting fusion. I feel at times it sometimes misses the beat and fails to understand what exactly it's trying to do, but at those points the sheer brilliance of what's being attempted really saves the atmosphere. This is worth it for the guitar work alone, but the concepts being explored here go much deeper and it's a good starter album into the world of jazz fusion, and strangely enough Canterbury scene progressive rock. If you had no idea who was doing this album, it would be easy to mistake it for a Canterbury band experimenting with a Latin jazz sound.

3 Choice Tracks: Just In Time To See The Sun, Song of The Wind, All the Love of the Universe

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Album 934



Passenger - Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted
Year: 2021

Remember Passenger? No? Let Her Go from All the Little Lights made Passenger internationally know, and don't get me wrong it's a great song and an even greater album. But the problem is Let Her Go isn't what passenger is, and so that popularity quickly faded away. Since then Passenger has been quietly continuing to make his own brand of Folk music, and doing it really well. Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted is a great example of what this Artist can really do and is a good starting point if you've only ever heard Let Her Go or never heard of Passenger at all. This is a melancholic and beautiful album that is definitely worth a few listens to fully appreciate what is being done. People also completely hate it, that alone should make you interested.

3 Choice Tracks: Sword from the Stone, Remember to Forget, London in the Spring

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Don't worry folks I haven't gone soft, hopefully I can add more than one or two before I dissapear again. At some point i have to finish my magnificent octopus.

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Album 933



Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa til du dør
Year: 2001

Their actual best album is probably Violeta, Violeta Vol 1 but I doubt that has the same international appeal as Ompa til du dør,(and also requires Vol 2 and 3 to be truly complete), this album is the perfect starting point to decide whether investing any more time into Kaizers is for you or not. Very few non-metal Norwegian artists that sing in Norwegian have ever reached broad appeal, Kaizers is one of them. It's hard to describe the style, the terms gypsy punk or gypsy rock appears now and then. I would say they are what they are, and it's bloody awesome. This album is just fun, it's upbeat and exactly the right kind of experimental that you can expect to get from this kind of release.

3 Choice Tracks: Kontroll på kontinentet, 170, Resistansen

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