2025 in 2025: Day 106

The K&D Sessions - Kruder & Dorfmeister

Super chill remix kind of album? Very chill. Very long. Did I mention it is chill? I am not the most chill, personally, so probably good for me to listen to stuff like this once in a while during work.

Highlights: Bug Powder Dust - Bomb the Bass, 1st of tha Month - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

6/10

Kala - M.I.A.

Yeah, this just kind of meanders around with weird things sticking out; like little kids trying to sound like hard gangsters rapping and a whole lot of guns being cocked. Then I remember she started a clothing line that "blocks the transmission of 5G" or some nonsense. What a rebel.

Highlights: BirdFlu, Paper Planes, Come Around

6/10

Kamasutra - Prince

A full on jazz-influenced instrumental album. Composed by Prince for his wedding. It is mostly fine and gets a bit bombastic in parts.

Highlights: Promise Broken, Barcelona, Kamasutra Overture #8

6.5/10

Kamikaze - Twister

This is only Overnight Celebrity. I added this to my collection back when Kanye West was great and Twister was interesting. Somewhat.

7/10

Kasabian - Kasabian

Dirty indie electro rock form the mid-00s. The opening to Club Foot is awesome. These guys kind of reminded me of Manbreak when they came out. I almost thought maybe this was the band they had grown in to.

Highlights: Reason is Treason, Club Foot, Orange, Cutt Off

7/10

Keep the Faith - Bon Jovi

Finally a VERY good album today! I genuinely think this may be Bon Jovi's second greatest album (let us see what I think when I finally make it to Slippery When Wet). Sambora's lead work on the whole thing is epic, but particularly on Dry County. Dude slayed it on that one! 

Highlights: I Believe, Keep the Faith, In These Arms, Dry County

8/10

Keep the Faith [Live Bonus Disc] - Bon Jovi

So I am guessing I actually have the original special edition of this album? Which would explain why that CD sounds so good (no bad remastering). It may surprise you to hear that these live versions are all inferior to their studio counterparts.

Highlights: Blaze of Glory, Keep the Faith, I'll Be There For You

7/10

Keeper of the Flame - the HIATUS

Much more synths and some of the songs are quite same-samey, but within them are some genuinely beautiful moments. And some really good songs!

Highlights: Tales of Sorrow Street, Unhurt, Sunset Off the Coastline, Don't Follow the Crowd, Burn to Shine

7/10

Kerplunk! - Green Day

Still small-time indie-label Green Day. Kind of fun hearing a budget version of Welcome to Paradise. They certainly work WAY better as a well-produced pop-punk group, to me. But this is still a lot of fun. 

Highlights: 2000 Light Years Away, One of My Lies, 80, One for the Razorbacks

6.5/10

Khaki Time Portal - Rhoda Ro

Dearfawkinggawdwhataday.

Highlights: I did actually burst out in extreme laughter when Kentucky Sunrise Holler caught me off guard

MINUS FIVE STARS

"Albums" listened to so far: 918

FREE PALESTINE

Random Thoughts from a Ryan Adams Marathon: Day 7

Time for the insanity that is the website exclusive 'artists'...
(Feel free to ask for an explanation)

Sad Dracula

* Let It B-Minus is quite good. Very 'Replacements' style and decent quick little tracks.

* Fasterpiece is even better. Like, a really cool album

Ghetto Birds

* The Dunes is bizarre... like, I don't even know what this was supposed to be. Bizarre song titles, vocals I can barely hear or distinguish, lots of acoustic guitar. Kinda dreamy? But not in the Jason Priestley way.

Were Wolph

* The Meat Won't Listen is kind of metal. Metal mixed with hilarity. Like songs called Skeletons are Basically Awesome as Hell. I think that sums this up nicely.

* Feel the Lazer is even better. Evil Weekend is legit awesome and the great ballad Dead People Unite and Take Over is... great? Also of note is Ben & Matt - an ode to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Pink is Not Your Colour contains possibly the greatest metal lyrics of all time: "Just like Nostradamus/Only drunk and can't tell the future"

Rhoda Ro

* Khaki Time Portal is what you expect from a muppet and a cat making music on Garageband and being processed through a 15 watt guitar amp

Warren Peace

* War & Peace is another really good album. Fire & Ice is actually one of my most played songs in iTunes. Possibly due to the fact that my iTunes library now only dates back to late last year... but whatever.

DJ Reggie

* A Reginald Gangster is a fine collection of world-class hip-hop tracks. And by world-class, I mean incredibly ridiculous. I think instead of picking out songs I may just single out great lyrics, like "I'm the best motherfucker to talk about rabies"

* Holla Dayz Inn is more of the same. Except more songs end with "DJ Reggie 2006" and we get some philosophical discussion on the holiday experiences of a robot (who is then chased by a bongo player)?

* Song Destroyer has a great song about Moonlighting. Yes, 80s TV show Moonlighting.

* 4:20/20 is... well... almost exactly the same as the previous albums. Except I am yet to find a single track that interests me at all. Seriously, there is only so much entertainment the same strings samples and beats loops can provide when mixed with distorted vocals. Though at least there is a song about Star Wars on this one. Called Autumn in New York. Yup, that is how much sense this all makes.

* East Side Story is admittedly quite enjoyable. Mainly for great tracks like Return of the Ninja, which is just a quick half-review of a movie called Return of the Ninja. Plus Shake Your Dictionary and Kick Em in the Dungeon. Line of the album = "Last time it was thesaurus time I fell off my Brontosaurus tryin' to rhyme"

* Snapz the Clown brings back the unlistenable noises. By Prime, I think my ears are going to hate me forever for this.

* 1980 x 1000 is better. Again, fun songs about dinosaurs, Dracula and wooden underwear. I Am Alone is probably the most hilarious DJ Reggie song of them all - I can't even begin to list the humorous lyrics. Though I was particularly fond of the following from Bugs:"I had a bad day part 2, which means I had a bad day tomorrow"

* Hip-Hop Breaker - wait, this isn't over yet??? By Prime, DJ Reggie just won't leave me alone!

The Shit

* The Shit was super quick. And just silly hillbilly songs that lasted like a minute each.

* This Is Shit is the first just straight up punk album. It is reletively fun. The Chuck Norris intros make for a bit of interestingness. Oh wait, HERE COME THE ROOSTER CALLS! Rats is damn fucking cool. YAY THE SHIT!

* Hillbilly Joel is more hillbilly nonsense and introduces us to David Livingstone. MORE ROOSTERS!!! Good times

* General Ulysses S. Hospital is a nice mix of weird noises and punk rock and insanity. GRIM REAPER SANDWICH SHOP!!! Buddah VS Jesus is one of the most important songs in rock'n roll history...

* Holy Shit is a good mix of religious music... laced with references to King Kong and Tim Robbins. Makes me want to go to Bible School with my big gun. Oh shit - JIMMY HACKEYSACK!!!

* Christmas Apocalypse part 2 is possibly the most nuts of them all. From Trent Reznor's xmas tale, to Jacque Cousteau battling Jimmy Hackeysack, this is just mayhem and hilarity in a big xmas ball. WHISTLES!!! "Can I borrow a millionty bucks?" A lot of punching in the nuts going on at xmas time... Something tells me his math is quite off in this album as well.

* ...Hits The Fan is back to hard out crazy punk rock with crazy lyrics, lots of whistles and roosters. Probably some punching in the nuts as well I may have missed.

843 songs down