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Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

by annalise on Sun, Aug 24, 2025

The Gen Z really has it rough

Everyone reading this godforsaken article has remembered the early 2000s differently. My parents, idiosyncratic children of the sixties and seventies, were having the time of their lives at the turn of the century, going to rock clubs, playing music, driving from California to Michigan to Texas, getting impulsively married in ‘02 and having me in early ‘03. I had a decent, if not odd upbringing, with my father being a full-time musician.
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Selena - Dreaming of You

Selena - Dreaming of You

by ScoopMeister on Mon, Aug 4, 2025

At least we have some variety with this project

The previous albums on this project have led me to the conclusion that there’s (probably) no such thing as music that’s actually interesting. This fact appears to be doubly true for the year of my birth, Anno Domini 1995. With that in mind, I’ve gone for a slightly different strategy and chosen an album which hopefully makes up in interesting context what it lacks in interesting content: Dreaming of You, the fifth and final album by Mexican-American singer Selena.
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Anne Murray - There's a hippo in my tub

Anne Murray - There's a hippo in my tub

by ferday on Tue, Jul 29, 2025

There's a unicorn in my Vortex

It’s quite easy to pick a bunch of really intense, popular, progressive, or otherwise important albums in 1977, some of which are no doubt well known amongst the Vortex. But another aspect of music is its ability to uniquely soundtrack our lives, which of course is the reason that it holds a unique power to bring up nostalgia over basically all of the other arts, but also to give us association with powerful memories or feelings even outside of nostalgia per se.
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