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Here's my #MWE run (from both Mastodon and Bluesky) wrapped up in one blog! A few of them are even slightly expanded! If you missed anything from one (or both) feeds, here's all 56 album reviews:
https://nicknutterblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/double-mwe-at-last-mwe-2026-roundup.html
Here's my #MWE run (from both Mastodon and Bluesky) wrapped up in one blog! A few of them are even slightly expanded! If you missed anything from one (or both) feeds, here's all 56 album reviews:
https://nicknutterblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/double-mwe-at-last-mwe-2026-roundup.html
28. Cal Tjader "Tjader Plays Mambo" (1956)
Easily the best album of 1956 (LOW fuckin' bar there, but still.) Marimba driven Cuban jazz remastered really well; you wouldn't suspect from the fidelity that it was 70 years old. There's a couple songs from this that have been sampled or remixed, and being there's standards, quite a few tracks will have one doing the Leo meme. Really solid jazz album from a big name in the game.
27. Converge "Jane Doe" (2001)
The screaming is not my jam at all, so I almost launched it on song one. But by track two I'd dialed in the settings to make it sound better, and the production POPPED. I get it now. This album crushes face. And if the vocals were in a style more to my liking, I dont think it would have been any better. I couldn't understand a single word on the album (literally not a one), but it didn't matter. It was fuckin' RAW. And that's the point right there.
26. Jar. "3 Lives" (2013)
Thank fuck for Wikipedia rabbit holes, or I never would've known the band Flybanger used a different name before and after they were on a major. Granted, this feels pretty bog standard and 4 of the 11 songs are re-dos of Flybanger stuff, but it was fun to know it didn't just stop in 2001.
25. Deadly Earnest II (1980)
Two really good songs on here ("Oklahoma's A Big O.K. For Me" & "Blues At Midnight") but outside of that it's mostly the shit-kicker stereotypes that kept me from listening to country in the first place, done badly. (Opener's not bad, though; the outro has this haunting melody that's barely audible because of the fade). The two really good songs illustrate that Deadly Earnest were capable of a hell of a lot more, sonically and harmonically.
24. Arctic Monkeys "Suck It And See" (2011)
Outside of tracks 5-8 and a couple of unique lyrics, this could have been any indie band, local, national or international, in 2011. The only other time I've heard a band get "just another band"-ed so hard between records was Band Of Skulls (and that album isn't on streaming anymore, so make of that what you will).
