If you like DJ Shadow, chances are high that you like this record too.
Can I relate? Sure. 
There is old stuff which had came out before I started actively listening to music. There are things I missed or I never discovered. And there is constantly good new music coming out. You can only listen to music a few hours a day so l don’t want to be too strict to myself.
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Thanks. It’s a small town, if i were more social, or worked less, i’d probably run into them more frequently. A wild coincidence i meant to mention is that i found a couple of those old tapes she made me about two weeks before i ran into her. I was going through one of the many boxes of stuff from my dad’s house (he died a couple years ago) and found an old tape box of mine from back then with those in it. I was wondering whatever happened to her and then there she was at the hardware store in the morning.
One of the things I’m enjoying about this exercise is zooming way out and looking at why these albums had/ have the formative impact they do. I hadn’t really thought about it before but for someone who’s most profoundly formative years were in a time with an internet so primitive most people ignored its existence, and in a place with almost no tv reception, it really came down to people directly showing each other cool stuff. I suppose there was a bit of radio but it was mostly top 40 trash with three exceptions; a french language canadian station that played interesting stuff but i could never figure out what anything was because of the language barrier, a college station in bellingham that was great late at night but you had to be in specific locations to receive the weak broadcast, and an oldies station that just played stuff from the 50s, everything else was just paula abdul and garth brooks.
Under-caffeinated ramble over.
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The second Fleetwood Mac album I ever listened to was their 1977 LP “Rumors.” My favorite tracks are “Second Hand News,” written and sung by Linsey Buckingham; “Dreams,” written and sung by Stevie Nicks; and “Don’t Stop,” written by Christine McVie and sung by McVie and Buckingham.
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Due to busy times at work and a well deserved holiday, I am way too late. But I would like to complete this task, so here we go!
May: Going Blank Again - Ride
Going Blank Again for me was simply a superb introduction to shoegaze. The opener, Leave Them All Behind, for me is the anthem of the whole genre. Often when I was drunk or high or both, I cycled back to my dorm (and later my own house) with this song on max volume.
The few times I saw them live, they absolutely smashed it.
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Glad people are returning! In case you’ve missed it, I’d be glad if you add your lists to this overview: