Caro Kelley Discusses Selected Albums from Her 1000 Albums Project - originally published on Bonus Tracks Patreon

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This episode was originally published on the YMAAA Patreon in October 2025.

Munich-based soul-pop artist Caro Kelley visits Bonus Tracks to talk about her 1000 Albums project, in which she listened to three albums a day for an entire year. Caro shares why she started the project, and she explains how she determines what rating to give an album. She and Al get into discussions about seven of the albums she has listened to for the project, ranging from the one-star Flood by They Might Be Giants to Frank Ocean’s Blonde, which she gave five stars.

To see Caro’s Google sheet, which lists every album she has listened to for the project and their ratings, go to: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lqeY7_ihNEpU-2ngUvmpn8p7FIrIRANCNWFwurbmM8I/edit?gid=0#gid=0

You can learn more about Caro and her music at https://carokelley.com!

Also, you can follow her on the following platforms:

Instagram and TikTok: @caro_kelley

Facebook: @carokelleymusic

YouTube: @CaroKelley

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0:00 Re-introducing Caro

1:09 Caro explains why she decided to undertake her 1000 Albums project

2:33 Caro details the process she used to select the 1000 albums

4:53 Caro explains how she rates the records she listens to

9:04 Why Caro gave her own album five stars

10:57 Caro clarifies the familiarity data from her 1000 Albums spreadsheet

Discussion of selected albums (with Caro’s ratings):

13:16 They Might Be Giants, Flood (1 star)

17:18 The Waterboys, This Is The Sea (2 stars)

24:07 Toto, self-titled (3 stars)

26:59 Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out (3 stars)

33:32 The Cars, Heartbeat City (4 stars)

36:40 Steve Winwood, Arc of a Diver (4 stars)

38:32 Frank Ocean, Blonde (5 stars)

Outro music is from “Guilty Feeling” by Caro Kelley.

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