I really hated this. The vocal effects were so annoying. The songs were so earnest and trying to sound epic but it's just reeks of garage band presets to me.
No thanks you. This was like all rock bands smushed together to make some incredibly bland.
I enjoyed this, it was varied and interesting. Can't say I'd listen over and over but definitely fun.
Didn't mind this. It was varied enough and some good lyrics but a bit too much mum music
A beautiful album, I love it. I love how it's clearly Big Thief style but they really tried some newer experimental stuff and sounds in this one. Great choice.
Thank you, I hated that so much.
Now and again it would do something that sounded like it had the potential to be good. Frog on the floor was okay and did some okay bits. I got my tooth removed felt a bit ska and fun but the vocals were so grating. Whole thing sounded like an A-level students just getting drunk on effects and trying whatever the hell they like.
Great album, I love it. Favourite song is Depreston, it really gets me going that one.
This was okay. The vocals annoy me but I guess it's just not my thing, doesn't mean it's bad. Overall it all sounded fairly the same.
I didn't hate this. I nearly did, but I found some of the music was really good. Didn't really mix with the lyrics but generally it was interesting.
This album is such a belter. It's so catchy and imaginative, really love it.
I found this all a bit meh. I hated the album cover, but that's by the by, it was generally just a bit flat for me, but I also couldn't really find a reason to dislike it either.
I really liked this.
This was great fun. Not sure I'd listen to it again but I can imagine seeing this band at a festival and absolutely loving it.
I didn't really hate this but it was quite all over the place, didn't really know what to make of it.
I liked this, it was pretty cool and reminded me of bits of other artists.
I can't say I hated this but I just found it quite boring.
Now I love this album. I've seen the show 3 times and I really like Anais Mitchell. However, I can imagine this is hard to enjoy without context.
But overall, I first heard this in 2011 way before the broadway version was done and I loved it. The music is so good, great story telling, great vocals. Big fan of Anais Mitchell.
I liked this a lot. Great fun!!
long and boring.
Well I absolutely love this album. Listening to this album as a kid lead to some many bands that I love. Sublime were such a great starting point for me getting into ska and punk etc. This album has some absolute classic bangers but also some great deeper cuts. There are so so many bands that I love that were influenced by Sublime.
This was fine, a bit repetitive but good background music.
Ermm, I know Primus but I find them hard to enjoy. It's neither side of the comedy/serious side for me to understand if I'm honest.
I really liked this. Good old rock 'n' roll but didn't felt cliche.
This was quite fun, I enjoyed listening to it sure but I can't imagine I'd go back to it
This was nice but I got a bit bored.
This is a banger, a real soundscape, I loved it.
I really enjoyed this. This would be absolute perfect late night festival party vibes, real good.
I generally say I like the Decemberists but I definitely don't love that. I felt this album was a bit all over the place. It has some fantastic bits but it wasn't cohesive enough for me
I really enjoyed this. Good fun. It did sound a little simple in places and it reminded me of what the kind of thing everyone starts making when they Garageband or Ableton but it was cool.
Ermmm, this was okay. It was quite varied and interesting but I can't say it was that good.
I absolutely adore this album. It was a proper formative album for me. I was massively into this as a teenager and I still love it. I do think it holds up really well. Streetlight are a very good group of musicians, they make ska punk but with proper musical style. The basslines are so good, the music changes rhythm all the time, lyrics are fantastic. It feels a shame to me that they can get banded together with Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish (who I do also love), but they are completely different.
I bloody love this album. In fact, I was wearing my Martha tshirt whilst listening.
I don't know what it is about Martha but they really get me going. I think their lyrics and style just fit my demographic perfectly. It's that style of grown up po-p-punk, emo indie and taking that same style and feeling but it's grown up with the audience,
I'm really that big a fan of Bon Iver. I can see why this is good though, it's very imaginative and varied and what not. But for some reason it doesn't click with me. Also I've always found the song names really up themselves, get a grip.
Okay that was surprisingly good. It wasn't all brilliant but it was pretty good. It felt very Kylie or Sophie Ellis Bextor. I imagine that's the kind of thing they were trying to get on board with at the end.
I especially enjoyed the lyric 'I'm going to stand the test of time'. Sorry Rachel, you didn't, unless you meant appearing on this challenge.
This is a banger of an album, really takes me back.
This was okay. It was quite forgettable. He sounds like Michael Stipe.
People bloody love Death Cab for Cutie. I understand why but I just found this quite wet. It was all very similar too. But it didn't annoy me.
This was cool. I really liked the blues tracks, they were great
Oh yes one of my favourite albums. Absolute banger in my opinion, really atmosphere, great lyrics, lovely sounds, banging.
This was eye-wateringly bad. Complete dross. Terrible lyrics, horrible sounds. I guess the only redeemable thing was his voice isn't bad. This is 80s landfill music and deserves to stay on the landfill in my opinion.
This was wild, really all over the place, but that were bits that I loved. There were also bits I hated. But overall I think it was a very well put together album and did keep my interest.
I generally really liked this. I found a bit of the production hard to listen to. Some of the sounds popping in and out was quite jarring, but it had some nice beats and was really interesting, a cool album for sure.
I did like this, it was pretty different. A really cool voice and good fun.
I liked this a lot, it was cool, chill and nice.
This was good. I generally don't ever listen to Fontaines D.C., not sure why because I can see why this album is great.
Bloody hell, can you get any more lo-fi? It was like being on hold to a punk dentist office.
But I did like it, cool stuff.
Yer Nan's favourite new 'rock' band. She saw them on the final episode of this series of Countryfile.
So this really isn't my kind of thing and I found it quite abrasive in places, but I can certainly appreciate why people love this album, it's got a lot of depth and variety and very well written songs, just not my genre.
I liked this a lot, reminded me of Khruangbin. Was a bit samey overall but I did enjoy it. Great to have on while reading or just chilling.
This was cool. I can't say it was amazing but I definitely enjoyed the listen.
I don't know any cultural significance of this band but to me it sounds like a lot of bands of this era but not quite as good. It's a great album but just not as good as others.
This was great fun. I looked up the album and my goodness a lot of musicians worked on this. I really recognised the second track but couldn't place it, I think it must be sampled or used in a film somewhere.
This was alright, nothing special to me though. Sounded a bit like the Darkness, I wonder if this album influenced them.
Not bad. I was never really into Damien Rice when he was big but I totally get why people loved him.
Well this was epic. I can't say I'd want to listen again but I do appreciate it. Would make a great soundtrack for the Witcher. Very earnest.
This is a belter. It felt like such a fresh sound when it came out. I really love it
This was so bland.
This was great! I'd never heard of this band but will definitely listen again.
Eugh this is just so boring. It's all the same and it's wet as hell.
This sounds so dated to me now. I never really liked it at the time and always found this band really wet. But I can see why people like them and they are certainly talented song writers but it's just not for me.
I loved this. It reminded me of Fiona Apple, Alanis Morrisette and Anais Mitchell. It was good. When the Amazing Grace started I thought it was going to be shit but she did it really well.
Ah I bloody love the Chats. They are so good. Really nice simple punk, great fun silly lyrics. All I love.
That was fun! No what I expected. It was really varied and entertaining.
Wow this was awful. So basic and boring lyrics. Just 'I'm great, me and my crew are big and cool and sometimes we go out and then we go here and I was born to be rich and I'm a cool kid'
I really can't stand this basic London rapper nonsense.
I liked this. It's familiar stuff to me but it was happy and warming and generally quite nice.
I flipped between hating this so much and then thinking actually it was quite good. But on the whole I lent towards hating it. I felt that the stupid lyrics only feel permissible because of the jaunty singing. It wasn't the worst thing ever but really nothing special.
Jeff!! So this was the album I wanted to submit but it was already in here.
Possibly my favourite album of all time. It's so well crafted, the lyrics really get me going and I listen to this album so much, I always put it on when I'm stressed or need a pick me up. Jeff is an absolute hero and I love all his work from Arrogant Sons of Bitches to Bomb the music industry and all his solo stuff. He's such a gem of the music industry and continues to released bangers and stay true to his ethics. His lyrics evoke so many feelings to so many people in different situations and I can always find a way to relate. Bloody love him.
I didn't mind this but it wasn't really my thing.
This grew on me through, at first I wasn't really in the mood but after the first two tracks I was with it. Really good stuff.
I was expecting this to be a banger of a pop album, especially after that Rachel Stevens one was so good, but it was all a bit meh. It was fine, but really didn't do anything special.
This was good fun. After a while I found it a little jarring but overall I did really like it.
Great stuff, love the Breeders
An absolute classic, such a great live album. The ordering of this show is so good with the build up and it just keeps the energy so high, I've watched the film so many times.
This wasn't bad. I don't think I was in the right mood for it but trying to ignore that. It was a nice ambient album.
So this is a weird album, Don't Marry Her and Rotterdam are both fantastic songs. But the rest of the album is pretty rubbish, it's really bland and boring. Rotterdam feelings like a completely different band. I wanted to like this album, I remember my parents playing the Beautiful South a lot and I know the songs but most of it is naff.
This was fun and fine but nothing special.
This was alright, it didn't blow me away but was nice enough.
Horseshit
I really enjoyed it, it was a nice bop.
This was okay, I enjoyed it but it didn't blow me away.
Just bland and boring.
Hmm, nothing special, too earnest for me.
Great fun
Wahey, I picked this! I love this album and love Amyl and the Sniffers. Great music, excellent vocals, heartfelt lyrics but also a bit tongue in cheek, cool guitar breaks but generally nice and simple structures.
I found this really boring.
I get why people like this but it's just not my kind of thing. It's not bad, I just wouldn't choose to listen to it
I didn't love this but I did enjoy it in places. Can't say I'd want to listen again but it was interesting.
Pretty forgettable to me.
This was cool. Reminded me of lots of other bands in places. Wasn't amazing but still a good listen.
I love GY!BE. They are excellent and very nice to have as background music. I saw them a few years ago and it was incredible. Personally I prefer Luciferian Towers as an album but I know this one is their most popular. None the less it's a certified banger!
I was ready to really hate this but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, still not great though...
I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. Definitely one I'll put on again. I thought it was going to be really lame but it was great
That was good, quite varied but pretty cool.
It wasn't bad but I didn't love it. It was varied for the genre which was cool but sometimes went places I didn't enjoy.
A really amazing soundtrack, love it.
It was fine but I found it quite repetitive and boring
This was pretty good. Varied and reminiscent of a lot of other things.
This was fantastic. I've know Joan As Police Woman for a long time but only a little bit, I don't think I ever properly listened to an album but this was outstanding. Great stuff.
This was a little all over the place, but on the whole I enjoyed it. Good vocals and good variety.
I'm not a big fan of R.E.M. I generally don't like the vocal style. However, this definitely has some bangers on it and I can see why they are popular but on the whole it's just not for me.
This was great. Got me grooving. Sounded a lot like Manu Chao which is cool and then I was hit by Senegal Fast Food which is a right banger I've liked for ages but hadn't realised.
Oh my Madonna this is 80s as hell. I can't even imagine hearing this and it not sounding old and cheesy to the nth degree. It's fine stuff but it does sound like Madonna but with that special spark taken out. All the songs very much have the same structure and blend into one but it's not bad, it's just cookie cutter pop from the 80s.
I was pleasantly surprised by this. I thought Sam Fender was a bit of a wet mum guy. He is, but he's better than I thought. I was expecting a George Ezra type but this was much better. I still found it a little bland but I definitely understand why he's popular and he's clearly got song-writing talent, it's just not quite enough in my style.
Really dull and boring. It's so unbelievably generic. It's Coldplay regurgitated.
A great album. I has just come off the back of reading two books about 90s/00s punk and there was an awful lot about this album so I definitely feel a greater appreciation for it now, but it's definitely a banger no matter what
I really liked this. Reminded me of early Nick Cave, Fugazi, Dead Kennedys etc. Really good beats and guitar and interesting vocals. Good stuff.
This was perfectly pleasant but it's not the sort of thing I enjoy listening to actively.
This was nice. I'd listen again. Not always in the mood for this kind of thing but it was chill and sweet
Nah, just trumpets going round and round
I just found this boring. I don't think I really see the point. It's background music that sounds like 1940s music, why do we need that?
Another excellent GY!BE album. It's a classic for sure.
This was great. Proper classic NY punk. A nice punchy, 35 min album. Simple punchy riffs, great vocals. They aren't quite the Ramones but damn good.
It was all fine until the vocals started.
Hmm, well it was objectively pretty crap right? But also it does exactly what it is supposed to.
I love Richard Dawson, saw him the other week at Green Man and he was fantastic. I like this album, it's really interesting and a good listen, but I do prefer some of his other ones. Nonetheless, this is a banger.
wow, that was the beigest, blandest soup of an album.
This isn't really my kind of thing, but I do think, for this kind of thing, it wasn't really very good.
A bit dull and boring.
Great Portishead album if you're into Portishead
This was good fun.
I like Garbage and I like this album but I just don't think it's anywhere near as good as their self-titled one. There's a few duff tracks on it.
oh for fucks sake. This is awful. It looks like a parody album but as far as I can see it isn't. What terrible looking people on the album cover. The whole thing is so cringy and agonising.
I cannot fathom how bad this album is.
Hmmm, not great, a bit boring. I'm not against this kind of music and it shares stuff with bands I like but I just found it a bit dull.
I enjoyed this a lot
Quite bland, the vocals were fine but wasn't interesting
This was great. It was reminiscent of a lot of stuff but definitely had its own unique styling. Great lyrics and vocals and lovely guitar work.
This was cool, upbeat and fun.
Really not my kind of thing but it was perfectly pleasant enough.
What an album cover. This was surprisingly good. It wasn't all great but definitely had some really cool parts.
Not bad, kind of forgettable but fine
It was quite samey, but it was fairly nice I guess
Oh yes what a great album. A great band. The vocals and guitar style are so individual and identifiably Bloc Party. Saw them at Glastonbury last year and they were so good. Also saw Kele play Blue Light with Hayley Williams at a Paramore gig which was fantastic.
What a god awful record.
Not bad. Nothing amazing but I definitely enjoyed it.
So I've never been a big fan of Bon Iver. They've just never clicked for me. I don't think I've ever listened to this album in full. I can see that it's a great album and well written but there's just something about it that doesn't click for me. I wonder if I saw them live I'd get it a bit more. Nonetheless, it's clearly very good song writing.
Great stuff, quite 00s riot grrrl resurgence. Nothing incredible but still good.
This is a belter of an album for sure. Some top bangers on here. She's an excellent song writer and great performer. I also like that although she's shot to fame, she's not everywhere all the time like a lot of new pop stars, she is clearly a proper artist.
Some of this was too twee for me. But it was quite nice.
It was fine, a bit plain rock. Sounded like background music for a specific type of teen american movie.
I didn't mind this. I was in the right mood for it. It's nothing special but nice vocals and beats and such.
Not bad at all but was never really into them
Not great but not bad. It was a bit too country for me, but it was nice
Hmm, It wasn't bad. But it felt like a poor man's the National. Had some Springsteen style in there but kind of felt a bit flat for me. Far from terrible but just didn't spark joy for me
Not bad at all. They fit with a lot of stuff that I like but there was something off for me. Like a cheaper version of Rage Against the Machine
Yeah! An absolute tour de force by one the greatest bands of all time. Love this album and love Paramore.
Complete dross.
What an awful start to a Monday.
I love this album, it's really bloody good. I haven't listened to it in full since I was a kid. It's great, really varied, has some Blink absolute bangers but it's quite mature as an album with all the interludes and whatnot. I can't believe that it's Robert Smith on All of This. Now I listen it's obvious but I just never clocked it until now!
The singles on this are good and the whole thing is fine, but it's not amazing.
I quite liked this. The voice was weirdly familiar, I can't place if it just sounds very similar to someone else.
This was weird. I really didn't know what this album was going for. The vocals were wild. The music was almost comedic but I genuinely don't know if it was supposed to be. I have no idea what the demographic for this album is.
This list is really testing my patience now
I liked this, it was soooo and bluesy and nice.
This was pretty poor. Really vacant pop. It's the sort of thing that plays in All Bar One when it opens. But also, on a BBC competition show recap of the series. I'm surprised this came out in 2023. It sounds very 2010
This was interesting but can't say I'd go for it again.
I love Bob Seger. He is great. Hollywood Nights and Old Time Rock and Roll are top fave songs, love them. This is a great album, pure rock n roll.
I've not listened to this album in full before. It was great fun. He's a top musician isn't he. I can't say I'll listen to this a lot but it's damn cool
Hmm, it's a great film. I only saw it for the first time this year and I loved it. BUT it is really an album that should be on this list? It's weird listening to it all in one go and I'm not sure it really fits with this project. None-the-less it's cool.
I quite liked this. It's up my street and sounds like a lot of things I like on first impression. However, I did find it a bit simple, there wasn't much creative exploration. For something that came out in 2016 it sounds so similar to a lot from the early 00s, we've got that already, let's develop music not just keep doing the same thing.
I'd call that bang average. It was good and varied but I think listening to a 2 hour live album of a band I've never heard of is never going to excite me too much.
Found this very bland
This makes me feel like a teenager again. A good album definitely. But I think Cassadaga is much better and would have preferred that for this list.
