Much of this sounds like the background to a shower sex scene. But like. In an outdoor shower so it’s romantic.

This would be perfectly adequate if I were on ecstasy in an abandoned warehouse or condemned townhouse and wanting to dance while some dude who brought his dog, who is very chill, keeps trying to talk to me about like, deep stuff.

Never heard of them before and really enjoyed. Killer vocals.

I feel like one of these songs was definitely background music for one of those transitional Sesame Street sketches showing People in Their Everyday Lives.

I appreciate the concept of this album but only liked one song well enough for a relisten

I always think I won’t like Johnny cash and I always do. Live music isn’t a thing I miss a ton but this made me miss it.

It was inoffensive. I need a 2.5 star option. This falls right at neither agree nor disagree.

I like the instrumental but am not at all a fan of their vocals.

I like her voice and constant craving is still good but I really didn’t like the other songs on the album. Just not my sound.

Never heard of them and really enjoyed.

That whole cutting off the song abruptly thing was cute at first but got ol-

I couldn’t get past one song after tainted love, which my friend ryan used to call the BART song because that incessant beep sounded like the BART train horns. I like the song well enough. I remember there were two versions. The reasonably long enough version and then the long version that moved into where did our love go and sometimes the radio would play that one and it felt kind of special. But it turns out there’s a third version. And it’s about 20 minutes long, which is seventeen minutes and thirty seconds longer than most any song should be. This tells me (a) they think this is their best song and that it’s super good so they should just keep playing it forever and (b) consequently, the remainder of the album is likely G_d awful. The next song confirmed this, so I didn’t continue.

I’d be perfectly happy never hearing that ever again.

👌

Really not my thing. Extra star for Doctor Who.

I listened to Coldplay twice do I get a medal

These live albums are uniformly terrible why

My Spotify isn’t fancy so it doesn’t play the whole album or even only the album (I kept thinking isn’t this too early for Eminem?). But it was my first bbmac class after a week off and it was a SOLO class and i a little bit almost passed out but this helped get me through it.

Much of this sounds like the background to a shower sex scene. But like. In an outdoor shower so it’s romantic.

This album was fine. But I started it with the hope of trying to figure out the difference between The Cardigans and Sixpence None the Richer and I still haven’t so I’m a bit disappointed it wasn’t as illuminating as I had hoped.

I feel like one of these songs was definitely background music for one of those transitional Sesame Street sketches showing People in Their Everyday Lives.

Once, a yoga instructor played S&G during class to mix things up and it was the BEST. so I did that. ❤️

This was pretty great to listen to first thing in the am on my dog walk.

How many British bands with monotone lead singers do we have to listen to they all sound the same

Minus a star for it being live. It was probably super fun in person but it never translates well to an album, to me.

I liked this a lot more than I thought i would.

Reminiscent of the miseducation

This would be perfectly adequate if I were on ecstasy in an abandoned warehouse or condemned townhouse and wanting to dance while some dude who brought his dog, who is very chill, keeps trying to talk to me about like, deep stuff.

I appreciate the concept of this album but only liked one song well enough for a relisten

I think this got an extra star merely in comparison with the last blur album we had (we had one right?) which I remember being not nearly as listenable. For all I know I gave that one three stars too though. 🤷‍♀️

Meh

Never heard of them before and really enjoyed. Killer vocals.

This world is bullshit. And you shouldn’t model your life — wait a second — you shouldn’t model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself.

This gets an extra star because, while I wasn’t in a swanky bar in the 80s wearing a slinky dress and very red lipstick while I was listening to it, someday I might be.

I a 4.5 option.

I recognize it takes talent to scream in key but I also don’t enjoy listening to it.

Really hated the vocals

The atonal vocals were painful. Extra star for that “Fuck-the-Man” jazz police song.

Honestly, many Kanye songs are absolutely re-listenable. But while on some days this might be closer to a 3.5 for me, it got bumped down half a star because I have trouble reconciling his belief in his own genius with lyrics like this: "'Cause the same people that tried to black ball me forgot about two things, my black balls"

I definitely didn’t love every song. But the good ones made me wish I was in a crowded smoky dance club and very high and I actually don’t want to be doing any of those things.

I love him.

At first I thought it was inoffensive. But then I heard more and it got really boring.

And a half. This was good

And a half

🤘

Not really a chili peppers fan and this album definitely has a number of their typical songs that reminded me of why. The last song on the album I’d never heard before and found lovely though.

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3.5

I didn’t know the E Street Band fired Springsteen and replaced him with someone boring

Good album for my bike commute

Enjoyed this

I thought about giving this a four because it has two of my favorite stones songs. But the rest of the album is pretty forgettable

Really enjoyed this

From my father, I have inherited my gorilla-like arms, an at times breathtaking self centeredness, an all consuming enjoyment of a fine meal, and a deep and abiding love for this album. I spent an entire summer listening to it on repeat on my discman and reading Asimov.

It’s a three and a half really. Don’t tell rob I didn’t give it a five.

Two and a half. It turns out I had a belief hiding in my subconscious that I never needed to listen to an entire prodigy album in my lifetime. It also turns out I was correct. But my headphones were dying and every two mins or so this robotic voice would cut in and say “battery low” and it fit right in with the oontz oontz music.

At first I thought I didn’t like this because it was kind of boring. But then the nasally vocals got to me. And then I hit some really not good songs. All around thumbs down.

I almost gave it an extra star for only making me listen to it for six songs

Bob Dylan writes some absolutely beautiful songs. And cannot sing.

Love. Her.

This album was slammin

Fuck I if this isn’t some great wallow music. Didn’t love a couple songs in the back half but Hurt is a star by itself.

Quote from high school while trying to puzzle through mousetrap car building: Josh: We should make the wheels really big. We could use records. Find a bad Smiths album or something. Sam: There are no bad Smiths albums, Josh.

There are millions of better jamiroquai songs than these. Or at least two anyway.

I think I was just in a good mood yesterday because I liked this far more than I reasonably should have from an objective standpoint. Probably actually a 3.5.

This was not good. It was going to be a two but good God that one song about the woman’s hair. WE GET IT IT’S BLACK.

Still don’t get what all the hubbub about her was for a minute.

I wanted to like this more than I did. I discovered I really hate when they realize they never talk at us about love and then do so. Also jazz flute.

Really enjoyed this.

This is really a 3.5 but i love the song gangster trippin, which was on the go soundtrack and I just found out was released on my birthday.

This was surprisingly not good. Like a prayer and cherish are solid. Everything else was uniformly terrible.

Three and a half. Freedom is my jam. And I liked the rest of this more than I thought I would.

I did not enjoy this at all.

I didn’t love this like I thought I would. Generally really enjoy her voice but I couldn’t get into most of these songs. It’s really a two and a half.

I found this really boring

This album must be Italian or something. As of this morning I had only listened to two songs, but I finished it just so I could make that joke. This was decent. Liked Mood for a Day.

Ok but why wouldn’t I just listen to the Beatles tho

Everything is a three

I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would.

Tenacious D might have done this better. Also I’m easily suggestible, so I stopped this halfway through to listen to Teenage Dirtbag on repeat for a bit and I did not regret it. That is a damn delightful song.

Rob bought this album when it came out and it always makes me think of that summer. I think we almost broke up. 🤣

This was a 3.5 and I might have been feeling generous and rounded up but then I listened to Metallica which was better so it suffered by comparison. Tenacious D did NOT do this one better. Enjoyable and objectively solid musicianship. Loses points because (a) not really my kind of vocals and (b) no song should ever be 20 minutes even if I enjoyed listening to it in the car.

I liked this more than I thought I would. Sadly no mosh pit here.

The album HOLDS UP. forever.

This was weird. And not in a good way. Couldn’t get past the third song.

We had both the red and blue greatest hits albums because my mom bought them the day she went down to telegraph and saw the mud people. Those and weezer’s blue album were the only albums my HS friends and I consistently agreed on listening to. I wasn’t sure how this would go since I didn’t know a lot of the songs on this album, but it would pretty solid. That prophet song was too weird to be good but otherwise 👌. And bohemian rhapsody is always incredible.

Is it just me or was every other song about a car

Enjoyed this. Except that weird serial murder-y one while I was walking alone in the woods no thank you.

No

First live album I’ve really enjoyed. 😂

Church of the poisoned mind is a better song than karma chameleon. There were some decent songs I’d never heard before here but also too much saxophone.

The beginning of this album was totally good it might have gotten a four. And then Mildred pierce came on and I don’t know what my ears did to you but that is legit assault and someone should be in jail for that song.

This was perfect for grocery shopping

This is a 3.5 for me. Objectively I think she’s a really good musician but it’s just not my style of what I want to listen to for a long while.

I mean they’re good but a lot of this starts to all sound the same.

Had never listened to this whole album before and it was delightfully cozy on a rainy Friday run. Had to dock a point because every time white musicians of that era try to get funky I can’t help picturing my parents and their friends trying dance and that’s a hard pass.

I almost gave this a one but I found exactly one song to be inoffensively not terrible.

Really a 3.75. Was missing something. Needed more drums.

All of these songs sound the same and they’re boring.

This was fine. But sounds so dated though I still like holding back the years

Brandi did black hole sun better but this is good. 😂

Why do like a third of these albums all sound the same

Emotions was wayyyyy better

Lost a star for all the lyrics that embodied that time period where the message seemingly everywhere was that sex is terrifying and men are terrible.

I think when you put the word Incredible in your band name, you’d better bring it. And I don’t think “use a lot of sitar” really gets you there. Also this is our second day of use of flute and let me just say, as a former flute player, no thank you.

This was almost a five for me but there are too many tracks I don’t love. Excellent throwback for me and reminded me of some very fun concerts with friends. Love the jumble of styles and the LA-ness of it all.

Found this very boring

This is really a 3.5. Never really listened to her before, but I would totally listen to this again and Can’t Let Go is a 👌 track. But she loses half a star because I have a general preference for listening to singers I could not potentially sound better than, and I’m afraid she veers into the Sheryl Crow category there.

I did not have nearly enough ecstasy in my body (read: any) to properly enjoy this album, but I like it would have been pretty good if I did.

I usually don’t love listening to a lot of piano but it really works for me here. This was really fun.

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. This had zero redeeming qualities

. This had zero redeeming qualities

If the whole album was me and Julio it woulda been a five.

No

No

This was … fine. It’s the poor man’s Fratellis. So when i was done I went and listened to Costello Music. That’s a five.

Meh

I can never keep straight the vines or the hives or the strokes but it’s all my jam.

Groove is in the heart is a five. This is an average.

I didn’t actually finish this. It started with a bunch of Christine McVie songs and then I skipped to Sara and then to Tusk and then I went and listened to rumors bc that’s a five and 👌

3.5. Liked this more than I thought I would.

I saw what the album was and thought oh this one might be a five and then I relistened and it is the BEST background music and i give her five stars in life for making piano bar music so popular because honestly that’s a feat. But it’s still not a five. But I like it a lot.

3.5. I liked this.

Listened to half with my coworker and his joy about it was kinda infectious.

I almost bumped this up to a 4.5 because of Antonio sabato jr in the video for love will only do bc I thought we can all agree he’s a perfect ten and then Rob informed me that he’s now a trump supporter so here we are.

And a half

After he said GLOCKENSPIEL, did anyone else wonder if he was gonna ask whether we wanted to touch his monkey?

Liked this better than expected. Very growly. Felt like I was listening to a large muppet.

I think the first time I heard her sing I thought “what the hell is this?” What is with this yodel-y, ANGRY chick? And then I loved it. It’s some of the bravest singing I had ever heard. And it came at a time that I NEEDED to see a pop star not being perfect, but instead being unabashedly herself. Yesterday I listened and then I almost listened again. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Lost me at the barnyard animals

And a half. I loved this.

He writes some pretty songs but his singing voice sometimes makes me want to punch him in the face

And a half

We already have a Johnny Cash and he did it better.

This was a good album. And then the last track made me want to punch him in the face.

I was yesterday years old when I learned that the opening song from That 70s Show was an actual song.

Best line: “suitcase of mammaries”

I was worried this might be another album with a bunch of screaming but I really enjoyed it.

Never heard this before and really enjoyed it. Reminiscent of the Shins. Didn’t care about the vocals all that much but they clearly had fun instrumentally.

I almost gave it an extra star for nostalgia but meh.

It got an extra star for nostalgia because my friend used to put this on in her car all. The. Time. Strong Enough is solid and the song about an alcoholic sitting around drinking with strangers all day was different and fun despite it actually being quite sad. But I don’t like listening to people I can sing better than and listening to her wail leaving Las Vegas makes me want to twist a knife in my ear holes.

This is very lyrics forward, which usually isn’t my thing, but I was really digging it yesterday.

3.5

One good song

The ultimate two hit wonder plus hubris. TTD comes up often in our house.

This made me want some drugs and a dance floor.

More enjoyable than expected. I think I would have rated this lower at the time.

I did not like this at all and don’t understand why someone would suggest that anyone else listen to it

The songs were pretty and they all sounded exactly the same

This really isn’t a four it’s a 3.5 but this is a joyful reaction to the crap that preceded it.

LEGENDS

It’s amazing. I hated Hole back when it was a thing. But this whole exercise has taught me there is much worse music out there.

My friend Jenn was obsessed with that Babylon song and put it on a mixed tape or cd or whatever it was that year and now it always makes me think of her even though I always thought it was ok. So. Like the whole album then.

FYI they have an excellent version of baa baa black sheep. Used to listen to them a bit when the kids were little.

3.5

Her voice is annoying and the songs are repetitive

This is probably blasphemy to some, but while I love Tommy, I don’t love listening to the Who sing the entire thing. Give me the cast recording. 😬

This music is actually pretty terrible but they’ve banked on the fact that I (along with many others, presumably) could listen to this guy’s accent all the live long day.

I love listening to Paul McCartney sing. Felt like half this album was instrumental, which I could have done without.

There are like 20 albums I can’t understand why we haven’t seen. But here’s some modern elevator music. Cool.

Much better

There have been like five of these albums that all sound the same. Some dude with a low voice who can’t really sing so he half talks. It’s not offensive. But it’s not good and every time I think, “so apparently just anyone can make an album then.” And it makes me wonder whether the guy picking these likes them because he sounds the same.

Boring.

Love me some Elastica and I still listen to Stutter on the regular, but it’s not quite a five for me.

All of the experimentation of Talking Heads with none of the good music. The first few bars of guitar seemed promising, and then he opened his mouth, and all hope was lost.

And a half

Better than expected. Not amazing.

Once again. Her voice is great. Don’t at all like these songs though.

Legend

Extra half star for ten things.

This sounds just like U2. Still haven’t decided if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Why are we repeatedly asked to listen to this atonal garbage. No woman would ever be allowed to put out an album with a voice like that.

This is not good

That parade song was … something. It’s strangely unsatisfying to listen to an album where nearly every song sounds kinda like Girl from Ipanema, but none of them are Girl from Ipanema.

The guitar work is pretty amazing even if it’s not my kinda jams. 3.5.

This definitely suffered from me listening to it right after megadeath. Seemed pretty boring.

Extra star for Bethany

Extra star for Bethany