Never listened to these guys before (though I had heard of them). Surprised to find...I really liked it!
Unlike yesterday (Grateful Dead album), where I kept forgetting that I was even listening to anything, this one wouldn't let my mind wander - Kept demanding my attention with cool things, convincing me that it would be worth my time to listen and try to figure out what the songs were about.
There are parts that are kind of cool, and parts that I hate.
Birdland is a good example. Lyrics seem cool. I hate the singing parts - the style of barely forming words with your mouth and just making noises.
I like the instrumental parts of Gloria, but I hate the way she spits out words like the worst kind of punk and/or grunge, especially in the first half of the song. This is also how I feel about the album in general: I like the instrumental parts and most lyrics, but I don't much like the vocal style.
In the end, I feel like it's very close to something I would like. Parts of it remind of like...PJ Harvey or something (who can be extremely good).
Weird. I actually like a fair number of Police songs, but this album did not do it for me.
I think I liked two songs: Every Breath You Take and Wrapped Around Your Finger. The rest were all very underwhelming
Not my usual tastes, but I actually liked it a lot
Okay yeah this album is pretty amazing. I would do a 4.5 if I could, but since I can't, I rounded down in order to preserve the integrity of 5/5. Considering individual tracks (which is maybe not a great thing to do for an album like this, but nevertheless):
-Spiegelsaal is my favourite track. Very cool.
-Schaufensterpuppen is great, but it is an obvious ripoff of t.A.T.u's song "They're Not Gonna Get us". Very disappointing that Kraftwerk would stoop to thievery.
-Abzug is maybe the only track that didn't do it for me.
I have no idea why I like this album so much. The Strokes are a band that I should not like (their style, genre, etc. are all things that don't usually work for me). I don't know if it's nostalgia or what, but I love this album.
Didn't really do it for me. One of those albums that I forgot I was listening to, and I had no desire to go back and re-listen to the parts I sleepwalked through.
An interesting album, performed by several fine young men who I'm sure are going to go far.
I really like k.d. lang's voice, I just always wish it was singing something else. Love the voice, don't care much for the songs.
(But I do like it when she covers other people's songs.)
I like a lot of old country - Marty Robbins, Jimmy Dean, etc.
I even like some "hurtin' country" - Patsy Cline, etc.
So I was excited for some country, but...this album fucking sucks. It's very hard to pick out the worst of the bunch, but what the fuck are the songs "If You Want to Be My Woman" and "Mary's Mine"?
It makes me appreciate someone like Johnny Cash, because some of his songs are adjacent to songs on this album but somehow manage to be actually good.
The only good thing about this album is that most of the songs are over mercifully quickly (almost all are <3 minutes).
If I had to be generous, I would say the first song, "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive", was a song that I thought was okay. It does not save this album from getting a "1".
You know...I'm sure this is good, but I still just don't get this kind of jazz.
The off-beat notes make me...uncomfortable.
A lot of good stuff on this album. Not a 5-star by any means, but like 3.5/5. I think I need to round down because I didn't like the one music video I watched.
Such a weird album cover! It's so difficult to tell what you're even looking at, it seems like her belt(?) is coming out of the picture, and also that it's a gourd or something. And like...why is she doing that with her hand?! What's her face supposed to convey? It's basically the Mona Lisa.
Anyway, the actual album was okay, though it went a little too long. A true 3/5. I liked it better than I thought I would...but I was also so utterly and wholly charmed by Dennis Quaid's bizarre character that my judgment is very clouded.
This album is obviously pretty good, but it was never my favourite Pink Floyd album. It's a 4.5, but I'm rounding down so that I can distinguish between this and the PF albums I like better (which will be 5), in case they're also on this site.
I really liked the Smiths' album from a few weeks ago, but I do not like this album. I don't have too much to say about it, but absolutely none of the songs worked for me.
I like a fair bit of CCR, but many of their songs don't hit for me (for example, Wrote a Song For Everyone was painful).
Overall an okay album, held back by a few tracks that are forgettable or just bad. Also, don't like how the best song on the album is the shortest (Bad Moon Rising), while the worst song is the longest (Wrote a Song For Everyone).
Pretty good! Reminds me of Beck a lot. Not too much to say, except that I had never heard of this guy, but I'm going to add a few songs from the album to my spotify (though not the whole album)
Wasn't really listening to the expository stuff, but I enjoyed bobbing along to the music while I was marking. 3.5/5, but I'll round down because it's not something I'd choose to listen to unless I was in a very specific mood.
I think...I think I might hate the Beastie Boys. Well...I hate their music. Which actually is pretty upsetting for me, because they all seem like pretty good dudes, and I wish I liked their stuff.
It's okay. Maybe a little flat for my tastes.
Every song sounds like it should be played over the last scene of a film featuring humanity's extinction, flipping from shot to shot of deserted shopping malls and parking lots and such.
Wow, that was really good. Much better than expected. 4.5/5
Pretty good! I don't think I've ever really listened to Public enemy, but it wasn't what I was expecting. It was more...thoughtful, and less violent than I expected.
There's a line in a KRS-one song that says the difference between emcee-ing and rap is: "Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal. Emcees spit rhymes to uplift their people". This album seems more in line with "emcee-ing", especially compared to Straight Outta Compton or something like that which came out around the same time and also deals with many of the same frustrations.
I much prefer the Chuck D. parts to the Flavor Flav parts. Chuck D gets 4/5. Flavor is like 2/5. All in all, album is like 3.5/5 (because it's weighted more towards Chuck D.).
This album is weird to me, because it sounds so much like something I would like, but none of the songs really hit for me. I think whoever the lyricist is just don't quite work for me. Always misses by a hair.
That said, most of the instrumentals are very good, and the drumming is incredible
As far as this kind of funky genre goes, these guys in the upper tier for me. That said, I generally don't care for the genre.
2.5/5, which I'll round up to 3 because I like the hats.
I honestly thought this was going to be a rap album...turns out it's two hours of SNES video game music, which obviously appeals to me. 4/5
Not his best album. A few good songs, though. Some really bad ones.
3.5/5
First of all, I love these songs about nothing. Honestly half of these songs could be episodes of Seinfeld.
All the songs are weirdly believable slices of life. In some ways, the album kind of reminds me of a Philip K. Dick novel, in that it does a really good job of putting you in the head of a guy, - but you don't really like the guy and it's not necessarily a head that you want to be in.
This gets 4/5. Not a 5, because I'm never going to listen to them again. It's like a really good movie that I never want to watch again.
Heard of her, but have never listened. Will be interested to see what she's all about...
First track (I Want You To Love Me) seems like I'm going to like this album...like her voice, like her style, like the piano...a little concerned about the bat noises at the end. Hopefully that's not a portent of things to come...
Not a fan of this ASMR nonsense going on in Shameika
The rest of the album had many of the same positive and negative aspects. Like some of it; hate some of it. Overall, a true 3/5.
Had never heard of these guys...was sort of expecting something adjacent to Leonard Cohen's song "Sisters of Mercy". This is not that.
This album is right up my alley, though. Many of these songs, like "1959", and "The Corrsion" (while very different from each other) have a "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds meet the Talking Heads" vibe, which I love.
Okay, album over, and this is the first full album that I've immediately added to my Spotify list. 5/5.
I listened to this whole album and only noticed that it was Neil Young about 2 minutes from the end.
I would like to give it another try, because I kept getting distracted and tuning out. I think that might be more my fault than the album's though.
For now, it's a 3/5 for being pleasant but not commanding my attention.
Thought it was kind of cool at first, but then it seemed to go on forever, long after I was sick of it.
So obviously Twista is the best part of this album. My only suggestion would be: More Twista.
All modern Kanye baggage aside, this is a pretty good album.
Better than most smooth jazz. Unfortunately, it is still smooth jazz.
Tracy Jacks is annoying, and it's taking all I have to not skip it.
Parklife is the first song that is tolerable so far...
Okay album got much better after the first 3 songs. Thought it was going to be a 1, but it's earned a solid 3.
You, sir, are no Fela Kuti.
I really like Elvis, though this is far from my favourite album.
The 1998 version of this album has Suspicious Minds, which is a great song, but I'm not sure whether to account for that, so I won't
I'm incapable of separating this from my nostalgia, so...I won't try. 5/5
Not really my genre, but very good for what it is
The first two songs are the worst thing I've ever heard.
Third song ("Abstract Plain") is better, but so far the album is not great.
Okay, it picked up as the album went along, coming in at a solid 3. But I will never forgive this album for putting me through the first 5 minutes.
After the first 3 songs, I thought this was going to be an easy 5, but there are definitely some misses here, like "Home Again". Still, the strength of the good songs keeps this at a 4.
Green Day always made me feel old and out of touch, even when I was 13. I just get absolutely nothing from it, and never have.
As far as this album: the lyrics sound interesting on first listen (if you can make out what he's saying...he's drowned out by instruments a lot of the time), but then you actually look into them and they don't seem to stand up to any sort of analysis...just come off as surface-level and sort of vacuous.
The whole album just seems like it was written to be someone's first exposure to the kinds of ideas in the album (e.g. Certain problems with American suburban life, America's foreign policy, people giving up their dreams/values to be a "paper-pusher" in a cubicle somewhere, etc.). If your in your early teens and it's one of the first times that you're thinking about these things, then maybe you think "Oh shit, he's right! These are problems!" but for me: I just can't find anything new/interesting here.
That's not to say that albums/songs/art needs to have new ideas; sometimes these things are good for taking an old, well-known idea and illustrating it in a new or interesting way (or just a way that is pleasant to listen to). But I don't think this album does that either. Seems like a bunch of things that have been done better in the decades prior to this album's release. Maybe this album puts it in terms that better speaks to certain subsets of America's youth, but I was never in those subsets, and it certainly does nothing for the me of today.
Incidentally, I do hate Billy Joe Armstrong's voice, so that obviously doesn't help me enjoy this album.
Positives: I don't mind "Give me Novocaine", and I think the drums are good in many songs. I also have respect for concept albums that try to do big things - I just think this one falls short.
An easy 5 star. I've loved all these songs at some point, but I think right now the highlights for me are Lady Stardust, Soul Love, and Rock n' Roll Suicide
Not really my style, but I like it more than I would have expected...that said, I'll never listen to it again
It feels very raw (in a good way), but I don't think the lyrics or beats are actually very good.
This seems like one of those albums that is notable because it was one of the first to use a certain style/genre. But I don't think being historically significant warrants a high rating - Not sure this one stands the test of time.
Some of this is really cool. I really like the whole vibe of the cool bass with the ethereal vocals. But then there are also like...fart sounds and a few other things which keep me from giving this a 5. But it was close.
It was so hard to make it through this album. Every song grates on my ears
I really liked this. At certain points, it felt like I was listening to the Brazilian Beatles, and at other points, it felt like Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
For most of the album, though, they definitely feel like their own thing.
I feel like this album especially, you can hear how much he loves Elvis and Gospel music. Especially at the beginning of the album, he seems to just switch back and forth between Elvis-y songs and a Gospel-y songs
