Growing up in the 80s, discovering the Violent Femmes was like discovering drugs. It was a gateway to alternative music, a door that could never be closed again. A life of swapping cassette tape recordings of low bandwidth college radio stations, collecting bands like the Crucifux and the Dead Kennedys, all-age punk rock shows in the closest city smoking clove cigarettes and feeling alive and different. Good stuff.

I mean it’s 1984, it’s raw, it’s audibly simple compared to modern rap, but it’s good.

I remember a lot of these tracks from the past. It’s noisy, it’s pretentious, and it’s so effing good. I think I like it now more than I did 20 years ago.

It’s technically a good album. The band is excellent, his voice is very good. The lyrics are not very creative or complex, simple. An entire album of swinging love songs? With virtually no change in his voice from one to another? It’s Frankly on the boring side.

Always loved the Doors but can’t say I ever listened to this one front to back. Initially I was like “a little too bluesy” but dayum it picks up and Side Two is just fucking nuts. Love it.

I’ve had to listen to this twice (so far) to appreciate it. The production is so bad at times it hurts, and my goddess turn those vocals up! However I am now starting to appreciate and like some of these songs. I’d like to read more about how it fits with other artists at the time, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Pink Floyd etc because it’s hard to tell exactly who was influencing whom - the late sixties silly psychedelic sound and all (not Dylan but I can hear Dylan’s style in a few of these tracks). Anyway I’m going to call it a 3 for now and listen a few more times.

I wasn’t sure what to expect but I liked it, very pleasant. Made me want to read a Western. I liked the simplicity yet the vocals have more range than a Frank Sinatra and the lyrics tell great stories. Musically decent. I’ll likely listen again.

Okay I grew up with this one. It’s still an A+ album, rocks hard, and placed in 1969 it’s no wonder it changed rock music like it did. I still love it, especially Good Times Bad Times, but I have to finally acknowledge that Robert Plant’s orgasmic moaning and groaning and his lyrically complicated relationships with women are annoying but fortunately it doesn’t hurt the album overall. Bonham’s drums are fucking fantastic, Page and Jones are fantastic, and Led Zeppelin 1 stands the test of time.

Quite boring honestly. I kind of liked “As I read my S-A”

It was okay.

I mean it’s 1984, it’s raw, it’s audibly simple compared to modern rap, but it’s good.

Really smooth, very nice. I’d give it a 5 except sometimes the horns got so high pitched it literally hurt my ears and I had to turn the volume down.

This is the first album that I haven’t heard that blew me away. Loved it.

Hadn’t heard of him before, and I honestly wasn’t that impressed. Gypsy Woman was showing promise, my favorite on the album I think but just not enough to really save it. I’m going 2 here.

Turns out I’ve heard a few of these songs but never really heard of Offspring or this album. I missed a lot of the 90s due to drinking a lot and living in a trailer. This album was hot. Quality punk sound fast clean dirty rock really solid album I loved it.

I have mad respect for Adele’s voice. I had to give this one a 4 though because compared to her next album it’s just a little short.

Boy oh boy. The song “the Grand Tour” is fucking epic. Brilliant. The rest of the album is kind of “meh” not bad, some songs even pleasant but if I’m rating the album and not a fantastic song that is on it I’m going to have to call it a 2. Just not my thing. The one song almost bumped it to a 3 but it’s just not there all in all.

I’ve never given Leonard Cohen much thought, so I guess it’s ironic I would get his last album, his “death” album as my first taste. At first it felt pretentious, but maybe that’s just Cohen. Half way through I felt I knew him and could identify. I like the global feel of the music, the darkness and starkness of the vocals and sound. I could listen to this a lot more.

Maybe the worst Beach Boys album I’ve ever heard? “Let’s write a song about water pollution!” “Let’s write a song about student protests!” “Let’s try and be relatable and relevant to todays youth!” It just comes across as pandering and inauthentic. Furthermore it’s obvious Brian Wilson had little to do with this, and it’s just overall a downward slide from Pet Sounds and the early Beach Boys.

Really good stuff. Some of it is annoying but most of it is really badass.

Very good, smooth foot tapping rap. I liked it.

Good stuff

I will always love Janis.

It’s good, and I might like it better with a few more listens but I’m just going with a 3.

Do the Stones have an album better than this one?

Very enlightening! Entertaining!

I went in with an open mind, but while not bad, I wasn’t impressed. Just sounds like a modern Dire Straits.

Quintessential 80s. His vocals are amazing. The production is excellent. It has several hits.

Growing up in the 80s, discovering the Violent Femmes was like discovering drugs. It was a gateway to alternative music, a door that could never be closed again. A life of swapping cassette tape recordings of low bandwidth college radio stations, collecting bands like the Crucifux and the Dead Kennedys, all-age punk rock shows in the closest city smoking clove cigarettes and feeling alive and different. Good stuff.

So boring! I guess it started to grow on me by the end but seriously, no likey.

So torn on this one. I like the chill vibe but it feels so aimed at I don’t know male millennials and it doesn’t “speak to me” (old gen-X) but I do appreciate its chill alt vibe. I just wouldn’t choose to listen again.