The best 90s album from Green Day. It is lined with hits from longview to basketcase and welcome to paradise to when I come around. The songs in between the hits are mostly just as good, filled with 90s alt rock punk vibes and lyrics about drug use and feeling like a deadbeat. "Pullin teeth" is the one track that seems out of place. The guitar tones and vocal melody are straight out of a 50s rock song which was probably the idea but it seems strange in contrast to the rest of the album. The last song "All by myself" is a silly short song that encapsulates the feelings of joking around with your friends while struggling with going through early adulthood.
One of those albums that set the stage for future artists in multiple genres. An electronic album that showed what was possible with the technology at the time and proved that you could be experimental and successful. Hall of Mirrors sticks out as being incredibly ominous and unsettling but in a good way. Otherwise electronic music is not my forte and I don't see myself coming back to this album.
The instrumentation is the most captivating part of this album. The use of many different instruments throughout is noticeable and enjoyable. Her voice is very powerful but overall the songs are too avant garde and electronic/dance for me to come back for more.
Very well written pop songs that allow Adele to highlight her vocal abilities without resorting to going to a falsetto for every song (a common complaint I have with modern pop vocalists). Overall though I found the first half of the album to be much stronger than the second half. The main highlight for me on the second half was the closer Sweetest Devotion. It just felt like all the tracks after Water Under the Bridge ran into eachother until reaching Sweetest Devotion.
Listening to this album made me feel at peace. The instrumentation the song structures and the production all have an ethereal and fantastical element to them. The track Waitin for Superman is a perfect example of a song that makes you feel that everything is going to be ok. Listening to this makes me want to check out the rest of their discography.
It's like if Huey Lewis and the News were a ska band. Mostly upbeat songs and overall just a fun album to listen too. Not a big ska fan but I enjoyed most of it.
Doesn't do much for me. Dreamer is catchy but none of the other songs really pull me in. The mixture of prog and pop is worthy of recognition but their later album Breakfast in America is better in almost every way.
Has the classic 1960s rock sound which admittedly, I am not a fan of. This album is a pretty easy listen and the best song by far is the Bob Dylan cover. Everything else was just sort of there. Nothing really caught my attention.
In a world where saying you don't love the Beatles is borderline heresy, this album was just ok. I enjoyed the tracks written by George Harrison the most Something and Here Comes the Sun. The hits on this album are fantastic but few and far between. The fact this was their last album before breaking up definitely shows through the songs. It is one of those albums that's reputation preceeds itself so you are hard pressed to like it but overall I only liked 4 out of the 17 songs on this album.
Really solid album. Starlight is extremely catchy and fun. The slow crescendo throughout Invincible pays off in a thunderous climax and Knights of Cydonia is a great rock song with prog elements.
Not a fan of country western music. They're Hanging Me Tonight has a really nice melody that I enjoyed but everything else was not for me.
Solid album. The blueprints for the heavy metal genre.
It's a jazz record. Just not my thing.
Lyrically a love letter and celebration of England so not a whole lot to identify with if you're not British. The songs are all pretty one note pop-indie songs that don't experiment or try to do anything out of the box. An easy listen but not a particuliarly enjoyable one.
Only made it a few tracks in. Dreamy lofi pop slow songs. Just ok.
Maybe it's because I'm not into dancing or dropping acid and staring at strobe lights but electronic music doesn't speak to me. It's too repetitive and I find it uninteresting. Some of the sounds these artists create from the use of technology is cool and innovative but that's about it.
Amazing beats and each of the 9 members has a unique flow and sound that comes together perfectly.
Only made it 2 songs in. Just not feeling it.
This album is a giant bowl of "Oops all bangers"
Haven't been able to get into post punk much and this album was ok. Nothing really grabbed me. A few of the guitar riffs were really cool but overall I'm not coming back to this album.
It's electro or techno or house music or dance or whatever you want to call it. It's not for me. Just too repetitive and the songs don't really go anywhere or evolve.
