I had very low expectations going into this, and the actuality of this album is why I love this exercise so much. This album was awesome, and it took legitimately awesome instrumentation to bring out the psychedelic vibes here. This album will definitely be in my rotation going forward. Favorite track: You'll Have to Go Sideways
I could have listened to this album on repeat all day. Favorite track: Niki Hoeky
Really liked this album a lot. Good variety between the tracks. Favorite track: Moods for Moderns
Album was a nice listen. Very relaxing music and interesting instrumentals. Not the type of music I would go back to too often, but I'm glad I listened to it. Favorite track: Ragged Wood
This album really didn't interest me at all. Vocals were pretty bland and instrumentals were nothing to write home about. Favorite track: Victory
I loved this album. It feels wrong to categorize this into any one genre because the styles were so variable from song to song. The jazz/ska vibes on I Can't Help Myself is what confirmed my love of this album. Favorite tracks: I Can't Help Myself, A Million Pleading Faces
Big surprise: the album is very good. Favorite track: Things We Said Today
Album absolutely slaps. I could listen to all 7 basslines all day. Favorite track: Keep on Chooglin'
This album left me pretty disappointed unfortunately. Very little variety between the tracks, both in terms of vocals and instrumentals. Favorite track: My Life
What a fantastic album. Can't beat the funk-soul fusion. Favorite track: Sex Machine
Wow, what an incredible album. I'm shocked that I'd never heard of Joan Armatrading until today, but she will certainly be in the regular rotation going forward. Her voice is so powerful and dulcet at the same time on this record--I can't get enough of it. Really glad I got to listen to this. Favorite track: Join the Boys
The album slaps. American Girl is my favorite track on it. Alright, now to listen to the album. His music probably has my favorite vibes of any artist ever. A genuine pleasure to listen to every time.
This album is a strange one to me. It is very obvious why it's made the list: the music is objectively beautiful and extremely well produced. But for some reason, I'm not enjoying it? It almost feels like an AI reproduction of all the things that it takes to make a beautiful album, but it cannot produce the feeling and emotion that goes into it. None of the tracks stood out to me in a way to have me pick a favorite one.
She is indeed dead. Favorite track: The Queen is Dead
One of my favorite vocalists ever, and his voice cuts through so cleanly on this album. But, this album left me kind of disappointed. Decent music, but nothing terribly interesting to me. Favorite track: Sweet Thing
Folk music just isn't for me, I'm afraid. He sounds like he's bored while singing the songs. No favorite tracks.
Really enjoyable album, very pleasant listening experience. Favorite track: Draft Morning
Genuinely have no idea how anybody can find this enjoyable. This barely even registers as music to me. I wish I could give it a 0
I'll always appreciate U2 because regardless of how divisive the opinions on them are, you can't deny that they have a unique sound to them, and it is fully on display in this album. Overall, I really enjoyed it a lot. Favorite tracks: Even Better Than The Real Thing and Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Simply incredible. Was not expecting this level of funk in the album, but I love that it was this funky. Favorite track: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Loved this album. Turns out the way to make folk music actually interesting is just making it easy rock instead. Favorite track: Caledonia Mission
This album is an interesting one because I don't really have many problems with it, and I found myself moderately enjoying it. But it also doesn't really move me much either. Favorite track: A Strange Day
This album is quite a journey. Really cool instrumentals throughout and it raises still-poignant points about American culture. But the vocals are (intentionally) jarring and makes it pretty difficult to enjoy listening to most of the album. Favorite tracks: Wowie Zowie, Trouble Every Day
Went into this album expecting to hate it. But this was wonderful. Favorite track: Pounding
What a fucking masterpiece of an album. Incredible instrumentals and vocals throughout. Picking one favorite track here feels sacrilegious, but Mr. Blue Sky has always been my favorite from ELO
Album is obviously way too long. However, if there is a version of country I can handle, it is bluegrass. The songs without lyrics were the best ones. Favorite tracks: Nashville Blues, Orange Blossom Special
Wow, that was awesome. Terminator X was in his bag the entire album. Every single beat was just incredible. Favorite track: She Watch Channel Zero?!
I've really grown to enjoy jam bands a lot over the years, and this is no exception. The instrumentals are superb throughout the album. Favorite track: Flight of the Rat
Overwhelmingly dull and pointless apart from a couple tracks. Favorite track: Bert's Blues
Very cool album. Both the covers and originals were equally impactful and showed the versatility of Indian music. Favorite track: Indra Dance
Excellent album from an excellent band. Favorite track: Drivin'
Just awesome. Really fun to listen to. Favorite track: Reddy Teddy
Just incredible music in this album. I think like this even better than Are You Experienced. Favorite track: If 6 was 9
I really enjoyed this album quite a bit. Usually solo performers in this genre tend to bore me, but the singing and instrumentals really created beautiful, interesting music. Favorite track: Stupidity Tries
*Russell Westbrook eating gif* Favorite track: Blood on the Leaves
The music on this album is interesting, but it is also awfully difficult to listen to. Favorite track: Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road
Just awesome. Favorite track: Immigrant Song
Pretty insane how many hits came from this album. Another thing that's pretty insane: Adele's voice. Favorite track: Rumour Has It
Hell yeah. Favorite track: Loose
Decent album with some interesting trippy bits. Favorite track: Mass Production
This album sucked. Jefferson Airplane is not a good band beyond their odd hits. This album perfectly encapsulates this. Favorite track: White Rabbit
This was very pleasant to listen to. Can't pick a favorite track because I had to listen to the album straight through without time markers
Absolutely love Solange's voice, and the album has an extremely powerful message. However, from a pure musical standpoint, not much stood out to me as interesting, or at least not as much as I was hoping for. Favorite track: F.U.B.U.
Hot take: Aretha Franklin's voice is good. Favorite track: Soul Serenade
This album was a fantastic with themes that could have been written in 2022. Latin fusion sound is very underrated. Favorite track: Dejame En Paz
Glorified slam poetry
Absolutely pointless
Yes, it is too long. But it's an absolute pleasure to listen to. Favorite track: Master of Puppets
This album is so fucking good. This Eric Clapton guy might have a future on the guitar. Such diverse and interesting blues themes in the instrumentals. Favorite tracks: Hideaway, What'd I Say, Have You Heard
This album was really cool. Appropriately named too, with the mix of African and Latin American sounds in the musicals. Favorite track: O FilĂ³sofo
Nothing more than background music for me. Favorite track: Ce Matin-LĂ
Was not expecting to like this at all, but it was decent. Favorite track: Percy's Song
This album was delightful. Not at all what I was expecting to hear going into it. Favorite track: Irganda
This album fucking sucks. Leonard Cohen is impossible to listen to. The ending to Sing Another Song, Boys is, bar none, the worst attempt at music I've ever heard
Fun album. Favorite track: Jump Boys
Best country album of all time. Favorite track: Cocaine Blues
This was decent. Very well produced and performed, it just becomes a bit monotonous. The linkage between honky tonk and jazz is nice. Favorite track: Lonely Street
Decent album, but not very memorable or interesting beyond Good Times
The instrumentals on this album were nice. But why was every song about sex? Favorite track: Mis-Shapes
Gotta be a pretty special singer-songwriter album to keep my attention. If the rest of the album was like the ending to Slide Show, this rating would have been higher
Fun album. Favorite track: Memphis
Album starts off very strongly, but it tails off quite a bit by the end. Favorite track: My Winding Wheel
This is the best album ever written. The best song on it is Longview. Alright, time to listen to the album several hundred times
Yep. Favorite track: Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
PJ Harvey just doesn't do anything for me. At least the instrumentals were more interesting than Dry.
Idk man I just like U2. Favorite track: Elevation
Really like these guys. Favorite track: Hypnotised
This album was a pure vibe. Very, very interesting musically. Favorite track: Mentira
Instrumentals are awesome during the peaks of the album. Vocals are nothing to write home about. I wish the middle of the album was as interesting as the beginning and end. Favorite track: You Set the Scene
This album was awesome. Favorite track: This Hollywood Life
No...just, no
There's no chance I'd like this normally, but it was a vibe while ****
I just love this album so much
An album by Leonard Cohen that's actually decent! Favorite track: Take This Waltz
This album was fantastic. Lorde is a great performer and writer. Favorite track: Hard Feelings/Loveless
Slipknot is too far into the metal spectrum for me. Favorite track: Wait and Bleed
Beautiful album. Just beautiful. Love jazz. Favorite track: The Bottle
Album was decent. Nothing terribly interesting to me, but it was an enjoyable listen. Favorite track: Thorn of Crowns
Great band, but not that great of an album beyond I Wanna Be Your Dog honestly
Man, this was just too damn weird. There are some cool parts where the weirdness works, but far too much of it is bad weird. And the album is too long. Favorite track: Call on Me
This album was cool at moments, but it drags on for a while. Favorite track: Flying
Great album, very enjoyable from front to back. Favorite track: Re-Instated
This album didn't really move me at all sadly. Favorite track: WeFight/WeLove
Just not for me I'm afraid
This album was awesome. I'm not sure that I would categorize it as metal like they do during it, but it's great hard rock. Really fun to listen to. Favorite track: Steeler
The album is way too long, and for some reason it didn't really interest me all that much despite having many of the elements I'm usually drawn to. Favorite track: Mystery Achievement
Love you, Rod, but this wasn't your best work sadly. Favorite track: You're My Girl
Love albums like this. Brilliantly performed, brilliant soul. Favorite track: Chain Gang
So much of this album feels like background music to a video game. No thanks. Favorite track: Rough Out Here
This album largely stunk outside of the hits. Really disappointed in this. Favorite track: Give It Away
All the covers of classics on this album are significantly worse than their original versions, and the originals are nothing to write home about. I really just can't do folk music at all. Favorite track: El Preso Numero Nueve
This album started out strongly, then quickly became everything I hate about Indie music, and then ended strongly. So I guess overall I liked it. Favorite track: While You Wait For The Others
Fuck yeah. The Blues God. And he proved it here. Favorite track: Baby, Please Don't Go
I think I liked this album? Not much resonated with me early, but the album does really hit it's stride as it goes on. Favorite track: Gut of the Quantifier
The highs on this album are quite high, but the large majority of it didn't move me very much. Favorite track: Life During Wartime
Beautiful, legendary stuff here
Pretty good album. Hits are great, rest of tracks are decent. Favorite track: Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Pretty cool album. Was a little on the fence at the start, but it really hit its stride on the back half. Favorite track: The Day After the Revolution
Fun, poppy album. Favorite track: Girls Just Want to Have Fun
One of the most interesting albums I've ever heard. Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins together was always going to lead to something like this. Favorite track: I Know What I Like
It's like this band was created for me in a lab. Favorite track: Josie
Turns out folk music in a foreign language doesn't help
Every song sounds the exact same, and that's not a good thing here. Favorite track: Holiday in Cambodia since it's the only one I've listened to more than once
Hurt proves that the songwriting is great. But dear god the performance of all the other songs is beyond unlistenable. Pure cacophony Trent Reznor was right though: Johnny Cash did make Hurt his song
Very weird album that I strangely liked. The singing didn't do a whole lot for the album, but the instrumentation was really cool. Favorite track: Where is Yesterday
This album was alright. The Cure don't really move me too much, but this was fine to listen to. Favorite track: Fascination Street
The beats/instrumentals are really cool. The lyrics leave much to be desired though. Favorite track: tonite
Don't overthink it: legendary album from a great band. Favorite track: London Calling. Favorite track non-London Calling division: The Card Cheat
This album was pretty cool. The unique instrumentation definitely worked for me, and it didn't feel weird for the sake of being weird. Favorite track: If They Move, Kill 'Em
JAZZ. Favorite track: Mambo Gozon
Very unique album, and I enjoyed it. Using an orchestra in this setting really enhances an album when used correctly, and they did. Favorite track: Someone
Absolute masterpiece of an album. Not as good as Dookie, but damn close. It's funny that this album was just fun pop music to me in 5th grade, but now I can appreciate it as one with genuinely poignant points about life. Favorite track: Give Me Novacaine / She's a Rebel
Not much for me in this album. Didn't find myself all that interested outside of here and there. Favorite track: Grounds for Divorce
Nothing interesting to me here. Favorite track: Time
Some decent moments here and there, but mostly noise. Favorite track: Let's Run
Once again, no need to overthink this. It's obviously a great album. Favorite track: Drive My Car
Second time listening to this album, and my opinion is largely the same. This is my favorite Byrds album so far, and My Back Pages is my favorite track
Masterpiece. I'm only halfway through right now, and picking a favorite track is going to be extremely difficult. Favorite tracks: When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You; Is That Enough
Folk is just so painfully bad to listen to
An Irish folk album is not at all what I was expecting here. Album was decent, some fun moments. Favorite track: The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
Love the instrumentation of this band. Liked this album. Favorite track: Razor Boy
First time listening to a Grateful Dead album, and it won't be my last. Love the sound, love the harmonies, love the diversity in writing across the different songs. Favorite track: Box of Rain
Very good album. This is not my typical music preference, but beauty is beauty. Favorite track: Baby Driver
Of course this is good. Favorite track: Judy Blue Eyes
I've said this before, but this album reminds me so much of Random Access Memories. Very cool, advanced album for its time. Favorite track: Juxtapozed with U
Best Cure album I've had so far, but still don't find myself all that moved by it. Favorite track: Play for Today
Really interesting pop album here. Their voices get a little dreary to listen to over the course of an entire album, but the instrumentation is cool. Favorite track: The Working Hour
How about that, a singer-songwriter album that doesn't sound like a pretentious dickhead moaning while playing a single guitar. This album was worth my time with well-arranged instrumentals. Favorite track: We're Not Right
I am in physical pain listening to this. Dear god make it stop
Legitimately had no idea what to expect with this album, but it was wonderful. Sounds like LCD Soundsystem with more rock elements included. Favorite track: Sway
Would be fun to hear in a pub. Doesn't belong anywhere near this list however.
Extremely unexpected direction for a Velvet Underground album, but it was quite enjoyable. This is also by far the best Lou Reed's singing voice has ever sounded to me. It is apparent to see why this band was so influential. Favorite track: I'm Set Free
Genuinely annoyed that I find myself kinda enjoying this. Favorite track: Diesel Power
Interesting. The valleys in this album are very low, but the highs in it are very high. Tie goes to my overall vibe for the album, which is positive
Wonderful. Just beautifully performed jazz. Favorite track: Street Life
Interesting to have my first Willie Nelson album be a cover album, but it was great all the same. Favorite track: All of Me
Back to back days with Willie Nelson, but this one just reveals why I don't enjoy most country music sadly. Favorite track: Can I Sleep in Your Arms
So that's why Chef got laid so often. Favorite track: Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
Absolutely legendary. Favorite original: About a Girl, favorite cover: The Man Who Sold the World
Really nice moments in here that I appreciate more than usual from Bruce. But overall, too much of the same criticisms land here for me. Namely the feeling of inauthenticity. Favorite tracks: Worlds Apart, You're Missing
This album feels like a corporation covering their bases on the latest social trend. It's absolutely an important message that deserves to be enshrined in culture through music. That's my problem with this album. There are a handful of high, powerful, musically interesting peaks (Eternal Life comes to mind immediately), but most of it just feels bland and no real attempt to make art of the message.
Nothing much interesting to me here. Like The Band, but this was too much on the folk side rather than the rock side. Favorite track: Look Out Cleveland
Just a thoroughly boring album pretty much from start to finish here. The Scientist is one of the most confoundingly popular songs of all time. Clocks is the only song worth any time here, and even that was pushing it once the rest of the album put me in a bad mood
Boring, just like every other singer-songwriter album in this experiment
Just an outstanding album full of incredibly composed music. Cannot get enough of the instrumentals here. Favorite track: Stranger to Himself
Some cool moments, but mostly noise. Favorite track: ETOH
Not typically my style of music, but it was nice to hear electronic music composed artfully. Still falls into the "background noise" trap that most electronic music does for me, but I quite enjoyed this more than most other similar albums. Favorite track: Kaleid
Afro-Cuban jazz will always have my heat. Favorite track: Frenzy
I really wish I liked albums like this more than I do, but it is really difficult to relate to them, especially when it's the blues. I loved the instrumentation on N'jarou, though, so that's my favorite track
This album was flirting with a 5 for me until Don't. Pure cacophony on that track. Otherwise really enjoyed it. Favorite track: Yeah We Know
I like this album. Favorite track: I Can't Sleep
Outstanding album. The new wave and punk elements here make this even more appealing to me than most other Elvis Costello projects, which I tend to enjoy anyway. The combination of the vocals and instrumentals works perfectly. Favorite track: Radio, Radio
The instrumentals in this album are stunning at times. Most of the vocals don't do much for me however. Favorite track: Skeletons
This album is very fun & poppy, with some legitimately interesting musical elements in the later tracks. I enjoyed this quite a bit more than I thought I would. Favorite track: Someday is Tonight
There is a bit of a dip in the 3rd quarter of the album, but the rest of it is so, so good. Awesome instrumentals, fun lyrics, great balance between the two. RHCP are usually let down by their non-singles on their albums, but most of them carry their weight here. My favorite RHCP track overall is Otherside, so the other favorite non-single on this album is Parallel Universe
I had very low expectations going into this, and the actuality of this album is why I love this exercise so much. This album was awesome, and it took legitimately awesome instrumentation to bring out the psychedelic vibes here. This album will definitely be in my rotation going forward. Favorite track: You'll Have to Go Sideways
This is the type of album that will require multiple listens for me to fully appreciate, but the quality of the group is so crystal clear. Score another point for 90s hip hop. Favorite track: Passin' Me By
This album was a major step up from their self-titled one. The potential on the first album is realized here, as the instrumentation really comes together nicely. Favorite track: All I Want is You
Just an absolutely absurd amount of talent on this album. Was never not going to be a 5. Favorite track: Zealots
Very, very unique album. Unfortunately, most of it doesn't land for me. Too many ambient sounds does not a cohesive song make for me. With that being said, there are a few times where it does all come together for me. Favorite track: Zawinul/Lava
Fuck yeah. I could listen to this entire album with just the instrumentals and be very happy still. They play hopscotch with punk and alternative, and that will always make me happy. Favorite track: In a Jar
Album was decent, but I had higher expectations coming in. Favorite track: Gone Daddy Gone
Feels like this album perfectly encapsulates how hard of a ceiling electronica has with me. Some genuinely cool moments of musicianship for me, but I once again find myself thinking that I'm essentially just listening to an album of rap beats. Favorite track: Changeling
I am in genuine shock that I love this album so much. It's like if Daft Punk were French and formed in the 90s...oh wait. Favorite track: Olv 26
This album was a complete waste of time. This hardly registers as music to me. The vocals are what prevents it from feeling like a repetitive mess, but the vocals are also the weakest part of each song. Just bad all around. Favorite track: Coconut
I appreciate the care taken in the arrangements for these tracks. But, well, her voice is like nails on a chalkboard for about 75% of the album. Really tough listen at times. Favorite track: Woman's Blues
Wow, wow, wow. You can just feel the importance of this album as you listen to it--just fantastic. To cover this many genres in a cohesive way is something only very few artists could have pulled off. Granted, not all of the artistic decisions made here landed for me, but the overall project is so interesting that I have to give it 5 stars without a shadow of a doubt. Favorite track is obviously You Can Call Me Al, but Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes and Homeless are right there as well.
This is metal baby. Favorite track: Run to the Hills
The songs are very well written and arranged. But I just really do not like his voice at all. Pretty difficult to make up that balance. The songs about women are especially funny though considering *gestures in his general direction*. Overall though, the talent is very apparent, and he's a legend for a reason. Just not for me. Favorite track: Saturday Night's Alright
I really enjoy this album quite a lot. The variation in feeling across tracks makes it interesting. Favorite track: Trouble in the Message Centre
This exercise has made me realize I'm a significantly bigger grunge fan than I thought. Insert obligatory comment about Courtney Love here. On the basis of this album alone, it was fantastic. Powerful backing instrumentals. Great voice for grunge. Ever topical subject matter. This album's got it all. Favorite track: Asking For It
Beautifully done album here. Favorite track: Sally
Absolutely crazy album that I had no idea had so many of their biggest hits on it. It's funny to say that this is a huge departure from their normal music, but Sgt Pepper's was the album before this one. However, this is still a big departure, in a much different way from Sgt Pepper's. Not all the artistic decisions land for me, which is going to happen in an album as long as this. You cannot deny a legend though. Favorite tracks: Back in the USSR, Helter Skelter, Yer Blues
It took me a couple listens, but I love this album. Fits perfectly in my alternative wheelhouse. Favorite track: Brother Woodrow. An epic finisher
Extremely fun album. There are some elements that feel basic/formulaic at times (Wake Up), but most of the album instead is a great look into how great this duo would be. Favorite track:
I know you're fucking lying with this 140 minute run time...oh you're not? Is it at least actual music or just techno sounds? Oh, of course it is the latter. 177 albums in, and I am finally viscerally angry at the mere existence of an album, let alone its selection for this exercise. Thank God I didn't get this album early on, or I would have quit on the spot.
Singapore sounds so much like Colonel Hathi's March from The Jungle Book that I actually looked up whether or not Tom Waits was part of the soundtrack. Anyway back to this album. Same as it ever was for him: gritty singer singing over non-gritty instrumentals. I hate his voice, and I mostly like the background. There did not need to be 3 (and counting? đŸ˜©) albums of his in this exercise.
Not for me I'm afraid
What a completely unexpected debut for the Rolling Stones! These blue classics just fly through my headphones though. Very important piece of music history, and an album very well deserving of this distinction. Favorite track: Carol
Straightforward 90s sound. Enjoyed it mostly, but not moving mountains for me either. Favorite track: Alcoholiday
The amount of Tom Waits in this exercise is making me fucking hate Tom Waits
Yes, the themes are repetitive. Yes, more than a few of the bars didn't age particularly well. But god damn is this a classic nonetheless. Super fun album, incredible production, top notch flow. Really, really glad I got to finally listen to this front to back. Favorite track: Heart of the City
Me every time a new track started: oh okay, so this one is my favorite one on the album. Just incredible all around. Everything about it. Songwriting, arrangement, variation on styles. There aren't enough stars in the world for this album. Favorite track is I Want You, but other favorites include Oh Darling, Octopus's Garden, Sun King, and Carry that Weight
I absolutely loved this, and I am absolutely stunned at this fact. Very, very fun album with the arrangements to make any ska band proud. Favorite track: Doesn't Make It Alright
This is not the best hip hop album ever. It's not even Kendrick's best album ever. However, I am fairly certain this is the most artistic hip hop album ever written. Just an absolutely stunning mixture of everything you could possibly consider when writing music. Genuine pleasure to listen to this every time. The best track on the album is Hood Politics, and it's not particularly close
Man...it's pretty embarrassing for myself that I've been caught out by the Thompsons now. Twice now I've gone in expecting to hate a folk album from them, and twice I've been stunned into liking it. This one even more so than Unhalfbricking. I can't even verbalize a reason as to why this one works for me moreso than other folk albums. But well done. Favorite track: Down Where the Drunkards Roll
One of the most fun bands of all time delivers one of the most fun albums of all time. Favorite track: Panama
Just a truly epic album. And he knew it the entire time he was writing it. Favorite track: When Doves Cry
Mostly fun, a bit long and repetitive for me though. Favorite track: One Chord Wonders
The only songs that had any feeling to it at all was Living in Another World and Time It's Time. Would have been a good album of the other songs were more like them, but alas...
The songwriting is amazing. The arrangements are amazing. The voice is not quite siren on a retired emergency vehicle yet. All this leads to an easy 5 star Bob Dylan album. Favorite tracks: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues, Absolutely Sweet Marie
Jesus Christ is every song on this album going to be this breathy voice speaking the lyrics?! Update: yes it is. I shouldn't be surprised, considering Cohen sounded bored performing his own songs during his prime. Now he just sounds incapable.
The distinct lack of helium-voice mode makes this my favorite Elton John studio album to date. It's nice to be able to evaluate him without nails on a chalkboard going on in my head. He's a fantastic storyteller and arranger. Favorite track: Indian Sunset
There is absolutely nothing less interesting than a pop album whose only focus is the artist's voice. Actually, there is: a pop album whose only focus is the artist's voice, and the artist proceeding to hardly even sing lyrics. It's literally just her voice over generic beats. What am I missing here. At least Breakdown has Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on it
Loved Supa Dupa Fly, but this one is a pretty bad miss for me. I really don't see what any of the songs have to do with the message she says during the Intro. Not every song needs to be a profound statement on life or society, but you kind of lay down that expectation when you open the album talking about the struggles every human or family goes through.
R&B doesn't do anything for me. Subject matter of the songs doesn't do anything for me--in fact, many of the topics are treated like a thread on Twitter, which shockingly translates quite poorly to music. Arrangements don't do anything for me. I understand that it's tough to gauge recent albums for how much they belong in this list, but this feels like a pretty avoidable miss.
Yeah, you know, lickface
Pretty good encapsulation of a Rush album. Kinda weird, definitely fun. Favorite track: 2112