normally I find a lot of early rock and roll very similar to each other, and that makes it hard to dig into, but this album was very refreshing and beyond the defining hits had a lot more to offer the genre.
A lot of the starting songs seem either very basic lyrically, or their instrumentation clash. Surprisingly, it does get better after that - I would generally find that songs get worse as you progress through an album, but I found the best songs around the middle of this one. I'm not the biggest fan of 90s Hip Hop, but this one did have my attention for some of these songs. For the others, not so much.
This is a surprising type of sound to hear in the 80s, very cool. Psychedelia, 60s style rock, but it's definitely got a more modern sound to it. In some sense it reminds me of some prog rock, where they have a focus on the instrumentation that really improves the experience. All of the songs are good, but it feels better for the experience and I wonder how I'll feel about the individual songs after I give them a couple listens. I'm stuck between giving this one a 4 or 5, but I think I will settle for 4.
Beyond the first couple of songs on the album, I wasn't terribly impressed. This album's strengths begin with its simplicity, but by the middle tracks that same simplicity makes the tracks stand out less. Those first few songs are good though
imagine my shock to hear the meme song first. Never listened to the whole thing before, but I can say right now that it is a banger, but also does all prog rock have to be so unreasonable with song lengths? There's 8+ minute songs, and 2 minute songs, and nothing in between. All the long songs are fire, if this rating system was out of 10 I'd put this one at a 7.5/10
I got this the day after the queen's death, very funny 1001 albums. Very surprised by this one - I had avoided the smiths for a while because I generally don't enjoy slower songs, but not only does this album have slow songs that I thoroughly enjoy, there's not really a snoozer in here. Very enjoyable, and I'll be digging through the rest of the smiths soon
Feeling a 3 on this one. I've heard a number of RHCP songs before, and generally been a fan of them, so I suppose i'm a bit disappointed that this doesn't quite live up to the image of them I built in my mind. There's a number of songs that I like on this album, but very few that I really enjoy. Lots of the songs sound very similar on this album, too. It's a good sound, lyricism similar to hip hop applied to rock, and it sounds great but it's hard to differentiate all the songs on the album.
I just don't get it. I've heard of Joy Division before as something similar to other new wave bands that I enjoy, but hearing it now it doesn't sound good. I sort of thought that it was like Talking Heads, but without any of the things that made Talking Heads impressive. Oh well.
This album exceeded my expectations. I always saw Blondie as a band with just a handful of hits, but imagine my surprise that all of those hits are on the same album.
This is the first album to appear on my 1001 albums page that I've already listened to! It's super impressive seeing how this impacted future electronic music, and how it stays so impactful while being a mostly instrumental album. Those non-instrumental tracks I generally don't like as much, and there is a marked difference between the big name songs on here, like DANCE, Stress, Waters of Nazareth, Phantom, etc. and everything else.
I knew of Fela Kuti from how he influenced later projects by the Talking Heads, but being able to sit down and listen to his stuff from a clean lens is really enjoyable. I love the funk inspired sounds, but I never usually find people capitalize on them well. Fela definitely does.
Felt a little empty on some songs, a little too complicated on others. I liked the vibe they tried to go with, but it really hits best on 2 or 3 songs and the rest are very forgettable.
I've listened to this one plenty before getting this prompt. The Beatles were experts at making an album with no lulls in production from one song to the other, and Abbey Road is clearly no different. Also, I'm very partial to the ending medley.
Multiple classics line the beginning of this album, but once you get past those the rest of the songs are pretty standard.
