I have really only ever listened to the Jimi Hendrix Experience Album Are You Experienced? Not sure why I haven’t listened to the other two albums with his band.
This is much more meandering and less straight rock focused than that album. This album seems to be mixed better. It sounds more like a studio album than their first album but in a different way than most studio albums. It sounds like the musicians are in the room with you. There is a perfectionism to the tracks while somehow sounding loose and improvisational. It is as if you are in the studio while they are playing the tracks live.
The mixing is much better than than Are You Experienced? from what I recall.
Think I might like this more than AYE
Day 2 of a three year journey that I am now questioning.
Of course, I have heard songs from this album before I have never understood the appeal or the acclaim.
This album sounds like someone had an idea for a shitty stage musical, someone else had an idea for a shitty rock album, and a third person had an idea for a shitty pop album. Mix it all together and you get a meatloaf of shit. I just don’t get the appeal of this at all. Listening to it made my day worse.
This is one I had heard about but never got around to listening to. Impressed with the combinations of genres. Don’t like the songs that overwhelm with too much of a wall of sound.
This is a great album but I still don’t think it is as groundbreaking or important as many say it is. The vocals on many songs become grating because of the effects added to his voice. The upbeat songs are bangers but the rest becomes muddled and kind of boring.
Love this album but came to it much later. I wasn’t exposed to this growing up and started listening to The Smiths because of my wife. Easily one of the best albums of the 80s.
Completely understand why this one got popular and is considered a classic but so much of it just isn’t for me. Too many of the hard rockin songs sound the same. For all of Eddie Van Halen’s talent he has never seemed to understand how to use it to its full extent to make something that sounds different.
This was a pleasant surprise. I will admit that I’ve only heard “Come On Eileen” before listening to this one.
Well written and structured songs that embrace the past while adding a new wave edge to the sound.
I should like this more than I do. Too much of it sounds the same.
This is just ok. I don’t get the appeal of Rod Stewart’s voice. Not sure why this was included on this list of albums.
This one really surprised me. Never heard of this band, but the mix of 80s new wave, punk, and folk sometimes sounded like a sonic bridge to 90s grunge. No song sounded that same but it was a very cohesive album.
Love this. Has an authenticity that is sorely lacking in most modern country music. A lot of the songs are short, but they are more effective this way. They don’t overstay their welcome or repeat the chorus over and over again.
I get the appeal of this for some, but it sounds too much like poetry that was written separate from the music and then there was an attempt to make the lyrics fit the song without adjusting the lyrics to fit the music. Not really for me.
Just an average 90s grunge rock album. Celebrity Skin is a fantastic song but the rest of this album is kind of boring and predictable for the era.
One of my favorite albums of all time. I came to appreciate it long after it’s popularity. I love it more every time I listen to it.
Don’t understand all of the acclaim for this. L’America and Riders on the Storm are both well-deserving of praise, but the blues focused numbers sound like a cheap version of the blues being played by a band that doesn’t really understand the blues.
Not nearly at the same level as The Queen Is Dead. It just sounds like they are trying too hard and Morissey sounds like he has bought into his fame and has become even more pretentious.
Just keeps going on and on.
Dave Matthews Band but good.
Loved it.
Some fantastic songs but not the perfect album most people think it is. I think some people want this to be a perfect album because they know he had the potential to make a perfect album but never got the chance to do so.
Gets better every time I listen to it.
Love the music. Hate the vocals.
There are flashes of brilliance on this but most of it sounds like a parody of the music of the time period.
Too much harmonica.
One of my favorites.
This has been one of the more surprising listens so far. I apparently judged Aerosmith too harshly based on their later pop rock popularity, so I’ve slept on these early rock albums. After one listen, this is one of my favorite rock albums.
I was waiting for someone to interrupt the music to make an announcement that there was a special on women’s blazers. Why is this on the list?
Like this more than I recalled, but still not as much as most like it.
When I saw him perform Diamonds on the Souls of Their Shoes as a young teenager on SNL(?) it felt icky for some reason that I couldn’t put my finger on. It just felt like he was using these other performers who were likely not paid that well to help resuscitate his career. May not have been the case but that experience has always clouded my ability to rank this album as highly as I probably should.
Love it
First half is fantastic. The second half of the album falls off a bit.
Not my thing. Never understood the appeal of Nick Cave.
Love it.
First song should have ended after two minutes. So should have the album.
Crappy music for a video game boss fight.
My favorite Springsteen album but I still don’t love Springsteen.
Like this way more than I recall. At the time, I was more into MF Doom, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, and Eminem. Kind of avoided Jay-Z, but this reminded me that I need to listen to more of his catalog.
One of my favorite bands of all time. An easy 5 star album.
Do I actually like Iron Maiden? Well, maybe the first half.
Nice mix of styles, but also a master of none. The rapping is pedestrian and boring. Started strong, but the quality fell off quite. Bit after the first 2-3 songs.
Music is excellent but can’t get past the vocals. This would be so much better if he could actually sing.
I just feel this is ok. Nothing terrible but nothing I find particularly memorable.
Thrash metal has never appealed to me. This proves it.
Lou Reed is one of those artists who I think is a good song writer, but I don’t like the way he performs his own songs. I almost always prefer the covers to his originals.
Liked this A LOT. Reminds me of Against Me!
Need to listen again more closely to the lyrics, but this is a fantastic album.
I’m not sure how important this album can be since every cover sounds way worse than the original. Get this off the list ASAP.
This is a great album but I won’t listen to it again.
Somehow sounds ahead of it’s time and of it’s time. Found this to be just ok.
This sometimes is my favorite Kanye album depending on my mood. I could not re-listen to this after his most recent crazy-ass rants and blatant racism.
This was a big surprise. Cross between Father John Misty and Harry Nillson
This is a good album by Emmylou Harris but not a great one. Not sure why it is on this list. She has many other albums that are better.
