Opens with shit reverb drums. Bad sign.
Lou/Bowie influenced talk-singing.
Tyler probably thinks this is good.
2nd song ok
Pretty amateur musicians, but I guess that's their thing
Ian Curtis cult worship is odd...much like Syd.
New dawn fades sounds like something
Oh good now we've got layers of echo on the vocals
Not sure if it is better or worse than previous. Certainly soulless, cold, at times repetitive.
This is the best so far, but I can't go over 2 because then you might think it was good and it isn't.
Ryan wanted me to acknowledge that this is an influential album. Noted.
Some decent beats. Occasional good funk. Samples are fine. Also includes garbage like "take it off." Best of the 4 albums so far.
Fine. Some good funk. Probably not as groovy as big brother, although musicianship is better. This leaves it feeling a bit TOO polished at times. Strong heroin-cracking vocals. Is throwaway track Mercedes Benz the most popular (not best) from this album? Possibly her worst album (not counting 1st big brother, cause that is...something). Still good.
Never thought the Trees were the best creative outlet for Lanegan (see solo stuff, qotsa, mad season, etc. for that). A lot of this is pretty straightforward...power chords, dropped tuning. Etc. No great musicians aside from Martin (drummer). It's fine/good.
Woah. Skulls! So edgy. This at times is a hybrid of punk and Sabbath, but with the added "bonus" of terrible 80s production and double bass drum pedals...barf. A good example of metal being extremely one dimensional/uninteresting. Not sure what is redeemable about this. Plus it fucked up my suggested albums algorithm
Odd one, considering this is probably their 8th best album (and I'm assuming there won't be 7 more mac albums). It's a weird hodgepodge of stuff...definitely Buckingham's attempt to prove he was a real "artist." Sometimes works. A couple definitely sound like demos for a Vacation movie. McVie the weak songwriting link at this point. Not sure who was fucking who during the making of this record.
Paul Ryan's favorite band! Which explains...well, nothing, other than his inability to comprehend song lyrics. Personally I just want to keep politics out of my music.
Groundbreaking on several levels. Spawned too many shitty impostors to count. First several tracks are all great, closer is great. Know your enemy. Yep. That's good shit. Gets a bit bogged down about 2/3 of the way in, and there is not a ton of nuance in the music. Morello is a genius.
Clear line from the clash>killing joke>Jane's addiction, minus the good guitar work of Jane's. First song is fine. The growly synth vocals are not needed. Some of this navigates the space between tolerable and good. Early Nirvana vibes on The Wait. It's OK overall. Probably closer to 3 than 2 but I round down.
Great way to send the band off into the bathrub...er...sunset. Stripped down affair in comparison to Soft Parade (which is a good album). Blues and r&b generally at the forefront. Little psychedelia to be found (not that that was ever really their thing). Morrison's vocals are not as strong as the first couple albums, but bring that gravely, booze-infused warmth instead. Not a bad track here, and the title track could be their best. Oh, and there IS bass on this album, making the Kids in the Hall sketch incorrect.
Fine. Better than most new wave bullshit. Interesting, melodic. Not their best.
Strong, versatile voice. Good morning coffee or rainy day music. Sonics leave much to be desired, obviously.
Runs the gamut from "fantastic" to "filler." Some of it is key tracks of the 90s. Some of it is bloated nonsense. On the whole a solid album, probably overrated.
Use of slide is an interesting differentiator from most of the other punk/New wave stuff. Blues is still a thing!
More fine stuff. Is it something I need to hear before I die? Probably not. Frank is cool though. Saw him in 98
Ryan sucks a bunch.
Does she have a good voice? I don't know. It's kind of annoying.
I did not need to hear this before I died.
Groove. Funk. But also lavish production. Has the feels.
Same problem most of the stuff from this era has...the music is played by incompetent people and is supremely uninteresting. Band has to then rely on a compelling vocalist to pass the "I won't throw these people off a bridge" test. The Cramps don't have that. Lux Interior...please. track 4 was fair. Combining an overall bad genre of music (surf) with a mediocre genre of music (punk) is not a fantastic idea. Some of it sounds like a bad version of Sha-Na-Na
A Pitchfork special.
Tyler will give this 5 stars.
Standard "folk revival" stuff where we overproduce and always have somebody noodling high up the neck of a telecaster.
Nothing overly offensive here, but nothing actually new, innovative, or super interesting.
If Tyler put this on I'd survive and just hope he grew a pair and put on Weld.
These guys cosplay medieval European peasants.
It's fine, overall. Closer to a 3 than a 2. But I round down. Worked with Kanye verifies a 2.
Made it through 2 songs. No.
So now it's the Bowie-influnced stuff, I guess.
Wow, Elected completely steals the riff of Dolly Dagger.
This is fine, mostly. But not interesting or compelling.
Mr nice guy is a solid single.
Generation landslide might be best track.
Ode to Jeffrey Dahmer to close is a thing.
Don't want to listen to this. Why does Ryan hate me?
Whatever "good" is, this is the opposite.
Generic butt rock. Every song is the same.
Never want to hear highway to hell again.
Beating around the bush steals the Oh Well riff
Not a complete abomination, so gets a 2. But no. Do better, list person.
What are we doing? Really?
Easy to ignore, for the most part, so props for that.
Repetitive 💩
This is fine.
Fairly generic. Decent guitar work. Some good jams.
3 is probably too high
List should be renamed "1001 albums that made me die."
The singles are singles for a reason.
Rest is generic stuff. Pretty terrible era for music.
Pitchfork special. Let's see what it got...HOLY SHIT A 10! So predictable. Tyler is gonna slobber all over this.
Sounds like my old band.
Sonic youth-light.
Generally fine. Nothing great. Pioneers of the noodling high on the guitar neck that became a staple in crud hipster bands, so they should be in Guantonamo for that.
Not as good as Frank Black.
Lyrics are generally nonsense.
More of this? Feel we've been bombarded with non-melodic sludge.
Several songs sound identical.
Orchestral folk psychedelia.
Complex arrangements, dark lyrics. Maybe the soundtrack to the scene in monty python holy grail when lancelot kills everyone.
Solid shit. Lee is boss.
Here we go...most overrated singer/songwriter in history.
Now that Tyler lives in the NE, he loves the Boss.
Somehow he did not succumb to godawful 80s production on this, mostly. Perhaps cause it's just him on a 4 track.
This is fine. Sparse. Repetitive.
Entire album about future Trump voters...more economic anxiety here than a New York Times interview with peeps in a rural café.
Also a Pitchfork/Tyler special. Ryan will also overrate this because he is weak.
Sludge sound. I guess this is because he was in Germany or something.
Nice job putting 3% effort into singing (talking).
Some of this is fine. Blackout is annoying. Sense of doubt is very dumb, though sycophants will try and tell me otherwise ("wow what a genuine artist!"). Stole someone's koto for moss garden. 2nd half barely any talking...I mean singing.
Fripp not used enough to cancel out the eno influence.
Jezus.
3 tracks is enough.
If B Starr released an album it would sound like this (hi, dipshit).
Oh, so these are the bastards that unleashed the godawful Come On Eileen song on the world? Remove their fingernails.
I'm generally not sure what to do with this because it's so stupid. It is also very annoying. This guy trying to do Freddie Mercury?
This, sadly, does not qualify as an "abomination," so it scrapes by with a 2...barely.
Something is wrong with the list...it's an album that isn't bad.
Pulled back from hyper-electronic of previous 2.
Sail to the 🌙. Good.
Punch up has the good middle jam (too short) but otherwise a weaker track
There there is top level stuff
I will is a throwaway...cast off track from amnesiac. Leave it in dead pile.
Myxamatosis phat fuzz bass
Last 1/3 bit hit or miss
Ryan would insist that I mention that this album is influential, so getting that our of the way.
Fantastic interplay, a musical premonition of the truly crazy shit he would do a decade later (my favorite stuff)
A chill affair...not sure if he was back on heroin for this or not.
Needle of death inspired Ambulance Blues, so that's good.
Acoustic wizardry.
Obviously strong. First 4 tracks are classic. Red Hill Mining Town pretty underrated. Peters out a bit in the second half. Probably should be a 4, but I round down.
Does this have the woo hoo song?
First track was bad.
Some straightforward brit pop. Some "avante garde" "we're trying to do magical mystery tour" shit.
Phil Spector really kills it on this one.
Well done sucking the soul out of most of this.
Basically a Lou/Bowie hybrid.
Probably better off just continuing to do heroin and stay away from Europe and Bowie.
Strong album. First 4 tracks all good.
Don't need who's gonna ride your wild horses.
The fly rules.
Something wrong with the list...it's a good album!
Heartbreaker, WIAWSNB, Ramble On...so much dank
Living loving maid is the weak link, but still a killer riff.
Jimmy Page's birthday today.
This is fine.
Cracked actor is probably the best track.
Most of it exists between "fine" and "good."
For Bowie it's about as good as it gets.
Supposedly this is influenced by the stones, which I do not see at all (aside from the cover song...don't be lazy Dave...write another song). Stones swing and have a groove. This is pretty sterile.
I'm guessing this list is too stupid to have a Jeff Beck album on it, so they are compensating with this.
This is all great shit. Killer band (Faces). Great melodies. Too bad Rod moved to LA and stopped making good music.
Most overrated album in history? Could be. It is still fine, sometimes good. Probably closer to a 4 but I round down.
This is fine.
"Don't Look Back in Anger" is really, really good. Weird how that wanker Liam isn't on it...
The singles were chosen well by MR. RECORD EXECUTIVE. The rest of it is pretty meh. But the singles are fine. Not sure I can do 3, however. But these guys are so edgy they'll take it as a compliment
LOL at the cover art for The Poet II
80s sucked.
Dude had some good albums. Albums that had funk and soul! Why pick this? Oh right, this list creator is an imbecile.
It's good. Not sure if 4 is too high but feeling generous
Ah, so this is where Bowie got all his ideas!
I don't know. This is harmless nonsense, mostly. Nothing compelling.
Heavy, blues, acoustic, folk. Has it all.
Generally pretty good.
Pretty clearly second tier San Francisco psychedelia. Which is ok.
Country Joe.
Some decent, jazzy instrumentals.
Track 2 has some good feels.
Lyrics/vocals pretty meh.
Too many horns.
Some solid funk jams, big-band jazzy chillness, and the voice.
"That dirty frank was a bad mutha..."
Best of em all. Only "weak" point is Videotape. But the rest is soooo good still gets 5.
Solid mental-breakdown album.
Lots of odd. Guess when he tried to kill a bandmate with an ax it shouldn't have been surprising.
