Funky and fun. Didn't know Come On Eileen was on here. I like the Celtic pop vibes from the first few tracks although there are a few that just kinda blend together and are overall forgettable.
It was Bob Dylan I guess. Has a couple of tracks that I liked though but like with other Dylan releases, most of them blend together a little bit for me.
Started out as very much not my taste, but then it got real bluesy and closed with Broken Arrow which had so much going on i can't call it my favorite. Good listen!
Very 2003, but love the progginess of it all with the interconnected tracks.
This... is the complete opposite of anything I would typically listen to and yet I was blown away by every second of this album. So raw, so versatile, yet so clean. Exactly what I was aiming for by doing this 1001 Albums thing - to broaden my horizons and this album here did it.
Sent me down a rabbithole that lasted several weeks to the point where I've fallen behind on this. Dark and sad, but... sensual?
Powerful and groovy. Reggae with plenty to say. Might start going into my rotation.
What a classic. First listen to this since high school. A lot of the tracks hold up but it also has its share of filler tracks that blend together. Still, this is teen rage in an album and definitely a must listen.
Interesting! Can definitely see how this is an early trip hop album. Not as blown away by it as the last 4 from this list but good nonetheless. Might change if I revisit it.
It's less Sinatra with a Brazilian flavor and more Brazilian music with all traces of its Brazilness removed and replaced with Sinatra. However, this isn't necessarily a bad thing since Sinatra puts some nice soundscapes together.
I only knew this lady because she got made fun of in South Park. Solid. The closing track felt like a mermaid's song.
Didn't hold my attention enough to want to finish it, but I did. Started with some fairy promising tracks but it kind of devolved into stomp stomp clap banjo Mumford and sons early 2010s "indie" sounding shlock.
If Sour Cream could make music, this would be it. This was the blandest thing I've heard in this journey so far. At one point while listening to the album I said to myself "this whole album sounds like something that would play at the end of a bad Scrubs episode" and I googled "David Gray Scrubs" out of curiosity and turns out "Please Forgive Me" DID play on Scrubs. Glad this one's over.
This album is powerful, holy crap. Dark. Fun. Strange. Funky. Groovy. Playful. Had never heard of this album or this act and man, I want more.
Anthony Fantano rated this as his favorite album of the 1970s, and while I'm inclined to disagree, it really is a great sound. Manages to stay interesting throughout and knows when to end. You can hear little bits of what would constitute the next two decades of rock music sprinkled all throughout this release.
I've always known about ABBA but never bothered to listen to a full album of theirs. I was honestly not expecting to have as much fun with it as I did! Although it has its share of misses and tracks that get repetitive, it's definitely a hit all around. Some of the slower tracks like "Knowing Me, Knowing You" are where they shine best, for me.
Cool lyrical content. Overall solid.
It was cool. Varied in sound way more than I thought it would, but I'm not sure what else I was expecting from CeeLo.
Great Radiohead Album, just not The Bends
It was a live album. Not an overly memorable live album, but a nice one nonetheless.
Excellent album, grew stale towards the middle but recovered at the end
This one was tough to listen to. 12 tracks of bad 90s romcom music. I'm better of having died before having listened to this one.
What in the overtly used reverb fuck was that. This must be on this list as a prank.
"You Wouldn't Steal A Car" music. Like, I respect the effort put into this album but it's very much not my thing. Except the last track which I really enjoyed. That said, one enjoyable track does not a good album make (to me, at least).
Why do I keep getting these late 90s easy listening albums? Anyway, out of the last few of those I have gotten this is definitely the best. While some of them are not my cup of tea, I was definitely sold on this album by the end. "Strong Enough" and "No One Said It Would Be Easy" (great Mazzy Star/early Radiohead energy on this one) are great, but it also has its share of snoozers such as "The Na-Na Song". Great, heartfelt songwriting at its best, acceptable background music at its worst.
The Led Zeppelin Quadrology reigns supreme (with maybe 3 being the weak link and possibly because I haven't listened to it enough and don't care for Immigrant Song).
Opens with a bang on "Whole Lotta Love", which is already hard to top. Then "What Is and What Should Never Be" dials it down to smooth. "Thank You" has unexpectedly heartfelt lyrics for such a heavy album. This album just keeps blowing you away and it never stops delivering, all the way through Bonham's explosive "Moby Dick" and the bombastic "Bring It On Home" to wrap it up.
This album, along with Sabbath's early stuff keeps me convinced that Heavy Metal's baby steps were perhaps some of its best ones.
This album has some interesting tracks, but with some notable exceptions, New Wave just doesn't do it for me. "Sloppy" was quite the bop though.
I've listened to "Breaking The Law" many times since it sat in my iPod Nano in high school, but I hadn't ever sat down to listen to the full thing.
It's Heavy Metal alright, but a little more upbeat and hoppier counterpart to what Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, etc. where putting out. This is achieved by the energetic drumming. However, I prefer the darker sound of the bands I just mentioned. You can definitely feel the sound headed in a more 'hair metal' direction, although not quite there yet.
Rob Halford is an icon. His vocal work in "The Rage" was my favorite part of the album.
Bob Dylan again? Ok, this one was better than the previous one it recommended me. "Ballad of a Thin Man" was great and definitely my favorite. "Desolation Row" was cool too, but the lyrics got so abstract at certain points it reminded me of "Royal Jelly" from Dewey Cox. 3/5.
It had a cool cover of Under The Boardwalk I guess? Also the vocalist gave me Dead Kennedy's vibes but this ain't no Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
I know it was influential but it's not extremely memorable. I also don't like Walk This Way very much, mostly because I don't like Aerosmith very much, although I appreciate how groundbreaking it was and the impact it had on the industry.
That was an album alright. Had a few decent tracks here and there but overall not very memorable.
It's Thriller! The well-deserved greatest selling album of all time. Every second of every track in the album is a bop, and the entire thing is probably the most influential album since Sgt. Pepper's, and considering we still have people in 2023 trying to emulate the "Thriller" sound, there's a good argument in saying it's moreso influential.
This is as good Billy Joel gets, and I'm not huge on Billy Joel yet almost every track of his that I *love* is on this album. "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" and "Vienna" are where it shines the best. A perfect album from an artist I tend not to be huge on otherwise.
I honestly put off listening to this album for a while and for some reason, I was expecting it to be a lot better than it actually was. It starts out with some of Led Zep's best tracks but it just kind of fizzles out going into the last third. Still, it has some interesting tracks sprinkled throughout that last third where they go outside of their comfort zone and I can definitely see the appeal of some of those tracks as well. Still, I was expecting this to be their "The Wall", but it's more like their White Album.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiet I love Black Sabbath. War Pigs, Paranoid, Iron Man, Electric Funeral, Fairies Wear Boots, what else do I have to say? Also Hand of Doom is up there with Another One Bites The Dust for some of the best bass lines ever.
It's fine lol - doubt I'll listen to it again to tell you the truth
It's okay. Outta Mind (Outta Sight) was nice, but otherwise this album is already outta my mind and I finished listening to it three minutes ago.
This was really cool! Funky! Fun to listen to. Might play it again!
If Monster Energy and spiked hair and Xbox and black and red and neon green sonic adventure 2 hot chip motorola phone dial up internet made an album. Also the Bowie cover at the end is genius. Great record.
Not that memorable but had nice tracks.
ambiency jumping hip hop positive
it's like hip hop that makes you wanna frolick
based off the description/genre/cover along I fear I might not enjoy this album very much.
i can only describe this as caveman pop. it sucks.
2 stars because the percussion gave me pet sounds vibes sometimes and the pirate song was amusing.
based on the cover and concept alone this feels like it's gonna slap, but let's see if it delivers
The description said garage rock but because of the harmless looking 60s dudes in bowl cuts and turtlenecks i was not expecting full on cock music. really feels like the beginning of dudes in their garage just singing songs about getting laid. Still, it also has some deeper tracks with interesting instrumentation, such as About A Quarter To Nine. Toonerville Trolley is like a Fleischer Animation fever dream. Dark and ambienty, but also rough.
Strong 4, if not 5. I've listened to this album 4 times in a row back to back tonight from how much i like it. once i fix my speakers i might try to hunt down a physical copy. Rounding to 5 because I've had this on repeat all week.
I need to get into Deep Purple more because every time I hear something new (to me) from them, it always blows me away yet I've barely listened to that many full albums by them. Speed King feels like a prequel to Highway Star (as I learned while listening to this, Machine Head wasn't until a few years later). The bluesiness Deep Purple implements into all their work is very prevalent here, along with funky fast-paced keyboard sounds like those heard in Bloodsucker and more delicate ones in Child In Time. All wrapped up in the neat, explosive bow that is Hard Lovin' Man. A banger for the ages.
I think it's easy to see Kid Rock on anything in 2023 and want to immediately give it a 1.
I told myself: "No. I refuse to succumb to my biases. I will be the better man and listen to this with an open mind", I really did. In spite of all that, this album just sucks.
First Track is what if "Bulls on Parade" had ADHD and no interesting messaging.
The second track is again, one of the most obnoxious things I have ever heard.
In short, if Turbonegro's Apocalypse Dudes was all the good about late 90s edgyboy Four Loko culture put into one album, then this is all the bad. This is like if someone took RATM and Alice In Chains, subtracted everything that makes those two acts interesting/worthwhile listening to, and made an album from the week-old moldy leftovers.
This album has a terrible habit of making 4-minute tracks that feel like they're 30 minutes long. The worst of rap + the worst of country + a shred of hardcore = a real stinker of an album. While a lot of Eminem's stuff hasn't aged great either, I still can't believe he featured on this album. Kid Rock should be be tried for war crimes for putting a 12-minute track in this album, although, somehow, that one track manages to be the most coherent out of the entire album (but I still won't add it to my playlist with my favorites from each album because I don't want a 12-minute Kid Rock track in my rotation).
Strong 1.
Good and relaxing. I read this is the same group that worked with Paul Simon on Graceland; nice to hear more of that sound!
