actually felt sick listening to frankie teardrop
idk just came away from the whole album feeling unwell
gonna give 3 stars to this album because it definitely made me feel things but also i never want to hear it ever again
i used to listen to early white stripes all the time when i was a teenager but never really paid attention to this era apart from the singles (ugh my doorbell is still so good). i feel like i don’t like their piano stuff as much as stuff like elephant etc but this was still really good and weird and fun. also it feels like it aged really well? like it doesn’t sound dated at all. so yeah this wasn’t my main great.
yeah i mean... what is there to say lol this is just really really good. just still holds up. feel all my old teenage wounds and hurts and rage and messiness rising up in me again listening to this. so much painnnnnn.
weirdly specific memory of some girl in the year below me at school singing lithium in the girls' bathroom lol. horrifically that would have been TWENTY YEARS AGO. i wonder where she is now.
gonna give it 4 just because these days it's not really the kind of thing i'd listen to regularly, like i feel there are only really really specific moments where i need this kind of music, but i feel like i really mean 4.5.
Idk, this was ok. I listened to it while walking around Asda, I don’t know how much that added to the experience. I feel like.. this is the kind of music that you can see how it helped pave the way for other stuff and is important because of that, but nothing really stuck with me. I feel like the songs just kind of happened to my ears. That said, there were some melodies and bits that I enjoyed and if they’d developed into something a bit… MORE I would’ve enjoyed it more. SO36 was cool, also Requiem. Yeah, I feel like I get it but I don’t really get it. I think i would’ve been the kind of person who got it in 1980.
this was fun. not much else to say. some fun songs and i had a good time listening. some lyrics i ummmmmmmm just tried to ignore. a lot of it is just fluffy and silly and sometimes that's all you need. i was in a good mood afterwards.
CARS AND GIRLS CARS AND GIRLS
This is a perfect album. It will always be in my top 10. It is so special to me.
this was nice. tbh i find i very rarely am in the mood for this kind of music but it is good and obviously her voice is amazing. i listened to it on the bus and it was very sunny and i felt quite sleepy and it washed over me in a pleasant way.
I loved this! It was really fun to listen to. I’ll admit I was flagging a bit towards the end because it is longgg but overall I had a really good time with this one.
Hmm this wasn't really my thing. Parts of it were ok. I've literally never heard of this guy but just read his Wikipedia and feel quite sad. I recognised a couple of the songs.
Sunday Shining was nice. Also idk if I'm going insane but I Need A Lover sounds like it samples parts of Waterfall/Don't Stop by the Stone Roses?? is it just me?? I can find no proof or confirmation of this anywhere so maybe it is just me.
Anyway yeah, gonna give this 2 stars. It feels like a very specific part of the 90s that I never paid attention to while I was living through the 90s, but now I realise it was always there. Like I would have been in the car with my parents playing Magic FM and some of these songs would've come on but I was paying attention to something else.
Went into this wondering how much it would have in common with the classic Loona yyxy EP, beauty&thebeat - and I don't know, I think there's some kind of weird sunny girl pop vibe that they both have?? Anyway this was good, I'd never heard any of it before which is odd in a way because it fits in so well with a lot of the kind of music I listen to all the time. I guess sometimes you just miss stuff! I'm gonna say 3 but I really mean 3.5.
Ughhhh I don’t know. I don’t know about this one. Most of it I really didn’t care for UNTIL the last song, Lady Grinning Soul which just completely slaps so I don’t know what to think now. I think it’s still mostly a 2 for me but LGS bumps it up to a 2.5. Something about this album just really didn’t hit for me :(
I went into this fully expecting to hate it, and I do hate the IDEA of it and how it was made, but I can’t deny that I actually enjoyed a lot of it and I liked the weird collagey nature of it… so it feels strange to be giving this 3 stars but that’s what I’m gonna do.
Easy 5. Just so good. I can’t believe I never got round to listening to this album in full. I know so many of these songs but hearing them lined up like this one after the other, fucking hell.
this was really beautiful
No.
I'm sorry but why is this on the list. Who is this for.
There is other stuff out there that is *like this* but crucially *better than this*. Why would you listen to this instead of that, unless you had some nostalgic connection to this.
This is the sort of music I would hear playing on the speaker as I walk around a secondhand record shop in a seaside town somewhere random in the UK and then I leave the shop and I never think about that music ever again.
I think sometimes I give 3 stars to things that like... they're not really for me and don't do much for me, but I can see how they're pretty good and would be enjoyed by other people, if that makes sense? This is one of those.
partway through listening and this is okkkkk so far but i've had a lot of 60s/early 70s albums this week and im flagging tbh. just really wanting different music that is not this, sorry...
I appreciate what this is but it isn’t for me.
listening to this while also trying to do a work thing that i really reaaaally don't want to do and am procrastinating hard on it (like why did i just read through all my reviews on here instead, come onnnnn). anyway my feelings about this album keep shifting as i listen to it, because sometimes i'm like "yeah this is pretty good" and then 2 minutes later i feel irritated somehow. like a song will start and i'll be kind of enjoying it and then i'll look at this horrible work task for a bit and then i'll get distracted by the internet for a while and then i look at my phone and somehow THE SAME SONG IS STILL PLAYING and i'm like ??? what is happening to time??? yes, who gave you the right?? i kind of admire the audacity of all this even if it's not really for me. let's go 3.
yeah this was pretty good. tbh i sort of had it on as background music while i did other stuff and it was vibey and fun but didn't really stick with me.
ive had so much late 60s/early 70s music this week PLEEEEAAAASE albums generator give me another decade!!! i want to get out of here!!!
this was ok. i listened to it in a heatwave on a sunday with a headcold after a really difficult week and it sort of made sense in that context.
there's some fun song titles here. the album cover is good. i didn't think i knew any of their songs but rikki don't lose that number started and i was like OH YEAH THIS. the rest of it, idk. im doing some work on my laptop and just kind of bopping along to this but it's one of those albums that is just kind of there and nothing else.
DEBASERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
yeah ok FINALLY something that is just excellent.
i hadn't heard debaser in years and years and when it came on i almost started crying but i think that's just because my period is due.
i listened to this album twice today. i actually have this weird feeling that i'd never heard this album in full before, but i also feel like that can't be right and surely i did at some point??? i don't know.
DNF’d this (can you say that for an album?). It was just profoundly uninteresting to me.
freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, this album. THIS ALBUM.
Funeral came out when I was 15 and I was obsessed with it. I liked The Suburbs when it came out as well. I didn't really listen to their later stuff after that apart from a couple of songs on Reflektor, and obviously recently all the bad stuff has emerged and there's lots that can be said about that.
But THIS ALBUM. I'm sorry. There are just some albums that appear in a certain time in your life and can't be untangled from your life and that's it. I'm not gonna write an essay here about whether we should separate the art from the artist or not etc etc etc. There are artists I can't listen to anymore. But THIS album, these songs. I just can't let them go.
I just started typing out some stuff about the period of my life when I started listening to this album and then I thought, do I really want to share this with the 1001 albums generator website hahaha. Let's just say it was my first year of uni, I was a really unhappy and confused and messed-up person in a lot of ways, and this album just ended up soundtracking a lot of stuff.
Every single song on this album means something to me. I get a lump in my throat listening to it now.
Today just for a change I've listened to A Giant Dog's cover of the entire album and it's fun, but it does just make me want to go back and listen to the original anyway.
this was ok but just not really my thing :(
Listened to this while make a gazpacho👍
i skipped this one initially and put off listening to it for aaaages because i just couldn't be arsed but like.... i'm sort of pleasantly surprised actually?? this is actually fun to listen to and also not what i expected a chicago album to sound like based on the ONE chicago song i knew before (the obvious one), although listening to this made me realise i do actually know other chicago songs as well. a solid 3.5!
I already know this album is 5 stars, but I associate it with a really bad time in my life and actually can’t listen to it if I’m feeling even a little bit emotionally fragile.
i didn't finish this. tbh i didn't get very far through it. is it unfair to rate this if i havent heard most of it? idk i don't think tom waits will be affected. i just don't think my ears want to listen to this man and i want to move on. please stop giving me albums by him.
i actually enjoyed this a bit more than i expected to??
for some reason it reminded me of when i was a teenager and i briefly worked in a spa where my job was to clean and make coffee and refill all the pots of nail polish, and they often played a lot of Magic FM and this kind of music would play a lot. idk, i don't really know anything about Prefab Sprout but i feel like their songs would fit well on Magic FM's playlist circa 2004.
anyway this was nice and nostalgic and i'm feeling generous so i will give it a 4.
listen, i love coldplay and i'm not even sorry. i don't love all coldplay and i especially don't love the more recent things but THIS album, come on. this is a GREAT album. it is just banger after banger. politik. the title track. all the singles. AMSTERDAM???
my memory of this album is listening to it in the back of the car on a cd walkman (lmao) on a family holiday in france. i was 14 and it was the early noughties and it wasn't (that) uncool to like coldplay yet, peep show hadn't come out yet so there was no quote from super hans to bring up every time someone mentions coldplay, it was a simpler time.
Yeah this was fine in an early Beatles kind of way. I already had a soft spot for some of the songs. I associate All My Loving with a weird period in 2017 when I was in Liverpool for a bit and had really bad insomnia. That’s it really.
this is just kind of .... solid. every song is the same but not in a bad way?? idk.
this is another one of those albums that i listened to obsessively as a teenager so giving it anything less than a 5 feels dishonest to myself even if ~objectively~ it probably isn't a 5* album. like it's messy and not all of it works perfectly but that's why i always loved it, you know????
this was alright, i'm guessing Urban Hymns is also on the list somewhere but i haven't got to it yet. i found it funny when he sang IM GONNA DIE ALONE IN BED a hundred times. ok richard. it's very oasis/stone roses in places (obviously).
Ok so it’s kind of lovely that we all got a Black Sabbath album the day after Ozzy died, legend, icon, raised a load of money for charity right at the end of his life, amazing. I literally knew two of their songs before I listened to this, I was really excited to hear this. And I’m sorry 😭😭😭I appreciate what this is and what it created that came after it and I can HEAR how it’s good, you know? But it’s just not…… really……. doing a lot for me while I listen to it?
I think this is where this project is by its nature a bit flawed because this is how I feel TODAY but a lot of this could be to do with how I’m feeling on this particular day and idk maybe in another time in another headspace this would just click more, but you’re asking me to rate how I’m feeling about it TODAY, in THIS moment, and I can ONLY give it a rating today. And today I’ve got to give it a 3.
Would I have written this paragraph if Ozzy hadn’t just died, probably not. Mortality eh. But it’s also maybe because I’ve just read all these other 5* reviews so I’m like… am I the problem? Maybe I am.
And yeah I know you can edit ratings and reviews now but the unusually faffy convoluted process makes me think it’s not really in the spirit of this.
I really really enjoyed this.
I know this one’s divisive and I really hoped I’d like it because I do like what I’ve heard of Spiritualized but god this is so shit it’s actually making me feel angry?? It’s just a load of noodling, like why am I listening to this? It feels like it should be from the 60s, but like all the shittiest most rambling NOTHING-y stuff from that decade. The ONLY good thing I’ll say is that there are slivers and bits of songs that feel like they could have turned into something interesting. But they just don’t. Also the last song feels like a sort of lullaby/reward for getting through everything that came before it. I’m not listening past the original 9 songs. Honestly fuck this.
Alanisssssssssssss❤️❤️❤️❤️
Feel like I didn’t fully take this in while listening to it but I think that was more of a me problem tbh.
noticed before listening that this album is 1hr 19mins long which made me wonder how much red hot chili peppers is too much red hot chili peppers?
the answer is that this is maybe just a little bit too much red hot chili peppers BUT this album has under the bridge on it which is one of the best songs ever so i can forgive a lot.
this was enjoyable, kind of interesting to listen to rhcp beyond the fifty million singles that i already know.
ive had a lot of 90s albums recently and im not complaining tbh. this was a good decade.
Oh Nick ❤️these songs make my heart hurt.
look... i've listened to the first song and also One because i read in other reviews that this is the best song on the album, and.... i think i get the idea, you know?
just not for me.
me, opening the 1001 album generator website this morning and getting my album for the day: ............................ the DARKNESS?????????????
i have literally not thought about The Darkness for at least 15 years. they just deleted themselves from my memory completely. this is truly a throwback thursday.
before listening to the album in full i went straight to I Believe In A Thing Called Love and suddenly i was in year 9 again. completely, COMPLETELY forgot about the existence of Friday Night as well.
anyway the rest of it... idk if im a bit clouded by nostalgia here but im having a good time?? its just fun and bits of it are not that great but its just BIG AND SILLY and tbh im remembering how at age 14 i'd be reading the NME and there'd be all these bands taking themselves really seriously and then there was just the darkness doing this kind of thing, and i don't think i really appreciated this at the time but it was good to have this kind of silliness alongside everything else.
one thing i've noticed about myself from my time on this website is that i tend to be more generous with my scoring for albums that came out when i was a teenager (regardless of whether i listened to them around that time or not). it's like, even if i didn't listen to these specific songs my ears are somehow still reminded of MY YOUTH or something and then i'm compelled by nostalgia to give at least 3 or 4 stars even when it's..... not really a 3 or 4 star album...... i wonder if other people have this as well or if it's a common thing, like people who grew up in the 70s being more generous with stuff that came out in the 70s etc, and then whether the overall scoring on this website is skewed by that at all, like if you can tell the patterns and demographics of people who use this website based on their assigning high scores to stuff that came out when they were young. idk, i'd be interested to know about this!
anyway, that was a long preamble to say that a part of me did want to give this 3 stars without thinking about it too much but come on, this is just not a classic album guys, let's be serious. my experience of this album is that i went into it thinking i didn't know any songs by The xx apart from Angels which i do like and then i felt disappointed that Angels isn't on here, and then as i listened to each song on this album i kept thinking, wait, do i actually know this? have i heard this before?? like they all felt VAGUELY familiar and may have been playing in the background at some point when i was 19 and i just didn't realise.
i sort of get that this album represents a certain type of music/vibe/whatever that was big around this time and probably The xx popularised it so like, yes, on one level i do understand why they're here but also i really don't because these songs are SOOOOOOO nothingy.
the best thing i can say is that this would work quite well as lying-on-the-floor-staring-up-at-the-ceiling music, which tbf is something that i do sometimes. but yeah i'm gonna give this 2 stars. Angels started auto-playing after i finished the album and i still like that song.
This is the kind of thing I would hardly ever listen to just because I think it needs a v specific sort of context to make it work, if that makes sense?? As in I listened to it today while cleaning my kitchen and scrubbing limescale off the kitchen sink and that just didn’t feel like the right context, you know? I think this album should be listened to in a social setting. Anyway that said I will likely not listen to it again for a really long time but I think it’s great, 4 stars, boom.
i skipped this at first and put off listening to it for so long but today i thought, ok it's bongo time.
this album contains many bongos and is v groovy and fun and now i'm all bongo'd out, thank you x
i love this album.
i listened to this album a lot during the covid lockdown in early 2021 when it was freezing cold and snowing and everything outside was just dark and awful, so i just associate a lot of these songs with that now. just being inside and feeling like everything was terrible but here were these songs offering a bit of brightness.
it's slightly annoying me that at the moment my top artist on this website is Radiohead because i gave 5 stars to two of their albums so far (and i haven't even got to OK Computer yet). idk why it just feels really basic lol, like "who's your top artist on the 1001 albums generator website" "Radiohead" - idk it just bothers me, i thought i was cooler than that (i didn't think i was cooler than that).
anyway, for some reason i'm really familiar with every Radiohead album APART from Amnesiac which i always just skipped over for no reason. i think there are some Obvious Bangers here but also a lot of stuff that is just OK.
this is ok but it's too long.
tbh i think Kings Of Leon have mostly aged pretty well. obvs disclaimer i'm a teenager of the noughties, i have a soft spot for all the indie slop of that time but i never really spent much time with KOL and i don't know why (was probably too busy crying over the Libertines or something). a lot of these songs still sound fresh to me and i really enjoyed this. my favourite KOL songs are the big emotional lump-in-your-throat stadium songs, i think they were really good at that - The Notion is the best example of this on this album and is the best song on the album imo.
Bit conflicted by this one because on the one hand, THE SINGLES OMG and also their voices are really good and the whole v early 00s R&B sound is just sooo nice but on the other hand, listen to what they’re actually singing about in some of these 😬😬😬like what was the need for Nasty Girl guys, even in 2001.
There needs to be a rating option for, like, “I understand this album is brilliant but it’s just not for me” because it feels wrong to give this album 3 stars when I can hear the immense skill and talent and just obvious EXCELLENCE of it but the way it’s mostly whooshing over my head like so many other 3 star albums makes me need to give it 3 stars. It’s not you Aretha it’s me, honestly.
ba ba-ba ba-ba baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
put this on as background music while working and felt deeply unsettled and weird about 5 mins later. idk, i don't really know what this is. like i respect the idea of it and the weirdness of it but this is so obviously not a classic album lmao. why is it here???
im so despondent over this album lmao
it was just such a SLOG
i fully expected to love it because its LONDON CALLING but honestly i kept checking the tracklist while listening hoping i was near the end
there are some bops here and it isn't bad at all but it mostly just didn't hit me
v sad
OK this slapped and I realised while listening that Paul is actually my favourite Beatle.
ok i'm 4 songs in and this is severely not for me.
i liked this :) not sure i'd rush to listen to it again but it was nice and i loved the vocals. also the album cover is so funny.
Listened to this while on a coach driving very slowly out of Heathrow airport and you know, it kind of worked. This is a 3.5 for me.
i've already had one album by The xx and i was not a fan, so when i got this i thought oh noooooo. however! this one is actually a bit more interesting and varied i think. it's still a bit too much in the vein of "random indie music that shows up on a spotify-generated playlist that sounds fine but doesn't blow my mind", but it's pretty good overall and basically the kind of thing i listen to a lot when i just want something vibey. so ok i'm gonna give this a 3. Angels is still their best song and is somehow not on either of the albums that have appeared on this list. where is it?? do they have other, better albums?? are they here???
Another one for the “albums from the 70s that I have no strong feelings about” club.
I don’t have any strong feelings about U2. This was decent. I hadn’t heard One in years and remembered it’s a good song. The rest of it was fine. I have nothing else I want to say about U2.
this was just not for me and that's ok!
Listened to this at the end of an exhausting week and I was just so shattered that the whole thing sort of washed over me but in such a nice way, does that even make sense??? Idk I’m so tired haha. Anyway this is LUSH, I will 100% be back to listen again when I have more than one brain cell but aaahhh his VOICE, the INSTRUMENTALS, ugh just so so good. Ah fuck it I’m giving this a 5.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i don't know.
i enjoyed quite a lot of this but as a whole it's maybe just a little bit too wacky for repeated listening, for me. but it's really fun and i'm glad i heard it and i might come back to it one day.
This was a very nice 3.5, I enjoyed it although not much of it really stuck with me after one listen. The singles slap. Would probs need to listen again to have stronger feelings about this.
This suffered a bit from me just not really being in the mood for it lol sorry
If I can put my shitty mood to one side for a minute though I can hear that this is good so I’m gonna give it 3.5 and maybe come back to it on another day when I’m not a dickhead
It’s really funny reading other people’s reviews of this where they say they hate all the drums and synths of the 80s because that’s what I LOVE about the 80s haha
I got Thriller yesterday and there’s some obvious comparisons to be made, I would’ve expected that I’d give Thriller the higher score and for some reason it feels weird to give them both a 4 but in the words of that meme, thATS MY OPINIONNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
i didn't *get* fleetwood mac until i hit my 30s, and then something clicked and i REALLY GOT fleetwood mac. do you have to have lived a bit to really feel the pain and heartbreak and messiness of this music? is that the most pretentious/ok boomer thing i've ever written? idk what i'm saying. this album is just bangers bangers bangers.
i thought i only knew 2 songs on this album, and then spent the whole time listening going "oh yeah, dad used to play this" for nearly every single song. i think it's fair to assume..... that my dad owned this album haha. thanks dad, there's some filler towards the end but this is a 4 for me.
i've had such a good run this week, this was so much fun to listen to <3
listening to this made me think a lot about being a teenage girl in the 00s and all the very serious indie boys i used to hang out with and the serious music conversations we used to have and all the very serious reading of music magazines that i used to do. i think a big part of my growing up involved realising that it's actually ok to like pop music and also a lot of those boys were extremely annoying! there were parts of this album that almost became interesting, but didn't.
I was hanging off every word of this like it was a play. SO, SO GOOD.
idk idk. i really thought this would be my thing and it's just not.
ok im halfway through and im just not interested :(
what im learning about myself through this project is that i love pop music and vocals and melodies. i never imagined i'd be someone to give Simple Minds a 4 and this a 2 but i am! that's just who i am!
WE ARE STRANGE IN OUR WORLDS
light and fluffy like a stack of pancakes
It’s so funny to me that the guy who wrote THE BOXER is also the guy who wrote Cars Are Cars. It’s honestly such a great lesson for any creative person - someone who could make great art could also in another time of their life be making complete “fully-run-out-of-ideas” nonsense like this, and vice versa. So just keep doing it! Keep making art! Who cares if it’s shit! You never know what’ll happen! Cars are cars!
Wasn’t really feeling this at first but kind of warmed to it as it went on. If you’re looking for good vocals this is not the album for you lol but I ended up mostly enjoying it.
for some reason i saw the artist name and album title and year of release and just assumed this would suck based on no knowledge of what/who this was by, just ~vibes~, but i'm having a good time actually!
Vintage NME slop (complimentary)
Ok yeah he was a dickhead but unfortunately this is really great.
First half great, second half fucking stupid. Would’ve given it a 2 if I hadn’t gone back and listened to the first half again.
Love, love, loooooooooved this omg. I feel like it could’ve been released yesterday, I can’t believe it came out in 2010. Gonna be listening to this A LOT.
I just…………………….
I just love so many genres of music, I’ll listen to nearly anything, but I just………………. I just don’t like reggae.
i'm 11 years old and i've stolen my mum's copy of Bridget Jones's Diary to read in secret under my bed covers.
i'm writing stories in a Groovy Chick notebook with a honeysuckle-scented gel pen.
i'm going on a school trip to the Millennium Dome (RIP) and i'm doing my SATS and i'm excited about secondary school (little did i know the horrors that awaited me).
that's what this album reminds me of.
i'm not a David Gray hater and it was nice to revisit the singles on this but mostly it was just so blah... there was just something lacking all the way through it. interesting songwriting, probably.
I really don’t know how to rate this, because there’s no one else like him and when this came out it was SUCH a moment - that sounds wanky but it’s TRUE, I was there 👵🏻 - but also there are basically no occasions in life or moods I might be in where I’d actually want to listen to this. I’m listening to Kim as I write this. Is this music, or is it something else? I think for me, this is something to spend time with once and never again.
Thoughts that went through my head listening to this:
Temu Bob Dylan
Not as important as he thinks he is
For some reason I can’t get past the fact that he’s a dickhead. There are other artists I can do this with, but with this guy’s music he just SOUNDS like a douchebag. I can’t put my finger on it.
I left the room while this album was playing and came back like 10 mins later and noticed nothing.
I miss Phoebe Bridgers
New Phoebe Bridgers in 2026?? 🤞🤞
This didn’t really blow my mind or anything, but I happened to listen to it on a day when I was feeling really sad and vulnerable and in this context it kind of hit the spot ❤️🩹
21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN WAS SUCH A BANGER OMG and then after that it got a bit average for a while, and then there was a song that sounded like a primary school music project, and then the last song was a banger again but it went on for a million years and then right at the end they brought out the primary school kids to play some flutes just before the final chorus-y bit. AND THEN the song ends and you think it's all over and then someone's cat walks over the keyboard or something, like the musical equivalent of sdkghslrukhgkdfg. i mean what a journey. maybe 3.5????
RIP Joe McElderry’s music career
I love the 80s………… but I was a bit disappointed by this tbh :(
Look I love her to death but apparently this is the only Lana album on the list, which is just….. why???? Why THIS one?
There are songs here that are so so important to me and then there are others where I totally get the haters.
It’s kind of funny to have got this so close to Christmas, because last Christmas I went through a really big Lana phase and in particular was listening to White Dress A LOT. Not particularly festive haha, idk what was going on with me at the time.
Chemtrails is still a 4 for me even though it’s nowhere near her best.
took a break from this website for a bit because i wanted to listen to some stuff that's like.... not the western canon, you know? then over the weekend i was in the area where Marc Bolan's shrine is in Barnes and remembered that i skipped over this album when i got it and never went back to it, and so here i am. yeah, and this completely slaps. i was dumb to put it off for so long.
i listened to it once and thought, oh this is a bit disappointing all the songs sound the same....
then i listened to it again and suddenly i just GOT IT.
like it's not perfect but there's something so raw and vulnerable about this, i can't really put it into words.
i love music where the artist has an idea and just goes for it and maybe it succeeds and maybe it doesn't quite hit the mark in places but you can just feel what they're feeling. this is one of those albums. this is also maybe the worst review i've ever written because i literally cannot explain myself here hahaha.
also his VOICE. oh my DAYSSS. marvin gaye could sing the dictionary at me and i'd be like omg 5 stars.
ok look i TRIED and i still don't like reggae, PLEASE NO MORE REGGAE
EVERY GIRL I GO OUT WITH BECOMES MY MOTHER IN THE END!! lmao ok
apart from that one insane interlude this was exactly how i expected a police album to sound and i had a generally good time.
will this album blow anyone's mind, no of course not, is her voice amazing, YES.
random memory of someone on my school's Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award trip singing Norah Jones songs as we walked along the coast in the south of England with our massive rucksacks and our Pot Noodles. we accidentally walked 9km in the wrong direction and had to be picked up in a minibus but we still got the award.
It’s really unfortunate for Gene Clark that I got a Bob Dylan album a couple of days ago because this just does not hold up in comparison 😭
Was dithering between 2 and 3 stars because giving 2 stars makes me feel a bit like I’m kicking a puppy for some reason, but I’m sorry it’s gotta be done. It’s pleasant, it’s inoffensive, his voice is quite annoying, I nearly turned it off a couple of times but stuck with it, and now it’s done and I’m gonna go about the rest of my day completely unchanged.
Golden oldies radio vibes
Bits of it were interesting in a kind of trippy hippy way
Tomorrow I’m hoping to get an album that isn’t from the 70s
i listened to this twice because i felt like maybe i'd missed something the first time round. i mean - it's Madonna, it's the 90s, it's trip hop, it's a lot of things that i love honestly.... and yet it didn't quite hit for me and i don't know why! having said that there are some all-time bangers on here as well. i can't give this higher than a 3.5 buuuuuut it was generally good. thanks Madonna!!!!!
This is really fucking stupid.
thoughts i had while listening to this:
what the actual hell is going on.
their voices........... there are some really not very good vocals on this. but also which are their real voices??? they sound so different to their later hits??? i'm so confused. am i losing the plot or why does one of them sound a bit like Syd Barrett.
i keep thinking this can't get any more weird and then it gets even weirder
IT'S SO LONG
IT'S JUST SO LONG AND SO BONKERS
and you know, i'm really tempted to give this a 3 because even though it's....not very good... i almost respect the weirdness of it and i'm kind of glad i listened to it and i now know it exists? like who knew the Bee Gees were doing this in 1969? i didn't. and i'm gonna remember this a lot more than all the mid albums i've got from other 60s/70s bands that i just unthinkingly gave a 3 to and promptly forgot about.
"so iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii laugh in your FACE"
.... oh and now here's a song that sounds like the Beatles. "you said goodbye, i declared war on Spain" is a 10/10 lyric. very funny.
ok and the last song has suddenly gone all Disney vibes.
you know what guys, take my 3.
awwwww yeaaaaahhh it's the bus driver from the Spice World movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel like if Pink Floyd had gone through the 00s indie landfill era and come out the other side, they would have sounded like this. (Side note, I’m like 170 albums into this and I haven’t had a single Pink Floyd album, where the hell are they??)
as is the danger with this website sometimes, i've built up a backlog of 60s/70s albums so today i'm just wading through them. and like.... this is ok, but i had a Doors album given to me literally two days before this so i'm almost resentful of the fact that they're being hurled at me AGAIN. i liked the other album better tbh.
Don’t really get the visceral hate for this that I’ve seen elsewhere, it’s not incredible but it’s nice and vibey. I’ve said in some other reviews that I’m a vintage NME girl through and through so anything that reminds me of flicking through that magazine and getting the weird paper smell on my hands gets a decent score from me tbh.
1. Track 4……… is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard.
2. No shade to any of the people involved with this (except Morrissey) but J***** M*** could’ve really elevated some of the dross that’s on here.
nice enough but i got a bit tired of it towards the end IM SORRY RAY
is it just me or do they sound like The Slits but with men added in?
sometimes i get an album on here that isn't very good but i sort of think, ok it was probably kind of important when it came out in 1972 or whatever, it was before my time but for people who were there it was an important part of the culture so i guess i understand why it's on this list. unfortunately i was there when The Vines released this album so i can confidently say that The Vines were literally never important and should not be on this list. this is scraaaaaping a 3 tbh because it's not terrible, it's just Fine.
ok you know what. this is really good. it's very kitchen sinky and all over the place, he's basically slammed a million ideas at the wall and not all of them fully stick BUTTTTT there's some really really great music on here. oh and Solsbury Hill is an all-time banger obviously.
Really very funny to get this on the day Ireland destroyed England in the Six Nations.
I respect this, I get why it’s on the list, I’m a Fairytale Of New York enjoyer, but in general The Pogues are not for me.
