I can appreciate why this album was picked and it was pleasant to listen to for ~10 minutes, but it is a little too peace-lovey for my tastes. I'd say this isn't something I could just pick up and enjoy at any given time; a very specific setting and mood would be required to make it through much of this.
Very creative and pleasant, but the songs tend to blend together a bit when listening to the full album. In isolation, the songs are pretty great, other than my aversion to the falsetto style that appears every once in a while.
Phenomenal mixing and rhythms.
I've heard a few of these songs before way back in the day. At that moment in time and at the ripe age of 10 or 11, it was pretty good. It's honestly pretty hard to listen to now and I don't think it has aged very well. Definitely not something I could listen to for more than 10 minutes without being ready to move on, it's just a little too intense and in your face.
I love the range of instrumental expertise on this album. "The Weight" is my favorite song from 20+ commercials. The organ work on this album is masterful, reminds me of the doors in that regard. The drums are crisp and really pulls all the other melodies along with it. The singing reminds me a bit of jam band kind of stuff, a little all over the place, not always on key, but that's the beauty of this music, it's raw.
Embryonic Journey is the most beautiful song on this album. These guys need some haircuts, they make the Beatles look normal.
Reaaally not something I could hang with. I Listened to maybe half the album hoping there would be at least 1 song I could jam to, I think the eponymous track was pretty solid at least. Other than that, the music is OK, but the mixing is pretty bad and I'm constantly trying to ignore the vocals.
Even though I've only heard 1 of the songs on this album before and that might have been in a commercial, this album felt very nostalgic and comforting to me.
This is VERY different than most things that I listen to, and i'm very surprised that i'm saying this, but this is pretty damn good. I am not a fan of the vocal style, but it definitely adds an extra layer of grungy tone that amplifies the delivery of the music. Fantastic mixing/production, I love the strings.
"The best known and most critically acclaimed of these is 1997's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, which NME magazine named as their Album of the Year, beating other critically acclaimed albums by fellow British bands such as OK Computer by Radiohead and Urban Hymns by The Verve.[1]"
How the hell did this beat OK computer??? They sound like an above-average Radiohead cover band with more instruments.
I remember when I first discovered Megadeth.. I had just gotten big into Metallica and learned about their connected histories with Dave Mustaine leaving Metallica to start Megadeth. I was blown away by what I was hearing.. Megadeth is clearly more committed to the thrash metal scene for the long haul unlike metallica who moved on from it after an album or two. Dave Mustaine is a riff wizard. He is not a great singer, but it's impressive that he maintains both lead singer and lead guitar.
This is most definitely early early days queen, quite different than the Queen we all know and love. It's fine, pretty great guitar going on, but I wouldn't say anything mind blowing going on here.
Beautiful and skillful acoustic guitar work here... but the mood/tone is really not doing it for me. A few songs like this are great, but I can't listen to an entire album like this. The piano and strings accompanying the guitar are great as well, but the album as a whole is not doing much.
What the hell am I listening to. I will admit, there are some beautiful instrumentals going on, but when the singing starts, i'm out.
Pretty great overall, I definitely see the historical significance of Muddy Waters' music, he's quite talented. Having said that, I can't listen to blues like this for very long, I get too anxious for more variety, spoiled by modern music.
Pretty good overall, really love the funk, but I can only listen to so much of that high-pitched singing.
You can imagine the immediate reticence to listen to this given the rebel flag on the cover... but at the same time I live 10 minutes from a civil war era monument (stone mountain) with confederate generals carved into it. I grew up hearing this kind of music from various family members but I still can not stand most twangy county/bluegrass/folk like this. I listened to 3-4 songs on this record trying to find something that didn't make me cringe, it wasn't easy but I managed to find some great harmonies and musicianship going on. I will never listen to this again though lol I'm giving this 2 stars because I think the musicians are skilled and the harmonies were pretty solid
This is really not my style, but i'm glad i'm listening to it. There's some awesome musical stuff going on here! There's timpani, sitar, triangle, tuba, duyuglar (horse hoof clapping sound), the list goes on.
Autobahn makes edgar winter group's frankenstein seem like childs play synth. Apparently they even invented some electronic instruments, that's badass.
Also this is an amazing tidbit I found on wikipedia...
Chris Martin of Coldplay recalled in a 2007 article in Q magazine the process of requesting permission to use the melody from the track "Computer Love" on "Talk" from the album X&Y. He sent a letter through the lawyers of the respective parties and several weeks later received an envelope containing a handwritten reply that simply said "yes".[77]
Meh... that's about all I have to say. I could try to get more detailed, but it would be the equivalent of just saying meh.
This is some wild stuff; I really dig creative ambient music like this for focusing and getting into a creative groove. I always look up the artist on wikipedia and read about them for these selections, and I learned that Brian Eno invented the oblique strategies card deck! Sounds like this guy might be pretty familiar with LSD and it's effects on the mind :-p
Some of this stuff reminds me of King Crimson
hippie++
The singer is pretty good, but she leans too much into the same style/rhythm and it gets old pretty quick.
I love the vibes of the music though, it's got me head bobbin' for sure.
Once again, Wikipedia dropping knowledge bombs on me here: "The cover features a still from the band's own short film To Kill a Dead Man", how cool is that?! Almost as cool as the covert art for tool albums coming from guitarist Adam Jones' own art, cinema, and claymation.
I listened to this entire album cover to cover without a hiccup and loved every second of it. Incredible focus music, the vibe is top tier.
Somehow, I've never listened to James Taylor before, but I certainly know about his impact on the industry and how revered he is be so many.
This is incredibly pleasant, i'm really enjoying it. I particularly love the acoustic work.
"Due to poor management, XTC never received a share of profits from record sales (of which there were millions), nor from touring revenue, forcing them into debt throughout the 1980s and 1990s." Wow... that.... sucks.
Anyway, there was a pretty good song or two, but it was pretty hard to listen to straight through without skipping halfway into a song that I couldn't stand.
I've never listened to killing joke before, but I HAVE heard the Metallica cover of the song "The Wait". The song itself is pretty meh, but Metallica did an awesome cover of it on their "garage days" double album of covers, which I highly recommend.
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/killing-joke-weird-wild-story-revered-cult-industrial-pioneers
There's some great songs on here: primitive, complications, and the opener are fantastic
Good lord, the guitar SUSTAIN on the song "Everydays", that was awesome. And that bass walking, wow so good.
The acoustic work on "Bluebird", WOW, FANTASTIC!
The funk is funky (I think that's a good thing!). The highlights for me are the incredible drum and bass going on here, hard to miss. There's also some fantastic brass in some of the songs that I think adds some extra punch.
Hey! It's that song from Step Brothers!!
The synth/electronic work on this album is TOP tier..
This is VERY VERY different from anything i've ever listened to (on purpose). That does not by any means I dislike it, in fact, I really dig the vibe (even though some songs can be a little gloomy).
I read through all the wikipedia info on the bands frontman (Berman) and was entranced in all the crazy details and events that this guy went through in his life, mostly very sad. There was, however, a hilarious quote I found: "I've got a credit card rotisserie system that would dazzle the ancients"
This is the epitome of "meh" for me. It's definitely music, these people are certainly musicians, but the music they make is just so..... uninspiring and uninteresting. I do appreciate some of the celestial sounds they tend to gravitate toward, but other than that, I wouldn't really seek this out.
This album is a bittersweet symphony.
There's the obvious incredible song on here, then there's some fantastic snippets of songs, but there aren't really any GREAT songs that spoke to me, they somehow lose me in the middle. Maybe that's just the psychadelic alt-rock genre in general for me?
I ALMOST made it to the end... this album has like 5-6 songs too many
It's hard to deny how wonderful this is and how influential the music being pumped out by these guys is/was. I was jamming to almost every song on the album and listened to another album, this shit slaps, as the kids say.
Any album that starts with an 18 minute song has my attention, unless it's U2, of course.
I have huge respect for all the instrumentation going on here (sitar and harpsicord are some wild ones), namely the pipe organ!
The guitarist really likes harmonics for some reason.
I really don't know what i'm listening to... what the hell is happening. Musically, this is shit. How in the world is this album influential? I could easily die without hearing this.
These songs are all over the place, musical anarchy. I will admit, there were a handful of bars that I was grooving to thanks to some neat percussion work.
I'm gonna try to use Chris' cafe scale on this one: I walked out halfway through my scone and took back my tip from the tip jar on my way out.
This whole albums feels like a big "you had to be there" joke. After 2-3 songs I wanted to stop and move on to something else, but instead I kept listening with it in the background and actually found that I started enjoying it. That's got to be a rare phenomena for me, but I think it's because the music being produced here is SO different and unique than anything i've ever listened to.
Jerry "riffmaster" Cantrell is one of my all time favorite guitarists. His guitarwork on this album is top tier.
"Dam That River" might be my favorite AIC song of all time.. just so "in your face" and heavy.
One cool thing is that AIC songs heavily inspired some of the songs on the OG Doom soundtrack: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_music
This is quite pleasant and creative.. great music for a relaxing morning sipping on some coffee. Nothing really blowing my mind here from a musical or lyrical perspective, but there's definitely some catchy sections that i'm digging.
Praise aside, there are some songs on this album that really droned and didn't have any sort of climax or interesting sections and I got pretty bored. This is dangerously close to the coldplay category for me, but still a step above.
Meh... not bad. I could imagine this being a 69' woodstock headliner with everybody tripping out of their minds, they would lose it.
Pretty chill stuff, the end of the album gets pretty darn psychadelic and progressive, which I definitely enjoyed.
Okay, i keep coming back here to update my review as i listen to a few more songs because it keeps getting better, the first few songs kinda fall flat and gets more and more progressive
This is pretty cool though: "The Byrds also introduced the sound of the pedal steel guitar and the Moog modular synthesizer into their music, making it one of the first LP releases on which the Moog appears"
IDK why I like this honestly, but I do. It's so fast and in your face and there's not a very strong sense of rhythm. Yet, I can't stop listening.
The songs are so short, they kinda blend together and I'll check to see if i'm still on the same song and i've listened to like 3 different songs and didn't even realize it.
This entire album feels like a "you had to be there" (maybe a working-class adult in the early 80s, to be specific). The songs are just all over the place, madness!!
I really love the synth work though... and they REALLY love slap bass, it's front and center in like every single song i listened to, it feels like i'm watching seinfeld.
This is pretty solid, I dig the vibe and all the awesome musical intricacies going on here... but this is starting to blend in with all the other 60s and 70s rock we've listened to so far and I think that's a big shame.
Having said all that... i could only make it through about 10 of the 21 songs on this album, they were mostly fine, my favorite song of them was definitely "Both of Us", I loved the percussion.
