My kind of jam

Not sure on where this fits chronologically but feels like it could be a blueprint album for a lot what came after. Love the light touch on instrumentation, highlighting her voice. Funny how the wave of nostalgia makes this sound modern.

An enjoyable listen but not one I find myself thinking “I need to listen again” while listening. Stylistically pretty broad while still feeling cohesive. Some great riffs and breaks.

Love the production, of course it’s Albini. Pop in a Nirvana way but everything is a little weird, which is right up my alley. So many good songs. One of those albums that always sounds like it was released “a few years ago”

Mix of cinematic and impressive restraint on the music, just wish the goals were turned down a bit in the mix (but I get it).

The ur album for an entire wave of recent nostalgia music? Well balanced mix of drone-y slow core and goth jangle pop. Like a warm blanket for your ears.

On the line between free jazz freak outs and sweet grooves

Nostalgia trip with lots of “that kind of sounds like…” moments. Both of its time and ahead of its time sounding.

If Pink Floyd replaced pretension with groove

A solid Young album for this Neil head, but not weird enough?

Might be more memories than music at this point

An impressive feat of a rave album that can be listened to and enjoyed outside the club

Some great sounds but had some distracting moments that took me out of it.

Just good songs. And lots of synth

Like the solo acoustic style. No surprise I like the Suicide style and rockabilly/blues style songs. May need to revisit

Good grooves, great basslines, a sound I always enjoy

Still a great album, but not sure if/when I’ll listen again (since I forgot about them before this).

So many grooves and sounds.

Classic. Love the beats and style, and the humor

A case study in The Sound of the British Invasion. I need to spend more time with it but dig what I’ve heard.

Just not vining with it, but not bad

Another solid Young album. A dash of weird, a dash of droning repetition, my kind of jam

Staple of my youth but couldn’t get into it. I prefer Reanimation?

Soft spot here but it’s amazing how good it still sounds.

Amazing (and unfortunate) how relevant and powerful the lyrics still are. Music highlighted them but sounds a bit “of its time”, reason why it lost a star. Can’t help thinking what it would sound like if it was made today.

Got some groove. Stylistically varied and fun.

Rating benefitted from it being a Friday album, but I kept coming back and listening throughout the weekend. Amazing covers and humorous songs mixed with beautiful music.

Jangle on, baby!

Spaaaaaaaaaace

Nostalgia record. Still think it’s well crafted and highly enjoyable

Minimal, restrained grooves and good songs

Fun listen with grooves. Talking Heads vibes

Still love the guitar sound and the fun songs are funnier than I remember. But the classic Smith style songs are more of a drag

Fun listen. Feels like the bridge between ABC and The Pixies

Rawk! Also some more psychedelic moments than expected

Yup, sounds like The Beach Boys. Yup, sounds like someone’s sanity slowly collapsing

The blueprint. Love all the demos and alt takes included.

Is this how I become a Kraftwerk head? Some amazing sounds

Love Fugazi

Really enjoyed this. And nice to see a reggae album make a list from an artist I’d never heard of

I mean…

My kind of jam

Yup, sounds like the band that did Come On Eileen. Still fun

Enjoyed listening but not sure I’ll revisit

Work of art

Like U2 meets Coldplay with a dash of M83

Surprised by how much I liked this, despite the guitar wankery

Love CCR

I love Nick Drake. This is a regular summer listen

This is an album I’d add to a playlist but wouldn’t listen to the playlist for it

Cult blues

I have a complicated relationship with Radiohead

Top Gun vibes

Not my jam (but Jesus Built My Hotrod has a Suicide vibe)

Classic leopard spandex fun but with some more classic rock and roll showing through

Queen! Really flexing the range here. And Killer Queen is one of my favorites.

Green Eyes was a pleasant surprise. Nostalgia record but still just kind of meh

Stevie!

Kept wanting to listen again. At the least, 5 stars for making me pickup a guitar again and giving me ~ideas~.

So much my vibe

Felt like a different band and never really hooked me

Fun times

More Sabbath than I expected. Sounds like a hell of a show

Outkast+Prince

Enjoyed the music but likely won’t revisit

Dubby goodness

For both how much I enjoyed it and how much I think this impacted other artists and genres I enjoy

Not my thing

So many Songs

Highlights the songwriting

Am I a Dylan fan now?

Classic

Really enjoyable album. Like Mika wrote lyrics for Bowie

Not as good as This Year’s Model

Groove

What it sounds like inside my head

Got that weird goodness but my relationship with Radiohead is still complicated

The birth of G Funk? Also, Give Up The Funk. 5 stars for that song alone.

Perfectly good rock album. Would put it on a playlist, would listen to the playlist for it.

An oddly important album for me despite how rarely I listen

Musically still top notch, but some of the lyrics haven’t held up so well

Funky

Classic rawk

Not bad musically, but didn’t hold my attention

Fun and funny with a sound I never get tired of

Did this album, in part, spawn a blog project name? Yes

Funky (at least to start)

Hot blooz

Forgot how good this album is. Alone Again Or is a favorite

Hey, no obnoxiously gated drums

Impressive album

Rawk! Liked it more than the last ZZ album

The more I listen the more I like it

I wanted to like it but the production and Polish just aren’t my taste

Oh good, gated drums. I just can’t become a Boss super fan (sorry Thomas)

Not maybe, that’s definitely Oasis

His Nick Drake album

TIL: the name of an Elliott Smith album and that I like it

It’s Prince! Can’t imagine what listening to the first track on this was like when it was first released

My kind of jam. Doom like beats

Of course I like electric Dylan. Cosmic-y

Feels like this should be more well known

Raw power

Is every Stevie album a classic?

This is fun

Jack White’s career is officially too good and this album no longer stands out for me, but still great.

Just my kind of band

Varied yet cohesive, with an rdge

I can’t decide if I like this or not

A go to

My style, but felt a little too slow overall

Some truly great songs on here

I love this album

Proto-Vampire Weekend

Might be some cultural cache in this rating

Warm and fuzzy

Is Tuesday’s Gone a Free Bird troll?

This is what I think of when I think of The Smiths

Maybe the most Kyle of Beatles albums?

Fun album with some great sounds

Fun listen and great live sound

Sam!

Solid 80s with some Psych nostalgia, but a bit more ballad-y than I like

Did not realize they did Everybody Hurts

Like a more no wave Talking Heads

Fun album

Like an amalgamation of bands I like, and delightfully weird in places

The 80s sounds I love, grooves, and a great balance of lyrics to instrumentals

Meh, only this many stars because of the song trinity

Wanted to like the music, couldn’t do the lyrics

Pure 80s and great basslines

Not my favorite Beatles style, but a pretty perfect example of that style

Better than I remember

Why had I not listened to this before?

Pop but interesting

Vintage fall vibes

Groove and riffs with a dash of psych

Always a good listen

Groooooooves

Center of a Venn diagram for me

Perfectly good rock

Deserves the rep

Guitar god. Goof.

Like the tones but didn’t grab me

I might be that auto 5 star for SY guy

Duh

My kind of Rolling Stones album

Another solid Stones

Pinnacle for pop

Honestly enjoyed this but it couldn’t maintain the energy of the first few songs

Pandering with ska and a poem, I’ll reward it

Big soft spot for this album

Grows on me with every listen

Cosmic

Really enjoy this one

What an album

Really like this one. Multiple listens and want to re-listen.

Always like Jimi more than I remember

Pop songs but weird

I ❤️ Lou

Not my thing, but seems like a good version of the thing

I love me some WS

Gotta keep em separated

There were some moments, but mostly a slog

My fall vibe

Floyd!

Some fun stuff, some meh. Makes more sense after listening to so much Bowie

Gem

Lovely lo-fi

Like the first half, second is alright

Still a sucker for early Clapton

Rating in spite of Stairway, not because of

Amazing

Proto-Rooney? Like a lot about it just not sure I’ll revisit

I need to listen to more Fiona

I could live in these guitars

Feel like this is a defining album of the 2000s

Still sounds amazing

Massive album. Many songs felt like a reimagining of a hit/classic through a punk/post-punk lens

This is THE Stones album for me

🟪

This one surprised me. It’s fun

Great live album, but not enough of his cosmic phase

There’s some wildness there

Love this vibe

I’m a Pixies fan, it’s official

I want to like it more but it doesn’t stick with me much

I’ve had Last Nite stuck in my head since I saw this was the album