Classic. Didn't know all the songs, but enjoyed most (not so much 10th Ave).
Felt very dramatic at times -like musical theatre almost.
I enjoyed the slow songs too!
Keyboard/sax/guitar/little trumpet/slightly gravel sound in the voice - it's a unique and identifiable soundset.
That artwork is sick.
Kinda gets repetitive if you dont have an ear for it.
Five magics was my favorite. Made me feel like I was playing DND in the 80s.
Hangar 18 is pretty bangin too though.
I'm trying to think where else I would like to listen to this at. And I think my answer is at a monster truck rally
This feels like "California summer beach day folk music". It's chill and easy. Harmonica and organ take up space and are sustained.
I feel like Bob is really a beat poet who just happens to use music. I mean how many original words are in each one of these songs?! Big vocab.
I guess he throws in blues too. I feel like his voice is constantly pushing and pulling. Not my fave for consecutive listening.
What a bunch of atomic weirdos. I can't help but see drugged out people from the 50s with tin foil hats trying to contact aliens. That being said, the instrumentation keeps my head bopping and my energy high, almost like I'm caught in a ufo tractor beam of steady positive groove.
I dig it. 9/10
Hell yeah- what a relief from Megadeath. This is good classic rock in my book. It goes hard with some sick solos but it's not gratuitous. It pushes the edges in the right way.
I never new the story/lyrics to smoke on the water were so basic, lol. Did you read the Wikipedia entry?
Listened to it twice
It feels.....
It feels like I'm in a garbage can that's on fire and being beaten by chains and hammers in the middle of an iron ore refinery in a prison colony on a moon of Jupiter. Was that the intent?
The grunge and distortion on that guitar are grating - I'm just not that angry.
Closer is a weird song(watch the music video), but I do like it
I think you have to be in the mood to listen to NIN and I'm rarely there anymore.
Cool... That happened.
Seriously this is just melt into a couch and not return music.
I left it on in the background during my morning routine and it was pleasant but that's about as far as I go. In reading about it I learned what the "shoegaze" music genre means
Wow, so good. I didn't know this guy by name but I'll definitely look for more.
This was perfect atmosphere for physical work. It made me feel loose and care-free.
Afrofusion jazz has great rhythm and play.
Wow, mid 2000s nostalgia is rushing over me. It's like alt rock with a folk and punk undertone. (Honestly their aggressive songs remind me of the stranglers a bit!)
But they have so much range and a lot more heart than other rock bands of their time.
Great lead vocalist(s), and great use of so many instruments: all the standards plus strings and xylophone or some shit.
Each song is its own standalone great track.
The album is so easy to listen to. A great road trip album for sure.
The all-high-end guitar grunge just doesn't sit well with me. I tried without headphones and it was next to impossible. Headphones give me a better picture of the soundscape, but still....
The hardest walk, candy, enjoyable.
Feels a bit safer and more cookie cutter / polished than his younger stuff. I feel like I should be a 50 year old, retired or just chillin on the weekend barbecuing with my other upper middle class friends at the lake house.
Kinda lame. (I'm being judgey)
A nice listen. Good variety and classic folk Americana sound. I haven't listened to much Neil young on purpose.
This album helped me realize I like variety of songs but also loyalty and authenticity to a genre. (Looking at you old Springsteen bringing in Indian music for the world song...)
Album art looks like a 9th grader is learning Photoshop.
Hot house omarigirgrgrhgrshid is my jam. Also, ever since the world began.
For the 60s I feel like these guys go pretty hard. Definitely feel the 50s swing in some songs(Jeff's boogie) but again, they push the variety of sound/style. They have some that psychedelic kooky-ness as well. (Some frank Zappa vibes)
New to me.
Okay hear me out - this guy's voice reminds me of a blend of Lenny Kravitz and sting and Chris Martin(Coldplay).
It's kinda dreamy and wispy but he also pushes the rock with it.
I like the creative instrumentation(strings and horns and multiple keys) between the songs, and their unique structure(prolonged builds and rare instrument highlights/voices). It's definitely not a cookie cutter album. Lots of minor keys and I like that too(the fix -spoooooooky, needs to be in a wes anderson movie)
Meh - easy background music. Not much else for me.
Holy sappy synthesizer batman.
Yeah, a great album. Feels like a very lively alt/punk British pop rock that took a lot from the Beatles and their playfulness.
Alright - I know that song!
Yeah it's just not my band. I don't like gentle kinda underspoken poem songs.
I tried to listen twice, but it just made me angry.
For sure they have some catchy melodies on occasion, but on the whole, I never found a groove.
The instrumentation and sound 🤌 so good. Loved it. That piano solo(uncertain smile) hit me in the right spot and I loved the back half of the album. I guess I like new wave?!
But lead vocals killed me. B grade David Bowie was taking me out of it.
Hmmm christian vibing honkey tonk of the 60s. Easy going and corny. I hate it.
Lazy day- solid 50s style rock song. Just too little too late.
About time for some club dancing music. I think the secret track go west made me smile the most. Feels like a rally call for a fun gay party.
I also feel like if I did drag this music would either be a part of my warmup or actual routine.
Very nice to add in a different genre and style (as mentioned by b and e).
Back to life is the only one I knew. All the others were a bit droning for me. Those drum beats are set early and don't really change. It's much much more about the words and their play while the instrumentation just lays a base.
That being said, no real hits for me.
Have to admit it kind of just played in the background and I rocked along. I liked it but I didn't give it much more thought
Dude this makes me want to put on a white jacket and go party in Havana in the 50s. Damn. I'm picturing the whole fancy club, everybody dressed up nice and drinking cocktails while the boys in the band lay down groovin beat after groovin beat.
It's so good, for so long.
It's well balanced, its free, it drives, it plays.
The acoustic parts are lovely.
Kashmir smacks so hard. I can't imagine hearing that for the first time.
Yeah . I dig this.
Morrissey, like many Brits of this era, have this kind of grand sad moody kind of sound to me.
Sometimes others go too far in either direction, but this feels balanced.
I'm gonna dig in more.
Another great listen. I don't really know enough to critique or comment on these albums, but I love having them on while I work and will return to them for cooking and date nights
My dad showed my Zappa and the mothers of invention when I was a teenager, so I was expecting this to be way weirder.
I was pleasantly surprised!
Yeah some go too long, but others like peaches and umbrellas are really nice!
A little to disorderly and chaotic for me
Those first few moments of the album - I thought we were going to reggae land.
This was a good listen, but i got tired of the nonstop high falsetto vocal. I needed a break and a grounding that never came.
But the instrumentation was dope.
Yeah, strong high school vibes.
This Coldplay was a nice turn of the century neo soft rock to me. Chris Martin has an airy and lofty voice, and the band supports that with a sort of ethereal sound.
Scientist is soo good. I loved clocks then, but now it just feels kinda old and cheese.
Abba does not suck.
I grew up listening to Abba on road trips with the family, so they will always remind me of happy loving times.
The music is catchy and bright. The voices are unique.
And any band that has a song about kissing the teacher rules.
Tiger is kind of annoying, but I want to change it to "Tyler" and use it as my creeping song.
Dream-pop, new to me and I like it.
The album started a bit meh for me, but the mid and back end picked it up.
It reminded me of aurora mixed with the cranberries (vocals mainly) and something else I can't quite identify.
I like the kind of swooping atmospheric sounds that do give a dreamy feel.
How do you not love a band with a song "rock against ass", "don't say motherfucker, motherfucker" and " rendezvous with anus" all in a row!?
This album is perfect teenage boy rediculousness. It's high energy, in your face fun. It definitely makes me want to go get into shenanigans.
Noise and metal and scream and grunge and metal and noise and static and loud and scratch and thrash and words and metal and bang and loud and crap
New to me, never listened to George alone, but I really liked this! At times it felt like the Beatles or Paul Simon or Bob Dylan or something else altogether. Great range of songs (perhaps too many) but it was solid through out. Gonna put it on again on a long drive for sure.
So many relationship emotions.
I liked this.
Got too repetitive for ambient music
Yeah not my favorite. I always feel like there's something missing from the musicality/performance of Bowie's voice. It's like a weird British-fem-robot.
The music is solid but it never captures me and makes me want to ride along at full speed.
I really liked this. It felt like "polished" punk in that all the songs were still high energy and in your face fun, but it felt like the musicians knew what they were doing. It didn't feel like a bunch of emotional youths lashing out, but instead, seasoned artists who just wanted to live in the punk genre.
Felt like a "mature" mashup of the offspring and greenday.
Nice that it was MD, but I'm rarely in the super experimental mode.
What a nice change of pace. Tina has such a unique and impassioned voice. It's like she's constantly begging and hoping and clawing for more in so many songs.
This album makes you listen to the message, and care for the person underneath.
Started strong, got a bit toonexperimental and drawn out.
I love Willie. His classics are timeless. But also a lot of these felt the same, so I'm not in a rush to go listen again. But his reputation and impact deserve my 4
Felt like pretty happy/fun punk. I liked it.
This grew on me. These guys seem honest, juvenile at times, also very focused on tv, money, and women. But I liked it. I love the full story arc and closure at the end.
Meh. Felt like an album about nothing, just kinda sounds and random instruments.
This album resonates with me....
And I have good memories of it.
Its sillly and creative and hits hard and has variety. It doesn't feel like the hip hop that I dislike. It has a story and a message.
So many classics! I didn't know they were all on this album.
Feels like Bob Dylan crawled into a punk basement in the UK in the 80s/90s.
Easy enough listening. But yeah, feels very trans for"dark and dangerous" music.
I pictures this thriving at q and brew. Just solid manly rich for a bunch of dudes shooting pool
Okay I love this. It feels like proto-vulfpeck. They had to draw from these guys.
The amount of silky sax and moving guitar and upbeat lyrics and music. Hell yeah. I'm gonna explore more of these guys.
Great all around. I really liked that last song in addition to all the known classics
I was really into the beginning. Felt like the new wave I'm coming to realize I love. But then it got weird and cinematic/dramatic which wasn't what I needed for work mode. Maybe again in another mood
Also. Started okay. Got worse
I listened to this 100 times the year it came out. Still holds up for me. It's dramatic and theatric music without being over the top. Muse all the way.
That rod Stewart voice - soulful and a little rough - very nice, but only in small chunks for me. A whole album gets a bit "one note" style wise. But pepper in some rod Stewart to many a playlists.
I liked this more than faces.
I wanted it to be a 4, and it was close, but it didn't quite lock in for me ,
Classics all the way. Always loved the piano use in Van Halen.
A little too quirky free form for me.
I was going to say it's good background ambient music but some of the repetitive percussion gets grating
I wanted it to lock in and take me with it... But it never did. Just felt average'ish
I love how this bridges 60s styles with new rock trends. It occupies a sweet pocket that I don't think a lot of bands found -either swinging farther into each side of the spectrum.
Super solid and fun to listen to.
Wow so much variety in this one with so many classics.
However- the songs I didn't like, I really didn't like. And that's what prevents the five. Some of those just sounded so synthy and cartoony.
This album also has like 3 songs that are the base for other songs I didn't know about!!! Past time paradise?! Amazing
Well, now I know what I'll put on if I'm ever stranded in a cabin with my girlfriend and I'm trying to keep her calm and docile.
This was some gentle music.
I love there gentle voices damnit.
They take you to another place.... "The 60s" I think it's what is called. Where love and kindness are what we're all after.
Flowers never bend was new to me and it's an instant favorite. That song captures my view on life and death, albeit a simplified one.
These songs are so short and fleeting. I wonder why they chose to never draw it out? They believe in their message and no need to belabor it, I guess. So good.
Took me a while to finish, but man I loved this album.
It takes you on quite a journey with lots of different sounds beyond the 70% solid alt rock. It feels like they took orchestration and composition more serious. Especially with the length of the album. The soft and hard fighting against each other is lovely.
Corgan's voice is of course unique, and I can see how it could get old, but I dig it throughout.
Will listen again on a roady.
I can see me listening to this on a porch looking over a golden field of grain 20 years from now.
I feel like honky tonk gets a pretty cheese reputation, but this was great for me.
Dramatic, a bit spooky and weird. I would only select this for very few choice scenarios
How. Is. Every. Song. A. Classic.
10/5 stars. 'nough said.
Not my jam. A little to silly.
I get real tired of drum loops.
Nah.
I don't like one sappy man and his guitar music
Cute. But she needs a better man. That guy sounds like a jerk to her.
Love me some happy 80s pop rock.
Okay, let's talk about it.
It has this cloud of happiness that welcomes you in. Some call that cheesy and silly, too soft and whimsical. I love it because it makes me feel like I'm in a joyful montage in an 80s movie. Pure innocence and fun. It's like a version of bliss. And so what if it's not realistic, it let's me escape to a better place. And for that I love it.
I liked this more than the previous one. It felt more lively and less serious.
115th dream, lol.
Handful of classics supported by a suite of other solid songs.
Things I want to say to queen latifah after listening to this:
1. Your name is queen latifah
2. You know how to spell
3. You like to make rhymes and are good at it and people should tell you that so you don't have to as much.
I dig it.
Painter of women was my favorite.
And I was swinging a hammer when 9 lb hammer came on, so it gets bonus points.
Muddy waters - great at what he does.
Too much blues for me.
After 5 songs I just feel bummed and tired.
I feel bad giving a low score because this is purely preference, not a comment on song-writing, musicianship, or skill.
Deep purple: Let's play solos!
Me: no thanks, the standard songs are fine
Deep purple: (already 2 minutes into solo) YYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Karma chameleon, amazing of course, and it's repetitive but still pleasant. Man, that was an indicator of things to come. Some of the other songs just feel like a line on repeat. Gets a bit droning.
First half of the album just made me feel like I was watching "blade" with Wesley snipes. Then a few real nice chill tracks. Then more forgettable trancey stuff.
Live swinging music, super fun. It's fun to astral project yourself back to that club with the sites and smells and sounds.
I wonder how many people say "rumors is better"
Cause it's true.
This had some fun to it and I prefer the Stevie songs.
What am I supposed to do with tusk itself though? Listen to only that song at burning man?
Whoah. I had heard of this band, and of course recognized the classics, but I really like it.
Was it like a rock (lil country thrown in?) British mash up?
I'm confused and happy
I hate the band name.
I'm confused by the music.
But for the mood it hit me in, it worked.
I feel like this album has "lazy and carefree" performance and I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just loose and a free and a little unpolished, which makes it sexy?
Rocking, psychedelic, a bit mopey in the middle, but also weird and silly.
I liked the songs I knew... Which was surprisingly a lot. But I didn't care for the others...
I needed this today. I needed Lennon's feelings of love and anger and angst and joy.
