Immediate though on opening baseline, “God, bands fucking loved the “reggae” demo on their Casio keyboards in the 80’s.” Track one: I hate this so far. Absolute: WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING, IS THIS A JOKE?? Might have to stop listening to this one. Fuck I hate this. Perfect way: okay, I can see why this is their popular song from this album, but I don’t really love it personally. I can just recognize the hallmarks of a “good” song in it 🤷🏻‍♂️ The very next song: WHAT IS THIS BABY VOICE??? God I hated this so much. I hope I never hear it again.

I know this is a celebrated album, but I just don’t get Radiohead generally. Nothing stands out on this album that would drive me to re-listen, but there’s nothing I exactly dislike either. 6/10 Okay album; okay day.

Loved this, immediately added to my library to relisten.

Wow, “on any other day” was a shitty song before the lyric, “and my fine young son has turned out gay” registered. Oof. So far, it seems like there’s a very good reason why “message in a bottle” is the only song on this album that I’m familiar with. No Place This Time is fun — kind of surprised this isn’t a more currently well known one.

I dunno, it’s hard for me to listen to Talking Heads and not hear almost a novelty band like the b52s. I know they’re not, but David Byrne’s voice is just so crazy that it’s hard for me to get past that to connect with the music. This didn’t do much for me.

Immediate though on opening baseline, “God, bands fucking loved the “reggae” demo on their Casio keyboards in the 80’s.” Track one: I hate this so far. Absolute: WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING, IS THIS A JOKE?? Might have to stop listening to this one. Fuck I hate this. Perfect way: okay, I can see why this is their popular song from this album, but I don’t really love it personally. I can just recognize the hallmarks of a “good” song in it 🤷🏻‍♂️ The very next song: WHAT IS THIS BABY VOICE??? God I hated this so much. I hope I never hear it again.

Track one: this feels like 4 pretty good ideas for a hook mushed into one song. Track two: first familiar song I’ve heard in a few days doing this. Totally fine song, don’t feel any differently hearing it in context than any other time I’ve heard it 🤷🏻‍♂️ All in all, nothing here that compels me to revisit.

Totally fine, sounds like every other bossa nova song/album I’ve ever heard, but nothing to come back to particularly.

Idiot wind - Dylan diss track. Everything on here is great!

Fuck yeah. This album fucking rips. Not perfect songwriting from end to end, but instruments and vocals are perfect in every case. Definitely some new ones in here, good album listen.

Unremarkable 🤷🏻‍♂️

-Born in 69 is a great one -Ooh love the crunchiness of on a rope (crunchy sax??? Sick.) - drop out - great hook, added - ball lightning lyric “want some cheese with your whine?” Woof. Lyrics are definitely the weakest part of this album overall, but that lyric Fucking suuuuucks

I almost always skip La Grange and Sharp Dressed Man when it comes up on some random playlist, and that’s kind of 98% of ZZ Top songs I can name? This was fine 🤷🏻‍♂️ They’re extremely technically proficient and the production value is unreal. I respect it for sure, but this kind of blues is not something I seek out, and this doesn’t change that.

For better or for worse, if you’ve heard “Come on Eileen,” you know exactly what to expect from the other songs on this album that you haven’t heard before.

It goes without saying, but the vocals on this are just unreal. I have probably heard all of these songs before, but loved hearing them assembled together too. Also great to hear the first (I think) appearance of a Beatles cover in my 1001 review!

Hearing “chain of fools” as an opener to an album is such a confident, quiet first few seconds of an album, with straight fire for the rest of the song. Goddamn. I already know I’m going to listen to this again before getting to track two. 🤯 Had no idea she had a “People Get Ready” cover. Floored.

Pretty sure this is a new album/artist for me, loving the opening track already. This is a sampling gold mine haha. Love how musical this is, hearing samples of real instruments feels so refreshing in 2023.

The Smiths are great, just not something I seek out a ton. I think these were all new to me, Happy Birthday was hilarious (for a little while at least). All good, just not super “for me” 🤷🏻‍♂️

It sure is short!

Track #1: buckle the fuck up, this song is 23 minutes long and starts with random string plucking that starts to resolve into a pattern of some sort. Here we go. Not for me. Totally fine but no fun to be had for me. Gave that “feedback” track a solid chance but it’s the only track I skipped.

Good!

Very nice, chill background music.

I think this is fully new to me. I might be the first to notice, but there are very subtle political messages slipped in to some of these lyrics. Fine album, but obviously represents a moment and a place that I have no connection to, so its impact on me was fairly limited.

Boss.

“We’ve only just begun” is a perfectly nice song that’s been totally ruined by overuse (both sincere and in parody). God, no question why I’ve never heard this BAD cover of Help. Though this does (as always) make me wish more good bands today did covers of contemporary peers. This was such a common thing for most of the 20th century and it’s just gone now, very weird. Close to You - wow, again, death by ironic overuse of a perfectly nice song. Baby it’s you - Two Beatles covers (sort of) on one album, sheesh. Capitalizing on the breakup I guess? I’ll never fall in love again - And the second consecutive Burt Bacharach cover!! Wild.

Fine 🤷🏻‍♂️ added one or two songs to my library, but not really an album-wide draw for me. I like it, but it’s definitely early days for this kind of music.

Good! My kind of thing for background/dinner party type lists.

Louis prima fucking rules

The hits are great, the rest is fine.

Forever tied to the Rock Band start screen. Solid! I like the singles and the ones I don’t recognize too.

Very message-y in an early 2000s way, which gets a little old, hut generally good!

Sorry, skipped.

Good! The kind of spacey bullshit I like sometimes, right in line with Tame Impala. Must be a good 🍄 listen.

Oof, I dunno if I’m gonna make it through this long-ass album (which clearly is the basis for Kid Rock’s entire musical catalog, except he’s so fucking edgy bro). #4 this fucking sucks. Patience waning. Nah man, I’m out, listening to the hits as ID’d by Spotify and then I’m moving on.

Wow, guess I’ve not been paying attention and/or have only heads censored versions of the lyrics of Money for Nothing. Gross.

One of the last years you could spend half a verse of a hip hop song talking about how much you love your mother in the same song you do “shave and a haircut.”

Intense. Kind of ghoulish in retrospect, but Bowie knew what he was doing. I like it now, I bet I’ll love it in 10 years.

Gave up, totally fine but just a Stills album.

I actually really liked the first track but then it just kind of devolved into cheesy 80’s music (mediocre cheesy 80’s music to be specific).

I don’t even dislike the “sound” of this album, I’ve definitely heard and liked some of these and the band’s other songs before. In isolation, I can vibe with their songs. But a full album is very cloying for me. Sorry CHVRCHES.

I have high hopes for this being a very vibey album 🤞🏼 I was correct, a lot at once but a great part of a playlist.

Loved this, goddamn.

Meh. Not my flavor of sad music but it’s objectively pretty good.

How can you give the album that birthed a classic anything less?