Classic REM album I already knew. Pretty much what I expected.
Some solid classics in there. All-around good album.
A pleasant surprise. I usually don't care much for live albums, but this one had such a great sound that it really brought you back to this one supper club in 1957 Chicago. Sarah Vaughan's voice and overall performance was top notch.
A nice touch is including all the "mistakes" and improvisation done by Ms. Vaughan on Willow Weep For Me (which she apparently messed up) and How High The Moon (which she sang without knowing the words). The imperfections - and the singer just rolling with it - gives the record an authenticity you don't hear often otherwise.
It's a very funky, very 70s album. Not what I usually listen to, but nice enough to have playing in the background.
Hey, it's Bowie. And a very good David Bowie album at that. Life on Mars? is an old favourite of mine, and the whole album holds up very well.
A nice enough album, makes for great background music when working or having a dinner party. Not particularly memorable if you're not a jazz fan.
It's mostly forgettable 80s pop, really. It's not, like, terrible, but not especially interesting either.
Great album, nice bluesy sound all around. "Layla" is the song that this album is most remembered by and is an old favourite of mine, but the whole album is very enjoyable.
I had heard _of_ Patti Smith, but never really took the time to time to hear Patti Smith herself. I just did, and I certainly do not regret it. While I'm not sure I would caracterize "Horses" as "punk", although I can see how it would influence the genre later on, it's still a solid album, one I wouldn't mind returning to.
Good enough album from some of the pioneers of electronic music. Good to put in the background.
A fine album. Like A Rolling Stone was an old favourite of mine, but the rest of the album is also great. A Bob Dylan in fine form.
A nice smooth album to listen to on a quiet night.
Very enjoyable. Something quiet to carry you along you day.
A precursor to Lofi Girl, in a way. Chill music to work or relax to.
I'm not a big country fan, but that one album was smooth and, all in all, rather nice to listen to. I can see how country fans would hold Nelson in such high regards.
Decent album, songs that are nice to listen to. Not super memorable, but not bad either.
This is an album filled with songs that would have been right at home on an early Beatles album, coming as it did from the same era. The early albums of the Beatles are not my favourite, so it wasn't a surprise that this album by the Byrds wouldn't be one of my favourites either.
All in all, still decent, but the Byrds' later output might prove more interesting.
Fuck yeah, The Bends.
I'm more of a playlist kind of guy, and I don't listen to a lot of albums from start to finish, but "The Bends" is one of them. A true classic.
Classic crooner-style album by a man who embodies the genre. Not my favourite style of music, but decent enough to listen to nonetheless.
Another case of "good album in a genre I'm not usually interested in".
An original album by Bowie who releases something in more of an ambient music style. Not my favourite album by Bowie, but a nice background sound while working or doing something else.
This is a great album, really. I'm told that PJ Harvey modified her sound a bit on that album to make it more melodic than what she usually makes, and I'll have to take their word for it, but if that's something new she was trying, I hope she kept it up on her future albums.
A good album, but I wouldn't rate it as one of Bowie's most iconic. The most noteworthy part about it is the cover, which is essentially the cover of "Heroes" with "Heroes" crossed out and a white square with "The Next Day" written on it stuck over Bowie's face.
For a musical genre I do not usually listen to, I rather liked that album. Heartfelt lyrics and a realistic, yet hopeful worldview.
I don't often listen to hip hop, and the brilliance of many of the genre's artists is often lost on me. But this album? I don't know if it's the way the songs are presented, if it's the samurai movie theme or what, but for some reason I actually really liked that one.
Hey, it's the Beatles. Not quite the brilliance of, say Abbey Road, but still a solid album.
I love Janie's Got a Gun. Otherwise, the rest of the album is good late-80s hard rock, but it didn't necessarily grip me aside from the one song I already knew and liked.
It was just a good album. Quite enjoyable. "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" (the song, not to be confused with the album or the band) is a great final song to close the album.
"Common People" has been a favourite of mine for years, but I never listened to the rest of the album, and I liked the overall vibe it had. I'm happy that "Different Class" isn't one of those albums with one or two great songs alongside boring or otherwise unremarkable songs, the rest of the album is genuinely good.
Pure Hendrix. Fun album to listen to.
Decent electronic music. Nice to have in the background.
"Don't you want me" is a well-known song, and a few other hit songs (like "Human") keeps The Human League from being considered a one-hit wonder on its back, but the rest of the album, to me, sounded like competent but fairly generic 80s electronic pop. Granted, coming as it did at the beginning of the decade, Dare may well have helped codify the genre, but otherwise nothing in the other songs popped to me - which isn't to say it was bad, however.
Ah, fuck it, lots of energy on this one, this gets a 4.
Not too bad. Some decent early 60s songs.
Enjoyable. It had a good rhythm.
Some good stuff in there. Always liked "All My Friends", and "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" is a nice way to close out the album. Rather enjoyable, all in all.
Very good album. It didn't feature a lot of Queen's most famous songs or my personal favourites, but overall the album is solid throughout. Would deserve a 4.5.
Haunting. This is Nick Cave's eulogy to his deceased son, and you can really feel the pain throughout. An heavy album to listen to, but a very good, very emotional one.
I really liked that one, nearly gave it a 5. There's a variety of songs on it that appeal to me in various ways.
Really grew on me. Got a distinct, fun sound throughout.
I didn't feel it was, well, special, but it was enjoyable.
Apple Music didn't have Vento de Maio, so I instead listened to an album called "Elis" that included the same songs, except for 1.
It was OK.
I had to turn to YouTube because Apple Music didn't have this album... which is a shame, because it was great. The Monks are credited with paving the way for punk rock in the long run, but really, it's just a good album, full of 60s-style energy.
Brown Sugar and Wild Horses are classic, and the album is overall good, but for an album with a reputation of being among the Stones' best, I wasn't blown away or anything.
Decent album. Pretty much what I expected from the Smiths.
An intriguing album, creating a fascinating mood throughout. Rather liked it.
Good enough jazz. Some good easy listening.
Not quite sure why that album made the list of 1001 albums I needed to hear before I die, honestly. Nothing against The Who, I'm looking forward to listening to their other albums on this list, and I'm sure going to one of their shows in their heyday must have been a great experience, but listening to this 53 years after the concert, this is pretty much an ordinary live album, featuring the usual selection of songs I could hear a much better version of on their studio albums.
I'm sure there is some historical context explaining why this live album was important at the time, but as it stands now, it wasn't particularly interesting to listen to.
"More Than A Feeling" is a banger. The rest of the album is OK, if a little forgettable.
Pretty good album. Ray was certainly a great artist.
The random album generator gave me two Who album in 4 days, and, unfortunately, the first one it gave me was "Live at Leeds", which I unfortunately felt was an unremarkable live album. I thought at the time that I was looking forward to listen to a proper Who album, but I was still rather unmotivated to listen to yet another Who album when I saw "Tommy" pop up three days later.
Thankfully, Tommy was way better. It's an ambitious concept album, and while I heard some people consider it to be a bit pretentious nowadays, it was still a quite enjoyable experience. This album does a way better job showcasing why the Who is held in such high regards.
Teenaged me would have been mystified, maybe even a bit angry, at seeing an album by Mariah Carey, of all people, in a list of albums I needed to listen to before I die. Decades later, though, older me went in decided to give Ms. Carey a chance. After all, now that I'm no longer stuck listening to "Honey" over and over again on the radio like when it first came out, maybe I might be able to find something interesting in that album. The whole point of this list is to listen to different music, after all.
But... well, it simply just weren't very interesting. I appreciate Mariah going for a more subdued vocal style compared to her early albums where she pushed her voice to the limit, but the end result is something that aims for a dreamy vibe but really is just a bunch of songs that sort of all blend into the other and create a rather tedious background noise. I mostly found it boring.
A case of an album that is in a genre that I do not usually enjoy, but is quite good within that genre. I don't usually set out to listen to hip hop, but if I had to pick one to listen to, this album would certainly be a good choice.
Second album I listen to from PJ Harvey, and for the second time I thoroughly enjoyed it. I should probably listen to more of her albums even once I'm done with those suggested here.
Not sure what was special about this live album as opposed to any other from Brel's discography, but it was a fine enough album by one of the greats of la chanson française.
Enjoyable album, from some of the founders of Prog Rock.
