Had heard Hallelujah before but lots of good songs. Really good! Performed Zeppelin, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bob Dylan, Édith Piaf, Elton John, the Smiths, Bad Brains, Leonard Cohen, Robert Johnson and Siouxsie Sioux.. Father was “Tim Buckley” who was a singer himself. 9/21/23
Not great. Simple repetitive. Maybe it was influential at the time but it’s hard to listen to somewhat now. I can feel the nostalgia maybe?
Reminds me I love grunge.
Very Classic. Awesome. Wouldn’t have found this without the list!
Very Classic. Awesome. Wouldn’t have found this without the list! Not quite my favorite but not bad
Better than I remember it being. I think I just really hate the song "Wouldn't it Be Nice"
Amazing album full of all time great rock songs.
This is a fun album. Didn't know what I was getting into. I think it's good but I also don't know that I'd play it all the time. It sounds like it could easily be someone's favorite album though.
I think it's going to be a good sign when a live album comes on this list.
Nice album, interesting listen. Many not written by him/covers that were interesting.
Wow... a 2 hour double album...
It was interesting. I can hear a lot of things in this album from Ozzy to Tom Petty. I don't know if I love it yet when I realized I'm halfway through the first album but there is a lot on it that is pretty.
The longer this album went on the worse I felt about it. My god it is long.
I think the good songs are great and the corny songs are kinda difficult for me to care about. It’s a good exemplification of what I enjoy and find annoying about the Beatles. A day in the life? Amazing. Good morning good morning?? Ehh…
Dated and every song sounds kinda just sounds like “nasty boys” but about poverty.
Really enjoyable but ends on some odd choices
I enjoyed listening to this. Easy listening
Really enjoyable. Young bjork?!
Just fantastic. I love spoonman in particular.
Expected this to be more of an easy 4 or 5 from how famous it is, but sitting down and listening to it was not easy. It honestly does not age well for me and I don't have the nostalgia outside of the couple of famous tracks.
This is exactly the kind of album I hoped to find on this website.
Great album. Love the hits. Don't love the whole thing as much.
I don't know if I can rate this higher than a 3 anyway because while its enjoyable, it's a cover album and they sound like they're trying to be Black and southern. Honestly it's good but it's hard to parse out if that's because the songs/the blues are so good. Can I Get a Witness is particularly strange sounding.
I don't know why I like Prog Rock, but this makes for good listening if you're doing something else. Entertaining but not if I'm trying to focus too hard on what they;re doing at any moment. The album flew by for me
Oof, very enjoyable. I would take this 10/10 times over the Ramones. Only my second punk album in this journey but much more my speed. 5/5
I really expected to hate this. Found the first two songs a bit bland and hard to listen to, but LIve forever felt good and I was in for the ride after that. Still not great and holds no real nostalgia for me. I don't think I'll ever think, \"Man, this calls for Oasis!\" but this was fine and not terrible. 2/5
Interesting and easy to listen to, but not my favorite.
Really interesting. Took me by surprise to hear this on this list. I had heard some of these songs before but couldn’t place them. Would probably not seek this out but I’m glad for the exposure. 3/5
It’s fun. Reminds me of no doubt somewhat as well. Not sure I’d come back
So many good songs and I’ve never gotten hugely into the Beatles so this was good exposure. Maxwell’s silver hammer and octopus garden are too annoyingly different and strange compared with the rest of this album and yea! Great songs are great.
Interesting and felt like maybe a music theory major would love this. I found it enjoyable but not something I’d return to.
Fun music. I love the exposure to this stuff. I found some of it a little bit less good overall and I think this is a compilation on Spotify? I don’t know if it links to the right place but overall decent and enjoyable. Would listen to it on a nostalgic night with a scotch
Every time I listen to this album is the best time I’ve ever listened to this album. Road tripping, coffee sipping, cold morning or hot night music. So thoroughly enjoyable. 5 songs, 44 minutes long. A small gem where nothing is too much or too little. I love it I love it I love it. My favorite Pink Floyd album.
Not my favorite. A bit slow and a bit clunky. I get the appeal and some of them were enjoyable but overall it seemed strange sad Christian music.
Felt like it has a whole lot of filler. Maybe just not for me though. 2/5
Something about this light folk and Neil’s voice just really hits me. I’ve never really listened to Neil outside of like “heart of gold”, but this hits me in a way that Tom Petty does and I find it relaxing and reassuring in a “we’re all gonna die, so relax” kind of way. 4/5?
3/5 at least for some of the high notes. maybe 4? 3.5
Really atmospheric and good album I wouldn't have found otherwise. I enjoyed this a lot.
Super enjoyable and can't believe this came out in the 60s! Really enjoyed this a lot. Prog rock forever. 4/5
I think it’s incredible the level of talent involved to improvise in this way and in those circumstance and I’m glad for the piece of history I learned. But I don’t think I’ll miss this album either.
I do not want to live in Pony Street but I found Kinder Murder much more enjoyable and This is Hell really grabbed me in the reflective feels of mortality. And Clown strike slapped me in the face. I was really ready to just grit my teeth through this album but I stand very much corrected. I even went back to Pony Street and I think I needed the lyrics in front of my face. Still I do find that the album drags a little and is a bit whimsical. I feel like if you like this album you really love Elvis Costello. I think I’m just warm on it. 3/5
Had trouble getting into and enjoying this and I kind of like bands in this sound even. 2/5
WOW! So listening to this back to back with another new wave project from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s “architecture and morality”, this album is SO MUCH BETTER. I like the smiths but I’ve never sat down and listened to an album start to finish. Johnny Marr is so good. The drums are awesome. Morrissey is so much more entertaining. I expect to like new wave perhaps BECAUSE of what I know from depeche mode and tears for fears, but I really did not like that album. This every time.
Love queen is dead, bigmouth strikes again, there is a light and it never goes out, some girls are bigger than others.
Wow who knew Joni Mitchell was so good? I have definitely been sleeping on these albums and I really enjoyed this
This was pretty enjoyable. It is almost like Bob Marley is his own genre. I found myself wondering if I liked the songs/his lyrics or if I just liked listening to his voice and vibe and guitar. I also found myself wondering if I really care!
I wasn’t expecting to like an EDM album but holy fuck, I would throw this on any time. I have never heard of this artist and do not usually like EDM too much but this is exactly my speed
Wow. Another one I’ve never given a second thought to. This really surprised me. Not something I’d have enjoyed as a youth, but damn this is flowy. It’s so jammable. This didn't feel difficult at all.
I feel better listening to this! It’s like a smooth soundtrack to my life at its coolest. I enjoy relaxing on this fall weekend morning and sipping coffee and watching the world move with this on. I get why some people don’t like jazz, but never understand why they can’t like THIS kind of jazz. Just let it wash over you and go about your morning with it on, or listen it it with a glass of your preferred alcohol/tea on a quiet night in. Beautiful.
I really thought this was gonna be an easy 5 but wow some of these songs suck. Pubic enemy is bad. Bonita Applebum? When it’s good it’s great (can I kick it, youthful expression, rhythm, push it along) but the filler songs are so repetitive and lifeless or just kind of annoying and cringy. I like the vibe overall, but at times it’s like they thought of a line and just saying it over and over with the amazing band backing them will make up for it. Really good overall but disappointed by the misses and the lowered expectations
Listening start to finish, this album was really more interesting than I remembered. There is a lot of jazzy instrumentation throughout. The speed of the songs varies a lot. The way he raps varies a lot. It's not hard to listen to and it doesn't sound like too much of one thing or another - it really just keeps it interesting song to song which surprised me. I was thinking it may be a 4/5 but I'm just going to do the 5. It's good and Kendrick deserves praise
Oh a solo album from the lead singer of the Pixies. I was wondering what this was about since I'd never heard of it! This is the kind of music I would have loved in high school and obsessed over. I don't think anything about it really blew me away but i also liked every song and found this very easy to listen to. Diverse enough and interesting flow. Really talented artist.
I liked most of the songs. They sound like classic rock and don’t really disappoint. I found some of them much better than others. I feel the way about this as how I remember classic rock when I was a kid — some bands had a good sound and nothing about it was bad but some songs were hits. It was interesting to hear some of the good to great sounds and recognize them from other places which I think speaks to the influence of this and how easily good the album is.
I figured this would be a bit on the dull side and I was not disappointed! Not as bad as I may have expected, but I guess being a sexy rockstar does get one a few album deals.
I’ve never really gotten Lenny beyond that rockstar persona. A lot of the songs are vaguely rock and funk and R&B but I’m not really wowed in any one way. He definitely had the fashion but I feel a little bit that he was channeling Prince but not achieving. It’s not devoid of talent or interesting songs, but all I can think is Lenny Kravitz waving a “make love with Lenny, not war”. This was a 2/5 until rosemary. That barfbag was enough to tick this down to a 1 for me. That and B and empty hands. This first half of the album feels one sex and the second half is poorly made Christian rock? What is happening?
I love to make fun of some of his lyrics or vocal directions to my wife, who adores Paul Simon, but this album is amazing and listening to it start to finish was really enjoyable. Peace Like a River. Everything Put Together Falls Apart. Duncan. Run That Body Down. Awesome.
I think the goofiness or strangeness (maybe just to me) of Paul Simon is still here. Armistice Day \"man i've been waiting a long time on armistice dayyyyyyy nenenenenenene\", but it's a nice song and I really enjoy the vibe of this album. 5/5
Good, not great. Not like “this album doesn’t deserve to be here”, just feels like something I don’t hate but also don’t care if I hear again. I can hear his talent in the flows but I found the album dragging on a bit. Not a ton of variation to my ear.
Really surprised at how toothless the stones are in rhyming and composition. This is the sound of the soulful blues heard through a wall. It doesn’t hit much at all. What lame rhymes. “I’m going home bome bome bome home”, “I am waiting. I am waiting. For someone one to come outside.”
Lady Jane is lame as hell. Under my thumb is creepy. “Get my on flight 505!” So exciting. This would rate lower than midsized American city blues. Thank you stones for popularizing it in Britain…
2/5 cuz paint it black.
Buffalo Stance was great and I really thought I had a 5 on my hands. It quickly drops off from there. Very Janet Jackson vibes to my unqualified ear. Maybe it’ll sound better in another 15-20 years but I doubt it. Let it be a single
Really well made album. Nice flow and every song feels well constructed. It picked up for me around captains table and streets of Kenny. I do get the feeling that this album was written for a musical that I haven’t seen before and feels like many of these songs could be in a old-timey version of Rent. Nothing wrong with it. I am surprised to see it ranked QUITE so high on all these “top 500 lists, so someone just have a soft spot in their heart for this album one never heard, but honestly I am also not surprised to see it so well received. I just don’t think I’d ever care to revisit it. It’s a very good but also feels like a little non-descript product of its time. 3/5
I like this in the same way I like Neil young, Leonard cohen, and Tom Petty. Not that he’s better than them, but he’s not the same either. I felt like his style and voice were different and unique enough in that context. He has a voice that stands out and he has enjoyable lyrics that make me think about getting older and past decisions in a way that isn’t trite. I enjoyed it but listened again to see if it was a 4 or a 5 for me and I think the whole package being what it is, nothing really smacking me as that bad, I’m going to go with a 5 — I liked all of it!
All Day. Love this music, love this era, love jazz standards sung so happily and sweetly. So satisfying and easy to listen to anytime but especially at Christmastime for some reason.
Nothing quite wrong with this and I found the album enjoyable, but it never really congealed fully for me either. Reminds me of Pink Floyd along other things in a good way, and has an interesting sound, but I also think maybe it’s a bit too far away for me.
I thought I’d like this a lot. It sounds good but I didn’t really find myself really grooving to it either. Just like “sounds like good rock”.
Rock and roll ain't noise pollution is so satisfying to hear. Hells bells. Shoot to thrill. Back in Black. You shook me all night long. Giving the dog a bone is probably the worst song on it, but they all sound like AC/DC and it doesn't really suck -- feels like more of a more sex joke song to me at this point in my life -- but I feel like this album is still a 5. The album is even tighter than I remembered from loving this as a kid.
I didn’t love it. A lot of story telling and while it wasn’t all that bad, I also found my mind wandering and it wasn’t as engaging for me
