The instruments sound great. The background effects and instruments sound great. The vocals and lyrics are blahhhh. It's a very forgettable album that I feel like could have been so much more with better vocals.
I've never really been one to love Billy Joel. Apparently his career is a bit tainted by his works in the 80s, which don't feel nearly as good as this album. I think this album has changed my mind on Billy a good bit. It's great, front to back. Lyrically, musically, pacing, it's a near-masterpiece. An easy listen with a decent variety, this album really proves that Billy Joel deserves the respect and fame that he has earned.
Sarah’s voice. The musical vibe front to back. The live setting ambiance. A surprising masterpiece.
It’s a good album front to back. I don’t find myself enjoying every track as much as Abbey Road, but I don’t find Sgt Pepper’s annoying as I do with Magical Mystery Tour, which leads to a conclusion of 4 stars.
This is like if a guy who does David Bowie covers decided to release an album but didn’t want to drop the Bowie impersonation. It’s not unbearable, it just doesn’t hit me as something special by any means.
I thought I'd enjoy this album like I do with Marvin's earlier works. This one just comes off as whiny and I couldn't really get on board. Nothing that had me wanting to hit skip, but nothing that would have me coming back.
This was far more interesting than I anticipated it would be. I enjoyed the back half of the album a bit more than the front. Not a disappointment, but nothing that seemed exceptionally special.
This album just keeps cranking good song after good song
The album is fine. It seems like not a lot of original material, but that's ok. I don't think I'd listen again, but I wouldn't be opposed.
It's ok
I was in love with this album as a 14-year-old. 20 years later, it still holds up.
It just feels so blah. Nothing special going on here. Won’t revisit. Not unlistenable.
Its a solid one for sure. Not my absolute favorite Stevie album, but not a disappointing one by any means.
Not my style, but it's a good album. I can see this being put on as background music in the kitchen. The album just feels good and relaxing. Definitely seems more mature than Elvis' earlier material.
ADHD music. Fine for blasting through work with a huge caffeine buzz. I don't think I would sit down and actively listen to this album.
It's a cool album. Very much sounds exactly from the era it's from.
Has some strong spots, and some that I wasn’t huge on. Not a major disappointment.
It's actually a pretty good album. I just can't get over how this jackwagon dances around on stage in front of the mic. The whole album plays while I imagine him flailing his arms around and knocking his knees together. I don't want to like the album for this reason. But I also can't get over the fact that this album just feels fun.
It’s fine. It’s not her later or live stuff, which is phenomenal. I think it’s higher than 3 stars, but 4 feels like too much.
Ugh. Felt like a slog
It’s 70s punk. Nothing really stood out, nothing really revolting
This gives me sort of Social Distortion vibes, but I can’t get along with it. It feels like this is your buddy’s sister’s band in high school and everyone is just going to see them because they’re hot. It’s not really objectively bad on any level, I’m just not really moved by it in any way.
Great album. Feels like you could listen to it in front of your fireplace on a rainy day.
It’s ok. I have a large respect for the police but can never vibe with any of their albums
I can't do multiple days in a row of the Police. Please make it stop. It's a fine album, I'm just not on-board.
It’s fine. Nothing revolutionary, nothing repulsive.
Makes me want to drive around Miami at night in a C4 corvette wearing a white suit.
It's a totally fine album. Very much sounds like it could be a Beatles album from the same year. Would I revisit it? Probably not. But that's not to say it's not a decent album with any songs that I would skip.
What an album to get on a Monday morning. I’ve always loved it and was happy to blast it.
Somebody reviewed said: "If my anxiety had a soundtrack it would be this album", and I don't think there's anything else that I would add. Perfect summary.
It's a good album to bop around to. I struggle to give it a 4 since there's hardly anything memorable on the album. I can see this playing in the background really anywhere and not disturbing the vibe. 3 feels low. I really wish this was out of 10 since a 7/10 feels just about right.
It's bad. It's the type of album some snooty music critic would tell you that you just don't understand why it's perfect. The vocals are rough, the musicianship is rough, the mix is rough.
A masterpiece that shows what variety Queen could produce. I enjoy Jazz and The Works more, but album is no slouch.
It’s good, it’s interesting, I’ve got no real complaints. Not one that I would have gave a listen without it popping out of this list.
This is a cool album. Definitely worth a revisit when the vibe is needed.
If you go into this expecting the Beatles, you’re going to come out disappointed. It’s very laid back, however. It seems like some of the material could have used some polishing before recording, but that’s also part of the charm.
It feels like an album full of ideas that just weren't fleshed out. The mix feels muddy at times. The bass player absolutely carries the album, but that only goes so far. I thought this was going to be a promising one when the 1st song was playing, but there's a lot of nothing going on in this album.
A classic. Not quite masterpiece Michael, but finally feels out of the Jackson 5 era.
An album that I never thought to listen to because I figured Seven Nation Army was the one trick this pony could pull. I was wrong. It's a cool album that definitely shows their influences in 70s rock and blues. I can also see the influence of the White Stripes in bands from later on in the 2000s. Very cool.
This album is weird. But it’s also cool. It’s like a 3.5 - no real complaints. I don’t think I’ll revisit, but I probably wouldn’t mind if I had to.
It’s good. It’s fine. It’s nostalgic.
This sounds like it could’ve came out of some noodling and recording in a garage. Nothing spectacular here that I’ve found.
Cool and Jazzy. Not unpleasant. Would willingly revisit. No wow moments, but nothing that needed to be skipped. The recording sounds great for being 65 years ago.
Wow. There are much more interesting albums on this list by a long shot from this same era. I thought this one would be more captivating, but I was wrong. I would much rather listen to Neil from Deja Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, 1970) than this one.
RAaa hramba uuooh rahaha rata. It's Korn. It sounds like Korn. They have 1 sound. What did you expect?
It's a CCR album. They've got that swamp rock sound that we all expect and enjoy. I like Cosmo's Factory more, but this one has no skips.
It’s a lovely album with a lot of singing that feels like spoken word. It’s interesting and feels intimate. I was surprised to like it.
No
This is like a 3.5 star album. I wish there was some sort of theme/style similarity throughout the album, but there just isn't. The random stye jumps are interesting and make for an album that doesn't have any skips, but there's no real cohesiveness that would have me coming back regularly. Not a disappointing one, just felt random. Like if I had ADHD and decided to just create a random playlist.
Pure rock and roll babyyyyy
It’s fine for post-punk, which still isn’t my jam. I could turn this one on and let it roll without complaints. The Cutter is cool. Ripeness had me bopping around.
Surprisingly good. Not sure why she isn’t a household name.
I’d never listened to this one end to end. I love a few of them. It’s good through and through.
It’s a great album. There are definitely a few in here that I could stand without. I prefer Goodbye Yellow Brick Road a bit more. 3.5/5
Sounds like every solo 80s album I can imagine.
Yea...it's an influential album. The sound quality is bad, but lets excuse that due to the era it was recorded in. The album is not specifically bad, but it's not anything I'd go back to. Very much what you'd expect from 50s-60s rock and roll when it comes to instrumentation, lyrics, and vocal style.
Wow. What an unexpected surprise from this one. Chill throughout. The synths are cool, the vocals are perfect for the ambiance this album creates. Oompah Radar is the only one on this album that felt out of place. Why the upbeat carnival song thrown in? It could have easily been taken off the track listing and the album would be better for it.
The album where Queen started to find their stride and sound. This one is fun and has a large variety of styles (much like the later Queen albums), but still has some of the proggy stylings of Queen and Queen II. No skippers, cool album.
The album is good, nothing really stood out to me. Bowie has always existed in my head with a fair bit of weirdness around him, and this album definitely delivers on weirdness. Nothing horrific going on, nothing worth skipping.
2 Bowie albums in a row? Once again, Bowie confirms to me that he’s a weird guy who makes weird music. This album has no skips, but I preferred Station to Station to this one.
She has an amazing voice. This album is littered with hits, but it's way more of a pop album than I wanted (I don't know why I expected otherwise). I guess I was hoping for soul? A 3 feels too low, but I don't think this is quite a 4? I guess that will do, though.
What makes this album suck? A lot that I don't want to revisit in my mind. I don't know where and to whom this was influential, but it's not here and it's not to me.
Solid album from Metallica. I think Ride the Lightning edges this one out, but it's certainly an absolute classic.
It's dark. It's interesting. There's not a massive breadth of variety here, but somehow, I enjoyed it. I thought this was going to be a slog. I'm acquainted with Depeche Mode and can recognize their sound easily, but a look at the track listing revealed no songs I knew. I'm surprised how cohesive this album feels. Very cool.
A classic country album with Dolly's sweet earlier voice. A real gem that I hadn't heard before. Despite having no smash hits on it, there's no disappointments. Will revisit and explore more of her earlier catalog.
The instruments sound great. The background effects and instruments sound great. The vocals and lyrics are blahhhh. It's a very forgettable album that I feel like could have been so much more with better vocals.
Here's a band that I've always known about but never listened to. This album is pretty cool. The guitars are great and loud. You can definitely hear see their influence all across the popular rock music of the 90s, especially grunge. I wish this album had stronger vocals, which would have made it nearly perfect. 4/5
It’s an ok album. There’s nothing horrible on it. Some songs feel intimate, others feel like they don’t fit the album.
It's cool. It's fun. Nothing really stood out, but nothing was repulsive. Felt like a decent pop album with a bunch of upbeat rock elements.
Solid hip hop album. You can definitely feel the 90s influence on this. It flows well and has a great feel to it. I was pleasantly surprised on this one. The album reminds me of the Black Eyed Peas album Behind the Front (1998 - pre Fergie).
Musically, this is a fine country album with no complaints. Lyrically, it leaves a bit to be desired. Dwight needs to let this chick leave him and let her be. It's ok to be sad, but he's a little extra here.
One minute into the first track and I knew this one was going to be a slog to get through. Boy was I right. The mix is ridiculously muddy and the songs go on and on and on and on with nothing happening. I really hope my friends and I's band wasn't this rough to listen to in 2007, but it might be the case. This one gets 2 stars because, despite being rough to get through, I save 1 star reviews for ones that I laugh at and say "how the hell did this one make the list?".
The music itself is good. But 2 hours?????? That's enough time to make the best album of all time a total slog to get through. Let's get some variety in there. I just don't understand why this needed to be so long. Self-indulgence? I'm not sure, but I'm not about it. 2 stars because this length is torture. If this album was trimmed down to even 1 hour, I could easily see a 3-4 star.
An album that I'd forgotten how much I loved. The heaviness of both the instruments and the lyrics complement each other, along with Jerry and Layne's instantly recognizable harmonies making for a phenomenal album, front to back. Yea, the subject matter being heavily on drugs and the likes really points to what would be to come, but the emotion really comes out on this one. Is Facelift a better album? Maybe, but in my mind, it's close, with both being very different. We all know Jar of Flies is the true masterpiece.
The songs and songwriting are very good. But we’ve had his voice drilled into our collective conscious by Disney, which has probably done Randy’s catalog a disservice. I enjoyed this once I could separate my brain from Toy Story.
It's a bland reggae album where one song is nearly indistinguishable from the next. It's not bad. It's just not actually good.
Wowwwww this one is not good at all. The vocals are bad, the sound is bad, the whole album is bad. It's like if your friends got together to make some music but forgot to learn how to play any songs together and are also drunk.
It's a very sweet-sounding album. Easily palatable. Nothing jumping out as extreme or risky. You could easily have this one on in the background for pretty much anything casual. Guests over? Check. Working in the office? Check. TJ Maxx? Check. Norah's voice is beautiful from front to back on this one and accompanies the instruments perfectly. I think it would just be dishonest to not admit that this is a good album, despite it not being edgy or progressive. I can see why she won multiple grammy's from this.
As somebody who thought they were familiar with The Who, I've realized that I'm familiar with their later material. Despite the title track not sounding like the rest, the majority of the album fits right in with the music of this era. A sort of bridge from the 50s rock and roll/blues into the rock of the 70s. While this album isn't bad, nothing really stands out and it could be any other album from this era, without noticing a difference. It's hard to imagine how music changed so fast in this era. Jimi's Are You Experienced was only released 2 years after this, and Zeppelin I was 4 years after this. What a huge change in popular music.
Not much to hate. Just sounds like a bunch of guys having a fun time playing music together. I can get with that. They don't sound an awful lot like anybody else, which is good. Just some guys vibing. I don't really know who they influenced, but these guys are fine.
Salsa is not typically a genre that I listen to, for no other reason than I didn't grow up in a home that had cultural ties to the music. I've always appreciated it, but it means nothing to me. This is a good album. It sounds great, front to back, especially considering the age of it. I wouldn't be able to differentiate this album from any modern salsa album, which probably speaks volumes for the quality and stylism of Siembra.
Great Album. I always forget about Radiohead because their later material is stuff that I couldn't care less about leaving alone. The Bends and OK Computer are total masterpieces. The guitars sound good, the songwriting is good, the vocals are good. It's got sad songs, it's got rockin' songs. It's got it all.
This album screams 90s hip hop. The samples. The lyrics. It’s all there. It’s all what you’d expect. It’s not a bad listen, but certainly one that I wouldn’t’ve found on my own.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Neil Young just doesn’t do anything for me. I don’t like whiny vocal tone. I don’t like the real lack of variety here. I really felt nearly no emotion while listening to this. I want to get it, but I just don’t. I would way rather listen to Willie Nelson or Gordon Lightfoot, which are constant favorites.
It's a little on the lighter side than "Hair Metal", but it's a fine album. What more would you expect by the cover art? Motley Crue mixed with David Bowie? You wish.
This album screams 90s alt rock, but there's nothing that stands out here. It sounds like it's a mix mosh of every major 90s alt rock band, which makes it sound like nothing. Maybe this was first and every other band that I'm thinking about from the later 90s derived themselves from some aspect of this sound, but it makes this album non-memorable to me. It sounds cool, but I'd rather listen to every other band that does something memorable. Plus, the lyrics are always repeated. Why?
I've never listened to Oasis and completely wrote them off from hearing Wonderwall about 650 times each year. I was wrong, at least on this album. It's a great one. Oasis definitely deserve their love.
Nice album. Has its differences from what you'd initially bring to mind when you hear the word "jazz", but not in a bad way. No bad ones here. Each song brings its own different vibe and the album just rolls along.
I've found that I like Radiohead's earlier records much more. This one is still good and can have its place, but their older stuff just feels better to me.
While it's not horrible in my eyes like a lot of the punk records that I've gotten on here, it's not one that I'd revisit. It seems like these guys actually care about playing cohesively with each other and tried their best. This album doesn't feel sloppy, and they should get credit for that. I didn't have a moment where I felt like I was listening to this just to get to the end. Good job boys.
It's easy to see Elvis' influence on artists of the following decade. This album is fine 70 years later, especially seeing how this sound evolved. You can clearly see the collision of country and r&b influences here. It sounds great for the era; despite what we know about these being rips of artists that I might agree are better in their own respects.
I feel like this is Arctic Monkeys time traveling to the early 70s and somehow they picked up the rhythm section from Mumford and Sons for a few songs. Interesting. Not my jam, but I know people who would love this.
This album is so much better than the first Elvis record from the same era. I could listen to this and bop it around. Little Richard really had some soul coming out of his voice.
I've always been relatively familiar with this album, but have never listened to it in its entirety. I opened it up on Spotify and thought that I must have opened some sort of re-release with additional material. Nope. This is a double album. Nearly 2 hours long. I thought that my previous enjoyment of some of the material on this album was now going to be scarred by having to dredge through this lengthy monstrosity. Boy was I wrong. What a masterpiece and a joy to listen to. I can finally see the entire appeal of this. Such a beautiful album, front to back.
This album is like if somebody had never heard of Talking Heads, but was described them and then forced to recreate it. Maybe I'm just not getting it, or maybe it's just not that good. I really don't enjoy Talking Heads much either, but they're at least tolerable.
The songs here are an easy listen and aren't too long where you're waiting for the end. I don't really have any complaints, despite not expecting to want to revisit this one. The verdict: - This album is good (3 stars) - Ryan Adams is not (-1 star)
The album is nice sounding. Very casual, very chill. But it's very slow. Very very slow. I can't stop realizing how slow these songs are. They would be perfect for just sitting around with nothing at all to do. The vocalist's wispy voice fits the aesthetic of this album perfectly. This album deserves 4 stars, but the speed of every song knocks it down 1.
Very 90s singer/songwriter sounding. You could pick out the influences from the bands of the same era, with the same vocal styles, and the same instrument styles. The album is fine, but doesn't tickle me in any way.
I didn’t think I was going to enjoy this album. The vocals aren’t amazing, but as a whole, it felt like a really good album. It still isn’t my style, but at no point was I checking to see when it would end.
This one is really a masterpiece. In my mind, it’s always overshadowed by Dark Side of the Moon, but in all reality, they’re both amazing.
A very forgettable album that I probably couldn't hum a single melody from. It sounds good, there's nothing that puts me off, but there's just nothing special here. Maybe the guitar and bass playing was a bit progressive for the year? There were some nice licks and bass lines throughout, but also a lot of uninspiring nothingness.
Well...here it is. I was assigned the Oasis album Definitely Maybe a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised, especially after writing them off for years based on hearing Wonderwall a billion times. Well, here's the Wonderwall album that I dreaded. I expected whiny Liam the whole album, which isn't at all what I got here. What a great album with a nice variety. Oasis has definitely been growing on me. I may even have to take a deep dive into their catalog.
Ya know, I've done nearly 350 of these albums now and every time I get fed a punk album it's absolutely horrible. This one was awesome. I loved the rawness of it. It was just well done. Played well, sung well. It was angry, but didn't feel angsty. Definitely one to revisit.
Cool album. Kind of feels like a mediator between 80s and 90s rock style. I could give this one a few more listens.
I've never listened to this album in its entirety, despite Mr Brightside being an absolute classic at this point. It did not disappoint.
I've loved this album for probably 2 decades now. 2112 by itself is a masterpiece. Side 2 doesn't capture me as much, but I still enjoy the heck out of it.
I usually like metal, but this just didn't do it for me. I'm not sure what it was, but this ain't it.
I love David Lee Roth era Van Halen so much better than Sammy Hagar era, despite the Hagar era pushing them to new heights. To me, David Lee Roth just sounds like Van Halen. This album just does it for me. Great guitars, DLR's screams. I just eat it up. I like 1984 more than this album, but I can't deny how good this first release was.
Ugh. Another Neil Young whiny slog fest. He's so divisive. I know people who absolutely love Neil Young by himself, in Crazy Horse, in Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Every time, I give him a chance and just don't get on with it. It always strikes me as slow and whiny. I get it, the political commentary is good, but the music just sucks to me. I didn’t hate it, so that’s plus one.
Wandering and wandering this felt like. Searching for a melody, searching for a hook. It’s beautiful sounding, but wasn’t incredible to me.
The recording quality sounds good. The whole vibe of the album really reminds me of 70s singer/songwriter/folk types. Nothing really grabbed me, but it was a pretty decent album. I wanted it to end just because I wanted to listen to something more interesting.
I'm less than a minute into the first song and I hear a strong slowdown of the tempo as he goes into the chorus. I'm immediately interested. This is a great album, well written, and good sounding. John Prine is lyrically great on this album. The storytelling is good. This is an album that I'll easily revisit. Easy 5 stars from me on this one, I couldn't want more. I'll need to do a dive on John Prine. I'm hoping he doesn't have the same 1st album syndrome as many others, where their initial release is amazing (presumably because they've had years to sharpen those sets of songs), but their subsequent releases are lackluster (presumably due to time demands of their new record deals).
This is the exact sound I expect from Depeche Mode. They always feel, to me, like a one trick pony, with really one style and sound. But it’s good.
I've never really been one to love Billy Joel. Apparently his career is a bit tainted by his works in the 80s, which don't feel nearly as good as this album. I think this album has changed my mind on Billy a good bit. It's great, front to back. Lyrically, musically, pacing, it's a near-masterpiece. An easy listen with a decent variety, this album really proves that Billy Joel deserves the respect and fame that he has earned.
Usually, double albums are a total drag and just serve as an ego trip for the artist. That's not the case at all here. Speakerboxxx and The Love Below are two different albums that, somehow, go together rather well. Big Boi really kills it on Speakerboxxx with his more southern rap style. Andre 3000 answers back with a more pop/funk oriented second half. Neither album needs any skips. A match made in heaven.
I can’t understand it, but it’s a cool sound. I don’t know how this is relevant to Senegal, but I hope they like it over there.
This album feels like a bunch of kids trying to be edgy. At the age of 13, my friends and I started playing instruments and got really into Nirvana. We ran high gain, chorus pedals, flangers, and the like. We sucked and sounded just like this album. I guess we were too late to make it big by being bad.
As a kid, I knew a handful of Stones hits and a handful of Beatles hits. I always would say that I preferred the Stones, since their hits always seems a bit harder and edgier than Beatles hits. As a young adult, I did a deep dive into the Beatles and came out the other end absolutely floored. I've recently done a dive on the Stones and there's a lot of forgettable fluff in between a handful of hits. This album is no different. Yea, I can tell it's the Stones by their sound, which is good for something, but there's just not much that I can see as great going on here. Very middle of the road album.
This is cool and it makes me feel cool when I listen to it.
Amazing voice with great control. But somehow this fails to make me really feel any emotion. It's like a soundtrack to a bad 80s romance movie. I can't really describe how it feels. Sterile? Uptight? Over produced? Probably would be better as a live album where they could allow the musicians and Anita loosen up.
I started out excited. This seemed like it was gonna be a 90s British, grungy, combination. My excitement faded when I started feeling like the songs got really repetitive. I think it's the same riffs over and over and over and over. Yea, it's pretty cool, but I don't think I'd be excited for another ash album.
The songs are fun and interesting. Lyrically, I have no idea, but the melodies don't detract from the song, so I can only imagine that the lyrics would have to be totally abysmal to make the tunes less enjoyable.
Well... this just confirmed what I've always suspected. I often confuse Dusty Springfield and Buffalo Springfield. Instead of getting Neil Young and the boys (who I'm not a massive fan of, who I thought I was getting), I got a British lady singing covers in the style of the 1950s. It's a fine sounding album, but not groundbreaking.
I get the cultural subsidence, but Patti has just never been my style.
I have a friend that I once asked, "If you had to listen to one artist for the rest of your life, who would it be?". His answer was Radiohead. I've asked people this in the past when I want some random artist to do a deep dive on. Radiohead is a band that I had known about, but never really dug into prior. OK Computer and The Bends turned out to be absolute gems, with the rest of the earlier discography not disappointing at all. Great album, great group.
The title track is great. It's downhill from there. Still a good album, but I was very hyped for what was to come when I heard it start with Let's Stay Together.
Here's one that I'm sure is polarizing. It's polarizing in my own head. I'm kind-of weirded out by this one, but on the other hand, it's pretty cool sounding. It can be aggressive and groovy at the same time. Neat album. I don't think I'd be looking to revisit, but I'm not disappointed at it by any means.
Being from NJ, where Bruce is a living legend, I've heard Springsteen songs forever. However, I've never enjoyed Bruce's singing. I feel like he just doesn't try and tries too hard all at the same time. This is a good album, through and through. It's cohesive, ramps up, and has variety. I'm glad to give it a listen. For me, this album would be an easy 5/5 rock n roll album if I could really vibe with the vocals. It's still really good.
It's a good album, not exactly one of Bowie's greatest. I think there's just too much Bowie on this list. I mean, c'mon. This album AND Blackstar?
Very middle of the road British 90s alt. Nothing offensive here. Nothing really innovative. It's just pretty plain.
This album is cool because it's different. But it makes me feel sleepy. I could definitely see myself listening to this on a rainy day, looking out the car window, just vibing and being melancholy. Will I come back to this one? Maybe? Probably not? Am I disappointed that I gave this a listen? Nah.
Standard 70s rock. Can't Get Enough is a real strong start to an otherwise decent album. Plus, it takes some serious ego to have a song called Bad Company, on the album Bad Company, when your bands name is Bad Company.
This album really does it for me. It just feels cool and carefree. Maybe a little snarky. Idk. I've always dug the sound of this album, and it doesn't disappoint whenever I go back to it.
Real tight early 90s hardcore hip hop album. Really holds its own 30 years later.
Various emotions come out on this album, without any words being spoken. Masterfully played and put together. Easy listen.
This would be a cool space video game soundtrack. Other than that, I was relatively bored with this album. It's cool sounding, but not much else to me. It gets a bonus point for being released as early as it was. This album could be made by some hobbyist today on a 10 year old laptop, but doing this in 1976 is pretty cool.
Eh. It's not for me. I guess it's just having grown up on Toy Story, but this just doesn't feel right to my mind. I'm going to give it 3 stars because I'm sure it's not actually as rough as I felt it was, but just my ear wanting to hear "You've got a friend in me" when I hear Randy's voice.
This is the 7th Neil Young album that this list has fed me, which includes 1 from Buffalo Springfield, 1 from Young & Crazy Horse, and 1 from Crosby Stills Nash & Young. This is the first Neil Young solo album that I could tolerate. It's actually good. I don't know what's different about it, but I can rock this one.
I've always enjoyed Johnny Cash, but this album is just another level. It's live, so the recording isn't amazing, but the rawness of it just shines. Extremely good. Great songwriting. The album is 45 minutes, but has 16 songs, so it doesn't feel like anything drags on.
I didn't want to like this album because it was absurdly British from the first word that was spoken. But I got to vibing with it and really enjoyed it.
I always enjoy the early 90s hip hop style. The delivery, the beats, it just feels raw and right. This album is fine, but the endless profanity just feels really excessive. I'm fine with dropping bombs here and there, but c'mon, this is a bit much. A bit much to the point where I felt like I had to turn the sound down.
I used to adore this album. Now, I still find it good and funky, but the length is too much, and the overt sexual themes got old. Maybe I'm just getting old.
I'd never heard of Nick Drake before this album, and I'm a bit bummed that I hadn't. This a really good album. It's not long, the songs are great sounding. Definitely worth a revisit.
OOF! Curtis starts off laying it on THICK and then just keeps giving on this album. Lyrically good, sonically great, this album is fantastic.
It's cool, I guess. But this one got old and kept going. Maybe it could've been cut down to half the length.
Middle of the road British pop rock. Would give it a 2 but I recognized 1 song on this album that I enjoy.
Beep boop goes the 70s space music. I would have enjoyed this one if each song was half the length.
I was assigned this album on a Friday. I'm not set up for weekend albums because I typically have too much going on, which usually means the Friday album gets a few spins, and maybe more attention than the ones from the rest of the week. I knew a guy in around 2009-2010, who was obsessed with Muse, and I never gave them a chance, so I figured that I owed this one to Cody to go more in depth. My first time through, I really enjoyed. The music was spacy, synthy, heavy, soft, all sorts of things. It's a cool album. Muse was definitely doing their own thing with this one. I was prepared to give this album 4 stars, but then I listened to it again. On the second time through, I couldn't stop thinking that this guy must have been obsessed with Radiohead, because I can hear A LOT of Radiohead influence in this album. Not a bad thing, not a bad album, but kinda ruined the magic for me.
I guess this is a cool album. Or I'm atleast supposed to think it's cool. The problem is this: Fleetwood Mac made Rumors a few years before this. That album is so good, that they should have just hung it up.