Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, When You Were Mine, Time After Time, She Bop, All Through the Night in a row really did it for me, especially the last two, and I adored I Kiss You and Yeah Yeah. Considering I just listed most of the album, very successful first time listen and super fun to really listen to the songs that largely existed as boppy background music for much of my life. Really freakin good 80’s pop if not necessarily my go-to when it comes to repeat listening.
super super love the female rock band vibes of it all. fun & easy listening, but I keep finding myself wishing for more energy. perfect album cover. fav of the bunch: tonite, this town, our lips are sealed
what’s your name? who’s your daddy? 🌟
god I really love the name the zombies. favs of the bunch: time of the season, this will be our year, changes
this album turned my morning walk into an entirely different experience and confirmed my once largely theoretical love for jazz.
watched a video of rufus jones on the drums for whirly-bird too and holy shit!!
favs of the bunch: the kid from red bank, midnite blue, double-oh
unhinged, atmospheric, funny. a guy and a band that are unabashedly themselves.
favs of the bunch: i zimbra, mind, animals
hypnotizing, political. long songs that somehow never outstayed their welcome
fav of the bunch: zombie
I do enjoy a sad boy with a guitar.
A 90’s album that seems like a direct precursor to some of my fav music of today but just doesn’t have the same personal nostalgia factor.
favs of the bunch: speed trial, between the bars
girls rock
love, love Shirley Manson. wasn’t sure on the first listen but the second listen confirmed the bangers
favs of the bunch: queer, only happy when it rains, as heaven is wide, not my idea
A near perfect album that’s both political & charming, which is so up my alley. The only part that doesn’t work for me all the time is the percussion in Right On but still 5 easy
I love my parents but they never listened to western music, so I have never really engaged in music from before I was born in the 90’s until, well, now.
which just kinda means that when I find albums from before then that I like so much, I also feel a bit of envy of those who were able to grow up with it.
anyway, this I really like this album
my ranking system is very random but I do feel like I lend a lot to my feelings on the impressiveness of a recording. and from all I’ve read & heard of this album, it feels genius. who am i to deny that impulse.
In my formative years in the 00’s, this is exactly what I thought all music from the 60’s sounded like
don’t like the dude but very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the soft rock/jazzy instrumental choices. Including the flute! I also am recently engaged and feeling more romantic than usual
I’m noticing that I have been rating jazz albums really high which trust me is a surprise to me too since I haven’t historically listened to jazz. I’d say a pleasant surprise though. Really strong start here with Mandela.
so much of this takes me back to my childhood at the hindu temple - the drums, the call and repeat - that I am both nostalgic and grateful to have understood the universality of that experience, even if I cannot see myself ever coming back to the recording. live, however, is a different story.
there’s some part of my brain it scratches well.
the re-listenability is high for this one. mixed feelings about the thin white duke era but such a good album.
favs of the bunch: station to station, golden hour
i'd love listening to a bluesy jam band live, but as an album it just kept fading into the background as they riffed, as impressive as they were. god, do i love that album cover though.
I first tried listening to this on my morning walk to work and thought it was such a bummer I wasn’t as big of a fan as I thought I’d be.
I tried again at home, windows open into the night, no distractions and holy shit it’s actually SO good?? Just needed the right vibes for the reverberant, trippy melancholy.
some real gems and I love how almost every one has a different favorite on this expansive, if disjointed, album. I tended to prefer the buckingham songs (I’m realizing my affinity for post punk) but some beautiful songs from c. mcvie and stevie nicks too. I enjoyed so much of the album but did feel like I also listened to a lot of filler.
shoegaze is a new genre for me but i could def get behind this. loved seagull, polar bear, dreams burn down, vapour trail, taste. good, noisy, and a bit-samey songs that I had a fun time with and that gave my bf a headache.
loved beer drinkers & hell raisers, waitin for the bus, and the image of the mexican feast that accompanies the record
killer album art. i loved this, it was fun in concept & catchy (even the instrumentals) & just the right amount of upbeat + melancholy
I wanted to Iike this so much more and while there were a few I did love - Silver Rocket, The Sprawl, Eric’s Trip, Candle - I can’t see myself coming back to the rest of the album as often (noisy in a way I found more headache-inducing than enjoyable).
through no real fault of its own I just…can’t finish listening to this
I loved this. First listen caught me dancing at my desk at work. Every song was a great one.
super pleasantly surprised - can honestly say not what i expected but what i got was way better
first album I’ve had on this generator that I already know & love so well. specifically calls back my first year in the city where I constantly played this album for needed comfort & energy when everything else was so new
pleasant - I think if I pulled my favs I’d get a great album but with the length as it is, it began to feel meandering. iconic album art though. remember liking my sweet lord, wah wah, awaiting on you all, all things must pass, art of dying
This album /feels/ very 2016, which is too close and crowded with secondhand embarrassment for me that I wince even when the beat’s catchy.
there is other gorillaz I like more but fundamentally I just love their sound. Clint Eastwood is a longtime fav (a whole star just for that song tbh) but also love sound check, 19-2000
obviously talented, but I guess 70’s pop just doesn’t hit for me like it once did
5 as an expansive album that does so many genres so well. 4 for personal taste.
I immediately am ready to purchase the vinyl so I can have this playing every time I need an energy boost
obviously influenced by a variety of genres, so it’s experimental, catchy, fun - so glad I for this first listen (from my birth year!)
that sure is some hard rock
that sure is some hard rock part 2
it was cheesy & sentimental & I adored it
classic Christmas tracks for the few days a year I’m in the mood for Xmas music
punk rock that blurred together when i wasn't paying enough attention. i see the appeal but don't see myself coming back to it
that sure is some hard rock pt 3
turns out hard rock isn’t super my thing. I do appreciate smoke on the water and pictures of home for what they are though
