Music For The Jilted Generation
The ProdigySome cool beats here. I could see this being a huge hit at a rave, and I would actually be into it there. But there’s no reason these songs (which most tracks barely qualify as) need to be this long.
Some cool beats here. I could see this being a huge hit at a rave, and I would actually be into it there. But there’s no reason these songs (which most tracks barely qualify as) need to be this long.
Fuck Kanye. Also, the album just sucks. Like, hurts my ears bad. I don't understand the boner everyone gets for this stuff.
This is a potentially phenomenal album that’s brought down by bad vocals. The music is like nothing else ever to exist, and the singing sounds like any of a thousand mediocre emo bands from that era. Still four stars because the music is that good.
Some signs of what Michael would become, but a bit too much generic-sounding disco here. I do wish I had listened to this before “Bad”.
Good rainy day album
Chill, a little overlong
Hip hop instrumental, love it!
Aggressively 80s
Heroin music. The Velvet Underground do it better. I like Soul Kitchen.
Latin with strings, mostly instrumental. Really good!
Brazilian world music. Good.
Chill relaxing folky
Unexpected psychedelic surprise!
I liked the funkier parts of this one. Could do without the stuff that sounds like 70s porno
I can understand how fans of the genre would like this, and I actually didn’t mind the parts with actual singing. But overall, not my cup of tea. “Snuff” is weirdly out of place.
Great sound for a party. A lot of the songs are about a minute too long
When I first turned this on I was expecting to hate it. As I listened it grew on me. It's not my favorite but it was an enjoyable experience. And at only about 30 minutes it doesn't overstay its welcome.
Screamy and no melody. It probably has its place, but ultimately not into it.
I can absolutely see why people went nuts seeing this live in 1963.
I was not expecting to like this one as much as I did. This kind of music is definitely better with a female vocalist.
It’s a bit upsetting that this one doesn’t hit like it did in my mid 20’s
Rush is a band for whom I like the deep cuts much more than the hits. “Tom Sawyer” is one of the weakest songs on the album, and “Vital Signs” is a downer of an ending. But the rest of the album is great. “YYZ”’s reputation is 100% deserved.
Good for driving fast through the open countryside between Los Santos and San Fierro
We’ll, THAT’S something I never would have listened to without this list… Tough to rate since I have no reference point for it. Not for me though.
Much more melodic than what I was expecting, really ended up liking this one! I was worried when I saw 9-minute songs but nothing felt overlong.
She’s got a reputation for a reason.
This is what punk should be. Fun, breezy, and DGAF.
Good harmonies. Not for me though.
I’d love to hear a fan edit of this album with all of the overlong instrumental breaks edited down. This would be a 10/10 if most of the songs were about half as long. “International Lover” is the only one that earns that length, although it is good that the album ends on such a high note.
An awesome mix of rock and psychedelia. I unabashedly rocked out to this one. Certainly put a different spin on “Iron Man”.
Nice and relaxing
“Junk” is certainly an apt descriptor for this one. Only people in their 20s who have done enough drugs to think they’re profound or talented would write garbage like “Dead Joe” or “Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)”. Happy to duck out of this birthday party early.
Relaxing
Exactly what I wanted it to be on Christmas Day. Minus one star for the Phil Spector of it all.
There’s a time and a place for this, and it’s a cool concept. But a whole album of this is a real bummer.
Wow, what an interesting mix! Part Prince, part Beck, part Styx, part disco, part Pink Floyd (although the “Comfortably Numb” cover is a little out of place). Loved this one!
Good, nothing earth shattering.
Enjoyable album
Dear all metal artists that just scream into the microphone, Having talented musicians and intelligible lyrics makes your music MUCH better. After so many one-star reviews of albums like this, Metallica was a really nice change of pace. Very much a fan of this one.
Liked this
This grew on me. I don’t love it but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. “I’m Going to Spain” is a standout.
Really came out of the gate swinging. A fan!
Never realized how much this inspired. Enjoyed it.
I like the sound. A little long
I wouldn’t listen to this every day, but there’s definitely a time and place for it.
Decent elevator music
Very danceable, into this one.
Perfect for a cold snowy night
A tough one to rate. “Solsbury Hill” is a deserving classic, and most of side 2 is good. But there are also some real stinkers here. “Moribund the Burgermeister“, “Excuse Me”, and “Humdrum” really show that Peter Gabriel needed the rest of Genesis to rein in his dumber ideas.
Fuck Kanye. Also, the album just sucks. Like, hurts my ears bad. I don't understand the boner everyone gets for this stuff.
Groovy, fun, kinda forgettable.
This album had one goal - to make its listeners get up and dance - and it accomplishes it beautifully. Any song here could have been a hit.
Beautiful voice, supremely talented
Liked this. Got a bit repetitive though.
MIA is a wack job, but this album is still good. Major nostalgia factor here, very unique sound. Still proud to say I liked this before it was cool.
5 stars for the nostalgia alone. This is one of the defining albums of my life, and I’m glad to hear that it holds up so well. Just an absolute joy.
They say don’t judge an album by its cover. Based in its cover I thought I’d hate this one, but I didn’t. I ended up liking how the long songs build. Unfortunately there are still enough stinkers here to prevent me from fully recommending it.
I really liked some of these and forgot about others. Suffers from a lot of bloat like other albums from the 90s
Great confident hard sound. Rocked out to this one. “When the Sun Goes Down” was a late-album highlight, and “A Certain Romance” is a hell of a closer.
I was expecting this one to be quite depressing, glad it wasn't. Beautiful, moving music. Elliott Smith was quite a talent.
Enjoyed, good for open driving
I liked most of this one. It kind of falls off though.
Very good music for enjoying a cocktail at a super fancy gala.
Green Day aren’t great musicians but they don’t need to be. This album is fun and not serious at all, which is perfect. I can see why it sparked so many imitators.
I think my pants fell off while listening to this.
The title track is still a banger, and reminds me of the time of my life when I knew every word to it. The rest of it is good, nothing earth-shattering except The Grave, which is beautifully haunting.
Nice funky folky feel.
Dinosaur Jr. is one of my favorite bands. I don't love J Mascis's voice, but they rock hard enough that it doesn't matter. The two Barlow songs at the end stick out, but the rest of the album is so good it doesn't matter.
Weird and fun!
Bowie gets funky. IMO, nothing gets close to peak Bowie.
I wanted to like this, and there's a lot to like about it. But it feels like when I really get grooving with this it reverts back to noise. Parts of it really deserve the love they get, and Teenage Riot is fantastic. But on the whole it didn't do it for me.
Loud, clearly talented, but nothing memorable. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Marvin Gaye had a beautiful voice and certainly knew the way to a woman’s heart and/or pants. Well-deserved reputation.
For me, Beatles>Stones. The Stones only do one thing, but they are absolutely phenomenal at it. Gimme Shelter is a deserving classic that should be played at as loud a volume as possible, but so much in the middle rocks awesomely as well.
Not my cup of tea. Gets real psychedelic at the end.
Musicianship is good, but every time the lead singer opened his mouth it hurt my ears.
Grooved to this one, definitely talented. Ends as it starts to get “samey”
Feels like more than the sum of its parts. Liked this one better than Queen is Dead.
Brings me back. Perfect for lying on a beach or staying inside as the snow falls. Still holds up.
... the fuck? "Hey, I have an idea! Let's just randomly play our instruments as loud as we can!" "And we'll all be playing the same song?" "No way, why would we do that?! We can just call it 'art' and that way no one can criticize us!" Oh my god, this one sucked. Don't do drugs, kids.
Like many others, I knew Deep Purple as the "Smoke on the Water" band, but they're so much more than that. This one starts a bit rough, but after the first minute gets into such an awesome groove. "Flight of the Rat" is a major highlight.
I was dreading a 90-minute live album, but I was in for a pleasant surprise. So many emotions and different musical genres played here! This would have been great to see.
Fun album!
Beautiful album. Got weird in a good way. But as I have some distance all I remember are the two hits.
Such a mixed bag. Some of these feel like Madonna is ahead of the curve (“What It Feels Like for a Girl”, "Gone") and some of these feel like she’s chasing trends instead of setting them (“I Deserve It”, "Paradise [Not For Me]"). Some good songs offset by some god-awful autotune. The less said about the "American Pie" cover, the better. Talk about missing the point of a song.
This is the kind of album that this project was built for! Rocks so hard and so awesomely from beginning to end. Loved the use of strings too! Favorite track: “Girl From Mars”.
Liked this one, interesting sound. Could be a little shorter.
Beautiful album. Best enjoyed entirely in one sitting.
I have to admit I wasn't looking forward to this, as I've disliked a lot of metal I've heard here. But this one was great! Window down, driving fast, and this album blasting from the car speakers is the ideal way to listen to it.
This is a potentially phenomenal album that’s brought down by bad vocals. The music is like nothing else ever to exist, and the singing sounds like any of a thousand mediocre emo bands from that era. Still four stars because the music is that good.
The kind of album you play for a nightcap. Good for late nights
I’m not much of a rap fan, but this was awesome! There’s clear talent here, and this stuff is always elevated by using real instruments.
This album is beautiful from beginning to end. I know Nick Drake had his demons, but this put me in a much better mood. Perfect for springtime in nature.
The hits are good. But the rest of this one really doesn't do it for me, I find it kinda boring. I would like to see Kevin Malone cover "Mother" with Scrantonicity II. WTF is up with that one?
Perfect album for a week ago. I want to dance and drink lots of beer when listening to this. The sound did get old though.
I didn't know much of Marianne Faithfull other than the fact that she was classic rock's Courtney Love. I didn't love this at first, and I still think the title track is the weakest one. But it's also out of place. Most of this album has an edge that I really like. I got a lot of "The Wall" vibes from this one.
This makes me want to drop acid and frolic freely while barefoot in the woods. Interesting experimentation, this takes a hard left turn at the end. "Goin' Back" is absolutely beautiful. "Tribal Gathering" is a blatant rip off of "Take Five"; if George Harrison had to pony up, David Crosby should have too. Though, by the way the cover looks, he ponied up in his own way.
Good sound, hard edge with a great singer. Not worthy of its name at all.
I like the energy in this one.
I had never heard of them, but I liked this one. New wave but not aggressively so, worked for me.
Really unique psychedelic sound. I really felt like I was in a field with a bunch of hippies.
At three hours, this is the biggest commitment of any album I've listened to so far. But Ella had a phenomenal voice that's worthy of the three hours. It's good background music for nighttime in the city. I may or may not have danced to "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" in my desk chair.
I was not expecting this to rock so hard! I said this in my review of Green Day's "Dookie" that the lyrics are terrible, but they don't need to be good. It's not about the lyrics, they're just a vehicle for the music. This one rocks so hard that I missed an earthquake because I was listening to it with headphones on!
I was expecting strict Afro beats, but this is so much more! What a fun, exciting album!
Elvis was such a blatant thief. Most of these songs are cheap imitations of better songs. Enjoyed it okay.
Banger after banger. Perfect for driving on a warm sunny day. After an Elvis album that was essentially a shitty covers album, hearing an actually interesting take on an existing song was refreshing. I understand why you'd prefer Marvin Gaye, but I love the jam on "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" here.
Unapologetically dumb. Unapologetically awesome.
Unique sound. Needs a good uninterrupted listen at night.
This is a one-hour album stretched to 90 minutes. There's a lot here where not much is happening between the good stuff. Not bad, just boring.
I'd love to light up a huge blunt with George Clinton. This one can take you places. Really into it.
Bad 90’s trend: overlong, repetitive, generic-sounding albums full of overlong, repetitive, generic-sounding songs. The ability to fit more music on a CD was a huge negative factor on the quality of some albums.
I liked a lot of this. Could do without the Icelandic songs.
I was worried about seeing just 4 long songs, but this was so dynamic and awesome, minus “One Woman”, which was thankfully the shortest song on the album. Best praise - I didn’t think about Chef at all when listening to this.
Some of this is good. But this lead singer does NOT have the pipes to carry a ballad. “Hospital” and “Girl Friend” are both huge momentum killers, and the album would have been so much better if they had both been left off it entirely. And I’m pretty sure it’s well-documented that Pablo Picasso was, in fact, an asshole.
Great for when you’re sad, this album captures melancholy very well. If you’re in a good mood, it doesn’t work as well.
I didn't know what to expect when I saw this cover, but it was NOT this. I can fully understand why the "hippie" artists loved this album. The OG version of "Everybody's Talkin" is far superior to the Nilsson one. If Fred Neil was 10 years younger, had long, flowing locks, and had completely changed the cover art, this album would have made him a huge star. 5 stars.
If you’re in a good mood this will lift you up. If you’re in a bad mood this will help immensely. Marley was a legend for a reason.
The hits are good. But the filler really didn’t do much for me.
Taylor Swift’s star is very well deserved. This was a great album for the setting at which I listened to it. She’s going for something, and she just doesn’t nail it, she writes the book on it.
I’m really glad I listened to this one after I listened to “Dookie”. The evolution of Green Day is insane. They’re still clearly themselves, but there’s no way they were doing a mini rock opera back then, much less two of them. This is an awesome protest album, maybe the last great one of its kind. I really miss this kind of album. Maybe encapsulates its era better than any other album of the 00’s. Nailed the zeitgeist.
Good in a vacuum and has good variety, but suffers when compared to some of the other Britpop on this list. Better than “A Northern Soul”, not as good as “Definitely Maybe”. But enjoyable nonetheless.
“Look at me! Look at how I say ‘fuck’ all the time. Isn’t it amazing how edgy I am?!” - Fred Durst (probably). Swearing, cliches, and rhyming words with themselves - the album. The sad part is, the instrumentals are actually okay, bordering on good. Nothing about this is offensive to the ears, which keeps it from getting a 1. It’s just that the vocals are So. Effing. Stupid. Being on the same track as DMX and Xzibit (far from the GOAT) doesn't help matters for Mr. Durst. It’s also kind of funny how much better the production values are on “My Way” than the rest of the album.
Some cool beats here. I could see this being a huge hit at a rave, and I would actually be into it there. But there’s no reason these songs (which most tracks barely qualify as) need to be this long.
Parts of this are beautiful, and parts of this are smug as hell. A lot of the protest stuff probably hit a lot harder in 1963. But it’s still a good listen out in nature, and you can’t deny that it’s revolutionary.
Has some really good moments, but also kinda dies towards the end. Everything between “Emit Remus” and “Road Trippin” feels superfluous. But the rest of the album is great.
An absolute shit album. But also a fascinating absolute shit album.
Excellent
What a weird mix of an album. Noise collages with generic 70s stuff. Could occasionally get into it.
In a vacuum, the edgier stuff is pretty good. The Dude was absolutely right about the rest of it.
Was decent. I don’t know how much British hip-hop really resonates with me though.
If I closed my eyes it felt like I was drinking whiskey in a smoky lounge.
I liked the parts that didn’t feel like real sappy stuff.
I’d lien to hang out with these guys.
Okay, didn’t quite have the punch I wanted.
Enjoyed some, but I can’t really get into the softer stuff.
Yes, all AC/DC songs sound the same. But it’s a great sound.
Just okay, long. Did get into it by the end though.
Funky and fun!
7/8 of this album is an overlong mediocre yawnfest. “(I Know) I’m Losing You” is absolutely awesome and sticks out like a sore thumb here. It brings my review score up an entire star on its own.
Very much a product of its time. Did get kind of into it though.
Simultaneously epic and sexy. Very much into this album.
Love this one. It’s got a vibe that’s good for driving and for sitting back and smoking a j with friends.
Kinda surprised it took me this long to get a country album. Doesn’t do it for me.
Production is great, vocals are great. Rockin out!
This man had talent out the ass. It’s easy to see how this became the defining soundtrack of an entire generation.
This one has such an intense sense of place. I didn’t just listen to this, I felt it. Absolutely demands to be listened to at night.
There’s good stuff here, and Amy Winehouse had a great and unique voice. But there’s also signs of struggling to figure out what works for her. A big voice needs big songs.
Very interesting music, really into the instrumental stuff.
Bob Dylan’s voice (raspier with age) arguably fits this bluesy stuff better than it does his early material. Gives it a haunting quality.
Peaceful and interesting sonically. I can very much imagine lighting up a J and putting this on. Big fan of how it ends too. “Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp” put this over the hump to 5 stars (and I do kind of miss weird hidden tracks on albums).
Up to listening to this, my exposure to reggae was limited only to Bob Marley. This feels very different, and I like listening to a different side of the genre.
First 5 minutes: ugh, this is such a slog. Next 15 minutes: wow, this is incredible! “A Passage to Bangkok”: this is pretty good, but that riff is kinda racist, isn’t it? The rest of side 2: ugh, this album just died. When does it end?
This kind of stuff usually isn’t my jam. She has a beautiful voice but I wasn’t super into the music, and I was debating on whether to give this 3 or 4 stars based on the strength of her voice. Then the “For No One” cover came on. Absolutely moved me, and my decision was made.
Interesting mix of jazz, funk, and punk. Wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I did.
Speakerboxxx > The Love Below, although The Love Below is more interesting. Good but long. I do wish they had blended the two better into a single album (cut out the skits for one). It’s a big reason why, IMO, “Roses” is the best song here, although “Hey Ya” still effin slaps. Truly OutKast’s White Album.
Part of this project is listening to stuff you’ve never heard of from genres you’d never even dream of listening to. Another part of this project is speeding down the highway in sunny, 80 degree weather with the windows open blasting Springsteen. One of the easiest 5-star reviews I’ve given. Banger after banger here.
Definitely more than the sum of its parts. Not Arcade Fire’s best album, and some songs here, taken individually, are pretty weak. But the whole thing builds in a good way. I like the placement of the “No Cars Go” climax with the denouement of “My Body is a Cage”.
Surprisingly effective for getting work done. Everything except the occasional random scream is great.
It’s good, Bowie was a genius. But I’d hardly call this one essential. I think they made the right call removing this in later editions in favor of “Blackstar”.
Very nice summer album. Didn’t change my world but I liked it.
The Deadhead in your life’s new favorite album.
I really like these old loungey albums that essentially amount to a recording of the live show, although you can see the beginnings of studio experimentation here, especially on side 2. Side one is a total banger, and if you're in the right mood for side 2, it hits hard.
I’ve probably heard “Bohemian Rhapsody” more times than I’ve heard any other song on this list, but it really put it in a new perspective listening to it on the album, where it serves as an epic climax. The deep cuts are all great (even though someone really should talk to Roger Taylor about his relationship with his car). Queen hit a real creative peak here.
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would, especially considering how much I hated the other Rod Stewart album I've had so far. Not pushing any boundaries, but good nonetheless.
“Bittersweet Symphony” is easily the best song here and still hits (almost) the same. “The Drugs Don’t Work” reeks of trying too hard. The rest of it is pretty generic Brit Pop. The Verve still have the problem of an album full of overlong, repetitive songs.
This one was fun AF! Costello really came out of the gate swinging.
The Byrds had such an awesome sound. Why’d they have to pull this shit?! Not the worst album I’ve ever heard, and I actually really enjoyed “One Hundred Years From Now,” but one star for shitting all over something that used to be amazing.
Definitely a unique sound. This one could only be classified as an experience. Fuck it, I’m a fan.
Like Springsteen working on a 70’s porno. I really don’t like albums where the artists feel that the songs need to be crazy long. Especially if nothing happens. Album did have its bright spots, but didn’t do it for me.
Enjoyed it, especially considering I’m not much of a country fan. Rounding up because of how much Steve Earle supported Bubbles on his sobriety journey.
The song from all the commercials! The rest of it is really good too. The right mix of rocking out and weirdness.
Almost 2 hours long and this didn’t drag once! I was dancing in public with this one on, really vibed with this one. Reputation very much deserved.
Good fun songs, and well-deserved hits. Does start to feel “same-y” after a while.
Saw this was one of the lowest-rated albums here, and got worried. Was expecting it to be way worse. It reminded me of the soundtrack to a weird Broadway musical. I can tell this is an intense war album, and it communicated that feeling very well even though a lot of it was in German. I also appreciate the instrumentals as a former band geek. The length is a problem; it lost its effectiveness about 40 minutes in. I enjoyed this for what it was. Although I probably won't ever find the need to listen to it again, I'm ultimately glad I did.
Good politically charged listen.
More than the sum of its parts. They’re working together in such a groove to make an album that feels like one complete work instead of a collection of songs.
My “Born in the USA” review can be applied to this, pretty much verbatim. Must be a Jersey thing.
Banger after banger. Say what you will about The Killers, but this album effing rocks.
Truly the voice of an angel. Would probably be better served soundtracking a night on the town.
Perfect Friday album. I definitely prefer this to R.E.M.’s slower stuff.
I liked a good portion of this. Some good flow, interesting beats, and once this got going I really felt it. Then I got to “Water”, and all that came to a screeching halt. Avant-garde does NOT fit here. That song sucked so hard it brings my entire score down one star. It should have been left off entirely.
A few songs are okay, but this doesn’t really feel like an album. Probably suffers a lot without the movie it’s attached to. …do I just not like slow, soulful R&B?
Some signs of what Michael would become, but a bit too much generic-sounding disco here. I do wish I had listened to this before “Bad”.
Loved this one, great psychedelic sound. Not sure why The Doors have the lasting legacy and these guys don't. This is also one of the most fitting album covers I've seen.
Raw, powerful stuff. How could Uncle Joey hurt Alanis like this?
Rocks hard with excellent guitar work from the first minute to the last. Loved this one.
Haunting even without the context in which it was written and released. If only we all could get a swan song like that.
I could totally sexy dance to this
Hit a bit strangely at first because I listened to “Apocalypse 91” before this one, but I ended up really liking it. Fun as hell.
Still rocks and rolls, and you can really hear the influence this had on so many other things (including being blatantly stolen by Elvis). Doesn’t have the “oomph” it probably did when it first came out.
Enjoyed the vibe, even if it was a little generic.
Just okay, a whole album of songs that sound like each other. No real standouts for me.
Wow. Seriously haunting album. This one floored me. Phenomenal.
Simon and Garfunkel take LSD. I’m here for it.
A very hard one to rate. Overall the music was very good. Sometimes the singing fit it. Other times, the music was interrupted by the sounds of a whale in heat. Split the difference I guess.
Didn’t consistently enjoy this. I did get into it for bits and pieces, but it feels longer than it’s 38 minutes. Not sure if it’s the singer or the fact that they didn’t have enough ideas to fill an album.
I liked the upbeat stuff, but really not into the slow stuff. More good than bad, I liked it.
Just by listening to this I can tell that The Residents are all pretentious douchebags who would laugh at you for not “understanding art” when you, rightly, tell them that their album is complete garbage.
Some of this is good. But there is no reason for these songs to be this long.
That could certainly be described as, um, something… I actually kinda sorta liked it.
If I’m ever feeling reflective about anything, I put this on. This album has gotten me through a lot. I’m happy to see it still has the same effect on me after all these years. Easily one of my top albums ever.
Pretty solid. The stuff that doesn’t mean anything is better than the psychedelic stuff.
Strong music that’s not served well by the singer. Interestingly enough, Kurt Cobain’s voice would fit very well on every song here.
Not sure how much of this would fly today, but it is interesting. The African sounds work very well with Paul Simon’s music. Difficult to separate from The Lion King for modern ears but it was a good listen!
I thought it was bad enough being loud and shitty. Turns out it’s possible to be loud, shitty, and boring. The unfortunate part is that these guys are talented players. Sometimes, this approaches something resembling okay, only for them to repeat the same thing for six minutes. There is precisely nothing “wonderful” about this album.
Some of my 1-star reviews are weird genre stuff I’ve just felt wasn’t for me. Sometimes the musicians are talented but made awful musical decisions. Sometimes they overdo it with the artsiness. Sometimes I can see how some people might like it. Not this, though. This just sucks. Strong WOAT contender here. The band name is accurate though. The lie they tell is that they have any musical ability whatsoever.
How have I never heard of this before?! This should have been all over the place during college! I don’t know if this is because of getting two 1-star albums in a row or a testament to how good this is (probably a combination of both), but this really vibed with me. One of the best discoveries of this project for me so far.
Funky and fun, danced the whole way through. You definitely got that funk, Parliament.
Somehow simultaneously fun and boring. Danceable but also incredibly dated, a lot more so than other stuff from 1990. Also, same 90’s problem of overlong songs just because of the upgrade from vinyl to CDs.
I wanted to like this more than I did, especially given Skip Spence’s story. It does have its occasional moments, and I genuinely enjoyed some of it. But it doesn’t really hit without the heroin.
I’ve said it before, but the Stones only do one thing. However, they are phenomenal at that one thing. It’s nice seeing them get a bit experimental. Not as solid as some of their later albums. “Paint It Black” and “Under My Thumb” are far from their best hits, IMO. It definitely picks up on side 2, though.
Not advisable to listen to this while driving. You may head bang too hard and lose focus on the road.
Jewel vibes here. Didn’t change my world but I liked it.
Good but not cohesive. Almost sounds like a collection of leftovers rather than one album. “Student Demonstration Time” pisses me off because of how disgusting of a human being Mike Love turned out to be. Score gets rounded up because of how hauntingly beautiful the title track is.