Yeezus
Kanye WestFuck Kanye. Also, the album just sucks. Like, hurts my ears bad. I don't understand the boner everyone gets for this stuff.
Fuck Kanye. Also, the album just sucks. Like, hurts my ears bad. I don't understand the boner everyone gets for this stuff.
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 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.
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.
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.