i am so bored of guitar music man band and the same seven rock covers

i enjoyed a lot of the instrumentation in this but was otherwise kinda just like: well that sure is 80s music that sounds like other 80s music. 2.5

the second star is for not *entirely* filling me with contempt

songs weren't super distinctive but i enjoyed it as an album

sledgehammer in MY eyes? it's more likely than you'd think

i am not convinced i have ever actually listened to lets get it on all the way through, bc of how iconic (and therefore punchlineable) the first few bars are overall too molasses-esque to be my thing but i DID enjoy: - those strings! - the zyoop!-y synthy sounds - all of keep gettin' it on, not nearly enough songs have direct sequels these days and i find them charming as heck

i know I am in the minority here but i am a sucker for a long song and consider the first two a huge win for the all 7+ minute song playlist i have in regular rotation however the third song lost me, and the almost nine minute approach for by the time i get to phoenix cover was a too much the top even for me. gotta go listen to the 2:42 glen campbell original instead.

i appreciate kraftwerk crawling so the rest of us could eventually run, but this does feel a liiiiitle bit like listening to someone play hot cross buns. great music to zone out to, probably wouldn't listen through again, but i do harbor a soft spot for the model in the same way i have soft spots for all the classic songs my dad would play for me growing up

the first of i presume many albums with songs i was introduced to via being a teenage supernatural fan, a fact that i will not acknowledge under further interrogation i don't rly wanna listen to them all back to back but i COULD karaoke literally half of these songs at Any Moment

this was a slooooooooog for me. i think the least objectionable was either man on the moon or nightswimming, thought the instrumental was a nice break from having to listen to his singing. would give this a 1.5, rounded down bc i am feeling uncharitable

absolutely not

unobjectionable and perfectly fine to listen to but not rly distinct for me in any way beyond being a live album (derogatory). motor city is burning was probably the highlight for me

i liked 90% of it and then every song had One Element that made me wanna tear my hair out

3.5, rounded up to four because my mother loves the cars, so half of these are like, canonical nostalgia for me. the other half are bit samey but i was boppin' along nonetheless.

very much not for me. i skip individual songs by pearl jam all the time, i cannot believe i made it through this whole album

not my favorite new order but it was nice to spend some time with them regardless!

I did not realize that The Weight was this band or this album until i got hit with the chorus lmao. enjoyed it! 3.5

lost on the dream felt pretty killers, other parts felt very springsteen. overally Fine but not like, earthshattering or anything. Had never heard of this artist.

was about 30% longer than could hold my attention, but I liked most individual songs, but fell of pretty quickly after the chainsaw sound blasted through my car speakers, fucking wrecking my eardrums. variety is the spice of life. 2.5

I actually have some of the songs on this album liked on spotify but was simply not in the mood that day. DNF

rating this like a month after i listened and i still have fuckin' "Keep the Customer Satisfied" stuck in my head

wasn't able to give this my full attention but this was really good working music. enjoyed the parts i noticed!

fine!

Who the absolute fuck is this vocalist doing an impression of, it was driving me nuts. However: for the most part, really liked the instrumentation! Bassist and drummer were real highlights, i would probably enjoy an instrumental version of this album 2.5

things i am not impressed with: moby's music things i AM impressed with: moby's high jump could have sworn i had never heard anything if his but some of the songs sounded familiar 1.5

someone tell me what genre this even is. update: wikipedia says it's swamp/roots/blues/country/southern/folk rock, so that means something i guess. who'll stop the rain / lookin' out my back door / up around the bend all chart on the "canonical to my childhood soundtrack and therefor i am fond of them" unsurprisingly, rly was vibing to the 11min cover of hoid it thru the grapevine good drivin' music. 3.5

2.5

my favorite new-to-me album of this project so far. great for the darkness, which is aplenty

felt like i was watching the opening credits of a 90s movie about teenagers but with an intended audience of 11 year olds. goofy but whatever,

this is what happens in the mind of your uncle's single buddy who comes to family events bc he's got nowhere else to go but also he brings weed. i stand by go it alone but the rest is not for me. 1.5

ik rock standards are just part of the package with this era of recording but i'm not super into this being mostly covers. still can't believe how square this is to be considered early punk. 1.5

love the songs i knew, enjoyed the songs i didn't. 3.5

was so mad to be listening to this bc i did not have this energy today, however, some of the lowlights were so bad that i was actually relieved to hear "Brass Monkey" by the time it rolled around, a song which i am on the record as despising However, I will be repurposing "She's Crafty" for my indie movie about the cutthroat tribal politics of fiber and knitting conventions. One slowmo pan through a crowd of white haired 70yos in matching sweaters? absolutely anyway. 1.5

it was fine! enjoyable but all meshes together in my mind. 2.5

1.5

programmed since birth to enjoy the fall, it surprises nobody that i enjoy the fall, despite the drunk uncle reciting spoken word poetry vibes. 3.5

i knew the one song, tho am kinda surprised it's from 1995 and not like the early 2000s. the rest of the album was fine. 2.5

enjoyable in parts, but so all over the place that it's hard to justify the parts i like, yk? 2

probably only one song i'd listen to again. I'm unduely annoyed by between-song adlibs, so maybe this just wasn't my day. cool to have some more modern stuff on the list tho. 1.5

sabotage obviously a highlight, was genuinely surprised at the tail end with the buddhist vibes, which i enjoyed; beastie boys can get verrrrry samey and i appreciated the change of pace

I don't know how to review this other than saying that every song sounded like an 80s/90s sitcom tv theme song.

love this album. 4.5

i disliked this less than i expected, based on my previous feelings about radiohead. 1.5

i don't dislike the kinks, but i don't like this much the kinks back to back. a little the kinks (as a treat) is fine.

it's the beatles

this one barely stands out in my memory

mixed bag!

Back half did start to drag when listening front to back but there are some certified bangers bc its daft fcking punk. 3.5

i was feelin' it today. 2.5

was surprised to learn everybody's talkin' was a cover. otherwise: fine. 2.5

gun to my head i would have said this album came out in 2002. Some serious "hits of the 80s, 90s, and today" time blindness on my part. two songs is more than i expected to like. 1.5

this was a DNF for me

this one rly hit for me today. 3.5

sure was a piano in there huh. made for fine background music while at work, but this neither stirred anything in my nor stands out in my mind. will probably never listen again. 1.5

2.5

2.5

enjoyed the front half more than expected but then it outstayed its welcome for me

never gonna be mad to listen to nina simone. not sure how this one got caught in the backlog

for a less than 40 minute album, it lost me REAL quick

i was really dreading listening to this one based on my past bob dylan experience but it was pretty mild and an enjoyable fall day farmers market listen. 2.5

the first two more electronica-y songs i actually enjoyed, but then it quickly mellowed out to the police that i know and detest

gun to my head i would have told you picture book was a beatles song. i think i was mixing it up with paperback writer

3.5 with a bump for me being nostalgic

i def listened to this one ans forgot to rate it. giving it a 2 bc it does not stand out in my mind even a little

BREAKIN THE LAW BREAKIN THE LAW

i may swear off music for good after this

absolute fucking slog of an album

great music for listening to alone and thinking that it's getting too dark too early and winter is way closer than you realize. this was the album that the teacher who was grooming my friends in high school was using to bond over their mature and worldly taste

hoo boy that was a depressing one

i enjoyed this but there is one song on this album that sounds juuust enough like megalovania to get that stuck in my head. well played, album from 1989, i never saw it comin'

!!!!

I mean, of course. 4.5

lcd soundsystem was like, THE band you got fun of for liking at the college i went to for some reason? which is a shame, my 20yo, pre-SSRI self would have been into this, but it didn't particularly hit for me

these are just so calming, though mostly it makes me want to listen to the gorillaz cover of crystallized that i mainlined as a teenager and then promptly forgot about for ten years

thankful that this album was there for teenage me, who needed to be told everything will be alright so desperately i would listen to that track more or less on repeat for six consecutive months besides, it's back to back bops. smash.

3.5

total unknown for me, enjoyed it just fine. 3.5

this is either better than the other samba album, or i'm just in a better mood. i think the sax helps tho. 2.5

album make adhd brain go brrrrrr i did not enjoy it (too much horse????) but honestly, it seems like great workin' music. will probably listen again

Look, I listened to this album a TON when it came out, and it's no longer fun for me. That being said, it's not *bad* but it's got that quality where It Feels Like All The Lyrics Are Capitalized and that bugs me. Lungs was my favorite song at the time, but really enjoyed You Caught The Light this time around

was not feelin' it. 1.5

concept albums have no effect on me, a person who struggles to process lyrics in teal time started actually surprisingly into it, but absolutely overstated it's welcome. pinball wizard sure does come outta nowhere

a pleasant listen but nothing particularly stood out to me

ooh, a 2.5 but in a VERY mixed bag sorta way. basically every song had bits i adored, and bits that felt like someone was jamming needles in my skull. halfway through i was really feeling like it overstayed it's welcome but then i enjoyed the back half. wtf.

this one rly benefited from the full speaker setup i had access to this day. 3.5

not my favorite musicwise but the anti-war anti-state anti-cop vibes were really hitting this weekend. 2.5

kind of a nothingburger for me

the only way i think i can describe this is music for a modern dance performance you would stumble into at a museum

i guess i like trip hop. TIL

today i learned i had no idea who the pet shop boys were. i thought this was gonna be somewhere between beach boys and jersey boys but it was actually the worst slog of an album so far

1.5

i listened to this yesterday and have already forgotten everything about it. i liked a couple songs on spotify tho apparently, so it can't have been all bad. 2.5?

dreadfully dull. hard skip.

was not in the mood for this today

2.5

i think, on average, i enjoy bad company slightly more than other similar 70s rock, but i absolutely forget they exist as their own distinct entity. a lot of this dad rock is incredibly ignorable ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

my only familiarity with this genre of music is from commericals for cruises, which brought a fun and whimsical energy to my seemingly endless covid isolation

not today, no

took me four days to finish i enjoyed it so little. one point for the three songs i liked, and down a point because of the amount my childhood made me listen to "why don't we do it in the road" when we were in middle school. who let this album be so long.

i expected this to be worse with the amount everyone rags on the eagles

hell yeah dude

i enjoyed this more than expected, 3.5

i have enjoyed this album in the past but today? a slog. such is life. 1.5

2.5 (affectionate)

parliment always feels like waking up in a sunbeam. i needed this today

god i miss my local two-step dance night. wouldn't listen to this on it's own but its not the worst honky tonk i've ever witnessed by far. also, i think the masks at the honky tonk masquerade should be made of straw but styled like a masquerade ball

every time i am asked to listen to a standard or cover as part of this project i am filled with rage. i simply do not care what anyone does with roll over beethoven but mr. berry, not even the beatles. 2.5

3.5

i mean, it sure is elvis. fine to listen to, but milquetoast as always. 2.5

with the way people talk about this band, i was expecting like, fedora-steampunk-nerd cringe. takes-the-renaissance-fair-too-seriously cringe. it's literally just more 70s rock, with pangs of "oh! that's a sample i recognize" it's fine. 3.5

it was decent background listening but i was absolutely bodyslammed into the boards by a surprise bongo bong. you gotta warn people.

this was an entirely unknown to me and feels halfway between steampunk ass nerd music (which i loved at like, 13) and broken bells (which i loved at like, 17) so statistically, there IS a balance point where teenage me would have adored this, probably

this was a lot more subdued than the fatboy slim i am familiar with. not mad about it, will probably stick this whole album on a background noise playlist for future workin'

another metal band i expected to be less approachable based on it's cultural reputation. this feels like the musical equivalent of the satanic panic over d&d. maybe it would hit harder if i was a devout christian?? idk, i enjoyed it, 3.5

i liked the album art more than the album but it was fine. makes me wanna hop a train

"feel like a lady and you my ladyboy" there's something queer about that, amy. 3.5

🫠

I was in the perfect indie sadboy mood for this when i listened

i mean, whatever

2.5

great music to barely hear over the sound of your kitchen's hood exhaust

it's actually okay to not listen to this one. i promise.

is this jazz? i assume this is jazz. or something. it was fine, 2.5

SURELY this is the last of the neil young. SURELY i am now free of his godawful little vocals

weirdly was really into this, but i'm also having a mental health episode and feel fucking insane rn. great soundtrack for going 89 on the highway. 3.5 stars

still a 1.5 but WAY less annoying than i anticipated

2.5

regrettably, juan was right. this slaps.

this was all new the cure for me. and it was fine! no particularly strong feelings tho

2.5

oof

this was annoying but the goofy synths mean i almost don't care

i have no feelings about this. the album looped and i didn't notice. 2.5

i actually didnt hate this nearly as much as my typical beck hatred. it was mostly vibey and ignorable (a positive) 2.5

2.5

sad yeehaw time, but not in a bad way. perfectly neutral. 2.5

oh, *yeah*. a total unknown for me and i'm unsure why i wasn't expecting this to go this hard. 3.5

*love* aretha. no notes.

wasn't feeling this when i was listening, sorry mr. davis

i had been avoiding this because i was under the impression i disliked jimi hendrix but i *really* enjoyed it. 3.5

spent this entire album thinking about voice & gender perception. had to stop in the middle to listen to songs this reminded me of and i wanted to hear more. didn't dislike as much as i anticipated

i got VERY excited about this when it began bc of the funk/disco strings that weren't really in the rest of the album. but it was fine!

this album fills me with the dread of thousands of hours of unskippable adele on the radio. just because i have heard them a million times does not mean i enjoy this. 1.5

i cannot tell these songs apart but it was a great listen for multitasking vibes.

not really a fan of the albums that heavily feature covers, ngl

this actually grew on me in the second half which rarely happens

songs weren't super distinctive but i enjoyed it as an album

i think i dissociated through this bc all i remember was hitting play, returning to work, and then the beach boys being back on

there's probably a joke to be made here about white noise and wall of sound, but i can't quite get there. shoutout to this album for frontloading the recognizable hits so i could drift off into beats to study and relax to mode. 2.5

i knew i liked through the wire & all falls down but enjoyed the rest of the album more than i expected. 3.5

bomp bomp bomp bomp bomp bomp bomp bomp

i feel nothing. 2.5

perfectly serviceable oldies that i am surprised i had not heard of. a squirrel listened with me and so that was cool i guess

woof

this was not even a little bit what i thought it would be. there were a lot of sounds that sounded almost serrated? like someone left an oscillating fan on. feels ripe for sampling. would have been a four but had to knock it back down for horny moaning and kid-killing lyrics on the back half

the one song that i knew makes me feel like i am in purgatory. 2.5

sometimes i feel like the creators of this list must regret not picking a smaller number of albums. this is one of those times. why is this here.

my mom used to play this album all the time when i was growing up and i am supremely fond of it

when i was in college, the intramural theater club director made everyone do a series of one act plays, and one of them involved a choreographed dance to Stereo MC's Step It Up. I still have stress dreams about being pulled from behind the lighting board to fill in for someone who got injured

2.5

it actually feels disrespectful to listen to an album like this front to back in the middle of the day and not in a sweaty dimly lit room as part of a dj set. lots of catchy parts and sections but *for sure* not a full 2hr listen. 2.5

yeah baby!! sad lesbian music!!

please, god, tell me i am free of this man now

my expectations were so unbelievably low for more tom waits after absolutely DESPISING swordfishtrombones that enjoying a song or two from this feels like a revelation. 2.5

i'm real player out on this era of sound rn

1.5

future participants heed my warning: le secret pour profiter de ce projet et ne pas expérimenter l'épuisement est de s'assurer que vous n'écoutez pas les albums de longueur double ou de luxe si vous n'en avez pas besoin. nobody needs wall-to-wall david byrne. 2.5

tiktok has fucking embedded daydreamin' in my head. i was exactly in the mood for this today. 3.5

3.5

look, I was half named after an elvis costello song. this is so embedded into my head that it almost doesn't matter if I like it. 3.5

this was another weird one to listen to in broad daylight. i had fun tho. total unknown for me.

extensively sampling werewolves of london: hell yeah. enjoyed this a normal amount 👍

2.5

two 20min songs may be the perfect sized bite of jazz for me. my workday was slightly more enjoyable as i morphed into a noir detective for a bit at my office desk. any further analysis would be me talking out of my ass.

weirdly this band keeps coming up for me? the word on everybody's lips is os mutantes? anyway it was enjoyable and i'll probably return to it for background listening at some point

sure. a full album was a bit too much of this back to back for me but individual songs were perfectly enjoyable. 2.5

there was an initial adjustment period while i mourned that this wasn't X of gonna give it to ya fame, but then it grew on me. belongs on a playlist with early the white stripes, i think

jfc who let mr. toy story do slurs in my ears. zero stars

having not understood a single word of this album, i am left to speculate only by vibe. this feels like an album a middle aged man in the 70s would make about his upsettingly young girlfriend & muse who he treated badly and then later killed. i have not checked wikipedia yet to see how i did. 2.5

this did nothing for me today. kinda sounded like ragtime piano-y in the middle, which i did not expect

NOW that's what i call the 90s. 2.5

having not listened to them before this project, i think i like jane's addition. i disliked the one song that i knew, but into the rest. 2.5

not the massive attack album i would have picked but sure. 2.5

ACAB

i am always shocked by how comparatively normie metallica sounds compared to what i have in my head. i think i hang out with too many metalheads with niche subgenre tastes

didn't realize tom hardy had it in him! 2.5

i despise live albums. not even my residual nostalgia from being being sung van morrison as a kid (#browneyedgirlchild) was moved by this. he sure does Just Do That with his voice huh. 1.5

2.5

the second star is for not *entirely* filling me with contempt

deja vu as hell for me

i actually had no idea that bruce springsteen could also be this. pleasantly surprised.

not the vibe for the hottest, meltingiest day of the week. time could not move slower.

3.5

i like her taste in samples, for the most part, but really dislike literally every other part.

okay, with the caveat that i only listened to what was available on spotify: rly surprised that the tail half of this grew on me. i really thought i was gonna despise the whole thing. 2.5

i was somehow exactly in the right mood for this (read: feverish, woozy, taking a bath) 3.5

i like james brown! but the crowd needs to get it together. 2.5

2.5, i was really feeling it the day i listened but i can't ever imagine listening again

"I'm a back door man The men don't know But the little girls understand" jesus fucking christ dude

I actually didn't hate this. 20min song on a 37min album is a helluva choice tho

idk what's wrong with y'all, i love guitar music that sounds like i put my earbuds in my mouth and am making weeoeowoeweoeowwwowow sounds with my mouth. 3.5

i love knowing that someone was stuck listening to this full album on the car radio at 7am. a real 50/50 for me. 2.5

this was a real mixed bag for me—i almost turned it off twice but also really liked most of it. 2.5

positive this was radio background music at some point in my life but i rly only recognized the mrs. robinson cover. 2.5 in the "eh, whatever" kind of way

REAL mixed bag on this one, Stevland. I struggle with albums that are so long and so mixed, bc I feel taunted by the fact that there could have been a normal length phenomenal album with some editing. 2.5

was dreading more bob marley but there were aspects of this that sounded similar to music i like. 1.5

i was complaining online about getting this album on a friday night, and three separate people reached out and said that this was their go-to teenage depression album. which makes sense! what a bummer.

with how much this sounds exactly like other music, i'm surprised i hadn't heart of any of it. Perfectly fine album to listen to on my drive home, if a little long/monogonous. 2.5

In the words of Tom Petty himself: I don't like it, I don't like it. I reached a point listening where i realized it really is just the vocals that i find off putting, which is to say: I have nothing against the heartbreakers. 1.5 for them. (also American Girl is overrated k thx bye)

i had so much fun with this one! 3.5

this was not spreadsheet-editing music to say the least. I'm not sure i've ever been in a mood that requires this album. the heavy vocals remain not for me but the chanty and instrumental tracks were fine

usually i would bristle at (nearly? all?) covers, but i'm gonna cut this guy a break. i am mostly beefing with the editor's logic, can't help but think there's probably another album of non-derivative indian music that could have been here instead. can't deny i loved the synths and sitar tho

golden years is not my favorite bowie song. 2.5

i am unsure who i was mixing up KD Lang with, but this was a pleasant surprise for a first thing in the morning listen. I've been developing a soft spot for older & femme-fronted country recently. songs didnt feel particularly distinct but i liked the vibe. 3.5

i saw i need your lovin' on the tracklist for this and had the four tops song stuck in my head the whole time, smh. I listened to this yesterday and already can't remember a damn thing about it.

1.5

pros: it bops cons: activated an unskippable cutscene about the bush presidency 3.5

largely unremarkable, imho. 1.5?

enjoyed this more than i expected. as a lifelong audio-processing-disorder haver, til that song is called Layla. 3.5

having never heard of the cult before, this feels like it was answering a call for "please give me the rock and roll i know and crave, but new" would have loved for born to be wild not to be there tho. 3.5

weird to get two ravi shankar relatives so close together. a lot of this album feels like it belongs on the soundtrack for a wintery romcom with a bittersweet ending. didn't hate it, but can't imagine ever listening again. 2.5

mmmmm I can't deny that the fall vibes were strong, but it was not for me. 1.5

2.5

cheap trick 👍 live in tokyo 👎 2.5. stop torturing me with live albums

sledgehammer in MY eyes? it's more likely than you'd think

2.5, rounding up bc my type is absolutely girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys and i need to thank blur for phrasing it so succinctly

i've only ever had people i don't like recommend me aimee mann and so have avoided her work completely until today. it was perfectly fine and inoffensive, 2.5

storytime: in 2019 i took a road trip with my mother through pennsylvania, where we had a loooooong stretch of driving through amish country with no service and nothing to entertain us but local radio. she, a lifelong lover of puzzles and scrabble, got SO excited about "a song about play!!!" and was heartbroken that i was like. mom this is ABSOLUTELY a song about child gang activity i haven't listened to much of the offspring since i was a teenager, and i was braced for a rough listen, but liked it far more than expected.

i mean, i'm never gonna argue with the RNG giving us led zeppelin. even mid led zeppelin is neutral listening for me.

listened last week and have already completely forgotten this album. 2.5

smells like raindog in here

the velvet underground was the first band i ever heard described as "your favorite band's favorite band" and TIL i've been calling this album Andy Warhol for YEARS and that is actually, not what it's called at all huh was cool to revisit this album after discovering nico as a solo artist, i fully didn't realize that it was her on this album until this relisten anyway, i have such a fondness for this entire album that it gets a perfect score

struggled with this one. i've had the part of Milky Cereal where he just says "milky......cereal....." over and over again stuck in my head since listening over the weekend, which should be a crime. getting to the title track was like embracing an old friend

3.5

listened to this album for the first time in the last year, and i still enjoy it more than expected. 3.5

this made time move slowly, in a bad way

i often listen to these when i'm on my morning commute, and today this was the soundtrack to the first fall day where you have to put your defrosters on and the world full of fog all this to say: vibey, enjoyable, can't imagine i'll ever revisit it but it was a nice listen

i LOVE this exact flavor of 80s bullshit

VERY not for me. not so bad that it was painful tho, which is my rubric for one-star ratings. 1.5

listening to these first thing in the morning can be rough sometimes but you cannot deny staring ur day with A WOP BOO A LOO MOP A LOP BAM BOOM does bring a certain energy to one's cold, foggy morning commute

this is like, perfect background music for me. i already kinda forget what it sounded like. 3.5

less yelling than I anticipated! not a single megaphone! barely street preachers at all! 2.5

as a lifelong ballad hater, you are the sunshine of my life makes time move immeasurably slowly. superstition a win, the rest not particularly my thing

this is not the modern lovers album i grew up listening to but it DID spur a lengthy revisit to their discography at a particularly reflective & emotionally fraught moment in my life, and for that, random number generator, i am thankful

mm, not to be a jazz hater, i just don't want to listen to an hour of elevator music back to back

no strong feelings

another album that was looooooong for a front to back listen. will be going on my background noise playlist going forward, would make great study music for me

cool of elvis to reference the clash like that

we start strong with the only The Who song i know, and fade into shockingly indistinguishable dad rock. 2.5

i am so bored of guitar music man band and the same seven rock covers

this was: fine

i don't wanna say that metal is not my genre, because i like the metal my friends make, but i simply don't have this much energy or care that much about what men have to say; I fell asleep and woke up halfway through orion, then had to relisten.

slotting this beside norah jones in the "dull but inoffensive" rankings. 1.5

my tolerance for mr. costello taps out at around six songs. 2.5

kind of whatever, i will never listen to this again. 1.5

did not hold my attention for two hours but was less annoying than anticipated. 2.5

not today, sorry

in 2024 this feels kinda goofy in it's earnest delivery. like this guy HAS a point, but in a land of "ur algorithm is ruining your brain and society" hearing "tv is ruining out brains and society" is like...yeah man we know. I think this is the first sample of a phone tree i've ever heard and i do kind of like that there's a record of that in this. 2.5

i can never decide if albums deserve more or less stars because of the amount i have been made to listen to them as a filthy american.

my friend made me listen to this a couple weeks ago when we were picking up a mutual friend from the airport. there was no parking, and so we just drove around in loops for like a DVD idle screen waiting for her flight to get in. it was perfect for that, so great work there. would never listen to it in my spare time, it's a little too minimalist to make my brain smooth in the way i think it's attempting to

i knew D.A.N.C.E. but not the rest of the album—was delighted to get daft punk's fruitier cousin 💅

eh

1.5

enjoyed this more than anticipated, but there were some hard misses in there

five stars not because i think it's perfect music, but because it's an album that means a lot to me

i enjoyed a lot of the instrumentation in this but was otherwise kinda just like: well that sure is 80s music that sounds like other 80s music. 2.5

Listened to this suuuuuper early in the morning, enjoyable but liked the last song in particular. 3.5

had all three of their songs i liked, plus one new-to-me that i also liked. at it's best, i think some songs kinda resemble a more upbeat lou reed, at worst it's just kind of annoying. 3.5? my mom was a huge violent femmes fan so i have a soft spot

this really was not for me. something about his vocal delivery or the way it was mixed just drove me absolutely nuts. eid ma clack shaw dealt me psychic damage

title track has been in my head all day. my fondness for loretta lynn has grown since similar-era country since i was introduced to queer two-step night, where fist city is a stone-cold classic. 3.5

weirdly good for being stuck on the tarmac, but overall not for me

woof

soft cell's mix of tainted love that blends into where did our love go is one of my favorite songs maybe ever? regrettably it's not on this album in that form. i did a full listen through of this a couple years back and remember hating it, but maybe it's an acquired taste bc it didn't go down as bad as i remembered this time. still a 2.5 probably

carole king gets me in the nostalgia every time

never listened to this all the way through before! yes ofc

the parts of this i liked were the parts that leaned almost bowie-adjacent. the parts i didn't like felt like someone armed my tinnitus with an icepick. 1.5

as a lifelong ballad hater, turns out some murder ballads are ok. i liked a number of these while listening but i'm almost positive a future me is gonna be listening to shuffle asking wtf is wrong with current me.

never heard this before, this is 90s as hell. pretty sure my doctor's office uses rob's theme as hold music. inoffensive. 2.5

listened during a snowy miserable commute to work and am afraid ms holiday suffered for that, this was a bit too jazzy christmassy for me to enjoy

yeehaw

i regret to inform that mr. morrison is intolerable for more than three minutes at a time. hard to hear, i know. 1.5

this hits all the pillars of jazz for me: one part easy listening, one part lets me pretend my life is a noir movie, and probably important in a way i don't have the musical background to understand. i will always recognize So What because when i worked in event planning it was the go to backing track for fundraisers; gotta make the rich people feel Classy 3.5