Alien Lanes
Guided By Voicessongs weren't super distinctive but i enjoyed it as an album
songs weren't super distinctive but i enjoyed it as an album
the second star is for not *entirely* filling me with contempt
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
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
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
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
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
this one rly benefited from the full speaker setup i had access to this day. 3.5
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
2.5
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
2.5 (affectionate)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
tiktok has fucking embedded daydreamin' in my head. i was exactly in the mood for this today. 3.5
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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