Very earnest in the feeling it wants to make. Loved the energy.
Fun and catchy. None of the songs over stay their welcome, lyrics are fun, and theres enough variety to keep the listener engaged. I think that most people will find at least one song they like
Sounds like coffee shop music in a hallmark movie
Has a very consistent vibe with a lot of substance going toward the feeling of the album
The album felt long winded for the story it wanted to tell and could have used a few cuts or at least changes to make it flow better.
Its a bit nostalgic for me but even thr unfamiliar songs were great
There were some songs I enjoyed here, mostly near the middle and one near the end. The rest were kind of too eclectic for my taste. I can respect the effort to make an album like this but it doesn't gel for me as much as some folks.
Liked the psychedelic stuff but the bluesy stuff was little mid for me.
This album could have been greatly improved with more organ
Theres a level of theatrics and operatics that can't be beat.
Truly what I think defines rock opera
This one comes down to a personal thing. The heavy instrumentation promised a kind of music I really enjoy only to transition to a more reserved indie vocal I do not like. The disappointment I got listening to this album was palpable.
The singles are good, MM can write music. But the rest of the album is miserably self indulgent.
The instrumentation was okay but I don't find Iggy pop's voice very appealing.
Truthfully the most uninteresting album we have listened to. Something about it was so utterly milk toast I can't get up the energy to be mad. Not even sure why its in the list.
Its classic. Not much I can add that hasnt been said
It didn't blow my mind or anything. Wasn't bad though.
For the genre of that kind of pop relevant punk sound this is a perfect album.
I can see the relevence but otherwise not a particularly stirring listening experince
Extremely good. I can see why this would have been a big album for the time
Each song is its own audio story. Even at its most chaotic you can feel the connective tissue of good composition just underneath the surface. The voice work perfectly matched to the instrumentation, tourtured but varied. Even on the slower tracks the sound is full and audibly varied.
Good ass album
Its by far the most accessible Metallica album. Everything is good, the production is top notch. However, that does lessen a bit of what makes thrash so enjoyable so its not perfect. That feeling metallica wasn't comfortable with the material can be noticed
Theres a certain sound indie has that I don't care for but can tolerate. However, the vocals and weird spoken word segments made this album unpleasent at best and infuriating at worst to listen to.
I was shocked by how good this was.
There was only a few of the vocal performances I didn't care for.
It was really good. But in that kind of way that mames for good background music. But the kind you actually want playing as you're doing something elss rather than because its forgettable or something like that
It was okay but the lead singer annoyed me a lot
I found the rough darker sound refreshing for the decade
It was pretty good. Would have been a 4 but way too many multiminute intros of Biggie making out with chicks
Iunno what this was but I loved it
It was pretty good, nothing bothered me but nothing wowed me either.
It was okay, but nothing really stood out. Reminded me that Jack Strauber exists tho
Started out as like WHAM but less upbeat, fizzled out by the end.
I'm kinda disappointed really
A couple of greats and the rest are good listening. If it had like one or two more stand outs it might have gotten a 5
This was the most obnoxious album I have had to listen to yet. The sound was muddy, there was a 23 minute meandering go no where song, 7 minutes of feedback and to end it all a 36 second closer.
I hated it so much it actually nearly ruined my day.
It wasn't terrible, but the messaging felt mixed at times and really took me out of it.
It was okay, but it felt very overproduced and bland. All the enjoyably edges sanded off.
Really fun album. A few of mene songs made me chuckle.
Its dolly like what else am I gonna give it
Very laid back but lots of depth
Surprisingly good listening. I was expecting more experimental stuff, but instead a very solid collection of tracks
I think if this album had dedicated to being more or less ironic I would have enjoyed it much more.
As is its just ironic enough to be noticeable but not enough to avoid that "is this guy serious? What is this? Why would anyone say that?"
The instrumentation would be a 4. However, everytime I have to listen to Bono monolog about some ill of the world in the most tired and selfagrandizing way or offer the most look at me sacrine love song possible I feel my eyes roll almost out of my skull.
Yet again Joy Division delivers on immaculate vibes. Definitely not fot everyone but if you like what this genre is selling you can't do much better than this album.
Its dreary, cool, but bubbling with a lot of emotion underneath.
I'd give it 6 if I could.
Diet grunge
You can recognize the flavor but man it has a weird after taste
They should have made the entire album their female vocalist and whoever (if the writer was separate) wrote her songs those 2 or so songs were good the rest? Insufferable twee stuff.
Started out very strong with a great soundscape but did nothing interesting with it. Over stayed its welcome immensely.
Its a good mix of metal sounds and industrial.
I think theres a reason they've made it so far.
About as good as you can get without having anything meaningful to say.
Funny, high energy, endlessly dynamic.
Its a party album and it does its job right.
I think there a reason everyone only remembers the first track on the album
Didnt realize this had pretty much every mgmt song I like
Nice!
Kind of dull. It was hard to tell when a song ended and a new one started unless I was fully focused on the song at hand.
While lyrically its a bit tiresome I have a lot of nostalgia for that southern sound.
Instrumentation was great, individual song lyrics were okay. But when you have to listen to basically the same song lyrics wise even the short runtime becomes taxing to get through.
There was something very fun about this album. It was a very good listen.
Incredible, it was like a cultural greatest hits.
Every song was amazing.
This was a fight for me between a 3 and a 4. Ultimately I had to decide what I thought of the tracks that didn't have Grace Slick doing vocals, because every track featuring her was a 5. You could have called it "a bunch of meh stuff to break up the Slick Show" and I would have no argument for that.
I settled on 4, the rest of the tracks were kind of part of that era that does't do anything for me but I don't hate it either.
3/5 no Grace Slick
5/5 Grace in it
Its pretty much all bangers or at least good listening.
Is good stuff
Pretty good, felt longer than it was for some reason.
There is a type of musician who shows they know how to make music.
Their instrumentation is amazing and their singing voice is great.
But for some reason instead of making great music they try to drown it in weird song titles, "I'm so clever look at me I made my voice sound like a seal just because its cReAtIvE", and add out of place sound effects for some reason.
Look I get why people like this stuff but it really would have been much more enjoyable to me if the lyrical work had been cut out all together.
4/5 for instrumentation
0/5 vocal choices (the vocal work itself? It was aight)
I see what he was going for but personally it didnt really appeal to me.
If you like this genre I'm sure you will love it.
It's very well composed and executed, but appeals to musical tastes that I dont personally have.
A 3 based on taste but its very good.
I think meandering tends to be a style feature of prog, one I don't particularly enjoy. There are individual parts I like but just as often there are parts I find diffucult to understand why they were included in a particular song. This happened a ton while trying to listen to this album, including a few times I had to check my phone to see if my player had accidentally stopped.
I think we're entitled to not like something without not knowing why for sure. It should be rare, its important to know why you don't like something.
That said there are exceptions and for me this is one of them.
This is a 3 by way of there was stuff I really liked (turnstiles) and stuff I really didn't (lots of on the beach).
I'd love a song at the start then it would sputter out and I'd fight the urge to skip to the next song. I didn't hate this album but I probably wont be going back to it any time soon.
I found this album surprisingly good. I was engaged the entire listen and it brightened my day. I really needed it.
I am so tired of 60s dude voice
It had a lot of energy and the discontent was palpable. Really good album
I was much more surprised by the sound scape than I thought I would be. There was a lot more smalle things in the songs that I found myself listening closely to. Also synth is always welcome.
4 is probably too high but I had a great time listening to this. It was goofy all the way through but fun.
This album sits on the 3 range of "I can see the artistry but the art isn't for me."
A couple of the tracks were very appealing and I enjoyed a lot (Song for Assata) but a majority of the songs slipped into the background and I had to reorientate myself to listen.
If Hip Hop is your style give this a listen
This was one of the most disappointing albums. I don't listen to the white stripes so when I saw the cover I got excited. The title and the aesthetic had me ready for something weird and eclectic (like maybe a strange style like Tom Waits or the bonkers themes of Voltaire). What I got was kinda ok alt versions of music I prefer in its original form.
Outside a couple of stand out tracks this was a painfully below average miss.
This 2 has some qualifiers. 90% of this album was a drag. It felt plodding, shallow, and empty. It made me tired to listen to, like nothing going on most of the time and when it picked up neil proceeded to drag it back into tired slumber.
That said, "The Needle and The Damage" and "Words" saved this album from 1 territory for me. Both tracks synergized well with Neil's style and I felt myself getting into the songs when his vocals came in instead of groaning.
Enjoyable, though a bit samey track to track.
Very good.
The tracks that are going to stay in public memory (living after midnight) really exemplify what classic metal is. However, there are a couple of filler tracks that weigh down an otherwise perfect album (red white and blue)
This album was an absolute joy.
It was like if you took the DNA of Danzing, Pantera, and Bob Marley with some dashes of punk and grove then threw it into the primordial ooze. Even during the few moments I wasn't digging a sound or a vocal it quickly tossed in a thing I loved.
Re-ignition genuinely gave me chills.
I'd rate it a 6 if I could.
You know, I should like this. I like oddball lyrics, irreverent humor, and a more sombre soundscape.
But Morrissey comes at it with such an eyeroll ironic attitude and aggressive britishness that it really put me off. It was like getting stabbed by a british hoodlum with a top hat on while reciting slam poerty.
First of the gang to die kinda saved it though from being a 1 for me
There was a lot going on here. The mix of religious themes and symbolisms with pop sensibility. The mixture of pop and experimental sounds.
About the only thing I can really knock it for is it had just a couple of tracks that definitely would carry "required for radio play" tag during production.
This is one time I think this format hurt the album.
Each song on their own is very powerful, evocative, and pointed.
However, back to back it starts to turn into a slurry of anger and repeated imagery that can test a person's music endurance.
I'm giving a 4.
Each song on its own very 4/5
As an album a 3.
Pick the protest mosh song for you.
Loved this album.
Karen's voice is both powerful but capable of softness that really compliments the instrumentation. The only thing that I think knocks the album is occasionally during long tracks of just the instruments I can definitely feel the lack of the fullness her voice provides
As a person who enjoys things like NiN and Death Grips I guess theres a limit to sounds that even make me squeamish.
This felt invasive, wrong possibly. However, especially on finding out this was made in 78 I think I "get" it. Someone had to put the screws to what sounds could amalgamate into something like music. Without utter sonic nightmare fuel like this the music I enjoy might not exist. For that it gets a 3 solely on technical accomplishments.
That said I'm not touching this album outside like 2 songs with a 10 foot pole.
It was an alright listening experince. A little too laid back for my personal taste but it was bearable.
It was pretty good. Nothing particularly had a wow factor to it but the complete package was tight, short, and well composed.
It's always a treat to get albums from abroad. Not my usual listen but I enjoyed the experience.
The beatles are always difficult to rate. They are undeniable important to music and are beloved culturally as one of the best bands to ever exist. So, when you listen to the album many tout as the greatest album of all time and find it just pretty good you tend to ask yourself "did I really not like it that much or is it not as good of a listen as people say it is."
For me? I think I fall on the latter. Several tracks were very interesting like I want you or Because. Then the opening was a series of songs that, at least to me were just more of the same Beatles everybody knows already. Maybe I'm insane but Come Together isn't nearly the megatrack people thing it is.
I really enjoyed about 4 tracks, the rest I really could have been fine not sitting through.
This had a an energy of music made for slightly edgy early 2000's tv. Stuff like angel. Luckily for this album thats a sound I like.
It was a bit melancholy and a bit dingy. It's good rainy day listening
Morrissey without making me want to strangle a british person.
Reserved, very british but I never felt condescended to. Everything else was okay.
While nothing on this album is going to make it to my liked songs of spotify that does not mean it was a bad album. Rather this album was one of the most energized background listens I've had in awhile. I probably won't seek it out again but I enjoyed my time with it.
Its was alright.
Kinda the sound of radio safe rock in the late 80s
This beatle album upsets me a little bit.
I spend my entire life hearing about how this band is the best in the world and hearing pretty okay album after pretty okay album I didn't get it. Hearing that Abby Road, the most dad rock album I had ever heard, was the pinnacle of music and finding out it was just pretty good was annoying.
But then to hear this, songs that repeatedly did interesting and cool stuff, and know that The Beatles could have kept doing more of this, seeing what I could have gotten?
Makes me oddly mad.
This had a very "overstaying it's welcome" vibe.
It wasnt terrible but I found myself starting to proverbially looking at my watch a lot.
There was a bit of nostalgia here for that early 2000s tv sound track.
But it was overall just okay.
This is a toughy for me to rate. I enjoyed the music and I don't really have anything against Sinatra's voice but there was something missing.
This was great! There was a lot to enjoy.
Bonus points for having 5+ minute songs that didn't devolve into nonsense
I'm not sure what I was expecting from an album called The Genius of Ray Charles. Perhaps I was expecting something more grand or more intricate?
Either way I was kind of let down. Its not a bad album but man it really lacked umph.
This album was weird. It feels like it wanted to be a silent hill ost esqe experience, experimental selection, and a standard album all at once.
I'd be listening to a very interesting track only for the song to warp to something less engaging when vocals came in for example.
It felt confused.
You don't get to read a urban legend copypasta at me without my consent and then end the album on a 17 minute meander meme fest.
The instrumentation was great, punchy and fun.
Singer, bog standard punk guy.
4/5 music
2/5 voice
The format was not friendly to this album in my eyes.
Individually the songs were fun, low key, and easy to listen to. However, as beginning to end experience it was miserable. Like looking at tv static for 30 minutes, very little change to my ear. I'm sure if I was a fan of the genre I could point out a myriad of subtle and major changes between songs but as a casual nonlistener these just don't stand out.
Songs on their own: 3.5
Album experience:2
A very interesting international album.
Maybe its because almost every other album from the time period was so cookie cutter same guy voice but this was a nice change.
The vocals were different enough to enjoy and the instrumentation was pleasant.
This was a very pleasant surprise.
I normally prefer more full aggressive sounds but this was a treat. It was like listening to delicate clockwork, every element ticking a long right where it needed to be.
Probably the most listenable Young album. I think the problem is his voice is incredibly grating if not partially covered by additional sound.
It took looking up his bio to understand why he keeps showing up.
There was something that just didn't hook me.
Like, I feel like the album was stretched thin. There was some tracks I enjoyed (footprints) but more that had me scratching my head (pubic enemy or Ham' n eggs). It was hard to tell if I was supposed to take it seriously or was it just a party album.
Iunno maybe it just wasn't for me.
