A Night At The Opera
QueenI lost my virginity to my best friend Puma while listening to this album. Sex was one star. Album is a 5.
I lost my virginity to my best friend Puma while listening to this album. Sex was one star. Album is a 5.
Never understood the acclaim for this album. It's really quite boring. Sprawl II is the only redeeming factor.
Played it backwards, killed a goat.
There's a 5 star album hiding in there.
Bunches of classic songs that I'm fine with never hearing again.
Never understood the acclaim for this album. It's really quite boring. Sprawl II is the only redeeming factor.
The cover of War Pigs is so faithful, there's no reason not to just listen to the original. Epic is still a banger, but like much of the rest of the album, is peppered with some corny lyrics and vocal delivery. Sorry Geof, just not my cup of tea.
My friend Spizzy makes a tasty drink called a Tough Guy Coffee. 1 cup of coffee. 3 shots of Ezra Brooks bourbon cream. Whip cream as desired. Mitchels sprinkles for the W. The coffee is a stimulant, gets the heart pumping. The Bourbon is a depressant, slows down messages from brain to body. That's two different drugs. This is dangerous! It's even called "Tough Guy." But it doesn't take itself seriously. It's got whipped cream. That's playful! And sprinkles? OK, is this for kids? But it's boozy/buzzy, so it can't be. Is it really for Tough Guys? If so it probably wouldn't be called Tough Guy. It'd be called Slayer or something. And some people hate coffee, so no amount of whipped cream is going to make it palatable. Some people like all the ingredients of a Tough Guy Coffee and will enjoy one every now and again, but would never drink 2 in a row. It's a once in a while type thing.
The review for "Shark Sandwich" was merely a two word review which simply read "Shit Sandwich".
Reminds me of the summer I spent face down in a gutter in New York City.
This is the first album on here that I haven't listened to before to earn a five. I enjoyed everything about it!
Really good beats, but I need more melody.
Loved the glam rock much more than the punk.
I remembered this album being a 5, but as I listened yesterday I realized that I don't like it as much as I thought I did. It was the right album at the right time, but that time has passed.
Pretty good stuff, but each song seemed to be a bit over-long and repetitive.
What's not to love? 30 minutes of perfectly crafted pop songs.
Good, but too long.
Not bad background music, but nothing stands out. Completely forgettable, but pretty.
I'm one of those sickos who likes REM's 90s stuff more than their early stuff.
I didn't hate it, but I can't imagine anyone saying that it's "essential." it's just fine.
Half of the songs are great. The whole thing suffers a bit from edge lord lyrics.
The title track came up on my Discovery Weekly a long time ago, and I've loved it ever since. I've tried to get into this album a few times since, and I just can't do it.
Not my favorite of Paul Simon's work by a long shot.
Moments on the verge of being very good, but ultimately just OK
Touches of Beatles, The Fall, Bowie, and even Pulp. And you can hear the beginning of Gorrilaz. The MOR riff, the You're so Great vocal melody, and "Good Morning Lethargy" have been bouncing through my head for almost 30 years.
Too long. Too repetitive. Too boring.
Not as good as Different Class or His n Hers, but a fine outing.
I don't really like Christmas music, but I love The Wall of Sound. Tough call, but I'll settle on a 3.
Not my thing. Fine background music, but nothing that makes me want to revisit it.
I put this in the category of music that is more fun to make than to listen to.
I lost my virginity to my best friend Puma while listening to this album. Sex was one star. Album is a 5.
There's a 4 song run from The Weight through Chest Fever that is perfection.
Double albums and live albums get docked a star almost automatically.
Not my thing at all
I actually quite like this garbage. No need for any of the songs to be longer than 3 minutes though. And definitely no reason for this to be an hour long album. Scaled WAY down this would be a fun post-punk party. If the whole thing was 30 minutes long, it'd be a 5.
I was excited when this popped up, thinking it would be a 4 or 5. But after listening to it, it turns out I only enjoy the radio hits and the rest is... Meh
I like a lot of Dylan. Just nothing on this album really.
Love it. I don't care for songs longer than 3 or 4 minutes usually, so I'm docking a star.
Not my jam.
Dark poppy synth. The Cutter is great, as are a couple other songs.
When I was a kid, the family who lived in the house behind me would often have late night parties and I wouldn't be able to sleep because this type of music would be playing loudly.
Live album: minus one point Super long songs: minus one point Enjoyable background music.
Some songs came close to being good, but none quite got there.
Very good. Not a genre I gravitate to, so on my scale it gets a 3.
I was afraid each song was going to sound exactly the same, but that's definitely not the case. Fun listen!
I'd pick The Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby over this any day.
Hot take: Tom Waits' voice is unpleasant to listen to.
This album is amazing. There's a couple of forgettable tunes, but they're canceled out by the bangers. Probably a 4.5, but gets elevated by the fact that I had John Lennon's Imagine yesterday. It's crazy how much better this album is than Imagine.
Needs more guitar solos.
Way less filler than there usually is on a double album, so I won't give it my normal one star deduction for over indulgence. Also, it could be a quintuple album and still get a four based solely on the inclusion of Benny and the Jets.
I'll most likely never listen to it again, but it does the job it set out to do. I don't like his singing style, but that's a cultural difference. I liked the guest vocalists more. The strings are great throughout. Probably 100 options for a Britney Spears Toxic style bop for Max Martin to pick from.
Buzzcocks always makes me wish I was listening to the Ramones instead.
Van Halen with Dave is the best Van Halen. Van Halen By Van Halen is the best Van Halen.
Imagine an entire album of Kim Deal teaching you how to spell things the way she does on Velouria. That album would get 6 stars.
Maybe I wasn't in the proper mood for this, but I did not enjoy anything about it. Possibly multiple listens would change my opinion, but I struggled to get through it once.
His voice is great. I like the orchestration. Overall I wanted to like this. Listened to it twice and nothing stuck. His group The Walker Brothers had some cool stuff though.
A good start. And if you start them up, they'll never stop, never stop, never stop, never stop. Then you'll see a grown man cry.
I was 9 when this came out. You'd think I'd be more into metal than I am with the number of hours I've spent listening to GnFnR.
This is a fun record. I used to love the "make fun of everything" attitude, but now I find it exhausting. Was anyone or anything genuine enough to escape Frank's ire? At some point - kinda like South Park - pointing out how lame everyone else is loses some appeal. Still going to rate it high though because I don't want to be labeled lame.
Donovan is definitely a "greatest hits" artist for me. He's got a bunch of great songs, but the non hits are pretty much all misses.
I have too much anxiety to be able to enjoy this.
I really like 4 songs on this album (Neighborhood 1 & 3, Wake Up, and Rebellion). The rest is boring and points to the boring direction they went in after.
3.5
Probably a 1.5 because of a few interesting moments, but I thought this was pretty annoying.
Gotta love Bolan
One hour and 17 minutes! C'mon Christina, EDIT. Some bangers, for sure, and her voice is obviously great. 30 minute album would probably be 5 stars, but lots of these songs started sounding the same and could have been dropped.
Very close to a 5, but early rap doesn't switch up the rhyming patterns enough.
Fine as background music, I guess. The Tracey Thorn feature is the highlight, canceled out by the absolute garbage of a rap song that comes later. Stick with The Jam.
Loses a star for being a double album, per my usual. The Stevie Nick's songs sound like Stevie Nick's, but the rest is pretty great!
A real mixed bag.
Good fun! Raggae is a side course rather than a main dish, but this is a delicious one.
To no one's surprise, Doug rates this album highly. 4.5 for a few tracks that miss the mark.
Clever wordplay. Catchy vocal melodies, many of which have been rolling around in my head for years.
Boring and generic. I already don't remember anything about it.
3.5 There was a time when this would have been a 5 for me, but for some reason I've enjoyed it less as time goes on.
I just don't care for lots of 70s style male harmonizing. There were a couple songs that I enjoyed, and I appreciated the short run time. Torn between a 2 and a 3, because it is technically good, just not my thing.
I enjoy weirdo art rock like this. This is a good album, but it's not like I'm going to seek it out again.
Background music for a barbecue.
Played it backwards, killed a goat.
Elton is great, but this album is just OK.
I was surprised how much I disliked this album. On paper it seems like it would be my kind of thing, but in reality I thought it was soooo annoying. I remember seeing this in the record store all the time, and being intrigued by its packaging. Turns out the lego case is the only interesting thing about it.
7 great songs. 4 forgettable songs.
Seems like they had no ideas of their own here. Motorhead, trainspotting, vanishing point. And a Scottish band singing about Rosa Parks, MLK, and Malcolm X- saying every brother is a star... Seems worse than anything Bono could come up with.
I like this band a lot, but like a lot of electronic dance music it gets a bit repetitive. Say what you need to say in 3 minutes and move on.
I really liked True Confessions. Nothing else really stood out.
There's nothing special here. I'll Stick Around is pretty much the only Foo Fighters song I've ever liked, and even that isn't special. Can't give it a One because it isn't annoying or offensive. Just boring. It's fun to say "foo FIGHTers the way Christopher Walken did though.
Not good. Not essential.
Mostly perfect. 4.5 stars.
When I was in middle school this kid Nick, who I was friends with since kindergarten, decided he didn't want to be my friend anymore - for middle school reasons. One day he was talking to another kid about The Doors and he says to me "I bet you don't even know The Doors." I pretended that I did and he asked what my favorite song was. I said I needed to think about it. So he continues talking about The Doors with whoever and I'm literally sitting right next to him. So I made mental notes of any song titles he mentioned. About 5 minutes later he circles back to questioning me, so I rattle of the songs I just heard him say. This seemed to satisfy him because he's an idiot, so he backed off. That weekend I made it my mission to get some Doors music because it seemed important to know what I was thinking about if I was questioned again - for middle school reasons. Anyhow, I got The Doors greatest hits on cassette. Studied it. Listened to it non stop until I liked it. Never talked to Nick again about The Doors, or probably about anything else either. Still like the Doors though.
This album is really fun! A few too many fillers, but the actual songs are all pretty great.
Probably would have been a 5 immediately after the first time I heard it. For some reason this album lost its luster really quick. I think that's sort of a Antinoff specialty. Hits you with (Melo) dramatic sounds that don't hold up after closer inspection. Still good songs, but something just ain't right.
Wonderful album! On the fence between 4 and 5 stars, but Debbie's amazing voice earnes that extra star all by itself.
This album has never clicked with me. It's not bad, there's just nothing that makes me want to come back for more.
Remind Me is a good song, but nothing else grabbed me.
This is a 3.5, but I went with 4 because of the strength of the last four songs.
The Beautiful Ones and Computer Blue are weak spots, but everything else is perfection.
All the reviews on here are spot on. Starts with 3 bangers, then goes nowhere.
Intro is such a good song, but nothing else even comes close
This album reminds me my friend's assessment of post Kid A Radiohead: I liked them more when they made songs. Ended up enjoying it more than I did when it first came out, but I don't love it. 2.5
I hate how much I love Morrissey.
Good, but ultimately pretty boring.
This is idiot music for idiots, and I love it. My dad had this on 8 track, and I listened to it all the time just because it was fun to play with the 8 track player. Sentimentality wins this time!
I didn't enjoy a single note of this.
Nearly perfect. The lyrics are just stupid enough to dock a point.
I don't care for the music or the vocals from Steely Dan. Other than that, they're OK.
Not offensively bad, just boring
I sometimes get Dizee Rascal confused with Rascal Flatts.
This is the kind of album that's very hard to rate. It's not bad, I just don't like it.
It's 4AM. You're drunk. All your friends went home. You stare into the nearly extinguished bonfire. You should have gone to bed hours ago. Your every thought seems brilliant, yet fleeting. This music makes sense in this moment.
I don't do the right kind of drugs for this.
I liked the talk about microtones and the counting to like 15 or whatever, but to my western ears it all sounds the same.
The songs are really good. The experiments are not as listenable, but are short enough to keep it interesting.
Creedence has a distinct sound that's all them. Some songs start to sound the same because of it, but it's all still good.
Loses a star for being a double album. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Some potential here, but I don't think I'd ever choose to listen to this again.
Some parts border on the anxiety inducing type of jazz that I can't get into. Overall, the good outweighs the bad.
Waste of a great band name.
I've listened to this a couple times over the years when I see it mentioned as being great beyond Take On Me. I still don't think it's that good beyond the obviously great single.
The Police are most definitely a Greatest Hits band. And the hits are just OK.
A little Hammond goes a long way. A unique sound that starts to feel like novelty music after a while. Edges close to being carousel music or a soap opera theme. I like Green Onions a lot, obviously, and their Christmas album is great.
Fine as quiet background music at a dimly lit hipster bar. Nothing memorable here though.