man i’m usually okay with metallica but the level of ego on display here is absolutely unreal
Red hot chili peppers would be so much better if literally anyone else was the lead singer. Flea, john, and chad are all arguable GOATs of their respective instruments.
Not as good as thick as a brick but still, one of my favourite prog albums.
This is a very very light 3. Almost a 2.5
Decent 60’s pop, but far from his best.
Fun fact about Neil Young is that disliking him in Canada is considered high treason and is punishable by death.
Were they the first twee pop band? Big Belle and Sebastian vibes here.
Definitely my personal favourite band of the Grunge Big 4. The front half is loaded with all the hits so the album runs out of steam a *tiny* bit in the second half but still, great stuff all around. 4.5/5
Crazy that people continue to make hardcore punk when it so clearly peaked here. All 26 songs that minor threat recorded are worth your time but these are the most essential.
Well produced but fairly unexceptional 80’s pop. The title track is the standout. On the note of that title track, very bold of Madonna to blacklist Sinead O’Connor the way she did, for being anti Catholic, when “Like a Prayer” is a song comparing sucking dick to praying.
Good stuff. Sunshine of your love, tales of brave ulysses, and SWLABR are all classics, rest are kinda filler. Still a fun album.
She definitely has a great voice, but man, all I can think of when I hear her music is waiting for my name to be called at the dentist’s office.
This is the type of music the Benadryl hat man would be on.
A bit samey and maybe 15 minutes too long. But goddamn the songwriting and production here is just incredible. Today might be my FAVOURITE alt rock song of the entire 90’s. and that’s saying something.
What more needs to be said? It’s great, obviously. Great songwriting, great production. The contrasting voices and songwriting of jim lemon and pete mccarthy never sounded more distinct than on a day in the life. Lucy in the sky is in the running for all time best song about drugs. And Mr kite is a big standout for me as well, i love a good circus themed song.
60 years ago this was the music people would put on to fuck to.
Guy with guitar. Good stuff.
funny that a band who started as a member of the early 2000’s wave of garage rock revival would have their biggest hit years later with a dance pop song. still a pretty good dance pop song though.
Cool stuff. Definitely weird to have such a late career album from them in here though.
First artist so far I hadn’t heard of! Proper british trip-hop, just like those mad blokes from bristol.
Pretty by-the-numbers 60’s psych/blues rock. Can’t *quite* beat contemporaries like Jefferson Airplane or Big Brother and the Holding company. Still, the Lyndon Johnson track is a bit highlight.
Every RHCP song: Loop a doop, funk suckin mama
In the state of california, you know that you wanna
Got a big kiss and you know i’m not a faker,
Bee bee beep beep, i’m cheering for the lakers
Under the bridge is 10/10 though let’s be real
They named a song on here after an airport.
Much like the other 3 big british invasion bands (The WifeBeaters, rolling rock, and the fetishes), the who really hit their stride in the latter half of the 60’s, a few albums into their career. Interesting hearing the roots of greatness here though. Moon and entwistle, often considered some of the GOATs of drum and bass respectively, are not quite as virtuousic as they would be in the years to come. Also, seems like a weird decision to not include can’t explain on the standard track listing??
Of the grunge big four these guys are easily the darkest and angriest. This album is very good but unfortunately Jar of Flies overshadows their entire discography for me and I wish *all* their albums sounded like that one. Still this is solid. Probably my least favourite act of the 4 though.
“Mom, can we get Portishead?”
“We have Portishead at home.”
As usual per Madonna there is a few fun dance songs that I assume countless gay men have grinded and fucked to, but there is so many bland ballads that overshadow those.
mark e smith and the twangy bunch
kinda surprised how much i enjoyed this. for an 80’s pop album, the track listing is surprisingly tight. and as many have pointed out, the production sounds like a sega genesis game. man in the mirror hasn’t aged too well tho, that shit corny as hell.
Like depeche mode but corny. some good tracks but MAN i hate go west so much.
okay this fucking rules. i had only heard “Been Caught Stealing” before this and thought, yeah it’s fine. but this was rad. noisy, anarchic, fun, a wee bit psychedelic in that brown, slightly nasty butthole surfers/ early flaming lips kinda way. a little bit pixies, a little bit chili peppers, maybe a *tiny* bit sonic youth? all in all super fun.
Morrissey gets a fair amount of hate, and frankly I don’t get it. He should be getting a lot more. 5/5 instrumentals on this one. 1/5 vocals and lyrics.
Nick Cave has gotta be one of the most consistent songwriters around. 5 decades of music and not a single bad album. I don’t QUITE think this one surpasses murder ballads or let love in for me but still, damn.
Nothing exceptional or mind blowing, just earnest and sweet country music.
Man this is not even close to his best. Far from an essential album.
What a talent. Like a female Chet Baker. Really tragic how many more years of music she could have made.
Yes it drags like crazy. Yes it’s Limp Bizkit. Yes, at least 4 of the tracks on here, i unironcally love. It’s 2023. We can all finally admit to ourselves that My Way is one of the hardest songs in history.
Michael Stipe: Morrissey but american, and also talented and not a piece of shit.
Such a fun, breezy, light, and chill album. Especially considering it comes from a german experimental rock band. This album always makes me think of drifting down the river in a tube late in the summer.
Easy 5 stars. not much to say. it’s fantastic.
Nothing will ever beat the feeling of being 16 years old and “interested in music” and going through one of many “best albums of all time” list and stumbling into this completely blind. I think i made it 3 tracks in the first time before turning it off in confusion. anyway 16 year old me was a moron this is almost a perfect album.
Groovin. Not QUITE as funky or danceable as the mayfield i’m used too, but still a class act.
This may very well be the first “experimental” album of any kind that I ever listened to, at the tender age of 13. This has gotta be the absolute antithesis of what “rock and roll” was to the average person in the 60’s. 3 chord pop songs with light guitar distortion and mild sexual innuendo this was not. Here was a group of weirdo artists that didn’t care about appealing to the masses, so they wrote grimy, lo fi jams explicitly about drugs and drug dealers, extreme BSDM, and the seedy underbelly of 60’s new york. Heroin is the highlight for sure.
Man this is some goofy shit. The gnome has sentimental value to me for being the first song I listened to the very first time I did LSD but otherwise, half the tracks here are almost TOO silly. The highlights here though (Lucifer sam, Flaming, and interstellar overdrive of course) are some top tier 60’s psyche.
