The whole album sounds like Blitzkrieg Bop and Judy is a Punk. If you’re in the mood for that, listen to this album. Fergus came running in with his rope, so he loves this album’s danceability.
I mean, come on.
Great acoustic album, super mellow, and fun. Me and Julio down by the schoolyard…
Some fun, trippy jams, and their big hit: “I’ve seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I’m on my way”
Just can’t get down with David Byrne’s voice…
Smoky, easy listening, jazzy. Equally at home in a cocktail lounge or a dentist‘s office. “Don’t know why“ is the only song I knew going in, same coming out… Overall, I feel chill after this album.
A classic
If this album was playing in the background of a dive bar, I would nod with the beat and enjoy it just fine, but I would probably think it was the Grateful Dead back catalog. Totally serviceable, like a cold highlife. The exception is “the weight“, ubiquitous hit that says, “take a load off Fanny“. BTW, “put the load right on me” is the title of your sex tape.
Teen girl dance pop, not really my thing.
I just can’t get into Thom York’s voice, it feels like a theremin. Quavering. Makes me feel itchy inside. The craft is acknowledged, not my thing.
New wave. Talking Heads/Duran Duran vibes (heavier on the former). Not loving so far.
“British soul“… Sounds like a lounge act. Warm electric piano, smooth…we used to call it “soft rock“, suitable for dental waiting rooms. Had to skip a couple songs, irritating.
Loved this whole album. Just the best anti-authority fuck you punk vibes. Police and thieves is a gem.
Beautiful album. Life on mars!
This frank Sinatra album surprised me out of the gate, it was “a vibe” as the kids say… but after The Girl from Ipanema, it’s become super repetitive. Slow, crooning love songs with atomic-age strings beneath. This is the album Betty Draper would put on.
Update: kinda great background music for working.
Some solid 60s pop, starts to veer into “parsley sage rosemary and thyme“ Britishy shit. Some gems: time of the season and this will be our year.
The album didn't hit for me, I might enjoy it more if I was very high. I always love their guitar sound and vocals, but the best songs on this album are covers that others did better (hey joe, I know you rider). "Hey mr spaceman won't you please take me along"... I'm just. not. high. enough.
“Irish folk punk“ absolutely yes. Some great storytelling at times heartbreaking and others downright goofy. Dance a jig, do the polka, then cry in your beer. If that’s the mood, play this album.
A classic for a reason. More great songs came from this album than I even remembered.
Not really my vibe… some Springsteen-esque storytelling, one Beatles/Dylan “na na song”… and her big hit, “all I wanna do”.
Sick guitar work, didn’t understand a single word. “The king of Desert blues“, dude was from Mali.
Pretty but not my vibe
One of my absolute favorites. It’s like a warm fuzzy blanket every time I listen.
Some truly wonderful songs on this album, psychedelic harmonies, etc… a fair amount of poppy 60s teenybopper romance as well.
Loved this album. My favorite find of this project so far. It feels so far ahead of its time, I feel like I just discovered the album that’s been influencing many of the artists I already loved.
Always one of my favorites.
Psychedelic experimental… some amazing jams on here, but also some of the tracks sound like speaking in tongues, and they make me insane. Maybe good background music.
Some definite bangers, very dense lyrics and interesting instrumentals throughout. I just can’t with his voice. I feel like it would be worth taking a closer listen and really focusing on the lyrics, I might end up really enjoying it.
Bob Dylan rules. Lots of harmonica, great poetry.
Tangled up in blue, shelter from the storm, and a bunch of other bangers in between. Gold.
“The devil made me do it the first time, the second time I done it on my own” this is some pure uncut classic country. 5/5
Good poetry, but her voice is not something I want to jam out to. Pretty but intense.
I still can’t with David Byrne’s voice. I look everything else about it, but I can’t shake the feeling that David accidentally destroyed the vocal tape and hastily squeaked out a shittier version, which made it to print.
Very meh. Feels like a sophomore slump, they are trying to sound like The Beatles, if that makes sense. “All my loving“ is the only standout of their originals on the album. It’s insane that hard days night came out one year later, it feels 1,000,000 miles away.
It was aight. Some decent grunge tunes, not super memorable.
This album reminds me why I appreciate this project. My first time really listening to Björk, outside an occasional song or SNL impersonation.
Loving this album. It’s not something I’m going to blast in the car or sing along to, but it’ll be perfect when I need to be in a creative space. It’s inspiring and beautiful, and feels almost like a soundtrack…
not really my thing, but good background music.
Solid British punk.
Gorgeous and heartbreaking. Perfect album, perfect person.
I was bored and annoyed. Sorry.
I dig the sound, the bluesy stuff… The songs are a bit repetitive and unmemorable, and verges into jock jams territory.
If I was having a dance party, I would probably throw a couple of the tracks from this album on there. Overall, pretty bland. There’s a whole song about the power of smiling. “Smile on, pass it on”. Meh. “What is love“ (not that one) has some good instrumentals, some fun stereo tricks.
60s garage rock. It sounds exactly like several other bands from the time period that I couldn’t name (wooly bully, Do you love me, etc), but for some reason I found these guys super annoying. Most of the songs featured a “WOOOOOOW!!“ scream, like R2D2 getting electrocuted open half of the songs on this album. We get it, you like to party. Stop forcing it.
Really enjoyed this one! It’s like a cousin to Pink Floyd, The Who, Styx, and ELO.
This album was honky tonk country, heavy on the honky. Not my vibe musically. Glad she’s out there doing her thing though.
Couldn’t get through this one. I found the drums and shouting stressful. Just not my vibe.
Kind of cool, 70s funk meets Indian. The high-pitched repetitive stuff isn’t my favorite, but glad I checked it out.
Love. Moody, textured, psychedelic. No bangers really, or even memorable songs… reminds me of watching a Coen Brothers movie for the first time, I know I’m going to like it more each time I hear it
One guy and a guitar. Simple, rough around the edges folk music. I don’t feel a strong need to listen to this album again.
Loved! When I think of the 80’s, the sound of this album is right in the bullseye. Shout is a perfect first album track. It tells me to play the album on good speakers and turn it up loud. Was surprised to hear that Head Over Heels has a companion song that leads into it, introducing the theme.
Wonderful craft, a great example of experimental jazz, I guess. I appreciate what they are going for, but I have to be in a very specific mood for this kind of music and today it did not hit. I couldn’t wait for it to be over. I would probably enjoy this live in a jazz club, focusing on the performance, but I don’t think I would ever play this album.
Meh. Beautiful Day is a good song, and that’s about all I enjoyed on this album.
Solid post punk grungy British rock. Super fun listen. Feels like a band that still has something to say eight albums in.
Unexpectedly eclectic! Came in expecting 70s proto-hair metal, ended up really enjoying all the blues jams and even the weird broadwayish stuff. Go Alice.
Love The Velvet Underground, this is probably my third favorite album of theirs.
It was interesting, I guess. Felt like someone throwing a bunch of random sounds at the wall to see what sticks. Some of the tracks felt like Eno’s ambient stuff, which I’ve enjoyed, but some of them were adult Gene Belcher.
This album may have cured my Thom Yorke aversion! He still reminds me of someone sitting on a broken, accordion repeatedly, but this album is packed with sweet jams and great lyrics. I may be ready to revisit some of their other albums.
This album is my shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
Wall-to-wall bangers. Loved it then, love it now.
Old-timey big band. Trumpets, strings, old standards. Pretty, but not really my jam.
Coldplay album: to get the authentic experience, I bought the album on itunes and listened in a starbucks.
I still like "Don't Panic" from the garden state soundtrack. Not much else from the album grabbed me... Though it's not on the album, I had "fix you" in my head the whole time. Overall, it's fine. I think with Coldplay, there are a few tracks that I'll always love (fix you, clocks, don't panic) and the rest is filler.
Turned out to be hit or miss for me. Was loving the first few tracks, super fun lyrics and instrumentals, cool samples. Then it started to feel like it was going on forever... this album is 134 minutes long. It feels like a costco load, and not in a good way. Some of the songs are bops, others have me checking to see if the album is almost over. Mixed bag.
A couple songs are musically very fun (hard days night, can’t buy me love). Everything else is generic teenybopper shit, and two of them are John Lennon‘s ugly side. “You can’t do that“ is a warning to his girl that he will leave her if he sees her talking to another guy. Oy.
Really liked it. Clearly an album you need to listen to actively. Gave me all the feels, with an extra dose of melancholy for all the things that have gotten much worse over the years.
The instrumentals were an absolute treat in my headphones, lots of fun, psychedelic stereo effects, and I don’t care if they were ironic.
I’ve never gotten into Zappa before, and this felt like a good way in. I’m interested to listen to more now.
Loved it! It's possible my preferred jazz style is "this could be a cartoon soundtrack".
Overall, I kinda liked moving pictures. (I think I might be a prog rock fan… so earnest without irony or fear of corniness.) The instrumentals were super fun, but I had trouble getting into the vocals. I may be tainted by years of parody on that part.
Some cool beats, but despite the British flavor, I found it boring. Lots of standard hip-hop bragging and posturing, just not really my vibe.
I loved the first song so I was ready to enjoy the album... but after that one, and aside from the 3 hits I already knew and loved, everything else felt like filler. Boring, repetitive and one of them (some might say) was downright obnoxious by the end.
Also the beginning of "Morning Glory" sounds a lot like REM's The One I Love
I like blues rock, but a lot of this album was meh to me. The song about TV dinners was a real low point. I’m sure I would enjoy this album if it was playing in a dive bar.
Sweet, storytelling classic folk/country. Beautifully written and performed. Not something I’d have sought out, not necessarily my jam but enjoyed it overall.
Some wonderful lyrics with a thin veil of music draped over to give it a shape. Kind of like Dylan, but not as folky. I’ll definitely listen to Leonard when I’m in a melancholy mood.
Really enjoyed this album. Reminded me a lot of listening to Ben Folds, which… duh… but i’m finding more of an appreciation for songwriters who compose on the piano. Also, his song gray seal has a total Zak and Sara vibe.
Album was aight. Kinda generic late 60's rock, heavy blues influence. Not sure this qualifies as an album I had to hear but I'm not bothered.
I joined this project to expand my musical horizons, and I love when artists take big swings, so I think it absolutely belongs on this list. That said, I hated this album. Couldn’t wait for it to be over. Reminded me a bit of Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors, but much more meandering and the vocals made me itchy.
Slipknot album was aight. I really enjoyed the first track but by the end of the album I was exhausted. I might be too old for metal or just that level of drama
Gotta love the hits: Monday Monday and California dreamin. Otherwise, I found most of the album to be meh…inoffensive pseudo-psychedelic bubblegum. The stereo mix probably sounds cool on speakers, but it was weird in my headphones. It sounds like a simpler time and there’s a sweetness to it, I’m glad it exists, but I’m even more glad it was only 34 minutes long.
Loved this album. Very funky 70s “sesame street pinball”… one track was super political, Run Charlie Run rides a line between super intense and schoolhouse rock. Overall, very tasty album.
Actually enjoyed a couple of tracks (some nice new wave reverb guitar sounds) but mostly boring and Morrissey is a racist piece of shit, so… no thanks.
Aretha, holy shit. She's like listening to the voice of the universe. When Natural Woman started I had to switch my desk to standing mode. Listening to this, I feel like I should be painting a ceiling, not pushing pixels.
Love this album, ambient chill vibes. Perfect for letting your mind wander or focus.
This album was lovely, somewhere in the neighborhood of Beck, Bo Burnham, Fun, and maybe Belle and Sebastian. The songs flow like a lazy river, with lyrics jumping from melancholy, twee, and heartbreaking, to suddenly darkly funny. One song is kind of about Sigourney Weaver, while another tells the story of the singer’s troubled youth with a litany of slurs. Overall, I loved it (except that one part).
I’d play this in the background while working. Kinda cool, experimental but meandering. Ambient but not Explosions in the Sky. Pretty sure I heard a voice at the end of the final track say “Dude, you’ve been recording this whole time?“
I’m actually enjoying this smiths album more than I expected to, but morrissey taints everything. Bleh
Os Mutantes was killer. Sometimes it was experimental with some really compelling instrumentation and studio edits, other times it was just pretty. Best way I could describe it is like a Brazilian white album.
In all honesty, I didn’t have three hours to listen to 69 love songs, but I like this band and will return to this album when I have more time.
American Girl remains an absolute banger. The rest of the album is wet popcorn and stale beer...boring as fuck. Sounds like a band with nothing to say, trying to knock out an album to accompany its one hit.
If you told me that chatgpt wrote most of this album, I wouldn't bat an eye.
Started and ended strong with nice crunchy synth, vaporwave/outrun vibes. Otherwise, I found many of the songs repetitive and forgettable. I wouldn't call it filler, though. Just didn't stick to my ribs this time. I'll probably listen again someday.
It was like listening to a sketchbook.
I can see why people would have reacted negatively at the time. The Beatles were at the top of their game (really at the top everyone's game). It would be hard not to see this as an incomplete Beatles album...maybe it makes sense that Paul would start his solo career with a "throwaway".
Listening today, this album felt like a songwriter just doing what he loves, what he HAS to do. Some songs were rough and forgettable, a solo artist finding his way, but still miles better than early Beatles albums. Others were very sweet, love songs for Linda, which put a smile on my face. Then Maybe I'm Amazed came out of nowhere, a banger that feels like Paul reminding the world who he is. Really fun listen, will definitely return.
After the album ended, Spotify autoplayed “I just want to make love to you” and now that song is stuck in my head instead of anything I heard on Hard Again. This album just kind of washed by. Standard blues chords, lyrics…nothing really stood out—except the Tracy Morgan-esque line “the blues got pregnant and named the baby rock n roll”. It was fine.
Dug this album a lot. From the hits, I dismissed the Go Go's as pop... but today I heard punk, new wave... some really fun instrumentation and lyrics. I expected bubblegum, but I got Skidmarks on my Heart.
Loved this album. Black magic woman and Oye como va are super chill, and set the tone for the whole album. Laid back classic rock with some stelllllar jams. The guitar was a definite highlight. Lived up to the hype.
