I can hear the sparks of the sound they will come up with in later records here. Their ideas need more time develop. Not a a really stand out track on the album but not a bad album.

I feel like Im sitting on the beach looking alot cooler than I actually deserve

This album just makes me feel like Im 16 and just had my first beer in the woods at campfire next to the girl I'm really nervous to talk to. The production is so dense every moment is filled with just super fun sounds.

When people say that music lacks class or substance in the modern world they would probably be pointing back to this record as the touchstone of those things. The purity of her voice is unmatched in the world.

Something I noticed a few months ago while listening to one of the best compilations of the Beatles was that I knew almost 95% of the songs. I don't particularly care for the Beatles and I don't go out of my way to listen to them with this listening being an exception that. This album was a similar experience. I knew every track on it. Its an amazing journey/experience to listen to. Especially within you without you.

Fun record! Their cover of Taking it to the Streets is pretty amazing. But not really enough for me in any one direction. Its almost a lot of things like a funk record, or a soul record, or an RnB record, but doesn't fully commit to being more of one of those categories than the other. So it comes off as sort of milquetoast to me.

As always such a pleasure to listen to Krautrock heros like NEU! Smooth, soft, and hypnotic each track speaks to a world that was goign to be shiny and new after the horrors of WW2.

Dookie reminds me of being 16 and hearing the Descendents for the first time. That super fun raw energy where you just wanna slam dance and have the most fun you can. But that is really where it ends for me.

A few tracks on here I liked. I had too much to Dream last night of course and try me on for size were both pretty tight. Other wise a somewhat unremarkable album to me. I feel like it definitely and album of the time and perhaps in the context of the time was more out there, but now not so much

Another album where I was surprised by how many tracks I actually knew off of it. While listening to this record I realized that this sound (the harmonies, acoustic guitar, the lilting lyrics) are what i most strongly associate with the 60's in my head. Its a beautiful record full of memorable songs that speak to both a generation reaching the dusk of its life as well as all the generations that have followed.

This was the first time I've listened to to Closer. I've listened to Unknown Pleasures a million time but I just never cared enough about Joy Division to want to hear more of their music than UP. I am sad to have done this for so long. This album is drenched in atmosphere. So much more so than UP ever was. I think the polish that UP has diminished the raw spooky sound that makes JD such a unique band.

I found this record to be boring. Nothing that I heard on it stood out to me. The production is pretty great, but I feel like that's about for me.

The Pet Shop have always had a very particular sound. Sometimes I enjoy it and sometimes I don’t. There is a longing in their music that speaks to a culture that was underground for so long.

I hated the Doors for a minute. When the movie came out in the 90's everyone was playing the Doors for a bout a year. It took me forever to come back around on them but I'm glad I did. The music reminds me of of an LA that's not shiny and clean but dark and sleazy full of back alleys and broken dreams. My personal favs from this record are waiting for the sun and Indian summer. Waiting for the Sun has that languid floating in a pool looking down at the city quality. Like I've been at a party all night, done too much coke, and need to float in the pool with a giant daiquiri while the sun reflects off my sunglasses. Indian Summer is a sweet love song with the Doors vibe in full place.

I've listened to a little bit of gangster rap in the past few months. When it was happening in the 90's I really didn't listen to it that much because it didn't speak to me in any meaningful way. And the young white guys that it did speak to were in love with the power that the music presented. There was no rules or regret for being a monster, in fact it was a badge to wear. I always found it interesting that most of the young white boys who listened to NWA had never been in a black neighborhood let alone Compton. So they took this music and made their own narratives far away from the desperation and fear that the album exudes. The lyrics are about doing things that people in most communities never have to deal with like the dope man eating up your community, a code of machismo that is as fragile as lake ice in may, and the constant threat of state sanctioned violence in the form of law enforcement.

I love Bowie in his soul phase. Its some of the best stuff he recorded. The title track is amazing. It swings like a sould track should

Yes was the epitome of the bloated prog rock sound to me for the longest time. Then, at some point I listened to Roxy Music and thought Wow! This is prog rock?! Ill check it out. That was it. After that I listened to Yes and realized how insanely talented the band was and how much I had missed.