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The KinksAlways loved this album. None of their hits but just a very cool album. Not like anything else that was coming out in 1968.
Always loved this album. None of their hits but just a very cool album. Not like anything else that was coming out in 1968.
I’ll admit I don’t really know anything about jazz but I have always wanted to learn more. This was very different from any jazz I have listened to before. I thought it was very interesting
Been a long time since I listened to this. Better than I remember. Great debut.
I don’t think I ever listened to an entire Cure album before. I always liked a few singles of theirs but was not a huge fan. This album was just OK for me. Not great. Not horrible. Seemed a bit scattered.
This is a very interesting album. No big singles or hits. I know this was released right around the time Bowie died. It is very avant garde. jazzy.
One of the many great Beatles albums packed with 3 minute hits. This was not long before they discovered the studio and everything they could do there. They were still touring in ‘64 when this came out Great great album
I had not heard of these guys before. Apparently a very British band. I didn’t really care for it much. The production seemed very muddled and hard to hear. Maybe it’s just my old ears…..
I thought I liked this album more when it came out. I probably thought I was cooler than I really was. Listening now, I can’t really say I like it. I don’t think it aged well. Or maybe I didn’t….
This is Michael’s grooviest, sexiest most playful album. Every song is great. I actually like this album much better than Thriller. Michael just seems so relaxed and confident.
One of the great rock albums of the last 20 years. 2 monster hits and then just a lot of good guitar based rock music. Love it.
This is one of m favorite albums of all time. By far the best Wilco album and that is saying a lot. Just every song is great. Plus all the other noise just fits in so well.
Pleasant enough album. I had heard of these guys but never really listened to them. I will listen to this a few more times. Reminds me of mi-60’s Kinks. Which is a good thing
I always liked this album. Not so much the rap type songs but the jazz and rock ones are great.
Not my favorite Dire Straits album but a good debut
I would give this 5 stars just for Reapect.
I was familiar with the history of this album but I don’t think I ever listened to it all the way through. I was listening to it driving through a snow storm in the early morning so it was weirdly appropriate. Not sure it will ever be an album I listen to regularly but I liked it.
I thought I always liked Maggot Brain better but this was very good too. More jamming. More rock.
Some good songs. I’ve never listened to a whole Femmes album before. That guys voice kind o grinder on me after a while.
I’ve listened to this a few times I. The last couple of months. I like it more each time. Some great songs. An interesting concept album. Probably a bit ahead of its time.
I forgot how good this album was. Cecilia and The Boxer are two of my favorite S&G songs. The title song always seemed to me to be a bit over done but overall a great album.
I could have done without the 25 jam but other than that this is a great album.
A lot different influences here. I have listened to some other super grass albums but never this one.
Different. Interesting. Not my thing.
I was never a huge Metallica fan. And I never listened to this whole album before. But it seems like all it is is screaming and speed guitar. There are no hooks. No melodies. I like some of the later Metallica better, but not a fan of this one.
A lot of nice acoustic guitar. Some great songs.
Very high energy. Great songs. Would have loved to see these guys live.
To me this was a lost Neil Young album. I listened a lot to After the Goldrush, Tonight's the Night and Harvest but not this. It is really good. Some great songs and guitar work.
I had never listened to theses guys before. Seemed like good songs. But nothing special or extraordinary that I would say warranted inclusion in this list.
The greatest rock n roll album of all time.
Stevie was on a quite a roll during this time. I didn’t think this was his best album of this era,which was Songs in the Key of Life, but this was by anyone else’s standards at the time excellent
Guy has a good voice and the music was pleasant enough. I just didn’t find anything remarkable about it.
I listened to this a little when it first came out because it was talked about so much. I didn’t like it then. I like it even less now. Hearing this guy with a British accent rap always reminded me of Monty Python. Plus, unlike Eminem, there was no real beat to the music.
I had this on vinyl at one point and loaned it to a friend who never returned it. So I didn’t listen to this a lot back then. But it was better than I remember. Especially turned up loud. Loved the guitar.
I knew of this album but had never really listened to it before. Being a white not from Kentucky I can’t really say I can relate to a lot of what they are singing but man is the music powerful. Especially thinking back to this coming out almost 40 years ago. And many of the things they are singing about are still going on today.
Better than I remember. Really hard to follow up Thriller but this is a pretty good album. And his last decent
I have been a Beefheart fan for a long time. I came across his album Doc at the Radar Station while in college and just thought it was great. Very weird. But great. I then tried Trout Mask Replica but honestly it was too weird but it was lauded by almost every critic. I never went back and listened to Safe as Milk but it is actually his most “normal” album. Some really great lyrics and some unique instrumentation.
Loved this. Tremendous album. Muddy and his band just sounded like they were having so much fun. A great late career record.
I try to listen in relationship to when albums originally came out sometimes. When this came out in 1975 synthesizers were relatively new to rock music. So maybe this was groundbreaking then, but now it just sounds uninspiring or original. Maybe it just hasn’t aged well.
Great, great album. What shame she:didn’t get to follow it up properly.
I was never a huge Basties fan. This is ok. Nothing special though
First the good, the quality of the recording is great. The production and mixing sound really good. I always thought many of the Metallica albums just sounded muddled. This one doesn’t. But the music just doesn’t do it for me. It sounds like a movie soundtrack rather than a rock album. Metallica always had a sound of menace to me. The orchestra just wipes all of that out.
I really liked this. I bought the second album when it came out but never went back to this one for some reason.
I’m not a rap/hip hop fan. It would be nice to have an album that isn’t all shot, fuck, ho, pussy and the N word. This is better than most. Music is interesting. Don’t really care for his voice.
Great little pop album. I never listen to this whole thing through and it’s actually pretty good even now it still sounds good.
I never listened to this before. I was familiar with their next album, Loveless. I liked this a lot. A lot of good guitars. A bit of a wall of sound approach with all the noise and the vocals buried in the mix.
Horrible. No idea what this shit is. There may have been a decent song buried in here somewhere but way too much bullshot surrounding them
This was the best Zep album. It was really John Bonhams album. The drums were spectacular. A bit less guitar than 1-3. Better writing. Better production. Stairway took on a life of its own but every other some was very good.
Best Who album ever. When CD players came out, this was the first CD I bought. Terrific from start to finish.
I was not not the soft rock/folk music when it originally cam out but I learned to appreciate it over the years. I did come to really like the Mamas and Papas. Great harmonies, great instrumentalist and some really good writing. Even the covers they did brought something unique. Some of their best songs are on this album.
Never listened to these guys before. Pretty good straight ahead rock n roll.
What a great album. Rod was the best before he decided he was a sex symbol. The great rock critic Greil Marcus once said about Rod Stewart that “ Rarely has a singer had as full and unique a talent as Rod Stewart; rarely has anyone betrayed his talent so completely.” This was a great album. Too bad he stopped making albums like this a few years later.
This was the only Van Halen album I really liked. I thought and still do, that David Lee Roth was a putz. I liked Eddie but David was just too much. There was some great guitar work here.
This was always my favorite Taylor Swift album. I’m not a huge fan of this type of pop music but this was pretty good. I probably liked this a bit more because Ryan Adams did a cover of the total album in his style which brought a lot more out of the songs to me. I’ll never be a swiftie, but I do like 1989.
Never listened to this whole album thru before. Some truly great songs. Not all, but some.
I liked this. The first 3 songs was not impressed with but after that I thought it got a lot better. More jamming, more hooks in the songs.
Cult is amazing. I didn’t find anything else on this album even close to that though.
I’ve always found Radiohead albums interesting. It’s been a while since I listened to this all the way through. I need to listen to Radiohead on a good stereo where you can get the full effect. The instrumentation is great. I can’t say I really understand a lot the lyrics but I still enjoy listening to this.
I came across this album a few years ago. I was familiar with Time of the Season, but the rest seems completely different to me. Seems like a Kinks album from the mid 60’s. Very mellow and relaxing. With cool stories.
My favorite doors album. And the first one I bought. This is such a great album from beginning to end. Jim Morrison at his absolute best before he went off the deep end.
Not really my thing. I do like some rap/hip hop but it needs to be more tuneful. More catchy. I don’t get that from this
I found this album on vinyl about 10 years ago. Just tremendous. Not a lot of his hits but every song was great my favorite Bowie album.
Nice solid country tinged rock. Which is what I would expect. Nothing though with the level of the Byrds. No really catchy songs.
Not my favorite Radiohead album. Always some interesting songs but a bit too trippy for me.
Tracy just has so much emotion and aching in her voice that she can bring so many songs to life. The first 2 were hits. And then she got a lot more recognition when Luke Combs did fast car. But the rest of the album is very good too.
Not really a fan of heavy metal music but these guys are pretty awesome musicians. Can’t say the lyrics were much. And the singer’s voice was a bit grating to me.
Nothing like the first two albums. I loved those first two albums. This one is kind of a bummer. Not necessarily bad but different. And unexpected. This one is going to take a few more listens to fully appreciate I think. I’m giving it a 4 in the meantime. Could rally be a 5.
This is a really good album. I’ve never really listened to her before. The vocals, the incrementation everything was just really top-notch. I really enjoyed this album.
Bu far my favorite Joni Mitchell album. I like a lot of her stuff but on this one she actually sounds like she is having fun.
I have this album hanging on the wall in my basement. I just love every song on this. A friend of mine got me into John Prine about 20 years ago. He is such a wonderful storyteller. Plus he is a pretty guitar player as well. Great, great album from someone we lost way too soon.
I used to really like Kanye. His music always had more of a rock element to it than a lot of other rap music to me. This was really the last album of his that I thought was good. After this it was all down hill. Not my favorite album of his but certainly not the worst.
Parliament albums are always fun. Some great jamming. Some weird lyrics. I don’t think this album is as consistent as some of their others though.
A great album. I like Achtung Baby better than this but this is still good. The first 3 songs were amazing. A bit of a drop off after that.
I thought this was an interesting album. Not something I would likely listen to on a regular basis. The instrumentation was beautiful. His voice so pained.
I’ve come to realize that listening to full albums again that it is really hard to be consistent through an entire album. This one has some great songs. But I think it also has some filler songs. But this is a debut album too so that makes it harder too I think. I always enjoyed this album but I think she had better albums later in her career.
Not a big Duran Duran fan. Decent power pop though with a few popular songs.
Love this album. Bought it as soon as it came out. A late career masterpiece.
I’ve never real understood Leonard Cohen. I like some of his music but aside from a few songs it isn’t something I really listen to much. I know this was a late career one. And the first song got a little radio airplay. I liked that one and a few others. But it is a bit dark for me.
My second U2 album in a week. My favorite is still Achtung Baby. This was a little too political for me but had some see ent songs.
This is the first group I have never heard of. They remind me of Evanesence a bit. Some decent musicianship but not a lot of real catchy songs.
I’m not a rap fan. Some of the more R&B type music seemed good. But I really hate to listen to rap music that uses vulgar language. I don’t really enjoy listening to songs that use bitch, ho, pussy, fuck and the N-word. Just not my thing. Plus rap music with a British accent just sounds so weird to me.
One of the last great rock bands and this was one of their best.
Not really my thing but pretty powerful stuff.
Never really listened to a full Zappa album other than Apostrophe. The musicianship is crazy. Very entertaining and interesting.