Pink Moon
Nick DrakeA really nice chill album. Definitely sounds like more modern folk artists like Amos Lee
A really nice chill album. Definitely sounds like more modern folk artists like Amos Lee
I can see why it’s so highly regarded but it’s not for me. Sometimes it feels like it’s trying too hard to be different but from everything I’ve learned about Björk I doubt that’s the case
An absolute banger. Some of the all time great songs like “Higher Ground” and “Living for the City”. My day was better having listened to Immersions
An absolute classic. Every other song is a song you know if you enjoy rock. One song I didn’t know previously was “Love in Vain” which was really good.
Not for me. I’ve always loved “Ace of Spades” and was excited to expand my knowledge of Motörhead. But every song was just “Ace of Spades” with different lyrics.
This is one of those albums that I can listen to over and over. Zach de la Rocha’s lyrics and distinct voice mixed with the technical mastery of Tom Morello’s guitars, Brad Wilk’s driving drums, and the funkiness of Tim Commerford’s bass lines creates sound that odds uniquely Rage‘s. Every song is good listening if not great
Not a fan at all. The singing comes off monotone and the music behind it never catches me. It quickly became background noise
I can't help but love Maiden. The music is just fun to listen to and everyone in the band is so talented. But in the spirit of fairness, I do have to admit how repetitive the sound can be. I've never listened to this album end-to-end but the majority of the songs do just sound identical if you're not paying close attention to it. I'd never listened to "Children of the Damned" which I really liked because it was a ballad and different than most of the other songs. The title track is the best of the bunch for me, though. Overall, fun listen, but not one I'll listen to end-to-end again.
Not a country fan but tried to give it a shot. I couldn’t get engrossed in it
Listening notes 1. "Mandela" - makes me feel light and happy. Oddly makes me think of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", but it's really poppy 2. "Song For Sathima" - is airy and beautiful, but there's a lot of emotion coming out of the sax 3. "Manenberg Revisited" - feels like driving music for a sunny fall day; relaxing and light 4. "Tuang Guru" - love the drums on this; the repeated ascending/descending scales are ominous 5. "Water From An Ancient Well" - starts off very soulful; the trumpet work is great, love the vibe the whole way through 6. "The Wedding" - gorgeous, I can feel the love here; this is pretentious, but this song feels like what it is to look into the eyes of someone you love
Obviously the first track, "Girl from Impanema", is a classic but the rest of this album is just as catchy. What can immediately feel repetitive deserves a closer listen. Around what feels like the same guitar riff in every song are a lot of beautiful phrases from other instruments. The guitar provides the anchor for all of the rest of the music to flourish.
Everything about this album is just great. So many emotions conveyed through the trumpet. I've listened to this in the past and it's just as good as the first listen
The album is really solid and definitely deserves to be on this list. Feels like a bluegrass-leaning folk music with heavy rock influences as well, which right in my musical wheelhouse. The only thing I will say is that despite being solid overall, none of these songs is a standout to me that I will proactively listen to
This album is a classic for me. Has some of the quintessential rock tracks of the 2000s with “Knights of Cydonia”, “Starlight”, and “Supermassive Black Hole”. Great musicianship and lyrics.
I’ve got this in vinyl. My dad said the was a must-have on the medium and he wasn’t wrong. No other live album makes me feel like I’m at a concert like the one
An absolute surprise for someone who never listened to Amy Winehouse outside of “Rehab”. Her voice is amazing and haunting. The music behind her vocals is so good too
This album is better as a whole than its individual songs. As I listened to the first couple of songs I felt indifferent, but the further into the album it went, the better it got. I can see why The Cars found the success they did. I also have to say that the last track "All Mixed Up" is so different than everything else on the album that it's almost jarring
From the first few bars you can tell that this is a talented group, but I just can never bring myself to care about the music. It's good for sure, but New Wave music is just not my bag.
Really enjoying this music but struggling to get past the singer's voice. It's not that I hate his voice, but the constant vibrato hurts and his pitch is slightly missing the target. And since it's *just* off, it feels really noticeable. It feels like a very deliberate choice because the backing vocals are solid, but it's just really hard to get past
This is very avant garde. Through the first three songs it sounds like this guy loves sounding like an orchestra warming up before a concert. There are definitely bright spots in the music but it's intentionally such a mess and the vocals are also intentionally non-traditional that I find it hard to make it through the album
This is absolutely an all-time great album. I'm not a big Green Day fan, but this was one of those records that had a massive effect on music. It took punk and made it more accessible. Whether or not that was a good thing, it had that effect and I think rock changed as a result
I always forget how much fun The Kinks are to listen to. It's a great vibe to start your day to.
Thin Lizzy is far more awesome than "The Boys are Back in Town" (even though that song slaps). This live album is just a showcase of their showmanship and talent. Their sound is incredible and I can't believe I never knew how good they were. I think I loved the ballad "Still in Love With You" more than any other song and I loved just about every song on this album. I'd give it 6* if I could and will be coming back to it
I don't know how I feel about this. There's definitely a cool sound here that I can get in to, but nothing really grabs me. The lyrical flow is really solid and it's bizarre in a good way, but just isn't for me
I'm enjoying this quite a bit. The vibe of the music is really good but the singing is the "I don't care" style singing of a lot of punk which usually doesn't get me engaged.
Sabbath is Sabbath. Tony Iommi's guitar playing is legendary, Ozzy's voice is unique, and they cultivate such a vibe that it's impossible not to like at least one song. When an album opens with "War Pigs" you know the album is going to be fire
It's a fantastic album. “Monster” is one of the best collabs ever and there’s such great production. Too bad Kanye is unhinged.
It's hard for me to view Bowie as the eccentric he came off as in the 70s because he laid a foundation for plenty after him to be even more bizarre. His music is pretty much the same for me. It's good, but I can't see it as great because it sounds like a bunch of stuff that came after it and built on top of it. I obviously love the title track and "Fame" but nothing else catches me enough.
I just straight up don't like this music. It's a chore to listen to. Bono's voice is not good and hits the same 2-3 notes throughout each song. I can never actually hear the music behind his voice because it just sounds like noise mashed together, which I suppose is a production issue. It's always shocked me how popular U2 is because the songs just don't do it for me, I got through 5 songs hoping for something and called it quits. First album in the generator I didn't finish
I've never actually listened to Erykah Badu despite the immense praise. The first son on this album, "Penitentiary Philosophy", is an absolute banger. The soulfulness of her voice and the intensity of the accompanying music hits you right in the face. It has a lot of the musical vides of Stevie Wonder but with more attitude. Little decisions in presentation as she sings make her songs so good. I'm not sure if it's how the words are supposed to be pronounced, but at about 1:00 in track 4 ("...& On"), she sings "Zika deka del" and the way she does it adds a flourish that makes the song that much better.
Feels like a bridge between some softer 80s new age and more modern folk or singer/songwriter type music. Very pleasant and chill. Also it’s cool to see a Disney process and the companion of another Disney princess do a collab
I'm not a Bon Jovi fan, but they are a very talented group and have some all-time bangers on this album ("Living on a Prayer", "Wanted Dead or Alive"). Great, fun album
I only knew Sigur Rós from their album "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust" which I bought because of how much I liked the single "Gobbledigook". They tend to make me think of Radiohead a lot because the music is delicately orchestrated and has a haunting quality about it, but it's not for me. I could never really get too deep into them, but I'm sure it's hits for tons of people.
This is pretty dope. Some fun takes on popular songs like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Light My Fire". Shankar gets some funky sounds out of the sitar and it's not music I'd normally listen to but I enjoyed it. It couldn't be any more of a 70s-type of music
Most people in the US are at least familiar with Little Richard's big hits like "Tutti Frutti" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" which are high-energy dance hall tracks. But I think where Little Richard's voice really shines is in the more subdued songs like "Oh Why?" He really has a great voice that is very reminiscent of the time. The length of the songs makes it really to stay engaged with each son and I'll keep coming back to this album
The opening song on this album, "Intruder", is like a template for Trent Reznor. It's also amazing how different his sound can be from song-to-song; track 5, "Family Snapshot", is such an emotionally-driven yacht rock song.
Today I learned that Kraftwerk is responsible for one of my favorite Flight of the Conchords bits; the opening track of this album is "We are the Robots", so that's pretty dope. This is not my type of music at all, but I can't deny that it's well done for what it is. Solid orchestration with some innovative (for the time) sounds.
I wasn't feeling the title track until about two-thirds of the way through its 9:57 run time. It being Bowie's last album, the sounds are a bit more haunting than they normally would be. There's a lot of classic Bowie themes in the music but it feels sad, like he's saying goodbye
Too industrial for me. I can't get through it. I know a bunch of people I went to high school who would love this shit. They were all great friends but also were exactly like the goth kids from South Park
Thelonious Monk has always been an artist I knew about but never listened to and I was so happy to finally have a chance. The quality of the musicianship on this is just so good and despite its complexity, extremely easy to listen to. It prompted me to keep listening to jazz for hours after.
I can't finish this album. It's terrible singing on top of very generic 80s new age synthpop music. There's nothing special about it and it's a 23-song, 2-hour commitment I'm just not willing to make
Jethro Tull is one of those bands that was always on in my house growing up. It is genuinely good music and evokes a lot of emtions...but some of the lyrics are suspect.
This album dominated the early 2010s. It is really impressive how tracks 2-4 ("Next Girl", "Tighten Up", and "Howlin' for You") were just massive hits and all are from this one album. The rest of the album delivers as well. The sound may be a bit repetitive for some, but The Black Keys really have a consistent, soulful vibe in each song.
A really fun album with a lot of variety to mood and tone. I’m not usually asks guy but this album was a nice listen
I really don't like this band. It's just so boring and feels like it's trying hard to be moody.
Every New Age/post-punk singer sounds identical and is using the same off-key vibrato. I'm sure when it came out all the kids went gaga for it, but it just doesn't do anything for me.
This album rules. It's just good blues; solid musicianship with real emotion coming out of every instrument. Lots of guitar riffs you know but they don't ever seem out of place or like they're trying to show off.
I don't even need to listen to this album to rate it. This is one of those albums that I can listen to over and over and over. Dave Grohl is one of the greatest rock song writers of all time. The fact that he could go from Nirvana's drummer to leading one of the best rock bands of all time is a testament to his talent. Also the fact that he wrote and recorded this album solo just multiplies how talented he is. I'd give this 6* if I could.
This music is atmospheric...I guess? There's a lot of ambient sounds throughout but the music is so incredibly (and purposefully) repetitive that it just feels boring to me. Track 3 ("Leb Wohl") is 8 minutes of the same 3 slow piano chords with what sounds like a metronome instead of drums and waves crashing; there are lyrics for part of it that are breathy and maybe if I spoke the language they were in they'd resonate with me more.
It's impossible for me not to love this music. Motown is just the music I enjoy the most. I was surprised to find out "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" was almost 12 minutes long! Solid album from start to finish
I don't hate it, I don't love it. The thing I kept thinking was "This is jam band music for people who love The National"
No notes. Perfection.
I really love Queen but only know their hits, so I came into this pretty ignorant. Right out of the gate they blew my face off with "Brighton Rock". Freddie Mercury's voice is as iconic as ever, Brian May's riffs are legendary, Roger Taylor drums drive so much of the music, and John Deacon's bass lines are perfect in each song. It was really interesting to hear the medley of the"Tenement Funster"/"Flick of the Wrist"/"Lily of the Valley" trio. It really gives a preview into the band's style that would lead to "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the next album. This album for me seems like it's where Queen's sound became what they were famous for.
There's nothing exceptional about this album, nor anything completely awful. There's solid musicianship, the singing isn't that bad, and the vibe is good. It's just nothing special, especially for an album released in 1987 when you couldn't change the radio dial without stumbling onto a band with the exact same sound.
I'm enjoying this album, it's not trying to hard to be something other than the pop rock it is. Hearing the original version of the "That 70s Show" theme was pretty cool, too ("In The Street")
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. When you think of Van Morrison, this is him at his Van Morrison-ist. Even though "Brown-Eyed Girl" is probably his most famous song, every song on this album was (and still is) capable of being a radio hit. The fact that three amazing songs like "Moondance", "Crazy Love", "Caravan", and "Into the Mystic" are not just on the same album, but one after the other is a testament to how good this album is
I have a really hard time listening to John Lennon's music. As time has gone on the more I've learned about him, the less I like him and it makes it hard to appreciate his music. Listening to this I tried to put that aside to listen to the music. He really was an amazing song writer. He just had "it" and knew how to make songs that would become an earworm. I don't like track 6 ("I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama"), the blues guitar is good but other than that its pretty uninspiring. Also not a fan of the last track "Oh Yoko!" But that could just be my distaste for Yoko Ono in general
This music just isn't for me. It's from a time and a scene I was never part of and can't vibe with. The weird part is that it had a huge influence on the angsty music I do like. I can absolutely hear the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in this music. I head Dinosaur Jr. But I just can't get into it. And despite all this, I haven't stopped listening, so maybe there's something in this for me.
I really like this so far and it really exemplifies the sound of women's rock in the early 90s. The more I listened to it, the more I liked it. Definitely has a couple tracks I'll come back to! There's a variety of sound to the album but it never strays from a core sound so that it all ties together really nicely
She’s talented but I really don’t like the music
I've never been a big RHCP fan. I enjoy their songs and think they're talented, but I've just always found the music to be a little too one-noted. Anthony Kedis vocals seem to dominate the sound and Flea (who is one of if no the greatest bassists of all time) goes hard, while John Frusciante plays riffs that oscillate between tinny, high-treble sound to wah-wah heavy funk, and Chad Smith goes ham on the cymbals. Rinse and repeat. But after giving Blood Sugar Sex Magik a real, solid, critical listen I feel I couldn't be any further from that opinion than I am. This album has such a great variety of sound and themes including some of the greatest and most well-known RHCP songs. The funny part is that I'd say those mega popular songs ("Under the Bridge", "Give It Away Now", etc.) are not the strongest songs of the album. I like "I Could Have Lied" a lot and "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" was a funky, weird song. Giving this a real listen has definitely changed my opinion of the band
In the 2010s there were so many bands like Beach House that just seem to be making music to be background music on an episode of Gossip Girl.
Very chill, very legal
My mom problem love ever note of this album. It's got some nostalgic vibes to it because it sounds like things I heard as a kid. Definitely has that Wilson Phillips sound to it but with a synth pop/post-punk/new wave flavor
No notes. A perfect album. One I've listened to no less than 100 times
This is way better than the R.E.M. I know. Even though Michael Stipe's voice isn't much different in terms of its emotion, there's just something better going on here. Maybe it's that when I think of the R.E.M. of the late 80s/early 90s, I think of a darker tone? I dunno. This was really pleasant to listen to.
Really liked the combination of so many different genre.
I really try but I don't get what's so great about Radiohead. Every song just sounds like Thom Yorke whining the same note and moaning.
It's really good for what it is. It's hippie music and it does it really well mixing the psychedelic with some pop sounds. It gets a bit to avant garde for me at some points, but then has some well-written songs like "Stranded in Time" that require talent.
If you don't like this album you're an idiot or you just really hate great hip hop
LCD Soundsystem is the offspring of The Talking Heads. The song "other voices" has the same vibe as "Once in a Lifetime"
Definitely one of those I wouldn't have picked by myself. It's very reminiscent of late-60s/early-70s hippie music. The first band they sound like that comes to mind is Jefferson Airplane. Not bad music even though it's not my taste. There's some really solid orchestration and use of synth throughout
I've always liked the Bowie radio hits but I'd never listened to a full album except before starting this 1001 generator journey. I didn't really like Young Americans as much as I'd hoped nor his final album Blackstar (rated both a 3). But this album is the absolute tits. Every song hits for me. I can't put in words why, but every song makes me happy I'm listening to it.
This is the type of indie rock I like. Give me this style of music every day. I'd never listened to a Pixies album and this is super dope.
Bill Evans Trio is always a winner. Great music for a sunny weekend afternoon or when you're trying to work
The music isn't bad, but it's nothing novel. I didn't hate listening to it and enjoyed it, but when Spotify autoplayed a song after the album was done, I didn't even realize the album had ended
This album opens on an absolute all-time great song, so +100 points right off the bat. It's a really good album if you like Neil Young, but I'm sure listening to him sing the same notes for 40 minutes might not be for everyone
This album is exactly the type of music it's trying to be, which is good. It just doesn't particularly grab my attention
Fantastic album, no notes
My dad LOVED this band. Solid Yacht Rock album
Prince is ultra talented and the first two songs of this album are mega popular. That being said, the songs were all too long and at certain points it felt like I was on a bad trip.