Nostalgia bias for me. Listened to this hundreds of times when I was younger.

If I could give it 0 stars I would.

Singer needs to sound less… distressed? Some songs sounded like they influenced Modest Mouse but were slow and repetitive. Kinda boring and same-y sounding through the album. I can see why some people would like it but not for me. Prayers For Rain sounds cool.

Audio production and mixing was great. I kept thinking throughout the album that if this wasn’t Cash, but sounded exactly the same, it wouldn’t have been popular. Hurt is obviously one exception. Still, I’m a fan of Cash, a fan of acoustic focused music, so I enjoyed the playthrough.

I really like innovative and creative music and the Rockefeller Skank has more creativity in it than most other bands entire albums. That song and Praise are ubiquitous at this point. Even if you haven’t listened to them you’ve heard them. Listening through the whole album, it got a bit repeated and same-y though dropping it down a point. Vocal sample repeated and stuttered over top of big drums. When I read it was just a guy recording everything in his basement on an Atari with floppies it bumped it back up for me. I really wish I could give this a 4.5 or 4.75 stars, so close to a perfect album.

Meh. At least it wasn’t long. I ain’t got nothin’ was kinda a fun song.

Not bad. Pretty clever. Very different for its time with good variety. It didn’t feel like a slog through the album.

People playing instruments. It’s good.

Taken out of context, some songs are pretty good. But as an ALBUM, what the hell... This has to be satire. Literally every song, every single one, even the one he “slowed down”, was a 1-4-5 blues/boogie woogie progression with almost no variation. Good energy, but I can’t rate this album higher than a 2 due to the lack of creativity.

First artist on this list I had no idea who they are. Had some pretty cool songs, good guitar work, and good singing. The recording and mixing is really well done too.

Not for me

Heard it a bunch of times on the radio and so I’m basically sick of these songs, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good. Glad to have listened to the whole album.

I would go see this band live. Sounds super fun. Almost like if the pixies hired Iron Maiden’s guitarist and the sax player from Billy Joel. The singer is exhausting though. The only words I could pick out through the album were “MY MIND IS A PLaStIC BaG” and her tone is… exhausting. That knocks it down a full point from like a 4.5 to a 3.5.

There are some really good songs on this but I’m not a fan of the old, weirdly intervaled harmonies. Like the endings of (at least) the last 5 songs on the album. It’s a 3 star album with some 5 star songs.

Solid album with creative writing. Don’t usually like the 80s super compressed drums with a ton of reverb, but this one was okay.

Catchy 80’s trash. It’s fine.

I don’t think this is their best album, but it’s still System of a Down. Lead vocalist is very unique and unmistakable. Songs are super dynamic and energetic.

I actually really liked this one. Had a lot of variety.

Spoonman was one of my favorite songs in my youth. So many of these still get (probably way too much) air time on the radio. This album almost sounds generic but it’s just because we’ve heard it so many times.

It’s okay. Not really rememberable.

I don’t really listen to lyrics when I’m listening to music so there could be a decent message in this album, but the rappers had no flow, there were no catchy choruses or hooks, the beats were exhausting with annoying sounds and never changing. Old rap doesn’t age too well. Not for me. I’m glad I heard the reno911 theme song in full.

Guitar in this one was great.

Nothing quite like them before, and nothing quite like them since. Eddie completely changed the game with what is possible with guitar and inspired so many after him. The band kind of feels like they are always on the edge of disaster with their off/odd timing sections but always pull it back together. Great choruses, creative songs, fantastic guitar.

Huge fan of the white stripes. Listened to them sooo much when I was in high school. Distilled down blues rock power duo with innovative song writing and instrumentation. Nice variety. Some people may claim it’s “simple” but that’s the best part.

It’s okay.

It was pretty good. Didn’t have to hear the album twice though. The singer could be better but the music was fun.

There was some good stuff on this album. 4.5/5

If you don’t rate this one a 5 stars you’re wrong. It’s one of the best selling albums of all time for a reason.

According to Merriam Webster, music is “vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony”. This album had mechanical sounds, a little bit of rhythm on some songs, and that’s about it. This was an album of art more than it was an album of music. I like music. I can usually appreciate the innovation of someone trying some new or different, but this just sounded like someone playing around in garage band doing random stuff for the sake of being random.

Josie is a great song

Not their best album.

Favorite album so far. Not my favorite yes album, but it’s up there. Heart of the sunrise is great.

This is sleepy music

5 star songs ruined by the sounds of the 80’s… 80s drums sound so unnatural it’s annoying to listen to. There’s a reason that drum tone stayed in the 80s.

This album would be a 1 star but there were occasional glimpses of things that were fun to listen to. Everything else was annoying. I think this album was the only one so far that I was mad I had to listen to it.

Nostalgia bias for me. Listened to this hundreds of times when I was younger.

I really liked this one! It’s pop with real instruments instead of weird synth soundscape stuff and drum machines. Underappreciated is under appreciated, that’s a good song.

Horrible and uninteresting.

A little repetitive but the riffs/grooves were good.

I never heard of these guys but I actually really liked the album. Drummer was great and unique guitar almost like a mix between black keys, cake, and cage the elephant plus toned down rap/talking vocals.

If you listen to the whole thing, there are glimpses of catchy, good music, but it’s more artsy than music for me.

Would have got three stars but it’s too long with a lot of the same stuff.

Pretty boring. No drums. Uses gore and shock as its source of interest which is pretty cheap and easy. I suppose no one else really sounded like that at the time, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.

Good songs but there was just something… off about the recordings. Maybe too much compression making it sound more like pop instead of rock songs?

If I could give it 0 stars I would.