Rubber Soul
BeatlesIt's easy to hear where a lot of later rock has come from. Favorite song: Michelle.
It's easy to hear where a lot of later rock has come from. Favorite song: Michelle.
Wooshy 80s rock, what more can I say? So much reverb. Liked it okay. Favorite track: Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me.
Lovely funk. Another day and already another artist I hadn't heard of. It's clear these guy were having a ton of fun on stage. Favorite song: Egbe Mi O (Carry Me).
Classic rock. Pretty nice. Favorite song: Half Past France.
Definitely one of the classics. I hadn't heard this specific album of Iron Maiden, but it's very recognizable. Favorite song: Phantom of the Opera.
Earlier rock. These were clearly rebellious youths in their day. Favorite song: Whizz Kid.
Loved this album. Took a few songs before I recognized a very big hit they apparently released: The Weight. Favorite song: Chest Fever.
The kind of songs that make you wish you didn't know english. Her voice is amazing to listen to, and the music is interesting enough for pop music, but the lyrics are just not my thing at all. Favorite melody: Wildest Dreams.
Classic for me. It's probably the only few Pearl Jam songs I've heard. My friend was big into these during our teens, but I guess I moved on. Favorite song: Black.
One of my favorites until now. Chill folk guitar. Love it.
Funky, but definitely more chill than other funk I've heard.
Experimental and improvised sounding. Nice as background droning, but it doesn't really hit me.
Classic.
Probably special back in the day, but I didn't really care for this a whole lot. Favorite song though: Let's All Make A Bomb.
Quite like this one. It's just as classic as the other songs I've heard from them. Never listened other than on the radio and on parties. Favorite song I think: In Your House.
Not feeling this one. Holocaust was a decent song, but the others weren't really my thing at all.
Great album. These guys can make harmonies like nobody's business. I'm getting some Bobby McFerring vibes from this. Favorite song: Bomb Yourself or Ambulance. It's hard to decide.
Ethereal and soft. Reminds me of a calmer My Bloody Valentine. I loved it.
Comfy listening and a little wacky. Favorite song: Space Child.
Classic whimsical rock. Not too fetching, but okay to listen to.
Easy classic listening.
Lot of classics here. Lovely album. Favorite song: Broken Spoke Shuffle or Sinister Purpose.
Classic dance music. I like the beats, but I was never really type for one or two specific sampled vocal phrases repeated through most of the song. Favorite song: Everloving.
Reminds me of Beach Boys, only it's 50 years later and more modern. Interesting and fun, but not something I'd listen a lot to.
I remember this one. Hard to accept that it's already turning 20 years. It's a fun album.
Easy listening with a few very well known classics.
Upbeat listening. It's the kind of music I'd expect to hear at the pub.
First album I couldn't listen through. I got to the second song and turned it off. This wasn't available on Spotify, so I listened on youtube. Judging by the comments, the album sounded fine. Horrible.
Classic. This stuff is way older than I thought. I was 3 when this was released.
I liked this a lot. Calm and evocative, or something. I don't know all that many adjectives. This is apparently the third in a trilogy for the band, so I guess I should listen to the previous two as well.
Nothing can be said about this album that hasn't already. I love it, just like so many others.
Good music. Kravitz' singing can get a bit rough at times, but he's good.
Absolutely love this. It's like a mix between Miles Davis and Fela Kuti.
A decent album to my ears. I'm just not particularly into this brand of laid back rock. Their one really great hit was the one that stuck with me, so I'm in no way special there.
A good voice and good music.
Good instrumentation and she's a good singer, but it's not doing anything for me.
Pretty cool album. Took a few songs to get into, but then it was downright groovy.
Classic. My dad listened to this on the radio a lot, and I can listen to this all day. Reminds me a lot of earlier Sting work, which I've listened to a lot already.
Sounds like the time it's made for sure. It's a nice background noise for when you're doing something fun already.
I had trouble believing this album was as old as it is. Seems the lineup has changed a lot over the years, but they have been really prolific. I'll listen to this group more for sure.
A lovely voice to listen to, even though I don't understand most of the lyrics.
A nice listen, but it doesn't really hit me.
This is fun. Like a more chilled and serious version of the Weird Al I grew up with. It's clear these guys were enjoying themselves.
Modern classic, even though it's nearing.. wait, what? 20 years old?
Very comfy listen. Reminds me of a pub I used to hang at.
An interesting way to make songs. Just when you're getting into the song, it's over and they continue on yet another thing. An long string of short, inspired tunes. I kinda like it.
I quite like this one, too. I think I've heard the band before, but I can't really remember. Big and bombastic.
Sounds timeless to me. Prince's amazing voice carries everything he did, and I didn't even know he played so many instruments himself. Love it.
Gorillaz is a band I haven't listened to much, because it isn't quite my style. It's okay to my ears, the dissonances in some of the areas are kind of interesting. Suddenly Feel Good Inc. blew up and they were everywhere.
Interesting songwriting. I found myself actually listening instead of just putting it on in the background.
A nice enough album, probably a little wacky when it was released. Some of the grunting and yelling was really off putting, but other than that it's nice.
Now it's even more classic than before. Miles Davis I have definitely listened to less than I should have. Thanks!
A cool enough album, and it doesn't sound like anything else I've heard from the late 80s or early 90s. Nothing really stood out to me though.
The guitars were a bit too screamy for my taste, and some of the vocals a bit whiny for me. It's another one of those "Now I've listened to this as well" albums.
One of the best albums I've ever heard.
This was a very out there album. In 1973 I imagine this was what people thought going to the moon would sound like. Occasional glimpses of something that sounds like music.
This is a delightful album to listen to for me. I love two of the songs especially: Have a Cigar and Wish You Were Here. The crazy diamond parts in the beginning and end are nice cornerstones.
Deceptively simple pop, but I quite like it.
This just wasn't very special to me. It sounded droning and monotonous, and the guitar was usually out of tune to my ears. If I understood the language, maybe I'd have gotten more out of it, but this wasn't even enjoyable as background music.
Fun listening in the background, but nothing to really bite my teeth into.
Always a pleasure. I love improvising at home, but this is a whole other level. On a wholly different planet.
Enjoyable listen. The harmonies of their vocals are very nice to hear.
What is this? Upbeat folk rock? I liked it. Pretty different from other stuff I've usually heard from the 80s.
A few all time classics here, and the rest is good guitar play that fades into the background for me. No doubt that Jimi Hendrix was very influential though. Imagine what he could've done if he'd lived to become old.
I really wasn't feeling this one. I hope for this guy's sake that the sleazy player act was making fun of that kind of artist, otherwise yikes.
This was a weird experience. Clearly she is a good singer, and I like some of the music in the background, but I never felt comfortable listening to it. It leaves me feeling odd. I get the feeling there's more to dig into here, but I don't really want to.
Sounds like something generic and background-y I'd hear at the irish pub I go to regularly. It's okay, and nothing special to me. Makes me want to play pool again.
I quite like this one. Cool sampled 80s music without being repetitive noises. I've listened a lot to Brian Eno music, and I've definitely heard some Talking Heads music already. Good partnership.
Easy listening. Really like it. The guy is a really good guitar player.
Fun and wacky, nice as an upbeat background if you aren't as distracted by lyrics like I am. This guy clearly had fun in the studio.
I wasn't really feeling this one. I'm just not that into the sped up punk thing, I guess.
Nice melodies and twists in there I haven't heard before. I recognize the very well known Song 2 of course, but the others were easy listening too.
An chiller orchestral version of Arcade Fire is my description of these guys. I quite like it.
Any album with Clapton is probably a classic. I've only heard a couple. Except for the big one everyone's heard, the others seem nice. His twangy playing wakes some teen memories from slumber.
Some of the songs are well known, but the music is simplistic and I don't like the singing.
An okay background rock album. Not too screamy and actually pretty chill in spots. Another album for the pub night.
Actually pretty interesting. I've always had a soft spot for silly 80s synthesizers and sampled sounds. This is right up that alley.
The album cover is really cool, but the music wasn't hitting me at all.
Instead of something playing at the local pub, this would probably play where I usually get my fast food later in the evening, so it feels somewhat familiar. It was funny to suddenly hear Lennon's Imagine in the middle of unknown foreign music.
Nah.
Chill and funky. Me like-y.
Nice and easy blues rock something to listen to. It didn't stand out to me, but I feel like there's a lot of formative stuff in these albums that I just don't realize was at the forefront of music that came after it.
Kind of otherworldly and pretty interesting to listen to.
Fun and irreverent. I might have to suggest this guy at the local pub.
Another one of those where I suddenly hear a few songs I have definitely heard on the radio before. Quite like this one.
African blues? It certainly feels real, and I enjoyed this for a background listen.
Remember this playing way too many times in middle school. Now it's fun to listen to it again. Easy listening.
A few classics here too, though this I mostly remember from older teen days when I was trying to listen to something my friends didn't. I wanted to be one of the odd, cool kids. Man, times flies.
Big and full of showmanship, it's easy to hear how this was popular way back when. I often find myself measuring if an album makes me stop what I'm doing to listen. This one did.
U2 was one of my friends' favorite bands to listen to, so I admit I got a bit tired of them playing in his car all the time. But they are really good.
Now we're talking. This is so groovy I can hardly sit still.
Background music for me, but it becomes a bit more interesting back there because of the experimental sounds and vocals I hear.
Now this is some comfy and groovy stuff. Definitely adding this guy to my list of interesting artists I never would have discovered if it weren't for this project.
This was awful to listen to. I couldn't get through it.
Always loved Steely Dan. Still songs in here I haven't heard, because I think I listened more to a compilation album.
An enjoyable, easy listen.
Very controlled and well produced pop rock (?). Again I find myself often listening instead of it just being in the background.
Big synth pop. I like it.
Loved listening to this. Keep showing me albums like this and I'll groove to them for weeks.
It's that one song I've heard, and a bunch of other nice ones. Calming.
The one song I've heard before and a ton of others. It's comfy pop rock or something, and it's decent in my ears.
Bit screamy for my tastes.
Some of the more synth oriented songs were interesting, and most of the more folk-y tunes were charming. I liked it.
I had no idea Elvis Costello played music like this. I always pictured him like some Tom Jones clone. Still, it wasn't really my thing
Probably a cool album, but I could only hear four of the songs on Spotify. What I did hear was good though.
Some nice chords and tones in there, but I don't understand the lyrics at all. It could be comfy listening on some caribbean island bar with a nice drink.
Comfy listening. It must have been so freeing for people to listen to something like this after the 50s and 60s.
Really nice blend of some classical instruments and the more rock oriented sounds I'm used to from later music. I know this band is one of the prog forefathers, and it's good that I'm finally listening to them.
Whimsical yes, but not comfy listening.
A beautiful album. A soft, intense, beautiful voice and nice music that went well with it.
I'm sure this is well produced and she is definitely a good singer, but I'm not feeling it.
This is one of those songwriter names that several of my singing friends have spoken of in reverent tones. It's good listening.