Soul Mining
The TheI didn't feel very strongly about this album.
I didn't feel very strongly about this album.
This is classic mid 70s metal. Kashmir is the best track but the rest still get you were you're going.
Not my go to, but not bad rock. I'd listen again.
This album was way chiller than I expected. I hadn't listened to much radio head before, so I was surprised at the said back tones of the music. Not bad.
If you're curious about how music shifted from the late 80s to early 90s this is pretty much it.
Look, it's Stevie Wonder. Superstition, Sunshine of my Life, I Believe. This album just gets it done.
While I wouldn't call this bad by any stretch of the margin, it didn't really click with me. I didn't even notice when the album looped back around to the first tracks.
Some good mid 90s grunge.
Some pretty heavy listening for my Monday morning. It definitely sets an energy level though. Solid guitar and pounding drums really elevate this album.
I'm almost too relaxed right now.
I dont like hiphop and yet im still giving this album 5 stars. If you don't know, now you know.
It's not bad, but I wasn't hooked.
This unironically is one of the best rock albums of the 2000s and problem the best protest album of that decade.
This is some solid hard protest metal. I dig it.
"Time to Pretend" made me kind of nostalgic, for that reason 3 stars.
You know, I really like classic rock. I like the tone, I like the musical instrumentation, I like the general vibes. I also like that the albums tend towards 36 minutes long so during say, a project to listen to 1001 albums, I'm not stuck on the same one for an hour and a half. About this album in particular, it rocks. What else is there to say. It's Alice Cooper.
When I started listening to this my buddy told me about how one of the band members burnt down her cheating boyfriends house then got away without criminal prosecution. "Waterfalls" was the only song in this album I could've picked out from a lineup.
During the mid 70s Bowie was moving away from his earlier glam rock work and found himself enthralled with the r&b scene in New York city. This is the point when he stopped dressing in spandex and started wearing loose fitting suits to emulate the culture around that music. It represented one of several major shifts he made in both visual, and more strikingly, audio style over his career. Cue running into John Lennon and a team up on the song "Fame" and you've got a strong album in what was Bowie's in a decade of strong albums.
Look, this album is just good. Like really, genuinely good. Listen to the whole with nothing but a neat glass of bourbon keeping you company and be enthralled the entire time good.
This is an example of one of those albums that lulls you into a sense of tranquility until you realize how dark the lyrics are. Pretty good all things considered.
It was some nice easy listening. The only reason it doesn't stand out more to me is probably because the influences this album had on contemporary western artists at the time has resulted in the sound feeling less revolutionary to modern ears than it would've back then.
Alllllll that jazz
I mean, it was pretty good mid 2000s rock. I don't have a super strong opinion on it though.
Some pretty good smooth listening
I was going to say this is an example of music from Bob Dylan's best era, but he had a lot of best eras so that's hard to narrow down. The only reason this is getting 4 stars instead of 5 is because I like the studio version of these songs better. Well, that and the electric half of the album being a bit weaker than the acoustic.
It's got a groove that I can dig.
I'm not feeling this one. If I wanted to listen to something inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd I'd listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd. One star awarded back for some good political commentary
This is some feel good music. My moods lifting just listening to it.
This has got a nice soul sound and some complete classic tracks. 4 stars
This feels like a prime example of skatepark rock.
This album was described as giving the feeling of a night in a jazz club and delivered that excellently
I like this album quite a bit, it's one I listened to semi frequently before I started the 1001 albums thing and it's one I'm going to continue listening to after. It's fascinating to listen to music from a birth of a genre and that's exactly what you get from 5th dimension with psychedelic rock. Tropes that would become staples are first taking shape here.
Not my cup of tea
One of my favorite albums and possibly the first punk rock album I listened to on repeat, which is ironic considering its much more than just a punk album. London Calling achieves what few albums can, it makes you want to check out the rest of the bands works based on this one experience.
You know, it was a pretty good listen.
I mentioned to my coworker that Rubber Soul was today's album and he asked me where I'd rank that among beatles albums. I told him that's tricky. I love the rolling stones, but there are some really bad rolling stones albums. I love David Bowie, but there are really bad David Bowie albums. There aren't bad Beatles albums. Rubber Soul came when the Beatles were transitioning from the earlier pop rock style to a more experimental kind of music. Let's just say it came out after they met Bob Dylan.
I kind of liked, "Lover l, you should've come over". Other than that I didn't click much with this album.
I mean, this is a classic. There are some songs that can stop feeling special because you've heard them a million times. This album reminds me that they got played a million times because they are special.
Not much to say, Californication is just good.
I mean, it's Abba. The soundtrack of my family roadtrips growing up when my mom had control of the radio.
I'll often say I don't like country, but I like old country. This is old country.
I usually like folk music, but this one doing it for me in a major way. Very middle of the road.
Alot of soul, some jazz sensibilities, and excellent vocals. This is a solid album.
One of my favorite albums a reason why the zombies have a spot in my top ten favorite bands of all time. It's honestly tragic to me that the zombies didn't get more financial success in the 60s and ended up spending much of the subsequent decades not officially together. This was a the album they left on, an album absolutely full of creativity and a sound uniquely there's.
For a British rock album, it feels pretty American, which of course there's constant cultural overlap in music but it still struck me as interesting.
I never get tired of Miles Davis.
An absolute banger of an album and possibly the best by any beatle in their post career. George Harrison's pent up creativity from his later beatle years is finally let out in a truly memorable double album.
I wasn't sure I was going to know anything off this album, then the first song started.
I'm not feeling this one
I mean, I love 7 Nation army if only because of the fact that it's one of the 5 five songs I ever learned on guitar, so points there.
This is a strange album that circled all the way to being engaging to me.
I didn't feel very strongly about this album.
This album feels ahead of it's time, which for an album that came out in 1969 means it feels about mid 70s. It's got some groove and some soul that I can get down with.
It's Exile on main Street, I mean, do I even need to justify giving this album 5 stars. It's one of the rolling stones best works and at double the length of a standard LP there's even more to love.
Honestly. A pretty weird album. I liked it.
Generally a very good listening experience. Good energy, a heavy sound that isn't too intense as to be off-putting. Bonus points for the David Bowie cover.
I love this album. I love its theatrical style, I love the songs themselves, I love how disjointed they can be from one to the other. I could bring up Freddy's vocals, but you already know.
Seven Seas of Rye is my favorite song off this album. It's generally quite good.
Some generally solid indy rock.
This gives "doctors waiting room".
This was a bit strange. I think I'll stick with punk over post punk.
No real strong feelings here on this one.
One of the Berlin Trilogy albums, Heroes displays a Bowie doing what he does best, experimenting. The titular song of the album is the most well known and arguably the best, but that shouldn't discount the creativity on display throughout the rest of the tracks. While the first half of songs are more typical to what you might expect from Bowie in this era, the second half opens up to some atmospheric instrumental tracks that I really enjoy. All in all, a solid listen.
What can I say about Taylor Swift that hasn't already been said. She's good at what she does and unlike many artist who perform the same genres of music, she has only gotten progressively better as her career has gone on. 1989 is a great pop album. The tracks when from new to iconic on a dime and several of them are going to be in the popular consciousness for years.
This album rocks, there's not much else to say.
I hadn't heard any Brian Eno before this. It's pretty good, I might check out some more.
I have no complaints about this album. A couple songs stood out I remember hearing a million times on the radio.
A classic album by Marvin Gaye
A fantastic album. No notes
I could say alotbabout how much I love this album, but instead I'm just going to give the hot take the "How Do You Sleep At Night" is rhe greatest dis track of all time.
I wasn't jiving with this one. It was interesting, but not something I'd listen to regularly.
In general this was a pretty decent album.
I waited to write my review until the Monday after the Friday I listened to the album now I can't remember anything about it. That means it wasn't bad enough to get two stars but wasn't good enough to get four.
I love the mama's and the papas so there's no way this was going to get less than four stars from me and with songs as iconic as "California Dreaming", there's no reason it should.
Nothing about this album really popped out at me.
I'm not a rap guy, but this is pretty good.
A bit generic to be honest.