The clash comes in with an incredible debut with a piece of anti-administration real rebel music and messages that we have heard time and time again Yet THIS BEING THE ERA where it was founded in song makes this so much more impactful.
The highs of this album for me are Remote Control, White Riot, Deny, Career Opportunities, Police and Thieves, and GarageLand.
I hear where the Smiths and Ramones and others got influenced by this record even modern punk records like Neck deep self-titled and Mgk pop punk records LOL.
I love this album for a long time
It starts great but there’s so much better psychedelic rock and i just couldn’t get into it. The first few songs were okay and it’s well made but not for me
I LOVE ME SOME BLUES AND BB KING KILLS IT ON HIS FUNNY AND GROOVY LIVE RECORD 5/5 KEEP IT COMING
MAN THE HIGHS OF THIS CHALLENGE HAVE BEEN HIGH. I love Elton John he was literally the first Cd that I ever owned and I had heard this record was very good but I never actually visited it
I love the themes of this album and I think it flows so well together.
4.5/5
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL START TO A RECORD OMG THAT STORY MADE ME CRY AND I LOVE THE WORLD THEY BUILT, OTHER SONGS WERE FINE BUT THIS REVIEW IS JUST FOR THE OPENING AMAZING
I swear these records be pulling tears out of me.
It is a simple concept record and I have heard better but the fact that it is made up of covers recontextualizing them for the story makes it so much better. Reminds me of some of my favorite films that take popular songs and change the meanings I.E aftersun.
I love the instrumentals I wish we had more moments with the stranger and it fell off a bit in the middle But great 4/5
Culture woven through and through. This is like a nice night out mixed with beautiful slow Jams. Higher will be on my playlist for ages. I needed some RNB in my life. This is love in music form. Black excellence mixed with Neo-soul. You hear the jazz influences in so many of the tracks. I love this so much and I will be exploring D'Angelo's catalog for a while!
4.5/5
I like this easy listen and shows the basis for a very influential Rock and Roll.
It was dynamic and I loved loved Good Times Bad Times.
You can hear the blues throughout this is visceral raw and real.
You can feel that they wanted to make a name for themselves. The fact that this was recorded in 36 Hours too is a shock.
I think it is a 4/5 it is not perfect for me but I likey lotties
Cute it is just cute picnic music.
It starts a bit slow but it reminds me a lot of cats and the Cradle like sad dad music Divorced dad music for sure
Awful vocals that actually get better with every listen.
The instrumentals and the word smithing is what shine here for my first bob Dylan record this one was amazing. I go out of my way to listen to my favorites and think it was well crafted
IF BOB DYLAN CAN GET A 4 FOR HAVING BAD VOCALS AND GREAT MELODIES AND LYRICS I WILL LIVE AND DIE BY THE SWORD. HOWEVER, I will give this a 3.5 I regret giving THE CLASH A 4 SO BAD AHHHHHHHHHHH
The 5 song Stretch from perfect day to Make Up is my favorite but Walk on the wild side having one of the best samples of all time automatically makes this album iconic!
CAN I KICK IT YES YOU CAN
WOW LEAN AND PERFECT NOT A SINGLE SONG ON HERE IS FLUFF. I like some songs more than others.
The background vocals and simple guitar chords, I literally can feel the influence for so much coming from this record.
I hear alot of video game music from this one Like there is literally the battle theme from Final Fantasy 7 in Pictures of home.
I will be listening to this one for a while.
Here is my rank
Lazy
Never Before
Smoke on the Water
Highway star
Maybe I am a Leo
Pictures of home
Space Truckin
Just like 4 songs too long for me. Like this needs to choose what genre it wants to be. I do not have much more to say when it was pyschedelic it was best.
Highlights are somebody to love
She has funny cars
White rabbit
In the morning
men need to not sing
WEPA BABY THIS IS SMOOTH!
I can hear the influences that some of my favorite Bachata songs took from this era of music.
It is just easy listening and not much more which does not make it bad but makes it a nice background album.
The instrumentation and the way the band works together on some of the songs is so interesting like on Rhapsodia del Maravilloso, The guitar keeps building higher and higher while the drums cascade in.
So much patience and grace in a move like that
its a 3.5 closer to a 4
God I am so sick I forgot how I feel about this album. 5/5 no misses and beautiful singing
I like this lot the first and last tracks are for sure the standouts and I love the dynamic way Bowie does his lyrics. Not all the songs hit but in order they stand well. I think Bowie is also the most prevalent artist on this so get used to praise. This album would be perfect if i was not sick
I hate Trance music I hate anjunabeats.
i CANT STAND THIS EVEN IF IT IS ELECTRONIC COULD NOT FINISH AND DID NOT CARE
"WAR IS HELL WHEN I WILL IT END, WHEN WILL PEOPLE START GETTING TOGETHER AGAIN."
I heard this album for the first time during covid and this line hit so hard.
This is a perfect concept album of the Veteran struggle and may be one of the most perfect albums ever created. Not in my personal top 5 but Objectively I KNOW.
When the notes HIT ON THE SAVE THE BABIES OH MY GOD.
How can you make music that has so much meaning be so catchy and groovy.
GOD IS LOVE IS SUCH A GOOOOOOOD INTRO TO MERCY MERCY ME
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
IF THIS IS WHAT CHRISTIAN MUSIC WAS LIKE I WOULD BE DEVOUT I CAN LISTEN TO THIS FOR DAYS :)
Mercy Mercy Me was my intro to this album through The Strokes cover which is also good but not to the level!
Anyways love
Not the greatest album and definitely not one I have to listen to before I die like we are grasping at straws here but this was just okay.
I like them and some songs went into the playlist but I will just listen to the beatles instead.
Millennial rock I just can’t get into it man. Like there are moments Black Hole Rock but again idk it just sounds kinda cringy to me. Grunge is cool and all I’m just idk about it. I know the influence from this record but maybe if I was like really depressed but for now it’s just okay to me
I mean this is a clear Zach 5/5
Grew up with Abba and I love the deeper cuts on this album too.
Starting off so fun with when I kissed the teacher god I wish I was the teacher!
My love, my life is such a sonically rich ballad.
Dum Dum Diddle is the clear standout and not sure how it did not get into mamma mia it is sooooo camp and EUROVISION its crazy haha
That's me is wrong I would marry her!
Tiger makes Survivors version look like a cover wow
Having a literal hymn sung in Arrival is just beautiful I feel like the album should have started with that cause wow I am in ABBA church praise.
of course, dancing queen, knowing me knowing you, Fernando, money money money all classics and forever mainstays in the cultural landscape.
I need this album on CD bad I realize but ABBA is so hard to find!
Honestly really liked this and yeah its a genre meld but I think that the Punk influence is here and the songs that i do not like do not overstay their welcome. I like maybe partying will help alot!
I really think this is a 4 and the guitar playing is so unique I would love to mosh to this
Perfect 3. I again do not hate this and there are bright spots but it is unmemorable I only really like it when love breaks down.
This is just another album used to pad out these lists I mean it is just British Pop very dreamy but it does not gonna stick with me and that is why I think the worst category to be in there is the 3 Right in the middle where I wont think about it next week
THE FRENCH MAKE THE BEST ELECTRONIC IN THE WORLD. I REMEMBER FINDING THIS ALBUM RANDOMLY AFTER CRAVING MORE DAFT PUNK AND AHHHHH SO MANY GREAT MOMENTS. SO SPACEY. Remember was one of the highlights for my early college life just walking around campus not knowing what I wanted just pretending to know what they were saying in French. GOD IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL THIS IS WHAT LIFE SHOULD SOUND LIKE ALL THE TIME. LIFE IS SO HARD MAN AND ALBUMS LIKE THIS MAKE IT EASIER KEEP EM COMING
It ends way better than it starts only the big songs are the ones that will stick with me and Videotape is a great end to an album. I just don't get it I will keep revisiting over the next few weeks to see if I get the hype but my best friend said this is one of the records that has influenced him the most and I just do not get it. I like half the songs on here and the others are just whiny Tom Yorke man speak up please.
I understand this is an iconic record but I just find it so hit or miss and the genre-bending does not do nearly enough.
Weird fish
all i need
Jigsaw
Video tape
Reckoner
those were the highlights.
Again I want to give it more chances but for now it is just okay upon like 2 listens
5/5 AGAIN I AM ON A ROLL BOYS.
This is the first 5 where I was not familiar with the artist at all but I love meatloaf( irony)
This is giving Broadway and show tunes and the beat switch on Paradise by the dashboard is so much fun.
What a rollercoaster from the album art I was sure I would not like this but the saxophone usage and the piano and the singing and the story omg I can not get enough of this. Rock and roll and blues and jazzy.
All revved up with no place to go. It is so Campy and cheesy. I want more fun and interesting music like this stop giving us depressed stuff for 5 minutes.
This is be a classic and on my CD wall soon!
It is all covers and one original song "Tell Me" which is laughably bad IMO. Like they are trying to get a Beatles thing going on and it just doesn't hit in that song
Carol and Can I Get a Witness are the only 2 I can listen to a lot.
Like Jagger sounds hungry but it is 100% reminding me of a cover band I saw with Samuel at the fair. No bite and trying to be angsty.
I want to give this a 2 and I might not be sure as I write this.
I hate how lazy it all sounds Now I've got a witness is just can I get a witness but it doesn't add anything for it to be its own thing for me and the instrumentals are fine but its padding the runtime and not interesting enough .
I wanna say hey this has good R&B influences but the only reason this album is on her is for the fact that it is their first record and that is it. If this album was in the middle of their discography nobody would care about it. I am glad they got their footing based on this record but I can not help but be disappointed at the lack of punch here and real fire here.
2,5/5 for me but closer to a two like easy listening and not hated but that is the worst thing for me not memorable.
I went in on this one cause it disappoints, at least it does not overstay its welcome
No context Back to Africa is a crazy song.
I hear the influences in other bands like alot of the misfits are in here and wavves cloud nothing too also they reference beach boys alot.
It is cheesy af and its surf rocky. As a debut I would have this it is interesting and fun.
Live for cars and girls LOL like come on it doesnt get more fun and silly than that.
This is hilarious and corny as heck. Not all the songs work like anything after california sun until the end but it isnt bad.This is is a 3.5 for me but its closer to a 3 I liked this and it feels right for this list as the beginning of punk rock. I will be playing Cars and Girls and Teengenerate for a long time. I am glad i was shown this :)
This is sad this is so sad I just do not think it leaps past its title song and Vincent.
I think the lyrics are what carry this record and I am glad I heard it the top song is enough to be on here.
There are glimpses of amazingness here and I love them
Crossroads and Everybody Loves Me baby win me over.
I think I just wasn't in the mood for slow ballads but I will happily revisit!
This is a 4.5 through and through but a great debut that would be topped by his next record.
The wacky and fun use of skits and the ad lips and crazy bars. The crazy beats are so much fun I just don't give a fuck has this drone in the background that works so well and makes that song so fun to listen to.
This is the slim shady moniker beginning and this thrash punk rapper that was not seen as a "Thug" Rapper allowing him to be accepted into the greater culture.
Role model is such a good commentary on the way that hip hop was seen back then while being just a hype track.
I can not give this a 5 cause Eminem show and MMLP have better production and have better moments.
I will love this record though for the way the CD looks and how important it was!
Favs were
Guilty conscience- I love the video for this one too so silly and also like a core memory when i was kid
Brain Damage
Role model
My Fault
Easy listening... when people say Jazz is music for the background they mean albums like this I mean. This is an amazing feat a woman singer who in the late 60's in the age of rock and roll and makes a record so jazz so preachy and so nice to listen to. I do not see the meaning of why it is here but it is just fine she has a beautiful voice too.
The drums on No Easy Way Down are incredible, Listen to that song and just listen to the drums wowwow.
This has the weird problem with records where the middle is forgettable and the beginning and ending are great!
Son of a preacher man is an iconic song and its cool yeah it is cool
I think this is a perfect 6 from me
Favorite tracks: so much live and No easy way down
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Add this to the list of Title songs that go dummy hard. I love this not all the songs hit but this is so david bowie coded and I love it
Geisha Boys and Temple girls is a highlight for me. Again it feels strange to have on this list like totally out of place imo.
Fun techno vibe that doesnt have the worst parts of techno like a good 5/10 but i will give it a 3
Yeah this is all very samey and I stick with just one song I did not care to listen to the lyrics, and I know how monumental this record is but other than the cool guitar riffs and shredding I could not get into this like I am gone here.
3/10 closer to a 4 than a 2
The world works in mysterious ways.
I just started reading a Brazilian book about a man who has died and has full prospective on his life and begins to speak on life and the delusion of dying and wanting more time. How fitting for this compilation jazz album from a jazz artist who died far too soon.
To extend the book story I started reading it and will now have this record in the background as it fits perfect, and I loved every second of this compilation with the beats and the vocals. Music is truly transcending all barriers. I love it.
I am getting a bit emotional during this review not but I must give this a 5
I swear if we get one more divorced dad album, I will actually start talking to my dad again.
I just cant get into it I looked all on the subreddit for REM and what am I missing and I know alot of alt rock is becoming popular with my generation, but I just do not enjoy it. I think its well-made and artistic but I will never revisit this and I enjoy some songs this might be a 2/10 from me like closer to a 3/10 I just no like.
This Ella is my queen I agree with the top review though there are better compilations that have seemingly been left our and I could honestly go for 3 more hours of this Ella voice and I understand the moral qualms with this pick but ALAS good music all the same and I think Ella American songbook is more iconic but this might be better.
I would give this a 5 but I will give it a 4 in protest
Common the actor has has better records than this but this being his first major record is what makes this so special the jazz and funk behind this is incredible. Hearing early Jill Scott makes me so happy. Yeah some of the stuff is problematic and I don’t think he’s the greatest wordsmith but I think this feature heavy hip hop was and is important more to a 5 than 6
Wow legalize it is a great start to a record and what a fun record it starts and ends so funky. I hear the influences of this record in so much reggae if this is one of the earliest examples of it it took at the great ideas and used them all here. Even the bad ideas whatcha gonna do and let jah be praised didn’t hit and some songs were very samey but the unique in some tracks like
Burial and brand new second hand man those are gonna be with me for
A while.
This deserves to be on this list for sure
I’m serious a perfect debut this is up there with Justice and the strokes and wow I mean I love every song and they found their sound immediately I just wanna see the new record
Bro Elvis Costello has to articulate more like come on.
My favorite misheard lyric is on I dont want to go to Chelsea.
I dont want to check your "balls"
I actually like this The back half is so much stronger than the first half
basically lip service to the ending is so so strong and amazing songwriting and the band is immaculate you just have to go through the first half to get there ahhh.
After the first song it is hard to listen to but I like costello and if this is apparently his best record then yeesh I am okay
A very scary album. Like genuinely a great satirical title. I love the Cure and the Smiths and this right up that same alley. I will listening to and relistening to this one often. An album tht strikes such an emotion and leaving us with moonlight sonata at the end of the dread is beautiful.
Little 15 is a standout to me and I want you now is one of the most unnerving starts to a song ever.
I am a child and I laughed at Sonta 14 in cum LOL
forgettable forgettable forgetable I want my time back Jesus this was so boring and I have no idea what legacy this record has I know it is acclaimed but this is just 80s music but it is so like washed there is no edge I hate it. I never want to listen ever again this would be a 0/10 if i could.
If I get one more bad album this week I will be upset.
This gets a 2 solely for the second song on the album which is amazing after the first 2 minutes IMO.
This is a forgettable and mediocre record in this whole list another one i did not have to hear before my death. Please be better
3/10 closer to a 2/10 but you know what I am giving it a 1 forget it
I am comparing this to the other chemical brother's album and this is a true 9.
A house classic and helped not only cement the legacy of house music but also is just a beautiful, crafted record with hype throughout the whole thing.
One of the strongest openings by them and the strongest closer that I revisit and listen to constantly.
Piku is one of my favorites it is so electric with its drums and overlapping samples it just rewards you for patience and I would love to just vibe out on a dance floor to this.
I agree this is an abloom worth listening to before death
Not my favorite Bowie but mostly instrumentals and it was interesting. I loved all the instrumental tracks but the lyrical tracks just didnt do it for me secret life of arabia was okay.
Nuelkoln was one of my favorites as was sense of doubt.
You just get these feelings from these songs and wow.
sons of a silent age and heroes are the only lyric songs that will stick with me. This is a 7/10 but closer to a 6 for me so. I am glad I heard it
out of the blue is up there with one of my favorite ending to album I think ever.
Never have I had an album be an instant classic in my eyes so fast. Listen some of these songs I would not listen to outside the context of this album but I do not hate them or dislike them they are merely messengers for this album to be played in.
Awaiting on you all is such a great bop that I wish the Beatles performed.
The Christian themes and wow this is the Beatle I am least familiar with. This is my favorite album I have been introduced to from this challenge I can see why it is memed to death as being like a music buffs favorite album or a douchebag for Brooklyn's favorite.
I love almost every instrumentation and song and I want this record bad LIKE SO BAD.
This is a 10/10 this is perfect in the way an album like this can be and a classic record that I needed to hear before death.
Thank you
This is giving me The Cure vibes and it is post punk. I always love albums like this that their biggest song is deep in the album because that means that people had to listen deep into a record to find the "best song."
As a full product what I like outweighs what was contrived and okay and I want to listen to more of their stuff.
The Killing Moon is such a great song. The brits are so good at making abstract poetic songs i feel like the lyricism in brit pop and rock is so much more poetic than others idk.
In seven seas he says tortoise weird so I can't respect this album anymore.
Ocean Rain is a beautiful song, and the instrumentation carries this to another level I need to hear this with a full orchestra.
These guys are ripe for a Gen Z, Jeff Buckley or Deftones renaissance I feel it.
This is a 8/10 for me closer to a 7
Iconic Ozzy Osbourne is truly one of the best to do it. They are all playing os perfectly you just feel the passion with every single note played and lyric sung. There is no wonder every single movie trailer wants to mimic and use these songs. Instant hype from so many of these songs while also being cool.
Metal music has been one of my weaker genres as I remember is metal core from high school and college.
You can literally hear the influences that sprung off them and certain melodies in the tracks are so familiar and they all started here.
Rat Salad has a beautiful Drum solo in the middle which blew me away and the guitar and drums are just fighting in this what I call song-fu
Electric funeral is beautiful it is almost like the guitar is a 2nd vocalist.
Also the subtle use of the triangle makes me happy
perfect 8/10
This is prog rock and it starts so strong. Roundabout being the Jojo theme song I am fairly familiar with that song but never bother to listen to anything else. It starts strong though. It is weird and hits every genre and the synths and bass are so strong of some of these tracks such long distance run around. Like with the rush album that we heard early on this is good. I think it drags just a bit with the last ballad of a song.
America is much better than heart of the sunrise for sure. This is boom prog rock but I enjoy it its just a good 7/10 to me.
Five per cent for nothing is one of the worst interludes ever imo
Talking Heads are the blueprint for LCD Soundsystem with a mix of velvet underground and I love it.
I wanna visit all their music cause I wanna watch stop making sense so bad.
The beats on this record are amazing.
It starts incredibly, with some jockey giddy songs like, Thank you for sending me an angel and The Good thing.
The good thing is the highlight of the record for me.
This album does feel like it has alot of influences with the strokes "the new abnormal" and Djo Decide. I hear it on Take me to the River and Im not in love. This album feels like a Jam session with your friends where you are just having fun. Something about this sounding like a live album yet not being makes it feel it so real and awesome. I was gonna give it a 3 but I think it is a 4 8/10
You knew this was a 5 but I am not gonna give my opinion on this album in protest: okay i will say though all bangers (5 interwoven songs is amazing) while I would have loved a concept ala sgt peppers this does not miss.
PROTEST: I felt really sad listening to this record. I took to this challenge wanting to extend my music taste and while that has happened, I feel like with this album being the highest rated on the site and me anticipating a Monday album I just got sad. I listen to a lot of music more than average for sure, so I am realizing that one day I won't have time to listen to every single album or even every single classic and with the finite time I have on this planet I am ultimately am glad I am doing this to expand my reach and understanding of music as a whole.
SO MUCH FUN, ITS SCIFI HIP HOP LOL. aside- tupac technically got his start in this group.
This is so funky and groovy and it is silly af just every song is so hot and heavy I can imagine dancing in the club to this record.
Humpty Dance to start is such a bop and a classic.
You go into the way we swing tells you all you need to know about the album, they take the teachings of the furious Five and become these raunchy and funny rappers.
The beats are also so eclectic and well mixed and has that old school feel while also being hype af.
The album takes a lul in the middle with The Danger zone and Freaks of the industry but has a strong concept to end the album.
The idea of a Sex packet is a clear motif on the opioid crisis in the 80s and it just shows how easily addiction can happen but doesn't really go much deeper but it is good to have some nuance to this conversation of comparing drugs to a sex drug.
I really liked this and I want more B-boy and fun hip hop like this now.
This isn't really an album like it's just singles so I won't really be rating it as such. I just can't give this a 4/5 in good faith but it's not a 2 so a 3 it is. Fats is a great musician that I have heard many times. Rock and Roll Legend and a darn good one at that. I love the way that the songs are just so dynamic a bit of jazz influence and just beautiful love songs. I really have nothing to say since its all singles liked them all but again it is a compilation which not the biggest fan of. I love old rock and roll solos too fats piano solos are to die for
meh just meh I dont see how this is even on this list and it was really boring I like a few of the songs but it was not a bad time just forgettable and I listen to it twice and nothing stayed with me I do not remember anything
Enjoy the silence is an iconic 90s song come on but I think I am too harsh on Depeche Mode I need to be nicer and I need to be better about listening to old disco and electronic stuff. I think this will grow on me. I like the start I think World in my eyes and personal jesus are fun and interesting tracks I just help to feel like once you heard one you heard them all.
I enjoyed but at the cost of kinda getting the jist of it 30% through
Like I said one of the greatest intros of any album ever. This song has become more than itself. The battlefield 1 trailer with this song hit so well man. Anything after that just does not have the same punch and listen I listened to alot of Jack White in 2018 when he put out his solo album but I think that this album really fails to capture me UNTIL in the cold cold night and then we are just okay for a bit UNTIL Little Acorns to the end. I love the ending. I think the breaking the 4th wall for the last song is so funny and I think it is a beautiful piece. There are good beats and instrumentation here but I was not blown away. 6/10
God so Dirty and Grimey and just so fun to dance to. I can't help but bop my head at the sound of this album and just be hype at the electric sounds. This is a club hit and I have heard so many remixes of these songs over the years that revisiting the raws feels just as good. Voodoo people being the stand out here and what a song it is just raw and visceral. It does get kinda samey in the middle which brings it down a bit songs like The heat.
The break Beats of Poison is incredibe and breaks up that samey tone. We literally see the influences that this album had on the late 90s especially with daft punk. I mean this is just Homework the prequel so classwork if you will. I will always appreciate what this album did for the culture. Lets start the dance :)
I am not reviewing the extra tracks other than "The end of a love affair"
Just knowing that this was her last album before death jesus This is so so sad like she was heartbroken from the hard life she lived and to end on these doldrums of broken promises and relationships is hard and the instrumentation is beautiful here. Listen I know its all covers but Billie Brings a beauty and kinda finality with these.
You've changed is such a sad sad song that just takes me back to past loves that have move passed and I have been both the singer and the subject.
But beautiful has a great solo in the middle which just crescendos with the flutes ahhh
Billie also adds these flutes over some of the songs which make them so much more interesting.
I could listen to her voice for hours and I have there is nothing to hate here she came back after 16 years to sing songs outside of her style and it is shown to you from Im a fool to want you
This is the most 3.5 4 I have given so far.
I saw Beck in concert earlier this year and it was bombastic and fun and exciting and I was unfamiliar with his music. I then got to listening to this record which was a complete 180 of the sound I heard from a much older beck. This album was made after a hard breakup for him and it shows. It is radiohead Carseat headrest and pink floyd mixed to create this beautiful symphony of sounds and ideas. These are songs that feel like you are floating in space but they are so slow and sad and getting myself to that space to appreciate the artist was difficult cause I dont feel sad right now.
I loved this and the album cover is very beautiful as well
Round the bend has a beautiful siren voice in the background which is amazing feels like you are in space and you hear a call out to you.
Lonesome tears is such a heartbreaking song. I can just see the influence this had on the likes of Tame Impala.
I like this alot and yes I did cry
Literally 3 songs stuck out to me on this record and I was yellow High speed and Sparks. Maybe I am past my prime with this sound of rock but It is too much like radiohead so breathy and dream poppy but I just did not like this record. I think coldplay might be a bit overrated in these cases. I just couldnt get down to the breathy and annoying vocals of this album and Coldplay more than weezer is so unpredictable when it comes to music they put out good albums like rush of blood and bad ones like they might be even worse than fallout boy in this imo anyways meh moving on
This is the definitive Punk Record, and it really makes me want to sniff some glue. The angst and punch of the guitars it's just so real. This is that hunger that I see missing in the mainstream but digging even a bit of the service this sound is still alive in bands like Julie, Fontaines D.C, Jeff Rosenstock etc. Like it has extended past its misfits, Ramones and the clash influences. All that said however this still kicks so hard and yeah title track is iconic but every song after has this beautiful dance between the guitars, drums and vocals all fighting for the spotlight which just makes so much more hardcore that they can all contest for the top spot. The best part about this record is that the lows are only lows for like 2 minutes max 53rd and 3rd wasn't my favorite but let's dance comes on right after to make me feel better. At less than 30 minutes you can listen to this whole album on your way to get groceries or morning commute as the Ramones intended this album to be heard and be back to listening to NPR on your way back. 9/10
I have always focused on Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald neglecting Aretha because she had a Soul sound and I focused on the jazz sounds that the formers brought. BUT THIS IS INCREDIBLE one of the best Soul albums I have ever heard, and these are beautiful just mixed and sounding songs. AINT NO WAY IS ONE OF THE BEST SONGS I HAVE EVER HEARD GENUINELY. There is not a second a moment of filler anywhere on this album. The highs of Come Back Baby and the grooves of Sweet sweet baby. This is a template for what all the best music should be. I get actual goosebumps listening to this album over and over. Even slow songs like People Get Ready still feel beautiful and the drums feel like a train waiting in the station it is absolutely beautiful. I can hear all the music that has stemmed just from the lyrical and sonic genius of this. Money won't change me BUT THIS ALBUM HAS 5/5 one of my favorites so far.
You would have to do force me to listen to this album again. WHAT HAVE I SAID ABOUT AMBIANCE AND TRANCE MUSIC FOR THIS LIST.
YOU COULD WATERBOARD ME AND I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET OUT A COHERENT OPINION ON WHAT I LISTENED TO. I AM A BIT DRAMATIC HERE BUT IT IS A 2/10 I LIKE THE SECOND SONG THAT IS IT. WHEN PEOPLE SAY JAZZ IS BACKGROUND MUSIC THEY REALLY MEAN THIS TYPE OF MUSIC THIS IS MUSIC TO FALL ASLEEP TO. THIS IS MUSIC YOU HEAR IN A SPA. JUST FORGETTABLE AND NOT WORTH THE SLOT I AM NOT A HATER it's just not iconic I like butterfly and thats it next
This has that beatles and Beach boys vibe while being a bit too long and I like the concept of the commercialized album literally I just think it is far too long and way too front loaded to where the band end kinda blows. It goes from one good song to like a bad one like rael 1 is great rael 2 kinda blows. I like this though the 60s was a weird time for music and exploration.
It’s so easy I see big band jazz I give it a 5 it’s all a science. Jesus what a well paced and beautiful album that is short compositions while still feeling engaging through its runtime. Drummer is on point and Basie on the piano is always a pleasure. This is a 10/10
I don't have much to say here. groovy beautiful iconic and influential. I love the funky and grooves here it just was not perfect to me. I love I LOVE the isley brothers and this album makes me love them more. Sunshine has a synth and guitar solo which makes me so happy because I love the beautiful noises they provide. Okay nothing else.
Snooze post punk that didn’t really do anything for me and there were few tracks that will ever stick with me it’s not awful it’s just uneventful another album that has no place on this there is better post punk and this was slow and muddy meh
As the title suggests, this is a very hazy album with some good moments but okay and passable moments are few between. I hear david bowie, I hear Bruce Springsteen, I hear Elliot smith I hear R.E.M and yet none of it really feels like it is fully realized. The 90's had some really great records and I love being thrown onto new artist but this just wasn't as excitable as one would lead you to believe. The song the Hook uses the chorus to talk about the Hook kinda fun and engaging but American snoring is RATM inspired too but It is all so passable. I will not be revisiting, and I have a strong letter written to the creator of this book and list cause how much were you paid. By the last song I was glad it was ending even if the song itself was good. 4.5/10 but really a 4
Jazz... Monk... Vibes. I want to just highlight one song that really stood out above the rest not even because it is the best but just feels so deep a personal. There is a point in listening to enough jazz that you start to hear the instruments speak and tell the story of a song call it leitmotifs or call and response whatever. It is a magical moment to hear a song so beautiful that is just piano but meaningful. I surrender Dear is that song, I just hear this song of a couple on their last vacation and reminiscing on the times that they had in love and how that is gone. As the song progresses you feel the temptations and the love coming back as they realize they can no longer not love one another and you can literally hear the voices in the song and the last minute they are both opening their hearts as you hear one of them say "I love you" and after that Monk does a slide down the piano at this revelation. We end with a motif of wedding bells and hope for a future of our couple. Thats what i felt at least. I love Jazz
Holy stacked lineup here take the a train was incredible from this show and there is not much to say not perfect to me but good enough. I will be revisiting this often
This is folky and its soft boy hall and oates. This is way different than anything. I think i just love the diversity of this record so beautiful and Hazy Shade of Winter is such a fun and interesting track. I love mrs robinson too just cause I wanna watch the graduate so bad. I knew the record was iconic but I did not realize that they touched so many genres and it really feels like the beatles in some instances. I like the bookends theme as a whole its a great motif as well :)
The flow that 50 has on his debut is insane the first few songs are a masterclass in patience and artistry. Eminem feature is perfect.
High all the time is the first song that is just a bit boring It 100% was written for Nate Dogg don't lie, listen to the flow funny cause he is on this record. Songs like this are riddled though the great ones. This is an Iconic record and a perfect 7/10 here.
This is the extension of Gangsta rap that I love Heat is such a iconic song!
Blood Hound transition to Back Down is incredible Ja rule who? to transition that into P.I.M.P is the highlight of the record it just shows his mantra of gangsta rap but not being as visceral as he could be. All in all this is a fun and hype time that modern hip hop still rings to with the likes of pop smoke and Future imo
Second easiest 5 so far. This album is iconic but you knew that what I will tell you instead is how I first got introduced to this album. It was 10th grade and I was walking with Nick and he turns to me and goes do you know why so many people have Pink Floyd shirts well it is because they sold the IP and anyone can use it which is why you see it on all the shirts. I haven’t ever bothered to look it up but I live by that. Anyways 5/5
This record actually wasn’t too bad on a second listen. The beauty of the rocky beats and the iconic nature of the pixies make me rate this a bit lower but I will
Keep listening
kinda good :) welcome back boys
I love this album I love shoegaze and dreampop and this album has become one of my favorites this year. I watch a youtuber who talks alot about zoomer gaze and how early 2000s and late 90s music is influencing Gen Z and I feel like I have been indoctrinated to a new genre of music. There is a statistic that I heard and it is that your music taste from when you were 18 dictates the music you will listen to for the rest of your life. When I was 18 I was listening to Daft Punk and imagine dragons and khalid and I have moved pasted most of them. I could not imagine listening to this type of music 7 years ago. I am just so shocked at this. Regardless my favorite song is sometimes and it reminds me alot of europe cause I heard this album alot. Anyways bye :)
I remember liking this it feels like a good dinner party record I wanna revisit the jazzy flows
This is very samey right like super similar to itself. It has like a mad max feel or a survival zombie game feel. I love how bass centered this is as well. This is not my typical style heavy and black sabbath inspired. I would 100% listen to this again and I think this is an important album to the culture and feels like it pushed this type of rock forward
