Good. I see why people like it, and if previously heard a lot of the tracks without knowing it was Fleetwood Mac. Some tracks are nothing special but none are bad.
It was fine.
Good. Early punk that's kinda toothless compared to later punk. The line about the earth dying shocked me.
Live recordings often sound very different from studio recordings, but Cheap Trick sounded great on stage and this is probably the best live album I've heard. Not all of the songs were great, but a few were very good. I had no clue that Japan loved them so much.
Not for me. It sounds too close to Christian rock.
This felt very plastic, pushed, and corporate. It's good-time jams for the whole family and it's the 70s so sunscreen wasn't invented oooh, look at me out in the sun.
Good, I didn't recognize a single track.
Were parents afraid of this guy? The music sounds like it belongs in the background of a Disney movie about a bum dad renting an RV to spend a weekend with his family when everything goes wrong.
I am not a fan of faux dental drill sounds in my music. "I got no friends because I read the paper" is so lame.
I liked this a lot. Very novel and compelling. I understand why this album is in the list of 1001 albums to listen to before you die tomorrow.
This is in the Scrubs soundtrack. I'm sure of it.
The whole album is super short and there are 3+ songs about chasing girls. I wish I lived in the "fuck around" century and not the "find out" century.
Very refreshing. I don't speak Spanish so the lyrics were a little lost on me, but I think I got the intended experience.
Very good, but very dated funk. My ideal listening environment for this album is a bar.
Loved the instrumental. Everything else felt like I wasn't "getting" it.
Big fan. Interesting and novel.
This was like listening to the Beatles for the first time. Whimsical and energetic and emblematic of (what I believe) the '60s were like.
Great.
What's with the Blue Man Group percussion interlude?
I liked Tattooed Love Boys, but the rest was forgettable. I think I only remember TLB from guitar hero anyway.
Very good. Some was too experimental for me, but that's awesome.
What the fuck is this mastering. I'm only on the first track and it's unbearable. The female vocalist's voice is simultaneously muddy, without detail, and piercing. When the other instruments kicked in, her voice still sounded far too loud while every other element was significantly louder. This track sounds like a pre-set rhythm on a knockoff Yamaha stapled to a dying cat. It's like Poly Styrene has zero control over the volume of her voice and it's constantly maxed out, so they just turn it down during editing.
Fun, infectious, whimsical with attitude. A little repetitive, but that's the genre.
I didn't like Bitches Brew and I thought that Miles Davis wasn't for me. This album makes me feel relaxed and strongly nostalgic for Hey Arnold, in addition to giving me an appreciation for the depth of jazz.
This was an enjoyable listen. I think it's a little out of my wheelhouse so it was a fun trip. Curtis is great on vocals and the instruments are on *point*. I didn't listen to the lyrics much, so I'm evaluating this off the sound alone. I think I'd like to revisit this album when I can commit more time and attention to it.
Surprisingly good. Is this country?
Went over my head. I'll have to give it another listen sometime. Very amateurish, but that's not a bad thing.
I liked it. Extremely repetitive and derivative of other genres, but pleasant enough.
Very good. Catchy, fun, energetic.
I don't get it. The music is fine, but my habit of not listening to lyrics has barred me from understand this album and its reason for existing.
I liked it. Not 10/10 prog rock but very good and very early in the scene.
I was convinced that I'd like this going in, and my opinion hasn't changed. It's a little "out there" so this album probably isn't great for ad hoc listening, but this is definitely a groove I can dig.
I'm a big fan. I think the music suffers because of the main vocalist: he's somewhere between post-rehab Ozzy and an Elvis impersonator. The guitar work is amazing and the instruments are layered in a cool way.
Listening to a whole album of Dolly is a lot and it blended together after a bit, but I enjoyed it much more than I expected. I usually only listen to one Dolly song at a time and this broadened my repertoire.
This was great. I wasn't into The Strokes when they were big, but this was definitely a hit of nostalgia. I expected the tracks to be repetitive but they stood out from each other. This album felt a lot like Wolfmother because it's classic rock and roll presented in a slightly new way with a little funk on it.
The channel separation was extremely unusual, but I liked how adventurous it was.
Big fan. I like Dolly but she can be a lot across the course of an album. The other two talents added a lot and helped me understand why people like the genre. I can't give this five stars because it's not to my personal tastes, but I recognize that this album is unique and noteworthy. I'll probably listen to this again.
The piano makes it a little jazzy, but the drums seem to pull the music in the opposite direction. The vocalist sounds completely disinterested and kinda drones on. It's like he heard that it's popular to speak lyrics as opposed to singing them, but he couldn't figure out how not to sing so he's kinda Bono-ing it. I liked Movies of Myself significantly more than the rest of the album. I think the piano rubbed me the wrong way.
This is probably one of those albums that has cultural merit, but I know nothing about that and I only know the music. Music is fine. It's discordant and ethereal, but I didn't appreciate those features.
Holy shit these music videos have an inconsistent frame rate and it's bothering me a lot.
I loved Walk On. The rest was good, but a little forgettable.
I had a very difficult time assessing the music at face value. These songs are so beloved by a generation that they're used to push goals and incite an urge in the form of commercials for cars or Coke or whatever. Yes, I like some of the music. No, I'm not familiar with the world culture, nor am I familiar with the popular or music culture of 1973. I think this music is lost on me because it no longer symbolizes anything but relinquishing agency to the machine. Is this what Paul McCartney wanted?
tl;dr , I don't feel qualified to rate the music because I only know it to be "commercial music."
Simon and Garfunkel made some of my favorite music. I like this album, but I don't like it the same way that I like Simon and Garfunkel. Paul is clearly very talented and, because of Graceland, I thought he just did religious music. I'm happy to see that he's not all about that all the time, but it's very apparent in many of the tracks.
I don't know much about Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel individually, but I think Simon's "solo" stuff isn't for me. It's good and I like it, but it feels ethereal, like it exists in a world that turns without me.
very similar to Young the Giant. I can't really make out what the vocalist is saying because of all that echo. Total miss for me. I didn't have the attention span to sit through more than a few tracks.
I'm declaring war on the war on drugs.
I didn't like it as much as Purple Rain, and that's a "sometimes" album for me. He's talented, but I like what he put out in the album after 1999.
I like Alanis. Her voice really sells it in some songs and is a little out of place in others. I wish I could put my finger on what that difference is. Anyway, 5 stars, would give head in a theater.
I've only listened to Light Flight so far and I adore how busy and energetic the instruments are. They play with soundstage and it's really fun. The string work is very good, albeit fatiguing. I'm now on Springtime Promises and I'm very distracted.
I don't get it? Some tracks were very good and some were repetitive and annoying. Maybe I need to listen to more Celtic folk.
I don't know what genre I thought The Who played, but it's absolutely wild that they kick-started prog rock when the Beatles were still going. I liked it, but it was a little too far from my expectations of prog rock.
I didn't appreciate it at first, but I think I just needed to adjust my expectations. Kendrick isn't like anything else I listen to, so I'm pleasantly surprised by the things I like about it. There's a narrative, and it's strong. It tells a story, and I like that.
I liked it a lot. I feel like I'm missing some cultural context, but the music is great. Synchronicity II is the best.
Simultaneously bland and catchy. The vocals are more nonsensical than Electric Six. This sounds like bar/party music, but you don't know anyone there and you're having fun anyway. I think I was too sober for this album.
Not for me. It's fine, but my tastes like outside of this work.
This isn't my speed, but it's good \"fun time\" music. This would play over a montage.
I keep finding more Jazz that I like. I had such difficulty looking on my own, but these from the list have been hits.
Great. I see what people like about David Bowie.
I think I get this one. Some tracks are experimental, as if each band member got to take an idea and run with it. What resluts from that approach is an album with a little something for everyone. You may not like all of the tracks, but there might be one that hits the nail on the head and is exactly what you're looking for.
It's also very clear how old this album is. It sounds like early rock and roll. I find it much more endearing than million dollar babies.
Total miss for me. It was too samey, which is not inherently a bad thing. I just didn't like what that thing was.
I wanted to like this so much. It just... melted into the background and I stopped paying attention to it. Good music, but I had difficulty in actively listening to it.
Nice, easy listening. Simple and efficient and enjoyable.
One of my favorites. War Pigs is an awesome way to open the album and Fairies Wear Boots is a great way to end it. Planet Caravan was always my least favorite because it killed the momentum around Paranoid, but I think it's necessary when listening to the entire album.
It sounds like Madonna is singing in front of the soundtrack to a Matrix film. It's forgettable, repetitive, and unusual in a bad way. I can't believe this is the artist that did "Material Girl." It's like the studio just had some background music and asked Madonna to sing exactly ten voice lines so they could auto tune it and cash out.
Great, classic, a liiiittle dated. I can't explain it, but the "twang" in the vocals puts a timeframe on the music and it's not quite what I expect to hear in 2024. I probably won't come back to the whole album, but the individual tracks are stand-outs.
Good, upbeat, fun.
I liked Kashmir the most of all the tracks, but the rest weren't exactly dead weight. I still like Led Zep IV more, but this was a good alternative.
I don't get it. It's music, but I couldn't tell you a single thing about it. I've probably heard some of these tracks before, but it's impossible to be sure. I liked the first track on the album, then everything greyed together.
I'm starting to understand the commonalities of music from this genre from this era. I like it, I recognize it, it isn't particularly impactful to me.
Reminds me of Belle and Sebastian. I think the alternate universe me that stayed in high school theater would love this.
A friend from a long time ago was super into this album, and I see why.
I accidentally didn't leave this review until 1:45am on Monday 5/13, but I've had "Chicago" stuck in my head for an hour. This is an easy 5-star for me.
Hit after hit. This is great album and I feel like it's a treasure that we collectively share.
It felt like bluegrass? Nothing particularly stood out to me and it was largely forgettable.
I don't think British pop is my thing. I can't really tell them apart from the last British pop group.
He's like a one-man Simon and Garfunkel. I like the acoustic energy, but I got lost in his voice. I think the vocals are a little too abstract and layered for my enjoyment.
I like the O'Jays a lot and I'm trying to figure out why I don't like this album as much. I think I like the voices in harmony?
This is a LOT of Van Halen. It felt a little fatiguing... until I realized that each song is a hit. Talk about hitting the ground running. I can't believe this album dropped in '78. It sounds fresh, even in 2024.
Great experience. Playing with the soundstage cinched it for me. If I wanted to listen to Samba, I'd choose this.
Really wacky and out there. How early was this on the prog rock scene? Was this mainstream? It's so experimental with the melodies and the channel separation.
Really out there. Kinda like breakbeat but that first track really pushes the envelope. I think I like it?
Some good singles. Not my favorite album as a whole.
I could not listen to this.
Elvis was pretty good. Despite its age, it didn't sound like grandma music at all. I see why people liked his music.
Good music albeit with an extremely dated tone, figuratively and literally.
You tried, dawg.
It was fine. I don't think I'll ever seek out The Smiths.
I like One. I used to really love Metallica, but I only ever listened to Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets. I think this album is safe and boring and the start of Metallica's career as a bunch of goons typecast for the way they look and cursed to play sub-par music for eternity. Also fuck 'em for the DMCA. I love how dark One is, but the lack of bass on the whole album makes it extremely difficult to listen to and kinda exposes how formulaic the Bois have gotten since Metal Up Your Ass.
The album is FINE. I've seen this album cover on a shirt more than any other album ever.
Very fun. I've never heard of this guy and each track is unique. I liked this album.
Very experimental and way ahead of their time. Not my cup of tea, but it was a delight to unfold what's inside the album. Some of it is VERY 60s and recognizable, but some of it is indicative of future trends. A neat piece of history.
I do not care for the Beatles.
I never realized how heavily edited these tracks are. It's not a bad thing: the album plays with reverb and static and other effects, which really adds to the attitude. It's very common for songs to do this in 2024, but having so much fuzz so ahead of the game is respectable.
I have never (knowingly) listened to Moby. The first two tracks sample the same soundbite over and over again and, while it may appear reductivist at first, it gives off this attitude. Like Moby is talking to you directly and saying \"look at what I can do with one drum loop and this voice line.\" It's cool.
*Update* I'm on track 4 now. I see the comparisons to breakbeat. This was probably groundbreaking in 1999, but every other SoundCloud artist makes music like this in 2024. The music is starting to get a little repetitive.
I find myself comparing this to other music instead of evaluating it in a vacuum. It's good, but I think similar music I'm more familiar with will get a listen before this album.
I get it, but it's not for me. They use a lot of things that I like, but this isn't getting the same response. It's like eating someone's else's favorite flavor of ice cream. It's not bad, but it feels like this is for someone else.
The guitar talent present in The Stranger Song is just awesome. This has lots of the elements that I like about Simon and Garfunkel.
Very fun. You can tell the band is enjoying themselves. I don't think I've ever heard prog funk before. I can see this getting stuck in my head very easily.
Obv Sunshine of Your Love is the winner here, but was pleasantly surprised with the rest of the album. Unlike other albums from that era, it doesn't feel dated. It brings that energy along and I feel like I "get" it. That's not extremely descriptive, but it's the best I've got.
Bassist gets a 5 on their own. The rest of the music is good too, but I'm not very warm on it. I recognize that they're doing the thing, but it's not grabbing me for some reason. Do I have a secret distaste for English accents/dialects?
Wow, I did not like this. I found it to be extremely repetitive and unenjoyable.
Cool idea. It didn't hook me, and I'm pretty certain the banjo in the first few songs was the final straw. If I had absolutely nothing to do and I was in a comfy room with just this album, I'd take that journey. Until that day comes, this will be one of 1000 albums.
Omg this sounds like Randy Newman doing a Van Halen impression.
I found this album to be pretty boring. It's slow and relaxed, but I think that's why it didn't grab me. I think if I want to listen to music like this, I'll probably just fall back on old favorites.
I don't like this one very much and I think it's because of the audio levels. One Line was very difficult to enjoy because the music absolutely drowned out the vocals.
I don't like country or bluegrass or whatever. I can expound but that's not important.
I feel bad because I simply cannot give this album a snowball's chance in hell. Firefly turned me off so much that I'll probably never achieve an erection again. It's like someol garage band played what they think Rush sounds like and read the menu to a barbecue joint over the music.
I listened to the second track in the album, Somewhere. I suspect that the person on drums is taking out their aggression instead of keeping rhythm. Objectively, the music is passable. I simply hate it. This is my rating and if you don't like it, you'll have to live with that.
Wow, what a great album that isn't for me. It's a little down tempo from what I usually listen to, and I'm certain that I would listen to this album if I listened to this genre at all.
After reading the Wikipedia page, it seems that this album was partially inspired by the works of John Carpenter, which is super cool. I swear I can hear he influence.
Great! I only know Marvin Gaye as "the sex music man" and it turns out that's a total disservice. Talented musician, absolutely unfair that he's best known for a meme.
It was okay. Like Aerosmith, there seems to be a lot of love for the Doors, but it's over my head. Music was fine, not memorable.
this album is okay. I think I like it more than the self-titled album, but I'ma be real and admit that none of these songs stand out to me. I think I'm too familiar with modern music because music from a certain time period feels like it's lacking.
I don't like this. It doesn't sound like music.
This album is okay. I don't see anything that makes it stand out from other punk albums, so it's a drop in an ocean (in my eyes).
My Led Zeppelin experience is limited to Led Zepp IV and Physical Graffiti. On the whole, I liked this more than Physical Graffiti. I think I like Kashmir more than LZ 2, but we're comparing albums here.
MORE BRITISH MUSIC? The British haven't exported this much since Colonialism.
This is significantly closer to what I like. The tempo changes pretty frequently with lulls and surges and it's equally hypnotic and reassuring, like the waves. I think they spent too much on the sound effects CD they bought, but the instruments seem to get what's up. This kinda hits the same vibe as the Alan Parsons project, which is actually very interesting. I think Partridge's voice is what does it, but I'm also getting a little bit of the Police in there too.
I will not be listening to this again, but I like the concept behind it.
Am I hearing an organ? That's so unusual. Bob can be a little squeaky, but he puts emotion into it. His vocals don't feel as stilted as some other, similar musicians.
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I recall hearing about Elliot Smith and I see why this artist was recommended. It's a little more down tempo and chill than I normally go and that's fun. Smith's vocals really gel with the music, unlike some other albums on the list.
What amazes me the most is how comfortable I feel listening to the album with zero prior knowledge. Some albums or artists require interpretation and research and context, and this is just good music. I'm sure that this music would benefit from interpretation and alla that, but it's very pleasant at a surface level.
The music blended together after a while, and not in a good way like Sufjan. The whole album is a lot, but I think I'd listen to any individual track on a whim.
Man, that guitar work is enthralling. The last few moments of Black Sabbath make up for the slow pace of the rest of the song.
I got this mental image of a metal cage suspended by a chain, surrounded by claustrophobic stone walls and descending into an abyss. I'm feeling some fantasy elements here. I think it's because of how dank and fuzzy the bass is. The intro to N. I. B. reminds me of Sunshine of Your Love.
I've never heard of this group and I'm not sure why. This is VERY 2003 music and I dig it.the vocals are a little distracting because they're so high-pitched, but the dude can yell and that's great.
The first YouTube ad that I got was one of those \"claim benefits\" ads and it was a video of a woman firing a gun with a voiceover by a dude. The wrinkle here is that the video bad been edited to give the woman a huge dumpy and the dude only said \"so in case y'all didn't know, the government is lying to us\" so that set the mood.
Then a Mazda CX-90 ad. Pretty standard. Club Carwash, some local car wash place, then Temu.
I was convinced that I didn't like the Rolling Stones. I see why they're such a cultural touchstone. Even divorced from their other work, this album is classic rock. It's versatile and interesting and I can imagine listening to it in any environment.
Wow, I really like this. It sounds very similar to Phil Collins's solo work and that's great. Listening to the whole album gave me a great perspective because I got to hear hits and less popular tracks.
Total cacaphony. Some tracks were good, some were annoying.
For a group named \"Throbbing Gristle,\" I expected something more cohesive.
I did not understand Valley of the Shadow of the Death. The next track, Dead on Arrival, clicked with me. It seems like early industrial or something.
I like this significantly more than some other albums on the list.
Super chill and easy listening. This album came at exactly the right time.
That's a no from me, dawg. My My, Hey Hey addresses the fleeting beauty of mortality, but I think Kansas did it better. I can tell that the guitar work is good, but the music feels thin and without substance.
After more listening, I've determined that there aren't enough moving parts. There's no bass! The album sounds bare because there are fewer hands and instruments in the recording booth.
All in all, this is not my bag. It's interesting because the album has a comfortable and predictable tempo that underscores some less-than-comfortable concepts like Pocahontas and mortality. Academically, it's cool. Practically, I don't find the music very entertainment and Young's ponderings area drop of water in an ocean of philosophy, art, and novelty.
I don't know what I expected, but it certainly wasn't this. I can't think of the last time I heard a sitar in Western music. There's a lot more range than I expected because \"Don't Fight it, Feel it\" is totally different from \"Slip Inside This House.\" That being said, I still see the similarities and it's a pretty natural transition in genre.
It was good, but I can't say that I'll choose to listen to it again. I'll probably accidentally find this in a few years and maybe I'll LOVE it then.
Simple Man and Firebird are the two tracks that stuck with me. Everything else was pleasant enough. I see why this era of the band is generally regarded as their best work.
"Floaty" makes me think of DIO's guitar work. Cool. I did NOT expect Weenie Beenie. This is the first time I'm hearing FFs self-titled album and I don't know why it's taken me this long.
I had to stop at "After the Gold Rush." I'm certain that this album is good if you like Neil Young.
The days that a Young album shows up are basically vacation days. I know I'm in for a two or three out of five and I know I'm not going to enjoy it.
Beck has a low ceiling, but he's reliable. This album was fun, albeit a LOT of Beck at once.
I loved \"Firesuite.\" \"Break Me Gently\" got grating quickly. I think I like everything the instruments are doing and the vocals kinda get in the way. I didn't like that slow strumming in Rise, but the start of Sea Song was great.
I think I like about half of this music.
I want to know what the average Bob Dylan fan is like. Is he a shitpost from the 70s? Did he shape music in a significant way? I'll never know because I couldn't finish the album.
Dylan sounds like he's constantly surprised by the world around him and it's really strange after one whole track. More than that is overkill, imo.
I see why people like Van Morrison. A few days after listening, nothing in particular stands out. It was pleasant enough to listen to, but it didn't leave much of an impact.
I had never meaningfully listened to Amy Winehouse's work before, and I'm glad that I did. The album feels cohesive and I can see why she made such a splash. In addition to her belting out lyrics, her tracks use a lot of horns and other jazz-adjacent sounds. The horns create a dichotomy between Amy's voice making bold statements with biting wit and loud, brute-force honking. It's almost like the music is making fun of the way she sings. The extraneous noises feel piped-in and soulless, like a soundtrack happening around her life. The mastering is fine, but it's not very much fun to listen to. I think of this album like Coldplay: music made to be discussed on Good Morning America.
