I like the soundscape Duran Duran creates on this album, where it feels like you're floating in space, and every so often an instrument or sound floats closer to you before sinking into the background. I will say though, this album kind of felt like 42 minutes of the same song. It was a good song, but it got tedious after a while. My favorites were lonely in your nightmare, save a prayer, and the chauffer. Least favorites were new religion and my own way.
This album is excellent. It uses interesting chord structures, varied instrumentation, and haunting vocals to create an emotional experience, simultaneously imparting on the listener that feeling of existential, anxious dread in the pit of your chest and that tight, immediate adrenaline rush of anxiety. In short, this album is a paranoid experience in all the best ways. Favorite songs were Paranoid Android (duh), Electioneering, Karma Police, and Fitter Happier. I don't think I had a least favorite song.
Excellent album, really speaks to my own personal taste: it's groovy, it's heavily blues influenced, and the instrumentalists are very talented. I can especially see why this album was popular in 1967. It'd be a 5/5 if I was on acid while listening to it I'm sure.
Adele has an absolutely beautiful singing voice, and I enjoy hearing her sing; whenever a live performance of hers appears on my social media I thoroughly enjoy it. I do not like this album. It starts strong but fizzles quickly. Even Adele cannot make a good album consisting only of belted sad songs over uninspired instrumentation. I like Rolling in the Deep, I actually really liked Rumour Has It, but other than that, I did not particularly enjoy any of the songs. If Adele was the lead singer of a band filled with excellent musicians, I would probably love that band. As it stands, I find most of her music interminably boring.
You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer, and Dead or Alive are all excellent songs, all-time greats even. The rest of this album is pretty boring; Bon Jovi doesn't really vary their music all that much: the lyrics are forgettable, the chords are largely the same, and the sound is the same. I like the sound okay, and I think he perfected it on those three songs. Because of that, this is a fine album, but not a great one. Favorite song is obviously Livin' on a Prayer, but You Give Love a Bad Name is just about as good. Least favorite songs were Social Disease and Wild in the Street.
This album was amazing, especially since I had (unfortunately) never heard of Germs before today. The sound is raw and violent, but the songs are varied. The vocals are a little too scream-y for me, but they're just melodic enough that I still enjoy the songs. After reading the history of this band and this album, I only appreciate it more. Excellent album that makes you want to drop-kick a Nazi.
One of the greatest voices of all time, alongside excellent blues-y background tracks, makes this one of the greatest albums ever made. Emotional and Exciting, Aretha Franklin can hit a riff that makes you audibly go "oh damn" on the bus.
Aerosmith has such a great blues-rock sound. Steven Tyler has an outstanding and versatile voice, every song has an excellent guitar riff for a catchy hook, and the blues-y, swinging chords that make up the backdrop are layered, interesting, and above all, fun. This is a great album that one can hear the influence of in much later rock and roll. Some of the lyrics are a little creepy, though. My favorite songs were Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion, and Uncle Salty.
I liked it! Folk rock is generally not my type of music but you can definitely hear how this album influenced a lot of future music inside this genre and out. I liked the songs that stretched the vocalist a little bit, like Goin Back and Change is Now.
I can see why people like Oasis, but I did not particularly enjoy this album. The songs feel slow and largely uncreative instrumentally, so they rely on the whiny voice of the lead singer which I just don't enjoy too much. That said, it has some decent songs and none of it was god-awful.
A truly excellent electric folk-pop album. I loved the vocals, and I thought the harmonies were mixed perfectly. I thought the band had a beautiful, unified sound where every so often one or more of the instruments would surface for a little moment to themselves. Overall, excellent album and I can see why some people hailed it as the best debut album ever. My favorite songs were White Winter Hymnal, Quiet Houses, and Oliver James
I can see why people like Leonard Cohen but I, unfortunately, do not. I can appreciate the poetic lyrics from an intellectual standpoint but the music doesn't groove, it just kind of plods along behind the lyrics. It feels more like I'm listening to spoken word poetry over a guitar backtrack on loop than listening to a song. It makes it so every time a new instrument joins the fray, or backup singers, I'm so excited to hear them I stop paying attention to the lyrics, and then I tune back in to the lyrics and I don't know what the hell Leonard is singing about.
Hendrix is just one of the best to ever do it. His songs are complex and interesting, dominated by his incredible technical skill and excellent sound on the guitar. His siren-y, melodic lead guitar mixed with a crunchy backing guitar is just iconic. His voice is also very excellent. I often found myself not even noticing when the songs switched because they were so excellent and enrapturing. Some of my favorites were Purple Haze, May This be Love, and Foxey Lady, but there aren't any misses on this album.
Bowie's Pop-y glam rock is a really tight sound. It uses blues, jazz, and older rock influences to make this bright, almost optimistic sound. I really liked this album, and obviously David Bowie is a genius and one of the all time greats.
I enjoyed the organ work a lot, the whole album had a nice smooth blues vibe to it. It checks the boxes of everything I want in an album like this: groovy, technically skilled, and the songwriting is interesting.
Frankly, I think I just do not really like prog rock. The songs on this album are interminably long and never feel like they're really going anywhere. I like the instrumentation and I enjoyed the solos, but I mostly just found myself wondering if this song was over and we were on to the next one yet.
Prince expertly combines the catchy hooks of pop, the exhilarating energy of rock, and the groovy rhythms of funk into a sound that can only be his. Every song on this album is an absolute banger, worth listening to over and over again. Truly one of the greatest artists of his era, died well before his time.
I liked some of the instrumentation, and some of the songs grooved, but I just can't stand that 80s style of singing where the singers voice is almost a monotone on each pitch, and very nasally. It sounds whiny and I cannot stand to listen to it, it really bores me.
Cooke is an electric performer, his voice is beautiful, the music is excellent. The quality of the live recording is frankly unbelievable, especially for 1964.
I like the sound, the guitar is very technically skilled, but the music kind of dragged for me. I don't think it's quite my type, although I have a lot of respect for Nick Drake and how he influenced many great artists that came later.
Jerry Lee Lewis had the trademark weirdness and moral ambiguity of the rock stars of his era, but he could put on a hell of a show! The hammering piano, the blues chords, and his electric voice transmit the energy of the show right through the headphones. It's hard not to get up and dance to this music.
I generally like noisy rock music, but the actual noise-rock genre can be a little too much for me. As much as I enjoy the experimental nature of it intellectually, my ape brain needs melody from somewhere in order to really like the music. Thus, the songs off this album with some semblance of melody (Wail, Fuck Shit Up) I liked, but the songs without, I did not like so much.
Otis Redding has an absolutely stunning voice, and these songs are all iconic. I love this album.
Solid rock album, I thought the songs were, for the most part, groovy and didn't stick around too long, and I liked the guitar work. I liked the titular song, and I also liked The Weaver.
