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Elliott SmithRepetitive, uninspired, insipid, there is absolutely nothing to enjoy about this low-energy emo rubbish unless you need something to make guests leave your party when it's getting late.
Repetitive, uninspired, insipid, there is absolutely nothing to enjoy about this low-energy emo rubbish unless you need something to make guests leave your party when it's getting late.
Tedious slog. Maybe you had to be there.
It's alright. Probably the peak of post-punk, and not necessarily in a good way. Each track sounds like any other Talking Heads track, very little variety. The Gary Numan's Chameleon bass feels very out of place.
Buttery smooth hiphop. Can still hear the hiss of the vinyl that they sampled the beats from. Creamy vocals, easy to digest. Not a huge amount of variety, but honestly how much can you do with a crumby old Akai and some battered records.
You have to really like Dolly's wobbly voice and steel guitars to get through this one with a smile on your face. Far too American, far too boring, and only trace amounts of musicality. Lovely bass though.
Repetitive, uninspired, insipid, there is absolutely nothing to enjoy about this low-energy emo rubbish unless you need something to make guests leave your party when it's getting late.
World music-y, chill, fun, with some absolute slammers.
This is a flawless psychedelic blues album that doesn't put a single note wrong. The mastering is fantastic and gives an extra-dimensional quality that you just don't find in the modern day.
Any album that starts with such a beautiful FM electric piano is worth its weight in gold to me. This album also has some of the best vocals mastering/mixing/recording I've ever heard, and the overall sound design is nothing short of genius. It's not an album for everyone, but it's right up my street, and the mastering quality cannot be denied. Aside from this, it's hugely musically varied. Not every track is a banger, but it's easy enough to leave playing and still enjoy it.
Yeah it's alright. Gets boring after 5 or 6 tracks though, and by the end I was completely over it. Too long with too little variation, sounds like any cookie-cutter country/blues/rock album that many others before have done better. It's the McDonalds of rock albums.
Luscious tones and lovely singing, this is how to do a folk album properly. Has plenty of variety, but it lacks a sense of excitement which could've rounded it off. Excellent dynamics though.
Not the right album if you're introducing someone new to hip-hop. Several stone-cold classics, excellent (if uncharacteristic) mixing/mastering, and a great all-round album for connoisseurs, but let down by the too-laid-back beats that don't match the lyrics. I could've done with the aggression turned up a little bit. Unfortunately, this leaves it trailing its contemporaries. Still great, though.
Count Basie didn't invent big band, but this album is a flawless presentation of everything that makes it great. You'd have to be properly miserable to not enjoy this.
I'm just not interested in live albums. Not sure why anyone would want to listen to a crumbier version of perfectly good studio music unless you were actually there. I'd prefer this song list as just a compilation of the album versions. The live music doesn't add anything, and strips off a lot of polish. Only giving this 2 because at least the songs are good.
Nice tones, good recording quality, musically fascinating, good variety. Doesn't hold up very well in the modern day, and just feels like classic boomer rubbish now. Guitarist only knows one picking pattern, but the bassist is fun to listen to. The music this inspired is better.
Opening with a ring modulator is a brave move. I love the use of African percussion and vocal effects in the intro, too. Outkast weave in a lot of heavy plosives into their recordings, which gives them quite a unique feel. The aggressive beats and overdiven guitar and synth puts across the same emotions of their lyrics. This album also has Ms Jackson, a massive international hit, which was a soft introduction for huge swathes of people into hip-hop. Their buttery smooth rapping is the icing on the cake.
I pressed play and thought it was a blues album. I've never been so disappointed so quickly. Love the stereo effects; there's some decent mastering for 1963, but can't help feeling like the out-of-time, super quiet kick panned far left ruins things a little bit in Night Life. I liked the super chill, laid back blues of Night Life, but the country is bollocks. Started strong and rapidly dropped off musically, but Ray's voice is lovely at least. And how many songs need to start with violin chord stabs? Come on, lad, you've got a full band. Use them.
Utter dogshit.
Short, enjoyable bit of latin funk. As soon as it finished, I listened to Low Rider though.
This is where the line blurs between best albums and most impactful albums. Yeah it's great, yeah it changed the world of music, but there's very few unique ideas and outside of nostalgia and studying popular music history, there's very little reason to listen to this in the modern day.
I enjoyed this a lot. Greatest album ever? Don't think so, but it's pretty special. I'm a fan of anything that uses unconventional instruments to build its sonic landscape in a unique way. Bass playing is top notch too.
Goths in the 1980s had it rough.
Camp fun, slides down the ears.
Peak 2009. Not in a good way. There is nothing memorable about this wishy washy rubbish, but equally it wasn't offensive.
Crikey that was a good album. Excellent jazzy blues all the way through. I'm a big Kenny Burrell fan already, so it was bound to resonate with me.
I've never listened to Neil Young before. I have now realised that was no true loss to me. Painfully dull.
Bob didn't invent reggae, but this album helped refine it. Excellent groove throughout, with luscious bass.
I'm not sure what I just listened to, but I thought it was excellent. Love to have that much variety in an album.
Placebo did it better.
Tedious slog. Maybe you had to be there.
Such a fucking good album. A rare case of the original being the best.
The OG of stealing black music and giving nothing back
Brits do it better. But track 3... ~hits from the booooong~ is all I could think about.
Hey, Americans, country music isn't anywhere near as important as you think it is.
I think this is one of the sexiest albums that's ever been written. All About Love is a highlight, but it really exposes the struggles of 1970s recording technology with a lot of clipping on the drums and trumpets. That's kind of part of the charm though.
Raw, pure. Essential listening for anyone with the simple gift of ears
Boogie Pimps did Somebody to Love better. White Rabbit is a total slammer, but the rest is easily forgettable. I wanted to like this album more than I did.
Music has moved on, and it wasn't even that good when it was new.
Hippie bullshit.
Smooth, but the skits are irritating.
All the hope of the sixties wrapped up in one album. Sorry it never worked out like you wanted, boys.
I'd rather pick the dried shit out of a dead sheep's fleece and use it as a toothpick than listen to this utter wank again.
Yeah it's alright.
A lotta screaming and not really getting anywhere. It's pretty powerful and fun though.
Decent shoe-gazey rock album. Not much to it, but what it's got is fab.
Not ambient enough to be enjoyable
Finally, some good fucking music
45 albums in and already a second Neil Young effort. Are there really so few artists out there that we have to have such a density of this whiney gobshite's music? It's just not that fucking good, is it? The mastering on this album is bad even for 1974. I'm so bored of this shit that I can't even be bothered to criticise it more. Catatonic.
Michael Stipe's voice is fantastic. I forget how much I love R.E.M.'s melodic tones. Love this album. Love the instrumental experimentation. That being said, it leaves a lot of excitement on the table.
This is the boulder that Planet Rock has been leaning on for decades. Total slammer, I LOVE IT, AND I NEED IT
Shit Mining
Trigger Happy TV! I can't listen to this without picturing Dom Jolly winding people up. It's also pretty good.
I quite enjoyed this. Instrumentation kept me interested, and the tone seemed playful and joyful when it needed to, and morose at other times. Reminded me of Pulp in a lot of ways.
This is exactly the kind of thing I signed up for. I didn't really like it that much, but in a sea of country and Brit pop, this is a welcome break.
It's pretty cool for an American rock album. Enough variation to keep it interesting, but lacking in power.
Giving this 5 because I love it, but it's mainly fun to piss off boomers and yanks
My last favourite track is the title track... The rest is great though.
In a sea of mediocrity, Frankie Goes To Hollywood tried to do something special.
I'm not miserable enough for this
Starts strong and falls off a bit, but really enjoyable soft rock jaunt
When are Americans going to realise that country music simply isn't as important as they think it is
White guys playing black music but worse.
Boring album held up by a few legendary tracks. If it was released today, it would be considered loser indie trash; does this make it ahead of its time?
It's fun but what's it doing in this list?
It doesn't matter who you are, where you came from or what you think, this is without a shadow of a doubt up there in the top three most important albums ever been laid down
Fuck yes, some proper music