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Hot Fuss
The Killers
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5 | 3.74 | +1.26 |
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Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
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4 | 2.86 | +1.14 |
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Shadowland
k.d. lang
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4 | 2.87 | +1.13 |
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Connected
Stereo MC's
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4 | 2.94 | +1.06 |
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Os Mutantes
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4 | 2.97 | +1.03 |
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
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2 | 3.5 | -1.5 |
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Blue Lines
Massive Attack
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2 | 3.38 | -1.38 |
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If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
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2 | 3.33 | -1.33 |
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The Yes Album
Yes
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2 | 3.31 | -1.31 |
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
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3 | 4.26 | -1.26 |
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Paranoid
Black Sabbath
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3 | 4.2 | -1.2 |
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Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
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2 | 3.19 | -1.19 |
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Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
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2 | 3.12 | -1.12 |
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Autobahn
Kraftwerk
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2 | 3.09 | -1.09 |
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UB40 · 1 likes
2/5
- understand the political value of this
- not one i think i'd listen to much. would be good for background, maybe for painting. not saving it though.
- i'm probably just not in the right mood to listen to it but 2.5/5
- they're the red, red wine people
Talvin Singh · 1 likes
3/5
an extremely strange album, but still quite interesting. some songs I found entirely difficult to listen to and skipped, some i solidly enjoyed. some songs I saved but not one I think I’ll revisit much.
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Fugees
4/5
- wild listening experience, huge fan of all the skits & feeling right there in the studio with them
- fugees is a funky name but also sick that its topical to the album - refugees
- obsessed with Lauryn Hill's voice, obviously
- had to keep from laughing out loud during the outro
- not as familiar with standards for rap music / this kind of flow but love it. the conversational type of contributions are amazing
- sometimes cannot tell where one song starts and the next begins
- as working music 4/5
- vibes 5/5
AC/DC
3/5
- classic bangers. love the guitar.
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Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
- superb vibes.
- would sort as a superb dinner album. good for vibing to in the kitchen, for dancing but not to upbeat, for background while chatting. <3
- due to variety in vocal / instrumental, wouldn't listen to as get computer work done music
- big fan of talking at ending
3.5/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
still to listen
Aretha Franklin
3/5
- one of the frickin voices of all time.
- love mr feelgood (dr feelgood?) as an expression of female desire. ought to be more of that
- late night album, summer deck
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
- cest jazz. jchu pas vraiment un jazz person en generale. j’en pourrais etre.
- this is fucking amazing. de plus c’est pas vraiment jazz jazz, cest plus chill et moin experimental
- thi sis just such beautiful music. just piano bass drums and it’s cracked. the bass playing is insane.
UB40
2/5
- understand the political value of this
- not one i think i'd listen to much. would be good for background, maybe for painting. not saving it though.
- i'm probably just not in the right mood to listen to it but 2.5/5
- they're the red, red wine people
k.d. lang
4/5
- i don't think I'd realized kd lang was this far into the country realm, this is incredible!
- her voice is just absolutely singular. gay cowboys for ever and ever. i love it on this particular, the vocal control & smooth tone of her voice is just beautiful
- feels very cigarettes and coffee. feels extremely dancing in the kitchen.
- saving
- 4/5 stars for SURE
Radiohead
4/5
- noises. go noises. [same affect as sports go sport]
- it is a very foggy wet day and i think this album melds well with that. very reflective. obviously, it's radiohead, but anyways (pyramid song)
- crunchy. often i chew on music but i think this is chewing on me (pulk/pull)
- just a superb album. don't think i'd ever listened to a whole radiohead album the instrumentation is just so great and the production is tres cool - maybe i'm just used to listening to way overproduced music, but it was so specific with it.
- will listen to again.
- 4/5
Morrissey
3/5
- lyrics are fuckign odd. i mean it’s morrissey so duh
- thought lazy dykes was going to piss me off more than it did
- i haven’t listened to the smiths that much and I’m sure some of their lyrics are odd too, but the kind of chill smiths vibe guitar with ‘well, america, you know where you can shove your hamburger’
- realized his voice is KIND of vaguely similar to alex turner’s but i think it’s just becuase they’re both british and annoying
- will listen to again but won’t add to my library
- 3/5 i GUESS… it’s like fine to listen to
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
- this is just noise. this is literally just noise
- i kind of like the actual one Dead on Arrival but I think that’s just because there was a backbeat and it was a relief from the noise
- a song with words???? what a surprise
- excellent soundtrack for going insane. or maybe doing insane art. scheming in a dark room. VERY ianthecore
- this is so not my vibe. am nowhere near cool enough to enjoy this
- oh i like hometime. reminds me of home movie in dreamland, wonder if that’s referencing this.
- ok i like AB/7A but it is genuinely hurting my easrs. i get that this is cool and foundational for industrial music but.. I don’t like industrial music. i like patterns and i like the parts of this with patterns, but some of the patterns are made of feedback noises and vaguely bagpipe quality machine sounds.
- walls of sound sounds like industrialist futuristic hellscape to me. the gears are grinding you into paste
- 2/5. added one song to my lyricless playlist but will never listen to this again
Michael Jackson
4/5
- music is a relief
- i just love the bass line in the way you make me feel. i know it’s literally the same thing the entire time and not
- i just love 80s music.
- it’s tragic that i’ll never go to a concert in the 80s. like dude. a michael jackson concert would be so insane.
- nothing really hits like a key change on the word change.
- don’t think i’d ever noticed the heartbeat at the beginning of smooth criminal
- that is an Album. will listen again. going to add to library. also just classic album art
- 4/5
Sleater-Kinney
3/5
- vocals are definitely an acquired taste. i don’t think i’ve acquired the taste yet!
- ‘not like an organ, like a valentine’ is a killer line to me
- the guitar is just so insane and locked in
- feel like i want to listen to this more to try and get it. i don’t really like it on first listen but i think i’d get used to the vocals and i’d be able to really soak in the lyrics
- 3/5 because i like the lyrics
Jack White
3/5
- love ‘love interruption’, there’s clarinet, big fan of the vocal duet, the lyric
- i like blunderbuss i like the theremin in it
- he said ‘noivus’ for nervous (i’m shakin’)
- big fan of the sound of hip (eponymous) poor boy. also sonically “hippopotamus poor boy” is funny
- i think it’s like 16/8 in take me with you when you go … ? love the piano either water
- saved ‘take me with you when you go’, ‘poor boy’, ‘love interruption’
- didn’t love all of it.. will listen again probably, saved some of songs. 3.5/5 initial rating.
ZZ Top
3/5
- off to a good start in terms of the guitar. getting an excellent diet of electric guitar the last few days
- enjoying this cause it’s still rock but it’s just a little chiller than all the qotsa
- 3/5. probably won’t listen much again, didn’t add
The Zombies
3/5
- immediately thinking beatles. like, very obviously, given the fact of same time active, and 5 white guys with bad haircuts / bowlcuts
- sounds like music from the late 60’s.. wack… who would have thought!
- feel like it would be cool to play on a sunny slow day. good to have chill 60s music that is not the beatles
- i’m not really sure about it. think i may just not be in the mood for it
- i think the british wobbly tone doesn’t work for every type of song. just found the staccato emphasis on every word doesn’t work
- ohhhhh they’re the time of the season people. i do like the choral chorus of it, and the intro (clapping rhythm and exhales), but as a whole song i don’t love it yet
Dennis Wilson
3/5
- this album is an hour and fifty two minutes long.
- i liked the vibe - it was chill. he’s the beach boys guy
- i did not listen to the whole thing
- 3/5, probably will not listen to it again. it would be good cottage listening. there was nothing i particularly liked about it, but nothing i disliked
Deep Purple
3/5
- ok well the artist’s name is deep purple so an automatic win
- rock music. based on the album cover I had thought it was going to be jazz
- some INSANE riffs going on here
- guitar is just incredible
- assuming these guys are british
- defo good concentration study album (in blast them thoughts out typa category), workshop album. some scream singing so might become annoying dep on ear day
- spotify description is killer. emojis
- strange kind of woman - vocals echoing guitar back & forth, love hearing what i do all the time in real music
- there are seven songs but it is an hour and sixteen minutes long. ee
- LOVE the guitar at the end of lazy specifically
- 3/5. probably won’t listen to much again but still approve
Steely Dan
3/5
- well. it’s steely dan
- tres chill.. soundscape of instrumentation moves so smoothly
- i do love the harmonization over the chorus of dirty work
- wikipedia referred to lyrics as ‘elliptical’ which feels very accurate
- again, big fan of guitars in harmony, in reelin in the years
- ‘oh michael, oh jesus’ is funny to me
- i think there is a niceness and comfort to the repetition in it, makes it very background easy listening. it’s sunny music
- idk. it’s nice! i don’t dislike it! i think i’m just not that attached to it. 3/5, did not add but did save turn that heartbeat over again
Peter Gabriel
3/5
- not off to a great start. not sure these are my kinds of sounds… but they could be
- nvm. this is interesting.. would be good studio music. it’s noise music but it’s not too abrasive. and i like his singing voice. like leonard cohen’s voice if it was a little softer and a little creepier
- there’s some sax and it’s almost 1975 ish in Start. (don’t judge me)
- i dont remember is talking heads ish. i like
- family snapshot c’est plutot sad 80s ballad
- i like it. good studio music, could be good reading music. sonically interesting, made my ears go ‘?’ at points wondering what could be making those sounsd. 3.5/5 i think.
The Prodigy
3/5
- another noise album but i like this it’s way more rhythmic than throbbing gristle
- really good concentration wise I think; not a ton of words, that kind of wet bass synth
- i’ve heard this synth riff in voodoo people before
- oh my god wait. am i enjoying edm
- i like that it’s not just synth though; the rhythmic repetition of sound bites makes it less pure EDM sounding
- it’s definitely a lot
- i’m giving everything 3/5 but it keeps being truee
Pixies
2/5
- very rock. noise rock. maybe too rock for me
- i want to like it because it’s got where is my mind which is a great song
- vibe of where is my mind vs the rest is interesting. tempo of it is much slower
- am 30 seconds into vamos; 2.8 more songs to listen to
- 2.5 / 5. i really like where is my mind but the rest is all so different
Super Furry Animals
3/5
- quite a mix. almost metal vocals at times
- interesting stuff. the spotify description said a mix of genres and they were quite right
- instrumentation is cool, a little bit noise music at times (not in a bad way)
- [A] touch sensitive has similar synth at parts to that song ethel cain likes, the same airplaney vibe
- no sympathy is seven minutes long but i love the acceleration in it, accel to more electronic & distorted is fun.
- ok this goes to very noise.
- like.. 3/5? deserves another listen
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
not actively against it it’s just not what i’d reach for
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
- i was so excited to see this one come up! knew i liked chicago and john wayne gacy jr. but had never listened to it dedicatedly
- for some reason did not realize it was made in 2005. nearly 20 years old!!
- just masterful
- instrumentation is wonderful. orchestral but still varies through the album, but in a logical progression
- obsessed with the feeling it invokes. such motion, in the city, it feels like watching scenery go by from a car or train window.
- song titles are also hilarious.
- 4/5 added to library.
Fishbone
3/5
- rocky? souly?
- good vocals. can’t figure out what they remind me of
- good listenin. think it would be worth keeping
- some noise music vibes happening
- some absolutely scrumptious bass playing in ‘bonin in the boneyard’ which is the best song title i’ve seen in my life. fucking hilarious song
- i like it. will listen to again. i’ve had the experience of being annoyed by some songs and enjoying others on a lot of albums recently, but this one has been enjoyable the whole way through
- i keep speaking too soon. subliminal fascism has a wayy different vibe. c’est la vie
- 3/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
- vibes are exceedingly starry
- picturing staring out an evening window onto a summer evening
- cottage for sure
- it’s up there. it’s lovely
- 3/5 will listen to again
Tortoise
3/5
- noise music but decrescendos into jazzier chiller feel
- a little too noise music-y at bits - would be overwhelming to have too loud, good for work though, art, introspection
- good to have lyricless albums in my arsenal so i’m not wearing out my one playlist
- 3/5 saving in library
Serge Gainsbourg
3/5
- un album francaise??
- c’est super qu’il y a des albums en autres langues. tant pis que je n’ai pas assez de comprehension pour pouvoir toute absorber ce qui se passe dans ces chansons
- reminding me of leonard cohen (specifically you want it darker album) but that may just be because his voice is low and speaking slowly. far more orchestral than that.
- i don’t like whatever is happening in ‘En Melody’
- instrumentation is superb though, cinematic orchestral feeling
- 3/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
- interesting cover art that’s for sure
- great as music for work/readings
- some superb guitar
- personally disagree with ‘sex is violent’ but yknow that doesn’t take away from the music
- vibe of ‘Jane Says’ is far more acoustic than the rest of the album; I suppose it makes sense that it’s their top song?
- solid rock album i would say, good variation through it
- 3/5
The The
4/5
- off to a superb start. very 80s combination of drums & bass & synth that I’m a fan of
- ‘sleeping boys catch no fish’… the new ‘you snooze you lose’
- i feel as though I’ve heard the riff from uncertain smile before..
- after googling, curious as to whether the spotify version of the album has the sax solo or the piano solo
- piano, as it turns out
- “i’ve seen an old man fingering his perishing flesh”. oh! quite the absurd / out there lyrics
- perfect feels like an abstract painting against a canvas of repeating bassline, synth, and some occasional trumpet. ‘oh what a perfect day to think about myself.’ real
- 4/5. adding to library
Air
4/5
- vibes off to a good start. de plus ils viennent de Versailles
- growing quite fond of how many instrumental albums are a part of this list
- big fan of la femme d’argent and kelly watch the stars.
- ce matin-la is so beautiful. call and response of the horns (trombones i presume), the feeling of ebb & flow throughout the piece
- vocals remind me of daft punk in new star in the sky, but that is just because it’s ‘vaguely european accent through a vocoder’
- what it says on the box. moon safari is a superb name for this album
- 4/5 adding to library
Os Mutantes
4/5
- psychedelic era album, brazilian band
- big fan of the atmospheric experimental feel and differences that happen in tempo
- one of the songs is in french which was a surprise when I could suddenly understand what they were singing
- i quite enjoy the choral feeling of chunks of this
- CLARINET in tempo no tempo!! clocks also!!
- really quite entertaining to realize how much i don’t know. and how much the “beatles sound” is just the sound of the era. embarrassing for me!
- i’m not sure where to rate this one - I don’t listen to 60s music a ton, but this album is really sonically interesting to me. going to go with 4/5, adding to library to expand the music i have in my library in other languages
The Jam
4/5
- british punk. entertained by the ‘they could never have a hit in America, as they were thoroughly and defiantly British’ in the spotify bio
- quite liked it as an album. I find sometimes I’m too much of a baby for punk, but this is very poppy punk and i quite enjoyed that.
- superb ending to it - we’re down in the tube station at midnight!
- 4/5, liked and am adding to library.
The Hives
2/5
very fast british rockpunk. stopped it at outsmarted. not my cuppa!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
- workshop music for sure
- the squealing is something that i think would be awesome live but I’m not sure I love for general listening
- big fan of… i don’t know what the instrument is but it’s like. electric bell sounding. might just be the electric guitar and me being clueless.
- spectacular guitar
- spotify wouldn’t let me listen to modern romance for whatever reason
- I liked it; I don’t know that I’ll definitely listen to it again but I do want to give it another try
- 3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
- it’s funny when they talk in songs
- jumpscare in this is what she’s like!! bangin though
- dude i thought the song had changed so i went to add it to my liked songs… nope it’s just a point at like 7:30. it’s damn good though!
- the repetition of ‘it all sounds the same’
- an experience of an album for sure
Love
3/5
- some sick bass playing
- i feel like objectively i like it but it’s not fully me
- the very clear enunciation by the singer is interesting for jazz rock
- i love the start of revelation. the song is 18 minutes long however
- sounds like a local band some of my friends are in!
Stereo MC's
4/5
- sick album cover first of all
- right off the bat I think this is one I’m going to save
- the picture coming to mind is a very cool restaurant. for some reason
- start of “everything” is spectacular. I don’t know what I’d do!!
- “no originals everything’s reproduced” in a song from THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO is extremely keanu reeves smoking
- superb album
N.W.A.
3/5
- “the unapologetically violent and sexist pioneers of gangsta rap” is a hilarious sentence
- can feel the bass in ‘if it ain’t ruff’
- there’s a line that sounds like “get played like a poop butt” it’s pooh butt
- again; spectacular musically, can tell why it’s foundational
- lyrics are a lot!
Alice Cooper
3/5
- do love the Alice Cooper horror vaudeville glam rock vibe
- love the meowing. narrative songs like this have really died out
- electronic synth spectacular also
- he was 24 when he wrote this which is really quite interesting
- most of these are, but this is truly an Album, not just a collection of songs
Ryan Adams
4/5
- bangin guitar
- not to be a John Mayer fan but I feel like this guy’s up there
- delightfully mournful
- twang
- less country less 80s slower bruce springsteen?
- man sometimes nothin hits like a simple harmony
- huge fan of woman that rains. “sound as an old engineer” is funny
- my kind of album; I think it also just matches my particular vibe today
3/5
- funk album
- their big song is ‘low rider’
- some solid rhythm (?? could say this about anything I suppose)
- HUGE fan of the harmonica in city, country, city
- going to be honest the jazziness did start to stress me out after a bit it was something about the background repetition (the song is also 13 minutes long)
PJ Harvey
3/5
- sometimes i wonder if I’m a misogynist (not sure I love her voice)
- nvm this is awesome I love the guitar in stella
- if a man had made this i would care so much less
- feels like a very Cool album
- familiar with sheela na gig, like that one and plants and rags
The Who
3/5
what an experience! quite a performance of an album, I love the bit of it all. the cover is wild. hope I never have to bathe in baked beans. the rock version of hall of the mountain king was what it must sound like to go insane.
The Killers
5/5
such a solid album. I love the killers!! this album has been such a staple for me for so long. the instrumentation in everything will be alright is one of my favourite parts of the album. singles are obviously great too but often get to a point of hearing them tooo much.
The Pogues
2/5
- they are the fairytale of new york people!
- metropolis also sounds like going insane
- there is a comfort in the celtic vibes to it but I mostly found it overwhelming to listen to! would be good for fairy ball.
- 3/5 by my previous system but now i’m giving it 2/5
Linkin Park
3/5
scream singing is not something i’ve ever been able to get into. this album does sound like listening to the original of something, however. spectacular guitar, obviously. big fan of the synth in point of authority.
Talvin Singh
3/5
an extremely strange album, but still quite interesting. some songs I found entirely difficult to listen to and skipped, some i solidly enjoyed. some songs I saved but not one I think I’ll revisit much.
T. Rex
3/5
not a huge fan! didn’t actively dislike but didn’t really find anything about it i liked. other than the song names, they were very entertaining.
Steve Winwood
3/5
a very romantic feeling album. I love the synth. I don’t think soul pop is a genre that particularly grabs me, but there’s such an atmosphere to this one. it feels like a soundtrack. an album i feel like is good to know, but not one I will necessarily seek out again.
Parliament
3/5
sonically I really enjoyed the album, but lyrically it absolutely turned me off of it. big fan of the synth and the low vocals, but the repetition in the last song, and the lyrics of ‘handcuffs’ were just. kind of awful! it’s one star lyrically and 4 stars in how it sounds so it gets three.
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
- iconic that this guy kept leaving music to focus on his rice farm
- crazy beautiful voice. beautiful melody to it all
- the music sounds warm
Ian Dury
3/5
- I like the instrumentation but i don’t like his voice very much. lyrics aren’t exactly charming me. they’re clever and all but i. don’t like them
- if i was with a woman ending is incredibly unpleasant which i know is the point. but still.
- ok the belch and then the fart noise into synth is kind of awesome. (2:10 of blockheads)
The Rolling Stones
3/5
obviously it’s the rolling stones. obviously it’s good. but i think the thing is i’d rather listen to blues music with non-mick jagger singing.
Grizzly Bear
3/5
I gave it a listen and a half. I do still like two weeks, but I think that’s because I’ve heard it so much. The atmosphere of the album is well established but I think not particularly for me. It does get nicely ethereal, though, well accomplished via chorals and pan flute. None of the songs seem to capture the same height as two weeks. like two weeks is the top of a mountain, the rest are definitely in the forest, but not at the same level.
Thin Lizzy
4/5
great recording of the live performance, feel like there’s some albums where it’s clear this is “just” a live performance, but this one felt like it stands in its own right. this is likely helped by the fact that I don’t already know the songs; not picking up on minute differences i might if I knew the music. fan of this. specifically big fan of the tempo increase through the last bit of ‘im in love with you’. four stars i’d say! (my rating system is re-calibrating this is not in line with my previous..)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
- neil young up there with john darnielle in terms of great guys who don’t really sing
- something truly magical about a harmonica
- the guitar is incredibly soulful. things that are nothing to say
- the electric guitar on powderfinger was unexpected
- huge fan of the bookending songs that’s very cool
- something i think i would enjoy much more if it were live
- 3 stars but not adding!
Kraftwerk
2/5
- I feel like this might be a strange one. my spidey senses are telling me
- this song is 20 minutes long. like driving on the autobahn?
- some great musicality of the synth that i like. the periodic chanting i just don’t like that much.
- this song gets a 2
- can feel this as a precursor to alt j (16 mins into autobahn is giving tessellate in my butt)
- this sounds like something that “changed the trajectory of music forever” but the thing is i don’t think i particularly am getting it.
- this second song is physically painful to listen to
- mitternacht sounds like you’re getting chased in a dungeon.
- ok this last song is equally painful to listen to at the beginning
- it tapers out into pan flute
there were parts that were cool. mostly it was hard to listen to.
Air
4/5
what an album. I’ve never actually seen the movie, which is an embarrassment for me, but it’s one i’ve now got motivation to watch. I knew I liked air already, but this was spectacular. big fan of all the instrumentation; the sax, the synth. favourites include empty house and dead bodies. 4/5!
Metallica
4/5
- i think i thought metallica was more metal than rock. a wonderful discovery for me personally. they are critically acclaimed for a reason!
- such a solid album. love that it’s referred to as ‘the black album’. funny to contrast metallica with the beatles.
- would love to see them live. that would be pretty crazy
M.I.A.
3/5
- big fan of jimmy
- cool combo of instrumental
- I don’t know if paper planes actually has a completely different sound or if it’s just that i know the song so well already
- i like it. got nothing interesting to say about it.
James Brown
3/5
- spectacular live I’m sure, love to hear the crowd in background
- spectacular musician, spectacular voice!!
Skepta
3/5
- i am not the target audience for this album! the production is really well done, sounds really “big” - high synth & keys, w low staticky bass. but i’m just. not interesting in hearing men singing about the g-spot. spectacular to hear him speak from the heart about life though
Kate Bush
3/5
kate bush really is beyond! beautiful album but i’m not one for the otherworldly language she starts to sing in, love this woman’s work since we sung it in choir. big fan of deeper understanding though
The Beach Boys
4/5
- one of those moments when you realize why critically acclaimed bands are critically acclaimed
- brutal look at the state of things seventy years ago. life of a tree today just as bad. student demonstration time. god
- good good album. so much depth to it
- harmonies are so very good
3/5
an album I’d somehow managed not to listen through all the way through before… strange! one that i think is not easy upon first listen, it’s bowie! obviously starman, five years, moonage daydream were familiar - i think i’ll keep it around so i can chew on it a little. i think the version of moonage daydream i’m used to is a different one than the 2012 remaster, or it’s just crazier than i remember!
Johnny Cash
3/5
- wild to know the applause was added in post production that makes it so much weirder. to know the actual audience was silent ‘for fear of reprisal’
- “my idiot sheet”
- by jove the gal singing on jackson can really sing!
- sometimes wished my voice sounded like johnny cash but i am. a skinny white woman
Yes
2/5
overall didn’t really like this very much. a venture is the only song i think i could get behind, but even still i didn’t actually enjoy it that much. perpetual change was very interesting but very challenging and just confusing to listen to, which is cool in its own right. i can hear the similarity to beach boys / blue light orchestra etc, but there was so much going on here. will probably not listen again
Faust
3/5
kind of a crazy album! enjoyed the instrumental songs a bit more, krautrock and laust. a real challenge to listen to but not entirely unpleasant. by my scale i should probably give it a two but i see the merit in it.
Black Sabbath
4/5
I love guitar it would seem. I really seem to enjoy this type of music for working to, and kinda love the whole prince of darkness aesthetic
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
didn't love it. don't think I'm particularly cool enough to get this album
Hole
3/5
- good stuff. crazy vocalist
- “she lost her innocence, gave it to an abscess” is brutal but a sick burn. presuming interpretation as losing your virginity to a terrible man
- goodbye ending is always appreciated
Duran Duran
4/5
one of those albums where it feels like i should have known it already. obviously i recognized rio and hungry like the wolf, with the doo-doo-doo’s of the latter maybe too familiar, but greatly enjoyed the rest. it’s becoming clear to me that i’m an avid 80s fan. big fan of ‘lonely in your nightmare’ in particular.
Massive Attack
2/5
generally I did not enjoy listening to this album. I enjoyed the songs with shara nelson more than the other guys, and i liked unfinished sympathy and hymn of the big wheel better than the other songs. i haven’t listened to a ton of slower hip hop, so maybe i’m just not used to the conventions of this sort of music. horace andy’s voice worked well in the last song, but i found it didn’t mesh with the instrumentation in one love.
Green Day
3/5
classic. not particularly my taste but such a solid album
The Police
4/5
great album. i love the police! “mother” was really unlike a lot of their other music i found. fun 7/4 time signature as well. i found murder by numbers has fiona apple cadence.
Brian Eno
4/5
what an atmosphere!!!
Jane's Addiction
2/5
- a lot of this album feels like losing it a bit to me, which is cool to evoke but not necessarily an enjoyable experience. some thoughts:
- i’m not feeling particularly compelled
- FF: Navarro was a part of the chili peppers for about 4 years!
- “slapping yourself in the face” over and over is quite an experience
- i liked the start of three days, and the guitar in classic girl
- i think i’m just not a huge fan of his voice
ZZ Top
3/5
all feels steady and similar, samey. each song starts and then it ends. not necessarily bad; would be good for background music as it’s not diverting, but on the flip side! not really interesting or engaging
Pixies
3/5
gave this one two listens, i like the aesthetics at face value and the imagery some of the lyrics invoke, but overall musically not that huge to me. interesting that it inspired smells like teen spirit. here comes the man is really different than the rest of the album, oddly very similar guitar lick to sugar sugar by the archies. a little screamy for me!
Massive Attack
3/5
So excited to see Tracey Thorn on this first track; big fan of Everything But the Girl! Elements I liked included the strings, the instrumentation in general. I liked the instrumental tracks (weather storm, heat miser). I’m not a huge fan of british rap it would appear. Looking forward to giving their Mezzanine album a listen. Generally enjoyed this one far more than Blue Lines. Adding it to my library for now, think it merits a few more listens.
Fever Ray
3/5
spectacular expanse of sound. think some of the vocals might take some getting used to but i’ve added it to my library. mostly quite liked it! sick cover art also.
The Young Gods
3/5
think this is the first album in another language i’ve gotten. the album is definitely quite insane sounding, and chunks of it are extremely horror. but it’s also really awesome. it’s a LOT but i’m adding it to my library. definitely something you have to be in the right state of mind. awesome that the band is still active too
Ray Charles
3/5
beautiful album. I don’t have much of an ear for jazz/soul yet, but I’m going to add it for now.
Garbage
3/5
overall i liked the album, there’s some songs i’ll definitely chew on again, but some i found muddled and a little samey. i didn’t listen through all of the bonus track, obviously listened to ‘alien sex fiend’ which i think was just too slow of a song for me. really liked the guitar in supervixen. desperately want queer to be on the soundtrack for a lesbian james bond movie. liked kick my ass as well. don’t think i’ll listen to the full thing again but a few songs definitely worth a revisit to me
3/5
not particularly compelling to me! but not an active dislike
The Who
3/5
again, not particularly compelled! but i didn’t dislike it, enjoyed the listen. it does rock pretty hard
Janis Joplin
3/5
what a gal! an album that just makes you want to get up and dance and lose your mind. so funky. she had a crazy voice. i did not listen to all of the bonus tracks. i’m sure i’ll revisit the album when it’s time to Rock Out!!!
Emmylou Harris
4/5
- immediately comforting even though i’ve never heard it before
- saved it to my library after two songs which i’ve done before and changed my mind on but i feel like this’ll stick
- guitar + drums on tragedy is reminding me of jagged little pill
- faint guitar on red dirt girl is so beautiful. sounds so expansive!!
- the whole album has a breadth to it that i wouldn’t expect from folk as much. i’m a big fan of it
- a real ‘why is no one talking about this’ moment and the reason is that everyone was talking about it literally twenty five years ago
- dave matthews on my antonia. thought of ‘wow this guy’s really good’ is sooo original he should start a band
- for a verrrryyy brief moment i thought it could have been john mayer
man. i love this album. excited for it to become a core one for me
Bon Jovi
3/5
music that would be so so so much fun to see live. obviously livin on a prayer and you give love a bad name are staples. i don’t think i realized how little verse there actually is to ‘livin on a prayer’, but it’s good stuff. physically reacted to the line ‘you lost more than that in my backseat baby’ I was not expecting that! pop metal’s not entirely for me but i see how foundational this album was. not adding to library
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
I liked this! ‘What?’ was an excellent, excellent song, big fan of a line about threesomes and a line about laws not being equal one after the other.
CHIC
3/5
I mean yeah dude. le freak c’est literally chic. for the most part i enjoyed this - I got bored of at last i am free, i do recognize the repetitive nature of the song is just a part of the genre. all the other songs were so solid for me - everything else is so well tied together, but not overproduced, and you really can’t go wrong with disco. HUGE fan of the saxophone on sometimes you win. i think i just like saxophone. funny bone is kind of an insane song; ‘the whole world’s a circus but don’t you be the clown!’ is funny though.
David Bowie
3/5
an acquired taste. a little overwhelming to listen to at times, ‘if you can see me’ was both overwhelming but really engaging. i liked dancing out in space. it’s david bowie! i feel compelled to like it, but it didn’t grab me that much.
The Smiths
3/5
- some of the most pleasant music and some of the least pleasant lyrics on the planet. something tells me morrissey did not truly know how joan of arc felt. ‘cemetery gates’ and ‘a light’ are familiar to me, of course. entirely perplexed on the point of ‘some girls are bigger than others’. overall, i do like the sound of the album, but the lyrics are just a grimace.
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
gave this one two listens. realizing I haven’t listened to many 60s full albums, other than the beatles. gap in my listening! fan of their shtick of revolutionary dress. cool that this album has songwriting credits from all members of their band, i feel like the variety comes through. i like the italian version of little girl in the 4th row. to me that seems like such a self-insert song for fans of theirs, I wonder whether the 4th row at their shows was sought-after seating. overall relatively neutral towards it
Marvin Gaye
4/5
god what a beautiful album. he’s got an incredible voice. keeping this one. still relevant, which always hurts my feelings
Nick Drake
4/5
the combination of folky guitar + vocals with orchestral string is interesting to me! i’m a big fan of this. sounds like a pretty tragic dude during his life, and boy does that melancholy come through. liked the guitar in ‘three hours’, the bass + piano in ‘man in a shed’. he’s a british, more reserved gordon lightfoot. adding to my library.
Japan
2/5
started off really liking it, but the slowing pace and increasingly emo tone of the album kinda lost me! the terrible french was an absolute distraction as well, found that really difficult to listen to. i’ve saved the first song, but the rest i’d rather not listen to again. it started to feel disjointed. also listened to their other album which also started out strong but lost me
Pavement
3/5
this was a real mix for me! some i really enjoyed, some i just tolerated (i found ‘unfair’ screamy and grating for my tastes, or at least the mood i’m in today). quite a range of tone and sound through the album. experiencing something i’ve experienced before, where it sounds like so many things i’ve heard before - because this was a foundation for those more recent things. wild! favourite songs included ‘gold soundz’ (i like when songs reference their own structure), ‘5-4=unity’ which was REALLY interesting to me. listened to the album twice but still feel medium neutral towards it.
Miles Davis
3/5
so much jazz! i’ve added it to library, for my repertoire of atmospheric sort of music.
The Beta Band
4/5
to me these guys are the melancholy beach boys. i like this album, i’ve added it to my library. had a huge ‘OHH!!!’ moment at the first song, recognizing it from I think severance. the song ‘alleged’ makes me think vaguely of alt-j, think it’s the harmonized speak-singing. i like the ambiance of the album, i tend to like synth and kinda wet-sounding bass, with a solid amount of strange instrumentals. i know this is classified as pop, but i really don’t know what you would call this sort of music. adding to my rotation of albums to do work to.
The Prodigy
4/5
big fan of this. another album of theirs, music for the jilted generation, had come up previously which i couldn’t get into as much - but i can see myself getting into this one. some of the bits i really liked were the vocals at the end of ‘smack my bitch up’ (crazy work!!), and the guitar in ‘serial thrilla’. intense but not too intense. also love the album cover, crab rave!!
TV On The Radio
3/5
i’m honestly not sure how i feel about this one. it definitely sounds interesting, it sounds like an album that would be on this list, but I’m not sure if that necessarily draws me in! i liked golden age, the combo of orchestral horns + strings plus two layers of electric synthy staticky bass. a bit reminiscent of the national in the drumming at the beginning of the album, a bit of bon iver on family tree. red dress went in a completely different direction, the funk was unexpected. liked the tempo increase in shout me out.
overall… Interesting album, listened to it twice, but not adding to my library
The Rolling Stones
3/5
i just don’t feel much of anything connection wise towards this music! i know it’s foundational and i understand its importance and it’s definitely solid but… i don’t feel a draw towards it that much. folks who were teenagers in the 60s are going to getch me for this for sure
Santana
4/5
liked this. crazy work on the electric guitar. huge fan of all of the time signature changes in ‘incident at neshabur’ (did notice the vibraslap a lot but i think that’s a me problem). gave it two listens, was working on the first listen, and couldn’t remember whether there were vocals on the album - realized on second listen that the vocals really felt like an instrument of their own, as opposed to instrumentation and vocals being discrete components.
Genesis
3/5
this was really, really interesting and strange! loved finding out that it’s phil collins. of course it is man. i think i’d like to revisit genesis, i think there’s stuff there. this doesn’t make for particular easy listening, but i like the kind of instrumentals that are on the album. think the vocals are something i’d need to be in the mood for. i liked the wild time signatures in edding forest, the guitar in firth of fifth
Nick Drake
4/5
recently got one of his other albums, five leaves left! i’m a great fan of this guy’s voice. he’s got the melancholy. it’s just an extremely pleasant album. think i’ll keep this one in my library as well.
Coldcut
3/5
only got through a few tracks before i gave up listening on youtube due to the ad frequency, but THANK YOU ARCHIVE.ORG my beloved: https://archive.org/details/0653_coldcut_what_s_that_noise_1989__mlib/10.+Coldcut+-+Doctorin'+The+House+(Say+R+Mix).flac pretty awesome stuff. loved the sampling of mozart, and the play off of hall of the mountain king. banger but definitely an acquired taste
Supergrass
4/5
i think this is one i can objectively appreciate a lot. don’t think it’s one i’ll particularly get into, but i’ll probably come back to it as working music. i like mansize rooster, i like the harmony in the ‘why you lookin so crazy’ line. big fan of the guitar on ‘time’. for some reason i had ‘alright’ stored as a song by ‘fun.’
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
spectacular album. not really anything I can say, it’s jimi hendrix man!! the noises he can conjure from his guitar are insane. huge fan of red house. gave it two listens, absorbed/processed lyrics a bit more the second time through - some of that I didn’t particularly enjoy (something about the mysterious mountains) but. it’s the 60s, bound to be a little strange. clearly the dude was going through it (’wish you’d hurry up and execute me’ in ‘i don’t live today’). solid!!
Adele
4/5
i mean. dude! it’s adele! crazy beautiful strong voice. love in the dark is definitely one of the songs of all time for me, but i haven’t listened to the rest of this album much. it’s all very beautiful and romantic, and strong in its genre of ballads, i’m just not that much of a ballad gal all of the time. overall just so moving and beautiful.
Yes
3/5
don’t have much of an ear for prog rock, i.e. not sure of the conventions of the genre, but it was definitely really interesting and engaging to listen to with all the funky time signatures and combos of instrumental and vocals. great bass on ‘roundabout’, spectacular guitar on ‘mood for a day’. i liked the kind of singing in round on ‘we have heaven’. not sure that i’ll listen again but didn’t dislike it! neutral!
Dusty Springfield
4/5
man oh man, if I had one word to describe this album it would be lovesick. it’s so perfect in its romance and longing… “one smile would make my life worth living” and somehow it’s not overly cheesy to me, it just feels genuine for whatever reason. she’s got such a classic voice as well. adding this one to my library, would love to have it on CD.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
- can definitely see why it’s a classic. their claim to the title ‘greatest rock ‘n roll band of all time’ in their spotify bio is however entertaining to me. loved to learn that fogerty’s writing process involved staring at his blank wall, and that he had never lived in the bayou. not particularly drawn in by it but i like it well enough! spectacular guitar for sure.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
i definitely feel like a zoomer listening to these sometimes - i can tell why this is good, that it’s foundational, but because i don’t have the cultural connection of the time to it, i’m not that compelled by it! great rock n roll. it’s the rolling stones!! what can I say!! definitely entertained by the song titles. it’s workshop music to me. there’s enough variety in the album that i wasn’t bored of it, but it’s consistent. overall good! glad I’ve listened through it. i like the horns, i like the funky vocals. feel like i should listen to it again for my Education
Stevie Wonder
4/5
just a spectacular musician! such a huge fan of his voice, it is so beautiful.
The Jam
3/5
- rockin! seems to be a theme of really celebrated british rock bands making no impact on america since they’re so thoroughly british. I like man at the corner shop. didn’t like the fly in ‘music for the last couple’, but i suppose that’s just it living up to the title of the album. killer guitar in all of this obviously. generally ambivalent about this one!
Jeff Buckley
3/5
what an album!! so raw and evocative. he’s got such a soulful, pained voice. lover you should have come over is a song of all time for me, for sure. i think this’ll be a re-listen for sure. i didn't entirely love it, but i think it's an album that deserves some more time - will relisten.
Sam Cooke
4/5
what a fucking voice! increasing my love for live albums. it’s wonderful to be immersed, what a time capsule. so wonderful to hear the audience singing along in the background. i love the sort of vamping at the end of ‘bring it on home to me’ and the excitement into ‘nothing can change this love’
TV On The Radio
3/5
there were parts of this album that were more engaging to me than the last one, but I still didn't fully love it. some of the instrumentation I was a big fan of, bass on 'king eternal', synth on 'don't love you', guitar on 'poppy'. think they're just not fully for me!
Mariah Carey
3/5
obviously so quintessentially 90s; very of the time sort of sensual album. the feeling that i’m listening to albums that are the blueprint for so much that has come after it is becoming increasingly familiar! really long songs also which was nice to see; although obviously sometimes it dragged. I’m a big fan of that sort of squelchy bass; really liked that in the first song - the second song sounded more like the cover looked (gospelly 2000s girl in the big city movie). she’s got an insane voice (of course!! it’s mariah carey!!) overall liked it; but a little saccharine for my usual taste
Cypress Hill
4/5
gave this a few listens, did quite enjoy it. i don’t generally like hearing about fucking people in the ass but big fan of pigs. reeaaaally cool work
Beatles
3/5
i thought i knew all the beatles albums but clearly that is not the case! didn’t know this one existed. i feel relatively neutral towards it! it’s the beatles, it sounds like the beatles.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
I’ll admit, I read the wikipedia page too much, read too many quotes of the band members saying how great this album was and how well it holds up - and I have the notion of ‘have some humility!’ but. They’re right! It’s good! It does hold up! I like the harmonies, I like that it’s a bit of a decrescendo of an album. I feel like they get a bit looser with the format as they go on as well, which is interesting to me (song with no words, last song with talking at the beginning and end). Cohesive, think I will keep it around.
Simple Minds
3/5
I was expecting to really enjoy it but I’m feeling surprisingly neutral about it. very bass-y album; really the defining elements are a trio of bass and synth and warbled scottish man voice. it doesn’t feel like music to be focussed on, not to be examined directly. This feels like a distillation of Eighties Pop but it’s not a distillation, it’s part of the foundation!
Black Sabbath
3/5
think I actually listened through this one when I listened to their debut. I like it well enough, I think I like their debut better! solid album though and would be so much fun to see live I’m sure.
MGMT
3/5
after the first listen; gave just the second half of this a relisten to try and think about the album more objectively - came to the same conclusion, that i don’t like it as much! i like when ‘pieces of what’ kind of opens up but it’s also a little arm-wavey for me. ‘handshake’ and ‘future reflections’ are songs i feel i could warm to. huge familiarity bias of course, but i find the sound of the singles distinct from the rest of the album - i was expecting the same level of energy throughout and although the sort of expansive vibe is consistent, I didn’t get that from it. i do like the synth and experimental sound.