- 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

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.

- 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

- classic bangers. love the guitar. -

- 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

still to listen

- 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

- 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.

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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.

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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.

- 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

- 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

- 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

not actively against it it’s just not what i’d reach for

- 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.

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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.

very fast british rockpunk. stopped it at outsmarted. not my cuppa!

- 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

- 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

- 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!

- 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

- “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!

- 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

- 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

- 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)

- 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

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.

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.

- 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

- 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

- 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)

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.

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.

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 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!

- 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.

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!

- 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

- 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.

- spectacular live I’m sure, love to hear the crowd in background - spectacular musician, spectacular voice!!

- 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 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

- 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

- 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

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

didn't love it. don't think I'm particularly cool enough to get this album

- 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

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.

classic. not particularly my taste but such a solid album

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.

what an atmosphere!!!

- 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

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

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.

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.

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

beautiful album. I don’t have much of an ear for jazz/soul yet, but I’m going to add it for now.

not particularly compelling to me! but not an active dislike