I thought I'd hate it but it turns out it's like the indie rock I never listened to when i was 15. It's dreaminess makes it feel nostalgic but about 20 minutes in I felt the songs getting a little same-y. I definitely feel the many 2 star reviews for this one. Disappearing is a deliciously 80s styled song, the slow driving drums and guitars are very Blue Nile, and the bassline is sort of Karn-ian. I like the transition between the haunting idle and burning, I just wish the two songs were a tad shorter. This album feels like it would've been a fantastic 30 minute or so EP rather than a medicore hour long album.
I can't really get into jazz, Brilliant Corners rolled right off my smooth brain and the only time I cried watching La La Land was out of boredom; but i do love the 60s, and there's something I can't quite place about 60s jazz that makes it easier to listen to. Perfect background music, I am at a dinner party, I'm in a Pink Panther cartoon, I'm wearing a turtleneck, I am the 60s.
1994 triphop got me actin unwise. I love the samples used, they're not overwhelming but add a cool vibe to the songs.
Great album but the crowd audio was a little distracting and a bit too loud at times
sounds like being stuck in church listening to some old guy talk to you for hours way too close to your ear. maybe i'm too young to understand, I gave songs from a room a real shot, but i just couldn't stand it. had to turn this one off and listen to some weather report.
i dont know why but early 2000s pop RnB makes me feel uncomfortable in a way i cant explain, maybe i got trapped in a cell phone in 2004 and never recovered. perfectly fine album but as other reviews pointed out I'm not sure the cultural impact of this to land it a spot in the 1001 albums list.
The audio is a lot nicer than the James brown live album I reviewed a couple days back, the crowd doesn’t get in the way of the music but still makes you feel like you’re really there. Just a very fun album, I don’t think you could feel bad listening to this.
i feel like there is not much that can be said about this album, just very solid and also part of my favourite turning point in music, they weren't the first or best but what they represent is massive.
100% would do the worst footwork to these songs, very fun
Keeping pigs together is a solid slightly dark vibe that sounds like the album cover looks. Sadly a lot of the album sounds like the chemical brother's c-sides, they lack that 'thing' that elevates them above background music. I feel like if you cut out songs 3-7 you'd have a very solid 30-minute album but the middle just sorta drags. I was thinking of giving the album a 3 but the thematic transition that happens after I stole Your Car changed my mind, the last 3 songs sound like they could've come out of a different album entirely.
Very solid, sounds quite 60s for it's time.
Heads will roll is an undeniable 2000s electro-indie banger. Interesting how the album slows down quite a bit after the first two songs, they're not bad though. I think skeletons is pretty good. wish i could give it a 3.5
I can't really say anything bad about deep purple, this is right up my alley. Waiter, waiter, more electric guitar and organ duets in my music please!
The uk may have had punk, but the us really had proto-punk. It's hard to say if I prefer the iggy or the bowie mix but I love the raw edge of the iggy mix. Fantastic all around.
A classic album. Not one i'd listen to but I respect the craft. I liked the cover of Groovin'.
Seems to be a surprisingly divisive album. I have enjoyed worse singers and more abrasive songs so that really didn't bother me. I've always wanted to get into Flaming Lips after hearing the yeah yeah yeah song and the golden path but never did. This seems like as good an album as any to start on. The goofy lyrics didnt really bother me.
Very solid album. I appreciate the length of it, there's a nice variety in the songs too.
I feel like this album is really a tough one for me to rate, through no fault of Jackson a lot of this album gets that kind of overdone feeling from something thats so good but because it's so good it's everywhere, like vanilla and blue jeans. I quite liked baby be mine. The instrumental to the girl is mine is quite pleasant and almost sounds like some japanese city pop ballad. It's just a shame I can understand the lyrics. The Thriller/Beat it combo makes me wish for a timeline where this album is a campy gothic-tinged rock epic a la Bat out of Hell.
It was alright, but i'm not big on 2000s rnb so it just wasnt for me
I feel myself flip-flopping on this album as i'm listening to it, is it enjoyable late-60s-early-70s psych grunge rock or some of the most boring music i've listened to for this challenge? I'd like to hope the primal scream-y grunge rock of the 90s this inspired is better than the album itself. I liked the instrumental track the best.
I don't like to admit it but I do love a lot of this album. It seems very post-punk but pre-punk, maybe moreso in it's influences in the new wave movement, when I hear Movin' Out it sounds like a lofi version of a Buggles Song. The Stranger's chorus also sounds almost Stan Ridgway. No wonder Daft Punk and everyone else had a field day with the sampling this album.
Great to listen to this after playing fallout new vegas
I like X but this kinda fades into early 80s american punk white noise in my brain. Los Angeles I think has the more memorable tracks.
Not the best radiohead i've heard but some of it sounds kinda like one of my old favourite bands, everything everything, so that's cool. Bit too same-y and a little bit long for me.
Banger after banger, screw everyone who got this review to under 3 stars average. You can really tell marc almond's punk background peeking through in some of the songs.
I've heard Sex Beat before and a like the song but I wasn't too big on the rest of the album until a fellow reviewer mentioned that they sound like proto-pixies and I can definitely see the connection.
I'm already a clash enjoyer so I knew I'd like this one, a few good ones i haven't heard before, not as good as london calling but as a first album it's solid so I feel like i can't be too hard on them. Spotify did autoplay a gang of four song after the album finished and made me realize how i do miss more technical punk songs. Sorry Paul but you're no Dave Allen.
I like prog-adjacent jazzy dad rock, but i also hate country. Hotel california starts strong, but then nosedives into country-esque dad rock. It threatens to get interesting again but it doesn't really hit the mark. I liked the last resort though and Hotel California is a classic.
This album has the perfect amount of variety, where it's same-y enough to have a cohesive mood but it's not boring or repetitive. I don't like a lot of early 00s albums so I was on the fence with this one (I hate those big-room echo-y drums that they all seem to use) but I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. Definitely has movie soundtrack vibes which I like. But seriously, this is one of the ugliest album covers I've ever seen in my life. Who in their right mind pairs light grey with electric blue, pink and red?? I liked close behind, attack el robot! attack! and guero canelo
I'm not against the concept of the jam, but I think this album is just too long. A lot of live albums are mixed pretty poorly thanks to them being live but this one is mixed pretty well. It just kinda makes me wish I was listening to the doors though. Alright background music for doing something else.
I like the steady build up on wild flower, its a good intro. Was the guitar riff for electric ocean used in that one spongebob song? I really like love removal machine, but I think Love would've been a better album choice. The born to be wild cover is pretty horrible. I like Ian Astbury's voice and commitment to the fur hat, but overall a pretty generic rock album, but I'm not complaining.
I like Girl and Earthquake Weather, Broken Drum was pretty solid too, weirdly enough I preferred the latter part of this album. Alright variety with the songs but they're all very beck-y.
I love the opening track and the way it softly transitions into one of the greatest songs of all time as if it's no big deal.
Oye Como Va has a really smooth Doors-ian organ section which carries out through the rest of the album. I love the variety in all the songs and I love how they manage to make songs that sound like 10 minute prog epics only 4 minutes long, which means the album is under 40 minutes, which I feel like any longer and the album starts to drag.
I ended up really enjoying Mother's Daughter that and Hope You're Feeling Better, it feels wrong to keep comparing this album to others but it had a real Maggot Brain vibe to it with the faster guitar. Samba Pa Ti sounds incredibly familiar, I think I must've heard the Masayoshi Takanaka cover some time, but wow, what a beautiful song.
This song would've been a 5 star just for black magic woman but the rest of the album is exactly what i hoped it would be.
I really love the instruments used in Obatala, a sort of neo-asia/reggae themed mix. The radio interludes sound like they could be straight from a Saint Pepsi album and the interpolation Eminem later used from Buffalo Gals shows Mclaren has an ear for the iconic. While this album wasn't at all the first to use samples heavily it uses them in a really tasteful way. I've heard Double Dutch before and I love the way the radio intro helps blend it into the previous song, I wish more albums would do that. It's just a really cute song, I was always infamously bad at school skipping and I never even understood how double dutch works but this song makes me feel like I could. I really like World's Famous, it works very well to end the album.
I've never been a big fan of 'The Boys are Back in Town' so I kinda knew this wasn't really going to be for me. I can't tell if it's the mastering or the songs themselves but they all had this weird sedate quality to them, they kinda sound like you've just woken up from a 3 hour nap. Doesn't really have the energy of other live albums i've heard. It kinda just sounds like a studio album with cheering in between songs. I like Phil Lynott's vocals I just wish he was in something other than Thin Lizzy.
I'm usually not a fan of folk but I have my favourites. I like the intimacy of the recording, with a genre like folk it really adds a depth to the guitarwork. There was a little noise in some of the instrumental tracks which sounded like someone breathing very heavily, I'm not sure if it was but it was a little distracting, it sounds like poor Bert is crying. It's a pleasant album and I liked Rambling's gonna be the death of me, Running from home, Angie and Strolling down the highway, but most of the songs just didn't quite hit the mark for me.
This album is important the same way America dropping a bomb on Hiroshima is important. This album is so nothing that i forgot the previous verse of songs as they were playing. At least with bad albums they're so offensive they stick in your head but this one much like a cloud of carbon monoxide, is completely undetectable but nevertheless slowly kills you.
Also, that topology is downright offensive. Someone needs to teach Chris Martin retopology. And how to sing.
I can see why Simon and Garfunkel won like every musical award back in the 60s if this was what the competition was like. That harmonica is mastered so much louder than the rest of the audio I couldn't have the music and normal listening volume and also not physically cringe during the harmonica bits. Bonus points for not being Coldplay.
A perfectly listenable album. Nothing particularly stood out to me as bad, or amazing either.
I have heard the title song before so I already knew I'd enjoy it, I liked the callback with Mo' onions. I liked stranger on the shore. Your mileage on this album will depend on how much you like the organ as an instrument. Thankfully, i like it.
The worst thing something can be is boring. I love the solemnity of the album cover. It IS black monk time. Props to these guys for deciding on a monk theme and just rolling with it.
As a fan of some slightly more off-kilter postpunk artists this is right up my alley, its offputting, psychedelic, wild and also incredibly funny. I particularly like the weirdo keyboard in drunken maria, And I liked I can't get over you.
Releasing this album in 1983 is pretty amazing, getting the exact vibe of 90s grunge punk while flash dance was on the charts. I like the bass playing on this album. A perfect proto-pixies album.
Talking heads have many great songs, its just a shame none of them are on this album. All the songs blend together in a way that seems very monotonous. The only stand out being the cover of Take me to the River, which I appreciate for its different vibe, but I think I still prefer the original.
