I listened to this record for an entire summer when I was 16 working as a janitor in a grade school. Whenever I hear "heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack" I get magically transported back to the roof of Cumberland Elementary where I'm smoking a joint and blasting Billy Joel on a cheap Rayovac boom box at 9 in the morning and I gotta say it's a pretty great god damn place to be.

It was fine

Amazing licks

Some all time classics. Feels very 80s though and that’s not a compliment

I enjoyed it but track quality is variable. Skid marks on my heart is a jam

Holds up incredibly well. Music video to title track is peak Nick Cave.

Not generally my cup of tea but I appreciate the effort. Sounds like Zeppelin meets Rob Zombie I guess?

I kinda liked it. Something like the Ramones meet the Kinks, both bands I liked, but came across as sort of dated. Maybe it's like those movies that break some new ground but seem derivative if you've seen a bunch of movies afterwards that steal all the best bets. Still interesting for historical context for me.

Never was a big Radiohead guy growing up for whatever reason. Always kind of felt like the schtick was more of less "what if my emotions were a computer," like Kraftwerk kind of but somehow less endearingly goofy about the whole thing. Anyways, this is a very different Radiohead and I think one I enjoy more. Some parts of it I don't like sound like Coldplay. Some parts I do like sound like the Pixies. Giving it 3* for now, will revisit at some point, might be closer to a 4* album on the whole.

What is there to say. The soundtrack to my youth.

A classic concept album, where Andre 3000 asks the question, "what if you were in a relationship but still horny for other people" and Big Boi asks "what if you were a cool dude." Somehow when I was 17 years old I remember thinking this shit was soft. 20 years later it sounds incredible. I wonder what that means.

Neither Roger Waters nor Nick Mason could read music at the outset of their professional success, so they invented their own system of notation that was intelligible only to them but somehow massively appealing to a broad swath of people. Maybe that's kind of Pink Floyd's gift; the Wall is such a complicated, elliptical, deeply personal work that it doesn't even really seem intended to be fully understood. Experiencing it is like hearing someone else's life play in fast forward through a wall (or "the Wall" perhaps) with all of its beauty, melodrama, and tragedy. Anyways 5/5 all time classic by one of my favorite bands.

Not for me I guess. I didn't grow up a big Nirvana fan so some of the hagiography is lost on me.

First 30%: this is the dumbest album I’ve ever heard Middle 30%: wait a minute Last 40%: equator equator doo doo doo doo equator equator doo doo doo doo

What an album. Perfect for listening to really loud in the car. Let’s have a smile for an old engine driver

Pretty interesting musically. Some blues and maybe even funk elements. Still kind of too "smooth rock" for me, almost too understated considering the power of her voice. So not my fave.

Very weird. Like a schizophrenic Beirut. Not altogether unpleasant.

This album follows the general rule that good country music wallows in self-pity about problems that are completely the narrator's fault. A real un-self aware sad sack piece of shit is what you want, and Merle gives it to you here. The title track is a standout, as is "Drink Up and Be Somebody." The chorus of "Life in Prison" is bleak enough to fit a black metal song. Great stuff all around.

Prince presents a conundrum for me. His music is amazing, this album is incredible, no matter how many times I've listened to it throughout my life it always has something new to offer. This time around I was focused on the imagery of the lyrics. "Dream if you can a courtyard / an ocean of violets in bloom / animals strike curious poses / they feel the heat, the heat between me and you." Amazing stuff. However I think his personal gravity and magnetism are unfortunately the tie breaker that makes Minnesota (otherwise not that cool of a state) cooler than Wisconsin (also not that cool of a state but otherwise marginally cooler than Minnesota). Ah well.

What is this bullshit. Too bad there's no option for zero stars.

I can't find it now, but I remember reading an interview with one of David Bowie's ex-girlfriends from when he was high school aged. She talked about how he was unlike anyone she ever met, because he was unbelievably self-possessed and dramatic--he acted like every moment of his life was like a scene in a movie that he was starring in that was broadcast around the world, so he would throw himself completely into the minutiae of every moment of every day. I would imagine it would be fairly annoying to be in a romantic relationship with someone like that, but you can't argue with the results.

I'd never heard this one but it didn't work for me. Overproduced, uneven tonally, and the production drowned out his vocals, which sound OK all things considered but are covered up by everything else going on. Sorry Bob!!

Definitely NOT a 2 despite what Luke says

Brian Eno is a fraud and must be stopped

One of those albums where you honestly feel like you’re in the crowd

Everyone thinks hell is cool, that being a scary skeleton type guy that can play a guitar cool. Well guess what, not me.

Cocaine blues is basically a rap song. He uses the line "I shut that bad bitch down" at one point LOL.

Completely nuts album. Extremely unpleasant to listen to at times with shocking descriptions of violence and misogyny, at other times soaringly beautiful, especially the instrumentation. The bottom line is that this shit makes you meditate on the line between life and death in a direct unsparing way that few other musical experiences do, and for that reason it is a classic album.

Expected to love it but kind of didn't. America and Mrs. R are classics of course, the rest of it I found pretty forgettable.

All American dumb guys just blasting the guitar. Not great music, but like, who gives a shit.

More “Important” and “interesting” than “good” for me. Still worth a listen.

Didn't like it the firs ttime. Devon told me it was good so I listened again. He’s right it’s actually good. Slowburn sounds like Rush. Modern Love bangs. The hook in dolce vita reminds me of a John Prine song (“Saddle in the Rain”) somehow. There's actually not a lot of filler and then you’ve got Solsbury Hill. I want to listen to all the other Peter Gabriel albums now. This went from 2* to 4* on a second/third listen for me!

This one's a snooze fest, no thanks.

Accurate album title

Is this actually music, or more like a weird art installation, like something you'd listen to at a temporary museum exhibit while staring at a little black and white screen and wearing sweaty headphones, maybe watching 10 minutes of Un Chien Andalou set to this score and feeling oddly unsettled.

I've been feeling miserable all day because I undervalued the Grant Lee Buffalo Album yesterday. Should have been four stars. Sorry to everyone involved.

A lot of the haters and losers don't like this album but they're wrong. I've always been a big G-Funk fan and I love the production and backing vocals. But it's the storytelling, right? A young man who can barely hold his false bravado long enough to fill one track before the next track muses on depression, suicide, how bad it feels to be letting your mommy down, etc. Complicated fella. The girlfriend monologue about how her man doesn't eat, doesn't sleep, doesn't work, doesn't fuck, just stands peering out the window all night holding an AK-47, incredible imagery.

Insipid

Inaccurate Album Title

This album is so awesome. It only gets a 4 because I know that he has put out even better stuff (Water No Get Enemy)

Perhaps the worst vocal performance I've ever heard in my entire life. There were a half dozen guitar riffs over the course of the record that kinda got me nodding my head, that's the only thing that saved this from a one.

Boring

Pretty irredeemable hair metal nonsense. Almost gave it a 3 for nostalgia, probably would have if it had pour some sugar on me on it, but alas.

A classic concept album reflecting the two sides of masculinity: being cool and being pathetically horny

This is super weird. Has some of the vibes that Genesis had back in the early days when all their songs were about fairies and gnomes and stuff, not super accessible to a modern ear but if you stick with it you start to hear the blueprint Bohemian Rhapsody rattling around in there. Still better than average, and with a few more listens I might warm up even more.

Enjoyable yet boring?

More like shit on the run

Best Beatles solo album

Not for me

Elite Harpsichord

Maybe better than the other one but still confused and bored me. Don’t get the concept

Don't get it

This is way different than what I thought Portishead was. I pictured them as a shitty incubus style band but this is way weirder. Not exactly for me but I respect it.

I think this is the most surprised I have been by an album so far in this project. The variety of styles is impressive as is the vocal range and hooks. Really good, closer to 4.5 than 3.5 for me

Very schticky but it works for me. Some of the tunes sound like they're from the mid-60s and some sound almost modern, pretty impressive for a 1972 release.

Easy 4 star

Excellent

I think I like old fat sad Elvis the most just for the pathos, but hot young stud Elvis at the height of his powers is pretty great too

More like Beach Snore-ba, this one's a snooze fest. Sounds like Nancy Sinatra on xanax.

You can hear the production that New Order did so well in here but none of the humanity. 2.5.

Great percussion. Someone said this is the original rap rock album though which keeps it from a 5.

I think I like funhouse more but I really like the guitars and backing vocals in this one. Excellent album.

This is like Jazz for Dummies right? Well call me a dummy.

God this is truly unpleasant. Truly, truly unpleasant. I would give it a zero stars if I could.

Delightful. A new wave Village Green Preservation Society.

It's a 2 from me but it's a strong 2. Like a 2.4.

According to wikipedia the original lyrics to "Tutti Frutti" were "Tutti Frutti / Gimme that booty." A man ahead of his time in many ways.

How fun would it have been to be driving around in your dad's camaro in the summer of 1976 blasting this shit as loud as possible. Maybe wearing a headband with a perm and a mustache. Nerds rule.

This shit corny as hell

She's got chops obviously but the production feels a little overwrought. "Breakfast in Bed" is a nice cut.

Dumb and annoying

It's funny I've been listening to CCR my whole life but I've never listened to this album as a concept. I think we had the Chronicle greatest hits cd in the minivan growing up so we'd just listen to that, but this album has so many of the all time classics they're kinda indistinguishable. Anyways, CCR rules.

I didn't love it. Some albums that mix genres and sounds pull together a coherent whole, this one didn't for me. Liked a lot of the tracks, but not the whole effect.

Really interesting album. Different than I expected. Has more in common with 80s arena rock than punk music to me, very effective vocal performance as well.

Like a parody of Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark done by somebody who hates that kind of music

The thing I love about the Kinks is the dissonance between the lyrics and music, which are pastoral slices of life of average British people in the 1960s and 1970s, and the theme, which is overwhelming, crushing existential dread. Some great grooves on the second half of a lot of the songs here too, like the Winson Churchill one.

Here I'm Thom Yorke: "Wot if I was a computer mate, would I have emotions"

I went back and forth on this but I'd give it a 3.5. The instrumentation is already there in the early work, the baselines sound absolutely sinister, but the vocals were not super impressive to me and it all sounds like you're listening to it through a fog. The pop sensibility of the later hits really elevated the schtick from good to great.

Like beat poetry with jazz instrumentation in the background as much as anything else. A very cool departure from her earlier work. Suck it haters and losers.

My first time giving Devo a real listen and it is very funny and surprisingly really good. I'm not 100% sure this actually a 5 but I am sure that these guys are 100% committed to their bit and I respect the hell out of that so I am going to reward by rounding up.

I'd let these two 1950s smokeshows take me to the drive in on a date anytime ;)

Pretty different sound than Folsom Prison but I'm not able to put my finger on why. I think I like Folsom Prison more but maybe I've just heard it often enough that that's the reason. I like the banter on this one better though, like when he's like "what kinda booze you guys got in those cups??? Oh, tea."

If I were a Gen X this would be an easy 5. Some of the cultural context isn't quite there for me but still excellent.

Alright time for some radical candor: the very first type of music that I liked, other than like the Barney theme song, was 80's hair metal. The first albums I purchased were the Monsters of Rock and Monster Ballads compilation records. Poison, Whitesnake, Ratt, Def Leppard, etc. I won't say I'm necessarily proud of it, but not embarrassed either. And of course I still have a soft spot for this type of stuff. I recognize that this music is not great, hell it's barely even music in some sense, but nostalgia is the most powerful force on earth, and I will be god damned if I did not sing along to almost every word of most of the songs in this album and have the time of my life. So this is not a 5 (it's like a 2.5) to my brain, but in my heart and my balls I feel it is a 5, and that is what it is getting. I guess it's the bad medicine that I need ;)

Despite the name this one has big sativa energy

Straight fire. So many bangers.

Fast Car might be the perfect song. The rest of the album reminded me why Fast Car is the only Tracy Chapman song I can name. But goddamn it is it a great son.

When you're young you get sad, when you're Ryan Adams you whine your ass off well into middle age.

Pretty great. 3.5 I think. I actually don't mind disco influences anymore now maybe?

Absolute 5 star banger. One of my favorite albums possibly. Don't get the Dan hate, Dan is being dad, Dan is not caring what other people think of you. Be like the Dan.

A bizarre combination of T-Rex and proto Vampire Weekend sounds. Very nice and enjoyable but maybe not that memorable.

Hmmm not for me at all. Almost impossible to listen to. I am not giving it 1 star because I feel like I don't even understand what this is going for so I can't say that it's a total failure (but it might be, I honestly don't know).

I listened to this record for an entire summer when I was 16 working as a janitor in a grade school. Whenever I hear "heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack" I get magically transported back to the roof of Cumberland Elementary where I'm smoking a joint and blasting Billy Joel on a cheap Rayovac boom box at 9 in the morning and I gotta say it's a pretty great god damn place to be.

This album will always have a special place for me. Not to brag I actually bought the first pressing of the record the day it came out in 1967 and saw them at a show in Greenwich Village that night and I was the only person in the audience so I did a bunch of drugs with Lou Reed and I gave Andy Warhol his first ever can of Campbell's soup and then John Cale gave me a high five and said "wow you really knew about us before we are cool way to go man way to go."

Feels like going for a nice walk with an old friend

The most generous way I can describe this album is unintentionally funny. I guess this was where art was headed in the late 90s when we had no social problems. Thank God for George W. Bush to give some texture to American despair and to re-start our art and music scene.

I don't personally vibe to this but I recognize it is a masterpiece and the highwater mark of the genre. I do not know if that means I give it a 2 or a 5, so I guess I'll do a 4

Not my style of music but this is about as good as this genre gets. 3.5 for me

Never heard of it but pretty good actually

Time capsule more than enjoyable like the Ray Charles country album

Like the alternating lead singer model. No egos in the early 70s mod movement

I am surprised to rate this as a solid 4. Dreamy introspection works for me here and I even enjoyed the uptempo electropop more than I would have thought. Hail the British Empire.

Incredible album. I kinda forgot these guys were mostly Canadian. Most Canadians are artless chaches who are only good at standing in lines and socializing healthcare. Good for these guys.

It stinks

Was a 5 star for me when I first listened to it, barely a 3 now. How far he's fallen from SLOW JAMZ

Hard to not belt out I WANNA LIVE, I WANNA GIVE at the top of my lungs while listening to this walking around. Neil is the OG.

I generally think Jim Morrison is one of the more overrated vocalists of all time but the hard rockin' version is definitely better than the king snake LSD poetry or cloying pop hits so I'll give 'er a 3

Never noticed before how much Morrissey sounds like Beirut. I'm not a Smiths superfan and this naval gazing is not my favorite aspect of their work (shredding guitars obviously is) but it's certainly not bad.

I mean it's certainly a thing. Not My thing of course, but A thing

"Wot if me mate was a computer" - Thom Yorke

Formative album for me, one of my all time favs. The shift from sexy and dangerous vampire Nick Cave to sexy and wistful vampire Nick Cave is a career defining move.

Sounds much more 2001 now than it did in 2001

2010 was a hell of a year. 59 dem senators. Inglorious Bastards is in theaters. Packers finally got serious about their pass rush and a super bowl was the horizon. Take me back.

Some undeniable great tunes but too much boring naval gazing

Radiohead but much worse