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I sometimes wonder if this list of albums is just fucking with me
driving the ladies WILD
Itβs really good for what it is; I just donβt understand what it is.
my brain hurts a lot
cover art hall of fame top 5 candidate
Was not expecting absence of rapping until Clint Eastwood and have a renewed perspective of this song in context of the whole album. Very surprising how little Del there is outside the singles. I guess I knew the Gorillaz hits but hadnβt listened much outside of Plastic Beach. This album sounds more like trip hop Blur than what I expected. Standouts like βDouble Bassβ are more Dan the Automator focused than I knew the band got to.
The transitions on this album are sick. Great album to listen to walking around the city.
Iconic
the musical equivalent of clapping when a plane lands
I really like that west coast screechy synth sound he always uses that kind of sounds like a dentistβs drill.
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Think Iβd rather go back to the day before.
A lil more antsy than I recall but loved it all the same.
Every time they blast into a song with a rippin harmonica, I recoil, but Bruce wins me back every time. Go, Bruce, go. Youβll bust outta that dusty old town one of these nights.
Felt like huffing nitrous in an airport security line - rad moments involved but largely tense, loud, disorienting, and in a foreign language.
Hadnβt listened to this album. Pretty good! Definitely like the hits more in the context of the album as a whole.
Energy
Personal classic. Two white horses in a lineβ¦β¦
Smooth sailing, Carole. Side B kinda stalled the boat, thoughβ¦.
Yo. Wtf? Yes.
Cohesion. A masterpiece.
Change Partners is a pretty fucked up song. Relax Frankie. The rest of this is alright I suppose. Swanky stuff. Whatever
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Big album for me when it came out. Incredible marriage of songwriting and production.
Groovy
driving the ladies WILD
......they got better.
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RIPS.
wouldβve been fun in 1994 on ecstasy in Europe.
βIf fashion is your trade, then when youβre naked I guess you must be unemployedβ Some ups, some downs, some hanky panky
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frustrated by your apathy
I do like an occasional gong.
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immaculate
HOT FUZZZZZ
Seminal. Love listening to the UK version w New York City Cops included.
Awwwww shit
One or two all timers but the rest is a fucking slog
yee haw?
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Baby, baby, baby
I think you had to be there
lady, enough already
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I think Iβm officially not a KISS guy
my brain hurts a lot
uneven. when itβs good, itβs great.
Who knew!
ok boomer
wtf fam
Nice discovery. Always assumed this band was dogshit.
Okay!
yeeeeeee
Nope
βΌοΈSEX DWARFβΌοΈ half of this album is a 5 but the clunkers really clunk
Jah
that voice!
I saw Cheap Trick at a music festival in 2007. The guitar player was wearing a Cheap Trick hat AND a Cheap Trick shirt. Didnβt like that. Surrender is a good song.
(snarl)
If they had put up a βTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Musicalβ on Broadway in the early 90βs, it probably wouldβve sounded just like this.
Ok Iβm standing
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stiiiiillllllllllll waiting
You sound like youβre from London
Not sure how this is as boring as it is but here we are
so fucking chill
not very chill
spooooooooky season
I sometimes wonder if this list of albums is just fucking with me
for shizzle
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Always heard about Roxy Music. Never listened to Roxy Music. I really like Roxy Music!
I owned this CD in 6th grade and it was my favorite album, havenβt listened to it since. Holds up!
Peter Gabriel has always been one of those guys that Iβve felt like Iβm supposed to like. I get why heβs good, his rhythm section is impressive, itβs prog royalty, I get it. but Iβm never sold. Also he sounds a LOT like Dave Matthewβs.
British rock critics will slurp up any sludge that Damon Albarn pisses out in front of them.
i really like the song without Michael Stipe
Wild Horses is in the running for best song of all time. Canβt You Hear Me Knocking is in the running for best guitar riff of all time. Moonlight Mile - pretty sure itβs the best album closer of all time. I dunno if Iβve ever listened to this record front to back but it might be my favorite Stones album now that I have.
Repeatedly smashing the fifth star
wooaaahhKAY
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Inspirations include 1980βs βacid houseβ, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and βa single Le Corbusier lampβ. I love this album.
fookin shite
yeezus looking inward
Another one that I owned on cd in middle school
βMy presence is a present - kiss my assβ Monster is a baroque masterpiece.
25% music video nostalgia bliss 25% pump me the fuck up dance music 50% βhey, want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?β
One minute into this album, I thought the list had illuminated a new hidden gemβ¦.. Then came the vocals. Canβt I just mute the vocals? late 00βs freak folk indie rock, Animal Collective on one side of the spectrum andβ¦.whatever this is on the other - it had its moments. Not this one. Gets a bonus point for when I could imagine it without any of the vocals.
Trippy. Songs just arenβt nearly as strong as his other two albums, at least on first listen. Hall of fame cover art.
Reminded again that I donβt really like skits on albums.
Fun fact: the monster on the cover is named Eddie
bout damn time
Iβd rather not hear another word about the whizz kids
the transition between root down and sabotage was a tectonic shift, the burning bush, my Rosetta Stone
couldnβt understand a word of this but at least everyone had a good time
Bonkers tone. Very psychedelic. Love old Santana.
I absolutely hate songwriting like this.
really oscillating between annoying chaos and incredibly chill vibes. reading that this is one of the main guys from CAN helped me understand this a bit more.....def prefer CAN tho.
Iβve never been a U2 fan, aside from a few months in like second grade when my sister and I became obsessed with the song Mysterious Ways (not on this album). U2 is serious in a way that I canβt be, or at least doesnβt align with the kind of seriousness I respect. Just look at this fucking cover art. U2 is leather pants serious. U2 is βwe have our own signature iPodβ serious. U2 is a guitar player earnestly referring to himself as βThe Edgeβ and wearing a stupid fucking skull cap every day serious. Iβll give this album its due, even found myself singing along to I Still Havenβt Found What Iβm Looking For; but no, I do not like U2
hot take: Beatles are great
Bewilderingly good songwriting. I think Dana and I listened to this in itβs entirety 400 times in March/April 2020.
they sure did kick them out
I got more stories than JDβs got Salinger - Definitely the album where they changed the game in terms of sampling with almost collage-like backing instrumentals. theyβre still one album away from refining their vocal rhythm out of the 80βs; these songs arenβt quite as cohesive and diverse as whatβs to come but weβve got some bangers here nonetheless.
β¦.βtoo ridiculous to take seriously and too serious to be ridiculousββ¦. I love some of these songs, clearly a work of mastered craft - but there are too many divergent attitudes and ideas going on here to love this as a whole. The back half really saved it for me.
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Didnβt grow up with this, has always been something I knew of but didnβt really know. Knew about the production, the sound, etc and put on good headphones and listened carefully; it definitely sounds great. They got the best session players and itβs immaculately arranged, produced, recorded. I just donβt really like the songs. Some great moments, have had Deacon Blues stuck in my head and love the song Peg. the most important element of any music thatβs new to me, though, is how it hits me, viscerally - this just didnβt do shit.
Canβt believe it buuutβ¦I liked this album a lot. Iβve always been a hater of the title track. Always. Was prepared w a Big Lebowski joke etc etc. But with good headphones on a plane with my eyes closed, the production sounds so dense and chill and inventiveβ¦β¦I like the Eagles?
I like listening to this but 90 minutes is just too much devotion for one sitting.
I mean, pretty fun!
this album is all over the place
woah. really wish heβd left that last song on the cutting room floor.
Wow. I really did not like that. Lou Reed seems to speak to a subset of a generation that I am definitively not a part of and I find his smugness boring, annoying, and dated all at once. Giving it a courtesy point for the ripping guitar solo at the end of βHow Do You Think It Feelsβ
so good, never gets old, will have this on repeat for the rest of my life
I have a couple of Duran Duran songs on my βDeath Scene Musicβ playlist. I guess outside of that context I think this blows.
what a title.
well bleach my jeans and call me Dando
love that this list keeps surprising me with artists Iβve never come across before
I give it a foi outta foive
this is just one of those albums that hit me at the exact right time and place. the suburbs came out the day that i moved into a new house in austin and i listened to it on repeat while i painted the walls. aside from being the right age at the time for the album's themes to hit me like a freight train, it just feels like a texas record. there's so much melancholy, nostalgia, big open space within. aimlessly driving around a hot, texan august - this represents my time there in my memories. as a coda, the movie that ended up representing my time in Austin to me, Boyhood, which i briefly worked on, ends with Deep Blue. "here are my place and time, and here in my own skin i can finally begin"
EEEEOOOOOEEEAAAYYYYOOOO
v chill
no, I donβt think so. bonus point for some SLICK guitar
Iβm a dirty boy I guess
I really hate listening to skits. the songs are by and large incredible,though.
holy shit that voice. Iβm curious if he hadnβt died so young how his style would have evolved as time went on, this albums weakness to me really lies in its dated early 90βs pseudo-prog songs. I liked incubus a lot for a period of time, so I understand Jeff Buckleyβs heavy influence on late 90βs rock vocals. glad I finally listened to him with more context than just βhallelujahβ
track 1: undeniable classic all other tracks: boring knockoff oasis dreck
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really grew on me as it went on. tbh it sounds like mr dion is really phoning it in most of the time but you know what - i kinda respect that. deducting a point for being absolutely too fucking long.
Found the exception to my βno skitsβ crusade and itβs Andre 3000βs βI stank I can, I stank I canβ bit
Fun but not my favorite funkadelic
definitely some highlights but nowhere near the best from Marvin Gaye
Itβs really good for what it is; I just donβt understand what it is.
This is my favorite Beatles album, it lived in my carβs cd player for months in high school. To me the Beatles are simply the GOAT when it comes to recording in the studio and this one means the most to me.
βAin't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty, bring a smile to your face. Sixty, shitβ¦damn near barbecuing on that motherfucker. Go down to 20β¦get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a fuck about 40.β
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while it displays one of the greatest album covers of all time, it contains one of the worst bob dylan covers of all time. I also guess I like pj Harvey in theory more than reality.
cool look theyβre in an airport
my dad bought me this cd the day it came out when we were on a trip to chicago. i never turned it off. 1000 stars. 30 years in and still in awe every time I listen to this album.
more like very BAD (high fives, high fives)
More hit and miss than some of favorite TH albums but just an overall ripping experience laced with all time classics. Member of the cover art hall of fame.
iβd love to join the throngs of loud whistling fans of bb king
not sure how much room I have in my life for 90βs nΓΌ metal that is nΓΌ to me. That said, the percussion is excellent, the guitar tones are sick, and this generally holds up a whole lot better than say, Limp Bizkit.
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this is not spinal tap
Steely Dan meets David Bowie or Yes in all the wrong ways. Not for me.
pretty sick as far as hokey concept albums go
mehhh I guess Metallica and Megadeth on their own werenβt enough to sustain the genre. Anthrax is very clearly only for the heads.
big time college album for me. with some distance, realize it's a little uneven - the lows are almost parodies of themselves, not sure if this is because of time and a bigger catalogue or if they were reductive to begin with. that said, songs like windowsill, keep the car running, no cars go - bangers.
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possibly the coolest album of all time.
as Iβve gotten older, i've begun to understand the desire that aging artists have to round up all their famous friends and make these cameo orgies - unfortunately they're almost always lame ass snoozefests like this fuckin thing
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First time listening to Rush. I really appreciate the musical trio and their technical progginess - I just canβt help but hate the vocals. Kept thinking of this lyric from Pavement: What about the voice of Geddy Lee How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?
Some transcendent moments keep this at a 3 for me but Iβm all Rushβd out
i suppose
knicks, pizza, illmatic
markedly better than their second album, which is markedly better than the next and so on and so forth. I still think Chris Martin is the reason people started using the word βcuckβ
lovely
proto-arcade fire vibes. i prefer the crispy cold braggadocio of oasis when it comes to 90s britpop but this, though uneven and overdramatic - it doesnβt suck
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having a hard time figuring out why I had to hear this album before I die. whole thing sounds like it couldβve been in goldeneye n64 if the game had a porno level
found myself focusing more on quincy jonesβ incredible production than mj this time around. mostly in it for the hits here, which luckily make up 3/4 of the record.
Goddamn Running Up That Hill is such a good opener wtf this whole album fucking rips EDIT: wait wait wait I wrote that after 4 songs and the back half of this sucks
Iβm insulted
very sweet of them to dedicate a whole album to their best friend who went insane
Cool name, cool band, cool album - always hits
a classic for some, and of them i am one.
Incredible. I think it might be a 5 but probably need to listen to it more to appreciate this record to its fullest.
I assumed I would hate this. First off, I always confuse Depeche Mode with Duran Duran. Depeche Mode is significantly better, but they definitely occupy a similar space. There are a slew of bangers on this album, all of which already live on my Death Scene Music playlist. There are definitely some clunkers, but itβs a pretty cohesive vision with some all time classics. Violator - good album!
canβt help but respect the forebears of many of my favorite 90βs bands
we have Daft Punk at home
Some fine songs, some pretty moments; largely felt like homework.
Their most popular album is clearly the best in Pink Floydβs catalogue. The daily album project has given me more Pink Floyd to chew on than Iβd ever been interested enough to previously get into - I donβt love all of it but thereβs no question this album kicks ass front to back.
I feel like thereβs an insurmountable amount of context necessary for this to have any impact on me.
not always the most enjoyable listen from head to toe but at the end of the day, put on any misc moment from this record and itβll wash over you like a tidal wave.
At times Wilco. At times Pink Floyd. At times Panda Bear. At times Flaming Lips. I guess this is my issue w beta band - I like it just fine, but I canβt discern any cohesive identity to the music. It kind of just leaves me feeling like I just listened to a succession of trailers for music Iβd rather listen to.
Definitely in the running for best opening track of all time.
beer drinkers and hell raisers is right
cover art hall of fame top 5 candidate
a perfect opening track - anthemic drums, incredible riff, transcendent first verse lyrics - hits me in a way thatβs impossible to describe. the rest of the album basically repeats itself (like, literally in βsowing seedsβ), but tjamc couldβve just recorded fart sounds after βjust like honeyβ and Iβd still like this record.
good music to listen to while working on the horror script Iβm writing, bad music to listen to in literally any other environment
wow. canβt think of a swan song like this that both encapsulates an artists career while adding something entirely new to it. very impressed, but not surprised mister bowie
perfect soundtrack for a sunny Memorial Day in NYC
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wuh oh
rock and rolllll
sags a bit in the middle but just the most chill
βthe endβ is mostly a pretty bad song. there, i said it.
This album has some good songs and melodies but the arrangements are so drably dated that it really dulled the effect it had on me. Iβve learned through listening to all these albums that while the 80βs sound and style helped cement the legacy of certain bands, it brutally shortened other artistsβ shelf life.
beauty
ngl this is pretty good - definitely helping me understand where u2 came from. still a little overly serious for me but who am I kidding, I like Radiohead - this u2 album can stay.
incredible voice. not for me.
unruly and fun as hell
came to the realization today that maybe the who was its generationβs blink-182. half their songs are all timer ear worms while the other half are annoying and dated. their collective persona leans towards goofiness and their drummer is arguably the best musician in the band. really learning that I could go either way with this band.
RIPBW
Pretty good! Really well constructed, it flows between the hits thoughtfully and I didnβt feel like skipping much aside from the 6 minute saxophone solo in the second track.
with all due respect, cream has never really never done it for me. i can appreciate what it is and could imagine being obsessed with this if i were around in 1967, but today always feels like im in a museum, placing my finger on my chin and nodding to appear deferential. really more of a 3 for me but rounding up due to how influential itβs been on nearly every band I like.
this is one click away from an Ali G bit
More like yasss
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oddly enough I think I prefer later Elvis when heβs real zonked out on pills, but the blend of country and soul with his voice here is so smooth.
patti the poet is a genius, patti live is electric, patti's albums...just donβt quite do it for me
the non-hits really did not hit
Might be my new favorite SY
epic squirming coil
while acknowledging this album is damn near perfect - impeccable production, quintessential 70s beachwood canyon vibesβ¦ I just donβt like Fleetwood Mac songs. the chain and dreams are the tunes that do it for me.
far out
my achey breaky heart
ngl didnβt see that arabic βimagineβ cover coming
I want to tell her that I love her a lot but I gotta get a belly full of wine
i think i like this even more than pink moon
come on Eileen is a certified all time BANGER
half hour of power
a gem out of left field. never heard of these guys before and itβs extremely my shit. what this is all about!
Been a minute! All killer, no filler.
pretty one note but itβs a pretty one note
some stronger than others; goosebumps throughout
every black sabbath album I listen to in its entirety gets better and better. RIP ozzy