I sometimes wonder if this list of albums is just fucking with me
driving the ladies WILD
my brain hurts a lot
It’s really good for what it is; I just don’t understand what it is.
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 hadn’t listened much outside of Plastic Beach. This album sounds more like trip hop Blur than what I expected. Standouts like “Double Bass” 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 dentist’s drill.
🤘🏻🎸⚡️🍆🤘🏻
Think I’d 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. You’ll 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.
Hadn’t 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 line……
Smooth sailing, Carole. Side B kinda stalled the boat, though….
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
✨🤘🏻✨
Big album for me when it came out. Incredible marriage of songwriting and production.
Groovy
driving the ladies WILD
......they got better.
🌞
RIPS.
would’ve been fun in 1994 on ecstasy in Europe.
“If fashion is your trade, then when you’re naked I guess you must be unemployed” Some ups, some downs, some hanky panky
😭
frustrated by your apathy
I do like an occasional gong.
🙄
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?
🥴
Baby, baby, baby
I think you had to be there
lady, enough already
🫨
I think I’m officially not a KISS guy
my brain hurts a lot
uneven. when it’s good, it’s great.
Who knew!
ok boomer
wtf fam
Nice discovery. Always assumed this band was dogshit.
Okay!
yeeeeeee
Nope
‼️SEX DWARF‼️ 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. Didn’t like that. Surrender is a good song.
(snarl)
If they had put up a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Musical” on Broadway in the early 90’s, it probably would’ve sounded just like this.
Ok I’m standing
🧿🧿 👄
stiiiiillllllllllll waiting
You sound like you’re 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
⛓️🤘🏻⛓️
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, haven’t listened to it since. Holds up!
Peter Gabriel has always been one of those guys that I’ve felt like I’m supposed to like. I get why he’s good, his rhythm section is impressive, it’s prog royalty, I get it. but I’m never sold. Also he sounds a LOT like Dave Matthew’s.
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. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is in the running for best guitar riff of all time. Moonlight Mile - pretty sure it’s the best album closer of all time. I dunno if I’ve 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
🫨🪩🫨
Inspirations include 1980’s “acid house”, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and “a single Le Corbusier lamp”. I love this album.
fookin shite
yeezus looking inward
Another one that I owned on cd in middle school
“My presence is a present - kiss my ass” Monster is a baroque masterpiece.
25% music video nostalgia bliss 25% pump me the fuck up dance music 50% “hey, want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?”
One minute into this album, I thought the list had illuminated a new hidden gem….. Then came the vocals. Can’t I just mute the vocals? late 00’s freak folk indie rock, Animal Collective on one side of the spectrum and….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 aren’t nearly as strong as his other two albums, at least on first listen. Hall of fame cover art.
Reminded again that I don’t really like skits on albums.
Fun fact: the monster on the cover is named Eddie
bout damn time
I’d 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
couldn’t 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.
I’ve 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 can’t be, or at least doesn’t align with the kind of seriousness I respect. Just look at this fucking cover art. U2 is leather pants serious. U2 is “we have our own signature iPod” serious. U2 is a guitar player earnestly referring to himself as “The Edge” and wearing a stupid fucking skull cap every day serious. I’ll give this album its due, even found myself singing along to I Still Haven’t Found What I’m 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 it’s entirety 400 times in March/April 2020.
they sure did kick them out
I got more stories than JD’s got Salinger - Definitely the album where they changed the game in terms of sampling with almost collage-like backing instrumentals. they’re still one album away from refining their vocal rhythm out of the 80’s; these songs aren’t quite as cohesive and diverse as what’s to come but we’ve got some bangers here nonetheless.
….“too ridiculous to take seriously and too serious to be ridiculous”…. 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.
😴
¡que rápido!
Didn’t grow up with this, has always been something I knew of but didn’t 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 it’s immaculately arranged, produced, recorded. I just don’t 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 that’s new to me, though, is how it hits me, viscerally - this just didn’t do shit.
Can’t believe it buuut…I liked this album a lot. I’ve 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 inventive……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 he’d 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 “How Do You Think It Feels”
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 “Death Scene Music” 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 I’ve 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 don’t think so. bonus point for some SLICK guitar
I’m a dirty boy I guess
I really hate listening to skits. the songs are by and large incredible,though.
holy shit that voice. I’m curious if he hadn’t died so young how his style would have evolved as time went on, this albums weakness to me really lies in its dated early 90’s pseudo-prog songs. I liked incubus a lot for a period of time, so I understand Jeff Buckley’s heavy influence on late 90’s rock vocals. glad I finally listened to him with more context than just “hallelujah”
track 1: undeniable classic all other tracks: boring knockoff oasis dreck
✌🏻
Dustin’ off ma fuck me pumps
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 “no skits” crusade and it’s Andre 3000’s “I stank I can, I stank I can” bit
Fun but not my favorite funkadelic
definitely some highlights but nowhere near the best from Marvin Gaye
It’s really good for what it is; I just don’t understand what it is.
This is my favorite Beatles album, it lived in my car’s 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.
“Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty, bring a smile to your face. Sixty, shit…damn near barbecuing on that motherfucker. Go down to 20…get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a fuck about 40.”
https://youtu.be/uzidMPMhYiA
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 they’re 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.
i’d love to join the throngs of loud whistling fans of bb king
not sure how much room I have in my life for 90’s nü metal that is nü 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.
😚
ONETWOTHREEFOUR
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 weren’t 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.
Foundational text
possibly the coolest album of all time.
as I’ve 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
🫤
First time listening to Rush. I really appreciate the musical trio and their technical progginess - I just can’t 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 I’m all Rush’d 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 “cuck”
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 doesn’t suck
🌒
having a hard time figuring out why I had to hear this album before I die. whole thing sounds like it could’ve been in goldeneye n64 if the game had a porno level