For me Radiohead started with "Ok Computer" and ended with "Kid A".
It was Karma Police and Paranoid Android that acted as my gateway drug to Radiohead. Ok Computer is the only Radiohead-album I own. Later I discovered Creep (from Pablo Honey) and Fake Plastic Trees (from The Bend). I remember one of my best friends trying to push Kid A on me, but somehow the album did'nt connect with me. I haven't really followed Radiohead since.
I really enjoyed listening to Amnesia. Among my top tracks is "Pyramid Song" and "You and Whose Army?" which have theese old radiohead-vibes, where the mourning tone of the tracks just keeps lingering. The track "I Might Be Wrong" is also kinda cool.
I've been listening alot to the Danish band Kashmir. And while I was listening to Amnesia it hit me, how heavy influenced Kashmir is from Radiohead. Kashmirs album "Zitilites" has crazy radiohead-vibes.
I was born in ´79 and have no recollection of enjoying music when I was 5 years old. However, I remember watching Van Halen music videos on MTV around the late 80's. Van Halen and other 80's rock never quite did hit me in the right spot.
Many years later, (late 90's) some of my metal friends was reviving Europe, Ironmaiden, Twisted Sister, Manowar, Van Halen and AC/DC. At that time, it all sounded the same to me. Im pretty sure I can distinguish the bands today. And I can the see how Van Halen layed out the groundwork for later bands like Guns N Roses and Bon Jovi.
Still Van Halen is a long way from my prefered genrers. But somehow I found myself enjoying the slower track "I'll Wait".
This Album is completely wasted on me. I've never understood what the fuzz is all about. Cohen, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and other contemporary singer-songwriters have never impressed me and espcially not in my youth. On my older days I have grown into Lou Reed, especially his album Transformer. It has so much street visdom to it, so bound to the reality of life in a busy city, and so much easier to understand than Cohens religious, introvert and overloaded artsy-fartsy lyrics. Sorry Cohen. But i'm not a fan.
I was late at the Bowie party. Like really late.
In 2004 David Bowie canceled a concert at Roskilde Festival. The festival administration had a hard time finding a replacement. But they found a band: Slipknot. Lol!
I was excited, 'caus Slipknot was more down my alley.
However, at the festival I had a conversation with a girl who was really into Bowie, and she opened up my views on him. In the following years i bought a couple of his albums, and now I really enjoy his musical universe. Honky Dory is one of my favourite albums.
For me, the start of the album is the best. My top tracks are "Changes", "Oh, you Pretty Things" and "Life on Mars?".
Oh the energy!
Im not sure theres a lot of albums from the 70’s that I enjoy listening to from start to end. But Raw Power is one of them.
James Williamsons Guitarwork lifts the album despite Iggys limited vocals and lyrics. I believe Williamson guitarstyle has influenced alot of later bands: punk, grunge, rock and glam alike.
I'm pretty sure, that I've never listened to The Teardrop Explodes before. So this was a first listen through.
Im a huge Duran Duran fan, and it's so obvious that theese two bands emerged around the same time in Britain. Their sound is so similar. I can also hear some Talking Heads in their music.
I kinda like the 80's pop vibe but the psychadelic almost trance-like elements of the album really rub me the wrong way. At first playthrough I found most of the tracks drawn out ("Sleeping Gas", "Rewards" ) and the excessive repition of lyrics and of simple short musical arrangements extremely annoying. However, the album grew on me.
Top tracks for me is "Books" and the ska-like "Treason", "Second Head" and "Poppies in the field".
Wow! One of the big ones.
In my generation (I was born in '79), talking about listening to Dark Side Of The Moon, is like teenagers talking about sex: Everyone talks about it, no one really tried it. The same can be said about Neil Gaimans comic "The Sandman" and Stanley Kubrics movie "2001: A space Odyssey".
Across cultural media (movies, music, books etc) every generation has theese larger-than-life-works that most people from the same generation agrees on being some of the best art ever created. Often theese works are completely obscure to the following generations. I think it's because the consumption of cultural products is actually a creative effort. If a music album hits you in your youth and it resonates with you, it kinda becomes a part of your worldview, maybe even a part of your identity. This absorbtion of cultural products is timebound. It's a kind of zeitgeist, that can't be re-experienced by later generations.
I think my generation's Dark Side of The Moon is Nirvanas "Nevermind". When I start to talk about Newermind with younger people they get the same distant stare in their eyes, as I have, when my uncle lectures me about The Dark Side of The Moon.
I can appreciate what Pink Floyd did with "The Dark Side of the Moon", I can even enjoy the music. But I just don't feel it.
Top track for me, no doubt: Money.
Nb: The album cover is so iconic. As recognisable as the Batman logo. :)
"I'm not sure why, but this album isn't resonating with me. Most of the tracks blend together, making it hard to distinguish one from another, and only few of them really stick in my memory.
The standout tracks on the album for me are "Thinkin Bout You" and the absolutely amazing "Lost." I must have listened to "Lost" a million times. In fact, back in 2019, I was so inspired by the song that I wrote a poem based on it. It was published in a Danish literary magazine."
I wanted to give the album a single star, but "Lost" made me bump it up an extra star.
I never heard of this band. The album sounds like Abba crossed with a upbeat soap-opera theme from a japaneese sit-com.
It's so freeking playfull and weird. Kinda reminds me of the swedish glamrock band The Ark.
I appreciated the listen, but im not sure if i'm ever gonna listen to the album again.
Back in '94 i was listening alot to Arrested Development's Zingalamaduni, and this album takes me right back.
Positive, lyrical and poetic hiphop. Playfull sampling and oldschool scratching. Im all in. I love this album.
Top tracks: "The Magic Number", "Change in me", and "Me Myself and I"
I love everything about this album. Is that a actually a hammond organ?
Never heard of this band before, but the whole album is set on heavy rotation now.
For my father's generation the big question was: Do you listen to the Beatles, The Rolling Stones or Hendrix?
There was so much meaning folded into that question, and even more in its answer.
I remember when the brit-pop wave hit Europe back in the 90's. It was as if the question was repeated. This time with Blur and Oasis as the only right answers. Bands like Kula Shaker, Suede and Pulp somehow existed within the boundaries of that same question. At the time I was still listening to Nirvana and I just discovered Green Day, so I was kind of in another place, but I quickly learned to enjoy the British invasion, especially Blur.
But in 1997 the impossible happened. Urban Hymns hit the shelves. And suddenly a single band united the striding sides in the Oasis-vs-Blur-battle. In 1997 everyone agreed: The coolest band in the world was The Verve.
There so much melodic melancholy on this album.
Top tracks: Bitter Sweet Symphony, Sonnet, The Drugs Don’t Work, Catching The Butterfly and Lucky Man.
Nope I don't get it. And I hate her voice. Some of the tracks has an OK vibe but still - that voice.
I get a doomsday-vibe listening to this album, and it hits me how much inspiration Guns n' Roses have drawn from Zeppelin.
I've always found Corgans voice too vague and overtly screamish. I remember back in my youth when I first heard the Pumpkins, I thought the band could be so much better, if they hired a better vocalist.
But it's probably me that's a bit off. High pitched screamy voices really turns me off. I never really digged the Pumpkins, except some of the hit tracks on the Mellon Collie-album.
So happy to see this album on the list. I actually own it and It has been on heavy rotation several times in my life.
Top tracks: Green Onions, Mo' Onions, Stranger on the Shore, Lonely Avenue, and Comin' home baby.
One of the most significant albums of my generation. Unbridled indignation unleashed in a fury of angry lyrics and virtuos instrument handling.
Im really not into the Pixies. Somehow I find the album to noisy and unsynched.
But that one track "Where is my mind?": Absolutly freaking brilliant!
I've never been sold on the Beastie Boys, atleast not on their lyrics and screaming party-rap. They're way too noisy and improvised for me. Listning to Paul's Boutique just confirmed me.
My favorite album by the Beastie Boys is the instrumental album "The In Sound from Way out!" It has no lyrics and I really love it. I think that says a lot of my oppinion of the Beasties.
I'm suprised this album is from 2002. It has this rockish 70's vibe. I kinda like it.
Toptracks for me: Fight Test, One More Robot, Egotripping at the Gates of Hell og All We Have is Now
Never heard of this band. What a weird flow and vocalisation. I like the 80's pop vibes on some of the tracks, but the singing is throwing me off.
I never been a big fan of R.E.M but somehow "Automatic For The People" and "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" has made in into my CD-collection. I have listened to both albums a good deal and I still find them good.
This album has to be a five star for me. It hit me at the right time and made me listen to pop-punk for the next 10 years. I really enjoy some of Green Days later albums, but none of them comes close to dookies quirky energetic and popish surfer-punk vibes.
Hybid Theory is another 5 for me. It hit me at the right time and blew me away, just like Green Days "Dookie", but a couple of years later. Linkin Parks colab with Jay-Z (Collision Course) where they mix their tracks really demonstrates Linkin Parks skill.
For me, Chesters lyrics and vocals are essential, but the overall atmospheric sound of Linkin Park is so unique, and I think it seperates them from other contemporary metal-rap bands.
There's a lot of opinions about Kanye and his controversial appearences. But all that aside, this album rocks. It's so freaking well produced.
The album is loooong and full of Top tracks: We Don't Care, All Falls Down, Never Let Me Down, Get Em High, Slow Jamz, Breathe In Breathe out, School Spirit, Two Words, Through The Wire, Family Business and Last Call.
It's one one of those albums that just don't feel like an debut album, even though its Kanyes first in his own name.
