STANDOUTS:
Break on Through (To the Other Side), of course.
Soul Kitchen. Don't know it BUT the background noises/production sounds very familiar. Sample? Smash Mouth "Walkin' on the Sun"???
Twentieth Century Fox. Fun. Just fun? Is it the accordion I like?
Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)...this seems so polka-y? Wut?
Light My Fire....but way too long, omg. SKIPPED through a third of it. Need to go listen to the radio edit. 2:52 (single version)? IDEAL.
OVERALL: 3.5/5
STANDOUTS:
Good Fortune
One Line
This Is Love
I struggle with rock/indie rock all sounding so similar/not dynamic enough to notice a difference between tracks. The lyrics are incredible. But I'm such a pop hook/melody music listener.
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a; not the kind of album I'm here for.
OVERALL: 1/5
STANDOUTS:
N.Y. State of Mind
Life's a Bitch
The World is Yours
Halftime (kinda homophobic but I was into it)
One Time 4 Your Mind
OVERALL: 3.5/5; for a genre I don't enjoy and with themes i do NOT relate with, the lyrics were great!
STANDOUTS:
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
Anti-Pope
OVERALL: 1.5/5; it sounds like it was recorded in someone's parent's garage. Punk rock—unsurprisingly NOT for me.
STANDOUTS:
Bad
The Way You Make Me Feel
Man in the Mirror
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Smooth Criminal
OVERALL: 4.5/5
STANDOUTS:
Even Flow
Alive
Black
Jeremy
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 1/5
STANDOUTS:
Satanic Reverses
Famous and Dandy (Like Amos 'n' Andy)
Television, the Drug of the Nation
OVERALL: 3.5/5
STANDOUTS:
Let's Stay Together
OVERALL: 3/5...It's...fine?
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 1/5; NOT for me.
STANDOUTS:
Trampled Under Foot
Kashmir
OVERALL: 2/5; love the die-cut vinyl story though
HIGHLIGHTS:
Tiny Dancer
Levon
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
Tears? Maybe?
OVERALL: 1.5/5; sick of these 1970s albums at this point.
STANDOUTS:
Faster, I guess?? maybe?
OVERALL: 1/5
sick of all these shitty rock albums.
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 1/5
STANDOUTS:
Mr. Grieves
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
It Won't Be Long
All My Loving
Till There Was You
Please Mister Postman
Roll Over Beethoven
Hold Me Tight
OVERALL: 4.5/5; FINALLY an album I could see myself returning to.
STANDOUTS:
This is the Day
The Twilight Hour
OVERALL: 2.5/5
STANDOUTS:
King Kunta
These Walls
Alright
OVERALL: 2.5/5
STANDOUTS:
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With or Without You
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
Razor Boy
OVERALL: 2.5/5
STANDOUTS:
....none? I didn't mind the tracks, but nothing STOOD out.
OVERALL: 2.5/5
STANDOUTS:
Killing in the Name
Bullet in the Head
OVERALL: 1.5/5
STANDOUTS:
What's Going On
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
Celebrity Skin
Hit So Hard
Malibu
Dying
Petals
OVERALL: 3.5/5
STANDOUTS:
Hells Bells
Back in Black
You Shook Me All Night Long
OVERALL: 3/5; pretty much ALL the big singles were my favorites. It's a great album...if you're into loud male noises, I guess.
STANDOUTS:
In My Place
The Scientist
Clocks
Green Eyes
OVERALL: 3.5/5; some enjoyable songs BUT a lot of filler. at least they're not screaming at me, though.
STANDOUTS:
Remember Me
OVERALL: 1.5/5; it took me four tries to get through this. Nothing offensively bad—just bland.
STANDOUTS:
Pictures of You
Lovesong
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2.5/5; just lots of horny, sinister, German, robot, Stranger Things synth noises. Which, I'm into, I fear.
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2/5; I'm unsure why this was necessary on a "must-listen" album list.
STANDOUTS:
The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Pass da Blunt
OVERALL: 2.5/5; great to hear a woman on this list—the album was okay/fine. Not a lot stood out.
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2/5; nice lil inoffensive elevator music but nothing that stands out.
STANDOUTS:
Monday, Monday
Go Where You Wanna Go
California Dreamin'
OVERALL: 3.5/5; some classics in here. Another "dad album" vibe.
STANDOUTS:
n/a; the first album I started skipping once I became bored
OVERALL: 1/5; bad jesus dad music....I THINK NOT
STANDOUTS:
Solsbury Hill
OVERALL: 3/5; bumped up a half point for the beautiful cover art.
STANDOUTS
Pop Song 89
Stand
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
Let It Rock
You Give Love A Bad Name
Livin' On A Prayer
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Raise Your Hands
Without Love
OVERALL: 4/5; I feel like this is Teenage Dream for the 80s straights.
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 1.5/5—won't return to ANYTHING here.
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2/5—somewhat okay soul...but I won't return to this. None of their big songs are on this.
STANDOUTS:
He's the Greatest Dancer
We Are Family
OVERALL: 2.75/5
STANDOUTS:
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
OVERALL: 1/5; just...no. Noises.
STANDOUTS:
Let's Go Crazy
Darling Nikki
When Doves Cry
I Would Die 4 U
Purple Rain
OVERALL: 4.25/5
STANDOUTS:
Smooth Operator
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 1.5/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 1/5; whyyyyy is this here?
STANDOUTS:
Time to Pretend
Electric Feel
Kids
OVERALL: 4/5; a nice college dorm nostalgia album
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 1/5
STANDOUTS:
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
OVERALL: 0/5
STANDOUTS:
Sidewalk Serfer Girl
(Drawing) Rings Around the World
It's Not the End of the World?
Juxtapozed With U
OVERALL: 3/5; shockingly, I liked it more than I thought I would!
STANDOUTS:
You Want It Darker
Treaty
On the Level
OVERALL: 3.5/5
STANDOUTS:
n/; blah generic dad music
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
American Girl
OVERALL: 2.5/5
STANDOUTS:
Blank Space
Style
Out of the Woods
All You Had To Do Was Stay
I Wish You Would
Wildest Dreams
How You Get The Girl
This Love
Clean
New Romantics
Is It Over Now?
OVERALL 5/5—my first 5!
STANDOUTS:
Maybe I'm Amazed
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
Like A Rolling Stone
OVERALL: 2.5/5; I can see how you could like this but it's not my thing.
STANDOUTS:
n/a and DNF
OVERALL: 2/5; I wonder if I'm allergic to male vocalists.
STANDOUTS:
n/a; all sounded the same
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
Quiet Life
OVERALL: 2/5; there's no need for this album to be on the list.
STANDOUTS:
Big Iron
El Paso
OVERALL: 4/5; you probably have to be in the MOOD for this, but I thought it was fun!
STANDOUTS:
Androgynous
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
Scooby Snacks
Smoke Em
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2/5; I certainly didn't ask for two Leonard Cohen albums in the span of two weeks
STANDOUTS:
Only Happy When It Rains
As Heaven Is Wide
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
ABSOLUTELY NONE
OVERALL: 1/5; truly a contender for worst album so far
STANDOUTS:
My Best Friend's Girl
Good Times Roll
Just What I Needed
OVERALL: 3.5/5
STANDOUTS:
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm on Fire
I'm Goin' Down
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark....and Courtney Cox!
B-Sides Bonus:
Pink Cadillac
Shut Out The Light
OVERALL: 4/5; truly felt like a heaping slice of American culture. Especially when it was straight-up bashing American culture.
STANDOUTS:
none.
OVERALL: 2/5; I saw the band name and expected exactly this.
STANDOUTS:
No? the DARK subject matter interests me but...sonically? nothing unique.
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
Dreams
Don't Stop
Go Your Own Way
Songbird
The Chain
I Don't Want to Know
OVERALL: 5/5; Rumours is that bitch, what else is there to say??
STANDOUTS:
naddda.
OVERALL: 2/5; riot grrrl music...is ALSO not my thing.
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL:
1.5/5; I enjoyed the first PJ Harvey album this gave me. THIS ALBUM?? No. Possibly too experimental?
STANDOUTS:
Fell In Love With A Girl
We're Going To Be Friends
OVERALL: 3/5; those two ^ songs sound NOTHING alike, and I kind of dig it.
STANDOUTS:
Cult of Personality
OVERALL: 2/5; that song ^^ is 90s dad
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 2.5/5; It's tricky because I LOVE these synthy German robot sex noises, and it sounds like historically, the synthesizers used here CHANGED the game. HOWEVER, it's not an album I'd ever need to return to.
STANDOUTS:
Karma Chameleon
Mister Man
OVERALL: 3/5; I'll take this over bad grunge dad garage music ANY day, even if it isn't a solid album.
STANDOUTS:
Green River
Bad Moon Rising
Lodi
OVERALL: 4/5; at this point, it isn't even dad music—this is grandad music. However, I fear I am a simp for CCR.
STANDOUTS:
n/a
OVERALL: 1/5; an absolute NO for me, dogggggg.
STANDOUTS:
n/a; I'm going to start adding DNF to these reviews, because DNF.
OVERALL: 1/5
STANDOUTS:
n/a, although there's one I assume I'm supposed to mention.
OVERALL: 2/5; this wasn't good by ANY means. For boomers only???
STANDOUTS:
Red Alert
Bingo Bango
OVERALL: 3/5; it got a bonus point for the hot album cover.
STANDOUTS:
Isi
OVERALL: 2.5/5; I was EXCITED for the first half's Mannheim-esque noises and general ambiance...but then the second half of the album got weird.
STANDOUTS:
n/a; DNF
OVERALL: 1/5; truly awful—gives off school shooter energy
STANDOUTS:
n/a and DNF
OVERALL: 2/5; no critical thoughts. Just bland.
STANDOUTS:
n/a...maybe the cover art?
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
It's A Man's World
OVERALL: 2/5; I don't think this album was necessarily for me?
STANDOUTS:
Today
Disarm
OVERALL: 3/5; I wanted to like this more than I did. But those standouts were good/very 90s sad teenager.
STANDOUTS:
First We Take Manhattan
Everybody Knows
OVERALL: 3.5/5; my THIRD Leonard Cohen album already...seems a bit much. But the 80s synth juxtaposed with his bass-baritone voice is kind of...nice??
STANDOUTS:
none.
OVERALL: 1.5/5; unnecessary. Why.
STANDOUTS:
Sunshine of Your Love (yay pep band!)
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
not a highlight to be had
OVERALL: 1.5/5
STANDOUTS:
I DNF'd most of these, so no.
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
Maybe...Supersonic?
OVERALL: 2.5/5
STANDOUTS:
no, just lots of angry metal garage noises
OVERALL: 1.5/5
STANDOUTS:
Nope.
OVERALL: 2/5; Sounds like any British 60s-70s band, tbh
STANDOUTS:
maybe D.A.N.C.E?
OVERALL: 3/5; I liked the general album noises. A relief from the British 70s rock/90s garage band noises I've been held ransom by.
STANDOUTS:
Tuesday's Gone
Gimme Three Steps
Simple Man
Free Bird
OVERALL: 4/5; some absolute all-time bangers on here.
STANDOUTS:
NONE WTF IS THIS
OVERALL: 1/5; it's all just AMBIENT NOISES
STANDOUTS:
There's not a specific song, just very relaxing R&B
OVERALL: 3/5
STANDOUTS:
In the Ghetto
Suspicious Minds
OVERALL: 3/5, bad Elvis is better than most of this list—LET ME MAKE THAT CLEAR.
STANDOUTS:
A Hard Day's Night
OVERALL: 3/5; I hate that a "listenable" rating now deserves three stars, but... here we are. There's one standout Beatles song, but it's otherwise a fairly forgettable album.
STANDOUTS:
Selfish
OVERALL: 2.5/5; I love the album art though. Fun to see a NEW album on the list.
STANDOUTS:
nope
OVERALL: 1.5/5
STANDOUTS: not really, but it was fine
OVERALL: 2/5
STANDOUTS:
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Sloop John B
**God Only Knows**, one of the best songs of all time
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
OVERALL: 4/5; God Only Knows elevated this rating an entire digit
STANDOUTS:
nothing, i DNF'd every song
OVERALL: 1/5
STANDOUTS:
1999
Little Red Corvette
OVERALL: 3.5/5; I wanted to like this more than I did.
STANDOUTS:
Viva Las Vegas (Cover)
OVERALL: 1.5/5; fun band name though.
STANDOUTS:
Maybe...One?
OVERALL: 1.5/5; hard metal—infamously not my thing.
