This was a good palette cleanser after the album I got yesterday (Limp Bizkit's CSatHFW). This album includes one of my fave if not the fave song from The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps. That opening bass gets me every time. So many great songs on this, and a Beatles record I think I could listen to anytime, anywhere.

As solid as I remembered it being.

Still rocks

Everyone knows the tracks America, Mrs Robinson, and Hazy Shade of Winter from this album, but Save the Life of My Child was the surprise favorite on the album for me, especially having never heard it before. Voices of Old People felt a little out of place with the rest of the album, especially being in the middle of it.

First time I heard this when it came out and wasnt a fan, but over time I've grown to like this mellower side of Beck. Listening to it today, I still do.

Didn't think I knew who this was, and then I heard Coconut and realized I did. I also recognized his covers of Let the Good Times Roll and Without You having heard them at some point in the past I guess. Most of the rest of the tracks were just okay to me. Jump Into the Fire was an easy standout as the best on the album for me.

It kinda blended into the background on my first listen through, so I had to listen through again. I dug the instrumentals more than the rest of the tracks.

I've heard almost all the songs on this album here or there, but I don't think I've ever listened to this album all the way through until now. They all fit together quite well and this album as a whole sounds like peak CCR to me.

I'm guessing Untitled was meant as the end of side one of a cassette, but I wish it was a full track because I dug its sound. The standout track for me was Mutual Slump. The rest had good samples but were overall just okay.

Really? This made the list? Well here it goes... I'm not sure if he's trying to diss Nine Inch Nails or if he's a fan of them based on Hot Dog. And then he copies Roger Daltrey's purposeful stuttering on The Who's My Generation? I completely forgot how Take a Look Around was used in Mission Impossible 2 and then I heard the opening riff. Pretty fitting that I think that movie is the worst one in the franchise. I did have a good laugh hearing DMX barking in Rollin (Urban Assault Vehicle). Including him and RedMan and Method Man makes the track less bad. I will admit when this album came out I listened to it a few times after being introduced to it by a friend, but I feel like this album is meant to only appeal to a teenager. I can't see how a grown adult would actually enjoy this.

This was a good palette cleanser after the album I got yesterday (Limp Bizkit's CSatHFW). This album includes one of my fave if not the fave song from The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps. That opening bass gets me every time. So many great songs on this, and a Beatles record I think I could listen to anytime, anywhere.

A band I had never heard of. But from the first track I could dig the sound. Baked Beans is my fave track (despite no singing about baked beans!) with Fantastic Day a close second. A number of the songs, like Baked Beans and Love's Got Me In Triangles give me some early Talking Heads vibes and I like it.

Never have listened to this album fully. Only heard a few of the tracks before giving this a full listen through. Not a bad album but not a lot of great tracks to me. Synchronicity II is the only song on the album I really liked. Every Breath You Take still sounds real stalkery. The chorus of Murder By Numbers is just silly. "Murder by numbers ,one, two three. It's as easy to learn as your A,B,C,D,E".

A Pink Floyd album with way less posters hung up in college dorms compared to Dark Side of The Moon, but I'd say its just as good of album. It has some similar ethereal sounds and build up in each song, just maybe a little less trippy.

The general fuzz noise from this album is great from start to finish. I can definitely hear how this might have influenced early NIN, Nirvana, and a few other bands (that I know of). Shame I never heard this band until now.

Never listened to this whole album, but have heard Monday Monday and California Dreamin of course. I like those two songs but the remainder of the songs on the album were meh to me.

It's okay. Not my normal jam. Seems like it would be good elevator or mediation music.

I know most of his work is on the softer side usually, but on this album the loudest songs are my fave. Pictures of Me and Cupids Trick. But Say Yes is also great.

This album has to have one of the most if not the most recognizable sounds for an album to kick off with. Neal's drums are the throughline of this album for me. They elevate every song to another level. Geddy's bass groove that he lays down on YYZ is just stellar. Alex's opening guitar riff on Limelight is just as iconic as Neal's drum opening on Tom Sawyer to me. I guess I've never listened to this album all the way through before since I don't recall ever hearing Witch Hunt or Vital Signs before but I've heard every other song on the album. As a kid I ignored Rush and would change the radio station every time it came on the classic rock station. What the heck was wrong with me?? Now I gotta go get this on vinyl.

I've never listened to TLC despite them being an always popular band when I was growing up, and only heard the hits from this album, like Waterfalls and Creep. This album gives me middle school dance vibes, but I guess that's just because it's a product of that time for me. I liked Diggin on You. It's beat kind of reminded me of the one in Geto Boys Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta. The guitar on Red Light Special gave me some real Prince vibes that I dug. You can also add Switch to the list of good songs that have sampled Mr Good Stuff.

The song with Santana to start the album sounded like more Santana, featuring John Lee Hooker instead of the other way around, which made me question what this album was going to be like. Luckily, the rest of the album was more in the style of John Lee Hooker I had listened to before. Overall a decent album. Not sure how much I'd listen to it again though.

Peak raw 90s. The lyrics, the sound, all of it. Somehow (misogyny) this didn't reach the levels of popularity and radio play as other musicians of the same time but it should have.

I honestly didn't realize this came out in 1990. I've heard most of the songs before but I guess I just assumed it came out in the late 90s and not at the start of the decade. I went in thinking that I would probably not like this album as much as I did back in the 90s, but I actually still did. "Seeing Things" gave me some real Joe Cocker "With A Little Help From My Friends" vibes. "Struttin Blues" was a song I hadn't heard before and I think I like it better than the albums hits. That might just be because I'm a sucker for when a band features an organ prominently on a track in just in the right way.

Good album, but some songs kind of do blend together with each other. Why didn't I ever listen to this whole thing when it first came out and settled for only knowing Criminal and Never Is a Promise this whole time? Those two are great songs and all, but I just might like Shadowboxer even more.

Very ambient. So much so it just kinda blended into the background and I forgot what I was listening to, and then the album was over so I had to listen to it again to try and get a better idea about it. I dug the the funky bass on Big Muff. If you told me that Explosions in the Sky was a big fan of his or at least the song Small Hours, it would not surprise me. It's long, its ethereal, its got guitar fading in and out, it changes to a slightly different song in the middle to come back around to how it started. Outside of Small Hours, I can't pinpoint any other influences but I definitely hear how this could have influenced artists/songs that came after it.

I can hear the influences while also hearing what this could have influenced on quite a few tracks , like Tom Petty on Kingdom of Love, Rolling Stones on Alien, and Franz Ferdinand on Insanely Jealous and Leave Me Alone. Unrelated to reviewing this album, this is an example of how I wish Spotify and other streaming services would split out re-issues. What shows up there now isn't the original release and is some sort of combination of the original album plus the two re-issues of it. 3 stars.

Eh. Not sure what to say. Had two listens through and nothing was imparted on me.

Another album on this list where I only ever listened to the hits and am glad to have finally listened to this full thing. This is one of those albums that necessitates listening to on a true sound system or high quality headphones that can handle the highest highs and lowest lows. If you listen to this on earbuds are are missing out on so much. All the singles are still just as good as they were before. Of all the new to me tracks, Clean might be a new standout. Or maybe its Dangerous. Or maybe its just all of them. Revisiting the original Personal Jesus has me thinking about Johnny's Cash's cover that everyone has talked about a lot. His version is good, but the original is still better. 5 stars.

Barely ever listened to anything from her before, and I feel like what I have listened to outside of this was better. Some of the lyrics were very personal and autobiographical (and not ridiculous like Drunk In Love), but the rest of the aspects of the album/songs I couldn't really get into. XO was the only song that stood out to me in a good way.

This was okay. Decent house music but I'm not sure I could distinguish it from most other house music of the time or that followed it.

When listening to this, I keep thinking about how it reminds me a lot of Andrew Bird, just without the whistling and also much less captivating sounds overall.

What a debut album for a band. I don't think I had ever heard anything from it until 10 years after it came out. Boy what I was missing. Love the sound you get from all the different Moog's, synthesizers, and keyboards they used to make this album. I think it would be impossible to find a time when I would not want to listen to this album at this point. Fave track: Kelly Watch The Stars Least fave track: You Make It Easy. It's still good, but just not as good as the rest.

Of course I knew the hits Black Magic Woman and Oye Como Va before listening to the rest of this, but there were some other good songs on here I've been missing out on, like Mothers Daughter and Hope You're Feeling Better. This had less guitar solos than I was expecting, but the percussion section was on point for the whole album.

Some real simple punk songs. By keeping all their songs so short they were able to cram so many onto a single record and they are all mostly solid, but there were some I occasionally wished were longer. With them being so short, none of them really stuck with me past the first listen through. I liked it, but it just wasn't memorable due to the quick pace. Couldn't find anything to really confirm it, but I assume The Toadies named themselves after the song on this album? Heard the start of Corona and had to think really hard about where I recognize it from and finally remembered.

I managed to know who Tom Waits was, but never really listen to his music at all until this point. The first two songs immediately made me think of The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack for some reason. Otherwise the rest of the album was just okay to me. Nothing much to write about it.

An album everyone says you should listen to, but I never have. Good but not great. Kinda just fell into the background while I was listening.

Starting out covering the great Ennio Morricone? I guess to show off the symphony and not Metallica itself? Not a big Metallica fan, but I do usually like symphony covers of popular songs. This wasn't quite that, but I did like classical spin on the songs, but it was just okay overall to me. Not sure I would choose to listen to it again.

I forgot I had heard of them before, just with their one hit of There She Goes. I like most everything else on the album more than that song now that I've heard the whole thing. Also hearing the album as a whole, it almost sounded like they were going for being a newer version of Tommy era The Who, in a good way.

Sounds like Bjork to me. Not in a good or bad way. Not sure what else to say about it.

Not bad. Not sure how much I want to listen to it again, but I can appreciate the lyrical masterwork of the songs at least. Water is quite out there though.. Gave me some free form jazz vibes.

What an energy from this album. The guitars, the drums, the ridiculously fun lyrics. It's what makes Van Halen well...Van Halen. Those drums on Hot For Teacher. So good. Listening more to the guitar on it now, I pick up some ZZ Top sounds that I don't think I noticed before.

I usually shy away from live albums, but this one is pretty decent. But for being a live album, it doesn't have much in the way of interaction with the crowd besides being able to hear them cheer. Not a negative, but just kind of odd. Unrelated, but I've only ever heard the live version of I Want You to Want me from this album and never the studio recording, and listening to the studio recording, I'm okay only ever hearing this live one again. The studio one isn't bad, but the live one is just so much better.

It's fine. I can listen to it and not cringe like I did with Limp Bizkit, but I don't think I'll ever pick it up to listen to again.

Ah yes, the first album so many teenagers listened to while high. Or listened to it when it was synced up The Wizard of Oz...while high. Not as mind blowing now as I thought it was when I was a kid, compared to newer psych rock I've heard in the last 10 years. But I appreciate the great sound engineering done for the album, where you can hear each distinct instrument on their own and hear how they all combine so well in every track.

Angry teenage me loved this album. Sorry to everyone else on the road when I was listening to this. It still holds up some for me, but probably not for everyone else.

Never even heard of this band before, despite one of their songs being in one of my favorite movies. It simultaneously sounds like something that could have come out in the garage rock era with The Vines and White Stripes while also being something that came out in the 60s alongside The Doors or The Kinks.

This is great. Sad I missed hearing them in the 90s when this came out.

Sufjan is someone I've heard of plenty but barely ever listened to. This album shows me I should have listened more. I feel like I can just say the album is "beautiful" and leave it at that. I don't know what else to say about it as a whole. Just wow to Chicago. Such a good song. Best on the album. But The Man of Metropolis Steals our Hearts is a real close second.

Side one starts out strong with Come Together and mostly keeps it going except for Maxwells Silver Hammer and Because. But the medley of side two is just vastly superior. No duds, all hits to me. To top all that off we get alternating guitar solos from John and Paul and a drum solo from Ringo on The End? Pretty great

Semi-comedic rambling to a good bass and drum back beat in a jazz club atmosphere. No thanks. Didn't even listen to the whole album.

Forgot how good that solo in That Lady is. Same with the solo in Summer Breeze.

A Talking Heads album full of songs I mostly didn't know. Except I swear I've heard a cover of I'm Not In Love but I can't remember now by who.

A quick half hour album of solid punk hits, one right after the other.

Some good classic soul and funk.

Not a bad album, considering I assumed I wouldn't like this album and I've heard very little of her work outside of "What's Love Got to Do with It". The album has a decent cover of Al Green's Let's Stay Together. Not sure what else to say about it. My fave track is Show Some Respect.

Some jazz I think I could actually listen to on repeat for once. I dig it.

A flute in a rock and roll album? Sure, why not.

Fuzzy noisy rock at its best.

So smooth. Would only be smoother if it had some saxophone.

Man why was I not listening to Kraftwerk sooner. This is great.

Classic Willie. Not sure what else to say.

Another solid Talking Heads album I hadn't heard. I swear at 1:30 into Drugs it sounds like Homer saying "doh" but its obviously not.

The songs from this I had heard before are still good, but all the rest of the tracks on the album are better than them to me. I'm sad that I slept on this album when it came out.

Lot's of Stevie songs I had never heard before and all were good. All in Love is Fair sounds like it should have been a theme song to a James Bond movie.

I discounted this album when it came out because of the constant radio play the hits got, but there's other good songs on this album besides what made the radio. Politik is a great opener to the album and a better song than the hits Clocks and The Scientist. A Whisper gives some early Radiohead vibes that I dig.

Hadn't heard the songs on this album besides the hits before this listen through. I was hoping I'd like more of the other songs but they were just okay.

A quick half hour lesson on punk

Dig the funk

Some okay beats and wild lyrics

Started out liking the album, but it seemed to trail off in the last few tracks of the album and I was less a fan of that part. I like the inclusion of the theremin in a few of the tracks too. I'm a sucker for any band that uses one.

eh

So many samples of so many good songs.

I'm a fan of TV On the Radio but somehow never listened to this whole album. It's good. Very them.

Haven't listened to much of Elvis Costello before, but the little I had already heard I liked more than this. This wasn't bad, but just not as good as some of his other stuff I've heard.

Less revolutionary listening to it now compared to when I listened to it the first time when I was 16 or 17. Still some good Dylan at least. Couldn't decide between 2 and 3 stars. Settled on a 2 since I felt like I probably wont listen to this again for another 20ish years.

Sorry Leonard, you're just not for me.

Not my kind of country music. They should have stuck with the sound of their previous albums instead.

Never had listened to an album of hers before. Only what I heard on the radio at the time. Not bad but not really my jam either.

Hadn't heard anything from this beyond the hits. The rest of the tracks are just as good to me. The "Broken" part of Head over Heels is great and a shame radios never play that part of the track.

There are parts I liked, and parts I didn't like. Not sure how else to expand on it beyond that.

Since the day I first heard it, Brimful of Asha still ends up stuck in my head for hours on end. It's a catchy song. The rest of the album however will not get stuck in my head the same way. It seems to go between multiple genres, with two of the more obvious ones being Beatles post-India visit and general late 90s Britpop/rock. The post-India Beatles is super obvious on the closing track of them covering Norwegian Wood. I wish I liked the rest of the album as much as the one song from it that will forever be stuck in my head.

What? Beta Band made it on this list but not for The Three EP's with "Dry The Rain", the song that gets everyone to buy the album when they hear that song for the first time? The opening song, Assessment, was a good intro to convince me to listen to more. The rest of the tracks were equally good in different ways. Happy to have listened to this one now for the first time too.

Oh boy. The album with his cover of Hurt. Lemme go get a kleenex real quick. His voice hits differently on this compared to his first albums. He's still got most of the deep bass baritone of his youth, but mixed in with it is some scratches and scuffs of a much older man. The makes it so the album comes across as someone who has seen a lot and done a lot and is telling you the stories of their life. This album, like Bowie's Blackstar, will always have a strong association with Cash due to it being the last album before he died. But even outside of that fact its still great, with its mix of covers and originals. I think the only cover I didn't like as much as the rest was In My Life, but that's mostly because him singing it brings a more somber tone to the song compared to how John and Paul sang the original.

Typical U2.

Just makes me think of Junior High. Not something I ever listened to on my own, but ended up hearing it plenty somehow. Still no interest in it now.

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Great album. This line from Freddies Dead hits hard now just as it did when it came out. "We can deal with rockets and dreams, but reality, what does it mean?"

Great album by The Kinks I had never heard before, outside of Victoria. Shangri-La is my favorite song on the album easily.

Not liking this one any more than the first Leonard album presented on this.

The alt/rock/dance vibes of this album are great. I can definitely hear how this could have influenced 90s bands like Blur and The Eels namely.

I've barely listened to this one up until now compared to Whats the Story Morning Glory, and I think I might prefer this one. And I guess T-Rex was okay with them straight ripping Get It On?

All the hallmarks of a Radiohead album that you come to expect, with no filler or fluff.

I liked the music, but the singing was just hard to get past on the first listen. On the second listen I was more okay with it, but still not past it.

Best three opening songs on an album, ever? Yeah I think so.

Something I had never heard before, and I liked it. Very silly song names like many other punk bands do, even if some might see it as being immature. But that to me is quintessential punk.

Can honestly say I haven't ever listened to much of Allman Brothers, but this wasnt bad. Might have to give them a listen beyond their song that used to be the Top Gear theme.

Heard many people talk up this album but I ended up just thinking it was okay. Wanted to like it more though.

Eh.

I will never tire of hearing Eruption. Nor will I tire of the random interjections from David Lee Roth in Running With the Devil. I still wish that soundboard I found in 2010 existed that was just clips of him from that song. Hell of a debut album for a band.

Not as perfect as classic Bowie, but still good with some of the usual Bowie charm. I'd Rather Be High sounds like something that could have come out in the late 90s or early 2000s from The Verve or similar bands. The backing vocals on How Does the Grass Grow remind me of some other band/song but I can't think of what though.

Didn't realize Bonnie Prince Billy had been around this long. Had first heard of him back in 2009 and barely listened to him back then, but this older album sounded exactly like I expected. Real melancholy and simple.

Sounded like a British mix of Frank Sinatra crooning and 50s country/americana/rock. I'd probably rather listen to this than the Frank Sinatra that made it into this list, but not much else I can say about it.

I'm surprised how much I liked this.