pre-listen: oh god The Police ugh post-listen: Synchronicity 1 is completely forgettable in every way Walking in Your Footsteps is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever heard, like they made a Barney song serious hahahaha the indulgent wind instrument solo in O My God is so bad Mother is one of those pretentiously "experimental" things Sting likes so goddamn much Synchronicity 2 is kind of refreshing in that its not the most dogshit thing in the world but its still a 1/10 song Every Breath You Take is justifiably a hit but I'm sick of it also it's basically Sting talking about stalking someone so thats not great King of Pain is actually good thank god for a break in this shitfest For what its worth at this point I am finishing the album specifically because it is SO BAD overall that I am just astonished Wrapped Around Your Finger is blandly whatever but the music video is hilariously the wrong energy for it, way funnier than just listening to the song Tea in the Sahara sucks in an ordinary, sucky Police song way Murder By Numbers is just another forgotten 80s track I cant believe I have to wait almost a day to get fed another album that might not suck as much, this site needs a "bring me my new album immediately" button

Its fine but not something I would listen to again. Watermelon Man has particularly annoying backing instruments.

Immigrant Song is obviously really good Since I've Been Loving you is ok Everything else is like blandly fine but completely unmemorable idk why people think this album is so great

boring electronica that is worse than everything that came after it but I guess you don't get Name of the Game or Breathe without it so its important

pre-listen: oh god The Police ugh post-listen: Synchronicity 1 is completely forgettable in every way Walking in Your Footsteps is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever heard, like they made a Barney song serious hahahaha the indulgent wind instrument solo in O My God is so bad Mother is one of those pretentiously "experimental" things Sting likes so goddamn much Synchronicity 2 is kind of refreshing in that its not the most dogshit thing in the world but its still a 1/10 song Every Breath You Take is justifiably a hit but I'm sick of it also it's basically Sting talking about stalking someone so thats not great King of Pain is actually good thank god for a break in this shitfest For what its worth at this point I am finishing the album specifically because it is SO BAD overall that I am just astonished Wrapped Around Your Finger is blandly whatever but the music video is hilariously the wrong energy for it, way funnier than just listening to the song Tea in the Sahara sucks in an ordinary, sucky Police song way Murder By Numbers is just another forgotten 80s track I cant believe I have to wait almost a day to get fed another album that might not suck as much, this site needs a "bring me my new album immediately" button

pre-listen: I assume this is the one with Fast Car Talkin bout a revolution: pretty good folksy song Fast Car, obviously, is great Everything else except Behind the Wall sounds the same to me Behind the Wall doesnt sound great

Blandly unexceptional 60s rock. Should have been the album with Lola on it instead the second half of this album really sucks except for wicked anabella

Love's in Need of Love is too long; it's not a bad song just not a song that deserves 7 minutes Have A Talk with God is really good I Wish is good Pasttime Paradise is what Gangsta's Paradise sampled from so that's neat mostly just not my genre of music

This is the kind of crap someone who thinks they're smarter than they are insists you have to listen to because its so meaningful, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

its not my favorite genre but its a great example of it and I found myself bopping along also coming right after antony and the johnsons, it was nice to have someone who can FUCKING SING to listen to

Its reggae and very political reggae at that, but a) I don't really care for the genre and b) I don't have the cultural context to understand the album. It sounds fine but I suspect it was put on this list due to the deeper meaning and I can't connect with that.

Big Iron isn't bad for what it is (traditional country) Not really my genre but clearly important. Odd that it didn't go platinum until 1986 though. El Paso is also fine and culturally classic obviously. I skipped about half of this because I just really dont like that old school country, so Im giving it 2 stars but really its 2.5

oh god this is that fucking "rock opera" isnt it. *checks wikipedia* yep. I've heard this before and I thought it sucked horrendously, lets see if I still think that way. There's a good song called We're Not Gonna Take It but its not the one on this album Pinball Wizard is fine I guess but even it's wildly overrated. One star for being pretentious nonsense with almost no good SONGS in it, and only because this site will not let me rank something 0 stars

Wordy Rappinghood is really embarrassing in 2024 Genius of Love is one of those songs you still hear on the radio so I guess you can't say they did nothing lasting Clearly one of those albums thats important to a genre that was emerging at the time it was recorded, but a genre I dont care for so its mostly lost on me

Good music

Already know this album. Classic, with several all-time hits on it.

The band famously loved by Pitchfork. Never heard them, lets see. Silence Kid has an AC/DC vibe to it, kinda nice Ok everything after that has been the sort of boring shoe-gazing pretentious nonsense I'd expect from Pitchfork's Favorite Band

Fairly standard punk sounding to me but important and I love Henry Rollins. Not something I'd relisten to though.

Lots of good songs on here. Better than LZIII imo.