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.
Party Line sounds so much like a Beatles song but also it's hilarious in that wondering if "she's a she at all" would come back during the internet era. Wonder how many people who listen to this nowadays even know what a party line is/was.
Holiday in Waikiki is pretty good.
Can't say any of the rest of this was memorable; it mostly sounds like Beatles songs (which is unfair; The Kinks are not a derivative band by any stretch but still.)
