Eh

1st time listening 9/10

1st time listening 7/10

1st time listening 6/10

1st time listening 6/10

1st time Listening 6/10

2nd time listening was a 7/10 is still a 7/10 *favorite songs: Enjoy the Silence, Halo, Personal Jesus Enjoy the Silence is an amazing song, but the rest of the album is a little too dry for me. Still pretty good though.

1st time listening 8/10 Favorite songs: Bone Machine, Break My Body, Gigantic, Where is my Mind?

1st time listening 8/10 Genuinely surprised by how good it was. Could improve a lot if listened to again. Favorite tracks: dirge, soul auctioneer, lever street, aladdin's story, one more time

2nd time listening 6/10

Id love to know people who like this album… mainly so i can put them on a list and stay as far away from them as possible.

I’m sorry but I just can’t handle these vocals. Fairytale of New York is really good but the vocals are so painful at the beginning I can’t even sit through it. It’s a shame because a lot of the instrumentation is catchy and fun.

8/10 Really enjoy it

7/10 Enjoyable Green Day-esque music

7/10

I mean, I think I’d just rather listen to The Beach Boys. Not bad tho 6/10

Is it weird to like Coldplay in 2024? Probably. Do I still really like some of their albums? Probably.

mid+1

6/10 Just a little too hard for me to get into

FINALLY! No more mind numbing music! 9/10. This kindve feels like a collab album with Kanye, and maybe that’s why every beat is so refreshing. This album will feel even better after I slog through another 15 albums that go through one ear and out the other.

I have never listened to Fatboy Slim. — I listened to Fatboy Slim. I will not listen to Fatboy Slim again.

Napoleon Dynamite is my favorite movie of all time. The dance scene at the end with “Canned Heat” by Jamiroquai might be my favorite movie scene ever. By the way, this album isn’t very good. 6/10

If no one in the world hates British pop after the late 1970’s, then I am dead. Probably killed by a Smiths fan

It started off great, then slowly deteriorated into prince moaning.

From the opening drum hit, I knew I would hate this album. That I would disregard it as 80s trash. Then, by the end of the first song, I was intrigued. After the second, I was hooked. Such an amazing album that finally made me excited again for this challenge. This is why I do it, to find these albums that I would’ve disregarded that then become instant favorites. It’s the best album of the challenge so far, and the first one that is threatening a perfect 10/10. It’s likely closer to a 9, but I’m so excited I’m gonna give it my first 5 stars.

A lot of nonsense, although the nonsense makes the great moments even greater 5/10

Eh

7/10

Pink Moon is a hard one. In short bursts, it’s amazing. There are so many great songs, my favorite being “Things Behind the Sun”. However, as an album, it gets a little too samey and repetitive for me. I used to have it at a 7, but it’s gone up to an 8. Maybe it can eventually go even higher, if my tolerance for songs with only an acoustic guitar goes up.

Hating on the eagles is overrated. Relax and stop being annoying.

tracks 1-3: wow that’s a cool sound tracks 2-6: ok, still the same sound Tracks 7-10: can I get some variety? Tracks 11-15: please change something 😭 Tracks 16-18: I am dead inside

Really abrasive and in your face. If you like that, good for you. I don’t.

7/10 Why does it have to sound so unfinished? Definitely disappointing considered how much I like gold rush

Really is something I shouldn’t like, and I don’t. However, I was more intrigued by this than most of these albums, so I’m going to a 7. (And yes I know by now that my ratings seem like they are off a whim, which they are)

Perfectly Passable 6/10

6/10

🥸

I finally got one of my favorite albums of all time. Steely Dan is in my top 5/6ish bands ever, and Countdown to Ecstasy is 1 of my 3 10/10 Steely Dan albums. This album is simply great song after great song. So here’s a quick blurb on each song. Bodhisattva has some killer guitar and honestly some really underrated drumming. Razor Boy has some genuinely upsetting lyrics while being an upbeat and chipper; also that keyboard(?) at 2:30 is so good. The Boston Rag was initially my favorite on the album. When the chorus kicks in with some menace, I’m always blown away. Your Gold Teeth has some more insane lyrics, but the playing is so phenomenal you forget about that. Show Biz Kids has my favorite background vocals and has amazing energy. My Old School is simply perfect; it is such a great pothead (at least for me), and as someone from California, I love it so much (I did not think the girl could be so cruuuuuuel!) Pearl of the Quarter has really grown on me as the emotional detour from all the cynicism and sarcasm, although that’s probably still in this song too. King of the World is an amazing ending with some more killer playing while pretty much summarizing the album: “Assassins, cons, and rapers. Might as well die”

Although a lesser Beatles album, it’s still the Beatles, which at worst is really good.

ZZzzz…

Bob Dylan is easily in my top 5 artists of all time and is even in contention for #1. Bringing it All Back Home is really borderline for me. Every song is good-great, but (for me) there isn’t that elevation into a perfect album. I still love it a lot. 9/10

It has some amazing playing and instrumentals, but I can only take so many whispery vocals. Elliot Smith continues to be pretty good. 8

6

8/10 gets a little same with the noise but still has some really powerful songs

Really really good. 8/10

Love this album. Only reason it’s not a 10 is because there aren’t many standout tracks. But it still has really good energy and is one of my favorite live albums. 9/10

Just not for me at all

I first learned about this album when I was trying to find that one song from Harry Potter. I was surprised by how great the album was. 9/10

Honestly a slightly disappointing Metallica album. While I thought Ride the Lightning was a perfect balance of dynamic playing and hard/heavy rock, ‘Master’ leans too much into the metal thrash.

Great album, although slightly overrated (I mean come on Apple, the greatest album ever?). So great blending of rapping and rock like instrumentation on some songs and R&B infused rap on others. 9/10

It’s ok, but it feels like an inferior combination of Bob Dylan and the Beatles. 7/10

9/10 Neil Young continues to be great

7/10. Too same-y

Really good. An R.E.M album that actually rocks. So much better than automatic.

Thriller is one of the greatest albums ever made. There has been some revisionist history on the album; some people say that it’s not as good as its mega-hits or that Off the Wall is better. Off the Wall is also an amazing album, and I will be happy when I listen to it again for this challenge; however, Thriller is on a whole other plane of existence. 1. Wanna be Startin Somethin: one of the best intros ever with an absolutely stunning groove. I also love the background vocals. 2. Baby Be Mine: A really good song that has some killer funky bass, although it’s probably in my bottom 3 for the album. 3. The Girl is Mine: honestly, when I think about this song, I think it’s the black mark on an otherwise generational album. However, when I listen to it, it’s actually just a really pleasant McCartney and MJ collab that is goofy fun. My only complaint of the album is having these two songs back to back. If it was sequenced a little better, it wouldn’t feel like a lull between these two songs. 4. Thriller: Just perfection. The narration, the sound effects, and most importantly, the music. It is genuinely my earliest memory of music in my life. I remember watching the movie “Michael Jackson’s This is It” and seeing the Thriller section. It scared me shitless. Now it’s one of my favorite songs ever. 5. Beat It: this is probably my most played MJ song ever. The chorus is memorable that you kindve forget that there is a killer guitar solo, and when that comes in, I’m always floored. MJ’s ability to get me hyped is nearly unmatched. 6. Billie Jean: I’m going to say it now, this (4,5,6) is the greatest 3 song run in the history of music. Billie Jean is my favorite MJ song and I know every lyric to this masterpiece (as I’m sure a lot of people do). Also the greatest chorus ever. My favorite vocal performance ever. Phenomenal. 7. Human Nature: Another great song that slows the album down at the perfect time. The “Why”s are intoxicating. 8. P.Y.T: I absolutely love the funk of this song and it has another great vocal performance from MJ. More great background vocals on the PYTs. 9. The Lady in My Life: I like this song a lot, although I wish the album swapped this with Human Nature; I think it would’ve been a better finish. Still really good.

Passable dance music 6/10

7/10. Great playing, some truly terrible vocals, and middling lyrics (with One being a standout high point)

Just not good at all 4/10

8/10. Really good

Another great Neil Young album, but he just can’t breakthrough to a 10 for me. 9/10

I have to say I’m shocked. I’ve never been a huge fan of Wu-tang clan, and the solo projects have also been a little underwhelming and same-y. However, this album was so freaking good. Like the Peter Gabriel album earlier, this album is probably a 9/10, but because of how much it shocked me I’m going 5 stars.

Pleasant songs with a few standouts. Bell Bottom Blues is great and obviously Layla is amazing. 7/10

Chill beats to have in the background. 7

My grandma has been wheelchair-bound for 6 years now. I decided to sit down and listen to this album with her; once “Dear God” started to play, she wheeled over to the speaker, picked it up, and threw it on the ground. She then preceded to wheel herself back and forth over the speaker, and, finally, emptied her catheter onto it. She’s never been happier.

Am I being tortured? Back-to-back 80s albums? Really?

For the most part, I thought this was a pretty good album with some cool standouts like “Victoria” and “Australia”. Then I heard Shangri-La. Since I first heard the album, I have probably played Shangri-La 20 times. It is simply one of the greatest songs I have ever heard. I’m so happy I heard it.

Only my second Joni album ever. I listened to Blue a long time ago and disliked it. I should revisit that album because this is really great.