There's a couple bangers on here but 70s pop-rock ain't really my cup of tea. Really like the electric guitar especially but altogether it ain't my vibe.
Sade for Prime Minister
The vibe: You just set foot into a dark and smoky Georgia dive bar on a busy Saturday night
This one has a couple really good songs but altogether it isn't good enough for me to love. All the songs sound a little too much the same I think. Still, I don't dislike it.
The Vibe: Sitting in the rocking chair on your farmhouse porch at night.
Being one of the first rock and roll albums, it's very simple by today's standards. That said, I like the sound. He took some getting used to but once I clicked with Buddy Holly's unique voice I was into it. It's a really short album at only twenty-five minutes long, and none of these songs are longer than two and a half minutes, so it's just a really short and sweet piece of rock history.
The Vibe: It's prom night, 1958. Your two biggest concerns are scoring some liquor and a nuclear war with Russia. Life is good.
It's been a few years since I last listened to this one all the way through and I had forgotten how much I like its sound. Even though I'm not a huge Chili's fan, I can't really think of anything I don't like about this album. That said, it just doesn’t resonate with me enough to be a 10/10.
The Vibe: Two friends are taking a road trip up the California coast.
Really love the high energy and loud noise of this album. Howlin’ Pelle is a phenomenal vocalist and I think it really makes the album. I’ll definitely be coming back to this one in the future.
The Vibe: You and the boys are out raising hell.
This is my first The Cure album I've listened to. Very emo, very angsty. This has a unique gothic rock sound that I really like. I think I'm going to make a playlist for songs that have a Halloween feel just so I can put some of these songs on it.
The Vibe: You just saw a scary movie at the theater and now you're walking home by yourself in the middle of the night and you're not sure if those are footsteps behind you or if it's just in your head.
This was not only an incredible listen, but a lucky one. It was lucky because this album is not on Spotify, which is where I look for new music, and so without this project I probably never would have found this album. I have listened to Gil Scott-Heron before, but this album what honestly *that* good I've reevaluated him and hold him in a much higher respect. This album has honestly raised the bar for me going forward. Disregard any five stars I've given in the past, this is the new standard.
Under the YouTube video there is a comment that says:
"Gil was a prophet sent from God to deliver a message that nobody was ready for, and all he was doing was delivering the word. He wasn't perfect, but he was God's warrior. He screamed and hollered and I don't think he ever told a lie."
And man, I thought that was really something.
The Vibe: Sitting in a lounge chair and drinking something brown from a shiny glass after a day that was so long and hard you need to stop and replay the whole thing in your head.
I've listened to a bit of the Talking Heads before but I haven't really fallen in love with them like other people have. But after giving this album a good listen I think I get it. I still don't know if I *love* them though. I don't know if this is a good way to explain it, but sometimes when I listen to these guys I feel they get a little too silly with it and the goofometer in my head goes hard into the red. It takes me out of the album a little. But maybe in the future, after I've recalibrated the goofometer, I'll like it better.
The Vibe: You've taken a very happy pill and are dance-walking down the sidewalk to the music only you can hear.
I don't think this album was really made for me. Idk, all the songs felt very safe and samey (with the exception of "Rednecks" which had some pretty provocative lyrics). I really can't imagine ever coming back to this one. That being said, I can see why someone would like this album.
The Vibe: You are a little kid being babysat by your weird uncle and he puts on this CD in the car and says "now THIS is music. None of that rap or hip hop crap the teens are listening to these days," then he rants for fifteen minutes about deranged conspiracy theories and bigfoot before dropping you off at your house. (you only ever see him one more time at Thanksgiving, but never again. Your parents say he moved to New York but you think he might've gone to jail)
For me, late 60s psychedelic rock can be really hit or miss. And that's kinda what I feel this album consists of: some hits, some misses.
The Vibe: It is 1967 and you think you're really cool because you've smoked weed a couple of times and you like Cream.
There's a couple tracks here that I thought were alright but at the end of the day I don't think this one's for me.
The Vibe: You're driving around in a video game and this is the fake music that's playing on the radio.
I tried like four different times to finish the entire thing but it's just so boring to me. Doesn't make me feel anything.
I definitely see the appeal of this sound but it's not for me. I think the bold and loud digital beats sound a little grating. I think the vocal style is pretty good but I really would prefer different instrumentals.
The Vibe: The soundtrack to a mid 2000s action-comedy chick flick that got like a 10% on rotten tomatoes.
I liked it!
The Vibe: You ran away from home and are happily making a new life for yourself in a big city far from the oppressive little town you came from.
A really cool vibe with a mix of rock and 90s pop. I really liked it! This one’s going on my usual rotation.
The Vibe: You’re a college kid who’s just trying to figure things out (and by things, I mean the opposite sex)
Let me preface this by saying I like to think I have a pretty high tolerance for “weird” media, but this one crossed a line for me when there was like two minutes of what sounded like an angry badger in a garbage can (the song I’m referring to here is Thriller!). Not to mention that the singer sounded like he was *trying* to sound bad. If this is some kind of weird avant garde art genre, I don’t get it.
The Vibe: You accidentally tuned your radio to an alternate reality where music is made by people who haven’t actually *listened* to music before but they read a book about it once and decided to give it a shot.
It's fine I guess. It's not really my genre and it's not a very memorable album to me.
The Vibe: The kinda music the cool older brother in a 90s kids movie listens to
Jazz isn't a genre I really listen to, so I can't say too much about this album other than I liked it but not enough to listen to it again.
The Vibe: Running through the jungle being chased by a lion.
One of my favorite albums from my favorite artist atm so yeah it's gonna be an unapologetic five from me.
The Vibe: You're walking down the street in fall and there's a really strong breeze that blows the leaves across the sidewalk and you smell that rotting leaf smell and you're like "ah hell yeah it's fall, baby"
This one was a surprise to me. My knowledge of Springsteen was really only "Dancing in the Dark" and "Born in the U.S.A." which made me think Springsteen only made bold and loud rock songs. But this album is almost a really laid back folk album which I actually really loved. The only thing I feel sets this back is how samey all the songs feel, which gives the album a really consistent sound but bores me a little.
The Vibe: You were taking a road trip through the Midwest and did everything you wanted to do, but now you have to take the long drive back and pass all the places you've already been, but this time you don't have that excitement you had when you were seeing everything for the first time. So now you're kind of just quietly and passively taking it all in and it all seems more real and beautiful somehow.
Fun fact: This was the first album I ever bought on CD. This was my favorite album for a long time, but it's been out of my rotation for a few years now. I'm stilling giving it a 5/5 because I feel I'm obligated to do so but it's not really the kind of stuff I listen to these days.
The Vibe: You are zipping through space at a zillion miles an hour to see a performance of Beethoven's 9th, which is being played on one of Saturn's moons.
Not a big fan of this tbh. Not a big fan of this kind of psychedelic rock. Sounds kinda like a mix between The Doors and The Beatles, but like, not the good parts of either of those bands.
The Vibe: That one stinky old couch in your grandma's basement.
This album is so fun. A jazzy early rock album with some timeless bangers, and the fat man has some really strong pipes that really make the album stand out to me.
The Vibe: It's 1956 and you and your friends snuck out to go dancing, you go to the only place left open, the band is playing some Fats Domino, and you're about to make stories you'll be telling your grandkids about.
If a cigarette could sing it'd sound like Tom Waits.
The Vibe: You went to the city to see a concert but it got cancelled last minute but you aren't going home without doing *something* so you stop into some random grungy bar with like ten other people in it and you find out that a local band is gonna be playing soon and *this* is what you hear. And honestly it's better than whoever you went into the city to see.
Some classic M.J.
Bad, Man in the Mirror, Smooth Criminal, those are some all timers.
That said, it's getting a four just because, personally, it's not the kind of thing I really like to listen to that much. If I revisit this one in the future though I think I can see myself giving it a five.
The Vibe: Honestly, MJ is a vibe of his own.
Not really my type of music. I can enjoy samba every now and then but I don't think I would ever listen to an entire album of it again, yknow?
The Vibe: The type of thing you want to listen to while paragliding over Rio de Janeiro
Really good! This kind of upbeat early rock is such a good vibe, I love it. That said, the album does seem to be a little one-note the way that all the songs are kinda about the same three things (rock and roll, dancing, and women).
The Vibe: That feeling you get when you are singing along to an upbeat song in your car and you are totally hitting every single note
Love me some good old fashioned CCR.
The Vibe: When your cool uncle gets the aux at the family barbeque.
Beethoven? Mozart? Chopin? Never heard of them. All I know is Alanis Morisette.
The Vibe: 90s teen flick soundtrack
