Best song: You're Good For Me
Mostly dull, just kinda background noise. Best Song: Things Behind the Sun
Dull. Could be fine as background music. Lead singer's voice is sleep inducing. Only song that was decent was Sprawl II, and that had a different lead singer. Best song: Sprawl II
Not too bad. Some fun guitar work in there. Starts slow, but gets better in the middle, then returns to mediocre by the end. Best Song: Made of Stone
Starts really bad. Pristeen sounds like a kids song. Gets a little better after a few songs. The guitar work is great, especially in Safesurfer. Too bad the lyrics suck. Most of his songs, he just repeats the same thing over and over. Some decent stuff, but oh so repetitive. Best song: Safesurfer
Local Seattle artist! Jimi Hendrix is always a fun listen. Obviously, great guitar work. First three songs hit hard right off. May This be Love is a nice slower jam, with some great riffs. Rest of the album is solid, ending with the wonderful Red House. Best Song: May This be Love
The piano work is, obviously, top notch. Starts off with a banger, Tiny Dancer. Rest of the album is not bad, just ok. It's kind of a let down after the first track, though. Best song: Is there any surprise here? Tiny Dancer
Common in always interesting. His songs usually just have a basic beat and a chorus that does little more than tie the verses together. But those verses are FIRE. And of course, GO! is awesome. Love Is... is also a nice chill song. It's Your World was a great ending to it. Best song: GO!
Just sounds like a bunch of noise. Can barely hear the words over the too loud music. And like half the songs end in them just giving their instruments to a bunch of monkeys to wail on incessantly/ Best Song: Something 4 the Weekend
Gotta love LL. Verses are great, but choruses get a little repetitive. Around the Way Girl is an awesome chill song. Momma Said Knock You Out is always a banger. Milky Cereal is pretty funny. The slower jams are definitely better, but all around good album. Best song: Around the Way Girl
Great guitar work, a lot of fun to hear. Nice and chill. Starts out with a banger, Bodhisattva. Razor Boy and Your Gold Teeth are good chill songs. My Old School is a lot of fun. Pearl Of The Quarter is a pleasure to listen to. Best song: Pearl Of The Quarter
Eh it's ok. British Rock is just not my kind of thing. Some really fun guitar work, though, especially in The Clap and Perpetual change. Starship Trooper is a 3 part song, first two parts were ok, but Part C was a banger. Best song: The Clap
Another day, another album where you can't understand a single word they say. I like Creep by Radiohead, so was looking forward to hearing more by them, but this was a disappointment. I like the guitar work, but the singer is impossible to hear. Best song: The Tourist
Starts of with the banger 1999. Little Red Corvette also a lot of fun. Let's Pretend We're Married had some funny lines. DMSR was a blast. Most of the rest of the songs are kind of meh. Biggest stinker was Automatic. It's repetitive and dull and.....9 minutes long. Best song: 1999
Haven't listened to much of Guns N' Roses before, but was looking forward to hearing this. Some good fun hard rock, love it! Slash's guitar work is incredible. Welcome to the Jungle starts us of with a banger. Mr. Brownstone was fun. Paradise City is always a classic. Sweet Child O'Mine is a nice slower (comparatively) jam. Rest of the album is solid. Best song: Paradise City
Tim Buckley has a very interesting voice. The trumpet in Move with Me was a blast. Most of the songs are ok, nothing great. Good music though. Hong Kong Bra and Make It Right were pretty fun. Best song: Hong Kong Bar
Jethro Tull was interesting. Not really my kind of thing, but I could see the appeal. Aqualung started off dull, but picked up halfway through. The rest of the songs were kinda meh, little bits here and there were fun, but not a whole lot. Best song: Aqualung
Started out ok. First few songs had some decent music, but not really anything great. Then it really started to pick up. Higher Ground was fun, Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing was solid. He's Misstra Know-It-All was a great way to end it. But the high point was All In Love Is Fair. Incredible piano music along with Stevie's incredible voice. Best song: All In Love Is Fair
From other reviews, I've read that his lyrics are amazing. Problem is, you can't understand a single word the dude says. I've heard other singers with gravelly voices, but this guy takes it to a new level, almost like wants to be incomprehensible. Jersey Girl was kinda nice, Saving All My Love For You was good. The rest was eh. Music is nice though. WHAT? WHY ARE THERE 5 ALBUMS FROM THIS GUY? Best song: Saving All My Love For You
Nothing but noise. Every single song incomprehensible. Best song: none because I can't understand a word they say.
Madonna! Starts off with the certified banger, Like A Prayer. Till Death Do Us Part had some fun music, and then you hear the haunting lyrics, well done song. Spanish Eyes had great music and her voice was beautiful. All in all, a solid 80s pop album, good representative of the genre. Best song: Like A Prayer
Never really got into The Beatles. Appreciate their iconic status and contribution to music, but not really my thing. In this album, they seem to be going for quantity over quality. Just seems like a lot of the same thing, and a lot of the songs are pretty repetitive. Best song: Roll Over Beethoven
Haven't listened to Bowie all that much. Lets see what all the fuss is about. Starts out decently, but then just gets weird. His voice sounds like he's half yelling half crying. It's not bad, but how does he have NINE albums on this list? The instrumentals are decent background music. Best song: Beauty and the Beast
My first foreign language album! Never heard of Ali Farka Toure before. Great music with a good beat and some wonderful twangy banjo. Not a single bad track on the album, with Yer Bounda Fara, Soya, and Soko Yhinka topping them. Definitely going to listen to more of him. Best song: Yer Bounda Fara
First repeat artist. I still can't understand a single thing Radiohead says. Not a fan. High and Dry was ok. The rest were just kinda eh. Nice Dream had him repeating "nice dream" over and over again, but I didn't even realize he was saying that, it sounded like "my string". The music is great, many songs have some nice guitar work. I just can't get into the singer's voice though. Ends on a good note though, Street Spirit is fairly nice. Best song: Street Spirit
Never heard of Talking Heads before, but I'm digging it. Fun songs, good to vibe to. Some bangers, some misses. All in all a solid album. Best song: Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town
Started out ok, a solid 3. Then a few songs in I'm like eh, its more of a 2, don't really care for it. Then Heroin played and it grates your ears. The rest of the album doesn't get better. It's literal screeching, like the microphone is too close to the speaker so ever so often you get feedback. And the words are meh. He sounds like such an edgelord. Dump it. I want to go back and bump every other album up one point because at least they're not this. Best song: Sunday Morning
Only song I've ever heard before is Pale Blue Eyes, which I absolutely love. So I was excited to hear the rest of this. Starts out nice. Then goes to Pale Blue Eyes. Then it just tanks. The rest of the album is just eh. And then you reach Murder Mystery which is an utter mess. No, music producers, playing two vocal tracks at the exact same time is not interesting and quirky. It's incomprehensible. Best Song: Pale Blue Eyes
Starting out, I was like great another 1960s rock album after the same thing the previous two days. Then Do You Love Me played and I'm like yeah lets go! Roll Over Beethoven after that? Rock on! The rest of the album didn't keep the same energy as those two, but they were still solid rock songs. Ends on the great Good Golly Miss Molly. Love it. Best song: Roll Over Beethoven
Initially I was excited to hear this. Slow, chill, ballads. Beautiful voice. Spanish. What's not to love? But when hearing it, just didn't really connect with any of the songs. Nothing bad, solid album, but not something I'd go back to. Except Bananeira, that song was a total bop. Best song: Bananeria
It's just noise. A couple of the songs start out promising, but then halfway through they just devolve into noise again. A couple songs towards the end are somewhat better, but not enough to redeem this album. Best song: Just Another Onionhead
Some good hits I've heard before, like Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me. Some good stuff I hadn't heard, like All These Things That I've Done and Andy You're A Star. The latter part of the album starts to drag a bit. Overall a decent album, enjoyable. Best song: Mr. Brightside
Standard rock and roll. Some good hits, like Lean Woman Blues, Get It On, and Life's A Gas. Solid album. Best song: Lean Woman Blues
Always loved Bitter Sweet Symphony, but hadn't heard much else from The Verve before. The rest of the album was kinda eh, though. Not bad, just generic rock. Best song: Bitter Sweet Symphony
Celtic medieval folksy music. Something you'd hear around a fire while camping. Great guitar work, lots of fun. Prefer the more folksy songs to the more soft rock. Solid album. Best song: Once I Had a Sweetheart
WTF is this? Just noise. The titles don't even make sense. They just slapped a title on it and made random shitty noise. Worst album so far. Best song: We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own
Starting off with a banger, Shout is a ton of fun! Good sax music in The Working Hour. Everybody Wants To Rule The World is another great one. Dips a bit for the next few tracks, still solid though. Then the amazing Head Over Heels. Great album, love it! Best song: Head over Heels
Was looking forward to more Steely Dan after getting them the first time. Not disappointed, this one is a lot of fun as well. Great guitar work, fun songs, very chill. Love it. Really feeling the Steely Dan sound, even though I gave the last one a 4, I'm giving this one a 5. Best song: Kings
Voice is fine, and music is decent, but the songs get really repetitive. Best song: When You Gonna Learn?
Starts off with a banger, Highway Star. Smoke on the Water is also a blast, with that iconic guitar riff. The rest of the album, the songs are solid. There's only one issue. I love live music, and obviously I love recorded music. But I've never been a fan of recordings of live music. Just these songs on an album would have been a 4, but I'm going to have to drop it to a 3, there are parts where the songs drag on. These parts would be great to see live, but they just don't work for me as a recording.
More incomprehensible noise. Some good guitar work in there, but not enough to help this album. Songs are way too long. Many of them have some good parts, but its mixed into a lot of bad. This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed was going pretty good, and then the very ending they decide to just throw their drums down the stairs or something.
Ay, oh, let's go! Starts out with a total bop, literally. The rest of the album doesn't quite hold up to Blitzkrieg Bop. It all just ends up sounding like the same song. Feels like they just had the instruments keep going for half an hour while the singers sang whatever they thought of, and then when editing it they just decided some arbitrary points to split it into tracks. Still, it's fun to just jam to, solid 3.
I've only ever heard Seven Nation Army before, and I do like it. But for some reason I never thought I'd like any other White Stripes songs. Based off of nothing really. And totally unfounded, because this album does have some enjoyable stuff. It's a total mixed bag. Little Ghost and White Moon are great. The Nurse is terrible. The rest of the album bounces around ok to good. Best song: Little Ghost
Never heard of Dennis Wilson before. You can hear a little bit of Beach Boys influence, but its not enough to give this album much of a boost. Not bad really, but nothing great either. Best song: Pacific Ocean Blues
Another album of live music. Still not a fan. And this time I can't even really say I'd like it all that much if it were the recorded songs. These songs just don't interest me. Many of them are repetitive. None of them are terrible, just nothing worth listening to again. On top of that, this is a double album, over an hour and a half long. That drops this from a 2 to a 1. Best song: Saint Dominic's Preview
At first glance, a two hour long country album? This is going to be a slog. But when that first banjo twang started, I was hooked. The album is still way too long, cutting out a bunch of the instrumental tracks and the talking would have streamlined this into an easy 5. But it did drag at times, dropping it to a good 4. Best song: Grand Ole Opry Song
Another live album. Still not a fan. The songs are decent, but again, being a live album just drags it. Best song: Chain Gang
Fairly repetitive and kinda dull. Not really a fan. Best song: Heads Will Roll
Starting out with a nice fun instrumental. Next couple tracks have vocals, but don't hit as well. Stranger To Himself and John Barleycorn Must Die pick it right back up, both are bangers. Ends with a decent rock track. Best song: John Barleycorn Must Die
I don't mind the instrumental track here and there, but a whole album of it is going to be a bit much. Even if it were really good, I don't think I could rate a mostly instrumental album more than a 4, and this one isn't even that good. It's dull and weird. Just like ambient sounds with a little strangeness thrown in. A couple tracks have some good parts, but then go back to the weirdness.
Who's bad? Gotta love Michael Jackson, and Bad is good. What can I say about MJ? The pop, the synth, the VOICE. No back song on the album, and several total bangers. The Way You Make Me Feel, Man In The Mirror, and Smooth Criminal. Annie, and anyone else hearing this, is more than ok. Love it. Best song: Man In The Mirror
Never listened to Jurassic 5 before. Not too bad. I'm surprised this album came out in 2002, it has an early 90s rap sound that feels almost a decade older. Still, not a bad track on the album (the last track is a bit of just noise and mess, but by then you've already been through most of a good album). The intro and interludes feel kind of pointless, but they don't really drag it down. Enjoyed it. Best song: What's Golden
After I got his live album (which I did not like), I was waiting for this one. Much better. Starts solid, and then the title track, Moondance, which I've always loved. Continues on solid for the rest of the album. Some songs even remind me of other great songs. Crazy Love has a similar sound to a part of Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud. Caravan and Glad Tidings both seem to call back to Van's own Brown Eyed Girl. Total turnaround from the last one I heard, love this one. Best song: Moondance
It was kind of ok. Nothing bad, but nothing memorable either. Except for Enjoy The Silence, that one was fun. Most of it is just decent background music. Best song: Enjoy the Silence
I'm not a huge fan of instrumental music, there are some songs I really love but on the whole I would probably rate a fully instrumental album lower. That said, a fully instrumental classical Indian music album? As an Indian myself, I've grown up listening to this kind of music, and the ragas and sounds are familiar in the more modern Bollywood songs I listen to often. This one was a delight to listen to. Best song: Call Of The Valley
Seems fine as background music. Nothing really breaks out, but nothing bad either. Just kinda dull and slow. Best song: Alameda
Loved many of these songs when I was younger! You Oughta Know hits hard, Hand in my Pocket is is fun, You Learn rocks, Head Over Feet is a banger, and of course Ironic is great. Takes me back to the 90s. There are a few songs that drag it a a bit, but all in all this is an awesome album. Best song: Ironic
Haven't really listened to ZZ Top before. This album is kinda eh. Love the guitar works and the beats, but the lead singer seems to just ramble on. Best song: Master of Sparks
Willie Nelson has an incredible voice. His style of music is not something I really listen to all that much, but you have to love the way he sings. I'm also really enjoying the guitar twangs. Mostly a fun album, with a few duds dragging it down. We didn't really need three versions of Time of the Preacher (I don't think we even needed one). The standouts are I Couldn't Believe It Was True and the title track.
Fun album! For the most part. Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon is a lot of fun, Love of My Life is great. And yes, I'm in Love With my Car is pretty bad. Oh right, and this album also happens to have a little known song called Bohemian Rhapsody. I don't think that one will ever catch on. All in all, a solid album. A few songs do keep it from the top rating, but it's a definite high 4. Best song: Bohemian Rhapsody