I agree it was probably the Muse best album, that’s not saying a lot. I found it derivative and ponderous.
Probably the best collection of songs about the music industry and the toll it takes on artists.
Loaded with iconic tracks, though not all of them hit. I can see why it’s on the list.
One archetypal San Francisco sound track and two iconic Grace Slick songs surrounded by a ripoff rundown of all the best selling folk rock styles of the period. One star for being famous and a bonus star for Slick’s unmistakably genius contributions.
One of my favorites from my teenage years. Can’t go wrong. If I could give it 4.5 though, I’d dock it for a couple ponderous noise filler tracks. But they don’t seem worth a full point.
This one was new to me. I’m a post punk, no wave fan, so it was a good fit.
Wow. Very much not my thing.
First two tracks are classics and there are one or two additional decent tracks on this. Most I found to be exceedingly ponderous.
Too high - DECENT
Visions - ROUGH
Living for the city - LIKE THAT
Golden Lady - DECENT
Higher Ground - STAMP
Jesus Children of American - weird but DECENT
All Love is Fair - ROUGH
Don’t you worry bout a thing - ROUGH
He’s misstra know it all - ROUGH
Solid 6 out of 7 tracks. And that last one wasn’t half bad.
I don’t like Kanye. It’s official.
Much better than I expected.
Much better than I would have expected
One good song. Lots of meh ones
Two famous and boring songs surrounded by not at all famous and boring songs.
3 good tracks out of 16, and more than half of those are so repetitive they could have been one or two long songs. Easily could have died without listening to most of it.
Great album. 7 five star songs out of 11 tracks. Not a bad score.
I get why this a classic, but I can’t not see teal headbands and leg warmers when I hear this kind of music.
This was a good one. I liked the feel (somewhere between Joy Division and U2) and the production quality was impressive. They could have cut down some of their songs though. The musicianship wasn’t quite enough to justify multiple 6 min + songs.
One or two good tracks but ambient electronica just isn’t my idea of a good time.
Interesting as a piece of music history. It blends 70’s funk and hip hop. I didn’t like it but it’s interesting
Ew. I couldn’t eat to this.
Three out of ten songs forgettable filler, but the rest are essentially a best of record. I never realized how many of the Who songs I know from the radio came from this one record.
Contains at least 40% of the songs I know from the radio on one album. That’s worth something I’m sure.
Basically they found the market is for 7 minute MGMT songs, though I can’t fathom who that might be.
It’s thriller. What are you gonna do.
Never heard of them and it had some solid tracks.
First thing to say is that she was undeniably a generational talent. Having said that, while a couple of tracks managed to hit me in my jazz bone, in general it wasn’t to my tastes.
My god that was terrible.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAH!!!
Great Christmas album, if you like Phil Spector’s early 60’s groups. Which I do.
Probably one of my favorite albums ever.
This is funkin’ great! One track that wasn’t my thing but the rest of it was incredible
I don’t know much about hip hop but this is stupid.
I’d give it three and a half for containing that one song of theirs that everyone knows. Otherwise, a little too much 90’s post-punk Dadaism for my tastes.
It’s Muddy Waters. Come on.
Made me feel like I was browsing in Spencer’s Gifts all over again.
Interesting start, but it kind of ended up all over the place stylistically.
Nick Drake is an incredible song writer and there are a number of great iconic songs on this one. Not a huge fan of the musical numbers though.
It’s Willie Nelson, so how bad can it be?
Well that was…um…something.
I definitely like elements of this kind of post-punk new wave scene but the sound is, to my taste, far too clean.
I never gave PJ Harvey her dues. I regret that.
Decent. Nothing that stood out about it though.
It was good but 16 minute songs are not compatible with my attention span.
One of my personal favorites
Ought to be five stars but it always bugged me that these could have three separate, really good albums, or two incredible ones.
I didn’t like it. That surprises me.
Started off promising but boy did that not last
Couple of decent songs but otherwise aggressively meh
I feel like I should like it, but I don’t.
I respect her achievements as a working artist but it doesn’t change the fact that this sound is 60% of what I hate about the 70’s
It may well be the only psychedelic pop album with Gregorian chanting. So there’s that.
Man, it must be hard to fill out a list this long.
What Dylan fan can complain
Pretentious, pondering, over-long tracks.
If he’d finished in 1969, this would have changed poo music forever. As it is, it’s a fascinating time capsule of what could have been.
Good but not really my thing.
It was a bold strategy to make an album that’s basically the same song recorded 17 times.
Pink pink pink pink pink moon.
Surprised to say, I liked it.
This was a damned stupid album.
Better than I remembered.
It’s Prince but also, it’s Prince
Some decent psychedelic songs but mostly forgettable
Navel-gazing quaalude rock ain't my thing, even if it's Radiohead.
It’s just so not my thing.
I hate the E Street Band with a passion
Bonus point for all three of her hits coming off this album
Couple of good tunes mostly forgettable.
Couple of classics, but mostly meh.
The electro reggae sound no one asked for, delivered in a style no one wanted to hear. So bad, it's hard not to think it was on purpose. 2 stars for accidental self-parody, and an extra for Spanish Bjork.
I would have named this “Marvin Gaye’s Mixed Bag”