Well, it's highly acclaimed but Achtung Baby is still my fav. Too many hit singles in the first 15 minutes - the band's greatest hits of their career! - I would've liked them more evenly spread through the record.
Screeching guitars galore. This is where it all began – the album that laid the foundations of hard rock. While undeniably iconic, I personally prefer the more polished evolution of the genre of the raw sound of this album. Give me Def Leppard or Whitesnake any day!
What did I just listen to: a Chic album or Sister Sledge album?
With its fusion of jazz and rock, the album undoubtedly stood out back in the day. Personally, I liked Beginnings, which has the kind of easy-going feel you'd expect to hear on British radio on a mellow morning or when walking into a branch of UNIQLO. Questions 68 and 68 offers a glimpse into the softer fluffier sound that Peter Cetera would go on to embrace in the 1980s, and Listen has a groove that I could totally see Jungle covering (if they did covers). But then it all goes off a bit off the rails with a 7-minute guitar masturbation called Free Form Guitar. If it were free FROM this guitar...
A classic. One of their best - or perhaps the best? Rolling Stone's readers certainly think so.
Didn't leave much of an impression, but I'll give it another shot.
Flows smoothly with sparse vocals, focusing instead on bluesy jazz-rock guitar riffs with Latin beats thrown in. The result is a captivating fusion. Standout tracks: Oye Como Va & Hope You're Feeling Better
I'd rather listen to Rick Astley.
I can definitely see how My Generation left its mark on music, but maybe it was perfect for THAT generation – not so much for mine. Are there really four more albums by The Who on this list?! P.S. The Kids Are Alright sounds like a Beatles track.
Never liked him
This is the reason why I signed up for this project - to discover albums like this.
What I got from The Marshall Mathers LP is that Eminem had a 'gay' experience — a gay man giving him oral pleasure — and realized men might be better at it than women, which clearly didn’t sit well with him. Standout track: the Dido collab.
I loved "Crazy Love" back in the day so it was great to revisit the 2000s, the heyday of UK garage. The album is a tad too long though and gets repetitive.
Solid background music.
Just couldn’t connect with this album. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood, but then again, isn’t this kind of shoegazing, grungy indie rock exactly what one listens to in such moments? (Apparently, it even made NME’s Top 30 Heartbreak Albums list.)