why is "Gymnopédies" here? why it's pretty normal jazz rock afterwards? and why it switches to psychedelic rock after that? why did THIS win AOTY in the grammy in 1970 instead of "Abbey Road"? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? 2/5
so. i opened the website. i submitted my last rating. and out of nowhere, i had this feeling that there's gonna be some boring things coming up. AND HERE COMES MY NEWEST FAVOURITE SONGWRITER! (squeals excitedly, disturbing my classmate's peace while can't control my limbs well because of the cup of coffee that i drank) so. this album is important. it is considered one of Cave's best work and is also the first album from Nick and the seeds after long time contributor Blixa Bargeld quitted the band to focus full-time on their own band. and the name of Blixa's band? Einstürzende Neubauten. yes, THE Einstürzende Neubauten. the band that has the lowest rating on this fucking website. but anyway. so first, let's take a look at the album closer, "O Children". Nick's second famous song because of its usage in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And fun fact! i bought a pack of butterbeer flavoured snacks (which is a certified tie-in with the franchise) this morning! the snack is mid. BUT THE TRACK IS PERFECT. with the fleeting and spiritual arrangements, and the gospel-like vocals. the lyrics with all these bittersweet moments of life and death, and we rejoice with tears while the song fades out. well, now to the first disc of the double album, "Abattoir Blues". Don't tell me you can't feel an immediate adrenaline rush from "Get Ready For Love". YEAH! A STRAIGHT PUNCH IN YOUR FACE! "Cannibal's Hymn", build upon a repeated bass riff, is a departing from the straight punch the first song offers us, with a rather tender form of songwriting and the song running in a waltz-like 3/4 time beat. "Hiding All Away" returned to the energetic state using dirty blues rock/post punk and uplifting backing vocals, while "Messiah Ward" mitigated the atmosphere again with Cave's songwriting sensibility. (fuck it i begin to talk nonsense again.) BUT ANYWAY! LET ME PRESENT TO YOU! THE ONLY OTHER BOLDED SONG ON THIS ALBUM'S RYM PAGE! THE ANTHEM OF SEEKING INSPIRATION! THE PRAYER TO THE MUSES! MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NICK CAVE SONG, IF NOT COUNTING "THE MERCY SEAT" IN! "There She Goes, my Beautiful World"! i literally get my social media username from the opening lyrics of the song ;) well, just take a listen... and look at how fucking motivated this hell of a songs is. i can't tell you how much i like this song and all its references to famous writers (although Johnny Thunders didn't write "Chinese Rocks", the songwriter is Dee Dee Ramone). it helped me while i was encountering writer's block. many times. i just put it on and typed furiously. "Nature Boy" is a near pop rock love song praising beauty which, being a constant theme on the album, was written in many, beautiful, ways. It is also pretty in sync with the flower on the album cover imo. "Abattoir Blues" is not blues but art rock, and released a scent of apocolypes and death with misantropic lyrics and the arrangement that paints doom right into the song. "Let the Bells Ring", based on a tinkering guitar riff and sounds religious in all the way, is both melancholic and uplifting. "Fable of the Brown Ape", the closer of the first half, literally sounds like bipolar disorder somehow. and it is weird. VERY WEIRD. So, "The Lyre of Orpheus". both the disc and the song. It brings a literal twist to the story of Orpheus and Eurydice with his signature dark storytelling. Nobody looked back this time, but both orpheus and eurydice are still dead in the end. and here's "Breathless". Nick tries folk rock. Tommy and Grace married over the song. and "NO FOOKING FIGHTING". "Babe, You Turn Me On" is a folkish song too, but it is not featured in Peaky Blinders. And for "Easy Money", i think it is similar with Pink Floyd's "Money". but i don't know why. "Supernaturally" is a hidden killer track and sounds like something that should appeared on the first disc. "Spell" is mid, while "Carry Me" retained the gospel-like arrangement find in the first disc that Nick would come back to 20 years later in "Wild God". and as we listen to "O Children" one more time, i just want to ask every one that gives a low grade in this might be biased way, HOW DARE YOU NOT LOVE NICK CAVE? 5/5
"We piss all over the Beatles"-- Liam Gallagher, 2024 so after liverpool beat man city at the beginning of december, i began erasing the evidence of me being a beatles fan that i was in middle school and tried to focus on good old big O. but, i had to admit that any beatles album just brings me loads of good memories of me in that period of life. there's a snapshot of me when i decided to talk about them in the chinese class's pre-class sharing, and the teacher made all my classmates share a topic that we are interested in turn. (well, about the chinese class... i think that i should mention that i am east asian. I mentioned that in an earlier review, but now it's edited out.) i end up with a serious overtime, stretching the 5 minute sharing limit to a 8 minute piece about their whole history, from john and paul's meeting to the death of George. also, "Now and Then"wasn't released back then. and there i was, listening to "and i love her", sitting outside a shopping centre at 8 in the morning in England, summer 2023. another one is me watching many video of Paul's live concerts on the way to liverpool, all from the recent times, starting with either "can't buy me love" or that hell of a chord in "a hard day's night". those silly love songs are not the beatles' most musically complete works, but they're good soundtracks for a teen going through the ups and downs in her life. only half a year has passed since i finished middle school, and i miss those days. 3/5 for the music itself, but 4/5 for the memories it bring.
it reminds me of contemporary rnb, which is the genre that i hate the most in this world, with all those "baby"s and "oh yeah"s. i can fall asleep to this 2/5
so keith -- my imaginary friend who's a big who fan-- decided to write this review for me after this imaginary struggle with him over who should write this: "OK! Now we're getting somewhere. I read the global reviews and hey, why are everybody complaining about the jingles? they ARE cliché, but that's what they are meant for! they are doing a parody of a radio station, and who doesn't know about the lengthy commercials and cheesy jingles happening in between songs during a radio broadcast? You really lack a sense of humor! It's a very good album, and it deserves some love, OK?" "But it amuses me when people, hating the jingles or not, praised "i can see for miles". It deserves it." Keith gives it a 5, and i give it a 4. on average, it's a rounded up 5. 5/5
i love this. and it sounds similar to arctic monkeys, one of my favourite band.
Although i somehow feel good whenever some band uses accordions in their works, Irish folk is not something that i like too much. It's too happy (?), and I like things a bit more moody. but i think it's actually ok, as "fairytales of new york" is still a standard for christmas.
it's (of course) not as good as "tommy" and "who's next", but since it is their debut, it's alright. even keith, my imaginary friend who's a big who fan, agreees about that.
so the first time that i ever hear something from this album is when a regional music award payed tribute to prince and all the artists that died in 2016 at the awarding ceremony in 2017, with my favourite artists covering "purple rain" and a bunch of songs, and the guitarist that i always admired soloed on the cover. the awesomeness of the cover makes me look foward to the album that may sounds more awesome. it did sounds awesome, but the first three tracks don't live up to my exception. they are just normal synth pop 4/5
extremely stereotypical zz top, just like what i imagined their song is like after hearing "sharp-dressed man" for the first time and only that song is good the others don't rock 2/5
Heard "Blonde" before. Frank Ocean is awesome on doing those emotional stuff, and that album is extremely beautiful. But channel orange is just ok, pretty normal, not as good as blonde. 3/5
hey kids, gothic rock is fun! so i only heard "Bela Lugosi's Dead" before, but now i somehow like this genre. 5/5
erm its pretty decent i guess but still not as good as different class
conclution: edm is better the cover version of light my fire has only 1/100 awesomeness from the original the vocal is sloppy and jim morrison's original version is 100% better 2/5
the happiest radiohead album somehow heard jigsaw falling into places before 15 steps and bodysnacher is some other tracks good for me to dance to weird fishes makes me twirl around like a fish and has a tense ending there are beautiful moments like nude and depressing tracks like all i need and videotape they all goes extra hard for me 5/5
conclusion: techno the youtuber is better than normal techno somehow (i know his full account name is technoblade but it's just for a somehow weird comparison) the first ten minutes feels like 2 hours while the music beeps and boops and then it beeps and boops in a danceable way although danceable, the rest of the beeps and boops make 1 hour sounds like half a day 3.5/5
latin music never interests me 2/5
when i saw this album today during lunch break, i figured out that i'd like to get high during english language class while the teacher talks about stuffs and the questions in class slowly drifts out of sight and becoming surreal. care of cell 44 has this classic 67' beatles feel, the guitars and pianos and harmonies, so penny lane. i like it, as i'm a ex-beatles fan. but some tracks are sloppy. 4/5
it's psychedelic, and also makes me wants to sleep more. it goes left and right around my head. its just so tiring... 2/5
Other reviews says it’s what a quality Phil Collins album might sound like. But a quality Phil Collins album is “in the air tonight” sorts of things repeating 12 times (just joking). This one is different every time. Genesis is a great band: but there’s no way of making fun of other members using other’s solo work to compare to thems. Peter and Phil are both great. 5/5
its noisy, but in the way that i like. the singer's voice reminds me of thom yorke's falsettos. but anyway, why is the first track named "Charlie Big Potato"? it's absurd. 4/5
a lot of attitude from the sharp guitar bass and drums but the tracks is just ok 2/5
Another motherf****ing irish folk album. And why there's a segment of "blackbird" with an improvised melody at the end of the song? As a ex-beatles fan, this really makes me confused. But the title track is great, and beautiful moments occasionally occur. 3/5
it reminds me of contemporary rnb, which is the genre that i hate the most in this world, with all those "baby"s and "oh yeah"s. i can fall asleep to this 2/5
ITS SUCH A BIBLICAL MOMENT WHEN I RATED MY PREVIOUS ALBUM AND SAW "DEFINITELY MAYBE" APPEAR ON THE TOP OF THE PAGE. cause i am a simple-minded 10th grader aka oasis stan. anyway, oasis is a great band. and i'm going to write my review in an extremely chaotic way similar to me writing essays in school. and as we all know, the band's soul is the Gallagher brothers, with elder brother Noel playing guitar and younger brother Liam singing. The guy lying on the ground in the album cover is Liam himself, the self-claimed "RNR STAR GODLIKE RASTA ICON LEGEND BIBLICAL OMNIPRESENT PROPHET SPIRITUAL MAJESTICAL CELESTIAL OPTIMYSTIC BUDDHIST JEDI APPROACHABLE ZEN LOVER HUMBLE 🐝" as written in his twitter bio. his twitter updates once a day, with him saying hello to fans, and then reacting to fan's comments and talking about football, like, after manchester city's loss to liverpool in the premier league last month, he said, in a love me, love my dog way, "we piss all over the beatles". and even before he penned the bio, he was everything mentioned in it. surely, a true rock star knows how to stir up controversies: he argued with Noel nearly every day after oasis broke up and before they reformed months ago, he was involved in many fights, took drugs, and did a lot of rock'n'roll-styled things. but the thing that stands out the most, along with his attitude, is his voice. that fucking sarcasm. that fucking emotion. that fucking "shiiiiiine" which was dragged along the music and became a meme. and it goes so well with the lyrics noel wrote, probably while he was getting high, like the pure nonsense in "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker". And apart from the nonsense, there's some pretty philosophical things in the album, such as the lyrics to "Live Forever". "Columbia" on the knebworth live album is messy and chaotic, while the studio version is bit lame with distortion incomparable to the live. "Bring It On Down" is a hidden gem. "Digsy's Dinner" makes me want to eat lasagne, while "rock'n'roll star" is a solid hit while also functioning as the opening song. it all proves that Noel is half a genius at music, although not as good as Dylan or Lennon. But he can only enter his complete form with Liam at his side, singing the songs he wrote. "Definitely Maybe" is definitely maybe one of the best debut albums of all time. also, i'm going to manchester this winter and buy the man city & noel collab kit and maybe get tickets of them versus chelsea (at home). perhaps the next album i'll rate is "parklife" cuz damon is chelsea fan. congrats me =) 5/5
wait... what? MORNING GLORY? TWO OASIS ALBUM IN A ROW? THAT'S SOME TRUE BIBLICAL MOMENT! but anyway, today is gonna be the day that i rate my second oasis album on the list. there's no need for me to say too much about this album. it's biblical. I love it so much that I even went to Berwick Street myself and took photos in the location of the album cover last year, when I was travelling in UK. maybe I'm going to do it again this winter. Liam's voice is at somehow a peak. "Hello" is a good opening. "Roll With It" is full of attitude. "Don't Look Back in Anger" remains classic. "Hey Now" is top nonsense. "Some Might Say" has a philosophical lyric. "Champagne Supernova" is epic. "She's Electric" probably stole from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", but it's ok. "Cast No Shadow" is interesting storytelling. "Morning Glory" was featured at the beginning of "Acquiesce", which is my favourite Oasis track. so is there something missing out, apart from "Bonehead's bank holiday"? yeah. (took out guitar) (put capo on the second fret) Anyway... Here's Wonderwall. 5/5
i hate political stuff 1/5
ok, i understand. this is good, this is a classic. but it's just too... "American". somehow it is R&B-ish and never-ending, like an orgasm that never came. 3/5
"Little Wing" is what you calls an eternal classic. a beautiful love song penned by the best guitarist in the whole rock history. the only problem of the song is it's too short. some of the songs are that boring type of blues rock, only become better because of jimi's guitar playing. but it randomly slaps hard. 3.5/5
more boring soul music. i dont want to listen to it anymore.
oh, dear old mark knopfler. some pretty damned "rockers" seems to run around popular band's fandoms (like coldplay) making chaos using "money for nothing" as a boring phrase to ridicule their commercialisation, but that's horrible and non-respectable. and its all because they are famous and rich, and those guys tries to prove that they have awesome music taste by rejecting popular and mainstream stuff. all a bunch of shit. also, the album sounds ok. "money for nothing" actually sounds good and has a awesome riff, but mark didnt write a clear melody line, making it bit boring. 3/5
wow this hits hard and catches my attention from the start 3.5/5
i hate country music from the start 2/5
uh-oh. the once lowest ranked album on this list. and it is free jazz. instead of listening to this, i'd rather give throbbing gristle or the birthday party a 4 or 5 than listen to this shit, because these two sounds pretty good when compared with this shit. 1/5
"We piss all over the Beatles"-- Liam Gallagher, 2024 so after liverpool beat man city at the beginning of december, i began erasing the evidence of me being a beatles fan that i was in middle school and tried to focus on good old big O. but, i had to admit that any beatles album just brings me loads of good memories of me in that period of life. there's a snapshot of me when i decided to talk about them in the chinese class's pre-class sharing, and the teacher made all my classmates share a topic that we are interested in turn. (well, about the chinese class... i think that i should mention that i am east asian. I mentioned that in an earlier review, but now it's edited out.) i end up with a serious overtime, stretching the 5 minute sharing limit to a 8 minute piece about their whole history, from john and paul's meeting to the death of George. also, "Now and Then"wasn't released back then. and there i was, listening to "and i love her", sitting outside a shopping centre at 8 in the morning in England, summer 2023. another one is me watching many video of Paul's live concerts on the way to liverpool, all from the recent times, starting with either "can't buy me love" or that hell of a chord in "a hard day's night". those silly love songs are not the beatles' most musically complete works, but they're good soundtracks for a teen going through the ups and downs in her life. only half a year has passed since i finished middle school, and i miss those days. 3/5 for the music itself, but 4/5 for the memories it bring.
meteora is my life album from the second half of my 8th grade to now, because everything on it are somehow all self-doubt teen angst anthem. hybrid theory is similar. i like the whole album a fucking lot, especially "in the end", because it's just so suitable for high schoolers. sorry, boomers. i'd like to give it a 4 instead of a fucking 1. 4/5
damn, it's folk. and the first track is instrumental. maybe i'll give them a 1, because they are from birmingham, and my home team is playing against aston villa today but anyway a 2/5
i don't like rap but eminem is just pure awesome 3/5
no 2/5
song is proper 90s british rock but the melody is a bit weird purest teen energy at it's finest i like those stuff even when it's not made by oasis or blur or pop punk era green day 4/5
MERRY CHRISTMAS, everybody! Although Phil is a terrible man, i appreciate his effort on putting the wall of sound on christmas music, and makes it richer than before. It's better than other albums he produced, like "let it be" or "death of a lady's man", but less good than "imagine". actually, christmas music is as cheesy as ever. We should play non-christmas music on christmas, like the soundtrack of "love actually". 3/5
the kinks are all right 3/5
woo hoo 4/5
so when i thought about blues, the stuffs that automatically came to my brain is: "Yer Blues" by the beatles, a sort of parody on the genre. The Birthday Party, my new favourite band which, in theory, is a post punk band that is influenced by blues and noise rock. and there are all the memes. And early rolling stones. and late rolling stones. and me playing "gimme shelter" over and over on spotify. and this album... it did makes me very blue. but i'm always blue, actually. it's... emotional. and it's good to go blue before a manchester city match. although they are playing against leicester city who is also blue, by the way. oops... i was thinking about some other things. 4/5
so keith -- my imaginary friend who's a big who fan-- decided to write this review for me after this imaginary struggle with him over who should write this: "OK! Now we're getting somewhere. I read the global reviews and hey, why are everybody complaining about the jingles? they ARE cliché, but that's what they are meant for! they are doing a parody of a radio station, and who doesn't know about the lengthy commercials and cheesy jingles happening in between songs during a radio broadcast? You really lack a sense of humor! It's a very good album, and it deserves some love, OK?" "But it amuses me when people, hating the jingles or not, praised "i can see for miles". It deserves it." Keith gives it a 5, and i give it a 4. on average, it's a rounded up 5. 5/5
ok, Keith, here we go again. "It's funny, isn't it? Two peak who albums back-to-back. Heard that 'Tommy' is here too, but never mind about that. the thing about it, is, that it captures the Who's high energy live so fucking perfectly. I... I just can't say how much I admire this. That's the beauty of live albums, isn't it? with al those improvisations, solos and applauses, it makes you feels like that you are there, although you aren't there. OK, hipsters, motown lovers, and indie dogs who give this album something less than a 3, i understand your point. But I just simply wonders,“why don't you all f-f-f-fade away”, as I shall give this album, another five! (This time, me and Keith had an agreement on the rating.) 5/5
it's good in a nightclub when you can't feel the time passing, the flashing lights and effects make you have this instinct to dance, but listening to it at home is not the best choice 4/5
it's ok 3/5
2 minutes in and it already feels like forever some wanker even compares it with kid a but this shit really makes me suck a lemon 1/5
horrible american stuff 1/5
So It’s post punk. I’m pretty into post punk these days. It's tasty, but sometimes pretty repetitive. 4/5
this is my kink it makes me proud as an English citizen, and then the album ends and i remembered that I'm NOT BRITISH at all. i missed the days that I spend in the UK. 4/5
i still hates soul. no war, please. i'd rather give peace a chance. 3/5
it's just ok 2/5
people tends to hate on post punk, but why? idk. anyway, this is... ok. not so stereotypical post punk, but instead leaning a bit into new wave. not as influential as joy division. and who the fuck names their band "the The"? i thought that "the Band" is a terrible band name. 3/5
moody music for walking in the rain. although Portishead also has "head" in their name, they're not as good as Radiohead. 4/5
anything not pure rock that is released from the 60s (except for sinatra) automatically gets an 3 from me and soul is boring, so there's a penalty so it's a 2
new wave is more boring than post punk 3/5
why there's 2 rap albums in a row? 3/5
the morning bell rang, signaling a new album from the site. a certain person took 15 steps to sit in front of the computer, opened it, saw this album, and because of their disinterest in jazz, thought about how they can tolerate it. But maybe it is not a mission impossible if they take five minute's break from the shitty stuff... So that is not just someone's, or maybe mine, normal daily routine. Because of the existence of "Take Five", songs in 5/4 time are randomly added into the routine. back to the album itself. it is one of a kind of a polyrhythmic feast, with me struggling to count the way through the odd meters of the track. "Blue Rondo a la Turk" starts with excited piano vamps and sounds weird while still maintaining a sense of order, changing time signatures every now and then. "Strange Meadow Lark" is just stereotypical jazz, while "Take Five", the ultimate hit on the album, sounds as classy as ever, making "15 steps" the second best 5/4 song imo. in conclusion, if you like head-hurting stuff but think that maths rock or midwest emo is too noisy, you can come and listen to this. 5/5
i have a bias toward rap albums, but this one is pretty good. maybe the reason for this is the presence of ye as the producer and the co-writer, who is still half a genius at then, before becoming that wanker that he now is. even though i was a fan of taylor when i was in middle school, i still miss the old kanye. 4/5
Firstly, nick drake is not a fusion between nick cave and drake, since the former is down under's own evergreen alternative rock icon, the latter is the most iconic (and the most memed) rapper from the great white north, and nick drake is a british folk singer who died young. secondly, nick cave said that he enjoys nick drake's songs, saying that "Whenever I have heard Nick Drake’s music over the years I have enjoyed it" (Cave, 2021). so i might enjoy it too, i thought. Finally, this album is, once again, something that I considered as weird. but it also has this conforming quality that seems to embrace me in its weirdness. p.s. but there IS a meme on the internet, fusing the "hotline bling" meme with the lyrics in one of nick cave's songs, in case you want to know. 5/5 works cited: Cave, N. (2021, July) "Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #159" The Red Hand Files. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/relation-between-you-nick-drake/
it's a fucked up album -- No, I mean, "Funked up". terrible pun, i know. the fact that my winter holiday has just started makes this album more enjoyable. because everybody has this experience of being too relaxed after the school year finishes. And I was just super relaxed, bobbing my head with the strong beat, it feels somehow like a drug. what an awesome rhythm section. what an energetic vocalist George Clinton is. And that whole damn awesome guitar and horns. I haven't had any type of funk music related experience that can match this since I danced to "Uptown Funk" in the school KTV night. It makes me become the chill guy. 5/5
i am thinking about buying cigarettes and alcohol to accompany my listening. but i am a minor and they don't sell anything related here. anyway it's nice. 4/5
im getting pretty lucky with this run of albums (excluding slipknot). 4/5
hell yeah this is fucking cool. i just... how the fuck did they manage to make such a cool album? 5/5 (some other things about the talking heads: i was in the costume department of the school play, and the drama teacher/director asked us to design a set of costume that both looks cool and convinent for the actor to dance in. And i just thought of david bryne's big suit and made a parody of it. although it is just a not-so-oversized suit while still exaggrating the body outline. although the idea is ultimately rejected by both the actor and the director.)
fun animal crossing music 4/5
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.’” --Nick Cave I hate California a lot and I hate it more after listening to RHCP, but Flea is an amazing bassist and some songs are catchy 3/5
you can infer the reason that I won't go and watch "A Complete Unknown" although I am a Timothée Chalamet stan from this album. because I am afraid that he would perform the song in a too faithful-to-the-oringinal way. in a sentence, i know he's good but just meh. to quote a popular review: [strums guitar gently, starts singing] “How many Bob Dylan albums must a man endure, before he’s free of this god forsaken list? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.” [abruptly stops strumming] …wait, no it’s not. Seven. The answer, my friend, is seven. 2/5
4 jazz funk greats. 4/5
Tom sings like an early Leonard Cohen while tries to fuse Indonesian gamelan into his music half the time. the other half is torturing ballad with hoarse singing. 2/5 Update (on 4/11/2025): Now I am on RYM. And during my time on the site, other users has long suggested me to re-evaluate my rating for "Bone Machine". So here i am. cling-clang. cling-clang. "Earth Died Screaming" started the album with a series of woody percussion and horror imagery: stars falling, hellfire, chaos everywhere, the craziness of the apocalypse expressed through equally crazy accompaniment. A surrealism of death. Than out of the blue, the soft piano and horns of "Dirt in the Ground" sets the stage in a post-apocalypse world after the last track, while Tom sang this most charming dirge for the dreams, the men, the bible stories, everything once existent on the earth. and by the lyrics and the arrangements, these two beginning tracks singlehandedly established the album as the most unconventional death and loss themed concept album. One finer than The Black Parade and can compete head to head with what else than Murder Ballads. The death count on the album may not be the most impressive one in all death albums (well, of course. Compare Murder Ballads with a death count of 64 people, one dog and a uncountable number of guys living in a slum) but the musicality peaked here, along with the other albums mentioned before. And hey! somehow there's a murder ballad presented in this album too: "Murder In The Red Barn", a half deadpan half simplistic song detailing the aftermath of the murder is chilly even the listener have no sense of what is going on in the lyrics. Surely the creepy arrangement shows Tom being experimental and weird, but the songwriting also shows how good a writer he is. And as people may agree, Tom always has two sides: the experimental side and his singer-songwriter side. This album took the two and juxtaposed them together with the unique and appealing soundscape: In the experimental side, we have the ever-changing genres of the songs: the cling-clang of "Earth Died Screaming" and many other songs that are unable to generalise in a single genre, piano ballads such as "A Little Rain", "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" with its creepy spoken word performance, old time blues such as "Jesus Gonna Be Here", and even punk-sounding stuff. Example: "Goin' Out West". But rule number one: don't talk about this song. While for the songwriter side, we get touching ballads such as "Who Are You" telling about lifes with a mercurial lover, "A Little Rain", detailing stories of all the lonely people, nearly resembles piano ballads by his fellow singer-songwriters, like Nick Cave on "The Boatman's Call". Right before the end of the album, there's "I Don't Wanna Grow Up". But while listening to the song i was just in my room, using my time that i should use to write my AP art history essay practise to listen to this album and re-evaluate it, thinking about how my other 10th grade classmate are all doing mock exams but i am here writing a fucking review and wishing that i was still a child. Isn't that IRONIC? But that's life. We are all growing up, becoming boring adults, decaying as an inreversible process of life, and finally becoming dirts in the ground. That, is what "Bone Machine" was made to do: give us some advice, make us see something in life and then just leave, and carry on, as Tom and Keith Richards sang in the last track, "That Feel": "And there's one thing you can't lose, and it's that feel".
sometimes you need to stop hating on pop rock bands, especially when you are listening to something that they created before they became pop. I usually hates protest songs, but the songs are just beautifully written by bono and the edge, so i think that the reason that people hates pop rock bands is just because their songs are more accessible. so they become popular. (see: Chris Martin.) i shall give it a five, because i am a melody-first and vocal-first listener.
heard the location of this album cover was on fire before. now that is some literal “light my fire”. and the album makes me on fire. dad knows it, mom knows it, my imaginary friend knows it, everybody knows it... i just love blues rock. 4/5
3/5
well, i can dance to this but its still mid 3/5
american kung fu 4/5
so this is the new No.1 in the 2020 version of the 500 greatest album of all time? Funny. The only reason that I can see that made the critics put this, instead of “Sgt.Peppers” on top, is that it is an album of PROTEST SONGS. AND I HATE PROTEST SONGS. so I shall protest against protest songs by giving it a 1.
the bats are released and it did hurt. come on, there are one hundred of them fluttering in my brain at the same time when i'm listening to the album. what a great rock opera. but come on, you are telling me that the songwriter who works on this album also wrote "total eclipse of the heart"? that's some wild news. 5/5
peak RYMcore. i thought that I'd hate the stuffs that all self-pretentious people love. but i dont hate it. it is just... mid. good for studying background music. 4/5
ok, i know, this is a classic. AND INDEED, IT IS AWESOME! 5/5
fun fact: I tried to write lyrics that sounds like the Birthday Party on a guessing game in RYM, with all those dirty imagery, repeated words, and some jesus references. but the dude that tried to guess thought that it is an Alice in Chains lyric. but this album is pretty solid. the type of grunge that sounds different to what Nirvana does sounds great. 5/5
("Free Bird" intensifies) 3/5
meh 2/5
i'm not gonna be the guy that sighs eternally because of leonard cohen. because who the fuck cares about the guys that kurt sings about? music is everything that we should care. 5/5
i am always paranoid but this is not "Paranoid" at all. 3/5
not as good as what came next but the cover is what i look like during the runtime of the album. 5/5
androgynous synthpop an improvement for the gay rights advocates and stuff but i just don't get it (although i am one gay rights advocate myself) 2/5
ohhhhhhhhhh. another of the lowest rated. and fuck it. i didn't take any lsd but it's just a trip gone bad... it's pure terror with all that distorted and out of tune singing with unsettling noises. literal horror game soundtrack. that bunch of germans screaming and banging on metal is even better. what's their band name again, Ein-stür-zen-de Neu-bau-ten? (Well i am just pretending. i know EN since blixa collabrated with nick cave. but never listened to anything.) 1/5
the "seven nation army" album the majority of the arrangements on this album ties closely with the white stripe's stripped down aesthetics somehow. and i think because i like arctic monkeys, franz ferdinand and this album, one of my most favourite genre is garage rock revival from now on. 5/5
the first song makes me lol cause there's a wonderwall reference, but today isn't gonna be the day that i feel something in this album. and they even got nigel godrich for the production. ok, so now that's some radiohead like stuff going on. maybe there's gonna be some people who like it, but after all, i'd like go back to wonderwall and the bends. old britpop is the best britpop. 3/5
My inner voice during my trignometry class: Getting bored by all those changes of the sin waves? your life is truly fucked up. So what will happen if you change the "fuck" to "funk"? Me: it will still be as fucked up as it was. 3.5/5
why is "Gymnopédies" here? why it's pretty normal jazz rock afterwards? and why it switches to psychedelic rock after that? why did THIS win AOTY in the grammy in 1970 instead of "Abbey Road"? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? 2/5
just listen to the title track and you are done with this album. 1/5
1. i know paul weller from his association with oasis. 2. i know the Jam because of "Going Underground" being featured on the London olympics opening ceremony. 3. and i think it's good although i wont put this on repeat! 4/5
awwwww folk rock. i would like to listen to like folk punk more than ever, rather than listening to these. that french bob dylan cover with the shit like violin and accordion makes my life more terrible. 1/5
sorry but blues rock is bit better 2/5
YESSSSSS ANOTHER RADIOHEAD. it is the weakest radiohead album after pablo honey tbh. but 2+2=5 and a wolf at the door are pure gold. (2+2-1.5)/5 aka 3.5/5
so. i opened the website. i submitted my last rating. and out of nowhere, i had this feeling that there's gonna be some boring things coming up. AND HERE COMES MY NEWEST FAVOURITE SONGWRITER! (squeals excitedly, disturbing my classmate's peace while can't control my limbs well because of the cup of coffee that i drank) so. this album is important. it is considered one of Cave's best work and is also the first album from Nick and the seeds after long time contributor Blixa Bargeld quitted the band to focus full-time on their own band. and the name of Blixa's band? Einstürzende Neubauten. yes, THE Einstürzende Neubauten. the band that has the lowest rating on this fucking website. but anyway. so first, let's take a look at the album closer, "O Children". Nick's second famous song because of its usage in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And fun fact! i bought a pack of butterbeer flavoured snacks (which is a certified tie-in with the franchise) this morning! the snack is mid. BUT THE TRACK IS PERFECT. with the fleeting and spiritual arrangements, and the gospel-like vocals. the lyrics with all these bittersweet moments of life and death, and we rejoice with tears while the song fades out. well, now to the first disc of the double album, "Abattoir Blues". Don't tell me you can't feel an immediate adrenaline rush from "Get Ready For Love". YEAH! A STRAIGHT PUNCH IN YOUR FACE! "Cannibal's Hymn", build upon a repeated bass riff, is a departing from the straight punch the first song offers us, with a rather tender form of songwriting and the song running in a waltz-like 3/4 time beat. "Hiding All Away" returned to the energetic state using dirty blues rock/post punk and uplifting backing vocals, while "Messiah Ward" mitigated the atmosphere again with Cave's songwriting sensibility. (fuck it i begin to talk nonsense again.) BUT ANYWAY! LET ME PRESENT TO YOU! THE ONLY OTHER BOLDED SONG ON THIS ALBUM'S RYM PAGE! THE ANTHEM OF SEEKING INSPIRATION! THE PRAYER TO THE MUSES! MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NICK CAVE SONG, IF NOT COUNTING "THE MERCY SEAT" IN! "There She Goes, my Beautiful World"! i literally get my social media username from the opening lyrics of the song ;) well, just take a listen... and look at how fucking motivated this hell of a songs is. i can't tell you how much i like this song and all its references to famous writers (although Johnny Thunders didn't write "Chinese Rocks", the songwriter is Dee Dee Ramone). it helped me while i was encountering writer's block. many times. i just put it on and typed furiously. "Nature Boy" is a near pop rock love song praising beauty which, being a constant theme on the album, was written in many, beautiful, ways. It is also pretty in sync with the flower on the album cover imo. "Abattoir Blues" is not blues but art rock, and released a scent of apocolypes and death with misantropic lyrics and the arrangement that paints doom right into the song. "Let the Bells Ring", based on a tinkering guitar riff and sounds religious in all the way, is both melancholic and uplifting. "Fable of the Brown Ape", the closer of the first half, literally sounds like bipolar disorder somehow. and it is weird. VERY WEIRD. So, "The Lyre of Orpheus". both the disc and the song. It brings a literal twist to the story of Orpheus and Eurydice with his signature dark storytelling. Nobody looked back this time, but both orpheus and eurydice are still dead in the end. and here's "Breathless". Nick tries folk rock. Tommy and Grace married over the song. and "NO FOOKING FIGHTING". "Babe, You Turn Me On" is a folkish song too, but it is not featured in Peaky Blinders. And for "Easy Money", i think it is similar with Pink Floyd's "Money". but i don't know why. "Supernaturally" is a hidden killer track and sounds like something that should appeared on the first disc. "Spell" is mid, while "Carry Me" retained the gospel-like arrangement find in the first disc that Nick would come back to 20 years later in "Wild God". and as we listen to "O Children" one more time, i just want to ask every one that gives a low grade in this might be biased way, HOW DARE YOU NOT LOVE NICK CAVE? 5/5
ok. number 100. 100 down, 1000 to go. a round of applause. so, "Raising Hell" by Run-D.M.C. i like the beat, i like the flow, i like the sampling, i like the version of "Walk This Way" on the album, and i can admit and 100% admit that it is a non-deniable influential hip-hop album. i hates modern rap but the 80s is just pure excitement. the only problem is that i am not wearing my adidas sneakers while listening to this at school. i am wearing a pair of cheaply made sneakers instead. 5/5
NUMBER 101! IT'S THE BEATLES, MOTHERFUCKER! i am literally crying when i saw the cover i even went to THE zebra crossing to recreate it the first time i went to the UK. so, the beatles literally means extremely much to me... and i love the most of the album i just dont know how to say how i love this album i want to techniclly break it down and build it back and analyse how awesome it is but it's literally hell mode for me so i will just say it over and over: this IS my second favourite beatles album besides the white covered one. imma going to silver hammer everyone that hates this album somehow. 5/5
WOOOOOOOW this is a good run of albums. but it dont goes too hard for me so 4/5. there is a reason for why he went to Berlin, isn't it?
erm so this album is too gay even for a pansexual person. and the cover of my favourite pink floyd song makes me uncomfortable. and i wasn't numb during the runtime. i was painful. but hey, at least it is danceable. 3/5
no, except for "Roundabout". 2/5
1. jeff beck is such a good player. 2. yeah, "Morning Dew". Nick Cave said on Desert island Discs that he likes the original version. wait... einstürzende neubauten also sang it too. no wonder nick likes the song, because he is still thinking about his good old days with Blixa. 3. the vocal sounds good. oh, rod stewart sang it. 4. YOU MEAN THAT THE RONNIE WOOD WHO PLAYED WITH THE STONES IS THE BASS PLAYER HERE? 5.but i am not too interested in blues rock. so in conclusion, a 4. 4/5
Suede's "This is Hardcore" is on this list. but it's britpop and it's not hardcore. and THIS, my friend, is TRUE HARDCORE. 3/5
cheerful 80s new wave, but sang by a girl group. make me think of the bad old 60s. but becuse it's new wave and it sound great to a certain degree, 4/5.
One of my besties asked me what Beatles album do I like, then bought this album as my 14th birthday’s gift. And I’m soon going to be 16. memories. And man what can I say this is the best album that the beatles created in their whole career. 5/5
i was having a SAT test today in Hong Kong. and after the test i went out to by records for the rest of the day. and i finally can listen it before bedtime. so i can say, soul is the ultimate go-to hypnotize genre. and her sister is better. Thank you, Beyoncé. 1/5.
Sorry but I don’t do drugs so the album is mid for me. 3.5/5
4/5
that accordion at the beginning of the first track sounds cheesy and disgusting. or maybe it's a harmonium. but wtf cares. and i always don't like indian sounding thing except for the beatles' works. well... it seems that they actually covered Norwegian Wood. And it's a faithful rendition, apart from the fact that they sang it in Hindi. it sucks. 1/5
dude the cover... and the music is just a bit better than the cover, actually. 2.5/5
awww somehow i wish that i get Junkyard today. the band is literally called The Birthday Party and today is my birthday. and under the training of Nick, Rowland and everyone else, this album is pretty ok for me. but every song sounds the same. 3/5
I was a asian anglophile before but after finishing this album i am now a believer of the AMERICAN DREAM. MAGA! 4/5
after reading all the reviews, there's only one thing that i can say: ew. Come on guys, why won’t you understand that every people has flaws? Please seperate the artist and their works first before you write your fucking reviews. but i dont think that we should seperate the two here. both are trash. y'know what they say? members of a great band always flop after going solo. for some better and more emotional white-man-doing-blues-influenced-music, see: "Henry's Dream" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. and it even have a lower score on this site. sorry 1001 album generator, but i just literally believe that you, to some extent, represents the public's music taste. 1/5
OHHHHHHH oomf LOVES this album. she is that type of person who loves elliott, lana, leonard and all those depressive stuff. and now i know why she would call his music "the best soundtrack for self-loathing". 4/5.
"you've phoned me so we can listen to and comment on 'Tommy' together but MY CD PLAYER IS FUCKING BROKEN." Keith shouted from the other side of the phone. (for the back story of Keith, please see my review for other albums by The Who.) "You better move it to somewhere else. i've done that once and it functions as usual." "well... OK." it finally works, "And-- Here we fucking go!!" "the overture is so fucking long." i muttered. Keith responded with unsatisfaction: "Just pretend that you are listening to the soundtrack for a musical. then it won't feel that long." "erm, Keith? can you come to my home so we can watch the movie version? it's better with a bunch of stars singing it." "You need to accept the original version, cause it's the original version." "You literally said nothing useful!" "Seems the classic motif is coming up. the 'See me, feel me' part always send shivers down my spine when I was watching the movie. and similarly, in their concert videos." "Well, who the fuck doesn't get shivers because of Pete's songwriting?" "can I say that for 'The Acid Queen', Tina Turner's version is better?" "well, i have to admit that her voice is more powerful and suitable for the song. And the arrangement is better!" "Dude why the Underture is ten minutes long?" "it's meant to be like that. i can't do anything with it. i actually skipped that track on first listen. And sometime I still do that too. and well? the CD player still works but the remote is broken. I guess that we should spend the 10 minutes wisely." "It's finally building up. and, three minutes to go." "it's always building up and then going down. like the tide." "can we listen to 'Love, Reign O'er Me' in the last 3 minutes?" "well, it's only 3 minutes. You can tolerate it, can't you." "i... hope so." "And maybe there's a reason why your name is Sally, as in 'So, Sally can wait'. and why do you fail to wait for a song to end?" "oh yeah we are finally through this... two more tracks to go and it's THE song!" (two more tracks later. Keith began to play air guitar to "Pinball Wizard".) "YEAHHHHHHH! although i am not a who fan I absolutely LOVE the song!" "WOOOOO HOOOOO!" "The motif is returning and the 'listening to you' part is adding in... Tommy is ready to regain his senses. Don't you remember the part in the movie, when during 'I'm Free', Roger runs on the beach like that gamer youtuber that is pretty famous for being single for a long time?" "Yeah, I remember that in a vlog, he was running alongside the beach shouting 'I long for freedom! I want to fall in love!'. I love his videos and he is finally married recently..." "yeah, FINALLY." "Wait a minute, the plot of the movie is THAT different from the album? and 'i'm Free' don't come in until two songs later?" "wait a sec you dont know that? you should check out the wikipedia page for that before you listen!" "Why I am laughing sooooo hard when 'I'm Free' begin playing?" "cause you are just fully in the 'I long for freedom! I want to fall in love!' mode." "Shut up." "'Tommy's Holiday Camp' is the cheesiest minute of music that i ever heard." "Cant disagree." "Well, I don't like the first half of 'We're Not Gonna Take It', cause it's pretty political." "erm... but it's still a good song, isn't it?" "you... are pretty right." "And it just fades out at the end? I always thought that there would be a grand finale!" "Yeah! Post-listening reflection time!" "Can I say that although this is an influential album for one of the first rock operas, Quadrophenia is still better?" "of course! So, what's your score? I don't think that it deserves a 5 solely judging by musicality but i'm still giving it a 5." "A 4. there's weak points but the whole album is still strong." "Well... OK. A 4. So, we've agreed on each other!" 4/5
i like brian as a producer and songwriter, so i am pretty eager to check out his solo works. and well, it's ok. but not my type of thing. 3.5/5
HERE COMES HEAVY METAL! \m/ well, what... can i say? here's where everything starts. although it's still not as good as "Paranoid", i may say. but still a 5.
eh? so after Black Sabbath's namesake album, here's some newer metal coming from... Brazil? but ohhhhhhh, this is pretty decent. although at many times, it just feels... flat. 4/5 anyway.
erm so this is some exprimental thing? and this is supposed to be a ballet score? well it sounds great! maybe i should thank my ballet dancing experience from kindergarten to 3rd grade for being able to understand this shite of an album because i can somehow imagine how this should function as a dance score, and it is not as bad as it sounds after i envisions the dancing that should accompany the album. 4/5
so basically it has a groove, but not much. 3/5.
"In Da Club" is a certified hood classic but other tracks are pretty mid. 3/5.
literally for the who-the-fuck-cares-how-many-time-i-have-said-it-in-a-row time: My bias toward soul music is pretty hard to erase by now. but anyway, it... actually sounds pretty great! and it doesn't sound that long! and it sounds pretty rocky and groovy! 4/5
country music: meh. covers of pop standards: it depends on who sings it. putting the two together: hey it's actually ok. 3.5/5
the three unavoidables of life: death, tax and dream pop albums that are highly rated on rym. but good news! it's more poppy and goth-like than dreamy. and the part that i hate about dream pop is how dreamy it is. 4/5
meh 2/5
my bias toward country music slowly rises and stays... 2/5
1/5
\m/YEAHHHHHHHH\m/ although metallica is a little bit better =) 4/5
3.5/5
4/5
oh yeah led zep. 4/5
I am a Beatles fan, half a left wing but also sometimes conservative, a 60s rock enjoyer who actually tried to dress like a hippie, and this album successfully attacked all my weakness. if i can travel back in time to see a Frank Zappa concert, i would like to be that stupid with a flare gun. 2/5
1. German music. I love German music. 2. who cares about the English version of the album if there's the original German version always available for you? so a track-by-track breakdown. "Europa Endlos"("Europe Endless"): based on a four note motif, this is the ultimate "music to play while you are driving through the countryside". "Spiegalsaal"("Hall of Mirrors"): this song is again based on repeated motifs, but creates an errie atmosphere with the arrangements. "Schaufensterpuppen" ("Showroom Dummies"): The sound sounds as mechanical as ever, maybe its because erm... it's a criticize on commercialism. i like the deadpan delivery. "Trans-Europa Express" ("Trans-Eurpoe Express): It's not a "music to play when you are on a train" song, although the beat resembles the clanking of the train wheels on tracks and also a military march. the vocals are processed through a vocoder while chanting the title, and also used natrually during other parts of the song. it almost feel dangerous, not as calming and lighthearted like the group's earlier work "Autobahn". "Metall Auf Metall" (Metal on Metal) and "Abzug" continues as a refrain but adds more metallic clanking as mentioned in the title. Almost industrial-flavoured. Proto- Einstürzende Neubauten. Germans. As the sound of the train wheezes by, we enter the final two tracks. "Franz Schubert". a tribute to the late classical composer, and to a degree, it has that romantism tint to the music, but it's still nothing like the rest of the album. Then in a circle, there's "Endlos Endlos" (Endless Endless), a short reprise of "Europa Endlos", as the music fades away. So in two words: Truly Revolutionary. Even if there's pioneers in the genre like Wendy Carlos, these pioneers couldn't make this album. 5/5.
3/5
People describes "Dookie" as "Adolescence: The Album". It did hits hard for a teenage girl. 5/5
2/5
4/5
wait a minute. the band's name is familliar to me but where is the occation that make me know about them... OH I REMEMBERED IT THE COVER MODEL OF THEIR ALBUM PHANTASMAGORIA IS SUSIE BICK! but anyway. this is so punky. or if there's a genre called proto-hardcore, this album is the example. but some songs are meh. 4/5.
Dear 1001 Album Generator: As an Anglophile, I object the mandatory listening of this album today due to the automatic result of your album choosing algorithm because I are, of course, an Anglophile, and I shall object America and its dominance of the world as this album is considered the official anthem for white supremacists. wait... so the title track is about how hard American's life are? well that makes it a little bit tolerable. And! the most important thing is that i once saw online a video clip of my favourite singer going to Springsteen's concert and chilling out to "Glory Days". That's a positive sign considering his English influences and him being a Commonwealth citizen. but anyway. a 4/5.
today i suffer. but why???!!! 2/5
a tiny bit better than the last album i got from them but still, a 2/5
i dont wanna listen to another conscious hip hop/jazz rap album anymore i'd rather not be woke because i am unable to be sympathetic. 3/5
yesterday: i'm depressed because of some political issues today. please don't give me any leonard cohen albums tomorrow or i'll be more depressed. now: this is 1/10 leonard cohen. i am depressed. but Jeff can carry every fucking song and give me an mental orgasm at the same time. 5/5.
So this is it. Ladies and Gentleman... We are now floating in Neo-Psychedelia/Space Rock Revival Hell. But wait a minute... this is actually not hell. although dream pop hell is in relation with here, this album is quite decent. and some song sounds quite indie as well! 5/5.
country music sucks. 2/5.
JUST STOP. 2/5
80s pop but better. 4/5.
i wrote a very good paragraph about noise rock in general but i think its more suitable for "Daydream Nation". and that album is better. 4/5
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH (sorry for that just pretend that i am quoting the lyrics for the chorus of Lithium, where kurt just goes YEAHHHHHH and bipolar'd all over the place) Well, here we are now, so Entertain Us. i simply remember the fact that the first riff on the album is also the first riff i ever riffed on my telecaster (0-3-5 not included cause i first learned it on acoustic guitar) and as Kurt drags his voice through the verse and shouted through the chorus of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" i cant help notice my urge to smash the tele, wasting 300 bucks or so and change it to a jazzmaster (although kurt plays a jaguar but aren't these two guitars almost the same?). And we float through the music, Kurt's voice and lyrics, talking bout imaginary friends and bipolar disorder and disinterest in things and many guns, become a butter knife screaming my teenage angst over the flat plastic disc spinning in the cd player like butter on a toast, and nobody even know what emotion that it is going to inflict cause it inflicts every feeling only existent in teenagers and its just like this, like what its ever was, the punk power chords and the aggressive drumming and until every thing is inaudible that happens since 1991 and continues on as it ever was, influcing people decades to come and if you literally want to ask why jaguars and jazzmasters and mustangs are so fucking expensive to the degree a nirvana-loving high school student failed to buy one using her own accumulated pocket money you can just blame it on Kurt. But this is also a good thing as well since there's finally something that talks about what we want directly instead of these fucking hair metal bands making power ballads cause we are all tired to these things, isnt it? underrepresentation is the worst thing that ever happened. and This, is somehow the non-deodorant teenage spirit. Thanks to MTV, Thanks to Kurt, Krist and Dave, we can happily enjoy all these better music coming from 1990s. 5/5
If God don't want us to enjoy Talking Heads' music, He won't have given us mild autism. -- Modified from the words of a Radiohead fan So two days ago i watched Stop Making Sense's imax version in a screening. And as an autistic guy who can't dance very well and don't have a large automobile and need to ride a bicycle 80% of the time, i am pretty glad. Please get off my way, first, cause i am changing into a real live wire, and, there's a possibility that the lyric of "Psycho Killer" is actually more autistic-coded than you would think. but its still a 3.5 for me cause Remain In Light and Stop Making Sense impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much apart from Psycho Killer, although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works.
got a awesome band's debut album yesterday, and today its the debut album of another awesome band. when i read all the reviews, what formed in my mind is as follows: the wall is better than this. the dark side of the moon is also better than this. wish you are here is also better than this. animals is also better than this. but this is decent... so possibly a 3 since its a bit weak for a 4. 3/5
so first fuck it how many effect pedals are present on this fucking album tell me the monetary value of them added up and shut up eternally for me. apart from using the guitars to reinforce the lyric's atmosphere and fusing punk rock with 50s rock'n'roll one thing that the cramps did well is to prove is a band can have no bassist and do very well and this made the existance of bassists a joke. certified halloween album. guaranteed by the review writer, half a goth who just wears black and failed to do makeup. aka horror movie enjoyer. 4/5
when i was in middle school i loved my biology teacher to bits and its my platonic attraction to her that make me feel like i might be a lesbian although i am bisexual. One of the reason is that i live in east asia and she is one of the few people around me to have beatles related knowledge that i interacted with during my most intense periods of beatlemania, although its only about lucy in the sky with diamonds and the song's relationship to lucy the hominin skeleton. and this brings us to Sgt.Peppers itself, a forever classic that, according to some critics and edgelords and hipsters, is "so fucking overrated" and has more cultural impact that pure musicality. Personally i don't hate the album, and by saying that i don't hate it, it of course means that i really love it, and it also don't mean that i agree that the hipster's words about how "the music itself is shitty but because they use advanced technology the musicality can be forgiven and this is a big influence over things to come so it should be considered as their best, and that's wrong since we are hipsters and we only like unpopular things, so the music itself is shit so the album is shit" is valid and neutral. cause i actually think these comments as so fucking biased although the real best beatles album for me is, and will always be, the white album. But without a doubt, Sgt. Pepper's is indeed a cultural milestone that intervines with many various things at the time and to come, from the summer of love to how people would consider rock music as high art, to ppl calling ok computer "the sgt.pepper of radiohead", and to my brief fake love affair with my biology teacher due to the naming of the ape skeleton. But actually people saying that the musicality is not expressed on this album unlike revolver is also very weird... George giving the Indian raga realness on Within You Without You, the circus extravaganza of being for the benefit of mr. kite, the harmony and the cheesy and optimistic atmosphere on Getting Better that really makes people feel better, and don't forget the baroque pop perfection tearjerker named "She's Leaving Home", my literally me song every time dad and mom argued with each other. But anyway, A Day In The Life. you may just think about the fact that there just isn't anything that sounds like this before (apart from Strawberry Fields, released as a single and later included in MMT), although many songs to come has surpassed its greatness. and you will know about its greatness. So my final verdict? Due to its actually great songwriting, the clever usage of studio techniques, the strings of hits and the culture landmark status, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will always be a great album, a truth that hits as hard as the final piano chord of A Day In The Life. 5/5
So this is my second Bowie album on this list. Aladdin Sane didn’t impress me very much so i said “well, that’s why he first moved to Los Angeles and then West Berlin” in that review so indeed, here’s his LA time, coke-filled product! The title track is, well the title track and it exceeds 10 minutes but under the influence of its funk rock-driven beat the track actually sounds short! And the whole album is also very just... Vibe-y, i am just a high school student so what can i say. Although i use to hate (and still hate the majority of) soul music but hearing him singing Word On A Wing just singlehandedly made the genre 1000% more tolerable! So maybe drugs did make something happen and the heard fact is that even Bowie himself didn’t remember him recording this album. So... since even himself has forgetten what happened during the recording i'll just assume that it worked. but too much is too much, still. So he need to go to Berlin and enter rehab and it worked better. 5/5
every artist have a breakup album and this is Bob's take on it... wait a fucking minute that's Blood On The Tracks. although his singing still lacks technique, it sounds way, WAY better than that on "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", my last dylan album from the list. The songs are decent and the arrangements as well. And oh yes, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" definitely make me want to get stoned. but there's too much fucking harmonica. so... 3.5/5 i think?
4/5 probably
this is more indie pop and a bit better than usual country but still a 3/5