I liked this one a lot more than I thought I would. definitely feels bloated in the second half and clocks and warning sign kinda suck. giving it a 3 because I probably won't ever listen to it again in full but I enjoyed my time with it, a whisper and god put a smile upon your face both rock.
easy 5/5, this rules.
not usually a double album guy but this one earns it
in fairness to this album grunge just really isn't my thing, and two songs in I was pretty optimistic that this one would be different, not the case unfortunately. oceans > porch > garden is a very good run of songs and even flow is a classic, but I have a hard time getting what sets the rest of this thing apart from most of the early 2000s butt rock grunge successor bands that rightfully get clowned on.
I hadn't heard this one before but I enjoyed it very much, it reminded me of early wolf parade and their adjacent projects like operators, which I guess makes sense in retrospect since dan plays with these guys now. no cars go and black wave/bad vibrations were the highlights for me.
not really a genre I'm super into but enjoyable/accessible enough for an EDM layman to have a good time with, the lover's side is a really good song
bassist's delight
more of a 2.5/5 in my mind, decent new wave/dance stuff but it all kinda blends together by halfway through, 4 Ever 2 Gether stood out and is one I'll come back to
the songs that are actually about weed are pretty uniformly dated in a way that's funny sometimes but nowadays comes off like fodder for typical dorm room stoners. still worth listening to for the ones that aren't only about weed being cool, let jah be praised and till the well runs dry are both great. for ideal listening I recommend buying in and doing bong rips while making a bunch of vegetarian breakfast burritos to freeze like I did.
yep it's still pretty good
great performances and mix, would listen again. wild children through bring it on home to me is a great run.
setting aside kanye's politics and awful behavior (which you shouldn't), this album just isn't very good. frequent dated and unfunny jokes, bloated runtime, proto-Hamilton delivery, take your pick, this is just annoying to listen to.
this album has so many cool ideas packed into such a tight runtime that I can't give it less than a 5, just go listen to it. it's got stéphane grappelli on it for pete's sake.
loved it, if you like modern garage psych stuff like Osees or King Gizz you can't go wrong with this one.
definitely worth listening to the extremely middling first half for the way more interesting second half, but I can't shake the feeling that this album is only on this list because it meant a lot to some music writer when they were in high school.
this thing is great hooks and fun production all the way down
it's an album with one idea but it does it perfectly and doesn't overstay its welcome, there's a reason this is a classic
it's good but probably won't think about it again, dunno that this warrants being on this list
I'm not the type of person who thinks 100% of the art you engage with has to be challenging and deep. that said, this style of older punk always just sounds like children's music to me. if all you need is power chords and songs about high school girls (eww) and being bad in high school then maybe you'll get more out of this than I will, but I don't understand the cultural reluctance to reassess stuff like this, the Ramones, etc as silly and juvenile.
been a big fan of this one for a long time, all of Sade's music is amazingly constructed and tasteful. run, don't walk, to listen to Diamond Life.
I like MBV but hadn't heard this one before, it's always really interesting to me to hear something I'm not familiar with but that has so much familiar DNA with stuff I'm a huge fan of and this is one of those times. crazy to think this charted at #1 in 1988 because it's so unconventional and cool in a very modern way.
makes me want to get more into springsteen, johnny 99 and atlantic city are both really great songs.
ahead of its time, lots of fun stuff
really really good, like an elevated and sophisticated version of those middling forgotten 00s indie pop bands you pretended to like in high school to have something to talk to girls about.
it's big, it's sparse, it's a bit messy, it's incredibly human and vulnerable and I don't know how anyone wouldn't think this album is great.
I don't care for the opening run of songs but after track 3-4 it really won me over by the end, momentum might be improved if it opened like I'm waiting for my man > run run run but still a very solid bunch of songs regardless.
I really really liked this album, solid throughout but with enough outright bangers that I needed to bump it up to 4. the high point for me is Night Sky, played it again like 4-5 times after I finished the album
so fun and genuinely funny. there are few bands that can spin this level of juvenile absurdity into something so cool and sincere. aside from a few problematic (to say the least) lines that I believe even jello biafra would like to have back this is a perfect punk album to me. drug me, stealing people's mail, let's lynch the landlord, california uber alles, it's just bangers all the way down folks.
