Före: Ha aldrig lyssna på rolling stones förutom deras hits, så ja vet ungefär hur dom låter
Efter: inge speciell blues rock, lite bleh
Before listening: Am I going to really listen to Adele??
During listening: Break up albums are always a bit meh with me, especially if the focus is on a singer and not the band as a whole à la Taylor Swift, Lorde and other countless starlets of bygone days. This album seems to not be an exception. She is a very good singer, but for me it has to be an interesting package as a whole, be it with interesting composition, instrumentation or whatever. He won't go is a very good track.
After Listening: Boring with a nice highlight. Probably never going to listen to it again. I find it hard to imagine that people actually get passionate about this album.
Before listening: I’m pretty familiar with Talking Heads, but never listened to their debut album apart from the well known singles
During: it‘s pretty good this far. It has that Talking Head weirdness, but it‘s not at the level of their later albums. It has more „punk“ influences I guess, not really a surprise for an album from 1977
After listening: really good, not as good as their later material, but still very fun
Before listening: I‘ve only listened to their self-titled before, not really my genre but we will see
After listening: actually pretty fun, won’t be listening to it again in a while
Very good very nice
Just sounds like a greatest hits album, no red thread. It‘s just your usual ABBA
Pretty boring, but nothing wrong with it. Coconut is a banger
Unc the album
Terrible
Wowee zowee
Sounds like the pixies singer LOL!
Very good very nice
Built their gig core
Epic
Epic?
🫠
One of the best gangsta rap albums ever
Pretty great in the 60s, pretty shit now
put the två stjärnor in the bag
Top 100 album
Mastahpiece!!!
Honk honk
Generic jazz, not bad per se
Dadcore to the mega
Amzng
Legalize nuclear weapons
I love my white homies
Cringe
Yahoo
More like the bore lmao
I got Bob Marley pilled
Actually good U2 album??? Can’t be
Goes cray cray
Only album fron radiohead that I‘ll admit to loving
Influential? Absolutely
A bit boring? Most definitely
I really just don't like Jagger & Co, better than the other rolling stones albums this far at least
The beatles is way better
Bangs but it‘s a ons
Only really banging wilco album, but a very banging one indeed
Easily a top 100 album
Lowkey a pretty decent album
Just breathe
Nonce music
I‘m just not build for this
Low key banging acrually
Proto britpop
A lot of murders
TALKING HEADS! But just before their trio of masterpieces
Better than aja!!!
This would be my pick for the user part of this website. I‘m at a crossroads in life and I feel seen by this album. James Murphy encapsulates very succinctly and in a dancing manner my feelings for my first half of my twenties.
I‘m too young to remember the start of LCD Soundsystem‘s actual career, heck the band broke up just as I was getting into my My Chemical Romance phase where I thought the Black Parade was the pinnacle of music. Luckily (or unfortunately) I was later on „civilized“ by my dear friends and especially by the LP collection of my friend’s father. Ziggy Stardust was probably the first album I actually thought was better than the Black Parade. The point of this tangent: if I was actually a Person when LCD Soundsystem became big, I would probably love their earlier albums more, but alas, I have to be the contrarian this time
Every single song on this album speaks to me on some level, it feels like Murphy knows exactly what I‘m thinking about, even though I‘m just some random guy trying to hold it together day by day. He gets my romanticizing of New York City (even though I‘ve never been there), he gets my love for apparent esoteric bullshit that can be applied to anything you want, and most importantly I think he gets my feeling of being stuck in life in all aspects, apart from getting older.
Musically it feels so much more mature, cold and distant than their earlier work. Despite the coldness it has very high highs, I get goosebumps every time I hear the break down of „one step forward… and six steps back!!!“, it‘s probably my favorite part of the album. The title track with it‘s „sha-bang, sha-bang“ is another highlight and then the following „emotional haircut“ is a great „up beat“ post-punk track that sounds like it could come directly from the 80‘s if it wasn‘t Murphy‘s vocals bringing us to the present.
I don‘t really know what exactly Murphy wants to convey with his songs, I‘m not really a person who reads obsessively about music, I just listen to music and stop and think about the music I really like, and the albums that feel like they are speaking to me get bonus points.
In the end I think it‘s a very hopeful album, despite it‘s very cold and clinical sound. Yeah, the lyrics aren‘t really happy-go-Lucky, but it feels like a trauma dump of sorts. Maybe the world would be a better place if more people would trauma dump with good music.
Many will disagree, but I do think this belongs in the top 100 albums of all time, easily a 5/5. I hope more people will come to love this album, hopefully without having the anxiety and depression that I‘ve experienced. Ultimately I just wish that more people would dance to LCD Soundsystem.
I know I wrote a lot of bullshit, but let a white boy yap for once.
5/5
Cuh-lassic! Paranoid is the better album, but this is still very good
I know my friend will crucify me for this one, but I just do not get deep purple. Not to say that it is a bad record, but I just don’t really get it.
In my heart it‘s a 3/5, but to keep the peace I will give it a 4/5
A bit shite innit
Hey I love the message, but it‘s just a primitive record
Positively surprised. I remember dismissing the album the first time around when I was 15-16 years old. I never was a big fan of the title song, but it really fits in the album context. It‘s a classic not understood by me the first time around. It could be a 5/5 someday for me
Absolute classic. Hendrix is my idol as a pure musician, and that‘s coming from a natural bassist
Probably my favorite Springsteen album
I‘m synchronized now
It‘s pj harvey, our queen, but it‘s not one of her masterpieces
Now this, this is a certified masterpiece. For some it is probably a bit too harsh, maybe the 9 minute behemoth that is „Luau“ is too much to handle, but if you can go into this album with an open mind, and preferably with a background in punk/hardcore, then you‘ll feel right at home.
My dear friend showed me this album a few years ago and I‘ve been in love ever since. It‘s not as emotionally meaningful to me as other albums, but the sound is just crushing. It‘s like a truck with cinderblocks hitting you, and that‘s a very hard feeling to convey in music.
If you liked this album I urge you to check out their debut album.
RIP Rick Froberg
5/5
This is some certified soft rock! Didn‘t know it could get this groovy. One of the albums where I liked the bonus songs as well
Nice story to it, shitposting before shitposting was cool
Captain Beefheart is a legend, it‘s a shame that I don‘t enjoy his music that much
Radiohead is my guilty pleasure band and I do have to quote the melon in saying that this feels like a Kid A B-Sides album. Some very good material on here though, but it just doesn’t have that red thread
This is one of those albums I don‘t put on when I want to have a good time. Masterful instrumentation, amazing atmosphere, it‘s just not really a fun time.
Funny album
Eclectic, but a bite shite
The older I get the less I like The Smiths, especially post Meat Is Murder. Maybe it‘s blasphemous to admit that, I really just do not like Morrissey
It‘s a classic for a reason
Not old enough to actually like dadrock
Idk, I love Talking Heads, but this is pretty low on the totem pole. Maybe I will regret giving it this review after my enlightened friend absolutely trashes me
I‘m getting older. From my teenage years until yesterday I actively did not like this album. There was just something off with it, but yesterday I realized that this is really an amazing album. Maybe it‘s my age speaking now, I‘ve started to like Steely Dan as well. I‘m not even that old
f u vini
Maybe Tom Waits needs someone to talk to
Non-offensive millennial indie pop. Not much to be said really. I‘d rather be listening to Grizzly Bear if I wanted my fix of this genre of music
Talk? Talk!
Certified classic, it‘s amazing to think that this album came out in the eighties. This started my folk punk phase when I was getting out of my emo phase.
I feel a bit ashamed to admit the fact that this was my first contact with The Sugarcubes. Björk‘s vocals are phenomenal as always and fits oddly well with the post-punk sound, the execution overall is lacking though
This is something my dad would unironically call a masterpiece
I fucking hate britpop, it‘s a deep hate, a discriminating hate, but there are some exceptions. Pulp‘s Different Class is a masterpiece, and that‘s about it, not a long list, is it? And somehow Rob had the gall to put so many britpop albums on this list, at least we have 7 Costello albums to listen to.
The vocals are whiny, the lyrics aren‘t anything to write home about and the band is just generally not that good musically, so you know, basically the usual ordeal for this god forsaken genre called britpop. On top of that, I absolutely DESPISE the discourse around Oasis; you can‘t make just two apparently good albums and be hailed as the second coming of The Beatles (or Bach for that matter), it just doesn‘t work like that. And the whole reunion tour is a farce, just a despicable cash grab. To my surprise it’s somehow en vogue to ironically like Oasis and dress up as one of the lads of bygone days.
Ultimately I‘m the actual farce in this equation, because I do actually enjoy this album. To paraphrase a review I read on here: „this is the epitome of lager rock“, and honestly? The world needs its lager rock, but in small doses and preferably prescribed by your health care provider, and that‘s basically the gist of why I‘m not condemning this album to the void of forgetting.
4/5
What a weird pick for this list! I still very much like it, but any other album from Hüsker Dü would have deserved the spot.
Cat stevens is certified halal music.
I could write a few more paragraphs about my hate towards britpop, this album doesn‘t deserve it though, it‘s actually decent. Nevertheless it‘s nothing that I would actually return to
If you don‘t like this then you don‘t have soul, I don‘t make the rules
Unc john heheeh
Fuck you Morrissey
This is my personal pinnacle of millennial indie pop. I remember listening to this when I was 15 on a trip to Greece, so I‘m always going to be transported back to that time when I listen to this.
It‘s weirdly beautiful, weirdly somber, it just works.
This is great music for my seasonal affective disorder, not bumming me out at all.
Man do I love Elliott Smith, Figure 8 is my favorite record of his, but I do understand why Either Or should land in the pantheon of great music.
I‘m an ignorant little shit so I didn’t know who Elliott Smith was before I first listened to him, and I‘m 24 anno domini 2025, so I kind of experienced the loss of him as I read his Wikipedia article, which makes all his records more bittersweet for me.
Really great album for today, I haven‘t seen the sun in a week :)
At least I didn‘t get David Berman, that would’ve made me ugly cry.
This is actual garbage, no redeeming qualities
Ily fiona, but this aint it
Legendary punk album, or is it post punk already? I‘m not going to spend my Sunday debating about genre boundaries
A bit boring, innit?
This is a very… disappointing album. Fiona Apple was in her forties when this came out and it‘s her most juvenile sounding album. Maybe it‘s the production, but my main takeaway are the lyrics, she‘s still singing about the same things since her debut! This is would be like if Jay Z would still be rapping about slinging dope, i.e. JUVENILE!
I‘m sorry Fiona, but this is not it.
[Figure 8] is an album near and dear to my heart; I will genuinely get sad if someone I respect doesn’t enjoy it. Elliott Smith is very much a part of my obsession with melancholic songwriters who died before their time, David Berman being the prime example of the pinnacle of this obsession, but I digress.
This album is more upbeat than Smith‘s previous albums, starting with the morbid but kind of cheery(?) [Son of Sam], which chronicles the escapades of the crazed murderer who supposedly was ordered by his dog to kill all those couples in New York in the 70s. There is something very similar to Sufjan Stevens‘ track [John Wayne Gacy, Jr], but his track is disturbing, intimate even, hence why I would describe Smith‘s track as „cheery(?)“.
SIDENOTE: apparently Elliott has stated that this is not about the serial killer, but come on, he was obviously inspired by him at least. I quote: „couple killer running out of time“, „Son of Sam“ sung 152 times and so on.
You won‘t find anything gut wrenching like [Needle In The Hay] (which was used to great effect in one of the saddest scenes I‘ve ever seen in my life in Wes Anderson‘s [The Royal Tenenbaums]), but there are still some absolutely heartbreaking songs on here, with the metaphor filled and dissociating track [Can‘t Make a Sound] being my pick for the saddest song on the album. You can very much feel the tiredness in his voice.
But if anything, you can find some absolutely mean songs on the record as well. [Somebody That I Used to Know]‘s meanness nearly rivals that of the pure hatred that is shown by Bob Dylan on [Like a Rolling Stone], which is very high praise, but of course Dylan wins in this meanness competition, Smith‘s track is only 2 minutes long and Dylan made a diss track with a length of 6 minutes.
All in all, this is my favorite Elliott Smith record, and even though I was too young to experience the firsthand loss of him I very much do think about him and miss him. If I ever want to press the feel-sad button for my masochistic needs, then I just need to go to my altar of dead melancholic songwriters, listen to some Elliott Smith and reread his Wikipedia page for the 50th time.
I hope I get a Morrissey album tomorrow so I can absolutely trash him and cheer myself up, this was not a fun pick for today :(
I love you Marvin Gaye!!!!
My crusade against britpop continues to cool down, but honestly? Is this even a prime example of britpop? They have different instrumentation from track to track, they actually use some pedal effects, and most importantly they have varying BPMs; long gone are the days of The Verve‘s static BPM. If anything this even reminds me of Pavement, and a look at their Wikipedia page confirms my thoughts, and now it feels very derivative, though luck britpop!
3/5
Jamiroquai, you are very much a shit band with good musicians, and for some reason people love you. But I don‘t! Fuck you!
I listened to this when I was Christmas shopping i.e. distracted. Sounded like inoffensive 90s alt-rock
Absolute garbage, way too long, no originality. Another one of those baffling picks for this list
FUCK! NOT THIS ALBUM! I hate Morrissey, I despise him to my core, but this album? This is the pinnacle of The Smiths. Andy Rourke (my beloved) has some of his best work on this album, Johnny Marr is getting into his real stride, and Morrissey‘s voice is not the main focus of this mix.
This is sadly an album I can‘t hate, apart from the last track, of course there has to be some Morrissey wankery in the mix. All the other tracks outweigh the trashness of the last track.
Absolute classic, easily top 5 live albums of all time. No doubt in my mind that this doesn‘t deserve a place.
Every track bangs, but especially Cocaine Blues and Give My Love to Rose. I‘m amazed how good this sounds for the time.
Ok my prince-o-meter is full now. Redemption arc is over!
Fun album!! I love funk!
Influential, but badly aged. I lived through my eminem face and grew stronger from it. Kim is still one of the worst tracks I have ever heard
Fun little album, I probably won‘t return to it but I‘m happy to have listened to it
I… finally get it! Lyrics are still incomprehensible though
Usual eno wankery (in the good way)
Bland, inoffensive. I take offence
Ok I‘m in a bad mood, but what the fuck is the redeeming quality here? It sounds atrocious
Butte
Epic
Fuck Morrissey
Now this! This is a masterpiece! I love pavement from the bottom of my heart, I will return to them forever and ever, if there is any band in the world that can explain my state of mind then it is this band. I‘m lucky to have seen their show on their reunion tour a few years back.
im a simp
