I know a lot of people give Dylan a hard time about having a shit voice, but I really dig it. It's instantly recognizable. You know it's Bob Dylan when you hear Bob Dylan. How many artists can you say that about? Listen here, I know what you're going to say, "I always know Led Zep when I hear them!" Well did you know that "Lonely is the night" was actually Billy Squier? Checkmate, bitches. Dylan is a songwriter without peer and he's got a unique voice. This is a fantastic album. The only reason I'm not giving this 5 stars is because of all the harmonica. Harmonicas and bagpipes can fuck right off.

It’s like Bryan Adams with a pedalboard

This was not a bad album, but it sounded like meat loaf and the velvet underground collabed.

I was a huge hendrix fan growing up, but somehow never listened to this full album. It's "raw" compared to some of the others, but that's what rock and roll is supposed to be all about.

REM was already popular when I “discovered” them my freshman year of high school. I hated them. This was when the automatic for the people album launched. Shiny happy people was awful. Stand was the most derivative thing I’d ever heard (as a young teenager). This album, however, was not bad. It embodies “college” rock.

JFC, how many babies were born 9 months after this album came out. If you don’t like this, you don’t like sex. This album is probably called diamond life due to all the engagement rings people threw at her during her shows.

REM was already popular when I “discovered” them my freshman year of high school. I hated them. This was when the automatic for the people album launched. Shiny happy people was awful. Stand was the most derivative thing I’d ever heard (as a young teenager). This album, however, was not bad. It embodies “college” rock.

Are these guys British? How did this come out in 1997, when I was literally a college radio DJ, and I’ve never heard them? Anyway, good stuff. Love the random moog synths and other psychedelic FX.

As a gen Xr, you can’t think of lemonheads without thinking of their cover of Ms Robinson. Back when mtv was a thing, this song was on heavy rotation during the alternative time slot. It goes without saying that it's a banger. I never gave the rest of the album a listen, aside from the track “my drug buddy” which is great. I also recognized the main guitar parts from the title track which is also OK, as is the rest of the album now that I think about it. Not really my jam.

Sorta reminds me of the Beatles in their psychedelic phase. Although I am staunchly in the Stones camp in the age old "Stones or Beatles" conversation starter, I do like them a lot better after they discovered acid. All this to say, I dig this album a lot. This would be a good album to listen to while hanging out by the pool, or cooking, or working on a motorcycle.

If you don't like this album, you don't like jazz. And I can confidently say that I don't like jazz.

I know a lot of people give Dylan a hard time about having a shit voice, but I really dig it. It's instantly recognizable. You know it's Bob Dylan when you hear Bob Dylan. How many artists can you say that about? Listen here, I know what you're going to say, "I always know Led Zep when I hear them!" Well did you know that "Lonely is the night" was actually Billy Squier? Checkmate, bitches. Dylan is a songwriter without peer and he's got a unique voice. This is a fantastic album. The only reason I'm not giving this 5 stars is because of all the harmonica. Harmonicas and bagpipes can fuck right off.

This album is called Superfuzz Bigmuff. Those are two of the most legendary guitar fuzz pedals of all time and boy do you hear them. The guitar tone on this album is FILTHY! I'm not sure about timelines here but my gut says that these guys paved the way for Nirvana in shaping the Seattle sound of the early 90s. Also, if you look closely at this album cover Mark Arm is playing a Hagstrom guitar. Hagstroms are Swedish. Vikings were Swedish. Vikings were metal. Therefore Mark Arm is metal. It's science.

I lived through Nirvana at the perfect time. I was in high school when Nevermind came out and changed “rock” music. Sure there were other alternative bands, but they weren’t commercially successful so if you wanted to check them out you had to buy their cd (pre internet and pre cd burners were the dark ages). Just prior to this performance, they had reached mainstream and I remember being sick of them (or maybe sick of the hype) so I didn’t really give it any attention. Listening to it now with objective ears- it’s good!

If I ever need to walk through a precarious environment in slow motion, I hope this album is playing in the background.

I once ordered a t-shirt from the band Sasquatch's website and it arrived with a return address name "music for pirates". If you are not familiar with Sasquatch, they're a stoner metal band that sound just like something a pirate would like. I mean, If I were about to go pillage, i'd want to be AMPED UP and I can think of no better way to get the adrenaline flowing than by blasting some badass stoner rock. Anyway, it got me thinking, bands do a really good job of aligning with culture. If you're a leather jacket wearing, motorcycle riding, guy- chances are you're a fan of metal. If you're a hippie type, then jam bands are probably your thing. Art resonates with us because we see ourselves in things that are not us. All this to say, I can't figure out who this music is for. Maybe you have to be Icelandic to understand the Sugarcubes, because I don't.

Aside from "take me to the river", I didn't recognize a single track on this album. However, I would have instantly known it was them... Defo the mark of a good band. And since I resonate most with guitars, I'ma call this album "jangly"

You know how the preacher's kid is always the one that gets in the most trouble? The girl with the slutty mom is the bookish "good girl" in the class? Teenage rebellion is REAL! Well, I grew up in Nashville so the laws of adolescence prevented me from listening to country music (or wearing cowboy boots). I'd never listened to this album. It's great! Every contributing musician to this work is world class.

Anyone: "Black Sabbath started heavy metal." Some pedantic asshole: "Ackshuulllly, Blue Cheer were active in the 60s and Sabbath didn't come out till 1970." To my ears, I don't hear any similarities between the two bands. Sure, there's a gnarly guitar tone on this album. But this guy plays nothing like Tony Iommi. If anything, the guitar work on this sounds more like Hendrix... in which case why not just say Jimi Hendrix started heavy metal if you're going to start naming random bands that chronologically came out before 1970. If you want to say that these guys were an influence on somebody - The break beat bass lines about 2 minutes into "Parchment farm" sound exactly like "Hello, I love you." by the Doors... Oh god, here comes that pedantic asshole again. Yes, I know the Doors didn't have a bass player.

Meh.

I want you to picture yourself throwing a dinner party. It's for college students. No wait, It's for college professors. No wait, it's for work colleagues. No wait, it's for your house warming in a new neighborhood. Actually, fuck it... it's for all of those people. Here's the catch... you want to seem cool. Well here's the record you're going to play. It's literally impossible to hate on Amy Winehouse because EVERYBODY recognizes real talent when they hear it.

Why do I feel funny when in my pants when I hear "Moving in Stereo" from this album? IYKYK DOGGLER! Seriously though, next time you listen to that track- pan between the left and right channels. Trust me, it's cool. The rest of the album is a damn-near masterpiece. If they had an extra guitar playing the keys parts instead it would be perfect, but that's just my own personal preference.

The talent is undeniable. Just not my kinda jam.

This is a desert island album for me... You know, you're stranded on a desert island and you can only take 10 albums with you? Well, I'd only get 4 because how do you choose between the first 6 Black Sabbath albums? So of the remaining 4, this would be one. You know who agrees with me on this? Duck, Mother fuck'n, Mouth and Booteny Lee Farnsworth, that's who.