Well well well.the blueprint for hard rock and heavy metal for decades. Talent and personality to spare. The sound of Southern California an updated Beach Boys that would never be duplicated despite many attempts. It sounds like an Iroc with the T roofs off driving in the summer on a Friday night.
Love it, great start.
Felt like something I would’ve enjoyed listening to on CD in my car in the 90s. Not terrible but it sounds like a moment in time I completely missed.
I’m finally at an age where I really appreciate this album. It’s great.
Ohhhhhh. This is the apex of the vinyl rock format. Every second feels thought out. The songs flow into each other. I always love Pink Floyd even though it runs contrary to my usual taste.
Great great great can think of the last time I listened to it front to back. Some forgettable songs but Gigantic and Where is my mind. Still loom large.
Post hippie mellow gold getting high on a beanbag music with some jazz. Not for me. It all sounds like Cat Stevens. Well made. I never heard any of this before.
Most of this straddles the line between catchy and annoying . A lot it sounds like world music mid days on a college radio station. But Paper Planes is undeniably great. The sum of its parts are equal? Possibly the soundtrack to Top Boy. Didn’t need to hear Timbaland. From a moment in time that I missed.
Is this a mistake? A rare win for America for not falling for this works wide phenomenon. I’ve never heard this album before and I could guess the next rhyming lyric with 90 percent accuracy. His voice is also unremarkable bordering on weak. This sounds like an album of cheap songs you would use on a streaming release of a show that couldn’t afford the original hit songs.
I have no idea what this is. Back ground dinner music for Don Draper or the soundtrack to a hard boiled private eye in the back of a cab in the pouring rain. I’m sure it’s great but not for me.
Well this will be good. Iconic voice, timeless songs. 50 years ago still feels authentic.
What is this? Is this renaissance faire music? Hard pass. You could change it to 1000 albums to listen to before you die and kill me before I listen to this again. This sounds like the music the guy was playing in Animal House before Bluto smashes his guitar .
Not optimistic. Next time somebody says “Oh I listen to everything.” I’ll ask them if they enjoy Thelonious Monk. I just don’t get Jazz and that’s probably saved me a lot of money. This is pleasant to listen to and inoffensive.
I do not enjoy this man’s work. Let’s see how this goes. The most I’ve ever enjoyed Clapton. It’s not authentic or offensive but very listenable.
I know nothing about this. Is it hipster country? The music doesn’t seem to match the vocals. Voice is strong and distinct. Songs are fragments. It’s like a less nerdy Beck or a less cool Supersuckers.
I’m stunned by how little reaction I have to this music. Entirely forgettable.
Never heard it wish I’d heard it before. It’s really strong. Doesn’t fit into any category.
Looking forward to this one. It’s hard to believe know this is what music sounded like for several years.
Interesting . Two great singles. Probably a little too poppy?
Mostly a very frustrating listen, with occasional high spots. It felt like a sequel to Flood by TMBG but not as fun.
Don’t you know I’m loco? We used to listen to this on a cart in college. I was still way too into the Beastie Boys to appreciate this. One of those band where the logo seemed bigger than the music. Misfits, Iron Maiden, Ramones, never underestimate a good logo.
Mellow ABBA? A unique record with sweeping vocals. I wish I liked it more but damnit I respect it.
Ah my old friend Mookie Blaylock. Sometimes I think I hate this album, but I’m wrong. It’s a relentless assault of rock songs that are great. It defines Pearl Jam and they will never sound like this again.
Ah the 90s, Todd Mcfalaine, poor spelling, and Rap Rock.I’d write this hasn’t aged well but it sucked in 1998 too. Leave me alone mom rock, insipid and not in a fun way. A.J.Soprano music.
I’m not qualified to judge this . Everything sounds like Felling Hot Hot Hot.
Not my favorite Bowie. Lots of saxophones, I mean a lot. But it’s still Bowie.
I couldn’t get through this one. It sounds like what I thought and hated country music was as a kid. It was unpleasant to my ears, yet I enjoy them individually. Maybe it’s me.
Is this British rap? I look at this the way Europeans look at Americans playing soccer. Cute. If we did the 1000 greatest hip Hop albums how long until we got to England ? This sounds like the Top Boy soundtrack. Fine but probably not good, certainly not above average and just feels kinda silly.
Vaaaaaaaseline! Oh it’s the other one. Much more pleasant to listen to . Dad rock for mowing the lawn on edibles. Better than I expected.
About as good as you can get for this kind of rock n roll. Semi dated and also timeless? A murder row of hits on this. Took the best of Elvis and the Beatles.
I know it’s important but I never really liked it. Sounds like almost Patti Smith. Almost Talking Heads. Just doesn’t work for me brother.
Well I like this, but I want to like it more. A couple of highs but some real drags too.
Yay!!!! Easiest 5 stars so far. This must’ve blown peoples minds in 1972.
Well this is not going to be good or necessary. I like this kind of music but not this album
Not my genre but songwriting unparalleled. An extraordinary talent. Hard to believe one person wrote these songs in a lifetime never mind on one album.
Gabba gabba hey! Relentless. Completely unique. I love it.
First time ever listening to this. Unique band, early industrial? Heavy but dancey
Well well well.the blueprint for hard rock and heavy metal for decades. Talent and personality to spare. The sound of Southern California an updated Beach Boys that would never be duplicated despite many attempts. It sounds like an Iroc with the T roofs off driving in the summer on a Friday night.
Very fun snd upbeat jazz? Sounds like the 60s to me.
Nice sound by songs are a little too long and jammy for my taste.
Lost episode of School House Rock on race relations in the South? This is a pretty bizarre album by today’s standards. Retroactively his voice now sounds like everything is a nursery rhyme for children.
So, so you think you can tell? Really great album, Shine on you crazy diamond part 72 is the only thing keeping it from 5 stars.
More driving music, I already hate and love it. Nothing sounds less like the city of Boston than this record. Also nothing sounds like it. It’s an amazing production.
The Grace slick songs are so clearly bettter. I guess hippies could be chauvinistic too. The rest just sounds very silly like outtakes from Austin Powers.
Via La France! Completely surprised by how much I enjoyed this album. Always heard them in bits and pieces. This would’ve been a great CD in the car in the 90s
I was pre cringe just thinking how badly this must’ve aged. Not bad actually. 3 great songs, amazing production. Lots of dumb skits made to be skipped on your CD player.
Well this will be upbeat. Somewhere between a depressed Jack Johnson and a slower Smashing Pumpkins. It’s a sensitive young man’s record for someone who never really liked Poison.
I love this album. New York meets Berlin. The Bowie influence feels strong and it works.
In 1990 my high school voted for Ramble On as our class song. I don’t think they got the Hobbit part. I HATED Led Zeppelin then. Led Zeppelin was the best and there could be no argument. Everyone loved Led Zeppelin and U2. So of course I hated it. I was so punk and didn’t even know it. It felt like everyone was listening to their older brother’s music. So it turns out I was wrong. Led Zeppelin is awesome and this music is so creative and full of ideas and unexpected changes. Okay maybe they aren’t all 100% original but when you come up with this much music some of it is bound to be stolen.
Just in case you thought Buzzfed invented bad lists, Spin magazine famously (infamously, wrongly, stupidly?) voted this as album of the year over Nirvana’s Nevermind. It’s pretty good but not that good.
I know get why Jeff Beck was a thing. The best Rod Stewart has ever sounded.
REM albums are always so surprising because they filled with songs you’ve heard a million times and songs you swear you never heard before.
Really great and you can hear what ZZ Top would become
I’ve never listened to this album. Nobody’s favorite Springsteen album right? Way more keyboard heavy than I remember. It’s amazing he survived the dorky dancing in the dark video. 1984 was something, huge impact and Born in the USA will live forever and be misunderstood.
Devils Haircut in my mind!!!! Still super weird maybe super dated. One single away from being a notch better.
British prep school 80s pop. Was this written for Chuck Bass?They picked the correct singles the rest is forgettable. Who knew there was another version of Look of Love. Bass lines sound like Niles Rodgers in a good way.
Well this isn’t My Girl? Funky not my favorite.
Well let’s hear what this is all about. Music sounds like The Hives but the vocals sound like British Guy At A Party You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With.
Hey I own this CD! Way better than I remember, but Stutter still towers over the rest. Also can we cool it on every British band? I like American music, do you like American music?
From ground breaking to kinda goofy in only 40 years, not their best but still important. The disparity between the hard beats and soft rhymes really stand out now.
They offered me the office they offered me the job. This remaster ain’t it. The original is leaner and much better. I giving 4 stars because I’m adding I fought the law and taking out the extra songs.
Aptly named. This album is so boring it makes me angry. A dramatic over correction to Neon Bible. I like Arcade Fire a lot, this is probably my least favorite album.
Not my wheelhouse but undeniably great, unique, nothing ever has sounded like Janis.
5 stars no notes, probably. It’s a whole lot of Led. The double album has some lulls, but the highs are too high to penalize that.
Fistfuck. Better than I remember, meandering at points. Feels like filling time on the CD. Hurt still is a masterpiece
Pipe or no? No pipe. In the 90s the word Verve was so hot people were fighting over it. This album is real solid 90 Brit Rock no pop. Better than the single Bitter Sweet Symphony that always annoyed me. Also everyone who reads this owes Mick Jagger a dollar.
It’s good, not as good as I remembered but good.
Is this really about the book House of Leaves? Creepy but doesn’t resonate with me.
You!! Lost and lonely YOU!! Not their best record but possibly the Greatest Cover Song Ever.
She was 18-19 when this came out. I was 21 so it didn’t seem weird then. It does now.
“Too Artsy.” Way better than I thought .
Better than I thought, the blueprint for TS Tortured Poets Society?
Yeah I have this CD, lot of content, some great. The end of OutKast? It’s really 2 separate albums. Always interesting.
Still really great. I can’t get over how Garfunkel looms over Paul on the cover and the record. He must regret not doing this himself everyday.
Sexy time! Sexy baby boomer music that has been used to sell me soap for the last 30 years. Almost impossible to hear this now and have it not sound like a parody. Some real lead actress singing into a spoon in the kitchen music now. It’s unfortunate.
I loved this record. I used to draw this album cover. Let’s try it in 2025! So far charmingly misogynistic in an 80s beer commercial way.Is Thug the Sienfield theme?
These nerds. Not good, I assume this is a Buddy Holly rip off and not the other way around?
Who’s this ?Untitled? Probably sucks. Four Sticks is clearly the breakout single.
You went to school for a year or two. If you never heard Punk, this is probably what you think it sounds like. Congratulations you’re right. Not the best, not the first, but pretty great and influential.
Look in my eyyyyyyes, what do you see? They never topped Cult of Personality but this is a great album for its time and genre. I’m torn on whether race helped or hurt them.
I do not have an ear for jazz and feel incredibly unqualified to judge this. I know it’s one of the greatest jazz albums of all time but I’d rather listen to the Dead Kennedys.
I really hated this when it came out. Music for people who want to buy new albums but don’t want to hear new music.
I’m not wasting anyone’s time trying to write something original about the Beatles.
Look kids Art Rock! Pretty sure I’ll hate this, let’s find out. I’m sure it’s hard to play.Vocals are unpleasant. 11 minute opener with a pretentious title. But actually sounds pretty good.
I feel like I don’t like this album but I’m probably wrong. Also this list not picking the best album by artist is 10 out of 10. Cool cover bad record.
Is this on the jukebox for profiling purposes? Don’t recognize a song on it. Dance!! But dance sadly. It’s much better than I expected.
I think I really like this record, but haven’t listened to it in a long time. Starts strong but really trails off at the end. Probably their best work overall.
At first no, then maybe? The Doors are such a strange band. The years of hype and the actual music are hard to separate. Really feels like the greatest hits made them seem way better than they are. The Dumb Velvet Underground seems fair.
Well this is great. Still sounds contemporary albeit Foxy Lady lyrics are a little goofy. This must’ve melted everyone’s faces in 1967.
We are on a run! Not his best but very good. Your mileage may vary depending on how much you like sunshine of my life.
Nobody and I mean nobody has ever listened to this entire album. I’ll give it a try. Take on me is an amazing single. The rest sounds like a bad Pet Shop Boys cover band.
My favorite Hendrix record. Easy 5 stars.
Every time I hear the name John Lee Hooker I think about Juliet Lewis in Natural Born Killers being mad she can’t go to his concert. Then I think how fucking weird it was for a teenager in 1994 to want to go to a John Lee Hooker concert. Then I think about how weird Natural Born Killers is. So what I’m really saying is I have no idea what he sounds like. Bluesy I guess? Last song is the standout. The rest feels very sanitized and lacks grit.
Listened to Zen Arcade a 100 times, don’t know this one. Recording and mix sound kinda off? Maybe it’s me? Feel like I should like it more than I do.
Just looking at this makes me feel like a kid. What a 1981 time capsule this is. Kinda nerdy, kinda awesome. On the verge of music and technology merging but not there yet, it was still mysterious. It’s Kerry Von Eric coming to the ring on a Saturday morning. It’s a cheap video on MTV while you are cereal. It’s what you put in your Walkman when you ride your bike. It a complete unique sound that feels very male in hindsight. Before it was classic rock it was awesome. Eventually someone’s older brother told them YYZ was the Toronto airport and the lyrics in limelight were from Shakespeare and you felt smarter. Unverified knowledge was early 80s currency and this is the soundtrack. I want to give it 5 but the last 3 tracks a rough.
5 stars no notes, but I’ll happily listen to this again. Also unquestionably the most successful singer replacement of all time.
Uh don’t know what the hell this is. One of the weirdest records I’ve ever heard. My friend insists that Sparks is not real.
Is this a Communist lecture? What depressing about old folk songs is how they are still pretty accurate 40 years later. But it still kinda feels like reading an old magazine. A less catchy Midnight Oil, we were real determined to be bummed out in 80s. I can’t imagine why you would want to put this record on. It’s not bad but it’s not fun.
Well this is unexpected. I love it but is it good? Great? A parody that became real. I think it’s 5 stars? So fun, so dated. My brains in a blender.
I listened to all of it. Short poppy songs. It didn’t really make an impact on me. Reminded me of Paul Simon?
Huh well isn’t this a quinky dink?Brian Wilson died yesterday. I’ve never listened to this before. Feels like a good day for it. Unpopular opinion alert, I just don’t like this. I know it’s genius and original but it just doesn’t hit for me. I feel bad that I don’t like it more. At times like this I am starkly reminded how un California I am.
Big album. Interested in listing to this with fresh (old) ears. The first and only sexy grunge record? I liked it a lot more depth than I expected or remembered.
Well I hate the album cover so far. And I hate the music too. This faux hippie jingle bullshit deserves the quick death it got. Groovy.
This better have Goonies on it! Well it doesn’t. Way more hits than I thought. Girls just wanna have fun is pretty much unlistenable at this point and completely tied into the video. In hindsight I wish they all had more confidence in Cyndi’s amazing voice and didn’t portray her as a New Wave Betty Boop. Obviously the formula worked this album was platinum and she will be famous forever. Maybe a re-record? She’s so Unusual (Cyndi’s version) contains zeroes Gonnies theme.