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.