I preferred Oasis as a kid, but time has definitely been kinder to Blur. (PARKLIFE!!!) Noel is a tosser and Liam is a git. (PARKLIFE!!!) A few of the songs are a bit too whimsical, but the highs are high. (PARKLIFE!!!)
The '80s country punk thing is almost cool, but the singer sounds shitfaced drunk
This is closest I can get to listening to Kanye these days without feeling icky
I feel like I'm sipping a cappuccino while eating a bran muffin in a coffee shop in the '90s
How dare John Lennon criticize "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" when he wrote the trash that is "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill." One star automatically deducted for that one.
Catchy and fun, dark and intense, and way weirder than your average alt-rock album
Hooks on hooks on hooks! It's on the shortlist of "great post-Beatles solo albums."
I love Dylan when he's sad. Unfortunately, it sounds like he had a lot of fun making this one.
Macho music for bullies and jocks
Beautifully produced, as expected with Danger Mouse behind the boards, with lush and stylistically diverse arrangements. The melodies don't really stick and I doubt I'll ever revisit.
So long as she isn't doing Tom Waits-ass poverty cosplay ("There Goes a Tenner"), braying like a donkey ("Get Out of My House") or doing whatever the title track is supposed to be (is that a bad Australian accent?), it's pretty great
Maximalist production and minimalist intelligence
"Buffalo Stance" and then some songs that sound exactly the same but not quite as good
When this album first came out, I was disappointed that the YYYs had made a new wavey synth album, because everyone was doing that at the time. Karen O's voice really saves the day here.
I saw Jack White live twice this week!! Even his weirder albums (like this one) are great.
It's a fun party album, and, like many a real-life party, gets a little repetitive by the end
I preferred Oasis as a kid, but time has definitely been kinder to Blur. (PARKLIFE!!!) Noel is a tosser and Liam is a git. (PARKLIFE!!!) A few of the songs are a bit too whimsical, but the highs are high. (PARKLIFE!!!)
Comedy music, although I'm not sure if the members of Jethro Tull are in on the joke
I wish he toned down the hiccupy vocal affectations, because the ballads when he sings normally are great
Sorry, dad! No album should have this many songs that exist solely for plot exposition.
I considered giving it four stars, but then Spotify autoplayed a song from The Idiot right after, and it was so much better than anything on Lust for Life
Honka honka burnin' luv 🎺
Joni's jazz era is the best. Super weird arrangement choices (loud bass, distorted drum loops, etc.) but it's also really pretty.
David Bowie's 12th best album is still pretty great 💫
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back from giving this five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Radiohead: The Musical!
Maybe you had to be there (and on drugs)
The most gothic music ever written in a major key. They wrote bigger hits later in their career, but this one is pure vibe.
"In Your Eyes" inspired me to hold my Samsung Galaxy over my head outside my girl's window
I'll never get to visit space, but at least I've got Low 🚀
When people say "boomer" as an insult, this dusty-ass dad rock is what they're talking about
Janis Joplin's voice makes me want to clear my throat. Difficult to listen to, but a bonus star for "Piece of My Heart."
They funny voices they do on every song get a little tiring, but the funk is strong
A time machine that transports me to my aunt's high school boyfriend's basement in the 1970s in London, Ontario
The Chef serves up the whole menu
Bravo to Jeff Beck for playing some cool guitar parts, and bravo to Rod Stewart for sounding so confident while singing absolute garbage
The golden ratio ️🌈
The Disney version of Satanism
Dreary boho ballads for pretentious English lit undergrads, and I kinda dig it
Who am I to criticize a mystical harp faerie woodnymph 🧚
WOO-HOO 💥
Noodly, under-written half songs that sound like demos to be finished later
The most front-loaded album of all time, but when it hits, it hits hard
Captures the vibe of the shitty English town where my mom's from with piercing accuracy
The '80s country punk thing is almost cool, but the singer sounds shitfaced drunk
Trashy neon spandex cock rock that I reasonably enjoyed in spite of myself
Love those digi-funk grooves where it sounds like my Bluetooth is struggling to connect
Neither the funk grooves nor the vocal hooks fully stand out, but it's a nice listen
Music for airports, answering emails, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, walking to the gym, cooking and folding laundry — everything becomes more beautiful with this on
It's a pastiche of '50s/'60s crooners, and it's an exceptionally good one
This is closest I can get to listening to Kanye these days without feeling icky
Surprisingly meek and pleasant for an album called Electric Warrior in a genre associated with flamboyance
Destiny's Child: "I'm a baddie with a sexy booty and you can't handle all this jelly" 😏 Also Destiny's Child: "Sluts are gross" 🤮
This is the one I've waited for!!!
It can't quite take five (stars), but these are some catchy dinner party songs so it can take four
Back when I was in college, I went to a bar and Neil Young was playing on the jukebox. This super cute guy started doing magic, and the bartender was clearly jealous of him. The magician and I went home together, and it was one of the best nights of my life. I wonder what ever happened him.
It's my top post-Pixies pick, see? There's 22 songs and they're all good.
The affected "soulfulness" of the cursive singing grates on me, even when the pop hooks are undeniable
It's amazing how every new post-punk band still sounds like this. The only snag is that I'm kinda sick of those bands, even though this version of it is obviously very good.
I can't imagine why I'd want to listen to 54 minutes of this when the White Stripes, the Hives, DFA 1979 and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs all exist
I always knew Bob Marley was chill and pleasant. I perhaps didn't account for just how chill and pleasant he truly is.
I'M CANADIAN!!!!!
The disco cover of "Comfortably Numb" reinforces the way this feels like a gimmicky album of '70s knockoff novelty pop. "Take Your Mama" slaps, though.
Years ago at a party, I smoked weed and listened to this album and thought it was amazing. Weed makes me anxious now, but this album still rules.
New Yawk City, baybee! Ayy I'm walkin' here!! Fuggaddaboudit!!!
Knowing that Songs in the Key of Life followed it, I expected a little more
People keep calling White Denim a "jam band" because of the Wikipedia extract, but they don't jam at all and absolutely aren't a jam band in any way. The album has that funny conundrum of having sweet pop melodies but no actual hooks. Nice but forgettable.
I love Joni's early stripped-down folk and her later jazzy experimentation. This was right in the middle and a little less distinctive.
Angry, funny and hard as fuck
The guitars are sick as hell, and they would sound even better with proper songwriting
It's definitely one of the jazz albums of all time
To quote my dad when he found out my ex was a fan, "Talking Heads are a band of taste"
I enjoyed the arrangements/production a lot, but it seems like a classic pop album should have some more memorable hooks than this
It's absolutely hilarious how rinky-dink the keyboard sounds. I liked it when they found some more melodic grooves in the second half and it wasn't purely atonal skronk.
I was fully ready to hate this Disney version of shock rock. Turns out the tunes are pretty fun!
Imagine being there?! Damn.
Plinky plink plonk plank!!
It's my second consecutive vibraphone jazz album — what are the chances? Being a deadbeat dad has rarely sounded so good.
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!! MOTHER FUCKERRRRRR!!!
Surprisingly sweet for mafiosa rap <3 Great old-school beats, fantastic flows, and skits I could probably do without.
Sounds more like a movie soundtrack than a proper album, but I wasn't mad about the trippy psych grooves. Another situation where I'm enjoying an album, but the second it ends and Spotify auto-plays something from a different album, I immediately enjoy that next one more.
Obviously Nick Cave's whole vibe is to sing like a vampiric crypt keeper, but this was a gimmick