How can you not like an album that single-handedly started a federal war on censorship in music? Prince at his Prince-iest, horny, fun, and funky, this album will forever be one of my favorites. 10/10 baby I’m a STAR, and fuck Tipper Gore.
No hate to the Allman Brother's, but isn't this album just a bunch of white guys playing blues music? The music is good, I'd throw this album on the turntable on a Sunday morning while doing the dishes, but it's not nearly as memorable as anything by Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, or other blues and roots great. I guess you get some psychedelic rock weaseling it's way in to make it more unique, but not enough to make it feel like they're not just cosplaying as black musicians and making their songs 4x longer for no reason.
Once upon a time, this accessible, punchy, and fun album made mainstream music lovers feel a little (undeservingly) underground while they listened to Take Me Out on their lime green iPod nano. Is this the greatest album of all time? No. Is this album filled head to tail with bops that perfectly encapsulate pop indie rock music in the early 2000s? Absolutely. Bonus points for making us all brush up on our WWI history circa 2004.
God I love this album. The dramatic lyrics are a perfect match for Robert Smith's voice and framed beautifully by dreamy and dark melody. There will never be a moment where this album isn't cool. Just place me in a dark cave filled with bats and let me listen over and over.
Del La Soul FOR THE SOUL. Lyrics that are sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but always well-crafted. The music production is unreal. Upon this re-listen I’ll have ‘The Magic Number’ stuck in my head for days.
Top tier air guitar album, but Ayn Rand can go fuck herself
Listen, I just really don’t like The Eagles. I gave this album a fair shake, but I was miserable for every single second of it.
Love Freddie Mercury, love Brian May, love Queen. I feel like this album you get some influence outside of their usual sound, as well as some absolute classically QUEEN songs. Not my favorite album from them, but a good listen nonetheless.
This album gave me whiplash. I’m too confused to hate it, but didn’t vibe with anything enough to love it.
Absolute primo dancing in the kitchen drink red wine album. Let also take a moment to appreciate the line, “when you’re dead and in your grave no more ravioli will you crave”
I like this album more than I remember. Still, I wish more songs sounded less like ‘Every Breath You Take’ and more like ‘Mother.’ Maybe I’m just a freak.
There will never be a time, place, or occasion where I won't be happy to hear this album. Every single song is great. Accessible and catchy while being interesting and fresh even 50 years later. Love T-Rex.
Quintessential album of the genre retrospectively named Indie Sleeze. Really loved the singles off this album, ‘Crystalised’ and ‘Night Time’ when it first came out, but honestly got kind of bored halfway through on this re-listen. Still, I guess it makes a part of me want to smudge my eyeliner and light up a Parliament in some hipsters shitty basement.
Alright this one is hard to be subjective on considering it’s a very personal album about a journey with grief. That being said, musically it’s not very involved, and it more of a spoken word album than a music album. Unfortunately, the poetry just didn’t resonate with me, and I didn’t find it to be that great. I appreciate putting something personal like this into the world, but it just hit mediocre for me.
What can I say about this album that hasn’t already been said? A true masterpiece.
I really appreciate the fact that this album has a lot of different influences/elements used throughout while remaining cohesive. That being said, I really don't seem myself craving any of these songs, or the album as a whole at any point in the future. I respect Damon Albarn and the creativity of this album, but it just doesn't match my personal taste.