The production on this album is absolutely stellar. Blends different genres and sounds. Some of my fave tracks: DISC 1 - GhettoMusick - The Way You Move - Bust with Killer Mike's amazing verse - War - Church (mostly for the instrumentals) - Knowing - Flip Flop Rock (love the way Andre goes off) - Reset DISC 2 - The Love Below (Intro) (what a fucking fantastic intro onggggg) - Love Hater - Happy Valentine's Day (the bridge is immaculate) - Prototype - She Lives In My Lap - Roses (banger) - Pink & Blue (holy shit) - Love In War - Dracula's Wedding The features are also sublime; it elevates the features to be on this record rather than them elevating the record... if that makes sense.

Purple Rain New Faves - Let's Go Crazy - The Beautiful Ones (that ending goes crazy) - Computer Blue - Darling Nikki - I Would Die 4 U - Baby I'm a Star - Purple Rain obviously I do like Take Me With U and When Doves Cry buy the others hit just for me more I think. I heard Purple Rain before the album and for me Purple Rain does not fit the vibe of the album 😭 but it also does? I don't know. The vibe is really fun and funky with some slower tracks more like sexy ballads but Purple Rain is just... heart wrenching. The main meat of the album was just so so good. This is what the 80s feels like even if I've never lived through it. Honestly I only give 5s if I like every song... and I do. It's a 5.

It reminds me of a soundtrack to a movie or a random show hahaha it's so fun. The songs are really fun to dance too, and it flowed through but the songs sounded the same at points ans the lyrics are bit idk... Okay. It's well produced. Fave tracks: - G Funk Intro (I love that every album so far as such a good Intro song) - Murder On The Case - Pump Pump Honourable mention: Lodi Dodi was okies but the line "I PUT SOME BUBBLES IN THE TUB SO I CAN TAKE A BUBBLE BATH" scratches my brain 😭😭 Tha Shiznit & Aint No Fun was funny as well. However the last part of the album felt like a bit of a chore to get through ngl. I don't think it's my favourite rap album but I can hear how it's influential and significant to ofher rap albums, I hear it's influence in many later 90s and 00s records. But as per, influences get innovated.

On The Beach Faves - Walk On - Revolution Blues 💙 - Vampire Blues 💙 - Motion Pictures (Not a slow song fan usually but the instrumentals is ASMR) Like as usual, a nice introduction to the vibe of the album with Walk On which I really enjoyed. Some of the songs sound like background songs to a movie scene in the 70s or something (since the album is from then). I did listen to the remastered version for the in real time pleasure which was so good. I didn't love every song but the Faves that stood out songs to me I ABSOLUTELY ADORED. The cover reminds me of Neil Shute's On The Beach book cover? Maybe it was intentional. Great book tbf. I give it a 4, despite not loving most of the record, I like that it was a chill listen. The lyrics were interesting ngl and I like the record was sonically cohesive. Ambulance Blues is giving Bobby Dylan 💅🏼

Ellington At Newport Fave Tracks: DISC ONE - Tea For Two - Pt.1 Festival Junction (the best one) - Pt. 2 Blues to Be There (amazing) - Pt. 3 Newport Up - Diminuendo In Blue (meaty boy) DISC TWO - Jeep's Blues - Tulip or Turnip - Skin Deep (magnum opus max) Honourable Mentions: - Day In, Day Out (omg vocals?) So I knew it would end eventually... The amazing intros run ruined by the good old 🦅🦅. It's terrible. I hate it. Greasy ass anthem. So I had to skip it. Ofc I'm not gonna include the Duke announces, I know it's a live album, but it just takes forever I just wanna slurp the meat. Black and Tan fantasy sounded like a horse... However, as the album progressed I fell deeper in love... just wow. I rarely listen to jazz despite me enjoying the genre, but this makes me want to LIVE BREATHE EAT RAVE Jazz ya feel?! It's just... ugh such a quintessential shower, morning routine, driving in the dark listening. At any point of the day, if ones of these comes on I'm just happier. However, the stand out tracks are imo the masterpieces but the rest sound very much like random vibes? Idk. To me its a 3.5 tho i cant rate it that... So it's a low 4. For the standout tracks simply because they are I.M.M.A.C.U.L.A.T.E

Why is there a 17 minute song?! 😭 when the drums came on I was fully locked in. The rest of the album is meh though. Title track clears.

All the 🌿 were 🌿ing, 🌿ing...

Fave Songs Thank god we're back to good Intro songs 🤪🤓 Disc 1 - Back in the USSR - Glass Onion - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Why Won't We Do It In The Road? DISC 2 - Birthday 🧚‍♂️🙏 - Yer Blues - Helter Skelter - Savoy Truffle I barely know Beatles songs except the classics like Hey Jude and Yellow Submarine. I can definitely hear how influential this album was as many bands seem to follow the sonic sound post '68. It was a fun listen but I inly like a handful of songs from both discs, it was another meaty gritty album. 3.5 is what I'd give it coz I'd listen to it if I was doing housework but it's not something I'd sit down and enjoy in it's entirety. I give it props for being the more interesting one since Speakerboxx. Happiness Is A Warm Gun sounds like Matthew mcconaughey idk why. And I dislike both Beyonce blackbird and Beatles. Birthday was super explosive and for it to be followed by Yer Blues is just 🤓🧚‍♂️🧚‍♂️

Fave Songs - Johnny 99 - Open All Night - Reason To Believe (the Harmonica was kept minimal and it was also the last song lmao) As someone who doesn't like Bob Dylan (a few songs idm) a long Harmonica intro (anything more than 5 seconds is long) is just... already starting off weak. I proper strapped in and thought oh god I won't like this album. The songs I liked had some sort of image in my mind. Definitely something you put on while you're drink driving in a chevy through the Snake Pass or something like this album is giving #iwanttokms. Anyways, I prefer Born In The USA and I don't even care for Springsteen. I prefer Neil Young's brand of sad white man with guitar. Atlantic City was okies but I just hated Harmonica... I couldn't understand what he said in a couple of songs. State Trooper needed a beat drop. All in all, it's a 2.

Fave Songs: - Feelin' The Same Way - Shoot The Moon - Lonestar - I've Got To See You Again (best song) - One Flight Down - Nightingale Honourable Mentions - Turn Me On (her voice is so groovy) A very chill and soft opening. A refreshing change where we finally have a female artist and we're back in the millennium! What a new and interesting artist to add to my list. Sonically, the album is very lovely and easy to listen to. I do feel like im on the spring of 2000s, as the sun begins to set perhaps at the aftermath of a barbecue. The acoustic chords were familiar but also new. I'm not a slow song enthusiast by any means but I enjoyed this album. Norah's voice is just wonderful, sets your body lighter. I don't think I'd listen to the album again unless I was feeling sad because it feels like upbringing. Some tracks wasnt anything to wrote home about i feel, a lot of the songs individually could have been swapped and rearranged. I'd give it a 3.5 but it'll be a low 4 as I'd listen to it again but the fave songs really stood out the most to me.

Fave Songs: - Girls & Boys - End of a Century - Parklife - London Loves - Trouble In The Message Centre Honourable Mentions - To The End chorus is p good It's a very British, kid in the 90s album. The tracks that I know I enjoyed the most. But the others was alright. My fave tracks were the ones I liked the lyrics the most coz of its dry sense of humour. I didn't really enjoy the Mr. Albarn being weird again interludes, some were kinda annoying. I said this to a friend - he's like British Kanye without the nazism. Gorillaz is his best project imo. I do think for what it is, Parklife is a reflection of an artist's dissatisfaction with general life and capitalism. I like its core, i enjoy that it was sonically interesting but still very Blur. But it's not an album I would probably return to. Very Tony Hawk soundtrack, but like for one of the bad games.

I legit knew 2 U2 songs before this. And now I knowore than 2 songs but probably like 4 songs now. It was alright. Started off strong IMHO but then it gradually descended into something I kinda didn't care for. I did like the instrumentals for a few of the songs, loved the industrial drums type sound a few times but overall I liked the instrumentals. Bono's voice is just... okay. It felt more annoying, cloying and trying too hard. Maybe I just don't like Bono lol Fave Songs: - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses - The Fly (I think it was sunny that day) - Acrobat (the drums on this are so Tool vibes idk why) For Love Is Blindness, I prefer the Jack version. Not sorry.

It solidified which song I liked because the entire album was rancid to my ears and my overall sense of world judgement. To be fair, it's just a white guy shakily crying out lyrics over a weird 70s vibe rock beat. We love that right? I liked that it had spirit, something fun and forgettable kind of like a messy one night stand but it did drag on. It also left a bitter sad taste in my mouth which one night stands often do. Im glad i can leave this in 1993. The lyrics are unhinged, unserious but overall unfunny. It's giving 'look at me I'm edgy and you won't get it haha I'm so satirical right" - No. Fave Songs: - Praying Hands

Whoa!!! I'm glad we're back partying because jesus christ... I cannot believe this is here on 1001 albums in the sea of mediocre men with a guitar and a drama of destroying art and music!! From start to finish, this is genuinely a fun record with immaculate vibes. I also love the art cover that looks like it was made on Paint then important to Photoshop. Every instrumental on each song was wonderful, delicious and an ascension spiritually. I liked that it explored a night of partying, how we start with such an expensive eargasm, attractive and exciting and we descend through the night into a bit of filth, a bit of paint and colour and then a final ending that's just 🤘🏻🎀💖 Fave Songs: - People Hold On - In Deep (this was such a funny random sound but it ended so good) - Which! Doctor - No Connection (tune) - Smoke Dis One - Beats & Pieces - Stop This Crazy Thing (Headmaster Mix)

King of R&B IMHO. To me its Thee Sacred Souls' grandfather who's retelling them how he met their grandmother. Fave Songs: - I Met A Little Girl (VERY QUESTIONABLE TITLE) - When Did You Stop Loving Me 💖 - Anger - Is That Enough (HES SO FUNNY?! And that bloody sax 🤰🏻) - Time To Get It Together - A Funky Space Reincarnation

This is why Dolly Parton is that b*tch. These new girls could NEVER, they can try but they can't. I listened to this while playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and it enhanced my experience. She's a wonderful singer and writer and her songs are catchy. Fave Songs: - Travelling Man (banger) - My Blue Tears (banger!) - She Never Met A Man - The Way I See You - Here I Am (banger) - A Better Place To Live (great end!) I didn't love every song but they all sounded wonderful, it flowed so well that I felt like I was listening to several long songs. It's not that they're the same, the album just felt really good listening to it. The songs are shorter than I expected but nonetheless still very well written and well produced.

This was such a fun and fresh album. Just wow, these four ladies rocked it honestly. Weirdly sounded like a happier Cranberries lol. We Got The Beat is definitely a favourite unsurprised it's the single, and an iconic song. Introduced me to someone I'm gonna follow so, excited for the next album tomorrow! Some of the songs sounded similar but I think it just added to the charm, it felt fresh and fun at the very least. Fave Songs: - How Much More - Lust To Love - We Got The Beat - Fading Fast - Skidmarks On My Heart - Can't Stop The World

Why did i say I was excited for tomorrow's 😭 as a Smiths Hater, this was more interesting than I expected. It wasn't the worst thing I've heard to be fair. A lot of ERRRGGHHHHHH at the start lmao but my faves were the ones that I could imagine listening for fun. The rest could have been deleted from the Google Drive. Fave Songs: - I Started Something I Couldn't Finish - The Death of a Disco Dancer - Death at One's Elbow *much preferred the Mark Ronson version of Stop Me If You Think You Heard This One Before*

Push The Button is one of my favourite electronic dance albums OAT. So this was interesting as I've never visited the roots of The Chemical Brothers. As soon as it played, I knew is love this album. And by God, I did. Fave Songs: - Leave Home (guys I think the brother might be the one working it out..??) - Three Little Birdies Down Beat (this gave me Prodigy vibes ngl and that's why I loved it) - Fuck Up The Beats (great Interlude if it is?!) - Chemical Beats - Life Is Sweet - Alive Alone (this weirdly feels like late 90s early 00s)

I've never heard of Parliament before but wow. Holy funkaroni! This really assured me how I'm a funk girl - I love the vibes, I love the environment that this record creates and I love a cohesive album. George Clinton makes me float without ant psychedelics. Love a short album where every song is needed, important and makes sense. All are Faves so we will stick to the stellar sounds: - P-Funk (Lisa from the Simpsons was here) - Unfunky UFO - Handcuffs - Give Up The Funk Also the song titles are just absolutely divine. Fabulous album.

Bit samey. I don't think there was any outstanding tracks.

It did not need to be 2 hours long 30 songs track list. No clear identity of what they wanted to have the album be like. Also I can't be arsed with men being poor singers anymore. Fully losing the plot. Only song I can tolerate is Shiver.

Weirdly it sounds really nostalgic, you can definitely hear like a 70s vibe with this album considering its a naughties record. I actually didn't hate it! A few stand outs for me: - You Will You Won't - Havana Gang Brawl (this track crescendo so good ugh!!) - Nightmare Pt II I might listen to it again as background noise for it is a cohesive album - it sounds good. Put together. Interesting!

Always had a weird relationship with Smashing Pumpkins... This album had a very grunge vibe with a mix of Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains (two bands I love deeply). It began and ended very well. I really liked the album and the atmosphere it produced upon listening to this while it was somewhat a sunny day. Towards the end I think I finally solidified what I wanted to get from this album and what it achieved. It's a freaking 🤘🏻 album. Loved it. Fave Songs: - Cherub Rock (a masterpiece opening track) - Quiet - Rocket - Disarm (so beautiful) - Soma - Geek USA - Mayonaise (amazing track) - Silverfuck (goes hard) Definitely needs a second lesson to appreciate the lyrics I think, and even the instrumentals I didn't hear. I love the use of violins scattered with different songs. Or perhaps it's a different instrument? Maybe keyboard? I don't know. It just sounded so good. Really really good.

This was not great. I already am a Smiths Hate and Morissey on his own is just bad. They all sounded the same except some were slower tempo than others 😭😭 Fave Songs: - I Am Hated For Loving (he was so close to self realisation)

Its very Bjork meets Ethel Cain meets Grimes if she was European. The first half of the album I found it hard to listen to, mostly due to her vocals. The instrumentals for majority of the project I really loved though. I think the are standout. Fave Songs: - Seven - Now's the Only Time I Know - Keep the Streets Empty For Me - Coconut (the best for me)

I thought they did boring songs 😭 surprisingly it was better than I thought. A lot better. I really enjoyed many of the songs, they were fun and inviting. Gave me summer vibes. I also likes the fact the artists let the instrumentals kind of 'speak' for them, the record really shone the most when the band were just going to town (I.e Setting Me Up), even the moodier grounded songs had this very cool cadence to it. I also liked that the vocals were funky and fun, really emphasises the lyrics with the instrumentals. I felt the meat of the record was probably the best part from Setting Me Up to In The Gallery :) Loved cohesion, loved the way it moves and feels. I think this might be a 5. Faves: Down To The Waterline Water of Love Setting Me Up Six Blade Knife Southbound Again In The Gallery

A fantastic disco/RnB album. One of my favourites. I really do love Sister Sledge... Every song on here is just groovy, sizzling and phenomenal. Faves: He's The Greatest Dancer 💖 Lost In Music 💖 Thinking Of You We Are Family Easier To Love 💖 You're a Friend To Me One More Time 💖 I did enjoy the remixes as well. Fantastic from start to end.

I guess when I'm listening on my own, I prefer a studio record. I've never listened to Johnny Cash in full but I did like the atmosphere of this album, sometimes a live album is okies. The lyrics are very good, very picturesque with a unique storytelling that's entirely Ca$h. However some of the songs sounded really similar I guess that's just the nature of Cash blues - whether they're the fast-paced ones or the slow ones. But I will give it to him for the lyrics. Faves: I Still Miss Someone Cocaine Blues 25 Minutes To Go Jackson

Don't think I've listened to Elvis outside of his greatest hits album and a few of the soundtrack ones from the movie. This was a lote more groovy than I expected. I guess he just liked making snazzy songs. Faves: Wearin That Loved On Look I'm Movin' On Power of My Love After Loving You Any Day Now Suspicious Minds

Love going back to early Turner lyrics a little bit dark humour and pessimism with a bit of whatever drug he was probably on. It's gritty, a little bit punk but with that Steel City cadence you get from AM and their screams counterpart BMTH. Also I love when an album has track names longer than Adrien Brody's speeches. I've never listened to this album but I'm glad this challenge delivered the meal to my palms. It was such a fun delight listening. Its giving British Tony Hawk. Absolute love the diabolical songwriting and instrumentals. And now we have The Car... FAVES: The View From The Afternoon I Bet You Looked Good On The Dancefloor Dancing Shoes You Probably Couldn’t See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me Still Take You Home (guitars went to funkytown) Mardy Bum Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But… When The Sun Goes Down 💖 From The Ritz To The Rubble (new fave) A Certain Romance

Actually love the mixed media-esque of the album cover. What a really interesting Western-y album. It gave me a lot of memories I don't have, this weird nostalgia like I was riding on a motorbike across the Midwest and it's also really weirdly sad? Like it's got this desperate grip on hope and an in-between of imagination and reality. I've never heard this man before but wow Gene Clark's voice is really... I dunno, he sings to me weirdly. Lyrics and guitar are A++. Only critique was Some Misunderstanding was hella long lmao. FAVES Life's Greatest Fool 💖 Silver Raven (this is the best song on the record for me)💖💖 No Other💖 From a Silver Phial True One Lady of The North 💖

If indie sleaze were an annoying white gay at VIA blocking the toilets for a hot 42 minutes and 14 seconds, it would be this album. I can't stand the drunk and hungover vocals. He sounded French a few times lol. I give it a 2.5 for the really good instrumentals on a FEW songs. FAVES The Man Who Would Be King The Ha Ha Wall Campaign of Hate

To me, this album is the birth of hip hop. Undoubtedly influential. Lyricism, composing, production and mixing... christ, what a wonderful album. High energy, whether it's insightful, braggadocious or just meant for bumping to. I've never really listen to NWA beside Straight Outta Compton but this made me a fan. BRB, gonna rinse through the history of hip hop in record form. FAVES Straight Outta Compton Gangsta Gangsta If It Ain't Ruff Express Yourself Dopeman (Dopeman!) Quiet On Tha Set Something 2 Dance 2 (a great way to finish!)

When you hear an album you've heard BUT NEVER KNEW WHO IT WAS BY!? It's so influential, I've heard this sound in so many things, unsurprising they are British lol. Downtempo vibes with that early DnB seasoning, Tracey's voice is so gorgeous. Loved the different melodies, the songwriting and the mixing. Ugh, this is just such a groovy, chill vibe. I imagine myself dressed in white in a 'creatives' house somrwhere in Notting Hill at the tail end of the 20th century. I'm very happy this graced me :) FAVES: Before Today Wrong (this is the song I heard!) Single Flipside Big Deal Good Cop Bad Cop (and this!)

Not another mid white man who drunkenly sings in a guitar 😭😭😭 what the hell was happening here on this record?! It gets a point for being short and not as a gratuitous as Nebraska looool FAVES The Way Young Lovers Do

I've no idea who these people are ngl. The lyrics are probably the best part. It's very after the party/hungover vibes for me. It's like depressed Lumineers idk why 😭😂 vocals are giving Chris Martin's alcoholic cousin. FAVES Sorrow (strings here 🥹) Anyone's Ghost Bloodbuzz Ohio Conversation 16

An exceptional album from the King of Soul and father of Southern Soul. Some of my current favourite Soul artists credit him heavily, no denying his impact and greatness. This album was immaculate, with capturing the vibes and essence of Soul from the get go and pioneering forward to something that just moves your entire being. Fave Songs: Ole Man Trouble (the trumpets are so good) Respect Down In The Valley 💖 I've Been Loving You Too Long Shake💖 My Girl💖 Wonderful World Rock Me Baby 💖 I Can't Get No Satisfaction (my fave ver.) I'm Depending On You

Idk anything about this man but why did this feel like the soundtrack to a coming of age movie set in the 60s or the opening to a Crime Scene Investigations spin off?! Love an album that begins with capturing the vibe if what its going for. Pretty good at the start but then half way through I was like hm ... It was a bit too long I think. The more acid version of Black Sabbath. Fave Songs: S. F Sorrow Is Born She Says Good Morning Private Sorrow Balloon Burning I See You Defecting Gray Talkin About The Good Times

It's like Lana Del Rey's drunk uncle with sad Ed Sheeran on guitar. Some of the lyrics were quite interesting and mysterious. Diamonds In the Mine is goofy ahh tho... It was short at least! Fave Songs: Avalanche Dress Rehearsal Rag Sing Another Song, Boys

OH YEEEESSSSSSSSSSS Fave Songs: VOL 1 Bye Bye Love ❤️ Half As Much ❤️ Just A Little Lovin' ❤️ Worried Mind (god the piano bridge with the strings oofffff) It Makes No Difference Now Careless Love Hey, Good Lookin VOL 2 You Are My Sunshine Midnight ❤️ Oh, Lonesome Me ❤️ Take These Chains From My Heart ❤️

It's not bad... it's just like... I mean... I thought they only did Saturday Night Fever stuff but yk ill take it as it is. A few good ones but it's just very 60s, which makes sense. They did perfect their craft 15 years later. Fave Songs: Black Diamond Melody Fair Suddenly ❤️ Whisper Whisper Never Say Never Again ❤️

The voice is so British lmaooo I've never actually heard Suede's music but I know who they/he was?! Like I heard of the name before. Was an interesting listen for sure. Moving sounded like it was recorded underneath my bed Fave Songs: Animal Nitrate Pantomime Horse Metal Mickey

What a groovy project

The instrumentals are so freaking good but the guy singing sounds like he's pushing one out on the toilet using an amazon podcast mic with the reverb turned up to 5000. Oof. 💀

Excites for their upcoming album, what an interestingly haunting but refreshing project. Faves: - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight - I Know What I Like - Firth of Fifth

The precursor to one of the greatest albums. Love a bit of MA... Faves: - Safe From Harm - Be Thankful For What You've Got - Five Man Army - Unfinished Symphony - Daydreaming

Album a bit butters at times ngl. Faves: - Beverly Hills "so damn lame" one of the greatest insults ever - World Up My Ass - Paid Vacation

Very few can beat Nina.

We've not had a hip hop in a while during this challenge that I fully expected another weird white man singing album. Perhaps I'm a but biased because I've been waiting to clean my ears (Although Ms Simone did a really good job). I love the lyrics and I love a nasty 90s rap beat. Faves: - D. Original - Da Bichez - Aint The Devil Happy (best one) - My Mind Spray

Early Foo is good goo. Faves: - I'll Stick Around - Good Grief - Floaty - Wattershed

It's the who.

This album makes me nut.