Tough to say how or why this was groundbreaking as I was/am not a part of the scene but other say it's so and I'll take their word for it. Overall a fun listen with electronic, hip-hop and some rock influences. Would I listen again? It's very possible. Highlight: "Sabotage" Lowlight: "Ricky's Theme"

Tough to say how or why this was groundbreaking as I was/am not a part of the scene but other say it's so and I'll take their word for it. Overall a fun listen with electronic, hip-hop and some rock influences. Would I listen again? It's very possible. Highlight: "Sabotage" Lowlight: "Ricky's Theme"

Initially it was all a bit too "samey-samey", however as the album progressed, the tracks started to differentiate themselves. Definitely a mood. I enjoyed the listen and would go back to the well again. Maybe I should start smoking… Highlight: Teachers Lowlight: The Stranger Song

I do not have an objective opinion of this record. The Bends (and OK Computer) informed the majority of my musical taste in the mid/late 90's. Basically a flawless record that made you wonder where they could possibly go from here. But oh, just wait…. Highlight: Black Star & Street Sprit (Fade Out) Lowlight: Planet Telex

Imagine being 42 years old, sitting in front of your computer at work, and pressing play on your new listening assignment, "It's that gal band that play a couple of fun tunes!" Memories of America's Funniest Home Videos classic montages run through your mind - pants falling down, drunk granny at the wedding, dogs wearing sunglasses, and the like. Once you press play you're instantly faced with the realization that this is nothing like you thought. You adapt or die! It's equal parts punk, new wave, and rock with super slick production. I came back for seconds! This record absolutely rips! Highlight(s): This Town/How Much More/Fading Fast Lowlight(s): Skidmarks on My Heart

It's often the case in movies when Navy Seals are training, they're in the cold water at night, pouring rain, doing burpees, holding up heavy logs over their head, suffering…..that was me for 56 min. Less the logs of course, and more of the suffering. Sometimes an album is acclaimed not because it's exceptionally great, but because it sounds exceptionally different from everything around it at the time and in the scene. This is a case study in how even music critics can lose their wits. Highlight(s): New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down Lowlight(s): Where to even start?

Apparently I'm very familiar with the work of Billy Joel, who knew? Highlight(s): Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Lowlight(s): Just the Way You Are

It's slightly odd listening to a British band blatantly commandeer southern rock and blues but it’s well done and is a very good album in all honesty. Highlight(s): Sway/Wild Horses/Dead Flowers/Moonlight Mile Lowlight(s): Sister Morphine

No doubt inventive for the time but the sound is probably a victim of its own success. Less a specific band or song but more a nod to a general time and place. If I'm going to be listening to something like this I'll take it in the form of Primal Scream. Highlight(s): *N/A Lowlight(s): *N/A *Each track was indistinguishable from the next, or the one prior.

Well that's certainly a lot of sounds on one album. Probably could have been one song but it was a fun listen all the same. Highlight(s): Always Be There/Stop for Love Lowlight(s): Don't Give Up

If someone told me to close my eyes and imagine what a Stevie Wonder album sounded like, never having listened before, I probably would have come up with this actually.

I'm not going to find anything new to say about CCR that hasn't already been said. I'll leave it at that. Highlight(s): Wrote a Song for Everyone/Sinister Purpose Lowlight(s): Night Time is the Right Time

I wasn't aware they are such a straightforward hip-hop group. Highlight(s): Rolling With Heat/Thought @ Work Lowlight(s): The Seed/Water

I won't lie, my heart sunk when I saw this one. I was expecting the worst and honestly it was a reasonably decent album with a handful of good tunes. Delightfully surprised and somewhat glad to have this one in the rearview. Highlight(s): the Scientist/Green Eyes/Warning Sign Lowlight(s): God Put a Smile Upon Your Face/A Rush of Blood to the Head

Pretty scattered and helter skelter but does just enough to keep the songs on the rails. I hear the B-52's and early 00's dance punk. Highlight(s): Barmy/My New House/Paintwork Lowlight(s): I Am Damo Suzuki

It would have been interesting to hear this stuff with fresh ears, when it was evil and urgent, not campy. Highlight(s): The Rage Lowlight(s): United/You Don't Have to Be Old to Be Wise

That's a lot of good signing

I had a foggy notion of what the Pogues sounded like but this was better than expected. Highlight(s): Bottle of Smoke/Fairytale of New York Lowlight(s): N/A

Not sure what makes this essential. I could probably think of a few other things to listen to before I die (ever heard the Littlest Hobo theme song?).

This album is firmly in my wheelhouse. My uncle bought me this album for housesitting in my teens (a weekend of sipping green liqueur and smoking menthols I found in his freezer). A straightforward rock record with all of the oddities and feedback that would later be center of their sound. Perfect listen!

I loved it! Can't fully explain it. Don't need to.

I'm not sure all elements of this record aged well. I think I can admit this was probably groundbreaking for the time, although cannot say fully why. It oscillates between mega-hits and stinkers. He spends too much time tripping over himself to say even more offensive and shocking things.

Pretty Groovy!

I can hear Bowie a lot in this record. Frog Eyes as well. Zany!!

Really very good. Feels ahead of its time. A band I've never heard of before too. This is why I'm doing this!

Did I hear that right? "There's a midget standing tall…."

Soooo pissed! I listened and thought this was a very good album for the late 90s. I double checked the release date...1992! This is doubly good given the year it was released. Wow

Some good songs on here, but why would I need to hear this before I die?

He just goes on like this for over an hour....

Very Bombast!

What a great album! Loved it

I like jazz, and this was certainly that

Turn down the suck! In all honesty, this makes their later records even more amazing. How did they get from here to Dark Side of the Moon? Kudos

I've never listened to an Iron Maiden album before. My friends older brother was into them and I thought the album covers were the most satanic thing I'd ever seen. I actually liked the slowburn "Strange World" the best.

What am I missing here? I've heard similar music waiting on hold.

I'll have to take their word for it that this was genre defining but they're correct to include the album. Very good

I always hear them listed as an influence but have never listened previously. Really cool album

Pretty good. I think he was a victim of his own success at points. I recall an interesting podcast with the fellow who lent him the Alan Lomax field recordings that feature throughout. Moby never returned them....

If it weren’t for The Jungle Line I’d swear this was just one long song. As an aside, my uncle is a HUGE Joni fan. Joni was also seeing some musician fellow from my hometown in Saskatchewan. We had one nice restaurant then and my mothers friend spotted them eating there. Once she left they grabbed her wineglass and gave it to us to give to my uncle. For weeks we had Joni’s lipstick embossed wineglass around our kitchen. I’m certain that antidote is at least as interesting as this album.

Incredible! Nothing more I can say. 5 Stars!

Well, that’s the sound of the Beatles. Next!…..

Well well, very good. The guy is Irish....never would have guessed.

Smoooooooooth! "Think" is a Jam!

Was ok.

To be a sax player in the 80's, you must have been in demand!

I was initially going to skip this one. I'm glad I didn't.

I'm a Sonic Youth fan. I own many albums. However, I think this was the first time I've listened to the entirety of Daydream Nation in one go. Trilogy was especially good.

So he’s just deconstructed the blues?

Excellent!

I was not initially pleased to see this one pop up. I have no relationship to this band and only really liked Nirvana from that era. This was always an album that someone's older brother had. This is a great album and goes pretty hard. I very much liked it! This is what this project is all about!

I can imagine myself, with an unironic mullet, wearing an unironic jean jacket, rocking out to this back in the 70's

Am I being Punk'd?....Ashton Kutcher, that you?

This takes me back. Dreaming of You will forever and always be a real jam. Calendars and Clocks was really good as well. Could live without the rest of it though.

I like challenging music. I have the ability to listen to challenging music. Challenging music is in my wheelhouse. But I could not get into this. Very repetitive.

I want to live in a world where the guy second from left can be on an album cover again.

I really want to like REM. And to a certain extent I do. But not sure this album is the masterpiece they say it is.

Found all songs on the album fairly similar, but all pretty good. Being Canadian I'm not sure if I'm allowed to dislike Neil Young

I can't think objectively about this band. They are almost mythical. Did they even actually make music? They did, and it's pretty good.

I can't think of anything to say about this album. That's perhaps telling.

Fun record. Different for its time. While they have some hardcore fans I'll likely not return to the album.

Is this their American blues cover band era? Or have they always borrowed heavily from the blues?

Campy, with a capital C

I think this was a moment in time, but the time has passed

I was assigned a GZA album yesterday. This is more my thing. Very cool

Very orchestral. Very long. But mostly entertaining.

This is what I love about music. 20 years ago I bought this album as a young man. It was ok but did not resonate with me. Fast forward, with a few more miles on the human spirit and a much evolved taste in music, and I get it. In fact I like it! Music will always wait for you!

Couple of hits couched in filler. I don't think I get it. Millions do, but not me.

Pretty fun record. Their new stuff is great too.

I know that Morrissey is battling is share of demons and public image issues but I'll forever be a Smiths fan and honestly most of what he's released solo is very good as well. This was as good as anything I've heard and loved in the past (Vauxhall & I, Southpaw Grammar, Kill Uncle etc). Perhaps he gave himself away in "We'll Let You Know"….."We are the last truly British people you will know"

Yup, that's an ABBA album. They were a very tight group!

I don't get it. Like, at all.