Great album, songs with which I grew up. Brought back memories.

One of the best albums in history! There are no words that could describe this perfection, this ingenuity, this masterpiece... this madness...

41 minute and 26 seconds of yelling! The only plus is the Chubbchubbs beginning, that's why there's second star.

It's such a feeling to walk through the streets of the city on such a gloomy morning: the sky above you is gray, the asphalt under your feet is gray, and the air that fills the space between is largely gray, and while a cold northerly wind freezes your eyelids, Perfect Day is playing from your headphones. By the way, this is perhaps Lou Reed's most commercial album and the first with which he experienced mainstream popularity after Velvet Underground, and I liked it. I read on Wikipedia that this is also characterized as glam rock, although it didn't sound that way to me. There are songs that are cheesy and more pop-oriented, but overall - a short and sweet album that I listened to with enjoyment.

When it came up, even though I hadn't heard anything by Mudhoney before, I said: hey, great, grunge, I'm going to like this. And the beginning, the intro song was great. But by the end, this album tired me so much that if there had been another song, I don't know if I would have finished it. Pale, unimpressive, not a single song stood out, it didn't make me add it to liked to listen to later... But because of the sound that I love, 2/5.

I have never heard a stronger start to an album! Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and With or Without You one after the other make the strongest start ever! Then the rest of the songs follow, which are a bit similar to each other, mostly in terms of atmosphere and lyrics that lead us around America. They criticize Bono mostly that he is too loud, and that his vocals are sometimes too loud for the background music, which makes him called egocentric and irritating, but I didn't mind it at all. This was a wonderful walk from Belfast to the USA, everywhere where the streets have no names and I enjoyed every moment of the album. After the end, I listened to the first 3 songs again - masterpieces! Probably the three best songs of entire U2's career, placed on the same album and one after the other.

Not my cup of tea.

The first real discovery and positive surprise for me! New Order are actually the rest of Joy Division after the death of Ian Curtis. And naturally, when you know that 3/4 of the old band is in the new one, you expect the same or similar sound (post-punk), although Wikipedia describes them as an electronic rock band in the first sentence. And it was probably like that in the previous albums of New Order, because this is their fifth studio album, but Technique was recorded in Ibiza and under the huge influence of dance music from the Balearic Islands and the acid house sound that was slowly emerging at that time, the guys started experimenting with their sound, so in almost half of the songs you can hear a lot of synthetic sounds, primarily synthetic percussions, but also a lot of synthesizers, and a lot of inserted sounds from those synthesizer buttons that I've always wondered what they were for. In the opening track Fine Time, which did not hint at what was to come, there is even the sound of a sheep or goat at the end of the song. In one of the reviews for this album on the generator, someone wrote "Technique is what you get if the music teacher is absent, so the kids sat behind his synthesizer, rattled the buttons and recorded what they got". So, half of the album sounds like a bastard of Joy Division and Pet Shop Boys, but the other, larger half (5:4), when they added synthesizers and synth effects and percussion to the post-punk sound, an interesting synth-pop sound was obtained, which is one of my favorite genres in music. I read that in the 80s and early 90s it was cool to listen to New Order, that only those who fancied themselves with a sharp sound and were misunderstood by society listened to them. Today, 35 years later, I'm discovering Technique and listening to All the Way, Love Less, Guilty Partner, Run, Dream Attack for the first time... I've made a playlist on Spotify where I add the most beautiful songs from the albums I'm going through - well, I've added the most songs from Technique from all the albums so far - 5 out of a total of 9 on the album. Plus, I listened to the album twice this morning, and one of the songs - Love Less - maybe five times by the time I write this. Great one!

Revolver is an album that is de facto different. Perhaps I would have had a stronger impression if I had listened to the previous albums chronologically first (this is my 11th album) and then arrived at this one in an evolutionary way. I heard one different, but definitely masterpiece song (Eleanor Rigby) which has always been one of my favorites, and 13 more that are somehow strangely incompatible with each other and don't seem like having a connection with others. I think I have an explanation for how the absence of such a connection makes a strong connection, but nevermind... A strong 4/5 from me which I may change later, we'll see.

At San Quentin is an album you can't help but love. First - it shows that it is full of soul, that Cash is singing from the bottom of his soul and that he is fully committed to the audience. But mostly, on Cash's country sounds, no matter how hard you try, you just can't get all parts of your body to stay calm, so you'll find yourself tapping your foot, or snapping your fingers, moving your head... An album that shows the true love for music in a raw way, and no matter how much you're not a fan of this sound, you just can't help but like it.