This album would rip on Guitar Hero. As a listen in 2025, not so much. Obv Jump, Panama and Hot for Teacher are all-timers. I forgot about I'll Wait, which I know and like from the radio growing up, but never knew the name of. Girl Gone Bad was also fun too. I could go the rest of my life never hearing Top Jimmy, Drop Dead Legs or House of Pain. I don't think I'd ever put this album on but it's actually stronger than I'd imagine.

This was a rooough first album for me to listen to for this project. Listening on Spotify I found it interesting that the few tracks I half-liked were the least listened to by most people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sonic youth is not for me.

Not my typical genre but this was really good! I found out Mary already knows and loves Jazmine.

As a 90s kid who also learned guitar a few years after this album came out, I was very familiar with "Hallelujah" but hadn't heard the rest. I was primarily struck by how good the rest of the album was, with the possible exception of the last few songs that probably slapped in the 90s but now seem more stuck in amber. I was also struck by how long the songs were ("Hallelujah" alone is almost 7 mins!!). Seems like 5- and 6-minute songs were more commonplace in the 90s than today, but then again I'm no Phish fan like others in this group... This album is very 90s, from the sound of the drums and alternative rock instrumentation to its classic rock influences, occasional strings and coffeehouse ballads. And the quick fade out on the last track! So 90s. It was definitely in the rotation at your local cafe. All in all, Grace is a good album but not my fav.

Damn, I totally forgot I knew Catching That Butterfly and Lucky Man, both good songs. Some of the others are just okay; while this album would be groundbreaking in the 60s or 70s, in the 90s not so much. Bitter Sweet Symphony stands the test of the time, the rest of the album not so much.

Loved this album since Walk the Line

Look, I love Lennon. But I don't usually love solo Beatles. They just made each other better in ways that are lacking on their solo stuff. Paul needed John's edge, John needed Paul's joi de vivre and they needed each other as a creative counterweight Imagine is obviously an all-timer, but the rest of the album is just mediocre 12-bar blues and soft dad rock outside of the OG diss track How Do You Sleep? and Oh Yoko! The album is fine. Give me Paul's Ram over this any day.

Great album. I know it's not better, but I like it more than Black to Black. It has a more cohesive feel to me and I've always loved Stronger Than Me, F Me Pumps, (There Is) No Greater Love, In My Bed, and Amy Amy Amy. The highs of Back to Black are much higher, but this album is great throughout. It remains a tragedy we no longer have her.

Never heard of this jabroni before today. Now I know why. He’s like Father John Misty without the edge or cynicism, which is a no from me dawg. This album is like a collection of all the songs George Harrison didn't pick for "All Things Must Pass", which makes sense since the homicidal Phil Spector produced both. The one highlight for me was that I swear SNL based their “goodnights and goodbyes” song on the title track…

An all-timer but had never listened to it front to back. I'm definitely more of a "singles and B-sides" Outkast fan but even I can recognize the greatness.

Can't say I love an 11-minute song about doo-doo but that's just me. The rest of the album is pretty fun. I prefer Maggot Brain ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In the immortal words of Tracy Morgan: EVERYBODY GETTIN PREGNANT TONIGHT

Never heard Ms Monae except for a 30-min stretch at Osheaga Festival but I wasn't exactly of sound mind at the time, so I don't remember much other than thinking it was very tight and fun. I liked Sir Greendown and Tightrope off this album but skipped a lot of the rest.

I like the Kinks, they're fun. But beyond Sunny Afternoon, a lot of the songwriting is like if a youth pastor got stoned and tried to write Beatles songs. That said, it bops. If you turn your brain off and/or get stoned, it's fun.

Funny that we got this the day after the Kinks' Face to Face... Came out a year earlier and is lightyears better. But that's what happens when you have 2 songwriting geniuses in the band (with an emerging songwriting talent in George as well). Rubber Soul is as far back as I go in the Beatles catalogue if I'm playing a full album, and it's because of the creative leap they took here. Love Rubber Soul.

AKA when a pop band is inspired by Kid A

a 90s alt classic!

Solid through and through! Always been a fan of The Police and it's between this and Zenyatta Mondatta for their best album.

Look, BB King is a legend. And I loved learning and playing blues when I learned guitar. But I don't think I've purposefully put on a blues record in years. Just not for me.

Big Chem Bros fan, but this album is just okay... Dig Your Own Hole is much better All in all, The Chemical Brothers are definitely in the top-5 brothers of the 90s along with Dust, Mario and Wayans

i respect the boss but i would never put him on myself. He's a lot like The West Wing to me – a timewarp to an america that never existed to me/in my experience That said, Born To Run the song is an all-timer. The rest... meh. idk im not a big fan ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reviews by way of errant thoughts: -I've liked Deep Purple from the ubiquitous Smoke on the Water to deep cuts like Lazy, but I think at this point in my life I've had enough of this sort of thing -If my dad had been a big fan of Deep Purple and seen them in a memorable concert instead of Grand Funk Railroad, would I like them more than GFR? -These guys seems kinda stuck halfway between bands like GFR/early Led Zep that were updating old genres like blues and folk in a hard rock format, and bands like Black Sabbath that were really pushing boundaries into heavy metal. I know these guys are also heavy metal-ish, but the organ just doesn't do it for me. -Maybe I just don't like organ in rock music. -Or maybe it just comes down to the fact that the songwriting just isn't as good. They're good musicians but the songs aren't really compelling. -All that said, the breakdowns are good, and are probably when they're at their best. I would be curious what this band would sound like if they had leaned more into the jam band or psychedelic aspects and less riff rock. -I guess if I had heard this album when I was 13 - or if I was alive when it came out - I bet it would rip. But me hearing it in my late 30s in 2025, that's a no from me dawg.

You know, I actually liked this more than I thought I might... I know and like Supertramp just fine, but I mostly just know the hits and the later stuff. I never heard this early album beyond School on the radio. They are definitely easy listening and definitely not something I would put on, but this was a great album to put on while I worked my way through today's to-do list.

better album than the other kinks one we listened to recently. very fun.

meh, it was fine

a modern classic

another modern classic

Heard of T.Rex but never listened! I liked They were very clearly an influence on The Black Keys Fun album!

sounds like something my dad would've liked, but really not for me too 80s in all the wrong ways, though I always appreciate Carlos Santana killing in (either on guitar or at 1B)