Though I can appreciate this album's concept and some of its lyrical content, the style bores me. Also, many of the lyrics are uninteresting. Some highlights: -Come Alive (War of the Roses) -Say You'll Go -Neon Valley Street -Oh, Maker I must also appreciate how original this album is compared to the drab current of R&B today.

Sometimes I think they started this band on a dare.

Too Long. Took me days to finish.

I like the mix of messages in this album and the contrast between the gospel and revolutionary elements throughout. Gaye's phenomenal voice gives his lyrics and messages a personal twist. The stylistic influences of What's Going On can be seen even in modern R&B and Soul, and Gaye's celebratory vibes to his music are channelled by such artists as Childish Gambino with great success.

Some highlights: -Gimme Shelter -You Can't Always Get What You Want -You Got The Silver -Midnight Rambler -Monkey Man

It's a solid album from top to bottom. Some highlights include: -Mountains Beyond Mountains -The Suburbs -Suburban War -Rococo -Modern Man This album does drag on for a little too long though.

Though I can appreciate this album's concept and some of its lyrical content, the style bores me. Also, many of the lyrics are uninteresting. Some highlights: -Come Alive (War of the Roses) -Say You'll Go -Neon Valley Street -Oh, Maker I must also appreciate how original this album is compared to the drab current of R&B today.

Good quality rock and roll. Feels like Janis Joplin meets The Doors.

Rounding up to 4, this is a 3.5.

She's on to something here fellas. Would be a five if there were more catchy, singable songs along with all the weird stuff. It gets to weird some times too.

I get bored with disco. Lyrically uninteresting.

Good guitar, bad lyrics.

Here is my extremely unprofessional ranking system, which I will apply here. - 1 half-star for interesting lyrics. In this case, I find the lyrics occasionally entertaining and clever, but not always. The Gun Club also seems especially attracted to controversy despite making this album in 1981. -1 full star for interesting instrumentals, and overall musical quality. -1 full star for a good mix throughout the album. -0 stars for catchiness, none of these tracks are really singable. -1 half star for innovation. These guys didn't invent cow/blues-punk, but they took it to a different level with this album and influenced the genre heavily. Overall: 3 stars.

-1 full star for musical quality. -1 half-star for catchiness. -1 half-star for a good mix of different song types. -1 full star for interesting lyrics. -1 full star for innovation, no one sounded like these guys except The Byrds at their time. Overall: 4 stars.

Before I begin I would like to say that Brett Anderson's voice makes me want to shoot him and myself. That aside I will try to stay objective. -1 star for good-quality instrumentals. I feel like the rest of the band should chuck Brett and do their own thing because they're pretty great musicians. -1 star for a good mix throughout the album. It's a pretty nice variety of sounds. -0 stars for innovation. This one is pretty obvious. -Let's say half-star for lyrics. He does address weighty topics, but his lyrics aren't exactly genius. -Then 0 for catchiness again, which also has to do with his stupid voice. Overall, 2.5. Let's say 2.

1 star for instrumental quality. 1 star for a good mix throughout the album. Nothing for catchiness. Nothing for innovation. Lets say half for lyrics. Total: 2.5 stars I will say 2 because I was pleasantly surprised by this album. Generally heavy metal sucks.

0 for lyrics 0 for instrumental quality. 0 for originality. 0 for a good mix throughout the album. Let's give her one for catchiness. She really can't write songs and has no idea what irony means. Wake Up and Not the Doctor are good songs. Hate to diss a fellow Canadian, but I just don't see the appeal.

I wanted to like this album. But I got bored by some of the lyrics and all the songs are pretty similar. Buffalo Stand is overrated, but Manchild is a cool song. This is actually more 2.5.

I was surprised, this album was new for me. Cool that this guy inspired so many great artists though.

Points for doing something new. A little bit too heavy on the imaginary words for me. I had trouble deciding what review to give, but I think it has to be 3. This isn't really my kind of thing, but m.i.a is a good songwriter, and she is trying out a new sound. 6/10 There's a lot of filler.

Sometimes I think they started this band on a dare.

Boring seventies pop. Had to put it on hold for a few days. 2.5 rounding up.

Boring, all the same theme, only "cowritten" by Adele, and overall super mainstream 2010's pop. Wow. I guess her voice is good though. And some songs are catchy. Pretty funny how she ripped off that Brazilian dude.

I took a while to decide on this album. There was a review which called this cocaine pop, and that's pretty accurate. You like it, but not enough to know it's great, and just enough to keep you hooked. Simon Le Bon's lyrics are also bizarrely intoxicating. -1 star for catchiness, obviously. -1 star for instrumental quality (listen to the bass on the last two songs.) -0 stars for innovation. -Half a star for lyrics. He's not the best writer, I feel I could have written some of his stuff. -0 stars for album variety. The style is pretty formulaic. I'll round up, since I feel the catchiness reaches over and infects the other criteria. 3 stars. This album is a little too 80s.

Commonly classified under the metal subgenre of trash. First of all, you can't here anything that the singer is saying. Secondly, even if you could, it's all predictable, formulaic, nihilist garbage. All the songs sound the same, they have no sense of what's catchy, and they're trying so hard to be edgy that it makes them flop. Great drumming. Other than that, slipknot and nu-metal in general are trash.

I wanted to hate this album more than I ended up doing. Some of his lyrics are still super misogynistic and homophobic though. Stan is a good song. The skits and jokes are stupid. I'm confused. Kim is one of the songs I'm the most on the edge about. It's either a masterpiece or the most horrible, wife-abusing piece of shit I've ever heard. I guess I'll go with my system as usual: -1 star for innovation. -Half star for lyrics. Some stuff is great and some stuff is just plain awful. -1 half-star for instrumental/voice quality. His flow is nice. -0 stars for a good album mix. I don't care about the stupid skits. -1 full star for catchiness. Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Overall:3.5 stars But seriously, he grosses me out so much. I have to give it 2.

Prince is talented. But I got tired of the 9-minute songs of him screwing around with cheesy lyrics. Some great songs are on this record, but here's how I would rank it. -0.5 stars for lyrics. There's great stuff( All the critics love you in New York, delusional, free) but also a boat load of crap. -0.5 for catchiness. Again, some are amazing, and some are super boring. -1 for instrumental quality. Great guitar, and drums. -1 for innovation. You hear Prince in a lot of newer artists. -0 for a good mix throughout the album. Too much filler. Overall: A well-deserved three stars. 6/10

Good for what it is. Don't know much about jazz.

I expected less. Interesting lyrics, cool instrumentals, awesome variety, and some super catchy stuff. Hidden gem

Nice surprise! I didn't know this band; they seemed boring when I read about them. But this had some pretty good quality grunge, kind of like your favourite grunge band's favourite grunge band vibe. I can't give it 5 because they didn't change the genre or do anything super unique, but this is a good, engaging album. Much better than Soundgarden.

Axl Rose's stupid voice. Man. Slash is so good though. I'm torn. -1 star for instrumental quality. -1 star for catchiness. -0 for lyrics. Bro can't write songs. -0 for a good album mix. Too much similar-sounding stuff. -0 for innovation. Overall: 2 stars. Well deserved and won entirely by Slash.

Never listened to Nas before now. Pretty cool. -1 star for lyrics -1 star for good flow. -1 star for catchiness. -1 star for originality. -1 star for good album mix. More like 4.5 but round up.

Frank Sinatra meets Tom Lehrer meets Jacques Brel. Doesn't always work. -1 half-star for lyrics since this was mostly covers. - Half-star for instrumental quality; ie his voice. -Half a star for catchiness, it's hit-and-miss. -Half a star for innovation. -Minus 1 star for being repetitive. Thought it was gonna be 3, but I guess not. Eh, what the heck. He deserves a 3.

Booooooooooooooooooooring. I got really tired of the 13-minute tracks. -1 star for originality. -1 star for instrumentals. -Half a star for lyrics. Great when you can actually hear it. -Minus 1 for being a bad mix, repetitive and boring. -Minus 1 for not being catchy or singable or even danceable. Overall: 2.5, rounding down because this guy cannot write anything under 4 minutes long.

Too many Deep Purple albums on this list. They sound like The Doors and Black Sabbath had a baby, and he turned out uglier than both parents. You've got all the cheese of early '70s metal, without Ozzy Osbourne's lyrics and original style, and you've got the random organ solos and overly long songs of The Doors in all the wrong places, not pairing well with the rest of the band's feel or the singer's voice. I have no idea if they are good songwriters, since all I can hear is the instrumentals, and the vocal stuff I do hear makes me cringe. The only thing saving them from a 1 is the instrumental quality of the album and the catchy hooks throughout. Songs Saved: 1/7 Does it belong on this list? One Deep Purple record would have been enough. Certainly not this one. I did like Child in Time, even though it drags on a little too long. Worst song: Hard Lovin' Man.

Never listened to Iggy Pop before. Delightful. Clever lyrics, great melodies, catchy guitar riffs, and real punk spirit. Great. The producer work of David Bowie also shines through without cramping Iggy's style.

I don't get it. I've read through lyrics, pitchfork articles, other reviews, and I still don't get it. This just seems to me like a lazy, half-baked indie pop band that has a decent bassist and about nothing else going for them. This album is background music for incels while they play animal crossing or scroll through reddit fifty-fifty. The singer's voice is hushed and boring, the lyrics are semi-intellectual garbage, and there's not a trace of a song anyone could sing or find catchy at all. This album's saving grace is the bassist, who delivers plenty of good riffs throughout. So what if this dumb, unoriginal, badly named band invented a mix between modern R&B and alternative? No one needed that combination. The fact that their most played song on Spotify is the freaking instrumental intro just shows how fantastically mediocre this whole album is. All this without adding that the songs only differ from each other by the guitar and bass parts, because the singer's voice, tune and lyrics could all make up one song and no one would be the wiser. I rest my case. It's more like 1.5.

Didn't enjoy it. I guess it's meant to be artsy, but seriously, wtf. Obviously Zappa is a great guitar player, but he is so much better elsewhere. This is a stupid parody that forgets that music is meant to entertain. Where is the beauty, where is the tune, and where is the irony promised? This just seems like a parody of parodies. It doesn't have the cynical, dry humour of Tom Lehrer, and doesn't do justice to the strangeness of Tom Waits because it's trying so hard to be funny that it isn't working. Yeah. I like moking hippies too. But can we be smarter about it please?

Did I enjoy this album? Kind of. Is it great? Absolutely. -1 for lyrics, even though they are pretty hard to decipher sometimes. -1 for instrumentals, pretty unique sound. -1 star for catchy tunes. Dirty old town, dirty old tooooooooown. -1 star for being original. Punk and folk together is something I hadn't thought of mixing. -I'm docking one point for this album being too long and some boring songs. Also, the sound is too constant (not enough variety). I can see why it's here, and they are certainly doing something new and cool. It's just missing something. Not sure how to explain it. Also not really my style. Absolutely belongs on this list, but my enjoyment of it was probably 3/5.

Albums like this make me feel better about my own songwriting abilities.

What's not to like?

Kind of a jam. The lyrics are concise and clever, the sound is interesting and varies throughout, and this album brightened my morning overall. Albums like these are why I'm doing this project. Hidden gems I wouldn't have found otherwise.

It's alright, but couldn't I have listened to it after departing my earthly body? Perhaps on the elevator up to heaven. Assuming I'm going to heaven.

Halloween rock.

I think this album isn't supposed to be listened to. It's meant to get film companies interested in a product, as Wikipedia seems to say, and I agree. -1 star for the "concept" and the story. 1 star for the actual music, which makes an okay background, but isn't exactly a thing of beauty. This whole album left me wondering why no one ever made a movie.

What a guitarist. Longer than it needed to be. Also, I feel like Clapton's influence is overstated in the comments. He's not even the lead singer, and despite him being a racist pig, he's real talented.

Awesome in every way. Why I'm here.

I always bypassed CCR as just another silly Lynyrd Skynyrd southern rock band, but Forgerty is so talented.

This is super overrated. Pitchfork gave it a ten out of ten, which is preposterous. Making electronica requires very little real talent, and this album in general is very pretentious. In the end, my decision came down to this: -1 half star for instrumental quality. You're good with computers, so what? -1 half star for beauty in general there are some really pretty moments. -1 star for good production. -1 star for starting electronica, even though it sucks. Other than that, this album Is pretty mid, and the artists are pretty talentless.

I guess my dad was right. Love is overrated.

This is a 4.5, but I'm rounding up. Cosmo's Factory was better. I still dig. I think my enjoyment was 4/5, but I'm trying to be objective.