Am familiar with most of the hits here, but never listened through this album until now. I honestly assumed some of these tracks would have been spread out over more albums because there's so many bangers.
This was an easy one. Probably my favorite Radiohead album, and it's already in the rotation of records I return to with some regularity. I once heard it described as "Radiohead Paint by Numbers" but that just sounds like sour grapes. Every damn song is a banger and that 1-2 punch of Reckoner to House of Cards is *chef's kiss*.
Big fan of Thin Lizzy already and I've listened to this album a few times before. Their talent is on full display here, and I feel that if they didn't have such shit luck every time they tried to tour the States, they might've been even more successful. Alas... RIP Phil
Plenty familiar with the radio-hits from listening to the Oldies station growing up, but never listened to a full album of theirs. It's good! Just a nice American folk album with great harmonies. I'm also pleasantly surprised that I'm just learning that the strings sample in Jens Lekman's "Maple Leaves" is from "Do You Wanna Dance" Always thought it would have come from a more obscure song from the era.
Only Pogues album I'd listened to before was Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, though I've listened to Fairytale of New York plenty before, and this one just reinforced my existing opinion: The Pogues have some really good tunes, but their albums are pretty uneven. Shane MacGowan was a very talented songwriter but every time I hear this band I'm reminded of how fucking nasty his teeth are. I really only listen to them around St. Paddy's day, so good timing for this to show up in my album generator.
Another Radiohead? Alright that's fine. This one I actually listened to a lot at the time (I have vivid memories of listening to it while playing way too much Civ III when I should have been doing high school homework). Not one I come back to all that often anymore though; it really does come off as a bunch of leftovers from the Kid A sessions which I believe it more or less is. Funny thing is that I didn't really listen to Kid A until years later, go figure. Still like that one better though this is just fine though a bit uneven.
So it's been my intention to get more familiar with David Bowie's discography and I thought I had covered this one, but after checking my last.fm history, I guess not? Very sad about that because this is easily one of my favorites of his now. Love that transitory place it has between his earlier, funkier stuff and the krautrock he was about to explore more fully later on. Very happy to get to know this one.
I've tried to get into this album in the past due to its high praise and it still just does not do it for me. Aside from a couple of tracks that I DO love (Wouldn't It Be Nice & God Only Knows) most of the songs are way too cloying for me to really enjoy. I get that the production and song writing are a big leap for the band compared to their earlier work but the songs just aren't there for me, sorry Brian.
I'm a passing Yeah Yeah Yeahs fan and my favorite album is still probably Fever to Tell, even though I can admit that this one is more "mature" and sonically complex. Always been a fan of the track Hysteric and I like Heads Will Roll just fine. Checking my last.fm history, despite having listens from this album going back to the beginning of my account in 2010, I never actually listened to this all the way through until last year. Before that it was pretty much just the two tracks I noted above. Kind of rambling, but I guess my point is that even if other tracks don't quite reach the heights of those two, I probably should have given it a chance sooner as the whole thing is quite good!
More of a What's Going On fan, but you can't beat Let's Get It On for sexy mood music.
I feel like I need to actually watch the movie to fully understand this album, but there are so many great songs on here.
Smooth and groovin'
My god this album slaps. Timeless, good time party music.
Already one of my favorite albums, though I kinda missed it when it first came out, it doesn't take much to get me to listen to this one again. All My Friends is one of my top, all-time songs..
Like a lot of people my age, these songs remind me of my mom. Very nice tunes that I thought FOR SURE some of were covers, but nope, she wrote all of them (even if they were originally released by another artist). It's kind of crazy how ubiquitous some of these songs are STILL.
First pre-YHF album of Wilco's I've listened to. It's solid. Wilco is one of those bands that I think is very solid but I don't listen to often.
First album here where listening to it felt like homework. I'm not opposed to West African guitar music, I really like the music of Ali Farka Toure, but this was very boring and the singing was very high-pitched and fatiguing. I'm just over half-way through and I might have to bail...
Liked it better than I expected. Some real "not bad" moments.
Went in thinking I wasn't really in the mood for Aretha Franklin but then listened to 'Aretha Now' right after this one.
Never a huge fan of Eminem's music, though I recognize his obvious talent. It was always just too acerbic for my taste. Like, I'm glad he's out there doing his thing and I can understand where his rage came from. I guess I just never had that same resentment for people (and especially women) that he did in order to really connect with this material. Glad he seems to have chilled out later in life.
I like some of their tunes but overall The White Stripes never did it for me and that streak continues here.
This man is so horny. Great crooning.
This shit sucks so hard.
This was one of my first CDs so already very familiar with the album. It's nice to go back to it though it was a whole different media world at the time. I do wonder what it would have been like if Kurt were still around, but I feel like this world would have chewed him up and spit him out in some other way.
I still prefer mid to late era Beatles, but this is still fun.
Not really my thing BUT by the end of this I was ready to drink too much whisky, cheat at cards, and get into a bar fight. I was afraid that it was just going to be some generic butt-rock but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this. The Black Crowes was a band name I was familiar with but never really listened to their music before, so this is exactly why I'm going through this little listening project.
Fantastic body of work. Lot of material to digest though and some songs aren't as strong as others, but the strong ones are actual classics so...
As a kid, whenever the video for Sabotage came on MTV I would BLAST the volume as high as it could go, past the point where the shitty speakers on the 18" CRT I was watching on could handle without distorting. That song still pumps me up like few others.
Even still, I'm not sure I've listened to the album in full until today. I love how varied it is stylistically. Great shit and a great palate cleanser after trying to listen to Peggy Suicide.
This is the only era of U2 I can stand. Some of these tunes are very good (e.g. Sunday Bloody Sunday) but I've never been able to take them very serious given how sanctimonious and stupid Bono is.
Not my favorite Bob Marley record but still solid.
Bit of a hodge-podge, but some nice tunes nonetheless.
I didn't get into Pavement until more recently, but I already liked this album. As someone who grew up with the Smashing Pumpkins as my favorite band, "Range Life" always makes me chuckle.
Really liked the production on this, though some of the singing can come off as a little cloying. Listening to "Sex Dwarf" in the office (on my headphones!) made me laugh. Guess they were more than just "Tainted Love".
So I had a Velvet Underground phase in high school but somehow missed/didn't get to this album, which is a shame. I knew Pale Blue Eyes from a best-of compilation I had but the others were new to me. The album is more subdued than their more rocking material but I kind of dig the simplicity of it. "The Murder Mystery" was kind of a trip listening to on ear buds though, heh.
More of a collection of songs than a "properly" cohesive album, but that's just the era. The tunes are good though, some certified classics. I know I heard some of these listening to the oldies radio station growing up, but early rock and roll is a genre I haven't really explored so I'm glad this one came up.
It's fine. She was never really my thing so this is the first album of hers that I've listened to and I don't hate the music, but I have two criticisms: 1) It's long; 2) Some of the throwback references just make me want to listen to the things she's referencing instead, especially on the first disc which is more sample-heavy.
It's the Rolling Stones... What can I say? I was always more of a Beatles fan. I like a few of the tracks here but it's not really blowing my socks off.
Whenever I think of Ray Charles, I think of his cameo in Spy Hard, playing himself as a bus driver.
Anyways, the music here is pretty good but I didn't really connect with it fully.
Good crooning but the songs are a bit too repetitive.
I'm only cursorily familiar with Talk Talk; I've listened to a couple of their albums but not this one. I find them intriguing in that the music is so sparse (particularly on later albums) but the production is so good. I think I need a few more listens of this one to digest but it's very good.
I hate the Doors. Only listened to half of the album. Maybe I'll come back to IIT for the rest... someday.
Put off listening to this previously because of the dour circumstances of its release, fearing that the music would be equally dour, and I was kind of right. It's fine I guess but not the revelation I've seen it described as.
First time listening to this one all the way through. It's an interesting start, but that old-school MC delivery style can get a little repetitive after a while.
Was never a huge Metallica fan, was more a punk kid than a metalhead, but the song Master of Puppets always gets me fucking PUMPED.
So back when I was growing up, the local news station my parents watched in the morning would play "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" during the traffic report so now whenever I hear that song I still get this weird trigger where I remember being a kid and it's way earlier than I want to be awake, waiting for my mom to make me Eggo waffles for breakfast or something...
Anyways, that song is a timeless banger. Shout and Head Over Heels are also both good, but the rest just feels like an exercise in studio wankery.
I've listened to this album before and I just cannot get over how dull the last few tracks are. A Forest is a banger though.
I've tried listening to this before. Meh.
Country is one of my weakest genres when it comes to music knowledge, but I could kind of tell right away that I would be on board with Waylon Jennings' music. Really liked this one.
Pretty good stuff. La Grange (a song I already liked) was still probably the best of the bunch.
Bohemian Rhapsody is the obvious standout here, though the rest ain't bad.
Very big album for me growing up. Not sure what else there is to say.
I like this band but I've listened to this album a few times and only a few songs ever stick. Probably better live.
A bit long but still you gotta give credit for the creativity on display.
It's stupid how good this album is. Sucks that Kanye the person is so dogshit now.
I listen to The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn just about every St. Patrick's day; it's an all-time banger. But then the next track The Old Main Drag is damn near unlistenable. This sums up my feeling on this album, and on the Pogues in general: some really great songs (Dirty Old Town is another, though this may be nostalgia talking) and some absolute dreck (Navigator, I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day, others). This tends to fall along the high-energy, fast song vs. slow song divide because those slow songs really fucking drag and Shane MacGowan (RIP) is not that great of a crooner.
It's alright. I didn't hate it but after a while all the songs sound the same and I started to wonder when each damn track was going to finally be over, especially on the back half.
(What's the Story) Morning Glory was one of my first CDs but I don't think I've ever listened to this one before, probably because I assumed the above would be true.
One of those albums that I can't listen to it's too real and it makes me think about things too seriously and then I can't function.
Excellent.
He never did quite manage to reach those Odelay heights again, did he?
Never cared all that much for the Rolling Stones.
Never cared all that much for the Rolling Stones.
