Rating: 5/5 | Favorite Track: Black Math --- One of my favorite albums from the garage rock revival movement and an album that really got me into music to begin with. This is such a fantastic blend of garage, punk, and blues.
Rating: 4/5 | Favorite Track: Today --- Even though I'm not too into 90's grunge and similar alt rock, this is still a really solid album.
Rating: 5/5 | Favorite Track: Take It or Leave It --- One of my all time favorite albums, pretty much as close to perfect as an album can be in my opinion. The best example of the 2000's garage rock revival.
Rating: 4/5 | Favorite Track: Just --- I much prefer Radiohead's art rock albums that come later, but this still a very solid alt rock sound.
Rating: 3.5/5 | Favorite Track: Without You --- This is my first introduction to Harry Nilsson, and I was pleasantly surprised with this album. Fairly standard classic rock sound and altogether pleasant listen.
Rating: 3.5/5 | Favorite Track: Bring Da Ruckus --- Admittedly, I am not well-versed in hip-hop, and I know I will reevaluate this album eventually. However, for now, it really isn't my thing.
Rating: 2/5 | Favorite Track: Just One Fix --- I tend to find a lot of metal music boring and only like a handful of industrial tracks. Combining the two results in an album I just don't care for. I also just generally dislike music wrapped in a shock/Edgy™ aesthetic.
Rating: 3/5 | Favorite Track: L.A. Woman --- I love the psychedelic tracks from the Doors, not so much the blues rock. Not a bad album, but not one I will return to often.
Rating: 3/5 | Favorite Track: I Should've Known --- Inoffensive, but a little forgettable. Most of the songs really blend together in a bit of a bland way. It's a fine album, but not for me.
Rating: 3/5 | Favorite Track: Friend of the Devil --- Totally bored by this release. All of the tracks blended together into this bland, homogeneous, generic country sound I did not care for.
Rating: 3/5 | Favorite Track: Night By Night --- Eh, it’s fine. None of the tracks really stood out to me with the sole of exception of the funk rock of Night By Night. I just get quite bored by this safe sounding jazz rock and blues rock.
Rating: 3.5/5 | Favorite Track: Born to Run --- Not big on heartland rock but I have a lot of respect for Bruce Springsteen as a songwriter, especially with his incorporation of progressive politics into his music. I probably won't listen to this album too often, but the title track is a classic.
Rating: 4/5 | Favorite Track: Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart --- This was my introduction to Manic Street Preachers and I did not expect to like this album as much as I did. Political alternative rock with a nihilistic, dark post-punk edge. An excellent listen even with the challenging content matter pervasive throughout.
Rating: 3.5/5 | Favorite Track: Family Entertainment --- The Undertones are a fantastic classic punk band, but I prefer their singles like "Teenage Kicks" and "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It!)". The first side of this album is really fun pop punk, but the second side really starts to drag. I want this to be a 4/5 album, but it doesn't quite make it.
Rating: 5/5 | Favorite Track: Exit Music (For a Film) --- One of my favorite albums of all time. Cold, atmospheric, and explores themes of alienation and loneliness that still resonate today. What can praise can I give for this album that hasn't been said before?
Rating: 3/5 | Favorite Track: Life's What You Make It --- I found most of this album quite boring – I am no way a big fan of the "sophisti-pop" side of new wave. There were a few tracks I didn't mind, but on the whole this album feels forgettable.
Rating: 3/5 | Favorite Track: Camping Next to Water --- A couple of pretty good songs in a pretty forgettable album. I found this album to be far too long and lacked a lot of forward momentum making listening to this to be a dull experience. Overall, it's just fine.
Rating: 2.5/5 | Favorite Track: Heaps of Sheeps --- Usually I am a fan of more artsy, experimental albums, but this came across as a little too pretentious, even for me. I did not care for Wyatt's off-key singing, and when the backing instrumentation wasn't being purposefully off-putting, it was simply boring. My love for Brian Eno couldn't even save this album for me.