I’ve been wanting to listen to a Brian Eno album during this project, and this was a solid start. It’s pretty out there in terms of lyrics and the production, but still an enjoyable listen. Extremely experimental and creative.
Bunch of hits on here. Really rocking. Great record to start off with.
Wasn’t a huge fan. Talented musicians and fine production, but none of it really resonated.
Strong sense of cohesion throughout the album, similar to contemporary early concept albums like Pet Sounds and Sgt Pepper. Feelings of nostalgia, preservation of the past, and tradition are evoked throughout listening along with portraits of people of the village green.
Album was fine. Feels like the kind of album I should develop a connection with but didn’t. Nothing really caught my ear outside of Yellow and Don’t Panic which I’ve heard of before and enjoy. However, solid production and it clearly cohesive. An album I’ll have to revisit.
Never heard of this album or this group so I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Really dreamy sound to it. I’ll definitely be listening to this album again.
Great listen. The percussion really drives this album. Very groovy, I really enjoyed it.
Definitely a classic. Great mix of genres throughout the album.
I’ve never listened to a Carole King album all the way through, let alone had any of her songs on my playlists, yet I still found a lot of these songs to be very familiar. Ton of classics on here.
Definitely found the second side of this album more interesting than the first. The rock songs on the first side, though all solid, got a bit repetitive but the second side really changed it up. Fine precursor to Village Green.
I’ve never listened to a Queen album in full. I’ve heard the classic songs numerous times and never heard any of these songs here, but this album really caught me off guard. This is the kind of album that I wouldn’t listen to its songs individually or in a playlist but only in full, kind of like some of my favorite Pink Floyd albums. It works extremely well as a complete unit.
Two of the three songs I know from The Beta Band open this album, but I never thought to check out the rest. Really solid album. The tone is very mellow and intriguing, and the feel is almost psychedelic. Some parts of the album are a bit too repetitive and monotonous, but that just adds to the droning nature of it.
Exceptional album, a collection of solid rock songs. I will say, I feel like there weren’t too many standouts aside from the title track, but I still feel that the songs are all great.
Fine album, only a few standouts and 1-2 songs I didn’t really like. Overall, I liked the big sound. Springsteen’s vocals sometimes really works for me and sometimes it doesn’t. Still enjoyed listening all the way through.
Some songs I just couldn’t bear the singer’s voice, and the other songs I just didn’t care for. Some of it was pretty groovy, but there was probably only one song that I thought was okay in full which was ‘Dancing’. Maybe with the right vocals, this could be a better album as the production itself was solid. Otherwise, I wasn’t a huge fan.
If you asked someone who didn’t like heavy metal or punk rock what they thought the genre was like, this album is probably what they’d come up with. Nothing pleasant to say about the listening experience aside from it being shorter than most albums.
Just an alright listen. Felt it got a bit boring and monotonous at times. I liked the rhythm, but the vocals and production weren’t really for me. Wasn’t a fan of the interludes. ‘Waterfalls’ was definitely the standout, though it was the only track I knew before listening.
I listened to the first Led Zeppelin album only a couple minutes before listening to this album in preparation for it. I really loved the first album so this album in comparison was only slightly weaker to me; however, I still really liked this one for all the same reasons as the first. The music doesn’t stop. It just keeps going. There’s no fat, no filler. The band is so tight and they’re masters at the instruments they play. Insane listening experience.
Solid album. I’d give it a 7/10 but I’ll round up to 4 stars. Sounds like lots of inspiration from the British Invasion. Thought I heard some bits from the Kinks, but it all comes pretty close sounding to Oasis too. Enjoyable rock album. The first two songs were definitely the strongest for me.
Okay listen. Didn’t really care for most of it, but some of it was intriguing to hear. “The Conference” was an interesting one because I found it unpleasant to listen to but I liked the idea of it with this back and forth nonsense between the vocalists. I think there was a lot that’s special in the tracks, but overall I didn’t enjoy it that much.
Never heard a Kanye album in full so when people say they miss the old Kanye, I get it now. Like REALLY get it now. Great beats, great samples, great album. Enjoyed it all the way through and I thought the skits were hilarious.
I did find merit in the mixture of genres including Indian, folk, psychedlic, Baroque, and medieval(?) music, but overall, I didn’t really enjoy the listening experience. I kind of just tumbled through it. It felt like a combination between early Pink Floyd music with the electric guitars removed and the lofi production of Smiley Smile. Very odd album, and definitely made that way. Just felt like a novel oddity of the times.
Very suave and smooth album. So funky. I listen to these albums during my morning commutes so this album made me feel like I was in a chase. Made my drive a lot more entertaining. Extremely fitting soundtrack for a movie called Super Fly.
A perfect album. Beautifully tragic and deeply emotional. An ingenious blend of rock and electronic elements and a display of Radiohead’s progression in their musical evolution. The purposeful excess of the electronic noise and the heaviness of the guitars never fails for the emotion and the feelings of the music to come through. Fantastic album.
Solid album but nothing really popped out to me. I always appreciate the musicianship of jazz albums but I’d say only one song resonated with me on this one, which was “Manenberg Revisted”. The title track was fine too. The rest felt pretty run of the mill. All in all, a pleasant listen but nothing surprising.
I thought the production was good, and I liked the title track. Aside from that, not much really got me. I wasn’t a huge fan of the songs themselves though I feel like for a lot of them, if I give them a listen a couple more times, I could really grow to like them. Otherwise, this album on first listen was just okay for me.
Lots of classics on here that I really love, though some of the songs I didn’t know made the album slightly less impressive to me. They definitely share the same feel as the songs I already knew but just fell short. This album’s still a 9/10 to me because the hits really do hit. Dancing Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You, and Fernando all on the same album is a gift.
Fine listen but nothing stood out to me. Not much to say about this one, just solid jazz.
Extremely engaging and grand at times. I appreciate the technicality of this album, but I think I just don’t like jazz. The lack of melodic structure is too bewildering for me, though I can definitely understand how others can fall in love with pieces like this. If I heard and saw this performed live, I probably would. Could also be I’m not accustomed to this kinda music. For the time being, it’s a 7/10 for me. Also found out this album was recorded very close to my office, which is pretty neat.
Solid blues album. Extremely influential for its time. I had a fine time listening though nothing very surprising to me. Still, I definitely see its merit in its legacy.
Funky, groovy album. Though there were some lulls throughout only because I think it’s missing the visual element of the movie itself, but when it hits, it hits. I think I enjoyed listening to the Super Fly soundtrack more, but I found this entertaining.
Great album, though I think I need more time to really like it. The two songs I knew from it already, Hello It’s Me and I Saw the Light, stood as the best songs on the album by a large extent. Overall great production and soulful backing vocals throughout. I was hoping for more even from a double album, but with a couple listens, I think I could rank it higher.
I’ve listened to this album once before and I think I liked it better on this listen. Very interesting sound mostly because of the flute that’s played throughout. Parts of it sound like tales recited by a bard. Very strong rock album.
I was expecting just another rock album from a band I’ve never heard of but I got way more than that. The first four tracks were extremely strong for me. I was already hooked by the first song. The next three songs were a bit of a lull but still a fine listen nonetheless. And then it ends off with Free Bird, nuff said. Great album.
Fine album. Repetitive at times, but always very catchy and groovy. I think I’d really enjoy it if I heard it played live. I think my favorite song was the last one, which is a live recording. I really liked the atmosphere on that one.
This album had a decent number of moments that I liked, but overall there weren’t any songs that I enjoyed. I did appreciate the keyboards and the tight drums, but for the most part, I either found it unpleasant or of little substance and I wanted more.
It’s just not for me. Objectively, it’s a solid album, but I personally didn’t enjoy it much. Out of all the songs, I only liked Brendan 1 so I was disappointed to find there was no Brendan 2. The band was tight, and there’s no question they’re talented. It just didn’t get me.
I liked the atmosphere and feel of the album, but I felt the songs fell short. They didn’t sound complete and I wanted more from all of them.
This is my second hearing the album and I think I enjoyed it more than the first time. It’s a fine album throughout and it’s definitely got a consistent sound, but I feel that it doesn’t offer much more than that. Maybe it’ll grow on me but for now there’s nothing too striking to me, so it’s hard to rate it anything more than a 7/10. Simply a collection of rock songs.
Thought this album would be too heavy for me, and it definitely was at some points. Overall, I enjoyed the listen. Very groovy at times, but it really shreds. Solid listen.
Thought I would like this one better. My mom’s a big fan of them and I enjoy listening to West End Girls, but the production got too repetitive and corny for me. With a different arrangement, I think a lot of these songs could be really great. So the songs themselves were solid, but the execution of the album as a whole was off.
Beautiful album. Really big and grand production that accompanies Elton’s iconic voice. All of the songs were great, but the title track was probably my favorite aside from Tiny Dancer, which needless to say is an absolute classic. This is the first Elton John album I’ve heard in full length and I found it very captivating.
While Pet Sounds is my favorite album of all time and truly Brian Wilson’s masterpiece, Sunflower, Surf’s Up, and all of the music in between represents the pinnacle of the collaboration between the members of the Beach Boys. It marks a time where they reached their potential as a group. In addition to their grand creative efforts, the themes of this album really show off what I love most about this band. If The Beatles and their music are the representation of the best of life and the world, then the Beach Boys and their music are the representation of something more human. Flawed, but redeemable. The Beatles stand so high up, they’re unreachable and it’s difficult sometimes to relate to them, but the Beach Boys are an open book. They put their struggles on display like in A Day In The Life of a Tree and ‘Til I Die, and they’ll also let you know that you can turn things around for the better, in songs like Long Promised Road and Feel Flows. There’s so much heart in their music that anyone can relate to because they went through so much themselves. There’s never been any genius like Brian Wilson. His songs will be played on forever and he will be dearly missed. Love and mercy.
Overall, found this album annoying to listen to. It just sounds like he’s truing so hard to be edgy. “My Name Is” is a classic and there’s a lot of great lyrics throughout, but I just couldn’t get with the rest of it. Wasn’t a fan of the skits either. I can see why other people would like this album, but it wasn’t for me.
Nothing really stood out to me, just another hard rock album. Nothing really bad to say either, but it just wasn’t anything special for me.
This album was a bit too heavy for me but I still dug it. I really liked Dave Grohl’s vocals throughout. Strong album.
Nice relaxing ambient music. Nothing crazy but just solid jazz.
Tight band and great musicianship, but pretty run of the mill stuff. Nothing very interesting, but still fine rock.
Great energy throughout, but a bit too repetitive and uniform. Kinda felt like I was listening to the same song the whole time. Still a solid listen.
Beautiful album. Listening to this all the way through was quite the experience. This is the first 5 stars I’m giving to an artist I don’t know much about. I think I’ve only heard one song of his. Massive range in sound and genres and a lot of great themes in this. Each song kept me on my feet.
Really great instrumentation on this. Bragg’s voice is very distinct, but I enjoyed listening to him. Very folky. Solid listen.
Interesting sounding album. The singer sounds a bit like Bowie at times and even like Roger Waters for some songs. Enjoyed listening to this album.
The blasting horns make this album sound extremely grand. The percussion also adds so much energy. Very energetic and groovy record. It kept me on my feet.
Solid album. Very vibrant sounding and each song sounded very enticing and compelling. I don’t usually listen to a lot of non-English albums so I’m glad I got exposed to this one.
This album cover looks so familiar and recognizable to me but I’ve never listened to the album. The vocal stack throughtout the whole album is so tight and lush. Precisely well crafted. The entire album is a work of art filled with great folk songs.
I really liked the first half of the album a lot more than the second. Starting out, the songs had a really full sound with great samples, but maybe the novelty diminished as I listened for longer. Still a solid album. Almost a 5 star for me had it stuck the landing.
I really wanted to like this album more, but I think it wasn’t for me. There were a ton of great moments and riffs that I likee, but as a whole it just didn’t get me. Iron Man and Fairies Wear Boot were great though. Maybe on a few relistens I’ll warm up to it more.
Thought the psychedelic blend of eastern and western music was cool for a bit until I got bored with it halfway through. The last song was pretty memorable but that’s about it. Still solid playing.
Middle tier Radiohead for me. Lots of beautiful parts in this album, but other parts linger on for a bit too long. It’s not as good as Kid A and I can’t help but see it as its rejects being placed onto this album, but still a solid album in its own right.
Solid album. Nothing very out of the ordinary about it for me, but just a bunch of good songs. R.E.M.’s one of the bands this project’s got me more interested in so I was glad to listen to this one. 7/10 for me. However, I will note that this album is a bit unremarkablefor me, so much that I just realized a while after this listenthrough that I already listened to this album a few months back and I completely forget about it.
Lots of variety in this album. I was thinking it’d just be another rock album but there was a good mix of genres. Shame it’s not fully on Spotify.
I wish I liked this album more because I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. Outside of the two songs I already heard from it, there weren’t any others that I liked. It’s definitely a competently made and produced record, but just not my cup of tea.
Metal’s just not for me. I really did try to loosen up and listen, but I think it’s just too heavy. I can definitely appreciate the musicianship and the guitarist shreds, but with all the noise, it gets too caught up in itself. The title track was probably the one I liked out of all of them, and each song had its moments, but I overall couldn’t enjoy listening to this album.
Pretty crazy this was released in 1977 since I definitely could’ve confused it for something released in the early 2000s. That being said, while it sounds ahead of its time, it sounded too on the nose with a lot of other stuff I’ve already heard before. It was solid stuff but nothing too great to me.
Couldn’t get into this one. Aside from the beats on some of the tracks, there was nothing I liked from this album. For some songs, it felt like the backing was unfit for the vocals.
Solid album. Very unique sounds and production. The only relation I had to this album initially was to the first track, that was sampled in an Avalanches song that I really like. Otherwise, it was a great first listen to the rest of the album.
Definitely an entertaining listen. Very 80s. Nothing too amazing about it to me, but I enjoyed it. Very funky.
Strong album and great production, though I personally couldn’t get into it but I wish I could. Definitely had its moments and there’s a lot of creativity in this one.
Rocking album. Enjoyed listening to this one. Great energy.
Very energetic and angry. Lots of variety. I really liked the vocals and the production on this one. Might be a band I come back to.
Very pleasant listen. The album ranges from some delightful easy listening to heavier more experimental songs. Even though I didn’t understand a thing and it was on the longer side, I still enjoyed the listen.
Great album. I’m not really into punk, but I still enjoyed listening to this one. Very tight band, and there were some basslines I really liked.
Solid rap album. Great samples on a couple of the tracks. I liked listening to this one. Also the more of the old Kanye I hear, the more I miss him.
I really liked this album more than Paranoid. Felt like there was a lot more variation, but the rock songs were great. The opener and Changes were some of my favorites. Rest in peace Ozzy Osbourne. We’ve been losing a lot of musical icons, and he was an absolute legend.
Gotta say I expected more from this one. I’ve listened to Wilco here and there for a while now, and I listened to my first of Billy Bragg during this project a couple months ago. For both artists, I really liked what I already heard, so I figured it’d be a great combination. To me, it kinda fell flat. Bit too much country for my taste. The songs themselves were well produced, but I just wasn’t a fan of most of them.
I was really excited to listen to this one and it didn’t disappoint. I already knew 4 of the 10 songs, and I was glad to hear the songs that were new to me to carry on the same style and quality. Very funky and groovy. The lyrics of each song tell a story, and each is so enticing. 9/10 album for me.
I feel like this is the kind of album I shouldn’t like, but I still found it to be a very complete and cohesive listening experience. Bit psychedelic here and there. Found it overall to be a soothing listen.
A charming and delightful album. Nothing groundbreaking about it, just a pleasant listen.
Definitely a very consistent album in tone, which is fine because I like their sound. There were a couple standouts and overall I enjoyed the listen.
I wish I liked this album more. Very consistent feel but it’s not for me. The first track is excellent though, and sweet cover art.
There’s a few songs that I reeeally like on here. The rest just fall flat and make listening through the full hour a bit of a hassle. Just an alright debut album.
Very experimental sounding album. Lots of 60s influence from The Who and The Kinks. Parts of it reminded me of Village Green. Catchy stuff.
Led Zeppelin’s probably the band I’ve enjoyed the most so far since starting this project. While this is still a solid album in general, I don’t enjoy it as much as their earlier albums. I found a lot of these songs to be nothing special. I also found that I’m in the minority in that I enjoy the second disc more than the first. In any case, to me it’s a fine album but an okay Led Zeppelin album.
Lots of variety on this one. The songs felt very distinct from each other. Great production. Felt like there was some surf rock influence on this.
I found this album to be pretty bland and uninspired. At first, I found the Baroque influence to be intriguing, but it went away pretty quickly as I realized I did not like the vocals on these tracks. I couldn’t take the lyrics seriously and the backing track was just okay.
Very peaceful and mystical album. The instrumentation is very enticing and enchanting, coupled with Nick’s beautiful voice. I did find some points in the album to be a bit of a lull, but overall I enjoyed it.
I’ve been wanting to listen to a Brian Eno album during this project, and this was a solid start. It’s pretty out there in terms of lyrics and the production, but still an enjoyable listen. Extremely experimental and creative.
So many great songs on here that I’ve listened to for a while now. Very jazzy album with some great sample usage. Started listening to A Tribe Called Quest back in high school but never thought to listen to a full album. Glad I got started with this one.
Solid instrumentation, but this album got so monotonous and repetitive quickly. If this album was half the time it currently is, it would’ve been a lot more enjoyable. As ambient music, this album would be great, but as something to be listened to, it was a struggle to find any sort of variation in the music. Tough listen.
Nick Drake has such a pure and stripped-back sound. I listened to Five Leaves Left, and I think I liked Pink Moon just slightly more. Bryter Layter takes it for me right now, because I like the production and instrumentation of that one more. For now, I would’ve like more from this album, but I can see it being one I warm up to, more than I already enjoyed it.
Very grand album. I think I enjoyed the second side over the first. The first side definitely had its moments, but the parts in between felt too much like filler. Great vocals and instrumentation, but overall, the album drags at points. After listening, I stepped back and questioned if I really got an album’s worth of music from the runtime it had.
This album evokes such a clear and vivad image of wandering around the streets alone at night, just introspecting pondering endlessly about heartbreak. I understand the complaint of all the songs all being about the same thing and that there’s little variation. I think my main problem with the album is that it definitely could'ver been shorter. Cut it down by a few songs. Still, the consistency across the songs is less of a problem to me as it enhances its quality as a concept album. Heartbreak is such a engulfing and encapsulating feeling that when you’re experiencing it, it’s all you can think about. I think it works very well for this album in how it reflects that there’s so much longing in his thoughts that he can’t break out of focusing on anything else. A very picturesque album that paints feelings and fixations on sorrow, regret, and melancholy coupled with a walk through the lonely night.
Tracy has such an effortlessly precise voice. Very compelling listen, though the music at times lost my interest. But I think the themes and lyrics really hooked me. My favorite songs were probably the first two.
Very enjoyable and delightful listen. Felt like listening to a dream. Couple different genres mixed in throughout the albums that act as a precursor to a lot of modern music. The influence it has is very apparent. I think this is an album I’ll come back to.
Definitely an 80s album. Usually, I’m a sucker for heavy 80s stuff, but this was just alright. I feel like there were a couple of standout moments, though I was hoping for me. The parts in between couldn’t hold my attention.
This album’s not really my cup of tea, but I thoufht more people would’ve liked it. Not sure if most of the negative reviews are because the wrong Spotify link was used. Anyway, while I’m not into the heavier stuff, there were still a few songs I appreciated. Fine album, but just personally not my thing.
I remember seeing the photos from the photoshoot of this album, and I thought it was the coolest thing. I was excited to listen to this album. Overall, it’s solid, but some of the songs are just too similar to me, not only across the album but also across his other albums at the time. Dylan’s work is known for his lyrics, and they definitely shine throughout all his songs. I think my focus is more on the music, so when it’s the same acoustic guitar and harmonica solo routine, the novelty only goes on for so long before it loses my intrigue. Still a lot of standouts on this album.
This album is by no means bad. Aside from the inconsistent themes, there’s nothing I can objectively say against this album. lt’s simply just not what I like listening to. That being said, there’s still a lot of good I can say about it, like the harmonies and the iconic hits on the front end. Though I recognized the singles, I did find the slower songs in the second half more enjoyable. I’d probably give it a 2.5/5.
What a voice. Really rocking album. Joplin’s vocals really soar above all the songs. Enjoyed listening to this on very much.
I found the first 5 songs of the album to be either uninteresting or too out there for me. Mother was a difficult listen. However, I really liked the last 5 songs. Every Breath You Take is such a classic. Some of the others sounds right up there with it. Mixed bag of an album.
I actually listened to this album paired with Streetheart, thinking it was a double album. I think I enjoyed Streetheart slightly more, but this album had more standouts. Anyway, my main problem with the songs on this album is the lagging tempo of a couple of them. It brings this laziness to the songs, which I’m not sure was intended, but it really feels like it stretches them out. I still enjoyed the listen and found a lot of songs I liked from the two albums. Had this been the double album I thought it was, it might’ve raised the score for me. I don’t tire of Dion’s voice, and a lot of this music is the kind you can just sit back and relax to.
I thought the first song was interesting, but the rest of it was mostly pretty boring. Some songs just felt very monotonous. The vocals really dragged the songs on. Overall, dreamy but sometimes enough to put me to sleep.
Listening to this was torture. You could not pay to hear this again. I can’t even classify this as music. At least Scum by Napalm Death had the decency to sound remotely like music. This was just noise. For almost an hour. I’d give this 0 stars if I could.
I feel like I’ve really liked everything I’ve heard from Queen so far. Really grand album. Freddie Mercury’s vocals are iconic. The harmonies are so lush. The band’s tight. Really rocking album. I was pretty baffled by how good it was while listening to it.