It has a soothing quality throughout with the exception of "Cars are Cars", which was an agitating disrupter of a tune. Apart from that song the rest of the album was monotone lacking instrumental and vocal dynamism. I can't think of an occasion when I would be compelled to listen to it again.
A frustrating and tedious listen.It's aptly titled in that each track feels like an introduction building to something more engaging, but the rug is pulled every time as the proceeding track is another haunted house themed slog. There are some soundtrack worthy beats.
One note throughout, and that not is hot oil and candle wax on the nipples!
Conjures memories of 90's era romantic comedies and my emotionally-abusive father. Fantastic!
They display good range in this varied collection. If you like this, you'll love Flight of the Conchords. Irony or intention?
Raw kinetic aggression from the golden age of thrash metal. If you are listening to this while sedentary, without turning it up to nearly unbearable volume, you're doing it wrong. Take your creamy shits and get back to Weenie Hut Jr. If you need to build a fence in a day, turn it on and turn it up. Would be a perfect score with a couple more face-melting solos.
Credit for pioneering hard rock. This is way crunchier than the Stones or Zeppelin, but it's a bit of a snooze i'nit? As for catchy riffs or hooks, nothing really stuck with me.
A pretty good piece of proto-psychadelic surf rock. What sounded like a guy making mouth bongo sounds on several of the tracks was an especially nice touch.
I'm more impressed with where Missy went than where she got started. She's like a guest on here own album here. Mostly nice jams for slow-humpin' ya girl, but it's a little boring.
For the artist, there is probably something deeply and personally profound about this, but musically, it's distilled shit. Why bother with the pauses between "songs" when you're going to resume with the same droll nonsense. Much like the films of Wes Anderson, this is the type of bullshit that pretentious people like because they think they are supposed to. I like the album cover.
It's very good, but I don't do those drugs anymore.
It's good old-head stuff, but I've been overexposed to this type of music due to many years of riding around in a crew van with the radio tuned to the classic rock station.
The album feels like the soundtrack from one of those Cameron Crowe films in which nothing really happens, but it gets by on vibes. Feels like summer and I like it.
I'm not sure why this album makes the list over multitudes of similar, very accessible jazz works, but it is good entry level stuff for people wanting to dip the toe.
This is iconic stuff from the last days of the golden era of hip hop. This is iconic stuff. It's too bad the dipshit had to continue to play gangster after becoming successful.
OG Metallica fans will, to a person, list Justice as their best work, and I agree. Those same fans would say it is their last good album. I include the Black album as a good album, even though it launched them into the mainstream and they've been wilting since. This is their opus.
What the everloving fuck is this generic 90's pop rock bullshit doing here? There was a time when one could cast a line into the ocean and inevitably reel up one of these bands. From Toadies to Meat Puppets and Presidents of The USA, this sound was pervasive and undeniably... mid. Ironic timing that this album came up following Metallica's best work, because that's how it went down, and everything rock tasted a bit worse thereafter.
The aggregator's affinity with early works is beginning to come off as that of an SNL parody of a music snob. Focusing on what put them on the map takes away from the ultimate destination of a best-in-a-generation band, and may even dissuade new listeners. This album has a couple great tunes that will surely tickle the melancholy bone of the emo dweebs, but it pales in comparison to subsequent records, and now I have to give 3 stars to a 5-star band.
Real Mortal Kombat type of stuff.
It comes with too much you-had-to-be-thereism to be an album one "must hear", but if you were there you know. A quick watch of the "Break Stuff" video from the horrific Woodstock '99 will give you a glimpse at the hype they had at the time. These guys along with Korn ushered in the mercilous but (thankfully) short-lived Nu Metal scene. Victims of their own success, they drowned in a deluge of imitators.
I've managed to never intentionally hear the Smith's for my entire life thus far, and I will not begin now. Morrissey is a proper c**t.
Classic old-school with funky samples from a time when hip hop was about shakin' it, and not all your past and future crimes.
Doesn't stand the test of time. This is the guy who brings the acoustic guitar to the party and instead of playing songs everyone can sing along with, he wants to play you some of his "originals", totally killing the vibe.
Pretty good angsty teen stuff. Maybe one song too long.
Isn't musical preference a peculiar thing?
I liked hearing some of the lesser played songs again.
Beck created his own genre. It's like the beastie boys on heroin. Good stuff.
This fella is bad at singing.
That grimy, soulful voice will live on forever.
A wild collection of spastic cacophony, strictly for the snootiness jazzophiles. WARNING: This album may cause epileptic seizures.
It's more good old-head stuff.
Jesus cult chants from deep within a cave.
Takes me back, but it's extremely dated.
Same as yesterday's album. Dated AF.
It was a bold choice to release this as a rock album, so bold they made a movie about it. Things worked out pretty well for these fellas...except for Freddie. He died of the aids.
Ironically, I feel like Reggae is the among the "whitest" music genres. I hear this and can only picture a horde of dreadlocked hippies swaying around in a dusty field or some corn-rowed college spring-breakers chugging from hollowed out coconuts.
A full box of sock hop slappers from the legendary boogie-woogie spazz. It is, however a little redundant.
Passable as a film score, skipable as a stand alone.
It's much better than today's weird hip-hop, pop rock, country hybrid trash.
I've always thought Bjork was a cool and unique person, but I've never been able to make it through an entire album.
I can always take mo' Motown.
Some real C.S.I. test tube and beaker shit. If you like the first 30 seconds of a particular song, you're in luck, because it won't change. No bridge, no chorus, no key change, just the same thing all the way through. The final track switches it up a bit, but too little, tool ate(I'm leaving the typo because Tool eats this shit alive). If you don't immediately like the song, save some time and go ahead and skip to the next.
I've never been much of a Sabbath or Ozzy fan, but they were definitely pioneers of a genre.
Really good stuff. This maybe the first one I'm happy to have discovered from this scatter-shot list. I like her voice and funky chops.
Kinda mid. It has some flourishes of greatness, but he got better after this
I'm sure Michelangelo had some sick finger paintings too. Why would anyone listen to this when Raising Hell(⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐exists?
At this run time, it's not the best for a straight playthrough, but when one of the best vocalists of all time is singing the best showtunes of all time the result s'wonderful.
The old-school NY hipsters loved to tell you that you had to listen to this. It's decent, gritty stuff. I kind of liked it.
A stellar debut from the eighties' preeminent Bop-it based band.
Flav-A-FLAAAAAAV! I've probably listened to this album a hundred times.
For me, Gorillaz is more of a product than a band. Benefiting from already having that Blur $, they were able to combine their titular album with badass animated video without any sort of come up. No buzz, no fan base, they just drop the Clint Eastwood video at a time MTV was still a thing, and it was massive. It's brilliant marketing. It's impossible for me to hear Gorillaz without visualizing those creepy caricatures. That said, the music is good. 4 stars for the album, 5 stars as a product
Too soon for another one.
It's alright, but I'm to filled with rage to enjoy it.
Kind of beautiful, kind of scary. I like it.
Elvis in his Taylor Swift era
Pretty good, but I became less engaged as it went on
Not as grating as some of his stuff, but still no.
It all sounds like an advert for boner pills.
For a guy who calls himself "The Edge"? Just sayin'.
The composition is very good, but it's a little sad-sacky for me.
Legendary stuff that makes me want to shake it.
I don't want to say this is awful, but to me, this is awful. Mid music, mid vocals. It must be about the lyrics or something.
Decent, but it wore thin toward the end. Somewhat dated.
I like Chicago/Delta blues in moderation.l, so maybe not an entire album in one go. I really liked that part about the cat licking his balls.
I was never into Nirvana(they ruined metal), but the songs are good and iconic to the grunge scene.
Late night at the lounge.
It was just okay for me at the time, but it has grown on me.
This is the Devil's playground.
This album is a little "hit and miss" for me, but undeniably good
This made me nostalgic for animated feature films from just before the Pixar takeover, when the animation had bold,rich color and well-defined edges. These guys could have made an outstanding soundtrack for one of those films. Great stuff.
The originals are all better than this recording, but I'd bet this was a wildly entertaining live show. It tickles me to imagine the first-chair flugelhorn's "Holy shit!" face when presented with the sheet music.
The highs are killer, funky fused metal and spastic guitar solos, but there are some mid songs that don't earn the fifth star.
Is this for kids or for Broadway?
There was definitely some cool creative stuff mixed in with some mid stuff.
Not on Halloween. No,no,no.
Pretty good, gritty stuff.
It doesn't really slap. It's kind of slow and dated, but it's more thoughtful than most of today's music.
Head nodding turns to stomach turning on the fifteenth loop in all of these songs.
It's pretty cool for the era, and inspired a massive genre.
Chock- full of bangers for getting your bang on.
The music is pretty good, but miss me with those " vocals".
I was critical when her debut album made the list because I was aware that she had produced much better material since. Now you've gone and redeemed yourself with this one that unequivocally slaps.
The production on this rates much higher than most stuff from the era. I had heard these songs many times, but it was remarkable how much more was revealed the first time I listened on a high quality sound system. It's oozing with ear candy for audiophiles, and the lyrics are pretty solid as well.
It was a bit boring for me.
Kudos for being innovators and basically inventing a genre, but these songs just too damn long.
