Have on vinyl: Yes.
Rating: 8.15
Fav Song: hard not to pick the title track, but going with If You Want Blood (you've got it)
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.9
Fav Song: My Doorbell
Notes: Like a lot of White Stripes, I want to like it more than I do.
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 8
Fav Song: Tiny Dancer
Notes: Indian Sunset...did not age well
Have on vinyl: Yes
Rating: 9.2
Fav Song: Mardy Bum
Notes: Fucking great. Pre-Hanna when this came out. A lot of Blackout (pinball), beer, and this with Kruz
Have on vinyl: YesX2
Rating: 7.5
Fav Song: Castles Made of Sand
Notes: 1st track is annoying. Overall it's OK but pretty meh. Would go 2.5 stars if that were an option
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.5
Fav Song: Son of a Preacher Man
Notes: Harder to like an album when the singer wrote none of the songs.
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.7
Fav song: The League of Bald-Headed Men
Note: James Murphy called this band "his Beatles" and you can hear the influence; this increases my rating as a lot of it is rambling.
Have on vinyl: As of today, Yes.
Rating: 8.4
Fav Song: Smoke on the Water is iconic, but I'm digging Lazy today.
Notes: Bangers
Fav Song: Isn't She Lovely
Notes: Waaay too long (and somewhat boring) but out of respect for its legacy and influence, going with a 3. RIP Coolio.
Have on vinyl: No
Fav Song: The Hardest Walk
Notes: Early Shoegaze
Have on vinyl: Yesx2
Fav Song: Lost in the Supermarket
Notes: All timer
Have on vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: Hot Burritos
Notes: I love Gram Parsons. Was at 4.5 stars but rounding up. Big time influence on the 70's soft/country rock scene.
Have on vinyl: No
Fav Track: Big Time Sensuality
Notes: The cover song is unnecessary.
Vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: Strangelove
Notes: I want it to be better than it is. Violator is 5 stars.
Have on vinyl: Yes. Yellow colored
Fav Track: Like picking your favorite kid...but going with Underwear.
Notes: Top 5 album
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: All I Ask
Notes: Great voice just not my style
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Bussing
Note: Interesting; had not heard this before
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Get it Together w/Q-Tip
Notes: Falls off towards the end
Have on vinyl: No
Fav song: Modern Dance
Notes: Takes some getting used to. I was at one point at a 1, then a 2, ended with a 3 after more listens.
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Weep Themselves to Sleep
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: The Healer
Notes: Good but a bit disjointed.
Fav Song: Elvis Blues.
Notes: Great story telling but a bit sleepy.
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Freedom
Notes: There is some downtime on it but nostalgia clicks this over to a 4 for me. Chali 2na is great
Vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: All of it
Vinyl: Want
Fav: Blues Had a Baby
Vinyl: No
Fav: Voodoo People
Fav: Lost
Notes: Some bangers. Takes some getting used to
Vinyl: Want
Fav Song: So Cruel
Fav: Fall
Notes: Not for me.
Fav: You Want It Darker
Notes: Powerful shit. Released just before his death. If I Didn't Have Your Love is a tear jerker for me.
Fav: Fuck Wit Dre Day
Notes: Nostalgia runs high with this one. Relistening, this seems a bit too long and as a kid I didn't realize how much he was sampling from P-Funk. Main songs still hold up for me.
Fav: Blue Monday
Notes: It's good. Would do 3.5 if that were an option
Fav: Just What I Needed
Notes: Some bangers, some down tracks for me.
Fav: Trainspotting
Notes: Some good grooves
Vinyl: Yes
Fav: Jeepster
Notes: This is a top 10, maybe top 5 album for me
Vinyl: Yes
Fav: Little Red Corvette
Notes: Cut some this shit down and it's probably 4 stars.
Fav: Meh...Freak Scene
Notes: Nah, at least it's relatively short. "Don't" kicks it down to a 1 star
Fav: Whatsername
Notes: A lot of good/great tracks.
Fav: Tiro Ao Alvaro
Note: Good lounge singer vibes. Who knows, might even be a 4 if I could speak Portuguese
Fav: You Oughta Know
Notes: High school flashbacks with this one...scared to talk to girls who were Alanis-heads. Shame really. Some good tracks but not one I'll likely come back to.
Fav: I'm Goin Down
Notes: Holy hits. Classic. 4.5 = rounding 5
Fav: California Dreamin'
Notes: Lots of nostalgia on this one. Good but not great.
Vinyl: Yes, but not the cover actually showing the toilet. Those are rare and worth hundreds; it was apparently a big scandal at the time to show a toilet on an album cover. After the first run, the subsequent releases had it covered up.
Fav: Fast Car..gotta be
Vinyl: Yes
Notes: Mountains O' Things sounds a helluva lot like an Ed Sheeran arrangement...I always knew that guy was a fraud 😄
Fav: The One You Really Love
Notes: This one takes some getting used to. Clocking in at nearly 3 hours, it's hard to do that in one day as this exercise demands. Def could have been cut down but then you wouldn't have 69 songs I guess. Good bit of song writing nonetheless.
Fav: Mr. Magic
Notes: Great voice. Good vibe on this previously unheard album for me.
Credited as the first hard punk album and produced by Joan Jett. I can appreciate what it's doing but I don't really dig it. 2.5 stars but rounding up today
Fav: Why Did It Have To Be Me?
Notes: Ups and downs.
Notes: Interesting and unheard until today.
Fav: Barbarism Begins at Home
Notes: Probably my least favorite Smiths album but still pretty, pretty good.
Fav: ayeyaiyai, they all seem so pretentious. Praise You is probably the most listenable.
Fav: The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter
Notes: I surprisingly enjoyed this 70's classical shit. Played on repeat yesterday on the disc golf course and it was quite right.
Fav: He Won't Go
Notes: Some really good songs. Cure cover is unnecessary.
I like Who Do You Love...but an entire album of it? It's too much. Jam-bandy. Not bad but not that interesting to me.
Some bangers. Got a bit too long IMO.
25 years ago I was all in on this. 25 years later...it feels more awkward than anything.
Some daft funky vibes but the title track I can't stomach anymore
On the first 5 listens, this one is OK. On 10, it's even better and by now my ranking is a 4.5. Which puts me over to a 5.
Tight. Really listenable.
Will for sure be back to this one for more. Good shit
Close to a 4, but this doesn't quite hold up to their other albums Surfa Rosa and Doolittle
Good rhymes, full of funk
Pretty down on my list of fav AF albums
Bye Bye Love sticks out like the cheap cover it is but otherwise a very good album.
Fun, but boring at times.
Lots of pickin' and old tymey shit but it has its place
Started off hot but cooled off
Nothing that blew me away. Solid album nonetheless.
Smokey, nightclub sound. Good stuff.
Good voice but ayyaiyai this one is rough
Pretty solid. I like the gospel vibes
Not unlistenable but yikes
Contains probably my fav Bowie song
some good shit, some not great covers.
Sunday is a tough listening day for me and this needs more listens to make a final call, but digging it quite a bit. Rating based on the OG album => ending on Engineers.
Chooglin' to a 3.5 but I'll give it 4 since they created a new word
REM has better albums but there's some bangers on here.
Some good. Some forgettable.
Will come back to this one for sure.
Sleepy bunch of tired ass old country songs
Not my fav Lou material; much bigger fan of VU-era stuff.
Need to spend more time with this one
Not my thing but can see why it was popular
It's fine. It has good lyrics. It's too long.
It's pretty one note but the sound kicked off some garage sound in rock I guess so that is something.
I hesitate to give it a 2 star but man some of it annoys me.
All covers, save for 1 song...OK.
Surprising. I had only heard a few of these before this.
1st track is a classic but it's downhill fast from there.
Is it over yet? Long and similar
Influential maybe but not my thing.
Odd album. I have listened to this probably 20+ times in the last year or two and still doesn't quite click for me.
Some good tracks. Some boring tracks.
Diggin it. Never heard this before, but I'll be back
I want to like it more than I do.
Fun one. Big Star for the 90's
It's good; just played out for me.
Solid short & sweet album. A couple mainstream songs, but a lot unfamiliar late 60's tracks
Good stuff; had to pull out the vinyl and hear it on that as well
It's good but not my thing
Good is great but some of this is too meandering and jazzy at times.
Takes some getting into but the noise does turn to music eventually.
Woof. Some lounge singer bullshit
