Instrumental. Lots of familiar sounds. Good stuff.
First disc was mostly boring. Lots of droning, not hearing a lot of great melodies. Not That Funny was horrible. SIsters of the Moon is probably the best song so far. Hopefully disc 2 is better.
Disc 2 is better so far. That's Enough for Me is definitely a highlight so far.
Overall disc 2 was better, but not a fan. Apparently enjoying this album takes a lot of work that I'm not willing to put in.
Great album by one of the greatest rock bands ever. They are at full strength with their original, familiar sound before they started experimenting and branching out. That said, the album seems to become a bit repetitive/formulaic which causes a bit of a drag. I'm sure when it was new and fresh it didn't feel like that, but for today, it doesn't quite hold up as well as some of the previous, tighter LZ albums.
It's sometimes hard to appreciate music that is so clearly the root of everything that came after it, which this clearly is. Having a full band and great sound quality, make this a really good listen. It's minimal but robust at the same time. It was a delight to listen to and appreciate, but also an album of it's time. Probably would be fun to have on while sitting on the back porch drinking a whiskey. Loved it.
Good britpop album. I prefer their later stuff, but this is good as well despite being less melodic.
This album has a ton of hits. WAY better than I expected.
This is a good follow up to Kid A, but lacks the same tight direction of previous and subsequent albums. It feels a bit cobbled together with some bright spots. Solid Radiohead album, but not up to their usual standards.
Hard to be objective about an album I've listened to probably 100 times.
This was my first time listening to this album. Phenomenal. It's the type of album that seems like it needs a few listens to grow, but it was honestly growing on me about halfway through. I definitely see myself listening again.
This band is more prog rock than I expected. Good combo of interesting/complex music with a few radio hits.
This was good. NIN can get a bit repetitive for me, but this was a very interesting album.
Not a huge hardcore fan, but I actually enjoyed it. I doubt I'll go back a lot, but it was a quick listen.
Album is not doing it for me. There are some moments, but it feels like it is sacrificing the soul of other 90s brit bands for style.
Love it, high energy. Will be returning to this.
One song in and fuck yes. A little disappointed that it gets much softer after this, but it's still great.
This album is absolute tour de force. Hit after hit. This is great.
I feel like I need to listen to this about 15 more times. This was a great listen though.
One of the top 50 albums all time. Obviously 5/5.
It is a fun album, but it has obviously not aged well. It is campy and over the top.
Crazy how much he and his son sound a like. Good album too.
Very chill. Not like any other David Bowie album I've listened to. No soaring hits or catchy melodies, but mostly filled soundscapes that are great to relax to.
There's a lot to like here with the overall sound, but it comes off a bit repetitive to me.
The electric keyboard sounds like absolute garbage. Not sure why they wanted these songs to sound like they're using a toy to create the music. Elis can obviously sing well though. Definitely some good songs here, but it's a little hit and miss for me. It's also not straight down the line for bossa nova, which is great, but it moves away from the vibes I'm looking for when turning on some bossa nova. Can't imagine I'll return to this.
Very much enjoyed listening to this. I would obviously need to be in the right mood (high), but I could see myself going back to this occasionally.
It's nice. Not for me, but no complaints.
More hits on this album than I expected. Really enjoyed it.
This obviously requires multiple listens, but it's honestly not like anything else I've listened to.
Need to listen to this at least 1,000 more times.
Really enjoyed revisiting this album. I wish it had more variation, but at the same time, it does not get boring because of their very original take on garage/indie music.
One of the best albums of all time. Innovative, diverse and enjoyable. Only criticism is that it's not longer.
Music is good, vocals are annoying. I liked this a lot less than I thought I would.
This is fantastic. Perhaps a bit of nostalgia, but it's good start to finish.
This is 70s pop. It's fine.
This was great. Lots of hits and the ones I didn't know were good. No low points.
Very enjoyable listen. Lots of great instrumentals on top of the vocals. Also, lots of progressive and creative artistic ideas.
This album fucking sucks. By far the worst album on this list so far. It's like it's stuck in 1990s world music. I could imagine hearing this playing in Pier 1 Imports or the Nature Store.
It's fine. Not bad, not nearly as great as other Bowie albums though.
I feel like ever since Poses, and even intermittently with Poses, RH has been interested in style more than substance. II really like the style of the album and can feel what he's trying to do, but just doesn't quite stick the landing. It's good, but far from great.
This was fantastic. How have I never listened to this?
This was great, somewhat hit or miss, but I think I'll come back to it. Really enjoyed the sound.
How have I never heard anything from this album? It's a bit uneven thematically, but it's a really good listen.
This album is absolutely bursting with musical ideas. Honestly though, I almost feel like it needs a little bit dialed back. It's super fun to listen to though.
Great album. 3-4 massive hits. I'm not really into the non hits as much because they tend to get a little metal adjacent, but it's still great. Somehow very heavy, but also not dark.
Great album, better first half, but overall it was excellent. Modern Times is a bit closer in style to his older stuff than I realized.
Great blues album. Seems to be a transition album between traditional blues and 70s rock like Zeppelin and others.
It is interesting and I'm glad I listened, but I don't see myself regularly returning to this.
This album changes lives.
This really didn't do much for me. Admittedly, it's not my cup of tea, but nothing really jumped out at me as "oh, I see why some people love this album." It was too mellow and just didn't have many hooks that I noticed.
Lots of hits, obviously, but it's kind of just solid to me.
Good not great. More in line with what I originally expected from Black Sabbath than Paranoid.
First half is a 5, second half tails off slightly. Amazing, all time great album though.
If not for the technical nature of the music being played I would give this 1 star. It's pretty chaotic and sounds more like an action sequence to a movie than music that I would want to listen to. Also, it's not varied enough in tone to be interesting.
Highly experimental album that was fine, but I just didn’t get that into it.
Classic album start to finish. Even the non-singles are great.
Some good songs, but others that I found annoying. Will not be listening again.
This actually grew on me quite a bit as it went on. Good stuff. Obviously considering when it came from it's highly influential. I would listen again.
Another influential album, which was good. I don't have anything negative to say. Other's have built on this, so I understand it's importance, but it's just good not great for me.
Legendary album that lives up to it's very high reputation.
Honestly, it's a little hit and miss for me. There are some truly great songs, but also some low points.
Top to bottom, phenomenal album.
I'm sure it's great, but I don't speak French, so I can't digest the most important part of hip hop. I do find the music palatable though and generally enjoyed the vibe of listening to it this afternoon.
Great singing and music, solid album.
Amazing album start to finish. Easy 5 star.
Just a damn good album. RIP Prince of Darkness.
There are interesting ideas here I guess, but the singing is abrasive, the melodies are all over the place and it just doesn't ever seem to go anywhere. I honest don't get it at all. Really did not care for it. I'm 3/4 of the way through it and I can't wait for it to end.
This album was fantastic. A mix of a lot of genres and it really works. None of the hits, but it had a really vibe to it that just made the entire thing seem like a breathe of fresh air.
This is not nearly as obnoxious as the previous Elvis Costello album I listened to. It's still not my favorite, but it's having it's moments.
It's a really great sound that is clearly influential to lots of bands I've listened to. I think it's impossible to understand how innovative it was without having lived through the era. That said, as innovative as the sound is, it's also clear why it didn't hit mainstream.
It's fine. As with many non-mainstream albums on this list, it's obviously a product of it's time, but devoid of hooks to draw me in.
It's definitely an interesting listen. Vocals are good, music is very chill, good album to listen to while working.
This album fucking rocks. I don't know how I've been sleeping on this.
This album is a delight. It really hits and never really holds back and slumps.
Amazing album, front to back.
Phenomenal album with tons of hits. Non-hits can be a little hit or miss though.
This album rocks a lot harder than I thought it would. Definitely enjoyed it.
Damn good album. Beach Boys are always a little limited in range, but this album is as consistent as it gets.
It's enjoyable and I'm sure groundbreaking for it's time, but is clearly dated.
Unlike a lot of older albums, this is timeless. Loving this.
It's fine, but I don't see how this is a must listen 90s album.
I have once again listened to Arcade Fire and they really just don't do much for me.
I'm really not sure about this one yet. I still haven't finished the first disc and it's 6 hours later. This album is painful. I see how Radiohead among others were influenced by this album, but it's like if you took all droning parts of Radiohead, but removed all the high energy climaxes and replaced them with super annoying nonsense, that's what this is. Not the worst album I've listened to, but I do not care for it.
I listened to this album and I honestly remember very little about it.
It's good. Definitely a vibe. It also does not have a generic found to it, but it also didn't have any songs that really jumped out at me. Very enjoyable though.
Literally knew nothing about Common going in except he was on Silo. Loved this album though.
So far this album is fantastic.
This is a super even album with a lot of good tracks on it and nothing bad. It certainly doesn't have the heights of the White Stripes heyday, but it is very good.
This is not doing much for me. Pretty boring, but at least not annoying. Looking forward to not listening to this anymore though.
This is fine. I'm not a hip hop head, but have definitely enjoyed some of the albums that have popped up. This one just never escalates to the level that I can appreciate.
This clearly influenced Britpop, so I definitely enjoyed it.
Not a huge fan of this album. Seems to largely be driven by the studio and record company. Nothing wrong with it, just obviously meant to be a pop album and not overly representative of what they are known for.
I really wanted to love it, but it was just okay for me.
I almost gave it 3, but on second listen this is great.
It’s really not great, but not bad because it’s Neil young.
Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, in fact, pretty solid, but still not my thing.
It's a solid album with a couple good hits, but most of it doesn't have quite the same punch of other bands of that era.
It's fine. I normally the old timey country stuff, but this didn't do much for me.
Haven't listened to this album in years, but man is it good.
Actually really enjoyed this. Not a huge rap fan, but it was fun and interesting.
This was good and I generally like this type of non-western stuff when it comes out, but I wasn't able to extract from listening to it or reading about it why this was on the list.
This was good. I enjoyed the mixes of genre that went into this.
I enjoyed this more than I expected.
Morrissey is annoying. This album is fine I guess, but I doubt I'll listen again.
I liked this more than I thought I would. It starts out very electronic, but definitely drifts towards ending rock for most of it.
This is a good album, but I just can't get into reggae. It all sounds the same to me. I literally listened to the album 1.5x and didn't realize it had started over.
This was a surprise album. Really enjoyed it. I think they took the gimmick out of Arctic Monkeys and just made some really good songs.
It's good, but man is it short.
Beck's best album by a mile.
This was a super interesting album spanning lots of different genres, but also some coherent. Reminded me a bit of Badly Drawn Boy and other late 90s, early 2000s indie rock bands.
Man, this album is slow. I'm just not feeling it. The Sweet James was okay I guess, but really nothing jumped out at all.
Same as the others. Some really good songs, some forgettable.
This album just makes me want to play guitar
Pretty good album. I liked it better the second time. Seems a bit like a combination of punk and new wave.
This was a fantastic album. Crazy how many hits it has.
I've listened to it 2 full times. Not doing much for me.
This was great. It's been a while since I listened to Folsom, but this one might be better.
This album is awesome. Great mix of country, rock and blues.
As with all the other REM albums, it's really good, but I just want to like it more than I do.
I enjoyed this. It seems obvious that The Strokes were influenced by this, but apparently they weren't. Regardless of what they say, it had to be indirect. Really good stuff.
There are a lot of good hits from this album and I also enjoyed the non-hits more than I thought I would. It's a short album, but I'm delightfully surprised.
Absolutely incredible album. This albums covers a wide range of styles and genres, along with a handful of massive hits. Really, really good.
This was fine, but sort of bland and everything kind of runs together. I know he pioneered techno in the 80s and 90s, but honestly, the genre kind of sucks, it led to some truly awful electronic music and there are better examples.
It's not bad, but just like others, reggae just doesn't do it for me because it all feels so similar.
Really enjoyed this. I can definitely see myself listening to this band a lot.
It's got some solid stuff on it, but I find the length to be a legitimate issue. I wouldn't call it "filler" because a lot of the lesser songs are still good, but this good have been a much better album by tightening it up. I assume the length is the idea and the point... it's just not a great idea.
It's fine. I appreciate the musicality to this, but it's more like background music. It's more atmospheric, than melodic, so I'm kind of unclear why this album is on the list. I could see myself listening again, but as background music, not as something I'm actually engaging with.
It’s good, but I don’t think it’s as good as other albums from the era.
Really good stuff. Not a whole lot of major hits though.
This does not seem to belong on this list. It's fine, I just don't hear anything unique or groundbreaking at all. Unlike UK only artists like Suede, Blur, etc, these guys just don't seem like they're doing anything meaningful enough to warrant their inclusion. Still... it's not bad, but kind of meh.
Excellent album from start to finish.
It's a good album. I like it, but it's also a little abrasive.
So dramatic and pretty dated.
I liked their sound a lot, but didn't hear much in terms of memorable songs.
It was good and interesting how he explained the music theory, but not quite as enjoyable as Call of the Valley.
This album fucking ruled.
This was actually really great. I need to listen to this album more.
It's okay. I'm not a huge hip hop fan, but I've founds things about the other ones on this list. This one isn't really doing much for me.
Jazz fusion nonsense. I guess it has it's place, but this really did absolutely nothing for me.
This album is amazing. The jams are Phish-esque, singing is incredible and guitar is obviously great.
This album is amazing. The jams are Phish-esque, singing is incredible and guitar is obviously great.
This album is boring as hell.
Despite the piece of crap that Clapton turned out to be, I still really love this album.
It's good, but not quite up to the greatness of Songs In the Key of Love.
I really want to like Sonic Young and I guess I like the sound, but I just can't get into it.
Maybe my new favorite Christmas album. Actually definitely my new favorite.
Obviously great album. All time classic.
This was great. This is the Lou read I've always expected. Really good.
