The site ate my review. Needless to say, this is not a good album, not even a good Beach Boys album. They should have broke up after Smile fell apart.

Devil's Haircut is a good start. Love the album cover. I love Beck but his earlier music has straight nonsense lyrics. New Pollution has a retro feel, like girls in go-go cages should be dancing behind Beck. I don't need all the high-pitched computer beeps on Novacane. And I just realized there is a lot of distortion on this album. A lot of found sound too. Maybe I don't like this album as much as I thought. Jack-Ass is good right up until the braying title character at the end. That is one of the most annoying sounds in nature. Where It's At is the hit, but Jack-Ass is a better song. High 5 (Rock the Catskills) sounds like a Beastie Boys knock-off. And it has a lot of annoying sounds. Ramshackle gives you a sense of where Beck's albums could go. It's a great song. And then Computer Rock ruins it.

I don't love the shift to electronica. This does not hold up to The Bends. You And Whose Army? is the most melancholy song calling someone out I've ever heard. I also like it the best of the songs so far. Radiohead is like what Coldplay would sound like if they were sad and experimental. I love the line in Lego Movie 2 when 1980-Something Space Guy Benny says he finally gets Radiohead in Everything's Not Awesome. I Might Be Wrong has a Link Wray feel about the guitar riff. I wonder if these guys watched Lost Highway and this song came out of it. Knives Out feels more like "classic" Radiohead. So far, every song from You And What Army forward is more like the Radiohead I love. They're losing me again, rewins noise or moth flapping near a microphone noise in Like Spinning Plates is annoying. Ok, Like Spinning Plates is a jam. Too many space noises on this album. Life in a Glasshouse works somehow, it's like Radiohead's take on a jazz funeral.

I am definitely Team Tupac in the Tupac vs. Biggie feud. The giving birth sketch is not a good start. Things Done Changed has a very chill beat. Machine Funk might be my favorite Notorious B.I.G. song now. Warning is a good song too. Maybe I never gave Biggie a fair shake. With everything going on right now with him, it's strange to hear Diddy's voice on the album. How many Diddy parties do you think Biggie went to and how much lube do you think he used? I think I just chose sides and never really listened to this album. The album cuts are better than the singles. Another simulated sex interlude on a rap album, so stupid, although I can get behind the Jodeci on in the background. Meth>Biggie Smalls. Juicy might be my problem with Notorious B.I.G. I think his album is better than his singles. And Puffy's voice in the background is really annoying. He's the worst hype man in the history of rap. This is a long album. Why is Puffy on every...single...song...doing nothing but saying "right" or "yeah"? This is the start of all these stupid producers saying their catch phrase on every song they produce. And now he's doing the intro sketches. It's so distracting it's hard to focus on anything else. The sample from Break Ups 2 Make Ups! The word bitch was thrown around a lot in the 90s....I never would have even thought about it until now. Big Poppa is the other hit and it is much better than Juicy, although another instance of Puffy inserting himself into the song ad nauseam. The 90s was also the era of the simulated blow job audio on rap albums...so stupid. The album tracks are getting worse...or maybe this album is just going on for too long. Too much Puffy, stupid skits, too long....I'm ready for this to be over. Obligatory simulated shooting...gangsta rap seems very dated. And he closes it out my name dropping famous women he wants to have sex with...this album got worse as it went along and definitely feels like it was of its time and place.

This is the best Bowie album. Three great songs to start the album and Starman still on deck. Moonage Daydream is a great song. Starman is the hit from the album, deservedly, but a hit among a lineup of great songs. This might have been the first glam rock album. Again, Bowie creating a genre which is part of why critics love him so much. There isn't a bad song on the album. Ziggy played guitar...he certainly did. This is one of the best albums I've ever heard.

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Oh What A World is not giving me great hope for this album...this sounds like a Baz Luhrmann soundtrack. I don't hate this...but there's nothing I really love about it either. He's kind of like a male Fiona Apple. After listening to Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and this album, you realize what an impact Radiohead had on music from the late 90s and early 2000s. Go or Go Ahead could be a Radiohead song. There are some decent songs on this album, 14th Street is one of them. Natasha is sweet but has the lyrics of a sixteen year old. Closing out with the awful 11:11 and one of the better songs on the album Dinner at Eight.

This is terrible. This is like knock off Bowie. Another knock against 80s music. This sounds like every other crappy 80s dance music ever made. This album makes Duran Duran sound like The Rolling Stones. They could have made two lists out of this project, albums that you really have to listen to and shitty, obscure British bands in various genres that someone else did better. This is particularly egregious in light of the albums that didn't make the list. The Look of Love, Pt. 1 is the hit and the only song I've recognized so far and it is terrible. All of My Heart is awful. 4 Ever 2 Gether has a stupid title that looks like a 13 year old girl scribbled it on a love note to her crush and is the worst song on the album so far. I have to say so far because this album is plumbing the depths of awfulness that music can reach. The Look of Love, Pt. 4 is not only a dumb title for skipping the 2 and 3, but is just a more horn-driven instrumental of Pt. 1. Truly awful.

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45 seconds in and this is not the Dinosaur Jr. I thought I was getting. They definitely sound like a Pixies cover band. There is such a thing as too much distortion and they found it on the end of Little Fury Things. This is like the original college radio band. These guys took a little bit from everything before them, punk, metal, early alternative. The Lung is the first song that reminds me of Feel the Pain. Since they were contemporaries, I wonder if these guys or The Pixies think the other one totally ripped them off. These guys are like a cross between The Pixies and The Flaming Lips. The Pixies ripped them off! They were both at UMass Amherst but Dinosaur Jr. came first! Adam Duritz heard this album and thought he could make pop music with the same voice. Covering The Cure's Just Like Heaven? It works!

Oh my god, this is an 80s album from note 1. Don Henley, Steve Winwood, this album; the 80s triumvirate of dad rock. This was Album of the Year! 80s music is terrible and the fact that this is on the list is insane. This album makes me understand cultural appropriation and why it pisses people off. It feels like there were a lot of singles off this album...maybe they just used songs from the first half of the album. The singles are only ok and the album tracks are universally bad. I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again is the worst song on the album.

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Prog rock sucks. A better project for this album would be deciding who is worse, Supertramp or Rush. The only good Supertramp song is Goodbye Stranger. This is awful music, Hide In Your Shell could be titled Representative Awful Supertramp Song and it would be more accurate. Listening to an entire album of this is making me like Goodbye Stranger less because it sounds too much like the rest of this. How can some of these albums keep getting worse when they start out so terribly. Dreamer is the hit and it is awful. I guess the lesson this album teaches is that things can always get worse. Crime of the Century is like the worst Pink Floyd cover band you can imagine. 70s dad rock Floyd...no one is filling a planetarium to see a laser light show for that. Even the album cover looks like a Pink Floyd ripoff.

3/6

One song in and I'm liking this much better than the other album they had on the list. It gave back that goodwill pretty fast. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 has great music but these guys cannot quit with the lyrics that are better suited to a comedy album. The up and down continues as Pt. 2 is not good. They should have called this album "Music You Love When You're High and Literally No Other Time". The Shins do this music better. Do You Realize?? is the hit from this album and on some commercial. The lead singer's voice is cartoonish in the worst way.

Sure Shot is a great song to start an album, a great song period. Tough Guy is just a little reminder of their punk roots. This is a long rap album, almost an hour. There are 20 songs though, a lot of them really interludes. Sabotage was the hit and had the iconic video. It is a truly great song though. Even the anticipation when the pause comes and then the music comes back in is great. I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle is an amazing line. The guest spot from Q-Tip on Get It Together is perfect for the band and perfect for the song. Sabrosa feels a little bit like them just having fun in the studio but it works, it feels like the background track for a Guy Ritchie movie. This album feels more like both an experiment and a return to their roots as a band. I think the instrumental tracks are good, if not single worthy, and add to the album. Alright Hear This is underrated, this is a great song. Do It too. I always though Shambala was a really cool song...like the Tibetan Mike Tyson's entrance music.

The site ate my review. Needless to say, this is not a good album, not even a good Beach Boys album. They should have broke up after Smile fell apart.

I love Amy Winehouse. This is right in my wheelhouse. Amy Winehouse, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu...all of them making music at the same time, a great time for women in R&B. Know You Now is a great song. I know Fuck Me Pumps is the hit, but I don't understand why, it's the weakest song on the album so far. I mean, I get it. It has Fuck in the title and talks about a woman having sex but the lyrics are like what a 16 year old would write. I could do without all the split songs. Just make two or cut the coda. In My Bed is a jam. Help Yourself is probably my favorite Amy Winehouse song. I wish someone would get the rights situation sorted out so this could be streamed in the US. Amy, Amy, Amy is a fun song. Followed by a stupid Outro and two post-Outro songs for some dumb reason. I'm so glad streaming is killing the hidden track. Great album, underrated album.

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Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding is like a cross between an 80s sci-fi death scene and Meatloaf. I bet Meatloaf loved Elton John. Eleven minutes is too long for an opening track. Candle In the Wind...the most famous song ever about a horny teenager. This song loses something when you know that later he'd remake the lyrics for Princess Diana. One a meditation on nostalgia and the images we carry with us from our youth....the other either a treacly attempt to express sorrow for a rich and powerful woman who never had a really hard day in her life or else a treacly cash crab and cynical injection of himself into a famous death. Bennie and The Jets is one of my least favorite Elton John songs but it was turned into the awesome Tribe Called Quest (featuring Busta Rhymes) song Solid Wall of Sound. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on the other hand is one of my favorites. All of Elton's songs have a cinematic quality to them. Maybe that credit should go to Bernie Taupin. It's a double album! And all the hits were on the first side of the first disc.....it's going to be a long day. British musicians love Jamaican music. I've Seen That Movie Too is a good song. The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-1934) is like the lyrics to early Bob Dylan with the music of a carnival. I'm not sure if this is the spiritual center or the pop music floor of glam rock. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) would have been the theme song for college football coverage if it had been released in 1994. It's catchy and the best song since the hits from the first side. The chirping birds on Social Disease are really distracting. His hits are hits but everything else is just "Generic Elton John" song. I'm surprised he didn't write a musical, his music is like one step short of it already.

Spanish Main is not a good start to this album, one line over and over again is not great song writing. This feels like an inclusion based on needing some more recent albums. It's like they heard some old sea shanties and decided their album had to incorporate them. There are too many obscure British bands on this list. Also, the British love of ska/ska influence has clearly not died. Dreaming of You is the hit and it's pretty good, has kind of a Zutons feel. Unfortunately it gets worse after that. The lyrics are like what my 8 year old makes up when she's singing her own songs. This album is so corny. The seaside vibe is better suited to a Jimmy Buffet cover band. I bet these guys love the Madness. At least the album was short. And more seaside references to close the album out.

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The music is fine. The pan-African lyrics is like a poor man's Bob Marley. His dad's live album with Ginger Baker was better. All of these songs sound the same. Over an hour of this is going to be tiresome. If this was just instrumentals it would be better. I'm realizing albums can get bumped full stars by just hitting me at the right time or based on what I've listened to recently. It doesn't help that the individual songs are very repetitive and very long.

5/10

Definitely my favorite Nirvana album. You can totally picture them as an edgy folk rock trio in the 70s. The intervening years of punk is the difference between them and Bob Dylan. Could Cobain have been the Dylan for the new millennium...maybe? This is a good medium to examine his lyrics. A lot of covers on this album though. Good covers, probably my favorite songs on the album, but covers. Maybe Smells Like Teen Spirit didn't translate, but it's kind of odd they didn't include their biggest hit. This is definitely the best way to listen to Nirvana. Jack White listened to Plateau and decided he was going to be in a band. This is a great live album. Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a great closing song and the best song on the album. Lake of Fire, All Apologies and Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a great way to end an album, maybe the best closing songs to an album ever.

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This sounds like what happened to Black Flag after West Coast hardcore punk died. The lead singer sounds like Jack White. This is like glam hard core. The lyrics are reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails. This guy sounds so much like Jack White that I'd believe this was one of his side projects if I didn't know better. This is as close to liking hard core as I'm going to get. Getting Bright at Night could be a Nine Inch Nails cover. And it turns out the guitarist is NIN's touring guitarist! You can tell. There's some Rage Against the Machine influence too. That feels more like a shared ancestor situation. Meatmaker is feeling a little more "noise rock" than the rest of the album, that is not a good turn. Party the Baby Off sounds like a Stooges song. Also, pretty good.

It's like every generation has to discover random guitar distortion for itself. This is like pre-Oasis British pop-rock. This sounds like every other 90s pop alternative band. The Gin Blossoms, Third Eye Blind, I'm sure there are 100 others I'm forgetting. This is like rock adjacent. The song they do with De La Soul on the Judgement Night soundtrack is better than any of these songs. Nothing on this album is bad, it's just very forgettable. This just gets lost in the sea of similar bands that existed immediately after them. Maybe that's the genius, they presaged those bands by a few years. Is This Music? has no lyrics but is my favorite song on the album. This album is very listenable if not really a standout.

Yay, more Brazillian music with random noises! This has strong Os Mutantes vibes. Tropicalia is the music played over the credits to some terrible Brazilian 60s beach movie. I guess everything Brazillian is a beach movie. Anunciacao probably has something to do with a religious reference based on the title and the constant repetition of Maria and the pseudoreligious music during the chorus. A Brazilian mentioning Copa Cabana? Unheard of! If this was American or British music no way it makes this list. I'm paranoid I'm going to listen to an extra song. Maybe I'm biased to music in English....so be it.