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.

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.

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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3/5

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.

3/5

5/10

3/5

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.

5/9

I am immediately confronted with the fact that I liked this album more as a kid than I do now. I still think their sound on this album is cool. I'm struck by the lackluster lyrics. Anthony Kiedis should not by "rapping" about gangsters. Breaking the Girl is one of their best songs. I never really liked Suck My Kiss. I am not liking this album as much as I thought I would even as it goes on. I like their "ballads" more than the straight rock songs. Give It Away is an awesome song and created an all time great Simpsons moment. Under the Bridge is great too. These guys like talking about their dicks.

5/9

4/7

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.

5/10

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5/9

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.

1/2

Damon Albarn with the Gorillaz is better than Damon Albarn with Blur. He has four albums on this list, that's insane. This is a long album. And four songs in it's starting to feel long. Clint Eastwood was the hit and their big break. I remember liking it when it came out but it felt like it was overplayed very quickly. Man Research (Clapper) was cool for about three minutes. Unfortunately it went on for four and a half minutes. Every song seems very internally repetitive. The vocal affectation Albarn is putting on is getting really annoying as the album progresses. Double Bass without the singing is probably the best track on the album. The poorly played flute is not a positive addition to Rock the House. Del The Funky Homosapien is so tied to the Gorillaz that I think of his songs with them first. 19-2000 was the other big hit with the girl from Cibo Matto singing about cool shoeshines. It's still the best song on the album. Followed by a song with the Buena Vista Social Club guy that is easily the worst song on the album. Starshine has Albarn's weird voice on full display and then Slow Country is the same four words over and over again....needless to say the album is continuing to go downhill. And then M1 A1 is some clip of a guy yelling, "Is anyone there?" for almost two minutes. This album is too long. Bong noises, found sound recording of an Asian woman talking about playing an instrument, it all adds up to a terrible song. And ending with a remix of the album's first single. Jamaican guy talking, sped up, stripped down music, dance hall rapping...I don't love the original but this is worse.

3/5

5/9

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.

Green Onions is an all-time great instrumental song and a strong contender for best first track off a debut album. Rinky Dink is not terrific and there are better versions of I Got a Woman. Mo' Onions is an alternate take on their big hit, but I like it. Twist and Shout is not the best version either. A lot of ups and downs on this album because Behave Yourself is really good. Sometimes the Hammond B3 makes it sound like the kind of music you'd play at a funeral. Stranger On the Shore has a They Can't Take That Away from me vibe. I am generally a fan of the organ in popular music, but by this point in One Who Really Loves You, I'm ready for less. Half of this album could be the theme song for a 60s detective show. I love Green Onions, but everything else kind of blends.

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2/4

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.

To paraphrase Nuke LaLoosh, War Pigs announces this album's presence with authority. War Pigs and Paranoid are so insistent that Planet Caravan is a real shock. Iron Man is a great song...and Busta Rhymes turned it into This Means War which is also good. I could do without British people pissing and moaning about Vietnam. You didn't have to fight, you didn't lose loved ones there. I don't see the British writing a bunch of antiwar songs about the Falklands War.

At least these songs have actual words so it's better than the last album which had some songs with gibberish lyrics. Back to the gibberish lyrics. The 80s gave rise to some really bad music. There are no lyrics available on Spotify....shocking. This is like if The Cure decided to replace Robert Smith with a woman and make mouth sounds instead of actual words. It's Cure adjacent, but it's worse, I'm sure they love the Cure though.

If you needed to explain pop music to an alien, this might be the band to do it. The lead singer's voice is a little distracting, like a baby girl version of Aimee Mann. Speaking of Aimee Mann, I could see this being the soundtrack to a Paul Thomas Anderson movie. This lady gets around. There's a throwback quality to 60s pop music that wear thin pretty quickly. Lovefool is the one hit for these wonders...thank you for this earworm Baz Luhrmann. It's not a terrible song, it was everywhere in 1997. The Iron Man cover is another story...no one asked for this.

Purple Haze immediately jumps to one of the main contenders for best first track off a debut album, it might be his best song. May This Be Love is good, feels like a different brand of Jimi Hendrix. I bet the Allman's loved it. My only complaint is some of these 60s bands playing with the stereo recording too much. The album tracks are great. Stevie Ray Vaughn owes Hendrix a career, two legends lost before their time. Third Stone From the Sun loses me a little bit, I like the jazzy feel, but the altered vocals, I wonder if Yello got the idea for Oh Yeah from this song, guitar distortion and silly Hendrix poem lose me. The Allman's definitely lifted part of this song though, maybe just in Mountain Jam, but it's like note for note. I never really loved Foxey Lady, it is a little corny. Are You Experienced? on the other hand is my favorite Hendrix song.

5/9

1/1

RIP Ozzy. He was truly one of the legends. This is my last Sabbath album and can honestly say I like them much more than I thought I did. And I realize during The Wizard that people will deal with things in music they like that they will not in music they hate. This is a song about a wizard. If this was a different band these lyrics would overshadow everything else. These guys hate politicians...that's a message I can get behind. This album is better than I anticipated as well.

Finally, some folk rock that is not Bob Dylan or Beck that I like. These guys feel like an amalgamation of a lot of popular 60s music trends, Beatles-style pop rock, folk rock and a little psychedelic thrown in for good measure. Wes Anderson loves this band. These are all relatively short songs. The more folksy the songs, the worse they are. And the more psychedelic they are, even worse. It's an uneven effort.

Offspring sucks. I'm putting that out there so it's clear where I stand as the album starts. Pop punk is one of the worst parts of the 90s. Greenday sucks and Offspring rode their "punk" coattails to fame. Nothing like a stupid sketch to open an album. Nitro (Youth Energy) is better than I wanted to believe these guys were capable of. Bad Habit and Gotta Get Away were both big hits and they are terrible. The album tracks are superior to the hits. Could do without the updates from the opening sketch voiceover guy. Come Out and Play is terrible. I have no idea how this got popular. Pop punk and Nu Metal, if it weren't for hip hop and grunge the 90s would have been worse than the 80s. Self Esteem was the best of the singles, but that is a really low hurdle. Killboy Powerhead is as bad as the title. And the ska influenced What Happened to You? reminded me that ska had a comeback in the 90s too. What a terrible decade. A ten minute closing track? No thanks. And we get the bookend with the voice over guy again. The hidden hidden track. Three minutes of silence so you can't figure it out from hitting skip track...is there nothing the 90s didn't ruin? Five minutes of silence...unacceptable. Finished with a Middle Eastern instrumental of Come Out and Play. Was it worth the wait? It was not, Other Barry.

1/2

Two days, two Dusty albums. It could be worse. She's a very talented singer. Son of a Preacher man probably has more listens than all of her other songs combined. It's a different sound than A Girl Called Dusty. She's great, but I prefer A Gril Called Dusty. She could definitely have done a 60s Bond theme.

3/6

There is more electronic music on this list than hip hop...that's not a good ratio. I find that electronic songs with just the music is often ok. But the need for these electronic groups to put one line of a song or dialog over and over and over and over again in a song is not. It gets annoying so quickly. This is background music at a salon that has hair cuts that cost as much as a car payment. This could be the alternate soundtrack to Punch Drunk Love. All the random cuts of dialog feel more like a display of how much media they consume rather than adding to the song. These songs are like 15 second loops that are then repeated for 5 minutes.