A great listen. Marks a polyphonic melodic development in the history of jazz. Short, peppy tracks for the most part. Miles and his band cooks, as usual.
4.5/5
Ohhh yeaaahhhh. Smooooooth babyyyyyy.
3.5/5
Meh. Too much mandolin.
It's Zep IV. So it gets 4/5.
Fuck yeah.
Not a fan.
1/5
Straight up fuzzed out midtempo guitar rock from a group that's been doing it excellently for 40+ years. Not super remarkable, but not bad either.
3/5
A few bangers. Gets repetitive, though. Won't likely revisit the entire album but noted the tracks I liked.
2.5/5
Fun. Funky. Skronky. Sexy.
4/5
I have 2 accounts going and have somehow got this album 2x in 30 days.
Anyway. I gave it a 3 before but upon relistening I am downgrading that to a 1.
Easy 4 stars
Perfect album.
As perfect an album as there ever was.
Not great. Not terrible. Just some dated-sounding early 90s electro that, I must say, is excellent bkgd music for working to. Mostly unremarkable otherwise.
3/5
5 stars. No notes.
I know she's talented. I know she's a legend. But man. I just cannot get into Joni. Gave this the ol college try despite my experience knowing otherwise but nothing has changed. Sorry.
2/5 because of my first two points.
Folky hippie shit with an Celtic tinge. A couple groovy numbers but overall very much not for me.
2/5
Historically important. A few very recognizable songs. But man, is this ever dated and corny.
This is absolutely horrendous. Probably the worst album I've encountered on here so far (at ~#40). I would not watch this musical.
1/5 (0/5 if I could)
Boooooring.
What a beautiful album. Love and Affection made me cry. Insane I’ve never heard this before stumbling upon it here. Wonderfully written, pristinely recorded. An absolute gem of a discovery thanks to this list.
Legit surprised to discover that Cornershop has a wee bit more to offer than their eternal one-hit-wonder, "Brimful of Asha." Not a terribly exciting album, but listenable enough. Short tracks, many of which are instrumentals vibing off of a spoken word sample. Solid bkgd music. Totally inoffensive. Can't decide if I'm gonna give this a 2 or a 3.
Never liked Eminem. Still don't. I was 16 when this album came out and even then I found it way too juvenile and low brow. Now it's basically unlistenable.
1/5
Very chill. Beautiful, velvety voice. But unfortunately this nearly 70-year-old live recording offers some quirks of the time, like an almost unbearable hiss throughout most tracks. Do I wish I was at this show way back in 1957? Absolutely. Will I be rushing out to buy this album? Not likely.
3/5
This record saved rock & roll. 5 stars.
I had extremely low expectations for this album. I've never been a fan of this particular brand of metal. But British Steel seems to pre-date the horrendous throes of glam metal by a few years and it shows. These songs...rock? There's a bit of edge. There's some pace and thrash. I thoroughly enjoyed this listen. A very unexpected 4/5.
Even people who don't like jazz would give this 5 stars.
Have certainly heard many songs from this album in isolation, but have never felt the desire to listen to the entire thing the whole way through. Glad I was finally forced to. Excellent listen. Songwriting on par and beyond Loaded, which is my personal favourite VU record. Bowie + Ronson's touches elevate the end product for sure.
4/5
A classic. It's fine.
3/5
No one will ever convince me that the Dead are a good band. I cannot listen to this aimless wanky hippy shit.
1/5
This is one of my favourite albums of all time. It is beautiful, sad, overwrought, joyous, painful. Dennis' songwriting and arrangements rival that of his older brother. The partiest member of the Beach Boys, the one who was friendly with Charles Manson, the one who never tired of chasing women, booze and drugs, was also one of its most sensitive and talented.
A very easy 5/5. Not much comes close to this one, in my personal opinion.
Quaint and fun enough. I fondly remember the singles dominating the radio and TV airwaves at the time. It does get a little too silly-willy-British-tea-time-bob's-your-uncle for me in places, though.
Loved this when it dropped.
I do not like live albums and I am not fond of Bob Dylan.
There is nothing wrong with this album except for the fact it is extremely boring. Pleasant enough. But boooorrrrinnnnggggggg.
This rules. It's varied, interesting, well performed, fun, energetic. Everything you want in a punk record by one of the best to ever do it.
4/5
Pretty good! I listened to this a lot when it came out. Still works for me. Based on the general reivews, seems there are two types of people in the world: those who like Radiohead/Thom Yorke and those who don't. I guess I'm in the former camp.
4/5
I will never forget being 13 years old and seeing the video for Paranoid Android on MTV. Blew my mind. This record has held up astonishingly well these last nearly 30 years.
An easy 5/5.
Chill vibes. This was a treat to work to. Great for coffee shops, slow mornings, cocktails at dusk, or being on vacation in a Latin country. Not terribly exciting or fresh, but pleasant enough.
3/5
Grating, Eurotrash electro better left in the dustbin of history.
1/5
Boy, does this ever sound like 1999. Shades of Evanesence, angsty nu-metal, on-the-nose lyrics. I wasn't into this vibe 26 years ago and I'm still not today.
2/5
This record is probably technically a 3, but I was pretty surprised by how much I enjoyed it beyond the 3-4 singles I'd heard before. Great production, solid songwriting, enough variation and sense of melody to keep things interesting.
4/5
This is music for low IQ alcoholics with hearing damage.
I love jazz! I do not love this album!
For me, at least, it's too programmatic/soundtracky. Gimmie some goddamn bop. Gimmie some groove. Take that bass for a walk, for cryin out loud! Nothing about this is sticking with me.
2/5 because they players obviously have massive skill.
I do not love this album nearly as much as most others do. I find the production horrendously dated and most of the tracks cheesy as hell.
2/5
I have been a pretty big WoD fan since their first record, back when Kurt Vile was still in the band. I've seen them live many times, from small clubs to festivals to opera houses. Generally, I thoroughly enjoy the overall vibe they put out, despite sounding like a perfect melting pot of 70s-80s heartland rock and/or the synth-ier side of Bruce Springsteen with very little innovation.
But this record does seem to drag a bit. It certainly has highlights with plenty of groove, passioned vocals, blistering solos. But the lowlights are particularly bore-o snore-o to me and really upset the overall cadence and listening experience of the album.
Even though I own the deluxe vinyl box set of Lost in the Dream, it's a 2.5/5 for me.
3/5
3 stars if it was any old album. 4 stars for being the first metal album, ever.
4/5
This slaps. Rogers & Edwards (RIP) killed it. So smooth, so groovy. Not all disco is created equal. This is some top-tier stuff with two of the genre's best at the helm. There's sonic, dynamic and rhythmic variation (not every song is a 140bpm four-on-the-floor dance floor number), pitch perfect vocals and an immaculate vibe throughout.
4/5
I loooooooooved this album when it came out. Utterly obsessed. It is so fucking cool. It sounds incredible, the playing is out of this world. I do remember it having some lowlights and weird, long, ambient interludes that mess with the pacing, so I was going to give it a 4/5 strictly from memory.
Turns out I had an hr to spare so I listened to it again in its entirety for the first time in at least a decade. Holy SHIT it rules. The pacing is fine, I enjoyed the interludes.
5/5
This was dope. Immaculate vibes to work to on this hot, sunny August afternoon. Gonna have to incorporate a bit more reggae into my listening schedule based on how pleasant this was!
4/5
Catch A Fire is fire. So groovy. Amazing to work or strut to. Phenomenal playing, so deep in the pocket, so locked in.
4/5
One of my favourite albums of all time. Guitars are crunchy, angular, clinical, played as if they're drums. Wry lyrics, syncopation, twitchy energy. Post-punk at its finest. I was introduced to this record in the mid-2000s and it really felt like a blueprint for the disco punk/"indie sleaze" aesthetic at the time.
An easy 5/5
Every fibre of my being knows that this album sucks ass, yet I still can't help but admit it is at least a little bit pleasant to listen to.
A begrudging 3/5
It's fine. I enjoy listening to "first of their kind" albums like this. But it doesn't change my mind that prog rock is for twee nerds.
2/5
Is this more "Britpop wanker shit" from a book that seems to favour it? Kind of.
This album is definitely a mess and is certainly all over the place. But I also found it kinda fun? In a sloppy, who-gives-a-crap sense at least? Most tracks have some great melodies, if only for a flash. Definitely won't be rushing for another listen, but not nearly as dreadful as other reviewers made it seem.
I caught Super Furry Animals live way back in like 2005 or so (solid show!). Before listening to this I was only familiar with "Rings Around the World."
3/5
I'd give this 7/5 if I could. Absolutely incredible landmark of an album. Funky as all hell. Loved it since learning to play Chameleon on drums in my high school jazz band 25+ years ago. I wish there were 50 more albums like this on the list.
5/5
Meh. Drunken sounding, meandering, half sung indie rock. My buddies LOVE these guys and I just can't seem to get it.
2/5
Love this record and JAMC in general. Though I've heard this album dozens of times, I came to a realization on this latest listen: JAMC are kind of like Scotland's version of The Ramones. Similar attitude, vibe, effortless cool, musical vocabulary, delivery. JAMC slows those 60s pop melodies down while The Ramones speed them up. Just some food for though.
4/5
I do not enjoy live albums. I will never enjoy live albums. I just don't get them. So I will give yet another live album on this list a low, biased review.
2/5
I sincerely wish there was a way for me to live inside of this album forever. It always hits impeccably well when I put it on. Sunny, cloudy, cold, warm, happy, sad. It just fits while carrying me away on dreamy, floating melodies. Utterly obsessed. Highly recommend listening to the highest quality audio version of this album with the nicest set of wired headphones you can find.
5/5
Fully expected to despise this album due to me mostly avoiding anything folk tinged like the plague.
But it was...fine? A bit more on the rock side of folk rock, which helps. Yes, it is way too long. Yes, it becomes quite repetitive. But the first half of the first disc did not offend me. I am quite surprised.
"We Will Not Be Lovers" and "World Party" are my standouts.
2/5
Brass in pocket slaps so hard.
I haven't listened to this record since it came out when I was 13. Still rips.
This here's some mighty fine piano playing. But if I was at this show I would not have been able to sit still for all 60+ minutes of it.
3/5
Very middle of the road, mediocre, inoffensive rock n roll from a bygone era.
This rips. Rogers/Edwards were an incredible team of songwriters and players. Rogers' effects on popular music cannot be understated (RIP Edwards). Sure, the album is a bit repetitive. But that's entirely the point. It's a dance record. A funky-as-hell, incredibly performed one at that.
An easy 5/5.
Like the Rocket From the Crypt album on this list, but better. A more interesting, more angular brand of alt rock. I can totally see how every emo/hardcore/post hc band I listened to in the early 00s was influenced by these guys (ATDI, Jets to Brazil, Cap'n Jazz, etc.). Solid stuff, if not suitable for every mood/occasion.
4/5
I've railed against similar sounding albums by UK acts from this time period for being too twee, daft, irritating, folksy, fantastical, fanciful etc. But for some reason Village Green hits different. This record rules. The songs are so fun. They don't grate the way tracks on Ogden's Nut Gone do. Great stuff, front to back.
An easy 5/5.
This is great! One of the better discoveries from the list so far, as I'm a couple hundred albums in. Absolutely no idea what the lyrics say, but who cares. The vibe is great. Summery, easy listening, jazzy in some spots, poppy in others, and lightly psychedelic throughout.
4/5 cuz it's a wee bit on the long side.
This was my intro to Primal Scream, a band I often heard about but never but any effort into listening to. All I knew about them was that Bobby Gillespie was in Jesus and Mary Chain (a band I like) for 1 album.
Gotta say, coming in totally cold, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Trippy, groovy, inoffensive background(ish) music. Amazing for strolling around the city or working to. I love the textures, melodies and psychedelic aspects. Has some Madchester and other Britpop elements that work for me.
I tried on Screamadelica immediately after this one and loved it even more. I guess I am now a Primal Scream fan.
4/5
These songs were made to be performed in arenas. Massive production, amazing melodies. This record had a grip on the world those who weren't around at the time will never understand. There are some absolute bangers on here, but it's just not my personal favourite sound profile in the world. Much respect to Oasis, but this gets a 3/5 from me.
I gave this record a serious, concerted attempt. But nah, dawg, this is not for me. Just another weird, cheesy early Britpop album of which there are dozens of on this list.
2/5 if I'm being generous.
First Iggy album I've listened to in its entirety, ft. some heavy handed production from David Bowie. This record comes off quite a bit like a Bowie record, which is amazing. Most songs are longer than they need to be, but that's alright cuz they've got the groove, baby.
This was way more pleasant to listen to than I was expecting. Very musical, melodic, good structure and flow and energy throughout. Might just grab myself a vinyl copy.
4/5
As a standalone album, 4/5
As a Beatles album, 3/5
Some killer, but mostly filler. As John would say, there's too much of Paul's songs about "granny shit" on this record. Comes off twee and childish in parts.
But it's still the fuckin' Beatles, so whatever.
3/5
This shit slaps so hard. Hang on to your love sounds like a major interpolation of Billie Jean (or vice-versa). I could listen to these smooth-ass grooves all day every day for a long while.
4/5
Adolescent drivel. I hated this clown when I was a teenager and he was topping the charts. Still can't stand him now. Beyond irritating.
1/5
