Just not for me. I get the artistry, the solos are sick, production dialed in. Can't quite get past the vocals and the subject matter I guess. I'm all for agressive music, i listen to a ton of it. It's just that this specific album is seemingly all sex lust and violence towards women as objects, which is a turnoff for me personally and doesn't make any of these an anthem for me.
had no idea about their history and the loss of the lead singer
Not a big cock rock fan, but liked the blues influence. Maybe being a little harsh because I've gotten a few 70s-80s metal bands in a row. Drums here are insane. Pretty wild for a debut album.
This one is so deeply tied to my childhood. My dad played it all the time. It has a real cinematic feel (duh), and in general I'm just a huge sucker for concept albums.
Incredible songwriting and harmony
flawless. incredible music, message, and bravery
New to me. Absolutely divine. Very ahead of its time.
Incredible. Never write off a ska band I guess! Amazing to hear the influences on so many bands I care about. Completely unknown to me, had to listen on Youtube because it wasnt on Spotify.
Amazing. Feels like it really has a finger on the pulse of the time. Fun to hear a ton of these songs in context.
Still trying to get into jazz, but this was really incredible
Want to like it, but it feels insanely dated to my ears.
Amazing. I had no idea Scholz was such a badass. Love the idea of creating the perfect rock band, one "with crystal-clear vocals and bone-crunching guitars"
So much more punk than I realized.
Wanted to like this one more
Honestly, an album that can no longer be made, but an important and brave one in my opinion.
Looking over reviews from other people, I'm sad to see so many people dismiss it outright because of its lyrics and subject matter. Randy writes in character. A fact that seems to be challenging for many here. It's strange to me that we can separate artist and role so easily when we watch a film (no one is getting angry at Fassbender for his role as a slave-owner in 12 Years a Slave), but we seem to have difficulty making this same separation when it comes to music.
Stories deserve to be told, and no one does it better in music that Randy. He drags American skeletons out of the closet and into the daylight. That discomfort you feel? He's directly pointing out how strange it is that you don't feel it every day, because if you looked, it's all around you.
Maybe I'm just overdosing on 70s rock, or maybe live albums don't really do it for me, but I thought this album was just fine. Some individual tracks are incredible and I found a few new ones to love, but it doesn't come together as an album for me. Insane talent though!
Undeniably beautiful and moving. I wanted to hate, but I left enchanted.
Tried to judge it independently of the my expectations of the bad, but I didn't really get what this one had to say. Didn't enjoy it musically either.
I mean, I love Air, and I love this album, but its not even in their personal top 3 in my opinion. Curious as to why it was selected.
A band I love and an album I've never listened to end to end. Was really interesting to hear their sound at an earlier stage. Less weird, more punk and reggae, but all the pieces were there.
I'm a reasonable man, I see radiohead, I rate 5stars.
Hard for me to separate this album from what it meant to me when I discovered it as a teenager. I'd never heard anything like it. It was cinematic, rock, noise, electronic, ambient, non-chalant, and yet so fucking cool. It pulled feelings out of my depths I wasn't aware were there.
So yeah, I'd say that it was a pretty great album.
New to me. Again, I have an bias against live albums as a fan of production, but her voice is undeniable.
I tried to shed any biases I have based on what Coldplay has become and listen to the album as a whole. There are some incredible songs here in my opinion that rise above the derogatory "adult contemporary" label, but I'm sure there are more deserving, less outwardly commercial in their ambitions albums that deserve a spot on the list.
On my personal top 10. This album has been a constant companion in my life and has stood the test of time. It's as good in the car on a roadtrip, as it is for living room dance parties, as it is in my headphones all alone.
Paul Simon is an unapologetic fan of music and it shines through here. He leaves room to share his spotlight with other incredible artists and he's not afraid to change his sound in order to prove the universality of good songwriting that speaks to your soul.
Really cool to draw the lines between blues, rock, and heavy metal. Not sure if it's an album that I'll come back to personally, but I'm really happy to have heard it.
Holy shit! Who was in charge of telling me about this album, because they messed up!
Truly resonated with me. Just clean songwriting, production, and instrumentation. A delight.
Will need to dig into their other work.
What an incredible voice. More familiar with his later weirder later work (mostly thanks to Wes Anderson movies). Have to admit I like this less, but there's plenty to love here. Not sure I'll return to it.
This one did not do it for me. Didn't really feel like it was pushing any boundaries on the one hand, nor did I feel like it really resonated as pop music on the other. Felt a bit like a 90s Coldplay.
I had no idea how many of these were on this one album. Tons of fun.
Really cool to hear a different sound from a band that was so boxed-in in my mind.
