It’s not quite my taste, but it was nice to listen to it all the same, more of a listening in the background while I get other stuff done kind of album, than an attention stealer, but it made me feel happy and that I could feel the sun on my skin, which is a positive.
I only recognised no woman no cry (and that was a different version) so no massive bangers to get the album noticed, but this was also good in its own way. Quiet and unpretentious.
Best song so Jaj’seh
Summary: good, but I probably wouldn’t be in a rush to listen again any time soon
Again not my vibe. I enjoyed the first song and then they just all felt pretty repetitive, then again a lot of the songs were repeated. Wouldn’t listen again
Again not my vibe - but I can respect that it’s good for the genre it’s representing. I wouldn’t listen again, but was easy listening all the same.
I enjoyed it at the time, but it wasn’t very memorable
Not a lot to it, three songs, 17 mins - not super memorable. I liked the first song, but wouldn’t listen again
LOVE this album! So many memorable songs and classics which stick with you
Couldn’t really get into this album, it seemed to be all over the place, hopping between genres and it just felt like it was trying to be too clever and it just came off as chaotic
One of those albums you really want to root for, but does nothing for you in reality. He has a great voice, but nothing really made it stand out or drew me to return to it. I’m glad a Senegalese artist was able to gain popularity though
I’m actually shocked that anyone listened to this and decided it was one of the best 1001 albums ever made, unless I’m totally missing something. I can generally see why an album is great even when it’s not to my personal taste, but this was just noise
Slightly biased as it’s my type of music and I like the strokes already. It was an album that I enjoyed listening too, but for me it didn’t have too many memorable songs on it
I love the cure, and this album has some of my favourite cure songs on it
I tried to listen to this bearing in mind that I don’t really like jazz and that it was from the 1950s. But, even with that in mind I don’t think this was particularly impressive or progressive
Never has been my favourite Green Day album. They were probably quite progressive with their messaging at the time though, which feels more pertinent now
This still has one of my favourite intro songs of all times and it just sets the pace for the rest of the album. It’s a rare thing on an album that nearly every song is a banger. It was also enjoyed by so many different subsets of people (although that was also its downfall and made it unpopular too). I also like it as much 20 years later even though my taste in music has evolved. Some of the songs even transported me back to that time, containing memories and emotions.
Great guitar, meh lyrics, average songs. Nothing overly special or memorable for me.
What was this? Sounded like a drunk man singing absolute garbage down at the pub, and he wanted you to know he could spell g-i-r-l-f-r-i-e-n-d. An extra star for the guitar
You can’t argue with a bit of Janis. Some good songs on it (hello soundtrack of look who’s talking), and you can’t deny she’s bloody talented.
You can’t deny that this album has some excellent songs on it, and I really enjoyed listening to it, but there is something now, as there was then, that I’m not even sure I can really put my finger on that makes me unable to be fully invested in the arctic monkeys or able to give them 5 stars.
So the tl;dr great album that I really enjoyed listening to, but something is just missing for me
I was excited to get this album. I really like songs I’ve heard (and my faves were on this album), but I’ve never listened to their full album from start to finish. However, when I finished listening to it, I didn’t really recall anything else from the album apart from those songs, but now I also felt a bit depressed.
I’ve given it an extra star purely because I think I would have enjoyed it more on a different day, and I would listen again to test this theory
Love the angst, don’t love the music unfortunately.
I actually really like some of the songs on this album, and I wish I like Neil Young more (he’s playing at Glastonbury this year after all), but I just find his voice a bit grating. I guess it’s like marmite.
I really like the songs that I have already heard on the album (familiarity?). Personal Jesus is undeniably a banger. Although there wasn’t anything else on it that was noteworthy for me.
Sounded like a bunch of people jamming out in one of their father’s garages, amateur and nothing special
Excellent guitar to open, but I felt no other songs lived up to the brilliance of Sultan’s of swing. It felt like a little bit of filler for that one great song.
This album spurred a kitchen rave with me and my toddler, and was also a great backdrop to spur me on to do work. Would listen again when I need to be revved up. The album started making me feel a little anxious towards the end though and it gets a little samey, but a gem all the same
I feel bad as I couldn’t finish it, and I always want to give all albums a fair chance. BUT, it was 2 hours long, 2 hours of my life that I know I would never get back. It felt like listening to a bad comedy troupe at a caravan park.
Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it, not exactly memorable; but I’m not over motivated to remind myself, or listen again
Fine, nothing special
If you loved me at all you wouldn’t make this album over 2 hours long.
A prime example of why you shouldn’t put every song you’ve ever written on the album, nothing special, pretty boring
Actively didn’t enjoy. Other bands have done it better, had better lyrics, songs and voices.
It is doing nothing for me, sounds like the drunken ramblings of an old man, where you kind of have to smile politely and edge away. Was it meant to be funny? The laughter reminded me of the canned laughter on friends when the joke wasn’t even funny
Unfortunately not my vibe
This album was undoubtedly made for either someone more musically cultured than me and into progressive rock. For me a lot of it just sounded like the weird background music on retro kids cartoons (think Tom and Jerry). Sometimes I felt great the song has finished, just for an extra five minutes of random instrumental. A song should never be nine minutes, well unless it’s good, and then it’s ok
If it was a whole album of nothing compares to you it would definitely be a 5 stars. However, despite being good, the rest of the songs don’t hit the mark in quite the same way. Beautifully haunting though
Not as bad as I was worried it was going to be when I saw it was yet another artist I’ve never heard of (and there’s probably a reason for that), listenable, kind of funky in places, but nothing that massively excites me
Lyrically the music is terrible, vocally the music is terrible. But yet there is something slightly endearing within this mess. Maybe that they give zero fucks about whatever rating I could give them
Yeah. Just no. I skimmed through every song, to see if it got better. It didn’t. I’m struggling to understand how that was rated as one of the 1001 best albums on any metric. I feel like I can generally appreciate if something is good, even if I am not into it myself, but this one just left me baffled
I sound like m grandmother, but this was just noise
There was something quite unhinged that I actually liked about this album… probably because I listened to it when I was also feeling unhinged
I do really like this album and always have, but I do wonder if it appeals more as it’s such a sad story
