Tre Cool is such an underrated drummer. This was never my favorite GD album but the less major songs really grew on me this listen
I bet they were super fun live but this one's not really hitting. Also, for those who care: HUGE difference between the Stereo & Mono mixes.
WAY too long - thought her first was better
This might be a hot take but Led Zeppelin,,,,, is pretty good. I loved every bit of even the most self-indulgent noodling bits.
Also this is my first time listening to IV all the way through despite being raised on Zep, and my god is putting Stairway right after The Battle of Evermore a CHOICE
I've always kinda liked U2's sound but after the 3 hits up top it gets kinda samey. I did like the song "Exit" though
I'm sure it was innovative for 1967 but it mostly just seems noodly and ridiculous now.
It was a little samey but in terms of early rock n roll it was fun
Lots of fun! Parts of it very of its time but she's one of my favorites of late90s/early00s rap
I had a lot of the same issues with this that I had with Ready to Die (too long, some bangers but a lot of weird filler) but also they're just so cute
I mean this affectionately: W h a t.
I genuinely don't know what to think of this one but I think it's on here because the guy who made the list is from the UK - I've always heard the list put a bit too much emphasis on british isles based 80s/90s stuff but wow.
That said, I didn't hate it? Like the instrumentals were fun. But also: why.
The bangers are bangers and I indirectly owe my marriage to half of ABBA but,,, idk. (also, some surprisingly Celtic-y stuff in here as well!)
I liked the first track (of the four) a lot but not so much the other ones. The synthesized voices were a bit of a turnoff.
This gets an entirely biased 5 stars from me. I grew up on Layla, and the title song was one of my first favorites growing up. The album as a whole rocks for the entire 76 minutes. I have so many problems with Eric Clapton as a dude and even as a musician, and I should probably be listening to more black blues artists, but goddamn I cannot bring myself to not love this album. Sometimes you wanna fuck George Harrison's wife so bad that it makes you make the perfect album, idk
Update with another hot take: Metallica Also Good
Good, funky, a little samey but doesn't overstay its welcome
More like a 3.5 but the sound especially in the first half is really cool.
OK so I had to look this up. Apparently Aftermath was the first RS album to be mostly original compositions and where they kind of really came into their sound. So, it makes more sense in context why this would be on here (like Pink Floyd's Pipers) but the album as it stands is super boring and I KNOW the Stones have better releases later on - I can understand now why Beatles fans had kind of a superiority complex over the Stones fans around the mid 60s.
Plus, US release eliminated and reordered a few tracks and replaced the opener with Paint It Black, which remained a non-album single in the UK. PIB's inclusion I think would've really done a lot to establish this album's sound, but getting rid of Mother's Little Helper for the US release was a mistake, as it's one of the better tracks. I think mucking around with it a little more (having both PIB and MLH on there for a start) would create a slightly better album, but even then most of the thing would be 40+ minutes of the same tempo in 4/4 with Jagger talk-singing over it with little variation.
OYE COMO VA... MI RITMO
BUENO PA GOZAR... MULATA
If I had been a teenager in 1996 this would have rewired my brain chemistry I think.
Also a pleasant surprise in the form of "My Beloved Monster", an underrated jam from the Shrek soundtrack.
way, way, way, way too long, but also has some really good bits, and there's a lot of things on here I realize have been referenced a whole lot. I feel like it deserves a relisten from me but I simply do not have the patience.
I can see where it was innovative and the instrumentals are interesting but it's not my thing
don't totally vibe with the vocals, but apparently this is their old vocalist. also catch me fully riverdance to Transylvania
Some of the lyrics made me laugh but this was overall an unpleasant experience. My ceiling for late 60s silly psychedelic fuckaroundery is about at the level of The Beatles' White Album and this was just too much. That said, I might have liked, say, watching a live version of this without all the studio noodling. But this is my first 1-star for a reason.
Another one I'm incapable of being objective about because I've known this album back to front since the womb. It's like if movie theater popcorn was music. The kind drowning in butter and that you pour chocolate candy into.
FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD, YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU
Man I wish I liked this more. I think maybe I just don't vibe with early 90s rap.
Very weird, not what I expected, but it really grew on me throughout.
There's a particular riff that she really likes hitting but it gets old after a while. I did like it, and the version i listened to had a live recording of her doing The Who's "My Generation" which was SO FUN
Never realized that 90s boybands simply copied Stevie's homework this whole time. (Also I picked this one to listen to because I needed something chill after Offspring and SOAD - it was a good choice)
ok fun but the back half is entirely like, instrumental meditation music of sorts, and that one doesn't really hit
Look I'm well aware this is sacrilege and it's so clear this was mindblowing and innovative in 1966 but I really just....do not like baroque pop. I like Sloop John B but that's about it.
I didn't know what to make of this at first. Live albums aren't really for me, and the first track didn't sound great, but it grew on me. The Who is my favorite band and there were a couple great interpretations on here, and the remastering really captures Entwistle's bass which I always appreciate, and Keith was ON FIRE for this set. That said: eh.
Ian Curtis's voice makes me Feel Things
fucking great. obviously i know the title track super well and while that more upbeat tone doesn't carry through most of the album this is a really solid folk rock album with some great writing
Bob Dylan found nuked from orbit at Scarborough Fair
I'm not big on Samba but Astrud is THEE samba girlie and her voice is great.
I could write a paper on this I think. I'm not gonna, but I could.
If Anais Mitchell wasn't picturing him as the voice of Orpheus in Hadestown I'll eat my hat. This guy is ETHEREAL.
I once heard a grainy live recording of him singing the aria Dido's Lament and I recommend everyone go seek it out. He's obviously not an opera singer but he brings something really unique to it. I can see now why there are a jillion posthumous albums, too - I'd want every scrap of tape his voice his on.
God I'm a sucker for a baritone
