Actually liked it way more than I expected to. Was ready for some spiritual lyrical miracle boom bap jazz rap but was pleasantly surprised at how pop-minded it was and the different sounds going on. Ultimately not the kind of rap album I will ever voluntarily listen to again but I COULD and I wouldn't hate it In other words 3/5 needs more Nettspend Fav song: Sacrifice

I actually find it fun to listen to but the second I tune into the lyrics I feel like I am in a COD lobby in 2012 and it just becomes a slog Fav song: Just Don't Give a Fuck

At first, I wasn't sure that it lived up to the raucousness of my fav Fela Kuti studio recordings but as it went on I felt more and more hypnotized and really enjoyed it a lot.

Listened to it like 3 or 4 times, energy is insane and it's so fun to hear the people freaking out. Went to a concert last night and was thinking about this album and how I was wishing every concert was just 30 minutes of nonstop intense bangers... I think the only thing preventing me from putting it at 5 for right now is that this kind of music resonates most with me when the TUNES are really undeniable and for some reason despite listening several times the melodies and hooks didn't stay with me that much. This might be a skill issue on my part tho! Fav song: Feel It (Don't Fight It)

Have decided I am rating albums based on how much I enjoy rather than my critical opinion of them There are certain pieces of art I have sorta purposefully avoided because i feel like i have already absorbed them through cultural osmosis and they exist in this weird limbo of already knowing a ton about them but also having never interacted with them before... like the Godfather as a movie example or like Gravity's Rainbow for the books. where Godfather is like the most "movie" movie you know? "it insists upon itself" Yeah okay bro anyway peter griffin chicken fight okay cool anyways Thriller is the music versoin of that for me where i have heard each song 1000 times but only in 30 second pieces over the course of my life to where it like doesnt feel like a real album to me, so it was an interesting experience to actually listen to it and like i like some of the michael jackson songs but what does he know about halloween Like why is it halloween evil themed in the middle of a block buster pop album?? why is he lowkey flirting with paul mccartney? Every song for me sounds more like a ringtone than a song, Beat it is like some bon jovi type vibes, idk bro its just not for me sorry but Human Nature is a banger fs Fav song: Human Nature

Love Lauryn Hill but had never listened to this before! Pretty much every song was awesome what else can I say ^_^ Fav song: Fu-Gee-La

I honestly like a fair amount of music that is obviously inspired by this so I can definitely appreciate it from that angle. I also don't mind when they just pick a riff and rock out for a second. But pretty much everything else they do makes me want to kill myself Fav song: Speed King

It's actually impressive how closely this straddles the line between music I like and music that makes me want to go postal. The Todd Rundgren production definitely helps, and when the song writing is good I actually don't mind it that much. The fact that it is sorta winkingly over-the-top can veer towards endearing for me, but at times the melodies are just so uninteresting that the cheesiness is all that is left for me and then I just don't give a shit. Ultimately none of the songs really stuck with me but I at least found it interesting to listen to and ponder whether or not I liked it whereas Deep Purple was just a slog of hatred and suicidality Fav song: Paradise by the Dashboard Light

I stayed up until 1 AM watching instagram reels last night Fav song: Not sure

Actually liked it way more than I expected to. Was ready for some spiritual lyrical miracle boom bap jazz rap but was pleasantly surprised at how pop-minded it was and the different sounds going on. Ultimately not the kind of rap album I will ever voluntarily listen to again but I COULD and I wouldn't hate it In other words 3/5 needs more Nettspend Fav song: Sacrifice

Gonna liveblog my thoughts as I listen Tom Sawyer: Have obviously "listened" to this song through cultural osmosis but have never sat down and actually listened. 30 seconds in and the vocals make me want to kill myself. Synths are unforgivable but I sadly must admit the chord progression around 45 seconds hit a bit harder than I'd like. Holy fuck synth solo is the worst thing I have ever heard. Guitar solo is nails on a chalkboard but bassline is actually kinda cool. I'm hearing "government" "society" and "discontent" in the lyrics, seems pretty retarded so that's cool. It's not really lingering on any one idea for too long like a lot of the world's worst prog rock does so I can appreciate that. Definitely could have ended one minute earlier without losing ANYTHING interesting. Red Barchetta: Once again, an utterly detestable synth. Kinda confused because musically the intro is like a nice jangle pop song and then the singing starts and I want to jump off a bridge. Oh okay cool now they're like rocking out which sounds pretty bad. Fuck the bridge is so terrible. Okay like in my brain I can appreciate that the musicianship feels very tight and intense but the whole thing is just so immensely SINCERE like they are staring me in the eyes and wanting me to like the music SO BADLY I just can't take it seriously...like each musical idea is like "hey now check THIS OUT BRO!" I honestly don't even hate the sound of a lot of this song aside from the vocals and the massively outdated keyboards which isn't totally their fault... but like conceptually I just cannot find any sort of appreciation YYZ: I was taking a shit during this song and don't remember a single thing. Everything going on in the bathroom was more interesting to me Limelight: This is definitely the best so far and makes me think that if they would just make over the top pop music like The Darkness I would hate them a lot less The Camera Eye: What do you want me to say? It's annoying. Bass is cool. Witch Hunt: ahaha Woah creepy dude .. Nice ..!Oh okay now its freaking epic AWESOMEE <3 Vital Signs: We just don't have a need for this music anymore. It's not useful at this point in human history. It's fine. I just don't care Fav song: Limelight

Not my favorite Neil Young album and there are some songs I don't fully love but I at least like all the songs and LOVE many of them, very close to 5 for me ^_^ Fav song: Out on the Weekend

Really didn't mind it which surprised me! Fav song: Not sure

Very important album 4 Me Fav song: Suspended in Gaffa HM: Get Out of My House

Imagine an all-time classic rap album with thought-provoking bars, incredible beats, and an utterly groundbreaking concept to boot. That's the description of an imaginary album that is the opposite of this Fav song: The New Jazz (One) or none

I felt absolutely nothing Fav song: Disco 2000 or Bar Italia

I've listened to this before and liked it but have never loved any Bjork I have listened to despite everything about my music taste pointing towards me having her as one of my fav artists. It's strange! I feel like it's weird to be lukewarm on Bjork but here we are. Maybe the issue is I need to listen on my "jetto blaster" Fav song: Venus as a Boy tbh :pray emoji:

I really have trouble taking the "why do straight guys get so bloody pressed" aahh voice seriously (especially when he is literally speak-singing gibberish or repeatedly saying the same phrase over and over) but it's fine I guess. Another one I have listened to in the past and been very lukewarm on. Fav song: Too Many Birds

I like this kinda music more when it pulls more from pop rather than rock but still enjoyed! Fav song: Music for the Last Couple

Thought this would be a lock for a 1 for me. Expected to hate every song and ended up hating 1 or 2, being indifferent to 3 or 4, and slightly enjoying Hitch a Ride, Something About You, and Let Me Take You Home Tonight. It's almost like their sincerity and theater kid-ness won me over in the end. If they kept going and were even more kitsch they would probably end up in Thin Lizzy territory which is my favorite of these kinds of bands. Fav song: Hitch a Ride

One of the most 2009 albums ever recorded. Completely without substance and attempts to coasts on aesthetics. The aesthetics are occasionally nice, and when they actually try to write a song I kinda like it, but most of it is just nothing to me. From a critical perspective, I find it pretty offensive, but personally for me it is fine background music (there's a reason why "Intro 10 hours plus rain sounds" is so popular... this shit is meant to be played but not listened to). Fav song: Crystallized

Ian and Anthony really knocked it out of the park with this one Fav track: Mayonnaise (maybe? loved most of them aside from Disarm which I was lukewarm on)

This guy is a sick freaking cyclepath.... Fav song: Henry Lee or Death is Not the End

if someone likes this it is an al GREEN flag Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes Emoji Fav song: I've Never Found a Girl

First listened to this album in 2020 and haven't revisited since so it was a lot of fun. Insanely good album cover. Emmylou is an artist who has a lot of songs that I think are 5/5 but maybe does not have a masterpiece album so I think there are a few songs on here that don't do a whole lot for me but also a few that are amazing so it's a mixed bag. Close to a 4 might readjust later Fav song: If I Could Only Win Your Love

this and murder ballads by nick cave were both released in 1996... more like 199666 if you ask me... heh... Favorite song: Tourniquet

I used to lay up at night waiting for them to free earl Fav song: Pyramids

I met a monkey and I walked around! I did a dance but I didn't frown! Life is cool when you have friends. Giraffes, lions, in a pig pen! That's how this shii sounds to me 💔 Fav song: Eye Know

Liked it more than I was expecting to! Fav song: Then She Did...

A lot I could write here but I don't feel like it this morning, instead I am just going to listen to this album again and feel grateful for the transcendent qualities of pop music!!! Fav song: I'm So Young

First half insanely good like 5/5 for me, drops a bit in the middle, then gets awesome again, EDTION breaks my heart tho :/ Fav song: Mama Said (AMAZING!!!)

I mean I don't know if I clapped a TON but it wasn't bad (for me) IDK man I listened to it on fathers day maybe thats why I felt a soft spot for it, when they were talking about him waggling his meat in a gypsy's face or whatever I felt a little off but when he smooth crooning country boy mode I felt that little twang in my tummy man, low end of 3 for me but obvious step above fucking RUSH like come on man Fav song: Please Be With Me

Like Smashing Pumpkins this is an artist that I thought I had no interest in listening to but actually ended up enjoying a ton. Felt way more punk than I would have guessed Fav song: Dance This Mess Around

It gets tuah point where it is just hard to take seriously FOR ME Fav song: The Model

It fucking sucks Fav song: You Really Got Me

Pretty crazy songwriting, on some of the tracks it felt like she just had new hook after new hook yet for some reason it didn't really grab me? But overall enjoyed listening to it so idk Fav song: Pick Up Your Feelings

It was completely tolerable. Absolutely zoned out while listening Fav song: Going Up (I guess?)

I wanted to enjoy it, I truly went into it trying to like it and telling myself I was not just going to write off Pink Floyd because I'm too cool for them, but the overly grandiose art rock opera thing is just not for me anymore fr. Stuff like In the Flesh (both versions though I'm partial to the one with less slurs) resonates with me because it's just so musical and has a very unique feeling to it but the rest just feels like a vehicle to convey a plot that I don't give a FUCK about, and frankly I more or less disagree with the idea of music having a "plot" anyway Fav song: In the Flesh?

I was a huge fan of Radiohead as a young lad but in adulthood I have really struggled to find them interesting. Here is my working theory: they don't go freaky-deaky mode enough. And maybe that's a function of hindsight; I know that Radiohead is ultimately very groundbreaking and that it might sound "normal" now because music has normalized around them, but they still just don't get FREAKY enough with it! Like even on this album I can feel them flirting with some krautrock or jazzy post-rock stuff and I want them to just go for it and take some RISKS and get FUNKY on a white boy but it just all feels so calculated and NORMAL! I want there to be a sense of danger and excitement to the art I love, and that's why I also struggle with bands like Pink Floyd. It just feels so "correct" and like really "successful" at being "good." So like to be clear I enjoyed the album a lot and I enjoyed listening to pretty much every song, yet there are very few I envision myself returning to. It's interesting. Even after listening to this as thoughtfully as possible, I don't feel closer to understanding whether or not I actually LIKE Radiohead at this point in my life. One cool thing about this though is that I don't think I had ever actually listened to Hail to the Thief in its entirety when I was younger so hearing new tracks was neat. Fav song: There, There

So fire Fav song: Ether

this is some real working class music.....most of yall dont understand .. And like it's kinda terrible but also kinda cool in the sense of british punks in the 80s using traditional music styles to tell about the plight of the working class. The issue is that MOST music that sounds like this is really inauthentic and just using these sounds for weird pastiche aesthetics, but in this case the sounds and styles feel very authentic and purposeful. I am probably never going to listen to this again but did not hate it Fav song: If I Should Fall from Grace with God

bro needs finasteride Fav song: You Know I Couldn't Last

Respectfully, I don't know what the point of this is Fav song: The Mother We Share

holger czukay? i hardly know her czukay Fav song: Persian Love

First half is an easy 5/5 for me tbh but then it drops off a bit but still enjoy it a lot! Fav song: Run of the Mill

I can appreciate the influence but it's not for me, sorry Fav song: My Adidas

in one ear out the other Fav song: The Chauffeur

More bearable than I'd envisioned but for the most part pretty boring. I like the pop songs though. The title track alone drags this down to a 2 for me though. Fav track: Oh Yoko!

Not really sure why this exists or is on this list, I am not a David Bowie fan nor have I ever purposefully listened to a David Bowie song or album before, but I am certain he has better records. I really liked the first song and was really expecting the quality to keep up since the album was on the list of greatest albums ever but instead it got worse and worse until he did one of the world's worst Beatles covers. Progressively more and more atonal and annoying every song. The fuck is wrong with this guy? I'm getting pissed off just typing this. Also wasn't he a pedophile? Anyway I hope he dies soon *checks notes* oh goodie! Fav song: Young Americans (which I actually like for the record)

Very very nice Mr. Yolkem. Amazing to see how this egg of an idea hatched and came to life. I was all scrambled up when it comes to giving this a 3 or a 4, but now that it's OVER it's EASY to settle on a 3. Omelette. Fav song: One More Name

Listened with robbie and enjoyed it, obviously dated so it doesn't exactly sound NEW, MAN but it's cool Fav song: Conversation

Pretty fun though also hard to take seriously since I did not grow up listening to it. FREEEDOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!! Fav song: Settle For Nothing

Personally do not enjoy hearing some crusty 40-something art guy whisper about pedophilia, I feel like I am forced to see relationships like this daily and don't need to absorb it more often than that. Has the air of trying desperately to be supremely cool but I just find it utterly distasteful to listen to, but hey that's just me Fav song: En Melody

I have always had Beck in my head as Radiohead for 40 year olds that think music released in the early 2000s is "new" and get all their album recs from the Grammys but I actually quite enjoyed this, the more over-produced orchestral stuff did not really vibe with me but quite enjoyed the sort of alt-country stuff. Nice job Beckerson Fav song: Sunday Sun

I'm not a thespian I'm an ameripian. Enjoyed way more than I expected. Is this what normal people think Queen/Billy Joel/other bullshit karaoke music sounds like?? Fav song: Thunder Road

youth AND young manhood? Fav song: Trani

This Mingus album is a lingus test for good music. Er, sorry, litmus test. It created a sort of mingua franca for all future jazz releases. Er, sorry, lingua franca. Please don't forget it's mingUS not mingYOU or mingME Fav song: Group Dancers prolly which has that riff that is good enough for an entire album of its own (also repeated in track 4)

WHERE THE EAGLE GLIDES DESCENDING!!! THERE'S AN ANCIENT RIVER BENDING!!! Fav song: Thrasher

Feeboo stree Fav song: I Wear Your Ring

more like ladies and gentlemen we are BORED in space haha... nice. Fav song: Cop Shoot Cop...

Tough one to rate. Obviously really good music and Ella's vocals are gorgeous but it's undeniably tough to get through this whole collection. I feel like this would have made a lot of sense as a release in 1959 when owning this set would have been like paying for a Spotify subscription basically and you could listen to like pretty much every pop song that ever existed sung by the best singer, but in the age of streaming it just makes a lot less sense. I am rating these albums based on how much I enjoyed listening to them so gotta go with 3 here but I could see it being 4 if it was just one elpee's worth of toons :) Fav song: The Half of It Dearie Blues (which is sooo good)

I actually find it fun to listen to but the second I tune into the lyrics I feel like I am in a COD lobby in 2012 and it just becomes a slog Fav song: Just Don't Give a Fuck

I must have been in a good mood or something because I really didn't mind it Fav song: Don't have one

Lord forgive me Fav song: I Believe In A Thing Called Love or Growing On Me

i prefer banana album but still fire Fav song: Sister Ray

A few pleasant songs for me but ultimately nothing of consequence Fav song: Living in Denial

Not my fav Pet Shop Boys album but solid throughout with a few major highlights but nothing quite reaches the heights of Being Boring or Domino Dancing for me. Close to 4! Fav song: It's a Sin

i luv gramsons parsons Fav song: The Christian Life

diet radiohead but his voice is really amazing if we are being fr, would have loved to hear him sing over an entire Talk Talk style slowed up ambient pop album Fav song: Corpus Christi Carol

To me it just kinda sounded like Fela Kuti but with less charisma, or "rizz" if you will. Shouts out kwame nkrumah tho fr Fav song: Plenty Nonsense