THE HORNS. THE GROOVE. Also I feel silly but I didn’t realize I Like the Way You Move was OutKast. Love it!

one of my favs of all time, and not just bc it came out when I was a teenager. I'm a sucker for a concept album with tons of harmonies and melodic callbacks.

what a crazy first album on the list. this sounds like a soundtrack to an 80s thriller lost to time. I have no idea why it's on a list of albums you MUST hear.

surprised how much I liked it. I expected bland bubblegum pop but I think I had this misconception because of their femme vocals (and because We Got the Beat and Our Lips are Sealed have been used in women-focused commercials and covered by tween Disney stars). In particular on the song This Town if you replace the lead and backing vocals, it could easily be a Green Day song; YCWIYS reminds me of The Matches' Papercut Skin. The name Skidmarks on My Heart is definitely not bubblegum pop lol. Love the drama and enunciation on Automatic (a la shiver with antici..PAtion). Fav songs: This Town, Fading Fast, Automatic, You Can't Sleep Walk if You Can't Sleep (bonus: Head Over Heels which played I didn't realize the album ended)

great for listening to at work because it's so energetic usually with a good beat, but i'm not listening to the lyrics at all.

Right away I kinda hate it. It's giving "pretentious hipster I had a crush on in college and now cringe at" The whole album feels like a charmless whiny jerk with not much to say (on Genius "Haines has claimed that he has no idea what Showgirl is about," the whole chorus is American Guitars, the SNORING SOUNDS in Junk Shop Clothes). The subtle but sustained misogyny and classism (all of Showgirl, "A backwoods trier... Your time is mine. What's yours is mine, all mine" in Housebreaker, and "they were like a pair of dumb dogs rolling in the dirt" in Idiot Brother) is far too much for me. The only song with any possible message seems to be Baader Meinhof but even then it's political word salad.

love all the different instruments - trumpet, orchestra, weird sound effects, clarinet, I think even a theremin?! Reminds me of Presidents of the United States (esp Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp) also did they transpose Silent Night (sleep in heavenly peace) for Endless?? what a weird choice. love it. Favs: Holes, Goddess on a Hiway, Tonite it Shows, Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp

I didn't like this as much as I expected to. Most of the songs sound pretty similar, so if I was seeking swing/big band, this isn't the album I'd revisit.

I like the mixing on this album, which feels weird to say. I can identify individual instruments and voices, which is the opposite of the Wall of Sound Phil Spector used for a lot of groups in this era. Favs: Good Times, I Never Loved a Man