This album, while very pleasant to listen to, feels like the extended end credits of an 80s TV show. I would call this genre "progressive elevator music". This isn't an insult, the music is very nice and enjoyable. It's kinda fantastic background music for a party no on has anymore and that is sad.

This is a great album, top to bottom. Feels like they are putting on a show in someone's living room just hanging out having a decent time.

I’ve never heard anything but bittersweet symphony, and the rest so far sounds like an extended version of that song, which already has an extended version. But you could do much worse for a sleepy Monday morning

Fantastic album. Lennons voice is really the dominant sound in nearly every song. Certain tracks had things I never noticed before like in should have known better. I had never noticed how it’s mostly just drums and bass with some guitar sprinkled in, very interesting. Heartbreakingly quick album though, but who cares. It sounds like this was recorded in multiple different studios. Some tracks are much cleaner sounding than others.

I see there are two versions of the album, one in mono and the other in stereo(because it doesn’t say mono). I’m going with the mono version because the album art matches what I was given to listen. Too call this album eclectic is obvious, but what is really interesting is this album sounds like it is from 1975-77, not 1969. Another example of the kinks following or even leading musical style changes but not chasing after them.

This is certainly new for me. My only Duran Duran experience is what I’ve heard on the radio. This is definitely the kind of album I don’t care for the first time I hear it, but if I had to listen to it a few times I know I would love it. Each track sounds different but clearly from same creators and they are really going for something out there. It is difficult for me to know what is considered “groundbreaking” for an album from this time period without looking deeper into it but I imagine a lot of this is what help defined 80s synth sound. This could be a case of the originator of a new sound is copied so hard they begin to sound like a copier. After the album played through, a remastered version played and I feel the same about the album. High pitch ethereal sounds are ok for a bit but after a while it becomes grating.

I'm looking forward to this one because I don't think I have ever sat down to listen to a whole Dylan album before. You never expect that WHOIOOO sound out of nowhere, but thats how things roll down highway 61. Just a wonderful experience. Really just great!

This is a very chill album perfect for a rainy Monday morning. I'm glad I was presented this because I probably would not have listened on my own. One thing is the album says it was released in 1994, but it definitly has a late 80s sound to it. 94 feels a bit late for this sound, but it just means this artist was working through the 80s before he got this album to make stamp.

I am interested in how listening to this album goes. I've never listened to a whole Prince album, and usually I am burnt out on the hits because of the radio, but 1999 started and I am feeling it. The early 80s synthesizer is killing me on some of these songs. Was never a big fan of the sound and it is HEAVILY featured. I know at the time it was novel, but blah. I would love to hear a redone version of this with out the synthesizers. A lot of these songs sound really similar to each other, for instance lady cab driver I thought was just little red corevette again. If this is intentional, they succeeded? A lot of this just feels really experimental. The hits are the hits, and a lot of everything else feels just like messing around.

And I am immediately back in college. I was never a Norah Jones fan, but I have enjoyed hearing the music. This was a very nice trip back in time. Apparently I have heard this album a lot which makes sense because of how popular it was. Nothing wrong with some pleasant piana music, but this album felt progressive with the way each song is a little similar and not changing much between songs. It was a pleasant trip.

I’ve never heard of this band before and I’m immediately sad because it instantly sounded like folksy modest mouse, which is something I didn’t know I needed. I have only heard the Johnny cash version “I see a darkness”, so that was a surprise that popped up. Overall, it was ok. Probably just not in the mood for it today. Has kind of a more folksy Elliot smith vibe. I would listen to this again if it comes along. Seems like good sad mood music.

I am excited for this today! I’ve not listened a complete fats domino album before and I am in an oldies mood today. Having a real problem trying to listen to this. YouTube music doesn’t seem to have the album, but I followed the link above to the YouTube playlist and that is working but it pauses after each track. Really messing up the enjoyment. So many of these songs sound so similar it feels lazy but the songs are so pleasant it really doesn’t matter. Just feels like the same song over and over again and I really don’t care.

Brian Wilson died yesterday, so I guess this is pretty good timing. I really like this because it sounds like a beach boys album, but the vocals sound slowed down, probably because of Wilson’s voice changing as he ages. It’s an out there album, and almost everything feels like “good vibrations” could start at any moment. A lot of this feels like stream of consciousness turned into beach boys do jazz, not a huge fan of that but there is something very compelling about it and I bet if I listened a few times it would work for me. I think it’s because my mind is trying to predict what is going to happen next. Once I don’t have to do that, I wonder how I would feel about it. I did not look at the track list and when good vibrations started I was honestly surprised! A lot of this album, especially the more experimental sounds, reminds me a lot of experimental Beatles songs.

Well, I made it this far without listening to a Muse album, so begins a new era for me. There's something compelling about the singer's voice, but it really doesn't work for me. It sounds like Blue Man Group, which isn't a bad thing. Soldiers Poem feels like a Queen sound-a-like song. Glorious sounds like it wants to be a radiohead song, its not a bad attempt.

Ok, weird that there is a live album for the who before i listen to a who album, but the drums are drumming. lets do it. I am totally into this album. I love live albums where it is just the entire concert. I wonder if it is just the mix or the actual crowd, but it sounds like a massive concert for 100 people. I really dont understand this album. It is the deluxe version and has a ton of tracks and i feel like it should have ended sooner, and I wonder if it is multiple shows. I am not complaining though, I am enjoying it, just kinda finished. I was right, the album is still live at leeds, but it is a different concert, live at hull. A good album!

This album sounds like early 90s house music you would hear in a clothes store. I don’t understand why it is held to such high regard. It’s fine but why? Also the one track totally rips off Madonna’s vogue which came out the previous year. Overall not my kind of music to listen to, but it’s fine as background music.

Looking forward to this one. The only Band album I’ve listen to is the last waltz. Fantastic top to bottom. No notes. More please.

Right off the bat, Sounds like late 80s English surf punk? Definitely a surfing beach boys style. I like this but it’s missing something. I wonder what this would sound like post grunge because these songs are missing a some bite, but it’s still very new to me. But just as I wrote that I started hearing a guitar solo straight out of 1995, so I don’t know. This album is something I think I would have really enjoyed a lot more when I was younger. And because it’s included in this list it must be important or influential and I can totally hear that. Perfect length, just as I thought “how many more tracks” it was half way through the last one.

This is an album I’ve been intimidated to listen to because I’ve heard so much about it. It turns out it’s just a collection of Neil young songs! And I am not really paying super close attention just have it on and I know I am missing everything about it. That said I am loving it. When “there’s a world starts” I thought it was the beginning of les mis. Oh wow that was a quick album. Very good.

I've never heard of this band, but the cover art looks like something from Iron & Wine. I like it immediately. Well the first track was quite good. Track 2 sounds very experimental. Which is less good for me. Track 3 is back on track. Still experimental sounding, but in a good way. This is the kind of album music critics like to listen to because it sounds so different than everything else. An eclectic mix of different sounds put together like jazz. This is not for me, but I wish it was.

This is an album i got when it first released. If i remember right, it was available online only or something like that? Either way, it did not hook me then, so I am excited for another attempt. This was fine. A lot of it reminded me of old radiohead. I kept checking the track name to see if it was "everything in its right place" and it never was, but you could have fooled me. Over all, its fine. I did enjoy it more than back when it first came out. So thats good!

Never heard of this group, but it immediately sounds like 80s Bowie. They definitely owe Bowie some money for the way they sound. If the Crash Test Dummies hit in 1985 they would be this band. I liked 1959 quite a bit. I liked This Corrosion. I would like it if every song didn't have the exact same drum beat, but in 1985 that was illegal so I understand. Overall this was a chore.

Never sat down to listen to this album. Didn't realize it was progressive R&B, which is interesting. I never realized how similar whats going on and mercy mercy me were. Just thought it was a motown kind of sound, but it turns out it was deliberate. Kinda cool, but I am not sure about it. This whole album is just one long song, that is pretty cool. It also feels like "I heard it through the grapevine" will happen at any moment on that later tracks. This was a complete album, with themes connecting the end to the beginning and vice-versa. Excellence.

That was terrific! I have never listened to a full Cars album and this was great. The hits are the hits for a reason. The non hit tracks do feel a little bit like filler but that might be because of how familiar I am with the big songs from the album. Great album! Over too soon!

I think the only elastica song I know is from the Trainspotting soundtrack. So we will see how this goes but first track sounds good so far. Mid nineties sound which is where I live. I’m sad I’ve never listened to this before because this is right up my alley. I like this a lot. There’s the Trainspotting song. 2:1 While I really enjoyed this, I think if I listened to a few more times I would rate it higher than a 3. It’s a 3 Im sure would improve.

Never heard of this either. The version I’m listening to is called metal box as the other version is not available on YouTube music. Starting off I’m into it. 3 mins in and I am no longer into it. The rhythms sounds like Billie Jean and I can’t unhear that. Oh man this first song is ten minutes?! I also want to run away. This is a collection of cool beats with the worst singing. It feels like trying to listen to Tomahawk or any other Mike Patton project. This was terrible, but the music was ok. It was the singing and lyrics that ruined it for me.

This sound screams 1990. Makes me feel like it’s middle school. Not really my favorite kind of rap sound, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t having a great time with it. Well made and well mixed. What I really like is a lot of the call and response stuff early in the album has the response moving around the microphone. Also it’s crazy how much everyone ripped these guys off. Over all very good.

There is something about this album where everything has this ethereal sound, which kind of drives me nuts. It doesn't help that "don't stop till you get enough" is so played out for me. I can't hear this song without thinking about being in a ballroom where the lights are dim for a wedding. Songs like "get on the floor" are where you start to hear what becomes his signature sound but surrounded by disco. It sounds like a mashup of genres. Overall, it is quite good, but not as good as what is to come in his career.

This album was cool. Really cool. Will be going back for another listen.

This album, while very pleasant to listen to, feels like the extended end credits of an 80s TV show. I would call this genre "progressive elevator music". This isn't an insult, the music is very nice and enjoyable. It's kinda fantastic background music for a party no on has anymore and that is sad.

Energy. Nothing but pure internal energy. Not energenic, for the most part, but more like here is that feeling in your chest you don't know what to do with. This is very good. The skits are terrible, and have aged more terribly than you can remember, like most rap skits. But the music and lyrics hit harder now than ever before, and it isn't even about anything I've been through.

Impossible to believe this is a debut album. If you told me this was their third or fourth, sure, but first?! Wow. Nothing but hits and such a distinctive sound.

Never listened to a complete album and I’m shouldn’t be but I am with how much I liked this. It’s really really good.

Immediately liking this but it sounds like music that would be playing in the background of a clothing store. This album was fine, but it didn’t really do anything for me.

What a treat! With fantastic harmonies, fun music, and great lyrics, you really cannot go wrong. Money, Money, Money sounds like a song from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

This was great! moved very quickly, sounds perfect, felt like the whole thing was over in an instant. Wonderful!

I love this album, and hearing it takes me right back to sophmore year of college. I love it. The album is perfect, but after starting so strong, the middle does sag a lot for too long to give it a perfect 5 stars. The quiet ending matches the energy of the beginning, and I love it.

Dirty, raw, sounds full of cheap beer, cigarettes, and STDs. I have no notes. More please.

I haven’t listened to the mars Volta before, at least on purpose. This was fine. I might like it if I heard it a lot more but as far as background music goes it’s not bad, quite the opposite. It kind of sounds like if my chemical romance tried to be Led Zeppelin?

This is another collection of delightful background music for a 1960s outdoor party at night time. This is wonderfully pleasant. I see why they don’t make music like this anymore but somebody should every once in a while.

I love this album and it’s been a while since I heard it. California stars takes me back. Way over yonder is a song I hum to myself all the time.

I immediately like this. This album was great, just great! Not at all what I was expecting.

This is a great album, top to bottom. Feels like they are putting on a show in someone's living room just hanging out having a decent time.

It’s great, but always feels off to me. The first album is perfect and this one tries its very best but it never hit the same way with me.

I’m interested in hearing this because I’ve never listened to one of his albums before. This is pretty good. Some songs I really like but others feel like the don’t have a firm footing in what they are going for. It’s feels really experimental and that it was a commercial hit is wild. Like in the coconut is always what the doctor ordered. Really just a showcase of musical styles. Overall very nice, pleasant, and fun!

Poor Randy Newman, because all I can hear is parodies of him singing. This will be my first full album from him I believe. Pleasant and well made. Does Randy Newman picks state per album? From what I know about him he sings about Ohio and California.

This album was pretty good. Not great. It sucks it was 1996 because this sounds like it’s trapped there. A couple more years and this could have really breathed. Otherwise a very chill time.

This was a cool album. I wish I had been listening to it since it came out. It’s definitely my kind of sound. The singers vocal style is different and maybe too much vibrato, but by the end of the album I was sad it was over. Definitely a sound I could fall for.

I've never listened to an entire black sabbath album, so I am looking forward to this. This album is quite good, but its a lot quieter than I was expecting. The upbeat load stuff is the known popular stuff, but the quiet stuff between songs is something I did not expect.

I listened to this while walking the beach on a perfect summer morning. No notes.

This is the kind of album I actively avoided because jack white looked like he belonged in my chemical romance. Don’t judge books by covers and don’t bet against jack white.