how is this album 31 years old jesus. What a time capsule into the mid 90s. I still remember mumbling the lyrics to Longview in art class in 4th grade and getting in trouble for it. Great album, deserves a place high on the list.
now we fucking go. A classic from start to finish. Beam it into space so that the aliens know we're cooking with gas down here.
What the fuck is this? Is this really good or really bad? progressive glam rock? Musically this kind of rules. The more I listen the more I don't really love it. It just kind of exists? This is for someone, it's probably not me. Did I need to hear this before I died? All these songs are the same. I'm out.
"Congrats on her 17 years sober!" - Rob. What a thing to say!
how is this album 31 years old jesus. What a time capsule into the mid 90s. I still remember mumbling the lyrics to Longview in art class in 4th grade and getting in trouble for it. Great album, deserves a place high on the list.
This sounds very early 80s and very early 90s all at the same time? Somehow Stipe's voice sounds younger in their 90s stuff (with which I'm more familiar). Enjoyable, probably won't listen to it again. REM was founded in Athens, Georgia, home of the University of Georgia, a school that once had Justin Fields in their QB room, but he transferred to Ohio State after some of the UGA baseball players called him an n-word. Kirby Smart eat shit O-H BrΕthers.
Green Light is a 10000% certified banger.
baseline here is 2-3 stars. Not typically a big fan, and really only heard the hits. I actually really liked this! Lots of bangers, a lot of fun. Would gladly put on for Butt Rock Breakfast, or on a golf course. 3/5.
not sure I like bossa nova. I like Jazz, but I feel like I need to be either a lovely level of drunk, or at least really high to appreciate it. Not sitting at my email job under florescent lights. That said! I really did enjoy this album, and after doing some research you can see why it is so important, not only to the genre, but to music, generally. For me, it's a 3/5, but a 4/5 wouldn't be crazy.
Would have preferred Pet Sounds, but fitting tribute to Mike Love I mean Brian Wilson. The Beach Boys have never really been my thing, tbh. I love the musicality of it, and I respect the gorgeous harmonies, but surfer rock never appealed to me, and I really only enjoy the stuff post beach and car rock. Today! is the first real transition album from the surfer genre into more album rock, and it's a great start. 3/5
now we fucking go. A classic from start to finish. Beam it into space so that the aliens know we're cooking with gas down here.
I have very little experience with these blokes. But itβs fun I guess? 2000s pop punk was such a full genre and then these muppets came about. It all feels like background music for the OG version of Shameless (derogatory)
First time dealing with Pharcyde and pleasantly surprised! Early 90s rap is so much more fun than the more hardcore gangsta rap that dominated the time (and the time after). Love the jazz influence and pure comedy in the bars. A true fun ride that I'm glad I got a chance to jump on; I doubt I'd ever hear this album if not for this collection. Good shit! (cough still getting a 3, but def a 3 push 4)
God. I hated this. Soooo boring and lame. I remember no part of it. Pass.
Have never listened to this all the way thru, and am really shocked at how well it holds up. I've never been a big Kurt guy (I think the best thing to come out of the grunge era was Foo Fighters) but he's on one in this, Dave is playing the fuck out of the kit, and Krist is hammering some steller bass runs. Good shit!
Is it possible for an album by a band I like to not contain my two favorite songs that they did, and for that album to still be a 5? The answer may shock you! What a treat of an album, a band at the absolute height of their powers. Start to finish, just banger after banger. Stairway is an overrated song, but only because it's so widely considered one of the greatest songs of all time, but, come on, it's still Stairway! When the Levee Breaks is a tremendous track, an alzheimer. 5.
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the man the myth the legend. I was never a huge Cash guy, but have enough knowledge to respect and even revere a classic. Johnny is most certainly that. It's like Willie Nelson with a deeper bass register. If there's one thing I know, it's that 9/11 was successful in two ways: It created the current political environment, and it destroyed country music for 25 years, turning it into the most flag-fucking, troop-worshiping, god-fearing hosreshit. This is true Americana, in a way that several artists are bringing back (Isbel, Sturgil, etc), thankfully. The covers are all very much him, and he owns all of them. Hurt is iconic. Troubled Water is deeply emotional and tragically beautiful. Desperado is a different (and better???) song. Better Personal Jesus than Depeche Mode, eat shit Rob.
Great shit.
What the fuck is this? Is this really good or really bad? progressive glam rock? Musically this kind of rules. The more I listen the more I don't really love it. It just kind of exists? This is for someone, it's probably not me. Did I need to hear this before I died? All these songs are the same. I'm out.
Let's do the Boys again! Jews from New York be spitting BARS. Girls --> Fight For Your Right --> No Sleep This is a goated fucking run right here. On a debut record they just pump these three right fucking together. Some truly iconic shit. Hold it now, HIT IT is a banger. Still hate Brass Monkey, have for decades. Album rocks.
a classic. What more do you want? Album art would make a sick arm sleeve tattoo. 4.
This was really good! Sounded incredibly mature for a debut, and musically it felt like it was even more mature. Great shit.
wow, an album by the third best Beatle! (fight me) Look, I'm not going to say this isn't good. It's John, it's categorically very good. But...not really for me. I'm more of a Beatles guy than any of them solo, but that's a product of my musical upbringing more than anything. Imagine is an important song, I've heard it a zillion times, I've sung it in concerts before (shoutout Harmony Project), and I watched a video of a zionist pig singing it during Covid. Stands the test of time that it is still amazing even after Gal Gadot ruined it. Jealous Guy is great, I've heard a better cover it it tbqh. Oh My Love is a wonderful song, beautiful in it's simplicity. Etc. Wish this shit at half ratings because this would be a great 3.5 for me. Just depends on which side of that I want to go on. Nvm he ended with a song about Yoko, fuck this. 3
Another classic on deck! Again, as with so much, I never really give Bowie a shot other than the hits and I'm excited to hear some album cuts. The top of the album puts us in 4 territory without breaking a sweat. Changes is a banger. O!YPT another great one. Life on Mars? is truly an amazing song, maybe an all-timer. Back half of the album is all very good, fun stuff. Bowie rocks, end of discussion.
A great listen! The big band stuff is wonderful, his voice and keyboards are nearly unmatched. It doesn't have the hits from later on (where was the Pepsi jingle????) but you can't really do better in the genre than Ray fucking Charles. Don't even try.
Prime listening hours for that good shit. Rage rules, and the early stuff has an edge that cooks so hard some 30 years later. ZDLR might be one of the best screamer-singers there is. Even the politics still matters in the year of our lord 2025. Fascist Pig Cops do burn crosses! Etc. god, this fucking rocks so hard. Even just on vibes, it sounds incredible. Even if you just wanna be like, okay, ZDLR, we get it with the politics, it's still amazing music.
Iβm not sure who itβs for? Like, I feel like thereβs obviously a fandom for this but other than, like, and I mean this, Brad Linville, what is it? What a weirdo. 3 for the effort, 2 for the listen.
The only thing British I'm listening to today is The Open sorry.
wow what a gorgeous album to listen to you while you chase 100 sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack.
Fun album! Near genre mix, and great use of horns. Like the Whale Ad, but a record.
Fun album! Near genre mix, and great use of horns. Like the Whale Ad, but a record.
kinda ild that they're just giving the playlist at the top of the show! I guess they didn't have setlist.fm back in 1963 lol. His part in Rocky IV still my favorite James Brown moment. This is fine. I feel like the 70s and 90s were really the good times for amazing live albums, and a 30 minute live show just ain't it for me, boss. Still love the old school feel of soul and r&b but it really isn't my bag, baby, so I'm going to say good listen. Probably one of the 700 or so albums on this list that could charitably be characterized as albums I'll listen to once before I die. Begging for half points here, so this gets a...
I have no clue what this is or who it is, or what we're dealing with other than this is jazz. And most of my experience with jazz, generally, is confined to "I've listened to that one song by Dave Brubeck 1000 times" and one (1) episode of White Collar that takes place in a jazz club and Diahann Carroll sings in it and it's good. Anyway, here we go. Oh, she can SING sing. Nice. This is gorgeous. Really nice and great background music, and super talented artists on this. It's gonna be a solid 3 because I don't think this is groundbreaking or anything (how would I know?) but great. One of the 700 albums to listen to (once) before I die for sure.
this shit sucks. nerds trying to do punk in the year of our lord 1986. Shit wouldn't fly then, or now. Miss me. Go Guardos. I'm still listening to it and spending zero effort on it. and I hate it. what even is this. ok it's growing on me a little. Trying to figure out what this is or what i've heard like it. Lyrics and singing don't match the music. Yeah this sucks.