I have no idea where I have heard these songs before, maybe some kind of medical drama? It’s mellow and soothing but a little sad to just throw on randomly.

Solid rock album. I don’t know if it’s just me but I can’t understand him lyrically and that brings my score down because I can’t connect to the artist in that way. Everything else is on point and it’s a great listen musically, just no personal connection to it. I noticed that the streaming service has a lyrics section so maybe I will give it another listen in the future and look at the lyrics. Definitely worth multiple listens.

Good driving music when you have nothing to think about. I wish there was a half star option because this would be 3.5 to me.

I liked how it started off and could feel like a lot of indie bands got influenced by this style. However, around Breakfast Time I was over it. I dig the band name but I probably won’t listen to this one again.

I’m torn on this album. It’s definitely an album of its time and maybe I was expecting more Pet Sounds than psychedelic Beatles. It felt all over the place from one song to the next.

I think I might add this to a regular rotation. I knew the popular ones of course but the rest of the album was just as fun.

This is an almost perfect album. Again I need half stars to give it the correct rating. I didn’t care for the instrumental tracks, but the lyrics and beats of everything else was great. I was listening to Pussy Galore and I was at the chorus and thought “I wonder if they named this song pussy galore” and lo and behold, they did. If I was someone into vinyl records, I would buy this one. 4.5

I went back and forth on the rating for this one. Some songs I really enjoyed and others kind of just droned on and on for me. 3.5

This feels like 60s to me. I don’t see myself just casually listening to this one again but it was fun for what it was worth. 3.5

It’s hard to give this album a low rating because Loretta Lynn is an icon but this album just isn’t my taste at all. 2.5

I am not a fan of live albums of songs I’ve never heard before. 13 minute song of barely talking, no thanks.

Blues rock is not for me from this band. At least it finished with a jam.

This is great driving music.

I have mixed emotions about this album. Really enjoyed the technicalities of it but some of it was too minor for me and I didn’t care for it. I want that upbeat rock.

It’s got some strong ones for sure but I didn’t connect with it much. 3.5

I enjoyed this album but didn’t know any of the songs though some of them sounded vaguely familiar.

I’ve never heard of this and but to mean they are a generic sound of the era.

This was overly repetitive and I didn’t care for it. It wasn’t only repetitive in each song but between songs.

I don’t like live albums but I’m not sure if this is one. They seem too wild for being part of the same time period that the Beatles were putting out Abbey Road.

I didn’t know what I expected but I didn’t expect to be bored. Having never listened to a Van Morrison album I think I went in expecting more Brown Eyed Girl vibes. This album just felt thrown together.

This reminds me of indie music during the late 2000s. Never heard of it before but it must have had some influences on those bands.

Having only heard Band on a Run before, I didn’t even realize that was Wings. This album reminds of a cd my mom got me when I was a kid called “70’s Comes Alive Again” which didn’t feature any Wings songs.

Never heard of this artist. It’s fine for background music, nothing really stuck out for me on this album.

Pre-listen: I dig this band name. Post-listen: I can’t tell if I want to give this a 2 or a 4. It is certainly not an average album but I will likely never be in the mood to listen to it again.

I listened to this twice. 4.8716

Solid album. Pusher man.

Too much happening in each song for me to focus on what was happening in the lyrics.

Only saw a two hour version and immediately said fuck that noise but that ended up being an extended version. This is unique enough for me to not find it average and was great background music for cooking and dinner.

I’m sure this was a pinnacle moment in hip hop but all I can think about while listening to this is 90s sitcom dads doing bad raps and this is what they sound like.

There was nothing about this album I liked. I vaguely knew one song.

Pre listen: how the heck do you have a 40 minute album with 7 tracks. Also, for 1001 albums, why am I getting steely Dan twice in so many days? Post listen: I don’t know, man. This is probably good, but I just wasn’t feeling it.

I listen to this album twice, not because I enjoyed it a ton but I felt like I was missing something. Of course, Sunday Bloody Sunday is always going hood a special place in my heart but honestly the rest of the album just sounded like variations of that. That drum beat is cool, but not for every song. And not every song has to be minor.

So this is what it would have sounded like if my high school garage band made it.

This album is kind of a revelation for me with the list so far. I never in a million years would have picked up an album like this. It made me realize that I’ve been treating these albums as “would I sit in a chair and listen to this album to just enjoy it? Is there meaning to this album to me” when not all albums have to be like that. This album is great for just having on and going about whatever work you’re doing.

Something something airband scrubs reference. This is an excellent album. So much so that I don’t know why Boston isn’t a household name. Like yeah they’re famous but I never hear anything about them and the only song I know is More Than A Feeling.

I think I would have expected Americana to be on this list over Smash but there is still time. 12 year old me would have really enjoyed this album. Now it all sounds the same to me.

I really enjoyed this album but I found that I was checking how many songs were left multiple times.

This album got me dancing for the first part of it. Then it was kind of repetitive and depressing. I really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed the few songs that I knew but didn’t feel anything towards the others. I’m going to need another listen.

It’s a groove.

I liked this but when Spotify played the next song on a newer album it was really good. I’m going to check out what else they have

The description of the is album said that the influences of this were “horror films, the occult, and a bleak working-class upbringing in Aston, Birmingham”. I like that. I haven listened to much Black Sabbath but this was entertaining using headphones.

Honestly, this one felt tedious. I will give them their props for musical talent but other than the ones I knew, I didn’t love any of it. In fact, some of the lyrics were just weird af.

This reminded me a lot of Lauryn Hill and I really enjoyed the vibe.

Endless soundscapes don’t interest me at all. Good for studying I suppose. The rest of the album took me a minute to get into but on the second listen I really enjoyed it.

I think I was expecting a southern rock band with a name like Jethro Tull.

Finally.

I once had an idea for a band called Scan The Radio where each song would be a different sub-genre of music. A fun idea for a musician but maybe not for the listener. This album feels like that. It’s all over the place and exciting feeling but I could see where if you wanted consistency, you wouldn’t get it. It’s a groove for sure.

Never actually listened to a smiths album before. It was good but that last song was straight to the point, wasn’t it? I’d listen to more of The Smiths.

For a three piece band, the music is impressive. I’ve always liked muse, but the vocals are kind of a downer. Like the tone is very whiny to me even if that’s not the intention. I still think it’s an excellent album.

I like when something offbeats comes into the mix. This isn’t my style, too much repetition but as background it was fine. I had a wide range of emotion on the first track starting with “okay, kind of alternative rock-esc” to “ ugh, I hope this isn’t the vocals the entire album” to “damn that’s a groove” to finally “Alright switch it up already”

I was ready to leave a comment that I thought porcupine was a great band name but here I see that’s the album name. Echo and the bunnymen isn’t so great. I loved the album though. It introduced me to a playlist called College Rock and this is my jam.

I can’t believe this was made in 1983. I swore this was in the mid 90s post grunge alt indie mix. Great album and it’s so much fun.

So many good songs. This album is just right.

Well damn, for a debut album this one goes hard. I honestly went back and forth on the review for this because there were aspects of the album that I didn’t like and got tired of but then the very next part of a song was so good. High 4. I guess I like Led Zeppelin now.

It’s not an 8AM album, or maybe it is, I don’t know. It’s great but I associate it with people I don’t associate with anymore and so it’s hard to be objective about it.

“It’s nice for people who like that kind of music” - Nora My music history is all messed up. I thought this kind of metal didn’t come around until later in the 80s. There were parts I liked, mostly it was just too much.

You put the lime in the coconut and you drink them both up. That song got wild. The rest of the album felt like someone who was supposed to be famous for the time but the songs didn’t hit the same way. Doppelgänger music.