I wear a Le Tigre hat almost everyday. We just had Adele, the “once in a generation voice” to my actual favorite vocalist! Kathleen Hannah 4ever

Before I looked at the year I thought “90s Brosnan Bond meets The Matrix soundtrack & 90s alt-rock like Eve 6. 1999 release, I was spot on. Self described as “clit-rock,” heavy metal meets black feminist rage…. Yeahhhhhh this shit hits.

Really? Giving us the post-final show album? The “comeback” album. There’s two LCD Soundsystem albums that are far better than this mediocre attempt to recapture their glory days. & it’s not like I don’t like this album, but it’s not even a good representative of LCD Soundsystem

Little long, but I love the noize

Prince of Darkness sample?! Boogie Nights sample?! Nosferatu sample?! Twin Peaks reference?! 8 liked songs

Gallagher? I hardly know her! 2 liked songs

K-Mart Oingo Boingo meets Temu Tears For Fears with a dash of early Ministry & a dose of some Blancmange The The is good good

Okay, the first song cracked me up. Dah bah bah dooh dah! I also thought they were saying “horse carpenter” instead of house carpenter. I think I just have very little patience for hippie bullshit. Especially living in Ojai. I’ve heard worse hippie bullshit. & I’ve heard much better hippie bullshit. Basketball of shite 1 liked song

RIP Brian Wilson. Nothing quite hits nostalgia like the sound of The Beach Boys. & the underlying melancholy (expect for their beach bops) have always really struck me.

Ruled. Real variety of jazz soundscapes. 7 liked songs

Who do I blame for this? 0 liked songs

Maybe the worst Beyonce album to start with? I don’t think she has a bad album, but this is bottom two or three. That said: 12 liked songs

I never considered myself an Elton John fan, despite owning over half of his massive discography. I never actively put him on, but I do always enjoy what I hear. Maybe I AM a fan? 6 liked songs.

A mix between a goof and a crooner. A gooner, if you will. Humorous lines over 60s John Barry Bond sounding orchestral arrangements, yeah, I’m gonna like this a bit. Would really love just an instrumental version.

I do need to be hitting a darkslide as Bam Margera around a pit of fire or be watching the jackass crew in assless chaps line dancing around some bulls or some shit to enjoy this. Also never realized how the boomers wanted to be the silent generation so badly.

Trying to hard. 3 liked songs.

Ah the album that made me not like Arcade Fire. Insists upon itself (not a compliment), boring bloated bloviating. Did they only know how to write songs to the same bpm? 0 liked songs.

Listened to this going through The Rolling Stones Too 500 albums & thought it was trash. After the ballad to the blow up doll track I thought “oh wait, these guys are just fucking around” I enjoyed it way more. 6 liked songs.

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I love U2, do you too?

The Coen bros movie Inside Llewelyn Davis is about this a-hole folk singer who never gets a break cuz he’s just mediocre…..so…all folk singers? I hate Bob Dylan. This is worse than that. People were only sad this when this guy passed cuz he did the Shrek song. Mediocre lyrics packaged in the blandest wrapping. Ojai hippie bullshit again. & he sings about being sad there’s no mail??? Dickhead! No mail is the best! Like unwrapping a single Hershey kiss from the world’s 60th largest foil ball. Totally pointless and not worthy talking about. Oh and the Hershey kiss isn’t chocolate it’s a fucking dookie. Hated this so much.

Starts strong, ends mid. I could do without the middle. I’ll listen to that first track any day.

I also wish this guy was an eagle so he couldn’t sing talk to me anymore. “Fucking me down” instead of “fucking me up” made me laugh out loud. I’m sick of hearing how these singer/songwriter fucks are usually considered lyrical geniuses & master storytellers or whatever when poetry is still like the least popular art form. Coffee shop open mic level shit. There ARE 10/10 singer/songwriter lyrical geniuses. He ain’t one. A song like “All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast” is a good track, but I can find things like saying “brain tree” twice when it was already established in the first line. I hate feeling treated like a dummy, I knew the metaphor, didn’t need to be reminded. Fine, but not a genius. Don’t think I needed to hear this before I died. This fucked my day down. 3 liked songs.

This is exactly what I want to get from these sort of lists. A band/album I never would have listened to because I think “Take me Out” is real lame & I never want to hear it again in my life. Was bummed to see this album pop up at first…but every other song rips! Would’ve been listening to this so much sooner if Take Me Out didn’t suck so much. Maybe I’m just happy to get an actual band after a string of duds.

They asked the question & answered in their own album cover! “Slayed?” Thumbs sideways. MID AF is right dudes.

With an album cover homaging Tetsuo, one of my favorite films ever, this had a lot to live up to. Did not disappoint.

I liked this enough but I could not focus on it, always faded into the background & I tried twice. I want to judge these albums harder because they’re supposedly ones I need to hear before I die but that’s too harsh; not like the bands are saying that about themselves. Well maybe Oasis would. That said…I have to listen to all the Beatles albums, did we really need this & other “stepping stone” albums? This was fine

I love REM, top five favorite bands. This is a 5/5 album & not even in my top three of theirs.

This would be a 5 star album if they didn’t record it through a tooth tunes toothbrush.

Would be a low key, chill out instrumental album if this French dude wasn’t whispering at me. Read some translated lyrics & it was fine, they added nothing to the tracks. That said, every time the lady dropped a “Melody Nelson” it made me laugh. Like some 1970 producer tag lol Wes Anderson probably busts a nut when he listens to this. More like put this guy in a full (Melody) Nelson amirite?

I find that I like 2/3rds or 3/4th of every Billie Joel song. & that I only like 1/2 of his stuff. I always want to like him more but something just doesn’t connect. I think it’s that he feels so phony or something.

Wow, I wish The Beach Boys took a note from their former member & sounded more like this in the late 70s.

I can see why they were a one hit wonder. I can also see why they got a Bond song. Thankfully, Living Daylights is better than anything on this album. That was a long 37 minutes.

I liked this album a lot when it came out, but I was also a senior in high school with the same amount of self-seriousness that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had during & after this album. Or maybe I’m just projecting! Haven’t listened in probably a decade or more. I still like this, but I’ve heard better remixes of most these songs since & do blame Karen O for a lot of cringe bad vocalists in the early 2010s.

Also hadn’t heard this in about a decade & surpassed my memory of it. Real good

Futuresucks/dumbsounds Listened to Futuresex afterwards. That’s a 5/5. This was a lukewarm watered down version of a much better album. The Lonely Island trilogy of songs with JT are better than this.

Smooth groovin’ to love, Jesus, no love, bad times, good times.

Everyone who I’ve ever said “I hate Adele’s voice” to thinks I’m just being a contrarian douche hater. As if “good vocals” are some objective truth. To my ears & my subjective taste, I can’t stand Adele. It’s nothing against the songwriting (which I find is a little bland at moments that is clearly bolstered by her voice). Was hoping to find something interesting this time around but when Water Under the Bridge plays I just can’t do it. This album was everywhere in 2015 & I don’t wanna go back. That said, at least enduring the whole album led to Sweetest Devotion, which I thought was kinda okay.

Morrissey’s solo stuff is to The Smiths what Jack White’s solo stuff is to The White Stripes. Just an extension of the stuff I already like.

I wear a Le Tigre hat almost everyday. We just had Adele, the “once in a generation voice” to my actual favorite vocalist! Kathleen Hannah 4ever

I only kinda get it…maybe my expectations were too high since Radiohead has this “GENIUS” “Masterpiece” aura attached to them. This was…whatever. But I do know this isn’t one of the two albums I know are considered their best.

I guess there’s a reason I’d only heard those three big songs off this album. I don’t hate Sweet Child or Paradise City (I do not like Welcome to the Jungle)…but the rest of the album, yeahhhhh didn’t enjoy it even a little bit. I was expecting to have a lot more fun. Disappointing. Listened to The Emotron after.

This was the one Nirvana album I hadn’t listened to yet. I’m now sad we didn’t get more Nirvana. I think this is their best album, definitely not the most accessible, but their best & I really respect they didn’t play it safe.

Before I looked at the year I thought “90s Brosnan Bond meets The Matrix soundtrack & 90s alt-rock like Eve 6. 1999 release, I was spot on. Self described as “clit-rock,” heavy metal meets black feminist rage…. Yeahhhhhh this shit hits.

When I was in 8th grade I thought this shit was so profound, looking out the backseat car window reflecting on LIFE. I recommend to 8th grade idiots, & I do miss old Coldplay, but even back in the day this wasn’t the Coldplay album I was going to.

I meant to listen to this after I saw them live a few years ago after I realized they weren’t a one-hit wonder like I had thought. “Dinky” is how I’d describe this & lord knows I love the dink! There’s some real Sega Genesis energy to the synth. Plus, bald icon.

Glad he finally this out of his system I guess…but the fuck? & this guy had the audacity to say that 2000s “rap music” was the lowest point of the music industry? This is some Sgt Peppers shit. Only reason it’s not getting a 1 is cuz Good Vibrations is that good & the occasional reminder that this is The Beach Boys guy.

A Bowie blind spot for me, I’ll add it to the rotation. The first half of the album doesn’t meat with the second half, but I like them both separately. From a 70s Bowie rock album to a like Werner Herzog film score.

Not even my favorite Prince album, but still perfect. I’m never mad to see it in the top five of best album lists.

Don’t get me wrong, I get the “importance” of this, but Black Sabbath often feels to me the same as trying to run quickly in a dream.

There must be some trauma I have with Eagles because something about them fills me with a boiling rage. Consciously I know they’re a totally harmless lil band. Subconsciously I wish I every Eagle went extinct.

This was a pleasant surprise as I had only heard Purple Haze before & didn’t like it. I was expecting an album of Voodoo Chiles but surprised to find it wasn’t that!

Hey, wait a minute, my TV doesn’t work! It’s broken! No TV party toniiiiiiiight

Dang, this get a whole star boost for goodnight ladies and gentlemen. More bands need to play themselves off. The vibes were a blast throughout. Minus a star cuz I’ll just never vibe with jam-y sounding bands I don’t think.

Saw the music video for Hardest Button to Button on the big screen at Universal Citywalk in the early 00s, as I was eating Panda Express, & it blew my mind. 🟥⬜️🟥⬜️🟥⬜️🟥

I took one semester of jazz at CSUN, I know what I’m talking about.

Deeelightful

It’s the Get Slippy band! I love that song. Some of this album reaches that peak, I think the first track in its entirety would have been a 10/10 LP. Even though I don’t necessarily have negative thoughts on it, hour plus is overstaying its welcome. I can see listening to this again & just jumping in at the halfway point to give the second half a more fair shot.

Randy Newman wannabe

Not enough honkin on bobo

I don’t know if I’ve ever listened to this front to back before. I can see why people were upset when he killed off Ziggy, but I’m glad he did

Just one long “fuuuuuucccckkkk yessssss” throughout the whole album. Rapid Fire is one of the best opening tracks to any album.

Massive attack of boredom

Couldn’t tell you why but I kinda dug this one.

Trepidatious going into this for obvious reasons & after the first like four songs I thought, “crap, am I giving this a 5?” But the wheels fell off big time in the second half.

I want wipe all late 60s music from existence to get rid of this album.

“Hey YouTube! It’s ya boy, & today we’re doing to Hot Chip challenge!” The clearest “3 star album” for me. I like a lot of Hot Chip remixes, a compilation album of that would be a 5. I feel like I was inclined to like them, but this album never added up to more than a solid 3.

What were these guys smoking????

What was this guys smoking?? Jazz fusion/jam band stuff isn’t for me but I really liked a lot of this. Will probably not listen again, expect maybe that first track, but I enjoyed my time.

There She Goes is undeniable. The rest of this album was so inoffensive that it became offensive. Is this list determined to make me dislike all British music? *listened again & I think I was just in a bad mood or something? This is definitely better than Oasis in terms of 90s Brit pop stuff. There’s some stuff closer to REM.

KL Cool J

Showing my ignorance here but this had a real city pop vibe in some tracks that I really loved. Makes me upset there’s not more foreign albums because this was a really pleasant surprise

Look, it’s a five, but I also don’t need to hear most of these songs for another ten years.

Listening to this like “this sounds like DAS EFX.” Then my man showed up on a track!

Really? Giving us the post-final show album? The “comeback” album. There’s two LCD Soundsystem albums that are far better than this mediocre attempt to recapture their glory days. & it’s not like I don’t like this album, but it’s not even a good representative of LCD Soundsystem

Van Halen has an element of cheesiness that I can’t get on board with, but this was fun enough

A name I’ve known forever with absolutely no idea what she’s about. It’s much better than I was expecting, I was ready to be snoozed

The Poo

Producer: Alright yall, I think we did. We have a 5 star, 40 minute seminal album, let’s start ironing out the finishing touc- Dandy: nah nah nah nah nah. We got at least another 30 minutes, let’s get that five star down to a 3. I could see this being an easy 4 if I’m in the mood for it. Shoegaze is very divisive for me apparently.

The closest I’ve come to “getting it”

I understand their pioneers yadda yadda yadda. This is good & unbearably repetitive. I think people like Brian Eno & Gary Numan also working in the electronic genre were doing waaay more interesting stuff. The first & last two tracks would have made for an ok ep.

Impeccable vibes on this one

Look, I think Pale Blue Eyes is one of my favorite songs & I danced to a Velvet Underground song at my wedding…this was sleepy as hell

Maybe I should have played Guitar Hero Aerosmith Listened to this album when going through The Rolling Stones top 500 & I’ve liked it more each time. Also…9 songs, 34 minutes, it might be getting a 4 for that reason alone! Get in, get the lead out!

I don’t like this.

Probably only on here because of the connection to his death & I do think the context doubles the haunting quality of this album, but I think a lot of it stands on its own. Maybe wouldn’t have put this one on the list personally, but I’m happy I went back & listened to it.

🎵 Gotta keep it five star rated 🎵

It’s no Bad Credit

Glad to know there was more good stuff on here than just the one song of theirs I’d heard (too many times probably)

Didn’t Mather that much to me.