Boring dad rock with synths as a saving grace
Good and stuff just a bit too proto for me
Good album, don’t think it needs to be on this list though
Literally the coolest altruism has ever sounded
Love the album, unsure about its inclusion
First full album I've listened to of hers but it's a beautifully painted picture by a very talented musician that I've been missing out on
Much better than I thought it’d be, really good playing
edit: I found out this was overdubbed in the studio vehemently, bumping down one star
Some okay jams but britpop as a whole flies over my head, sounds so bland.
I get it, well produced, well performed, but for what? Nothing enthralls me on it, doesn’t stand toe to toe with any of the other creative legends in English rock at the time.
Fun as hell even though it’s repetitive, and definitely shines a light on a sound a lot of people really wanna hear
First time listening to an album of his, and I wish I had listened sooner.
Some very good jazz… but I might need more context on why it should be on this list
Great playing, but does not really feel like it brings anything new or outstanding sounding.
Not as hard as Curtis to me but still great.
I really hate Aerosmith but still gave this a try and came out unchanged.
One of the most enticing albums ever, and it feels like its in a genre all its own, far too cool to be singer-songwriter or rock.
Respect Beck as a musician but I’ve only ever enjoyed his music he did for a video game lol. This album sounds like a 10/10 to the right ears I’m sure, but I wasn’t too hooked at the pristine but familiar textures and sounds.
God damn, this is pop perfection to me. I haven’t even given it a re-listen yet but this album has been in consistent rotation with me for 10 years. Pop is always just the “in” genres exemplified to glamorous proportions, and new wave was perfect for it in this time. No skips.
Almost gave it two stars because the playing was a lot better than that last Aerosmith album I got, but after reviewing the music as a whole again it dropped back down
Fantastic playing to my ears but I’m not very good at piano. The ideas he really rides here are super fun, I wish this was the kind of playing people lined up to see and smile to more
Gee man I sure love instrumental tracks in my rap album. Legendary hits from this band but their albums ooze with filler.
I know I’m not even 20 albums in but this is just so infuriating. 1001 albums is genuinely far too short to be including forgettable Anglo butt rock side projects. I tried my best to listen and be in the music, and I can’t remember anything besides the same recycled jangle-brit-pop garbage. Alex Turner makes good music. But not here.
The Ocean is really gorgeous. The rest is kinda boring but that one song is really good and the rest was easy on the ears so meh.
Very important album in rap’s canon and has some classic bangers, but man all these dudes were at their worst misogyny-wise during this time. Not to mention besides the hits, there are tons of duds.
Insane. Wow. Was expecting a little too much of the grandiose filler that eventually plagued prog rock, but this was felt very deliberate and necessary in every way. Shoutouts to Easy Money.
Thought it was ok post-punk, definitely understand their importance as they are an influence on some of my favorite British bands
I can’t help it, I’m so biased. Besides “Rusholme Ruffians,” this album is no skips to me and seems to not go out of fashion. At first, I thought that only “Queen is Dead” would be worthy of a place on this list, but coming back to this, it’s so much more solid, innovative, and downright cooler than I remembered.
The album SpongeBob listens to when he goes on walks and does his silly little dance.
Honestly though, feels more like a proof of concept for Gorillaz, just kinda an ok samplefest.
Not my first listen, but certainly my most impactful one. Never really clicked until now, and it’s damn innovative as hell, clearly inspirational to many, and has a compelling story behind it with its anxious feelings of growing up.
Honestly, never been too crazy about this one, probably because it’s sandwiched between their two actual best albums. Still great, Orion was much better than I remembered, definitely gonna have that song on repeat for a while. But the rest is just fine.
I’ve given this album a shot plenty of times, but I always leave underwhelmed. Jamie’s fantastic though, and their influence on pop can’t be understated. I guess I just look for a certain different sound when I want minimalism.
Not the most groundbreaking jazz to my ears, but sounded good.
Honestly doesn’t feel too impactful, there are a million dudes with a guitar making simple songs with more aura than this.
Just too good texturally, too well put together, too emotional, relatable, and just surprisingly down to earth as an album despite its out-of-this-world themes, to give it anything less than a five.
First of all, this is just a two hour album. If you listened to something longer, I’m guessing you listened to Logical Progression LEVEL 1, which does not include the original on streaming. This is a bonus compilation that instead comes with two hourlong mixes of… this same bonus compilation but in one track for instrumentals, and one with vocals.
Essentially, you listened to the same album three times and it wasn’t even the right one. The correct compilation can be found on Soundcloud or YouTube, and I personally listened to it on Soundcloud from an account called ‘DJ Jo Public,’ who has it split into two tracks. If two hours is still too much drum n bass for you, I highly recommend just listening to disc 2 (CD B). It’s the stronger half of the album but I loved this whole thing immensely as someone who’s dabbled in IDM, and I only ever first heard of it yesterday.
It’s alright, I just don’t feel a lot of influence from this nowadays compared to the rest of the hippie scene music.
Never liked big band as much as later styles, but this was much more in line with what I typically enjoy about jazz.
Actually my first time listening to a full record by these guys, always been turned off by comparisons to Coldplay and Radiohead… but I think those comparisons are unwarranted now and that they have a pretty idiosyncratic sound. Love that they blast on their instruments sometimes but not all the time.
Suffers heavily from having all the good songs up front, genuinely all good stuff but I rarely get past “Walk of Life.”
I usually hate large collections of songs, especially when they're shorter, but these guys are fantastic and in a lane of their own. They say a lot more than most do in punk with much less distortion and way better grooves.
Never been too crazy for Wilco but this is probably my favorite I’ve heard from them, and I’ll probably have to check out Bragg as well since I can’t tell the difference from their contributions here.
I feel like if you like dad rock, this must be pretty good. But I couldn’t find anything memorable for me at all.
I’ve never heard a full NIN album because I never liked their biggest songs. I definitely should have been trying a full album.
I’ve listened to Mustt Mustt before which is way more Western-tinged, and I honestly enjoyed this one way more. Much more interesting even if it can be just as repetitive, which I don’t think is a flaw.
I can feel the hurting behind a lot of songs here, but unfortunately most tracks fall far behind on either the production side or composition side.
Peak jazz funk before it was even cool
HFY man first time listening to this outside the gym and my arms still started swelling after
Certainly sounds like collapse, I’m reading a lot that this band belongs here but should have included a later, more accessible album of theirs instead, and that sounds pretty exciting to me.
Human League walked so New Order could run
Man what a weird album, but this is definitely one of the best weirdo-pop albums ever.
Previously, I never really got Sinead O’Connor. Yesterday I gave myself this same haircut so I felt much more connected and sympathetic towards this strong and emotive album.
Insane how fantastic this is back-to-back, has a dud or two like ‘Oh Father,’ but songs like ‘Til Death Do Us Part’ make up for it tenfold. A time capsule to a time where digitization could be scary for live musicians, but also proof that they will always be cherished.
Sick album title and way more nuanced thoughts in it than I expected.
Was jaw dropped the first time I listened to this album with all its twist and turns. Incredibly versatile singer and rapper who poetically depicts the cesspool that is LA.
Oldest Miles Davis album I’ve heard, and it puts into perspective how quickly this man adapted and morphed jazz at his will.
Pretty damn good for music for upper class art students
Absolute hot dog water. Tried to power through the first annoying radio song only to be followed by another radio song that I didn’t know was Adele’s. I like pop, I really do, but I cannot relate to or enjoy any of this wine mom garbage.
Very lovely to listen to honestly
I tried to be onboard but this melancholy throughout the album just never blossomed into anything exciting.
Some fun moments but not too enticing overall.
I think this is plenty forgettable considering the musicians themselves didn’t even flesh the songs out much, although I do like some ideas and will probably steal some of them for my own music. A xerox of a xerox.
Got halfway through but I really need this on streaming or on local download so I’ll edit this if I feel different, but I like the lyrics and subject matter a lot, the presentation got me excited cus it looks all Metal Gear, but it’s a tad bit too theatre for me.
Some good songs here but overall, a little too instrumental for me.
Was excited to hear this because I always thought Tiny Dancer was really cool, but there’s really not much other high points like that one on this album for me.
There are some records here that feel like they’re not even that influential to a lot of musicians, but that are just critic-praised for generations. I did enjoy this one, but it feels like that.
Had an ok time with Stars Are Stars and Crocodiles. That’s it really.
After years of being lukewarm to this, I actually really appreciated it this time around. Energetic and maximalist with a vision, and none of the chalkboard scratching sound that nearly all britpop sounds like.
Unpleasant and overly dramatic adult easy-listening for a pompous generation. The pinnacle of unlistenable singing lies in “When Do I.”
Interesting and well played but not exactly groundbreaking
Springsteen is still pretty new to me, and it surprises me how unique his style can be among his contemporaries.
Always a nice listen, always makes me scratch my head and wonder what it is I’m missing or that I don’t get about it, because it’s just that to me.
Hard to listen to this and find any flaws, definitely a must listen to for anyone wanting to make it big in pop rock
Might have to edit this one in the future, but I think he’s had better bands in other albums but this is my first listen of this album and I’m gonna focus more on lyrics in later listens
Okay, turns out I’m gonna love this band so I’m very biased towards them now
There’s a good amount of fantastic songs here but it’s also a very long album
This band definitely has chops and talent, but their strand of eclectic sound is a little too plain unenjoyable to listen to for me, soul sucking even.
mustve been inspired by panic at the discos second album
Hotel California is great but then the rest just kinda falls flat in comparison, kind of like with Making Plans for Nigel by XTC you can tell they worked their hardest one that one song and made an album to supplement it.
Erratic and fantastic at times but often focuses too much on their fun and not the listeners
Some of the best dynamics I’ve heard in jazz
Hadn’t heard this one in a long time and knew I wouldn’t like it as much as when I first found it, but I liked it even less than I thought. Just a bit too bright and visible for me, I like my shoegaze a little more spacey and dreamy.
Sounds so painfully like just a collection of demos, but maybe I’m just amazed that Paul would release such raw and rushed work.
I’m sure there’s no Soda Stereo or Almendra or Charly Garcia or Los Cadillacs or Invisible on this list but thank god we have some hip downtempo-tango for art school and ivy league students. It does sound super smooth.
Very gorgeous songs, love the instrumental breaks that go wild throughout as well.
Every moment of this album is super easy on the ears, perfectly mixed and complimented with confident lines from Common and Kanye who also dive just as heavily into introspective themes. Just super smooth overall.
wtf bro why she so sad I thought I was gonna have a fun pop bangers album here but I get a bit of that and it slowly gets to “Take Care” levels of crying in the club vibes 😭😢😭 Perfect production throughout.
Always felt the highlights on this one were “Mother” and “God,” with everything else being much needed catharsis for John, but does not make for much great listening music. The ending of “Remember” is always pretty funny though.
Started off a little too garage rock for me but turned into some real cathartic dissonance near the end
These guys have influenced quite a lot of musicians I like but I can’t remember what any of this album sounded like immediately after, but I’ll sit with it some more
I listened to a lot of Miles when I first got into jazz of course, but this one always felt much more lukewarm than his previous albums, such as the chaotic “Miles in the Sky,” which has always been my favorite record of his.
This is probably my most attentive listen of this album and hanging around for the much livelier second disc was worth it, because they felt much less tense and build-up-ish than the first disc. Definitely enjoyed my time with it as a whole, though.
Wow, never been too crazy on Blur, didn’t like their debut and enjoyed Magic Whip quite a bit but why the hell did I never listen to this one cus it’s phenomenal.
Super charming album with really good production, hard to put into words the way it stands out if you look closely enough, because from a distance it sure does just look like an average album of its time, but I think this one will be on repeat for a long time for me.
Wanted to like this more than I did, but unfortunately psychedelia can come with insane innovation for a band or turn them into something that sounds all blended together, mushy and you can’t really distinguish one moment from another. I feel the latter on this one.
Not an album I expected to see at all, but very pleasantly surprised. Definitely not even a top 10 rapper for me but there are a lot of bangers hidden away here like ‘Pressure,’ and the production as a whole is top notch.
Absolutely skilled musicians, but what a drag of an album. I love all the genres these guys are influenced by and a lot of bands that have been influenced by them, but they make such boring music to me.
Honestly one of the most unnecessary and insulting inclusions in the list.
Pretty good 80’s popslop, goes down real nice and greasy like the unhealthiest, tastiest burger.
One of the top reviews is “I’m surprised this is on the list! Critics hate prog!” Dude was this the first album on your list? If anything, I expect to see all the top 20 from Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, etc., NOT because I want that, but because these writers have their heads so far up Anglo-rock’s rectum and they seem to love long, trite, instrumental noodling.
That being said, I do enjoy some pretentious progslop noodling here and there. I love long songs too, I love having my attention demanded and earned. The fantastic first track to this album did just that. The B side dragged out and showed off in ways I didn’t really enjoy, but it wasn’t awful.
Thought I’d be mellow towards this but it was fun as hell and had my attention loud and clear for the lyrics. Good, clean, simple music whilst saying all the right things.
Was kinda nodding off until Juicy hit and this long album picks up way more after that. Plenty of tracks I would cut, but overall it’s bumpin. Minus one star for making me hear head or an imitation of head. Don’t know which would be worse.
Amazing stretch of songs on this album with tons of surprises. I thought it’d all be groovy like the first song, only for them to get jazzier and even includes a fantastic Talking Heads cover of Heaven, and they killed it. Very rare for this book to give me a new album this amazing. Really wish it happened more.
Fun as hell hard rock with the best guitarist ever despited some dated stylistic choices.
Some really pretty gems in here, I’m left wondering if maybe there’s some other under-the-radar country records that could’ve taken its place because it sort of feels like it
This book is crucially lacking in non-Anglo based music, and I initially thought that while it was missing countless Brazilian classics, Brazilian metal probably would not need to be included do to that genre’s more homogeneous sound. And man, I was really wrong, these guys not only sound so distinct from most of their influences, but their own impact pushed well beyond their country.
Insanely creative and beautiful throughout, the fun Bjork has on this album is contagious
His voice sounds alright sometimes and his lyrics are very clever, but it’s not quite for me
Sounds unique for the time, but I feel like it hasn’t really impacted the music scene in any notable way.
I haven’t gotten the other M.I.A. album on this list yet but I’ve heard it before and enjoyed it a fair bit. Much more than this one.
Definitely my most enjoyable listen of this album, but man I’ve always hated Zero. Sounds so rancid and expired, but a lot of tracks I see myself coming back to. Definitely don’t love it, but it nails the teenage angst that Billy Corgan seems to bask in.
Great record even if it kinda falls flat after Last Night I Dreamt, but everything before would make for a 5/5 EP. Honestly doesn’t need to be on this list, but it’s a fun farewell record for The Smiths, massive shame it could not be a farewell record for Morrissey as a performer too.
Yeah it’s very good but the second half drags on, The Same Deep Water As You could have been perfect as the last song.
In high school when I found this, Going Mobile was quite the inspiration. I dreamed of decking out a van to make it livable and travel with a few trusted friends like many did, but it also shines on Keith Moon’s insane drumming, which would inspire me heavily when I'd pick up the drums five years later. Still blows my mind that you can just play really crazy for two bars and then just hit the snare and stop for a bit, just creates a really sick vibe with such simple playing. A real master of keeping you on your feet.
Besides that song, the dramatic intro, and banger ending, I didn’t feel too crazy about the rest.
This is one of the best sandwiches ever
Some really solid freak folk, reminded me of Love
Surprised to see this one here, saw them live years ago and Look At Where We Are felt like my life’s theme song for a bit. That being said, the first song is insanely fun everyone I’ve shown it tends to love it, but there’s a reason I only show that song lol. The rest kinda drags on.
Hands down, one of the best feet on any album cover
I was absolutely loving the first half of this album, there’s some really funny bars throughout. Made me realize I’ve been appreciating this list for its hip-hop more than anything else I think. Like most albums over an hour, it began to drag, though.
Some sounds are super dated, but the hits and features are really fun to bump honestly. It’s a shame a lot of people seem to be pretty close-minded when it comes to this album, though.
Usually not a fan of grunge and its effects on rock, but there are some banger songs on this album like 4th of July. Love how much they go outside of the standard 4/4 too, they don’t overdo it to a proggy degree but they have fun with it.
Was listening the whole time looking like 😐
Maybe it’s because I’m at Rudy’s and I’m very high, but this album is just such a vibe and so pivotal to just being a dude. If you like this, you’re chill af and we should drink scotch whiskey all night long
Only my second album from this dude but I already know there is plenty of him and this one should be cut. That harmonica is harder to listen to than Xiu Xiu or Throbbing Gristle.
Haven’t heard Father and Son in a long time, a real heartstring tugger for anyone who’s had a nuanced relationship with their dad. Really thoughtful album and from an amazing singer-songwriter.
Have heard this album so many times and I still cannot remember a single song off of it. A shame cus I do really like their poppier hits.
mmmm this is some pretty well done noise, first time knowingly hearing this band but I’ve definitely heard that first song before. Definitely see this as an inspiration for all sorts of shoegaze
Immediately after this album, Kanye quickly became the braggadocio that everyone knew him as before he fell from grace down to an incel-leading nazi. His recent edgy middle-school level behavior is plenty reason to avoid him and his work, but here he was a struggling artist pleading for equal recognition to his bosses like Jay-Z. Nearly every song on this album is about a very real sort of struggle, whether it be money, family, faith, or being on the brink of death. The only time he’s ever really been relatable, even if his discography all the way to KSG was great.
I’ll need to find the time to play this on CD because I can’t give this any streams because I’m not funding the next Nazi Super Bowl ad. Steal this record, it’s absolutely his best.
Cabaret levels of self indulgence that results in some of the most stale and forgettable music I’ve ever heard. Maybe they copied pop hits or maybe vice versa (I’m assuming a decent mix of both), but every chord progression here is familiar in a way that just makes me want to listen to something else. Free Form Guitar was when it started to sound cool to me, until it started sounding like he was failing notes in Guitar Hero. Liberation had me thinking I’ve made it finally, but it drags on and on with endless solos that, for all their skill, don’t ever sound interesting. Out of a score of 25, this gets a 6 to 4.
Of course there’s better, but for a lot of people, this is a crucial gateway into bossanova and maybe Brazilian music or jazz as a whole. It gets nothing but love with any easygoing audience.
Brief, intense, powerful, and sick as hell.
Definitely have this blasting whenever me and the boys want to imitate transatlantic accents, but man sometimes the lyrics just feel so damn lazy. No wonder rock musicians realized they can just write their own stuff, why bother with something like “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off?” Why bother past disc 3 anyways?
I do very much appreciate “Looking for a Boy” for us short kings finally having an anthem, and “Boy! What Has Love Done to Me!” for us toxic kings finally having an anthem.
Solid up until My Friend Goo, it started to all mesh into a similar sound after but stayed listenable at least.
Prog hasn’t aged well with me, usually it just feels like too much, but this certainly isn’t. Every minute is well spent, the fantasy is still beautifully there. If you didn’t enjoy it, I think you literally need to take a hike with this album, preferably somewhere with mountains and oceans.
Really good, radical stuff, even if it can get a tad bit repetitive
I love a good bit of ambient and electronic music, like Oval, Boards of Canada, and OPN, so I absolutely see how this was important as an influence to these genres. I definitely feel like it has to have influenced game soundtracks like in The Talos Principle or Myst as well. Super bizarre and anemoic, and I love it for that.
Completely boring album from a guy who has obviously done much better
Enjoy the Silence and Policy of Truth were sick. The rest was alright to me, I’ll give it more tries though.
A beautiful rendition of songs I’ve not heard the original versions of anyways
Would’ve loved this with crazier drums
Some really good songs like “Punch Up at a Wedding” and “Where I End and You Begin,” but overall half of the album is worth a skip.
Actually surprised I didn’t like this one really, but it skews a bit too far into some style I don’t like. Feels a bit more cliche than some metal bands I like.
Yeah there only needs to be two Led Zeppelin albums on this list and this is definitely not one of them
Very lucky to be assigned his debut as this is my first time listening to a full LP from this guy, and man he is talented. But it doesn't grab my attention at all because it doesn't feel like he does anything original. Didn't remember a single moment besides Watching the Detectives, but oh whoops turns out that's a bonus track!
Hmm yeah not a big fan of this at all. Repetitive in a Talking Heads way but not quite doing anything interesting with it.
What a talented musician, but I’m not going to listen to this ever again lol
Constantly bouncing between being everything I do and don’t like about anthemic stadium indie rock, but Sprawl II was very pretty at least.
I remember when Folklore came out and I was decently surprised by how solid it was for a new Taylor Swift album, but when this album dropped I felt like I had enough Taylor for the year lol. Yeah, it’s good, probably better than Folklore, but in today’s Showgirl era and her unrelenting thirst for even more popularity, I’m kinda fatigued of hearing her.
Honestly, much better than the Sex Pistols.
Most enjoyable listen of this album for me so far, used to not be to into it but there’s some great songs here I’ve overlooked
One of my favorite bands honestly, but this album could easily not be in this list, especially when they have better ones that weren’t included. They were barely getting started with letting the creativity flow here.
Man, I feel left out still not being too amazed by this guy. Hazey Jane I was beautiful, so I’ll come back to this every once in a while. Maybe I’ll get it when I’m 30 or something.
He’s got an insane voice, but the music backing him is pretty uninteresting to me.
A fantastic dive into poppier sounds while embracing all of the charm the band has.
Sick, cathartic, acoustic work of art
Amazing guitarist and singer, probably the closest thing to blues I can enjoy.
A long time ago these guys bored me to death, but their older stuff has been growing on me lately. Just perfect, easy, dreamy music.
Love the way they ride songs out in really groovy fashions like Lost in the Supermarket or Clampdown. This album is pretty long though, and I wouldn’t say there’s no filler.
These guys play great and the songs sound fine, but I don’t hear any lasting influence from them. The style gets old as well, since they’re not making any new sort of noises.
Fun fusiony dan, I forgot they sounded like this for a bit lol
A very pioneering collage of jams, love the endless ideas that come out of Eno
Funny to get this after Eno’s solo debut, but even his ideas don’t catapult Talking Heads’ talent to the sky just yet; the songs are a little weirder and more alive, but they don’t strut all over the place in style the way they do on later albums.
Sometimes bored me but sometimes caught me very intently listening.
Cool album, All I’ve Got to Do points strongly to their quickly maturing songwriting skills
While it definitely fizzles out around the end, this is Stereolab’s most fun album imo. Perfect percussion with melodies ranging from silly to gorgeous. Crazy, sturdy, brutal
I appreciate the never-ending, hard energy, and I’m sure this was very important for inspiring electronic acts I enjoy like Squarepusher, but I could use a change of pace here and there in some way, sound wise.
John Lennon’s best and a top 3 post-Beatles album. Love or hate the title track, it kicks off into a great time right after and showcases John’s finest ballads. One of my favorite tracks, I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier, is a tense, primal track with a sick groove, the kick drum doesn’t get this crazy again until Oh Yoko, surprisingly. Also a fantastic closing song with a beautiful piano.
Has a really strong first half, but dissolves into lukewarm tunes for me late into the album. The last track is especially a snorefest.
Awesome I love Punmk Rock music .
Really solid band but I was only amazed by the first track.
Oh wow, I did not expect this to be as awful as it was. It’s always good to step out of one’s comfort zone as a musician, but hearing Jack White mess around on a marimba for half an hour was annoying.
Their brand of noise rock is at a perfect crossroad with their pop sensibilities on this one
One of the most cohesive and listenable albums ever thats mostly sample based, to me. Really cool and hypnagogic.
Wow awesome these guys made a song based off the Kanye’s Power riff
I think I’m becoming a Panda Bear fan honestly, really interesting musician and the other guy is cool too
I’m really not vibing with Reggie’s music, I’ve learned from this list. Even though all of my favorites of his are on this record (Funeral For a Friend, Bennie, Saturday Night etcetc), a ton of the tracks to me lay a static wall of generic rock to me that’s too focused on sounding grandiose in performance but not in actual musical diversity.
I praised “Into the Court of the Crimson King” in my review for sampling Kanye and this showed up as I confirmed my review
Never liked this one much, but I appreciate the energy and influence it brought to its time. I enjoyed a lot of the tracks more this time around, but the weird stuff Zappa always does are still a major turn off, like the whole last three tracks. Feels like he never does it with meaningful intent.
goddamn impressive, not a listenable second on this
Definitely better than the last Prodigy album I got
What the hell, I knew the hit track but did not expect the rest of the album to be just as insanely fun for different reasons, feels like a fantastic record and a history lesson too because of the pirate radio concept.
Amazing album, nostalgia inducing, but the best part of it has to be its review page on this site. Whether it’s one to five stars, most of them are written way more cringey than normal here lmao
Never been big on downtempo cus it’s just too… down. But an alluring smoothness absolutely brings the value of this up to me, I just certainly don’t play it often because there’s so much more interesting music that can be just as mellow to me.
Whenever someone has an obvious, irrational dislike towards a whole genre, it tends to bug me a bit because I’ve believed that new sounds can absolutely be capable of sounding great and deserve to be their own genre.
But I’ve given so many chances to punkabilly, both records and in concerts, and there’s something about it that I completely hate in an honestly prejudicial way, it makes me feel like I’m listening to butt rock bands playing in fields of corn, hanging around stinky people chewing dip. Country, bluegrass, and southern rock are fantastic genres that do not give me this vibe.
It was fading heavily into the background for me, but I was certainly attentive starting from the Water Song. The rest of the album started feeling more beautiful from here, especially Swift as the Wind.
Dude, what the hell. I like jazz. I like Napalm Death. But dude, what the hell.
I was begging for a steady swinging ride pattern the whole time so getting to Ecars felt like they through me on life support after repeatedly slamming my balls against saxophones and drums. My ears were ringing by the time the whole thing was done.
Saved this one for chest day at the gym because that just felt right. But it was actually boring me right up until I heard gunshots, which quickly transported me back to Guitar Hero III, getting my adrenaline up like crazy. And they just kept pumping it out after; The Shortest Straw has some of their goofiest lyrics, but what a gnarly solo. Dyers Eve is a great closer, but man, To Live is to Die might've been the highlight for me.
Ride the Lightning is absolutely my favorite from these guys, but I definitely realized that this is a close second, despite the mixing issues.
Music’s completely boring and worth a 0, gets a star for introducing me to the hilarious Stanley Unwin.
Haha great album from a legendary band, but I’d personally omit it from the list. Forever Changes is their magnum opus and is lightyears ahead of this record, but both I’d say are still essential psychedelic albums.
“Everybody must get stoned” hell yeah instant 5/5
Love this band but they made far better records real quickly after this, but I can’t deny that there’d be no Joy Division without The Scream.
People of the Day was a hard ass song, but the rest was so cheesy I got diarrhea
This album is so forgettable that "pacific ocean blue vinyl" gets more results for blue car wrap than the actual record.
I'm sure he gave it his all during the recording of this since he had so much to prove to himself, and the people around him seem to have supported this album. But it was insignificant when it came out, and it gets exponentially harder to miss this the farther it gets in the rearview mirror. It screams "midlife crisis of the late 70's," representing nostalgia of the past decade while also trying desperately to capture contemporary sounds.
Yikes, this certainly aged like 60 year old cream
I was expecting some pretty mid Strokestic Monkeys type stuff here, but these guys sound loads more confident and cool than their contemporaries
Wow, what a phenomenal first track. Left me wondering if it’d be a one-hit wonder type deal or a hidden gem, and it’s really somewhere in the middle.
I was bored until Hudson Line which picked things back up and stayed rolling, Goddess on a Hiway is gorgeous and the rest continues to feel lush, but I was very surprised that it wasn’t as old as I thought. It sounds dated in a good way to me.
Actually really enjoyed the first song! But Earlybird was awful and my dog thought so as well.
A familiar basic celebrity name that I could never attach to any human face or voice, and while the former is completely forgettable, her ear-grating, overconfidently milquetoast performing will be ingrained in my mind as the one album I couldn’t stand while doing work. If I’m working, I can listen to goddamn ANYTHING. Not this. Pissed me off too much and I had to finish it in portions. Just so annoying.
I feel like Nile Rodgers doesn't get the credit he deserves as one of the most influential guitarists of all time, and it's absolutely because he's not a rock guitarist. But you can't name a single other guitarist who's had as many people dance to their music as this guy, I promise you, not one. Credit is also heavily due to bassist Bernard Edwards and drummer Tony Thompson, who could've put a drum machine and a metronome out of a job if they wanted to.
Bernard is clearly a hitmaker himself with the first track Good Times showing his effortless-sounding perfect playing. And though the song length poses no problem here, I was worried that with Chic, they might've only had one good hit per album or so, but while things slow down on the next track, My Feet Keep Dancing bring it right back up, and we're treated to some amazing disco, song after song they keep it interesting but never switch up the locked-in groove. Criminally understated in its influence.
Dude, why does this band blow so hard? It takes a large amount of overcompensating to make this much beautiful composition sound so flat and emotionless. Track one has vocals that have perfected the sound of nails on chalkboard, and on a second listen, I thought I remembered Marley Purt Drive as a moment of relief on this album. No, it turns out it's still as dull, just not as insulting.
Sound of Love was actually a decent song, though. But not an interesting moment after, unfortunately.
I was impatiently waiting for Marquee Moon during my listen to this album, I realized that those first three tracks never really stuck for me. But the playing on this 10 minute track is just so energetic, creative, and tightly knit. Prove It is probably my second favorite on this album, tons of lovely melodies there, but it's a pretty important listen for its spread across like everything indie and then some.
Whatever the hell this is, I'm a fan. The Eno influence is up front at first, and Daniibe is my favorite of this half. Smooth once the groove breaks out, love the bass. Sy Sawande and Ndelorel make up the peak of this album for me, the latter had a pretty sick transition into a ska style of playing.
Yeah that was definitely a strange one, for this list especially. But a pretty good album.
Honestly this paints a perfect picture of "camp" in my head in a very good way. Electro-pop trios of a girl and two dudes is such a classic combo wish I found these guys earlier. It predates EMOTION by CRJ but that's the closest thing this reminds me of.
The second half can be a bit filler but it ends fine. Very cool overall.
Was feeling pretty underwhelmed by this again, being my third or forth time trying out Elliott Smith. But catching up on his life story, while it shouldn't be necessary, definitely cements his eerie sound.
Angeles is probably my favorite. Cupids Trick is a real nice surprise near the end of the album.
Well, the 14 min song was pretty solid, but none of the rest caught my attention much.
A lot of these "world" picks include some really weird decisions. So much good music from Brazil, but yeah let's get this random Yugoslavian dude's electronic drugged up loops on it. It's really alright though, I enjoyed A Noite Sem Fim among others.
Such a clear peak for the band in every way. Every song is distinct and feels just more meticulously crafted than the last, from Marr's sparkly guitar layers (Boy With a Thorn, There is a Light), to the constant, pumping rhythm of drums and bass (The Queen is Dead, Big Mouth). It sounds like they wanted to prove something to themselves on this one, and they came out with a near perfect album.
Was getting more and more exhausted each second, but Intervention kinda flipped that whole experience, and I feel like that's maybe because I prefer the pace of the songs after that.
Both other Arcade Fire albums on this list I mostly disliked besides one or two stand out songs, but on this one I do genuinely enjoy the second half of the record a lot. Besides this, I have only ever come back to two Arcade Fire songs, Awful Sound and It's Never Over, both fantastic and beautiful songs and I'm glad I got to notice more of this band's talent here, even if it took three albums.
Some alright songs in here, and the quality is really good in terms of performance and production. But it's not very memorable, so I think I'll only listen to it a few more times then forget it.
Apple Music said "you might also like, Supergrass, The Stone Roses, The Verve, The Charlatans..." haha lol. I think The La's are better than those bands for the most part, but still a confusing one-hit wonder to end up on the list.
Solid crunch with the appropriate sense of politics for it, great album but it suffers for my rating because I just don't feel like throwing it on often.
