Favorite: Once in a lifetime
Seeing that Brian Eno is the producer makes so much sense. It feels kind of brain numbing, which there's a time and place for, but brain numbing cool guitars are not my favorite. This is not the Talking Heads' best work in my opinion.
Favorite song: So Real
Amazing album. I love the synth-rock sound and vocals. It feels like good music to float in my subconscious to. Kinda sad, kinda whimsical. I don't love the song Corpus Christi Carol, it feels very soft. The entire album fits together so perfectly to create a cohesive sound.
Favorite song: at last I am free and sometimes you win.
Chic Cheer feels like an opening number for a musical. I love the guitar rift in Savoir Faire. Nice album which doesn't sound like what the stereotype of disco is but has very cool elements from it. It feels fun and smooth.
Favorite song: Pretty Baby
I really like one way or another, I understand why it was such a big hit. I know but I don't know almost felt too repetitive and didn't not fit but also didn't fit, it felt like a last minute add on to fill time. I like the roadtrip feel of just go away, it would be a great car song. This album has a nice feel to it. It feels a little bit mainstream but not necessarily in a bad way but in the way that you could play it for anyone and they'd like it. Especially with the obviously rock inspired guitars and pop-rock type vocals and the keyboard they use.
favorite: wrapped around your finger
I find this album to be a little bit of a mixed bag. I definitely like the end more than the beginning.
*3.5
This is exactly what I needed today.
Favorite song: Sinews
I love albums with gritty unpolished guitars and vocals that sound like they embody raw emotion. This album is that. I'm sad that this is their only album. It's such a vibe.
Favorite song: Wonderland (on DLX) and Out of the Woods
Nostalgia.
It's fine. It's better than a basic corporate pop album but it's not fantastic. It was perfect when I was 7 and I still know all the lyrics to most of the songs but outside of that context it's just classic Taylor Swift.
Bad blood has a really good music video, it's just really fun and Kendrick's verse is still good.
Wildest dreams can burn and die.
I really don't like 'How you get the girl's it feels too corporate pop.
The ending to 'I know places' feels very anticlimactic and like it doesn't quite fit the vibe of the end of the song.
By the end I was just tired of it.
Favorite song: I'm Only Sleeping
This is a very good album. I can't believe how short it is when I finished my first thought was "is that it". This might be my favorite Beatles album. It definitely needed more than one listen.
Taxman is a fun first track and sets the tone for the album perfectly. It can be a little repetitive but that doesn't really take away from the song for me.
Eleanor Rigby is a classic. Those strings are beautiful and add huge depth and feeling to the song. I wish the vocals were louder in the verses though.
I'm only sleeping is amazing the vocals create a perfect feeling of peace and the switches between verses are masterfully done. I like the lyrics too, they're fun and match the music perfectly.
I wasn't sure what to expect when I Love You Too first started playing given the very different instrumentation than I'm used to from the Beatles. They create a fun/bouncy and distinct sound to the song. It feels like something to move/dance to. I don't know what the horn-like sound in the background is but I like it. They build tension perfectly in the pauses.
Here, there, and everywhere is a perfect track to calm the album back down after the previous one. The softness when he's talking about "her" is perfect and the song, lyrics included, very clearly show how much he loves "her". It brings me an odd amount of peace to listen to.
Yellow Submarine is another classic one. It's a really good song and the feeling they were going for is again created effectively. I really like the use of sound effects in this one.
I love the first line of she said she said. Otherwise, it's a good song and I don't have anything else to say. (Apparently McCartney walked out of the recording session for this song)
I love the piano in good day sunshine. I love that the sun burns his feet. Another fantastic one. I need to wake my sister up with this.
And your bird can see is probably one of the less memorable tracks of this album. It's still good but it doesn't feel like it brings anything particularly unique or that hasn't been done already in the album.
For no one is definitely the end of something on the album. It's the shift, the girl he's talked about the whole album is suddenly gone. The sad trumpet is perfect to add a little something to it and avoid feeling monotonous.
Doctor Robert feels like a joke song almost after most of the album with a feeling and lyrical content similar to Taxman. Almost like they went, too much feeling, we need a non feeling track after that last one. I like it but it feels like it should be somewhere else in the album or a B-side.
I want to tell you feels like a logical progression to For No One. "It's not me it's my mind" is a bold thing to say. The denial and unawareness in the songs lyrics along with the undying longing is perfect.
Got to get you into my life has perfect vocals and the beginning feels powerful. I love the way they build the song.
I like the seagull like sound effect in Tomorrow never knows. This feels like the Beatles when they got really high. There needed to be some way to end to end the album and I guess this experimental chaos was good enough.
I think the short length of each track and the album itself is really good because it avoids the problem of it getting boring or repetitive.
I liked it. But it's way too long, I got bored. It needed to be about 12 tracks instead of 18, cut unnecessary songs. This was not what I was expecting at all after the other songs I've heard from this artist. The piano ballad type form works well for him though.
Favorite song: Traveler and Gospel Plow
Dad Rock.
I liked All I Know quite a bit, it would be easy to sing along to.
I don't think I like this guy's voice that much. It's too something but I can't put my place on what. It could be that it's extremely clean vocals and I prefer rock and heavier with more gravely vocals. It feels mainstream, like just another dude not someone particularly notable.
It feels like at the end of the album he finally found music that suits his voice more and it's really good music, I just wish they started with that.
Favorite song: Death Around the Corner and So Many Tears
Tupac is good.
The epitome of "classic rap".
With how influential this album was it makes sense that Tupac's lyricism and ability to address issues through his music is very well done.
This is one of those albums where I want the lyrics in front of me as I listen.
Favorite song: The Girl from Ipanema
Astrud Gilberto has a beautiful voice, I really like the songs that she's in.
The cool sax creates a very calming feeling throughout the whole album.
I really like jazz.
Favorite song: Watcha Gonna Do and No Sympathy
"it's good for asthma... It's good for tuberculosis" -Legalize it
I like this album quite a bit after the first track, it's laid back, as would be expected, but still has smooth and catchy guitars, vocals, and drum beats.
Favorite song: Only Love Can Break Your Heart
This is not my kind of music.
Favorite: Bigmouth Strikes Again
Almost every song is a bop. They simply made a good album.
Favorite: Rolling in the Deep
This album is iconic
Favorite: In the backseat
Favorite: Expecting to fly
Favorite: I'm in Touch With Your World
Favorite: Look Back and Laugh
Favorite: 4th Chamber
Liquid swords - Goddamn this opening track is an amazing opening. wow. I love this backing music.
Duel of the iron mic - Fire track. The flow and feeling is this song is at a 10 almost the whole time.
*4.5
Favorites: Criminal and Sleep to Dream.
I really enjoyed every song. This reminded me of a calmer and less rock influenced Alanis
Favorite: All of the lights
So far all good and then runaway starts...What's with rappers trying to sing I don't get it and 90% of the time don't like it. That's not where their skill lies. Same problems in hell of a life, I just don't like autotuned singing, I don't mind the rest of it though, it's pretty good.
This album has some high highs (All of the lights, Monster, So Appalled) but some low lows too (Runaway,). I think overall I enjoyed this though.
Favorite: Renegade
On renegade I think that JAY Z was being pushed to be better and bring it more and I think that works but I wish he was at that level the whole album.
Favorite: The Word Hurricane
Favorite: Troubles of My Own
Favorite: Seeing Things
Similar to AC/DC or Guns'n'Roses but not as good
*4.5
Favorites: Clandestino and Bongo Bong and Je ne t'aime plus and Luna y sol
As the last of favorites may suggest I really really enjoyed this album.
Favorite: She'll love the one she's with
This is definitely going to be a new study album. Based on the cover it is also not even slightly what I was expecting. Each song is filled with so much character, I love it. Anyone who listens to this should take the time to just sit and listen, let yourself absorb into the music.
Water From a Vine Leaf - fantastic introduction leading into what's an even better album. Sounds like a videogame soundtrack that's exploring a ruined and overgrown city that was super high tech. The narration only serves to further this idea/feeling.
Into Paradise - One of the weaker songs of the album but still very experimental and enjoyable to listen to. The blend of very natural, human-made sounds with very electronic ones brings such a dichotomy to the music which is very interesting to listen to.
The Story of Light - Sounds so cool, I love the whale-like sounds in it.
Deus ex Machina - Oddly haunting.
Favorite: Neon Lights
listened to the English version first
The Robots (Die Roboter) - This is fine, I enjoy it for what it is but it could definitely use a little bit more. The progression is a little bit slow for what I like
Spacelab - I like this better than the previous song. I like the synth and the feeling of space definitely comes across in the music
Metropolis - Another one that's fine but nothing special
The Model (Das Model)- Good enough. One of the better songs. It has more substance and changes than other ones. Being shorter likely helps it too.
Neon Lights (neonlicht)- I like the start of this one a lot. The energy keeps going through the whole 8 minute song
The Man Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine)- Another one that's fine, very similar to the first song on the album
Favorite: Love is Sweeping the Country
I love the orchestral music at the end of this album. Ella Fitzgerald was undeniably a crucial and impressive person in the music industry however this album was slow, not very musically interesting, and way way too long.
Favorite: Down to the Waterline
second favorite: Six Blade Knife
favorite: Without You
I loved this entire album nearly every song is a close second for favorite. I need to listen to this again.
Favorite: Bargain (Oh my god I love this song so much, i knew it before but still, it's fantastic)
This album was shockingly good, I knew I loved Bargain but I wasn't sure what to expect from the rest of it. Suffice it to say the album surpassed my expectations.
Favorite: The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
What the heck was Izzy Izzy Ahh
This album wasn't very good, it was definitely too long, I can see how something great could arise out of this groundwork it's just not there yet. This album needed to be workshopped a little more and needed less features which I felt often didn't add anything.
Favorite: Revolution and Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
Favorite: I shot the sheriff
Favorite: Something from Nothing and 2112: Overture/The temples of syrinx/discovery
*4.5
Favorite: Tooting Bec Wreck
I really enjoyed this album. It felt like the perfect mix between 80's and a little more of the rock that I like fused together. This is the perfect thing to jam to on a summer road trip.
Favorite: I don't love you anymore and You better run
I really like the songs Sueno, Groovin', I don't love you anymore and You Better Run
I definitely like the second half of this album better than the first.
Favorite: The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet and How could I be such a fool
Hungry Freaks, Daddy - I don't think I really like this song but it's got a lot of very interesting things going on it. I don't love the guitars with the elevator music or his voice in some of it so I hope that doesn't persist through the whole album.
I Ain't Got No Heart - Already like this way better than the last song
What are the brain police? and Go cry on someone else's shoulder - I'm starting to enjoy this album, there are still some odd choices that I don't like but it's still interesting. This album does not seem like it's from the 60s
After this point it kind of stays the same for the rest of the album.
Help I'm a rock - This song goes back to being weird and I don't think I like it again but it's again still interesting and definitely better than the first few tracks of the album.
The return of the son of the monster Magnet - "Susie Cream Cheese, Honey" (I adore this). This feels less like a song and more like a thought experiment but I vibe.
Favorite: Everything is Fair
This album is fine. "Infamous Date Rape" is throwing me for a bit of a loop, like the start of the song makes sense but then it keeps going and I start to be like WTF. What are their actual thoughts it's not clear, i shouldn't leave a song about that topic going 'wait what'. Also, this is a consistent thing about older rap albums but the way they talk about women just doesn't vibe with me, it doesn't make women sound like people to me. Otherwise, this is a good rap album, it's not my favorite genre but it's got some nice beats and the lyrics are fun to listen to and clever.
Favorite: Be (intro)
This album is impressively good
Favorite: Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before
Classic Smiths although not their best in my opinion. I don't know why Hatful of Hollow wasn't included instead, I think it has better songs.
Favorite: Day Old Blues
I like this more than I should for how much I like his voice. I really enjoy the music itself but don't enjoy the vocalist the second I start paying attention. I think it grew on me a little the more I listened but I struggled to understand anything he was singing and it was very nasally. When this guy swears I can't take it seriously.
Favorite: Extraordinary Girl
Favorite: When I grow too old to dream
Good enough for a Christmas album
Favorite: Stuck in a moment you can't get out of
Favorite: All By Myself (realistically When I Come Around, but I do love All By Myself and it has a lot of sentimentality linked to it for me)
This album is so good and culturally important it deserves some Runners-up: Welcome to Paradise and Basket Case
favorite: the sidewinder sleeps tonight
Favorite: Lust to Love and Automatic
favorite: Emotional Haircut
Favorite: All hope is gone
Literally my favorite album ever. first CD i bought.
Favorite: It's a man's world
favorite: You took the words right out of my mouth (hot summer night)
"On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?"
"Will he offer me his mouth?"
"Yes"
"Will he offer me his teeth?"
"Yes"
"Will he offer me his jaws?"
"Yes"
"Will he offer me his hunger?"
"Yes"
"Again, will he offer me his hunger?"
"Yes"
"and will he starve without me?"
"Yes"
"and does he love me?"
"Yes"
"Yes"
"On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?"
"Yes"
Favorite: Skeleton in the Closet
Got to see them live earlier this year and they were absolutely incredible. Indians was definitely their best live song. It was really cool to see such legends play.
Favorite: Edge of the Beholder and Blackened
Favorite: Rock Lobster
Yayyyyyy. Rock lobster is life. I need this to be the soundtrack when I'm studying lobsters. 🪨🦞
Also, Lava is really good.
This album is probably realistically a 3-3.5, but I love it
