At first felt too sock-hop for me, then I really enjoyed the middle third, then it started to feel hokey again. 3.5 rounded up. EDIT: I just learned all the songs I liked the most on this album are covers. Downgrading from 3.5 to 2.5, and rounding down.

Hated

It’s giving high school talent show

not bad, reminded me of the pixies just not quite as good

Got a lil bored

not a fan of Janis’s cheese grater vocals

it’s like they heard 1 blues song and went, “I could do that”

Had high hopes for this one but disappointed

Boys & girls is a classic but the rest of the songs on this album were nothingburgers

DNF. Somewhere around the 11 minute jesus loves you song, I couldn’t take it anymore

A few classics on here — keep the car running, no cars go, my body is a cage. but the middle kind of drags. Their next album The Suburbs is better, made me just want to listen to that one

a veritable cornerstone of any self-respecting millennial middle schooler’s cd collection

Not sure how to rate this one. Good for what it is but not something I really enjoy listening to?

RIP ozzy!

ehhh 🤷‍♀️

just not my cup of tea. very frenetic/shaky, the whole album made me anxious except the last track. struggling to separate it from modern contexts where it has been co-opted like burlesque dance, cartoons, film noir, dance classes I took as a kid. this is one where maybe you just had to be there

3.5 but I’ll round up. Hokey at times which takes me out of it. “Let me roll it” weighted the score higher, far and away the best song on the album.

A couple hits but mostly filler… nothing memorable

This album is rubbish

good album, was fun to return to it after many years

Some good songs but overall album needed editing. Too long and too much carnival music

if talking heads and a less melancholy tears for fears had a baby it would be this band. bit too heavy on the horns though, gets repetitive

not bad but probably won’t ever revisit

too out there for me but appreciated its novelty

Wanted to love this one more but Beck’s other works call to me more. 2.5 rounded up… I could take it or leave it with the exception of devils haircut, always a banger

I’ve always been ambivalent on them

Boring, too long, dnf

Flawless as ever. No notes

an all-time fave forever!

i don’t like jazz but if I had to listen to it, this would do. groovy infusions

Had high hopes for this one given rikki and major dude but the rest of the album was a hokey flop for me. 2.5 rounded up

I heard so much Radiohead in this and I’m not mad about it

Holy cow. I don’t remember this album being this killer!? Refreshingly un self conscious. Badass energetic riffs. Unrelenting pace. Fucked up lyrics for all the right reasons. Also now painfully aware of the obvious influence they had on billie joe armstrong. Never was big on green day but now I know why… they were just trying to be this. Unhinged Elvis cover to close it out clinched it for me. 5 knuckle sandwiches 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

A crooked, slurred, meandering funhouse journey. The soundtrack of motion sickness. Perhaps one too many dings and clangs for my taste, but I respect the artistic vision.

Coffee shop music. Fades into the background for me. Gets repetitive. Very long album. 2.5 rounded to 3

it’s a no for me

Liked this one better than Rain Dogs. 3.5 stars rounded up.

didn’t hate it but didn’t particularly like it either

if I were ren faire bound, it might be fun for the car ride

beeyotchhhh

the millennial’s classic rock

Pleasant enough, didn’t mind it

Didn’t hate it but did get bored, this whole album is like one long song

3 1/2 hours!? What could possibly be so important

At first felt too sock-hop for me, then I really enjoyed the middle third, then it started to feel hokey again. 3.5 rounded up. EDIT: I just learned all the songs I liked the most on this album are covers. Downgrading from 3.5 to 2.5, and rounding down.

I guess you had to be there. Also, knowing she had a blackface “alter ego” and continuously defended it kinda ruins the vibe for me

I liked this. It was a fun ride and could see myself listening again. I don’t know much about this genre but appreciated the opportunity to learn

Deec. 2.5. Kinda boring.

Never heard of this band/album before, and didn’t know what to expect. Certainly never saw noise rock coming! Every so often in college I would find myself at a friend-of-a-friend’s experimental noise show. It was always in some forgotten room of an industrial building with cement floors, the smell of PBR and BO wafting through the stale air. Some rich kids with greasy hair and threadbare undershirts would fuck around with pedals and amps and synths and there would be cables running everywhere and the sound of fuzzy crumpled paper and dial-up aol static harassing my ear drums at unreasonable volume. I didn’t get it. Why? Where did this come from? Am I supposed to like this? Does everyone else here like this? Is this music? I would ask myself. This album explains SO MUCH, and that experience I now understand to be very of its time. Probably will never listen again, but 3 for the millennial college nostalgia, introducing me to the most listenable example of the genre I’ve ever heard, and serving as an actually not terrible workout playlist at the gym.

Sexy boy will always be a banger, but listening to this album I realized why that was the only song I knew from it. The rest feels forgettable. Ok background music. 2.5

I’m glad people in the 50s liked this, but I in 2025 just do not have that gene

A handful of catchy licks but not much going on here

viiiiibes

I enjoyed this sentimental nonsense more than I’d like to admit

In the words of an indie rock redditor: “Boomers have Sweet Caroline, Gen X has Don't Stop Believing, and Millennials have Mr. Brightside.” This album is front loaded with hits. While Brightside proved to be most enduring, it was fun to revisit the others, especially All These Things That I’ve Done. Loses its steam toward the very end, especially the last song, but overall highly listenable. Plays a bit dated now but can’t deny the defining sound of the early aughts. 4.5 rounded up.

🥱

🔥

Great album

It’s fine. A few bops.

I have conflicting feelings about this album. At the bookstore I worked at in college, they’d play it multiple times a day. Listening to it now, I realize they were skipping the all the lengthy/self-indulgent/unlistenable/drug-fueled chaotic parts. There’s a vocal affectation of this era that I really can’t stand, that I can only describe as a vocal shrug 🤷‍♀️. It immediately turns me off when I hear it but for some reason I mostly forgive it for Lou Reed. Can’t say why. Nico’s distinctive vocals do a lot of heavy lifting. Overall I love the vibe of this album but at its worst moments it’s completely unlistenable. High highs and low lows. 3.5/5.

2.5. I’m ambivalent. It’s fine.

2.5

1.5. What am I missing?

2.5