This isn't Michael Jackson's debut album, but it's the debut album of The King Of Pop.
Not much to say other than it's good. Only other Door's album I heard was their debut so this album being slightly on par with their debut kinda surprised me. It's a good listen, a fine album from a fine band, nothing really much to say other than that.
It's a good listen. Honestly half the songs are just okay in my opinion, not bad at all, just okay. But the other half, songs like Rio and Hungry Like A Wolf for example, are so fucking good, you kinda forget the okay half of the album
So weird. So fun. So funky. So odd. So unique. So quirky. So silly. So... Talking Heads. From their least to most critically acclaimed works, Talking Heads has a style that is just so Talking Heads, no other artist/band can ever replicate or duplicate because none of them are as weird, fun, funky, odd, unique, quirky, or silly as these four. And for their second album, they can only go up from here, and they did.
In the last year or so, there's been a discussion about sampling in music, as there was 40 years ago, but it's more of a different discussion. Modern sampling is just not good, not done correctly or properly to the point that people are saying sampling is boring or uncreative. But I disagree. Sampling, to me, works better when it's chopped and screwed, pitched higher or lower, to the point where you just make a whole new beat AND where the sample originates. You look at classic hip-hop and you see how much of funk, soul, gospel, rock, metal, and they work that into their advantage. No other group, in my opinion, did that better than Beastie Boys. No other example of some of the greatest sampling work done in hip hop history is Paul's Boutique.
Everybody wanna make their own Sgt. Pepper but not everybody should make their own Sgt. Pepper. Not saying this album is bad, there's a couple songs I liked, but I don't see myself listening to this again.
I guess this album was okay. It was what I expected, part psychedelic part avante garde part acoustic. Makes you wonder how Pink Floyd would turn out to be if he was still in the group. Maybe still kinda big because Syd is talented, but not "rock gods" big like they are now, but Syd is a legend in his own right, and I hope he knew that before he passed.
The worst song is his Across The Universe cover, but I can look past that because: 1. John Lennon is on the song and I find that pretty cool; 2. This album is just that good that I can look past one decent song. Young Americans was always one of, if not, my all time favorite Bowie song, so why am I just now listening to the album when I got it randomly today? I don't know but I'm kicking myself for not listening to it sooner. I love it. I miss David Bowie so much.
I couldn't finish it. Not because it was bad, I think the singer has a nice voice, but this album is absolutely not for me in any kind of way. I listened to half the album not included the Sweet Jane cover that I've heard multiple times before, which is a great cover in my opinion, and I just couldn't finish the other half. Like I said, not bad, definitely not for, definitely someone more into soft country/folk and I know there's plenty of people like that, but I'm not one of them
Despite it being Cee Lo Green, this album is pretty good. The beats are good, the features are good, Cee Lo's voice is good, but he's a much better singer than rapper in my opinion and also a few songs too long. Much better than I expected, but unfortunately I have to knock down a star because Cee Lo is a piece of shit.
The alternative rock boom of the 1990s would not exist without this album. This album was 20 years too early, but that's okay. We see the the importance of it now, the impact, the power it came from this album. Plus, the songs are good. How can you not give it 5 stars based on all of that?
Good Night is the greatest album closing song of all time
British punk rock in this era is kinda wonky to me. I either find it really good and innovative for it's time or straight up not for me. It was both for this album. The first half I liked, the second half was eh. Not bad, but some songs I liked, most I didn't care for too much.
It's cute, but really only a few songs stick out, but the rest is still alright. It's what I imagine a fairy tale forest to sound kinda like
I dunno what to say about this album that isn't already been said, but here it goes...
In October 2000, 9 months into the new millennium, a band that became one of the biggest in the world changed their sound so drastically and out of nowhere, it someway somehow changed the sound of music forever. From being one of, if not, the first albums to be promoted using the Internet to the feeling of alienation and the fear of the digital age and the future it can and will bring being heard lyrically and instrumentally, the change in Radiohead's sound that was once seen as a mistake to few when it first came out, is now seen by the same few and many others as one of the greatest ideas and moments in music history. Oh to hear this album when it first released...
It sounds like Husker Dü. Is that a compliment? I honestly don't know. The album wasn't bad, but I don't think I'm the demographic for it. Some songs were at best catchy to me, the rest I don't think I'll remember. One thing I like are how short the songs are and the album is. Short and sweet and I think a lot of albums should be like that in this genre
"Is it wrong to understand
The fear that dwells inside a man?"
Yeah he was in his bag when he wrote that. This album as a whole ks pretty good, some songs feel filler to me but the rest are actually pretty good. I see myself listening to this again and again.
This is just Bruce Springsteen if he was an indie rocker. It's not an insult in the slightest but the drawback is the song lengths. Three 7 minute song, one 9 minute song, three 6 minute songs, and the rest are somehow the normal length of 4 minutes. This album could have easily been like 10-15 minutes shorter by cutting some songs short. But the songs are pretty good so I guess I can't complain too much.
It's really funny to me that a before the songs about existential dread, depression , the effects of long use of drugs, they made a cute little psychedelic album. As psychedelic rock music was on the rise, there was a shit ton of it. Quite the amount of hits obviously, but a lot of misses too. So to stand out like this in that era is a pretty big deal in my opinion, and of course it did, it's not bad at all. Like I said, it's just funny that this is their debut. They had no idea the genius they will create later on.
Breaking News: An album considered one of the greatest ever recorded by a singer-songwriter, who is considered to be one of the greatest singer-songwriters, is pretty fucking good.
I gotta fever and the only prescription is more flute. As much as I heard of this album, I just never listened to it. All I knew is that they're known for their lead singer using a flute and like one or two of their songs. So I am surprised how much I actually enjoyed listening to this. It reminded me of the folk songs of Led Zeppelin but more harder at times while also being more "fairy tale-like?" I dunno how to explain it, but it's good and I'm surprised how good I I think it was.
Honestly this album is pretty good. This is the second only Black Sabbath album I've ever listened to, so I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Reminded me a lot of Led Zeppelin, who are also a corner stone of heavy metal. I've come to realize that maybe I do like metal, but only Black Sabbath and Les Zeppelin lmao.
This album is really good, the features carry the album well and the production is amazing as most of Dr. Dre's work, but I think it is very important to point out how absolutely funny some of these lyrics and songs are.
I feel like this type of music isn't my cup of tea. This album has 9 songs so it's easy to divide it by saying 3 of these are pretty good and could easily listen to again like add to a playlist or something like that, 3 are okay, and 3 aren't sitting with me at all. Maybe another album from them or another in this sub genre of hip hop I could say something different, but I doubt it.
I haven't even finished this album yet as I'm writing these notes. I usually do, but I don't need to for this album. First time listen, and I will have this bitch on repeat. Maybe I'm biased because I love alternative music, or that I'm already familiar with a small handful of songs by the Yeah Yeah Yeah, but I do think it's the biasness talking when I say this album is really, really good.
Side note: One of my all time favorite album covers
So a little less than half way through the album I realized I don't really like it. So I skimmed through the other songs hoping to hear something that'll catch my ear, but I didn't. It's like Oasis vocals mixed with The Stone Roses instrumentals but somehow it's not good despite something that could easily work. I didn't finish it, I didn't like it, I'm sure someone else would.
A question that nobody has ever asked is "What's the hip-hop version of The Beatles' White Album?" OutKast was already genre bending their music along with making a name for themselves by helping, and basically singlehandedly put southern hip-hop in the mainstream. Let's be honest with ourselves, you can say almost exactly the same thing as The Beatles and the music they made during that time. So, with that being said, what is their White Album? A critical commercial success that's so weird and different and an album that has a lot of filler songs and yet these filler songs go well with each song that plays before and after them? It's this. It's Stankonia.
Jeeeeeeesus fucking Christ
I'm sorry but a few songs in and I could tell this one was just not for me. I never knew Kings Of Leon had southern rock roots and that's a genre that's a small hit or a big miss for me. Not my type of music :/
This is one of the best albums I've ever heard. I don't even have a joke for that.
I'm gonna admit something that I feel like my family only knows: I really like ELO. I've listened to their biggest songs, some featured on this album, way more than plenty of times. I dunno what I like about them so much, I just think they're good, but I think I've only listened to one album on my own. Maybe it's because I love their biggest songs and I'm afraid that if I listen to any full album of theirs I'll realize their bad, that's something that's happened and heard opinions on other people of them finding a song from someone/some band and they look at their other stuff and it's bad. I just didn't want that to happen if I listen to ELO fully. Fortunately, listening to this 70 minute album, I did not feel that way. When the album starts with Turn To Stone, few songs late Sweet Talkin' Woman, and then the end of the third side is Mr. Blue Sky, one of my all time favorite songs, and listening to 60 more minutes of ELO, I can definitely say they aren't bad at all. So in conclusion, and as mentioned before, I really don't know why I like ELO so much, I just think they're a one of a kind band and Jeff Lynne is an underrated genius.
Uhhhh....I expected to hate this, I mean look at the damn cover lmao...but I'm kinda fucking with this... All the songs are relatively short, so a 45 minute run time isn't too bad, but 40 minutes would've been perfect for me. Apparently there's a 35 minute version and that version didn't have "They're Hanging Me Tonight" so maybe the 45 minute version just is the best version.
This album is not on Spotify so I cannot listen to it lmao you gotta be kidding me
So I've come to the realization a while ago that I'm not a Who fan. I love Tommy but in all I think they're okay and I like most of what are considered their biggest hits. I'm aware this is like their magnum opus or at least a close second to Tommy, and I can fortunately say I like this. I think what really got me is that it is easily the best opener and closer to any album, which are two of their biggest hits that I've always liked for the longest.
Uhh... I liked it I guess. It's not a genre I listen to unless it's similar music in the background of a movie or TV show nor have I never even tried to get into, but it's good, but can't help to not smile and dance a little when it's on. You gotta be a lil racist to not like this.
I don't understand the hate for Coldplay cuz if Billie Eilish were singing the songs off this album, y'all would be going crazy. This is a solid debut for a band that would become one of the biggest bands of the 21st century. We can all agree that newer Coldplay can't hold a candle to their earlier stuff, you can say that for a lot of artists, but c'mon. You can point out the "Radiohead but bland" argument and I can get it, but in all honesty this is a solid debut album from a good band and I feel a lot of people are scared to say that there was once a time that Coldplay was an absolutely great band.
Fun, silly, goofy, and campy. Some of the vocals can get a little annoying, but looking pass that (a lil hard to do, I get it) you get the wackiest and one of the most creative albums to come out of the new wave genre, and with the hilarious genius that is the song Rock Lobster, you get an all time classic and an album that deserves to be called one of the 1001 albums you have to hear.
I always liked the Police. I'd definitely say Message In A Bottle is one of my favorite songs if I think super hard about it. But I truly can't think of I've heard a Police album in full before? Anyway, this album was alright. I never heard a non-"greatest hit" Police song and....eh it's alright I guess. One Any Other Day did not age well and I find it very funny. Bring On The Night is such a huge highlight for me I could listen to it for multiple times a day. I feel like a majority of the album switch between those two feelings. I liked it, it was alright.
So I know like two songs from this band (none of those songs are on this album) but their story is interesting. They had little to no commercial success, to the point where this band was basically nothing, however years later, to the mid 80s to 90s, a lot of alternative bands like REM and The Replacements were very influenced by them and that made this band finally get a cult following. With that cult following came retrospective reviews of their catalog and made them realize that Big Star is much better than once received.
But imma be honest, I have mix reviews for this album. It's not bad, but I don't think it's that good. The songs I thought were good come once in every 3-5 okay and "not the best" songs. Maybe #1 Record and Radio City are better, but this album is definitely something.
Also, there's like 6 different versions of this album for whatever bullshit reason, only one version was available and it wasn't this one. Maybe if I had this or one of the other fucking 5 I would think differently.
It's decent I guess. If you love folk music you'll like this. If you like folk music, you'll think it's decent. If you think folk music is decent, I don't think you'll like this.
I don't know much about Norah Jones, I don't think most people do. This won Album of the Year and she won a few others including Best New Artist at the Grammys but the "curse" behind that win *kinda* got to her. It's always interesting to see the amount of people who win Best New Artist never win a Grammy ever again or just fall into obscurity, but she won 5 out of her 10 total Grammys in one night thanks to this album, but she won 5 more throughout the next 20 years after this album so that's why I say *kinda*
Anyway, was this album "5 Grammys worth" good? Compared who was nominated in 2003, I guess maybe yeah. The songs are fine. Not my style but I always liked Don't Know Why, I kinda remember it as a child, I must've been 3-4 when the song came out and the following years still playing here and there. Plus some other songs were just as good like Come Away With Me and Got To See You Again, but I don't think I'll listen to this album again, it's just not my style.
I mean it's alright I guess. I don't know much about jazz other than the gigantic influence on, not just black music, but black culture as a whole, but jazz isn't my cup of tea. If I or someone else wanted to start listening, Miles Davis is one of the small handful of jazz artists I would start with, and this album in general is a good starting point. Not my style, but I dig it.
Honestly...this shit bussin. It reminds me a lot of New Order, one of my favorite bands, but more gay (not that there's anything wrong with that.) I have little to no complaints about this album. It's so good I listened to it twice before I wrote this and I see myself listening to it more. Also I find it funny that one of the members hate this album cover to this day, but I really love it.
I mean it's Queen so it's going to be good obviously, but how good? Honestly it's pretty good. So many people, including myself, truly only know their biggest hits, which isn't a bad thing because they have so many, so listening to a full album can make you hear their deep cuts, and the deep cuts on this album, most of them are pretty good, much better than I expected honestly. Long story short, the album is good and it's nice to have a deep dive on a good band to learn their deep cuts and it's rewarding their deep cuts are good too
First time in a long time listening to this album, maybe even the first time I fully listened to it, and boy this album is long but it makes up for it, cuz it's pretty damn good. You could argue that a lot of the songs sound the same, and that's a solid point, but a lot of the subject matter in the lyrics are exactly the same. Is it a concept album? Or is there some story that goes a long with it? I honestly don't know what Arcade Fire was insinuating with this album, but whatever they were thinking really paid off for them. This album is pretty damn good.
For a movie soundtrack to be great, in my opinions, it doesn't need the movie to be attached for it, but also makes you appreciate the music more. I feel like Saturday Night Fever, Scott Pilgrim, Black Panther's and a few other soundtracks/"songs inspired by" doesn't need the movies attached to them. You can still visualize the scene or the characters in general from the movie but also you don't have to see the movie to enjoy the music. I want to say this soundtrack does that because I have not seen the movie, but the music is good. I liked Indian and Indian-inspired music, I dunno why I kinda always did. Honestly maybe if I seen the movie, which I probably never will, I can have a better appreciation for the songs
If Oasis and Blue had a baby and it wasn't that good. Mediocre britpop.
I just cannot believe this is their debut
I think people are scared to realize that The Smiths did what the Beatles did for indie rock, as in not invent the genre but redefined what a band could do in said genre to shape the future of it forever. And this album is a perfect example. It's one of my favorite albums of all time, an album I've listened to front and back time after time again. An album that makes me think "Man I was a depressed little bastard in high school in the year 2015" and makes me feel "Man many people were depressed little bastards since at least the 1980s." And album that makes me feel that I wasn't alone feeling like this and people will always feel like this and music helps to find and connect.
I truly believe that Morrissey and Johnny Marr are the alt-rock/indie version of Lennon/McCartney. Many songs, including most of not this entire album, are perfect examples. In my honest opinion, it is a near, if not, perfect album for the genre. Now, if Morrissey wasn't such a raging cunt......
It's an album I've listened to many times in the past, an album I like a lot so much I own it on CD, but it's been such a long time since I've listened. So getting this I was kinda worried I wasn't gonna like it as much as I first fully heard it around 10ish years ago. But I was wrong. It's pretty fucking good. It's very unique and Beck at his best is when he is interestingly unique. It's an album that's a hodgepodge of different genres, sounds, and feelings. It shouldn't work and honestly it doesn't a few times, but it's the uniqueness that kinda pulls you in a little bit. I don't think this album is for everyone because of that, but I still recommend it just to hear the unique sound of Beck.
This album is great, like really great. But my God is it long. But all the songs are good and different from each other and kinda sounds different from other Fleetwood Mac songs, at least to me it does. But all the songs are good so the album being **20 SONGS AND 74 MINUTES LONG** can be a little excusable. I'll most likely listen to this album many times again.
White boys need to make music like this again
I can't explain this album other than saying it's one of the best albums I've ever heard. Maybe it's because it is my favorite genre so it's easy for me to find an album in that genre that's critically acclaimed and I'll automate like it, or maybe the lyrical matter and the writing is so good that I can push away my bias to enjoy what I think is beautifully written music. I've heard this album a handful of times. Jesus, Etc. and Heavy Metal Drummer are on my main playlist so I listen to those songs often enough, but since I haven't heard it in a while I genuinely forgot how great this album is.
Short, sweet, and catchy. If you want to do e into the England punk scene I guess this could be included. There ain't much to say I guess lmao....
A solid debut from a great band. I've heard a few people say that this debut is just a debut; it's good but nothing special compared to their later work. As I agree, I disagree that it's just a debut. If their debut wasn't good, I don't think this band would amount to anything, and I'm so happy it is and I'm so happy they did.
This album is very obviously so pro-Jamaica in ways I really wish I knew. The lyrical matter sounds incredibly important but unfortunately I'm to ignorant to understand, but not that ignorant because I am a black man. The only reggae I truly know is Bob Marley, one of my favorite artists of all time, but this album sounds very similar and makes me more interested in more reggae especially if it sounds like this. Tradition is my fav song by far.
This is as Johnny Cash as Johnny Cash can get.
Uhh...No. Awesome album art though.
I don't get it man. I was expecting this album to be peak. You go on the Wikipedia page under "Critical Reception" and "Legacy" it's almost as if it's the greatest album ever made. But in my opinion, it's kinda a mess. Maybe for it's time it was something, it is one of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums and a huge inspiration to Nirvana for him, so it is highly influential in music and to many, and I can respect that. But aside from Where Is My Mind, Gigantic, and maybe one other song, I'm disappointed.
I didn't know what I expected, but I didn't expect it to be as good as it was. Kinda remind me of real early Foo Fighters, which is never a bad thing.
I dunno if I liked this album or not. It seemed as if some songs I liked, some I didn't, then I think that some of the songs I didn't liked had a beat switch in the middle that I liked. It was kinda confusing in a good way. But I guess the album was okay, maybe I'll listen to it again in the future to have a better feeling with it, but I don't think my opinion on this will change.
So we all know Somebody To Love and White Rabbit, not only some of the greatest songs of the 60s, but easily of all time. Classic songs still played on classic rock radio, songs featured on every classic rock playlist. But what about the other 9 songs? Well, they're okay I guess. I'm sure like with many albums on this list this album is more influential than anything, and it most certainly is in many ways, but were the two songs were or was the whole album? Not to say the album is bad, it wasn't, but there's a reason why those two songs specifically will stand the rest of time.
As a debut album, it's fine, solid album. But as the debut for one of if not the greatest and most influential bands of all time, it's also very interesting. All but one song on this entire album is covers, and the one that isn't in my opinion is the best, and most songs covered are RnB hits of the time. It's an insight of their style and influence all in one in a really great way. The album just might be fine, but in the times to come they will be much more than a "fine" band.
Who knew that and album that is absolutely filled with loud, distorted, fuzzy guitar sounds with soft spoken lyrics you can barely hear or understand can be some of the most beautiful songs ever recorded.
I couldn't finish it but I listened to a good 2/3rds of it and I can say it was pretty good. Wu Tang affiliates are good at what they do. The song with Nelly was surprisingly very good in my opinion and I should add it to a playlist lmao.
I wouldn't say I don't like southern rock, but I certainly don't care for it. But Free Bird is one of the best songs I've ever heard so there's that.
Yesterday I went to Taco Bell and Johnny Cash started playing. One of the works yelled "OHH MY GOD I HATE JOHNNY CASH!" and went on about why and stuff and all I could think is how wrong she absolutely was, and that was before I ever heard this album all the way through. Anyway this album is a perfect ending of his life, before Bowie's Blackstar there was this, and it's absolutely fantastic. I hope that lady at Taco Bell has a good day.
"Why does this sound like a lite Radiohead?" *checks who produced the album* "Ooohhh that makes sense...."
This beautiful album came out in 2019 and I have never heard of this artist or album before until just now and I'm pissed off
What is this man... Like a third of these songs are fine the rest are...not.
This perfectly encapsulates the black 70s sound in more ways I can say. It was so good I listened to it twice before writing this.
So....this album is for fucking, right? Like this album is specifically made to be fucked to, right?
I do not like literal fucking in my fucking ear when I'm listening to music. Why do I have to hear this big fat nigga fucking and getting sucked off just to also hear "You look so good I'd suck on your daddy dick?" BIG NIGGA PAAAAUUUUUSSSSEEEEEE GODDAMN! Anyway other than that this album is good, I definitely hear, feel, and understand the influence it holds.
Fun, chill, and can dance to all at the same time. A solid electric dance/hip hop album from 90s England I assume.
It's insane that Dylan released this and then several months later releases Highway 61 Revisited. This album definitely feels like a part one while Highway feels like the bigger, larger, and better part two. But it does not diminish this album in the slightest. This album is great to say the least, and considered to be on of the best albums from his discography and of all time for many reasons to say the most.
I feel like the more I listen to critically acclaimed jazz music, the more I can understand the importance and influence, but that doesn't mean I have to live it. It's not bad, it's just that jazz isn't my cup of tea, but I appreciate finally having the time to listen to a jazz masterpiece.
I wish this whole album sounded like the song Where Did All The Time Go because that is such a magnifying surrounded by just decent songs written by Dylan and performed decently as well.
Hey man, I listened to 30 minutes of this 1 hour album and I don't think I'm gonna listen to the other 35-40 minutes. I've heard enough. I get and appreciate the artist was doing, I guess he was recording all around the world and took him 9 months to record or something like that? That's pretty cool, I can respect that. But I don't think I can respect this man, and I'm shocked cuz I like Indian music.
It's good. Some songs I really like, but most are just fine. I really like the woman vocals much more than the man's voice, but together it somehow kinda works? I dunno, I liked the album it's pretty good.
Why was this album so good? I like Steely Dan and I know a lot of people LOVE Steely Dan, but maybe they're better than I assume. I don't understand when people say "I don't understand Steely Dan." I don't think there is anything to get, it's jazz rock mixed with a lil pop. I think you just like it or don't, not that there's something to get or understand it ain't that deep in my opinion. Anyway, album good, put one of the songs on my main playlist.
A better Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
I didn't feel like finishing this album. Not that it was bad, it's not, but I just wasn't in the mood to really listen to this genre of music. But it's not bad at all, oldies but goodies, but if I were in the right headspace I'm sure I would've finished it. Despite never hearing of the guy or his music, I can definitely tell this guy had a much larger influence on popular music than we think.
On Spotify it was the deluxe version that's 2 disc and is more than an hour long. I wasn't planning on watching it until I realized it was the deluxe version and the real album was the first disc, so I decided to finally listen, and it was so good that I ended up listening to like half of the second disc without even knowing
I love The Smiths, they are one of my favorite bands ever, but out of the 4 studio albums they have....this is the worst right? This album isn't bad at all, Death Of A Disco Dancer, Girlfriend In A Coma, Paint A Vulgar Picture, and I Won't Share You, to me are some of their best songs but I could honestly care less about the other 6 songs on this album, like goddamn. I guess if this is their last album together then I guess it's perfectly fine, and this album never changes how I feel about them personally and in the pantheon of music, but this is just an average Smiths album, and I guess that's a little better than most averages.
It was good, I liked it. I dunno what else there is to say or think about this album. I dunno how influential or "greatest of all time" kinda reception it has, especially for an album from 1996. I have positive thoughts on this album but it didn't woo me or anything.
The first cool autumn breeze you feel after a long hot summer. Piles of orange and red leaves on the ground and the crunch it makes when you kick or walk on them. Sipping on a chai latte while wearing flannel. Dipping small donuts into apple cider while at a cider mill or an apple orchard. This album feels exactly like everything I said.
I didn't expect to like this album as much as I did. It was pretty good and that's all I have to say really
The first half of this album s really good in my opinion but the second half is just fine I guess. The Byrds have wonderful vocal harmonies that many other bands weren't doing in that time, but the few that were are The Beatles or Beach Boys, which did it much better, but The Byrds should not be out of that conversation and this album proves that.
I expected so much more omfg. The album starts with one of the greatest songs ever and it's downhill from there, especially the second half.
Honestly this album was fantastic. There wasn't many vocals in this album at all and it made the album blend all the tracks together because of that. I'll definitely listen to this album again and I finally understand why Santana is considered to be the best guitarist of all time.
The first song is the only good song.
Oh yeah, this album is great and I honestly believe it's because of Chrissie Hines. Her voice and even her attitude on the awesome album cover makes the Pretenders exactly who they're supposed to be. I heard a story once how it was so hard for her to get a punk band together because she was a woman and the dumb men didn't want her. I'm so happy she found a group, I'm so happy this album is good, I'm so happy of how great they've become in the canon of music history.
I truly have no comment lmao
All English punk rock doesn't sound the same but goddamn a good handful do
I've never listened to an Adele album before but after listening to this, honestly pretty good album, I've realized my thoughts on her haven't changed. My thoughts on Adele?: She has one of the greatest voices modern music has ever heard, and yet she's kinda boring. I know as a black man from Detroit I'm not her demographic, but I appreciate music enough to give my honest opinion on her. These songs are sung well, the melody of each instrument are well put together, but man it's just kinda boring. Maybe it's this album but man who the fuck hurt her.
This album slaps so fucking hard it makes me wanna go 50 mph in a residential area
This album is just really nice and chill. An album you'll listen to sitting on your porch on a sunny spring day. Some call it boring, I call it chill and relaxing.
It's Joni my guy. At her worst, she's still probably the best that ever did it. At her best she is absolutely the best to ever do it. I've never heard this before so looking into it in the reviews and critical acclaim saying it is one of her best, I expected to think it's good, and I do.
I wish I was in a soft pop duo with my sister. The first half of this album is very good but the second is just alright, but Karen Carpenter's beautiful voice more than makes up for it. I was reading the reviews on here and I feel like they think they're too tough to really appreciate her beautiful voice because The Carpenters is very laid back, kinda dentist office-esqe music, but get off your high horse The Carpenters are pretty good and Close To You is one of the greatest and most beautiful songs ever recorded.
What is this shit dawg. A third is pretty good britpop and the rest was just....random stuff. Some was okay most was...not.
Oasis of they were punk oriented (not as good as it sounds in my opinion) but still alright.
Easily one of the greatest punk albums of all time.
If Radiohead didn't move into more electronica with OK Computer and Kid A, I think this is what they would sound like. I've heard many times that Muse sounds like Radiohead but I didn't think so with the handful of hits they got, but listening to this album fully I totally understand now. And that's not a bad thing because this album is pretty damn good. Starlight was already on of my favorite songs ever AND the song from Twilight where they play baseball while raining is on here? That's automatically 4 stars.
So listening to this I just thought it was okay, but then the last few songs hit me like a goddamn truck. A unique artist that a lot of other artists still miss to this day and his melancholic lyrics and laid back singing is the reason for that. Some songs may sound over produced, and no his voice isn't the best for a few songs, but it's when it's more laid back in production and the voice sounds well that really makes this album haunting, especially knowing it was his last album before he died.
What in the fucking world? Couldn't even finish it.I usually like shit like this, especially lyrically, but this ain't it for me man.
Uhh... it's fine I guess. I'm sure this would hit if I took some molly in a race at an anime convention, but instead I listened to maybe half the album sober in my living room. Sounds nice, I can see how someone would like this, I'm just not even close to being the target audience for it. Cool album cover tho.
Iron Maiden instrumentals > 👍🏾
Iron Maiden vocals > 👎🏾
Not that they were bad but his voice kinda got annoying there for a while. Some songs were pretty alright. The album as a whole was better than I expected.
"1001 albums to hear before you die" nah bro I could've lived without hearing this. I feel like this is what U2 is to people who don't like U2.
You ever hear an album you haven't listened to for a while and hope it's still as good as you overplayed it years ago and it's even better cuz you understand music a bit more? Also, how is this the same nigga that made Loser
This is not the "happy go lucky" Swedish music that I was expecting, but despite this album being mostly about heartbreak and I Let The Music speak sounding like it came straight from Transylvania, it's still nice.
How I feel about shoegaze is all in this album. It's either fine or kinda annoying but once in a while you'll find a really good song in the genre. This album is fine, it can get kinda annoying with how repetitive it can be sometimes, but Vapour Trail is so goddamn good the ending string arrangement is so beautiful. I'm aware that not all shoegaze albums can't be Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, but I wish it can be, but I can see why people say this is one of the best shoegaze albums.
It took a while, but the song No Shame really won me over to help me fully understand this album and it's message. Continue the protest your father and grandmother was a big part of. They would be so proud.
...Jeff Beck is a great guitarist, so there's that...
David Bowie in the 2010s is somehow much more David Bowie than David Bowie was throughout most of the 80s and all of the 90s
The Verve before Bittersweet Symphony was subpar, gee who would have guessed that...
Better than I expected. I easily recognized 2, maybe 3, songs off of it. 80s synth pop at it's simplest and I don't mean that in any wrong way.
It's not bad....but it ain't good :/ A few above average songs, Autumn's Child is one of them...the only one I can remember...I swear there were 2 or 3 others I thought were good....maybe it was my imagination and that's the only good song lmao.
The Beach Boys making a "Can we talk about the political and economic state of the world, right now?" album was something I never knew expected and it wasn't too bad.
This was straight up fucking noise to me. I feel like I would be more interested in this genre but I dunno man....
Honestly much better than I expected. I could've gone without the whispering talking like in the song I Spy, and genuinely I had a good time listening to this. I understand why so many people love this album and how it could be considered their best without listening to their other albums. Very funny how this and Oasis' Morning Glory came out the same year.
From the cover, to the "Brazilian death metal", and from the first song, I instantly knew I was not gonna like this at all.
The instrumentals were good, but I kinda felt like it was too much, as in the guy has a nice voice and I would've loved to hear more vocals than instrumentals. The album is really nice though and might listen to again from time to time.
If someone told me this is on par with Nevermind I wouldn't argue
I do not like ACDC. I actually hate them, so no I did not like this.
A short album with an incredibly strong message and incredibly great music. But as corny this may sound, why is the music still so relevant today? This album talks about racial inequality, class inequality, police brutality, and war that we as U.S. citizens don't want a hand in, and in the last 10 years as I'm writing this, why is it still happening? Why couldn't this album be a time capsule or a history text book of sorts of what was happening in the late 60s to early 70s instead of being damn near 100% accurate of what's been happening right now? Let's hope something changes and when it does we can look back at the music of now and think "Hey this is just like this masterpiece of an album from 1971."
This isn't bad at all, better than I expected, but it gets to a fucking point man where I'm like "I get it"
I thought I would like this album a bit more, I heard it a few times in my childhood but it's decent. I guess I'm more of a greatest hits guy when it comes to this band
This ain't for me. It's for someone one, but not me, and that's okay
Thank you for reminding me how much I do not like this band. I get the appeal to this band but my God it does not appeal to me. I honestly wish it did. I wish I see what so many people see in one of, if not, the greatest and most important hard rock band in music, but I just don't. And that's okay.
About is silly and fun as it is corny. I am way too old to like this kind of music or to have a decent opinion on this, so I'm just gonna say for the time it was good.
