I know half the songs from this because in junior high school, I had the Beatles red double disc.
It's hilarious that on Drive my Car they actually say, beep beep 😅
The song Norwegian Wood reminds me of my ma.
Nowhere man reminds me of Dad
Overall, pretty good, 4.0/5.0 stars
This album feels like a relic of the past. It's got the sound of 60s sweeping arrangements. she has a sort of honeyed voice. her vocals are super forward in the mix. It's not my usual jam, I'm not really into vocal drive singer highlighted music, but I get why this is considered a classic.
I get why this is an important album and the woman can sing but it sounds like it's 55 years old, which of course it is. The recording is just too dated to me. It's great, it's just not for me
I know this one and I know it well. It was the first Boss album I got into in 2006 when I first met Andrew. It broadened my musical tastes and got me to branch out a bit more. Badlands might be one of my favourite songs of all time. I know that many people say this album is dark, gritty, raw and intense. And while I agree, I also think it's hopeful. The songs are about having hope for the future even when things are dark. Perseverance, belief in oneself, hope for a better future... this is the stuff that can keep a person moving forward. 5/5
Neon bible?! How about Neon Babble. I get it, the music is sonically pretty decent and I can see how it was influential in creating the stomp/clap music like Mumford and Sons... or more like Blandford and Sons! God I'm right some funny. But the lyrics are just unbelievably cringe. Like, embarrassingly bad. I only made it to Black Wave/Vibrations before I just couldn't do it anymore. It really started with track 4, Intervention. The lyrics sound like an untalented 15 year old asshole was trying to be clever but should have just continued to jerk off in his jerk sock instead of trying to lyrically come all over the listener with this absolute drivel. I would give this 0 because of how bad the lyrics are but that's not an option and truthfully, the music itself isn't half bad. Would not recommend, would not listen again. Regret having spent this much time listening to and thinking about this. Two thumbs down
Yassss, kween. Excited for some jazz.
This jazz is busier than I'm used to listening to. I also have no basis to know or understand if/how this album is good or important. All I really know about jazz is if I like it or not.
I actually know track 1, Move. I have no idea how but I somehow do. Track 3, Moon Dreams, feels like it's from a noir film, I kinda love it. Track 5, Budo, is great. It's busy but still familiar to other jazz I listen to. Track 7, Godchild is great, feels very classically jazz, so good to listen to whilst working. Oh man, track 8, Boplicity is soooo good.
I first heard this album in 2002, pushing 25 years ago now. It felt huge to me at the time. I really enjoyed it, even if it wasn't my favourite Zeppelin album. I don't often return to it so this is definitely a fun relisten.
I mean, what else to say, it's seminal, and completely foundational for modern rock and eventually metal. 5 stars
I get it. It's really good, especially for 1989. I don't love how many interludes there are, but those are easily skipped. Apparently, it was a massive commercial success that produced seven top-five singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and is the only album in history to have number-one hits in three different calendar years (1989–1991). I always associated Janet Jackson with cousin Mary, which lets me sit in comfortable, warm memories.
Love late 70s British punk and this one is great. The album artwork is fantastic. It's aggressive and raw in the best way possible. The incorporation of horns is unexpected in this era but it works incredibly well. Poly Styrene is an incredible front woman.
I get why people would like this. The singer is good and it's well recorded. There were moments I enjoyed but this is just not for me.
Classic. I've been familiar with this album for more than 25 years now. On a careful relisten, I'm just realizing how standout the bass lines actually are.
On first blush, I absolutely thought I knew nothing of this artist. But... that first song, Apache, I know from the Fresh Prince. Also, it's great that they covered In A Gadda da Vida. I think this is really well recorded and unexpectedly fun. I'm not likely to return to this very often but I'm glad to have added it to my knowledge base!
This is fun background music. The fourth track, green onions, I unknowingly know quite well from popular culture so it's fun to now know and have this reference. The cover of Twist and Shout is also a lot of fun. Really overall quite enjoyed this, fun background music, nothing too abrasive or offensive.
I know only a few Santana songs and as far as I'm aware, I'm not at all familiar with this. I don't normally go for guitar rock, which I believe this album to be the case.
So as a surprise to myself, I actually do know tracks 2 and 3, Black Magic Woman and Oye Como Va. I like the song Hope You're Feeling Better, it's got kind of funky rock beat.
This album is really well recorded. It's pretty clean sounding, which isn't usually what I look for but it's good. Santana is obviously a very good guitar player.
So overall, I get why people like this but in the end, it's just not something I'm likely to return to based on personal musical preferences alone.
I listened to the whole thing and nothing stood out for me. Not one thing. I'll definitely relisten to it more closely but.... I'm not so sure there's much to it.
I didn't bother relistening to it. I just can't be bothered. This isn't bad but I didn't find there to be anything interesting.
This is just not for me. Not bad, I'm sure it's good and important. Actually recorded pretty well. High energy for a live show.
So much of this I know through cultural osmosis. Loved it, only minor complaint is that looking back on it 50 years later, the sound is kinda thin. Like it's missing the bass end of things. That being said, Destroyer Resurrected gets it super right.
Some catchy jams. Musically In the Ghetto is good but god damned those lyrics are bad.
This evokes 80s college radio rock, Husker Du, glimmers of the Meat Puppets, and a touch of Swans. I can see how much it influenced Nirvana, not likely the other way around. I loved the sonic sound of this although there weren't a lot of hooks. All around though, I enjoyed this one.
British folk rock is usually really not my thing. But god damn did the beauty of his voice and the quality of the recording unexpectedly pulled me in on the first track, Time Has Told Me. There's a quality to the vocal recording that is at once new and old, familiar and unfamiliar. The third track, Three Hours, sounds like something that would have influenced Bruce Springsteen on Nebraska. I also really enjoyed track 6, 'Cello Song. That drum beat was dope. That piano on track 8, Man in a Shed, is so fun. It's so strange to hear both ease and urgency in a song. It works really well. That last track, Sunday Sun, is good. Really evokes the feeling of what Sundays used to feel like, lazy, laid back.
This wasn't bad but I think it was suffering from recency bias. I can tell it's before the advent of truly modern electronic unless it's doing something innovative that my untrained electronic ears just don't detect. I really am not enjoying the song, I Stole Your Car. It definitely invokes the early 90s on the song The Rough and the Quick, like something from dance mix 92 or 93. I feel comfortable giving this 2 stars.
I love it sonically and he can sing but this grows very tiring very quickly
Great live album, full of life and character. He sings like he feels it. The audience is loving it. You almost feel like you're in the room. Would relisten.
I do not like the song It's a Shame about Ray. It's lazy sounding in the worst way possible. And those little harmonizing vocals in the last chorus are not great to my ears. The song Rudderless, there's a discordant thing happening in the verses and I don't think it's working. I literally can't listen to this song. I kinda hate it. Ok, I'm maxed on this. I can't force myself through this. It's really not for me. I knew the cover Mrs. Robinson and that's pretty great but that's about the only thing working for me. Maybe the first two songs weren't bad either. 2 stars and that's a generous 2 stars.
I listened to this years ago and it really didn't click for me then. But, I listened to it in full today and I was really impressed. There are so many styles that she has done so very well. This album is dense, there's a lot to unpack here. Will definitely listen again.
I'm just not gonna listen to this, I know it's bad
Not listening out of principal
Was unfamiliar with this. Can see a direct line from this to a lot of "alternative" music (whatever that means) that came later. It's actually 3.5 stars for me but decided to round down.
I had to look this up on Rate Your Music. It says, that for genres it's Chamber Pop, Baroque Pop
Art Pop, and Cabaret. If that's what it is, I'm pretty sure I don't like these styles. For descriptors, it says that it's humorous, sexual, sarcastic, male vocalist, quirky, romantic, love, bittersweet, passionate, orchestral, lush, poetic, epic, satirical, playful, energetic, melodic, breakup, theatrical, lonely, self-hatred, hedonistic. Again, I don't think I like this style. Maybe I'm not cultured? That's fine.
One of the best metal albums of all time
This was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. But it's sometimes noisy but not in the best kind of way. Would probably relisten
Good old fashioned classic 1970s British punk rock. Good enough for me
I really hate the song Monday, Monday. I like Straight Shooter. Didn't realize that the Ramones cover of Do You Wanna Dance was of these moms and dads. California Banananing. It's just so old sounding. I can appreciate that what it's doing at the time is really good. But like, I'm never gonna spin this on my own without a prompting. Listened to the whole thing, only 35 mins, but it felt longer.
Never heard of these guys but this shit is great. It's dated but still fresh. A pleasant surprise.
I was unfamiliar with this artist and this album. On the whole, I really enjoyed it. Will relisten.
This is fine but the album feels really inconsistent. There's no overarching theme, it feels like a bunch of random ideas that got turned into songs. It's not bad but I don't think it's particularly very good. It feels like they were musical tourists and just pulled from everywhere they were visiting. Song 2 is so high school coded for me. It's the only song that feels 'polished.' Anyway, I'm not likely to revisit this.
I liked this. I really liked Monitor and Sin in My Heart. Great overall, it's actually a 3.5 for me but decided to round up instead of rounding down.
I have no idea if this is good or not. I listened to less than 30 seconds. Extremely not my jam. Is it important? Probably, maybe. But I'm not gonna find out. I wish I could be more open minded about this but it's not where my head is right now.
I enjoyed this. I get why they're considered at the peak of shoe gaze. I just don't know how much I love shoe gaze in general
This album is fine. But there's a flat feeling to it. And Chrissie Hynde's vocal range is a bit limited. It's fun to know and it makes sense that Nick Lowe produced this. While I know the hits, I'm not likely to return to this.
Van Morrison is fine, it's just not for me.
I've listened to this in the past. It's a good one but I'm curious how it'll feel on a relisten years later.
It's good but I'm not likely to return to this but would never complain if it were on
This is kinda bland and boring. I feel like it's not doing anything, like it's directionless. I'm not sure why this is an album one would have to hear before the die. While I tried to listen to this, I couldn't help but keep skipping songs. Maybe this is good but my untrained electronic ears just couldn't parse it out. But that's fine. Not gonna spin this one again.
Oh, I'm kinda excited to give this one a go. I mean, I was excited because it's nice to close a musical knowledge gap. and this was fine and I get why people like it but it's just not for me.
About time for some female artists. I mean, I love all of these women on their own and together, I'm sure it's a straight banger. I was looking at other reviews for this album and someone said the following and you know what, I agree:
"This turned me into an atheist. Or alchemist. Or whatever the term is that means I'd really like to fuck Linda Ronstadt. Or Emmylou Harris, which I believe some comic referred to as Gram Parsons disease. "
I love fallout music and this is basically that. But I would prefer actual music from fallout like Uranium Fever, I don’t want to set the world on fire, crawl out through the fallout...
I don't hate this but I don't love it.
I won't be able to listen to this. My father loved The Everly Brothers and it's just too painful even though it isn't very good.
Will forever and always make me think of Andrew. Makes me feel all the good feels.
I mean, I get it, he's a poet and not necessarily a musician. I sometimes struggle with music from the 60s. It just sounds so dated. Some of this is good, like The Partisan, but I'm just overall not fucking with this album. I like his later stuff but this album is just not something I'm likely to return to.
Funny, I already had the second track, Building Steam With a Grain of Salt, on my liked songs. I know this song from somewhere but I'm not sure where. This album suffer from the same thing so many other 90s albums suffer from which is their length. It's like every artist in the 90s felt they had to fill the length of a CD, which routinely made for albums that are an hour plus. Given this length, it can make it hard to parse out what's good and what's just filler. So on the whole, this album is fine but would be better if it were more streamlined. It's truly a 2.5 stars for me but I'm feeling generous this morning and rounding up to 3 instead of rounding down to 2.
Uummm... I'm not super into the animal noises on Barnyard. It's weird but like, I'm not fucking with it kind of weird. Also, this rendition of You Are a my Sunshine night be the most depressing version I have ever heard.
Ok, this is super well recorded, and he can definitely write a hook but this is overall not great. I'm not gonna listen to this again.
Love this, only minor complain is that there's a bit of a lull mid album. But on the whole, great stuff.
Totally missed this when it first came out. It feels very of the time, that early to mid aughts garage rock sound. My brain somehow conflates them with Imagine Dragons and 21 Pilots and I really don't know why. That's pretty unfair to them. And honestly, pretty unfair to me, I don't wanna even think of that other bands.
I've listened to this so much that I feel like it's embedded in my brain at this point. It's hard to listen to with fresh ears. But it's also so familiar that it's really comforting. Your can see the clear through line to Exile here. Overall great stuff
It's good but spotty at times
I really liked this album, would likely spin this again. However, that album cover is so edge lord
It's mega fans of The Doors and Jim Morrison that have ruined much of this for me. I'm trying really hard to listen to this and not think of the fans. But good grief the "Alabama Song" is terrible, it sounds like shitty circus music.
I don't know this band at all. I feel like it's a mix of (wanna be) Kiss and... New York Dolls? Also, this cover of I Got You Babe is not really working. I mean, this just feels like it's not quite making the cut for me. There's so much other great punk from this era, I don't know why one would ever spin this when there's so much better stuff to pick from. It's a no for me dawg
The hours are great but the rest of it is kinda meh
I have such a complicated relationship with this album. Like, I actually think it's really well done, the lyrics are kinda cringe from time to time. But it's really good. But it's Kanye.
I don't know this album and wasn't really sure for the first few songs, they really weren't working for me. That cover of Working Class Hero is fantastic. And that last song, Why'd Ya Do It is so good, it's so dirty. Singing of cocksucking and anger of having your snatch spat on. This song is more like she's singing a poem. Great stuff.
Only loosely knew of this band and certainly not this album. It had me from the first few notes. This sounds like what I've been looking for lately. Will definitely be checking out the rest of their catalogue. Solid listen
I get why it's important and I get why it matters but there feels to be little variance amongst the songs. They all have a samey sound. And I can only listen to 12-bar blues inspired rock for so long. As a plus, you can tell that he really enjoys his art. And I'm sure seeing him live at the time was a real banger but this is of the past and I'm going to leave it there.
IDGAF about him or this album, he's just a wanna be Michael Jackson
I don't know, some of this is ok but some of it is really fucking annoying.
Oh man, I really did not enjoy this.
This is the second Arcade Fire album that I've encountered so far on this list. I truly hated Neon Bible. I don't know why but even the artwork on this irritates me. It's less bad than Neon Bible but will never come back to this. It's of a time and I'll be leaving it there.
It was fine, I get why this was a big deal. Paper Planes is great, I'm not so sure the rest holds up. A bit inconsistent at times, and surprisingly slow at times.
This album is a fucking banger. Stone cold classic. Bops from start to end.
That first song, The World Girl, doing the faux reggae just killed me. Honestly, I thought there was nothing redeeming about this. I'm not even sure this was good for the time.
Definitely fun at times, not so much at other times. Would relisten to at least some of the more fun stuff.
I mean, besides Faith, I'm never going to listen to any of this again. It wasn't terrible, but it really didn't work for me. It sat in the uncomfortable space between "pop star" and "serious artist" without do either particularly well.
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Really enjoyed the song where he called out love for his homes, not a diss track, sort of like a song of little loves notes, so sweet.
Like, I don't really hate it but I also don't really love it. I'm pretty familiar with most of this and I just don't fuck with melancholy, unless it's mellon collie. Jokes aside, it's fine and I would never ask someone to skip it if they were vibing to it but on my own, I'm gonna skip that shit.
Don't remember the last time I listened to this record. Definitely a banger. Gonna need to remember to spin this album more often.
I have never heard of these fellas before but first impression - so far so good. On the whole, I thought this was interesting, some of the songs resonated better than others.
Thought this was great, would relisten
I have some stereotypes about this album, let's see how they hold up. Overall, this album is a victim of the 90s mentality of needing to fill the length of a CD. The singles really carry it, a lot of filler here
Uggghhhhh... fuck off with this shit
No thanks bro. No. thanks.
This was fine, would likely not relisten
Not my fave Beck album but still really solid. It's not quite a 4 star for me but it deserves more than 3
Oh man, this is gonna be hard. I've avoided The Police for so long because I really don't care for reggae. But this opening track reminds me of Genesis and I'm not complaining. The song Mother is wild and very unexpected. Overall, I went into this album with a bad attitude and came out liking it anyway
I'm here for all the weirdness
I get it, it's just not for me
It's chill jazz and that's great. But it's not my kind of chill jazz. I don't really care for vocals in my jazz. Overall, pretty good though.
Honestly, I just don't get it. I get that it's good, it's just not my cup of tea.
Somebody else said in their review that this sounds like Wham last Christmas and I fully agree.
I remember when this came out, it just didn't click for me then. But now, it's exactly what I want. It's fabulous and I'm a dufus for not liking it before now.
Whyyyyyyy is there yet again another album by this band on this list? They're fine, I'd even say I like them but they deserve to be on this list once, and once only and certainly not this album.
I was so pumped when this showed up, it's such a banger. No notes, good shit.
I don't mind shoegaze, it's not something I often turn to though. I really like that album cover. I don't think it's an album that one would have to hear before they die though.
I'm gonna admit, when this came up today as my album, I let out an audible groan. But I was encouraged to give it a go, that it would likely not sound how I thought it would. First 10 seconds of the first song, Don't Panic, I thought, hhmm... is this reminiscent of Pavement? Is there hope here? I continued to listen and I can confirm it is nothing like Pavement. I wasn't able to get through a single song without skipping. This is not great. This is not for me. I will never independently relisten to this again.
It didn't sound quite fresh to me but it definitely stands the test of time.
As if it would get less than 5
I really don't get it. I feel like she's a knock-off Janet Jackson.
Look, I understand this album is a mood. And it's not a bad mood, but it's just not my mood.
Before this came up in the mix, I had never listened to a Elton John album in full before. Obviously I know a lot of these songs. I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this. I was pleasantly surprised. I feel like you could draw a line from this to Meat Loaf, especially that first song, Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies. Separately, I really dig that stutter on Bennie and the Jets. The song, Jamaica Jerk Off, is a really strange title, I'm not sure what it means (insert side eye emoji). It's not bad per se but it does not vibe with the rest of the album, which makes it stick out like a sore thumb. I don't dislike it, it's one of the better 1970s Brit reggae track.
