3/5
Interesting slice of life that takes you to the NY EDM dance scene of the late 90s. Very reminiscent of fat boy slim and chemical brothers. It makes for bice background music but it's not going to be something that is the sole focus of my attention
5/5
Banger of an album! On my top 50 of all time. It's got some real head bangers.
Great album, a ton of songs I was already familiar with but didnt know who it was. "You've got a friend" and "Natural Woman". It's a good album to listen to with the family, seems like lots of generations could appreciate it.
4/5
I really like the song disorder, and reminds me a lot of the songs I love from New Order. Definitely a staple of New Wave and I'm glad these guys blazed a path that so many others followed. I think the overall gloominess of many of the songs makes it hard for me to give it a 5 but the more uptempo songs are really enjoyable for me.
2/5
Not my kind of music but I understand that this is important in the history of rap. I was surprised by how many of the songs I recognized.
3.5/5
Really liked Into the Light. A cool goth, new wave band that I'll have to listen more to.
Fun underground hip hop from the days of High School!
5/5
Sure, the lyrics are haunting and deeply depressing, but this album slaps!
Would and Rooster would be enough to make this a masterpiece. But wait, here comes Them Bones, Down in a hole, and Angry chair to pile on even more glorious grunge ear-spank.
RIP Layne!
4/5
This album is pretty ahead of it's time. You can see how it influenced bands like Joy division and the Cure but took a more uplifting and jazzy approach with the songs. Lots of simple guitar chords layered with melodic guitar lines on top.
The song Marquee Moon slaps and is an epic 10 minute journey.
3.25 / 5
While I prefer Back in Black, I think this album has some great jams and the guitar work is always fun to listen to. I think you could play this at a summer party with old dudes (myself included) and it would probably be a safe bet that people would enjoy it.
4.75/5
This album rocks!! This has the quality of a studio album, if you didnt hear the crowd you wouldn't know it was live. There were so many great guitar solos and an epic drum solo on Sha-la-la
favorite tracks: Sha-la-la, Johnny the Fox
This was the kind of album I hoped I'd discover on this journey
1/5
This is a true stinker. Very hard to listen to with the drums way too heavy in the mix and the incessant and incomprehensible screaming. I'm glad this was short.
Best Song: You Suffer (because it was only 4 seconds long)
Hopefully I never have to listen to this again
4/5
What a legend! RIP Ozzy!
3 of the first 4 songs on this album are legendary - War Pigs, Paranoid, and Iron Man. These guys blazed the path for metal music, and for that Im eternal grateful!
Favorite song - Paranoid
3/5
Young Dolly is definitely more on the country side that she will be with future songs like 9 to 5. But she still shows off her singing chops and the songs are pleasant to listen to if a bit sacharine.
Favorite track: Coat of Many Colors
3/5
I'll totally play this next time I'm a teenager and my boyfriend breaks up with me
favorite song: Loveless
3.4 / 5
Some days you just want some upbeat rhymes and that's exactly what this delivers. No crips or bloods, just some homies reminiscing on losing their wallet in El Segundo; where they learned it's not about the destination, but the raps you made along the way.
Fave Songs: Bonita Applebaum and Can I Kick it
3/5
It's a quirky and unique album, and it feels like the kind of album I should like more, but it just didn't hook me.
Fave song: Monkey gone to Heaven
2.3 / 5
The fastest way to end a union strike is to make the picketers listen to this album.
The instrumentals were good but his voice and the non stop on-the-nose politics were too much
3.75 / 5
A pretty good album overall. I love me some bluesy guitar licks
5/5
A banger for the ages! RIP Jimi!
4/5
Pour yourself a Manhattan, light up a stogie, and let Duke take you back to a time of Jazzy babies and cool cats. Father O'Connor could have used way less stage time, just hand it over to Duke and the boys, they've got it from here.
Fave Song: Newport Up
3.25 /5
Less depressing than a lot of new wave and was pretty poppy overall. A fun listen.
Fave song: Killing Moon
2.8 / 5
The funky baselines kept this at a 3 for me. Needed more jazz flute - call Ron Burgundy!
Fave Song: Manenberg Revisited
3 / 5
A few hot boys but overall not one of the A tier grunge albums
3.75 / 5
This album bring the funk! A really fun album!
Probably important to the history of rap, but not important to me.
3/5
this would be great after 5 orn6 Caiprihanas. Unfortunately, my cup is empty
2.3 / 5
Make your own fatboy slim song at home! Repeat the same line 50 times and add in one or two fills! Sass aside, none of this album has the staying power of his sophomore album which I imagine we will listen to later
fave song: going out of my head
This album brings me back to high school! This is pre-Fergie and definitely more on the hip hop side of things than Pop. It's cool to see how versatile BEP can be and this album has some all time bangers!
fave song: Ms Jackson
Baroque Rock about the British Village Square! Heck yeah!
I know Beck is a musician's musician, and I want to like him more, but I find his songs more of a study of musical experiments rather than songs I would bop too. I do admire his talent and skill but I just want more toe tappin beats and less quirky, out-there musical smorgasbords
Marvin's a legend but this is not his best work. I appreciate being bold with a concept album about divorce, and wilder still that his wife got half the earnings from this album as alimony, but the album was super self indulgent. The sexy time in outter space song at the end lifted it back up to a 3.
This album slaps! The bass solos were funky and the horns were snappy. This is the kind of hidden gem that I did this challenge for!
Fave song: Bonin' in the boneyard
So bland... so boring... so wimpy. Even elevators wouldn't tolerate this music
Oh yeah, now this is the Marvin we love!
Love those smooth, dulcet tones. Well done Stevie!!
Fave Song: Too High
Gimme an open road and some Neil Young and that's a pretty good time. He's not winning any voice contests but his guitar lyrics are silky smooth.
fave song: Mansion on the Hill
Garden State anyone? I liked this album, good instrumentals and Nick has a cool relaxing voice.
fave song: one of these things first
Ok here's the thing about Jon Spencer. He plays some songs that shows that he knows how to make a catchy song. That means that he is choosing to suck. And that's the worst kind of sucking. Some people give it their all and fall short. That's ok, it happens. Jon chose to suck, and slaps your ears with terrible noise.
some good songs on this one! Definitely enjoyed it more than Odelay.
Fave song: Girl (really liked this one!)
I think Bob was what the people needed at the time, but I have a hars time connecting with him today. Also not a huge fan of the screeching shrill of the harmonica. Too much!
I went in ready to give this a 3. But then every song brought something new and fun! there was rock, blues, and even some gospel. Not to mention Amazing Grace. Well done Rod, I had written you off and I shouldn't have
A decent little punk and ska album but not one of the greats.
I'm really not into the wispy vocals. I can see how this was very influential to people like Bon Iver or Iron and Wine but it just didnt do it for me. None of the songs really drew me in.
One could easily be confused into thinking is a greatest hits album. Almost every song has gotten radio time and it slaps top to bottom. Not really an A and B side so much as two A sides. Blistering solos and passionate vocals make this one for the ages.
Fave song: Back in Black
I've liked me some punk bands in my day, but this is just too much to get behind. They really lost me at the 10 minutes of noise punk at the end. I appreciate that this inspired greater bands, but I'm glad leaving this one behind
Not bad, just put on some Donnie Darko and youre ready to go.
Beautiful and at times haunting. The level of musicality is really showing and I dig how the guitar and strings play together.
RIP my man
these songs are catchy musically, and eminems ability to rhyme is amazing. Those are at a 4 to 5 level but the edge lord lyrics are like a 1 or 2. We get it, youre angry, gonna slit our throats, and call us homophobic slurs
Baba O'Riley is one of the best songs ever! This album slaps
Into the Light slaps! The rest of the album is pretty cool too. it was fun being an 80s goth for a day
That was straight gangsta
Oh Ronda! The apple of everyone's eye!
This isn't the best beach boys album but I wouldn't turn it off if it came on.
I didn't really like U2 much in the 90s. I thought that might change with age... but it still doesn't do it for me
Some great songs, and what a voice! I wanted the bass to be dialed up a little funkier and some of the songs dont know when to end (looking at you joy inside my tears)
a little bit folk, a litte bit blues, a Lotta heart
This was close to a 4 for me. Tainted Love is a hot bop and Sex Dwarf was a wild song that only gets crazier the more you read the lyrics. Stay quirky Soft Cell!
this is quintessential 90s album with some amazing singles. I love tonight tonight, 1979, bullet with butterfly wings and many others. That said, I didnt need a double album, I think this could have been a 5 but was too long
This is, in my opinion, the best album from the biggest pop star of our day. I haven't enjoyed her songs as much since this album, but this particular album really captured magic in a bottle for me. Well done Tay Tay!
A slapping banger from my middle school days!
Joni Mitchell just sounds like the late 60s and early 70s. A time when songs could be slower and folk was truly mainstream. I have a hard time really getting into it but I love it as a time capsule and wish I could have experienced it in the day
Very talented musicians and I appreciated the mariachi jazz fusion with a touch of ragtime, but ultimately, I dont think it's the kind of music I'd come back to
This wasn't doing it for me but cool to learn where Iggy Pop started
I had fun with this album and it opened me up to LCD soundsystem. Ill have to hear more!
This was a quirky album. I didnt hate it but I also didnt love it. Some parts had really engaging hooks but other songs had super slow intros. A wild ride
A cure album with none of their hits. An interesting and dark listen, but I'm more of the "alove Cats" type of Cure Fan
This was just a fun listen all the way through!
I actually liked this album quite a bit. I could see how this was a building block that led to music I give 4s and 5s like Daft Punk. This album walked so that the Tron soundtrack could fly.
Not my favorite of Megadeath but it gets the head banging and the heart pumpin
This album, like the youth themselves, is passionate and adrenaline fueled but is also all over the place and sometimes misdirected. When it was good, it was great, but it had some real stinker moments too
So quirky! I wouldn't go out of my way toto listen to this again but it was a fun time
End of the world and this one goes out to the one I love re both iconic songs for me. I didn't love the whole album but it was definitely a nice listen
This album came out years before grunge got big in the 90s, but it would fit right in. A banger!
Amazing voice on Adele! I'm right in the fence between a 4 and a 5. The genres not my fave but her voice almost pushes it over
All of these songs were so fun! it brings the same feelings of listening to Tenacious D. Great musicianship, silly songs, power ballads and rocking riffs
A good album that I'm sure gets better with each additional Guinness consumed. Unfortunately the morning is young and my Guinness supplies runneth empty
I wasn't expecting to be into this, but I am! It's quirky but still sounds good. I didnt know what to expect next and it was a great journey
My socks have been rocked!! Screaming solos and solos of screaming could get even the most curmudgenly soul bobbin their head to this. I'd only ever heard thing called love before but the album was full of bangers
Not bad, not great, but a lot of soul in that voice
She's got talent but this ain't for me. I'm just not the audience I dont think.
As much as I respect Dolly, this just ain't my album. But it did get me thinking about the souls of all those hobos. Are they riding the box cars of heaven?
This is a pairing I never would have imagined. Think less chocolate and caramel, and more marzipan and sprinkles. quirky and eccentric, a interesting mix of folk and rock. Some good songs, and while it's nit a home run, Im glad it exists
This was a fine but dated euro dance album. I'm sure it's important but I think you had to be there.
A great album by one of the best song writers ever. This was fun to listen to and who doesn't enjoy Julio down by the school yard!
This album slaps top to bottom and side to side. The hardest part about listening to this album is restraining myself from listening to the rest of the discography.
A great album with so many classic hits. It does exclude "undone" which is my fave duran duran song, but hits most of the other faves.
Never heard of Laura Nyro but I like the structure of her songs and can see why she was so often covered.
I could go for 1 or 2 of these songs and give it a 3 but an hour of this! That's way too much!
Some people love the Boss, but he just doesn't hit the list of thr greats for me. He does have some great guitar lines though. I think I just struggle through his mumble
🤘run to the hills is peak Iron Maiden!!
On track 1 i was thinking "hey,not bad!" I liked the instrumentals but then song after song kept getting worse. Nobody likes a sub par pet shop!
Some good licks in here and overall a good upbeat vibe. I'm more partial to pre 2000s rock but this was a fun listen.
Simple and easy listening. You can pop this on and the whole family will have fun!
Smooth, easy listening. It brings you back to the 60s with an avocado shag rug, orange couch, and this LP spinning on your record player
Sabotage is a classic! This album is Beastie Boys picking up their stride, but I think they went on to make much better bangers
No no no, this was bad. This sounds like some budget sad songs you'd buy when making your student film in high school.
Too sad and depressing for me. Gimme that happy Bruce!
This album had all the hits. Bon Jovi songs may be a bit cheesy and anthemy but they're just too good not to love.
What a legendary album. So many bangers and you just can't help but howl when thriller drops ... Awoooooooo!!!
This was a good chill listen, enjoyable background music with some fun instrumentals
No, just not into it other than the guest appearance by Dace Matthews
This made me wanna buy some checkered vans and have a skankin good time. Definitely influenced a lot of the orange county bands i grew up with
Im a sucker for those dire straits guitar licks. I could listen all day!
What a great blues rock album. I wasn't surprised to find out it was old slow hand on guitar.
This album was just a groovy good time!
I've been waiting for some Beatles and it didn't disappoint. A fun album top to bottom. Hats off Sgt!
this bring me back to high school! Some absolutely classic songs on here. I thought In the End was my fave song from this album but on this listen I liked Crawling more
Not as bad as a lot of the reviews were making it out to be... but still not something I'd play again
Some good old fashioned motown! this was a nice easy listen
my first album ever. It might be nostalgia, but this one still hits for me. It's loaded up with bangers, great drums, easy to follow rhythms, and teen angst
A little gangsta for me but the beats were phresh
This was some fine background music but not something I'd play on a regular basis or really dive into with full attention. That cover though... sheeeeesh!!!
Too much flair and embellishments for me in the singing. And pretty boring as well. She is an incredible singer with a wild octave range. sort of a human piano or flute, but it just doesn't move me.
A great band, a great album, and just a fun listen. The guitar licks are groovy and this is the kind of album you could bump over and over again
This was some boppin blues. It sounded great live and had a lot of heart in it. The riffs rocked and the vibes were awesome. I'd listen again!
Feels like standard punk fare to me. Not bad, good for skateboarding to!
This was good music to fall asleep to on an airplane when youre jetlagged. Limited uses outside that.
This was a straight down the middle Christmas album. It didn't try to do anything fancy, just gave you the hits and got out quicker than Santa up a chimney.
I love the 80s and this is just an essential band for the era. I'm not saying it's great, but it's quintessential and really fit the spirit of the era.
Some classic jams on this one like smooth criminal. These are the kinds of songs you can hear time and again and they stay fresh and fun!
I went into this prepared for something terrible, because I really dont like trout mask replica by beef heart, but this was actually some nice pleasant music! they can do it!
This one had a lottttt of rambling. I don't mind a little here and there, but this was honestly too much. Reign it in Dylan
This was fine, I dont have a lot of opinions about it. I wouldn't chose to play it again but it did it's part as background music
The doors can have some really repetitive lyrics but their tunes are just so iconic and lisenable
Some fun songs on here! Blister in the sun and kiss off are classics. I was surprises that this was early 80s, it sounds late 80s or early 90s even. Definitely trail blazing!
Janie's got a gun is such a catchy song for me. Aerosmith feels a little kitchy compared to the grungy rock and metal bands that would follow, but I just had a lot of fun with most of these songs!
Just some good Ole cowboy tunes that'll make you think twice before drawing your steel on ole Billy the Kid
I just don't get the velvet underground. People love them but I just don't have fun listening. They do some interesting things, but it's more expiremental and less practical to me. Tempted to give a 2 but it ekes out a 3
Buffalo Stance was a great song! Ive never heard it before but its just a real 80s jam. It would fit in perfectly if they remade clueless in the 80s. The rest of the album isn't as good unfortunately
We've had a lot of Jonie in this challenge. I'm not able to pick up on significant musical shifts between the 3 so not sure why there are so many. This is a fine album but generally not my fave genre
Quirky album that was a refreshing change of pace from this challenge. No choruses, no verses, just a train of thought on each song. None of these are true "bops" but they make for an interesting listen
A great album that felt like the last love letter to grunge. It was like Grohl was halfway into grunge and halfway out, and he knew which way he had to go. Also, big empty is a great song and had an epic music video for the time
This was a cool and quite musically varied album. It's not quite up my alley though and I didnt walk away finding any of the songs being hot bops I'd want to listen to again
I found the whole less than the sun of its parts on this one. I really like his voice and the guitar but the songs didnt slap fir me
Queen would go on to greatness but this was still their building period
The voice is just too much... I can do a few mins but not an hour
I had fun with this one. You can see the growth between this and their 2nd album.
Iconic riffs, a great Bonham drum solo, and an album that just flies by because it's so fun!
