It's a little too weird for me. Some songs feel like they are moreso trying to create a sound than make a song.
I like it, but it does not quite reach 4 stars for me.
I like the instrumentals. The lyrics are just not the greatest.
Way too experimental for me.
Not bad, just very generic to me.
I'd happily put half of this album on a playlist and listen to it occasionally. Close enough to the music I like to be enjoyable once in a while.
I like two songs, the rest just does not stand out to me.
I like the more basic heavy metal songs enough not to rate it lower, but don't like Slipknot's particular brand of metal enough to rate it higher.
Some songs are great, the rest meh. I enjoy listening to it more than the albums that have come before so far, but I don't want to give it a 4. I don't like her voice all that much.
Weird album. I like more songs than I probably should.
It's okay. Just doesn't grip me at all. Also a little too Christian for me.
I like the first half of the album enough to give it a 4, and am so ambivalent to the second half it still ends up getting a 3.
I imagine this is what rock and folk sound like to people who hate rock and folk.
We have Elvis at home. Elvis at home:
Bland. Kinda reminds me of early Taylor Swift.
Wayyy too slow for me. Also too sad.
Sleep-inducing. Very tough to get through, even whilst cutting songs short.
Starts great but does overstay its welcome.
None of the specific songs I like are on this album, but the sound is certainly there. Funky. This is a 3.5 kind of album.
Not bad, not remarkable. No complaints.
It's very experimental in a way I really don't enjoy.
Not bad, just kind of basic metal (for obvious reasons).
I really enjoy this as background music
Not for me. Probably too 60s.
I don't think I would have liked this even when I was into R&B. Every song sounds the same all the way through. Her voice is great though.
This album makes me appreciate how far we've come. I can now just turn on my streaming service of choice instead of having to turn on the radio and be subjected to this shit.
Mixed bag. I like the instrumentals and some of the lyrics, but other lyrics are just so meh.
I like it well enough, but a lot of rapping gets a bit same-y. 3.5?
Alternative and especially experimental are just really not for me. Nothing is going on in these lyrics.
I don't enjoy the Beatles so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that I don't like this boring stuff either.
It's good, I think? Not for me but not at all bad. Hard to describe tbh.
It's just so bland and slow and boring.
3.5ish? Not my kind of metal but a very good band regardless.
Not for me but by no means bad.
It is by no means bad, but the melancholy gets really boring really quick.
Would have given it a 2 maybe if not for the lyrics. Very future-convict edgelord teen vibes.
What is going on??
It definitely catches my attention with every song, but not in a good way. Even Kevin has to chime in to express negative confusion on this one. I see a lot of more positive reviews on this site begrudgingly admit the vocals might not be for everyone, and like, the instrumentals are surely worse?
What /is/ going on??
Aw man. I knew and like Roundabout, but the rest of the album is so...experimental?
I really don't like moody progressive rock.
I'm not a fan of songs that are too long or too same-y. But it's certainly closer to the kind of electronic music that I do like than all that's come before (on this site).
This kind of sounds like they tried to replicate the Beatles but made it as bad as possible on purpose. It's a very solid 1.
It's not /bad/, but it's very... boring and same-y. Many songs are way longer than they should be.
This could be menu music from Gran Turismo if it leaned more towards jazz. That's a good thing. 3.5?
I liked this one way more than I expected. Very funky. Maybe a little reminiscent of Bowie voice-wise?
She is not bad at all. The lyrics are good, the music more diverse than your average guitar-wielding singer-songwriter, but it is still singer-songwriter so far too boring/slow for me.
I did not realise that British punk rock sounded so same-y. It's good, but gets boring when it's an entire album.
I'm not old or American enough to enjoy this. It's just... okay. Kevin thinks it "not very interesting".
I am fairly ambivalent to the first half of the album. The second half of the album sounds more like The Police I know, which is a sound I don't particularly care for.
Why then a 2, and not a middle-of-the-road 3? Mother.
This is one of those "If this list was not so focussed on the USA, this wouldn't be in here." albums.
It's a basic country album. Every song sounds the same, and is about the same thing: heartbreak. It doesn't do anything noteworthy. It's just... boring.
The album has a very uniform "I can't be too loud or I'll wake up my parents" sound. It doesn't sound /bad/, but the whispering gets old really quick. I also acknowledge that Spotify's audio balancing is non-existent, but it irks me that I had to double my volume to actually hear this album.
I like rock and I like folk, separate and together, but Simon and Garfunkel just don't mix them together in a way I usually enjoy.
I am two years older than this album, and I am still not old enough for this.
I've never actually listened to the Smiths before either. If they're anything like the lead singer solo here, I made a good choice.
What a whiny boring album. My Spotify stopped at the third-to-last song, and I am okay with that. I don't need more of this whispery shit.
Spotify's description of this band calls them a commercial failure, and I can hear that. It also calls them very influential, but I don't really hear anything you can't get out of the Beatles.
I will not pretend I am an expert on drugs of any kind, but I don't hear the "made by drugs" or "made for drugs" psychedelic pop is meant to have. This just sounds like average English pop music seemingly best described as "ugh".
This is the kind of stuff the English send to Eurovision, and then they don't understand why no one votes for them.
I think I know the last song from a beer ad?
Not bad (though very whiny at times vocals-wise), but very same-y. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Time After Time are definitely the best songs on this album.
This honestly just sounds like average boring English pop (I know they're Welsh), with a brief glitch during "No Sympathy". Radio DJs, notorious for having no taste, would have loved this some twenty years ago.
If a genre of music existed that was purely called "trash", this might be it. The distortions and such just sound like low-quality instrumentals, and...the vocals... this is that "I talk over music" genre of 'rap'.
I am not really surprised to find that 'Sabotage' in particular was featured in a loooot of low quality US media.
I stopped at track 10 (out of 20) to listen to literally anything else. Normally I try to at least get the idea of the rest of the songs even if I really don't like the album, but this is just garbage.
Generic early-2000s radio music. Inoffensive and perhaps a little bland for 90% of the time. What is that techno section though?
I don't think this album lacks in quality in anyway. Aretha has a great voice, I like a lot of the lyrics, and I'd be lying if I said the instrumentals were bad. It's just... not for me. It's missing something.
I did enjoy listening to it, though I am not a fan of endless songs. It's good background music.
When I was around 14 I attended a course which allowed me to fiddle with a music-making program for at most an hour. This album sounds like what I created then.
Whatever this 'wall of electric guitar noise' genre is is very much not for me. There is nothing in the melody I can grasp on to and enjoy.
The lyrics are also extremely unimaginative.
This is also one of those albums that make me so glad I can avoid the radio now.
I went in expecting not to enjoy this album as I'm not too big on the Beatles. Hence 'Come Together' was a nice surprise. It was followed by a few more okay songs, but then it just went straight into that super boring Beatles sound I just don't like.
I am ambivalent towards the instrumentals and the vocals. They are merely okay. But the lyrics are so... meh. Guns, police, drugs, speaking shitty Spanish. Meh.
A little unusual. Not for me, but not bad either? Somewhere between a 2 and 3.
Apparently this is my kind of country. Still too many sad love songs but I guess living in Tennessee must be hell.
Very 90s. Very alternative. Very not for me.
I strangely really enjoyed the first song, but then the rest of the album was not at all enjoyable. This sounds like something someone made whilst high, you know? Very little sense. Also very boring.
Don't think this album should be on this list.
Progressive rock seems to be the antithesis of fun. Definitely understand why so many people joined and then promptly left this band.
It's rock from the 70s. Not bad, not for me though. Very same-y.
It's okay. By no means bad but does not stand out either. Inoffensive.
I don't think this album should be on this list. I think his cover of 'Personal Jesus' especially shows that there's not really much left of whatever made him a well-regarded artist over there. Let him retire.
The album itself is also just boring country, slow songs, and that tired voice.
Not every song was for me, but even those were not bad. I've never listened to this album in full before, but I already knew I liked Depeche Mode so I am not surprised.
A decent 3, I think. Fun at times, boring radio rock at times. Probably would've sounded a whole lot better in the 70s.
Always odd when a band is described as at all related to punk and then it just sounds like generic pop.
2.5 maybe? I was close to giving it a 3 but all songs are a blur.
I already knew 'White Winter Hymnal' and loved it, so I am pleased to discover the rest of the album is of similar quality. I don't think there was a single one I actually disliked.
It's an odd sound, Fleet Foxes. Not for everyone, but apparently for me.
This is a weird album. No song is offensive or pleasing, but they all leave this nagging feeling that they could've been better if they were proper country, folk, rock, or even metal. But even if genres were changed it would probably not go above a 3 for me, as I doubt he'd make it past the first auditions of any tv show with that voice.
Extremely experimental / random.
Far more enjoyable to listen to than the other hip-hop related albums that have passed me by so far.
Did not expect to recognise 'Drop the Pressure'. Makes me feel old.
It's a very 2000s electro album. The endless repetition of sound bites and beats is not for me though. 2.5?
Not bad, but not exactly for me.
I'm not a fan of songs that exceed ~5 minutes, so I had a scare when I saw this album is 4x12m, but it was really pleasant to listen to.
This is not bad music at all, but the 'slow guitar music to fall asleep to' genre is really not for me.
Whiny 90s music. It can stay there.
Can't hear Imagine without thinking of Gal Gadot & co thinking it was a good idea to sing "Imagine there's no heaven" at the height of Covid.
As someone who doesn't like the Beatles, this is the Beatles but more boring.
I have no smart remarks. I just like this album. It has several songs I like, and no songs I dislike. That's unusual for this genre.
I don't think whoever wrote his Spotify biography knows what the words 'visionary', 'celebrated' and 'critically acclaimed' mean, unless he's some USA phenomena that should firmly stay there.
Every single song sounds the same. They're all really slow songs with meh lyrics and boring lowkey instrumentals.
Not bad, but (to me) boring 90s music that can stay there.
Not bad. I'm always a bit taken by surprise when an album has a very distinct sound that makes all songs blend together a bit.
I already liked 'You can call me Al', and noted an upwards trend in my enjoyment of this album heading towards that song, and a rapid decline afterwards. So that was odd. Fun album overall though.
I can hear why this album is on this list, but there's something about it that's not for me. Not sure what. Maybe too much repetition?
Surprisingly fun but also a bit same-y. 3.5?
RHCP is not my kind of rock in the slightest.
Fun enough to listen to for me to give it a 4.
Sounds to me like very generic British pop. Not bad per se, just really bland to me. Music you were forced to listen to on the radio in the 90s.
This one is rough to rate. I would probably give it a 3.5 if I could, because I really like the songs I like, and I really dislike the ones I don't like.
A very 90s-sounding album. Very not for me.
Not bad, just so boring and sad.
It's rough. I get why it's on this list, but it's rough. I can't understand the lyrics (and going by Spotify's description I wouldn't want to either), so I'm left to just listen to the repetitive melodies they hid behind far too much post-processing.
Special shout-out to the latter half of Strange Things, where they skipped punk and went full experimental banging pipes on radiators.
Doesn't happen often that you can just let an album play and it's just good.
I already knew and liked 1/4 of the songs, so that's always a good sign. Some have very jarring instruments though.
Not bad, but the singer-songwriter-who-only-owns-a-guitar genre is not for me.
I just really don't like that Beatles sound. None of these songs are /bad/, but they're so boring to me.
