Started listening at 2:46 PM
- it’s a lyricless album so idk how much I’ll genuinely connect to it but Ykw, I’ll see.
The beats seem to be cooking thus far so I’m not complaining
- I still don’t get why any electronica album is a must listen but I’m genuinely not mad I spent my 51 minutes on it
- Give the Po‘ man a break cooks
Started listening at 12AM
This one has lyrics yay, also great soundtrack to catch the bus with.
Can definitely tell how people dance to it.
North American Scum stuck out to me very positively thus far. I really like the vocals and the swelling background music, very neat. While I as a filthy European don’t fully get it, there’s definitely a feel here I like.
„Don’t blame the Canadians“ lmao
„New York I love you but you’re bringing me down“ and the title song „Sound of Silver“ really bring the „fun party at the end of the world“ vibe around to the fall out for the people that mourn their future. Definitely my favorite songs on the album
Listened to it from around 1PM to 2PM nothing really memorable on the album tho it was interesting to find music to put to the „girls, girls , girls“ label.
Decent I think but not really standing out in terms of a rock album
Listened to it once but the remastered version.
Nothing particularly stuck with me but I’ll give it a second listen as it does seem up my alley
It’s pretty good driving music that I can give it . Wild horses is the only one that stood out to me on my relisten tho
I really liked this one , genuinely great to listen to as a whole
Fuckass coconut stuck in my brain
Genuinely amazing , I spy is a lowkey insane song. I’ve been fucking your wife , thanks dude.
But I do like everything here, from the style to the lyrics. It’s very easily the album most like my usual music taste.
Genuinely great, the underlying theme of hating women really stuck with me
Despite paying attention while listening everything sorta blended together and maybe that’s just a me problem but I didn’t see this one
Definitely more of an artistic installation than pleasant to listen to music.
I wish i could have given this one more time to really click for me but I’m very sure there’s something really interesting here so I guess three stars for potential
Pretty great!
Similarly to sound of silver there just came a point where I hit a wall of: Yeah I’m not getting this fully.
Which is great!
The way to that point was amazing tho, “Be” was amazing to listen to, the beats and rhythms connected beautifully, both familiar and odd. I am so unbelievably clueless about music production but there was something both extremely familiar and unknown to the music itself, it was perfect to listen to both while paying attention and listening to some songs in the background.
Some songs like Testify , The Corner and Chi City really stuck with me.
Yeah I guess I just talked myself into a five star rating here. Like this was awesome , definitely an album I’ll return to!
Also Faithful took me out like a pile of bricks the first time I heard it. what do you mean you would date god if she was a woman??? (Great song tho it just made me spit out my water the first time)
This one is hard to rank, as I did listen to it but not with the attention a story album really needs.
I thought the music itself was decent and the set up in the first few songs very good but I didn’t pay it enough mind to fully get what was being communicated.
But I guess not really wanting to come back to this … very long album is a ranking in itself.
I really liked this one. I really did.
Bob Dylan is one of these names you keep hearing but when you're like me: German and stuck on the same 5 bands since 2018 you never actually had a clue who he was or what music he made.
Guess that I won't have to pretend anymore because this album was great. It was really fun to listen to and the lyrics were the exact kind of swaggy countryish story telling that I like. I know (due to Wikipedia) that this is sorta different from his usual style of music, but hey everyone has that experimental phase where they write songs about a very longwinded escape from America.
I guess it speaks to me being uncultured that "the funny songs" on this album were the most memorable to me, "On the Road Again" and "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" are by far my favorites. And maybe they aren't funny at all and I'm missing a meaning of critical importance but I suppose I might figure that out on relistens because these definitely went into the listen to again playlist.
I thought it was , didn’t really do much to me 18$ went up in smoke is a good line , nothing else to say. Bit boring
Pretty great listen
Really short album but I think that enhanced the good on it
Great vocals
God this one bored me to tears. Maybe this hit me so bad because I really loved the last Dylan album I got here, but boy. This was tedious , long and boring and felt like there was no variety at all in the music score.
I’m likely missing out on a lot of important symbolism and meaning but this album doesn’t really inspire me to look for it.
It’s a genuine chore to listen to. I
Some other review probably put this better but the sheer variety of styles on this is impressive as hell.
Great album all in all, nothing was particularly gripping to me but nothing stood out to me as bland or bad either so yeah, good record
For being another lyricless album this one hit me like a semi truck. The first five seconds of the first song really took a sledgehammer to my face and set the mood for the rest of the album.
And the rest of the album was good.
I’m not a fan of albums without lyrics but I very much appreciate this one. It’s definitely a joy to listen to in the background
Just not my type of music , probably very good for what it is.
Very ethereal just not my thing, (listened to on YouTube ) fully taste based 2 stars
Neat!
Really happy I looked at the album now because I would have called it brit pop and get murdered by a Scotsman. Understandably so.
Good album tho, I can't say too much else. I really like it tho! Very good. Rip it up itself is a dope song!
My first reaction was: YAY R.E.M! I love R.E.M (I have only listened to the one song, but I'm already hyped)
This was the absolute correct reaction, and getting this album on a Friday was even better. Not to say I didn’t love it on my first listen but getting to hear it again and again just made it better in my ears.
“Try not to breathe” is an absolutely beautiful song and while not a big fan of “Night swimming” in the beginning it grew on me fast.
This feels strangely nostalgic and yet fresher than ever. Beautiful album all and all
I’m not a Bowie fan so I have nothing to compare it to but the average rock album and for being a rock album this fucks.
Genuinely some really great stuff, nothing too impactful but just as music to listen to? Awesome.
I’m not a Bowie fan so I have nothing to compare it to but the Bowie album I listened to yesterday and I liked yesterday’s record better.
It was fine. Or more to accurately to say between the first half of pretty neat rock songs that I liked more than average and the rather slow instruments that I couldn’t really get into it averaged out to fine.
I need to confess I am not only fully unfamiliar with this artist but also Salsa as a genre and Spanish as a language.
So I fear my review might boil down to my feelings on the genre more than my feelings on the record.
Non the less both are fairly positive. It’s great music to listen to and despite not understanding the vast majority of the lyrics I could understand the very base line of emotions communicated.
Honestly a great record and I swear I caught at least two literary references which makes this an easy
4 stars.
Rock rocks!
Fully taste based four stars , if the rock hits it hits. Ace of spades is legendary what else to say about it?
Truly sad that the first actually experimental album on my journey thus far just wasn’t for me but hey, what can I say.
But it just wasn’t for me. It was still interesting and somewhat okay background noise but I will forget I listened to this pretty soon.
This has been the longest album I got on this experiment and it were great two hours. OutKast is another one of these bands I somewhat hovered around for a while (I really like Hey Ya! and am aware of some other songs) but never really dug into. So two hours, of essentially two albums really gave me the chance to actually get to know their style.
And what a great style it is. I genuinely didn't expect to vibe with as many songs as I did, but seems like I am just way more into hiphop than I expected, which is at least one cool thing I learned about myself.
Unexpectedly I think the song I like individually the most on this album is Unhappy, it just has this perfect groove to it that make it listenable for hours. I overall like the second half of this album way more than the first, but I think that just speaks to how strong the second half is.
Even the ever elusive Hey Ya! gets better in context with all these other songs about love and relationships (wow I wonder if that is like... foreshadowed in the album title or something) around it. There is a bunch of stuff to dig into but I think the songs Love Hater and Happy Valentine's day make the big difference for me.
Also just to mention, this is the second album that has a song on it with the plottwist of "god is a lady" and I think there is something I am missing there but for now I just think it's kinda funny.
Overall great album, I want to take away points for being two albums in a trenchcoat but I cannot.
Very groovey, I can give it that. The production is good and fun no question about that!
Unfortunately it sometimes felt like the songwriter was too in love with the same three lyrics that kept being repeated through the album to consider if they were any good in the first place.
“You think you’re smart, stupid stupid” should have stayed on poison arrow. Overall still decent!
An artist I’m somewhat familiar with, yay! Also one of the first “modern” artists I got in my album listening journey.
I think a lot of people sell this particular album short, it’s not 21 that has absolute bangers like Rolling in the deep and Someone like you that are far messier and more torn about the whole break up situation.
25 is much more subdued and yet has the same emotional complexity, the wound has just healed over and the remaining feelings are weaker by now.
And I think this fits in beautifully with the albums idea of maturing/ ageing. 25 might be young to mourn your youth but 25 might be one of the first ages where the concept of “aging” becomes scary. And maybe I’ll look back on this in 30 years and go: damn I was a dumbass back then, but that will likely be the case anyways 👌
I don’t know how to describe this but while being, just sound wise, a rather standard pop album I like the subtlety of it all.
“Hello” is bitter in a different way than Someone like you was. The emotional hugeness of “Set fire to the rain” and “Rolling in the deep” aren’t reached in this album at all but I don’t think they should be.
These songs speak of fresh pain while “I miss you” , “Send my love (to your new lover)” and “When we were young” is a more reflective and “quiet” approach to them.
Even “River Lea” which is far more of an extermination of the narrators inner world (-> examining own patterns of not apologizing, blaming the outside worlds influence for their own faults) and “Water under the bridge” being a more positive look on a new relationship are deeply influenced by the “healed wound” that was open in 21.
And it should be like that! Not being over an old relationship is an interesting theme and motif in the fast lived culture of modern pop and just because Adele keeps poking at it doesn’t mean she only takes one approach.
I like this album, I like it far more than its best known hit tho. Hello is just not my kind of song. Tho it has some banger moments.
Uhhhhh I liked it!
Fine album all in all, Two sisters somewhat irritated me but there were some real gems on here. Mainly referring to: Death of a clown and Tin soldier man here.
Some songs really didn’t really do it for me but I think it had more hits than misses all and all
I don’t like defining a band by its most prominent hit… but with this backlog?
Pretty neat, this is one of the records that flows so well and is so easy to listen to I can’t find much to say
Wonderful album full of energy and grit.
I wasn’t its biggest fan on my very first listen but every consecutive listen gave it another level of “this is fucking amazing”.
The energy and tension of “Dog New Tricks” and “My Lover’s box” are unmatched, and not to speak ill of “Supervixen” but apart from a beat whose apparent stopping and starting just gives it more momentum , but the vocals on these ones are just so much harder.
Even the quieter songs “Fix me now” and “Milk” carry the same sense of power as the rest.
Honestly as close to perfect as an album can get , so , not garbage at all haha
Atmosphere for days, great shit genuinely!
Also the sample for bad habit by Steve lacy is on here and realizing this shocked me and made me even more positive on this journey
This album uses the lines “fear of missing out” and “I wish we didn’t
Live so far from each other, I miss my mother” unironically without giving the ‘sweet earnest’ any meaningful musical contrast.
I wish the pretty neat production and the at least coherent songwriting could elevate this for me, but I turned my daily scheduled mitski album off for this and so am all too aware how you do this type of music right.
It’s just good
Nice for what it is
Wonderful performance and honestly just the fact that this made me enjoy listening to an artist working with a crowd is impressive as hell. Not my music over all, but probably the best version of what it is.
This felt truly cinematic! 100% supported by me taking a walk while listening to this but man this is beautiful, felt like they actually gave a sound to the essence of the world.
It's oddly huge yet not overstating itself and just flows together wondefully. It starts slow but when it gets going, it gets going!
"The Talking Drum" is one of the first lyricless songs that fully connected with me but even the few other tracks that rely on instrumentation alone are great. Really fun listen that I liked way more than I expected.
I’m really finding that this stripped back production only works for me when the singer has the vocal energy to back it up and k.d. lang doesn’t have it.
This is not helped by how long this is. Truly a tedious listen, tho I am willing to give this album some flowers for “Outside myself” and “Constant Craving”, those are not enough to elevate it much, but hey, one goodish song with energy is better than none.
Feel good music and I say this with nothing but affection. It’s just pleasant!
This might have rocked the world back in the world but it’s just neat to me.
More R.E.M.!
This was wonderful. It needed a few listens to click for me but when it did it did.
This is way less fluid that most R.E.M. albums I’ve heard before but I think the grit adds a sonic interest that truly makes this stand out.
Genuinely filled with bangers once again not a single miss
Album that I like much less than I respect it. It’s good it’s just not my thing.
Chill and laid back with a good voice to boot. The production wasn’t bad but every next song makes what was good about the one before boring and predictable.
Couldn’t pick out a favorite but listening to this in the bg wouldn’t want me peel my skin off. Which is worth a lot
This is a great album if I’ve ever heard one. But I don’t think it’s an album I love. Based on quality I should give this five stars, it’s great, but it’s not quite on the “I love this” level that every album I’ve given five stars to is on.
So as this is my personal ranking I’m giving this amazing album 4 stars because it didn’t connect to me on the level others did. Maybe I’ll regret that choice later, but maybe not.
You could not pay me to be interested in this sort of slow, toothless jazz.
I know jazz is an art form that I am not privy to. I wish I got it but this one… was such a hard listen.
Bored to tears. Worst thing an album can be for me
Little to say about this one , it’s just really good
It’s honestly really impressive how this album manages to be awfully boring and awfully annoying at the
same time. Can’t help but respect that
Every single song on this album makes me want to listen to beat it.
Fucking love beat it tho, 3 stars for beat it alone! Honestly the first few songs are a drag, I guess the funky duwap duwap only works when the singer is trying to be intimidating and not… romantic… yeah. That’s what’s bothering me.
Also any Beatle makes me want to crawl out of my skin so there’s that.
I don’t need to say anything about Thriller and Billy Jean. They’re Thriller and Billy Jean. Duh.
Tho I didn’t expect to like Human Nature as much I did, but sometimes deep cuts (if you can call any song of this album a deep cut) surprise you.
This album also sadly doesn’t change my top 3 songs with Micheal Jackson
on them which does mean “Somebody’s watching me” is still on that list. Disgraceful tbh.
Anyways I really want to listen to Beat It.
What the hell is this name ?
In tandem why the hell is it the only interesting thing about this album? G. love and special sauce has unironically made me want to listen to “Man of the Woods” by Justin Timberlake.
That’s horrifying.
Also I didn’t know that lack of swagger could be used as a murder weapon but apparently it can be and it killed me.
I certainly always respect when an album tries to be an art piece but this really doesn’t inspire anything but respect and an appreciation for a few good ideas from me.
It’s a lot. And it’s not accessible and I don’t really feel inspired to dig for the key to unlock this one.
Good. Very good even. Extremely groovey and slick. Just plane old fun. I really enjoyed my time listening to this.
I fear I don’t get Nick Cave.
This was more enjoyable than ghosteen but I fear it didn’t have the few brilliant points that made listening to that slog bearable in the first place. But it’s just better. I can’t give it an endless amount for nature boy but i really liked this song a lot.
It’s not fun but the constant up and down is at least interesting.
I’m really grappling with what I think about this album but I fear it’s just too long to make the bright spots stand tall.
With grit teeth I give this 3 stars because I get it and it’s good but I never want to listen to this again.
Murica, hell yeah.
I don’t really know about this one tho. I thought it was kinda fun before I listened to more than the first two songs. It’s not terrible , I won’t remember it fondly or at all tho.
This album has the same vibes as a nuclear fallout zone and I say that with nothing but love and affection. It also has a wonderful music score and singing to die for. I love this one.
I really adored this one.
This type of folksy punk wasn’t something I’d ever hear on this project but I was so surprised I wanted to give it 5 stars just based on genre alone.
But then the lyrics turned out so funny and charming with an obvious beating heart below that I just can’t help but love it.
It’s wonderful! Really
I think I can appreciate this album a lot because I wasn’t around when overplay was grinding everyone’s gears into bits.
But I really enjoyed this one.
Despite being genuinely shocked to hear more than a feeling in the wild, there you can see that I have no clue about anything.
Still this was pretty fun!
this feels like both a better version of lofi and the exact music Electronica was ment to be.
I don't get Electronica. I am very open and honest with myself that music with no lyrics rarely appeals to me. This one did. This is exactly what I imagine city beats to be.
A lyricless album will only go that far in my ranking but this one went.
This feels extremely classy and familiar, no wonder having “this is a classic” written all over it in spirit.
It’s nice, nothing really exciting but solid
Pretty neat tbh ! The bangers are bangers the songs that aren’t popular aren’t popular for a reason. Still pretty solid. Very little of this feels exciting, probably because I was raised by the internet and saw all warrior cats animatics with these songs…
This was great.
I don’t think I ever heard an album with more fun in it. This made me chuckle multiple times, it’s just so charming and loose.
It’s musically interesting, the whole concept of a game show being called back to again and again was so unique and cool as well. It’s such a shame I never heard of this before because I really enjoyed my time listening to it.
I respect an artist that can make crowd work sound enjoyable but an artist that can make crowd work enjoyable with me being the crowd is marvelous.
I don’t think I would want to listen to individual songs much but the album as a whole? Great.
Also happy to announce it’s on Spotify now
Time to give Joni Mitchell another chance..
Okay turns out I was just in an awful mood when I listened to my last Mitchell album, this didn’t grind my gears half as much!
Maybe it’s just better but I wouldn’t know. I gotta give her some point for the lowkey anti marriage song but ykw it’s fine.
I just don’t vibe with her music personally but I make peace with her on this one.
I feel like a fool for dreading this album. Just because it’s long and has that title… something something premature judgement kills. God this was amazing.
I didn’t expect to have any fun with this and here I am utterly charmed.
The last three tracks drag a bit but man this was square in my corner
I yearn for an album that’s shorter than an hour and actually tries to be music
I still can’t tell if this is actually cool or just trying to be and failing.
But it’s pretty chill and charming even if unintentionally silly so I can’t be mad at it.
I love women when they are at their absolute lowest.
Take on me is on this album! As well as other songs
Odd but charming, had a pretty great time on my listen
Ugh I usually enjoy the peppers (when I say this I mean I like their newest album and the hits) but this seems like it’s only the bad parts of whatever they put in all of their songs.
I tried getting through this multiple times and Suck my kiss put me off every single time so it’s only so far I can go with this
I’m sorry I can only say: This is impressive as hell and this is kinda pretty so many times, before the fact that this is boring and that I’m bored becomes impossible to ignore
It’s an hour of piano music. God
Fun and chill, once more in a language I don’t speak but the vibes were there and varied enough that the entire hour of this album didn’t melt together in some sort of amorphous blob. So there’s that ! :)
Hey do you want to hear George Harrison coo into the microphone for 2 hours to a backdrop of music neither exciting or interesting?
I sure don’t.
Are there some good songs in this? Probably. But I won’t be going back into the trenches of dripping kitsch
Oh my god they’re letting me listen to music I like again, tears in my eyes.
I didn’t want it to be over but I also didn’t notice that Spotify had gone into autoplay for a few songs. I think that paints a picture.
Perfectly pleasant listen tho! Will def return to some of these songs
I enjoyed this way more than my last talking heads album. Grovey, energetic and I could actually tell the songs apart!
The beats fuck.
The lyrics aren’t to my taste but god the beats. The beats.
I am very certainly not anywhere near the target audience for this but I can appreciate it.
No nostalgia, barely any associations but you feel that this was a monumental moment in time. I appreciate that
Well this was a sorta fun trip to Jesusland land of Jesus ig?
Ethereally beautiful , it’s fucking Kate Bush, do I really have to say more??
Man I really wanna be a cowboy.
Oh how I adore country music that tells stories. The simple charm in instrument paired with such a gorgeous voice never fails to enchant me.
No I never expected to end up a country guy but here I am.
Also darned be “Love at The Five & Dime” or I could have made a joke about the Woolworth product placement in the cover art.
Ugh this had some fun tunes but even after a few relistens this did nothing to keep my attention
Solid after solid, not much variety but that’s not what you come to AC/DC for. You enter this house for energy and fire and then you leave
Okay , I guess I don’t hate everything the Beatles ever made. Them going “beep beep” in ‘Drive my car’ at least convinced me they had some sort of whimsy even when it annoyed me.
I guess when you mix in every single style idea you ever had there has to be something even I like.
I had to fight myself with this one but I listened to it three times and apart from short breaks where I needed to listen to music i actually like this wasn’t too unpleasant of an experience.
This was fine.
Honestly once again casting type advantage.
I love this album, it’s really good and just in a style I like. It’s iconic as well and I fully get why. Yell heah for anarchy and stuff
Tim I hate you stop talking please
I truly expexted to have more of an opinion on this.
Like YEA it's good. All the "Another Brick in the Wall" parts are fucking great and there's absoloutely no room to disagree on that.
But yk for being **THE** album ever this was, yk, cool. I liked the mixing up of the styles and tbh it probably is way too dense for me to understand it on my third relisten (esp. because I didn't have the time to watch any of the music videas) but yea. This was good?
Very good. I guess it might be a tiny bit bloated but that's just me trying to actually retain anything being communicated to me.
When this expiriment is over (2029 fml) I will actually take my time to sit down with it but for now it goes on the shelf.
This kinda feels like the more soulless adaptation of music I love.
Which yk I don’t mind some pandering. I’m probably too hard on this. It has some wonderful ass music on it (Village Green, Wicked Annabelle, Do you remember Walter , the title track of course…) and I’m just being mean for no reason.
Well the reason I’m being mean is Monica , a song that annoyed me so much it seriously made me reconsider if I liked anything on this album in the first place. But no…
I’m sorry the Kinks, please never try to be Reggaeton again. You’re bad at it
Okay so I’ve heard every reviewer on this godforsaken website gets one very long rambly review that barely connects to the album. Here’s mine.
I’m nostalgic for the Peppers. In the way the child of two people who were really into them would be. Long after the glory days, right on time for ‘The Getaway’ to debut and hear my mom complain about it.
I was born after the age of shitty sounding stereo and right in the age of hooking up a laptop to the TV and playing By The Way on loop without understanding a single world.
I remember claiming RHCP as my favorite band because I didn’t know other bands, I remember the corpus of a long dead friendship raising and falling for a last time while analyzing “Californication” (the song ) in class, I remember phone pranking my friends whose English was worse than mine with these lyrics.
So. I guess this is a long time coming. I’m not fully blinded by nostalgia.
Half these songs sound awkward, half these songs sound confused and yet.
I don’t really care.
I think Californication (the song) towers far over everything else this album presents. All the awkward stuttering, starting and stopping of the beat and the always pressing vocal constipation evaporates to leave one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.
It might just be nostalgia but there hasn’t been a single day in my life where I would have not wanted to listen to Californication.
An ivory tower in my memory and nightmare for everyone listening to me reasoning that “first born unicorn” is actually the perfect metaphor for the American dream. In a way this is probably the rock that led me down to the favorite bands that would come after.
Also he literally likes Dirt guys
Oh my god they’re like lame fall out boy…
Genuinely couldn’t sit through this
Felt like a mind numbing time loop
Classy, stylish, pleasant overall
No complaints about Aerosmith
Sometimes im almost happy when an album pisses me off like this. Im so glad I still have feelings <3
This is a true bias sweep.
This has some of the all time greats of my childhood and also My Michelle a song I’ve been oddly obsessed with for a while.
This is perfectly acceptable chill music. It would be a great song on the radio but like … you know… it’s fine 3/5
I think albums that sound good but aren’t memorable at all are the worst to rank.
Like yes. It’s good. I will forget about this so fast
