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

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!

A certefied Banger

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

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.