Hardcore grunge without melody. Give me Soundgarden and Alice In Chains. But "Need" is pretty good.
I've heard Message In A Bottle and Walking On the Moon a million times, but I've never listened to the whole album. New discovery: Deathwish. The rest of the album is meh.
Synchronicity, Every Breath You Take, Wrapped Around Your Finger and King of Pain are all classics. Great album. Probably their best.
A classic album: My favorites: What Goes On, Pale Blue Eyes, Jesus, Beginning To See the Light and After Hours.
Not a big Smiths fan. Familiar of course with Girlfriend In A Coma, but not really crazy about it and nothing else stands out.
There are My Bloody Valentine songs I like, but not on this album.
French hip hop? No thank you.
Just not a big Queen fan. Contains two classics, but two good songs does not a classic album make. I give it a C+.
Pulp was well under my radar through the 80s and 90s. Although I became something of a Jarvis Cocker fan from his solo work in the early 2000s, I can't say I'm impressed by this album. Familiar with Common People, but that's it.
Apparently a live album. Lots of long boring songs and several short throw aways. Sounds very dated. Just not feeling it. Maybe if I had some drugs ...
Now we're in my wheelhouse. Bought this double album shortly after it came out. If I'm honest, there's some filler spread across four sides and it would have been a stronger album if the "best" (i.e. my favorite) songs were consolidated. But the album still contains some of my favorite Stephan Stills songs including Both of Us (Bound To Lose), Colorado, So Begins the Task, It Doesn't Matter and Johnny's Garden. Definitely a classic.
Just don't have the ear for Patti Smith. Not a fan of her voice and her live version of My Generation is just annoying. No thank you.
Never heard of these guys. When I saw the name, I immediately thought they were some punk rock group I knew I would hate. Definitely not punk rock and can't say that I hate them. To be honest, they are very listenable. But they lack that unknown quality that sparks my interest. Most of the songs are slow and soft, same tempo and kind to run together. If they're going to do that, I need some interesting melodies and lyrics, like Nick Drake.
A lot of chaff on this album, originally released as a double vinyl and IMHO would have been stronger as a single. But hard to quibble with an album that includes Crosstown Traffic, Voodoo Child, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, the quintessential version of Dylan's All Along the Watchtower and Noel Redding's Little Miss Strange. One of my favorite Jimi Hendrix albums.
Just happened to have watched the Brian Wilson bioptic Love & Mercy, so I know the history behind this album. I think I listened to it a couple times back when it first came out, but didn't spend a lot of time on it. For good reason. I can hear Brian Wilson's ambition to push the boundaries, but folks, this album sucks. Some of the songs are cringe-worthy, others are simply meh. You get an early version of Good Vibrations, but that's about it. Not an album I'm going to revisit.
Nope,
Never heard of this group. Easy to listen to, but not much leaps out at me. I like Love Is A Sign and I really like Streets of Your Town. Solid album.
Familiar with Human Behavior and Big Time Sensuality, but nothing else really appeals to me. Not painful to listen to, just ... not music I'd seek out. Also wsasn't a Sugarcubes fan.
Classic album
Not much here. You can tell Brian Wilson didn't have much involvement in this album. Only decent song is Surf's Up, and it doesn't rank up there with the Beach Boy classics.
This group was under my radar until last decade or so. Never heard this album, but really like Going Out.
Nope.
Interesting that they put a white woman on the cover of this album. Very listenable early soul from one of the masters, who died way too soon. Just not an album I need to hear more than once.
Interesting that Rick Davies' death was announced today (9/8). Of course everyone my age has heard Bloody Well Right and it takes me back to '74. And of course there's Dreamer, probably my favorite Supertramp song. Two classics, but nothing else really grabs me. I need a minimum of four good/great songs to call the whole album a classic. Good, but not a classic.
Familiar with Staring At the Sun, and I like a few of their songs (like Killer Crane from 2011), but just not a big fan.
Classic album, one of my favorites by REM.
Not a big fan of free form jazz, although I do like jazz piano virtuoso Vince Guaraldi. Have to admit So What is pretty amazing. I like the piano/trumpet interplay. Also like Blue in Green. I could own this album.
Maybe if I'd grown up with it, I might have been a fan. But ... nope.
Nope.
Kind of ambivalent about Muse. Sounds okay, just nothing that stands out.
Not in my wheelhouse.
Not a big Janis Joplin fan so, nyet.
Songs to kill yourself by. When it comes to tortured artists I prefer Nick Drake, but you can't deny the power of his music.
My favorite Deep Purple album. Listened to the cassette many times in my car when it came out in '72, my senior year of high school. Highway Star, Smoke On the Water, Space Truckin' ... A classic.
Another of my all time favorite albums. Spent a long time on my record player during the early '70s. What is and what should Never Be, Thank You, Living Loving Maid and of course, Whole Lotta Love.
Not a bad album, but it kind of convinced me that Jack's best days were behind him. The title song is the only one that I really liked. Big fan of the White Stripes.
My love affair with Joni Mitchell only lasted only one album - Court and Spark from 1974. I like some of her other songs - River, Both Sides Now, Amelia - but nothing album-wise. Not a bad album, just not in my wheelhouse.
Too hardcore for my tastes. Pass.
Decent album. Probably nothing I'll revisit.
Never heard of these guys before today. The title track is catchy, but not life changing. Gave the album a cursory listening, nothing else really stood out.
Great album of covers by the Man. Favorites are Hurt, The Man Comes Around and Personal Jesus.
Always partial to this white boy rap. Not my favorite album by the Boys, but still listenable.
This group was never on my radar although I am familiar with Pearly-Dewdrops Drops (not sure where I first heard it). Not an album I'd seek out again.
Apparently they're now known as The London Suede. I don't really hear anything interesting ...
Yeah just not my thing ...
I know some people consider this his finest album, but not me. Includes a couple I really like -- Just Like A Woman and I Want you -- but I never have an urge to listen to this album.
I've been listening to Django Django for a while. Solid album. Best songs are Default, Waveforms, WOR and Hand of Man.
Listened to this velvet-voiced singer quite a bit in the '80s and early '90s, especially her Luck of the Draw album in '91. This was her break out album. Includes singles Nick of Time and Thing Called Love.
Not my favorite Fairport Convention album, but it does include one of my all-time favorite songs - A Sailor's Life.
It would have been stronger as a single rather than a double album, but a classic nonetheless. Favorite tracks: It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference, Hello It's Me, Couldn't I Just Tell You.
Familiar with their US singles - Alive and Kicking and Don't You (Forget About Me) - but this album was completely under my radar. All the singles from this album were released in the UK and I don't hear anything exciting.
Not in my wheelhouse.
Not my favorite U2 album, but it does have one of my favorite U2 songs - Mysterious Ways.
Familiar with Sunday Shining, but not really my thing.
Vintage Willie.
Not really into jazz, but Dave Brubeck is both extremely listenable and familiar, especially Take Five and Blue Rondo.
