Some interesting and challenging ideas on show here
Familiarity: 2 – Unknown album
Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 2 - Little
What can I remember the next day?: 2 - Little
Best song: Sweat Loaf
Liked songs: E-pro; Qué Onda Guero; Girl; Go it alone
Inoffensive, but ultimately forgettable
Solid as an album, better than the sum of its parts
Some big songs on there, but also filler
Familiarity: 3 – Know some songs
Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 2 - Little
What can I remember the next day?: 2 - Little
Best song: Sing a Simple Song
The energy in this is nonstop
Familiarity: 5 – Deep Familiarity
Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 3 - Half
What can I remember the next day?: 4 - Most
Best song: Paradise City
What a belter of an album.
Familiarity: 5 – Deep Familiarity
Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 3 - Half
What can I remember the next day?: 4 - Most
Best song: Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Much preferred the electric first half over the acoustic second
Familiarity: 2 – Unknown album
Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 1 - None
What can I remember the next day?: 1 - None
Best song: Outlaw Blues
Solid background noise for landing my kickflips
Only got as far as track 3 - need to revisit
This is just noise, and not the good kind
Solid mixture of rock through this
I didn't dislike the album, but I don't think I found anything musically interesting to warrant another listen.
I quite liked the space rock
Recognised a couple of songs
Fave song : chocolate cake
Saves the best till last. Some of the samples did sound a bit like someone was just mashing a soundboard randomly
Outside of the "big 2", all a bit dreary
(Pain in the arse trying to listen to this without Spotify)
I didn't really feel like this album went anywhere, and nothing to be found here worth revisiting.
Familiarity: [2 – Unknown album]
Songs I would actively choose to listen to: [1 - None]
What can I remember the next day?: [1 - None}
Just a bit bland
Familiarity: [3 – Know some songs]
Songs I would actively choose to listen to: [1 - None]
What can I remember the next day?: [1 - None}
Excellent album to have on in the background
A bit chaotic, a bit reggae, a bit punk. I enjoyed this
Familiarity: [3 – Know some songs]
Songs I would actively choose to listen to: [2 - Little]
What can I remember the next day?: [3 - Half]
Complete unknown to me but exceeded expectations. First half much stronger than second
I think Run DMC benefit from a collaboration. As influential as it may have been, I am glad hip hop has progressed from this.
This is a great . Trim a few songs and this might have been a 5
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would
Never heard of The Gun Club. Solid punk album.
Not familiar with this album. A few moments but probably too long.
Only thing I knew before listening was Bohemian Like You. This was ok.
A couple of good songs strung together by dreary toss.
I enjoy CCR, but it does all sound a bit samey
Banging start, banging end, dips in the middle but still good stuff
I don't think I've ever listened to a Blur album outside of greatest hits - generally I don't think I was missing too much but credit where it's due there's some fun bits on here. Much more variety of sounds than some of their Britpop peers. Oompah
There is a lot more blues on this than I was expecting. Not a lot of variety though. An excellent background album.
Well this is a bit of nostalgia. You can definitely hear Blur in some of the tracks with just Alburn involved, but add in the collaborations and there's a lot going on. Not sure that I'd be putting any of the non singles on a playlist, but as a whole, very enjoyable.
Completely unknown to me, and not sure what I think of it. The songs on this all have an aspect that i quite like, whether that is a riff, the bass line, the drums; but the other parts of the songs are just a bit pants.
I do enjoy that the Wikipedia summary for the album seems to have been written by a ten year old: "It's called that because it's from Ohio".
I heard you like 12 bar blues.
Acoustic versions of some of their slower songs and covers. Just a bit boring.
Björk's singing I can see being a bit divisive, but I quite like the underlying music.
The first song seemed vaguely familiar, but otherwise completely unknown artist. I dig this
Heavy beats to start with, but felt it dipped after that.
I absolutely love this.
This is album is a reminder that I should probably listen to more of these albums in stereo and/or through good quality headphones .
Not much of anything - lacking some Young
Rose-tinted glasses perhaps but the opening few tracks are great. Then there is a bit of cliff edge.
Quite the rollercoaster. In isolation you hear BoRhap and think it is all over the place in terms of genres, and then you hear it in this album and it makes more sense. Overall I enjoyed this
Now that's what I call an album cover!
I didn't really realise there was more to VM than Brown Eyed Girl, but this album is a cracker.
A consistently solid album. My criticism is exactly that though - if the same song played twice in the album I probably wouldn't notice
Van Morrisonandonandonandon
Some good funk tunes, but tailed off a bit
I really don't know why this is on the list
Meh. Nothing interesting here
Not my usual cup of tea, but better than i expected. Still wouldn't call it particularly enthralling however
Knowing nothing about them, I was looking forward to this based on the band's info on Spotify: "Gang of Four is one of the most radically important, and influential rock groups of the last 40 years."
I am underwhelmed.
A classic. I think this is the first 20+ minute song on the list. Let there be more
I would have never guessed this was from 1973.
I found myself quite bored listening to this
Other than the first song, everything just sort of blended together. Not very interesting, and definitely sounds a bit dated
Was alright, but nothing to get particularly excited about
Some relaxing folk with enjoyable vocals compared to some of of the prior albums
Lots of ideas going on here, but a bit of fun overall
A novel listen? Sure. An album I'll come back to? Probably not.
I don't think I've ever actually listened to an Eminem album. There are some enjoyable songs, but its hard to ignore the rampant homophobia and needless violence throughout. I have no idea how much of this is supposed to be taken literally, what is and isn't in character as Marshall Matters, or if this is supposed to be some sort of meta-commentary, but it definitely hampered my enjoyment of the album.
When did i become a woke snowflake?
Music for the snart-sniffer and I'm in the game for some gastromatherapy
I think I understood less than half words, and most of those were variations of words that I daren't type. I did enjoy a cocking gun providing the beat on one of the tracks, and recognised a surprising number of other songs, but I can't say that I got much enjoyment from my listen
Classic Britpop. Can definitely feel the influence of other artists, but also adding in their own spin with the classical (/sampled) instruments.
I tried to find some redeeming features, I really did. There were moments where I thought I understood it, the beat of industrial machinery. And then I'd be out of it again. I think I could probably listen to a single track and get along ok with it, but a whole album is hard going. I think the only reason I'd revisit this album is to annoy someone else.
I enjoyed this so much more than their debut
I'm just a basic Britpop bitch
Needing the full 70 minutes is just showing off
I enjoyed it, but (to my ears) this is quite repetitive (and to be fair, there are actual repeats of songs)
I love the groove of CH, it all seems so smooth
I explicitly gave permission to my wedding DJ to play something from this album and he didn't. What a melon.
Its a solid album, but didn't really excite me.
She is undeniably a good singer, but I really didn't find anything interesting
I went in expecting something a bit more "Sex Pistols"esque, but that was not to be. Opening track sounded like protosludge, but then the next track went a bit off the rails. Not my favourite punk album...
Not my favourite White Stripes album, but still solid
A lot of British postpunk being thrown at us. This album made me feel better about my own musical playing abilities
Dreadful (although for reasons unknown to myself not a 1)
Was alright. Was pleased to see the last song was actually 10 minutes long and didn't just sound like it had been going on forever
I am the music man, I come from down your way and I can play.
What can you play?
I play piano
Pia-pia-pia-no
Pia-no pia-no
Pia-pia-pia-no
Pia-pia-no
Another 20 minuter! Enjoyed it more than the rest of the album
This feels very 70s. I ended up listening to this a few times because i ended up getting distracted each time, and i think it got a little worse with each listen.
A relaxing soundtrack where I knew more songs than I thought I did.
I enjoyed the hard rock, didn't overstay its welcome as it was starting to sound a bit samey.
Wouldn't it be nice if this album was more interesting. Did not need to be 20+ tracks long
Not my usual cup of tea, but knew lots of songs here. Would rate it higher but I know that I probably won't be listening to it again.
Started off quite a strong, but I did tire of Billy by the second half
Wait, 1970s UK post-punk can actually be enjoyable?
I think I suffered a case of Jazz fatigue here
I wish this had been a while album of Quiet Life
Lesser known Blur songs (to me), still a largely solid album
This was a bit of a chore to get through. At least it was only 36 minutes.
Bit of a mixed bag, but overall not much reason to listen again.
I need to pace myself so I don't end up with 5 five-star LedZep albums
I'd probably appreciate this more if I wasn't feeling ill
I like the funkiness, although seemed like another front ended album
This was not as fun as I was hoping. Don't think the audience noises helped
There is a lot of fat to trim in this - meh
Some loverly proggers. Quality is a bit inconsistent but enjoyable album
Recognised a fair amount, enjoyed it but potentially marked down because of the flu factor
I can see the montage of Icelandic landscapes with lava flowing through and this playing in the background.
A mixed bag, but overall not really worth a relisten.
This is an excellent bit of reggae groove - what I needed.
Genre spanning, but did not need 2 hours of this
This was short and sweet, two thumbs up
An album of covers that I enjoyed more than I thought I would
Given how recent this was, I was expecting much more. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more with more active listening, but not bothered by this based on what I did hear.
Not quite sure why, but I did enjoy this
A bit samey perhaps, but good energy.
28 songs in 41 minutes is fairly impressive. Unfortunately that was the most impressive thing about the album
This has some hot potatoes
I did like the mixture of styles presented on here, but whilst some songs I enjoyed, a lot I wasn't all that bothered by
This was a nice relaxing album, and although I'm not sure if there are many cover bangers in here. However I found it very "backgroundish" - I think there are other WN songs I enjoy more (as demonstrated once Spotify started to play recommendations after the end of the album)
Is soothing punk a thing?
Half the songs are great, half are just a bit meh.
Gravelly voice, plinketty plonk fingers, jazz club whooping. Hubba bubba.
I could probably be reluctantly persuaded to listen to this once a year before swiftly moving on with my life
Some great songs on here (and boobies)
Would have been great if I was attending a night club in the Matrix
Inoffensive, but can't say it had much of an impact
A good groove to this, enjoyable driving album
Curtis can do better than this
By golly it's Dolly. Half an hour is a perfect length for this before outstaying it's welcome
Enjoyed this more than I expected (although I don't really know what I expected). Suspect that this would grow with more plays
I am whelmed. A mixed bag of classic Who and covers, but I think I was expecting more?
Mostly Gives Mellifluous Tunage
Quite a broad mix going on here, generally enjoyed it
Great music to help cure insomnia
This was the album I had in my car CD player for a few weeks in c2013, and I don't think my opinion has changed since then - the middle drags the album from some fantastic pop hits into something more arty and I'm not sure that that the result is better than the sum of its parts.
Can't believe they had the opportunity to have multiple 20 minute songs and they choked 4 times. I had no idea what was going on in this album, and I liked it. Moon in June is the weakest of the collection - could have otherwise been a 4
An excellent album, although some of the second half not quite achieving banger status
I think I was waiting for Blue Monday and it never came
Humpty Dumpty was a big fat egg
The problem with rating things with whole numbers out of 5 is that it struggles to capture the nuance of the score. I can certainly understand why it would be rated 1/5 en masse using this scoring system, but it certainly isn't the worst on the list. That said, I don't think there is anything on here worth revisiting, and (not that it should influence the rating of the music), hard to ignore the album cover looks like a photo in the Epstein files.
It was alright, I did have some fun, but not too much fun
I really enjoyed listening to this yesterday, and then listened again today and enjoyed it less so. Maybe I need the background of a kitchen to bring it to life
Good opener, then they decided to take it easy
I did in fact turn it up and bring the noise and it was quite delightful
I did not realise that Slade was such an international cultural reference point. Notwithstanding that, I can't say I felt much noise in this
An impressively rigid naming structure to songs. Album did start to drag a bit
Lots of energy, the baby loved it
Smoother than a freshly plastered wall
I prematurely came for the Big Muff but was left disappointed. Inoffensive album but didn't do much for me.
I listened to this twice and I still can't remember anything about it
I didn't think that I would recognise so much of this
I was very confused when I was expecting to hear YUNGBLUD. This is a fun album, with a bit of everything
