Not my genre, but very listenable and super catchy, particularly (who discovered) America which also happens to be an excellent allegorical, satirical take on the European colonization of America. Giving Santana with more of a political bent. A good start to this journey and a taste of what’s to come!
Gotta love that Freddie Mercury falsetto and theatricality!
Good punk. Not my genre but informative and edifying to listen to.
Not really my thing but maybe I’d need to listen a couple more times. Well-written though!
Some great songs but a little too classic rock radio for my ears
Edna Million in a drop dead suit, Dutch pink on the downtown train
Defined elementary school for me. Someone like you is the most 2011 song in the world. Set fire to the rain is one of the first songs I ever memorized.
Didn’t expect to like it so much!!
Good vibes. Persian love and Hollywood especially good
didn’t really get through it, not a fan
My parents’ music but it happens to be super awesome. Sounds amazingly modern despite being from 1978.
So light and deft while also being socially conscious - and interesting mix
Very ahead of its time lyrically. You can tell Loretta means it. Lots of cheating so you know it’s country
Couldn’t listen to the whole thing because it’s not on streaming. They sing with too strong British accents for it to be available in America, I guess. But I liked what I heard.
I like certain songs on here a lot and they’re very interesting and experimental in many cases but I just can’t get into a lot of it for some reason.
Good disco/dance. I really liked lost in music!
Experimental but not in an appealing way
My parents’ mysic…interesting and good but not for me
Contains my favorite song from high school. These guys are good at making songs
so the Red Hot Chili Peppers are actually good…noted
Jazz, not much more to say
A good bunch of bops from the beach boy
Life on Mars is one of the greatest songs of all time. Oh you pretty things similar. The rest is good too but doesn’t connect as much with me
Considère me satisfied. Also the clit song 👀👀
The starman’s last album. The greatness is palpable. I really like girl loves me for some reason.
This is a good album - and not just the hits, which have gotten repetitive anyway, but songs like daylight and a rush of blood to the head, which are fresh and original and remind you the hits are no flukes.
Is definitely above other noisy rocky punky albums of its kind. But ultimately not my genre exactly - might require relistens to fully appreciate
I’ll have to listen to more of it but could deserve four stars. Sounds like massive attack instrumentals
Weirdly hadn’t enjoyed this album until now. Banger after banger. Ego tripping at the gates of hell is a perfect song with a perfect title
Not bad. Vocals have a haunting, gothic quality to them that I like. But it just doesn’t really connect with me
A couple good songs but mostly not my thing
Good stuff, but not really my stuff
My parents’ music. Would be a lot more badass if I hadn’t heard it so many times
You can really hear the influence on mcr in the song lullaby. Badass
Calming, pretty, pleasant
Love their voices and cover of I heard it through the grapevine
Listened to it on my drive to New Jersey from Pittsburgh. Not bad driving music or music in general
More of a 3.5 but there a few very cool songs that put it in 4star range for me
Not really for me except the song The Paris Match. Random weird 80s rap song in the middle.
Like a Shakespeare comedy written by the human id
Some of the middle is a little too boring (read: punk meh-lodies) but the rest makes up for it, particularly Alright and the last 5 songs, of which Sofa is my personal fave. 3.5 stars rounding up to 4.
More like a 2.5 stars. Good but not really something I’d see myself listen to a lot. Except when I need to freak out, maybe
Folsky…and gospelly? Definitely not British. I like it.
Beautiful but I don’t think I was in the mood for it - I will come back one day and try it again! Obviously heart of gold is always a banger tho
More of a 3.5 - I really like a couple songs (nocturnal me and the killing moon) but the rest are mostly meh. But it gets rounded up to 4 on the strength of those highlights
Not my normal thing, but it’s good stuff - I’d need to return to it to appreciate it better, but for now this rating will do. I particularly liked whispering pines.
I loved no woman, no cry! The rest wasn’t that exciting to me
Listened to this on the way back from penn state. Real good vibes, my type of dreamy, haunting sounds. Feels ahead of its time.
One really good song (lord can you help me) and a bunch of good-to-meh songs. Not really my thang. But moody, atmospheric, and interesting. Because of the lord, 2.5 stars rounded up to 3.
Does this guy only sing in falsetto or is that his real voice? Either way he’s an incredible vocalist. The songs are vibes and I like the minimalist percussion (is that an intelligent thing to say? Me sais pas).
Good vibes. 3.5 rounded up. Love the international feel of the songs, where the language would be Spanish but the sound would be middle eastern. Also a Tom Waits vibe to certain songs.
The folksy ones! This was pleasant and bucolic. 3.5 rounded.
Have just never been a big fan of joy division. I guess they’re just not melodic enough for me. I did like a couple of these songs (24 hours and the eternal) but not enough to like the album.
Feels like a foundational country album, as well as American album. Beautifully spare with the instruments given room to shine. Blue eyes is my favorite - although I’d heard it before. Crazy that Willie is still alive and smoking weed by the bushel
Yowzah! I loved this album so much, I listened to it on repeat like seven times in one day. It is so beautiful and haunting and gorgeously written - reminds me of Elliott Smith, but this one is from 1969, which is super impressive. My favorites are River Man, Way to Blue, Thoughts of Mary Jane, and Saturday Sun. Also, like all of my favorite things, it has an excellent name. Bellisimo!
Will have to listen again but haunting and interesting.
Obviously great, but I’m personally not super into it and respect it more than love it myself.
Dusty’s got a nice voice. I loved the song Summer is Over; an excellent example of one of my favorite genres of music, last songs of albums.
If I were born in 1965 Britain like my spiritual mother who shall not be named, this would probably be my favorite band. I really like a couple of these songs like spellbound and monitor (especially), but as a whole a little too dated to go all in.
I found it! My first one star album. What an unending snooze fest. An hour of slow piano and whiny male vocals. So boring.
It’s good and well-made and complex and all that, but not really my thing. I did like the random French though. Benefit of Montreal bands.
The great Tina Turner and her incredible voice. Hell yeah.
Deep voice, depressed hearts, can’t lose.
This is the soundtrack to my childhood. My 30 or 40 something parents are working out in the basement on Saturday and I’m trolling around lifting one pound weights like I’m Arnold S. Good stuff. Nothing else matters.
Listen…bongos are great. What an important percussive instrument. But a whole album of bongo music? Rock on, but it’s not getting a rave from moi.
Not really my thang - I did not receive a lot of pleasure from it. An early example of my mom’s music taste, though, which is cool. And these songs are objectively cool as hell. Hence the 3 stars.
This is a 3.5 rounded down to 3. I like the instrumentation and the vibes, and lyrics are obviously genius, but I think I’d need some time to get into it. Also, what’s with the boinging in the background of every song?
Incredible songs, amazing banter with the crowd, a legendary performer giving a legendary performance.
Great lyricism, awesome falsetto
Good clean country fun! Nice to listen to on the six hour drive back to Pittsburgh. “Boxcars” was my favorite.
So much fun! Combines my metal and emo past with current interest in rap. My mom’s fave too. Love the complete lack of irony. I’ve felt this way before…SO INSECURRRRREE
Extremely British (in a good way). I’d have to listen to it a couple times to appreciate it though so a 3er it will be for now.
Genius etc. but unfortunately not my thing really (60s psychedelic rock). Loved the lil documentary at the end - all these extremely British white dudes and Jimi. Cultural hybridity!
Like the Beatles if they had mixed gender vocals. I really liked Got a Feelin’.
A lot of great songs and a real rock spirit and attitude.
Love the rap rock thing. A lot of classic tunes. Big for my mom. Not my personal fave, but good.
Not exactly my thang, a little too traditional soul for me to immediately get all the way into it, but very pleasing to the ears, especially all the instrumentals.
Goated for a reason. Incredible writing, rapping, and mixing. King kunta was the fist real rap song I ever liked. The rest is just as great.
I am not a stranger to this album. I feel it gives you an idea of what it would be like to trip acid with four of the most intensely British men you have ever met. In the end I find it doesn’t excite as much as their deeper, more emotional/literate work (even versus stuff from the early period from relics like biding my time and paintbox).
Great modern psychedelic rock. I liked the pink robots more but this is quite good. “When you got that spider bite on your hand / I thought we’d have to break up the band” - lolz!
Clint Eastwood is one of the best songs of all time. The lyrics effing rule. Probably the only full rap I have memorized and can drop on command. I will say I wasn’t as into the rest of the album. But the gorillaz are rad as hell.
