Overwhelmed by sounds underwhelmed by words
It’s okayyyyy, but One and Only is actually very fun on a NYC evening walk
This made being at the laundromat fun which feels 4-star worthy
I tried. I was on a scenic drive. It was not good. Maybe just the wrong place and time. Maybe it’s actually not good. I don’t know, but whatever happened between me and these songs and that road… I’ll just never listen again and I am okay with that.
Dear god I want to have hyperbolic syllabic sesquipedalian sex with you to this album
Reallly did not like the first song, but then they dubbed some Coco Spookarama screams into track 3 and I actually found everything from that point up onward to be very sonically compelling (until Bound 2, also did not like that). Hold My Liquor and Blood on the Leaves are cool songs.
There I was a-sittin’ in my sky chair subtly stomping my foot and shookin’ my butt to this, thinking — okay, strong start. But by track 5 I was exhausted. Didn’t really connect with any of the songs and there were a lot of horse at an Arabian laser rodeo sounds? Likeeee ohhh another devil western baseline thing, we’re runnin’ through a valley… but there’s no water, and I want to go home
I think I would have enjoyed it more if I was cleaning my apartment on a coffee buzz. Alas, I was sitting in the Dallas airport and it made me anxious and the sounds reminded me of when I played the keyboard with my NY cousin and it maybe sounded cool, or maybe everyone was just on ketamine
Sometimes you think god has forsaken you because you’re still in Texas. And sometimes a perfect country album about Texas finds you and reminds you that life really is about horses, guns and women
Everything you said is exactly how I feel
This was weird and some of the baselines were really cool, but I am not sure I liked it. I think I would have really liked this in my skin depression and been like “this is who I am now”, but I’m feeling better so it’s not
I liked a lot of the songs, particularly the weird vocal sounds on Penetration. Gimme Danger and Shake Appeal also very fun. Did not like when voice went moderately screamo like on Pretty Face Going to Hell. Sounded too close to me at karaoke.
Wow yes do I love Neil Young? Didn’t know anything other than Down By the River, but this was easy listening. The Losing End is so good! Definitely adding Cowgirl in the Sand to some sort of guitar sex playlist. Sex guitar playlist? Human sex to guitars playlist
I did not know anything about this band or the sad story! I don’t think I would listen again, but I did enjoy some of the songs and now know the New Order origin story. The last song Decades is very cool. The middle got a bit monotonous. No regrets though!
This was just sooo nice to listen to. Fox in the Snow and The Boy Done Wrong Again made me cry on a mountain pass. I love the ways the songs build into beautiful crescendos of harmonicas, strings, horns. Faith in 1001albumsgenerator restored 🙏
I love this album so much! Houses in Motion is it… everything I love about Talking Heads. And Once in a Lifetime will just never get old. I don’t know how I felt about the closer, I think I need to listen to it again.
Never listened to any of this before and it was a bit all over the place for me, but definitely tugged at my high school emo/ska heartstrings. I really liked Soul and Fire, Happily Divided, and Think (Let Tomorrow Bee). Some good heartbreak lyrics! But wow, every song was like a different genre and I don’t know how I felt about it as a whole.
I wasn’t 100% focused while this was on, but I don’t think it was as fun as I thought it was going to be. No standouts, but cool basslines
Rachel and I had a jolly ol’ time listening to this on our drive up an AWD dirt road in her tiny sedan. It was actually hilarious to have this strange Irish soundtrack on as the car bottomed out several times
Really enjoyed this during morning wine at the cabin. It’s fun! But all of the guitar sounds the same
I don’t know if I vibe with the 60’s, but I Knew I’d Want You is a save for me
Wow I really thought I was going to hate this because Alice Cooper is, in fact, not a woman and the first song is just something I can’t hear objectively, I’ve just heard to too many times to the point where it means nothing and I hate it and it’s not a real song. But then Blue Turk came on and I was like… hold on… what’s this? That song is cool. So is Grande Finale. Not sure I would listen to the rest again.
I was sort of frantically packing while listening to this but my thoughts during that were: such hits at the front, I actually love these songs. Middle seemed a little monotonous… he seems sad. Last song Good Feeling made my ears perk. Need to save that and listen again.
There are probably more clever ways to be a misogynist but this was honestly just dumb
probably won’t listen to this as a whole again but could really picture myself jumping around to all of this at a live show. The kick drum is kickin. Saved Garbage Man and Strychnine. Actually may pump myself up to Garbage Man before shows
I did not like this and I really did not like the song Little 15… it kind of made me sick. Have no idea what it’s about but just like allergic to the sounds and the key change.
I wanted to like this but I did not like this and it did not take it back in the day and the lyrics just weren’t there for me :( Only listened to Disc 1. sorry xtinaaaa ❤️I do hope we get the Genie in a Bottle album as that was one of the first CDs I ever owned
Listened to 3.25 songs. Did not like the first two. Did not want to continue. Do not like music that sounds far away. Why cannot this music sound up close? Then I actually did like song three, In a Different Place, so I went on to song four. Then, the opening guitar thing on Polar Bear is the same guitar thing as The Smiths, How Soon is Now and that reminded me both of the show Charmed and of how I don’t want to listen to any more bands that sound like this. Maybe the rest of the album rules though.
We had fun!!
This was so beautiful and refreshing after everything we’ve had to endure (sad British boys). How cool that music transcends language… really felt this on the title track which I loved and is maybe sung by an alien that I feel really emotionally connected to. This feels timeless, like beyond time. Excited to listen to the whole thing again while journal crying!
This is not the soundtrack for making curry. I thought I was very close to the end of the album, but I was only halfway through and I couldn’t do another round of songs that really all sound the same. I really felt so immediately compelled by Marty Robbins and did not feel the same here.
Okay I knew I loved Suzanne and So Long Marianne, but That’s No Way to Say Goodbye and One of us Cannot be Wrong are amaaazinggg. I don’t know. Lyrically it’s almost too much to take in, and I like him best when he’s singing about love vs other existential topics… not a perfect five for me but I really love these love songs.
“Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme” 🥹
I liked working to this! I don’t know what to say other than that!
This is so fun! Standouts for me were Mannequin, Strange, and Lowdown. Also there is a single guitar strum on Champs that is so fun. I will definitely listen again while walking around the city at night. Is this punk? Why even go post-punk if we could just stay here? Humanity does not always need to evolve
This is the perfect soundtrack to complete your annual self review to. You’ll realize you have learned a lot and you are proud of yourself and it’s okay that you wish you didn’t have this job… now you can see the multi-faceted ways you’ve grown as a person because you have both this obligation and your dreams hanging in the balance, which actually creates a weird symbiosis
And it’s okay to want fish and a jazz date with Coco. A fishy jazz date with Coco. Five stars!
I always thought I hated Queen because I always want to kill myself when people sing Queen songs at karaoke, but I tried to go into this with an open heart and mind. I do think Killer Queen really is a freakin’ cool song. Now I am also into Flick of the Wrist. But it kind of feels impossible to sit and listen to this whole album in one go? I found myself checking how close to being over it was around Stone Cold Crazy and there were still five more songs. I don’t find it easy listening and there’s so much going on in every song and such drastic genre changes between them as well. They seem fun, but I just don’t know if I like it.
Yesssss wow thank the lord. I mean she really is just so much better than all the sad boys we just endured… the vocal range! This ruled. I was making dinner and drinking a green bottle of beer and taking big sexy swigs to this big sexy music and feelin’ alive baby!!!
This was kinda lame but the second song, Big Sur, was definitely on The OC which unlocked a whole lot of memories of me climbing through vibrator Ashley’s bedroom window Dawson’s Creek style to watch her OC dvd box sets and I was obsesssseddd with Seth Cohen wow he was so cute. Man, I wanted to be rich and live in California.
I’m here for it! Some very groovy, twangy and sexy guitar. Six Blade Knife is verrrry sexy. This was so easy to listen to it made me realize how challenging it’s been to listen to some other albums. Wild West End is cute! Laughing at how he sings “duck inside the doorway, duck to eat”. A lovely fall morning secretly horny on a Brower Park bench
I do not like this
This album is fascinating and sort of mesmerizing. I’ve never gotten into Bjork because I haven’t known when the right mood/time is, but now I know this is music for starting a witchy fall drive in a misty rain on the coast of Maine.
Truly could not wait for this to be over
The Beach Boys are sooo cute and cool. Wow I really love the song Disney Girls. And I want to start a riot. And I want to save the trees. And I need to give my feet a break. It’s all just so true!
I feel so excited to know that this album exists. Dang that was some cool shit. Pitche Mi, what a song. Phenomenal!
I wanted to love this and some songs were very cute, but ultimately I was bored. I am not bored by the two impossible whoppers I am currently eating in a parking lot
This kind of ruled? I have this vinyl but I’ve never listened to the whole thing because, what, am I going to lay on my shag rug and eat mushrooms and put this on and write in my journal ”tonight I’m diving into The Beatles.” Yes, yes I did do that and then got embarrassed and put on Erykah Badu instead.
Some very good songs on here and In My Life is really just very nice to listen to. The Drive My Car opening while driving could be a peak experience
This was ok! Sounds similar to many things we’ve listened to, namely The Smiths but better because of the fiddle and violin. I actually looked that up and it’s a woman named Amanda Brown on the strings. She’s five stars for me, but the rest is a three. I did like and save the song Clouds… which reminds me there’s some really nice guitar on this album too, but the songs as a whole are just kind of “mid” to be gen z about it.
Best album we’ve had yet
Fascinating. I don’t know if I would listen again, but this is a type of weird I can get down with. At first I thought I could not possibly continue on, but then I was suddenly lured into an underground vampiric one-man show with knife demonstrations that freak you out, but you remind yourself IT’S JUST A SHOW AND THEY’RE NOT GUNNA KILL ME DOWN HERE LOL! And yeah, it was kinda hot. And yeah, Big Jesus Trash Can might be my new favorite song.
Sex bat horror vampire sex cool machine!
Karen O is everything and I watched her repeatedly smash a corded microphone—just whipping it around and smacking it against the stage—at Red Rocks a week before I moved to New York, with my sister and Gabby and Salma… and I felt 19 again then and I feel 19 again now. Damn that’s how I want to do comedy—just flip out and smash stuff. I love this album! Also this was such a nice reminder that I love the song Runaway
Was not 100% present while listening to this, but I did think “cool rhythm” and start nodding my head a couple times, particularly Primitive and Requiem. I’m sure there’s something here, but I kinda wanted to tidy up to Norah Jones vibe this morning and not this
Haha I remember putting this vinyl on one of our early floor hangs at my old apartment and being like “this is one of the best albums ever!” Then we started making out and got bummed out by Village Ghetto Land and had to change theeee channnelll. It’s actually so funny to think of us making out to “families buying dog food now, babies die before they’re born…” and not knowing each other that well.
I didn’t listen to this whole thing, but I have many times, and I love putting this album on to clean. Isn’t She Lovely is just so sweet
Infinite stars for the way it feels to listen to Baby Baby Baby in the morning light with coffee at the Prospect Park boathouse
Didn’t finish, didn’t want to do this
Didn’t finish, didn’t want to do this. Made it through Flowers and Beads which is just so sad when a sweet love song is so boring and the person’s voice is so annoying you can’t even unpack your groceries to it
Hmmm I don’t know what I thought Rush was but this is not what I thought Rush was. This is Rush? I guess it’s like bad Queen and then there’s the crushing sadness of thinking you made it through four songs but it’s still the first song 🥹
This was a mighty fine bore
Wow this album took me back to being 23 and the ski condo I rented with friends where we’d sit around in a circle and do poppers. I was also hooking up with a DJ named Quincy Dancer 😂. I snowboarded to the song Recover a lot. Wow. What a time. I don’t think I like this that much anymore, though I did listed to Tether a few times on a walk yesterday
This music is really just so very nice. I hope we get Pain in my Heart at some point too!
It’s just got to be five stars because If I Was Your Girlfriend is just too good. Especially when you’re laying in the sun in peak fall park subtly moving your hips and nodding your head and thinking life is pretty damn cool
hmmm… I really only know The Who from the song Eminence Front, which I believe truly rips. That song is fun and weird and makes me want to dance all crazy. This album does not sound like that. This is boring.
This was fun, vibey, elevator-ish music that made me do a weird tiptoe around my kitchen while cooking. Strong start, but all kind of blended together for me by the end. Probably wouldn’t listen again but did save Ground Level
I could not listen to a whole hour of this, but I do appreciate Jurassic 5 and they remind me a lot of vibrator Ashley because she was really into them. Now she’s a Trumper. Can you shake someone and say “remember who you were at 14???!!!” Man her husband and I did so much acid. What happened to themmmmm
I made it three songs and got physically angry at the repetition of “you gotta get an attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude…” I have one now!!
Every song appears to be the same loop repeated for the entire song. But your review is very cute so I’m going 2 instead of 1.
I really liked this! Had a very fun Brooklyn walk with this on. Weirdly, I went to a “sip and paint” thing like 10 years ago and we painted this album cover. I can’t really paint, so mine really looked like a crouched, battered woman made of bacon strips. I had that painting hanging in my house(s) until I moved to New York and people would ask… what is that? And I would say “my battered bacon woman”. Looking at the actual cover, this is some really cool art and a really cool album and that’s weird I tried to paint it?
Jersey Girl rules. Downtown is my new train song. We had sex while this was on. 5 stars all the way.
This scared me!! I was driving alone in the woods in the pitch black of 6pm and a small animal was crossing the street. I really don’t know what it was. It moved slowly and strangely and looked like it didn’t have any skin. But it was cute and I watched it! And it was also weird and creepy and this music was on and it was so dark and I really could not continue on listening. So maybe this is very good, but just not for the woods in the dark with a little no skin thing on the road
This will just never not be some of the best heartbreak songwriting everrrrrr. I’ll never forget turning over “we only said goodbye with words” when I first heard Back to Black and thinking wow, that’s such a simple line that completely captures the impossibility of letting go of someone you love, even when you’ve said all of the things. “My tears dry on their own” is a similar line to me. There’s the reality of the heartbreak and then also a self-resilience in knowing the pain will pass in time. I love this album, and I love indulging in these feelings.
I liked some of this, namely Hoplessly Hoping, Teach Your Children, and the guitar solos on Wooden Ships… which probably made you DISGUSTED. But generally I just don’t like the way this era sounds
Wow, I have a lot of feelings about this. The first is that I’ve never listened to kd lang, but this brought back such an intense childhood memory of an informercial I’d watch at my grandma’s house. It was a top hits type of CD and it played a little bit of each song. I was probably 10? Constant Craving was on it and I thought “kd” was such a radical way to spell “Katie” and they didn’t even play the whole song, but I would go to school and sing “connnnnstaaaannntttt craaaavvvingg” 😂. Like truly memory unlocked of 5th grade and my friends being like what are you singing and me being like “um, KD LANG”.
Okay, so now as an adult… at first I was really turned on by her voice. Like wow a butch lesbian has this voice and is singing things like “I’ll grant you control of my body and soul”. Wash Me Clean and Still Thrives This Love I really liked if you know what I mean🚰. But I don’t know if I actually liked this album? I’m confused? Like it doesn’t quite all work together as an album or the songs are too similar? But four stars for Constant Craving and the elementary school memory unlock… and the voice and strings are sexy
An excellent soundtrack for writing and reading in the sky. I want to listen to jazz and explore more of the city with you :)
I am listening to this on the longest, slowest bus ride up the Las Vegas strip up to Old Town Vegas, and wow. I love the corny narrator and the shade at Brooklyn. I love
feeling connected to Rhode Island. I love how the trumpet sounds like a kazoo. I love everything happening on this insane bus with this on in my ears and the Vegas lights passing by. I love Jazz. I love being alive and experiencing all there is to see in this world. Fuck it, I love Coco. Viva Las Vegas!
Really grooving to this on my flight to LA. I love disco so much. My uncle Tim was a big disco dancer, and I have all of his disco albums! Excited to share Lost in Music with Kelso and have a silly little dance party in their living room. Yay, another five star day!
It was actually kind of nice to be on the plane, in and out of sleep with this playing. I like this way more than the other Radiohead album we had, particularly the song A Punch Up at a Wedding which has some really nice piano and a very fun bass line. I actually think I will listen to that song kind of… a lot? Oh no. I’ve been got. 📻🧑🦲
This was fun! How silly the Shaft theme song is. Issac Hayes can do no wrong for me, but I guess four stars because I don’t really desire returning to this. I think that’s my measure of a five: saving the album on Spotify and knowing I’ll want to listen again.
No thank you
I didn’t like this, but I did like Grinder. One extra star for Grinder.
This is awesome. I knew Strawberry Letter 23, but wow… I want to listen to this whole album a few times in a row once I get Aht Uh Mi Head off repeat. Sweet Thang rules! And Inspiration Info! And Island Letter! And XL-30! Okay, every song is so cool. FIVE STARS PAY OR DISPUTE
This is like when you get in an Uber and try to orient yourself with the bad music that’s playing and you realize it’s weird Jesus Christian music. But actually this is worse because it sounds like that and it isn’t weird Jesus Christian music.
I thought this was coolish! I liked Child in Time, but I got exhausted by the rat song. Then Into The Fire was good. Then Hard Loving Man really sounded like Jack Black in School of Rock which I couldn’t take seriously, but I guess Jack Black in School of Rock actually sounds like these guys. I’ll never listen again, but it’s impressive to noodle that hard
Only listened to a few songs but couldn’t get into this
I think I really only liked Rip It Up, but I did save that one!
This was bad! But I do like Orange Crush. There was a lyric in the very lame song You Are Everything that is, “you’re drifting off to sleep with your teeth in your mouth,” which made me think of my Dad’s dentures and how he’s drifting off to sleep with his teeth on the bathroom counter
Listened to 1.5 songs and my Thanksgiving drive was ruined for 7 minutes
I feel like there’s a specific time and place for every Sufjan album. Carrie and Lowell is for walking around Greenwood Cemetery. This one is for starting a drive and wondering what kind of person your little nephew is going to be and if you can stay this close forever or maybe he will be like John Wayne Gacy because he does sometimes say “Kate I’m going to hurt you” and looks really crazy in the eyes? But maybe that’s normal and his life will be a wonderful epic adventure like the song Chicago.
I guess I have to listen to these sounds while stuck in traffic as my cosmic penance for eating red snapper. Belladonna was kind of nice though
After listening to the song The Girls and The Dogs, I now know that this entire project is a psychological experiment designed to make us question our taste, our sanity, and our selves. Well, guess what… I’M FINE! I know who I am and what I like and you can fuck with my head but you can’t take my mind! You won’t break me you sick, sick generator! NICE TRY!! HHAHAHAHAHA NICE TRY!!!!!!
Alright. I’ve never listened to this album save that I have always loved the song Like a Rolling Stone. With the exception of a few songs I listen to religiously when sad (eg, Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright), I have never gotten into Bob Dylan because it seemed overwhelming.
I tried to listen to this Monday night on a cold laundry cycle walk, and I just didn’t want to do it. Then you wrote such a poetic review that made me have such a big crush on you, so I tried again.
I was writing with this playing in the background and was pulled out by Ballad of a Thin Man. I ain’t never heard a song like that, and I listened several times wondering what it’s about and decided that to interpret it is the fool’s errand the lyrics describe. And good art can’t be defined. And life will always be inexplicable. And I always want to be a part of the freak show and not some fake, pretentious, overintellectualized attempt at control. I want to be a fat man!
I’m excited for more Bob Dylan in my life :)
I actually cannot psychologically even attempt to listen to this as this was my horrible 40 year old boyfriend’s favorite band, and I would cry and cry in my long-distance dorm room listening to “Wish You Were Here”. Wow, life gets better and that’s cool.
I laid on the floor and listened to this on vinyl which is the proper way to listen to this. This album makes me think of my mom because it’s hers and she loves Pink Floyd, and also because Time was a pretty formative song for me wanting to live my life on my own terms and in opposition to the life I saw her living (which in high school I told her was a sad and miserable one… still regret that 💔). Damn that song is fucking cool and the build/intro is so exciting. And the sax on Us and Them is awesome. The guitar solos throughout are so good. This album is such a fun ride meant to be taken from top to bottom.
I’ve never listened to The Eagles. I only know Hotel California because it played all the time on 97.3 KBCO, my mom’s favorite radio station. I actually liked Hotel California a lot because it felt like I could dissociate from going to softball practice and just focus on the story. Same with the Shawn Mullins song Lullaby. Do you know that song? 😂 Wow, I was just taken into my mom’s car and I’m ten years old.
Anyway, I actually do like the song Hotel California. The rest of this was so bad. It doesn’t even seem like the same band? I always thought Hotel California was sung by like a sexy latin man? Like I have always kind of visualized Enrique Iglesias mixed with Santana? Is this all because the Michelle Branch/Santana song “Game of Love” was also playing around this time in the car, and I just associated all guitar with Santana? One star, but an extra star for the weird memories and the childhood-imprinted Latin confusion.
Actually, I just asked Google about this and it says, “Yes, Hotel California has significant Latin influences, which is why its original working title was Mexican Reggae.“ Whaaat??
I need to go to bed.
Saved three songs that I like a lot! Maybe a three overall, but four because things got hot and It’s Alright is hot and you are hot
I was doing other stuff with the on, but it didn’t really draw me in. Concrete Jungle and Stir it Up yes! Will need to revisit sometime as I do love Bob Marley
Didn’t want to listen to more Joy Division because I like to be a different kind of bummed out. But Decades from the last album was one of my most played songs this year, and I think I almost like this? I definitely like Candidate.
Insight would be such a great song if it didn’t go crazy laser mode in the middle?? What’s up with that? Also really dig the bass on New Dawn Fades. There are moments on every song that I like, but also found it really hard to get through this whole album. RIP Insight, I almost loved you.
Yes to everything except the Paul McCartney song. Used to pop this CD on with vibrator Ash and daaaannnnceeee
