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The White Stripes · 1 likes
2/5
Mastered like crap. Anything higher than 3kHz sounds muted and dull, the bass guitar sounds like its being played from the next room over. The music is a weird mix of country and hard rock, not a horrible mix but the songs themselves are really bad
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Metallica
2/5
Not my kind of music, mastering was a bit dry.
David Bowie
2/5
Recordings were fine, music was nonsensical and
not enjoyable.
Adele
4/5
Slower pop songs, very popular album. No complaints,
mastering was good but not mind blowing.
Beastie Boys
2/5
Good mastering, not a fan of songs being sampled from others. Also not my favorite genre.
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Music can be repetitive. Good beat and melody, voice is great. Not really my favorite type of music though, doesn't resonate with me.
The White Stripes
2/5
Mastered like crap. Anything higher than 3kHz sounds muted and dull, the bass guitar sounds like its being played from the next room over. The music is a weird mix of country and hard rock, not a horrible mix but the songs themselves are really bad
Meat Loaf
3/5
I wish this album was mastered better. Fun electric guitar and the beat was fun. Bat Out of Hell, Paradise By the Dashboard Light, and Fpr Crying Out Loud were a bit longer than what I like though, after 4-5 minutes it was just too much. Also why the moaning in PBDL? Was that really necessary?
U2
4/5
Good album, no song was offensive to me. Mastering was OK. Enjoyable album, some songs I already knew.
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Really enjoyable album, to my surprise! Powerful message as well. Well mastered, bassy & warm sound. Very deserving of 4.5/5.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Suprisingly funky. The album in its entirety is 'ok' but a few songs stood out. The mastering was interesting, not crazy detailed but there was solid imaging and spaciousness.
Joanna Newsom
2/5
It's weird to say the least. I feel like it has a good story throughout the album but I'm not honestly sure the message. Very much folk music, it isn't mastered badly but not good enough to redeem itself completely. Behind the voices isn't too much instrumental, it's more-so a method of enhancing the story being told. Not my kind of music.
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Pulp
2/5
Sex Pistols
2/5
Awful mastering, no low end or high end. I like a decent amount of rock but not this. Singers voice annoys me. Lyrics didn't feel especially exciting and overall I felt like the music elicited no emotion from me.
Tom Waits
2/5
It sounds like a very classic halloween character decided to make a music album. Its… weird but not horrible? Mastering is shoddy, depends on the song. Sometimes it's decent, sometimes the vocals are masked by whatever the drums are doing. Some songs sound kinda like blues while others I can't even describe.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
I feel like I'm in a 1950s movie set as they are doing an overhead shot of the MC's location and are about to talk to someone important at a party. Mastering isn't anything special but honestly the music is pretty fun. Not good enough that I'd listen to it any other time but it's perfectly enjoyable.
Bill Callahan
3/5
Very slow acoustic country. It isn't bad, just too slow to want to listen to it in the future. Bill has a great voice but it wasn't really used for anything interesting, it's not emotionless though. Mastering is really good, in Eid Ma Clack Shaw you can feel the air pressure due to the rumbling of the bass drum on the right side.
Steely Dan
3/5
Good, not my favorite rock music. Mastering was good but nothing jumped out at me.
Supergrass
2/5
Songs vary wildly in quality. Some are mastered well and have a good melody, some very much do not. Instrument choices are sometimes odd and can ruin a song.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Great album. Mastered really well for what it is and most songs were really good. I didn't have any particular song that I disliked. The variety in tempo was very refreshing after getting a few albums that stuck to one kind of tune.
Sabu
2/5
Mastering is good but the music itself is exactly as you'd expect from the genre. Not great, but it also isn't meant for me.
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Good mastering for the 70's, singer also has a great voice. Music itself didn't really resonate with me though, and while I could listen through the album there was nothing that I really would want to listen to again.
King Crimson
4/5
Surprisingly good, I had a preconcieved notion that this album was a hard rock album, when it really isn't. A lot softer than I expected, and good tactility to the mastering. I wish the songs weren't so long though…
The Strokes
3/5
Very much an album from 2001. Vocals are pushed back and the rest of the mastering wasn't anything special
The Band
2/5
Just bad. From the mastering to the music itself. Couldn't get myself to enjoy the melody and the music sounded flat. Not my thing.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
The kind of music and the vocalists voice don't match. It's hard to describe but its like expecting rock music and then getting a that nasally friend who can't sing despite putting in so much effort. The mastering is exactly what you'd expect for rock/country music.
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Mastering is pretty bad. Instruments bleed into each other and the bass is overdone in post editing. It sounds like everything has a low pass filter. Music itself was dull, made worse by the already bad mastering.
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Great album. Not super into folk music but the mix of modern instruments and enjoyable melody made it an easy listen (for the most part). My only gripe is that, as seemingly a quality of folk music, songs didn't really have a melody that kept constant, so while I may like the first half of a song, the second half doesn't usually match that.
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Neither here nor there
The Undertones
3/5
I liked the guitars, mastering isn't the worst I've heard, however the songs themselves just aren't that interesting. The vocalist sounds like they are being strangled.
Pearl Jam
3/5
This album makes me wanna shred a skateboard off a cliff
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Its funky and enjoyable. Sure it isn't the best thing I've heard but I could listen and vibe to it easily. Mastering was good too.
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
I love the slower songs by TSP, Tonight Tonight, 1979, In The Arms Of Sleep. Then, in the same album, they also have songs that sound like a teenagers rebellious phase.
The Smiths
3/5
Mastering is good but the music is monotonous. Each song kinda sounded the same except for a select 1 or 2.
Stevie Wonder
2/5
I see why people love him but I can't really enjoy most of the songs on this album. Mastering is good but songs either took too long to get to an interesting part or just never got interesting to me. Exceptions, of course, include Higher Ground, and thats it.
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Her voice is fantastic and the songs generally are interesting and unique. However, I didn't really find them impressive enough to want to listen to them in the future.
Johnny Cash
4/5
Nostalgia wins every time. Thanks dad, your skewing the results. Live music usually isn't my thing but these recordings are great! Everything is crystal clear.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Free Bird is definitely a song of all time. To be honest, this album suffers from songs that are just too long. They get boring after a while.
Jethro Tull
2/5
These songs trick you. They are sometimes acoustic while othertimes they are just awful barely melodic rock. The slower songs of this album are leagues ahead of the rock songs.
Ella Fitzgerald
2/5
It's as if I have been placed into the world of the princess and the frog. Not great. Songs are really slow.
Arcade Fire
4/5
Fun album, very much indie rock. Its enjoyable, although mastering isn't a standout. Reminds me a bit of The Killers in some songs. The seamless transition between songs was incredibly satisfying
The Psychedelic Furs
2/5
Its not great. The mastering is dull and vocals always seem to take to the background. Makes words hard to understand while the lackluster guitar and drums take the center stage. The songs themselves aren't that interesting or fun either.
The Temptations
3/5
Run Charlie Run was a shock as I was tuned out when it started. Overall the album is fine, mastering is good but the music isn't for me. It's a bit dull and its message doesn't resonate.
Fela Kuti
3/5
It's ok as background music but it isn't good enough for me to want to ever revisit it. It's the kind of music you'd hear when a character is walking through a city during the opening scene of a B list romcom. Mastering is good though.
Duran Duran
3/5
inoffensive
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
It's refreshing to have a modern album after a while of poorly mastered rock music. It's a relatively calming album, well mastered and very interesting. Each song has it's own story, and listening puts you into that "world". For my tastes, however, it falls a bit short in the music part. I like it, but I don't like it enough to want to listen to any of the songs again or put them on a playlist.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
1/5
My ears! They bleed! Seriously, what is with the super harsh noise on every song?? It's obnoxious.
Pink Floyd
3/5
It’s a solid album, although Wish You Were Here is by far the best song on it.
Eminem
3/5
It jumps between being really raunchy and very aggressive. It's very jarring but it definitely puts in perspective eminems emotional state at the time. "Kim" especially is honestly horrific to listen to, very good, but I hope I never have to listen to it again.
Beatles
3/5
Honestly I expected more from this album. The Beatles are very good, I won't say they aren't, but most of the album was completely average. Listenable, but very much background music to me.
Orbital
2/5
I heard somewhere that your taste in music reflects whats going on in your head, and I can confidently say now that my brain does not function like a 6 year old playing with a synthesizer
Iggy Pop
3/5
It's not as bad as I was expecting. It isn't great, but its listenable.
Elton John
3/5
It's Elton John. It's a solid album. However, I do not think its really exceptional compared to his other work. None of the songs really hit the spot.
Pixies
1/5
It sounds like the few band students you knew in high school got together to make an official band but they lost their lead singer and the guitarist became the vocalist. At least it has tits on the album cover, it gets +.001 stars for that.
Gang Starr
3/5
Enjoyable to listen to, not anything I'd revisit though.
Carole King
3/5
Mellow, calming to listen to. Some very popular songs on this album that I knew but had completely forgotten about.
Beatles
3/5
It's fine. It’s a Beatles album, although it's a bit slower than their more popular songs.
Nirvana
1/5
Not good. Not my genre though.
Alice In Chains
1/5
It's like putting on noise. The guitars are harsh and the vocals don't make up for it. Not my genre.
Hole
2/5
Feels like im watching a teenagers coming of age movie and the older sister is blaring music while going through her emo phase.
2/5
My brain hurts a lot. Just kididng. It’s a fine album, although I don't think it's anything noteworthy as a whole. Starman and Sufragette City are both great though.
David Holmes
2/5
I agree, NY is known for a lot of things. But I guess that doesn't include electronic music.
Willie Nelson
4/5
Sweet, mellow, but also pretty fun at times too. It can go from relaxing to feeling like your in an old town bar drinking with cowboys. I probably enjoyed this album more than I had any right to.
Fatboy Slim
2/5
It's interesting, but that’s about it. Songs are repetative and the beat drops aren’t all that amusing. Felt that they were always going on longer than they should.
The Smiths
3/5
Very generic. It's exactly what you'd expect from british indie rock and barely does anything unique. Mastering isn't that great and the vocalist drones.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Judas Priest
3/5
For metal it isn't that bad. Mastered pretty well and the rhythm is enjoyable. Vocals aren't muddied or harsh, which makes it actually listenable. Kudos to Judas Priest.
Duke Ellington
2/5
The complete album is incredibly long and I got pretty bored after a few songs. It isn't horrible but it's not my thing.
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Meh. It's ok. Nothing bad stands out but at the same time it's also nothing that special.
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
★★★
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
Meh.
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
Other than the most popular song by far, the album itself is lackluster and pretty boring. I couldn't latch onto any main melodies for a lot of the songs. Sometimes (often) it sounds like someone smashed their head on a keyboard.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
A bit too explicit for me and it takes me out of the music.
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
I have mixed feelings about this album. On one hand, It's Fleetwood Mac. On the other, some songs themselves lack a quality that would make me look forward to listening to them. It's a 75% chance the song isn’t memorable and a 25% chance it's phenomenal.
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
It's like I'm in an old sci-fi film or KSP. As background music its fine but it isn't anything I'd revisit
The Cramps
2/5
Mastered horribly. It sounds like a teenagers garage band, fit with absolutely zero melody and zero singing skills.
Slayer
2/5
It's produced well for metal, but my untrained ears make every song sound incredibly alike. That works when you like the music but it makes it super uninteresting and aggressive if you don’t.
Queen
3/5
Hands, Anyway, Killer Queen is a fun song and the rest of the album has a general boogy vibe to it, but they don't leave me with any solid impression. Most of the songs are forgettable.
MGMT
4/5
A fun album that sounds unique while not sounding harsh or completely alien. Really liked this one.
Everything But The Girl
3/5
This is background music to me. Nothing about it really stands out as exceptional but it isn't horrible either.
Portishead
3/5
It is a jarring album that I can't decide whether to hate or like. On one hand, it sounds like a bunch of horror movie props banging together, but on the other hand it's pretty well done and gives an eerie feeling.
Ozomatli
3/5
It is a jarring album that I can't decide whether to hate or like. On one hand, it sounds like a bunch of horror movie props banging together, but on the other hand it's pretty well done and gives an eerie feeling.
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Its definitely above average but the music itself gets a bit boring quickly. The mastering is impeccable though.
Elvis Presley
3/5
Its 50's Elvis, I can’t really say anything else. Sometimes a bit slow, sometimes upbeat, in general it’s a decent listen.
The Cure
3/5
The Who
2/5
I just cant enjoy it. I like rock but this isn’t it. The lyrics suck and feel empty while the rest of the song has no clear rhythm.
Various Artists
4/5
Yep it’s a classic christmas album. No complaints on christmas!
Nick Drake
3/5
Its alright, mellow. The guitar tends to be a bit repetative though.
Common
4/5
I think it’s a good album, although I don't think that any song was a standout. Powerful messages are always enjoyable to listen to.
Blondie
3/5
The album has some songs that are good and some that make me question what the point of the song was.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
The start of the album was better than the rest. I started to lose interest around the 4th song, and this album is loooooooooong.
The Icarus Line
2/5
This is bad. Don't like the singers voice and the guitars sound like grating metal.
Radiohead
3/5
Kinda a nothing album for me. I've listened to some Radiohead before and this album was very dull in comparison.
Garbage
2/5
It's not garbage but it's not great either.
Queen Latifah
3/5
It's hip hop, not really my thing but I understand its appeal.
Gene Clark
3/5
It's fine, I don't think its that bad but it also doesn’t do much noteworthy. Mastering is fine, the music is fine.
Björk
2/5
Not my thing. It's like they tried to make a grunge album but missed the point. Yeah, it's impressive that its basically only vocals replicating instruments and whatever, but it doesn't sound good.
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Talk about an incredibly well mastered album. The spaciousness between the instruments and the tactility of the guitars and drums is incredible. I wish I wasn't so dang white and could understand the lyrics.
Eagles
4/5
Solid album, only song I questioned was Earlybird as it hurt my ears. Other than Take It Easy the album was average, far from bad.
The Incredible String Band
2/5
It's really weird. Just odd. Some songs are listenable and some feel like a bad acid trip.
The Jam
2/5
It's a boring listen. The band doesn't have any qualities that makes me want to listen to the next song, let alone the entire album.