I enjoyed this album much more than I thought I would. There’s a wide range of song types and it really showcases how good they are. Never cared about Black Sabbath before.
They need to take the drum loop off. It is also a fun reminder these people were rappers before they were tv people.
Not my favorite of the Beatles albums but it’s light and fun and I like the Beatles 🤷♀️
Idk that some of these lyrics are the most innovative I’ve ever had but an enjoyable listen. The last song is really fun.
I feel like I can hear how cool they think they are in this album. Not my favorite Led Zeppelin album and it’s longgg.
Bruh, this thing keeps using the review from the previous album and not saving my notes.
This album is not my favorite of Cohen’s but it’s very singer/songwriter and calm and very much of its time. I enjoyed the listen. Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye was probably my favorite song.
These guys think they are sooooo cool. I hate their lyrics so hard.
This feels very much like the root of old county. It’s not my style so much but I appreciate his band being buckaroos and if I had to ride a horse for a long distance I’d for sure put this on.
I have two copies of this on vinyl. I have a deep love for Carol King. This plays like a greatest hits because you know all of these songs. I enjoyed the hippie dippy melodies and The soft sounds. This is definitely an album I’ve listened to many times and will listen many more. Also, extra points for the kitten on the cover.
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Originally I was shocked at how little Rolling Stones I have in my record collection. Then these songs reminded me of the grand Stones VS Beatles debate and my house has always a Beatles house and remains so.
Starting with Paint It, Black makes me understand why people in this era were on a crazy amount of drugs falling into a hole with this as a soundtrack.
Complete side note: I was trippin on the punctuation and tried to figure out what was being implied by the comma before black - apparently it was just a typo on original records they removed later.
Second side note: I guess that’s just the American version!
Then I immediately get ripped out of it with Stupid Girl. Apparently Keith Richards stated this song was written about the girls they met on tour and how shallow and vain they seemed. He’s seems fully unaware of his place in this dynamic.
Then the vibes shift again with the super melodic Lady Jane. Just don’t listen to the lyrics because again they seem fully unaware they are any piece of the problematic puzzle. Or maybe they think Going Home balances it? Though that is all about her making him feel good so the scales are still tipped for sure.
What To Do is a song 100% written by drugs.
The instrumental parts of this album vary greatly and are generally fun. I get some of why the Beatles and Stones are compared so much. You get soft and melodic, wild and dancy, and more rock and rolly. I enjoyed that part. You guys are all musical and can dissect that part way better than I can so I’ll leave that to you.
This entire album is just oozing good ol’ gross misogyny. It’s a common theme in many of these songs we’ve heard in this project. This record made me want to go on a feminist rampage. Then to add fuel to the fire I was informed I listened to the American version and I had to go back and listen to the UK version and it’s not an album I’ll return to. This just is not my jam.
I can’t handle the 80s. The electronic beats are just not my jam but Cindy Lauper is my jam. She’s fun and silly and has a very no fucks given feel and I respect that. Her vibe is fun and free without being cocky like many of the artists we’ve covered.
Unfortunately, this whole album just makes me think of Robin Sparkles so thanks HIMYM for that.
Witness sounds like what Gwen Stefani sang in her bedroom growing up.
What in the Betty Boop is the end of He’s So Unusual??
When You Were Mine is my favorite song on the album.
Overall, despite the fact that this album sounds so very 80s I enjoyed it a lot and would gladly dance around my house flinging my arms about and pretending I’m in a John Hughes movie.
I didn’t do my usual dive into the lyrics but it was fun and upbeat but no song really stuck out to me. I wouldn’t listen again probably.
I spent the entirety of my first listen trying to figure out who the f he sounds like. Then Matt pointed out it’s half my playlist. He sounds like everyone.
I think a lot of these albums suffer from how influential they were because they feel unfairly played out.
The first time through all of the songs blended together and all felt like a really long version of the same song.
He is known for his sad lyrics and these deliver though many songs have great quotable lyrics, they frequently fail to tell a fully story.
I highly recommend another listen because this album grew on me slowly with subsequent listens.
This album was a fun experience. I don’t always love live albums but you get a feel for Johnny in this album. These songs all tell great stories.
Soooo very very 80s.
This album is a wild ride. The beats, the lyrics, the full thing is all dripping in 90s.
There is an inverse relationship between the number of times you tell me you're tough and the amount I believe it.
I'm starting to wonder if I just hate music? I might. Maybe it's women this project is teaching me to hate? Not sure. I'll get back to you.
I imagine listening to this album driving across some unnamed middle state back in the day hit so nice.
Bruce is never a guy I go searching for but always find myself singing along to when he pops on the radio (aka my spotify mixes).
They literally just scream so much. It fits their time frame so well and I’m sure this is great to go sip your milkshake at the drive in but not so much for me.
Not feeling well mixed with the Spotify rights issue means I listened to the one Spotify song. I did watch his letterman interview. Homie is mad weird and I respect that.
This kind of hard core punk is just not for me. Indistinct screaming. You know that crowd is annoying and pushing people. The bar is filled with smoke and everyone has horrendous BO. Kasey described the exact bar scene this fits and it’s just not for me.
David Bowie has always been a fun listen for me. Partially, I enjoy that he always makes me think of the Labyrinth and partially just because he has a free-ness about him that I don't know how to articulate. He's a good time listen for me.
He's got the story telling, I could 100% picture myself dancing around my house to this (and have with some of these songs), overall I'm into it.
I can't understand anything she is saying in the first song. The first song just made me angry in general. The album cover looks like she took some drugs and now she thinks her friend is chasing her when really they're just making sure she doesn't run into traffic.
This is a solid 'eh' to me.
This is 100% the step before Rush. I actually enjoyed it more than I enjoy Rush by far. Not a ton of variation sonically or lyrically but solid air guitar songs.
I’m always here for thirsty boys with anxious attachment styles singing their hearts out.
Story telling: on point. I too have dated hoes, I get it. They may need a little therapy but that’s ok.
Beats: on point. How do you hold still listening to this? I’ve looked like a crazy person at work all morning…
Oooohs: completely on point. Oooh!
I 100% picture the California raisins when I listen to I Heard It Through The Grapevine.
So I listened to what was on Spotify. It looks like this another licensing issue situation. What I heard on Spotify was enough and I won’t be searching these guys out.
Is the bottom left guy on the cover in brown face?
Look, I don’t know music like y'all do but I don’t think they’re playing the same song at the same time in this first song.
Oh hey, I know this second song.
Third song: is this the wiggles?
Most of the rest: wtf
Last song: Marlon?
I own this on vinyl.
I grew up listening to a lot of music in this vein being blasted in my dad’s shop so albums like this and Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin all smell like oil and welding to me.
This project has taught me that I actually like Black Sabbath more than I realized.
The music is great for a solid stank face and head rockin’. Lyrics are good with some clever lines.
I love that albums back in the day were meant as albums. They bring you up and set you down and it’s a wonderful ride.
Queens of the Stone Age definitely listened to Hand of Doom on repeat. In this album you can hear the direct influence Black Sabbath had on lots of early aught bands.
I had no idea what this was going into it but it was an entertaining listen
Kanye was innovative once before he lost his literal fucking mind. Taking the music outside of the artist, the Kanye loved puns in this album. His beats are crazy and the knowledge he has to just be able to sample the wide array he does was brilliant. RIP
It is strongly recoded that I am a Beatles guy. That being said, I rarely enjoy their individual projects. They need each other.
This is another one of those albums where I feel like the artist is high on their own supply.
I don’t love the titular track very much. Possibly it’s just too played out but it sounds silly to me.
Crippled Inside - I get it bro. Same.
Jealous Guy - I also get it. Though I don’t usually beat the person I’m jealous over but you know, we’re different guys. I actually like this song but I too am a whiny brat.
We get some rockish jams and some slow jams. The variation is nice. I think this album tells me John was not the lyric guy in The Beatles. His lyrics lack creativity and depth and are really disappointing. His voice is so whiny on its own.
How Do You Sleep feels like he’s trying to capture The Beatles feel while attacking Paul? The weird grammar in the lyrics makes me wildly uncomfortable.
Oh Yoko makes me want to vom. What an appropriate ending.
Tokyo Storm Warning is kind of a jam.
The rest of it I just don’t think I get this guy. I don’t think he’s a good singer? Maybe I’m just a hater? These 47 minutes felt long.
I have been a Tracy Chapman champion for forever. I used to sing Fast Car at the top of my lungs hoping that the all too real portrait of growing up broke wasn't going to be my future.
Baby Can I Hold You has been a song I've sang at the top of my lungs for far too many years now.
I love the messaging, the lyrics, the imagery. I'm ready to follow her into the revolution!
I can’t hear these lyrics. Maybe her voice is pretty? No clue what she’s saying. These beats are sooooo repetitive. I feel like I’m on a pause screen in a video game. I don’t think I’m on the right kind of drugs for this?
These songs flew by but I can’t say I even really noticed when one song faded to the next. With few exceptions it felt like pretty basic rock of this era. Maybe that’s because they were influential? I’m not sure but this just sounds like basic rock.
I've forgotten everything since listening to this album yesterday so clearly no lasting impact.
Look at these little dweebs sharing guitars. Adorbs. This kind of cheesy music has its place in history somewhere for a reason but not an album I’d revisit.
Bob Marley's sound is cool and there probably is a lot I am missing but the sounds of reggae are just not for me. I'm here for the messaging mostly but it also makes me sleepy and forget to listen to the lyrics.
This album makes me want to do drugs which seems like a common side effect of things called war on drugs.
I can imagine the exact show they would put on and I want to go.
His voice is just so cozy and their sound is so comforting.
I’m sure I’ll be the outlier here but this album came out at a time in my life where I was heartbroken in 16 different ways. Adele is great at being the soundtrack to the desperate need to have things back that were once yours.
The opening sounds like it’d be used for a show opening in the early 2000s in the realm of Gilmore Girls.
These songs are short fun tunes. You can hear that they are a California based band in the light tunes.
The title of this album is a a lot. Say it five times fast. I like it.
My head was bobbin’ immediately.
Heaven is 10 Zillion Lightyears Away is a total shift. I normally hate god songs purely on principle but I love every part of this song and I can’t fully articulate why.
By song three I guess every song is going to be a whole different thing. I love it. Too Shy To Say is sweet and very peaceful.
What is this instrument making this sound in Boogie On Reggae Woman? You know what I’m talking about.
Some of the sounds in here feel like precursors to a lot of the synthy 80s sound but funkier and funner here.
They Won’t Go When I Go feels like a direct influence on Leon Bridges and that sphere.
Bird of Beauty feels chaotic and a little rushed.
This is bar music for sure
I really enjoyed Are You The One I’ve Been Waiting For?
Very calm, chill music.
The voice over in Green Eyes is weird and uncomfortable.
I liked this more than the other album. Reggae isn’t my jam but it’s cool.
This is the evolutionary link between Footloose and Billy Ray Cyrus. This is a little more hick than I like my country but it was a decent listen.
I enjoyed the jazz influence and the deeper voice. I enjoy the darker lyrics though, knowing that they come from real trauma is sad.
This album feels like a compilation of other bands that were their contemporaries. The lyrics are simple. The sounds are nice but nothing really blew my mind.
This is like the Wiggles trying to rebrand after leaving Disney so they got weirdly sexual.
It erased my review I wrote as I listened but the basics I remember are:
His affinity/obsession/idk with Indians is weird.
Welfare Mothers sounds good but the lyrics are not it.
Sedan Delivery may be my favorite.
I know Neil Young was in like 57 bands so his style sounds so much like those other bands but he has a lasting sound. There are contemporary bands I listen to that definitely are influenced by him.
I enjoy his overall sound. I think the guitar parts are cool. I like his voice.
Hearing this version of Sugary Magnolia is crazy.
The Dead are like sushi - at first you’re like what the hippie fuck is this. Then you keep trying it and eventually it clicks and you love it.
This album is much more twangy than my usual Dead picks but I’m enjoying the upbeat vibes. I know Pigpen and Jerry were juggling band guys and I think that’s a lot of the sound.
Pigpen’s voice on Operator sounds old in 1970! He wasn’t! He died at 27!
I love Jerry’s voice on Ripple. I just love Ripple. It’s so calming!
Brokedown Palace is a song that has made me cry multiple times in my life. It’s beautiful, the lyrics are on point, the boys singing together. This song makes me feel too many things. For a band that still tours in its numerous versions, I believe these lyrics.
Attics of my Life sounds a bit like a choir doing Christmas carols but the lyrics are beautiful.
I’ve listened to many of these songs live, some multiple times. It’s so fun to hear the differences and changes they’ve made over the years and as the members of the band have been in different configurations.
I want to be in a sea of incredibly kind high people now.
Hey! Student demonstration talks about IV!
This is so different than the sound I usually associate with them. There are a few beachy jams on here but there’s a lot more variability and musicianship on here.
The sound is dripping in California vibes with lyrics to match.
This is a band I’ve been exposed to by my parents for years but apparently I enjoy their hits more than their deep cuts. I know this album is really popular but it is a bit sleepy for me. Nothing really pulled me in. I think maybe I’m missing something and need to attempt another listen?
This album is brimming with contemporary references and lyrics that have aged grossly.
Man, I forgot how dark this album is. I kinda see why parents were losing their minds over it.
This album gets an extra star because sooooo many songs have been sampled and used throughout music. As a straight listen though it’s so long! It is always fun to hear where samples come from but I’d never listen to this again.
I had a huge crush on LL and the crazy way he moves his mouth in his music videos when I was little but I won’t allow that to bias this review.
This sounds so epically 90s. The need to put on a drum track and just loop it drives me nuts about all rap in this era but I think this album adds some fun samples and other beats.
The raps aren’t too innovative but he’s got some fun lines.
Thank god rap has evolved to Kendrick and Vince and others because a lot of things are silly in this album. But “your raps are cheesy. Must have got em in a mouse trap” is golden.
“Couldn’t bust a grape in a food fight” is going to be my new insult. I want to give it 5 stars for that alone.
I spent a lot of years not particularly liking The White Stripes. I think their whole mythos just really turned me off and I couldn’t get past it. Now I can recognize that they are extremely talented musicians.
This album is drenched in Led Zeppelin influence. Meg’s drumming is bad ass. Jack’s guitar playing is crazy good. The lyrics are solid. Turns out I like this album a whole lot.
These lyrics give me meat to chew on and I love it. “If I could find emotion to stimulate devotion” is pretty damn good. All of I’m Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman is so good.
I think if I gave this album a few more listens it might grow on me? Is there something there? It’s definitely in the area of what I like I just don’t know if I like this yet?
You can hear the influence the Pixies have in so much music that follows them. The grunge scene couldn’t be what it was without Pixies.
4 songs. 39 minutes.
I prefer my jazz live because watching the musicians play with their whole body and look so into it always drags me deeper in. I watch how they crinkle their faces and glance at each other to attempt to decipher the story they’re telling.
Track A was a nice roller coaster. It was fun and variable. Track B feels wild and chaotic like the band is just throwing some stuff out there. But that’s just jazz to my untrained ear sometimes.
Track C is like a ballet. I can imagine the choreography. The fact that is Mode D and not Track D is a jazz ass move. Way to break out some Spanish guitar on this track! Interesting shift!
So when dudes tell me constantly how much ass they get I immediately assume they can’t get no ass.
Packet Man is a wild song. This album is hilarious and I enjoyed it even though it’s so creeptastic.
The beats are actually pretty good for early 90s rap and the lyrics are so silly but it was fun.
Am I in a spy movie?
Are there aliens in this spy movie?
Lyrics are on drugs but the guitar rips.
The lyrics of Rock Lobster are insane. It’s almost 7 minutes long. Fucking wild. Apparently it made John Lennon want to start recording music again. The beats are incredible. What even are some of these sounds? The sounds the chick makes after homie lists the (real and fake) animals are gold.
This is 100% what I’d expect from 1979.
I don’t think I knew the band but I definitely remember some of these songs from this era.
This first song makes me feel like I’m on hold.
Very chill background music. I zone it out and forget to pay attention to it a lot but it’s soft and soothing.
This album gets a little stronger by the end but I don’t think anything really grabbed hold of me.
Is this how Marlon feels when he listens to the Beatles?
This is why you shouldn’t do drugs.
I don’t know why but I hated everything about this.
This was an interesting listen. This album feels incredibly varied with songs that sound like Queen then others that have Beach Boys vibes. I actually liked it a lot.
I’m not generally big on live albums but the sound quality here and the type of music Dylan does works. This album felt very long but overall I enjoyed it.
I like I Want To Be Adored. Maybe this is one I’d like more with more listens? It’s just kind of mumbly.
