This was my first album, and I had never heard of this group before. There was much to like about this album. I dug a few of the instrumentals with French titles particularly.
Classic album that gets the job done in a little over 30 minutes.
Rap isn't one of my favourite genres of music, and this album didn't do much for me. There were parts I liked, such as the little fragment that sorta repeats itself throughout the album, but some of the songs felt a bit disconnected structurally, and some of the samples didn't seem to make sense in their respective songs. It's not for me, though I can understand why many people like it.
AC/DC rock! Maybe their music is sometimes a bit samey, but who cares, it still makes me wanna run a marathon and get laid.
I’ve never heard this before, but this might be one of the best debuts I have heard. Originally gave it a four, but decided to bump it up to a five.
Imagine if The Cure actually released an album that only went for seventeen seconds…
This album was okay, but a bit depressing and samey at times. The Cure have done much better.
Funny to think that these guys were once considered to be the next Beatles.
I don’t know why John Barleycorn deserves to die, but I liked this album anyway. One of the tracks near the end of the album convinced me to bump my score up to a four.
Has more songs than London Calling, just to name one classic double album, yet very few songs on this would be worthy of being on that masterpiece.
Back when country music was not about beer and booty, but when it was about shooting bad guys and getting hanged. Oh, how I miss the old times.
Dunno why this album was on the list, but it was a pretty decent listen.
Very good prog album. I will not make this review longer than the first track.
Oh, how I wish the lord had taught them some songs that are actually any good, instead of this lame punk nonsense…
Back when I was in college I used to go to a bar and.....oh wait, wrong Neil Young album.
This is probably an album that music nerds wouldn't care for, but I enjoyed the hell outta it for some reason. I would make for a terrible music critic, but that doesn't worry me.
Sorry Pitchfork, but I didn’t care for this. Which is strange, because Fiona Apple has done some good stuff.
Banger after banger. Can't believe that there is only one album by Billy Joel on this list yet many bands I've never heard of before have two albums. I shouldn't question it too much.
Okay, I’ll shake my money maker, though not when anyone is watching. I’m a really bad dancer
Because I never really listened to Radiohead before, I had mixed feelings about this album. There were some great songs, but also some that I did not care for. Maybe I should relisten to it one day.
Hot take, but New Order is basically '80s music with the campiness removed to make it palatable for music nerds. The album was alright, but it peaks with the first two or three tracks and doesn't quite reach the same heights again.
I get the appeal of this type of music, but it's a bit too dark and depressing for me.
I'm surprised to see so many reviewers complaining about this album's length. This is because the only version of this album available on streaming is the "Collector's Edition" of the album, with a whole other disc of bonus tracks and stuff that regular people wouldn't be interested in. You only have to listen to the first thirteen tracks on the album (up to "This Land Is Your Land), and what an enjoyable thirteen tracks they are! This is definitely my kind of music, and it makes me want to check out more stuff from The Waterboys.
(Originally gave this album four stars, but screw it, I'm giving this a five).
There's a lot of superior music to be found from the sixties, but this is harmless enough. Dunno why he has three albums on the list though.
Excellent double album that stays consistent throughout all four sides. I even liked the stuff with the sped up vocals.
A totally solid album, though there are some songs with extremely strange titles.
“Wild Honey Pie” is awful, but this still deserves 5 stars.
A little over-the-top with distortion, but some good melodies, so three stars.
After a two month break from the generator, I’m back with this album. A decent suite of piano driven songs.
Ah, an Elvis Presley album. I really enjoyed this one. A splendid 30 minute collection of rockers and ballads.
This is my 29th album overall and the 13th album that I gave four or five stars to. Interestingly, none of those 13 albums were released after 1989. That makes me feel older than I actually am………..
Better than I expected it to be. Has quite a good sound quality for a punk record, which is nice. I’d also like to point out that every track on the album is tagged as explicit on Apple Music, despite the fact that the only potentially offensive language is a single use of “bitching” (Note that I’m not counting the lyrics of the dozen bonus tracks, I didn’t listen to them). How strange.
An interesting, but flawed album, that has no definitive version (just look at the number of alternative tracklists on Wikipedia). I enjoyed it, but it felt a bit…..disconnected. I don’t know.
Great performance, tight musicianship, great atmosphere, and great singing and band leading by the Godfather of Soul himself. Only complaint is that I wish that the bass was placed in the centre of the mix instead of being hard-panned to the left!
It was certainly listenable, but not the type of music I’d want to listen to often. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the Timbaland-produced tracks, but the rest was okay for 2000s pop music, I guess. I’m not the best judge of pop music from this century, though I will admit that “Rock Your Body” Is a banger.
Dude tried really hard to make an album bigger and better than Thriller, but I don’t think he succeeded. Not bad though (pun intended).
Very good reworkings of classic country songs. Nice job, Ray.
Stunning and influential album by a very grumpy dude from Northern Ireland.
Pretty average rock album that is a bit overrated on here. Surprised by its high score on this site.
It’s good, but a little too long. A good double album that would’ve made a great single disc.
I’m not sure what to rate this album because I’m not a connoisseur of ambient music, so I’ll give this a three. Nice and mellow, good for playing while you are having a nap.
This is one of my favourite albums so far that I hadn’t heard before in this project and hands down the best album I have gotten that was released in the last thirty years (at least of the albums I have gotten so far).
Yes, I know it’s a bit stupid, and KISS are very unpopular with music nerds, but I though that this was alright.
This is one of the lowest rated albums on this website, and I can certainly see why. I somewhat enjoyed the first track ironically, but I quickly grew tired of it.
Dear Phil Spector,
Thanks for the Christmas gift, you creepy bastard. We will never forgive you for murdering Lana Clarkson, but here’s three stars for making a Christmas album that I actually wouldn’t mind listening to.
Damn, Keith Moon may have been the greatest drummer ever. This is a legendary album that doesn’t lag in the middle, contrary to what the most popular review of this album claims. Now I gotta go piss on a monolith.
Not much on this album was up to the level of the tracks that Nico sang on The Velvet Underground and Nico, but I thought that this was okay. Maybe the reason why this has such a low average rating on this site is because some people can’t stand listening to a woman with a thick German accent for 45 minutes?
Groovy psychedelic blues from 1967. Funny to see that the most popular keyword for this album is ‘Spotify’, because the complete album is not on streaming for some reason.
Well, I suppose there are worse musicians named Drake, that’s for sure.
It must have been a great day to be a serial killer in San Quentin that day. I mean, Johnny friggin’ Cash played a concert for them. Those lucky undeserving (BLEEP).
Not even 50 albums in and I have already gotten both live albums recorded in Japan on this list (the other one being Cheap Trick’s At Budokan). Out of those two albums, I prefer this one because it is more technically impressive and exciting, although some of the songs outstay their welcome (which is kind of expected, because this is a 77 minute album with a mere seven tracks).
Overall this was a pretty good album. Some of the production was a bit too bizarre for my tastes, but this album had several enjoyable songs.
This record has a real bitchin’ vibe.
Hands down the greatest elevator music album of all time!
All jokes aside, this is a nice album. Beautiful arrangements and great vocals from the Chairman of the Board. I’ll basically give almost anything from the sixties a good score.
Although it is hard to overlook Randy Newman using the n-word multiple times in the first track, one can’t deny that this is a well made album by the Toy Story dude. There’s something comforting about Randy Newman’s music, even if he tackles controversial subjects in the lyrics.
Only a legend like Bob Dylan in the sixties could end an album with a silly song about catching dinosaurs and making love to Elizabeth Taylor without the album losing any integrity. What a dude!
A classic from Clapton. Maybe it should’ve been cut down to one LP, but I shouldn’t complain. It’s still makes for a very good two disc set.
Also, how funny would it be if instead of stealing George Harrison’s wife, Eric Clapton fell in love with a different Beatle’s wife: Yoko Ono! That would have been weird.
This generator has recently been giving me a lot of good albums from the late sixties and early seventies. “Solid Air” is a solid album. Nice listen.
What the hell was this? I was expecting to really hate this album, I mean, it’s a rap album about a gynaecologist from Jupiter, and I’m not much of a rap guy, but for some reason, I kind of enjoyed it. The lyrical subject was quite bizarre, but I'm usually more of a music guy, and this album had many solid beats.
You can tell that Kendrick Lamar put a lot of thought and care into this album, and he draws from a wide range of musical influences. I like this album, but I’m not crazy about it like most music nerds seem to be.
Was thinking of giving this a four but then “Don’t” came on. Jeez. That song should replace “Mother” by The Police as the quintessential example of an abrasive, out-of-place song, sung by a member who is not the lead singer, on an otherwise classic album by an 80s trio (that’s overly specific of me). Other than that misstep, this album was good.
A bunch of fun. Makes me want to watch “The Birdcage” again.
It’s very impressive that Muddy Waters was still making kickass albums into his sixties. A true blues legend.
Makes this sober Australian feel like a drunk Irishman.
The singing is awful, a lot of the songs sound the same, and a lot of the songs are extremely dark and depressing. I enjoyed it!
This is a good album, nothing more, nothing less. I wouldn’t say that you have to listen to it before you die, but there are certainly worse albums on the list.
I bet a lot of people saw the title of this album and thought it was going to be a collection of happy, cheesy surf-rock songs, but instead, this album is something else entirely. This may possibly be my favourite Beach Boys album, even though it is not as perfect as Pet Sounds. I mean, Pet Sounds doesn't have Mike Love attempting to rewrite Riot In Cell Block 9 in the middle of it. But there are many beautiful moments to be found on the record and I love nearly every minute of it (even Student Demonstration Time kinda slaps, even though it is very out of place). Also, it has the only great song sung from the perspective of a fucking tree.
Excellent stuff from the son of the guy who had 27 wives (Femi even mentions this in the intro of one of the album's songs). An enjoyable way to spend 74 minutes.
My friend Laurence says that this is the greatest jazz album ever, and I think I would have to agree with him. It's amazing how it goes through many weird chord changes and key signatures while still being quite accessible to nearly all audiences. I could listen to this stuff all day. Also, as a bonus, this album was released on December 14, my birthday. I like it even more because of that.
I had never heard of Solomon Burke before, and he is a fantastic singer. There are a lot of good songs on this album. I have a weakness for a lot of 1960s music. You would rarely ever see me give a low score to a soul album from that time period.
Man, this album has such a relaxing groove. Reggae is not the first genre that comes to mind when I think of my favourite genres of music, but I do enjoy it whenever I listen to some. It's a bit like smoking weed, but without the illegality or potential side effects.
This is an example of a likeable record that is almost a four, but not quite for some reason. There are a few cracking pop hooks on the record and sick bass lines, and it is definitely very listenable, but it doesn't have a certain je ne sais quoi that turns it from a good three star album to a great four star album. There have been a few albums on the generator like that.
So now I'm an Oasis fan? Was surprised that I ended up liking this album so much. Lots of killer tracks.
This is nearly a five but I don't want to inflate the Gallagher brothers' egos to a bigger size than they already are.
Excellent musicianship and production on this album. I thought that "Sex Machine" was going to be a cover of the James Brown song but I was wrong! Also contains the all-time classic "Everyday People", a two and a half minute gem.
I suppose I do have a bit of a soft spot for some 2000s alternative rock. Some other albums from this time period left me underwhelmed, but this one was quite good actually. Nice.
This was pretty decent. Liked the soulfulness of some of the tracks, fitting that the word 'soul' is in the title!
Nice album, I presume it would grow on me if I listened to it more. Liked some of the production.
