Tres bien! (Of course I'm using my limited knowledge of French to review an album by a French group. Typical)
Fabulous tunes.
Feels a bit choppy and incomplete. I dug the Ham and Eggs song and the interlude that reprises itself many times during the album's runtime, but other than that, I was not particularly impressed.
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.
Wow, excellent album. I hope these guys have a long career with many other classic albums down the line.........oh bummer.
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.
Too long and gets more annoying as it progresses. There was one good track on it, but I forgot its name.
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.
If I wanna hear Damon Albarn songs, I would listen to Blur or Gorillaz. If I wanna hear Paul Simonon play bass, I would listen to The Clash. This is alright, but not really essential.
Epic album.
Oh, how I wish the lord had taught them some songs that are actually any good, instead of this lame punk nonsense…
Not one of my favourites of his, but, you know, it's Neil Young. I still like it a lot.
I really liked this album for some reason.
Sorry Pitchfork, but I didn’t care for this. There are many other Fiona Apple albums that I would take over this.
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
When I initially rated this album, I gave it a three because I wanted to be different to the annoying music snobs that worship Radiohead, but relistening to this, I unfortunately like this album a heap.
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 always have a weakness for this type of music, even if I don't wish I was a fisherman.
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.
Uh-huh. I have a weakness for basic rockabilly tunes from the fifties.
Underrated British punk.
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).
Interestingly I wasn't as crazy for this album as I usually am for most of this old stuff. I really vibe with Bye Bye Love and Hey Good Lookin' though.
It's not as perfect as Moondance, but any album with "Astral Weeks", "Sweet Thing" and "Madame George" is going to be a classic.
Wordy, annoying, British album that feels longer than it is and thinks it is more clever than it is. Really overrated. Good drumming though.
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 slaps.
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.
Very German. I thought her songs on the Velvet Underground debut were better than anything on this, but I liked it anyway.
Groovy blues tunes.
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).
At first, hearing the live version of "Highway Star" got me a bit excited, but I grew tired of this album pretty quickly. And it went on and on and on...........
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.
Solid album.
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.
The music nerds would kill me if I gave this album lower than a four. In reality, I like it, but don't think it's the greatest thing ever.
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.
Nice reggae album.
Some cracking tracks on here, but in the end, I thought this album was merely pretty good. Maybe it was the disgusting weather outside that affected my opinion on this album?
Oh dear, am I a fan of Oasis now?
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 do have a bit of a weak spot sometimes for this type of 2000s alternative rock.
Cee-Lo Green....... made a decent album here.
Nothing Earth shaking. Was a little bit underwhelmed.
The band finds one sound and reuses it multiple times with little variation. The production was kind of interesting at first, but it got very repetitive very quickly. Therefore, I give this album two Djangos out of a possible five Djangos.
Man, Jimi Hendrix was really good at guitar. Maybe this album would've been much better as a single disc, but it still slaps. It's such a shame that we lost Jimi too early, I wonder what he would've done if he hadn't died.
Had me hypnotised.......ah dang it, I couldn't resist making that pun.
Even as a vegetarian, I still think the title track is the worst thing on here. A good album though.
This is a strange one, but a great one. I haven't heard much of Tom Waits' music before, but this was excellent. This was released in the middle of the 1980s, yet with the possible exception of "Downtown Train" (an album highlight), it doesn't sound like it is from that time period at all. A really cool, unique atmosphere, and Waits' unique voice adds a lot of character to the songs. I'm sometimes fond of unconventional voices, they can sometimes add a lot to the overall product. This is a fantastic album, and doesn't overstay it's welcome despite having a large number of songs. Alright then, I'm off to relisten to this album and check out more of Tom Waits' discography.
Well this is a lot of fun.
So……….what are Paul and Julio doing down by the schoolyard? Should I be concerned? Should I call the cops?
Good album though.
