ACK, ACK, ACK, ACK, ACK! 3/5. Super catchy songs all throughout. I don’t usually enjoy such piano heavy albums, but it’s to be expected here. Standout: Vienna
Corgan’s voice has always been a huge hindrance for me as I’ve attempted to enjoy this band. Despite this, 1979 has always been one of my favorite 90’s songs so I at least wanted to listen that far. It was rough. I give this one 2 out of 5 stars, and that’s solely because of 1979.
Not my cup of tea, but I can definitely understand why it was/is so influential for the genre. Had I been driving while listening to this album I would’ve easily gotten a speeding ticket.
Short and sweet with a nice mix of fun, upbeat songs and slower ballads. Let the Good Times Roll and Jump Into the Fire were my favorites. Coconut gets a ton of hate and has a reputation for being a bit of a meme. Is it repetitive? Absolutely, and on top of that there’s only a single chord in the whole song, but the way that it slowly builds as the song progresses is endlessly entertaining to me.
Smooth and sexy from start to finish, but it felt like there was really only one tempo. The bass lines are great, as well as the sax. Clear standouts to me are When Am I Going to Make a Living and Cherry Pie.
I narrowed the track list down to 12 songs because there’s no way I was gonna listen to this for three hours. I’d have difficulty doing that for my favorite bands. I chose songs based on how interesting the song titles were to me, and I enjoyed it! It goes without saying, her voice is amazing. The band was great too!
I’m in the tiny percentage of people who can’t stand Janis Joplin’s voice. It’s never impressed me, and more often than not it irritates me. The band on this album was exactly fine, nothing to write home about. My favorite on this one was Buried Alive In the Blues for obvious reasons. I’m giving it 3/5 because I’m positive there are albums on this list I’ll dislike more.
As a Gorillaz fan who knows next to nothing about Britpop outside of a handful of Oasis songs, I was excited to check this out. It didn’t disappoint! Catchy songs all over the place, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out I already knew a couple. Standouts: Bank Holiday, London Loves
Some great songs on this one, and Victoria is such an awesome way to begin an album. Yes Sir, No Sir is so damn catchy, I couldn’t get it out of my head for hours afterwards. Some Mother’s Son and Shangri-La are a couple others that really stood out to me. I’ve always been told that The Kinks were just as good if not better than The Beatles and while i cannot definitively say I believe that or not, I’m excited to dig deeper
I’m really familiar with the singles on this album, but I’ve been meaning to listen to the whole thing for seemingly decades, and I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. Everybody Wants to Rule the World just might be the best song of the 1980’s, but I particularly love the way the last four songs on the album fade into one another and share similar motifs. Of all the albums I’ve gotten up to this point this by far the one that excited me to get.
ZZ Top was created in a lab to write songs for your stepdad. When it comes to their albums it’s easy to predict what you’re gonna get: white people blues rock about having sex with beautiful women. All of the music is performed well, and occasionally the songs are good! I wasn’t psyched about this one, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected, and that might be because I found it so easy to tune out. Until one of them began singing about 69ing.