Lyrically this album is an absolute masterpiece. Easily my favourite album by Bob Dylan.

basically why Nile Rodgers has had something to do with all music in the 80s

Imagining what it would've been like when this album first dropped. Basically the birth of heavy metal, especially as around the time Deep purple and Black Sabbath were starting out. You can hear a lot of the blues in there, with a lot of Robert Johnson style guitar playing. Its by no means Led Zeppelin's best but its probably one of the best debut albums. and it just blew the doors so wide open for every hard rock and heavy metal band to follow.

I get why Mr. Brightside fills dancefloors and gets everyone singing along, but its at best alright. The rest of the album is mediocre. Songs are well crafted, but dreary, uninteresting, and generic. It’s like someone took Interpol, stripped away everything interesting and shoved a synthesizer in.

I really enjoyed this album. Smooth lounge act sounds, fun bouncy lyrics full of joy.

I really enjoyed this album. Lots of jazz, funk and soul. The vocals are fantastic.

Absolutely superb album

Big fan of basically anything Pixies or Frank Black related

This album really means a lot to me. I’ve listened to it more times than I can count and it’s one I often turn to whether im feeling sad, or my heads just in a weird place It captures a generation just as much as Oasis do. I’ve seen Richard Ashcroft live a couple of times now and when he drops into the Verve tracks you can feel it ripple through the whole crowd. The Drugs Don’t Work is probably my favourite. From what I know it’s about Richard’s dad when he was dying of cancer and every single time it leaves me in tears. Aside from Bittersweet Symphony the obvious big ones are Sonnet and Lucky Man but for me the next best track is The Rolling People. There isn’t a single song I’d skip. The whole thing is amazing, powerful and beautiful.

It's certainly of it's time, bluesy riffs and very 60s style harmonics, but you can hear the roots punk, and its quite easy to draw a straight line from The Who to the Sex Pistols and The Clash.

This is such a great album to dip your toes into jazz. Its easy listening, well spaced melodies, and nothing insane going on. It's nothing like say Charles Mingus or Frank Zappa. But it is blissful and calming.

Disco

Didn't get chance to listen to it all. But thought it was generally good.

I think I first heard this album when I was around 12 or 13, and it turned me into a full on Bowie obsessive. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more perfect opening and closing to an album than Five Years and Rock 'n' Roll Suicide at least not in the world of rock operas or theatrical albums. The way it explores Ziggy's journey through identity, gender, isolation, and the pressures of being a personality in a toxic world. Topics that are even more relevant today. Even though David Bowie has been gone for nearly a decade, his work was way ahead of its time and the world still hasn't caught up. This album is perfect to me and is easily one of my top five. It’s special because Ziggy Stardust and Bowie in general made me want to dive deeper into music. I owe so much of my musical journey and discoveries to him and this album. I try to avoid putting musicians on pedestals, but Bowie is one I can make an exception for. Favourite songs: Moonage Daydream, Lady Stardust and Rock 'n' Roll Suicide.

I've never been a fan of James Dean Bradfield's vocals, and im not a massive fan of the manics generally. But besides that this is a really great album. A design for life is the main banger, Kevin Carter is also brilliant. ive seen them live before now, and these songs do hit a bit differently then. ive always preferred Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci of the 90s welsh bands that were fairly big at the time.

enjoyed this, i cant place where ive heard the opening track before.

This is the kind of jazz I really love. There's less structure, much less composition. It's all about experimenting and seeing where they end up, and for me is what jazz is all about. It’s not free jazz, but it's freer and looser than Kind of Blue. The musicians constantly playing off each other. For example In the first track, the trumpet starts picking up on what the drums are doing, then the guitar, bass, and keys fall in, and suddenly it locks into a solid groove. Then it breaks apart again, with everyone going their own way. That pattern keeps repeating coming together, breaking apart so each track feels alive, growing, and shifting in all kinds of directions. But it doesn’t just descend into utter chaos and insanity like true free jazz. There’s always an underlying groove holding it all together.

I'd only really heard the name Robert Wyatt, never actually listened to him until now. Sort of jazz / prog rock thing. There’s some weird shit going on throughout, at times it feels like a fever dream (in a good way), but then right in the middle of it all you’ll get these really beautiful melodies. It reminds me a lot of Can (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_(band)) it's kinda hypnotic, a bit self-indulgent, a bit pretentious but interesting to listen to. Apparently Brian Eno produced it and you can definitely hear the Eno-y atmospheric style, and Paul Weller did bits on it as well, which is cool. Overall I rather enjoyed it, but I do really like conceptual stuff like this, and I'm going to have to go give Soft Machine a listen now.

The energy in his performance is pretty amazing. it must have been amazing to be in the crowd

Atmospheric, kinda psychedelic, krautrock sounds. I wouldn't say it's anywhere near to being as significant as Screamadelica. But its quite a distinctive change from their acid house/alternative rock stuff. Overall good record though.

i always forget U2 are a really good band