I'm pretty sure this is just the ESWAT sound track with a droning vocal on top.
I mean, this is my favorite album of all time, so...
I liked it! As long as I aggressively don't listen to the lyrics, it's quite nice! If I do listen to the lyrics, it's corny as hell. Where do the Children Play? is a stone's throw away from They Paved Paradise and Put Up A Parking Lot.
Another one of my all time favorites!
Loved this one top to bottom, completely new to me. I'm giving it a 4, but it's a stone's throw from a 5 for me, I think.
idk, it's fine, kind of a miss for me, but I don't dislike it.
This album did not make great first impression, but like the second half pretty well.
It was neat! Extremely juvenile, but in a fun way. I feel like I could have liked this a lot if it came around at the right place/time.
Man, I love Bowie in general, but this album didn't really do anything for me.
I spent at least one point in every song thinking "is this song over yet?"
they should take that organ away from that man
I enjoyed listening to it, and Sultans of Swing is a banger, a lot of the rest of the songs are pretty skippable.
Papa was a rolling stone is a banger, the rest is kind of forgettable, but it's an easy, short listen.
It's a good drum and bass compilation, and I think it was probably really relevant at the time as DJ compilations were just starting to hit the world. I think I would probably have loved this if I heard it when released. But looking back on it with the perspective of how DnB has evolved since then, it feels a little weak across the board, honestly.
I listened to this album multiple times and I don't think any particular song jumped out at me on any particular listen, but, idk, it was pleasant to have on while working?
Really liked it! I like this fairly loose idea of a concept album, most of the songs were pretty good. It loses the plot a bit at the end. Will probably listen to again!
It's good, Missy has a lot of aura and it's a great Timbaland showcase, easy to listen to, but it feels... insubstantial, I guess.
Honestly, pretty fun! I'm sick as hell right now, so all the songs kind of flowed past me like water, however I had a good time with this! If it popped up on autoplay, I probably wouldn't turn it off. That said, I feel like this album was a little hurt by being a live album, with the *key exception* of the kpop-esque coordinated chanting during parts of the songs, which was *awesome*.
I really enjoyed this one! Very in line with east coast rap at the time, but with a bit of a unique perspective. I'd never heard of Jeru before. I'm looking forward to tracking down more of his stuff. Also interesting to hear early DJ Premier!
What number is appropriate for "This band seems good but I hope this dude gets a particularly painful form of cancer?"
Credit to this album for making me re-evaluate what's important to me about music, at least. I often like my music written by emotional disasters, and I don't think we should evaluate every lyric as being autobiographical, so... why did I hate this *so* much? I feel like normally I don't have such a hard time giving terrible POV characters some grace. I considered several possibilities:
* I just don't like the genre, so I'm giving it a shorter leash - This is probably true to a degree, but honestly, the instrumentation on this album kind of made me feel differently about grunge, so I don't think that's it.
* Everyone has certain lyrical triggers they just have less patience for than others, and angry bro manbaby misogyny is one for me - This is true to a degree, but I usually have more patience than *this*, so it's not quite it either.
* You can be a disaster, but you have to know it - I'll forgive a lot of sins if you're self reflective about it. You don't even have to be *apologetic* about it, you just have to examine it a *little*. The closest this album comes is the song where he's like 'fuck you for being angry at me that I slept around'.
* You can be shitty, but you have to be shitty *and good* - and here is why I think I truly hate this album. The lyrics are trash from a "they're problematic and this dude seems incredibly shitty" standpoint, but they're also just *really bad*. Like *really really bad*. For me to get over what a dick you seem like you have to be, idk, insightful or poetic or clever or funny or even just really mean. This is none of that. You will benefit none from a further examination of any of these lyrics.
This album is also really hurt by its unwavering consistency. A concept album about the bad breakup of a toxic relationship is timeless, so, sure, but you have a whole album to examine every facet of that relationship, and, like, it's 10 songs of "fuck you" and then one song of "fuck you but the sex was pretty good i guess" and, uh, i guess that's really all you had to say, my dude?
idk, man, it's an awkward listen in 2025. Still really good, though. I'm giving it a rating sort of deliberately ignoring that it's now straight up nazi music, but honestly I generally can't force myself to listen to it these days.
I like a guitar arpeggio into delay and reverb as much as anyone else, but I think that's the only trick this album's got.
Man, I like a lot of what's going on in this album, but I don't love any of it, and I find a lot of the vocals annoying. It was an interesting one, and not unpleasant, but I'll be honest, I have *no idea* what it's doing on this list.
There are a lot of things I like about ZZ Top, and I left with a fairly positive impression of the album, but I couldn't listen to a lot of it at once - the aggressive lack of substance is a little tiring, I guess.
I feel like every post punk album on here ends up in this vague space of "I like their vibe a lot. I feel pretty neutral about actually listening to their music tho."
I was surprised by how many songs on here I knew.
I... I don't get it. I feel like this is a me problem, but, idk, I just don't understand this one. Several times during this album I had to stop and go "this is a joke, right? this is a parody?"
I spent the entire album thinking "Who even likes this shit?" all while having to grapple with the fact that I really enjoyed the music on this album and I think that, yes, it's me. I like this shit.
Like all circle jerks, I thoroughly enjoyed it! And it lasted 14 minutes longer than it usually does!
I think my least favorite Beatles album. It's still pretty good, though!
I've never really gotten Radiohead. The first track of this album was awesome, and I was like "Wow, is this finally my Radiohead moment?"
Turns out, the answer is no.
Honestly, really kind of enjoyed it! Basically every part of the space rock that was "space" was cringe, but the rock part of it was fun!
This one was all over the place, some of it was pretty fun, but all of it kind of just rolled past me.
Idk, man, I went into this album with a pretty positive impression of the police, but the hits held up less well than I thought they would and the rest of the songs *really* didn't do it for me.
Pretty fun, didn't make a huge impression, but I'd listen to more from them.
idk, man, it's
* less interesting than the emo stuff that came before and clearly inspired it
* less interesting than the rock that was happening at the same time as it
* less interesting than all the indie pop rock stuff that was popular afterwards
It's pretty good! Extremely 80s. Elegia was the only stand out track to me, and I don't think that it's a coincidence that it's the only track without vocals.
Honestly, this album still seems so fresh to me. The hip-hop-first approach to nu metal really stood apart from the genre at the time, and I still think it doesn't really sound like anything else, even after there have been a lot of imitators. My feelings about Linkin Park were mostly that they were fun but trashy, and I just liked them despite that. Listening again, I think I underrated them.
Most of the songs on this album are skippable at best, and several made me wish for death. Pulk/Pull Revolving Door is kind of awesome, but even it is uneven as hell.
