sounds like an messy dive bar in LA. a bit of romantic grime. Let’s call it sweaty punk.
it’s like I woke up and realized that my idealized sense of how to live my youth kept me from losing the plot. flipped nostalgia. i’m left with making out what I just dreamt.
wordplay like no other. this album felt like a raw exorcism of his own psyche.
suburban rap at its finest.
a Triumphant album in every sense BUT what is traditional and safe.
modern by design and it isn't dumbed down for the masses. full of quiet victories in how it confidently pulls off an Intelligent Cool sound. it's just Architectural. it's consistently kinetic & so self-assured. i'll always wonder how it stretches time.
easily a Manifesto to groove.
i've heard a few of the popular tracks. kinda felt like i was watching a good bad romcom. every track feels like it's worth blaring on the road. even though i mistakenly listened to it on shuffle... i thoroughly enjoyed myself. bangers all around.
i couldn't help but enjoy it with irony. i think Steely Dan owns up to it too. the title of the album winks at their own critique and particpation with "the system"-- The Center cannot hold, yadda yadda yadda but at least i'm drinking Coca-Cola.
this self titled album felt like an offering to whatever it is you find Divine. there's so much emotional depth in her lyrics. genuinely felt the brokenness. Baez is safe in her own sharing of vulnerability. her storytelling and images of atlas... just powerful.
i’ve never heard gospel music like this.
these artists must have saved what we know as the genre of rock in the 21st century. i hear punk blues too. it’s guitar driven and i don’t mind it one bit. handful of standout moments that are timeless and iconic. it's sonically stripped down to its bare elements which gives it that raw quality and that is refreshing in the year 2025...Basic is best here.
sounded confessional, like a prayer almost— a cry for salvation. interchangeably gospel music. Lots of yearning, lot of loss, and it was all felt. it’s progressively satisfying. enjoyed it closer and closer to the end.
pretend to be of Scottish descent to MAYBE get into this album.
Like a watered down then bland imitation of Frank Zappa’s work.
just call it an exhibition of Kanye West’s beat making and production— he stole the spotlight whether it was his beats or bars. Kanye really carried here while Dilla’s holding it down. it’s just hard to take yourself out of the thought that this album is an early display of Kanye’s experimental work. it added a whole other dimension to Common’s flows… which i liked at times. felt out of place and forced other times. i kept having to pause and really get a feel for their choices because even today, it’s so refreshing!
A cacophony of moments. hazy at times and then a crescendo of clarity and warmth.
I can hear some of these tracks belonging in the background of late 1960 telly ads. still a fun album to listen to.
politically charged. heavy material with a good sense of humor. seamless transitions. timelessness,
gotta love a bedroom production. even with the album title, it is euphoric throughout—the kind of music you play when getting ready to hit the town. I enjoyed the use of litany in this album too.
so electric. felt so pumped. they really kept the energy up!
there is nobody like Alexander Spence. is "Oar" purely unconventional country folk? probably. i'd go far as to say that this is categorically avant-garde. the album is weird and raw. it expresses playful confusion, a jumble. and we could not have received a better ending to an album that exhibits who Alexander Spence is. he is the original Strange Creature and we'll never hear anything like this again.
what is remarkable about this album? Nirvana’s popular but at least they actually sound grunge. “Dust” sounds like Screaming Trees shop for grunge clothing at Forever 21. their first track immediately lowered my expectations for the rest of the album. I did like their choice of percussion bookended within in the last track “Gospel Plow” - it provided a nice contrast to their own Seattle “grunge” sound and lyricism. the rest of the album remains blah.
feels like a collage of textures.
purely Epic.
when poetry and punk collide... you'll find this album somewhere in the middle.
such a fun album. Gives feminism a good name.
Proper Grunge
not sure why I find this album...funny. the first track really sets the tone for her album. this album sure is poetry but it genuinely sounds like a bit to my ear. kinda sound like really bad 80s tv.
album gets more sophisticated in lyricism.
one-man, double album. each side behaves like its own little universe. its stylistic sprawl isn't just variety, it's Rundgren showing he can genre jump like he's changing channels and yet... every track feels deliberate in its place. i especially like that he parks "intro" halfway through. the whole album comes off like a producer proving he can outdo an entire studio system with nothing but tape, ideas, and nerve.
most tracks in this album sound good at first... then when I hear words, i'm immediately taken out of it. i appreciate the midwest math rock instrumentation a lot.
many biblical references - sounded a bit like epic poetry. very arcane language.
a Cool like no other. so intimate and funky, it’s cerebral. even after all this time, it still sounds so fresh and influential.
yearning, confessional—even leans faith curious? whatever it is, i don’t hate it. Also, what an ambitious album title. can’t say it carries the weight…
cinematic and seductive
hums at a higher frequency. feels like strange electricity. this band splinters and peak at the same time, that sort of tension gives this album bite.
undoubtedly the sound of an 80s record
I’ve been arrested. this is the kind of album you listen to and you’ll never be the same.
as experimental and weird as this album sounds… it is certainly rooted in an Effortless Cool
a band called The United States of America playing avant garde and baroque pop with political commentary? this is the America I like.
incredibly influential album. it’s intentionally self aware and I have the utmost respect for what this album does.
enjoyed the horns throughout the album
a lot of these songs sound the same. listening to this album is kind of like watching the theme song of a bad tv sitcom. I get that it’s woke but their message is barely listenable.
post punk at its finest. love the concept "de-evolution" -- such a raw and aromantic reaction to the cultural rapture. it's leaning all the way in on hostility.
banger after banger. what can I say? A banger is a banger.
I hear the cultural significance of this album. handful of tracks were certainly in popular movies. this album paints soundscapes.
Is this what taking steroids feels like?
this sound chooses scar tissue over over shine. Bless Albini for the surgical ear. it’s priority is structure over noise. i can hear the vocals and screams crystal clear like it’s a confession. i was present throughout.
surprisingly sexy
I like that it’s stripped. no fuss, all story
Nobody else does it quite like this…
Fly or Die is a mindset built on pressure: you either adapt fast, take risks, and level up or you get left behind. Fucking excellent.
cruise in your car, avoid highways type music
nice to listen to when you’re cooking or doing chores at home. for such an up beat melody, I wasn’t expecting the existential lyrics— really liked that tension.
felt like I stepped out of the wreckage and chose clarity over volume. no grandiosity, just earned grace delivered in a near whisper. I like stripped countryrock.
found this a bit overwhelming. It’s a bit ambitious too. dare I call it a cocaine album? theatrical but it’s not glamorous in any way.
birthed a genre. Absolutely Legend
I love the unsettling atmosphere, the arrangements, the abrupt dynamic shifts, letting texture carry more weight. politically charged as heck. this is their most mature album. just pure pop perfection.
punk, romantic, definitely rock n’ roll at heart.
Absolutely No Notes.
that was in fact Timeless. it was emotional, had cinematic elements. not much to dislike here
a breeze.
This album is simply Impossible and Pure. it goes so deep emotionally. Pet Sounds commits to the feeling and it never breaks. it’s timeless. you can always return to it and you can count on being changed forever each time. it grows with you in life.
the arrangements swell and recede like one’s nervous system. even the silences create space and are treated as active frequencies.
well that was fun futuristic funky
this is as sophisticated as thrash metal can possibly be. How do you not listen to the first track and NOT expect sheer and utter greatness all the way through?
really liked the instrumentation here. felt like they took chances and it worked a lot of the time. this album had a lot of interesting ideas. highly original. wish it was purely instrumental. glad this exists.
Every sound is dialed to excess and somehow it still feels intimate. that contradiction is why this record belongs in the canon.
it sounds enormous because it is. it has that bruised maximalism and it’s guided by sincere feeling.
Smash n’ Sk8
Do I need to be on heroin?
Who invented the concept album?! Who?
loving the savage satire on commercialism. for its time, it’s certainly bold. felt like art rock album.
This man was born to do the damn thang. I can hear a lot of this work has been borrowed throughout the ages. deeply influential. an undeniable voice and talent.
Neil Young's voice is made for parody. can't take his singing seriously. lyricism aside, this album was just ok. I can tolerate the renditions of some of these songs... I might actually prefer them.
at times, it felt like a chant, credence the next
Diddy must have took this album very seriously.
the kind of attitude that packs a punch. the samples carried.
I appreciate a conscious soul record. 80s nostalgia has a way with me at times but this was just Unremarkable.
such beauty in Loretta Lynn’s restraint and control. Unhurried. that last song or rather, last laugh belongs entirely to her alone.
feels like sun bleached transmission. an indie nostalgia.
“Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing” will always make me cry and feel a way. this album is really a mark of his spiritual journey. he really steps into authorship of his inner life. this album is full of joy BUT it’s joy that acknowledges suffering without being consumed by it.
shoegazey in a cool but sort of try-hard way. wokeish. probably wrote it like they were god's gift. I did enjoy listening to this record. i'd pack a bowl, smoke, and turn it up.
weeeeirrrrrrdddddd
an Epic and ELECTRIC opera
Jeff Buckley gave everything he had in making Grace…voice, nerve, tenderness, and ache without holding ANYTHING back as if he didn’t expect to survive after making it.
just devastatingly human + soul laid bare.
Classically coined the west coast sound. Dr. Dre created a genre called G Funk after all. culturally important. still fresh. still and always will be bumping tracks from this album.
just timeless,
welp! guess I have to ride a monster truck because that's what this album makes ya feel like.
certainly a confident record.
yawn
I remember when we’d hear “Beautiful” playing everywhere. that track alone doesn’t hide from social issues about identity, self-image and expression.
Christina Aguilera is immortal because of that song alone.
Legend
Meh
very sexy, very cool (crazy)
why is this band a secret?
how do you make such sad sorrowful music so epic? beautiful contradictions. Truly their best work.
artful dissonance. conceptual album. passes for high art.
I like the beautiful moody energy. if it’s supposed to capture the banality of urban landscapes - it succeeds
Heavy
playfully cool groove throughout. almost deceptively innocent. amazing collaborations - game recognizes game.
Classically Hardcore and not evil
seamlessly arranged medley of weirdness! and it MUST be listened to as an album.
glorious technicolor.
what a journey of psychadelic experimentation.
uplifting and positive vibrations.
Just absolute mastery in rock n' roll.
one of their more tender albums. almost brought to tears. I enjoy that this album isn’t so high energy.
so underrated. you certainly have to be in a certain mood to enjoy it and when that time comes, it smacks
truly one of the best rappers of all time. you can hear how hungry this man is to be the best.
will absolutely take mushrooms with him like it’s “My Fault”
music for the pub
Mostly bland. didn’t mind brain dead activities to this album.
felt like one big whoop
first half sounds like a bad version of the Beatles.
they redeemed themselves in the second half.
there’s a reason this album gets pulled into every documentary and period piece reaching for the soul of the 1960s…it captures a specific American restlessness that feels less like a snapshot of an era and more like its emotional blueprint. it doesn’t just belong in the cultural zeitgeist - it defined the architecture of it.
Dreamlike, smooth, silky moments.
Diamond Life is immortalized
there’s a particular kind of peace this album carries… the feeling of arriving somewhere after a long journey, where the tension you forgot you were holding finally releases. it’s the sonic equivalent of a film’s final scene: the protagonist standing still, finally understanding something they couldn’t name before.
a cinematic and timeless masterpiece
Hard as hell
I like the restraint.
the attitude, the eastern influences, the genre bending... A classic. love it when they let the music doing real communication.
“Into The Mystic” will always make me feel a way.
just Absolute in every sense.
I read somewhere that this album sounds like an orchestra falling down the stairs and that's exactly right.
initially had very low expectations for this album. it very much sounds like an 80s album and was in fact released in the early 80s. loved how experimental it is - it gives it that timeless quality.
Electric, dynamite really
surprisingly didn’t hate it. felt like it was inspired by classic rock n’ roll.
Chris Martin may have an insufferable quality to him but this album is a perfect exhibition as to why they are pop music. The good kind of pop.
Their songs have been used countless times whether it was to get through troubling times, coming to terms with terminal illness, the wonder of life and love - this album absolutely deserves merit for evoking such visceral emotions. To impact masses in the way they did in the early 2000s should not be dismissed.
such a beautiful tone
Nina Simone is a force.
unexpectedly eclectic, dynamic
A timeless touchstone. enduring! if we were to communicate with other forms of intelligence about the human species… this record would certainly make the cut!
sounds like this album would be spectacular live
high vibrations throughout
well, that was a fun and weird
intergalactic country, canonical
