Mis favoritas en primera escucha son Untitled, Memories Are Made Of This, A Minor Aversion, Know Your Product
I like it. I understand the cultural significance and I'd probably have fun playing these songs on the guitar. Simple songs can be great and these might be, but the record feels too repetitive for me.
I was definitely excited in the morning when I got this as today's album. Knowing how critically acclaimed it is, I had went into this with high expectations, which were definitely met. I feel like listening to this album was long overdue for me.
I'm not a big fan of country music and I've barely listened to Johnny Cash's music before, but this was so fun. The idea of singing this particular selection of songs in a prison; the stage banter, the engagement of the audience especially during funny moments... this is a very special live album.
I wasn't sure whether to rate it 3 or 4. Might edit it in the future.
I didn't know any of the songs before. My favorites on first listen were King Harvest (Has Surely Come), The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Unfaithful Servant and Across The Great Divide
I acknowledge that it can be a bit unfair to rate an ambient album when it's up against the other genres in this list. I don't think it's necessarily a bad album and it probably has its place in the ambient music genre. That said, I didn't really care about it.
Maybe I need more exposure to hip hop to really enjoy this.
Had to go listen more Simon & Garfunkel to decide if I wanted to rate this a 4 or a 5, so I guess I spoiled their next albums on this list. I really liked this but they've made even better music in my opinion.
Edit: after a couple more listens I changed it to a 5.
My favourite was Car Song
In my opinion the guitars were the best component in this album. The string and brass arrangements, and of course the vocals were great too. I don't like the stereo mix (or at least the one on Spotify), but I guess back then they were mostly focused on mono.
I loved this folk rock sound.
Live and Let Live was my favourite.
Even Flow, Black and Alive were standouts on first listen, so I'm not surprised they're the most popular on Spotify right now. I really liked Deep too. Great Album.
My favourite on first listen was Magic Hollow. Also The Wolf of Velvet Fortune and Only Dreaming Now.
I'm not sure why the ratings on this web page are so low. There are probably many better albums on the list, but this is not bad at all. I'd probably rate it a 3.5
3.5
I liked it.
However, he can shove his fish and chips
Highlights: Lonesome Tears, The Golden Age, Round The Bend
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with this album. It just doesn't work for me, for some reason. This is still one of my first albums, so I know that this page is going to say that I hate reggae for a long time (which is not true). But this is the first on the list that I actively disliked.
I think this is the kind of 80's music I dislike the most...
I'd never heard about this band before, but this album was definitely a pleasant surprise; especially the production, which is remarkable. The mix of acoustic instruments, electronic textures and layered vocals is impeccable.
Wor and Default were standout tracks for me.
This is my fourth Hip Hop album on the list, and I'm someone who knows basically nothing about the genre. Although two of the other three have high ratings on this page (and I didn't give them bad ratings), I feel like Stankonia was the introduction I needed to Hip Hop.
Ms. Jackson is amazing, no wonder it was such a huge success.
As a side note, this morning I bought a different album and I also randomly picked up a free music magazine in the store. There was a whole section dedicated to this album, celebrating its 25th anniversary. I didn't know Stankonia or OutKast previously, so it was a nice coincidence.
I can't say I'm a big fan of metal, but this was good. I enjoyed it more than I expected.
The production is great. However, this was very hard to rate, as what really caught my attention was the very interesting electronic production, but not the songs by themselves.
My favourites on first listen: Frontlines, Enough, LMK
My second Nick Cave album on this list, just two weeks after the first.
This album sounds like grief, it's devastating. The songwriting is exceptional, especially in the closing song, Hollywood. Sonically it's mostly ambient music, but emotionally, it is very, very heavy. It's ironic that, for being ambient music, it kept drawing my attention whenever I tried to do anything else while listening.
My first Beatles album on the list. A classic.
I haven't heard it before, but I know it's very popular.
I don't know, most of the songs sound kind of the same to me. Maybe punk is not really my thing. It is fun, though, and maybe I'll like the album better if I listen more to it.
I liked Welcome To Paradise
After the first listen, I read a review that said "God bless the second listen", so I decided to give it another chance.
I'm glad I did.
First Listen: 4.5
I already knew The Killing Moon quite well, so I was excited to hear the whole album. It could likely become a 5 with a few more listens.
On second listen: yeah, this is a 5. I'd say this is more of a night album
2.5
Nothing wrong with it, but it did not catch my attention either. I liked the guitar parts towards the end, especially in The Treasure. I might raise the rating up to three someday if I'm feeling less harsh.
A good modern pop album, containing some of Adele's biggest hits. She demonstrates her exceptional voice here.
I have to admit I'm sick of Someone Like You, which is not a bad song, but it's overplayed. Rolling In The Deep definetly deserves the hype. My favourite songs that I didn't previously know were One And Only and Lovesong.
Finally one that I have in my (tiny) physical collection and that I didn't borrow or stream! It's kind of overkill that Mike Oldfield has published 2 million versions of Tubular Bells, but this is a great prog-rock album; very original and very special. As most people, I've heard way more the first half than the second.
Best song: Tubular Bells
2.5
I wasn't particularly entertained, but I do think that I should give this album another chance someday, so there's a possibility I will bump the rating up in the future. The vocalists are great, for sure.
I haven't listened to Paul McCartney solo in a while! This really takes me back (even if it hasn't been that long, but I'm young), as McCartney was my first ever concert as a kid. I remember I took my binoculars to the show, as I was seated in the nosebleeds. Great show, and a few of the songs on this album were in the setlist, which were Band On The Run, Let Me Roll It, Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five. We recorded the latter and I've watched so many times over the years, which might be half the reason that it was the song I found most enjoyable while listening to the album this time. I do think it's the best song on the album regardless of the memories. The title track is not far behind.
Not a perfect album, but there are some amazing songs in here.
Surprisingly good as background music for studying, as it is pleasant although extremely repetitive. Other than for that use, I have no desire to listen to it again, even if I don't actively dislike it.
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make".
Always a masterpiece. What a great way to end a career as a band (well, ignoring the fact that Let It Be was released later). This is a rare perfect album, no wonder it is at the very top in the global highest rated albums in this page, tied with Rumours. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End is such a perfect ending, with Her Majesty as a nice little epilogue. I'm so glad to have heard the mash up of the three songs live as a closing for the Paul McCartney show I attended as a kid. But really, every song on here is perfect. I also love George Harrison's contributions to this record, both as a songwriter and guitar player.
Been getting a lot of Beatles recently here. Revolver a couple weeks ago; McCartney's Band On The Run two days ago.
"Everyday I wake up and it's Sunday". Good thing I'm listening on a Sunday.
My favourites were Writing To Reach You and Why Does It Always Rain On Me? The hidden track was one of the best ones for me, too.
Also, what's up with these guys and Wonderwall? It was mentioned three times during the album.
I really got into this album a few years ago, so there would be no need to re-listen to rate this a 5. However, it is fun to revisit albums with this list that I haven't listened in a while, and find how my perspective has changed over the years. Or simply enjoy it once again.
Very creative, dark and elegant. Sour Times, Wandering Star and Glory Box are still the highlights for me; and this time I've also really liked Numb. But really, the whole album is perfect; and gloomy in a very cool way. Beth Gibbon's beautifully chilling vocals mix perfectly with the groovy electronic textures and samples; along with the additional instruments. Genious production and work in general from Geoff Barrow.
Good thing to remember why love this. 5/5
I have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of 80's synth-pop, because the synths and effects make music very much dated and could become annoying over time; but this was a good album. Great songs, and the 80s synth textures are mostly chosen with good taste. "Don't You Want Me" was easily the best song and leaves you with a good aftertaste at the end of the album. "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" was one of my favourites, too.
All in all, a good inclusion in this list, and I can see it being a very influential album in pop music.
I'm not the Grinch. This probably doesn't deserve a low rating, but I simply don't like Christmas music. Huge respect to the artists who participated in the album, though. The production is good too.
I fell asleep in the first listen and woke up during Aumgn. I almost felt like I was dying. So I had to start all over again to really listen to this.
I can't say I fully understand this album, but part of the reason I went into this journey is to be more open minded, including for experimental music. I do like prog-rock, so it's not like an album like this was painful to listen or even that strange.
The first half is more conventional and accessible. I like the jamming, especially the more guitar-driven parts in Halleluwah, which is arguably the best track. I didn't realize until later that it was 18 minutes long, as it felt much shorter.
Then comes the second half (second LP), starting with Aumgn, which still makes me feel like I'm dying. Maybe the psychedelics are necessary for the listener too to get this. Very weird, but if it's said that this was a very influential album, then I believe that. Bring Me Coffee Or Tee is more in line with what we heard in the first half, so it was refreshing after listening to Peking O.
All in all, I think it's more necessary to give an attentive listen to this album compared to others on the list to really appreciate it. The second half won't sound like anything more than background noise otherwise.
This time I'm more or less sitting on the fence by rating a three. I didn't actively dislike it (except maybe Mushroom), but I didn't understand or enjoy it enough to rate it any higher.
I'm very confused. I don't think I've ever liked and hated an album so much at the same time.
The repetition, which I know is intentional, irritates me. The singing makes me extremely uncomfortable at times (listening to Girl was torture for me, and all the screaming in Frankie Teardrop was kind of painful too). At the same time, dare I say I really like the overall minimalistic electronic sound and the discomfort some of the songs bring me? I wasn't around when this was released, but I can imagine this being very creative and original for 1977.
I didn't "like" this album. I even want to rate it a 1 or 2 because of how much I hated at times, as most people in this page, whose reactions I understand. However, I think it perfectly accomplished what it was meant to, which I'm pretty sure included making the listener weirdly uncomfortable. Maybe that was part of the punk spirit in here. And I'm generally not a big fan of punk music.
I'm glad I wasn't lead by my gut reaction and actually tried to get through this with an open mind, because the more I think about it, the more I believe this is a great album. Not all music has to be made to be enjoyed the same way; this should be true especially for more experimental albums like this, that aim to cause different reactions.
I don't think I'll want to listen to the Suicide debut album again in a while, but it definetly belongs on the list of "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
It's a shame that I'm someone who usually doesn't focus on lyrics while listening to music (partly because 99 % of what I listen is not in my native language), as it seems from other reviews that they are the most important component of this album. Not that it's not musically good too. I should listen to more Hip Hop as I know next to nothing about it beyond the 6 or 7 albums I got so far in this list.
Maybe for a future re-listen (and I take note that this is one of the albums that I must listen to again) I should search up the lyrics and read them while listening to really appreciate this, as It Takes A Nation To Hold Us Back seems to be widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential albums in music, particularly in the Hip Hop genre.
3.5/5, with a chance to bump up the rating in the future.
Great 80's pop music. No wonder half the tracks on She's So Unusual were hits. Lauper is a phenomenal vocalist and the whole album is so fun. I hadn't been born when this album came out, so without even knowing which songs in Lauper's debut album were the singles (beyond Girls Just Want To Have Fun, which is still insanely popular), I could imagine any of them being a hit.
