I like the Garage-y songs and Somebody to Love and White Rabbit are amazing mostly due to the strength of Grace Slick's voice. Both of those songs come from Grace Slick's previous band I believe. I am a sucker for this era of music production, and I think the sounds on this are good. Not every songs however is that interesting but they are pretty brief. Not a bad listen but I probably am not going to reach for this again and again. The Skip Spence song is pretty sick. (My Best Friend)
The people's Champs! CCR are perhaps the best American band of the late 60's. Fogerty has such tasteful chops, that subtle pushing of the 2 and 4 on the acoustic guitar propelling the title track is exhilarating. This is the best CCR album in my opinion because it doesn't have 16 minute blues jams, bare bones no messing around rock and roll. Sorry haterz.
Definitely some top tier bangers on here. Some kind of meh stuff too. Probably tied for 2nd to me for Stooges lps. Favs Search and Destroy, Shake Appeal and Gimme Danger. I really hate the piano in the song Raw Power.
This sort of broke my brain in high school. I got really into the Pixies just as they were breaking up. I journeyed through their catalogue in reverse order. I thought this album was so insane at first. The Albini production, the little snippets of speech between the songs, Vamos guitar solo, all sort of changed my idea of what you could do with a record. Growing up super churchy I loved all the biblical allusions. Everyone contributes on this, Amazing Songs and Lyrics from Black Francis, Joey Santiago's guitar playing, Kim's ice queen backup vocals (and lead on Gigantic) David Lovering's weird reverse drum beats on Bone Machine. The songs are all bangers. OH MY GOLLY.
WoooooooooooooAhhh woooooooooaaaaaaaaaooooohhhhh. I think self esteem is kind of the platonic ideal of what these guys do. Really dumb lyrics I don’t mind the guitar stuff the vocals are really annoying. Always double tracked and singing at the absolute edge of vocal range always. Ska song was like if Sublime sucked even more.
Competent playing, but not for me. I hate this type of thing.
Definitely important but not really what o felt like listening to.
Maybe just my current mood but this album was sort of like a mouth sore.
I can’t imagine being able to write this many great songs in a lifetime.
Fun times sounds like weed
I had this on CD and lent it to Marie Andree Hudon in the year 2000 or so. Does she still
Have it?
Band on the run is pretty great. I love the transition between the parts jet obviously is a fun rocker. It starts to lose a little steam by MAMUNIA however all in all good time.
I kind of liked the folk rock production on dolphins with the tremolo guitar and drums, etc. i’m not sure why he would sing that he’s going to heaven in a split pea shell but I kind of like that 12 string warbley guitar.
This is a fun album lots of fond memories listening to this as a kid great sequencing. I love it up until about i’ll weight and the last couple songs are a little boring however, all in all a great fun record it’s only 33 minutes so you don’t get bored of it.
Pretty good for Moz
Such a part of me being nine or 10 hearing the songs on the radio all the time can’t say that I really want to listen to this that much as a grown man but all done
It’s funny how certain times of your life certain things are appealing and other times they’re repellent for some reason. I can’t really listen to Simon & Garfunkel that much anymore, but there was a time when I listened to them all the time. There’s something about Paul Simon where it’s sort of earnest but he also seems like he is not being sincere or something. I can’t put my finger on it. Dig the moog on save the life of my child.
This sucks I hate to go along with the sort of hipster music critic, consensus about eagles, but it’s just soulless and too perfect I just can’t with this stuff
Kind of fun not sure if I’m gonna be listening to this over and over but I do like the sounds of it where everything was so artificial sanding in the early 80s
I enjoyed this kind of strange hearing country music from Leeds in England, but I dig it. I might listen to this again.
How fucking long is this thing?
I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I did. Maybe I am embracing my middle age. Some great lyrics nice grooves. I will probably listen again.
The production sounds a little dated now, but it is a cool mix of a bunch of different things, dub hip-hop, soul, reggae, etc. I like tricky the best and I think the tricky album Maxinquay and pre-millennium tension do the stuff on this better but this is still good
Kind of a mess I like the energy, probably not the best thing to listen to first thing in the morning while trying to work
Meh
El Goodo is my fav
Fine I guess
I have listened to this album in the past and have been on again off again with it however, this morning‘s lesson it sounded awesome to me. Some things are kind of dated like the funky funk and the slap bas but they’re just some great songs I could imagine how great this band would’ve been with a good singer, but other than that, it rips.
Great one appropriate amount of wankiness no blues jams.
One of the best thrash albums. Good times.
Unsurprisingly I love this album. I think it’s hard to rate the first four pixies albums because they’re sort of different but excellent in their own way this one is kind of a subtle record sometimes even though it starts with a crazy rock song I love this surf elements on this and it’s a real guitar record.
Pretty great love the focus on Acoustic guitar. I have a great memory of Mike Martin playing tangerine perfectly and signing it and when he noticed we were all watching him he stopped.
Great voice
This is prime LA music studio rock with a crazy cast of characters playing on it. I love Monday Monday. It’s one of the first songs I can remember wanting to hear again when I was a little kid I think because my parents record collection was all sort of early 60s pop it really infected my brain and that’s the that’s the type of music that I can relate to the most
Cool UK people sounding cool but leaves me a bit cold.
Not really my thing, nicely done though.
Kind of UR moment for new wave I love the record, but it’s obviously sort of difficult listening at times
So fun got this on red cassette when it came out loved it. I remember it didn’t sell well and Gavin and I going to White Oaks Mall and him finding the CD in the long box for $2.99 pretty sick so many highlights I really love the B boy bouillabaisse at the end. Hey ladies, this is a fun record.
Pleasant but not sure if it needs to be on the list
Great record, peak pitchfork indie hipster era.
Fuck off
This is really good. I think Radiohead is probably the modern Pink Floyd. What do you think?
Love the boom boom bap era
I kind of like this album, but this wasn’t really what I felt like listening to this morning.
So awesome
I think it’s cool that they’re sticking to their Irish roots to make a sort of modern Celtic music record however, Celtic music sort of gives me a migraine and I prefer the songs that are less Celtic and more rock. The song about Hank Williams is terrible but maybe this just isn’t my thing.
Part of the streak of the great stone stuff, five stars
So good. DK is underrated in the discussion of hardcore bands.
This is probably the most lauded album of the sister rock genre. Anyone surveyed that has a sister has a great love for this. I think the Murphy family was no sisters didn’t know about this record, but I think they’re coming around to it. I’m not sure if Crystalyn has a sister, but we’ll find out.
Pretty much the only Christmas we listen to. So good!
Kind of a rip off of the Make Up but otherwise really good.
Good background
Never really liked this album too violent/misogynist.
Overblown but ambitious.
Some truly amazing songs but also some bores. Not very cohesive.
I like her vibe, this is maybe not the best of her stuff I have heard.
I guess it’s good at what it does. The singles are pretty good, lyrics are crazy bad. Very of the time production sometimes ruined it for me. Too much Dx7 and gated drums.
Bee boop ah doo dah. I’m sure this is probably good but this type of thing grinds my gears.
Kind of boring, classic rock Steve Winwood obviously has an amazing voice, but whatever
Like it, not sure if it’s the album I would have put on the list.
Love this record. The only sometimes skip is we will fall which has a little too much John “serious” Cale influence. No Fun is probably my favorite.
Well produced but not super memorable. I think I would nominate other Brit pop over this.
Great one
One of the best of the golden era!
Two words fuck Clapton
The first, second and second to last and last doors albums are all pretty enjoyable. Just a little too much blues on it, but it sounds kind of ragged and Jim’s voice is loud and almost distorting the mic, which is cool better than I remembered it.
Maybe not the thing I felt like listening to today but really good much better than that. Terrible double album.
Hard to not think about the allegations, regardless kind of fun to hear this for the first time in decades.
Pretty staggering, a band at their peak.
Up there with the best in their catalogue. I love this transition from ultra pop group to studio wizards. Great tunes
The song blues music is OK. The general sort of hippie white boy blues rap thing is kind of grating after a while. The song this ain’t Livin is such a direct rip off of the rap style of De La Soul. It’s kind of annoying that being said it would be fun to play slide blues guitar with a drummer playing licks, but this music is not for me. I feel like his voice is a put on as well.
Enjoyed this super fun.
The pixies know how to do it they make albums that have 15 songs or so and they’re about 30 minutes long. This isn’t my favorite pixies album, but it’s still great.
if I had to listen to a ska album, it would probably be this one. I guess it’s probably the best example of the genre.. in my opinion I guess I’m no expert on this stuff.
I guess it’s good at what it does, but I don’t like that.
Game changer
Great
It’s kind of a shame because he has such a great voice and a lot of these songs have really cool beats but super misogynist and it’s kind of jarring in 2026, especially with the puffy connection.
Actually kind of into this when they lock into a groove.
Like the screechy evil guitars.
Honestly, pretty good not sure when I’ll be going back to this one, but it is good.
I get why people like this, but it never really jels with me. It’s kind of like too perfect or something.
Snore
No!
Fun very 70s glam rock. Crazy that this is a US band seems like the most British thing ever.
Nice groove
Ten stars
I like this but don’t love it. Never connected with this one.
I found the Talkie parts about George Wallace and stuff interesting but I don’t really need a book report and it was at least twice as long as it needed to be competent playing though and not completely unpleasant.
V cool V cool
Brilliant
Kind of a downgrade after great of a black planet. Still pretty sick production. Steve keeps calling me and singing track 5 which makes me uncomfortable.
Compared to other sort of British blues obsessed 60s bands I think this is pretty good. Nothing’s really blowing my mind. However, I like I can’t make your way which is kind of like them doing the kinks or something which is another band that dabbles in this that kind of stuff.
Smart lyrics but found it boring
One of those sort of Ur bands that start stuff. Love all early electronic stuff.
So original and fun tonight listen to. Air I think is my favourite song.
Gav likes this
Probably good live not feeling it.
Maybe their best?
Smiley Smile is more enjoyable. This is from the annoying era when rock musicians wanted to make serous art instead of songs about fucking.
Superbly crafted, not really my thing though.
Love it
Wank fest
Well crafted maybe not 100% my thing
The guys a champ
This sucks pretty sure I heard this in a stinky toilet.
This is why colonialism is wrong.
Kind of masterful playing. Invented the Dad rock genre pretty much. The War on Drugs and Kurt Vile kind of fly the modern flag for this stuff.
This album is pretty much beast
Crunchy
Pretty fun some songs way too long.
Didn’t hate it. It is a bit wanky of course at times best zap album. I’ve heard so far and I usually really hate them.
So good great lyrics interesting music. Super fun.
I enjoyed this if I had to put on an Elvis record this is the one I’d pick.
As far as an album by the Grateful Dead, it’s not a terrible jam, headache inducing, nightmare, but it is boring and the sounds of their vocals are grating. It’s interesting because I don’t mind similar music from the byrds or the flying burrito Brothers but something about this just bothers me.
One of
My favourite albums of all
Time. 7 stars.
Love this one. On a roll, what next Wowee Zowie?
This was a pleasant listen if I had to pick a Ray Charles album to put on again I would probably pick this one. It doesn’t sound like country music to me though.
Gotta say pretty DeeC it’s a good listen
Better than I remembered
I don't really like this kind of music in general, so It's hard to rate this. I'll say for me it's 2 stars.
This was if memory serves- their "back to the basics" return to form after the craziness of the Soft Parade. Pretty solid from them, pretty back to the basic rockers. I always loved "Peace Frog" when I was a teenager, it was sampled by the Rap Group Third Bass on a song. It's funky. Jim has an awesome voice, I do understand why he is also sort of insufferable sometimes. I love the song Ship of Fools.
I actually like this more than the first two soft machine albums, which I have on CD someplace it’s kind of more meditative probably not something you’re gonna put on at a party, but it’s kind of nice instrumental music for the most part.
Pretty bulletproof collection of songs I like all of them there’s a reason why this is always cranked on classic rock radio because it rocks dude
I know that rock music is full of misogyny, but it’s so out in the open on this record plus I have a hard time not thinking of Kanye West as the Kanye West from the past four or five years I like the electronic music sections and I don’t in general mind the way this record sounds, but I’m tired of people bragging about wealth and I don’t really care if you slept with lots of girls
Great background stuff which is an underrated thing
Save the drama for your mama. But it is good.
Well done Britt pop type stuff some weird flourishes make it pretty fun ultimately kind of left me cold though. Sounds are better than the song ideas sometimes.
Too nice I’m broken
I like the singles on this probably my favorite is dancing in the dark. Maybe that makes me basic. I’ve never been a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, but this is enjoyable enough. If I had to listen to a Bruce Springsteen album, it would probably be this one. I know that that true Indie choice is Nebraska, but I just find it too depressing.
Oi mate this sucks innit
Fun wankiness
I really like the Meat Puppets ones and that David Bowie cover.
Love it
I might go back to this one
Kind of addictive once you get into it
Fine but too long
So great, amazing production amazing rapping the only problem is may be a little too much in the silly skits, but minor quibble
Way better than I remember
Really dig the weird stuttering beats and the synths. I hope my wife doesn’t turn out to be a Jezzie.
Fuck this
Snooz
Fine I guess not sure it needs to be on this list.
I just can’t I’ve tried
She obviously has a great voice. I think the song selection is a little slight, but there are some killer ones for sure.
Great tunes a little long plus live albums are a bit naff
I don’t like this because I am tough
Barf
On a bleak rainy day, thus the was a good listen.
Two awesome songs
Nice
I always want to like Randy Newman but it’s just too grown up for me. Maybe one day I’ll be a grown-up amazing lyrics. That first song is a little jarring, but obviously it’s hard is in the right place.
Aside from go your own way I find this album really tedious I know tons of my friends love it and are always talking about it but I think it’s boring. Sorry.
Good at what it’s doing, not necessarily my Jam
Obviously, well crafted I think the best thing about it is just the laid-back nature of his vocal delivery is so cool and he plays around with the rhythm a lot on the bad side, the world Best craziness is a bit annoying and a little cultural appropriation Ish, but I still more or less enjoyed this.
Awesome
Meh
So good I can’t imagine making anything this complex. Some of the lyrics didn’t age well, but I think of the things I thought were okay to say in 1989….
Not in the mood for this. Fine I guess.
Great
Sorry haters
Fun
I found this kind of enjoyable kind of like a John Carpenter soundtrack or something. I like those sort of crunchy 80s synths and the songs were pretty cool. I’m not sure that I would put this on the list in particular though.
How to rate? It was nice I guess did t make me cream my jeans.
Nicely done 60s soul/rnb. Makes me
A bit sad because of what happened to her and my friend Cheryl.
Pretty good didn’t really get me 100% hard though.
Yes!’
So many hit singles on this one that’s pretty wild. I enjoyed it.
Who can play their instruments the best contest. The loser? me for having to listen.
I like this type of sound stuff
Really?
Dj premier!!
Not much of a blues dude, but this was fun. He has a great voice, and I wish the guitars were a little more loud but otherwise pleasant listen.
One of those artists that once you get it, you get it and I wish I could write one song as good as one of his songs that being said this is probably not my favorite of this initial burst from him, but it’s kind of untouchable that run from this year‘s model I guess including my Aim is true through to get happy amazing stuff.
Obvious 5 stars
One of the best Rock voices song selection is a bit slight. Faces records are miles better especially Ooh La La
Imagine if the grateful dead was even more boring.
I just don’t really get anything from this music. It’s not unpleasant but it’s not something that really grabs my attention. I bet if I was young in the 1950s, maybe I would like it, but it just doesn’t really do much for me. God bless you Duke Ellington for being the ultimate hipster.
I love the inventive arrangements of this album.
Yes rules
Pretty fun I like the sonics they get a lot of mileage out of that guys scream but fun I like garage rock. I didn’t really feel like listening to this today, but I have some sonic records and they are a good time.
Maybe one of the most listened to albums for me in my life I can’t say I go back to this too often, but it was certainly my favorite record when I was 17 or 18 years old. The first song I ever played in front of other people with me singing was Jane says which is kind of embarrassing, but whatever I still like it it’s not as mind blowing as it was to me when I was a teenager, but what is
Hey Nonny Nomny type folk rock. Bert Jansch is a great guitarist.
Not my thing but fine
Cool chaotic noise from the 80s. I get why people were super as and I bet it would sound amazing cranked up really loud. It’s not the best thing for me while I’m working.
I dig the minimal drum machine and electronic bass paired with the blues guitar. I’ve never really been a massive ZZ Top fan. I’ve tried but it’s not really stuck but this is a fun enough. Listen I think that’s funny that there’s a song about TV dinners.
Great songwriting, some of the production choices seem a little
Time stamped, however always great melody and songwriting.
Hell yeah
Classic !
