I listened to this album too many times as a teenager... I still acknowledge its merit but I can't think of it anymore as music for grown-ups. In particular, they take themeselves so fucking seriously: not a glimpse of irony or detachment here. Especially in your lyrics, Roger. It's still somewhat touching how you talk about Syd but, hey man, let's not forget you kicked him out of the band!
Outstanding, especially for being a country album, one of the most boring genres ever invented by humans. But the story behind it, the fact that he was singing those things in that place, the raw energy of the performance, and how the audience reacted to it and interacted with him make a fucking masterpiece out of it.
With the exception of the two obvious songs, soooo boring...
This album brings me back to my youth but it is still quite annoying, starting from the famous singles: as many have already noticed Liam Gallagher's singing is a constant whining howl... In comparison Oasis' first album (that I had never bothered to listen to before today) sounds much more enjoyable...
Simply one of the best debuts (and albums in general) of all time
Really unremarkable. I could have happily died without listening to it...
Not very inspiring... Often, I don't even get the work of his brother Brian (hailed as a genius by almost everyone), how could I find this album interesting?
Not the best they did but, hey, it's still Velvet Underground
I didn't know her and, after reading the presentation, didn't have high expectations but I ended up enjoying this one...
A couple of OK songs while the rest sounds like annoying rap on top of the background music of a porn movie from the 70s
Shite
My least favourite Police album, enjoyable but not that great.
Masterpiece. I had always focused on Siouxie's voice and McGeoch's guitar, both amazing, but today I was mostly caught by the rythm section, especially the wild percussions (those toms!)
Beautiful. Never had the chance to listen to a whole Cohen's album. At times repetitive and not really my genre, but 2-3 amazing songs (Avalanche, Famous blue raincoat, Love calls you by your name) alone deserve 4 stars...
Classic masterpiece, no-brainer 5 stars. The perfect blend of popular music and experimentation. And Damo Suzuki is one of the most original (craziest) vocalists ever...
A collection of bland songs (the only one I kind of enjoy is smooth criminal) with an awful production: literally the sound of the 80s in the derogatory sense of the phrase... While the commercial success might be understandable, the critical acclaim will always be a mystery to me.
Too long: it gets repetitive and boring in the end. A single album with the first 7-8 songs would have deserved 4 stars...
Most of it sounds fun but it loses one star because the lyrics are just too silly (how many times they talk about "girlies"?)
An OK album at times enjoyable but as a debut in, say, 1968 it would have been acceptable but in 1976 it was just lame... Come on, punk was behind the corner, Velvet Underground and Stooges were history, Patti Smith, Ramones, Talking Heads, Television were regularly playing at CBGB (and some had already debuted)
I am not a hip-hop fan but I actually enjoyed this one, especially the politically charged lyrics
Perhaps this is not the most compelling Tom Waits' album but still a great one: great sound, great lyrics, great cover...
This album represents the perfect combination of the most annoying aspects of prog rock and 70s pop
Mostly uninteresting
1001 albums generator, why do you keep giving me boring 60s pop albums and not the good stuff of that decade? This one has got one good song while the rest is unintersting. Plus, the band's name is stupid and the album cover is ridicolous...
Nice songwriting, energy and political lyrics
This was a discovery. I had never had the chance to listen to ELO (not even Mr Blue Sky!) and I actually enjoyed it a lot. Most of the songs are a lot of fun and arrangements and orchestration are awesome. Sweet Talkin' Woman and Across the Border (with its mariachi trumpets) are the highlights in my opinion. Certainly a bit too baroque for my taste and quite long but surprisingly never boring!
Honest R&B, a few nice songs (my favourite is the title track), but honestly there is nothing really memorable here...
True, it's awfully long, music and lyrics are shite, and the voice of what-the-fuck-is-his-name is outrageous... but look at the cover art!
Not impressed, probably just not my genre...
Again, this project gave me the occasion to listen to an album of an artist I never cared about, and I was positively surprised.
This is a pleasant pop album with solid songwriting. While I don't personally get songs like Just the Way You Are (despite being quite celebrated), the upbeat pieces are great.
I don't get the point of it, like about 90% of hip hop albums...
The album of a synth pop act transitioning to (arty) pop with no synth. Good but I still prefer both what they did before and after.
Timely I got this on december 25th, but no matter how talented the artists and fancy the production, christmas songs suck in all epochs and latitudes.
If you add that the producer was an abusive piece of shit and later a murderer, how can one give it more than 1 star?
Excellent minimalistic synth pop, especially for a debut. Reminds me of Young Marble Giants plus electronica (and 30 years later).
This is an honest jazz album and the sound of the hammond is always amazing, but I didn't find spectacular: until the last minute, I was hoping the songs of chickens would suddenly pop up...
Combining the geniuses of Iggy Pop and David Bowie, nothing can go wrong. The album would already deserve five stars only for China Girl (that, with its threatening atmosphere, sounds way better than Bowie's pop version) plus here there are Dum Dum Boys, Sister Midnight, Nighclubbing...
I expected to hate this album but I didn't. Admittedly, it is too long and vocals and lyrics are often ridicolous, let alone the album's "concept". (Which is appropriate to a ludicrous clown such as MM.) However, the industrial vibes (I guess to be ascribed to Trent Reznor's production) are not that bad...
I am afraid I will never get hip hop, so I was not really impressed by this album but I didn't dislike its jazzy atmosphere...
My favourite Patti Smith's work and one of the best albums of all times. As it's been repeatedly pointed out in other comments, does anyone remember an opening line as powerful as "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"? Every song is a poem and there is not a single filler. And of course the music and Patti's voice are terrific: pure raw energy.
I think that Outside and this one are the only truly convincing Bowie's albums after Let's Dance. For sure it's not particularly original but at least very energetic. My favourite pieces are Valentine's day and You will set the world on fire, which are the most powerful and, not by coincidence, two of the few where Earl Slick plays.
Depressingly beautiful.
(Especially knowing what the boy was experiencing in those years and how it ended.)
I have always loved this album: song writing, guitar and vocals are just perfect.
Never heard of it before. Cool stuff.
The songs are overall enjoyable but, as for Tom Petty, debutting with this stuff in '76 (and few hundred miles from the CBGB) sounds sooo outadated...
Let's be clear: I am a big fan of Radiohead and, unlike many others, I started to listen them from Kid A on, so I am quite biased...
Kid A was a breakthrough album of a band that was already great, something like Sgt. Pepper, and Amnesiac was concieved and recorded during the same sessions, so it's basically Kid A - Part B...
Together they make the best music of the '00s and probably still the best produced in this century.
Not my genre but overall nice. How they use synths is quite impressive for a soul/funk album...
First time I listened to a Grateful Dead's album and, fuck no, you should have let me die without doing that. I can't imagine a single reason why anyone would produce or listen to such boring shit (back then and now). It's just 42 minutes but it felt like 3 hours, I had a hard time getting through it. I was shocked seeing that "Ripple" (one of the blandest and most unimaginative stuff I recently heard) has got almost 100 millions listening on spotify. People, get a life.
There is not a single reason why this album should belong to this list. This is neither country nor pop, but something that sucks as much as country and pop do...
Third shitty country album *in a row*. Third 1-star album in a row... Please give me a break, album generator!
While I was familiar with the obvious later albums by The Who, I never bothered to listen to this one, thinking it would be "immature" or "raw". Well, it kind of is, but in a good way. The sound is really rough and hard for '65 and, although the production does not really higlight it, Keith Moon's drumming is amazing -- I invite you to check him out in the videos of the concerts of that period: he is insane in every sense.
The only negative aspect is Daltrey's vocals: he sings well but he has got no personality, his voice sounds different in every song and his imitation of american accents is quite ridicolous (worse than Mick Jagger's, who, on the other hand, in terms of personality and recognizability had almost no peer). This is also the reason why the James Brown's covers are not reallt convincing...
Well, it's still (or perhaps should I say "already"?) the Beatles, so the vocals are great and there are some good original songs, but it's definitely not an album I would listen to very often...
Great voice, sounds, atmosphere. One of the (many) great scottish bands.
"Slippery When Wet was an instant commercial success, spending eight weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and was named by Billboard as the top-selling album of 1987."
This is the irrefutable demonstration that people haven't become stupid because of the internet, or social networks, or smartphones. They have always been. These technologies just made the fact blatant. However, already 40 years ago, the hints were clear enough to those who wanted to see them.
My favourite PJ's record, absolute masterpiece. Songwriting, arrangements, vocals: everything is perfect.
[Commenters of the kind "Anything making England sound good can fuck off" or "This album makes me proud that the USA seceded from England" are just American losers. Go back listening to your funcking country music, suckers.]
Don't get it at all. In addition, did she really need to add minutes of tedious chitchat after almost every song? Was it not long enough?
When I was a teenager (wasn't this originally music for teenagers, by the way?) I didn't like this record as much as II or IV, finding it too bluesy...
I find it more satisfying now, definitely at the level of the best Blues-Rock of the times (say, the Stones...) but heavier...
This was the first time I listened to an entire Bob Marley's record, of which I only know the most famous songs. Excellent song writing, vocals and arrangements. (And the social/political touch of certain lyrics is great too.) All in all, lot of fun.
As someone else pointed out, the guy managed to produce one hour of music that sounds exactly the same, something that not even minimilast composers such as Steve Reich ever achieved.
I don't see a single reason why one would like to listen to this stuff outside of an elevator. (And given how long the record is, that means that you are probably stuck in the fucking elevator, it must be no fun.)
Since I had little expectation, I found it surprisingly good!
Great record. In particular, electric pianos and synths are amazing.
I expected to hate this record but I actually found it more than listenable. Sure, it's punk rock as much as I am Marylin Monroe, let's call it pop rock, but who cares?
Despite being a fan of the period and the genre, I did not know them at all. Slick new wave sound, I like it.
Awesome
Not my favourite Primal Scream album but still great stuff
Fantastic voice, of course, but the songs are not so exciting...
Yeah live rock albums are rarely interesting but this one at least lets us know that the guys sounded much more interesting live than in studio (compare it to Tommy...)
Keith Moon's drumming is pure amazing mayhem
Fun but not that impressive, I had higher expectations...
Listenable but, come in, there is really nothing memorable here. It's also way too long.
I haven't reached 8% of this project yet, but it has already made me understand why I don't like American music (with the obvious exceptions): it's because American music sucks (with the obvious exceptions).
Not as boring as Hejira but, again, I don't find much to be excited about here. As someone else noticed, the lady did not really bother to write choruses or melodies in general...
This one was short, at least.
Same great voice but more interesting songs than in I never loved a man...
Who the fuck is this guy and why should he belong here? This is one of the shittiest album on this project so far. It's difficult to conceive a more boring and useless collection of songs.
As if that were not enough, Phil Spector here demonstrates that, on top of being a horrible human, he was also an awful producer and his "wall of sound" was pure bullshit.
Any work of art that conveys the message that capitalistic societies (especially in the US) are shite is of course welcome. But the language of metal (the chainsaw-sounding guitars, the ridiculous vocals, the confusion between a guitar solo and wanking off the guitar) is really not my cup of tea. Of course, one can appreciate the technical virtuosity but, together with the songs being way too long and having way too complex structures, the former also reinforces the feeling that this stuff stems rather from the worst self-referential prog rock of the 70s than from the healthy hard rock/blues rock of, say, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath...
Not my favourite Bjork's album but still great
A pleasant surprise: this lady has a lot of character. Both songwriting and performance are excellent.
Never listened to this one. It starts well with a bunch of fun and energetic songs (including the famous ones) but the second part becomes frankly boring (with the exception perhaps of Queen of the Highway). Such a number of fillers in a 37 mins album can't be regarded as a great achievement...
Why the hell this project includes this record and not Strange Days is beyond my comprehension...
If mainstream commercial pop music were still like this, I would have nothing to complain about. Although, I doubt someone would write lyrics as those of When I Kissed The Teacher today, which adds to the fun...
I don't think the world needed british/celtic folk rock to be a thing... If the "seminal album" of the genre sounds so boring, I don't really want to hear the rest. The only piece of music I actually enjoed is Tam Lin.
Masterpiece. What could have Syd done afterwards if he took (slightly) less LSD?
A complete surprise for me, very good album!
Basically I just enjoyed "Do it again". I don't see why anyone would find listening to this album a valuable way of spending their time. This can be said of any other shit prominently labelled as "soft rock"...
I didn't hate as much as I expected I would given the preliminary information. (Guy goes through bitter divorce and writes one hour long (!) album bitterly accusing the former wife of anything imaginable. No matter how great is the guy in question, this can't bring anything good...)
Still, this is not an album I will listen again to.
Useless
This website administers me so much shitty music from the USA, that I am ecstatic when some of the good stuff from that miserable nation finally pops up. Sonic Youth are one of the few truly great American bands (not sure I even need the fingers of two hands to count them...) so, fuck yeah, it's a 5!
I only knew Black hole sun. Actually, that is the only Soundgarden song I knew, which is telling of how much I care about this kind of music. The album is OK but nothing exciting. One point more because of the Beatlesque (quite Abbey Road-like) melodies of that famous song (I didn't fail to notice that even before reading other comments)
Great stuff, although I tend to prefer the upbeat pieces to the "trippy and dreamy" ones...
Probably not the best album by Arcade Fire but I have always liked its dramatic baroque arrangements. Plus, the last two tracks alone deserve five stars...
I N C E L
(plus, it's shitty rap)
Another discovery: just knew a couple of songs, including the obvious single. Listening to the whole album is amazing. Fun, upbeat, clever, elaborate structures yet raw sound.
Obviously, I knew who Courtney Love is but didn't know that Hole was her band. Heard Celebrity Skin many times here and there, but didn't know it was theirs. This just to show the fuck I give about this kind of music. Quite surprisingly then, listening to this album was all in all a decent experience, although the boring/useless songs outnumber the interesting ones.
Pretentious title for a collection of mostly boring songs with a couple of OK ones...
I enjoyed the first song, the rest is bland forgettable stuff.
Literally nothing momarable here, besides one or two OK songs.
Sure, as many have pointed out, Billy Corgan's voice is not particularly pleasant, nor his lyrics particularly smart. And the guy used to take himself way too seriously. Howver, I have always liked this album and I am not even a big fan of anything grunge-y: the sound is just powerful and some tunes are memorable.
Even without considering the historical (and political) relevance of this artist and this album, one cannot ignore that this simply is amazing music. True, the songs are all a little too long but I guess one should imagine listening to them live surrounded by a dancing crowd rather than sadly at work on spotify...
I guess one of the best concerts ever played and (surprisingly) I found the acoustic part even more convincing than the electric one (although the finale with thin man and rolling stone is obviously overwhelming)
I didn't know her at all. She has got a beautiful voice. I liked the first and last song but found the rest so unremarkable that I couldn't focus on it (basically I didn't hear it)
I was amazed by this album: it's genuinely experimental jazz (and it's true it reminds at times of a ballet piece: of course avant-garde ballet, of the Diaghilev-Stravinsky kind...) yet very listenable and even catchy. In addition, the Spanish guitar out of nowhere shouldn't fit in but it does and kicks asses...
One or two songs were OK but, all in all, the album is so unremarkable that it results annoying...
On the first listen, I found it almost annoying but I gave it another try and started to appreciate it. Besides the famous hit single, 2-3 songs are quite enjoyable too...
Simply the best album of one of the best bands of all times...
I had no idea who these guys were, and I loved them. I don't particularly like Nirvana nor grunge in general, but that's exactly the point: this album sounds much closer to punk and protopunk (to Stooges) than to fucking Nirvana... Great stuff
I agree with most of the other comments: the songwriting is nothing special and the Bowie's impression of the vocals is quite annoying... Memphis is a good song though, mainly thanks to the killer sax of the great Andy Mackay...
Some boring blues, some boring psychedelia, some interesting blend of the two.
The best Radiohead album and still the best music produced in this miserable century.
PUNK JAZZ!
Literally unlistenable. Gave up after 12 minutes and it felt 2 hours
I didn't expect to like this but I did
I don't get the hype: 80% of the album is OK but pretty boring. Not even the incidental presenc of Neil Young (that I typically appreciate) can make it better. Besides contributing a few guitar parts, he authors one good song (Helpless) and a pretty useless one. The only other genuinely interesting piece is Crosby's Almost Cut My Hair.
I usually like Neil but this one was way too sloppy even for his standards. And boringly too bluesy too... In the same year he produced the much more powerful and inventive Zuma, why not including that album instead?
Yeah, probably the best hip hop album I have ever heard but, well, I don't really like hip hop...
I like several things PSB did, but this album (as announced by the opening song) is really fucking boring...
Mostly clever and cool stuff
Mr Tambourine Man alone would be enough to make it a great album but it's also full of a bunch of other amazing songs. I would not feel like giving it a 5 just because of the more bluesy tunes that are a little tedious...
I listened to it 2-3 times but I can't remember much of it besides the opening and Birthday, as well as the fact that Bjork's singing is obviously great but the spoken-word parts of that guy are fucking annoying . Clearly not such a memorable album.
Fuck off
I didn't know them and I had low expectations (when I read that something mess with folk, I get instinctively suspicious). It was a nice surprise though: it starts with a couple of kick-ass songs and remains enjoyable but still a little boring towards the end.
OK, the guy could definitely write good songs and play almost everything amanzingly well but I don't see this as a perfect album. The production and most of the synths are too close to the bad sound of the 80s (that of, well, Bad by Micheal Jackson or Ghostbusters) rather than the cool one (New Order...). There are exceptions though: Nikki is a terrific song and When Doves Cry an almost perfect one. Then there is the title track, which is great although it could be way shorter (is it needed to repeat the refrain like 40 times?)
Call me culturally snob (although I listen to quite a lot of punk stuff) but I will never get this shit
There is some rap but it's not a hip hop album that's why I enjoyed it...
One song was OK but the rest is rather useless
This album has the historical sin of making the lame concept of an unplugged set look cool. Despite that, it is quite enjoyable although the best tracks are not theirs (the Bowie's song alone give it a +1)
One of the best albums of all times
The afrobeats bits are excellent but the rest is pretty standard jazz
I never minded listening to anything by them and today I learnt how right I was. I expected some copycats of the hard rock of Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath (but 10-15 years too late) but this album is actually much worse: here we are rather in the neighborhood of Bon Jovi...
This leopard is lucky to be deaf because the music is shite
Despite not being my favourite genre, I have to admit (as anyone with a minimum interest in music would) that the guy is a musical genius and this album is full of good songs (with some being terrific)
Great album: for sure one of the most enjoyable of this century.
Besides the raw energy, the riffs, the hooks, and Meg's elemental drumming, we have to clarify two things about Jack:
1. he is a fucking good singer
2. the way he plays guitar is amazing precisely because it's imperfect. In other words, he does not jerk off the guitar like those who pursue technicality per se but he actually plays it and, doing that, conveys meaning
I listend to a great deal of prog rock when I was a teenager. Then, growing up, I realised how most of it is just sterile viruosity.
That's not the case of King Crimson, whose albums I can still enjoy, especially Red and this one. Beyond the technique, they still have something to say almost 60 years later.
And it is difficult to conceive an opening as powerful as this one...
Nothing smart to say about this besides that it is good
True it is long but, at least, the songs are very boring
Brilliant
I have never really listened to AC/DC besides to Back in Black for a short period as a teenager. Thirty years later, I wouldn't expect I could bear such a plain and quintessential rock. Surprisingly enough, I did and actually enjoyed it (although this album is not quite as catchy as Back in Black).
An awkwardly-looking angry young man, with an awkward voice and awkward dance moves, shows the world that he has got a keen sense of melody (rather unusual for the times) and can write amazingly catchy tunes.
This album is a great debut although, in my opinion, inferior to Costello's masterpiece, the following This Year's Model (the first with the Attractions). I find it crazy that the latter was not included in this list...
I sympathise with the George Micheal persona and I acknowledge his cultural (meaning: pop culture), social and even political importance. In addition, I enjoy playing (and systematically losing) the whamageddon game each December. However, I find this record really really boring (with the exception of Freedom, ça va sans dire...)
When it came out, this was music for adolescents (more than teenagers). Considered this, it aged quite well, although it is still a little too bluesy for my taste...
Compared to other groundbreaking Miles Davis' albums, this is not cool at all...
Second Iggy's album, second album produced by Bowie, second masterpiece. The title track and the Passenger are rightly celebrated but the general quality of the songs is stratospheric (well, Turn Blue is a little weird but that's OK...)
IMO, the underrated gem is Some Weird Sins, starting from the amazing lyrics about the point of view of a society's outcast (as Iggy undoubtedly must have felt). If you haven't yet, check out Iggy's performing it at Top of the Pops, especially how he mocks the lame program's format 15 something years before Cobain's rather pathetic antics...
Such a puzzling album: why is it listed year? why was it so successful at the time? why should I care? WHY?
Hip-hop is not for me, not even the gentler kind. I was just bored
As many have said, with this album, the Beatles finally became the Beatles. So, yeah, it is essential
Impressive work of art (lyrically, musically, vocally, politically...), simply the genre and instrumentation do not really click with my tastes, so that only a few songs manage to engage me...
A couple of songs are nice because of arrangements or vocals but overall this is not memorable stuff. Listenable at best.
Those who call this album 'experimental' (especially, those who do so in derogatory terms) must have spent most of their lives listening to shite like Bon Jovi.
It's a masterpiece written, produced and recorded over two years by someone who, by the end of the process, was barely 24. I would be curious to see wtf you suckers did at that age.
Despite growning up alongside friends idolizing Bob Dylan, I never had the courage to dig in his discography systematically. (Also because, in principle, I am not a big fan of the more bluesy/folky aspects of his music.) This project is giving me this opportunity and makes me appreciate him more and more. Here, besides several amazing songs, I was impressed by the range, power of nuances of his vocals (in the face of the idiots who claim he cannot sing)
I finally understood the simple reason why I don't get hip hop. When I listen to music, I am typically mostly interested in... well, music. I tend to listen to the lyrics in a second time (if at all) and, however amazing they might be, if the music sucks, I am not going to bother with that stuff anymore... (If I want to delve in beautiful words, I read a book or go to the theater, you know?)
I guess this attitude is a blessing in the specific case of this album: I trust the other commenters that it contains lots of awful lyrics but most of them just didn't reach my ears (besides the unavoidable load of Ns and MFs). On the other hand, music and production are indeed way cooler than the average hip hop stuff I heard because of this project... so why not giving it 3 stars?
Long, boring, useless to the point of becoming irritating.
In 1978, after only 6 years on the music scene (as (non-)musician, songwriter, producer etc), it was already quite obvious that Brian Eno was a musical genius. This album simply raised the notion to a different level altogether. (A level where the players are not "pop musicians" but "serious composers": people like John Cage, Philip Glass, Steve Reich etc.)
Definitely the lamest thing I heard recently. 47 minutes that felt like 47 years
The title could be "Stupid music for a stupid country (produced in its stupidest decade)"
This was totally new to me. And I liked it: great voice, nice arrangements (love the brass sections and, especially, the crazy percussions towards the middle of Jump Into The Fire). Some songs are little gems (Gotte Get Up is definitely my favourite), other are a little boring, but all in all it is a very solid pop album.
Overall listenable album but with really nothing memorable.
I will never listen to it again and I would have died happier without doing that in the first place.
Another argument supporting my developing theory that popular music in the 90s (barring the due exception) sucked particularly...
Completely new stuff for me and I found it AWESOME!
Live rock album are often useless. This one might be a partial exception. At least, it contains versions of the songs quite different from the originals, showcases the outstanding musicianship of these guys (and the incredible Gillan's vocals), and gives a pretty good idea of how powerful and fun were the live shows of their classic line-up.
That said, 10 minutes songs with 7 minutes guitar/organ solos are of course no music for grown-ups...
I am kind of a fan of the Who and I acknowledge the historical importance of this album but (compared to other stuff they wrote in the period) most of the songs are rather lame and the instrumental parts quite boring (I guess the "folk rock" bits do not help in this sense). The story is pretty ridiculous too.
I still enjoy Pinball Wizard and I am Free because of the killer riffs, as well as Sally because it's pretty fun...
That said, the most problematic aspect of the album is its legacy: I don't think the world really needed the pretentious and preposterous concept of Rock Opera...
Recipe to make one of the greatest albums of all time
Ingredients: Bowie's genius (1/2), Eno's genius (1/4), Fripp's genius (1/4)
Procedure: Go back to '77 west Berlin, mix the ingredients, and shake until you obtain the perfect blend of Krautrock, proto-New Wave and ambient experimentation (Another Green World-like)
Presentation: we know that the title track is one of the best songs of the 20th century (worth 5 stars alone) but don't forget to serve the whole album and play it loud
PJ Harvey is one of the coolest persons alive. If not at the level of her later output, this album demonstrates how, at 23 yo, she already was a great songwriter and performer (her vocals and guitars are just amazing). What an assertive debut!
A couple of interesting songs while the rest is mostly unremarkable and borderline pointless...
Public Service Announcement:
The fact that you loved an album when you were fourteen does not automatically make it good. Actually, it is a proven scientific fact that most of fourteen-year-olds are dumb.
Additionally: Eruption is pathetic. There is a difference between masturbating a guitar and playing a solo.
Ironically, I doubt anyone would ever call James Murphy "American scum". (Just like "Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole".)
I started appreciate the National a few years ago and find this album very good (although I would have rather chosen the Boxer to appear on this list). That said, although great, the sound and mood across the songs (and the albums -- at least those produced in this period) quite lack of variety: same (slightly) sorrowful vocals by Benninger, similar dense arrangements, frequent (slow) dramatic crescendo etc.
David Bowie was a giant, the Thin White Duke a fascist prick. That said, Station to Station is one of the greatest songs ever written (and the line "it's not the side-effects of the cocaine, I am thinking that it must be love" is probably the artistic pinnacle of western civilazation). Unfortunately, I have always found the rest of the album (besides TVC15) not that compelling and frankly a little boring.
This is a band whose I only knew the name (indeed quite memorable) until a few weeks ago. Then this project proposed me Fuzzy Logic, which I found utterly unremakable (besides a couple of songs). This one is way more interesting with a good mix of invention/experimentation, pop melodies, genre variety. Still, I am not probably going to listen to it very often...
