Nasty good mix on the first track
I can't be satisfied guitar is awesome - this is my favorite track
The blues had a baby named rock 'n' roll and I definitely have an easier time listening to said baby due to the twelve bars of it all
Nice! Cute. Don't listen to this type of music often but this would go hard at a summer camp or something.
Fine. I never need to hear wonderwall again, it's a boring song. I like Champagne Supernova. Most of this I wouldn't listen to again
I liked it! Chill, some really nice moments with 80s drums blending well with acoustic instruments to make sad songs more interesting. I'll probably come back to this one
Rest in peace, Bowie, you are a legend.
This album is phenomenal, his aged voice is so rich and adds great texture to the whole album. You can hear how much effort it was taking to sing compared to when he was young - he sounds pretty tired throughout and his (with love) old person vibrato is really pronounced, but he makes it work really well with the sound of the album.
The instrumentals are so good. Epic fun fact from wikipedia: "Bowie took inspiration from artists including Kendrick Lamar and Death Grips." Makes a lot of sense. And makes sense the band he used is all local jazz musicians, they are very skilled and do so many interesting lines and textures.
Crazy this is his *twenty-sixth* album!
Goddamn, I Can't Give Everything Away is so incredible. Anyway this is one of my favorite albums. Maybe someday I'll pay attention to the lyrics a little bit :D
Lots of great moments here. I have a hard time with long albums/double albums, especially on the first several listens. I'm impressed with how well this held my attention throughout. I shouldn't be that surprised that I like classic prog rock, since I love new prog rock, and I can hear so much influence.
I'll definitely listen to this again, although I'll probably do one half at a time. Phil Collins's drumming has some really standout moments, and the 2007 stereo mix on Apple Music sounds great and modern, which helps the ease of listening a lot. Even listening to the original mix on youtube, it sounds very modern and forward-thinking.
Also I love how goofy prog rock is. So much synth!
Very fun! A few standout tracks, most I probably won't go back to.
Favorites were the title track and From the Bottom of My Broken Heart
4 stars cause it was fun and goofy and did what it wanted and greatly hate overthinking music ratings. Plus this has to be higher my 3-star rating of (What's the Story) Morning Glory cause that was boooooring
Really nice! Only a couple songs I wasn't immediately interested in, but a lot of these were very good. My favorite was probably 4 + 20
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Some good grooves and dancy stuff in here. But also lots of very corny, on-the-nose lyrics. Would rather listen to Underworld, Massive Attack, or many other electronic albums before coming back to this. Some cool stuff on Lightspan and other tracks.
I really couldn't enjoy the first CD, his vocal swooping and very droopy harmonica were too much for me. Several times I thought "wow this guy is doing too much for his bob dylan impression" then I remembered it was bob dylan.
The second CD is fun though! His talky singing works for me when there's other instruments playing. But in both halves I can't enjoy the parts where his words get really slurred & unintelligible
I suspect that the first Bob Dylan album I got from the list will be my least favorite (I already know I like Freewheelin' Bob Dylan pretty well)
Love Prince! This dragged on a bit as an album (so many 7-9 minute tracks), though it has some amazing songs.
A classic! I grew up with Foo Fighters as my favorite band for many years, I think The Colour and the Shape was my first album I ever owned. This was never my favorite from them — it has some amazing songs (Weenie Beenie, Good Grief, Big Me, This Is a Call all still go so hard) but several that are pretty far down on my list when I want to hear Foo Fighters.
Still very enjoyable, very influential to me & to rock music in general. Full marks for you, young, pre-infidelity Dave Grohl!
Flawless.
Neat that Caroline Polachek has production credits on No Angel. Tons of great producers here.
Fun! It's at its best when they're not leaning too hard into the white boy reggae (I'm looking at you, The Bed's Too Big Without You) and let it just be its own thing. Also I just realized I wrote the above before I realized what the title is and I stand by my above unintentional translation, "white boy reggae".
On any other day was just too goofy for me.
But a very good listen! My mom listened to a ton of Sting growing up, so it was fun to hear a full album. I found a non-remastered version
Most of this was fine, nice but a little boring. However, Hero was awesome. It was basically a dance punk song, but released in 1975? Awesome. The yelling + electronic sounds reminds me a little of Idles. This had great energy to it
Liked this a lot better than his bootleg "royal albert hall" album. I still have a hard time with Bob's vocal & harmonica style but I think the lyrics are where his music connects. I'm someone who doesn't listen to lyrics a lot by default, so I'm listening to some Johnny Cash covers of Dylan songs and having an easier time understanding why people love this. Maybe if I keep listening to covers I'll start to appreciate the original songs more...
Bangers all around. We need to encourage more 30 minute albums. I'll definitely come back to this one
Really nice! I especially love Charlie's guitar parts
The tracks go so hard. My favorites were Parental Discretion is advised, Express Yourself,
Great album, classic.
LMAO "I ain't the one to get played like a pooh butt" these guys are goofballs.
This guy's got a great voice, he's gonna go places
Got a little boring with blues twangy, and is too long. But has some great songs! Loved Thorn Tree in the Garden, Layla, & Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
Damn, when doves cry -> i would die 4 u -> (baby i'm a star) -> purple rain is maybe the strongest album ending of all time.
I love 80s new wave! And I've heard the hits from this one, but I didn't expect to enjoy the full runtime so much. Also love the features from Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson, and Nile Rodgers!
Liked about half of this pretty well
Whoa, this is amazing.
Favorite track was Maseru
Too long! Too samey! Nice music, but I don't think I ever need to listen to a whole album of Frank again. Some of these songs are very good, and could be highly romantic in the right context. That context is not surrounded by other equally dramatic romantic songs
Too long and an awful mix, but I like some of these songs. I think Scottish folk singing makes 60s psychedelic music more interesting to me. The low rating on here is surprising, like yes they're not hitting notes all the time but it's nothing like The Shaggs, and their singing is *way* more pitch-accurate (and comprehensible) than bob dylan on his royal albert hall bootleg.
Some incredible songs on here (I Wanna Be Adored, Waterfall), and some jammy stuff I'm not really into (Fools Gold etc).
Lots of great stuff here, I can see why it's such a well loved album. Love the thick guitar/bass stacking on Wish You Were Here.
But since I'm rating these based purely on my enjoyment, it gets a 3.5 for the whole thing being very downtempo, and as one review I read said, "it's like they knew we'd be trippin'". So me not trippin' is not the target audience here. I imagine I'll like this more as I get to know it better.
Some bangers and some duds. Of course very influential to punk, but wouldn't listen to most of these tracks over earlier garage rock or slightly later punk, except as a history lesson
Absolute bangers, amazing groove, iconic, hilarious. 5 stars minus 1 for the misogyny on Ain't No Fun & throughout
Nice! Fun to hear punk with a horn section outside of a ska context.
Short, sweet, groovy, excellent
This is so fun to listen to. Sweet Child O' Mine is a very sick riff. Also some filler that was kinda boring. And every song probably doesn't need to be 6 minutes long, but I guess Slash needs his solo time somewhere!
Kanye's verses were always my least favorite part of this album. Hard to listen now without thinking of his inevitable Nazification. Unfortunately Kanye didn't listen internalize some of his own lyrics - "Balding, Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all" - or maybe he really meant "y'all" in the exclusive sense
Also crazy that I knew "Blame Game" before Avril 14th by Aphex Twin, so I never knew it was based on that sample. Funny to hear it after learning the Aphex Twin song on piano.
I love the beatles, but the only track on here that I really dug was In My Life
I think I'll come back to several of these songs. There were a few that were really, really good, but as an album I was a little bored by about half of it. Probably says more about my preferences than the quality of the music.
Some great stuff, plenty of stuff I'm not super drawn to.
Favorite song: Porcelain
YouTube music autoplayed like 7 songs after this album finished and I was a little suspicious for one of them but was totally convinced that the others were part of the album
Having to sit through Let Me Put My Love Into You to get to Back in Black feels like the universe trying to teach me a lesson or something.
Anyway, mostly iconic, several very forgettable songs. I don't think I need to listen to this as an album again.
Lots of good music here, I just couldn't get into the flow of the album, it's too long with too much variety. Maybe it's unfocused or maybe I wasn't focused enough on it, idk
I liked this a lot. It sounds more raw than loveless, which I appreciate
This is exactly the type of album I want to find through this list - I grew up listening to Oracular Spectacular by MGMT, Neon Indian, The Woods by Sleater-Kinney, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky by OK Go, and so many other albums produced by Dave Fridmann. I knew the name, but had never heard of Mercury Rev. It's cool to hear so many of the sonic trademarks of 2000s-2010s indie/inde rock/psychedlic rock in an album from 1998. Plus, I liked the album!
Man, I don't have time for jam rock
Some great stuff here, but the vocals generally didn't connect with me. I would come back to this and could see myself liking it a lot in the future
Some clever, fun critique of hippies with interesting instrumentation, and plenty of eh.
Not really moved by this. I love how cohesive and interesting the village green preservation society is, and most of the songs here didn't have any of that charm and interest that I found there.
Not super moved by this on a first listen. Plenty to like, and I could see loving it on future listens.
This is fun! Not sure everyone needs to listen to it, maybe just Jared Hess and a few other indie film directors.
Such a fun album
A few good tracks and lots of aged british white boy rock 'n' roll. Tales of Brave Ulysses was fun!
I feel like I need to be more intimately familiar with 20th-century Louisiana politics before I really get this album.
I love how it sounds! Interesting songs, and some good social criticism.
I love when music from 1970 can still be so exciting to hear more than 50 years later. The opening of Immigrant Song is just too good. The rest of the album is quite good too!
I have a hard time liking Lorde's vocal style, but it's definitely a me problem — this album is excellent. Gotta listen to more Kiwi musicians I suppose. So much great production and writing.
NILE F***ING ROGERS AND BERNARD F***ING EDWARDS. I'm embarrassed that I didn't know Bernard's name before now, or that he and Nile co-wrote Chic's stuff. The guitar is legendary ofc but the bass lines throughout are so incredible. I mean, Good Times is *the* bass line.
I was wondering if this would fall off after the amazing first half, and Cant' Stand to Love You was a little less interesting, but then Will You Cry comes on with the nastiest, funkiest bass line & vocals. This song is what "in the pocket" means.
1 extra star for good guitar playing (especially on Tears)
I love this album! I'm biased because I grew up on it but still, it's really great
This was very fun! I love the sound, unsurprisingly. The guitar at the end of Weekend was especially nice. Lyrics are very silly and dumb and I'd have to listen again more carefully to form more of an opinion than that :D
This was awesome and fun. I love prog rock. I don't think we need 2 Genesis albums on this list (or almost any of the repeats that are here) but I preferred this to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
