Would I ever recommend this album to anyone? No
Do I think I will ever go and listen to this album again? Also no
But I can say I did listen to it with great pleasure and had an awesome time with it. It's weird and dissonant and funky, and I can't say I didn't like it.
Immigrant song: a classic, amazing song, also a great energetic opener to the album
Friends:
Celebration Day:
Since I've been loving you:
Out on the Tiles: a very "standard" upbeat led zeppelin song. Just good
Gallows Pole: een meer acoustisch nummer dat wel nog lekker de energie Hooghoudt. Lekker catchy
Tangerine: wat langzamer en mellow. De bas draagt dit nummer erg goed.
That's the way: draagt erg sterk nog de country roots waar led zeppelin vaak op terug grijpt, wat langzamer.
Bron-Y-Aur stomp: een leuk country nummer niet heel bijzonder
Hard off To (Roy) Harper: een erg experimenteel nummer. Het is duidelijk dat led zeppelin later in hun discografie terugkomt op dit nummer met: in my time of dying, die dezelfde riffs ook gebruikt als in de opening van dit nummer.
Heb genoten Van dit album, voor mij 1 van de led zeppelin albums die ik niet zo goed kende vergeleken met sommige van hun andere albums. Maar nog steeds heel erg led zeppelin.
Amazing start of my week. Makes pop-rock but then actually original, creative and imaginative. The strong influences of blues(-rock) and jazz really add a great flair to this classic album.
The dissonant piano is something you have to get used to, and I imagine it isn't for everyone, but I like it.
The ultimate example to me of a bad good album. There's nothing wrong with it, but nothing pulled me in.
I get why that is, I know that I hear nothing new because everyone has been copying the Beatles and this album. That doesn't suddenly make it good for me though.
I would recommend this, I personally got bored about halfway through though.
Starts off really strong and really fun. After the second song they become more and more experimental and after a few songs it starts to lose me, but they do pick it up decently at about halfway through the album.
A great album with some banger songs, even though it didn't all work out, I loved what they went for.
A weird one, definitely did like, but nothing in this album stood out, however that is a weirdly positive thing here.
I feel like to really get a grip and an opinion I'd have to listen to it at least 5 more times, and I just might.
A genuine delight. 5 amazing tracks. A great album and the first album that I feel like I didn't know yet but did really enjoy discovering. Never expected to enjoy a 16 minute drum solo that much.
Nice and punk, sounds very 90s.
Second song sounds quite Nirvana like which isn't surprising. It's pretty good but I don't see myself listening to it again.
Listening to this I want to hear their harder sounds (as this apparently their softer albums). I feel like those may resonate more with me. "She walks on me" confirms that I'd probably love that even more
Wat een top album. Stevie Wonder proving they're the goat. I wish I could give a more insightful review, but I find I cannot fully say much more than just: I really love this album
It is a genuine joy to listen to this. It feels like ABBA but then just a bit more funky and experimental. Especially the opening tracks really pull me in with some good pop.
What an amazing jam. Love the combination of pop, jazz and reggae. I like how they switch between More "standard" pop-songs and then the more experimental instrumental songs.
It is also hilarious to hear how some songs are written for Sting with vocals, a nice baseline and a more "standard" rythm, and then there are the Copeland songs where the drums just go wild.
I can imagine there are plenty people who will love this album.
I really am not one of them though. It is all the same slow, soft music. A single song is quite nice, but when I realized by song 2/3 that the entire album would be like this, I started looking forward when this album would be done. Critics will probably describe it as vulnerable, intimate, and soft. To me it's just boring and a little whiny.
Really cool album, adds blasting full energy riffs with cool rhythms. Experimental, energetic, chaotic, and fun to listen to. I can imagine that it may not be for everyone, but this is for certain one I'll be remembering and relisten to at times.
Continuously surprises and plays with what it has built. Starts of energetic and strong, then breaks that down with some psychedelic rock, and builds back up to through a jazzy middle section to new highs.
8.5/10
First few songs feel like if Gorillaz went for a bit more King Crimson-esque route. Which is makes for a very cool and fun sound.
Electricity starts with a more classic rock sound, pumping up the energy. But then through some very dissonant we end up in a slow and melancholic Broken Heart. Through a similar dissonance we are pulled back up again with no God only Religion.
Not an album you will probably set up whenever, but when the mood strikes for it, it is an amazing trip.
A dark and calm album, beautifully sinister. The slight dissonance builds an amazing tension throughout the records. The more minimal style pulls you into the vocals and the lyrics which emphasize that slightly "wrong" feeling as well. Talking about not fitting in.
Fun punk album, starts off a bit weak but gets the better later in. Vocals feel a bit whiny, especially in the slower songs. Strangely in the faster Pased songs those same vocals fit quite well.
6/10
You see, this is why I started this project, to find these amazing gems of albums that I hadn't had the time to really check out.
Herbie hitting us with some amazing tunes which, despite being from the 70s, still feel innovative and new. Groovy, funky, beautifully chill. Just experimental enough to make you want to listen to more, not so much that it loses you on a casual listen.
Progressive punk-rock was not something I thought existed, but it does and is quite fun. It was for me again the more experimental tracks that really pulled me in especially the intense humming of Evil.
7/10
This album was a pleasant surprise. I expected to enjoy the songs on their own, but get kinda bored by song 2-3 as I often do. But it kept me hooked, Anita Parker's voice just kept giving so much. Every song again I fell in love with this album. This album makes me want to get an LP player, because this feels like the ideal LP to on a dark evening.
7.5/10
FUCK THE GOVERNMENT!
7/10
Great album, really starts of like feeling a 60s pop-rock band being brought to the 80s. But as the album progresses more and more of those typical 80s sounds are brought in, and it fits.
Really want to give it another listen or two, which for me is a good sign of a great album.
8/10
A beautiful and cozy jazz session that fits the season amazingly. This album felt like a warm blanket.
It was Michael Jackson, it wasn't particularly special to me, but it is good.
An album that feels new and refreshing, both musically and in terms of and in terms of subject, despite being over 30 years old. It is refreshing while staying timeless. Funky and grounded, somehow he does it all.
9/10
This album is infuriates me, not because it is bad. If it were bad I could've filed it as not my thing, and moved on with my life. Instead it gave me opinions.
It opens with the star Wars X-wing scream and then a genuinely amazing riff making me all excited. Imagine then my disappointment when the vocalist kicks in who somehow retroactively pulls all energy and power from the music with the voice of what feels like a wet rag.
Leaving behind something that feels like it was purely written for some 90s/00s coming of age movie about a teenage boy finding out how cool skating is. It is punk with its teeth filed off.
It is even more frustrating because the guitar riffs on this album are still actually pretty good at times. Especially on Lose Control and I'd give you anything (which makes sense as it is straight up a Black Sabbath riff) there are some great fucking riffs. But then the standard post-punk go happy junk starts playing over it making you wish for what it could've been. But again, it happens too often to make me be able to just I don't like it and move on without thinking about it.
4/10
An absolute classic album, and one that holds up to this time. Despite being meer on very hard, one cannot say that wonderwall is actually a bad song. It does pop rock just how it should be. Oasis remains one of the greatest bands of all time for a reason.
An amazing album despite poor recording quality. Makes me want to be a racist cop in a 50s noir movie who is slowdancing with the femme fatale who is only allowed to be a damsel in distress with this on the background.
An amazing album despite poor recording quality. Makes me want to be a racist cop in a 50s noir movie who is slowdancing with the femme fatale who is only allowed to be a damsel in distress with this on the background.
Yeah, no. It's just some country.
Fucking loved the album. Wouldn't be able to tell you much beyond since I'm no hip-hop listener, but the flow felt great. Amazing backing tracks which gave of a nice mellow beat. The lyrics felt authentic and powerful.
Aaah, Johnny Cash. The one artist that does make good country music. I should also say that through this site, and through albums like this I can finally see the appeal of love albums. Often when I listened to them they felt like poorer quality with some yelling in the background, but in albums like this it actually does enhance the music, and brings some extra mood of what that performance was like, making both the artist and the music feel more alive.
7.5/10
Look, I am a white man who listens to prog rock/metal. I pray daily to the Holy Trinity: the father (Steven Wilson), the son (Mikael Åckerfeldt), and the holy spirit (Maynard James Keenan). I cannot pretend I won't give this amazing album a 10/10. I am also the target audience as I am spiritually a stoner from the 70s.
Metallica took the fame, but I still feel like Megadeth did more to thrash metal as a genre. This album really captures thrash metal and metal in the 80s and early 90s for me: fast, raw, and powerful.
A great album, the only downside being that it means that I have to give credit to a Belgian.
8/10
It's nice. But that is really all I have to say about it.
The first notes start and immediately I know I'll be in for a treat.
Sadly later the songs became a bit less soul and more salsa, though still thoroughly enjoyable. Probably won't put it up again but a fun listen.
7/10
This was a nice album that somehow didn't really leave an impression on me, but in a weirdly good way. It was all genuinely nice to listen to, the grooves were great. But simultaneously nothing really stuck to me. Even in writing this review I struggle to say what exactly was good.
Exactly the type of album I'd put on if I had a record player, because I feel like you can't go wrong with this.
7.5/10
It was a funny album, wouldn't call it the best work of the stones. Simultaneously I can really tell how foundational the stones and this album have been for Rock. Overall a nice album but not something I'd put up again very quickly.
6.5/10
Another day, another country album I don't give a shit about... Had to restrain myself no to just skip after 3 songs...
I am impressed, normally I really do like psychedelic stuff, but I guess even psychedelic country still fundamentally remains country, sadly.
3/10
Fun album, great listen with some great humor in there.
It feels like that really shitty white people rapping, but then actually good. It's slower but the flow is good. Plug tune is a particular favourite of mine.
I am not much of a hip-hop/rap listener, this project may change that honestly. Especially as it gives me a great crash-course through some of the best albums. Often find it hard to really explain why it is great beyond this stuff is amazing.
8.5/10
This is an album that encompasses the beauty of Post-Rock probably the best. The music that isn't. Music that fills you with emptiness until it overwhelms you.
This is not my first venture into Post-Rock but this is definitely the best album that I have heard of its type. Often Post-rock can get a quite samey after a few listens, but each song brings its own personal feeling and does something new. An amazing listen if you just need something to lose yourself in.
8/10
