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
Pretty fun listen, has some comedy, feels a bit punky but then acoustic. Just a nice and fun album for me.
The kind of album I cannot imagine putting up myself, but never minding listening to either.
7/10
A fun and strange album, though it did get repetitive after a while. I wouldn't be able to tell you the songs apart, but it was enjoyable. Would recommend if you got headphones and want something weird, maybe for that one time on your record player if you're alone.
7.5/10
Can't say I particularly enjoyed it. I found the vocals quite whiny, which is a staple of 90s british rock. Some of the guitar work was pretty good, but most of it did feel quite the same, except for cigarettes and alcohol none of the songs really stood out to me.
6.5/10
Great album with some proper bangers. Fits the slight disillusionment of the current day quite well.
Overall I really enjoyed this album, amazing songs that felt both quite timeless while still also having that distinct 80s feeling. Perfect album to have on the background as you go about your daily things.
Boring, stale didn't finish as I got bored. Standard country stuff.
What an incredibly fun journey this album is. Starting at classical music, and going through soul, funk, jazz all the way even to what almost feels like prog-rock with screaming guitars and back to soul again. Experimental and new, yet still keeping it in a very digestible pop style, without removing anything off of it.
Definitely a keeper and going to check out more from Janelle.
9/10
An interesting listen, I feel like Beck tried a lot here and I gotta respect the effort and vision, that being said I don't feel like he quite stuck the landing.
The mashups between styles often felt a little awkward, which was even further exacerbated by the quite poor vocals. Some instrumental parts were actually pretty good, but did not have enough going on to carry an entire song often. All in all I can't say it was bad, but neither can I say I loved it. Maybe I would after a couple of listens but that doesn't really sound attractive to me
5.5/10
An album that really just kinda didn't leave an impression on me. It was fine, nothing actually bad but a little boring.
Weird in a good way. Was never sure what would come next, but it did all fit the album very well.
It did fizzle out a bit on the later songs but remained enjoyable.
7/10
A great reggae album. It is weird how he can sing in such a happy way about such heavy and dark parts of society, his heritage, and life, yet still make it feel fitting.
8/10
The actual songs on this album aren't bad, but I must say that I had heard basically everything that the album could give me by the third. Good music but It did get a little stale pretty quickly.
6/10
A great album, starts of with a powerful rock song, and then spends the rest of the album in slower, more intimate songs. It is amazing how it combines themes of love with slavery and blackness. An amazing album I'm happy to Have listened to, and may listen to again in the future
This does make me understand why people like the Beatles. It is actually energetic, and here I can hear how they didn't just invent the overdone standard pop stuff that has been copied to death and then some in the last 60 years, but how also they were at the roots of much of the more Qualitative pop as well.
I guess, it was not the worst country album on here, but absolutely nothing remarkable about it. Don't get why this is on the list. It's just another random country album.
5/10
A pretty fun album, a bit on the long side, and didn't really catch me, still remained pretty enjoyable overall.
By no means a bad album, however there's nothing all that special about it for me. Nothing that makes me realize why it is on this list.
Pretty good album, the music feels just a little too muted for me. It felt to me like it lacked some power, though I very much get that that is very much a stylistic choice of the cure.
Nice songs, with a surprisingly soft touch and a strong message.
Still on the softer side for me, I often just find myself zoning out on albums like these.
7/10
Pleasantly surprised by this album, prog-rock mixed with gospel was a surprising combo, but worked pretty well.
This album felt like how people who want to says music is dead would describe music. Still it did have some bangers .
7.5/10
Pretty cool instrumental album. I sadly had this weird bug where I was also continuously listening to some weird man moaning off-key into my ears, which really made it hard to focus on the instrumentals.
7.5/10
I always kinda struggle to say anything about Michael Jackson. Not gonna say it is bad music, but at the same time that is all I can say about it. I don't care for his music, it's just kinda fine.
It is a great album, it is really cool to hear how you can still hear some stuff of theirs back in the entire metal genre. At the same time I always find it funny to hear how close this is to something like Led Zeppelin, but we always put one in rock and the other in metal.
To make slightly blasphemous confession. I've never really listened to Black Sabbath even though I truly consider myself a metal head. But I think I'll use this album as a starting point to take a deep dive.
Fine album that left me no thoroughly without any real impression
A great album which was an amazing introduction into Latin Music for me. A genre I'd heard basically nothing off before this album.
Pretty fun album, that sadly suffers from those standard 90s issues. Which means vocals which feel like intentionally poorly done, and absolutely atrocious mixing. They did some cool things added some industrial guitar sounds which was pretty neat to hear.
A fun skaterpunk album, it is short but great.
A Powerful album, with great musical strength built on a powerful message of heritage and the act of living life as resistance. This is one of those albums I am very happy to have learnt, and I am sure to check out more of their work and their story.
Next to their story the music it also just slaps. Mixing bluesrock with their own cultural style, creating a wonderful style that feels both new and familiar to a western listener.
An album that I had trouble placing on my first listen, but it intrigued me enough to give it at least a second and probably a third listen as well.
Queens of the Stone Age still are one of the foundations of modern rock. They make great music and this is a great album of theirs. It's fun
It's that standard slightly goth 80s pop as from the other albums of the cure. It had a bit more energy and I liked it for it, still not really my thing though.
When I got Odelay, an earlier album by Beck, I said it was good in concept but didn't stick the landing and felt a bit rough/off. This album feels the exact opposite, Beck found out to make some really nice music, but here it all sounds so safe while I feel like it wants to be experimental and different. I feel like Beck polished Odelay so hard to make this album that he sanded of what made it special, and now it feels like a regular softpop/country album, or maybe a porcupine tree album when porcupine tree would be made by some major pop label who don't actually want to experiment.
tl;dr the quality of the songs might be better, but it is a lot less musical.
Still don't like country, and this is not even good country.
A cozy, jazzy hug, with a some soul mixed in. Just what you want if you want something nice for yourself. A delightful experience and something I will put up more often.l, whenever I require just a good time.
8.5/10
An amazing funk album. One of those albums where you can really hear its influence on music as everything feels recognizable, yet still fresh. Definitely one I will be listening to more.
This is an album entirely consisting of popular songs that have better covers of them, or songs that weren't covered for a reason. Nothing bad with it, but not my type of music, and if it was I would listen to the other versions.
I think this may be the first album I could give a review off without listening to it. However I still do listen to it because why would I skip such a delight as this album?
Anyways, it is perhaps one of the strongest muse albums out there, with some massive hits, but it also flows amazingly and feels like a great album.
Sometimes harder rock albums start to feel a bit flat as a metalhead as you're used to more than they give. Muse really doesn't have that, using strong riffs with groovy drums really keeps you hooked throughout the album. Making every song a delight, and feeling powerful. Muse for me truly embodies rock, and what it should and can be.
Not my thing, nothing wrong with it, just not terribly interesting for me.
A cool album, but I was not able to give it the attention it demands on my first listen. It isn't something you can just put on in the background.
Feels quite dated, may have been refreshing and new in the 00s but feels old and stale now.
An incredibly fun an energetic album. Keeps the tempo up, and really embodies that 70s retro sci-fi in pop in a great way. It feels retro futuristic.
Some may call this drum & bass. I personally am looking for jungle.
An active but fun pop-rock album. It felt strangely old for when it came out (expected when listening it to be from the mid 90s). But it was well executed and sounded good.
It is a cool album as it is the start of an entire genre. And I do like drum and bass every now and then.
As an album it is alright I'd say. You can still hear some things that the genre will figure out later how to improve upon. Also 2 hours is very long, and I found myself kinda losing interest in the music after 30 minutes. Drum and bass also often works well cause it creates this soothing and focussing rythme, but in this album it could get distracting with the over use of stereo and certain sounds.
A fun hard-rock album, which is on the softer side of hard-rock, though that may be a more modern perspective. The concept of overdubbing a live album quite interesting, but it is a smart solution to their problem of limited time.
Starts of shit with some kind of summer camp prebubescent boy singing about love. It gets slightly better as more than just 1 other instrument is used. However it still remains that horrendously slow, whiny sing and songwriter music that I utterly despise.
2.5/10
It isn't bad, but I am not gonna pretend I actually like it. One song of them is fine, but it misses a lot of power and after 2 or 3 songs I am very much done with the same guitar chords and the singing about how things could be better.
Now this is a fucking trip. Psychedelic, weird and wonderfully fun. Not something you'll put up quickly, but simultaneously a blast to listen when you have the space for it. It felt like a whackier and more crazy Doors or Beatles at times
What an incredibly fun album, it almost feels like a parody of itself, but in a good way.
I got strangely nostalgic due to this album, but not for music of this era/album, but instead by music made by people who listened to this music
I liked Depeche mode, they were much more chill than I always thought they'd be. For me they were always like that music homework band, that group you should've listened to if you wanted to be able to say you know music, ironically, though I did really like this album, I don't really feel like I missed out on something truly special though.
Didn't expect much seeing the previous stuff from Neil Young I heard, this was somewhat better. I would still probably never put this up, but at least it wasn't as grating to listen to. The music was actually built around the musicality instead of just his voice, which made it significantly better
A strange album, kinda weird disco, does live up to the name of erotic cabaret. It was a fun album but not very good, I struggle to see why this is included, but even stranger that is not a criticism.
Normally each album in here is either, highly influential, very good, or has a special story. This particular album feels like it had none of these things. The most special part is tainted love which has a better cover.
