Awesome album, mostly bangers. Only complaint is some of the filler reminds me of spinal tap's early years or Monty python (final track, specifically).
Great, iconic songs. A Boy Named Sue makes a 3* album a 4* album.
An iconic voice and personality with 4-5 iconic tunes. The rest being good enough to listen to again!
Great album with only 1 or 2 stinkers. Melancholy is a decent description of the overall tone but it's still awesome.
Very chill, something that might be nice in the background while partaking in many activities...sleeping, napping, resting, recovering from a hangover, taking a sauna/steam or during a massage. Reminiscent of early 90s Me Phi Me but more mellow overall.
I'm going to issue the harshest insult for a 3 star album. It's a very poppy punk album. Just ok the edge of actual punk but not quite. Too many different chords in the songs (4-5), the lyrics are distinguishable and would like to tempo to be faster for a lot of the tracks. The number of songs < 3 minutes keeps to their punk roots though.
9/1089. This isn't even the album with their hit. The singer's voice is so unique and interesting that it almost gets stale. Horns throughout every song isn't usually my thing and this album is no different. Need the "insanity" song to reach a 3*.
11/1089 Classic, not many albums are better front to back. There's a reason it's the best selling album of all time. Always loved PYT, Human Nature and the other 5 bigger hits. Eddie's Beat It solo is one of history's greatest.
Hits...all except for baby be mine and the lady in my life
11/1089 I liked the light and mellow tone, something to be expected after kicking a heroin habit. The album was good and would listen to it again. I never got the guitar-god status of Clapton, he's great but I could spit off a building in LA and hit 3 guitarists just as talented. I don't think many will argue that, as a racist, he's one of the best.
Hits...motherless children, ISTS. Let it grow is an all time favorite of mine.
11/1089 OMD is an early pioneer of new wave and this album exemplifies the genre. Although their 5-6 hits aren't on this album, Souvenir holds up well so I'd still give it a solid 3*. Add enola gay, if you leave or electricity and this becomes a 4*. I do not agree that one needs to be on acid to enjoy but I haven't mixed the two so maybe that's the path to a 5*. It might be weird as others have said.
14/1089 It took me three listens but it definitely got better each time. Johnny Rotten has quite the range going from sex pistols punk to PiL new wave. This is another album that I'd probably bump to 4* if it had Rise or This is not a love song included.
Hits....pop tones, socialist.
15/1089 Always wondered where the song from Anchorman originated and now I know after this album opener. I loved this album, so groovy, funky and tight. True R&B and soul. The originals are classic 70s and the covers are so unique that I didn't catch they were covers until the chorus hit. This is what you put on for the ladies right before the lights dim and needle drops on a Barry White album.
Hits....summer breeze, lady, listen to the music
16/1089 I don't know what's letting this as a 4* but it's got a line up of songs that were #1s with others that are also loved and overplayed for 50 years. After a slow first 3 minutes, it takes off and is just another classic EJ album. Fyi, I think Elton John might be gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Hits...funeral, candle, Bennie, GYBR, grey seal, painted lady, Saturday night, and my favorite All the Girls Love Alice
17/1089 This isn't my kind of music but it is definitely music. Silver platter sounded mccartney-esque with catchy pianos and chorus. You could hear Tanner's (the 'bad news' bears, shortstop) influence throughout Jesus Hates Faggots and, as you might expect, it's a catchy little tune. I think a lot of people who are looking for some decent background music with a nice voice would appreciate this album. The lyrics aren't why you listen to this album.
Hits ...silver platter.
18/1089 This is very standard 60s rock by today's standards. It was fresh in its time but became such a success that many who were inspired and followed JA made this sound passe'. I've heard white rabbit and somebody to love 100s of time, maybe more, growing up, so they are very familiar songa. Grace Slick's voice is unique and right for the music. This is a 3* album but I can only give 2* because of their We Built This City release 20-something years later.
Hits....somebody to love, white rabbit
19/1089 I did not expect these chill, groovy beats and expected more "hits from the bong" vibes. Alas, this is reminiscent of Enigma.
I enjoyed the album and would have loved another 10-15 minutes to finish it out. This will go on the playlist at any restaurant I'm asked to create a playlist. It would also work on a sunny day around a private pool with a bevy bikini-clad babes and cocktails.
20/1089 I really enjoyed this entire album. A lighter, cleaner, punkier version of Hole and I could hear some Juliana Hatfield tones as well as some K's Choice (I'm not an addict). Very fun album to listen to but my one complaint is there weren't any 5* songs to lift this album from a 3* to 4*. Next time they should add some 5* songs.
Liked...buy her candy, little babies
21/1089 This could have been cut down to one album and the 9-10 best songs would have made an All-Time-Great-Album list. There were too many 3rd tier songs that didn't have the melodies to sustain 2 hours. This is a 5* single-album but, as a double-album, it's a weak 4*...and only because of the strength of the 9-10 absolute killers. Out of all the mess there is a ton of emotion and when BC hits, he hits hard!
Hits....muzzzle, 33, 1979, 2nite, 2nite, bullet, love, bodies, 33, 1979
22/1089 4.4873*
I've listened to this album hundreds of times for one reason and one reason only. It's a masterpiece from start to finish. No doubt Snoop is an Uncle Tom sell-out (easy to say when I don't have any pending million dollar sell-out offers), full on criminal, misogynist, and violent dug abuser, but this is one instance where I'll separate the art from artist.
I've been advocating for this album to be developed into a Broadway production for 30 years. Maybe start off-Broadway for proof of concept but it would make it to the Great White Way within weeks. The fact no one has produced this highlights the racist undertones that run deep in the veins of the Broadway elite. They let a Hispanic produce Hamilton but I guess having a Crip (or blood, I can't remember which snoop is) get his foot in the door is a step too far.
Gapless playback format is HIGHLY recommended to get the flow of the original album, where there are no gaps between tracks.
Hits...gz and hustlas, lo di dadi, shiznit
23/1089 1.3288*
My cat left the room halfway through the first track. FWIW, he's more into hair metal so take that with a grain of salt.
This felt like a film noir movie score without the film noir movie and i don't know a situation someone would listen to this album. It's music without a movie, though the music conveys an abstract storyline. Regardless, it still takes talent to put the whole thing together.
Hits...Alfred Hitchcock presents because it's familiar.
24/1089 2.7179*
I put myself into a 14-year-old girl's shoes before listening to this album. She was a size 6, so the shoes cut off circulation to my toes almost immediately, but I thought it would help me appreciate this album from that perspective. It didn't.
After two listens I can truthfully say, "it was fine".
Hits...shake it off, AYHTDWS, bad blood
25/1089 4.4387*
This is a surprise toe-tapping, head-bopping, whistle along album.
I only ever knew the song C.R.E.A.M. but this album was a ride I was happy to take and would pay a lot of cash to ride it again (just kidding, I wouldn't pay, it's a figure of speech).
The 2, 3 and 4 note piano melodies are so simple, yet so beautiful, intertwined with the deep bass beats. The angry rapping is a taste that needs to be acquired but it's worth appreciating and enjoying once tasted. The rapping itself is amazing, each of the 200+/- members of the clan have a distinct voice and delivery offering a nice change from song to song or verse to verse.
Hits...CREAM, ruckus, protect yo neck (so prescient due to recent events), SOAN.
26/1089 3.8859*
The A side is one of the best ever produced. The problem is, it's so great, everyone has heard those songs 100s of times. The B side is a bit less known and, though good music and songwriting, drops this from a 4.5332* to a 3.8859*.
No doubt the album opens with one of the greatest wedding quotes ever. If I ever get married, the officiant is going to start with "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate this thing we call life...in this life, you're on your own!"
Prince is in a class by himself and no one has done what he's done regarding music, film, lifting others in the business, fighting the record industry and his mad bball skillz.
RIP.
Hits...the a side and LPWM.
27/1089 3.0037*
Soft Cell is a quinticential 80s band and sound. Fortunately, all 4 of their hits are on the album but the other tunes fit perfectly as a soundtrack to any number of 80s movies or shows. Miami Vice? Check. Band of the Hand? Check. Less Than Zero? You know it.
SC really hit it out of the park and fit in, if not pioneered, perfectly with the early 80s synth rock and I could listen to the hits another few hundred times.
Hits...tainted, sex dwarf, SHWG, where has our love gone
28/1089 2.4443
It's a Christmas album from 60 years ago.
29/1089 2.9673*
I didn't realize Ray Charles was from the Big Band era. Such a distinctive voice, it makes me smile when he sings.
Very soulful album and shows why he's been a musical fixture for more than 65 years.
Hits...you don't know me, bye bye love.
30/1089 2.3882*
Never heard of this dude or the music but he's a pretty big deal in Europe, circa 1970s.
This music is something from a post apocalyptic/dystopian film from the 70s. Maybe a perfect atmospheric soundtrack for Charlton Heston's finest performance as The Omega Man.
Good representation of the synth rock to follow in the 80s and mellow but I didn't catch many hooks or very interesting melodies.
Hits...Oxygene
31/1089 2.3092*
I guess you had to be there in 2002 to really understand how fondly this album is remembered. I wasn't there.
It was an ok album, felt a little long and was looking forward to the end. At least they made bank on the tonight show
Hits...the seed, sacrifice
32/1089 3.4443*
Never heard more than 1-2 songs from these guys but the musicianship is first class. It definitely feels like a 70s album and the sound is so tight because of the musicianship.
Also nice to hear where dre got a sample or two from!
Hits....GUTF and mothership
33/1089 3.6227*
This was a nice contrast from the grunge and dying hair metal (rip) genres when it was released in '92. She had a place among the soft rockers and appealed to the ladies with her powerful voice and piano accompaniment. The album grew on me after a second listen and I had no choice but to bump it up by .2932* and achieve my coveted 4* rating.
If you went home with a girl after the bars and she put this album on you were about to either be a) dominated and used like a toy or b) relegated to a shoulder for crying and hearing about the ex-bf she was trying to make jealous by hitting on you at the bar. There was no middle ground and you may just wake to you future wife in the morning.
Me and a Gun was a capella and difficult to get through.
Hits...silent all these years, leather, crucify, happy phantom
34/1089 3.8771*
This is a very enjoyable album. Nice 2010s rock vibe. I listened to it twice and when it was done my player went into MGMT, Cage, Strokes, Arctic Monkey (obviously) and similar artists.
This was right up my alley and a welcome change from the past three albums generated for me.
Hits...the ages of understatement,calm like you, my mistakes.
35/1089 2.8893*
She's a symbol of the 60 and 70s folk and very effective at what she does. This is a nice album to have on low volume during a dinner party.
36/1089 3.3329*
She has a good voice. Didn't need to remake Love song.
Hits...rolling, fire.
37/1089 3.3751
This really hit at times but was off more than on. Some of it felt like tedious repetition. How many bars can you repeat the same beat?
Hits...
38/1089 4.6833*
We have 7 bona fide bangers on this album, of which at least 2 of those bangers are full cheese...but tolerable cheese. A total classic and more impressively, comes off a transformationanal Pyromania with a drummer who lost his arm and guitarist who lost his life.
This was an album designed to be a hit-maker where every note and every tone is considered before laying it down. It might not have the feel and groove of a van halen but it's still a classic.
Pssom has been overplayed and not my favorite but can deny mass appeal.
Hits...hysteria,women,animal,pssom, Armageddon, rocket, love bites.
Cheese....pssom,Armageddon.
38/1089 4.4439*
Another classic Janis album, this time with big brother and the holding company.
Summertime pushes this up 1* full star by itself. A true top 50 all time song in any genre, any century. This song would have made Mozart weep. Piece of my heart bumps it another .23* because it was on the mix tape my senior year girlfriend made for me.
Amazing musicianship throughout and retains the feeling from the decade it was created. I could smell the hippie from where I was sitting and it was a delight to the senses.
Hits...summertime, piece of my heart.
40/1089 3.4412*
This is a somewhat surprising album for the mid 80s. It was original and think I heard some Siouxsie and Cindi lauper influence. Then some vocals that could have influenced Courtney love.
Good album.
41/1089 3.4002*
It was interesting. I felt like we should be in a cabaret with a thick haze of smoke and a palpable air of light-hearted danger.
The entire album was steady and I'd put it on in the background of game night.
42/1089 2.4672*
Pretty generic sounding crooner and backing band. Nothing to get too excited about, no real hooks. Standard 80s new-wave-adjacent faire.
Could be ok background in a coffee house.
Cool album cover.
Hits...perfect skin
43/1089 4.3833*
I honestly couldn't understand one word. Maybe they should try English next time, you know, for the ignorant Americans.
That being said, this album was a very pleasant surprise and enjoyed each song. It was a mellow ride but perfect for a lazy rainy morning while enjoying a cup of coffee, cigarette and crossword puzzle.
Wishing I could give 4.5* but here we are with a solid 4*.
44/1089 2.5000*
Scott Ian is a monster on guitar and has killer facial hair, if you're into that. Otherwise, anthrax has never done it for me due to the lack of overtime melody. I understand there is melody but it's generally hidden behind he clamoring of drums.
Hits ...indians, among the living
45/1089 3.1771*
Rip Humpty.
This is a good album overshadowed by the classic Humpty dance. It has great beats and MCs and would be good background during a poker game.
Hits...Humpty dance
46/1089 4.4672*
New order is one of my All time favorite bands so this was an easy 5 and I was glad to get another 5 star album (just 3 out of 46 so far). Bernard could start his car and I'd go listen to it.
I recommend everyone just pick an early NO album and listen to it, you'll probably like it.
Hits...lv, egelia, subculture, tpk
47/1089 3.4393*
It was an ok album. Karma police is one of the greatest songs in their catalog so that bumps it up a bit.
I thought I'd be blown away but it was really just average, with the exception of kp.
Hits...kp.
48/1089 3.2399*
Wow, what a nice surprise from the opening note. The singer was obviously heavily influenced by Fred mercury, you can really hear some Fred throughout but it almost seems as the album plays on it gets more noticeable.
There was no song that got me pumped but it was nice 90s rock with guitar, singer, drums and bass.
49/1089 3.9686*
A superb album and a true inspiration for some of the people who discovered it when it came out *cough* kurt Cobain *cough*.
The Pixies were groundbreakers at the time and this is an album that helped influence a new genre of rock.
Hits....wimm, gigantic, bone machine
50/1089 3.4661*
Nice sound and great to hear JB in his earlier days. The guy is an entertainer and this show must have been the highlight of the week for many attendees!
You could almost hear his smile while singing.
A little fun fact about JB, aka Godfather of Soul, aka the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, is that he demanded to be paid in cash before he performed to eliminate being scammed by promoters, which was common at the time. He preached this to his contemporaries and those who followed in his footsteps.
51/1089 3.322*
I wish I had 10% of the creativity these guys do. When listenig to a butthole surfers album you know you're going to get something weird and creative, you just never know how weird or creative, simply due to the band name.
I enjoyed it, not enough for 4 stars but definitely something I'd introduce to someone who is specifically looking for a wild discovery.
Kuntz is often misunderstood. It's about a bunch of women's genitalia and not the obvious thing you'd think it would be.
Hits....kuntz, 22 going on 23
52/1089 2.2440*
I respect the ability and creativity of the artist.
African blues is the genre and it sounds just like you'd expect.
This is an interesting album based on the delta blues. It reminds me of what would be played in a movie as people dance in the middle of a swamp trying to conjure a voodoo spirit in the bayou in the darkest hours of night.
If you like the blues then you'll like this album!
53/1089 4.6229*
A classic album from a trio of technical masters.
The opening 4 songs could go head-to-head against any album's first 4 and hold their own. If you never heard Tom Sawyer or Limelight, give them a listen. If you like rock and/or roll and have been living under a rock, now is you chance to be blown away.
Even the back side, save for the 10 minute opus, holds its own. 2 great tunes on the back and they weren't all released as singles.
Hits...opening four songs.
54/1089 3.9778*
Solid 4* album. Great groove from the guitar and rhythm sections, and good emotion from the vocalist.
I'll be adding a few songs to a grunge playlist.
Hits...cut your hair
55/1089 4.2221*
This is a fantastic album! I was always somewhat fearful of this band, there are just so many of them!
I originally rated this 4* but after listening to it again, this is a 5* album. It was awesome for the immediate groove on song one to the final note! Loved it!!
Hits...it's a 5 star album, listen to anything and you'll be groovin'!!
