Album was a bit all over the place, and a bit long. Loved the one-two punch of Sara/ What Makes You Think You're The One
Enjoyed some of this album, Sledgehammer is still awesome, but some sounded too dated/80s to be my favourite- really synthy
Great album- loved this one! I’m definitely going to revisit this one- if had me dancing, but it was also mellow enough to just have in the background.
Dolly’s voice is beautiful, this was a nice listen! Travelling Man made me laugh with the plot twist as well. This felt really classic old school country/folk, and I enjoyed the sound, especially the vocal harmonies.
An absolute classic, I loved relistening to this! I enjoy the way the whole album flows together as a whole, the transitions between songs and little intros really make do an awesome full album listen.
I think this was a good album, but I also kept forgetting I was listening to it while it was on. That may have been Christmas busyness rather than album quality issue, but it was sort of gentle and soft and kind of just slid into the background for me.
A classic! I love a lot of these songs and didn’t realise they were all on one album for me to access!
Lots of great songs on this- fun for a party, but I might not just put it on to listen to at home.
Loved this one! I had heard some of these songs before, but not the album- this one is going to be added to my rotation
I did not like this one, it actively annoyed me. Maybe I was in the wrong mood for this album, but I just wanted it to end.
Nope! I found this album really obnoxious
I really enjoyed this one! There were a lot of beautiful melodies, and this just had a nice feel to it and overall album flow. I knew some of the songs but not the whole album- a nice discovery!
I enjoyed this album- but really preferred the more mellow songs. I enjoyed it more and more as I listened though!
Prince is of course great, but I don’t actually listen to him that often. This was enjoyable, although an extremely horny album. Some of it sounded quite dated, but some classic sounds as well.
Absolutely loved this album- wasn’t expecting to like it so much! This one’s going in the rotation
Some pretty cringy lyrics, but he has a nice voice! I’m not sure I would consider this particularly deft political commentary, lol
I really enjoyed this album! Different from other ones that we have listened to. I liked the psychedelic sound, and the melodies and vocal harmonies were really pretty.
This didn’t sound like country to me, but it was really gorgeous music! Ray Charles has a beautiful voice and I enjoyed that classic big band sound.
I loved this album! Fiona Apple is such a great songwriter and has such a unique voice. The way she plays with atonal sounds in her melodies really scratches an itch in my brain.
I actually put on the live performance of this album rather than the original- when I realized I left it on because the live recording was really fun. Really talented musicians and really catchy music, I enjoyed this! I liked how when the music slowed down a bit and they brought in the piano it had a real glam rock sound.
This was not for me
I love Queen but wasn’t blown away by this album- I think they have better ones. Just okay for me!
It seems like I should like this more than I do, but I Oasis isn’t my favourite. Very nasal? Don’t Look Back in Anger is a great song though.
An absolute classic- I love Simon and Garfunkel! Paul Simon’s amazing song writing and Garfunkel’s beautiful voice. Was such a treat for this to be the daily album! Also one of the best album covers ever, lol
Not quite what I expected when I saw a disco album coming up in the lineup- I actually loved this! It was so smooth, with nice beats, but had a kind of mellow charm to it. And the vocals were beautiful! This would be a great album to put on for a chill party.
This album was fine? A bit all over the place. I find Ceelo to be really gross as a person, which I think influenced me to not like some of the explicit lyrics.
I wasn’t that familiar with the Kinks, and I loved this album! A nice mellow vibe and lots of great melodies, I will add this one to my rotation.
Great album! I knew the singles but not the album- and also I didn’t realise so many hit singles were on the same album! I like the strong melodies and anthemic quality- the kind of songs that are fun to sing along to in a crowd. Deducting a star for terrible lyrics.
Interesting to hear such early REM! It was a nice album, but to my ear they didn’t quite have the strong melodies yet that I associate with them. Some of their songs sound a bit like the Cure. Pretty good!
I enjoyed this album! They’re clearly very mix of rock with a bit of a bluesy, maybe a touch of country influence, sounds really good. It is fun to listen to with a fun, high energy vibe.
This album is a cool time capsule, but isn’t something I would actually want to put on to listen to. The style of rapping is just so dated and slow! This whole album is surprisingly slow. There were moments that I was really enjoying the intros and beats and then the slow rapping came in and the track loses momentum. Favourite track was Jam Master Jay.
What a great discovery! I loved everything about this album- the lead vocals were stellar, great lyrics, I loved the atypical arrangement of having brass included in more of a punk sound. Loved it! Looked up the lead singer Poly Styrene, and she had such an interesting, inspiring, but also sad life. There’s a documentary about her that I would like to check out.
An absolute classic album! I love the way this album feels- it has good energy but also a relaxed feel. It just made me feel good to listen to, this is going in my rotation!
I can tell this is great musicianship, but this type of jazz is really not my thing. I don’t really like the saxophone, and I find it is a bit too intense to be mellow background music, but not exciting enough to be foreground music.
I like Portishead, and enjoyed this album- but it isn’t their favourite of mine. I really enjoyed the vocals, but sometimes found the electronic beats overly repetitive, and some of the background noises were a bit distracting.
This is another album that I found really dated, and didn’t enjoy that much. A lot of the background sounded like a video game or soundtrack, which was kind of interesting- but not my favourite. The rapping- similar to DMC- felt so slow to me!
An absolute classic! Gorgeous voice, beautiful melodies- a really beautiful album.
This was a cool historical artifact! She had a lovely voice and I enjoyed it, but probably not one I would want to relisten to.
A great album! Really surprised that this was a debut album, because it sounds so self assured and with a lot of complexity in the instrumentation. I really enjoyed the theatrical/glam rock flair to this one- my favourite was when the full backing vocals came in. I put this one on for a second listen right away.
I loved this album! Perfect “getting stuff done” music, a good beat, but mellow feeling. The different samples made for really fun and interesting listening- definitely going in the repeat pile!
I enjoyed this album! The martial arts movie samples were cool interstitial pieces, and the beats were fun to listen to. I really didn’t catch most of the lyrics, so I did feel like I was missing stuff- but that’s probably my fault.
I wasn’t sure I would like this but then I was enjoying some of it- some of the instrumental arrangements were cool and unusual, and the vocals were great. And then Behind Blue Eyes came on and it’s just the absolute worst, self involved dreck. Bleh.
Obviously Trent Reznor is crazy talented, but I don’t enjoy this music. I find it really stressful to listen to. I also find the difference between the loud and quiet parts to be too big- if I had the volume at a good level for the loud parts, I couldn’t hear the quiet parts- it’s set up to make sure you blast it basically… maybe I’m just too old for this.
So much blatant misogyny in this album- the Puff Daddy connection makes increasingly more sense as I listened. Unfortunately this album is a fantastic, all the songs are absolute bops. I’ll take one star off for hating and abusing women? I don’t feel good about this, lol
This was a really nostalgic sound for me, because it sounded so classically 90s alt rock. I enjoyed this album for that reason, but didn’t enjoy the more screamy parts as much as the more melodic songs.
I actually really liked this album, strange as it was! It was a fun listen, and I liked the high energy, theatrical flare, and the lead singer’s awesome voice. Some of orchestration sounded fantastic- someone should lift some of these sounds for a sample for a new pop song. Borrowed that horn sting from Life is Life and make a number one hit!
I enjoyed this! I was just thinking we haven’t had any African music yet. I loved the piano and the vocals that came in at the end were great. When the album was more classically jazzy I enjoyed it less- there is a kind of jazz that kind of aimlessly noodles around that annoys me- but fortunately there was only a bit of that here.
James Brown is crazy talented and I enjoyed the live album aspect and hearing the crowd go wild. In terms of actually enjoying the music- it kind of leaves me cold for some reason. I think funk just isn’t my favourite.
The lyrics on this album are so terrible and heavy handed, it’s like they decided they needed to do a socially conscious album but had absolutely nothing to say. I also felt like the gorgeous layered harmonies that the Beach Boys are known for are missing, all in all quite disappointing.
I didn’t care for this- I don’t really like jazz. It always feels a bit aimless to me. The one track where there were vocals and a rumba beat perked me up, but it was short lived.
Very interesting to get this album as part of this project, because it felt very referential of an earlier British rock sound. It had a very 60s/70s feeling to the beginning of the album- some of the tracks sounded a lot like the Who maybe? But then the album got all loud and deconstructed in the middle- combined with the title I think they were doing something really ambitious here, trying to reinvent older rock sounds for a new era. I’m going to give it 5 stars just for ambition.
This was a really fun, upbeat album- and the vocals were fantastic! I would put this on for a party, it has just the right high energy vibe for that.
I love this album! I liked how it varied from a very psychedelic, experimental sound to a really stripped back acoustic, almost folk sound. The really pretty, simple vocals and strong melodies kept that jumble together really nicely.
She has a great voice, but I don’t really like this style of music. It was very show tune/musical sounding- which I don’t mind if I’m watching an actual musical, but I don’t care much for it as an album.
Great album! I love Joni’s style of folk singing- but this album was sneaky and changed into a jazz album part way through. Jazz isn’t my favourite, but it was nice to pick up the pace and hear something a little different. My favourite song was from the first half of the album though- I loved Free Man in Paris. The harmonies on that song were great- I wish there was more of that all the way through the album.
I really enjoyed this album! It had a sound that reminded me a bit of the Pixies, but with more of a country or folk undertone. I liked the vocals too, I think I will be returning to this one.
This album is a classic- I still love it! It was interesting to try to listen to it with fresh ears, the vocals, melodies and varied instrumentation are all so good! But I failed in my objective relisten because I fell deep in a nostalgia hole listening to Exit Music.
Billy Joel is clearly really talented, and I love singer songwriter… but this music is so cheesy to me. I couldn’t really get into it. She’s Always A Woman was a stand out for me- my favourite track on the album.
What a gorgeous album! I know a lot of the songs, but hadn’t heard the album. Very glad to add this to my relisten pile. Very simple acoustic arrangements, but the melodies are gorgeous, and he has a unique and beautiful voice. (Side note, listening to this also made me realize I have been conflating Nick Drake and Nick Cave… and I had a sprinkle of Nick Lowe in there confusing me further- it’s all much clearer now)
This album was immediately getting a 5 as soon as I realized that it had ‘You’re So Great” on it- I love that song so much! This album is all over the place sonically, but I think it works. Some tracks sound like American rock, some sound really retro- 60s and 70s inspired. I had to look up M.O.R. because it sounds so much like Boys Keep Swinging by Bowie, and sure enough he has a songwriting credit. It’s interesting how Song 2 was the big hit out of this album- because nothing else on the album really sounds like it! Kind of a fun experiment.
This was such a nostalgic pick for me! I listened to this album so much in high school, but haven’t really since. I really enjoyed listening to it again. I was struck by how many hits are on this album- I think it has 4 singles on the radio from this single album. My favourite is still The Drugs Don’t Work- so pretty and sad. It’s interesting how all the singles are the slower songs, when you listen to the whole album they are interspersed with more fast, louder songs- which makes for a great overall album experience.
I’m sure these musicians are very talented, but for me this was the most bland background music. I sort of forgot it was on while it was on.
This was another 90s throwback, but this style of music is just not for me. I find it really grating and loud to listen to. Just not my favourite.
This is a longtime favourite album of mine, I was so happy when it came up on the list! Anohni has such unique and gorgeous voice- the way the vocals have that tremolo is so beautiful. Nothing else quite sounds like this album- and it is so powerfully emotional. Love it!
Great album with some of Neil Youn’s best songs n it- although I was disappointed that Harvest Moon wasn’t on there- it’s my favourite and I assumed it would be there because of the title. Some truly wonderful, timeless song writing on this album. I do slightly prefer the live at massey hall album with a lot of the same songs though if I was going to choose- it’s great hearing the audience react to these.
This album felt all over the place to me, some of it sounded like children’s album? There were a few simple songs that felt like they had potential, but overall this felt like a bit of a mess.
Some absolutely classic songs song by a master of her craft- this was great to listen to and had me dancing around my kitchen! If I have one criticism, it’s that this didn’t feel as much like a cohesive album to me- more just a collection of songs (if that makes any sense?)
Haven’t listened to this in a long time- but this reminds me of Dad! I love this more as a historical artifact, I love the crowd interactions and the bit where Johnny jokes about the tin cup of water. This also has some great classic songs on here- but I did find the song selection a bit depressing/low energy. Maybe that makes sense in the setting though.
This was a pretty fun listen, but it did fade a bit into the background for me. I found the vocals really strong and the beats pleasant- but I also forgot I was listening to this sometimes.
This is pretty classic U2- great big sweeping melodies and great vocals. The only version of this album I could find was a deluxe anniversary edition, and it had all these self indulgent extra tracks. Maybe I would have liked the original better? But I ended up feeling a bit annoyed by it.
Talking Heads are a real nostalgic band for me. I didn’t know this album very well, but found that it had a lot of the classic sounds that I love. I think they borrow a lot from soul music, but really make the sounds their own, and it very danceable and upbeat. Take Me to the River was a real stand out!
Super talented musicians, particularly the singing! Some of the songs sounded very dated/disco- but I found a lot of the album really stood up. Can’t go wrong with great vocals, layered harmonies and danceable music.
Like A Rolling Stone is a fantastic song, but I felt like the rest of the album didn’t hold up to it. In some ways this is a bit of a frustrating listen- the lyrics are so opaque, and a bunch of the songs are just spoken poetry. When he actually sings I find the songs much better. I like Bob Dylan and this is supposed to be one of the great albums- but it didn’t really do it for me.
This was just a simple, gorgeous folk album. Beautiful singing that reminded me of Joni Mitchell, and the instrumentation was great too. I loved the violin in particular. A nice discovery!
