Very fun southern and blues rock, some songs were very reminiscent of classic blues songs
Loved the instrumentation, great messages. Mixed feelings of the vocals, sometimes great sometimes not my cup of tea.
Love the vibes, more contemplative and proggy in some parts than more recent Coldplay albums
Wasn't sure I'd like it because I've never connected with Bob Dylan's vocal style, but I really enjoyed it! Loved the blues elements, the instrumentation, and storytelling. Some of the songs do run long.
Amazing music
I like it fine. I like the beats, and 50 Cent's presence and flow. But, his rapping doesn't have a lot of lyrical and metric complexity. It feels like storytelling could've been a core part of the experience, but most of the songs are quite vague and focused on generalities instead of specifics. The songs don't have a lot of thematic variation. He sings more than I would've expected, it's ok.
Some classics, some boring songs
Love his voice, the production is very fun and varied. Classic.
Johnny rotten is super annoying. I still bounce off of this album, though I appreciate its influence on tons of music I love.
Incredible instrumentation, has a depth and complexity to it that is often under-imitated by influencees. Definitely a classic.
Absolutely love this album. Guitars are soaring, vocals are incredible. Every song is great.
I liked it much more than I expected, my perception of Fiona Apple is more poetic/arty than music I usually like. This album was really musically compelling and jazzy, though a little meandering sometimes. I wouldn't be surprised if this keeps growing on me.
Feels very childish, in subject matter and when Eminem sings hooks. Though horrorcore in general is definitely not for me. Stan and Eminem's sometimes-used rap skill pull it up a bit.
Love the blues songs and like the folk songs. Meandering overlong sometimes, but felt more approachable and catchy than Highway 61 Revisited.
I really liked the orchestral elements and complex/experimentally riffs. A fair amount of the songs are a very nice mix of experimentality and catchiness, I was bobbing my head to several of them. Sometimes the lyrics were overly clear-cut/cheesy (Your Dictionary especially).
Sounds very Beatles-influenced to me, enjoyed the psychedelic elements (some of the instrumentals were quite fun), but for lots of songs both the instruments and vocals felt a bit dull, nothing stood out/took center stage
So much musical skill on display! Really fun to listen to.
I didn't expect to like this album. But here we are. His delivery, the poetic nature of the lyrics, and his penchant for mystical/religious symbolism all added a mythical element to the music for me. The instrumentation was usually simple and didn't evolve much throughout the songs, but the cadence and statements/nature of the lyrics still made me often feel like there was rising tension to successive verses. Also I'm a sucker for gravelly voices.
Very enjoyable listen, I liked the guitar work a lot. It felt somewhat familiar to music I know well but with more psychedelic elements.
Really enjoyed the blues elements and the guitar work!
Great ethereal post-rock vibes
This album became very interesting. Cool sounds, unusual chords, and ethereal vocals. Felt kinda progressive. It was a lot of fun!
I love Johnny Cash's voice and enjoy his guitar work. Not always big on live albums, but it's cool to hear his rapport and connection with the inmates.
Initially I thought I'd be bored, I don't always like (what I perceive to be) early-Beatles-like sound. But this album revealed lots of cool multifaceted elements. The guitars weaving together was really good, as well as the complex basslines. Lots of musical skill on display!
Mixed feelings, I really like some of the guitar work and musicianship, but sometimes felt a bit detached/disengaged.
Incredible. Blues elements, jazzy complexity, rock sound experimentation, there's so much going on here. Loved it!
Good stuff, though this particular album being live hurts rather than helps (screaming).
This one's on the edge of 3 and 4 for me, I've listened to it a couple of times and alternate between feeling disconnected and interested. I really like the musicianship (including a bari sax solo!).
Not a fan of his voice, and the storytelling style of the songs felt a bit repetitive/simple ("<person> was an <occupation>" or something about walking down the street). It's possible he's telling important stories or making points, but being so separated from the zeitgeist/living context I don't feel compelled enough to go learn.
Sucked me in, I really enjoyed the dreamy vibes, it feels like I'm floating in space. Occasionally a bit repetitive, otherwise I really enjoyed it.
*Andy Dwyer making Eddie Vedder mouth noises* So good! I didn't listen to these guys as much growing up but I listened to tons of bands who were inspired by them. Love the heaviness, his gravelly voice, such great stuff!
Very enjoyable listen, at points got close to a 5 for me. It's like if the Killers made a Bob Dylan album. Powerful emotions, I love the long shifting songs.
I tried to like this, but I didn't get a lot out of it. The more conventional dimension of the music is kinda boring to me, and the more experimental dimension is painful rather than intriguing/engaging. I know the album is very influential and ahead of its time, but it doesn't really speak to me.
It's always harder when I don't speak the language, since there's a whole dimension I can't engage with. This rating doesn't say anything about the music's objective/historical quality, just how it hits me specifically. Very complex and varied instrumentals that I mostly liked a lot.
I really like the solos. Sometimes the guitar-work felt more boring than I was expecting. I don't much like the vocals, his voice doesn't feel strong/polished enough when he sings metal-style, and feels artificial/weak when singing more loose/punk-style. Their particular combo of hardcore and metal often felt like it was bringing the weaker aspects of both (lack of polish of hardcore, over-reliance on "big" vocals and driving guitar for metal).
Love the guitars, grooves, all-around vibes. Absolutely incredible musicianship.
Very technically skilled. I do find myself zoning out or getting distracted. I probably don't have enough music skill to hear a lot of the complexity going on here. I tend to like hotter jazz better.
His voice is so good. Hurt is such a 10/10 song, you can really feel the depth of emotion. The album is a bit overlong, some of the songs don't hit as much as others.
This album was fascinating. It sounds off-kilter and almost carnival-like sometimes, then other songs have a more streamlined (but still eclectic instrumentally) sound. Sometimes the discord was a bit uncomfortable (and "9th and Hennepin", whew). But mostly I enjoyed and was drawn in by the instrumentals. The range of musical styles and sounds is impressive. Love the blues tunes the most. As well as vocal delivery, he goes from a gravelly folk style, to Louis-Armstrong-style jazz singing, to wild blues growls and wails. I loved almost all of the vocals, the gravelly voice gets me again.
OK, didn't feel particularly memorable.
Very enjoyable funky vibes
Incredible. Shows off the titanic skills of the individual players and their ability to make great music together. And of course Duke Ellington's composing and directing ability. Love it!
Maybe slightly above a 3 for me, but not a 4. Definitely liked it more than Anthrax. Guitar riffs were great, I mostly liked the vocal style. Lyrics are sometimes quite silly. Sometimes the songs felt repetitive, and the mix felt a little flat, like the different instruments weren't standing out much.
Really enjoyed it! I really like the sparse, icy beats. His delivery and flow is great, there are some quite dense rhymes. Occasionally the lyrics are a little cheesy.
Mixed feelings, the songs sometimes had really nice grooves and other times kinda repetitive or artificial
Alternates between sounding like the Beatles and David Bowie to me. Some of the songs are really fun and catchy (esp. Mambo Sun), but others didn't feel as novel/attention-grabbing. Between a 3 and 4 for me.
Love the guitar work, the powerful and soulful singing, and the grooves. Really draws me in. I am, of course, very partial to the blues.
Interesting ideas but didn't hook me all that much.
Super funky, love the guitar and baselines. Some songs+grooves were definitely 5s. Had a lot of fun with this one and enjoyed it aside from a bit of repetitiveness and some meh lyrics.
Very interesting! Kinda ambient-feeling, lots of unusual chords/progressions and shifting between different modes?keys?somethings. Great cool vibes to work to. The shifting nature of the music sometimes makes it hard to latch onto.
His voice is incredible.
The first half was very fun, the second half interesting though not super memorable, a little too ambient for me.
I really like the bass and grooves, but the songs start to feel repetitive pretty quickly. The songs are very long and didn't feel like they evolved/changed much.
Very enjoyable, ethereal and beautiful. There's a fair amount of variation in the sound between songs. I liked the most ethereal ones best, like "For Emily...", as well the Bob Dylan parody. I enjoyed all the elements (vocals, instrumentals, lyrics, etc).
Absolutely love most of it. Amazing instrumentals, grooves, vocals, it makes my head bob. The album is a bit overlong, I felt like some of the late songs weren't quite as strong.
Really liked the sound, really fun and complex/interesting instrumentals. Occasionally a little overly silly for my taste, but otherwise really enjoyed it.
I enjoy the guitar-work. Somewhat like the vocals, but sometimes the lyrics feel forced/overly-edgy. The songs kinda blend together when trying to remember them.
Really liked it, complex and interesting!
Very varied and interesting, I enjoyed it a lot.
I like the sounds and vibes a lot. A few of the songs are weaker than others.
More songs than I expected though were kinda simple/repetitive. But obviously a lot of classic songs, and incredible guitar!
Beautiful! His voice is ethereal and compelling. The music feels unique and mixes lots of elements. I hear jazz components, alt-rock, prog or psychedelic complexity. The structure of the songs often feels non-traditional, which I like a lot.
I like the vibes and their sound. Sometimes repetitive.
Reminds me of R.E.M., and I like the sound. Often fun, but the songs started to really blend together for me.
So jazzy and lively!
Very fun to listen to, their voices are incredible! There's a reason this sound is back. Near a 5 for me, I would enjoy more instrumental complexity.
Very personal and grounded, this is definitely a style of country I enjoy.
If someone on purpose makes music that's supposed to be hard to listen to, and it IS hard to listen to, is it good or bad? Still subjective of course. I understand the artistic idea of challenging the listener/observer, or making them reflect on their relationship to music and expectations of it. But even trying to be open-minded, that's a bit too much challenging for me.
I enjoy the grooves. The keyboard sounds remind me of a keyboard we had growing up, and sometimes the sounds and playing feel a bit underdeveloped. Or like the default riffs keyboards can play (though maybe this is where they came from). His voice (and the music to some extent) remind me of The Postal Service, whose music I prefer.
I enjoyed this one a lot. Instrumentals are great. Generally I quite like the lilting and warbly nature of Morrissey's voice. Idiosyncratic and really brings an unique vibe to the music. Dislike when he's occasionally quite off-key or makes a very palatalized sound.
Beatle-y, not super memorable to me. I like the guitar work on some songs a lot (esp. Australia). I like the rock opera storytelling aspect.
I really like the sound, especially the bluesy later songs on the album.
Very fun!
I enjoy the flows of the music and his voice, and the storytelling and often artful lyrics
Extremely smooth and enjoyable to listen to.
Incredible voices, groovy and very enjoyable listen.
I enjoy the general sound, though there are so many songs that it's hard to remember individual ones.
Very smooth and has very pretty instrumentation. I enjoy the unusual lounge-y vocals most of the time but occasionally the falsetto gets a bit Gollum-y. Maybe a 3.5 for me, but quite interesting!
Great riffs, rocks hard. More organ than I was expecting. The long songs don't always keep me hooked in the whole time.
Love the guitar work, the blues influence that permeates, and the unusual chords that you don't often hear in imitators. The soft songs are also great, folksy and bluesy. Just all-around incredible.
Very catchy and fun. Love Michael's voice. The disco beats feel a little simple and same-y after a while
His voice is so smooth and nice to listen to. I love jazz and jazz singing, the instrumentation is very stripped back to make his voice the focal point. I simultaneously understand that and wish there was more hot/complex jazz in places. A lot of the songs don't particularly stand out, though I do love sadboy anthems. Somewhere between 3 and 4 for me.
Enjoyable guitar-work and it rocks, but long and scattered, hard to digest it all.
Interesting at points but felt a little lost and repetitive sometimes
Felt very personal, enjoyed the vibes but did start to feel a bit samey
Love the guitar work, such blues. Sometimes the vocals didn't quite live up to what I expected.
Great listen while working out, I love the grooves. Lots of hiphop influence.
The vocals and the grooves are very enjoyable!
I really like instrumentals, varied and consistently interesting. Black Keys-ish at times, indie or psych at others. I need to listen to it again.
Love the vibes, instrumentation is very fun and very them.
Didn't grab me as much as his other album, I felt detached
Don't love the rough vocals, instrumentals didn't feel particularly compelling
Electric, love her voice.
Always love blues rock. Some songs didn't full hit me, but I need to listen to this one again.
Love his voice, and the instrumentals are very enjoyable. Occasionally a bit overly simple.
They do their thing and do it well. I usually enjoy it!
It's been a bit, but I don't remember much about this one other than Take Me Out. I should probably listen to it again.
Classic, has unusual chords and unusual song structures while remaining approachable. Champagne Supernova is so good! There are one or two songs that feel less solid.
Her voice is so smooth and beautiful, such huge range.
I enjoy the storytelling and his flows. Don't always love the subject matter, and sometimes it feels like smoothness is so prioritized in the vocals that they pass right by me rather than draw me in.
Love the Black Keys! Blues rock at its near-finest, though the second half of the album drags a bit for me.
Mostly felt meandering and I didn't particularly like the vocal style.
Pretty, lots of different instruments involved. A bit too theatrical for me, feels like it has an attached play that I'm not seeing. And musicals aren't usually high on my music-listening list.
So much musical mastery on display! Flows and shifts constantly, it's very enjoyable to listen to. Though I sometimes feel like modal jazz is harder for me to connect with since there's less sense of home/tension/resolution. Definitely feels like musician's music.
Incredibly classic. Their later albums have a lot of fun experimentation and evolution going on
Really enjoyed it, though I think I liked II and IV better. Occasional songs that felt more standard-classic-rock. Still really enjoyed the folk elements, unusual chords, guitar work.
I really enjoyed the beats and the vibes.
I at different times said: "this is grandma music", "this sounds like it was made by birds", and "this sounds like it was made by sheep". The vocals were nearly always either painful or funny to me. I now know there are 2 flavors of Bee Gees music that I don't like. Honestly almost "horseshoe theoried" itself into being enjoyable by being so funny. But I don't have a negative scale ala JelloApocalypse or Brandon Sanderson.
At the height of his powers. So intense, groovy, and packed with incredible and emotional vocals.
I like his flow and sound a lot, it feels timeless and "newer" than I would have expected. Sometimes the lyrics are cheesy, or the rhymes overly predictable. But for its time the rhymes are denser and more interesting than I expected. Very fun funky beats (Illegal Search, To Da Break of Dawn, The Power of God).
Very fun listen, I've always enjoyed this album. The guitar-work is incredible, of course. More synth than I remembered. Some of the lyrics are cringy though
Psychedelic and a bit proggy? Definitely lives up to the hype.
So soulful, love the vibes. Occasionally don't love the vocal style.
Love the instrumentals and enjoy the vocal style, occasionally songs feel a bit overlong
His voice is captivating! So intimate and beautiful, it sounds a lot like indie folk of the 2000s, like he saw the future or just influenced a lot of people.
I enjoy the minimal production and both of their voices, very enjoyable vibes.
The instrumentals often remind me of 90s bands I know. I mostly enjoy the snarled vocals, the emotion comes through really well. Often feels emo-esque which adds to my enjoyment, maybe it's the mix of personal/confessional angry vocals and punk influences. Occasional weird lyrics and overly-idiosyncratic singing style pull it down a bit.
Love the bluesiness! Very fun instrumentals. The vocal style isn't very compelling to me, Eric Clapton's vocals are the most bluesy, the other two feel pedestrian classic rock or psych style singers.
I'm writing this 2 weeks later, but this album wasn't very memorable to me. Rock and bluesy, I don't love Mick Jagger's vocal style.
Songs sometimes felt a bit repetitive, but it was overall enjoyable
Very bluesy
They definitely influenced a lot of music I listened to growing up.
Strange feeling, but in a compelling way. Don't always love the vocals, but I enjoy the complex and unusual instrumentation. I heard Machine Gun and realized that "You Belong To The World" sampled it.
There's a very compelling quality to the storytelling (and sometimes very flowing poetry) of the words. And the jazzy instrumentals. But man, the spoken-word style of the vocals pulls this down a lot for me. And it is much more one-note than Rain Dogs, though in its defense it is somewhat of a concept album.
Harder-edged U2 but still big and heartfelt. I enjoyed it a lot!
I enjoyed some songs. Others were a bit grating, there's definitely a lot of edginess going on. 2.5 to 3 range for me.
Lots of songs I knew but didn't know were by them. Classic!
Rings of U2 and Oasis alternately. Really like their sound, though some of the songs didn't stick in my mind.
Very instrumentally fun, interesting sounds!
Absolutely incredible, really puts Kendrick's writing and rapping capabilities on display. Tight, dense, impactful lyrics that communicate deep song-level and album-level ideas. And the instrumentals are top notch as well (love Thundercat bass!), funky/jazzy/hard-hitting. A touch self-indulgent at times, but in an endearing way.
Very fun garage-y bluesy/folksy sound, not what I expected having only heard their hits.
