If you like a white boy speaking truth & playing guitar, then this is literally the peak of the genre. But if we're talking strictly Bob Dylan, he did better. Not really any bops on this one. Although it's gotta be said, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is breathtaking.
I'm not really familiar with The Cure apart from their greatest hits and Disintegration, so this was a treat! I really liked it! Really great songwriting, some probably experimental ambient sounds going on. Can't wait to listen to it again.
Is this a Christmas adjacent album??? Sure! First time listening to Nick Drake, absolutely blown away by this. The incredible guitar work, the lush baroque arrangements, it all just comes together brilliantly. This has gotta be my first 5/5. Not a single bad song on it.
This is the only time you should accept a gift from Phil Spector!
It's alright, but not really for me.
Okay I changed my mind, Iron Maiden fuckin slaps. Huge improvement from their debut album in every way. The only problem is—and this might be the 2015 remaster—the mixing is absolute dog roll. It's so tinny. I had to bass boost the shit out of the EQ just to get any low-end happening here. Other than that, this is a pretty good album. I don't think I'll listen to the whole thing again, but some of the tracks are definitely going in my workout playlist.
This is like a 6/10 San Fran hippie jam album but then "Cavalry" hits and for one track it becomes a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album 30 years too early. The musicianship on this is special in a way I find difficult to describe. It's obviously not Zappa or Hendrix, but it's something so creative and charming. I usually hate hippie jam bands, but I've really fallen for this kitschy fuckin album.
The majority of rock music during the 2010s was awful and this is no exception.
This is the album for guys who like bouncing.
woo yeh baby just groove woo groovin non-stop all day yeh 24/7 don't stop woo they groovin you groovin yeah dats what I'm talkin bout good shit mmhmm just groove
The Chicken Shack is a little old place where we can get together
Oh my god, Muddy Waters voice is incredible. The band is amazing. My one problem with this, and it's a biggun, is that I can't hear his fucking guitar. Why is it mixed in the far right channel so quietly? The other instruments are so loud by comparison it's like the guitar solos just don't exist. I didn't even notice the second guitar until Got My Mojo Workin'.
Other than that, this is a perfect live album, and in my opinion this comes close to being the gold standard for blues.
I always assumed the hype for Dire Straits was just 80s nostalgia with a handful of hits and albums full of filler. I apologise. I was not familiar with their game. This album has exactly one skip, Ride Across The River. Other than that, incredible record. Some real nifty guitar work and slick production across the entire album.
A life where I don't give this five stars wouldn't be worth living.
Yeah yeah it's Wish You Were Here, of course it's a 5. What do you want from me? Every song on this album is perfect. Well I mean, Welcome To The Machine is kinda weak—it's the least perfect song on the album—but the music video saves it. I love the part in the title track where there's like 5 acoustic guitar dubs strumming with different patterns and then they all land on the main lick together.
This is my first time listening to a Pixies album, and I'm very confused. I only have a passing knowledge of them with Where Is My Mind and Cactus, but I thought there was a woman that sang on their songs? Why is this just a guy? Did she leave the band? I thought they would sound more rough & tumble, but this album sounds so polished. I don't know. I like how creative this album is, but I still feel let down by this.
The pianist and the drummer are both so crazy. I have no idea how this is so obscure
I've always loved how tough & borderline garage this album sounds compared to the psychedelic Axis and the jazzy Electric Ladyland. It doesn't have super textured production like those two; this album really sounds like he got in the studio and beat the sound out the amp.
Perfectly fine. This is like if the soundtrack to Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines if it took place in Brighton.
You would think that Radiohead at their worst is still better than most bands at their best, but actually no, this album sucks. It's just so boring, it's all stuff they've done before and done better on previous albums. All the preachy political lyrics about authoritarian dictators doesn't mean shit when most of the band is still in love with Israel. I'm usually down for Radiohead, but this just isn't an exciting listen at all.
Yooooooooooo this slaps never heard it before but this shit goes hard af
I lost weight the first time I heard Eruption. This has some of the best guitar work ever recorded, also the rest of the band is pretty good. Mostly boomer cock rock fluff, but this album was certified platinum in my playlists when I was 19 so I'm a little sentimental for it.
I never really got the hype for this one, but it's still a damn fine album with some of their best songs and a huge step forward from Hail to the Thief. Also Bangers + Mash on Disk 2 is a fuckin tune.
She straight up freaked it
This is gonna sound brain-dead, but Heaven or Las Vegas is like if you took the spirit of My Neighbour Totoro and put it into an album. It's just so chill and nice. First time listening to it too, so I'm definitely gonna listen again with some nicer headphones.
This is one of those boom stomp clap albums but if it was actually good
Accidentally listened to this on shuffle, but it still slaps. Not really a reggae guy, but I still found myself singing along and grooving to some of the songs on this. I can't see myself listening to the full album again but for sure some of the songs like Exodus and Heathen are going in my playlists.
The earliest edition of the book is showing its age here. At the time, this kind of piano singer-songwriter stuff like Alicia Keys and Ben Folds was the primo-deluxe shit, but now it's very much just a trend of the early 00s that came and went. The songs on this are nice and relaxing, but not really anything all that good. I think it's more interesting how this album won 5 Grammys, yet now it seems to almost be forgotten.
I like Korn, I like SOAD, I even like a little Limp, but I just don't fuck with Linkin Park. Collision Course is cool though.
y'all mind if the coldest white boy in the game hits that flute solo
Sometimes I just have to say, nah man, I'm good.
"I am French le hon le hon" shut the fuck up dude
I love Queen's hits, but I hadn't sat through an album of theirs before this. This is actually so fucking good, I was expecting some duds, but every track is some of the best work they've ever done. Ogre Battle rules.
Wow this Elvis guy is cool I sure hope he doesn't make a career out of stealing music from Black artists, fall in love with a 14 year old, lose his fame to a loveable band of British boys, get fat, become a recluse, beg Richard Nixon for a job, and die on the toilet.
Otis Redding is one of my favourite singers ever, and his arrangements are gorgeous. Fuck that plane for what they did to him.
The quality of toots on this album are unreal.
I love The Stooges, but of their three albums, this is definitely the weakest. A lot of filler, a lot of Iggy Pop doing Jim Morrison impressions, and a 10 minute track that outstays its welcome real quick. I think the album is a really cool instance of early punk being far easier to listen to than the Velvet Underground, but to be honest there's about 4 really great songs on this at most. This really isn't a no-skip album like Fun House or Raw Power.
Twaddle (complimentary).
Eh. I liked the fingerstyle playing and the lyrics, but it was kind of boring. It felt very Americana.
Hey, this rules.
35 minutes of absolute heat. I'm fascinated by how every song has a different guitar tone. It's incredible to believe this came out a year after the first Ramones album because it changes the game so hard
Good fun for fans of the middle-era Beatles and The Monkees. Their version of Not Your Stepping Stone goes hard, but I really don't like Girl In The 4th Row.
Well duh.
I think I like their work as a backing band better, but I like the mellow funky vibe this has.
Very dated techno. I mean, Pretty Hate Machine already existed by the time this came out, right? Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, and the whole Detroit house scene? I guess this was before the internet, so a year back then was like a week now, but still, it seems weird considering that Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Primal Scream, and Prodigy were right around the corner.
Not a lot of very good songs, but after about 15 minutes, the vibe does come together. I don't know. It's not that good but it's still a decent listen. It's the strongest 2/5 I'm giving.
Woah! Never heard of this one before, and I listened to this three times in the last 24 hours.
I love Mountains o' Things
Never heard a country album like this before. It's a real good time.
A whole lotta sound!
This is a bop of an album, don't understand why it's rated so low. Britney's singing is underrated tbh. Not as good as Blackout (which is a 5/5 btw), but definitely a solid album.
What 5 years without new Daft Punk did to a motherfucker
This was better than I thought it would be. I didn't hate it!
The closest you can get to a "best of" Dylan at the time. By this point in his career he already had so many great songs, so while he's (predictably) not doing the hits like Subterranean Homesick Blues or Blowin' In The Wind, he does some raw performances that are fuckin' bangers. I really like Dylan live. Imo this isn't as good as the Rolling Thunder Revue bootlegs, but it's still a great Dylan album and as essential as any other of that era.
I lost weight listening to this.
It's okay. Some bangers. Thank god it's only 30 minutes, because it was getting pretty boring towards the end.
Chameleon and Watermelon Man are practically flawless. Sly is an underrated banger. Vein Melter is just fine; it's not on the same level as the other songs. I love Herbie and I agree this might objectively be a perfect jazz album, but to me nearly quarter of the album is just fine.
The Basement Tapes is my favourite Bob Dylan album. The bootleg, not the polished 1975 release. I think this is a worthy followup to the whole Basement Tapes project. Robbie Robertson is a great singer
The highs on this album are great, some of the best anthems in the history of rock, and the songs that aren't that are perfectly acceptable. Tenement Funster is technically crap, but paired with Flick of the Wrist and Lily of the Valley, it forms this really cool suite of songs. I think that's part of why Queen was so successful; even when a song is filler, it worked well enough in the context of the album that sitting through it didn't feel like a waste of time. This is a very smooth album. While it's not as adventurous and experimental as Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack definitely has some of the best Queen songs on it. It's 40 minutes I'd happily sit through again.
I know this has the best Aretha song on it, but it isn't the best Aretha album. For me that'd still be Young Gifted & Black. It's a solid 4th place though.
Maybe not all of the LA hardcore punk scene was great.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! This album feels like sticking my hand into a flame.
Damn this dude can rock
There are good songs on this album. I even liked some of them. I think John Lydon is super pretentious, but his tuneless singing, the tin-pan drums, tight pocket bass lines, and odd guitar really come together to make something more than the sum of its parts.
I've never heard Big Star before but I can tell this album is the sound of the band disintegrating. You don't put out an album this messy & pained during the peak of disco, then keep going like nothing happened. You can't. How are you gonna follow it up, do it again? That's it.
I didn't like this at first but the deeper I went into it, the more it grew on me. One day I think this might be a 5/5 from me. But I think I need to spend more time with it before that happens.
Incredible lyrics, beautiful music.
The first half of this album is amazing. However, after In The Light, the quality of the album takes a nosedive. Not really any great songs after that, apart from Ten Years Gone.
The most album album that ever albumed. I'm giving it 9/10 because that's how many perfect songs are on it, and I'm not elaborating on which one I think is not so good. Actually I will say, Brain Damage/Eclipse is the best ending to an album in history, it's such a fantastic climax that ties the whole concept together. Sticking the landing is the hardest part of any concept album and only a few have ever gotten it right. Not to mention that random doorman they interviewed who gives the album all of its best spoken word lines.
When I was a teen, this was my favourite "white guy playing the blues" album. Kinda still is. I love how Rod Stewart's vocals sound like they're just on the verge of collapse. Jeff Beck was the 2nd best guitarist ever. Also Keith Moon is on it! I love Keith! How can I not love this?
French version of Ninja Sex Party.
Dingy. Dank. Catchy. This is everything I wanted from the Pixies that I didn't get from Debaser. It's hard to say definitively given his catalog, but this might be the best Steve Albini album, production-wise. Also it has boobs on the front cover.
This is the only Björk album where we can say she sounds like other artists of the time, but it's still distinctly her. Who else but Björk would record a song on her debut album in a public toilet? Well, Weird Al.
Only lasts 20 minutes but brings more heat than most full length punk albums. I'm more of a Germs guy but this is undeniably a banger.
Ali G bars. Each track was funnier than the last. I'd give it a six if I could.
I thought this was gonna be the "Just Can't Get Enough" guys squeezing another pop hit or two at the tail end of their prime, instead I got a whole album of industrial romance. Every track is art. I've never heard this before. I've listened to it three times in the last day. This is going to be one of my favourite albums.
I enjoyed this album while I was listening to it, but the moment it was over I forgot all the songs on it. Even after a second listen I'm having trouble recalling anything like melodies or hooks. It was good, and I can see certain moments in life this was made to soundtrack, but it's not going in my playlists.
Feels like listening to the Twin Peaks soundtrack on MDMA. I can see why Madonna heard this and got the dude to produce her.
I can appreciate this as being a really great blend of experimental music and alternative rock, there's a lot of things about it I thought were interesting and even a few moments I enjoyed, but this didn't really click with me.
I hoped I'd get a more dancey album today and sure, close enough. R.E.M. have some serious bops. Not every track is a hit but it's still a great album.
how about next time you try dreaming of some volume dynamics
Great album. I think it dips in the second half, but damn this has some of his best songs on it.
Kind of a guilty pleasure. Some of the songs I hate, but I love Ego A Go Go and Let Me Entertain You. It's like camp Oasis, and I love that more than actual Oasis
Fun!
That PHd guy is gonna lose his mind when he finds out about Mos Def.
Really great album, very empowering and uplifting. Hearing Kanye and Dilla collab is crazy, I can't believe I never heard this before.
I've somehow never listened to this before. Hooooooly shiiiiiiiiiiiit. The band is blasting it the whole album. It sounds like they bad so much fun recording this. She's The One is a love ballad with a fucking Bo Diddley beat. Amazing. Jim Steinman straight ripped off Thunder Road, Night, and Born To Run for Bat Out Of Hell, huh?
It's alright
Now THIS is samba
One of the best funk albums I've heard. Did not expect The Temptations to switch up this hard.
This was in one ear, out the other. Might be someone's favourite country album, but it's not mine.
Ok
Chef from South Park made music??
Killer energy! I'm not too familiar with Thin Lizzy other than that one big hit, so this was an interesting experience. Really great production, especially for a live album. I think I would rank this higher if I listened to it again a few more times, but for now it's a strong 3/5
WU! TANG! WU! TANG! WU! TANG!
maybe I'm biased but ODB is my hero
Mid? Kinda cool though. 00s rock is sick.
Pretty good, but not really my thing
I gotta admit, normal Beefheart goes harder than I expected. this is a real interesting album with some slappers. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Cocaine era Bowie could get pretty aimless but sometimes he hit. This is a definite hit. It's so corny, it's hard not to love
Neil, I love you, but this is too long. There's some real skankers here though.
Actually pretty great. I loved the mixing, the guitars sounded excellent. There's some good shit on here.
Walk goes hard, the rest is pretty naff. I'm not really much of a Pantera fan, but I like Cowboys From Hell much better.
80s motherfuckers went crazy for this? lmao
Annie Lennox
Music critics will call Syd Barrett outsider music but then call this good. Jesus, what a slog to get through.
