Very funky to say the least. I think it was a bit too long, though, and got a bit repetitive for my taste. Under the Bridge and Give It Away are classics, though, and probably the best songs on the album.
Favorite Track: Give It Away
Folk rock is always fun and this is no exception. I love the classic 70s vocal melodies.
Favorite Track: Woodstock
This kinda music isnt really my bag. Vocals were nice, I guess.
Favorite Track: Crystalized
Very nice jazz experience. There was a chord progression (I think that's what it's called) that was played multiple times on the guitar that started out very similar to another progression on The Last of Us (2013)'s soundtrack. Just thought that might be interesting to point out.
Favorite Track: In a Silent Way
I liked the beats but I simply cannot get over Björk's voice. I can't take her seriously, unfortunately.
Favorite Track: Big Time Sensuality
Was fairly similar to Deja Vu, obviously since they're are both folk albums. This one had a bit of a slower pace which was great, especially in the last track.
Favorite Track: Alabama
I love the mix of alternative styles on this album. It keeps it very fresh across its 2-hour runtime so that it doesn't get boring.
Favorite Track: Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Bruce Springsteen is a great singer. Idk what else to say.
Favorite Track: Glory Days
The vocals are nice but that's about the only unique thing about this album.
Favorite Tracks: A Legal Matter, Instant Party Mixture
Favorite Tracks: Purple Haze, Foxey Lady
Nice easy listening with some good tracks. Not much more than that.
Favorite Tracks: Witchy Woman, Earlybird
Most, if not all, of these songs are less than 3 minutes and I despise that. Short songs can be good but all of these kinda mesh together into a big glob of love songs. The vocals are nice and the tunes are catchy but thats it.
Favorite Tracks: Stick With Me Baby, Donna, Donna
Idk it was good. Maybe I should stop writing these cuz I'm not a very good music critic.
Favorite Tracks: Killer Queen, Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Favorite Tracks: Hold Me Tight, Money
Favorite Track: Wishin' and Hopin'
I'm not really one for songs where they just kinda sing-talk over some music (with exceptions) and this is an album full of it. Not for me.
Favorite Track: A Strange Boy
Everything in Its Right Place is a masterpiece of a song.
Some great funk tunes, but some songs went a bit too long for my taste. The last two songs had exceptional guitar playing.
Faves: Who Says A Funk Band Can't Play Rock?!, Lunchmeataphobia
A nice guitar jam session. Still a bit boring for me, though.
Favorite Track: Not on the OG edition but Instrumental Medley 1964 was really nice
This is one that I need to relisten to with my full attention. Chapman's voice is angelic and the guitar is so good.
Favorite Track: Mountain O' Things
Favorite Track: Help Yourself
Favorite Tracks: Sex on Fire, Use Somebody (duh)
Did she decide to only lock in on the second half or something? There are some great power ballads in the final quarter and some fun older-sounding songs in the 3rd, but the first half is pretty shit.
Favorite Tracks: Mercy on Me, Candyman
Kinda funny at times but sometimes it was just overbearingly crass.
Favorite Tracks: My Name Is, '97 Bonnie & Clyde, My Fault
Favorite Tracks: You Ain't The Problem, Hero
This was an eclectic and fun album.
Favorites: Girls & Boys | Parklife | The Debt Collecter
Favorite Tracks: Mrs. Robinson | A Hazy Shade Of Winter | At The Zoo
Favorite Tracks: Walk This Way | You Be Illin' | Proud to be Black
Favorite Tracks: i | Alright | How Much A Dollar Cost
The classic country instrumentals were amazing, but really this album's only strength. The lyricism can be weak, especially in the songs about murdering women. See a therapist next time.
Favorite Tracks: I Got You | Home of the Blues | Streets of Bakersfield
Favorite Track: Blue in Green
This is like if a trio of aliens came to Earth and tried to blend in as a dance music band, and I mean this in a good way. From the beats to the album cover, this album just feels extraterrestrial. This is extremely prevalent in songs like What Is Love? and Build the Bridge. Uncoincidentally, those are also some of my favorite songs.
Favorite Tracks: What Is Love? | Build the Bridge | Groove Is in the Heart
This album just didnt click with me at all. I was bored almost the entire time. I love 70s funk but this just wasn't it for me.
Favorite Track: Master of Puppets
Favorite Tracks: Superstition, Tuesday Heartbreak
Very ominous album. Some of these instrumentals would be right at home in a survival horror game.
Favorite Tracks: A Forest, A Reflection
Favorite Tracks: Drive My Car | Norwegian Wood
The few saxophone appearances on here were amazing.
Favorite Tracks: Just the Way You Are | Scenes from an Italian Restaurant | Vienna
Back to back saxophone perfection!!
Favorite Track: The Girl From Ipanema
This album is comically bad. My jaw was hanging open throughout the majority of the first track because how shit it was. The flow sucks, the beats are goofy as hell, and the lyrics are basic and repetitive. Every song repeats the chorus like 5 times and its infuriating. This is why this is my first ever 1-rated album.
Pretty mediocre. Didn't really like the style of singing.
My opinion on Mitchell's sing-talking hasn't changed since I listened to "Hejira" back in mid-January, which is to say that I still don't like it. This album had a bit less of it though, and I think the instrumentals on this were great.
Favorite Tracks: Harry's House / Centerpiece | In France They Kiss on Main Street
Favorite Tracks: Niki Hoeky | A Natural Woman
Fairly basic stuff.
Favorite Track: Get Behind Me
A truly grating listening experience. The "songs" on this album were one of two things: a mishmash of earraping noises or a muffled recording of someone talking slapped onto a repetitive beat. I will give it one thing: it did sound pretty haunting at times. Intentionally or not, I did enjoy those bits, even though it was literally just two tracks (Hamburger Lady and Hometime). This is now two for two on British albums being one star. Coincidence?
Favorite Track: Hamburger Lady
An incredibly enchanting album. Simon's vocals and acoustic guitar are a lethal combination. Also a shoutout to the various instruments that appeared throughout the album, those were really good.
Favorite Track: Paranoia Blues
Kinda basic stuff. Pretty boring.
Favorite Track: Man at C&A
Green Onions is one of the greatest instrumental tracks of all time. Unfortunately, the album it comes from is pretty samey and as a whole, uninteresting. All the songs are great, but the constant organ and guitar combo makes it all blend together.
Favorite Track: Green Onions
There's some really good guitar on this.
Favorite Track: You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks
Very ambient and atmospheric. A great chill listen. This could easily be the soundtrack for a dramatic sci-fi movie.
Favorite Track: Phaedra
The Beach Boys' classic harmonies and swinging instrumentals are definitely here, but the basic lyricism and misogyny are here as well. You can just turn your brain off for a bit but the generic lyrics and samey short songs are still a pretty bad combo.
Favorite Track: She Knows Me Too Well
Pretty basic stuff. The music is nice and the lyrics are okay and there's not really much else to say.
I thought the alien beep-boop noises were pretty funny. Aside from that this is a standard good rock album.
Favorite Track: Tom Sawyer
Powerful themes, angelic singing, and beautiful piano. The transitions on this album were so seamless and perfect. However, the songs were kind of samey and none of them really jump out, making it hard to actually pick a favorite.
Favorite Track: Borderline (An Ode to Self Care)
The singing on this was so grating. This style of vocals is just not for me. The instrumentation was fine, I guess, but it wasn't enough to cancel out the bad singing. If anything, its averageness made the singing all the more apparently worse.
Favorite Track: Dance Song '97
A phenomenal and fun listen. The chosen samples were great and they were remixed into some really stellar beats. There are genuinely no audible flaws with this. The tracks transitioned very smoothly into each other, yet each song felt very different. It was very hard to choose a specific favorite track, but I ended up with this one because the groove was so good and it sounded like something playing at a club in a movie. Also, there are more animal noises on this than you may think.
Favorite Track: Live at Dominoes
A great standard classic rock album. I dont really know what to say this was honestly just good.
Favorite Track: Sympathy for the Devil
Fun instrumentation, great vocals, and a deeper subject manner I can't fully appreciate because I'm not British. However, America can also agree that war sucks and mothers shouldn't be losing their sons like that.
Favorite Track: Australia
About half of the songs on this were good. The other half was pretty annoying to listen to. However, the guitar and drums were great throughout so that boosts it from a 2 to a 3.
Favorite Track: Needles In The Camel's Eye
Pretty mediocre. Mostly just generic punk with nothing interesting going on.
Favorite Track: Prince Of The Rodeo
I don't really fw the gravely metal singing so that brought it down a lot, but the instrumentation was pretty good.
Favorite Track: Sulfur - I love the thing in metal where they shift to beautiful vocals for the chorus. The rest of the song was pretty good too.
Loved the beats on this, CeeLo's flow was really good, and it had good variety to make the long runtime worth it.
Favorite Track: Evening News
Pretty okay stuff. the saxophone was fun. Every Breath You Take would be the best song if its lyrics weren't creepy as hell.
Favorite Track: Walking In Your Footsteps
Kind of boring. Nothing I haven't heard from the other folk albums on this list.
Favorite Track: Way To Blue
Two boring folk albums from 1969 two days in a row? Thanks RNG gods! This guy sounds like the stereotypical senile old man voice. He was also mubble-singing before it was cool in 2020s pop. It was literally impossible to know what he was saying most of the time. The instruments on their own were fine, but for some reason they became simply annoying noise once combined with each other.
Favorite Track: Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang)
Lead singer Stripe's vocals are incredibly unique and extremely enchanting. The instrumentation was great. The saxophone on Fireplace was a surprise and was very fun.
Favorite Track: It's The End Of The World As We Know It - I'm kinda biased on picking this one since I've listened to it and loved it before, but it's still the best.
Thoroughly boring album. Vocals were kinda good and the instrumentation was just okay.
Favorite Track: Moondance - I almost gave this album a 3 solely due to the saxophone, especially due to this song.
A boring album with annoying shitty vocals. "The pAIYnter of wumeeeeeeeen." At least this was less than half an hour.
Favorite Track: The Wolf of Velvet Fortune
French is such a beautiful language and MC Solaar's impeccable flow makes it all the more satisfying to listen to. The beats on this were 10/10. The perfect mix of jazzy and funky. I obviously cannot touch on the lyricism since I don't speak french but from what I can tell the words were perfectly chosen to create a great flow.
Favorite Track: La musique adoucit les mœurs - Loved the jazziness on this one.
Run-of-the-mill Woodstock rock, this time with amazing vocals. The rest is pretty basic, though.
Favorite Track: Bad Moon Rising - It always feels odd, but not bad, whenever a song I listen to regularly comes up on one of these albums.
Once again, some pretty standard 60s rock. Nothing bad, nothing particularly great.
Favorite Track: Rag Mama Rag
Some great glam metal.
Favorite Track: Jump - The synths on this are so good.
I fuckin' love jazz, man. I don't know what else to say this was just a good jazz album.
Favorite Track: The Kid from Red Bank
Every song on this album is amazing. The disco tracks are all so fun, the R&B tracks sound beautiful, and both have immaculate vocals. Each song is banger after banger, but I will say that the front half is a bit better than the back.
Favorite Track: We Are Family - An extremely iconic song and easily one of the best disco songs ever. I had to go back and listen to the original full version when I realized the remastered album had the shortened version as its main version.
Pretty basic lyricism, but I can't deny how hard that guitar goes. Rockabilly is so good.
Favorite Track: That'll Be The Day - Loved the guitar on this one the most.
This did not need to be 70 minutes. I fucked with a good amount of it, though, but some of the beats were a bit too goofy-sounding for my taste. Still a decently fun album all-around.
Favorite Track: Ms. Jackson
A great jazz album.
Favorite Track: Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody
This was pretty grating. This style of singing is horrible. I am dreading the other four Tom Waits albums on here.
Favorite Track: Down, Down, Down
I can definitely tell how influential this was because of how it simultaneously sounded like this and was also released in the 80s. Typically I don't like whiny singing but this kinda worked for me. The guitar was stellar. There were some unexpected instruments on here, specifically on "Idiots Rule" and "Jane Says," and they sounded great. Putting a jazz interlude right before the last track is kinda funny but it still worked surprisingly well.
Favorite Track: Idiots Rule
Some classic ABBA songs on this one. A great album all-around.
Favorite Track: Money, Money, Money
Most of this was pretty basic disco. Le Freak and Savoir Faire are easily the standouts, the former because its popular and the latter because it's really fucking good. Most of this album is pretty repetitive, though.
Favorite Track: Savoir Faire - I had to look up the guitarist's name to say this: Nile Rodgers, you are the goat. Holy shit. This song may have some of the best guitar-playing ever. Transcendent.
This album was all over the place in a good way. Lots of different instruments, varied tempos and vibes song-to-song, loved it.
Favorite Track: Golden Age
This has its moments, but most of it is just meandering and making random noises with the guise of being interesting or clever. I can handle long songs, but this was egregious. 15 minutes of bullshit as the opening track? Seriously?
Favorite Track: Easy Money
Loved the instrumentation on this, felt like listening to a movie soundtrack. However, the grAaAaAaAaAnd vocals got a bit annoying after a while. Some songs were pretty misogynistic, too.
Favorite Track: Jackie
Releasing this album is the second worst thing the Germans have ever done. How does this even count as music? The only rhythm comes from banging on metal bowls and pipes. However, starting a song on your industrial album with actual power tools is pretty funny, even if the rest of the album is genuine earrape.
Favorite Track: Absteig and Zerfall
Another boring psychedelic 60s album. Next, please.
Favorite Track: A Place in the Sun
The beats on this were amazing. The singing was pretty boring, though.
Favorite Track: Paper Planes - I wouldn't say this song carries the album, but it sure as hell makes it a lot better.
Metal just isn't my thing, man. I appreciated some of the instrumentation but I just don't like the super deep voice style of singing in metal.
Favorite Track: Siege of Power
Prince is one of the kings of 80s pop. The snares, the guitar, the saxophone, the beautiful vocals. It's a masterpiece.
Favorite Track: Purple Rain
A fun dancey album, but held back by its sameness that's made worse by the near full hour-long length.
Favorite Track: Qui cherche trouve
Loved the violin and backup singers on this. Main vocals were eh. The back half was a bit better for sure.
Favorite Track: Come On Eileen - This song is so good, there's a reason it's the one that popped off. That bridge at the end is outstanding.
Theatrical rock is the best, man. Ao over-the-top for no reason and I love that. The vocals are outstanding, backup singing is great, and the band is top-notch.
Favorite Track: Bat Out of Hell
Not much to say, just a great funky album.
Favorite Track: Boogie On Reggae Woman
Fairly good psychedelic rock, great bass on this.
Favorite Track: Sunshine Of Your Love
Not entirely sure why live albums are on this list, but I think this one warrants its spot. I'll have to see if future albums deserve it over other studio albums with original songs. Anyways, loved the instrumentation on this, didn't understand a single word but it's fine.
Favorite Track: My Generation (Live / Medley) - I love really long rock songs if they warrant their length by switching it up a bit every few minutes, and this one does.
Every single rapper in this group has top-tier flow and their voices sound amazing, especially Charli 2na, whose really deep voice I loved. The DJs also cooked hard and made this whole album such a vibe with the main menu screen-sounding beats and the fun samples and scratching.
Favorite Track: Remember His Name - I liked the story of this one and the way it switches between these calls and how they talk like actual people on the phone, but in an elevated way with the great flow and rhymes.
There's some great variation here in the beats, rapping was decent, and lyricism was good. I actually laughed out loud a few times, namely with the School Spirit skits and the MJ bar on Slow Jamz. Last Call was a bit annoying since it's just 10 minutes of him talking about his record deal complications, but the saxophone and the whole beat in the background made it not entirely tedious to listen to.
Favorite Track: The New Workout Plan - This is a great song that quite effectively criticizes the way that many men only value women for their bodies, but in a comedic and upbeat tone. Genuinely funny song.
About half of this album sounds like the soundtrack for a grungy sci-fi film and it's absolutely stupendous. As Heaven Is Wide & A Stroke of Luck fit this vibe the most. The other half is also really really great, but its a bit more of the same you would expect from a 90s rock band.
Favorite Track: As Heaven Is Wide
This album just rips, man. The guitar is just outstanding and the vocals are perfectly pained. Grunge is so good. The repetitiveness holds this back from 5 stars, though. Hopefully my 100th album tomorrow doesn't break the hot streak of great albums this week.
Favorite Track: Rooster
Not bad, I guess, for my 100th album. It sounds pretty good and the political stuff is great as well, but it kinda gets undermined by the constant misogyny.
Favorite Track: Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside)
Fun dancey sound with synths and such with some bleak lyrics, at least from the few that i caught. Lead singer Matt Johnson has a great voice but his words are quite illegible to my American ears.
Favorite Track: Angels of Deception
First off, Blitzkrieg Bop, great song. However, I did not want to hear it 13 more times in 2 minutes intervals. Almost everything song on this sounds exactly the fucking same. It wasn't bad at all, but it's still the exact same shit for half an hour. Also, why did they pronounce massacre like massa-kree??
Favorite Track: Blitzkrieg Bop
When I started listening to this, I was just glancing at the track titles and saw "Feedback". I thought, "That couldn't possibly mean they just play a bunch of feedback, right? It's just a title?" They did play a bunch of feedback with some instruments, it was not just a title. This album is another in the "play a bunch of bullshit and call it psychedelic rock" genre. I was gonna give this a 2 cause it sounded okay but since this album was 72 minutes of this same-sounding shlock it's actually a 1.
Favorite Track: Turn On Your Love Light - This one sounded the most like a normal rock song.
This was a very emotional album. I know this not because I listened to the lyrics, which were too incomprehensible despite Corgan's oddly amazing voice, but because I read the wikipedia page (fun read). Aside from that, the instrumentation was amazing as well and I didn't mind the album's length.
Favorite Track: Silverfuck
Lynn's voice carries this entire album. It is just beautiful, Trump supporting be damned. The instrumentation is an absolutely stellar accompaniment, too. Also it's nice to listen to an old country album that isn't just a bunch of misogyny. This would be a bit better if it wasn't so repetitive, though.
Favorite Track: I Really Don't Want To Know
All of the songs on this sound beautiful, in no small part due to the amazing South African musicians that Simon collaborated with. Homeless' a capella singing is enchanting and the bass throughout this album is as well, especially with that solo near the end of You Can Call Me Al. From a political angle I think this album was overall a positive thing, at least from my white American perspective. Also, listen to Mr. Jambo by Kyle Gordon. It's a perfect and equally catchy parody of this album and the niche genre of "white guy goes to Africa."
Favorite Track: Homeless
Probably by favorite experimental album on here yet just because half of it isn't very experimental, and I like that. The other half was kinda just noise as experimental usually is. I did like some of the more abstract songs, but only really a couple.
Favorite Track: Sissyneck
I'm sorry but I just cannot stand bob dylan's voice. And I had to listen to it for over an hour. The rest of the music was fine, I guess.
Favorite Track: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Roundabout is an outstanding opener. the rest of the album is a bit worse in comparison, but still great. I feel that the long songs on this warrant their length through tempo changes and the like mid-song.
Favorite Track: Roundabout
80s pop just goes so hard. Lauper's voice is perfect and the production on this is excellent in all its synthy glory. Every song on this is electric and so fun, in no small part due to how much personality Lauper is able to convey with just her voice and a few ad libs. Having two absolute classics on one album like this is no small feat, with all of the less popular ones being just as good. That transition from He's So Unusual to Yeah Yeah jumpscared the shit out of me, but holy shit it's so good.
Favorite Track: She Bop
Decent beats paired with lyrics that don't really have much to say. Misogyny is unsurprisingly present due to the era this was made in. The featured rappers are pretty great, with Snoop being an obvious repeat standout. "The $20 Sack Pyramid" is easily one of the funniest skits I've ever heard on an album.
Favorite Track: Let Me Ride
This double album held pretty well against its lengthy 2 hour runtime. Most of it wasn't repetitive so it wasn't super tedious, except near the end of The Love Below. Two back-to-back 5+ minute songs with questionable quality is a bit harsh. Speakerboxxx was definitely the better album of the two, but The Love Below was still great.
Favorite Song: Bowtie
Some decent stuff, but most of it is a bit too slow for my taste. Persson's lead vocals are very nice but it gets a bit repetitive with the constant singsongy-ness of it. "Lovefool" is an obvious standout among all this, such a catchy tune.
Favorite Track: Lovefool
This album is all over the place in an effective way. It starts with an epic orchestral ballad, then dances between slower songs with acoustic guitar and piano and upbeat songs with typical late 80s/early 90s beats. I just didn't really like O'Connor's vocals at certain points, though.
Favorite Track: Nothing Compares 2 U
This is an iconic and beautiful love song, even if this is a cover. I can tell it got more popular than the original for a reason.
Fuck 1969. A few of the albums from that year have been good, but most of it is just this "psychedelic," pretentious, annoyingly long, "jam session" horseshit. Anyways, this album was fine, I guess. It was boring, but it did actually catch my attention sometimes, hence why this is a 2 instead of a 1. If something is gonna make me stop doing this list, it's 60s folk and psychedelic rock. Jesus Christ.
Favorite Track: Who Do You Love (Part 2)
