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.
