I enabled editing just it go back and give this a 1. In hindsight, it’s insulting for this album to be among the others in this list. It’s boring while masquerading as hard rock. I usually would not want to judge someone for the things they enjoy, but if someone told me this were their favorite album, I would have a lower opinion of them and not trust their taste in anything. I just… hate this.
Very nice voice, but I don’t see myself ever intentionally playing this again.
I used to say that my favorite stuff to listen to was dad music, but in recent years I’ve had to stop saying that. Now, I call it grandpa music. This is the height of grandpa music.
I really appreciate how this project gets you to listen to tracks from artists you already love that may have been outshined by their hits. I love The Who, but I overlooked Going Mobile until this listen. I can’t believe I’ve gone so long without having Going Mobile on the top of my brain, ready to be first up in a road trip playlist whenever the opportunity for a road trip arises.
To be fair, how could anyone even remember Going Mobile when it’s immediately followed up by Behind Blue Eyes? And then Won’t Get Fooled Again after that?! Well, I’ll remember, because I added Going Mobile to my main playlist. Next time I move, that track will headline the day.
I didn't like this album at first, but I just had to keep re-listening to it until I did.
I was initially optimistic about finally giving Mudhoney an honest shot beyond their hits. But my first impression was... disappointment? And disappointment at my disappointment? Mudhoney made grunge possible! They're the *cool* band! They're from my area! How could they be this boring? The first three tracks were just okay on a first listen. It gave me flashbacks to the Foo Fighters album that I had a couple days ago. Good Enough is by far the most popular song on this album, but I didn't feel like I wanted to continue listening until after I got past it.
Broken Hands, placed in the exact middle of the lineup, had something interesting to offer. At six minutes long, it's double the length of most other songs on the album. It's nice when a song has enough variation to make you perk up and realize that hey, this is good! I *will* be listening to this again! Next up is Who You Drivin' Now?, which was where I found my footing with this album, because I immediately liked this one, and soon I was adding every song left to my main playlist. Fuzz Gun '91 has no vocals and isn't even two minutes long, but made me trust that Mudhoney has more to offer, so I will be digging through their other albums ASAP.
I did skip past the snoring in Don't Fade IV, though. It's a shame, because I love the rest of the song, but 30 seconds is too long for me to be willing to horrible snoring!
Yeah, whatever, as cool as it would be to hate this.... God, I love Morrissey's voice. Do I like this even more than The Smiths? Maybe! This is embarrassing!
After listening to the first couple sounds, I started to think this could be 5 for me, but then If It Takes All Night came on, and I knew it would not. And then Bitter Sweet was next, and I started looking for an exit to the circus that I was apparently transported to. I skipped the last minute and a half of that one.
I like Roxy Music, and I love how experiential and groundbreaking they were at the time, but the experimental nature of some of their tracks makes making listening to a full album a bit painful. How could this album have come out in 1974?
Even though I absolutely hate a couple of these songs, what’s important to me is this: They were not boring. I’d take annoying over boring any day. At least they were *trying* something!
I’m so glad I listened to this before I die. It’s not going to be for everyone, but for those who don’t hate it, it’s fun!
I’m only 20 albums into the project, but this album cover for On The Beach is my favorite so far. There’s details like the newspaper headline and the vehicle (?) in the sand, but I really am simply drawn to the 70s yellow floral prints on the seating. I want to hang out there and listen to this album!
Neil Young is so easy to listen to. There’s not a track on here that I felt like I wanted to skip. This is going straight into my rotation of albums that I actually can put on without babysitting the skip button. Without relistening to it again, I don’t have much else to say, it’s a damn fine album.
This is the only album on the list so far that I can't bring myself to finish. I specifically do not want to listen to this album in full before I die. My life suddenly feels richer for not having to subject myself to a second more of the Fun Lovin' Criminals now that I gave myself permission to ditch the rest of the album.
I simply can't support rap rock. If a date said that they liked this, it would be a dealbreaker. I think it's good to broaden your horizons and listen to all kinds of music that you wouldn't normally listen to, but this is too far.
I’m surprised, I like this much more than I expected! I could see myself putting this on again when the mood strikes. Madonna is a blind spot of mine, besides her legendarily famous status I didn’t really know much about her work.
The album being entirely normal pop songs and ending with “Act of Contrition” made me do a double take to make sure I was still listening to the album. It is wildly different from the rest of the tracks. There’s a lot of whispering and an electric guitar. It didn’t work for me, but it was a fun way to end the album.
The beginning of the album is excellent. After that, I don’t know what exactly is going on.
The popular songs on this album are classics, but the ones that... aren't... make this an album I wouldn't play in full again. The skits are cute, but not something I want to listen to again. Also, the end of one track plays one of those high pitched tones that only young people can hear.
This is a rare genre where I actually prefer modern hip hop to the classics. Objectively this probably deserves more stars; it's that none of these tracks are making it into my rotation of music I listen to regularly.
I do like the funny little rat on the album cover.
Yesterday's album for me was Snoop's debut album, which I went outside the norm for and gave only two stars. Besides a couple hits, it felt very same-y. The Predator is the exact contrast to this. Ten minutes offers more texture and interest than yesterday's entire album.
I don't know how I could in good conscience rate this anything less than 5.
Classic case of me enjoying an album the more I listen. I didn't get it with Coyote, the first track on the album, but after giving it my full attention I want to listen to this again and again.
I like this enough to think that one day I will think to myself "I should put on Hot Chip while I work today"
I love this and don't want it to end. I don't know anything about jazz. This is also a top 5 album cover so far in my project.
If you let yourself take this seriously, it is a fantastic journey.
It doesn't really compute to me that this came out in 1970. Ozzy was a creative visionary!
I really can't handle this
I like this! I will be listening to this album again. It's a nice vibe for just putting on while I'm doing other things. A couple songs did stop me from what I was doing because I liked them enough to add to a main playlist of mine - Words and Guitar, and Turn It On.
I got this on exactly the right day for me personally. I have a raging headache and I would have bet any kind of music would be too much for me, but Sleep to Dream, the first track, instantly clicked with my energy today. Fiona Apple would be the perfect hangover, sick day, COVID isolation, heartbreak, or lazy day music. It would be worth dumping your boyfriend just so you could drive around at night crying and listening to Tidal.
For this most part, this faded into the background when I worked. But when I did notice it, it was annoying.
I'm waffling between 3 and 4 for this, going with 3 only because for me personally I'm just not a country fan so I wouldn't reach for this album often unless I was in a rare mood. There's not a bad song on this album, though, and if I ever move to the countryside and buy some cowboy boots and get really into country and ride a horse then I'll amend my review to a five.
I don't hate it, but normally the more I listen to an artist, the more I like them, but this has had the opposite effect. Loses points for skits.
I have a disease where I can't rate Neil Young albums less than five stars
It's fine, I wouldn't crave this album or anything. I mostly came to write because what the ever loving hell was Jamaica Jerk-Off? It sounds exactly like what you would guess based off the name. The rest of the album is fine background music. What the hell was that?
This was going to be three stars for neutral background music while working, but then the voice started growling and howling for much of the 23 minute long second track on this album. I also don't need two twenty+ minute songs. I'm never going to listen to this again, but I didn't hate every minute of it.
I really enjoyed this; The Fall isn't a band that has been on my radar, so this is a case of finally being introduced to something new from this project and being really into it.
It's a bit same-y, but not in a way that I dislike. When I need to have music on in the background, and I don't want to feel too happy or sad, just normal, The Fall will suit that well. Rainy day, cloudy day, sick day, lay in bed music. I've been listening to this album and didn't even realize when the song switched, but sometimes that's nice.
i definitely dont go crazy for stevie wonder, maybe this is a thing where when i revisit him when i'm 50 i'll understand what a genius he is. for now, i just dont really see myself ever craving this
look i'm not going to listen to list, fuck you, i'm rating it a 1 so it doesnt feel like something i have to get to eventually
It's hard to rate something like this objectively or explain why you like it sometimes when something is just your kind of shit.
It's a shame this album ends on Happy Death Man, though, which was by far my least favorite track. You know when you flip back over to your music app to check on how long of a song is left, because the song is that distractingly annoying? Yeah.
this felt like it was three hours long
The vote distribution on this album is like nothing I've seen yet, wow. I'm throwing my 5 in the pile
If every track was as good as the the first one, I Will Dare, this would be five stars. Unfortunately, they are not. Five star song, the album is like, 3 1/2 stars.
I had never listened to this album in full before. It's always nice when this project shows you albums that are basically in line with what you like, but haven't given dedicated time to.
I can't listen to this album without designing 5 different t-shirts based off the album art
I've heard some of the more famous tracks before, but had no idea who it was or what kind of music it would be. I love it!
i'm sick and this is easy listening somehow
Queen has always been a group I enjoy more in theory than reality. Seeing Queen live would have been the experience of a lifetime. Outside of that, when do you listen to Queen? It doesn't feel right to listen to any tracks on this album outside of a big, milestone event like a wedding or winning a sports tournament. It's too grand. Do I even like Queen at all? I have no idea.
Is this an album I would have listened to if it weren't for this project? Absolutely not. I'm so glad that I did; sometimes getting your head out of your ass and not dismissing something because it's popular is good for you.
I love how Lou Reed was always trying new things in these days; there’s an interesting lesson that anyone creative could take away from studying his projects. This is an album that I think gets easier to appreciate if you listen to it multiple times and with the full context of the work. Also, it is cool.
this is fucking awesome, i put this album off forever but i was very surprised by how much i loved this
Not my favorite Kate Bush album, but still a vibe. One of the few albums so far in this project that I already had downloaded on my phone.
This felt cool to listen to, I’ve never been one for live albums but I am glad to have listened to this before I die. What would it have been like to be there in that moment? Cool stuff, glad it was part of the project.
The author is clearly biased towards this type of music... but so am I! I love it!
I don’t dislike any of this, but I don’t feel any emotion at all, which is somehow worse. The best way to experience this album would probably be after a few beers, lost in a crowd of other drunk people just like you. That would be awesome. By myself on my couch, though, I am emotionless.
Hmmm, unfortunately, this was boring.
We all were going to listen to various Bob Dylan and Queen albums eventually, but this? We weren't going to listen to Pelican West by Haircut 100 in full. Why is this over an hour long? Who the hell are these guys? Why do I love them? This is what the 1001 Albums Project is about! I wouldn't have heard this album otherwise. I finally have an album I feel I can succinctly and accurately simply describe as "cute."
Pelican West also takes first place now for my favorite album cover so far in the project. Current top album covers ranking:
1. Pelican West by Haircut 100 (pumpkin spice latte coded)
2. On the Beach by Neil Young (a bunch of shit on a beach)
3. Back At The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith (guy with a chicken)
This is the first album where I can't look at the other reviews because it somehow physically hurts to read anyone giving this anything less than five stars.
I put off listening to this album because the title, Destroy Rock & Roll, kind of pissed me off. Looking at the reviews, clearly it provoked the same reaction in others. Now I'm finally listening to this, and I appreciate the album title more after realizing it accomplished exactly what it set out to do.
Mylo ate up the music of the 70s and 80s and shat it out into this album. Is he setting out to destroy rock and roll, or the person he used to be when he listened to it? I don't know. I don't care. Is the music good? It's okay; I mean, it's the kind of music that would suit some dude wearing 400 dollar noise cancelling headphones as he programs and listens to his Spotify played titled "work." that has 900 tracks.
This is cool, glad it was on the list because I wouldn’t have listened otherwise.
I'm so sick and saddened because looking at the reviews I'm realizing for the first time in my life that Depeche Mode isn't universally loved. How can you feel anything but cool while listening to this. The only reason this isn't a five is because of the weirdness at the end, as evidenced by how few plays those last few tracks get compared to the rest of the album.
I've never heard of this guy before, I especially loved the song Stars N' Stripes. Cute stuff!
This was exactly what I needed today, man.
I've never listened to Radiohead that much because something about the idea of being a Radiohead fan sounds annoying and embarrassing, so I was surprised that I actually liked this quite a lot. I only ended up saving the first track, some song title that mentions sardines, on my main current playlist, but the rest was good too. It's less generic than I expected, I don't think I will ever be very passionate about this band but they're not bad.
I liked this, but it did all blur together.
this put me in a bad mood
I'm actually shocked that I like this enough to the point where it's going to go in my rotation of background music. I don't know anything about jazz.
This kind of Bowie is right up my alley, but what isn't?
This was fucking awesome, will listen in full again, it's more like 4.5 for me than 4
Really makes you feel like you’re at Spahn ranch before everything went to shit
I've had multiple false starts with this album over the last week, starting it but something would get in the way so I couldn't quite finish the album before I could rate it. On my first partial-listen I appreciated it, but wasn't going to come back. Second and third listens, I restarted from the beginning of the album again. Today, I found myself wanting to listen to Alanis Morissette, like she's been in my rotation for years, and today happened to be the day I finally finish. This album is awesome.
Love how weird this is and so happy it exists. Will I ever relisten to the weirdest, more unpopular tracks of this album? Mmmm, no.
Just listened to this after a car accident has put two family members in the ER a couple hours ago and their condition is still unknown. This album is funky and uplifting enough to keep me in a good mood, but not over the top enough to contrast with the current situation enough to make it feel ironic. Good vibes, good album, I'm a fan.
Not only do I not like this, but I also hate it.
I don't even hate it passionately enough for a 1, because it's also uninteresting.
This album is a masterpiece
I feel like this album is more of a straight 5, but it's like, TOO sexy and successful with what it's trying to accomplish, so for my personal rotation it has to be demoted a bit because I want my personal 5s to be anything I'll listen to all the time.
It's Bowie! What do you even say?
I just had Marvin Gaye's other album, Let's Get It On for my album of the day, and it's great, but hard to take seriously because so much of it has been cemented in culture as THE sex album; I don't know how anyone could listen to it casually without laughing a bit inside. I don't have any of those associations with the tracks on this album, so I can enjoy it for what it is so much more.
There's not a bad track on here. There's a certain way this album makes me feel; it's almost indescribable. Relaxed, optimistic? This album breaks through any preconceived notions I have of my own taste and makes me happy to be human.
I love the cars i dont need to justify it
I need to start up a category of "Albums to have on in the background while you don't feel very good that are boring and inoffensive enough to not disturb you further," because this is a great one.
The Travis Wikipedia "legacy" section credits them with paving the way for Coldplay. It must be so strange to live in a world where that is how you've made your life savings. Do you think they like Coldplay? Sitting in this place of mediocre success is actually kind of interesting. Do they pay attention to something specific in their style of music that all of us here aren't tuned into?
This band needed one artistic megalomaniac to steer them in a more interesting direction, or something. I actually kind of enjoy one of the least-listened to songs on the album, The Last of the Laughter.
