I’m not always the biggest fan of concept albums and while I respect it, this was still the case here. Sonically I love Pink Floyd and this was no exception, but it was definitely way too long for my tastes. I started getting bored by the end. Overall I’d say 3.5/5.
A well executed album. The harmonies, the orchestration are sweeping. Karen’s vocals and drumming are gorgeous. 4/5
Johnny Cash is a masterful storyteller. June’s addition was great. Overall, I’m not the biggest fan of live albums, especially with a lot of crowd noise and/or interruptions. That took me out of it quite a bit. A couple of the tracks really didn’t work for me either. 3.5/5
This was an unexpected gem for me. I really enjoyed this jazzy, funk soul album. A great groove. 4.5/5
The fact that this is 2 hours long and I never got bored listening to it says a lot. 4/5
Not my favorite album by The Cure, but still solid. I love its almost haunting, predatory feel. It always made me think of vampires for some reason. 4/5
This was fine. A pretty standard glam rock album. Nothing about it really stood out in any way. 3/5
This was good, but not great. It had a couple stand-outs. 3.5/5
I really loved this sitar masterpiece. East meets west fusion at its finest. 4.5/5
The music is good. I appreciate the songwriting. I just really couldn’t get past the voice. It was painful to listen to most of the time. 3/5
Classic for a reason and sadly still all too relevant. 4/5
When this started I thought I would live, I was annoyed and ready to turn it off by track 3. I pushed through and though I can say it had some nice grooves, I can’t say I liked much else about it. 2/5
Bowie’s music has always been a bit hit or miss for me, but this one absolutely hit. I loved everything about this album. 5/5
So smooth. So chill. A good listen from beginning to end. 4/5
Classic bluesy rock. Some of the transitions were a bit jarring. A stand out or two. Overall, I found this good, if not great. 3.5/5
This is a hard one for me to rate. I did enjoy some of it. It was just very inconsistent and clearly had too many drivers. It was trying to be too many things. 2.5/5
I like Deep Purple. This has some great music. It is one of the best live album recordings I have heard. That being said it is way too long and self indulgent. Entirely too many ridiculously long solos. 3/5
This was surprising for me. I’ve never been the biggest Dylan fan, but I enjoyed this album. 4/5
Not a bad record by any means, but I was left with few impressions. 3.5/5
It’s Jimi. Not the best of his albums, but still a great record. 4.5/5
I loved this. I had heard a couple of the songs before, but never the whole album. Her voice is warm and soulful. 5/5
I’ve never had much of an opinion on Springsteen. I like some of his songs generally, but this album didn’t work for me. I didn’t care for it vocally, none of the songs, other than Born to Run, felt particularly strong either. I did like the sax. 3/5
I loved this. This is music guaranteed to put me in a good mood. It reminds me of growing up and the music I would listen to with my mom. 5/5
This was 2 halves of what could be a great whole. The ‘concept’ album 1st half was interesting, and had a couple tracks I liked, but felt more like a half formed idea than a fully executed one. The back half was full of banger tracks, but didn’t really go with the first half. 4/5
Decent album. Some good tracks, some okay tracks. I do enjoy the Eagles. 4/5
Missy is a queen. While I didn’t necessarily love this album, I can’t deny that. The beats are great. I had a fun time with it, but it wasn’t really for me. 3.5/5
Not being a big rap/hip-hop listener, I can’t really compare it to much. I thought it wasn’t bad, some of the songs I liked okay, some really not so much. It was okay, but probably wouldn’t listen to it again. 3/5
Musically this was fine. The songs themselves were ok at best. The biggest issue for me was the engineering. Too much panning, it drove me nuts and was painful to listen to at times because of it. Would not listen to again or recommend personally. 2.5/5
I hadn’t heard this Beastie Boys album before. I love the energy Beastie Boys bring. The lyrical witticisms are great. I feel like this is an album that would grow on me the more I listened to it, but on a first listen I felt it was a bit long and tonally one-note. 3.5/5
This was great. Even the odd experimental craziness that was murder mystery worked for me. 5/5
It’s a punk classic. Short, simple and straightforward. 5/5
I enjoyed this more than I thought. The music and the grooves were great overall. A few clunkers that I didn’t enjoy but overall a positive experience. 3.5/5
I liked this a lot. I don’t really have much to compare it to, but I can understand the acclaim it has gotten. Some of the songs felt a little long to me, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. 4/5
This had a lot of things I liked. The music was good. The drums were killer. The songs and vocals for me were just ok. 3/5
I adore Dusty Springfield. Always hits for me. 5/5
I expected to like this more than I did. The hits are great. The rest of the album though I felt was just kind of mid. 3.5/5
This didn’t work for me much at all. I kind of just kept checking to see how much longer i had until it was over. Not something I would want to listen to again. 2/5
Adele is an incredible vocalist. This is a strong album, if not quite as emotionally resonant as her previous. 4/5
This is not my genre usually, but this was good. There was certainly stuff I didn’t particularly like, but the stuff I liked impressed me so much it jumped my rating up. It was cinematic, it was introspective, it was a concept album that was easily understandable and worked. Kendrick is a great lyricist. 4/5
The nostalgia is strong with this one. It still hits. It’s a little more static in it’s sound then later albums. 4.5/5
I enjoyed listening to this. I felt it dragged on a bit long in certain places and I could have done without the 8 min spoken word section. 3.5/5
Musically it’s good, full of driving energy. Unfortunately, beyond the title song, the rest were fairly mediocre if not bad. 3/5
Dark, heavy, emotive. I love that about Reznor and NIN. The mix of Industrial and grungy rock makes it stand out, though on occasion it stood out in a not great way. Still a very solid album. 4/5
This was brand new for me and I kind of loved it. It was melancholy and beautiful and sparse. I couldn’t stop thinking about it over the day. 5/5
I like REM generally. I don’t know if it was just my mood or what, but this album didn’t grab me in any way. It was fine, but nothing stood out and I found myself zoning out and forgetting I was even listening to something. 3.5/5 I guess.
This was a perfect mood album. 5/5
This is an odd one for me. It has great energy. A fun vibe, but on the whole I found it more annoying than anything. I was just glad it was short. 3/5
This was a solid album. 4/5
Love when an album surprises me. I had a lot of fun listening to this one. I enjoyed nearly all the songs. 4.5/5
As a whole album it felt a bit one note to me. The songs were all quite similar. I think I would enjoy listening to the songs singularly as opposed to collectively. 3/5
It was fine. I’ve heard better from Deep Purple. 3/5
I fully enjoyed this. And I knew far more of the songs than I thought I would. 4.5/5
Not generally a fan of live albums, but this one I fully enjoyed. Frampton is classic. 5/5
This was painful. I liked the music. Those vocals though…they were like vomit-screaming hopped up on speed. You couldn’t understand the lyrics, maybe thy were decent I have no idea. Plus they seemed almost out of sync with the music itself, like they were playing at 2 different speeds. It made for an extremely long 38 minutes. 2/5 because I did enjoy the music anyway.
Industrial meets cabaret and make it French. This kind of worked for me. 4/5
Yeah I still really am not a fan of big concept albums. This had some good songs I enjoyed and I respect it for what it is, but overall it wasn’t for me. I didn’t care for the overall story and that was a big draw back as well.
This was a solid listen for me. Not every song hit, but overall I had a good listening experience. 3.5/5 rounding up to 4
It’s a good listen. Smooth, jazzy, funky. It’s a good time. 4/5
Dark, moody, atmospheric. I love it. I knew the hits, but had never listened to the album. This was so good for me. 5/5
It was a perfectly good synth pop album. For the length especially I felt it needed a bit more variation. It was a bit too same sounding. Also I was really not in the mood for it, which also affects my rating. 3.5/5 in a different mood I may like it more.
Really interesting album. A clever mash-up of trip-hop, electronic, jazz, Indian folk with a poignant theme. It doesn’t always completely work for me, but mostly does. I especially loved the middle three of Tides, Nadia, and Immigrant. 4/5
This was bad. It sounded like a whiny, drunk guy poorly rapping about all his troubles over a random drum track setting and constantly a step behind the beat. 1/5
It’s The Beatles. I can not be unbiased about them. While this is not my favorite or their best album, it’s still great. I like the Motown covers too. 5/5
This was interesting. First track and I had an immediate negative reaction, but this was an album that the longer it went on the more I liked it. It had some tracks I didn’t like, a couple I really did. Overall, not too bad. 3/5
I got into this quite a bit. I really dug the grooves and flow to this album. 4/5
Sci-fi-esque ambience that I did not expect to like at all. Honestly, it was pretty good. 3.5/5
An overload of noise that separately some of which is not bad, but all together is just painful. 1/5
Surprisingly powerful. 4/5
Smooth jazz-pop that was pleasant enough to listen to. My biggest issue was that for the short run time it felt long. Every track felt like it was 8 minutes long for some reason. I didn’t not enjoy it though. 3.5/5
Great album. Classic. 5/5
I should really like this more than I do. Bluesy rock, great guitar, but it just doesn’t hook me. It was just ok for me. 3.5/5
While not big with electronic music generally, Radiohead’s take here I kind of enjoyed. It’s not my favorite Radiohead by far, but there is something here that worked for me. 4/5
This was unremarkable. Nothing grabbed me while listening to it and a day later I’m struggling to even remember anything about it. I’ll give it a middling 3/5
I like the band. The music is great. Love me some blues and bluesy rock. That being said this was just way too long. Nobody needs a 22-minute track. Anything just becomes background at that length. 3/5 only because I do still really like the music, even if it’s too long to really engage with.
It has a couple of absolute gems and a lot of middling ok. Freedom ‘90 is of course the standout here. Sadly the rest doesn’t hold up to the same quality. 3/5
Something different I wouldn’t have heard without this list. I thought it was really good. And every song was unique to itself, they didn’t all blend together like I feared they might. 4/5
Absolute classic for a reason. Overplayed, yes. But still a banger. 5/5
This definitely sounded like some fuzzy logic. It was a bit all over the place, didn’t quite know what it wanted to be. Not unlistenable, didn’t necessarily like it either. 2.5/5
Beautiful harmonies. Perfectly blended folksy-poppy good time. It was exactly what I needed at the moment. 5/5
