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
