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.
A rock classic. 4/5
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
I love Otis Redding. 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
This was fine. 3/5
Classic 5/5
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
This was very much not for me. I don’t enjoy this genre much regularly and this was no exception. I wanted to rate it higher, but even the beats and music were rather one-note and not interesting. I didn’t care for the lyrics. And it was entirely too long. 1/5
Ethereal. Dreamy. Makes me feel like I’m floating in space. 5/5
Catchy, upbeat, pop music. Full of great harmonies. My mom had this on heavy rotation in my house growing up. Solid, good time. 4/5
Classic of 80s rock. A few tracks don’t stand up much for me, but a solid listen just the same. 4/5
I dig this afrobeat - jazz album. It was a bit on the long side for my current mood, but was a fun, interesting listen that I’m glad to discover. 4/5
It’s an ok album. Complete 80s synth new wave. Some tracks are decent, others not so much. Way too long by far though. 2.5/5
I’ve always loved this album. One of my favorites of the era. 5/5
Loved his voice. Enjoyed the jazzy, occasionally bluesy, soulful politics of this album. The things I liked here have me bumping my rating up a bit so I’ll rate this a 4/5
A couple of tracks took this from a solid listen to a beautiful, almost fragile sounding work of art. 4/5
I loved this. I’m more familiar with Pink Moon, but I really dig the fuller, orchestral sound to this album. 4/5
A day later and I’ve already forgotten everything about this album other than feeling that it was fine. So 3/5 I guess
The hits are great. Hits for a reason. The rest was to me more grating and meh. Not a fan of Axl’s voice. Slash makes this record for me. 3.5/5
One of my favorite bands. I love this album. It’s not my favorite or their best, but still love. 5/5
I rather enjoyed the noir soundtrack vibe of this. I can’t really envision wanting to listen to this regularly, but as a mood setting it’s great. 3.5/5
I did not enjoy this at all. It was way too long. Honestly, I found it very boring, nothing about it spoke to me. The music was generic 80s to me. It wasn’t unlistenable, but I did not enjoy it. 1.5/5
I love Soundgarden. Chris Cornell’s voice is so good. Great album, just a tad long for my tastes. 4.5/5
Not what I expected but I enjoyed it. I found it to be good focus music while I was getting stuff done around the house. 3.5/5
MTV Unplugged was amazing and this was peak. The rawness and vulnerability in Kurt’s performance is unmatched. This was a 5* for me when it came out and I’ve only loved it more on re-listens since. 5/5
I like Neil Young, although I didn’t need 2 in one week. I enjoyed this. His songwriting is always good and this has some of the best songs. 4/5
I remember really not liking this when it came out, but it wasn’t that bad. My big issue with it are the lyrics pretty bland or bad for the most part, but musically it was a fine pop album. 3.5/5
This did not work for me at all. The music was fine, but I can’t say much else. 2/5
I haven’t listened to a lot of Reggae, but this was pretty good. I like the groove, I like the lyrics. 3.5/5
This album is perfectly suited for me. I love it. 5/5
Thai was a bit too erratic for me. I liked a lot of the instrumentation and musicality of it, but beyond that I really did not enjoy listening to it at all. 2.5/5
This is definitely an album of its time…a very 90s ‘playground’esque rap album complete with an entire track of ‘Yo Mama’ jokes. A bit too sophomoric for my tastes, but I did enjoy the jazzy elements infused in the music. 2.5/5
This didn’t hit more adult me the way it did for teenage me and Dexter’s voice bothered me more than it ever has before. Still fun to relisten to though. The hits are still great. Round up to 4/5 for the nostalgia.
A beautifully dark, emotional album. Stripped down and lovely listen. 4.5/5
I appreciated the jazz, funk, soul influences in this. A couple tracks I felt were pretty good, but most of them unfortunately I didn’t like at all. I’m sure I may pick up on more lyrical complexity in further listens, but I didn’t enjoy this enough to want to do that. I found this tedious to listen to and too long. 2/5
Second Nick Cave in a handful of days. This one didn’t work for me. I respect what it is, but for listening enjoyment I found it too long, too slow, and a bit too heavy and dramatic. I struggled to keep my attention on it and not fall asleep frankly. 2.5/5
Even Mr. Kite doesn’t detract enough from this album for me for it to be anything other than 5/5
I don’t remember ever listening to this whole album before, but it is great. Full of bangers. 5/5
A fun listen for 15 minutes. Some of the songs I liked, others I didn’t care for, the lyrics were for the most part a bit too irreverent for how I tend to like my hardcore punk. 3/5
This was a fun little listen. Nothing Earth shattering, but I enjoyed it. 3.5/5
It’s a good, solid pop album. 4/5
I love Come On, Eileen but the rest of this album was a bit of a miss for me. None of the other songs really stood out and I didn’t really care for his voice much. 2.5/5
Perfectly solid electronic album. Puts me right into a warehouse rave in the 90s. 3/5
I love blues guitar and blues rock so this is right up my alley. A bit too long, but an enjoyable listen all the same. 4/5
Yeah, no. This album does not work for me at all. Just all around bad, the music doesn’t really work, the vocals are terrible. 1/5
I quite enjoyed this dreamy, synth pop soundscape of an album. I had never heard of this artist before, but I may check out more. 4/5
The hits were hitting. The rest not so much. This was too long, and as with similar records I didn’t care for the skits and could have done without them. 3/5
This was definitely a Beck album. Some of it was great. Some was a bit too experimental for my taste and I didn’t find it super cohesive. Still an ok listen when in the mood. 3.5/5
Classic. A couple songs I don’t love, but really this is a great album. 4/5
Never been a huge Dylan fan, but this album hit for me. I even liked his vocals here, which is really surprising. 4/5
I like this album. It has a couple good songs. It also has a lot of forgettable songs, and is too long. It’s a fine listen, but not remarkable. 3/5
Metal Classic. A solid good time. 4/5
This was fine, I guess but I just really do not like Coldplay. Chris Martin’s voice was always a bit whiny to me and the music full. 2.5/5
Elton John is always a good listen. Not every track hits or hold up here, but a good time. 3.5/5
This is one of those bands that I’ve always enjoyed what I’ve heard from them, but never listened to whole albums from before. I did enjoy the atmospheric sound. I enjoy this era of Oort punk quite a bit. Not the best stuff from them I’ve heard, but still enjoyed it. 3.5/5
One of my favorite artists of all time. Even here where you can hear the voice breaking down a bit, still so soulful. Love. 5/5
A pretty underwhelming psychedelic rock album. 2.5/5
A good, solid covers/standards album. I liked Willie’s takes. 4/5
Fun album full of good energy. Cult of Personality is still a banger. 4/5
This one’s a tricky one to rate, because it is essentially 2 different albums packaged together. Speakerboxxx was definitely the stronger of the two in my opinion. Both had their high points, but this was way too long an experience. 3/5 I guess.
Despite not being a big country fan, Dolly is a genre unto herself. The humble earnestness in her voice and her songwriting is special. 4/5
I thought this was fine, but I’m hard pressed to think of much of anything to say about it. Some jazz rock fusion that was nice to listen to, but unremarkable.
I really hated this. It was too long, the I didn’t like any of the songs and I found the vocals grating. 1/5
Spotify only had a bit of this album, but from what I heard of it, it was fine. I would say it’s a very 90s hip hop album, and the lyrics don’t always hold up. Not something I would reach for personally, but not egregious to listen to. 3/5
It had its moments, but this was not my favorite. The first half in particular wasn’t a great listen for me. 2.5/5
This has some great songs and a few that really drag it down. I do generally like Lou Reed and this was still a good listen. 3.5/5
It’s Elvis. Full of hits. I’m not going to deny the originals did them better, especially looking at you Tutti-Frutti, but a good time. 4/5
I already knew most of the songs, but had never listened to the whole album before. So good. Soulful, bluesy, rock goddess. 5/5
It was fine. Atmospheric, electronic music. 3/5
This surprised me. I’m not a Tom Waits fan, and yet this bizarre circus, cabaretesque oddity strangely mostly worked for me. It was an intriguing listen. 3.5/5
I always forget how much I enjoy PSB until I’m listening to them. While this is a little more serious than some of their other stuff I do still quite like it. Some of it is a bit kitschy and it’s not always tonally super interesting, but still a solid listen. I debated between a 3 and 4, so I’ll split and say 3.5/5
Solid Sabbath album. I hadn’t heard this one before. Heavy, sludgy, just what I want from them. 4/5
I enjoy some good 70s prog rock. This does hit that itch. It does start to all blend together a bit especially in the back half. 3/5
It’s fine for some atmospheric background music, but it’s too long to make a good active listen. 2.5/5
Some classic 80s goodness here. Dire Straits has some great songs, some of which are on this album. A few songs I didn’t like or care for here, but Knopfler’s guitar is on point as always. 4/5
I generally like Chicago. This had some great classic Chicago tracks, but overall it was a bit of a slog to get through. The tracks were all generally too long, and the album was for sure too long. Plus Free Form Guitar was just horrible to listen to. 2/5
This one was completely new to me. Pretty standard 90s britpop, but I really enjoyed my time with it. 4/5
It’s not bad. By biggest issue with it is length. The songs are all too long for me, so it makes it feel a bit sloggy. 2/5
Classic 80s. The bass absolutely slaps. This is just a fun time. 4/5
This big band album really hits for me. I live the jazz and swing era sounds generally and hit all the notes I wanted out of it. 5/5
Yeah no, this was bad. I was going to rate it a 2 for the music, but by the end it was so thoroughly in enjoyable it has to be a 1. 1/5
It’s a classic RHCP album. The first half is great, but it does drag a bit in the back half. It would be better if it was tightened up a bit, but it’s fine. 3.5/5
Pretty good. I can’t say it stuck with me in any way though. 3/5
This was a nice groovy, funky listen. A tad long, but enjoyable. 4/5
I enjoyed this. The music is good. I would say it’s maybe a bit too long and the first handful of songs all blended together to me. 3.5/5
Not being a big Stones fan I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed this. A few of the songs in the middle fell a bit flat, but still solid listen. 4/5
I hadn’t heard this Beach Boys album before. Not my favorite, I didn’t love a lot of it, but I did kind of dig the more serious somber side of them. 3/5
Maybe this just hit me in the right mood, but I really enjoyed this. It just sank into me. 4/5
I remember I used to really like this album. Listening to it for the first time in many years I was surprised to find myself not really enjoying it. Probably the biggest issue for me was the vocals, I found them very grating. Less surprising to find the lyrics not always holding up. I still enjoyed the music, and the hits still hit though. 3/5
I love Fiona Apple generally, but this album was a bit too experimental for my tastes. It may be one that grows on me with more listens, as it was a bit near the end. So I’ll give it a 3/5.
It’s a bit all over the place genre wise, but it’s not a bad album. I do like a couple of the songs quite a bit. 3/5
This album is just beautifully soulful and poignant. Not every song hits completely for me, but the ones that do are sublime. 4.5/5
I like Janis, but I mostly just found this painful to listen to. 2/5
