For a song called vein melter it was really boring lmao
I dont listen to fusion or jazz that much but it was a nice listen
WE ARE THE PREISTS OF THE TEMPLE OF SYRINX
im a bit of a rush fan. 2112 is a certified self indulgent classic. so much so that you forget there are 5 other songs lol. passage to bangkok is the only one worth remembering in that bunch
but yeah aside from that? love love love 2112 (the song)
I really like it! 70s synths are so fun as an instrument because it really feels like an experimentation with sounds. I thought the pop snippets were unique but catchy, and the instrumentals were super moody and atmospheric. Definitely recommend
Its okay to leave your dog in a hot car (Yeah!)
I do know this album very well (ofc) but there are a lot of songs that are still fantastic. In my Life is still probably the best beatles song or at least top 3. I like how you can start to hear the songwriting and sound branch out from their previous albums
some songs are duds and are pretty lame but then you got norwegian wood and nowhere man so its all ok
i do like how theyre playing around with sound and instrumentation and it gives each track more of its own identity and personality
still think revolver is better
after judy blue eyes i thought this might be a half-decent listen and then lady of the island happened
it really sucks because some of these songs are tight with great harmonies and hooks but there is a lot of nothing burgers
im just not a fan of acoustic and folk so those songs are really boring to me but the more upbeat ones are fine
yo actually what the fuck this sounds good???
that album cover really scared me that this would be more folk but this is like,,, proto funk or smth
love love the instrumentals. we need more music with orchestra in em
this is emilycore man i did have a little phase in college and im pretty sure if i found this i would have played it into the ground
man what happened to the germans
sorry if im a normie but this is too weird for me. some snippets of good music surrounded by dissonant noise and ear-grating sounds. i don't want to listen to it again
a little lower energy than i'd like
i was scared there would only be albums from the 70s here
its a good listen. i'd listen to it again
so i do like how these songs are all uptempo and high energy. you can tap your toes to these.
good hooks in some of these songs too
but man. they do all kind of sound the same after a while. also the guys voice is a little annoying and im pretty sure the same little guitar riff has been reused across several songs. like, use one other instrument. write one song thats a little diferent. do a key change. like give me something please
all these songs are 2 minutes why does it draggggg
i was going to give this like a 3.5 and then i listened to it again and changed my mind
i really liked it! i think with the strings and orcestration it's easy to fall into a trap of feeling too overproduced but the instruments sound great. The drums bring in a ton of energy to the tracks. the rolling people is def my favorite. ive also never heard bitter sweet symphony before so im wondering how it got 1 billion streams on spotify????
its like oasis but theyre actually play instruments. I think i just like music that has more variety and production to them. also the songs change up on themselves so even when listening ambiently while working, it still catches my attention
I dont like the way she's staring at me on the cover but she's got a good voice. There's a lot of energy in the album that makes it a good listen as compared to say, that Elvis album we did where everything just started to drag. Maybe its because all the songs are covers so she can puck the best ones
I think old people can in fact make decent music!
this album cover scared me ngl but it was a neat listen
i can't articulate it well but a lot of the songs tickled my brain
I dont know how you can listen to this without a huge smile on your face
very interesting! the songs are all very distinct from each other and theyre very evocative of other artists
There were some neat songs on there but I wouldn't really want to listen to it again.
I can appreciate a man singing about wanting to love other men though. it feels really refreshing to just hear that desire without any other narrative on top. kind of goes to show that straightforward can be more powerful than something complex.
and then. he just started singing about how his dad called him slurs and i take back what i said
It's way too rough of a sound combined with very repetitive songs.
first 80s album wooo
There's something really nice about just having a good old rocker. It's tight, clean, got good energy, and can really get you grooving.
After a lot of more slow-paced, artsy albums, this was really what I needed. Is it the most deep, complex music? No. The song compositions are a little simpler than I'd like, but I can't deny this is very, very listenable. Can't imagine putting it on and someone having an issue with it.
oo jazz
When it comes to jazz, it's easy to let it devolve a little too freeform and abstract, but this is one that is tight. The songs take you on a journey with how the melody and tempo shift, but it's never too distracting or disjointed. There are easily identifyable musical ideas that thread themselves through each song. On a second listen, they only became more clear to me.
In Track B, I was quite struck by how the trumpet almost sounded like speaking with how roughly it was played; something I had never heard before.
It's just really good music. No complaints at all.
you know when you get a new favorite song and listen to it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over until it sounds like mush
i have to stop myself from listening to taj mahal. what a song. what a time to be alive.
In all seriousness this is a club banger. I got a new obsession so there you go.
im in touch with your world is like,,, one of the worst songs ive ever heard.
not bad. wouldnt put it on again
it sounds like open-mic night at karaoke
it sounds like a middle school band warming up
it sounds like rock bottom, both in title and in content
you could make any number of zingers but none could capture how horrible this is
im starting to think the 1001 albums guy ran out of ideas and just put this in to see who really read the book and actually listened to the albums within
I've been on tenterhooks, ending in dirty looks
Listening to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that
She said that's that, I don't wanna chitter-chat
Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat
Pump it up when you don't really need it
Pump it up until you can feel it
Down in the pleasure center, hell-bent or heaven sent
Listen to the propaganda, listen to the latest slander
There's nothing underhand that she wouldn't understand
Pump it up until you can feel it
Pump it up when you don't really need it
Hey!
She's been a bad girl, she's like a chemical
Though you try to stop it, she's like a narcotic
You wanna torture her, you wanna talk to her
All the things you bought for her, could not get a temperature
Pump it up until you can feel it
Pump it up when you don't really need it
Out in the fashion show, down in the bargain bin
You put your passion out under the pressure pin
Fall into submission, hit-and-run transmission
No use wishing now for any other sin
Pump it up until you can feel it
Pump it up when you don't really need it
Pump it up until you can feel it
Pump it up when you don't really need it
Pump it up until you can feel it
Pump it up when you don't really need it
Don't really need it
Don't really need it
Don't really need it
I was going to open my review with a silly one-liner, but I don't think it would be right.
This listening experience was haunting. The ambient synths and droning combined with the personal voice struck me in a way I did not expect. It's the first time where I stopped having the music play in the background and actually sat up and focused on the composition and lyrics.
I can't identify very strongly with lyrics about god, but I can identify with the thought that the world is cold when it felt like it was once full of wonder. "Horses are just horses and their manes aren't full of fire" is a lyric that really stood out to me in particular.
I don't know if I would put it on again casually, but I'm glad I listened to it before I died
Ok so uh
I know I said I liked Ghosteen a lot but what the hell is this. What if we took all the self-reflection and replaced with a song about Orpheus's skull getting smashed? The blues and rock are too simple in composition so they're nothing worth listening to. There's some snippets of good music (adding a choir to any song will do that) but yuck. Why was this a double album? First one I actually started skipping songs on.
Guys
I think I might like David Bowie
Also I can definitely how influential he is because there will be a sound or a specific lyric and it makes me think of a lot of modern artists I like today. Like, "Oh there's Will Wood. That's Jack Stauber." It's a little more commercial than Low, but the songs were lovely. I especially liked Life On Mars?
Honestly wasn't too crazy given that there's a crazy horse somewhere in there
Our second Brazilian album!
This one was a lot more moody than the other one, much less dance music, but you can tell the strength of the album based on how it could evoke feeling and emotion even without the need to understand the language.
Um Gosto De Sol was a standout for me. The added instrumentation for the tracks kept it from being stale despite the track count.
I will preface this by saying that I'm one of the least qualified people to be talking about rap and hip hop
It's good. Really good. Each song, each lyric, hits like a freight train. This is one where you need to read the lyrics to really get it, but the variety in tracks is great. I don't want to say my favorite is i because it's the most tranditionally song-like, but I can't lie to you.
I don't think I would put it on casually for myself, and my ratings are more for how likely am I to put on a given album in my free time so
Didn't leave a single impression on me
It's hard to review an album that I have definitely listened to many many times since the songs aren't as fresh as they once were.
However, Zeppelin III slaps.
Immigrant Song is one that is very overplayed, but once you're past the intro, it becomes a good rocker. I do love how Zeppelin's lyrics tend to lean on mythology and LOTR-- gives them a unique charm
Friends brings great drama to the album. The strings(?) in the back sound fantastic and give an ominous energy that pairs great with the acoustic. The bouncy rhythm plays with the slower chords.
Celebration Day uses electric slide guitar to great effect. There's this constant up-and-down momentum to the bass and guitar that makes it a groove. I like how Plant's vocals are out of sync with the backing until the chorus where they come together. Drumming is fantastic too.
I'm not the largest fan of Blues music as it tends to be on the simpler and samey side, but Since I've Been Loving You has such mastery and energy in the way that it's played where you sit in anticipation of that solo.
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp is just great. I don't know how you even physically play that but for the minimal instrumentation it feels incredibly full. I love how he's just singing about his dog, too.
There's just a lot of strengths on display here. The solos are tasteful, coming in when they need to but never overstaying their welcome. You can hear the blues influence but also how they completely transform that sound into their rock.
This is such a neat one. I think this is the first time we've listened to a Triple(!) album where I've genuinely enjoyed the sound and songs for the full duration.
You got straight bangers. My Sweet Lord, Wah-Wah, Art of Dying, Isn't it a Pity, All Things Must Pass: there are a lot of great songs on here and you can tell that George has improved a lot since his start in the Beatles.
Composition-wide, they're full. Layered choruses, lots of instruments. There's fun flourishes like how Isn't it a Pity uses the chorus from Hey Jude in a minor key.
Lyrically, George has always been on the more simplistic side. But here I think it works because then his words become more impactful. I still think the seamless lyric change in My sweet Lord from Hallelujah to Hare Krishna is genius. Such a simple way to convey everything he wanted to.
I like the ordering of the tracks, how theyre spaced out. Slow songs are followed by fast and vice versa. You get weirdo tracks like Happy Birthday Johnny almost like a palette cleanser.
Just a well made album
I'm just not into country at all. I can't do it
Oh yes I'll take a same instrumentation for every song please
Oh, and no identifiable melodies on the side
The songs are too samey and low energy to listen to. And when they do have one upbeat song, it also sounds bad.
There are some sounds in there that get my attention, but I dont want to hear it again.
not bad. i could listen to it again
It's blues. The most blues blues I've heard in a while.
It just makes you want to dance
I don't listen to salsa on the regular, and if I did I think I would get sick of it, but theres enough genre-fusion going on that each song is very distinct from each other, making it a great listen.
I did think the music sounded like the inside of a Chevys, but thats more of a societal problem
Its like if Tommy wasn't cringe
I must admit I was listening to this while working so while I didn't get the full picture of the story, I can say that there were some good rocking tracks in there. The guitar had this energy to it that I feel like I've been missing for a while. And the tracks had a good variety between them where it never got too boring.
Sometimes Eagles are just birds ig
It's alright. I think there were some decent snippets in there, but ultimately, it's just a little too loud and rough for my ears.
They got great voices that are paired with more simple and minimal backing beats to let them shine.
However, the downside is that the songs start to blend together with their similar sounds, which is unfortunely compunded by the longer length of the album (it's the CD era, so albums are no longer bound by a hard 40 minute length, but still)
Also, I listen with headphones, so the bass and beats started to tire my ears out. Even with all that, I can't say it's a bad album. But it doesn't hook me as much as I'd like it to.
I've always knocked a lot of the albums for being repetitive, not having unique instrumentation, songs being too samey, etc etc
But waow. It works here
This one is interesting. I do like the early 90's style of rap for the sheer energy it has that a lot of other music just doesn't quite hit in the same way.
Although at some point I have to admit the siren-type beat is too much. Solid 3 star album, kind of interesting, kind of rough, might listen to it again.
Sounded good, very dreamy, some hooks, but not enough
I'm gonna be a little mean; cool jazz is one of those genres meant to be background noise. It's just a little too safe, a little too consistent to really grab my attention the way other jazz music can. It's good music, no complaints about listening to it, but it just doesn't excite as much as it could.
some good songs, decent variety, good rock
but ueoughhhhh those drums hurt me ears mate get off the cymbals
Very interesting! I think the use of samples was wonderful and gave the songs great energy. There was good rapport among the group which made the song light and fun, and I enjoyed the callbacks to older tracks along with the more strange lyrics.
Only downside is that it almost got a little too nursery rhyme for me. I think the slower rhythm with the simpler rhymes weren't doing it favors and gave the album a more amateurish vibe.
I love scary moody synths rrrragaghhrgaghhrgaghagagagaggghhhh
It should be really good but like,,,, there are these little things that irk me
why is lemon song in only one ear. why
why does he have to keep making sex screeches (well i know why lmao)
Heartbreaker is fantastic
MODY DICK is so gotdamned goated its not even close
but im with you spencer. his voice is annoying
It's a more chill style rock, but there's an intensity with certain sounds that gives it that deep energy without having to flood the composition.
It really tickles my brain, honestly. Milk is the quinetessential song showing off everything I like. The singer's voice is a little more unconventional, but it's more unique than grating. I just feel like this is the type of sound that my brain latches onto. Something about the chords, the notes, the timing sends me-- shame the album loses its speed by the end of it :~(
On a second listen, I can see the weaknesses of the music, but there's enough good here
I can't Stop Loving You was used in the climax of Metropolis (2001) to great effect
it's just really kind of generic
The thing about electronic music is you'll think it's hype and then listen to the same beat and sample on loop for 5+ minutes
Can't go wrong with a good mix like this. Great, ambient, unique sounds and groovy samples
big poppa is a great song
very intense to listen to but i can appreciate it
did they record this in wall insulation lmao
i am one of those fucked up people who listen to soundtracks for fun
love love love the string break in The Most Beautiful Girl in the World to break up the disjointed staccato and horns
there's something about how music can evoke feelings and images. even if the 'film' this soundtrack is for doesn't exist, I can see it.
you can't shit in your song and expect me to eat it
This is giving Lithium (Ch. 34): 90s Grunge & Alternative Rock Radio
its got a lot of energy and that intensity i quite enjoy. however the last two tracks are not it
but yeah i was rocking out to this
im copying spencer on this one
If it wasn't for that organ, this album would not make it past 2 stars. As it stands, it's just alright. The riff in Hong Kong Bar really drags (again, no organ there so that explains why it's the worst song)
There's nothing here that hasn't been done better elsewhere
This is if prog rock, emo, and anime OPs had a baby lmaoooo
lucky for them, i'm a slut for all three
I think though that this slightly lags behind other groups with a similar sound (thank you scientist, closure in moscow) because of a lack of variety. This style of music is all about a wall of sound, tons of instruments and key changes and syncopation. But the key is that you need that variety in composition. You need a ballad or a slower, simpler song somewhere in there or else all that energy gets to be draining.
still really good. I'll definitely give it a listen again
So Moondance is just a great great song and has the priviledge of being in my spotify liked songs so by default this has to be a 4 at minimum
emphasis on minimum; the rest of the album past that song really didnt hook me as much
I love love love Tale of Brave Ulysses; just a fantastic song with great fun lyrics
Blue Condition sucks though so it all balances out
idk man i remember listening to a lot of cream back then but it's not as good as I remember? I know Ginger Baker is really good at drumming, but it's a little too heavy handed for me, especially when paired with the distorted guitars. It works great on We're Going Wrong, but it can be overwhelming on other tracks.
Synths + classic orcestra is my weakness
sounds quite modern and had some lovely sounds in there; unfortunately it's just slightly *too* ambient. A little extra energy would have gone a long way, but that's entirely my personal preference
China Girl is a banger, but the rest is slow, rough, noise. For a guy named Pop, he's really hesitant to give his songs hooks.
Despite being the sister album to Low, it has none of the charm.
Like Fascination
Quite enjoy the Across the Universe cover
Can you hear me sucks, but that's because I loathe 90% of ballads
Pass on Fame
I just think Bowie needs to be weirder. This is too commerical of a sound; if I didn't see the artist on this album I probably wouldn't have guessed it was him :~(
Pure alt, right here
Interesting sounds and instrumentation; I should probably give it a second listen
this is a nothing burger of an album
its weird because ive knocked blues before but they just do it better
His voice is rough; I think I'd like the instrumentation but it's not clicking for me
oh shit oh shit oh shit
1) this sounds great with headphones. the bass, the reverb effects, the audio manipulation is really well considered
2) pretty voice
3) yeah i think its pretty good, great to have an actual modern sounds that's not just abstract and experimental
The witch sounds like farting
and he sounds drunk
and out of time???? wow this song is a poopy doo-doo
worlds most pathetic cover of roll of beethoven ive ever heard
the recording sounds so bad i thought that maybe it was made in 1960 but youre telling me this is 65? I feel like there is absolutely zero value in this album. Why would you ever want to listen to it.
This is all on top of terrible mic peaking. They figured out how to not let that happen by this time. Thanks for the schreeches in my ear
lowk dissapointed in this one. Message in a Bottle is fantastic, but it seems they couldn't really match it in the rest of the album. That one song is working overtime
I am sick while listening to this, so I suppose it has its use in helping me get some decent sleep
I liked how it was in 4 movements, gives it that classical feeling
I'm not the best when it comes to smooth jazz because the complexities tend to go over my head and melt into background noise, but for what it's worth, it's a nice listen, if a little less energetic than I'd like
I don't wish to be mean, but I just think the beats were limp. Quite enjoyed B.I.B.L.E.; I think that was the one where I actually got into the flow, but the rest got a little too repetitive for my liking.
its a joke. its overly edgy garbage that exists so that when you say its tasteless and terrible, they can laugh and point at you for being a pleb
aside from the fact that it sounds like complete and utter shit, its also purposely offensive so that it just feels disgusting to look at or think about. my life was better before i learned about this album and this band.
Started strong, enjoyed She Bangs the Drums (reminds me of pleasant valley sunday actually)
Sounds very modern for 89, wouldn't be surprised if it came out in the 2000s at all
Don't stop is pretty rough with the droning and reversed samples.
Bye Bye Badman is wonderful; love that chorus sm
Just a pleasant listen which is what i needed; cant complain at all
It's still the same thing; too rough and unpolished for my enjoyment.
The Gift is some kind of dry comedy bit and I don't know why it felt the need to be 8 minutes long.
Lady Godiva's Operation is the same thing; a half-baked melody wrapped in random sounds with no care for whether or not it's listenable. They're more obsessed with being an art project than making music.
Also Sister Ray is 17 minutes and I have more important things to do with my life.
I thought this was gonna be a wild one when the spotify streams were in the 5 digits.
This is a chill, ambient mix. Samples are used to make solid grooves that don't scream for your attention, but are nonetheless good. It's hard not to bounce or bob a little when listnening, and that's the value of this music. That's why it's a double album. It's somehting to have on while working, something to compliment, but not compete. It's not deeply profound, but it's fun to listen to.
I do think the album loses steam near the end for sure; less creative sampling, more repetitive beats, but the neat part of double albums is that you can simply choose not to listen to the 2nd half. All the good stuff is in the first half for that option :~)
This is a little note of mine: i hate unbalanced stereo mixing
it was a blip in the history of music, but please dont but the bass in my left ear and then the guitar in the right. sounds abosolutely awful
Anyway! I know this is supposed to be the Eric Clapton album, but it sounds so much more like the allman brothers its not funny at all, especially in the back half. That does mean its mostly slower blues grooves. Less pop and melody and riffs, more solos and technicality.
Layla is a good song. I really can't be a hater. Eric Clapton sucks though
There's this irony that if you took the time to write a song about how you 'don't give a damn' then it implies that you, on some level, did give a damn.
There's some actual variety here, little breaks in the punk mash-the-drums-as-fast-as-possible sound, but the songs blend together too much. Everytime a new song started, I thought it was a bridge before I looked at the song title and saw it changed.
You can tap your toe to it and there's definitely worse punk out there, but I just dislike this genre. Too repetitive, too samey.
This is truly an amorphous album. It's jazzy, acoutstic, folksy, ambient, yet somehow, none of those genres.
It's a bit boring, but a bit interesting too. I will say that Solid Air is the most apt name they could have picked for such a sound.
It's weird because its very folksy, but then they have some sounds and instrumentation that pushes it a little beyond. And then we get ambient background music for my historical gift shop and I realize they're not interested in new sounds actually.
Not Feeling the blackbird cover. It's already a good acoustic song, playing it again doesn't do anything.
The outro for Bang on the Ear is comically long.
I think if I was a pub and they were playing, it would be hype as heck, but it's not really my listening tastes.
Didn't know Blister in the Sun were by these guys; what a fun track! It's one of those songs that probably got popular because it doesn't sound much like their other songs.
To The Kill sucks. It's going on my secret list of terrible 1001 songs.
Gone Daddy Gone also sucks. There's a reason rock songs don't use xylophone.
Crazy this came out in 83, but it's just overall alright.
Quite liked it, good beats that aren't too repetive or grating to let the lyrics take center stage.
I've always known Queen as a singles band and not an album band, but there were some really interesting things going on here.
The lyrics were a lot more creative than I thought they'd be. (This is the band that wrote Bicycle, after all.) Fun topics, unique intrumentation; it was surprisingly more fun than I expected.
This one is very strange; it's a blend of acoustic with a gajillion weirdo sounds and distortion and samples. This is truly on the line between "neat and novel" and "incomprehensible noise."
Wonderful, full sound. Great layering of instruments and sounds that makes these songs ear-candy. High energy, variety, song compositions that have lots of parts to them and actually make use of their length? Zamn!
Common People is definitely the standout so far. But I enjoyed all the songs. Just really well made, energetic, dramatic music.
One of those albums where I went in for the second listen immediately after the first.
I feel really bad because Symphorock should be an emilycore genre but it simply isn't. I can't explain it. Maybe it's because everything is so over-the-top epic and badass that it becomes the new baseline and stops sticking out.
There are good songs on here for sure like the song from the baseball scene in Twilight but yeah. It sounds good but not 'I need to listen to this again' good.
I'm kinda at the point where all these rap albums are starting to blend together for me. Nothing was really a stand-out except for Wake Up where the extremely idealistic lyrics feel cutting through its absurdity.
That's really it. I think rap itself just moved a lot from when this was made so it just feels very... silly? Simple? Somehting like that.
It's just uh... really half-assed music.
Here comes the Rome Plows is an intense track that uses the prog toolkit; lots of key changes, time signature changes, and atonality all unified through screaming vocals and solos. It is an excellent starting track to introduce you to their sound, where you can decide then and there if you like it or not.
Luckily, I like prog so we are eating good tonight boys... is what I would've said if the rest of the album was even remotely close to that first song.
They all just lost that prog touch and devolved into noise. The appeal of the genre to me is the variety in the tracks, the different parts and patterns working together to make sure that the 7-10 mminute song never gets boring to listen to, but they just didn't seem to get it.
Not terrible, but I was expecting more.
Yuck. Great album cover, but that music was awful.
It's like they wrote Blitzkreig Bop, knew it was the best song they'd ever write in their entire lives, and then kept chasing that high.
Really fun; I don't like rap as much as other due to the repetitiveness of the music, as well as how it can often be a simple beat without much to offer.
This was the first time I really vibed with the music. I liked the samples, the loops, the lyrics, the variety. They were catchy songs, man.
I just don't get why you'd want to be completely deriviative of music from 2 decades ago. The bass lines are really fun (except when they blatantly steal from the Beatles,) but my god the vocals are terrible. Terrible British bellowing.
I love scary synths graaaaaaaahghghghghg
Classic little guy; know all the songs.
Don't really like Mick Jagger's voice that much but too many bangers to complain all that much.
Liked the cocaine song, can't remember anything else
Mrs. Robinson is so good that it turned my opinion around completely waow
Confession: my dad kept bringing them up and playing them for my "music education" (read: he really wanted his kids to have the same taste in music as him) so I always wrote off Simon and Garf as boring folk.
But honestly, there's a lot of great energy. It's easy listening, but still has a great amount of depth. I was physiologically happier by the end of the album, and I can't say that about a lot of albums. It was the perfect length
I feel like I've listened to enough rap albums doing this that I'm actually starting to get and enjoy it. Like, I can hear the lyrics and the flow a lot more clearly than with the earlier albums we did.
Anyway, I'm glad that Ice Cube was able to get out of the hood and star in hit movies like War of the Worlds. Good for him.
This is one that's grandfathered in from rock band 2
Love Come out and Play; super duper catchy riffs on top of each other. Very thrashy album, but still pop punk. I don't know why pop punk albums always have a irish sounding song in there; i think its meant to be an anthem but it sounds like an irish sea shanty to me lmao
Pretty good. I don't know if i could listen to it back to back though
It's space.
It's space.
Uh, it's space. It's really good at being space.
Thank goodness my Dad's tickets to the Bruce concert at Wrigley didn't sell and he forced me to go because I now love Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Each song is a cutting reflection combined with absolutely fantastic riffs and music. I've listened to it a lot,(the Chevy only had this album and an ACDC concert for the CD player) so I know these songs very well.
I love the guitar and sax solos. I appreciate how the band gets to shine a lot and it's not all a one-man show.
To me, the wow-factor of this album is the passion. Each song very clearly had a lot of thought and effort behind them. Each one has something to say. Each one isn't shy to sound the way they need to sound.
Except for Factory. Sorry, that's the one stinker on the album.
I feel like the child wailing in The Kids summed up this album perfectly. Mediocre music with random obnoxious shit to make it worse. His voice is bad and every song is forgettable.
I shouldn't read the reviews on this site before listening to this because someone said it was a donkey Kong ass beat and I can't unheard it
Also secret test: send a horse emoji in the group chat if you actually read these reviews lol
So the interesting thing about this exercise is that we get albums that are in the same genres, but I have wildly different ratings for them. It then makes you wonder, "Why is this album a banger while the other one sucked?"
And from that, I can figure out exactly what works for me in this album. I love the use of layered samples. Each song is fully unique and the samples and mixing are used to create a diverse soundscape. It's easy listening too, so the sampling can shine. And then it's broken up by songs that are original and they stand out and feel special, even if it's just a simple instrumental track.
The effects and editing are done tastefully here; no obnoxious distortion or dubstep wah-wah.
Sonic Youth Dirty, huh? Have you tried... not doing that?
Let's just wail over the music, that'll really enhance the ambience. There are inklings of good music in here, solid riffs and the like, but ugh. It's like they dumped too much MSG in their food.
She's got a great voice; lots of iconic songs here, what's not to love? I thought the retro doo-wop style of a lot of the tracks was a fun touch.
