I listened to it a lot when I was 10~12. Now i find it a bit juvenile (the lyrics). I had a nostalgic listen.
I still like the sound of "Paradise City".
Very funny album with a cohese, uniform sound from start to finish.
The singer has an interesting accent.
Interesting voice with some good musical moments. The lyrics are sometimes too plain and the album as a whole is a bit too on the pop-soul music side for my taste.
1.5/5
I remember listening to them in middle school an playing some of the easier parts on guitar.
From the band name onwards it seems that anger is the main and only emotion of the album, a feeling only partly interrupted by Tom Morello's masterful solos.
3 1/2 stars
I liked "The Corner", sound and rhymes, even if for me the lyrics' meaning where hard to understand fully with all the slang words. The rest is too pophipop for me.
Great discovery for me, as I knew only the title track "Let's stay together".
I listened to it in a sunny winter morning while making coffee. Very relaxing. It gets a little too syrupy in the second half, but Green's masterful soul voice and the good arrangements let me listen to the whole album in one sitting.
4.5/5
Although I can understand why it was and still is a popular album, on my first listen today it did not impress me. The lirycs felt a bit too plain, almost naive. I enjoyed "Smackwater Jack", a song with a more comical athmosphere, or the subtle "(You Make Me Feel...".
I like the cat in the foreground of the cover.
I have listened to "Shot by Both Sides" many times, but never to the whole album. "Definitive Gaze" and "My Tulpa" where great discoveries, two energetic and inventive songs with great bass lines. The rest of the album has good moments but, for me, it is not on par with the first three songs.
3.75/5
At first, I was not impressed. Then I listened to it again with good headphones and I could appreciate more the harmonies between different instruments.
I like the campy title "The Love Gangster": I wish it was coved by Soft Cell.
3/5
Too juvenile (sometimes childish) humour and a few not great verses, but it has also crafty samples and good production.
The first track, "Rhymin & Stealin", sounds like a manifesto.
3.75/5
Very 1990s-usa-indie-rock sound. I liked the harsh guitars (the introductions of "Rockets are red" or "Get Down"), not so much the raspy vocals.
2.25/5
I think that a studio production is not ideal for this kind of band. I liked the Peel session and the early live concerts they did a lot more than this album.
I usually do not listen to country but this album fascinated me. Very bare instrumentation and melancholic voice.
I had limited time today to listen to it carefully, but In the future I'll return to it paying closer attention to the lyrics.
3.75/5
Good singer, but not my preference for music. I can understand his appeal.
I really liked "Everyone".
2.75/5
Beautiful acoustic and intimate music. I like the minimalistic approach.
The cover is pretty ugly and not right for this kind of album.
Once i embraced the kitsch nature of the album (cover, music, lyrics) it was a fun listen.
1.75/5
Good to listen to with headphones on during a rainy day.
I had preferred a little more experimentation tough.
It has good riffs, but I found it a bit boring. "God's Cop" was my favorite track.
Funny and clever at the same time, with some good nonsense. I wish more rap was like this.
I really like the uniqueness of her late-career voice. Is perfect for these kind of standard.
Like many collaborations between orchestra and pop-jazz from the era, I find the arrangement a bit syrupy.
3.75/5
I liked the first two tracks, then the reverb, tremolo and the aetherial vocals became a bit too repetitive.
2.75/5
Beautiful energic voice,complemeneted by backing vocals and superb brass ensemble. I liked a lot of songs in this album, especially "Come back baby" and "Since you...".
3.75/5
Good psychedelic rock with a warm guitar tone and latin/mexican(?) undertones.
Favorite track (and title): “Incident at Neshabur”
2.75/5
It's the first time in this project that I have what is to me a completely new record.
I like the guitar and the creativity, but I don't like the vocals, especially the backing vocals.
Favorite fun track: "Jeff's boogie".
2.75/5
I can not understand almost any word, but it's a very enjoyable album anyway, with lot of creativity (from classical flute, to garage punk, to buddhist chants).
A bit uneven, and I don't like his voice, but it has interesting moments. I like experimentation, especially in "Small Hours".
2.5/5
Too many english and american singer-songwriters on this list.
Lyrics are pretty banal.
1.5/5
Psychedelic and bluesy. The cover matches the content perfectly.
Best lyrics: "Tales of Brave Ulysses"
Unremarkable. Not too bad, but nothing stand out to me.
I liked the piano on "In the lost and found".
Well written lyrics with a lot of irony.
As the title track, Parklife, was always playing in my favorite beer pub, I can not listen to it without wanting a stout or a porter.
Interesting indie music, simple and creative. Relaxing.
But I don't like the dreamy vocals. Its sounds like two singers chanting or a main singer with annoying backing vocals. This could have been a good instrumental band.
Thanks to this album, which contains a cover of "A Minha Menina", after many years I listened again to Os Mutantes.
Best tracks for me are "Sunshine" and "Zia".
It sounds like a television preacher turned alt rock star, and maybe it was the band's plan. It start ok, but after a while I become tired of the overly expressive/theatrical vocals.
2.75 / 5
Cool, fast, punk music with energic voice and interesting saxophone moments.
I like punk songs like "Identity" and, even more, the direction they explored with "Germ Free Adolescents".
I really don't like the voice of the singer, but the main problem for me are the lyrics: so plain and juvenile.
Another ~2000s american pop rock album from this list.
Almost nothing really bad, just not memorable.
1.75 / 5
Finally an album in this project that is not pop, rock or rap. I wish the creators of the list were more adventourous.
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So glad to rediscover this after many years. I listened to Tortoise a bit when I was a University Student, but not with a lot of attention.
I's a musical journey with lots of different moments and paths that I enjoyied explore.
Interesting sound in some track, atrocious vocals in others (first two in particular). I wish they were an instrumental group and more experimental, less pop.
I liked the male vocals in "Jump n shout".
A very 1990s mix of styles. I liked the opening and the heavier electronic sounds used in soul(-ish) music, not so much the rap and rap-adjacent passages.
Favourites: "Safe from Harm", "Unfinished Sympathy" and "Latey".
3.5 / 5
I liked the first track, but (maybe I am influnced by the title) the rest sounded like the recordings of a drunk group of friends in a roadside pub.
Abrasive sound and minimalistic approach focused on rhythm. I don't know when I will be in the right mood to listen to it again, but I'm glad that it exists as it is something different from all the pop/hiphop of this 1001 list.
Favourite tracks: "Steam Rose from the Lifeless Cloak"; "There's Always Room on the Broom"; "They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids"; "They Took 14 for the Rest of Our Lives".
I am a big fan of Stan Getz and I'm glad that at least one of his albums is on this 1001 list (a list that is not very friendly to jazz).
This album is not my favorite of Getz, and I don't like the english lyrics in some songs, but of course I can understand why it was selected.
3.75 / 5
As for Getz, I love his "West Coast Jazz", "The Steamer", "Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz" albums. For bossa nova jazz, I prefer the his version of "Desafinado" with Charlie Byrd.
The first track has a good rhythm. The rest gets a bit too repetitive for me, with interesting moments. I don't like the voice of the male singer.
2.75 / 5
A good doble intro with "Carry On / Questions", I like when musicians merge two different songs (eg. McCartney in "Ram"). The rest is a bit too hippie folk rock for me. Maybe I'll listen to it again in the future.
2.75/ 5
Vocals make this unpleasant to listen to. The music is slightly reminiscent of a western b-movie from the 1960s.
Very funny, very 1990s, with a couple of classics songs. Sometimes it soundls too much like the soundtrack of a kid's bithday party.
3.5 / 5
Interesting concept, immediately recognizable Kinks's sound. I shall listen to it again with more attention.
For now is 3.75 / 5
Very peculiar concept album. Horribly kitsch cover.
Best title: "A Funky Space Reincarnation"
Too 1968-ish for me.
I appreciate the jazz and blues parts, non so much the psychedelic and vocals parts.
A postmodern collage that does not renounce to rhythm. I love the transcultural samplings in this.
Fun to make (I think) and fun to listen.
Beautiful cover image, I like it more than the original.
It’s not Hill’s fault, but after yet another commercial anglo-american album, this list is getting rather tedious. Do the people who chose these 1001+ albums realise that there are other countries besides those where English is spoken?
She has a good voice. Repetitive backing vocals, with all the "yo yo", "yeah yeah", "ah ah", "ya ya" etc.
The cover image has a good idea, but is executed poorly (especially the font used for the title).
1.5 / 5
Some potential, but again vocals ruin the listening experience for me.
Very peculiar voice and intelligent satirical songwriting. I don't think that I will listen to this whole album again, or that I will casually listen to it for pleasure, but I will return to some of the songs.
Favourite song: "Political Science".
3.5 / 5
I liked the music, not so much the singing. Very strange, as I should like this kind of music. I know that Redding is a giant of the genre, but his voice sounded a bit too acute and crisp to me. Could have been the remastered version that I found online.
I think I'll return to this; maybe I will search for a better copy.
2.75 / 5 for now
Very kitsch, from the iconic cover to the lyrics.
I liked Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Grey Seal, but not much more.
2.75 / 5
This was the first time that I listened to a Kanye West song.
He has a great talent for rhyming, but I really can not understand the choice of themes and content for his songs.
Ugly cover, stupid intro and humour.
1. 25 / 5
Fom 1977, but already "post-punk".
Good ideas in the guitar/bass work and tempo. Not my favourite kind of voice, almost too shrill, but it works here.
Favourite tracks: "Friction"; "See No Evil".
3.75 / 5
In the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” it is revealed at one point that Robin, one of the main characters, had been a very famous Canadian pop singer under the stage name Robin Sparkles. We see some very cheesy pop videos with titles like “Let’s Go to the Mall” and “Sandcastles in the Sand.” Then the transformation of the singer Robin Sparkles into Robin Daggers is recounted, and an even more ridiculous pop-grunge video with an over-the-top accent is shown.
Only today did I discover that it was a (not too far from reality) parody of a real singer.
An album with good musicianship, easy to listen, but that rewards more attentive listening.
The opening track is a bit too pop, but interesting with it's usage of an Horace Silver's base. I like the cover of one of Ellington's most famous compositions.
Favourite track: "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"
It is the first time that I listen with attention and headphones to a full Talking Heads's album. What a discovery!
I prefer side A, but I'll listen to the whole album again in the future.
4.50 / 5
The singer is insufferable and the good ideas are softened by '90 pop grunge and stupid lyrics. I liked the guitar sometimes, especially in "Be sweet".
1.75 / 5
"Son of a preacher.." is great. The rest is buried under a kitsch orchestra.
I like it in small parts, but not as a whole album. The formula becomes a bit repetitive, the lyrics are not their forte and I can't stand "ballads" from metal band (here "Welcome home").
Ugly cover.
3.75 / 5
Better sounding than the other Adams's album on this list. Too cliché.
2.75 / 5
I liked "Planet Telex", the rest is alright, but I don't like the voice of the singer when it gets too high-pitched and the pop-rock undertones.
2.75 / 5
Never Heard of it before. Sometimes cliché, sometimes innovative. Fun to listen.
3.5 / 5
Good intentions, but too polished and not the right sounding voice. Derivative.
2.5 / 5
The best parts are derivative (Talking Heads, New Order), the worst sound like the music used for the "emotional" scene at the end of a bad tv drama.
Ugly cover.
2.25 / 5
Harsher than i expected. "The Ox" was a great Discovery.
Very uneven. I liked "Billie Jean", "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and some parts of "Beat It". Other parts are too kitsch.
Some band's have the same, Uniform, tone throughout an album. Sometimes is good to have such albums to pair with a particular mood.
2.75 / 5
Very cool bourbonesque voice. I liked and saved the bluesy tracks, but disliked the orchestral ballads.
3.5 / 5
Gentle indie rock with a touch of pop. I liked the couple made of "Waterfall" and "Don't stop". Good groove in "Fool's gold".
3.5 / 5
A series of punk miniatures. Concentrated, "conceptual" (post)punk album where the strenght is in the whole listening experience.
I always liked the cover.
I am not a fan of Yorke's voice and of the handclaps, but this is a beautiful album that, litened through headphones, made me appreciate Radiohead for the first time.
I really liked the usage of Tape loops and Ondes Martenot.
Probabily they made a lot of money selling music rights for netflix dramas and amazon commercials.
1.5 / 5
I never liked the title and the myth of Barret as a crazy musical genius.
The album feels tentative, uneven and in parts unfinished (it's recording history is complicated). But is never boring.
Favourite song: "Octopus" (i like the french record sleeve)
I like the idea of using a poem by James Joyce in "Golden Hair".
2.75 / 5
Even if it is an uneven, imperfect album, and I won't listen to many of it parts on their own, it is a commendable experiment and a pop-psychedelic pre-postmodern trip.
Favourite: Side one – "The International Feel (in 8)"
Maybe I will return to it and change my vote. For now, it seemed not exceptional coming after a few good and inventive albums.
Quintessential 1980s neon synth-pop new wave.
Very 1990s alternative rock, with a bit of grunge, of shoegaze and of pop.
Best listened on tape inside an old car on a cloudy day.
3.75 / 5
Good ideas not explored to their full potential.
