If you asked me, I for sure would have guessed that Octopus's Garden was from the LSD era.
The album deserves a 5, but I underrated it and it would be dishonest to change it now
Its funny reading the other review first because the only part of this album i didnt like was Vein Melter which was the only of the 4 songs that did not make the highlight reel. (Vein Melter was probably also very good, but it didn't really get me)
The first song on this album is Severance to me 😊. I can't tell how many songs I recognized from vaguely hearing them before and how many were familliar from my very late at night preliminary listen. Iconic but kinda drags.
Why the fuck is he doing that voice? This is my punishment for underrating Abbey Road. My greatest hope is that Straight Outta Compton is included in this list.
And to think, maybe one day *I*'ll pretend to be siblings with my ex-wife!
One of my favorite songs ever is Daydream/Wet Dream/Nightmare. So the title and first track of this album, Close to the Edge (I originally detailed all the subtitles, but my notes were erased and I dont have the patience at the moment), got me hooked. I was bought in for the rest of the album.
I could have done without the full deluxe version, but would not have given up America in exchange.
Songs this album made me listen to: The Edge by Panicland
My tia really likes Led Zepplin, so I'm pretty disappointed i didn't like this album as much as I expected.
While I enjoyed the instrumentation, I am a vocalist at heart; vocals can totally make or break a song for me. I understand the appeal of Robert Plant's powerful voice but the pitch and tonality totally lose me.
I am easy as hell. Of course French, queer pop is right the fuck up my alley.
Its good :] I listened to it while unpacking and it was a good time 👍
Today, my brother was reflecting on how unusual his and my childhood was. In place of a response, i started playing this album; he and I danced together for a little bit before going about our other tasks. I dont think this is thematically resonant in any way, but it was a nice moment with a great album.
Hard to incorporate 10 minute lyricless synth music into my daily listening. Great album though.
Made me think about how I have a very clear idea about how space sounds, music-wise, and wonder who first put that audio-landscape together. Like, space is silent, so it doesn't fundamentally have a "sound". It's only really through media that I've come to a conclusion about how space sounds. I wonder how their contemporaries composed for space. How might space have sounded in another universe?
I think this is the Hallelujah guy. I love Hallelujah.
Lyricism is totally my thing, so i fucked with this pretty heavy. The instrumentation wasn't as varied or complex as is my preference, but it really gave the lyrics room to breathe.
I was happily surprised to see that Cohen's talent for blending the personal with mythology was also present on this album. I particularly liked Story of Issac, The Butcher, and You Know Who I Am for these elements.
While the lyrical themes and mood of the songs were different, I feel similarly about today's album as I did yesterday's. I only like this one a little less.
I love the instrumentation; it's very much the goth vibe, dark, moody, and reflective.
The lyrics however, slide off my brain like water off a duck's back. It took me a couple listens to hear anything other than the music, really. When I did hear the lyrics though, I did like them. This does make me curious about other goth music, but maybe with a vocalist whose lyrics I can follow better.
When I was in 6th grade, there was a big field trip that I didnt go on. I don't really remember the reason, but as a result, I was the only 6th grade choir student at school that day. So I joined the 5th grade class. I'd only been at that school since the beginning of 6th grade, so I actually did learn some stuff that day. They were doing a unit of decades of music, and that day was the 60s, or, The British Invasion. It was then that I first heard Paint it Black, and figured out The Rolling Stones were pretty good.
This album is pre-sitar influence, though, and I've since been told it's mostly covers. Which does make me feel better about it landing where it does. Given my love of Paint it Black, I was feeling some guilt about not really getting into this album. I do think the performances are generally good, but Route 66 is the only song I can really say I actively enjoyed.
I just dont get why this is the pick.
About 3 songs into this album i was informed that my mom was in the hospital waiting for an MRI due to exhibition of stroke-like symptoms.
While I pretty much never claim objectivity, I definitely have no claim to it here. My mom is okay, but also this album did help me a lot when I thought she might not be.
I knew a couple songs off this album already. The only two I properly like are Black Dog and Going to California. Black Dog because I can't hear the lyrics and Going to California because I can. I will still probably stick to the Joe P cover though.
I managed to miss most of the album the first time I listened. I don't blame this entirely on the album, I was preoccupied, but it does say something to me that nothing really caught my attention during that time.
It just lacks any kind of bite tbh. Like if you went fishing for me, and this was your bait, you would go home empty-handed.
My brother and I both described this album as pleasant. I enjoyed listening to it while I made us breakfast burritos and made myself muffins for the week. 👍
I made jokes about yesterday's album that there was a song just for me (Percy's Song), but Mamunia is actually what a song just for me would sound like (a pro-rain anthem).
I am a little confused by Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five, but i like that it calls back to Band on the Run.
I generally fuck with 80s pop 🤷♂️
Does get repetitive
Excellent album!! I unfortunately don't reach for a lot of lyricless music, but maybe I'll put it on the next time I'm playing Canasta Hand and Foot with my grandparents
I very much enjoyed listening to this album, but i would be lying if I said I thought I'd come back to it 😔
This album incorporates a lot of elements I like in music, but not necessarily always the way i like it. I know a few R.E.M. songs, including Stand, Man on the Moon, Losing My Religion, and It's The End Of The World As We Know It. I like all those quite a bit, but this album didn't entirely click with me on the whole.
Songs this album made me listen to:
Take Me Away from Freaky Friday, the Theme From Psych
There's an entire album of songs I really like here! Unfortunately the actual entire album is 2 hours long, making the album of songs I love end up in the minority.
The whole album is still a vibe! I fuck with it! But it's not all 5 stars.
I was disappointed by this album. I like a couple Kings of Leon songs and this album ended up being really hit or miss. Particularly the vocal style occilated from charming and familliar to grating and incomprehensible.
Songs this album made me listen to: Painkillers by Rainbow Kitten Surprise
I really struggled to get into this album. I have the distinct impression I would really like it if I found it at the right time/on the right day. But neither today nor yesterday has been that day.
I liked a couple songs and I liked the general vibe, but I did not enjoy that I was listening to the album 😔. Again, on me, I'm just in a mood I guess. I look forward to trying this album again when I'm in a better mood.
I dont have a lot to say about this album today. I think I'm a little bit still in a mood, but I did enjoy listening to it :]
Songs this made me listen to: Money Won't Pay by bo en
I think I fell asleep when I first listened to this album. But after relistening I still couldn't tell you if that was the case.
It's a good time though.
I liked this album! I was a little surprised to hear some subtle jazz influence, reminiscent of the old Charlie Brown movies
I am prejudiced against Live albums. I like listening to music live, but a live album cannot break into my daily listening unless I know the studio version and like the live one better. In this case, I do not know the studio versions 🤷♂️
This album is up my alley 👍
I listened to today's and yesterday's albums while playing stardew valley. While there wasnt a lot of ambient noise during yesterday's, there was a lot today. Feels So Different was filled with birdsong, Nothing Compares 2 U accompanied by rain.
This album benefits from the same thing Will the Circle Be Unbroken suffered from. Where WtCBU had a full album-worth of songs I enjoyed, but the majority did not click with me, here I only click with a few songs, but it ends up being half the album
This album is weird and cool.
Turns out there's a reason I know the songs I know and didnt know the ones I didn't.
I think Coldplay works best when it is familliar, especially when it can't be great.
I didn't write any notes while I was listening to it, but I liked it quite a bit. I think maybe more than the last R.E.M. album. But my memory isnt that great.
I liked this quite a bit. My favorite part was the inserts
Another album i feel like i could have gotten more into but just didnt hit me right today
There was not a moment of listening to this album that I was not enjoying myself
It is not a great sign that (due to my own failure to make sure the looping feature was on) i failed to notice when this album ended.
Overall, I like the sound! Would not mind listening to it again! It's just not really clicking 🤷♂️
I did not like this album very much. Its not the album, its me.
Not going to lie. I didn't give this album the best shot I could have. But I've already not been that into Led Zepplin's work, so it would have been a surprise if this was the album to get me. It was not.
Call Me Al is actually one of my favorite songs ever. That's just a fact about me :]
I once again do not have a lot to say about an album I loved. Zero skips.
So fucked up that the gays get no sex packets 😔/j
I knew I'd heard of Blur but didnt know where. I fuck with this shit 🤷♂️
I liked it less than I thought i would, but i love how Frank Ocean is a liar right out of the gate <3
I don't like it, I don't get it. I could try harder but I don't want to.
I liked the first 3 songs but the rest of the album really won me over
This album left me kind of torn. While I did thoroughly enjoy it, its lack of availability on Spotify had several diminishing effects.
1) there was no way to experience album flow with 30 seconds of ads between every song
2) given that I listen to music on Spotify, there is no way for it to actually become part of my daily listening, the key criteria that separates 4s from 5s in my system.
However, these things are not the albums fault.
Was gonna be a 3 with nothing to say but then I was told there's only 3 original songs 🤷♂️
Something this project has taught me is that I generally like high energy music. Across genres, I am way more likely to fuck with something if it's got some kind of energy behind it. Failing that, brilliant lyricism tends to be the only hope for a low energy album to remain in my good graces.
I liked some of the higher energy options well-enough.
I have an incredible headache. I thought I might have to put this off till tomorrow.
Unbelievable I forgot to review this sooner!
Very good, but did not capture my attention as much as I hoped
I think I've been in a really good mood recently. Easy to please :]
I also did know like a third the songs on the album already though?? Surprising!
Very good :]
I do unfortunately have difficulty fully appreciating foreign language projects. I think the lack of lyricism on this album, something that is usually an obstacle for me, was actually an upside in this case.
I liked elements of it, but felt I'd seen the elements I liked done better elsewhere
I really liked the first 3 songs or so. I really did not like Look at Your Hands
I am very good at my job and I am so tired so uhhhh no review today, come back tomorrow
Very good! Simply difficult to break into my daily listening 🤷♂️
I am so bad at talking about things I like :[
Genuinely just not really my thing. Feels a little bit like alternate universe music, almost, in that way.
Very good! Not sure if it would have been a 5 with only one listen-through and yet! I did more than one
It could have been a five, but it's missing that je ne se quoi
I could have told you Dolly would be a 5
It took me a while to feel like I had listened to the whole album. Which is largely my fault for being so distracted. But also does feel indicative 😔
C'mon. It's a no-brainer.
Has an instrumental song i like.
I was only familiar with her work in the Ice Age series prior to this album
Yay!!! Goth music i like!!!
The music is awesome, and I appreciate the honesty of the vignettes, but between the Christian themes and some of the lyrical choices, I ended up a little uncomfortable by the end in a way I did not appreciate
This is a dumb opinion and I know it, but this album reminded me of if Glass Animals sounded like The Beatles. I do not really know what that means. But that was the thought I had
I like alternative rock 🤷♂️
I love a classic " you have never heard any sound like ours don't even bother comparing us to other groups" song
Lowkey spooky. Also very touching, I really liked On the Level
I have a lot of respect for Bob Dylan
Only made things worse /hj
I still don't really get genres, but I'm learning!
I was nervous I might not like it
I give up, genres mean nothing to me /j
I thought i would like it, thought I wouldn't and then thought I would again!
I would not describe it as steely jsyk
More consistently good than Faith, I would say!
The songs are a little long to incorporate into my daily listening but absolutely masterful
Bob Disco playlist incoming
I like when British rap :]
Weirdly exciting. Unfortunately not that much more appealing to me than regular Metallica
The songs I like here are the ones that sound the most like Rumors. Rumors better be here.
I don't have a lot to say. This album does some cool stuff
I enjoyed listening to this album but only really liked the first song.
Sounded good! Did not make a big impression 😔
Includes one of the slay-est hate crimes I've ever experienced. /j
Several songs on this album sound like they'd be really good as a part of a larger song I would like more.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone was surprised i like this as much as I do
I was really hoping I would be able to do some kind of gotcha! by liking the original versions of these songs more, but this was actually very good. RIP Elvis Presley, sorry I wanted to be an asshole
I was like "why are all these songs about killing people?" Then I reread the album title.
One of these songs reminded me of Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish
