First couple discs are excellent, so much good outside of the tracks I knew (My Sweet Lord, What is life). Started to throw me after that, but maybe I was just getting exhausted from it
Finally all caught up. Nothing stuck out really, but it was a nice easy listen, and obviously time of the season is a psychedelic classic. I love "she's not there" from their previous album too
Impressive to release an album like this 30 years past your peak. Older, slower, and probably wiser. Very understated instrumentation that I feel is quite complex the more you focus on it
One of these days I'll go through his discography front to back like I did the beatles. He's only released 40 albums so shouldn't take too long
Big fan of Pixies' Doolittle and not so much anything else, this came out a few years after that.
Guitar and bass work is sorely missed from Pixies, what remains is quite enjoyable though. (Although I do see Joey Santiago played on a few)
I mean come on
Medley at the end is absolutely goated,golden slumbers/carry that weight/the end was a recent discovery for me, been rattling around my head for weeks
Good but not my fave by them, first time I heard it all the way through in ages. Bit too grandiose for its own good, funeral is better
Really interesting album. Literally only knew them from the fatboy slim remix, just assumed they were a bit of a one hit wonder. Had no idea the guy was indian, and all that influence was really cool, plenty of variety aside from that
Very good, was happy to immediately listen again. reminds me that I need to listen to songs in the key of life all the way through
Interesting album, immediately recognised the title track from the first GTA5 trailer. Spoken word gobbledygook started to become grating around the fifth track they did it
Not to diminish what must have been a massive crossover hit, but this would have went hard if I was playing Fallout: New Vegas
I only listened to Volume 1, hope that's okay. Might come back to the rest as I did enjoy this, went down very smooth
Absolutely one of the best albums ever, so so many all time great tracks crammed on here
Made me realise how classic take five is, and did enjoy trying to count the time signature between the more obvious "Kathy's Waltz" and the more odd ones
Pretty good, I always assumed it was a 90s album
Didn't do much for me unfortunately, veered too far between a lesser Portishead (Opening Track vs Sour Times in particular to my ear) and.. carnival music?
Didn't do much for me unfortunately, though I love their soundtrack for Sorcerer (and I think GTA5?), and appreciate their massive contribution to early electronic
Love it, somehow don't feel qualified to articulate further
Used to listen to this loads, a shame I've gone so long without listening, and maybe a shame that they were hailed as the next daft punk due to being a french electronic duo, but always felt like they scratched a different itch, and never really reached the heights of this album. Love the "revvy" distorted sound incorporated throughout
Some of my favourite moments
- Godzilla theme opening to Genesis
- Transition from Phantom into Pt 2, and the way Pt 2 incorporates the melody of DANCE
- Waters of Nazareth intro
How did "The Party" come out like 2 years before Kesha's "Tik Tok"?
Pretty good album of mostly covers
Interesting that we got 2 final albums in a row from legendary artists released shortly before their deaths, this one extremely so
Beyond the almost mythical status of the album at this point, it's an extremely experimental and bold delve into jazziness from an artist that historically always leaned more towards rock, surely made possible by being led trustingly by his contributors.
I think this might be the first time I've heard this since it came out (10 years ago!), appreciated it a lot more this time around
Not quite my cup of tea, but credit for flying by at a ridiculous BPM without a single song reaching over 2 mins
Very fun album, like the soundtrack to a cool halloween party I never went to
Classic from the first note of cherry coloured funk really
Absolutely phenomenal imo, such a great variety of beats, fun interludes, lyrics I haven't even begun to dig into. Somehow I'd never properly heard B.O.B before now and it's such a good track. Need to try Aquemini and Speakerboxx/love below
Simply fine and listenable, unfortunately not quite what you want from an album You Must Hear Before You Die. Felt like it released sorely late - in 1999 the britpop ship had surely sailed? (pun intended)
Wasn't really notable but pleasant enough I suppose?
Probably the only totally essential smiths album, the rest of their best songs are scattered across compilations and albums with lesser tracks. Love the jangly guitar of a lot of the tracks, and lyrically I do think it's all fantastic, very witty
My fave tracks are Frankly Mr Shankly, "Cemetry Gates" (sp) and Bigmouth Strikes Again, all songs which happen not to be total downers and are all quite funny. Cemetry Gates is probably my favourite overall
There Is a Light is obviously great but it's almost too iconic to highlight. I think they probably should have ended it with that track rather than "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" which doesn't do much for me really, but they probably weren't thinking too hard about track placement. Something about the way the volume fades out and back in at the start really pisses me off for some reason
Too nostalgic for this to not rate it on enjoyment alone. Jesus of suburbia has to be one of the quickest feeling long songs ever, and it's packed full of catchy riffs
Immediate first impression is that Everything Everything do a similar (but better) thing musically, vocally and lyrically, but I'll concede that there's some great complex drumming going on all through the album.
Maybe this one's very much of its time and just hasn't aged very well?
One of my favourite albums since I was about 15 yo, and imo one of the strongest debut albums anyone has ever released. Perhaps I'd not feel as strongly if I heard it today for the first time, and maybe I'd think it's all a bit millennial cringe (like yesterday's), but then I'd be a different person with different taste. An absolute landmark of indie, even if Win Butler is trying everything in his power to diminish it
I feel like nearly every song has the band pouring nearly everything they've got into it, with so much energy and catharsis throughout.
I'd never really heard anything like "Wake Up" before, and it was probably the major catalyst that sent me down the indie rabbithole that I'll never get out of (along with In The Aeroplane), but needless to say I love most of the others. Kettles is eh, but it works as part of a transition between the high energy of "Power Out" and "Wake Up"
