Classic grunge, great debut album, though personally i find it hard to listen to it after a while
Not a classical or piano music listener at all, but this is was a nice experience, esp Part I. Loved hearing all the stomps, the vocalisations, just pure emotion flowing on the piano. While Part I felt very dynamic, Part II was a bit tiresome, as the underlying rhythm melody felt a little too repetitive. Overall, a good experience, def would think about grabbing this on vinyl if i saw one
I can appreciate this band and their influence on the music scene altogether but.... i guess this album is just not my cup of tea
Very energetic, very fun. A pretty short album although that's not a bad thing. Even though the album does have an older sound and style (the old r&b), i think it stands the test of time quite fine.
Very soulful, very groovy, i quite liked it, especially Runaway Child, Running Wild
very strange, dreamy and psychedelic, almost feels like i'm in a fever dream while listening to the album. the lyrics are imo pretty unremarkable and borderline childish though somehow, combined with the structure of the songs and melodies, it keeps you deep (maybe not that deep) in thought about the messages behind them all.
it's one of those albums where i will bob my head throughout and when the album's done i'll go "mm, good album!".. and that's honestly all i can say about this one, it's hard to find other words for it. it's good! i like it!
insanely strong middle, solid beginning and ending. paul mccartney tried to ruin it but i didn't mind him in that one song. great album!
hearing johnny's banter and the cheering of inmates definitely makes this album a much better experience than it would be if it was just a studio record. very fun listen
ahh what a classic. it just makes me wonder why i refused to listen to led zeppelin when i was younger, i feel like i should've and would've loved them
i always found the police to be one of the strangest bands out there. it doesn't make sense to me why were they so popular at one point. their albums confused me, i always thought they were all over the place stylistically, i struggled to listen to their albums to completion.
but now that i've finished synchronicity, it got me curious about the rest of their discography, i think i'll give their other LPs a listen too.
and my opinion hasn't changed at all, i am still confused by the police, the amount of musical genre influence in the album is a bit overwhelming and i find it to lack a some cohesion.
but honestly i don't mind all of that at all. i loved the album. it's strange and intriguing and... it just tickles my brain in a certain peculiar way and i like it.
great art piece! not a great music piece though
the first and the last song are bangers, but the rest of the album is kind of a drag
the album starts and ends in an aggresive and violent tone but in the middle it tones down (just a little), gets a little more repetitive. i kinda wish it kept the super high energy throughout the whole album. the lyrics are whatever.
nevertheless, the album is great, it's iconic. definitely not an album (or the band in general) that you just sit and listen to, you have to experience it, whether in a party, rave or a live show (which i did and it was amazing!)
i love david bowie but i really don't care about blue-eyed soul at all. the only songs i trully enjoyed are 'fascination' and 'fame'. and it's probably because they are more funk than soul.
i just seem to connect deeply with really depressed people and their music
great sound, alright lyrics, awful album cover. i liked it but it wasn't anything special
very cohesive and well put this album for the variety of different sounds and styles it has. this album exceeded each and every of my expectations.
minimalist and monotonous. riddled with numbingly repetitive riffs. though i wouldn't say the album was dry or boring, it was alright. it's just that they had better things done in their later years.
i'm not the biggest nirvana fan out there but this was a great live album. very raw, very intimate. did not miss any of their biggest songs, they were not needed here.
i've only heard bob dylan's most famous songs before, this is my first album of his that i've listen to.
every song on the album is 7 minutes of the most sickly and unenergetic singing on top of the most basic, boring and monotonous muddy guitar riffs. the 'lyrical genius' that so many people claim dylan to be is also nowhere to be seen in this album.
i know dylan has like 7 or 8 albums on this list. my only hope is that it gets better from here. i really hope his other albums redeem this disappointing experience.
wonderful album, captivating, groovy, powerful vocals and lyrics. a bit too long for my liking (probably because the ep is bundled together with disc 2 on streaming platforms) though not at all boring.
it kinda feels like this album doesn't really know what it wants to be. at times it's very angry and spooky, sometimes it goes from very heavy to an almost pop-ish sound, then it gets quite political, and then sometimes it's like i'm listening to a boy band trying to make metal music. it's just a little all over the place at times.
for the most part it's pretty cohesive, quite groovy in a way, very rhythmic. drums and guitars go pretty hard in this album, i like that. what i did not like is that the vocals at times felt a little too abrasive and the lyrics for the most part are pretty superficial and impactless.
as far as metal music goes, this is an okay album. not something i'd pick up to listen again though.
though this reggae latin pop rock genre thing is not for my taste, i thought the album was nice and vibey. chill music.
i wish i knew some spanish of french, i feel like i would've enjoyed the album a little bit more this way
i do not really care for american folky poetry songs but i'll take leonard cohen over bob dylan anytime
it all sounds... gritty and distracting
sometimes it's off-brand duran duran, sometimes it's toned down david bowie
very short, very forgettable. the only thing this album has going for them well is the instrumentation, the vocals and lyrics are whatever. the album feels fast but not really energetic.
very short and very forgettable. though it was nice to hear a totally different vibe and sound than the one on 'pet sounds', this one is a little more dark and wistful.
this is my first of six(?) elvis costello albums that are on this list. i've seen that he's considered one of the best songwriters of his time, grouped with bob dylan and such...
why is it that i keep finding these so called 'lyrical geniuses' to be the most insufferable musicians to listen to? i hate the structures/arrangements of the songs in this album, the general sound is also quite flat, vocal layering is grating, the instruments also sound like they're lacking depth. and just overall, it seems to me like this style/genre of music just doesn't really suit costello; his vocals don't really stick together with the rest of the band but that might just be the result of poor mixing of the album.
another thing that annoyed me personally is the way he sings the high notes in his songs... it sounds annoying, he's trying so hard, it does not work for him at all yet he does it so many times, ugh.
anyway, the album as a whole was boring, forgettable and a little too long. hated it, though can't wait to hear his other stuff!
a pleasant surprise though nothing spectacular
very soulful, full of raw emotion, authentic and creative. imo this is an instant classic. nothing but love for kiwanuka!
very grand and cinematic sound but as the album progresses, just like with very long movies, you kinda start wondering when is this gonna finally end (though i wouldn't say the album was boring at all).
the music is very rich and well crafted but, at the end of it all, i just don't really know which song is which, as they all just blend together sonically. this album really misses out on having at least one or two powerful singles that would stand out and give some energy and life to the whole thing.
i guess i can see this album and band being someones favourite but to me it sounds a bit like a step down compared with their influences (such as radiohead and peter gabriel)
loved the drums, loved the bass, the instumentation in this album slaps.
the only problem is i don't want to listen to this album anymore. once was enough. that does not slap.
started out great and groovy but got tiring and tedious halfway through and it stayed this way all the way till the end. don't get me wrong, the songs are good, it's just that to me this becomes background music very fast.
the second half of the album is missing one or two stronger tracks to really bring the whole album into one massive banger. but damn, i could listen to the first half of the album nonstop, it's perfect.
this album is an easy one to recommend if someone asks for some soul or just to fill the void in the room with some good vibes.
did not expect to hear ska today out of all kinds of music but this was pretty nice. though to me this album could be a 2 on one day and a 5 on another (pretty much like any other ska album tbh)
not a great fan of jazz but this was the most exciting listen i've had of this kind of music ever.
a tad snoozy. apart from 'the ocean', which was delivered without any power or passion, this album was just boring and tedious
listening to this feels a little like watching porn in the middle of the day while your family hangs around in the same room.
the melody was amazing, very funky and groovy. the vocals were smooth and sexy if not also a little creepy (or maybe even a lot creepy).
the concept of this album is... certaintly a choice. but i guess the album was pretty good, if glossing over the fact that it's a little pedo-ish and rapey.
the more i listen to the police, the more their sound is growing on me. i love this album. though i still don't understand how they managed to become one of the biggest bands of their time, they are everything but mainstream.
lots of different influences, a little jazzy, funky, soulful, has some more classic rap and hip-hop there too.
always heard that this is one of the greatest hip-hop records ever but never really gave it a listen. and now that i've listened to it, i think i can agree that this is one of the greatest hip-hop records ever. but it's not something i'll listen to ever again, most likely.
funky, groovy, it was alright. though i'm not much of an afrobeat fan
i really dislike this type of electronic music (2-step and other percussion heavy stuff) but i thought since this is on the big 1001 list, it might surprise me in a good way. i was wrong.
the songs are just too repetitive. the whole album just blends into one long and painful track. it's all the same speed, same beat. some songs start out quite promising and interesting but after a bit every single one of them ends up sounding the same as the last one.
it might be iconic or influential, might be a good definition of its genre. but it is a dull album with very little of essence.
turns out the whole album is great, not just that one song!
beegees had a little identity crisis and wrote a boring beatles concept album.
"Please hold while we connect you with your representative" - then I hear the entire 1959 double platinum jazz album Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet playing on the line. I wait patiently, ever so slightly bopping my head to the unconventional time signatures for jazz that this album seemed to pioneer. With the final notes of the album, they hung up on me. I was never connected with anyone on the other end. I never seem to be.
I let out a deep sigh.
But at least the album was fine.
very dull, even as background noise it gets a little annoying after a while.
listened to this one in the background while doing some work, didn't even notice how it started looping again. it's a nice listen, i liked it! could say it's great album, could also say that none of the song really stood out but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
nothing is left unsaid about this album. though i could say i used to love and praise this album way more when i wasn't listening to much music in general.
saw a comment saying if tame impala and the beach boys had an awkward child this album would be it. and i kinda agree.
miles davis really tried pushing the boundaries between jazz and other music genres and it worked out very well. this almost sounds like an ambient experimental rock album, especialy the second half of the album. i really enjoyed it, more than i thought i would!
good album with a great banger ending
a fusion of various beats and genres, plenty of interesting (if not strange) noises and melodies throughout. but not interesting enough for me to ever pick this up again
i actually prefer this one than 'songs in the key of life'
this album is like a painters palette. the colours are there, but they are just that - plain colours. there might be lots of colours on the palette, some of them also slightly mixed.. but the real art is on the canvas, not the palette.
the sounds are all there, but it all sounds a little too plain and incomplete.
some nice loud muddy fast punk, i like it!
his voice and vocals easily overpower everything else that is happening in the album. the lyrics in every song feel overabundant for just 2-3 minute songs and just boring. especially when there is so little variance in how he delivers them.
disc 1 was a drag, but i didn't mind disc 2 as much as i thought i would. the band was great at bringing energy to the show, as well as dylan himself, he sounded way more excited and energetic when singing with a full band backing him up.
the "electric" rock sound suits bob dylan more than his more regular acoustic folksy blues sound.
A bland album trying really hard to create some flavour it clearly lacks.
the songwriting was definitely strong but musically this was quite unimpressive
i'm not a big fan of jazz, i don't really listen to it, so this album to me sounds like any other jazz performance. i can't really tell what makes jazz good (or bad), unless i hear something new or innovative in the songs that works really well with the already established sounds of the genre.
but this record just sounds like the most stereotypical jazz album to me. this album is what you think of when someone says the word 'jazz'. and maybe that's a good thing, i guess it shows that you're really good at the genre that you are performing.
anyways, 1/5 because i felt like i was actively suffering and felt no enjoyment while listening to this.
it's not bad but it is just so boring to me. did not expect rock'n'roll songs to just kinda bleed into one another.
always seen this album being on many lists and recommended by many people and finally gave it a listen. it was good, not an everyday listen though.
thought i would say this is definitely one of the most mainstream experimental-, art-, avant-garde rock album i've heard.
did not expect this albums to sound the way it did, but i kinda dig it. it is definitely a mix weird of genres but it works out pretty well imo.
Iconic album, but definitely sounds aged. Not saying it's bad or anything, it's just that this is a uniquely 90s-00s sound and it does not hold up to todays industry standards.
very nerdy album.
and it all made sense when i saw that brian eno produced this one with talking heads.
some of the songs were really nice, but it was mostly too repetitive for me. it's nice when bands pioneer genres and create new sounds but 40 years later these albums start to sound like a plain derivative of the more recent ones. which is a totally unfair look to have about these things in general.
i feel like i would've enjoyed this album way more if i heard it back in the 80s or even 90s
pleasant, jazzy, relaxing. this was a great album to have in the background while doing other things.
it kinda makes sense why they sell out stadiums because listening the album at home is just not that all impressive
something that the 1970s thought you would listen to in your spaceship in 2070
it was pretty good, very clean and technicaly well performed album.
it would seem than an avant-garde bluesy rock album should sound interesting but damn it's just boring.
just a really good album, can't really find anything bad to say about it.
some insane music from an insane band
a strange kind of beautiful
groovy and blues-y in a very underwhelming and inoffensive way. most of the songs are very short, riddled with banal lyrics. and when every track just ends with a fade out it's kinda ridiculous and it makes the album feel unfinished and the artist behind it unimaginative.
even though some of the songs (or parts of them at least) were alright, the album as a whole was dull and disappointing.
straight elton john but somehow he still made a flamboyant gay rock opera album. love it, big theatre kid vibes too.
recently listened to Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell, which is in a quirky and theatrical kinda spectrum of albums, somewhat like this one. and i'd say that these two albums go on opposite sides of that quirky and theatrical spectrum.
I preffer the Meat Loaf's side. sorry, Neil.
the more i listen to jazz, the more i seem to realise why i cannot appreciate it. to me jazz is overstimulating, without any continuous structure and uniformity, it always sounds very crowded and distracting and i always end up feeling exhausted after listening to any jazz albums. to me jazz is like a mental exercise, requiring most of my mental focus, even when put on minimal volume and played mostly as background music. which is such a shame.
a very ordinary folk pop rock ish album
the second half of the album is definitely the more creative, experimental and interesting one. other than that, it was just pretty okay.
also, Coconut coming right after Without You is one of the most hilarious thing i've seen in an album
probably the most stereotypical but also most palatable country music i've ever heard
i found it too soft, repetitive, a little boring even. none of the songs really stood out. though i couldn't say that this is a bad album. it's some fine glam rock, it's just that i've had higher hopes for this.
to me it seemed quite unnoteworthy.
pretty smooth big band stuff, this was an easy listen. though wouldn't say i was really impressed by any of it
was surprised how unbearably syrupy sweet this album was with Superstition being the odd one out there.
don't get me wrong, the songs are great, stevie wonder is talented and his vocals are smooth and always pleasant to hear.. but after i got to experience Innervisions and SITKOL beforehand, listening to this was quite underwhelming and even a bit boring
yes, i do find the album cover cool and edgy. show me another album cover that did something like that at the time. and how is this not original, the frontman literally recreated a dream he had. and just because there are nipples on the cover it doesn't make it inherently sexual. and, honestly, if you find this sexual or brutal in any way, it's definitely a 'you' problem more than anything else. maybe learn to seperate 'literal' art from life? the women on the cover are sculptures, not even real. smh
anyways, really good album, i wish could've listened to it around the time it actually came out, it seems i would've appreciated it way more back then.
