1001 Albums Summary

This feels like a good baseline album and rating to start off this project with. Had never actually really listened to this outside of "You Can Call Me Al" and the title track. Paul Simon's songwriting strengths meld really well with the South African instrumentalists that he brought into the room, although I imagine his songwriting strengths meld really well with most musicianship out there, the instincts are just so incredible. Outside of the aforementioned great songs that still hold up, the two highlights (which will make pleasant new additions to my rotation) were "The Boy in the Bubble" and especially "Under African Skies". Wow Linda Ronstadt's voice huh. Very funny to love that song and then read about how that one was especially critiqued in the scope of the anti-apartheid boycotts. Beautiful song though.

Maybe I just find Eddie Van Halen influential for a guitar style I find super annoying lol and I'm holding that against this perfectly passable album. Not my jam but well performed and produced. "Drop Dead Legs" is the one new song I enjoyed hearing.

Stays afloat the whole time -- the one song that I didn't know before that grabbed me was "Sweetest Devotion", but the banger here is "Send My Love to Your New Lover", I think the clear achievement of this album that otherwise I find lesser to all of her other albums (this weirdly was the only one I had never checked out). Good but not especially great ya know

Two tracks in and i'm alr smiling SO wide. From "Monkey Man" on it's just relentless bangers. Really really great stuff. The standout track to me is "Too Much Too Young" but I'm also huge on "Nite Klub". Definitely will return to this one a bunch. Never really delved much into ska but found this irresistible. Chat am I cooked etc etc

one of my major blindspots. Only knew the title track. That's still the standout as far as I'm concerned but what a well fleshed out, expansive and far reaching album. I think the import of it will hit me on further listening but honestly spent most of this wanting to relisten to The Specials lol

Very fun, but at a certain point more interesting as a (sorta) transitional missing link between more propulsive or catchy movements of punk. When this thing is 45 minutes long and not particularly varied it sorta lands more in scientifically curious rather than enjoyable. Drop Out is my cut of choice.

I had heard this before, but only really remembered half the songs. Kind of overlooked in the MJ canon and it sorta feels like there's reason for that. The floor is very good but even though there's some real standout stuff it pales next to some of the greatest top to bottom albums ever made in this discography. Still an MJ album though.

Just sort of a masterful object, the exact kind of hip-hop curio I adore. "Blue Flowers" is the only song I knew going in and it's still my favorite of the tracklist but goodness gracious is this whole thing wonderful. By which I mean Dan the Automator is firing on all cylinders and Kool Keith is meeting the moment with inspired crudeness and off-kilter rhymes. The incipience of a movement that would go on to foster some of my favorite music ever but jeez unlike some other proto-genre highly influential albums this one really holds my attention and lingers like the best of what follows. Cool! Insane! Incredibly produced! Love it! Favorite new discoveries were "3000", "No Awareness", "Real Raw", "Technical Difficulties", "Bear Witness", "Halfsharkalligatorhalfman", and "Waiting List (DJ Shadow/Automator remix)".

This is really something. Only have been sorta passingly familiar with Sinéad, and been meaning to check this out forever really. Turns out, it's brilliant! So special. I think it was the moment, after the haunting opening track, that "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" kicks off with the Funky Drummer break that I knew this would be a great ride. I think "The Emperor's New Clothes" is the best in show but shoutout to "Last Days of Our Acquaintance" and the aforementioned "I Am Stretched On Your Grave". Overall an incredible listen.

recorded gorgeously (that brush kit sound is the stuff of dreams), beautiful arrangements melodies and musicianship, Lyle Lovett on the cover, what's not to love? The last minute of "Banks Of the Pontchartrain" has me on da verge of tears

It is clear how important Billy Joel is to the great american songwriter tapestry. However, I've always sorta found him a bit of a "the bones are their money" type lyricist. It sounds good but i think i'm not persuaded that it's something i'll return to often with particular focus. And to be clear i'm not sure i have ever heard anyone else be nearly as good at this songwriting mode where the lyrics are so transparent and heart-on-sleeve. The musicianship is quite fun throughout. "Vienna" is a song that I find much more well observed than the other tracks here. A good hang of an album.

Tied to a moment in alt rock and not one i find particularly interesting. It's fine but not insightful or grabbing really at all which in the context of this exercise probably means i have to penalize it.

Pretty fun, if it was tighter I think it could be a genuinely great album. I like "Wilson" and "Girl VII", and "London Belongs To Me" is the standout for me. Good sugar.

Total delight! Bliss! I think one of the great achievements in human existence is vocal harmony and this is some of the finest documentation of that in the western world. My cut of choice is "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", but i mean this whole thing is a 37 min heater run. I adore "Keep the Customer Satisfied" as well.

This feels like the kind of object I'll only unlock further and further with each progressive listen. Found myself humming along a lot to these songs I was hearing for the first time. Bill Callahan seems to be one of those songwriters who accesses melodies that feel so obvious and immediate but new. "My Friend" is one of the best songs we've gotten so far in this project.

Lovely stuff. Pretty perfect bossa.

Not my favorite stuff by them but even still just so so so singular.

Before I even press play on this: as far as I'm concerned Mitch Mitchell is the holy grail of rock drumming. The sound he achieved is everything I hope for whenever I drum. The solo on "The Wind Cries Mary" after the first chorus is more or less my favorite guitar moment of all time. I spent weeks in high school trying to perfect those licks but never getting it to sound as immaculately laidback as Jimi. Same goes for the solo after the first chorus of "Foxey Lady". There are so many infectious guitar moments in here, it's a whole emotional language. I'm being cringe but I don't care. I will give the slightest of concessions -- and it's not even a real one -- this is the Jimi album that sags the most for me and with more awareness of the fact that the tracklist I know was cobbled together from a UK and US release with different cuts, that totally scans. But even with that being said, this music is so much part of my musical root (especially my foundation for American music) that I couldn't possibly rate it lower. Now that I've actually finished my listen. Holy hell Mitch Mitchell. The greatest to ever do it. Effortless fury, what a talent. Also will not sleep on Noel Redding! This is one of those bands a la The Who where I will hear out the case that every member is the best musician to ever pick up that instrument.

every track has a moment that i can just disappear into. this was never my favorite SY album but it is part of a dazzling run of albums (much of which it looks like we'll be able to visit). where they just are always inches away from disappearing into something amazing, like the end of "Catholic Block" (a song that somehow I previously dismissed but on this listen very much stood out). I still think it's not in my upper echelon of rock albums like the best of Sonic Youth, but my oh my is this such an experience.

if this didn't overstay its welcome so hard i would probably be more into it. highlight of the listening experience was identifying a sample in "Airwave Hysteria" so i guess that was my favorite. fun experimentation but the kind of thing i've heard done with more competency and coherence elsewhere. "The Animist" really makes clear the valuable distinction between stream-of-consciousness rap and spoken word. I like that there's some urgency in the ending track but then it sort of loses the plot lol.

such a great time. the voice behind Kinks lyrics is so impressive and elegant to me always. evocative in exactly the way you dream of. I already know and love the song "Picture Book", but the new highlights for me were the opener, "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains", and "Village Green". Just filled top to bottom with jammers. What more can you ask for! If the other albums are even better as several say, then this might be an all timer band for me.

Some really wonderful highs but kinda too much time away from the good stuff. After Wild Honey you can more or less turn it off.

not really a mark against it but just immediately sort of stopped paying attention to this. it wasn't like unengaging or anything but just immediately became so comfortable that i hardly checked what song i was on or anything. look forward to spending more time with it! really good!

i don't mind the places this goes but i think i would have much more tolerance for it if it didn't take forever getting there

I forget how much i actually really like Blur lol.

a really enjoyable listen. my trip hop phase cannot come soon enough

Just musicians in sync, great trio work. Pretty much as good as possible.

Nile Rodgers is a groove monster i have no idea how to even put into words how smooth he is with it! Tony Thompson is crazy tight. Mostly a band creating atmospheres and letting them ride and I can't complain about it! had a great time

i knew i liked the beach boys but really still shocked by how into this i am. probably my favorite discovery yet. felt a crazy sort of ecstasy on hearing River Song. this thing sounds fantastic top to bottom!

what's really wonderful about this is how it is all rooted in really well structured, well-written songs and then often veers into ideas that i can't believe i'm hearing. the shit that happens 45 seconds into Pelo Amor de Deus my god!

As always happens whenever I remember Pixies exist, I'm now deep in the throes of listening to all of their first three albums. Surfer Rosa feels like this great introductory statement to their thesis that being angular and noisy and dissonant is so adjacent to great, great pop songwriting. The original 4 is so obviously one of the great rock lineups, everyone grooving with a specific and unique approach. "River Euphrates" is still my fave from this album, on some days my favorite ever Pixies track. RIP Steve Albini.

I'm always listening to this album. it's seismic. every piece of it is etched so hard into my brain. When we listened to Surfer Rosa literally yesterday I talked about how much it establishes that great pop songwriting can always be inches away from plunging into more anguished, "ugly" (for lack of a better word, since this is one of the most beautiful albums ever) wells of human expression. I think about how "No. 13 Baby" kicks off with this discordant construction where every element of the song seems to be fighting each other with explosive energy and how it just floats off into the most gorgeous ride off into the sunset. I think about how the delicacy of Frank's vocals on "Wave of Mutilation" are underlined by these sludgy clouds of guitar chords. I think about one of my all time favorite drum parts on "I Bleed", with a tight rhythm section as Kim + Frank fall in and out of sync with each other. The modulation of "Mr. Grieves" from this weird ska skeleton into a jumpy sing-songy jaunt into a swinging barn burner. I simultaneously have these songs burned into my memory and I'm constantly discovering new angles to them. Everything is this insane product of the alchemy between these four musicians. There are many albums out there that I've had the luck of falling in love with, but year on year Doolittle separates more and more from the pack as something increasingly singular and significant. The most annoying thing I've ever done is watch Un Chien Andalou synced with this and be cosmically moved. Gouge Away is the name of one of my favorite bands of these days, just one of the many pieces of shrapnel from this explosive masterpiece.

pretty nice sounding! in the right setting (up for 20 hours in a club) i could see this taking me to heaven

Honestly not super my jam. Very impressed by its production and how legible the instrumentation is but could have done with more manipulation a la "Desired Constellation" or "Mouths Cradle" -- the acapella timbre just kept me at a distance.

Every song here starts out with this combination of sounds that hits my ear harshly, but as they continue and Bjork starts singing, a logic coalesces within them? What the heck. This is surely the first time anyone has had such a reaction to the Icelandic singer Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Not really anything mindblowing, but some well crafted songs in here! "Perfect Way" got a verse melody that's sticking in my head!

an interesting insight into this band in a more stripped down timbre and approach. i like it but definitely an early effort from a group that would later reach much greater heights. "No Compassion" is the standout for me.

I LOVE DESERT BLUES

I have "never heard this before". In quotes because within the first two minutes my ears perked up hearing the sample from Six Inch by Beyoncé. Hayes's perfection is the kind of stuff you hear and immediately can feel the universe that unfolds out from these ideas. Clearly something important and magnificent, sounds phenomenal. Had a great time.

sounds fantastic. love the energy.

Some really excellent jams in here but by the end I couldn't really sit with whatever story was being told. I took a pee break and didn't bother to pause when I left the room.

somewhat sterile in a Mercury Prize sort of way (lol). but undeniably very well produced and engineered. maybe a bit too pristine for me to really have a visceral reaction to it.

Really fantastic stuff. Quite staggering. "Djed" feels like a drive through a factory town.

honestly pretty consistently enjoyable when there's music. impressive musicianship. but just such a long album that i end up a little worn out by the end. i should have spent the entire album length to drive over to nashville and tell them to stop yapping

pretty good Prince pastiche. well produced!

boss. i hadn't listened to this one before but it's really excellent. great album, so well formed it sounds easy. "Darlington County" was the standout that I hadn't heard before.

pretty decent but never quite grabbed me. not sure i'll ever really be pressed to revisit but i wouldn't turn it off if it was playing.

Just part of that miracle Joni run where all she's doing is churning out perfection like only she can. This isn't even one of my favorite albums of that stretch but it would be extremely stupid of me to like this album as much as I do and rate it lower than 5.

yeah it whips

Neat in its rawness and directness. Will Oldham cool guy

i must admit the sonics and aesthetics of Rush aren't super my bag, but so often this album leaned into a jammy quality that I just found irresistible.

pretty perfect

this is sorta the corner of classic rock that i don't mind but have trouble really getting that much out of. White Rabbit is so leaps and bounds above. the rest... inoffensive, which i mean both complimentary and derogatory. if i feel strongly later on that i've underrated this i'll go back and boost it

short n sweet. this studio sound is so simple and fantastic.

it's cool, not my fave really. not my favorite version of The Police by any stretch.

Fantastic. One of the best we've listened to yet. The chorus for "Prove My Love" is irresistible

quite enjoyable. nothing mindblowing but i had a nice time. prob won't return to it anytime soon

I do genuinely find something interesting in these sorts of failed sonic syntheses. Not even really giving credit to Travis, but it's like clearly intentioned and crafted in a way to strive for some sort of combination of influences that I just do not care about. Tries to do The Bends + OK Computer and ends up as 2000s U2 but much worse.

Immediately grabs you by the throat and doesn't move an inch. Corin Tucker is one of the greatest vocalists ever. What this album achieves with 3 musicians is so potent and electrifying to the point that it defies all conventional studio wisdom. Who needs a bass player! Janet Weiss is the greatest. The way Tucker and Brownstein weave in and out of each other's playing and singing is also so singular, maybe my favorite dual guitar attack in all of rock history. It's hard for me to make an argument against this being the best Sleater-Kinney album. Some days I prefer listening to No Cities to Love but this is just such a lightning bolt. If anything, even better than I remembered on this relisten.

samplemania!

much better than i expected! quite samey but still generally solid enough for me to enjoy spending time with it

Sounds wonderful

A plane of existence that's very fun to ride out for the runtime. Great time

The chinese restaurant skit is pretty dumb and then it leads into the greatest song ever made, "Fu Gee La". I sorta think this is a high highs album where the whole thing doesn't quite live up to its peaks (How Many Mics, Fu Gee La, The Mask) but those are suuuuch high peaks. This time I checked out the Shy and Robbie remix of Fu Gee La, amazing stuff.

Easily my least favorite Radiohead album besides Pablo Honey and i'm generally surprised that's not consensus. First four tracks are great, cool new version of Morning Bell, aside from that I mostly skip this.

Delightful

Easy 5. Where has this been all my life? (The answer: right under my nose!) Not just dynamic and fun but also well written and tosses out fantastic musical ideas left and right and never lets them overstay their welcome.

Perhaps it suffers from overexposure and its outsized influence in the following decade but I really didn't like this despite me sticking up for Taylor. It feels vapid and not in enough of a knowing or particularly instinctive way. Like a calculated reverse engineering of recession pop that shows all of its work and thus loses its immediacy. "Style" is a banger though. I like the instrumental of "Welcome to New York" but talk about lyrics that show the weaknesses of Taylor Swift. I think "Bad Blood" is sorta the head empty bubblegum song that gets the balance right.

i mean, i enjoyed it throughout so i can't really get hung up on it being only 2 tracks. very cool. Billy Friedkin W

Just an absolute sixer. An album that will always have its impact. Crystallization of a moment in rock. Massively influential. Anyway probably a 4 lmao. I could be persuaded this is their best!

really cool with some excellent moments. "Sue is Fine", "You Never Should", and "I Can See It" my faves

baseline well performed but at this point in this exercise i don't think that's enough. this is just a slog, even if it's a groovy one.

Cobain manages to be overstated and somehow an underrated musician. I think especially the more distance we get from Nirvana the clearer it is how singular he was as a writer of chord progressions, a guitarist and a voice. The cult of fandom can go. But I want his music to stick around for a long time

most boring thing i could ever say but he just is so good lol. Danny DeVito I get it

feels like a line can be drawn from *Amon Tobin's Bricolage activating me as the most annoying music listener of all time* straight to me absolutely loving this album. sustained atmosphere, a humid night unfolding in slow motion. i'm vibing.

nice. first R.E.M. album i've fully listened through. i honestly don't have much to say. how bout that Hornets Heat game pretty nuts huh

Very fun and pretty much seamless

Tha best. A very special music figure for me. And for a lot of people I guess. But suffice to say this wavelength is kinda my favorite stuff ever.

Overall quite good with some of the highest highs yet.

heartwarming: the worst person you know just made 11 bad points in a row

cool woodsy vibe

just astonishingly forward thinking and even such a refreshing delight to listen to now. viscerally exciting

"The Headmaster Ritual" might be the greatest opening track of all time. love a song that just kicks you right into the deep end. The Smiths as a unit are just some of the most fantastically synchronized musicians ever. The interplay between Rourke and Marr alone is so brilliant and Joyce's drum parts are as crucial to it all coming together as anything else, as little as Morrissey wants to admit it. All of which is to say this is an album that could crumble under its self-import but it is constantly beautiful and finding fascinating ways to underscore its ideas. A masterful album from a masterful stretch.

God, I don't want to make the mistake of channeling all of my understanding through a frontman but Shane McGowan, what a bolt of lightning. I liked this a lot on my first relisten and then just have been unable to listen to anything else all day. Special stuff

generally enjoyable, not so interesting that it withstood the runtime and maintained my attention throughout but i do think i could have been sucked into this guy's artistry at the time.

Very fun and bright

fun and groovy. Larry Gopnik open your heart

lovely, funky stuff, really just a flawless sound. i oughta learn more about this Norman Whitfield fella

A very cool, striking debut. I'm more familiar with Tori's more experimental stuff so it is interesting to hear her more reined in (albeit still quite unique). I think I prefer her later mode but this is a hell of an opening gambit.

so evocative and brimming with ideas

i'm sure this would have hit for me if i had given it a chance in younger days. but listening to it in full for the first time today it's not really my jam. it's sweet but i kind of instinctively tune it out.

and what if this was my favorite Lana album. what then

look i don't wanna stir up controversy or willingly offend anyone but i must say it. J Mascis should be president.

sometimes i wonder if i have been being too liberal about my five star rating, that it means the truly phenomenal once-in-a-universe albums don't stand out as much against a tier of other admittedly cream of the crop albums. this is the first time i've felt that sentiment in the opposite direction. i, if anything, respect the commitment to the ethos. it is aggressively not for me. either the vocals work for me or the instrumental does, or neither, but never both in conjunction (and anything that doesn't work hurts my ears).

Very good debut. Can't say it was really keeping me on my toes but it's as tight as a band gets.

so energetic and fun. I think this album quotes both Claire De Lune and Boulevard of Broken Dreams

recovers strongly from what starts off as bargain bin novelty CD tier. i wish that either there were more vocals or that the compositions were more dynamic -- the back half has it going on.

Honestly feel like Metallica would be an even doper band if they turned down the gain knob and just made chiller epics

goes to some awesome places. ultimately kind of too much of a task for me to be rapturous about it as a whole. "Mele H'Bibti", this is good stuff.

quite fun. sort of peters out the more it just stays in its zone but it's a zone i enjoy well enough

good stuff! doesn't overstay its welcome

i have a lot of appreciation for this album's place in the culture and the absolute radio chokehold it had. maximalism is pretty cool. the more i have spent time with it the less i am a fan of its super compressed mix and think it is a bit less interesting than other Kanye albums when you remove it from its own mythology. "Gorgeous" is one of the greatest rap songs of the century.

some pretty ideas but lacks focus and urgency, and is not interesting enough to sustain its stretch

so many great mysteries in this universe, like how is it that i find this album painstakingly slow and languid, but the best song is the one that's almost 8 minutes long

pissed me off. "Nightfall" is pretty enough that I can imagine the sort of delight people might have gotten from hearing this the first time. But it largely plays as hindustani cosplay (DEROGATORY in all caps)

not my favorite punk sound but definitely cool

nah really not for me

breathtaking in its own singular way. one of the best first listens i've had so far with this project

something i talk about with friends is how some people can be so connected to the force of music and understand how to play music in a way that only 0.00001% of people may ever hope to achieve, but then the music they make and release is mad boring. I absolutely believe Thundercat sees the matrix in a way that so few musicians do, and what's impressive is that the result is not only listenable, but often exciting to spend time with!

another one in the "this album is too long but the longest song is the best one" canon. i *guess* i can see the appeal of having a vinyl record of mild vanilla reggae to set a vibe but listening to this in a time when i can skip ahead or play something on loop, it felt tedious more than anything

hadn't listened to this before, but have loved other Alice in Chains projects. this is really an incredible work of grunge music. acutely feeling the vacuum left behind by Layne Staley now. those guitars sound unbelievable.

rules!

really pleasant time. trend to watch in the 1001 albums project: me adding a song to my playlist as the album is winding down and then getting knocked out by a wonderful closing track!

if i'm being honest this wore me out the slightest bit even while being quite fun and interesting sonically

i do forget just *how* much Kanye is all over this as an MC. one of the great hip hop albums of the 2000s!

cool sounds ! !

largely compelling, a bit too resigned to flat ideas for me to fully get excited about this

super fun listen!

fairly straightforward stuff but that "stuff" is the most beautiful shit humans can do. high floor

was very much not setting this up for success by having it kick off my catch up now that i'm behind. it's long but it's a consistent vibe. i rock with it

Manu Chao's Wikipedia page has a section entitled "Interview with the University of Southern California (2010)" that consists of 5 paragraphs summarizing an interview he gave to the University of Southern California about his views on different world issues. This sounds like tourism but it's pleasant for the most part

yeah! hell yeah! Townshend goes off and still the best song is the Entwistle one

trying to be receptive to these extended atmosphere albums that come from a different time, even if they drag as i listen to them now. i was surprisingly compelled by this all the same

great! just crazy when you have such a songwriting machine like this

simply phenomenal. That Lady should be preserved on like the golden record we send to space

honestly landed closer to the Lenny Kravitz album than i'd like to admit

finally a turn of the century british band with ideas!

this is awesome and it's clear why people hated it

a machine that eventually will tighten. not my favorite of theirs

So good!

rips

Incredibly consistently great songwriting

wow this sounds bad. did it always sound like ass or do the 2011 masters just make it sound exceptionally awful? the production doesn't give any of these songs a chance except for the acoustic one. pretty concrete evidence that talented people can put in so much work and pour their heart and soul into something that's ultimately pretty bad

she's a singular artist!

i'm groovin!

dare i say... this might have a bit of a sequencing problem. but the songwriting is some of the best of the century so it's kinda moot. somehow "Crack Rock" was my entry point into this great artist and it's still my favorite song on this album

a thorough delight! impossible to not tap my toe along! will consider going back and upgrading this to a 5 if it stays in rotation

incredibly smooth and well produced. i know this will grow on me

a fantastic sprawl that bursts in giant and minuscule ways in the same breath. a major achievement of an album and not even their best

It's alright, pretty catchy songwriting!

A pleasant surprise, gritty boisterous fun.

Quite fond of this, very pretty and moving.

i am a mark for grunge but pearl jam has never been a band i particularly find interesting, probably something to do with Eddie Vedder. slot it in the "cool but don't think i'm ever returning to this" zone.

a really enjoyable listen. not quite consistently peaking but the peaks are so great

i find this era (and Ronson's throwback soul stuff in general) to be a bit flat and sterile but Amy is such a powerhouse that it wills it past that hurdle

The consistency is the inconsistency or vice versa. Perfect album, maybe the most perfect.

not sure why these are the words that are coming to my head, but well phrased. really liked this

has a great edge to it even as it feels like a slice of ecstasy

sounds great! Kinda boring. one star for each hombre ❤️

Opening with the greatest song ever put to tape is a pretty good way to secure a 5

bowie has such an insane knack for melody. i feel like his craft gets more refined later down the road but loved this

Special, incredible. Steve Albini god mode

just top to bottom earthshaking! It's Nina Simone!

cool! not really my band i think but this is an awesome sound

i wish i had some more substantive things to say but my chief reaction is "hyeoooo this is fire"

YEAHHHHHHHH

a good time until we hit a cover of one of the worst Beatles songs out there. at least the guitar licks are better than butchering the pronunciation of "jai guru deva". anyway Fame is my favorite song here by a mile but i think that's more to do with the quality of that song than the quality of this album

he rocks, no two ways about it

Doesn't majorly stick out to me but this guy's got it going!

genuinely might not be possible for me to do justice to how much Johnny Marr's work on this album opened up my world. the guitar break on "Frankly Mr. Shankly" is transportive and magical. and yet the MVP of the album might be Andy Rourke! "Cemetry Gates" is so gorgeous and pretty. it makes it omega embarrassing that this album is like ground zero for a certain strain of male manipulator but that's my cross to bear i guess. "Bigmouth Strikes Again" is funny as hell.

fun!

effervescent!

too close to my musical DNA for me to not enjoy. but Brandon Boyd is not my favorite in the arena of alt metal singers. the production of this thing is amazing, the songwriting not so much. "Drive" is kinda the one song here i've never really liked.

Never been my favorite of theirs but undeniably great and its funny that this is Coldplay's guiding star while Thom Yorke talks about how they just shit this out for the label (i dont think he believes that, he's just being annoying)

As a compilation of song titles, this might be a 6/5

kind of a chore if i'm being honest. musicianship can only take me so far to not want to turn off a rock opera

The ensemble songs here are some of the best stuff ever

Awesome. You can hear the future on this thing

zany and zippy but often not my cup of tea

not my favorite. more texture or songwriting that interests me even slightly more would go a long way i feel

Love the timbre but this is quite uninteresting

Pretty! Groovy!

a fun ride honestly not the most involving metal i've heard but i had a good time

a warm lift

not the most engaging but the highs are higher than i anticipated!

was considering giving this a 2 because the production has its good moments (when it's not crawling so morgan wallen could spin out in the mud), but frankly has too many reprehensible moments for me to consider anything else

A lightning rod and clearly a foundation for a lot of great iteration to follow. Sounds great

whaddaya know, still a masterpiece. when i saw the concert film rerelease in IMAX someone brought a tambourine and it was awesome

interesting meditation but kinda just washed over me

fine, pleasant to have on in the background but not really something i'll ever seek out again

one of the most backloaded albums i've ever heard. the first 6 aren't bad, but track 7 onwards this thing kicks into an entire new gear that actually convinces me this band is special and one of a kind

life affirming, majestic, the stuff that dreams are made of

an amazing, electric rap album, weaving samples and cultural force into something entirely original, newly rich and lustrous. I know this is a bonus track, but B.I.B.L.E. is one of my all time fave beats. god mode RZA

somewhat inert but pretty fun!

good ride. i think iggy isn't my fave but i get it

Fully great. Fully fully great.