Hot damn! A stone cold classic front-to-back. Don’t Cha Stop is my least favorite but it’s still really fun! And the seamless run of the last 4 tracks is INSANE work
It’s pretty damn good!
Other than the classics, there’s a lot of really good stuff here. Loudmouth kinda sucks but WHAT CAN YA DOO-HOO
It’s okay! Obviously very good guitar playing, GREAT riffs, and some fantastic drumming but the vocals don’t quite do it for me here. Phantom of the Opera and Transylvania are pretty dope though.
Not bad, just pretty fucking boring. Not a COMPLETE dud but for most of it i was waiting for it to end. Back half was better than the front
Unfortunately this is very good
It might just be the mood i’m in today or the fact that this album has been “music bro”’d to death but while i can admit this is well-done and would probably hit me differently on another day, it’s not my favorite!
As good as a Morrissey album would be, which is pretty good! Loved all the different styles on this one.
About what you’d expect! Have you heard Elvis before? This is that! Pretty good but obviously i was concerned that if i listened to more i’d start worshipping the devil and rioting, but other than that, something like this always helps me connect with my grandmother who passed a few years ago. She loved him and i get it.
What a wild album (pun not intended) that could have both an incredible song like Perfect Day and then whatever the hell New York Telephone Conversation is
I mostly REALLY enjoyed this, you can hear the influence on their sound The Beatles made already, and the influence they’d have on bands like The White Stripes.
Very good! Glad i finally had an excuse to listen to this for the first time!
HOLY FUCK we do not need the outro. You know you can just put all that in the lyric booklet my guy? Or at least don’t play the same goddamn 4 bars on loop for TWELVE FUCKING MINUTES.
Still jjust as incredible front to back as it ever was. Still sounds as dope as it did when i was 20 when it came out. Still an amazing story.
Pretty much all of this was good to great, didn’t care for Black Queen though
Another case of an albums back half being better than the front! The big songs still great and the deep tracks are pretty cool too
Could’ve just been Part I and it would’ve been fantasic already but then Part II some walking out of the forest and sounds like a Tenacious D song in the middle?! Really cool experience!
First 3 tracks were TOTALLY meh for me, then immediately after it got REALLY good for a bit? I obviously didn’t love this, but what i liked, i really liked. What a strange thing! At times pretty plodding British rock, at other times a Spiritualized-esque super-freak-out!
How perfect of a coincidence i get this album the day i see Al Jardine make a quick guest appearance on one of my favorite podcasts and he talks a TINY bit about this! This is as Tim Heidecker calls it “the reccord all the hipsters like” and i’d be right with them i guess.
I gotta say, i’m still a little fatigued from the “BIG” ones (Rolling in the Deep and OH GOD Someone Like You) but there are some SOLID deep tracks here! Like, o completely understand the absolute chokehold she had on so many caucasians a decade ago! Set Fire to the Rain is still a huge banger. THE STREAK OF 4S CONTINUES!!
Another 4! Bravo Common! His performance leaves a little to be desired on Silo but this is a pretty solid record! CLASSIC Dilla (RIP) and Kanye (RIP) production.
Peed my pants to this and i would do it again!
Damn, 2005 was a great music year. One of Becks best hands down.
Was this good? Yeah!
Did i need 61 minutes of it? Maybe not!
There were some really cool parts throughout this one but overall it’s pretty samey. I just wish there was more variety.
Really liked this! Groovy as hell and charmingly early 80s flavored new wave that I had no idea existed until this was generated for me! Definitely one i’m going to dig deeper into in the future!
SORRY GUYS I LIKE THE DOORS :(
Can’t rate this one considering this Cosmo guy apparently made this in his factory and not CCR
STILL a (mostly) perfect front to back barn burner
Didn’t pay CRAZY attention to the lyrics so they might be VERY 2002 but as far as everything else at least it’s like riiiight up my street
I was really into this! Mike Patton is forever a legend and this is a super fun record.
Connection is such a classic and classically cool song. If it were just that for 40 minutes this album would be a 10/10 but…it’s not so it’s this which IS great but there are one or two misses.
Didn’t even know It Was a Good Day was on this! What a nice surprise. Anyway, this really hit for me right out of the gate and didn’t really let up. I realized with this i’m a sucker for when rappers write respond to the reaction to their previous work. The production here is GREAT and the sample work is incredible too.
But after all that, definitely gets a ding for early 90s casual misogyny and homophobia, WHOOPS CUBE.
Boy those guys plagiarized some good stuff! Nah for real though. They’re obviously talented but you can tell this is their first record, the much more interesting stuff comes later.
OH DAMN I LOVE TORTOISE NOW
Hey i think this is really good i love how this list has some really totally not well known at all stuff on here THIS IS SARCASM
The Gilded Palace of Sin AKA your mother’s house AYYYYY
For real though, this was pretty good! Almost great even! It did lose me a little toward the end though.
It’s fine! This doesn’t go a long way to convince me that Bob Marley and a select few other tracks aren’t the only reggae i need. Overall inoffensive, wouldn’t try to tune it out if it came on at a record shop.
WOW. Been meaning to listen to this one forever. From the very beginning i was locked in.
Bitter Sweet Symphony is an all timer. Some good songs, some okay songs, then the last two songs kick fucking ass
LOVE Gil, don’t get me wrong. And there were absolutely parts here that i also loved, but not enough unfortch😥
Very slick album! The slickness levels are through the roof on this one. Some stuff gets a LITTLE samey but the big songs here are the big ones for a reason for sure. You can hear the influence this record had on bands like St. Lucia.
Gotta tell ya, i was REALLY close to giving this one a 2 based on the stuff i liked about this but there truly wasn’t enough for me there. Only one song i could see myself listening to again out of 15, most of the rest left me pretty annoyed. The excitement after pressing play on track 1 quickly faded and by track 10, checking to see how many tracks were left felt like some kind of karmic punishment. The non-screamt vocal deliveries were all well done but there’s only a couple of those and the rest is exhausting.
I was SO relieved when it was over.
Thinking of them rapping in those goofy masks makes me giggle though.
Always wanted to fully get into them and this is a nice place to start!
Pretty much the epitome of “i can acknowledge this is good but does almost nothing for me” some of the solos bordered on tacky for me.
Loved this since i was a kid. Porcelain is one of my favorite songs and imo one of the BEST songs. The soul samples and string arrangements still go really hard. GIVE THAT GUY HIS CDS.
Was never a fan of Mike Shinoda’s delivery. Still not. It just doesn’t work at all for me. Chester is an incredibly strong vocalist but Mike is not a very good rapper. The big singles are still fine. I actually enjoy In the End now in a “i will go a little bit in if it’s on with friends” kind of way.
I’ve only known Gloria for years so good to finally do this one!
Not my thing but not bad also! Definitely one of the more tolerable flavors in the genre for me.
It’s 80s U2
So i think it’s some good stuff
Not the very best
Obligatory fuck Eric Clapton but this is pretty good
This being 10 songs and 74 minutes was a LITTLE daunting but ended up being mostly pretty rewarding!
FUN STUFF, and to hear Fairytale of New York in a regular album, non-Christmas context was pretty rad!
It’s fine! I think i would enjoy it a lot more without vocals honestly?
Okay after finishing it, it got A LOT better as it went on and started getting weird lol.
It’s cool i guess! Vocals are an acquired taste for sure. I like it but i don’t know if i’d come back to it.
Y’all…this is purely stupid trash. Axl Rose’s voice is truly grating and i could not imagine listening to even just this record on a regular basis let alone the bands whole repertoire. If this were just the instrumentals it would still be just okay but definitely a whole lot better. This gets a 2 though for the big singles being at least tolerable and the entertainment value of all of Axl’s weird vocal affectations.
