It's pretty good, they could spice up the instrumentals a bit more and the songs could be more unique
It was pretty great, nothing wildly special but every track carried weight and pure emotion and performance from of course the iconic Elvis Presley.
Surprisingly beautiful, one of the best albums I've heard for no reason, amazing production and performances
60% is not good, 40% is great, nothing crazy new for its time, I'm not the biggest fan of Michael's voice, and the whole album isn't very connected.
This album took a few listens to get at first, but it really is a beautiful electronic album. Some songs are a bit too long or empty, but it goes for a more sound album instead of a song album. Cool things.
An absolute staple of course, this album perfectly encapsulates the sound of the 80s. Every track has something new and unique, combining to make a masterpiece, showing off Prince's absurd musical talent.
It was just a classes soul record with nothing special, but nothing bad. Nice simple listen with the first half carrying a huge part.
Absolutely gas, not the most lyrically deep but some great tracks and fun instrumentals.
The music is pretty obnoxious and absurd, some cool arrangements but half of this listen was strlaight hell. Not the biggest fan of his voice, and some parts are so unnecessarily out of tune. It's one of those albums that pretentious chuds will try to convince you it's on purpose, but it's not. It's just straight ass. So much potential too. I like tracks 1, 3, 5, and 10 however. While it shlucked, the atmosphere was kinda cool due to the anxiety it gives.
A 60's psychedelic banger. Love the classic panning you hear on those kinds of albums. Something I love that records do are fun and connected transitions, which this album subtly nails on some of the tracks. Some songs on it are so British that it's almost Australian however. The monologues are fun, but can go on for a while. Few filler very good.
This is one of my favorite albums from the 60s, absolute track for track perfection. These songs are beautiful, whether it's Simon and Garfunkels harmonies, Paul Simon's underrated and flawless guitar picking, or the generational poetry written between the melodies. The Dangling Conversation is one of my favorite songs of all time as well among these perfect tracks; this record is simply art.
This album slaps. Not only are the saxes and guitars incredibly funky, but it manages to stay consistent the entire time and be incredibly engaging. The drums are an entirely different monster. The psychedelic mixing the bongos go under gives such a cool effect, scratching my brain. The actual kit's sound is absolutely amazing as well, and doesn't clash with the other percussion, which is impressive to pull off in such a crowded album instrument-wise. Such an enjoyable experience.
A nice country/folk pop album that has some beautiful and simple arrangements. Her vocal talent is pretty great as well. Easy and pretty listen.
A decent country album, nothing special. The harmonica is mixed a little too sharply, and can sometimes hurt your ears. Simple and easygoing music, but nothing crazy or original that caught my attention. Lovely sounding stuff though.
So gas I started mowing my lawn after tripping on some acid
Super fun indie album with a little hint of garage rock. Catchy, sweet, and great listen. I like the variety it gives of soft and heavy songs. Nothing crazy or new, but I'm definitely returning.
Out of the Blue was beautiful. The first few minutes were simple fun pop rock with a unique catalog of instruments and layering. But as the album progressed, it showed emotion, complex orchestration, and beautiful arrangements that gave the album engaging variety. What a colorful album to go with a perfectly fitting design cover. Perfect 5.
I was genuinely surprised when I found out this was the 80s. The beats and energy was unbeatable. Great consistency with a couple songs that just went on a little too long.
Fun pop music, some standout tracks, and a nice listen. Love the variety of instruments, there's definitely some wacky ones being put to use. It could obviously use a little more structure, but it's great for what it is.
Not too many notes, a great rap debut with nothing crazy.
Very fun and feel good album, but some tracks lack interesting parts and can feel repetitive. Loved most of it though, and I will be returning.
This album is absolutely beautiful. I love all the intricate orchestrations, specifically the violin. The album starts awesome and I was looking forward to it, but many times throughout the record I found myself waiting for the next track to arrive. Half and half some of the best emotional indie pop arrangements I've ever heard, and the other being boring pop filler that could've been removed.
This album is like a fuzzy blanket and a warm quilt that was made by your grandma. The guitar textures are some of the most luscious tones on any rock album you can find, with hit after hit after hit. As a lover of the Pumpkins, this record is absolutely Smashing and I return to it every day. It's impossible to listen to this objectively, as I've adored this 90's gem for so many years. Gorgeous alt rock that defines my autumns.
This album is amazing. Simple folk accompanied by great layering of instruments like piano and organs, telling great stories. Very nice listen.
The album starts off with some of the best 90s hip-hop I've heard yet with interesting and engaging instrumentals. About a fourth in however, the quality dips and the tracks seem to drone on a little longer than necessary and can feel repetitive. Once you get to Lovesick though, the record sweeps back up and delivers some of the best lyricism and story telling from the decade I've ever heard. Slightly bumpy but great album with great talent.
This record is incredible. Every single track flows perfectly from one to the next, making the project feel huge and connected. The individual tracks stand out absurdly, with hits and deep cuts scoring all 10s keeping the album consistent. The instrumentals are massive and engaging, making the whole album incredibly hooky. This record is absurdly gas, and completely breaks through the wall of the entire hip-hop scene, waymaking for the entire decade and the future of the genre's potential. This isn't just an album, it's a cinematic monument and experience of music.
The Velvet Underground will forever be that band that people like because it's "different" or "groundbreaking." It's straight ass. It's so fucking garbage. I wanna blow my fucking ears in after hearing the first few songs on the album. It actually hurts my ears. Straight brainless noise, and pretentious people can't convince me it's good or purposeful like genuinely shut the fuck up. Silver Ray's alright but it's still unnecessarily long like we get it. The opening track isn't too bad, but the rest of the album is completely unbearable. This is probably the worst album I've ever heard.
Great big band work. I love that the album gave a variety of high tempo, crazy energy charts, while slow, emotional, and beautiful ballads were chronologically paced along the record wonderfully.
I was hesitant going in, but the mesmerizing guitars are just too good. They consistently make the entire album for me and I just absolutely adore the melodies they swirl all throughout. One thing that turns me off about Brit-Pop are the nauseous vocals, but Brett Anderson doesn't go too over the top and delivers some insanely catchy performances. The record is incredibly consistent, and I just adore the songwriting and individual tracks in every aspect. Zero skips and an absolute beauty of an album in its entirety.
This album was insane. Pure rage and energy is packed into every single second of this record except when the interludes let the heaviness breathe for a minute as it supplies acoustic jams with sick angsty chords, still rooting the metal writing. The vocals sound like chalk scraping on concrete, which I fucking love. The ridiculous consistency comes with tribal chants that weave throughout the album making the whole experience immersive. This record really kicks in my neanderthal instincts, forcing me to return to my caveman attraction towards this S-tier metal.
Beautiful soul masterclass. Every track was filled with heart and passion, the pure spirit of love exploding. Wonderful vocal deliveries, instrumentals, and the flow was indescribable.
For Morrisey being one of the most insufferable vocalists I've ever heard, he's not too bad on this album. The growls he does on the first few tracks are pretty unique. Nothing crazy stands out behind any of the songs, but it's not to say Strangeways is a great pop record.
This is great hip-hop record with lots of musical diversity. The album explores African-American conflict coming from violence within the community, and the lyrical delivery and flow is fantastic. Every emcee expresses the issues while sporting the incredible instrumentals as well. The final track with Antharax was absolutely insane as well. Good Stuff.
Absolute essential indie rock. This album definitely shows the pop side of the genre more, however the more rock oriented songs are the better tracks. While Sam's town is a million miles better, Hot Fuss still has some great music that engrains itself as timeless 2000's indie forever.
What an energy packed album. While most live records capture the spontaneity of improvisation, One Night Stand documents the pure power of soul going through the venue. It's heard in the band, the crowd, and most importantly, the legendary Sam Cooke. Never has a live album been recorded to sound like I'm in the venue and the music is being shot at me like this record. It's got emotion, it's got hard thumping blues, and it's got soul.
Gorgeous folk rock album. It's got softer acoustic elements, harder rock tracks, and everything in between. The vocal delivery is outstanding, truly underrated singer of the decade. The bass too is criminally underrated as a performance, being melodically prominent in most songs. The spotlight of the drums in terms of fills and solos are super fun too, sporting a perfect backdrop to the adventurous but laid back record. It just needs to pack a little more flair and explosion.
I don't mess with Fred Schnider's vocals, which is my main dislike about the album as a whole. There's a lot of potential here but it's delivered in such an empty and unfinished way, that the whole record sounds cartoony and bare. Most songs run way too long for their own good, and just keep repeating the same ideas. I don't get the B-52s fuss whatsoever, but I still mess with some songs on side B to an extent. I just wish they could flesh out more ideas into a song to keep it engaging. The female vocalists are out of this world though.
Whether you like it or not, this is an ALBUM. Its got a mystic opener that sets up the soft jazz pop with a strange violin arrangement that quickly swells in a swooning orchestra. The album is actually paced perfectly with cohesive themes while taking lots of vocal inspiration from singers like Thom Yorke. And then it ends with a cinematic closer to tie it all in. The songwriting is just outstanding, with the progressions and different instruments keeping it engaging. Some songs seem to feel bare and focus on just the vocals, but I appreciate the variety. The immersion of the 'show' theming makes the album feel so connected and a bigger piece of work outside each individual song. The lyrics are pure art as well. What a great album.
This album is very simplistic, but in a refreshing way. I absolutely love the fact that they recorded it in nature to give it such an immersive and natural effect. Each song starts out extremely engaging, but kinda goes on a little too long every time, making them feel empty in the end. Beautiful content though.
This album is super weird. Instrumentals make up the better half of the album that just loop constantly, and then just go into another instrumental. The actual tracks themselves are great, but there's just so few that are just sequenced in the funkiest order. It's an odd direction for the Beastie Boys to go, and during my listen I was completely confused and just wanted to turn on Paul's Boutique.
The songs are fun, but the actual material isn't anything crazy. There's a couple of great songs but you can clearly tell that there was a formula and it gets pretty old after 4 tracks. In a strange way I love Dexter Holland's vocals. I really like the commentary dude throughout the album too because it interrupts the formulaic drone that this album can feel like. It makes the album feel more like an album to say the least. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood when I listened, but this album didn't reach me like some of its similar kind like Dookie. It's very entertaining, but in one sitting, the 4 powerchord tracks without any riffs or interesting composition can get boring. It's The Offspring, so of course the lyrical content is gonna be stupidly good, but a couple songs are pretty much about the exact same thing. But then the closing track kicks in, and it shows me that these guys are definitely capable of more. The title-track is a banger, and with the secret song at the end bringing back the Smash theme makes the album feel complete full circle. Can't get any more 90s than this. Just wish they got more creative.
This Radiohead album probably took me the longest to like, but when I finally understood it, it hit me like an icy hug. It's tough because individually track for track, Kid A is not very good. But as a collective project, it serves as an absolute staple in the electronic rock genre. What it stands for (at least for me) is a beautiful depiction of alienation and paranoia. The emotion it spews gives vibes of comfort, like everything is falling apart yet everything is going to be all right. The transitions are also so underrated on some tracks. What I'd say the biggest flaw is how long the tracks tend to drag, especially Idioteque, National Anthem, and Optimistic. The beginning and ending songs however are top 10 opening and closing tracks of all time contenders. Holy shit not only are these songs exquisitely constructed, but the placement of the tense bouncy synths that the opener shoots at you right away, and the gorgeous eruption that closes the record are just so perfectly placed. Great album as a whole, little iffy track for track, but I really like the CD case.
Every soul album prior to the 70s has the same formula of writing the big singles, and then packing the rest of the album with a bunch of filler (maybe a cover or too here and there). So when the generator gives a record like this, do you rate it off the singles or look inward at the filler? The filler wasn't even that inconsistent though, and actually ranks well among the hits. Great singing along with nice songwriting and arrangements with the orchestras and band make the album absolutely listenable, but I don't hear anything out of the ordinary from this respective genre. Quality soul and blues.
This is probably the most inconsistent album I've ever heard in terms of formula and material, not quality. The first two songs are funky hip-hop gold, and then immediately following are two fun but empty songs that tend to drag a bit longer than they should. Then there's two soul songs straight from the heart which are beautiful. Then the legendary title track plays, which I think is great but just a little too long than it should be. Lastly, the closing track is sample mania with, from what I heard, like 6 samples at once. It's very wacky, it's very fun, but a strange listen. I'll bump it to a 4 cause of dreaming, which is one of the best unserious songs I've ever heard.
Long songs can be super cool, but only if structure is applied. The psychedelic jams seemed to stretch for ridiculous lengths and made me feel incredibly disengaged. Jaki Liebezeit is incredible throughout the album so to say, and his ability perfectly accompanies the vibe the record is going for. The longer songs just seemed to drone on and on and it felt like less of a cohesive album as the tracks kept going with genuinely no structure. Although, Moonshake is a great song and at times the longer songs could be interesting.
This album is incredibly ahead of its time. The synth use combined with the great artistic choice of panning go incredibly throughout the whole record. A lot of the songs go on for way too long however, and even though the length of the album isn't that long, I quickly felt pretty bored of the looping keys. Great ideas, but I just wish they were executed more fully. As the songs drone on, they begin to feel empty. Nevertheless, this record is super groovy, and if you're looking for something to dance a bit to and enjoy the futuristic sounds that the 70s somehow achieved, this is a wonderful listen for the most part.
Fiona is an absolute killer vocalist. I love how subtlety she blends pop with jazz just enough to make it unseen to the average listener, but a spice for the engaged audience. Her melodies and poetry go hand in hand perfectly, which are just masterwork. For the musical era, she chooses such an interesting genre and feel for her composition, and it's incredibly original as it is great. The closing track to just hits so hard too, and to be using writing such extravagant arrangements for her DEBUT mind you, is just incomparable talent.
I really like the vocals, but this genre and theme the album goes for is just not for me. Ridiculously impressive stuff, but lyrically it's just very in your face like we get it. At certain points in the record, the vocals are just way too much and extremely annoying, but there's a beautiful opposite they achieve too. The genres the album explore are all over the place as well. I thought it was metal but now it's funk? Now it's grungey alt rock? Orchestral pop? Just a very strange collection of songs that doesn't have much cohesiveness. However individually, I like the tracks pretty well. I just can't make sense of this album/latch onto anything, and it's making me feel disengaged. Good things don't always come to you is a fucking banger though.
This was my first impression of Bob Dylan, and I was certainly impressed. It was everything I expected, but double. His lyrics are absolutely genius. They're perfectly written enough to comprehend and fully hear volume-wise without having to fully focus, but complex enough that they encourage you to look beneath the surface and pay attention. His words instantly grab you and make sure you understand what he's trying to convey with this slightly rebellious/sarcastic tone, and they're mixed perfectly unlike most folk music where the instruments tend to be the head of the song. His vocals weren't even that bad, and neither was the harmonica. The only real problem I have is the two random blues tracks in the middle of the album that are pretty copy paste for the time and kind of unfitting compared to the rest of the record. Towards the end, the writing can get a little obvious and blunt, but it's still important words that are being sold. Aside from that, this album is lyrical genius and gold folk rock.
