Knew many of the big ones here: Blowin' in the Wind, Girl from the North Country, Don't Think Twice It's All Right. I really liked A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, which I may have heard in A Complete Unknown, but wasn't otherwise familiar with.
I like it when early hip hop is all "my name is Matt and I'm hear to say."
"A Little Bit of Soap" is giving Tracy Morgan in Werewolf Bar Mitzvah vibes.
Like the vibe but only a couple songs make me pay attention.
I like the Anchorman jazz flute in "Right On." Also like "Inner City Blues."
This is obviously good (Rolling Stone has it #1 all time) and socially important and profound but also just not my thing.
This is masturbatory guitar bullshit, which is why I'm giving it a high rating
I thought this was going to be all sugar pie this and honey bunch that. And I like that kind of cheesy Motown but it's really just oldies/wedding music to me. Instead, this was darker, grittier, funkier. Beautiful collection of voices, beautiful orchestration. Loved it. Toward the end it got a little filler-y
"I can move any mountain" no you can't. More like Sha-meh
Fun album that would probably grow on me. This is almost a 4 for me but it was a little too generic. Also why won’t they tell us what the T stands for
Amazing voice, and SoaPreacher Man is one of my favorite songs of all time. I really liked "Don't Forget About Me." Other than that, aside from liking the vibe, I never need to hear this again. Sorry Dusty
Really liked “Flutes” and “Let Me Be Him.” Others are background music in a good way. This got close to a 4 but not quite there for me
If this is New Order I'd hate to hear the Old Order. This album is the sound of rain ruining a picnic. It is completely uninteresting to me.
I don't know why Boston is a 5 for me and Thin Lizzy is a 2, but life is mysterious. I do think it's a high 2. This album rocks in places but mostly is just replacement-level cock rock. The crowd cheers when they hear the intro to Boys are Back in Town, sort of like it's the first song they recognize. It's all a little soulless and not that distinct for me.
There's a line from Bojack Horseman where a high-powered PR exec tells a former-actor-turned-civilian, "I am forgetting your face as I'm looking at it." That's what it was like to listen to Lost Souls by Doves. That's not to say I didn't enjoy some of the vibes and some moments of beauty. But it seems very background and insignificant. Also it seems like this guy can't sing?
Steve Earle, you seem like a nice man, but I could not wait for this to end.
It was nice of CHIC to lay down the samples that would same day be used in better songs.
I did like the vocal performance in At Last I Am Free
I don't know what to tell you, this is so good. A couple low points (Spanish Harlem, Do You Wanna Dance) but mostly love it. Straight Shooter and Somebody Groovy are great.
Too much beef, not enough heart.
The fuck is this? I’ll tell you the fuck it is. It’s great!
DJ Shadow? More like Rachel Maddow.
Which means I sort of liked it. Heads were nodded. But not really my thing.
This seems historically important. But so is the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and yet that doesn't appear on a list of albums I'm supposed to listen to. Blue Monday is the only song I would conceive of listening to again voluntarily. I'm giving a generous 2 because he was thoughtful enough to make these songs only 2 minutes long.
According to Wikipedia: "In 2015, [a critic] placed it at number 97 on the "99 Greatest Dance Albums of All Time" list." I agree that there must be at least 96 better dance albums than this. I'm not convinced this isn't some kind of CIA psyop
This rules, I love it. Highlights are Sally MacLennane, Jesse James, and Patrick O’Mulligan Irishname. I think most of those are real.
This is the kind of album I have to Google first to make sure it isn't secretly for Nazis. If it isn't secretly for Nazis, then I kind of weirdly like it. Though I will never listen to it again, Nazi or no Nazi. And now I will stop saying Nazi.
Fuck yeah
The Snores. Perfectly fine background music, but nothing really grabbed me. For all of Jim Morrison's raging id, it comes across pretty tame to me.
I like this, and whether it’s a low 4 or a high 3 is a coin flip. It is my new favorite album from a band where Al Franken is apparently the lead singer. Slow Education especially good.
Even the best Elton John songs I find myself not caring that much about and I never need to listen to them again. Moderately high-highs, moderately low-lows, moderately creamy middles.
Fun to hear what the ancient version of like the first two pre-Dookie Green Day albums became - even if anyone who gets a 40-minute guitar lesson can basically play the whole thing. I think this is OK and not as good as the couple of other Ramones songs I know - but, it's fine, and it knows what it is. I like Let's Dance and I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You.
Pretzel monies
I don't know why, but I expected this to be more like The Strokes than what I got, which was Florence and the Machine. Which is not a bad thing. I liked it!
First track: Fuck you America.
Second track: Fuck you England.
Third track: Fuck you Jesus.
Four stars.
I can't imagine what it must be like to spend 5 minutes talking to Morrissey - actually yes I can and what I am imagining. But I like the music and I'm at least entertained by gawking at his smug, pompous, self-unaware-scathing reports on everybody. Really like "First of the Gang to Die."
I'm surprised at how bad this Rolling Stones album is. I love the Stones. Outside of Paint It Black (or Mother's Little Helper, unclear what the actual first track is), I'm hard pressed to find an enjoyable song. The mid-back-half filler is the HIGHLIGHT. I've never liked Under My Thumb which is the other big song on here. It's Not Easy and Flight 505 are ok.
I like the second half of this better than the first. Lot of interesting stuff that might grow on me.
Super interesting, like a pre-cursor to Hole or Nirvana. A bunch of songs just take a weird left turn halfway thru (Call Me, Rabbits Dying) that I like. Pretty rad alt rack for 1986 - I like it!
A lot of really interesting stuff happening and I generally like it. Struggling to find something that really clicks or that I couldn't live without. I'm interested in hearing more Elvis Costello; this kind of sounds like a bunch of really interesting b-sides as opposed to an album.
This album reminded me of “The Blue Box Blues” which was a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese commercial about a girl who had the blue box blues.
4 stars
This is the personified sound of what it feels like when you want to go outside but its too rainy.
While it all seemed a little generic, great vibe all around and I'd never object to this being on in the background.
Super fun. Makes me want to befriend two short bald men and use their heads as bongos.
Some beautiful deep ocean kind of textures going on here, sort of like Sea Change expanded out. I really liked "Viorar vel til loftarasa." I'm not sure I'll ever listen to it again but maybe if I'm ever taking psychedelics in Iceland or something I'll give it another go
Well I'm 30+ years too late. I listened to this and loved it. Alternately socially interesting/honest and genuinely funny.
Too much fish, not enough scale
Now I see why they are running at midnight, they’re too embarrassed to show their faces during the day. There were some fun moments but this album sounds like what it feels to wear dress socks to the gym. Ie goofy as hell
This is a good album to sip milk to.
Needs more Garfunkel
I've heard descriptions of people taking salvia - the super weird and disturbing 15-minute hallucinogen - who say they took it and said the experience was like being trapped as a fiber of a carpet for 1000 years, and it was extremely distressing for the nightmare and unpleasantness to end.
This is what this album sounds like to me.
