Kind of a classic dad rock album (which I guess tells more about my age). Still has enough a sleazy sound to add some transgression; which the lyrics don't really help with. Still has three of the greatest classic rock songs of all time on it, so that helps to balance out. However, outside of SCoM, PC, and WttJ, its just too much of the same and the songs sort of blend together.
great pop album, strong vocals and theme, classic girl pop and an amazing debut.
Boppy folk music with great beats and solid variety. Not the absolute best from Beck, but still a very fun listening album.
Amazing rock album, some disco, some pop, some ballads, Layla is obviously great, but overall really solid album
Fun boppy album, gets stronger as it goes on, first real experience with Elliot Smith, pretty good.
Amazing classic grunge album, loved the flow throughout, very emotional. BHS all time slow banger.
Maybe because I'm not a depressed teen goth in the mid 80's on the west coast, but this one really didn't hit. Atonal, arythmic, and just anti-social. Did not enjoy the lyrics or the music really. Just kind of a wet bleeding out of an album. Which I guess was the intention behind it, but just not one for me.
Very chill prog rock originator, amazing team up of musicians. Interesting exploration of tones, but still a little weird. A solid beginning for a new horizon of music.
Okay, okay, okay. I know. It's Abbey Road, its the cover, its the famous one, lets get all that out of the way. Yes it has octobus and maxwell and all these others, but its got some clunkers in the back end, its a little disparate, and it's not the best of their albums. Great but not the best.
Okay, completely lives up to the hype, a seamless concept album, incredible flow from song to song, the way he combines genres and styles with the lyrics, and the connection to real life struggles. It really is what was going on at the time. Just a beautiful listen from beginning to end.
Honestly a more relaxed Black Sabbath, still with some bangers but not just ear to ear noise. Not the absolutely heights of metal, but some really good tracks. Changes absolutely slaps still.
One of the first true misses for me, really atonal, I know its experimental soundscape and Zappa, but its just not my vibe. Maybe if I had smoked a lot of 60s dirt weed and thought Marx was a cutting edge figure. The interruptions, the style, just not what I'm looking for in an album.
Smooth as butter, just an incredible listening experience. This album is silk sheets, light jazz, cocktails on ice, menthol cigarettes. Just bangers from beginning to end, doesn't outstay the welcome, does exactly what you want from an R&B album.
Solid great pop music album, almost disco like. It feels like we went down the wrong trouser of time when this didn't become the model for all pop music to come. Similar sounding but still great.
Amazing, classic american singer songwriter, just great songs one after another. Political Science is worth the price of admission alone. It's so fun seeing the strains of what would become some of the most famous movie songs of all time in the future.
This is the first one of these that I have listened to before, and honestly its still great. Not an amazing one, or even their best (which would be El Camino), but a strong solid rock album. Some great hits, some sleepers, their dual strengths come out well in it and has a great overall listening experience.
Its fine girly pop rock, a little on the late end, but there's an overall sameness in it which detracts from it. Great vocals and good supporting, but it is a short album which still manages to outlast its stay.
Strong blues rock album, I honestly haven't really listened to any of their music, but I've heard of the band. Kinda like 3 dog or steeley dan. Fine for a certain generation, but overally samey and a little short. Decent for what it is, but not beyond that.
This album is capital C cool. The spoken word, the jazz, the instrumentals, I really loved it.
Sure its good, but CCR isn't really my favorite band of this type, that whole notion around southern bluegrass, rock, folk, and such is a good genre, but not my absolute favorite. I'm almost not soundtracking a movie set in New Orleans or about Vietnam, so I don't need that sound. Decent listening to, but maybe wouldn't be a repeat listen.
A miss honestly, felt more industrial concept. Like the ska from a world with Footloose rules. I was tired of this album before it ended, and didn't really enjoy it that much. Some nice backing vocals, but a miss for me.
Perfectly fine album, but not super surprising. No standouts, somewhat poor lyricism, decent rythyms. I wasn't blown away by any part of it, but certainly an interesting one.
An amazing album, some true classics here. Take a load off fannie is enough for repeat listening, but discovered the others is just icing. Amazing rythyms and vocal, great backing, just an all rounder great album.
Yet more english dad rock. I though there was something fun at the start, but it truly didn't last. I like the drumming, but the vocals were samey, and if i wanted to listen to things that sound like this, I have better options.
This is just a solid classic, bangers from beginning to end. One of the best and most soulful modern albums. Back to Black hits like nothing else, Rehab, just amazing. Huge range, and just incredible.
I was liking the album, some great songs in the beginning. Honestly the folk/callresponse/new england thing really works for me. But about halfway through I began to lag and it was just taking more time than I was hoping for. There was a sameness to the songs and the shtick was getting tired... BUT THEN CAME I'M A FREEBORN MAN OF THE USA. I'm not even American and it hit so hard that I turned around. Great album, perfect wake song, get pissed with the boys in an Irish bar and sing along.
Alright, the absolute grunge goat, the sort of albums emos and goths attempted to make for years afterward. Just insanely good, emotionally devastation, new sound, Reznor is just unbelievable. Hurt just caps an amazing album and stronger legacy. Only problem is that this is a sometimes food if you aren't a depressed 17 year old wearing all black (positive).
Just an absolutely achievement in hip-hop. Lyrically incredible, beats are amazing, just one good thing to say about it after another. Doesn't reach some of their later heights, but imagining strolling in Brooklyn in 1989 with this on in a Walkman, smoking the worst ditch weed imaginable, and buying dollar slices. Just a dream. Easy listening and always fun, great harmonies, and the development of the style is just so wonderful.
Maybe because I'm not a 19 year old punk in a city that Maggie Thatcher has just destroyed with neoliberalism. Maybe because I don't smoke two packs a day and am on so much amphetamines I can sit still. Maybe because I don't want my music as fast, loud, and hard as possible, this isn't for me. I understand its "seminal position in grindcore" but newsflash I don't like grindcore. Punk is fine, this is just the scene from Dewey Cox about inventing punk music; a sentiment I think I'll be expressing a lot in this project.
This is fine. Like Buddy Holly died and years later its good to pretend to be him. It's a fine ballad and light rock/swing. Like I enjoyed it, but its not an amazing album. If it came on I'd sway to it, but not listen to to it again.
Its good. The symphonic parts are good, we love an Of Montreal crossover, great vocals, wide range of songs, interesting beats. Didn't fully connect and nothing in it became an earworm, but solid all around.
I really liked this one, bouncy, amazing beats, strong old school rapping. Obviously art forms evolve over time, but this was a really interesting early 90's east coast rap. It's like seeing a cadillac from the 60s. There's a reason it got wiped out by the Prius and F150 and all other sorts of newer cars, but it has a charm and soul to it. Obviously not in the heights of Life After Death or even Enter the Wu-Tang that east coast hip hop would reach, but a great foundational album with solid beats.
I really enjoyed this one. Maybe because I like listening to synth and electronic while I work, this worked on me 100%. Great beats, wide variety of rythyms, fundamental drum and bass album. The extended edition is confusing, but thats a marketing problem more than an album. Would listen to again when I need to stare at a spreadsheet for several hours.
Unsurpringly David Byrne still kills it. Great album, very fun listening to, some really solid songs. Psycho Killer slaps so hard, but I was taken aback by the strength of the rest of it. Really good album.
I'm not a huge fan of brit-pop, new wave, or straight front men of camp bands. So this album had huge strikes against it from the very beginning. And it truly never recovered. Didn't really like most of the music, and I discovered there was a reason I had never heard of this before.
I'm not a deadhead, and the concept of following a band around just to listen to mediocre dad rock and folk rock while high on a wide range of drugs seems like a good weekend but in no way an actual lifestyle. It just got boring most of the way through. Maybe because I wasn't in a chemically altered state, but this is just boring. Ripple is good but it doesn't save the album, just makes me want to have a better album to go with it.
Listening to it now after decades of metal and all sorts of metal variation, its hard to put yourself into the shoes of a teenager in 1970s England hearing this for the first time. Does it still slap hard? Yes, the guitar riffs are crazy, breaks open the doors of metal, atonal in all the right ways, Ozzy is amazing vocally before it becomes a self parody. While it has been surpassed in dozens and dozens of ways over the last 50+ years, sometimes the original is still incredible and seeing the genesis of a genre is amazing.
