I just about didn't listen to this cause I thought there was no way I would enjoy it but I was pleasantly surprised! A good chunk of this is just like inoffensive and forgettable but there are definitely some songs that had me listening closer and enjoying myself. Pretty strong B side
Fav tracks: Luna, Strangered in the Night, Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)
In one ear and out the other
I've thought for a while now that every Nirvana song sounds the exact same and this hasn't convinced me otherwise
About what I expected from a Rolling Stones album, which is to say it's fine but not really my thing
Quite good! Definitely the best album we've gotten so far. Sufjan Stevens must have really liked Old Man
Fav tracks: Old Man, Heart of Gold
Surprisingly soulful and groovy for prog. Pretty good stuff
Fav tracks: Glad, Empty Pages
The noise was the only interesting thing about Psychocandy so without it this is pretty boring
Truly one of the all time classic albums. Such densely layered rhythms
Fav tracks: Crosseyed and Painless, The Great Curve, Once in a Lifetime, Seen and Not Seen
This is just painfully boring to me. I guess I really don't like britpop
Joni Mitchell has always been one of those artists where I tend to like covers of their songs more than their own original recordings, but this album has given me a lot more appreciation for her as a recording artist herself. I like her vocals here quite a bit and the instrumentation is simple but very pretty, as much of the best folk music is
Fav tracks: Little Green, All I Want
It's aged kinda poorly and it's not at all their best but damn if it isn't still fun
I expected to bounce off this pretty hard but it only just teeters on too slick and doesn't quite cross the line. There's definitely some good stuff here
Fav tracks: Peg, Josie
Quite good, but not as impressive as Songs in the Key of Life
Fav track: He's Misstra Know-It-All
Pretty middle of the road post punk, with a little extra fuzz. Not bad
Fav track: All of This & Nothing
Not my thing. Pretty samey
I usually really bounce off rap from this era but this worked surprisingly well for me. The rapping itself I wasn't the biggest fan of but I quite liked the beats
Fav tracks: American Terrorist, The Cool, I Gotcha
Music for a Lowe's commercial. Very dated and thoroughly uninteresting
The grandiosity just borders on being overwrought but overall it's a pretty enjoyable album
Fav track: Bullet the Blue Sky
Makes for a nice chill listen, but it really doesn't sound much like tango to me
Dancing Queen is a stone cold classic of course but I'm not sure anything else here is really notable. It's nice enough though
Fav track: Dancing Queen
I think a lot of this would be nice in the right context but sitting down and listening to over an hour of this is not particularly exciting. That said it's not unenjoyable
Fav tracks: Crazy Love, Free My Mind
I'll take this over pop country any day but it's still not really my thing
It's kinda hard to appreciate a lyrics-focused genre when you can't understand the lyrics
Not quite every song here is a hit (namely the punk ones don't land for me) but I think there's more than enough great material to make up for it. So many bangers, so much variety, and so much fun
Fav tracks: B-Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak, Sure Shot, The Update
Not my favorite Stooges album. Feels overly tame by today's standards
I started out enjoying it somewhat but I got bored of it by the end
Fav track: Lonely Planet Boy
There's some charm in how completely of its time it sounds and some of the tracks are kinda fun to hear once or twice but a lot of this is really forgettable and the lyrics are often pretty bad
Wonderfully moody and full. Usually I'm not much of a fan of synths in these contexts but here they add such a great atmosphere that ties everything together so well. Of course there's also plenty of catchy guitar and bass lines to keep the energy up. All in all it makes for a gloominess that's more melodramatic and melancholy than just depressing
Fav tracks: Disintegration, Plainsong, Fascination Street
Fun, energetic, and concise. An all around good time with a few particularly great songs
Fav tracks: River Euphrates, Gigantic, Vamos
Like Japan but not as good. It's alright
I don't like this. Just comes off as corny and inauthentic to me. I'd prefer normal Celtic folk without the rock
It's not good but it's fairly inoffensive
Neat sound. It's not every day you hear acoustic bass
Fav tracks: Kiss Off, Gone Daddy Gone, Good Feeling
Bad music made worse by the fact that there's 74 minutes of it. I think Anthony Kiedis is one of my least favorite vocalists ever
Quite good but it's no Hounds of Love
Fav tracks: Heads We're Dancing, Love and Anger
One of those albums that doesn't really have specific standout tracks but is just very enjoyable as a whole. Good improvement on the sound from 77, Eno's involvement adds a lot.
Fav track: Warning Sign
Not my favorite post rock but still good
Not bad but pretty long without any particularly memorable songs
I've never been a big fan of Sinatra but at least most of these I haven't already heard a million times
Kinda boring. Don't love the sound of the vocals
A little slow and skit-heavy for my tastes but there's some good stuff here
Fav track: The Score
I really don't get the appeal of this kind of rock
Fav track: Thug
Very nice. It can become background music too easily if you don't pay attention but either way it's a good time
Fav track: Part II b
Very interesting for a late 60s pop record. I enjoyed it
Fav track: Plastic Palace People
Really strong start and of course Mr. Brightside is a classic but most of these songs are misses
Fav tracks: Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, Mr. Brightside
I don't think I like a single thing about this
I don't always love the directions these songs go but the arrangements are so pretty that I enjoy them regardless
Fav track: We've Only Just Begun
I expected to have a stronger reaction to this but it was just super boring
It's well made but none of these songs quite do it for me
I don't have any particular connection to it so it doesn't land for me in the same way it seems to for so many others but it's certainly enjoyable. One of the better prog albums for sure
It's definitely grown on me over the years, but I still prefer their following era
Fav tracks: A Short Term Effect, One Hundred Years
I've never liked the two big hits from this album (One Way or Another especially gets under my skin) but the rest is pretty decent
So pretty and bittersweet
Fav tracks: The Fox in the Snow, Mayfly
Surprisingly fun for a britpop album
Every element of this just feels kinda lifeless and unmoving. I don't mind listening to it but I wouldn't say I enjoy it either. I can't be bothered to feel strongly about it one way or the other
Pretty fun at times but it loses its charm by the end
Borders on cheesy at times but mostly manages to work for me. I've always mixed up Billy Joel and Elton John but I enjoy this more than anything I've ever heard from the latter
Fav tracks: Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, The Stranger, Get It Right the First Time
Just a solid poppy soul album
Fav track: He Can Only Hold Her
Unique and interesting but it's a little too wacky for me
Honestly not bad for hard rock
Fav track: Back in the Saddle
It's perfectly fine for background listening but it's not really interesting enough to be more than that
Interesting but I'm not the biggest fan of some of the vocal choices
I'm not sure Bob Dylan will ever be quite my thing but this is still a pretty good listen
Fav tracks: Like a Rolling Stone, Queen Jane Approximately
I respect how weird this is but it's just not very enjoyable to me. It just feels like a bunch of unfinished songs
A bit of an exhausting listen but there's a lot of good stuff here
Fav tracks: Unhappy, GhettoMusick, Hey Ya
Not as mind-numbingly awful as Blood Sugar Sex Magik (perhaps only because it's shorter and more ignorable) but still not good
I wasn't expecting it to sound so much like The Strokes but it was fine. Honestly I prefer the production on here to what The Strokes were doing
Classic. One of my favorite albums to fall asleep to on a plane
Quite good, but I wish it was a little funkier
Fav track: Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
Pretty good, but most of the songs I hadn't already heard were forgettable. I like her vocals
Fav track: All I Really Want, You Oughta Know
