Good old school hip-hop, they don’t do it like this anymore. Lyrically strong (that’s if you can understand what they’re saying, cause it’s trrrickey), musically quite boring
That bass gives me headache. Seriously, that’s..that’s just too much, exaggeration, in-your-faceness and whatnot. I respect the attitude though.
I will never be as high as it presumably required to start digging this kind of music. “This album inspired this and that”? Ok, but everything inspired by them greatly surpassed the inspirer. Cultural significance (if any) alone doesn’t make something a must have to listen.
This one is truly a masterpiece in giving the mood.
Not the good one.
Not the sunny happy one.
Dark, gloomy, morose one.
Not the best album by The Cure, not even the second or third in my opinion, but what it surely has is consistency and coherence. This one will surely make you start questioning your own existence and the world in general.
Never heard of them before, and now I can see why.
The sound is too stereotypically 70s, vocal is too sugary for my liking..not that there’s something wrong with sugary vocals, not at all, but here it just doesn’t fit.
Breakdown is the only song I probably will remember (and I’m not sure even about that)
Less brit-poppy and more trip-hoppy version of Blur. Which isn’t a bad thing (plus there’s a melancholic harmonica!)
Jazz never been my type of music, but this one was surprisingly an easy listening. I mean at no point did I want to turn it off thinking “what the f is this”. So I guess it’s ok, for background listening or something.
What can I say, not a fan..music for grand grandmothers
Surprisingly good guitar, at some moments even nicely heavy, quite good bass..but that 70s-style keyboards-piano-organ, oh boy do I despise that sound..and I’ve never been a fan of Rod Stewart’s voice
It would have been a masterpiece if it hadn’t sound too..same? It’s like 11 variations on the same musical and vocal idea. Ok, Bring On The Night differs a bit from others, but the rest 10 - it’s like the same thing from different angles. Could just have been a small EP with Message In A Bottle, Bring On The Night, The Bed’s Too Big Without You and, say, Does Everyone Stare (just for variety, I don’t like this song)
Oh boy, how I regret wasting my time on this. They probably used it to torture people at Guantanamo.
I remember listening to this album a lot when it came out. There was a certain flair of novelty, it was but different from “regular” indie/whatever revival stuff abundant in those days.
But as time has passed novelty has gone, and now it’s clearly just a mid album. Maybe strong mid but still mid. Nothing particularly spectacular, just one of the many “indie” albums from that decade.
That’s a strange Cure album in a sense it might not be as polished and fancy from the production perspective as their later albums, but at the same time it’s more..coherent and wholesome, even more than Disintegration (which itself is a peak). And it’s certainly a fav of mine, the exemplary Cure’s post-punk sound.
Quite interesting interpretation of Mussorgsky suite, but a lot of Hammond and Moog, just overwhelming, like “can we get even more prog-rocky than we already are”
Is this a joke? What is this abomination doing in the list of albums one must hear before they die? Or is it like literally before, so one would suffer in the afterlife or something?
Seriously, if the point of inclusion in the list is “hey, look, there’s this thing called Nu Metal that was prominent in the late 90s - early 2000s“, then literally any other example (ok, almost any) would be much better than this.
Manassas - “album you must hear” my ass.
It started quite bluesy (and was pretty mid at it) but then country joined the sound..sorry, just no.
The great example of a modern r&b, or “abstract” r&b, or “cloud” r&b, whatever you call it.
Great in a sense of being representative of the genre, not being a great album.
I’ll give credit where it’s due, for certain creativity and such, but this whole thing of “alternative” r&b (yeah, one more way it’s being called) should have existed for a year or maybe two at best (like some kind of a curious novelty, you know), and then should have been forgotten and left in the past. Cause there’s nothing in it to be praised.
I think “proto-punk” is the perfect description of this album. With a “regular” punk you would hardly find any electric organ though, but here it’s everywhere, and you know - it’s not bad!
Quite peculiar stuff, but interesting. At times even clever (I’d boldly say Cuckoo is borderline genius), guys surely talented.
