Honestly, I’ve not been the biggest hip-hop / rap fan, but this album was a pleasant surprise. It wasn’t something I’d choose to listen to again, but I didn’t hate listening to it.
I love the unique idea of “each band member gets his own song for the album”. It’s a super fun concept that gives the album flavor, though there are better Yes albums out there
Not as bad as I had expected, still not super great.
Stanford said this was the best album ever. It wasn’t, but it gets just a bit better every time I listen to it. Always slightly better than I imagine, still didn’t like the explicit nature of it
Why did they even do this?
Not as memorable as their first album nor as edgy as it could’ve been for it’s time
What the h*ck is even this?
Less memorable early Bowie???
Rock Lobser
Some songs are a lot weaker than I remember, it’s probably why I’d forget those tracks, but the good songs are fun, and feel good
Why is this even here?
Holy nineties indie. You can hear it all in here. Clearly influenced it’s next decade
You caught me at a very punk time in my life
For my actual interest in the songs on the album, four stars, but for the history it’s created and it’s innovation and musical revolution, five stars
It was fun and full of confidence, an anomaly of what kind of musicians make this in the first place. And every girl crazy about a sharp dressed man
“Trust me guys, I know more than just western music, see?”
Teenage girls in 1991 when they realized all these songs were probably about other men:
It was good. Safe, nothing wrong with it. Not the masterpiece everyone says it is.
Good songs bad songs, this album has its share
Wire reference?
This guy should respect women more
Sounds the same by sounding different than anything from the 50s. Thank Crickets for Beatles
Cocaine Nazis 😍🥰
Brilliant
This album does a bad job at hiding that they wrote the same song a handful of times, and mixes it with other songs
Ysjdcsksbuscs gs
Does this exist?
I do not care for the White Stripes.
I’m not a teenage girl from 1999.
Memorable songs, it isn’t bad if you ignore all the lyrics. I do like Stan though
Of all Beck albums, why this one?
Reminds me of Aphex Twin. I will not elaborate any further.
I didn’t even notice as it went by
Tried to be hard rock and electronic at the same time, but didn’t do either stellarly
There’s better jazz albums, but that recording quality is unreal for 1957
I imagine Jett Probably likes this
Dog in hot car music
Only giving it a four, because I think it’s a solid 3.5 and I am estimating Jett’s score will be lower
Pleasant surprise 👍
Thank you Steve Albini, you changed the world
Too much electric, not enough Ladyland
White boys of the world unite
Back in ‘22, I decided to listen to every XTC album, because I enjoyed the hits. I stopped that challenge at Oranges & Lemons, I couldn’t bring myself to go further, regardless the total length of any XTC album, it’s always 20 minutes too long. Remembering what I do from XTC, this album was nothing like what I expected, it was pleasant, but it dragged for like 20 minutes. It still might be a top 3 XTC album (After the Black Sea and English Settlement), but that doesn’t mean anything coming from me.
I don’t even know where to begin with this or how to judge it. I’m at a complete loss of words, not positively or negatively.
Too cliche and dated. Not an 80’s pop fan, and this is just excessively 80’s. It feels more like a product of its time than a real album experience. “Time After Time” isn’t bad though
This is just mediocre butt rock. Actually, Mediocre is putting it nicely, I didn’t enjoy very much of this at all. It was too much of a “look at how well I can play this guitar” as much as it was genuinely compelling music.
This is NOT punk vro
It’s crazy how I enjoy several songs longer than this whole album.
It’s good, but uber overrated.
I haven’t listened to this album since the breakup. That certainly tainted my experience. I would give it 3.5 stars, so we’ll go for 3 instead.
He is better than his dad though.
I enjoy it but it isn’t uber impressive
Not the worst of the 11 albums I chose to listen to today
Does he know about the D-O-R-E?
How is this one of the best selling studio albums of all time? The album cover does not match its music, and none of the songs feel like worth buying the record over. I don’t know, guess I’ll never understand being a dad on a boat in the late 70’s
This is a Jett five for me. Leads me to believe that there actually is something to Neil Young that maybe I haven’t noticed before
I feel uncomfortably numb after hearing this one. Those vocals are not it.
I think I prefer Madness. (This and One Step Beyond came out on the same day in 1979)
I don’t see this the same as everyone else. It’s a fine album. There’s nothing wrong with it, but Bowie’s peak was the run of Station to Station, Low, Heroes This is just a handful of good tracks and another handful of slightly less good tracks. I would never hate this album, but I must be missing why even thinks it’s *so* good
It really asks me to try listening to it again
That was pleasant.
There are quite a few good songs, and plenty of ones I wouldn’t care for. I am glad I listened to it all in one sitting, without getting up from my chair.
I love Lou Reed, but I think Bowie did too much here. Still good though
What is even the point? Every song is the same. Find a three chord riff, find one phrase to be repeated as a chorus, then write substance-less verses based on said phrase, then put that together sounding like a screaming Marge Simpson. Ridiculous
Wow, for an album that was hardly produced and hardly prepared for, that is stellar. If only they put more time into it or cut a few of the songs though
Babe are you ok? You hardly touched your mediocre Brit Pop ruined by some of the lyrics
Probably Leonard Cohen’s best album probably
Probably the easiest five star so far. Gave my copy a spin and let it run as I played Pokemon White. I still remember listening to it for the first time. His folk approach into making what is now “rock music” changed the idea of songwriting, and has really influenced my own lately. Plus, “Ballad of a Thin Man” has gotta be one of my favorite songs out there. Though the album could’ve excelled even further had he chosen to put on “Positively 4th Street” in place of something else, it’s still easily one of my favorite albums of the decade and possibly of all time.
Once you learn that the author of ‘1001 albums’ hasn’t listened to the albums, sometimes one generates, and you wonder, in this case “I bet he only put this album here to counter claims he doesn’t include music from around the world” and so I come into this album with low expectations, as my research for the album felt uber limited.
So I end up surprised when I end up really enjoying the sounds on this album, it really is something nice that I never would’ve even discovered if not for this list. As oddball of an inclusion it is, and whatever reason its inclusion may be, I am here for it
This music is like if you mixed the 2000’s indie rock I like with the 2010’s indie rock I don’t like.
Must’ve been the wind
I usually hate live albums. I feel like the appeal to live music is being there, and the sound on any live album format isn’t super worth it.
That being said, this was a very good listening experience. I enjoyed the talking a bit more than the music. As a listening experience it was five stars. Though, as an album musically, it felts something subpar of such a high rating. I’ll meet those in the middle and give it a four. Loved the experience, but probably won’t be revisiting it any time soon.
If it were any other album by the band…
Who would win? This album or a small Victorian child?
“Oh look at me swinging my balls around.” Even when I used to listen to Get a Grip, I knew the late 80’s wasn’t a good time for them.
The albums name describes how I feel about it already. Though I came in with an open mind, and my feelings shifted from one star to two, because it sucks, and I don’t like it, but it’s good at what it sets out to do.
