reminds me of being on the dock with my parents and their friends but doesn’t do anything for me beyond that tbqh
i hate to be the downer here but i found this album repetitive as heck… but the flute was a nice touch i was grooving hard to that. this album makes me feel like i should be in an austin powers movie and not in a good way. unfortunately not my vibe but i appreciate the heritage it holds.
i listened to this before daniel told me it was inspired by the demons so that’s really awkward i’ll give it one star in solidarity
very bud toner coded
i can’t get over the fact that he’s a quasiwitness it’s a mental block his lyrics disturb me but i really like this for what it is
i get it i do theyre iconic but his voice just sounds so quebecer i cant
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i love this play this 10000x over i feel like im retired in florida on a beach
this is quite possibly the most boring 48 minutes of music i’ve ever heard. there’s zero difference from one song to the next. i put this on at the gym hoping it would hype me up … instead i feel like disassociating while staring at a blank wall
i actually really liked this!!! if all hardcore had stayed like this i would genuinely enjoy hardcore
obviously this record is crazy insane but i gave it a proper chance and was honestly really impressed with his insane storytelling about war and the effects on the men who come home from it. that being said, i think tom waits is a pseudonym for a collective of artists, each one writing a different track on the record. my guesses are as follows:
track one: evil pingu
track two: lizard wearing a fedora
track three: schizophrenic clown
track four: tom waits before the other 14 killed him to use his identity
track five: bubba from forrest gump
track six: fat bastard from austin powers
track seven: the same guy who wrote the usa’s national anthem after suffering from ptsd
track eight: a sucker on the vine (autobiographical content assumed)
track nine: fred (frank’s disassociated other personality speaking about his actions to create a distance from reality and self)
track ten: a house fly that can play the xylophone
track eleven: the local jazz bar guy (this one kinda slapped guys ngl)
track twelve: a sailor
track thirteen: the mountain goat from hoodwinked
track fourteen: the guy behind the meat counter who has a glass eye and always seems to be holding a knife
track fifteen: a woman who wants you to pay $300 for a sound bath session in the woods
didn’t realize shine was a 5 million minute long song so that was news to me! this is a really good album. classic and high quality. not something that i’m absolutely desperate to listen to again but i do really appreciate it.
GUYS I RETROACTIVELY AM GIVING THIS A 5 IM SORRY I DIDNT BEFORE I MADE A MISTAKE OK!!
just no. why did they even make this? i would’ve given this a 1 if not for zilch!! that minute and six seconds cut through the other hour of monotonous jangly guitar. if i want to listen to fun sixties music id just listen to the beach boys.
i was really excited because i like some run songs… this album just felt boring. obviously groundbreaking but i think their later work was more fun. will not be circling back.
brb gotta go tell liz toner i gave it a 5 so she can sleep tonight.
i don’t like this at all. it’s not that it’s bad, it’s just not good.
this is the opening act for a band i’m really excited to see and then it kinda kills my vibe as i stand there like O_O and she’s tweaking out on stage
this made me feel like i was there when he was chain smoking the joints that inspired these songs and probably also smoked them with him because it felt like a trip. the hey hey my my hey hey gimmick is the best part of this for me. without those songs bookending the record i would kinda hate this?
i like this a lot!!!!! finally something i actually like and don’t just “appreciate for what it is”!!!!! i’m a deerhunter fan now. this sparked a new joy. i fully added this album to my library. wow. i’m full of renewed zeal to listen to the next album with an open heart.
i liked this so much i went on a dire straights binge after this. i was grooving with my hands in the air like a drugged up loser at a rave but i was vibing
so let me be clear. i tried to like this album when i was in highschool. i was growing into my indie alt phase and i wanted to be “quirky” and “different” and “like oasis” so i listened to this album while walking my dog multiple times. it never grew on me. i just don’t really like it. do i know most of the songs, yeah i do. but do i like the album, no i don't. it just feels like the beatles told the gallagher brothers what to do to be a successful boy band and they followed their advice but only 75% so it just kinda flops for me. it’s just.. mid. but champagne supernova slaps.
benny and the jets to me is one of the best and most iconic songs of all time. top 20 for sure. also, “opportunity awaits me like a rat in a drain” ??? why have i not been talking about elton john more??????? why am i not an eltonite???? this is amazing stuff.. and we’ll just ignore the lesbo song
i guess i have no morals because i looked at the cover and went meh and then listened to it while i cleaned the house and honestly pretty decent house music. not my exact taste it’s a bit quirky but still not bad.
i’m not even a huge beatles fan and this is a great record. so many amazing hits and i had a lot of fun listening to the less popular songs too. it just feels full and big and performancey and i like that it feels like something that’s bigger than me idk if that makes sense but :)
ok one or two of these songs is like yahoo yay fun samba chacha!! a whole album of this made me tense and nervous and not happy anymore :( so idk it’s like one of these songs would get a 3-4 but the whole record made me upsetty so it’s a 2-3 :/
so once again if i wanted to listen to this kinda music i’d just listen to the beach boys… not enjoyable but whatever it’s not offensive
definitely not my favourite of ella’s work (bit too folklore story time for me) but her voice is transcendent. somehow it is both light and airy yet rich and dense. she knows how to sing about love like no one else <3
i couldn’t bring myself to listen to this today i would’ve sl*t my wr*sts because nebraska is not for the sunshine. having said that, i did a springsteen deep dive last fall and i loved nebraska very very much and those memories will guide my ratings
this is how i found out we’re going to be friends is by the white stripes. i’m confused and kind of thrown off balance by this revelation. it doesn’t compute with what i know and love about the early 2000s indie film industry but i guess ya live and ya learn.
this was a cute listen
this is an easy 4.. maybe even a 5 if i listen to it again in the sun.
momma always told me the rhcp were demonic. anyways, solid album!
so bad. so so so bad.
influential, yes, but the absolute gratuitous profanity always bothers me.
no. annoying and whiny and no. felt like i was in a whole of white trash activities. sorry courtney, u just didn’t love this one. gets a bonus star for being an alt girl album tho i rock with that.
this was good! not enough to turn me into a doors fan or even to get me to explore their discography but i had an overall positive impression and i even did a little dance a few times so that’s nice.
you have to have a sense of whimsy to enjoy this album. it’s fun, exploratory, and goofy. if you hate on it you might hate life. lighten up.
felt kinda mid about this one. strong start but i didn’t even make it though the whole album. but bitter sweet symphony is beautiful so for that alone it gets marks.
this isn’t bad at all but maybe i’m just not in the right mood for guitar shredding. let me be clear, i like it. it’s just not for every day listening in my opinion and i kinda figured that would be my take going into listening to this record. i wish i’d been more pleasantly surprised but that’s ok. life is full of mild disappointments!
wow they really just didn’t have to make this … and yet they did! what correlation do any of these songs have to each other? they’re not even distant cousins… i’m so confused. musically there’s a lot of talent but i just don’t know what i’m meant to be feeling when i listen to this and that kinda frustrated me.
i have trouble understanding how an album can be considered influential if none of the songs go together and create an album experience. there are some good songs on this album, but as a whole, this feels incomplete and scattered. cool album art tho!
slightly scared to admit this is the first time i’ve listened to nirvana on purpose and i loved it. beautiful and haunting and full of talent. listening to it gave me chills, which isn’t the usual nirvana reaction. i think in this format i could appreciate the songwriting and cohesion of the band, but i doubt i’d feel as emotionally invested on a regular nirvana record.
this is beautiful song writing and insane harmonica-ing. i loved it. the emotion is raw while being comical. idiot wind might be my new all time favourite song. this is my dylawakening.
really quality stuff. her voice is beautiful, makes me feel empowered. one star off tho bc i cannot ever see myself coming back to it unfortunately but i respect it immensely.
i’m bored :/ uninspiring and mediocre. only high point was quiet and even then i would say it was a slight bump up rather than a spike. it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good.
this is more interesting than i expected it to be!!! big gabriel voice fan it’s so rich and powerful. idk if i should’ve given this a 5 but i didn’t give it enough critical thought so i might go back and adjust my rating later.
there’s nothing wrong with this at all but it just didn’t capture me… i didn’t feel enthralled… too bad
oh to be a woman pushing 30 in 1999 wearing a bandeau dress in a miami rooftop club…
i guess i’m in my geezer era because i really enjoyed this. it was so easy going and i love how “band” it sounds. i know that layla is a bigdog classic but it was new to me as of a few months ago… sorry eric and derek and the dominos.
ok guys herbie hancock pulled me out of my depression arc and gave me something to live for today. i wish i lived in a world where i had a soundtrack and it was just herbie rippin it on the jazz when i walk around the grocery store. enjoyed my listen, would listen again!
i think i’m too Young to really know about these guys… anyway, pretty solid work but spelling guinnevere like that gave me the ick, minus 1 star
firehose walked so angine de poitrine could charge 72 dollars a ticket at history. this gave me anxiety in a good way musically and kept me interested but unfortunately the lyrics and singing were boring :/
this was good but not great. kinda felt like one long song… nothing that sparked my interest in particular BUT i will listen to more cocteau twins, i enjoy this dream pop etherealism.
i couldn’t tell where one song started and another ended. daniel restarted one to hear the intro again and i winced at the thought of listening to this for an extra 30 seconds. but maybe the problem wasn’t the album… maybe the problem was sitting in stand still traffic. we will never know, because i refuse to give it a second chance. sorry nick drake - if that’s even your real name.
at first i thought i couldn’t handle a full album of this but i was almost immediately proven wrong. i think nanci’s voice is so clear and pure and pretty and her love songs made me feel like i was in that little rose coloured world with her. would recommend to a friend who wants to feel light and loved.
i listened with prejudice.
this is banger after banger. these lyrics are indelibly marked on my brain. i love michael jackson and im not afraid to say it. who made catchier music than him?? i love being able to shout yeah yeah and heehee and ooUUH! king of pop for a reason and i won’t be taking any criticisms.
wow the most underwhelming album to date. it’s my most surprising dislike, i was expecting to enjoy this but it’s just grating and whiny and his voice is so annoyingggggg. it feels like he’s yelling at me and the drums are just constantly crashing in the background it’s so overstimulating. i have zero desire to ever listen to anything costello ever again. i was initially gonna give it a 2 but when i listened to it with daniel later i realized how pervy it is so now it’s down to a 1. it’s just not good and i wish i hadn’t heard it tbh.
i genuinely can’t listen to this my ears are being attacked with so much absurd profanity and lewdity (?)… i love snoop’s voice and dre’s smooth too but for these reasons, im out.
every song is about convincing a woman to sleep with him, even underage girls! how pleasant and enjoyable <3 :)
this belongs to a sunny day, 10:45am, with the birds chirping and nowhere to be. good rhythm, easy lyrics, and a sense of comfort between all 3 bandmates made my first ZZ Top experience a very good one.
lame!
this is very interesting… but i’m not the right audience. i just do not see a use case for this. really not sure when i would ever choose to listen to it again but not for hatred reasons. there were moments that were building into something i liked a lot and got excited for, but then immediately the vibe would switch up so i never was able to sink my teeth into it. therefore i feel very neutral toward it.
for the first half, i felt it was good but was waiting for it to be great.. and then i heard the wrong child. it stopped me in my tracks - weird but emotionally triggering, it perfectly describes the life of a sick child. i got chills and felt like i was in that lonely bedroom watching the neighbourhood kids play in the streets. i googled it expecting to see rave reviews but apparently it’s been largely hated by audiences from its release till now and has only been played live once. maybe it’s only beautiful if you’ve ever known and loved a kid with a disability? or maybe i have the disability? who knows! but this track took this album from a 3 to a 4 in my eyes.
this was fine but also annoying but also not the worst i honestly don’t know how to feel about this. did not turn me into a repeat customer that’s for sure. siouxsie is lowkey obnoxious in my ears … this is a really weak 3 but would feel sus to give it a 2.
no joke i made some of these same beats on garageband back in 2007
maybe i’m just super duper white girl wasted on a sunny day but i liked this! his voice is so rich and i kinda love a little honk tonk every once in a while. i can picture myself by the lake this summer with a little yoakam floating in the breeze. no complaints! hold on to the word of God!
i’ve decided my official ranking system has one hard and fast cardinal rule: if you sing about wanted to sleep with an underage girl, you get a 1.
immediately no
this album for sure takes three stars to get ready but can it take five? im not too sure… strong 4 though.
!!!!!!THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD EVER REACH ME WAS THE SON OF A PREACHER MAN!!!!!!
am i crazy for liking this more than time out? it’s the smoothest of smooth jazz. it’s buttery and soulful and reminds me of my grandpa who i never saw in anything but dress clothes and who took a cat nap every evening on the couch in the middle of appetizer hour holding a glass of wine and a piece of cheese, listening to jazz.
groovy, i like it
there’s some good stuff here but it feels kinda bloated and all the interludes lost my interest. don’t talk to me just play me music yk?? but i have respect for outkast and the formula that they rock with.
first and last time listening to fka twigs. weird and obnoxious.
some generational music on here - love of my life is a personal favourite for me and has been for many years. but groundbreaking work is flanked with songs i’d never choose to come back to and that’s why it can’t be a 5.
this didn’t inspire me or uninspire me… good but not bad but not great!
track 1: he sounded in pain but not more than me
track 2: i wish the vacuum would suck me up too
tracks 3-23: bro makes music for hannibal lector’s dinner parties
i’m a notorious justice rejecter - not because it’s bad, just because i’m a lyrics person and i cannot emotionally connect to music that goes untz untz untz for an hour. that being said, this is good and i cannot disrespect my husband by giving it anything less than a 4.
bruce really just didn’t have to make this.. he said everything interesting between 1982-1984. but kudos to him for trying!
huh this was… not my favourite. but i respect it?
coulda skipped this one, eh?
this is an album bookended by some of the best rock songs i’ve ever heard… and then the middle falls a little flat for me. still good, just hard to maintain such a high level of amazing for all 44 minutes. won’t get fooled again is insane - but without baba oreilly we wouldn’t have best song ever by one direction <3
was listening to this at work and my coworker said “sounds like something you’d listen to so that you can drink a whisky and throw the toaster in the bathtub” and i didn’t disagree!
i usually love sad music but this just felt depressive with no emotional connection.
this is the chicest album of all time. it’s classy, groovy, smooth, and sexy all at once. there is objectively nothing wrong here. 7 punchy songs, catchy rhythms, great vocals. stellar work!
side note: special shout out to this project for helping me to appreciate nile rodgers. the man is a genius and i’m late to the party but im glad im here now.
i feel as though this album is what the genre alternative was created for. apple took her classically trained roots and created a jazz record with whiny angsty 90s girl boss lyrics over top of it. it’s literally an alternate version of a jazz record. in a world where we’re so used to alternative meaning some vague rock indie poser mashup, i found this refreshing and interesting. while this album does feel juvenile in parts, i’m shocked at how it has a very clear sense of self. she was a true prodigy, who makes this kinda stuff as a teenage girl????? (ok michael also olivia i know) overall this is a very cool and interesting record and I understand why it was so influential and continues to be.
also i think she was pretty bad ass for standing up to a guy like Howard Stern when she was only 19
this needs some more listens for me to truly appreciate it, but i could see this becoming something that i do enjoy listening to… therefore this is a tentative 4
this is a 1.5 because it’s not offensive but honestly, if it wasn’t for the whole “integrity of listening to the entire album” thing i would’ve shut it off in the first 30 seconds. wow i hate this weird mix of ambient noise and religious whining.
miss me with this why is the extended version 43 hours long. sorry but just no. didn’t like any of what i heard and i simply wasn’t ready to give any more seconds of my precious life to this.
this is like if BCNR only made songs about killing themselves and i mean that as an insult.
bro could’ve sampled a fart and i would’ve found it more interesting.
so you’re telling me he recorded these songs with da boyz (beach) and then said hmmmm i think i can do it better by myself! feels sus, unnecessary, and conceited. unless there’s some hidden genius here that i’m missing (cough cough, MATT) this just felt superfluous.
his face makes me scared and i cannot shake the uneasy feeling while listening to this. to be fair it was muuuch better than i was anticipating but still just gave me the heebie jeebies
this bored me but grohl is epic on the drums so it has some merit.
3+3-3=3
this is great. oh you pretty things is a personal favourite - i purchased it as a single on itunes on my ipod touch circa 2012. the album as a whole is a strong 4.5 but it earns a 5 due to nostalgia points.
oh baby we are so back. this is one of my favourite indie alt rock albums of all time. it’s jazzy and smooth while being hard and punchy. if they could go back to making music like this i’d be very happy.
