I bet this really freaked out the squares, man.
I was expecting to know more of these songs for some reason. More covers than I was expecting to be honest, but I guess it makes sense for 1963.
Smooth Operator is a great song. The rest of the album can’t quite match that level, but it’s very chill. Tons of sax.
I feel like I’m supposed to like the pixies more than I do. Outside of a couple of songs, I’ve just never really gotten into them. Where is my mind is great.
I only know one song of theirs and it’s not on this album. Pretty good at times.
I feel like Lou Reed is an artist I’m supposed to like because it’s cool. Initially, I wasn’t into this album but it did kinda grow on me as I listened.
Initial reaction - this kinda rules
4 songs later - this is lame
Next song - wait, is this cool?
Very next song - no, this is not cool
Title is very accurate. I get it, I just hate it. Stressed me out way more than ambient music probably should.
Last year, I listened to this album all the way through for the first time in probably 30 years. I forgot how good it was. I have no idea why I essentially stopped listening to Pearl Jam after 1998.
I know every band is somebody’s favorite band ever, but I don’t know how I would respond if someone told me the flying burrito brothers was their favorite band. I don’t love this type of country music (or most country music for that matter)
I forget how skit-heavy 90’s hip-hop was. Genius move by RZA to negotiate individual deals for the member of Wu-Tang. How many other members are on this list?
During my senior year of college I took a music history class that focused on jazz. I guess I needed some sort of arts credit or something? But we just listened to and talked about jazz for the entire semester. It was an awesome class even though I knew nothing about jazz. I never just listen to jazz, but I did distinctly remember walking around campus with an old iPod loaded with jazz I downloaded from Kazaa. We probably talked about Charles Mingus, the name sounds familiar.
My college roommate and I would drive around blasting this album in his maroon Chevy Corsica. It felt like it was everywhere that semester, with the In Da Club video constantly on in the cafeteria.
Never really listened to this band before, but remember Maps from Rock Band. Back in college we were at a party and this girl was obsessed with that song. She’s dead now, and that’s the first thing that comes to mind every time I hear Maps.
This is just a phenomenal live album. I don’t usually like live albums but this one is exceptional. I didn’t realize deep purple was a jam band.
There are a couple of songs on here I liked, but the lesser known Hendrix stuff never really resonates with me.
3.75. I always told myself (and anyone who would listen) that I hated country music. Turns out, I only hate bad pop-country music.
ZZ Top is corny as hell. Some good riffs but the songs and the shtick are not. I do think it’s funny that Billy Gibbons would randomly show up on the show Bones as a minor character who would just show up looking cool as hell with his beard, shades and weird du-rag hats and play guitar for absolutely no reason.
3.5. Thinking of making a hard pivot at 42 to be a jazz guy.
I aggressively do not like this.
2.75. Inoffensive but a little bland for me.
3.75. The drums are just so propulsive on the title track (and really most of the album).
I didn’t expect to like this more than London Calling, but I did.
3.75. Maybe the best opening/closing tracks on an album. They go so well together and are iconic. The rest of the album is fine.
If nothing else, this list has confirmed that I do not care for electronic music.
R.E.M. was one of those bands I am aware of and know more songs than I realize, but never actually listened to outside of their videos being on MTV when I was a kid.
3.75. Made for a fun grocery trip. I listened to later Cypress Hill but for some reason not this album. I dig it.
1.5. I have already forgotten everything I heard.
Despite never actively choosing to listen to AC/DC, I knew the words to 80% of these songs.
At one point, I had Queen’s entire discography loaded onto an iPod and somehow I’ve only heard one of these songs before.
It’s fun, but a little too weird at times to be really enjoyable. Genius of Love has an infectious groove.
Just a lot of fun grooves. I love when bands cover songs from different genres.
3.25. I thought I liked Dire Straits more than this, but it just might be the guitar riff for Money for Nothing that I like.
I really like a lot of this.
This is a lot of fun. Gonna need to watch the movie now.
The songs are too long and repetitive. Praise You sure did have a moment, didn’t it?
I don’t really like David Lee Roth (or Van Halen), but he’s obviously the better frontman for the band. This album is undeniable.
Maybe my brain is broken, but I found some of this to be oddly soothing. Some of it made me want to not have ears and I will never listen to this again, but I didn’t hate it.
It’s got You’re My Best Friend and Bohemian Rhapsody on it. It also has a song about being in love with a car. Very Queen.
2.75. I just don’t think I like Lou Reed that much. Perfect Day is good
Running Up That Hill is a great song. The rest of the album doesn’t quite reach that same level, but it’s a fun listen.
I think I stopped listening to Radiohead around this time. Up til then, my musical taste was dictated by my older brother, and this album didn’t sound enough like Creep, so I wasn’t interested. 13 year old me was wrong.
2.75. In retrospect, some of these songs are corny as hell. I was caught off guard the couple of times they dropped an F-bomb in a song. I guess I didn’t realize Run D.M.C. cursed in their songs?
3.75. A band I am aware of but never actually listened to. I kinda dig it.
Kinda made my grocery shopping trip feel like a heist montage in a late 90s movie until it gave me a migraine
There are some cool guitar riffs on this but the rest sounds like cheesy “oldies” pop to me
I’ve always thought people could be divided by whether they like the Stones or the Beatles more. I’ve always said Beatles. This doesn’t change that.
Beck is such a quirky weirdo and the music absolutely reflects that.
I have never heard of this person before. It’s reggae? Scottish reggae? And this record sold 600,000 copies?
The biggest thing going against this album is it’s not Rumors.
3 or 4 of these songs are classic rock staples. They carry a lot of the weight here. I don’t think we talk enough about how crazy is it that the drummer lost his arm like 2 years after this album came out and just continued to drum for the next 40 years
You know…that song “Bad Company” from the album Bad Company by the band Bad Company.
I like the faster/punkier songs more than the slower ones.
For some reason, this is my least listened to QOTSA album. I didn’t start listening to them until Rated R came out in 2000, but never really went back to their first album.
I kinda like the music but the vocals and lyrics are not good.
I have been culturally aware of Jethro Tull as the 70s rock band with a flute, but outside of the occasional song on the radio I never gave it much thought. There is some really great stuff on here, but not all of it works the same.
5/5 no skips, even the songs they cut out of the version that aired.
This is some white funk nonsense with like 2.5 good songs. I like the music, hate the lyrics and the singing.
This would be (at least) 50% better with a different singer. Or no singer.
Every few years I try and find new music to listen to. Sometime in the 2010s, that led me to MGMT, probably from a list like this. It wasn’t for me then and it still isn’t now.
I like that they were from Kentucky. Unfortunately I was 6 when this album came out and they had been broken up for at least 20 years before I finally heard about them as an adult.
Not something I’m going to work into the regular rotation, but I dig it.
We had been married for over 10 years when I discovered my wife LOVES Fleetwood Mac. It just never came up before that.
I knew more of these songs than I realized. As a kid, I remember watching the video for Hard to Handle on MTV all the time. I think I was just mesmerized by the nonsense of the lyrics.
I know way more about TLC than I ever planned thanks to MTV and VH1. It’s not really my vibe, but I can appreciate it.
The beach boys are weird as hell.
Not sure why the default version on Apple Music was censored, but it was oddly jarring to not hear cursing. Thought I was on my kids profile for a minute.
Not really my style but I can appreciate the concept of it.
I couldn’t really get into it. I don’t know how to explain it, but it feels unfinished?
Sometimes I wonder if my parents listened to these albums from the 50s and 60s when they were kids. I guess I could just ask them, but it’s more fun trying to imagine either sets of my grandparents putting a Fats Domino record on.
I think he’s a better rapper than lyricist. I like the way he sounds more than what he says.
3.75. I dig this one more than Surfer Rosa.
There are a couple of really great songs on here. The rest all kinda sound the same to me, which is how I’ve always felt about The Clash.
2.75 If I were hosting a classy grown up dinner party with cocktails and cheese, I would definitely put this on as background music.
A little goes a long way with reggae. This is better than some of the others I’ve heard. Still not for me though.
2.75. This live album sounds less like a planned setlist and more like BB King just followed where the music led him.
2.75. Prior to seeing The Last Waltz a few years ago, I’d only ever heard The Weight, which is fine as a song. That concert film was good but did not make me want to listen to anymore of The Band. I do like it when drummers sing.
Electronica is just not for me
4.25. This was really good. Pretty sure my uncle (or someone equally as nerdy about this type of thing) told me he used to use Yes albums to calibrate and configure his home stereo.
4.25. Just a solid classic rock album. Didn’t realize all of these classic rock radio staples were on the same album.
3.25. I think I like Wu-Tang as a collective a little more than any of the individual parts, even though many of them appear on multiple tracks of their individual albums.
2.5. The keyboard playing is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
3.75. Some solid songs on here. I don’t regularly listen to Billy Joel, but I’m usually not disappointed if one comes on.
1.75. Maybe the outside sounds were too loud on my walk, but the music was so down low in the mix that it just sounded like Sarah Vaughn was talk-singing in my brain and it wasn’t very pleasant.
2.75. Kinda sounds like generic late 60’s blues rock to me. Nothing bad but nothing stands out either.
