It's no steely Dan but it's close
High and dry is peak winnie the pooh's soul leaving his body. First track kind of lacks depth/dimension but overall quite good.
I mean there's nothing wrong with this but I just don't know if there's anything particularly great about it either.
Even for today this album feels so special, experimental, and unique. Literally dancing the whole way. Only thing I don't like is the album cover it isn't the vibe ...
As you all known I am in my Dolly Parton era so my brain was already primed to love this and it was lovely! None of the songs stick out to me strongly tho so ... only 4 stars
I like a lot of things about this album but some of the tracks just feel a little overly long and there were some other odd choices made when it comes to mixing (which I do know were likely intentional but that doesn't make me like them lol). The production, lyrics, vocal direction etc are sublime but I'm not sure if I'll listen to this one again. I think I'll listen to some of their other stuff though.
Abbey Road might be a bit overrated still compared to other Beatles albums (I want you/she's so heavy is good but way too fucking long tho) but it's quite good through and through and has some of the most masterful song transitions
Nothing wrong with this album but I wasn't really feeling it.
This is a really difficult ranking for me because I love daft punk but this album is just not that good.. but I have to ask myself, out of context, if I had never listened to daft punk before and had no standards, what would I give it?
Ultimately I reflected on my ratings so far and concluded...
Once again as I've said I'm in my Dolly era rn and this is actually not one I had listened to yet. It's pretty good but very short and I just know how much better Dolly can get because I've heard it lol
I think maybe this just isn't for me. I liked it a little but in general I didn't enjoy myself much. Not in the best mood so maybe I'm being a lil unfair
I've never really listened to R. E. M. Before so maybe if I had heard their better stuff I would like this less but I thought it was pretty good ... Vibey
Excellent album some of my favorite Beck songs are on this album and many songs are SO GOOD!!!! But fuck farewell ride and also I don't really like hell yes either
Feel insanely mixed about this album because I do actually really enjoy the music but all the live albumness of it all is so irritating! Every song is way too long, the yapping is so annoying, the audience is also so annoying but luckily you can't hear them during the actual songs. Even though I legit enjoyed the music I was so ready for this album to be over! Every time I've felt like that about an album so far I've given it a 2 but that just doesn't feel right because I think I like The Who 😭 I'm gonna do 3 for now and try to listen to the ACTUAL real original release and maybe change it later
Yummy
Honestly some of these songs are really good but some of them are snooze fests so that makes this album perfectly mid imo
This album is paced perfectly imo. No individual song felt too long not the album as a whole which has so far been a feat in this challenge. I'm not the biggest fan of the vocal performance or lyrics but sometimes it hits and the instrumentation is very good.
The mixing is undeniably terrible and it is a bit long for sure but despite those flaws I still actually like it a lot and I could see myself easily giving a different Hüsker Dü album a 4 because apparently according to the global reviews this is not a very good album of theirs
Wow! So inspired! Total art! Wow!!! I mean this so genuinely. This is just such inspired art I'm kind of speechless
I liked it a little at the beginning but it really dragged for me and by the end I was bored out of my skull. It's so boring!!!
Very boring ):
God the mixing on this... If I want to hear the vocals I have have my ears blasted out by harmonica! You absolutely *can* tell this was recorded on only one microphone (in a bad way!)
Overall it was really good still and I enjoyed it when I wasn't frantically slamming my thumb on the volume down button
This album is so good! I never would have found this outside of this challenge I don't think. The blend with the Punjabi music is so artful and aaahhh I loved it
I liked it more than the other one I gave 4 stars it was pretty good but I may now demote the other one to 3 stars lol
I have absolutely no strong feelings about this one way or the other. It exists
The album cover is giving me the creeps but it's so charming besides that
I really didn't like this and I honestly don't feel like there was anything redeeming about it even if I tried to separate it from my personal tastes
I like this but as usual the shrillness of the harmonica brings it down for me. Like would it kill them to mix it a little lower !! And also I just don't feel like it's his best. It's doing a lot but not much at the same time
Genuinely fire. Felt so relaxed but entertained and stimulated while listening to this. Don't know if I can get behind calling the last track a 20 minute song when really it's like at least 3 pretty distinct songs put together but that's fineeee
I was so close to giving this album a 2 but the last few songs were pretty good and I also read about how this album is named after her mom which I think is sweet....
Very pleasant and fun! No real negatives I like a jam and I like the sound and yeah it's good but I don't think I'll have a craving to listen to it again
Title track is a little overly long imo but overall very very good! The sound is so dynamic and I felt an actual connection to the tracks
Last two songs legit dropped it from a 4 for me .....
Very very fun I like it! That one 10+ minute song did not need to be that long tho
This is very very good and unique but feels a little long for me and I don't see myself ever listening to it again
Album cover is so dumb to me I can't deal lmao but regardless of this I thought it was just alright
I can't lie the age gap song went kinda hard and I love the name Aimee but this was mostly pretty mid
I don't really want to hear this again. I will not keep on chooglin
Sorry but I love the Beatles!! It's just good! It just hits!!
This probably should have been the only R.E.M. album on the list because this is like all the hits I guess. Even though I liked automatic for the people I genuinely think I feel inclinded to give this a lower rating basically because it's the third one we've listened to and I don't feel like I like it enough to tolerate That
I have a feeling this is not the absolute best album but it was still quite good
Couldn't finish - this entire album is dragged down by the insanely flat production. Never in my life have I heard a guitar sound like that! They eq'd everything to make a straight line I stg. I wanted to stop on the first song but I DIDN'T I listened to all but the last 4 songs but what matters is I was brave....
Very strange and overly sexy album
Would have easily been a 5 but double albums are just not it, bro... I liked all the songs but it just.... Was a lot
Also Conner will probably say I only like this because it's "upbeatslop" or something and it's true
Superb sublime
I LOVE IT!!! It scratches the itch so good and I love the sharp wit and the cohesion and that feeling of a deep love of music. It's so simple and so complex and HEAVENLY!!!
This is a little overly edgy for me and it felt a little underbaked... Both are likely because this is an insanely early punk album so I give it a slight break of course. I didn't hate any of it I just wasn't loving it either
Need to think on this one more
This is very good but I'm just not in love with it idk
SEXY!!! OH MY GOD!!! GOT ME [Redacted]
She sam on my ba till I jizz¹
¹Read the etymology section for jazz on Wikipedia
Also playing that clip from the Elvis biopic in my head
"He's WHITE???!!!"
The songs I think are good I think they're really good but the overall album is weak and too long!!
Tubeway Army is still peak but I love Gary Numan this album is still very very good
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High 3 for sure but I didn't love it enough for it to make 4. Maybe on a couple more listens but upon thinking that I was like... Hm idk if I feel like relistening to this ....
I unfortunately thought this was quite good but the seething brings it down to a 3 in the end
Fuck I was pissed about getting another REM album but this was actually really good. Probably the best yet. Fuck.
Yeah I mean it is what it is. I expected there to be at least some kind of Finnish stink on it but there isn't so idk man. The title track feels like a parody of itself
Pretty easy listening but not the type of easy listening I actually like
I'm ready to admit I didn't really want to listen to this in the first place because uhh Jay Z but then after girls girls girls I literally could not bring myself to continue it gave me the ick so bad and I don't feel bad about it in the slightest
This album is really fucking weird?? It is the most best poetry thing I've ever listened to and like it's cool and all but it was not hitting for me. I feel like this kind of thing is maybe best live for the full vibes
Flip flopped on how I felt about this album so much. Some of the songs are good and I maybe even really like them but the rest of them are so... Meh. but either way it just didn't feel special
Not a long album by any means but I got really really tired of it by the end of it... Finished it but I didn't desire to
Good! This is a high 3 for sure but it just wasn't hitting 4 for me
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I don't mean to be a prude or sex negative but like this album just comes off insanely objectifying the way it talks about women 💀 It was so intense and constantly self referential that I'm genuinely not sure if this was meant to be a concept album or satirical or something?? If I'm the one missing the point that's my bad but uhhh regardless of those opinions I didn't feel like it was good music. It felt like the fresh prince but bad
I love blur by blur
The suburbs is a 4 for me but this just wasn't really hitting the same spots
Why is every fucking song about getting dick sucked????? Regardless of that it's so fucking boring and repetitive. Every song is too long and it's exhausting.
I have no real point of reference for samba but I thought this was really good
Yes this album is unpleasant but in like a cool horror kind of way!!! This was not abrasive in the way I thought it was going to be at all and it's very very good art
I mean it's only their second album.. my goats weren't really cooking yet but despite that I really love a lot of these tracks and it scratches an itch in my brain.
This is just really not for me in any way
Wow this one really shocked me
This felt like listening to someone I don't like yap for an hour and I don't want to experience it again
Everything unique or interesting about this is so repeated so much in this album that it immediately loses all novelty. Also felt strangely very sanitized? Why are there so many mentions of McDonald's and nursery rhymes?
Idk I just wasn't feeling this one as much. Obviously Bohemian Rhapsody is really good but that was the only song I really love off this one.
Jamie was right
