Not really my vibe, and kind of blended together for me, but I liked the personal touches added that make it feel autnetic.
English band creates the most quintesessential american album ever. Hard rock, folk and blues.
Why hadn't I heard of this guy before now? Some genuinely beautiful songs, incredibly easy to listen to. Love the use of intros and interludes; makes this feel like a very cohesive album, and not just a collection of absolute bangers.
Not really a fan of the grunge genre, but most of the songs were alright, even if the instrumentation was repetitive to my stupid ears. Also a little too much distortion which i'm pretty meh about. Pretty cheesy. I like the harmonisation, but the vocals make me want to die. There was a good balance of hard rock and softer moments, but otherwise not for me.
I can see why when this came out in 1978 people thought it was future music. Alotta beeps and boops, but suprisingly easy to listen to. Its aight to this day.
Kind of a sauceless version of the Kinks. Perfectly listenable but mostly a bit too samey.
But hey, if you're looking for some stock hippie music you ca- oh shit, its *that* song. Yeah that ones pretty good.
Solid country/rock album, great guitar work. Gets progressively harder rock over the course of the album, but I think I prefer the first half to the second. Neil Young has a pretty distinctive voice, but it grows on you in time - kind of like Dylan. No real standouts for me, just consistantly strong throughout. Great intro/reprise.
I liked it.
Pleasant enough sounds, but kind of mopey and dreary, and this is coming from someone who enjoys The National and Radiohead. Solid consistant sound, but nothing really stood out as impressive.
Hallelujah is the best song, which is unsurprising, because it's Leonard Cohen's.
MC5 is to The Clash what a hot air balloon is to a 747. It came first and revolutionised the genre, but I sure wouldn't like to take a hot air balloon to Marbella.
Or something.
Kind of like Revolution 9 if it sounded good and lasted an entire album. Pretty nice sounds here and there but feels like background music a lot of the time. Making deliverately abrasive sounds in the middle of an otherwise good song continues to be a dogshit decision though.
Great guitar, exceptional drumming - I just wish I could like the lead vocals. The best of this era of early 80s mainstream rock. Absolute banger of an album cover.
Sounds a bit like Trent Reznor drowning in quick sand. I like bands that use the wall of sound, but this one didn't fully work for me. All blends together, until you get to around nothing is, in which it all becomes the auditory equivalent of slamming your head in a car door.
Slam poetry night at the noise factory. Jesus fucking Christ.
Nice palette cleanse of an album. Catchy tunes and fun lyrics that remind me of The Flight of the Concords (only much better musically). A breath of fresh air in a list that can feel overburdened with edgy experimental albums.
One of those albums where you see the name and the cover and think "Ah shit here we go again".
Suprisingly listenable... for the most part. I hate it when a band who could otherwise write decent songs like Sweat Loaf and Human Cannonball decide to deliberately make bad and annoying songs because art. I guess thats punk for you.
If you've got a 30 minute elevator journey, I have an album to sell you.
It's okay. Nice even. I don't know, i'm not a jazz guy. It sounded good but it all blended together like a piano in a lounge bar.
It's good I fear. It's good like Sandman, and Father Ted, and Rosemary's Baby, and all those other pieces of influencial art that suddenly leave a bad taste in your mouth because of who made it.
Oh well. Atleast you can say that this was the peak.
Pretty much exactly what I expected to be honest. A great voice, but not a whole lot of variety, despite the back end of the album being loaded with popular covers.
Kinda shit Fletcher from Whiplash would kill a kid to make. A technically great performance by three technically great performers, but for a guy like me who don't know dick from butt, it was just lounge music.
It's honestly not completely bad. Starts off a little rough but some of the later songs like Wilmot and Tow Truck have a little bit of sauce to them. Reminds me of a video game soundtrack, in that it feels designed to loop and provide a consistent background experience.
No idea why this particular album is on the list however.
Solid. Songs just the right length to not overstay their welcome. Cool harmonies.
California Dreamin' is one of the best songs ever made.
A little bit confused why this is on the list. Second rate Rolling Stones/The Kinks with nothing particularly interesting. The final song tried to do something, but never quite made it.
Its okay. A little repetitive, a little jazzy. Goes a little too bleep bloop when it should be duggadung.
Little bit-sized songs that I would generally consider too short to be memorable. ADHD-ass Undertones. Teenage Kicks is the only thing that stood out to me, the rest is pretty much just early mod music.
Thank god for this list - now I can finally know what Elvis sounds like.
Summer Barbecue with a cold cider type beat. Always appreciate getting more international music, and this one was a nice chill one. Love the drums, great brass, not huge on the vocals but it fit the vibe.
Really solid 90s grunge/rock album. Love the vocals. Doesn't really have a standout song for me, but no duds either.
Great voice, great songwriting. Not a huge Adele fan but was surprised by how many of the songs on here I recognised and enjoyed. Sure, it's over-played and a little safe now, but I remember it being a huge breath of fresh air when it first came out.
Lets play a game of Two Truths and a Lie -
1. They're called Adam and the Ants even though its just the lead singer who's called Adam Ant (Get it?). He plays Ant Music and is charge of the Ant People, which doesn't really tie in to the original pun at all.
2. The album transcends genre with the only through-line seeming to be bandits and renegades. There's a cowboy song, a highwayman song, even a pirate song. It was a bold idea to base their entire career on this theme, but I guess it paid off.
3. Midway through one of the songs they play the theme to Lawrence of Arabia for some reason.
Just kidding, all of those things are true, nothing makes sense.
One song at a time is fine, the whole album together really drags. But at least its fun for a while. And so, so camp.
Goddamn 1969...
Not my favourite Led Zeppelin album (definitely IV) but its insane how this album just exploded into the world fully formed like the immaculate conception. Bluesy hard rock, just a little bit stolen (which they have since paid for)
Never a huge fan of blues Robert Plant. There's only so much man orgasming POV I can take. The rest of the band are some of the greatest to ever do it though.
This is the 2nd Stan Getz album I have had on this list, and to be honest it has me questioning why the first album was included when this seems so much better to me. While the other Bossa Nova albums i've heard so far tend to fade into nothing music, this one has enough of a hook to keep me interested. The vocals are great, the brass is enjoyable, a big improvement but probably not something I would actively listen to.
Noise Rock is about right.
When I think of 80s Metal I kind of physically recoil. It's not my thing. It's never been my thing. But I guess that's half the point of working through this list.
This album is pretty good. Still not my thing, so I don't think I’ll be back, but maybe I wont puke a little the next time a big name metal band shows up in my list. Baby steps.
I like the singer's voice, everything else is just kind of meh. I just don't think i'm a fan of punk music, which sucks because there are A LOT of punk albums in this list.
People will tell you that Abba are annoying. And they may be right, depending on the dose. But those people have never went to a white person wedding and seen the dance floor fill the second Dancing Queen starts up.
I started this album grumbling about dad rock and 'merica, but it did grow on me a little by the end. The song writing (and lyricism) is pretty good, the voice and instrumentation is I guess an acquired taste.
Man I wish I didn't read into this album after listening to it. I really enjoyed the album's vibes - like a sleazy French James Bond soundtrack. I try to judge these based solely on the music, but finding out about the artist and the "story" of the album does leave an ick in my mouth that is hard to ignore. It can lose a star for the creepy lyrics though.
P.S Everyone who voted 1 solely based on Gainsbourg's character better have also given 1 star to Led Zeppelin, Bowie, and every other old school rocker known for sleeping with their groupies.
Some nice Yusuf/Cat Stevens vibes, kind of crazy that they both existed around the same time. Nice voice, great songwriting, chill time.
Truth and Soul has the honour of being the only Ska album not to annoy the shit out of me. Some fun 80s sounds that remind me of nostalgic "radical era" 90s kids movies and shows. Don't think I would re-listen, but I did enjoy it.
Really enjoyed this one, Love's voice continues to be great, good grunge sound that rivals Nirvana, first half was good, back half was even better.
Album I’ve listened to a million times, but can still find something new to enjoy every time. One thing I picked up on this time around is how good the drumming is - Ringo must actually be some kind of robot because there is never a beat out of place or out of tune.
Always enjoy the lesser songs like Fixing a Hole and When I'm Sixty Four more than I think I will. Within You Without You is fantastic. A Day In The Life is one of the best songs ever.
Pretty camp, like a parody of glam rock. If you don't take it seriously it's all fine, but it's lacking both the musicality of someone like Weird Al and the character of a band like Spinal Tap. Not criminal, not particularly interesting, which puts it in the weird "Why is this on the list?" category. I like the first song where he sounds like Pinky from Pinky and the Brain.
Pretty dissapointed in this one to be honest. Was excited to listen, having heard (and enjoyed) several random Talking Heads songs in the past, but this album was a little bit of a tough listen for me. The singing is deliberately abrasive at the best of times, but it can work well - most of this album was just annoying. I enjoyed "Heaven" and "Drugs", but that's about it.
I like a lot of these songs but man the vocals suck. Nothing groundbreaking but listenable as long as the singing isn't getting too whiny (which is way too often). Best songs are the instrumentals. Yeah.
Its exactly how you think its going to sound. I know its cool to hate Coldplay, and sure most of these songs are overplayed and kind of meh, but they are literally one of the least musically offensive bands of all time. Auditory white bread.
So desperately not my thing that I stopped doing the list for a week afterwards.
Solid post 2000s indie rock band. Not much to say otherwise.
Look, it's too on the nose to be a good concept album and too batshit to be a good musical, but what can I say? I'm a sucker for a leitmotif. And every time "listening to you" or "see me, feel me" starts playing I clap. A couple of great standout songs like Acid Queen, I'm Free and Pinball Wizard, but really its all about the flow of song into song. I like it, probably more than I should.
So boring to me. I fear I won't ever understand metal - just repetitive thrashing and headbanging to me. Title track was pretty good though.
Solid enough southern-blues and gospel album, just wish it went harder into those stylings instead of getting distracted and doing baseball game covers of pop songs.
Beautiful, dreamy folk rock, peak Fleetwood Mac. Well, it would be, if it wasn't for that OTHER album.
I know the variety is what makes the band great and everything, but I can't help but love the Stevie Nicks-lead songs more than the others. Writing is great, some fun guitar work, beautiful harmonies. Tusk is insane, such a banger.
I get it now. Second entry from Kendrick for me, and this one made sense instantly. Great instrumentation backed up by solid rap, very personal. I love the way these albums use characters and narratives - like an audio musical. I'm not a hardcore rap or hip hop guy, but I enjoyed the sound a lot.
Kinda shit you hear on the main menu of Tony Hawk Pro Skater because its not good enough to be used in an actual level.
In my top 5 albums of all time. Beautiful composition, meaningful lyrics, love the brass and the wind. This album in particular doesn't get bogged down in the white boy christian sadness, and has a nice variety of upbeat and soul crushing sad. Some of the most unique sounds on this list, and not in a "1970s experimental industrial punk" kind of way.
Still should have won the Oscar fuck you Mama Coco.
Pretty good reminder of what country music used to be like. Not a single truck in sight. Still, can't help but think there wasn't enough variety - I know there's only so much you can do with the genre, and the difference in the three leads did make it more interesting, but it could do with a little more jooj. Give Dolly Parton a gun.
*Truck revving sounds*
You're listenin' tooo
*HONK HONK*
102.3
*YEEEHAA*
Trucker FM
*Screeching Tires*
Where we play nothin' but manly, American music to rock out to.
*Rifle fires*
This ain't your city-folks' station.
*plays Highway to Hell 10 times in a row*
Really nice, catchy pop music with a little bit of creative weirdness. I was actually surprised by how many of the songs hold up to Mr Blue Sky.
Good as an album also - a consistent sound with enough variety to keep me interested.
Eh. It's fine. Decent 90s Brit-pop, but lacking the catchiness of What's the Story Morning Glory?
Goddamn this lady has pipes. Like a female-lead Led Zeppelin, really great hard rock and blues, some classic songs. So much passion and intensity, you can't help but feel it. Wild.
If you like Janis Joplin's voice you will love this album, if you don't then you won't.
Solid rock a;bum, more serious then I was expecting. Love the rejected James Bond demo they snuck in there.
What if we sucked all the juice and musical talent out of "Ants from Up There" and just left an atmospheric sad boy guitar album? Listen to Black Country, New Road if you want this but good.
More boring british punk. I sleep.
Not much to say about it. It'skay
Sounds like the Blues Brothers but not funny.
Kind of an electric atmosphere, real slice of history. Songs still hold up too. The interludes between really paint a picture of the kind of guy Cash was. Definitely worth a listen.
Never really listened to the White Stripes apart from the big hits, but this album was pleasantly surprising. Jazzy, easy to listen to, solid and consistent throughout. Not a huge fan of the vocals, but I have a feeling they grow on you.
So dissonant and weird. Like a fucked up rollercoaster that just goes up and down really fast for 40 minutes until you puke.
It's Frank Sinatra. Great voice, samey songs. Not really any bangers on this album unfortunately though.
Really enjoyable, jazzy pop music with some nice instrumentation. Thought the vocals would grate on me after a while but they never did. Pretty good, will listen to more.
Jazzy, good instrumentation, kind of chill! "If..." is such a funny song, I kind of love it. Alotta horse metaphors.
Kinda gets lost in dull instrumentation town in the middle of album, but it manages to find its way again by the end. Some nice funky guitar, but nothing mindblowing.
Feels like showing up at some random dive bar during a road trip and being blown away by the local band. Really nailed the vibe, just not hugely my type of rock.
Still don't get it. Cilantro-ass band.
It's okay, nothing memorable but not horrible.
As a parody of Jim Morrison, its pretty good! Pablo Picasso is a great satire of that rambling poetry style The Doors uses, and... wait, this isn't a joke album?
Good band, kind of a mid album. Only song that stood out was Bad Moon Rising.
Don't know why, but this very much hit the spot right now. Joyous.
Pretty decent, if you were alive in the UK between 2000 - 2010 this is what rock sounded like. There's better "britslop" out there with more unique sounds, like early Kaiser Chiefs and The Fratellis, but this is fine I guess.
Really unique sounding, jazzy and catchy with some amazing guitar playing. Purple Rain is an all time song, but I feel like some of the songs here aren't as memorable.
Liked this a lot more than the first Talking Heads album I got, just still not hugely memorable outside of the initial sound. A lot less grating though, so thats a big plus.
Good 80s pop. Every song is catchy as hell, and quite a few of them stand out as "more". Pretty cool, but some people won't care because it's "pop music" I guess.
Much like Metallica, this very much isn't my thing. Some cool guitar work, and an all time album cover though.
I got Megadeth yesterday and I can say with all confidence this album is the complete opposite of that.
Pyramid Song is one of the best songs ever, but the rest is pretty bad. A little bit too experiment, too up its own asshole - and this is coming from a Radiohead fan. The meme where Radiohead spend 40 minutes tuning their guitars on-stage and the fans go wild is real. Play the Kid Amnesiac game on Epic though, its the ideal way to experience this music.
Look man I gave Master of Puppets a 1 so you know this is going in the pit.
It's fine, not my favourite but completely passable and catchy pop rock. Drumming is great though.
One of the big names of britpop, and this is their best album. Common People is a step above, but there are some other decent tunes in there too. Just about manages to not overstay its welcome.
I like, pretty jazzy, catchy indie rock. Nice voice, nothing particularly unique but I enjoyed it all the way through, so can't really complain.
Still not my thing, but atleast it's fun about it.
Nice and chill, love the organ and the saxophone is great. Very nice easy listening jazz that probably appeals to a wider audience (me), but might not be enough for hardcore fans.
Honestly? Pretty overrated I feel. Starts off really strong with hit after hit, but then starts to even out around Polly / Territorial Pissings. The only song to make any impression on me after that is Something in the Way.
I liked both Hole albums on this list better, which is an opinion i'm pretty sure would get me beaten to death with hammers by some people.
Still a good album though.
Real nice, simple, short and sweet guitar music. Enjoy his playing, enjoy his voice. Simple as.
Nice. He's a great guitar player, and the songs are pretty smooth.
Good synth pop, I enjoy the bass. Lauper's vocals are an acquired taste, but the album doesn't quite outstay it's welcome. I kind of wish some of the insane personality from the last few songs were more present earlier in the album, because it for sure ended on a crazy note.
Solid rock prog rock album, nice synth and organ and stuff, but didn't stick in my mind.
Not bad, but I can see why people would say it's boring. It's perfectly pleasant chill music, but it's not going to stand out in the end.
I like this, not as shoegazy as I was expecting, with some solid guitar and memorable songs.
Solid enough, jazzy but ultimately unmemorable.
The turning point for when The Beatles get good. Quite a few weird and more interesting sounding songs, but still slightly bogged down with the boyband pop. Norwegian Wood is underrated.
Easy listening Bob Dylan from the 2010s, just 50 years too late and lacking a certain poetry. Was nice to listen to though.
Well, it's certainly something. I do admire the unique sound with so many different inspirations coming together, I just didn't really enjoy the style that much. A little bit too much sound effect sampling, kind of cheapens it for me. Paper Planes is still good though.
Pretty mid. Mediocre rock spliced in with awkward acapella, not funky enough to work.
Nice enough voice, but still pretty dull old fashioned country music.
I really liked quite a few songs on here, Nico's voice is great and Lou's voice is... unique - but for the love of god please stop with the distortion and noises and screeching.
Pretty solid pop-soul, nothing stood out as exceptional but nothing bad either.
Fluctuates wildly between legitimately cool Latin Jazz and "soundtrack from a shitty early 2000s PlayStation game that you remember 20 years later and think "that game had no right to such a cool soundtrack"".
