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.
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.
