i feel like this would go crazy if my mind was altered but as it stands this was an enjoyable listen for a walk on a spring day. horns on track 1 came on when i was mindlessly staring at a woman's ass and suddenly i was the (fav:) 21st century schizoid man
i’m not like… a musician so i can’t speak to that aspect of this but i don’t think i listened to it at the right time. it’s pretty and tranquil but maybe just not for me. fav: shhh / peaceful (was hard to split these tracks up fsr)
i just like david byrne’s vibes, he sounds like the inside of my skull feels like when i’m in crisis. would listen again. fav: cities
this was fun but not a standout, imo. maybe i could learn to love this if i picked it up secondhand but there are other more attractive things out there for me. i do respect what the mod scene did for early punk; there are a lot of very fun punchy tracks and i can see how music like this influenced early british punk. but still, it doesn't got that special sauce idk. fav: a-bomb in wardour street
i like the doors but there's a reason my only record is a compilation album. fav: peace frog
good for chilling in lingerie (alone or with a friend). fav: miles runs the voodoo down
another sad boy pity me 90s album that does not evoke many of the relevant emotions from me. several songs had their moments wrt instrumental composition but ultimately fell flat in terms of energy and narrative. enough to grab me but not enough to hold me (and certainly not to bring me back). fav: this is music
kind of like listening to a randy newman except i don't particularly want to do it again. fav: rockin' chair. i too miss ol virginny.
realistically a 3.5/5... enema squad was a low point, doodoo chasers gotta chill out fr. fav: cholly
love being able to go from a track with appreciable silence to some lower fidelity wailing and wanna dance around to both. some goldilocks type shit. anyway i'm back in my white stripes era ty jack white!! fav: fell in love with a girl (honorable mention to we're going to be friends)
they didn't have to go so hard on mr. skin.... and yet. also rly enjoyed street worm & morning will come quite a bit. anyway i think i have a soft spot for psychedelia, it's often playful and imo tends to feel like a very coherent journey. fav: space child
now when one of the three songs i've heard before comes on at a bar i can smugly think to myself "ah, creedence clearwater revival." fav: commotion
sonic the hedgehog's fav green day album, probably. a little puerile but so am i. fav: basket case
feel like austin powers woulda gone crazy for this one tbh. fav: metamorphosis
songs for people whose notions of eroticism were primarily informed by fingering scenes in "spicy" dark fantasy. genuinely unpleasant listening experience. fav: long story short (i guess)
going to sound fake but this takes me back to sitting in a jazz club but like. better music than what i heard that night. waist-touching, absinthe-sipping type of album. fav: trio and group dancers
genuinely there are a lot of fun tracks on this album i forgot about, and i think i really might be subject to nostalgia for this sound but i think this is a pretty solid cover to cover listen for all modes of transit. staring wistfully out a bus window? jenny was a friend of mine. walking with a lil pep in my step? on top. drunken taco bell parking lot karaoke? mr brightside. driving? idk i can't drive, someone else can say. fav: duh... (mr brightside)
solid breakup album for walking alone on the dark, but tbh feels bigger than that? like i feel like this should be watched on a stage. really moving and interesting to listen to. also who hurt bork like that god dam fav: notget
not especially interesting to me, kind of forgettable--i'm also not really a fan of the frontman's voice. an album better suited to walking on a sunny day than sitting on the bus. fav: pop song 89
i wanted to like this more because i enjoy morrissey’s voice and some of the sound was fun but i think without the nostalgia, his "i am hated for loving / i am haunted for wanting", "used to be a sweet boy" shtick makes me roll my eyes. like, is that sincere? i hope not. as my previous reviews have established i’m not in a big "self-pity" era but if i were this would probably appeal to me more. HATED all the fucking whispering on the track about the drowning girl, felt like an HR report. overall fine but probably not something i would go back to. fav: billy budd
this album has a lot of tracks i really enjoy! love a man not afraid to say what he needs to say in a <~2 minute track and gtfo. plus, i've always loved elvis costello's vocal performance--not just the quality of is voice but the persona he creates with it is very fun. crazy his government is "declan" tho. fav: sneaky feelings (hon. mention to i'm not angry)
v fun, high energy record. i am def guilty of only knowing "alright" from a car commercial or something but it isn't even the standout track of this album imo. i can see myself returning to most of these songs, particularly the first 2/3 of this album. i'd give it a 4.5 if i could, but i can't in good conscience give this a 5 for the rancid minion voice song. fav: lose it
yeah yeah yeahs are an easy sell for me in general and this is a good "i'm a hot girl walking at night" album, but for me this has more frequent low points than fever to tell which is imo a cover to cover listen every time. i like your music better when you're rowdier, karen! fav: dull life
while hearing men sing about forgiveness isn't really what i'm feeling at this stage of my life, crown of love stuck the landing and i wish it stayed on that final movement longer. that was kind of a theme for this album--i started getting excited about number of songs after being unmoved for a few minutes only for them to end. feels like it would hit a lot harder if if i had any nostalgia for it (but i cannot help that when i hear the opening to wake up without kind of rolling my eyes). fav: betrayal
my ignorant ass did Not know where half the samples in work it came from. anyway i enjoyed this for what it was, but i tend to prefer 90s/00s hip hop. spoiled myself and looked at matt's review and yeah it's a little cheesy in 2026 but that can be a vibe,,, fav: it's tricky (sorry)
i don't think i've ever felt like the beginning of an album was so abrupt?? i don't know if it's just the version i listened to or what. i was quite back and forth with this one, literally from track to track. overall imo side B was a better listen. fav: moondance
a decent album in that i enjoyed the energy as a whole and fucked with some of the tracks but i don't know that i would return to it as a complete album. i am less into the reggae-heavy tracks--it's just not a genre i've ever been drawn to and i imagine if i wanted to give it a real try i would not turn to sting first. fav: on any other day
i now truly understand the seductive power of a good falsetto. tended to prefer the shorter songs (typical for me) but enjoyed the entire listen. fav: yearnin' learnin'
often listen to these without a track listing and was floored i was hearing "bodhisattva" correctly. i get why they're a big deal, i really enjoyed a lot of the instrumentals, always lively and pleasant for idle/routine activity. fav: king of the world
whatever is about right. she looks way too cool on the album cover to be making music that sounds like this tbh, i was disappointed. i was pretty unmoved and will turn to tori amos and liz phair for my auntie music sorry aimee (and sorry to auntie rachel z''l for implying that but i think i'm right) forgettable as hell. fav: say anything
new order is a band i listen to with some frequency but the only cover to cover listen i've done is of a greatest hits album i picked up. i get the vibe that this album is a bit less gloomy than their others from what else i've heard, but i'm not mad at it. will be exploring more actual albums in the future. fav: guilty partner
felt like i had to be meaner as soon as i heard that british man sing in french but this was very listenable as the beatles tend to be. fav: im looking through you
i think i like the b-52s; two vocalists who do weird interesting shit with their performances, fun wacky subject matter on some songs. i dig the instrumentals, too--easy to move your body to. fav: rock lobster… sorry
manchild indeed. this is giving losercore (derogatory); i feel like there's some potential sonically, i enjoyed the weird spoken word bit in track 2. self-pitying pick-me boy malarkey is not done here in a way that works for me, spoils the vibes of something otherwise tolerable. self-loathing i will indulge but self-pity? higher bar. fav: mental
a cover to cover listen every time, has several bona fide bangers we all know but everything in between gels well imo and makes for a solid experience. i do gotta say it's always kinda jarring when a voice like That comes out of a twink. fav: broken/head over heels
listening to earlier stuff appreciate the beatles a bit more because honestly their big songs are so so so commercial and oversaturated it's hard to listen without a little cynicism or jadedness. i know i've said that about other artists but the beatles are king(s) of this for me. snappy saccharine love song after love song worked well for the beginning of this album, for me at least. fav: it won't be long (but money goes hard as a walk-in for an alimony hearing)
kind of impressed that changes is on this album? kind of a wild vibe shift for a third track even if it wasn’t really a high point for me on the album. there instrumental tracks were well placed imo and under the sun was a solid way to wrap things up but i don't know if i'd return to this as a whole. also i felt like jack black in school of rock the whole time i listened to this. fav: supernaut
really love the instrumentals here and fw the lead vocals even though the lyrics usually didn't resonate with me. the ambiance the former two things were able to create makes for very good "i am a hot and very cool woman" listening. feeling like rouge the bat in dry lagoon. fav: glory box
i enjoyed this listen! quality vocals and a good range of subject matter and vibe. though this album isn’t something i'd necessarily return to in its entirety, i enjoyed several songs enough to come back to them. i was really struck by run charlie run cuz i did Not know the temptations for particularly political music, i only really knew them for romantic ballads, but that was bold as hell and i imagine it must have upset some execs at the time (respect). fav: run charlie run
conscious hip hop is something i can certainly appreciate listening to but with the approach i’d take to reading a legit novel or watching a good film. like, i’m not returning to this for warm fuzzies but i appreciate the artistry behind it. in this case, i even sat through the credits. anyway shout out to all the internet sites, shout out to my mom for giving me these jbl earbuds so i could listen to music, shout out to beatrice she supports me emotionally, shout out to the guy riding his bike on the sidewalk even though the street is empty, shout out to my entire printmaking class, shout out to my department, shout out to my friends for doing the 1001 album challenge (fav: american terrorist)
started with a classic naruto amv banger and continued to some very listenable proto? metal? idk, i fuck with ~80s metal more than a lot of modern metal subgenres i’m aware of because it seems to be busy/cluttered and as a result more listenable for me. i'm def a musical ignoramus but i thought the guitar riffs were fun to and the sound is almost camp? which i enjoy in theory, but little actually stood out to me past track 1. i'd pick a copy of this up on cd if i saw it at a thrift for Angry Apartment Cleaning though. fav: enter sandman
i fuck with what she's doing well enough in theory but why the fuck does this have the sound balancing of a sonic adventure 2 battle soundtrack?? speak up girl!!!! fav: hair
ok union man go off!! if i were the playlist sort i could see myself setting aside a few tracks for future listening but i'm not especially moved by this album as a whole. i think because to me, this has a very similar sound to other british acts of the era that i prefer. while i appreciate some of the lyrics and where this fits in the evolution of folk punk it's nothing that stands out to me personally. fav: there is power in a union
very much "would stay if they were playing at a bar" type of music. only looked up when they started playing the smiths. fav: just like heaven
i'm sure some albums merit being 80 minutes long but i'm not as sure this is one of them. imo it got samey and old not even halfway through. fav: layla
for someone who was previously only really exposed to paper planes i’m annoyed took me this long to get to MIA’s other stuff? love that she named the album after her absentee father and he reached out to ask her to change it and she didn’t. i love a petty lady, i love a fun danceable song, and imo her vocals and delivery are also very fun. reading about how she did the backing tracks for her demos in her room makes me want to go and go listen to those. would own a physical copy of this. fav: hombre
thank god i got to listen to this after that police album so i know to be grateful. i think the vocal stylings of reggae (and 1st wave ska tbh for maybe obvious reasons) are an aspect i don't often vibe with but i could appreciate them here and especially loved the inclusion of lady backup singers. i really also liked the instrumentation throughout this album, there were elements layered in i hadn't really heard or at least listened for before, and i appreciated the songwriting both in subject matter and like... lyrical craft? but not sure that i would return to this whole album. fav: them belly full
can i call this camp? i looove like... theatre kid rock which imo is characterized by dramatic ass instrumentation i Could hear as an accompaniment to a high school or local musical theatre projection and a vocalist that's very in-your-face about their range and capabilities. i categorize the darkness's permission to land and foxy shazam's eponymous album as this. would happily own this on CD. fav: took the words right out of my mouth
sounds like it was made shortly after a terrorist attack. i enjoyed pj harvey's vocals again but it feels like she's trying to ride the florence welch wave a little too much here. album feels well-crafted but doesn't really speak to me much and is marred by a lil bit of stomp stomp clap mumford and sons stink. fav: on battleship hill
i only know suzanne for her song about child abuse ("luka") which i was enamored with in i think the fourth grade. i have no such nostalgia for what's going on here but i appreciate her storytelling. fav: marlena on the wall
