i like it more than i thought i would based on my previous thoughts about Steely Dan. It’s still not my favorite type of music to listen to but it was pleasant enough to hear and i liked more of the songs than i thought i would. i already knew i liked Dirty Work; Midnite Cruiser, Reelin’ In The Years, and Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) were the other standout songs to me. I still just feel like it was a lot of the same but overall it was a pretty good album and an enjoyable listening experience. I’m not sure what the rating scale will be but it was like a 3.5/5 or a 6/10 for me personally.
i liked it but i felt like there was so much repetition. that’s to be expected with disco but it’s hard when you’re just sitting around listening to it like i was, versus it playing while you are dancing, which is what a lot of this is intended for. but yeah i think disco does lose some of its shine when you’re listening to it the way i was versus at a disco/club/party. some good songs but then there were some songs i just got bored with. he’s the greatest dancer, lost in music, and we are family were the standouts for me. 3.5/5
pretty good and nice to listen to. there are some great songs and then some less great songs that sound like worse versions of the great songs. i liked Things We Said Today which i don’t think i’d ever heard before. i don’t necessarily see myself listening to it all the way through again but it was perfectly pleasant to listen to. it did feel pretty repetitive at moments. another 3.5/5 i guess
[Album #4] i honestly didn’t really know much about jethro tull before listening to this, just hearing the name and i had heard the beginning of the title track before (without knowing that’s what it was). i wasn’t excited to listen because i just had a kind of negative connotation associated with them for no reason i guess. i was actually pleasantly surprised with the album once i got into it. it felt really cohesive without being repetitive (which was a problem i had with my first couple of albums on this project). i liked how the instrumentation, vocals, and lyrics all meshed very well and i did like the flutes. it might not be the type of album that i would listen to all the time but i thought it was a pretty good album and i wouldn’t be against revisiting it. i don’t see myself listening to any of the songs outside of an album context though. Rating around 3.5
[Album #5] Honestly really bored me. not for me. the first few songs were fine, i didn’t like them but they were fine, but then it just kept going. felt longer than 37 mins. i didn’t think i was going vibe with this and i didn’t. i’m not the biggest metal fan and definitely not early metal. like a 1.5-2/5 for me.
[album #6] i liked this one a lot. i would have never listened to this without this project and im glad i found it. classic blues music, still great to listen to 66 years later. 4/5
[album #7] Obviously really talented musicians but really didn’t enjoy the vocalist. i did this his voice “matched’ the instrumentals well but i just didn’t like listening to it! drumming was really great, which was the only thing i knew about rush going in to listening to this. overall not for me but did have some positives. standout tracks: YYZ, limelight. probably a 2/5 for me
[album #8] i used to listen to this a bunch in middle school. i think it is pretty decent pop-heavy-rock ? and has some good tracks, but overall is too long and i think takes itself very seriously for what it is. i did have fun listening to a chunk of it, but i did drag in a lot of places. Strong start and then a pretty good end. A lot of these songs feel like things you listen to while working out. Very dramatic, “epic,” over the top, rock opera-y, which is fine if you like that but not super my thing these days. Starlight, supermassive black hole (duh), map of the problematique, and Knights of Cydonia are my standout tracks. 2.5 or 3/5 for me.
[album #9] Really liked this album, this is probably the first i’ve gotten from this project that i feel like i will listen to a lot in the future. Cocteau twins were always a band that i knew i should listen to but never did so im glad this finally got me to. so lush, full, and ethereal sounding. i really don’t mind that you can’t really understand the lyrics, the vocal delivery is so cool and meshes with the instrumentals so well. standout tracks on first listen for me were: Pinch the Baby, Iceblink Luck, Heaven or Las Vegas, Fotzepolitic, and Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires. Might go 5/5 for rating on this one but will listen a few more times today
[album #10] i am a big monk fan and this one is no exception. loved spending time with this one and will surely revisit many times. all the songs are great but for some reason pannonica really stuck out to me this listen. 5/5
[album #11] Haven’t listened to this album all the way through in probably nine or ten years, forgot how much i love it. jangly 70s guitars, chill vibe, i personally love the lyrics and vocals, and i feel like it “sets the stage” well for what’s to come for the talking heads. fave tracks: uh oh, love comes to town; new feeling; happy day; the book i read; don’t worry about the government; psycho killer; first/last week…carefree; & pulled up. 5/5 :)
[album #12] couldn’t really get myself into this one. fine i guess but just not for me. i will say that i had never heard of this band before today so at least i learned something new. 2/5 i guess, i didn’t hate it i just really wasn’t feeling this one
[album #13] just boring. The mrs robinson cover was so bad. the rest of the album wasn’t awful but there was nothing special imo. 2/5
[album #14] only on my 14th album and already another iron maiden. i don’t think 9 days was a long enough amount of time to rethink my iron maiden opinion because i didn’t like this one as much as i didn’t like the first for the same reasons. Songs feel same-y, too long, and i don’t like the singer’s voice. 2/5
