Strong start, Tonight Tonight is an all timer
Very long
1979 is amazing
To long
Best tracks
Tonight Tonight
Zero
An Ode To No One
1979
A fantastic summer album. Pretty much set the direction for modern R&B in many ways.
Best tracks:
Doo Woo (That Thing)
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
I'm normally not a huge fan of live albums but the vibe of this one it's really nice. Very well performed especially the piano. Sarah Vaughan has a beautiful voice and some of the tracks are really good. Unfortunately this is the type of Jazz I find the hardest to get into so it's got a ceiling for me.
Top tracks: Stairway To The Stars, Honeysuckle Rose, How High The Moon
A great album and was so close to being brilliant but Indian Summer is a stinker for obvious reasons.
But the composition and lyrics apart from the mentioned above, are extremely strong and has such a grand sound. Tiny Dancer is obviously a bop.
Honky Chateau is still his best album
Best tracks: Tiny Dancer, Levon, All the Nasties
I found this a difficult listen for the most part. There are some good moments but I found myself agitated and kind bored for a lot of it. Found it quite preachy at times as well.
Made me just want to listen to Frankie Goes To Hollywood
I wonder if I'd like this better if I watched the film
Best songs: Is There Anybody Out There?
Comfortably Numb (Scissor Sisters cover is better)
Another Brick in the wall Pt 1
Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk are fantastic tracks. Such a good driving rhythm throughout and fantastic playing. Great skill on display.
Love piano being used as an actual percussion instrument. While having so much energy and power god I love the piano.
Difficult to pick a top track as it really plays as one performance in my mind.
4.5
This is fun, great beats and bombastic sound. Some of the religious messaging is a little too strong for my taste but not enough to stop me from enjoying the record.
New Yorks Finest
Amazing production (fuck you Rick Rubin, fuck yeah Dust Brothers), Great flow. So fun from start to finish. Beastie Boys ran so so much shitty white boy rap could lazily copy.
Top Tracks:
Shake Your Rump
Egg Man
Shadrach
B-Boy Bouillabaisse (all tracks)
For music that's sounds like it's supposed to be exciting this is boring to me.
Some good guitar but I felt myself phasing in and out a little.
From the ZZ Top I've heard in the past this felt sanded down and more commercial, I guess cos it's later in their discography.
Cool album art tho
They're right this sounds Fuzzy. Love how this sounds. Good performances all round and sonically very full. Very good head nodder. Dips a little in the middle but not enough to be a problem.
Nice to be introduced to a new band who discography I wanna listen to now. Good job list.
Best tracks:
The Shining Hour
Fuzzy
America Snoring
A nice relaxing jazz albums, good cafe jazz. Great performing especially the piano and drums.
A nice listen this morning.
Weird to include a live album make up of songs that will already be on the list
I don't particular care about The Who and this isn't a great way to listen to my first album by them. Doesn't seem like a particularly well recorded album and I can't hear anything special about it but I might be missing something
Just seems very eh
Yeah it's Bowie at his best, no need to say more. But I will. Beautiful album, fantastic storytelling, so catchy but also with some brilliant moving moments. I can imagine how this changed the brain chemistry of so many teenagers when it first came out.
Top Tracks:
Five Years
Moonage Daydream
Starman
Ziggy Stardust
Suffragette City
So much fun. Got me boogying and a groovying. There really is no band like the b-52s and they're very good at what they do
It's good but it's not the best of Talking Heads and I know there are better Talking Heads albums tomcome. Still a fun if not a little forgettable listen. Second albums are difficult
How does the same band write Paint It Black and Stupid Girl.
This is a gross gross creepy album that just wasn't very fun to listen to. Would have been one star if it wasn't for paint it black
A fun pop album, an enjoyable listen. Not groundbreaking but doesn't need to be. Also breath of fresh air amounts all the rock.
I felt this was kinda un even. Some great amazing grooves and instrumation but the song felt they were missing something and lacked direction. Reading the history of the album it's understandable why, but still can't take away it's good too listen too and has some great funk and soul to it.
I rathed like. The moodiness of Leonards voice really pulls you in with some fantastic story tell and great instrumation. Shy of a 5, as I found it repetitive at times but not enough to take away from the clear beauty of this album.
It has some great tracks especially The Weight obviously (The Wheels on fire is also really good) and I can here how this goes onto influence others later down the road. But those highlights are let down by the rest of the album being mostly forgettable, well played and performed, but forgettable to me.
This is a tough one. Little Richard is hugely influential and some of these albums are amazing moments where you can see the brith of rock and roll. But. This list is about personal preference and in that way while there were the expected amazing tracks, it was also the same 1 track again and again. Also personally just not the sort of music I'm huge into.
I really liked this. Sonically super dense and atmospheric with some great lyrics and production. Especially liked the opener and closer
Now this is dad rock I can get behind. A unique sound with grand and sweeping musicality. Ozzy at his best as well.
A lovely sounding album which is very well made and performed, it doesn't hit 4 star for me purely out of personal preference as it's just a little too slow for my liking. 3.5
What a beautiful lush album, sonically so nice to listen to but also emotional and well written lyrically. Will be coming back to this one.
(It's like death cab for cutie by way of the flaming lips)
this is bad
homophobic edgelord rap battle fred durst bad
First CD I bought so I'm emotionally biased but this is a great album, not their best but still very good. Seven Nation Army is an all timer but Button To Button is probably my fav on the album.
The album sounds great but I I find the vocal style kinda annoying, which takes me out when in the groove of it. But when in the groove it hits very well.
Holy shit this was great. There was a divergent timeline where Kanye totally could have stayed a producer I honestly would have welcomed it.
I'm just like the dude now. Really good, great performances and a really fun listen. On a different day could have been a 4 but yesterday it was a 3.5
I can see why some would love it but very much not my thing. Kinda just keeps going on and every moment of good feels fleeting.
What an immensely beautiful album. Both haunting and wonder inducing.
I think I ended up listening to the album 4 times yesterday.
It's Stevie Wonder. It's fantastic. What did you expect.
I can't emphasize this enough but yee fucking haw. This is real cowboy music.
I would like to file an apology from teenage me to Cortney Love and the band Hole. I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would. Good stuff, somewhere between a 3.5 and 4 but I'll land on the positive side
This album is so annoying. Apart from a couple of songs (welcome to the jungle & paradise city) it just irritates me with its fake rebellion of the status quo. Also Axl Rose has an annoying voice
I enjoyed this. Very strong opening but kinda lost its way a little on the middle. A strong 3.5
Kinda boring for a band called flying burrito brothers, kinda boring so an album called the gilded palace of sin
It opens on the best song, then I kinda didn't process the rest of the album after that.
Brilliant album. Tom Waits is such a unique storyteller and musician, he creates this environment and world you can't help get sucked into. Rich, fun and dark music that draws you in. Love it.
The Wall was a bad introduction to Pink Floyd for me, this was a far better one. Lush production and very pleasant to listen to, but there is still something missing here to push it to a 5 for me
Some great guitar stuff but like a lot of artists of the time the vocals are just annoying. Kinda just happens. 2.5
Grade a pop music. Such a breeze to listen to and catchy as all hell. Great stuff. Lovefool is a classic
It's insane how good this is, every detail is near perfect but for me it all comes down to Gibbons voice. Beautiful.
I love goth music I love post punk I love Siouxsie I love Robert Smith. 4.5 because there better to come from these sad British people
I wish he'd stop referring to every woman in the album as little girl. Dancer in the Darkn is good and thats about it really.
The vibes of this album are immaculate.
Bombastic and loud. This shit goes so fucking hard. No one did it like the clan.
Not the best Madonna record but it's still Madonna so it's still somehow catchy and well produced for the most part
such a secretly influencial album, all round fantastic. moody moving lyrics and such a great and atmospheric sound
Hotel California is a great track. The rest of the album is kinda boring. I'm with the dude on this one.
Chill but powerful as well. Almost worth listening to just for concrete jungle but the rest of the album delivers as well. Reggae is good, if you find it corny you may just not have a heart sadly
Amy was one of a kind. Rip
Pure electricity loved it
Loud, in your face. One of the cornerstones of rap. Great stuff.
Please no more pink Floyd. Uneventful and kinda samey psychedelia.
A very pleasant and calming album, that sounds nice but didn't stick with me very long after
The most fine/ok a Michael Jackson album can be, production really holds this one back.
This made me want to be wandering an open field in the afternoon half drunk in the summer so bad.
The famous songs are good and they saved this album from 1* because Christ the rest of it is so annoying, and why is this over an hour long?
Lovely stuff, last two tracks are especially good.
I felt so conflicted about this album. It starts extremely strong with some of RHCPs best songs with the first 6 tracks (minus track 5). It then dives off a cliff and because absolutely nothing till the last song which might be the best RHCP song there is. Feast and Famine. 3.5, also because they have one of the most annoying singers there is.
It's good when Sting isnt being a creep, unfortunately It keeps happening
Very chill, great production and performances but it's just a wee bit too long, 3.5
Fantastic brilliant and other words for great. Smashing Pumpkins for this two record run were really at their best at this grungy yet also theatrical style. I put Mellom over this one slightly but not by much
I kinda felt nothing, this album just happened and I listened to it. Didn't really have an response to it good or bad.
This guy's really doesn't like women does he
Can hear why it's important and had fun listening to it but had the same issue as Little Richard where everything it inspired is more what I want to listen to
Like electricity, bolt of lighting right to the brain.
Kinda like a mix between the stone roses (good) and oasis (bad). Very of its time it both a great (music/vibes, really like the instrumation) and bad (vocal style is the whiny oasis nasal style yuck)
A good start from the shoegazy boys but the best is to come from them. 3.5
Dre's production is brilliant, but it's doesn't save it from Snoops god awful lyrics.
Also he cannot stop talking about getting his balls licked????
I don't like writing reviews that talk about other people on this site but this time I can't help myself.
This currently sits below Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle. An album that I can best describe as extremely misogynistic. This Billie Holiday record has multiple reviews call this album boring or slow, effectively saying it's something they couldn't engage with. I want to preface that people are allowed their opinion and preferring one album over the other does make you a bad person (maybe a little lol) but it does show a pattern in reviews on this site that I wanted to complain about.
I feel like a lot of users on this site find it difficult to sit with music and actually listen to it. This is a beautiful album about heartache and pain that if you take the time to listen will give you a lot back. Lovely composition and Billie's voice is of course beautiful. I find it upsetting a woman making music with such beauty is quickly tagged as dull while a man singing about his sexist exploits is given more of a pass.
I know that gap in reviews between these two is small and there reviews on both albums that go against what I'm saying, but it's a pattern I keep seeing that album by men which sound exciting and bombastic but maybe have questionable views are celebrated so quickly while something a bit slower and more thoughtful is so quickly thrown away, and unfortunately it seems doubly so if its made by a woman or person of colour. It makes me sad that Billie Holidays was one of them that certain people have dubbed as boring.
It was a tiny bit repetitive tho.
It sound since and was nice to listen to but didn't make much impact
This is album is insane. Like listening to a nightmare, but the more you listen the more it pulls you in and the more you want to chip away and know more and understand. But it always keeps hiding it self. And it's greatest trick is the more you listen to it the more you start to like how it sounds.
No album deserves to be on the list more than this one.
It's almost a 5 but off because it is a little long 4.5
Wonderful album, made we wanna dance at work all day
Enjoyed it bigly, especially good my walk home at night. 3.5
Big loud exciting, great flow and production. Great listen.
I also like that it scares Yanks on this site by having them listen to rap not in an American accent :0 imagine the horror
Funky as hell now where are my sunglasses
i still don't really like the Monkees very much
they don't even write their own music
Hell yeah
