Strong start, Tonight Tonight is an all timer
Very long
1979 is amazing
4*
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.