Rating: 3.5/5 (With or Without You added .5)
Playlist track: With or Without You & Red Hill Mining Town
Date listened: 28/05/26
Listen when: I have a coming of age movie
Rating: 3/5
Playlist track: A Case of You
Date listened: 29/05/26
Listen when: Snowy, sad evening
I see and appreciate the beauty of the lyricism and honesty but I can't quite seem the get there with Joni Mitchell. At times I feel each song has the same pattern and theme of her extending every word with a high pitched ooo to an annoying point. But when the songs themselves have such a strong personality this adds rather than distracts, which is why her best songs are so immense.
Rating: 4.5/5
Playlist track: My Guitar Gently Weeps, new addition Good Night
Date listened: 30/05/26
Listen when: Always?
Good Night first listening experience was heavenly and wasn't expecting much after revolution 9. Defo some not my taste. Surprisingly loved Yer Blues? Insane track 7 to 11 run. My Guitar Gently Weeps and I Will still on top.
Rating: 5/5
Playlist track: Turn Your Lights Down Low
Date listened: 31/05/26
Listen when: Beach
Turn your lights down low is a banger wow. For what this album is it’s perfect. No notes. This is not my normal kind of music but that of course is completely unrelated to the merit of the album. The famous ones are genius but can tend to get bored of them.
Listen in Barbados.
Only skip is Andy warhol
Rating: 4/5
Playlist track: I Feel So Good
Date listened: 2/06/26
Listen when: Reading a book in the evening in a candlelit room
I LOVE LIVE ALBUMS. I Feel So Good best hands down. Imagine being in that room wow. Feels like a genuine blues 44 minute 41 second experience. (Goodbye Newport Blues honourable mention). 4/5 because listening beginning to end can get a bit monotonous as they all really do sound the same. Also not sure it's something I would listen to every day.
Rating: 3/5
Playlist track: Going to California
Date listened: 3/06/26
Listen when: Annoyed
Rating: 3/5
Playlist track: Comin' Back to Me
Date listened: 5-6/06/26
Listen when: Slower tracks during sunset walks but the rock tracks on road trips
Took me a while to get through for sure. I couldn't get into it and was mostly attracted to the slower tracks which I think are beautiful.
Rating: 5/5
Playlist track: Lady Stardust/ Moonage Daydream (Honourable mention guitar riff in Ziggy Stardust)
Date listened: 6-7/06/26
Listen when: Evening drive through a city
Oh isn't it wonderful. Took a couple listens to get to 5 stars but it gets deeper the more you listen, every song has a purpose for the album. Has to have the most insane album opening of Five Years of all time. Space theme still there throughout hell yeah. Let all the children boogie truly.
Women are sexual objects I guess
Rating: 2.5/5
Playlist track: La Cienega just Smiled
Date listened: 9/06/26
Listen when: Can't think when I would honestly
A few songs and it gets a bit jarring sorry. The best parts of the album are 100% thanks to the intermittent string arrangements, which is why La Cienega Just Smiled made the playlist. Otherwise the singing along is pretty tough.
Rating: 4/5
Playlist track: More Than a Feeling
Date listened: 8/06/26
Listen when: Roadtrip!!! (Preferably though western USA)
Guitar is immaculate throughout. Sooo Dad rock core. I really do have to be in a certain mood for it before it becomes too much.
Rating: 2.5/5
Playlist track: Photograph
Date listened: 11/06/26
Listen when: -
Too metal-ly for me unfortunately but can appreciate the attempt to make it more consumable for the masses. But attempt it remains.
Rating: 3/5
Playlist track: Any Major Dude Will Tell Ya
Date listened: 12/06/26
Listen when: Spring evening bike ride
Rating: 2.5/5
Playlist track: Marcus Garvey
Date listened: 13/06/26
Listen when: Afternoon/ evening bbq in the sun
I thought I disliked reggae then I listened to Bob Marley's Exodus and felt converted because it was way more dynamic and different sounding from song to song than I thought. However this album disappointed me off of that but that's not the album's fault necessarily, it's mine for thinking I like reggae now.
Rating: 4/5
Playlist track: Oh Why?
Date listened: 14/06/26
Listen when: Cooking Dinner
I love the feeling of this album, which reminded me of so many other artists. So interesting to read this was the blueprint for them!
Rating: 4/5
Playlist track: The Nightfly
Date listened: 15/06/26
Listen when: Evening listen on record player
Not a super popular album but I really love his sound and addition of fun little things like the radio references in the Nightfly. Just the right length and range of sound while keeping the same tone for the album which I appreciate.. It's hard to pick a time to listen to an album which changes vibe so drastically.
Rating: 3/5
Playlist track: Under My Thumb (disappointing rapey lyrics though)
Date listened: 16-17/06/26
Listen when: -
Definitely grows on me the more I listen so this rating could 100% go up but right now it stays where it is.
Rating: 3/5
Playlist track: Quiet Life and The Other Side of Life
Date listened: 20/06/26
Listen when: 80s themed drive with Dad
Use of instruments makes this, the sax in Despair and strings in The Other Side of Life. Just not a genre that attracts me in general but did genuinely enjoy songs. Nothing that really excited me though.
Rating: 4/5
Playlist track: No Surrender and Cover Me
Date listened: 20/06/26
Listen when: Drive with Dad
Wow I liked this A LOT more than I thought I would. And he's a really great guy who's vocal about issues in America according to his wikipedia? Makes me love it even more.
Not my vibe
Rating: 3.5/5
Playlist track: Big Iron
Date listened: 21/06/26
Listen when: Horse ride (I can't ride a horse)
I did not know country could be like this, I forgive the genre which I was convinced was solely surrounding Luke Combs and lyrics about whiskey.
Rating: 3.5/5
Playlist track: Candela
Date listened: 22/06/26
Listen when: Making dinner in villa in Spain/Italy
Love this generator because never would I have listened to this. Fun listen but after 10 songs I needed a break.
Rating: 4/5
Playlist track: Starálfur
Date listened: 23/06/26
Listen when: Evening while studying (with headphones !!)
Again, when would I ever have listened to this otherwise? Some tracks were insanely beautiful. Svefn-g-englar threw me off at the beginning a bit (found it a bit jarring) but the orchestral arrangements were some of the best I've heard in non-classical albums.
Rating: 3/5
Playlist track: Brass in Pocket
Date listened: 25-29/06/26 (during thesis!!)
Listen when: Sunny drive
Rating: 4/5
Playlist track: It's My Own Fault/ Worry Worry
Date listened: 02/07/26 (during thesis!!)
Listen when: Rainy Saturday or Wine Bar
I love when live albums have a track or two with the singer talking to the crowd and telling a story, gives Are We Still Friends by Donny Hathaway in Live.
I'm sorry I can't
Rating: 3/5
Playlist track: Don't Go Near The Water
Date listened: 02/07/26 (during thesis!!)
Listen when: Sunny chill afternoon
I loveeee the end of Don't Go Near The Water! So beautiful
Rating: 3.5/5
Playlist track: I Call Your Name
Date listened: 02/07/26 (during thesis!!)
Listen when: Baking
Went into a crazy deep dive at the library while procrastinating my thesis about the group drama.. affair within the 4 person group with a married couple is crazy.
Rating: 2/5
Playlist track: Lost Cause
Date listened: over many days
Listen when:-
There's nothing wrong but I cannot get interested.
