my first album !!
I like this the more I listen to this. I once rated this a two, right now it’s a three, and who knows what the future holds for this album and I ?
“how many records are you expecting to sell when your second record sends you directly to jail” made me laugh hahahhaa
at times this was a truly tough listen, at times this was really cool - I can’t give it more than a two stars for the rampant homophobia and misogyny xoxo
Some really cool songs here but this album was too long … I wish it was shorter and I was left wanting more rather than wishing it was over ya know ?
I listened to this on the 2am night bus, the drive went on forever and so did the album
Would never have listened to this without this challenge and I’m super glad I did !
Very eclectic which I love, I will be giving it more listens as I’m sure it will grow on me even more.
I enjoyed this much more than I expected to honestly, even though I wouldn’t listen to most of it again haha. I also can’t rate it too highly as it’s not really adding anything new in my opinion, although I don’t think it’s trying to? She has a formula and she certainly sticks to it.
Despite not having heard a lot on this album before, Adele is sonically very nostalgic to me, having grown up listening to her music on the radio and singing along to her with school friends etc.
She kind of exists as this ubiquitous pop juggernaut, I never really consider if I’m a fan of her or not beyond her big hits, although I liked some of the lesser known songs on this album.
I like her more uptempo songs on this track (Send My Love, I Miss You, Water Under The Bridge) I’m less of a fan of the slower ballads as I think they pale in comparison to some of her earlier work in that style and I’m less inclined to enjoy songs like that anyway.
I also like how this album isn’t TOO LONG! Some other artists could take note. Anyways.
i’m ashamed to say this is the first full Bowie album I’ve listened to and I LOVED it!
Girl Loves Me and I Can’t Give Everything Away are instant favourites - I predict there’s plenty more personal favourites to be found in his earlier work - exciting !
This is the kind of album they play in thrift shops way too loud and I’ve trained myself to drown it out lest I be overstimulated. Which doesn’t bode well for my ranking of this album but I’ll try to be fair.
I kind of liked it !! I like the sound but nothing stood out to me. A part of me wants to listen to it more and a part of me wants to not bother with it again and that internal battle lands this album at a 2 for now I’m afraid.
This is my first album from the 80s on this project and you see the 1980s and you expect a certain sound right ??? This was NOT what I expected but honestly I quite liked it! It certainly wasn’t boring.
Safe to say this years halloween playlist is sorted - I genuinely think they play this in the queue area for the London Dungeon.
Aw my first one star !
It’s weird to think this album is turning 60 years old this year - it certainly was ahead of its time.
I like weird satirical music, in fact I like some music that was perhaps inspired by this. Did I like this though ? No … I didn’t.
It was Frank Crappa.
this was really cool ! gonna listen to it more and it’s probably gonna grow on me
this was lovely - what a beautiful voice he has
this was ok ! just ok !
loved this !!! will be listening more !!
super fun - loved this :)
some really good tracks here !
I found the tracks thanking her fans and past musicians a bit cringe but that genuinely might be a me problem because it’s sort of wholesome at the same time ? Overall I liked some things here but it was decidedly too long
This album is like looking at a decaying photograph of better days from the perspective of someone going through an apocalypse
Liked it a LOT - didn’t like the jump scares at the start of songs (super loud beginnings to songs after super quiet endings to the previous song) but that could just be that I was listening late at night - ANYWAY I shall be listening to this more for sure !
I LOVE heartbeats by The Knife so this was promising and I liked it ok!
First track had so many mouth sounds in it that it was almost unlistenable to me though which is a shame
pretentiously named songs, pretentious lyrics, pretentious album.
I loved ascension so I’m not sure what went wrong here - his voice which I usually like sounded extra simpering - was just not for me at all.
I’m really not a fan of Alex Turners voice he just irks me. This album was made in a lab to annoy me.
Too misogynistic for me to enjoy this at all.
This was ok but ultimately not really for me.
I liked Soft Shock and Faces and I thought Heads Will Roll and Dragon Queen were ok - nothing really gripped me though!
also not a fan of acoustic versions on the main album - I’ve just heard this and now you want me to hear it again but worse ???? anyways …
this… did nothing for me I’m afraid. I was glad when it was over.
ALSO just when you THINK it’s over the last song is almost TWENTY MINUTES LONG so enjoy that.
What I like about this challenge is that it’s making me consume music in a different way.
I would never usually listen to a ten minute song that is mostly guitar. Historically I’ll find a song I like and repeat it again and again; preferring the predictably exciting over letting an album play in its entirety and following it through its ebbs and flows. Listening to an album as an ambient experience makes sense with albums like this, but I’m not really used to it, having grown up with an ipod that I can cherry pick the songs I like on.
I don’t know why I’ve said all of this but I hope I can be more open minded to all different genres and eras of music in the future. It’s one thing to WANT to like new music but obviously what we actually DO like is shaped by everything we’ve heard before and the way we’ve heard it, to a certain extent. Anyway, all of this is to say that this is a 2 for now, but maybe not forever.
HELL. FRICKEN. YEAH !!!
My first five stars !!!
Been a rough few days of lots of ones and twos so I was delighted to find that I love this ! Never heard of this band or their music before but they’re great - I will be listening to more. Many songs have gone straight onto my faves list and only one or two I wasn’t super bothered about.
YIPPEEEEE!
Yikes! Well we had a five star yesterday... I suppose I couldn't ride that high forever.
I've only heard Baba O'Reilly from this band before which I really loved! I think a part of me was hopeful this would be an enjoyable listen but the wiser part of me knew better. I've already had a live album from the 70s this week (two days ago in fact) and here we go again. That one was a two star and this one is worse... so yeah. There wasn't much further to fall, but Live At Leeds managed it.
I don't love live albums unless I love the artist, and it can't be presumed you'll already love the artist with a project like this, as the point is being exposed to new music. All of this makes you think...why include a live album at all? The ones who love it will love it and the ones who don't are less likely to be converted - was there a point?
I suppose if the LIVE part of the album is significant in some way - ie: they banter with the audience in a particularly endearing or relevant way, or perhaps if there is ONLY a live album to listen to and no studio recordings available but like... All we got from this live album is gross pedo stories about a girl guide , oh and racism too, 'a black raper' what the fuck??? Oh and apparently these two caricatures fornicate...wonderful. I'm liking The Who less and less by the moment.
And I WANTED to like them going into this. This album achieved the exact opposite of it's goal. Don't include a live album of a band if their going to add a weird noncey song to their setlist half way through for... comedic value?
Anyway, this did nothing for me, lyrically...sonically...emotionally...spiritually... The misogyny was as jarring as ever and I will happily never listen to this weird boring shite again.
Somebody described this as ps4 music, somebody else described it as the music on the you ‘wouldn’t steal a car’ advert…they are both correct.
But where they gave this album a one I’m giving it a five because I LOVE MUSIC LIKE THAT.
Very liminal - I love listening to video game soundtracks anyway but I’m still surprised I liked this as much as I did. I can’t deny how easy and enjoyable it was to listen to for me, I will be listening to it to write and will explore more of his work. An EASY FIVE STARS and I’m happy to see stuff like this included in the book :)
why is this on here and not ‘because of the times’?
I could be biased as that is the album I had downloaded on my ipod as a child, but there are much better songs on that than on this.
Did we need the Kings of Leons debut album?
I’m a big fan of some of their other music but I don’t think this is their best work. That being said I liked California Waiting and Dusty and I really liked Talihina Sky I will be listening to that again for sure.
Hmmmm on a whole I was quite uninspired so for now it’s a two !
The day I’m flying home from a trip to
America and Canada I get an American-Canadian artist that’s pretty neat !
As for the music... the music … so he has a really terrible voice…but I honestly kind of admire that about him ??? Like he’s still made a banger album despite that ????
I loved a lot of the songs - Southern Man is obviously great - I can’t give it more than three stars because I really do not like his voice - but I am excited to hear more from him ??? None of this really makes sense but yeah. Lots to unpack here.
I listened to this on a plane at night and I felt like I was on a spaceship - v cool
Yesterdays album would have really suited the mood I’m in at 3am listening to this, but alas, this is todays album and I’m really not feeling it.
It’s just there, happening… and I’m listening to it. I am truly disconnected and entirely unmoved.
I fear I’m being really unfair but that’s just where I’m at in this moment - or perhaps I hate this album ? Time will tell. I’m glad this app has an editing feature - I will see if I change my mind on a revisit in the future. I probably won’t.
At times I felt like I was being tortured listening to this record. Annoying voice, annoying music done much better elsewhere. BIG NO.
This was ok. Some good songs but the pirate adjacent tunes really weren’t for me hahahaha
this healed me a little bit today
I liked this A LOT - a lot more than I expected !!! hell yeah !!!!!
This all sort of sounded the same to me. It felt kind of generic but it did come out in 1986 so this was probably the blueprint for a lot of things! It just wasn’t for me.
cool - I liked it :)
This was interesting ! It got me through a heat wave on the tube and left me feeling quite calm. I’d like to listen to it again.
This was … interesting. I liked Space Junk. I also liked the track beginning with M before I saw the title and realised it’s name is a slur … hmmm. This was … I love the band Dutch Uncles and some songs sound like that … so … hmm … interesting … no more ellipses for me today …
This album had an absolutely diabolical vibe but unfortunately I loved it.
Future Edit: The day I was listening to this was a really awful day and I specifically put this record on to distract from things slightly falling apart around me and that’s not this records FAULT obviously. What I will say though is that although this record certainly wasn’t responsible it didn’t exactly help either HAHAHAA… like at all. I’m sorry but it just didn’t. Listening to this man wailing on and on was the cherry on top of a very sad little cake. God his voice is just awful. It’s so bad. He gets away with it on Come On Eileen which wasn’t even on this record so that wasn’t there to save me - bad bad bad. The instrumentation is there ! It’s ok ! Not really for me but perhaps I could love this album if they had a different front man. Dear God what a bad little voice Jane. Also the track where he starts out whispering made me want to kill everyone and myself - I’m joking but dear GOD - his voice is how I imagine a trout would sing if it was suspended between land and sea gasping for air forever. I’ve edited this review in the future as I couldn’t bring myself to listen to this in full the first time with everything else going on and I may be healing from the events of 11/July/2026 in my personal life but there are some wounds that never heal and this God awful album shall bleed forever white blood cells be gone AGHHHHHHHH so yep as you’ve probably gathered I didn’t love this one.
I liked Hot, Blue & Righteous but other than that this sounded like many many many other albums I’ve listened to on this project and I didn’t like those or this agh.
This is weird to me…
I LOVE This Is Happening and was sort of expecting to love this too although a part of me sort of intuitively knew I wouldn’t love this as much…and I was correct.
I almost like Someone Great but it isn’t quite there for
me… nothing on this record is quite there for me and I feel like it’s got a harsher rating than it probably deserves because albums I might like slightly less are at least introducing me to something new, this was a band I already know, performing worse than I’m used to.
I also ALMOST like All My Friends … this album is like an emotionally avoidant person I’ve fantasised about but the reality can’t match up to the daydream, especially because the fundamentals of this album, like an emotionally avoidant person, just aren’t for me.
I was also introduced to some of the songs on this album by an emotionally avoidant person I once used to fantasise about … it’s very hard to be objective on this project isn’t it. Things hit you at the right time on the right day and those things become something you carry with you and I’m sure this album is that for some people but for me it dragged on and on and on, a genre I love in a way I don’t like which felt more like a betrayal than an entirely new artist / sonic experience. You may say it’s not that deep but how deep is anything really, as deep as we want it to be. This album is like looking through a window to people having fun but I can’t reach through and join them - perhaps I love this in an alternate universe. This isn’t for me but I feel like it really
should be. Things surprise us … good and bad … I’m going to bed !
This would’ve been rated higher if the lead singer didn’t at times sound like he was dying. I loved the sort of hopeful melancholy of this record though - it’s certainly found me at the right time. At times this was painful at times this was really great so for now it’s a three but I think I shall be revisiting this
could have done without the ‘shoot you full of rhythm and blues’ don’t know if that’s exactly the line because I’m not going back to check !
This was sweet (baby James) lol - I suppose … but meh? Not really a fan
This album is coming at me whilst I’m completely heartbroken so perhaps I have impaired judgement, as a caveat.
Future Edit: I’m going back and ranking albums I either didn’t rank or ranked weirdly due to being sad. I’m now slightly less heartbroken and I liked walking around Sheffield to this! Can’t Stand Me Now is a new fave. I’m tempted to rank this a four but half of these songs weren’t really for me so it’s gonna be a three for me, for now at least - I can see this seriously growing on me.
The Cisco Kid is a new favourite of mine !!! I loved the sound of this album - some of the songs were too long for my taste but it was still GREAT I shall be listening again for sure !
I enjoyed the song Yer Bounda Fara and Soya. I really didn’t like Savane the title track - where the repetition worked for me in other places it really grated on me on that song in particular. This was all quite meditative and it made me sleepy which isn’t necessarily a bad thing! I’m really glad to have listened to it!
Some songs on this really spoke to me - such as Comin’ Back To Me and Today. I like the general ambience of this album - and Surrealistic Pillow is such a great name for an album omg. I would be interested in hearing more from them !
This was GREAT. This found me at the right time and I am now a huge fan.
I first heard of Fleetwood Mac aged 13 watching glee hahahhaa and I’ve been in love with them ever since. Obviously a 5/5 one of the best albums maybe ever.
I like how eclectic this is ! Truly something for everyone which naturally means some of it won’t be for you most likely - still, I mostly enjoyed it.
I’ll say it again - I don’t like live albums and don’t understand their inclusion on this list unless an artist has literally no other recorded work to put on the list which is almost never the case.
Was be drunk during this ? And yes I read the reviews, a racist rapist incestuous pedophile who apparently narcistically believed he originated rock and roll - seriously ?!
No reason on Gods Green Earth why this should be on here - v easy one star
I first heard about this band through watching Life On Mars though I’d never heard their music other than that small clip. I liked it more than I thought I would !
I LOVED the first three songs of this album and was embracing my new reality as a massive JT fan and then… it kinda fell off for me.
I still enjoyed listening to this - I love that glittery metallic 2000s sound as it reminds me of my childhood - this is a three from me !
Leonard Cohen is basically just speaking through this album but he’s somehow SPEAKING out of tune - it’s almost impressive.
This album is very strange. The inclusion of the creepy children’s voices is strange. The incoherent mumbling over one note guitar is strange.
Is that an anti abortion sentiment in Diamonds In The Mine? Hard to tell because I was so distracted by his awful screechy vocal tone but booooo if so. Booo boooo boooooooo.
This is getting a 2 instead of a 1 because the lyricism is often really beautiful and I’m not HATING listening to it as I am with the ones. I like Love Calls You By Your Name… sort of, partly because he’s describing being found by love again in such a unique way.
Ok Famous Blue Raincoat is sort of hauntingly beautiful… I like this too… I keep changing my mind mid review am I giving this a 3? Maybe ?! Ok it’s a three… I think…
Or is it ? Sing Another Song, Boys is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard - his voice breaks half way through and the Na Na Na Na Na bit was a tough listen.
Joan of Arc is ok … it’s still a 3 I think … for now …
There’s so much to uncover in this album - it’s got a lot to say and a weird way of saying it (which I like.) The simpering Neil Young esque vocal gave me the ick slightly but in a way (like with Neil Young himself) it sort of worked. The melancholic absurdism is right up my street - perfect for strolling round the backrooms to whilst silently crying. There are some songs on this I really don’t like (In The Morning Of The Magicians, It’s Summertime) but it’s possible even they will grow on me. I’ve wanted to rate this a five but I’ve also wanted to rate it a two at various times for various reasons - right now for me it’s a four.
There were times when I couldn’t hear the lyrics over the instrumentation but that sort of worked ?? I can’t remember any of the song titles as a lot of them were quite wanky but I DID enjoy this a lot more than I thought I would !! Melancholic in the best way but quite a few songs that weren’t for me - three stars!
This was so insanely BORING and amateur feeling. People are saying I can’t beleive this is her first album, well I can. I don’t get the hype at all.
Another boring album from the 1970s that I’m supposed to like because it’s from the 1970s - just because YOU are nostalgic about this, book writers, doesn’t mean it is good.
Another boring 70s pedophile song, I guess you could just say whatever you wanted back then and people fifty years later people will say hurray !!! great album !!!!
I like Some Weird Sin. I’m scared about what it means to Iggy Pop specifically, given the last track on the album was about a 16 year old girl but perhaps I shouldn’t overthink it. I don’t care that it was a different time man I don’t wanna hear it.
I KNOW the song Passenger which is weird. My Dad used to play it all the time on the guitar. So that’s sort of nice to hear.
If I was on Iggy Pops bed and I was turning blue and he started to sing ‘Everything Will Be Alright Tonight’ at me there would be no more Iggy Pop because I would have killed him. Annoyingly I actually quite like the song, damn it.
Shit I quite like Success too, fuck ! Do I like Iggy Pop ?? I’ve been live reporting on this album as I listen and there has been a few bangers in a row now … am I about to eat my hat ? Will I finally bond with my father over our joint love of Iggy Pop ? Is my life forever changed ?
Oh Jesus ok a cringe start to Turn Blue to say the least can he turn it around ? Ok I don’t MIND this either what is happening to me. Omg the gotta make someone cum line YIKES I’m spiralling here not a fan of that line at all. Ok ok Turn Blue is an endurance test dear God. NOT A FAN.
I quite like Neighbourhood Threat to - this album can’t be a five because of the noncery but will it be a four ???? Seriously ???? After everything I said above ???
‘A table made of wood’ likely thing for a table to be made of - I’m enjoying Fall In Love With Me also - this is a four ??? I can’t beleive it ???? I liked more songs than I hated ???? Ok yikes ‘You’re younger than you look ??’ stop it Iggy. It’s hanging onto four by its fingertips. He needs to stop calling this woman YOUNG - I’m enjoying this song inspite of myself. This has been a truly wild ride this morning.
Frickin loved this YEAHHHHHH
I loved this ! I liked this a lot more than Abbey Road! Wasn’t a huge fan of Yellow Submarine and some of the tracks in the middle of the album but the rest of it made up for it !
I liked this a lot more than I thought I would - especially as I gave my previous The Who album (Live at Leeds) one star. I love a concept album - and the selling out advert theme is fun and also petty in a way that I find really iconic to be honest. Hell yeah - this was cool !
This is one of those situations where I thought his vocals worked really well in the first track ‘Billy Jack’ but then the novelty wears off quick (I have this issue with Dexys Midnight Runners and Neil Young to a certain extent - the vocals can’t maintain the whole record for me but I find it ok in moderation). Overall this album isn’t for me - BUT I did fall asleep listening to this on a train and it did facilitate going to sleep quite well - this could be perceived as a positive or a negative depending on your point of view.
