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First album generated yay
I don’t get how this is so critically acclaimed, Kid A is not the best at the experimental genre, especially the first 3 tracks because they are grating and don’t set the baseline for what the album is like well. Everything after that is pretty solid. I don’t hate this album as much as other people do but i still don’t quite like it and it’s one of my least favorite Radiohead albums. People just hate on Kid A just because it’s popular and just because they don’t like experimental music, for some reason whenever people write reviews of this album they act like they’ve never heard experimental or melancholy music in their LIFE and they curse the album for being relaxed and experimental. I’m not gonna lie this album is basically Radiohead just noodling, but it still has good highlights where the album doesn’t feel boring besides the first 3 tracks. Tracks like Idioteque and The National Anthem are filled with lots of substance and subtle things in their instrumentals, and even more relaxed songs like Motion Picture Soundtrack and How To Disappear Completely give you this amazing feeling of both relaxation and dread with their melancholic instrumentals.
Highlights: How To Disappear Completely, The National Anthem, Treefingers, Idioteque, Optimistic, In Limbo, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Morning Bell - These songs capture the themes of the album perfectly and are the best showcases of what Radiohead could do on this album
Lowlights: Everything In Its Right Place, and Kid A - Tracks that fit in with the other good ones but they still are boring because of their electronic beats that don’t go anywhere
I had never heard of the band R.E.M. before listening to this and I don’t listen to anything adjacent to their 80’s poppy rock sound, so I wasn’t as into this as a lot of people seem to be. This is one of those albums for me that I turn on and everything just kinda blends together and doesn’t surprise me, especially since I wasn’t really into the sound and what was presented, nothing really threw me off my feet. I don’t really know what the theme of this album is supposed to be besides some songs are political, like Orange Crush, but even in those songs I don’t get the lyrics. So this was definitely an album.
Highlights: World Leader Pretend, Pop Song 89, Turn You Inside-Out - Tracks I just remember enjoying the most, nothing really special
Lowlights: You Are The Everything, The Wrong Child - I don’t like the use of the Mandarin in You Are The Everything, and The Wrong Child I just remember not liking. Everything else is just alright
Fleetwood Mac is a band that I have barely heard of before because of my lack of knowledge on 70’s and 80’s music (Which will probably become more and more hugely apparent as I write about and rate more albums) So I dreaded listening to this record coming into this because of its 20 song length, come to find out this is a double album and the release after their most popular and acclaimed album, Rumors (An album that I have heard of before), that apparently has a different and more experimental sound, based off the post-punk movement going on during the time of the album. So I was basically going in blind with this one, I haven’t heard Rumors in full before and I had only heard one Fleetwood Mac song before and I liked it, and I’ll say that it did surprise me.
Very few duds on this record, and despite the length the album remains solid throughout. They nail the soft country folk/rock sound perfectly and the record gives you a nice mellow, calm feeling that isn’t exactly sadness but it also doesn’t inject you with happiness (mostly). Amazing ballads that have well-written heartfelt lyrics like Storms and Beautiful Child, colorful folk rock like Think About Me and I Know I’m Not Wrong, even though there are some songs I don’t like everything is very colorful and vivid throughout no matter how different the sound is on the songs. If this is what Fleetwood Mac can bring to the table then this has me very excited to listen to Rumors.
Highlights: Over & Over, Sara, Storms, That’s All For Everyone, Sisters Of The Moon, Brown Eyes, Never Make You Cry, Beautiful Child, Walk A Thin Line, Never Forget
Lowlights: The Ledge, Not That Funny - I’m not gonna lie I though both of these songs were really lame, honestly only having 2 bad songs out of a 20 song double album is very impressive
Folk/Country music legend Neil Young does not disappoint with his signature record Harvest. I would probably consider it a classic, every track is amazing and unique with no duds, the simple acoustic guitar and harmonica tracks like Out On The Weekend, Harvest, The Needle & The Damage Done, Heart of Gold and Old Man are excellent mellow tracks, Heart Of Gold being my favorite out of all of those because of its themes of finding a pure heart to give to. The other songs on the album are all beautiful and vibrant tracks with instruments including a string section and piano. The string section songs in particular, A Man Needs A Maid and There’s A World both sound amazing and i did not expect such good string section production on a 1972 album. Hell there’s even a Harp on this album. That might be a dumb thing to point out but i don’t really hear harps a lot in songs.
The songs Alabama and Words also have electric guitar mixed in with the wide instrumentation to give a very good folk rock feel, those songs have the best use of Harvest’s instrumentation in my opinion.
Highlights: Harvest, A Man Needs A Maid, Heart Of Gold, Old Man, There’s A World, Alabama, Words
Lowlights: None
There are probably hundreds of albums that should not be on this list, and i think i just found the first one that i can positively say has no business being here.
I really have no idea what i just listened to. The only thing i consistently like is the guitar work, it’s basically AC/DC esque classic rock mixed with blues. But it’s horrible. I really didn’t enjoy this
Highlights: Hot, Blue & Righteous, Move Me On Down The Line, La Grange - The only tracks that were close to being good. The guitar solo on Move Me On Down The Line is actually pretty cool
Lowlights: The rest
Forgettable album, there was nothing really that memorable and it just feels like a random hodgepodge of baroque pop folk songs. I don’t really have much to review because this just sounds like a watered down, stripped Beatles record with not much interesting stuff.
Highlights: The Moonbeam Song, Without You, I’ll Never Leave You - The tracks i’ll actually remember
Lowlights: The fucking Coconut joke song that was placed in the middle of the album
I think i can defend my 1 star rating by saying that this whole album is basically a whole lot of nothing. Interesting layering on every track but literally nothing else, i don’t vibe with this at all and there is a 20 minute track which i tried to pay attention to but it literally felt like background noise.
Highlights: None
Lowlights: Every track
Dreading the fact that i have to listen to 4 Morrissey albums over the course of this project. This would be a 5 if there weren’t so many joke-esque tracks, the jangle-pop post-punk sound stays consistently amazing throughout no matter the subject of big-breasted girls or dying from a bus. The highlights of the album signify the potential that this could’ve had if it just took itself a lot more seriously, it just leaves a lot less filler to be desired after listening to it.
Highlights: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Never Had No One Ever, I Know It’s Over
Lowlights: Viscar In A Tutu, Cemtry Gates (because i can’t even figure out what the song means), Frankly Mr. Shankly, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
