Great way to start the project. This is a Beatles album, and a very good one at that. Everyone is on top form on this album; the breakdowns on “Drive My Car” remind you that Ringo is a world class drummer, George’s guitar solo on “Nowhere Man” is surprisingly crisp, and John and Paul are John and Paul the whole time. There really isn’t a miss on this album and I’d happily listen to it again for every day of this project. Some songs feel a bit dated, but it’s Rubber Soul so that is easily disregarded.
Despite its near universal acclaim, this album did not feel as perfect as Rubber Soul. The White Album’s highs are as good as music can be: Dear Prudence, the string of tracks from Happiness is a Warm Gun up to Blackbird, I Will, and Revolution 1 are all masterpieces. However, the lows are much lower and they hurt the experience of this album as a whole. It’s still The White Album so it can’t go much lower than 4 stars.
I actually a decent album if a bit boring or same.‘I especially liked the back half, I particular the final song. I wish I had heard this in public at a cool lounge instead of in my headphones.
I definitely enjoyed this album. It sounded very similar to a lot of the other music from this era that I’ve heard, though certainly not in a bad way. I always mix up this band with Depeche Mode.
Picture this: it’s march of 2009. Obama has just been inaugurated. You work for a “tech startup” that’s really just a blog website. You live in bushwick. You go to a house party with a pair of shutter shades on, and dance to the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album all night. I was born in the wrong generation.
Didn’t really care for this one besides the last two tracks
Every track is incredible. I think it’s hurt by its density. There are just so many songs that are all so short that it’s hard to lock into it. If any of the (very numerous, extremely good) ideas here had time to breathe, this would be a perfect album. Fucker
A solid indie rock record that sounds of the time and scene in which it was created. The Flaming Lips connection was both apparent and welcome.
This is one of the greatest pieces of music ever composed, by one of the finest and most important musicians to ever live. This album is extremely special; Coltrane conveys a meditation on love without using lyrics, weaves a narrative throughout 32 minutes. Very few pieces of art touch this one.
I liked this much more than I thought I would. For how ubiquitous he is, I never really listened to Snoop Dogg’s music and I quickly realized how good he was. Dre’s production was so good too
Really solid shoegaze album. Reminds of swirlies and a toned down mbv. God I can’t wait until mbv comes up in this project
Absolutely horrible. 9 minute long synth loops with prince whispering about sex and grunting the whole time. I thought he was supposed to be some sort of legend?
Eddie is very clearly the goat and eruption is obviously an impressive song but this whole album feels like a 10 year olds idea of good music
The Boss is a really great songwriter, but I prefer to hear other people perform his songs. It feels like a boomer musical that gets made for tv
It is so awesome that they just did a country album. The guitar is always so good on stones songs. This album honestly drags a bit but it gets the first 3 starts for gimme shelter alone
Nicely done solange! I really liked the writing on this album
Somehow both extremely bland and cloyingly sweet at the same time
Quite horrible. Maybe it would be good at a ren faire or some other joking event
This album completely blew open my expectations of what Motown music could be. The first 3 tracks were entirely different from what I expected. I love soul music
This album really is amazing. Eazy E is so sick and Dr Dre might be actually the goat. I love how raw and emotional it is, even if the style is a bit dated
Like Straight Outta Compton, a lot of what Ice Cube does flow wise feels pretty dated, but he isn’t propped up by E and Dre here and the album is weaker for it. However, the emotion is here and cube has a lot to say about a lot of important things.
This is the best album by probably my favorite rock band of this era. I love every part of every track. Keith Moon’s drumming is absolutely incredible, he plays it like a lead instrument. Pete Townsend seems like his dream was to write broadway musicals, but he was cursed with being a rock star. Truly perfect
I did like this one. Steve Albini is a racist pos though and the first song is about raping a child so that’s kind of weird
Really sick album, felt like a ps2 racing game in the best way. Fire album cover too
A perfect expression of Nirvana’s music. The originals are laid bare and raw, and the covers truly shine here. No skip, perennial relisten, perfection.
This project is fun because you get to listen to an album you’ve never heard before and will never hear again.
Another day, another good album that I’ll never listen to again
Excellent album. Stevie is a fixture in pop culture and it’s clear why. I had only been familiar with superstition from this album but there’s gem after gem here
A fantastic album with really great genre crossing. Mark is a guitar genius. I was hoping for more doodo doo. Doot dot doo (doo do)
Good, but ultimately forgettable
I like a lot of other Elvis Costello albums, but this one was fairly forgettable. Sort of like if someone made an album trying to be Elvis Costello
This was good but I wasn’t really in the mood for it
I really love the atmosphere, production, and theme of this album. Really fun to listen to and shows you what rap music can be. These guys were all so young it’s crazy. I like ODB’s funny voice
I try so hard to enjoy LED Zeppelin, but I just can’t get over that awful squawking, moaning voice. The greatest rock band in history, ruined by horrible singing.
“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
-Woody Allen
Beneath the irony and silly voices, there’s some really incredible music here. A lot of it feels like an acquired taste
Did not care for it and also did not pay attention to it while it was on
This was really great. Lyrically really complex and she captures the exact feeling of being in your early 20s and everything feeling so serious.
A very good talking heads album that is at times a bit too avant garde for me. But the highs outweigh the lows by a wide margin. Lots of fun to listen to throughout and fun to dance to
This was so bad it made me upset
Very influential but very dated
I enjoyed this quite a bit, definitely some gems here
Yeah pretty much perfect. The guitar is so good and the use of blues with country to make a new genre is super cool. I love this album and will listen to it many years to come
Not very bad and I would’ve liked it more in a different context
Really amazing production and sampling. I especially love the covers
Really great. My first time listening to Dolly Parton in a serious way, it’s crazy how much of this album exists in country music today
Nothing short of perfect. Half of the songs on here, if put in their own album, would be 5 stars. His voice has a warmth to it that captures the feelings he’s portraying in his lyrics
Pretty good, sounds a lot like beach boys. Probably never gonna listen again though 🤣
Better than the roots, not nearly as good as the fugees
Kind of nothingness the whole time, it just was standard 50s/60s rock
Enjoyed it. Like James Taylor but good
Excellent album. I knew he was great, but I’ve never dug into MJ like this. I get it
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Quite boring and spooky
Unsatisfying hipster drivel
I got excited because I thought there was a song that sounded different from the other ones, then looked at my phone and realized the album had ended and it was auto playing music by a different artist
Really great, not really a dull moment or a skip. Very beautiful voice
I think that this album reveals some of the major limitations of this project. If I was blindly listening to it, not thinking of it in the context of the project and my preexisting relationships with these songs and Nirvana’s other work, it would certainly be a 5. However, I spend the whole listen thinking of how this is not Nevermind or Unplugged. Not thinking about if those albums are better than this one, but how they’re somehow more perfect. And then the imperfections of In Utero (which, in isolation, is a perfect album) become louder and more pronounced.
Extremely bland, manufactured eurotrash bubblegum pop. Every song sounds the same, and all of it bad. Would be one star except Why did it have to be me? and Fernando were both good. Ain’t all sunshine and rainbows pal.
Really great music that did not work as songs. Idk maybe I wasn’t in the mood since I normally love Jimi
I’m kind of a weeaboo for brazil
Extremely interesting throughout. It’s crazy how much of this album impacted pop music today. Like charli was raised on it. Not exactly my favorite style
Extremely great. Perfect voice and the songs match her vibe entirely. I may have a bias as I associate these songs particularly with my grandmother. It doesn’t get 5 stars because it’s more of a compilation than an album
Very smart jazz
Listslop not worth revisiting
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