Really good album. Bob Dylan is a poet, and while not a good singer, the delivery of his lyrics makes up for it tenfold.
I don't know the history or what happened after this album(need to do my research), but I can see how this might have influenced later punk and art-rock.
This was my first time listening to a true funk album, and holy shit are my eyes opened. I will start a deep and extensive journey into this genre cause jesus this is such a good album.
I don't like this style of music so take this with a grain of salt. BUT, Coldplay is just milquetoast and boring. There is so much out there that sounds like them and your life won't miss anything if you don't listen to this album.
She may not be the best vocalist or have made the best pop music of the 80s. But you can't deny that Cyndi Lauper made her mark on music and is a very important marker for pop music overall.
If you’re looking for the best of the best of Fleetwood Mac it’s not here but it is still better than a lot of other rock records.
This was an interesting album. I wasn't expecting these white boys to have so much soul. The instrumentation was interesting, with good lyrics and great vocals, it turned out to be a great album.
What an incredible experience. The emotion in this album is phenomenal. The writing is incredible, both the lyrics and the instrumentation. Amy Winehouse will always be missed.
These are some of the only white guys besides Eminem who can do Hip-Hop justice. The ability to give reverence to a genre while not being of that culture is tough, while also making songs that can be very humorous. They strike the balance perfectly. They really fit into a style I call scumbag music. After 40 minutes, it has started to all sound somewhat similar though.
I tried listening to it but from a modern perspective, it just sounds like any generic indie rock album and I got bored. Before I got bored it was pretty decent but I don't think I would come back to this for a long time.
A good and important album. Without the genius that is David Byrne we wouldn’t have the art rock/pop scene we have today. But with all that this album was only great not the best of the best.
Sting can write a hell of a song and Stewart Copeland is one of the best drummers of all time. Even if you can sometimes tell that this album was made by people who didn't like each other, it all comes together and works.
This is the type of jazz that people make fun of. An hour of just improvised piano with the occasional moan is not interesting. The piano playing is great, but at the end of the day, you can go to any jazz bar on a random Wednesday and hear something just as interesting. The story is cool, but it's not enough to save my boredom.
I like that we later went on to sue Donald Fagen; that might give this album another star.
Damon Albarn is such a good artist. Blur is a great band and a good album but I still think Damon has some better stuff in the Gorillaz discog. All I could think of while listening to this album was how much I want more Gorillaz to be on this list.
No one does emo rock like Robert Smith and the rest of The Cure. The total bleakness of this album gives me a sense of awe. I hope to never be as sad as Robert Smith, but if I am, I know what band to go to.
This is one of the biggest "if" albums I have ever heard. It has some really cool ideas and has all the pieces to be a good album theoretically, but it just comes out boring and bland. All of these ideas have been done better by others who came before and after.
I don't listen to Electronica really outside of live shows and whatnot, but this album was great. A true landmark for the genre. The soundscapes on this album are something to marvel at. The samples come together to create truly ethereal songs that Twigs puts some great vocals on top of. If you don't like electronica, I get that, but to cast it fully aside is a mistake, for you could miss out on incredible music like this.
I love this album. Joel just has this certain lyricism that is hard to replicate. The piano playing as well is great, so are the rest of the instruments.
This is good but there isn’t a lot that distinguishes it from other 80s British rock. You get Morrisey-like vocals, a tears for fears style synth ( with notably less use), a rhythm section that sounds like The Cure and lyrics that can’t stand up to any of those bands.
I can’t deny this is good and it might be important, but you can’t deny you already get a fair taste of 80s British electro rock from this list and life in general.
Jimi is a master of rock and roll. This is psychedelic rock at its peak. This is some of the best rock of all time. Hendrix was a once-in-a-generation talent, and I am happy every day that I get to listen to his genius.
Y'all actually like this? Maybe I'm the dickhead here but I can't get into this. It just feels like a walmart version of Sinead O'Connor, someone who could actually say something. Sure, there is talent here, but this just feels like a nothing burger, singer-songwriter slop of an album that goes on way too long.
You already know the hits on this album, but everything else is great as well. Opening your pop-rock album with an 11 minute prog masterpiece is a wonderful subversion that I did not expect from Elton John. There are so many hidden masterpieces on this album too. This song has no title and I've seen that movie too are gems I hadn't heard before. His ability of songwriting is something to be marveled at. Such a great album all around.
I have already listened to this album so many times that I can just tell you it is a 5 out of 5, a 10 out of 10, an A+, 1600 on the SAT. It's finding the love of your life, while knowing that it has to end at some point and there's nothing you can do to stop it. The ability of this album and the songwriters to so completely communicate their feelings and make you feel as if your heart is being ripped out of you and pummeled is incredible. There is no way to experience this album without coming away an entirely changed person. Every time you listen to it, the stories change, a new perspective arises, and you are transported to a dimension of deep love and even deeper hurt. The entire concept is "we all suck and are cheating on each other," all while on so much cocaine and made one of the best albums of all time.
Even though I just wrote a whole paragraph basically saying it's a perfect album, I was still surprised when I saw that this was the highest-rated album on here. This is one of the best, but I think there are still albums above it for me personally.
This feels like a very modern album, it could’ve been released yesterday and fit right along side everything by coming out today. I don’t know if that means the band was very forward thinking or if Goth-rock just hasn’t changed much in 40 years but man is this album good. The vocals are some of the best I’ve heard and everyone is playing their instruments impeccably.
Some of these songs are cool, some are trying their best, others are fucking boring and horrid. These lyrics are pretty cool, they paint an idea that a lot of people can relate to. But the writer comes off as someone who has not had too much struggle in their life, and the music reflects that. So many times I was hoping for a stylistic change to the production but it never came. Every song sounded the same. If your album is gonna have 13 songs and be an hour long I need some contrast to keep me interested.
I was hoping that I could enjoy Arcade Fire because I hear only good things about this band, but I was bored the whole time.
This is why people love jazz, an hour of some great musician's playing some tight riffs with impeccable chops.
Is this that bad? No. Is it that great? I'm not sure. I can tell you that it feels like if Prince had no talent for metaphor. He says Freedom Train 22 times in a row; it feels like there was a 3-minute-long stroke. This was a fine album, if not just kinda boring.
This rocks pretty hard. Even if it is just more Brit-pop on a very British-saturated list, I think it sounds different enough from its contemporaries that I had a very good time. It sounds like they were having such a good time recording this that the fun is infectious.
They don't call her the Queen of Soul for nothing. Aretha has such an electric energy that you can't help but start dancing along. With one of the best voices ever, she gives incredible ballads and powerful belts that can be heard from the heavens.
The British bias on this list is kind of insane. This album was just kinda there; nothing grabbed my attention, nor was it so bad I could enjoy laughing at it. So, instead of leaving a review, here's a list of albums that are better and more influential than this album.
1999-Joey Bada$$
AM-Arctic Monkey
Animals-Pink Floyd
Apostrophe(')-Frank Zappa
Blonde-Frank Ocean
Beyond Beyond Beyond- The Crane Wives
Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs
An Evening With Silk Sonic - Bruno Mars
French Exit- TV Girl
DAMN - Kendrick Lamar
IGOR - Tyler, The Creator
The Infamous - Mobb Deep
Madvillainy - MF DOOM
The Mason Williams Phonographic Record - Mason Williams
Moving Waves - Focus
The Nashville Sound - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
The New Sound - Geordie Greep
Optical Sunrise/Spectrum2 -Spectrum
SEYCHELLES - Masayoshi Takanaka
Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
Sublime - Sublime
Crying Laughing Loving Lying - Labi Siffre
Thank you for the time.
This was great. It felt like of Pink Floyd grew up in the American South, the he combo of south rock and psychedelic is something I didn’t know I needed but I want so much more.
The more I listen to The Police, the more confused I get about how they got so popular. Like, this music gets kinda weird; it's great but at times leans a little too much into the reggae sound
This is quintessential late 90s hip-hop. Amazing production, a little too long, an incredible mc, so many features it starts to distract from the final product, and so many high quality bars you might as well be in a prison. Is it the best of Missy Elliott, no. Is it still really good, yes. It has some great moments that deserve to be on the list and Missy Elliott is one of the best.
Elvis Costello is one of those names I had heard just by being around music and pop culture all my life and this is the first time I have listened to one of his albums. I gotta say that I thought it would be better. The lyrics are great, but the music isn't there to back them up in my opinion. He sounds like the hate-fuck baby of Anthony Kiedis and Rivers Cuomo. Maybe his other stuff is better, but this was not it. I have a final question: is this supposed to be the British answer to Bruce Springsteen but about a few years late?
This album was great. I thought the singing and songwriting was great. The music behind the singing was great as well. Every song felt different and flowed perfectly.
What is there to say about this album that hasn’t already been said. It’s great, every member puts out a generational performance to make one of the best albums of all time.
An unknown 80s indie rock album that isn’t a boring Brit pop record, more of this, please. This was a great album, it feels like a precursor for contemporary genres like midwest emo. The playing was all great and the songwriting was incredible.
Man, was this a good album. I think Paul Simon's best work, though, was when he was with Garfunkel. Something about this album felt flat, and it was because he was missing one half of his writing.
I mean it's The Beatles; there are only a few musical acts that have truly changed the direction of pop culture. You need to do at least one playthrough of their entire discography if you want to truly understand music as an art form. Does that mean this album is that good? No. The playing is all very nice, and you can see the start of some of the great songwriting they will have in their later albums. But overall this is just a generic 60s rock record. There's nothing special here other than The Beatles. This isn't something I am gonna come back to again.
This was just some good rock man. The songwriting was there and it was a fun time.
This is a great album, one that set the way for modern metal. But jesus are these songs so long. I love a long song, but not every song needs to be 6+ minutes.
I thought I was gonna get another metal album based on the cover, but then I hit play and all of a sudden I heard Irish Folk Punk. And holy shit, is this good.
