fine but a bit bland, morrissey's singing is subpar
great playing on all instruments, with a good mix of smoother and rougher jazz. overall an enjoyable listen, it kept my attention better than most other records similar to this.
energetic, great production, good vocals. i am not an avid metal/industrial rock listener, but i can still recognize and enjoy how good this is, when i'm in the mood for it.
outrageously outdated sounding; sorry, it's very hard for me to enjoy this. they have fun energy but, at least for today's standards, the flows, bars and cadences are extremely corny.
it's fun and enjoyable, though joe strummer's singing can sometimes be a bit too strange for my taste, under the more sparse instrumentation.
i always thought this album was pretty overrated, but these last couple relistens have made it even worse .. it's a mixed bag at best, some great tracks like "N.Y. State of Mind" and "Represent", but also some tracks i don't care for, such as "Life's a Bitch", "Halftime" and "Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park)", and even some tracks i'd straight up like to never listen to again like "One Love" and "One Time 4 Your Mind". overall a mediocre album with high highs and low lows, along with a lot of meh.
i'm not usually a big fan at all of country adjacent styles, but there were some very good standout songs here (notably, "California Stars"). even with the tracks that i wouldn't consider standouts, they were, for the most part, at least up to par.
many of these tracks are somehow both too basic, and messy to the point where they just sonically do not work. there are some fine moments, but i really don't get the overall appeal here ..
of course freddie mercury is a great singer here as always, and the instrumentation is good, but, perhaps not of their own fault, as everyone was taking from their style, it sounds a little basic.
rest in peace dolly parton.
took a third listen, but my eyes have been opened to how good this classic is, even despite my dislike toward most country music.
a pretty powerful and all-around good record, i can definitely hear the influence this band had on one of my personal favorite albums, jeff buckley's grace. sometimes iggy's vocals are a bit out there, but overall this is a greatly enjoyable listen. (listened to the iggy mix)
this is an interesting album, but i feel it has TOO much pop appeal; it's on the verge of greatness, but it sounds so sanitized and washed down, with a very corporate feel, and honestly, i'm not really a fan at all of this 'tender' shaky style of singing she tends to frequently use in this album.
many tracks here are also just very overplayed. i have heard many different versions of "fast car" a total of about 500 times, and it's really not my preferred type of song to be listening to for that long. there are still some good songs here that aren't overplayed, but there are a few that i completely can not enjoy due to how much i'd heard them before; every song here just gets a little more grating to me each listen i put in.
his singing voice is both a blessing and a curse at different times. sometimes it can perfectly compliment his lyricism, and other times it's a bit grating. but as a whole, this ends up a decently enjoyable album.
it's interesting to see his thoughts and predictions on what technology was like at the time and how it would progress, even though he was sonically very off, except for some of the 80s. the music itself has some pretty good moments, but it's quite repetitive. still, i'd say it's worth a listen, due to it's overall unique nature.
i was already well familiar with this album before starting the generator run, but i'd forgotten how good it is, due to how long it's been since i've listened to it !! pure, hot buttered soul, an absolute must-listen for enjoyers of this genre and a great choice for beginners to start getting into it, despite the lengths of each track. i'm glad i was given this today, truly a great album. 100% worth the revisit and 100% deserves a spot on this list.
a serviceable cool jazz live album, but i would have lost nothing if i hadn't listened to this before i died.
meh .. decently enjoyable, but inoffensive and unexciting. at least they don't have an overbearing country twang accent like a few other country artists on this list.
the biggest dad rock hits don't usually ever have much to offer for me, and this is no exception. the 80s is my least favorite decade in music since the 50s, and this is WAY too 80s. so cheesy and plastic, with mediocre vocal performances and poor instrumentation, it really feels like they were just fishing for fame and nothing more.
i'm surprised how much i enjoyed this, given that i was already well familiar with "rehab", and am pretty neutral to it. the rest of the album is much better though, in my opinion. but i shouldn't be surprised, because a jazz-soul-rnb singer sounds like an incredible combination, and she was great with it here.
despite this album having many, many of the 80s tropes i dislike, it's actually a fun album. likely thanks to the vocals, as they are much less stereotypical of the 80s.
great album. i love the horns on here, and the vocalist does a good job matching their level.
this album is just consistently very fun. despite it's bombastic nature, i didn't get tired of it by the end of the album.
pretty mediocre. the guitar playing is good, vocalist is fine, but the album lacks a certain something, making it sound plain and very uninteresting. it feels like there wasn't an ounce of passion put into the recording of this.
out of the two hair metal albums i've been given so far, i slightly prefer this over slippery when wet, but i still really don't enjoy this. still plastic, still cheesy, still meaningless. please stop giving me albums from these 80s pop-metal hitmaker bands 🙏
when i refreshed and this album appeared, i immediately jumped up in my seat. i'd been wanting to check out this record for a very long time, but i never got to actually listening until now. safe to say, it definitely lives up to the masterpiece title that many people give it. the energy on this thing is incredible, prince's vocals most definitely live up to the hype, and the instrumentation compliments them outstandingly. i really should've gotten to this sooner!!
already familiar with this one, it's a great album that is also a great entry point to their catalog, as their other albums are a little more experimental, but it's not my favorite from them. still though, as i said previously, it is a great album worth your time.
great album. don't have much to say about it, but it grew on me heavily after these last two listens.
this is a very fun classic rock and roll album, definitely one of the better classic albums i've been given by this generator. there's not an immense amount of depth in it, but it rocks hard.
an absolute gem that unfortunately doesn't seem to get much praise in recent times. i can't believe i'd never heard of this until now, as i am very involved in hip hop groups. but anyway, this album definitely puts jurassic 5 up there with the other great hip hop groups from the same period.
now this is how you add country influence into your music. such a peaceful and calm album, definitely a surprise in how enjoyable it was, given my usual music preferences. the main pull for me has to be the solos, especially in the title track.
pretty good, you can definitely tell the influence it had on indie rock. my only minor issue with it is the vocals, which are just not quite my style sometimes.
public enemy have a habit of filling projects with bloat, which was mostly kept to a minimum on the acclaimed "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back", but with 4 interludes and 16 full-length tracks, averaging nearly 4 minutes per track (excluding the interludes), this record definitely has them showing some cracks. there are some great songs here that can compete with many on their last record, but they are, unfortunately, usually overextended and overshadowed. they go deeper in lyricism and concept than before, but the actual music does take a hit in the end.
good album, but it is unfortunately quite empty in terms of vocals and variation within each track, with the exception of a few. these few tracks are very interesting though, containing bits of multiple genres. "dirge" is an especially outstanding song.
rest in peace dolly parton, she was a pretty great person from what i've seen.
i'll probably re-listen to the last entry i was given from her, because this is actually more enjoyable to me than i remember her music being (nothing against her specifically, i just didn't like country at all before starting this list).
i'm a huge fan of these older folk records, and while this doesn't disappoint, it also doesn't impress compared to albums like pink moon. a lot of tracks here are just too short, but they're really great when we get a full-length cut.
these are definitely some top-tier beats, but i usually prefer music with more vocals.
just mediocre 60s pop rock reminiscent of the beatles, and it is much too long to be justified.
not a fan of the velvet underground, but this is good.
i am, of course, well familiar with this. great album, but not top 3 kanye imo.
good, fun new wave type album, with a few standout tracks. no misses, but i feel like it sounds a bit riskless at times.
this isn't nearly as heavy as i thought it would be. it's not even actually black metal .. i like some softer metal, but this is definitely not to my taste and i don't see the generator changing that rn. with this entry, it definitely hasn't (yet ?).
some top tier funk jams, and i probably wouldn't have gotten to it for a very long time if not for this list. so thanks !!
in a world of incredibly polarizing views on this record, i will maintain my Musical Objectivity and admit that my thoughts on this album are just "it's ok".
i don't think bohemian rhapsody is one of the best songs of all time, but this is still a very good album.
i faintly recognize some of the iconic lyrics in this, but i am definitely still not warmed up to this sort of country as of yet. maybe i'll enjoy this more on a relisten some day.
this was one of the first hip hop albums i ever listened to, but it's grown off me a good bit, especially without "now or never" on this original version. there are one or two outstanding songs like "sing about me, i'm dying of thirst", but it's mostly just meh for me, other than that. (sonically, of course. never gonna deny the lyricism and structural expertise on this).
extremely dated, overextended, and basic by today's standards. it's very difficult to enjoy the album due to some of these old trends being so heavily used, such as the robot voice and all these random sound effects.
second album by the byrds, i definitely prefer this one. very reminiscent of the beatles, but they do it well, and it feels like less of a slog compared to the first album of theirs i was given, "the notorious byrd brothers".
