Escuchar esto a los casi 40 años debe ser una experiencia muy diferente que a los 16. No me dieron ganas de rebelarme, me dieron ganas de gritarle a alguien más joven que no se está rebelando bien.
Sobrevalorado, además de los sencillos los discos de REM siempre suenan planos.
Gran disco pero creo que siempre voy a preferir el lado mas pop de The Cure
Bueno, siempre nos quedará Cold Little Heart
I understand why people would love or hate this album. If I had listened to this when I was younger I probably would have loved it but now it sounds too flat, too empty and overall pretentious as a lot of music that came out in the early 2000's. Not bat at all but seems like a wasted spot if we're talking about the 1001 albums you should listen to
Maybe I'm more of a casual Led Zeppelin listener and shouldn't listen beyond IV cause this felt like too much. Besides three or four a songs I didn't enjoy this album.
I used to think I was a Rolling Stones person but now I think I'm a Beatles person. Yet, nobody will let me marry their daughter.
Depression never sounded this angry and this good. If you love this album you might need ask for help or you are an elder millennial.
Very sexy music for very unsexy times, maybe I'll appreciate it more in the future.
This is the perfect example for generic 90's rock. Guys that know how to play their instruments but don't have any memorable melody inside them. Sounds like music made for a fake band in a 90's teenage movie.
I've listened and been touched countless times by the maggot brain guitar solo song but I never felt like listening to the whole album. It's not bad, it's a very good album but at the same time that maggot brain is the best and most interesting song the rest of the album has a lesser impact and maybe I was expecting a different sound just for the name of the band, not very similar to what I think when I think of "funk".
Monae tries to make rock, rap, soul, pop, sometimes on different songs, sometimes more than one thing at the same time and she has the talent to make a very interesting product while she tries but at some moments she doesn't achieve that during this album. She gets better results on the next one The Electric Lady. A good album that dares to try but doesn't succeed as much as it wanted to.
It sounds at first like a hard rock album but it's sound pretty quickly as 60's folky hippie songs and it stays moving back and forth between those intentions. I had never listened to this band, the good moments were really good, the bad moments were really boring but I'd be willing to listen to another more consistent one.
Better than expected but not my type of music.
Another rock and roll album with covers? This rolling stones boys will be over before they put out anything worth listening to.
2.5 ⭐
Talking about brit pop this Super Furry Animals album wasn't supposed to be one of its best examples, there is no recognizable voice, there is not one memorable melody but is no supposed to be ignored either. It's just... acceptable. An ok debut album by a band that endure the test of time by being an ok band and were for better or for worse part of a movement that for some time dominated the music environment.
Loved it. I hadn't eve heard her name before, I wasn't expecting much but it was a pleasant surprise. Not every song is a master piece but it has enough great moments and the album as a whole is cohesive enough to be called a great album.
Horrible. Boring, over sentimental on every song. You would expect someone that looks as such a loser as in the cover at least learned to write good songs but the lyrics seemed to be written by a highschool boy that wants to write poetry. This album makes me wonder if finding new music is worth listening to music this bad.
Someone said they it deserved 5 stars just because Gimmie shelter and it has some of the best songs in their career but it also has some weak moments.
Waaaay to folky for me.
I really liked it. At its best moments it made me think of how could sound a female led and more conventional tool but at its worse it made me think of a very generic nu metal band and that range it's too wide. Still I'm glad I discovered this band. Almost a month within this project this is the first new album I discovered that I really enjoyed
The only song that I had listened by the pretenders was the Ramones cover "something to believe in" in the "We're a happy family" tribute album. It was the quietest, slowest song in the album but it was one of the best. If they were part of the punk movement before being considered new wave, that is a good way to classify them, like the softest part or punk but still really good. The whole album is good, not one song seems out of place or made to fill space but not one single song was that good to consider this as a great album.
Old people music... I loved it.
Some good moments but not enough or good enough to justify this long of an album.
Based on the reviews I was expecting something much worse and this is not bad, it's quite good actually but it's more brit pop, makes me wonder if most of the critics were English that there are so many brit pop albums in this list. I guess that's the problem with a 1001 list of anything, you are not only listening to the album you are comparing the album to what you've listened to and what you are expecting to listen to and I hope I can listen to a lot less brit pop.
More brit pop. But I cant be unbiased with this one, I listened to it in highschool and it was my door to understanding what britpop was.
I was expecting to like this album because I liked Fragile but it was really boring. Maybe it was added to the list as an album with historical value for what was to come for the band.
Albumiño exelentiño
4 estrellas para black magic woman, 2.5 para el disco en general. Un momento brillante dentro de un disco muy genérico.
Estoy muy viejo y fuera de onda como para si quiera intentar entender esta música.
Buen disco. Horrible portada.
Cómo no le voy a poner 5 estrellas so este disco me hizo darme cuenta que stamos flotando en el espacio, que la felicidad te hace llorar, que todos los que conozco algún día morirán y en lugar de decir todas tus despedidas hazles saber que te das cuenta de que la vida pasa rápido. Es difícil hacer que las cosas buenas duren.
Based on the reviews I thought that I was goint to hate this album. If you like rock music you are going to listen to some country singers, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson most of the times but the most popular songs dont sound as country as this one, the thing that I saw more complains about were the lyrics, yes, it has a lot of country cliches just like a slayer album has metal cliches, a Motly Crue has glam rock cliches, a Cypress Hill has rap cliches. It's not self councious about being what it is, it doesn't try to change to appeal to other audiences, it wants to be a country album and at that it does a good job, at the same time I wonder if this is as good as the genre can be if its part of the 1001 albums. Anyway, I liked the simple songs, the instrumentation, even on the song that sounds like mexican norteño.
I liked the movie better.
More britpop. More than half of the pulling in this album is done by bittersweet symphony, if that song wasn't there this would be a very forgettable album.
Every time that I saw low reviews to an album it's because they were reviewing the people that listened to that album more than the music in the album, they were reviewing the listeners, not the music. In this case most people are reviewing Morrissey and yes, it's like as he grows old he grows weirder and weirder but this was a very good first step from the Smiths, not too far a away but not a copy and in the right direction, I can't sat the same for the albums to come after this. But the melodies are there, the sometimes clever lyrics are there and Morrissey if you don't like what he does as a singer or lyricist he apparently has always surrounded himself with very talented musicians.
Sexy time music albums have no business lasting 73 minutes. They should last 10 minutes as God intended sexy time to last.
People complain about Corgan's voice as if rock singers were always trained singers with actual technique. This could have been a great album but to make it double was just relasing some of the greatest songs 90's rock gave with many fillers.
I liked that is short. I'm sure it was interesting when it was released and experimental too but we would need to listen to the albums in chronological order to appreciate that. Judging just by what it is now, it's a cute, short, folky rock album. It's good, but this one doesn't need a second listening.
Yes, it all sounds kind of the same and I still love the whole album. The reason I don't give it 5 stars is because where is pump it up, where is Veronica? Where is the unforgettable melodies? Not every song has to be like that but I think great albums have to include several songs that you can't forget and the music here seems more like a second to Costello's Lyrics and his singing also seems to be missing a catchy melody.
There's something good going on here, I'm sure of it, I just don't have what it takes to appreciate it and I do not want what I haven't got.
It's ok. The best moment is an organ solo in Smoking. Besides that, it sounds like a band that tries to be a softer Deep Purple or Van Halen but never finds it's way around. Always liked the cover.
I don't know enough of this genre to describe what is happening. Anything that doesn't seem to produce sound with, guitar, bass, drums or other real instrument I call it "electronic" I like the chemical brothers, Fatboy slim... And thats all that comes to my mind, I like the fat of the land but that sounds more like, rock, punk, industrial songs with a defined structure and lyrics. So I would say that maybe they needed to make this album to get to that point which I do enjoy, but this, this is too repetitive for me. There's a reason people had to take drugs before listening to this.
You can say a lot of things about nazis but they make good albums, at least this one. There is an excellent balance between rap and pop. I did not like the inclusion of straight up religious songs and the skit tracks, are they supposed to be funny? Not really sure. Last month I listened to His las album Bully and it sounded nothing like this, this has songs that you want to come back to.
Holocaust is probably one of the saddest songs ever written. By the opening track my hopes were really high but immediately after that it goes down and stays down. The fact that is 19 songs long and most of them very similar to each other doesn't help.
Fun happy music. Give these people a lobster.
When I saw the recommendation I though: oh I love this album, 5 stars for sure. Then I listened to it years after the first time and is just not as good as I remembered. Hussle, Bamboo Banga and Paper planes are the best moments. The rest makes it for a very interesting album with a yes, refreshing sound but songs that sound different aren't necessarily good songs.
Once I bought a Spin magazine because it had a modest mouse interview. One of the articles was for some reason "25 musicians body parts" regarding Shane McGowan said something like "the soul of a XIX century poet and the teeth of a six months old baby" I was curious and I ordered a compilation album, I loved it, 5 stars for that album. This is great too but is too long. He was a great songwriter and the melodies have a real punk energy but for one hour it can really get tiring
Wacky English humor when is used in comedy is great. When it's used in music usually is bad. These people believe they are funnier and more clever than they really are.
There are three good songs in this album and the rest should just be B sides that only harcode Morrisey hugging fans could enjoy.
I had a few Metallica albums in my teens, a couple of slayer albums too but I never cared much about Megadeth. Since then I still listen to a few metal bands but it's not my favorite genre. There are a few moments that are good but I really mean moments. The only song that I enjoy in full was Bad Omen, other songs feel repetitive and long.
This is the most boring album I've listened to so far but I suspect it wont be the last one. It sounds like pop rock and stops short before trying to make catchy melody.
Was there anything I could do was the only memorable song, but even that wasnt interesting enough to make me want to listen to it again.
I have no idea what people refer to when they praise the production of an album but I'm guessing is this. You can hear every little detail to perfection, every instrument is there without taking the spotlight and allowing Adele's voice and the chorus to be the main sound. Unfortunately those instruments don't play anything interesting for me and Adele's voice sounds like many others. She can sing for sure, she is trained but so what? She doesn't use her voice to do anything impressive and her lyrics are just common places.
Even the prostitute song is boring.
It's always a pleasant surprise when you discover that a one hit wonder is part of a good album, still, this sounds like the first steps of a genre that would be perfected by other bands with more solid bases.
Am I too old to learn to play trumpet? No
Maybe Springsteen is an American taste, maybe he's been there for so long that everybody already listens to his music and accept it as the work of a great musician but outside of the US he has never been so present as other musicians like Bob Dylan that I sense he is perceived in a similar manner. The lyrics are good, better than average at moments, others they are really simple. The musicians are good and know when to be present and when yo step back and realize that the act is Bruce Springsteen. Yet, the sum of those parts don't seem to give a great album.
Favourite songs: Born in the USA, Downbound train, the kind of creepy I'm on fire
I've listened to this album so many times through the years since I was 15 that of course its one of my favourite albums. The problem comes when we try to treat music as a competitive sport and want to say that a lot of people like an album not because it's good but because it's better.
Very easy to listen to this album despite being longer than one hour but it made me think they the stones are probably the longest running band for being a sacred cow, if you like rock then you like the stones but Mick Jagger is not the greatest song writer, not I've ever seen his name in that discussion. Someone else mentioned that the best moments were by guest musicians and I think he is right. It's like Gimme shelter, the best moment is the chorus not anything that the main members do. Not a single track is bad but not a single track in it's entirety is memorable beyond those piano, sax or trumpet parts. It did help me to find the names of those musicians and l discover new music. I probably won't listen to this album again.
Never listened to a whole album of this genre so maybe it's not the best but I loved the whole vibe. I genuinely felt happy while listening.
The lyrics are what you would expect from a rapper, black or white, man or woman, English, American or from anywhere "I am a very good rapper" "I was poor and now I'm rich" the music supposedly is not sampled and it's good. The best songs are when she is accompanied by other musicians , "Selfish" "Wounds"
When I sold all my CDs because I was moving too often and was hard to carry them with me and I had everything in digital I only kept Tool albums because of the packages and this Elliott Smith album. A lot of people say it's a Beatles tip off but I think it's an improvement and I love every second of this.
This band came to exist just to make Take on me. It will play forever and probably solved their lives but at least in this album there's not even a glimpse of the same inspiration that wrote that song.
5 stars for Gryffindor and for take on me, 2 stars for the album as a whole for having the song.
All good. Nothing remarkable.
I only listened to the first album. I always thought I didn't like vocal jazz beyond Frank Sinatra but I enjoyed this. However I am recognizing that some albums are just not going to connect with me just for their genre. This has a little bit of that.
I like jazz and I like latin jazz so it was not hard listening to this album but even at 40 minutes it felt repetitive very early on. The conga is just too limited to be the central point of a whole album, I need more melody.
There are some melodies hidden in all that noise that will surface more clearly in the next albums. I can only blame them being too young and wanting to push their sense of humour and experimental sound to make it less amicable but they outgrew that. They all do. We all do.
They seem to be good at creating melodies with the vocals but the instrumentation feels flat and at times non existent. Fun music but inconsequential, easily forgettable and too long for what it offers.
I think the beatles are great but not as great as they've always wanted to make us believe they are.
Like hell was I going to listen to a 3 hour album!! I looked for a ranking of the songs and listened to the top 12 and I thought: a great album will come out of this. But no. It's minimalistic in its most boring form. At least the other bad albums had the decency of of being less than 1 hour long.
I don't know. I liked it a lot.
Took me 3 full listens of this album to start appreciating it. And I liked it. Good melodies. Probably just not the genre I listen to the most. It's kind of a folk pop rock. I knew that there was something there and I found it
As I approach the 100 albums I realize that in genres that dominated on different eras there are the greats that everybody knows about even if you have never listened to them, some great unknowns that for some reason didn't get the recognition the others did and then there are some acts that just are not as great but they belong to the same category of music. I've listened to a lot of brit pop, some grunge, some country that is nothing great and this album is precisely that on the blues rock. It's good, every song has the energy and the talent of other rock blues acts but it feels like it's the cheap version, the copy of the copy. It's a good album that surely I won't ever listen to again.
There are two Tom Waits the piano bar jazzy-bluesy guy from the first albums and the more experimental weird one from a second era. I like them both but I enjoy and appreciate more the second one. This albums seems to be trapped in the middle. Most of the songs sounds like they belong to the first Tom Waits, but there is a couple that sound more experimental. That is reason that I don't give this one 5 stars, it feels incoherent at times. Still most songs are great in their own.
I don't like double albums. I tried listen to this one before and I got bored, this time I liked it better. The best part for me it's the instrumentation when Wonder and his musicians seem to be having more fun. I'm not a fan of his singing and the lyrics can be very cheesy at times. Concussion was a weird track since it's a fusion jazz and it doesn't achieve as good of a result as when they just try to play funk-soul rhythms, that's the hight point for this albums. I understand why it's considered a great album. Why it tops the greatest albums list lately is still a mystery.
All good. Sounds like a bridge between modern rap and 80's rap. Not a brilliant song in the album, probably Can I kick it due to the Take a walk on the wild side sample.
The first song is pure gold, deserves the Nobel peace prize. The rest of the album is ok
