this album is so cool. feels nostalgic in a timeless way. it has some of MGMT's most iconic tracks and the lesser known songs are also very solid. i especially loved how i could pick out every synth part in "kids" and hear how all these parts came together to make a killer song. also i was shocked this album was made in 2007 it feels very 2018 to me (aka it was ahead of its time).
really pleasant to work to! some songs felt emotional even as instrumentals, love the dreamlike quality to them.
i knew as soon as i saw that this was just two 20 minute jazz songs that i was gonna love this. i like the organ and the drums and the jazz guitar. very soothing. feels more modern than 1969.
i wanted to like this more but i just didn't...felt like a similar experience to john lennon/plastic ono band in the way that it felt like some of the songs were trying too hard to be different/edgy.
this was fire. janis joplin's vocals are insane. somewhere between a 4 and a 5 for me.
not sure why crosby, stills & nash was mixed up in my head with creedence clearwater revival lmao. that means i went in expecting more rock n' roll stuff but i was pleasantly surprised by the soft rock. very relaxing.
somehow beatles were my most listened to artist last year so i'm a little bit beatle-pilled. i didn't realize how many bangers were on this one i just know they have even better stuff. probably more like a 4.5 for me tbh.
one of those albums where i likely never would have heard it if not for this website! i don't have much to say but this was a nice rock album and it was awesome getting to hear music from mali.
i think funk is a genre i'm really liking (i yearn for disco). every funk album i see will probably be rated pretty high. i'm sad this is not on spotify. i can't find the name rn but my fav was the song about funk bands playing rock - the guitar went crazy there.
this was nice background music. i feel like this is exactly what i'd wanna hear in like a millennial restaurant or an outdoor supply store or a rock climbing gym. i think i was more invested in the vibe of the music than the music itself, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
it was a nice groove while driving but i don't see myself returning to this at all.
kind of crazy that this came out like 2 months after sgt. pepper's - and that it was their first album. i felt like this sounded similar to sgt. pepper's but this is a good thing.
easy 5 stars. whole album's a vibe, the storytelling's incredible, and i even found a fun youtube video afterwards talking more about it. bitch don't kill my vibe!
similarly to "the soft bulletin", this album really felt like background noise to me. i think only one song ("she floated away") stood out.
could be controversial but at times i just cannot stand the nasally vocals 😭 overall it's still decent - i liked "orange crush" but cannot stand "stand" and parts of "the wrong child".
this felt unique and i actually really enjoyed it. i listened to the bulk of it while walking my dog on a crisp, cool evening right around dusk and that's exactly what this album sounded like. i really liked "stay" but didn't care much for "easter parade".
there were points of this album where i was like "wow this is beautiful". i loved the soft, orchestral, sometimes melancholy vibe of this album, and it felt very nice as i was driving into work on a calm, sunny, early autumn morning.
didn't feel like an album for me, but it wasn't bad. kind of felt like they were playing on every hair metal trope 10-15 years after that was a trend though (lol).
i like pet shop boys, but this was an album where i found myself more drawn to the tracks i already knew than anything else on the album.
i really liked this (i really like any jazz). i guess my only thing with this as an album is that it's a little annoying to hear multiple takes of the same song all right in a row. i did really like the alice and wonderland arrangements though.
i was really excited to see this album on the list - some of these songs i genuinely really love (like i love a good western vibe). however as a full-album experience i felt like it dragged a little at points...all the songs are pretty similar (hence the title).
those groovies sure are flamin'! this was a fun, energetic album that felt like more of what i'm looking for when it comes to classic rock.
good grief. i like the beatles but i really don't care for john 😭. another review said this album was like a therapy session for him and i agree. i'll give it a 3 for now but it could very easily drop to 2.
all the weirdos hyping this one up made me want to listen. similarly to the sonic youth album, i loved it and would probably give it a 4.5/5, but i'm leaning 5 since i'll probably be revisiting this. i already loved never let me down again, and actually really liked the remix, and i also enjoyed the assortment of instrumentals. felt ahead of its time!
worried this is a hot take...i love david bowie plus sound and vision is one of my favs on this album but besides that i feel like there's not much for me to come back to. i liked some of the instrumentals but again i just don't see myself turning to this bowie album compared to his other works. (i also listened to part of this while on a run so maybe i wasn't the most attentive).
my first thought was "this is adidas store music" (as someone who was frequently buying soccer things there in 2017). i liked the beginning half of this album more than the later half. it was also such a jumpscare to hear the choral sample in "lips" - the composer of that song came to our school and i had to sit through a 15 minute performance that was pretty much exactly like the sample it was awful.
like others have said there's a lot of bangers on this album. off the wall might be more my vibe tho? like the songs are distinct from each other but i feel like a lot of the pop songs feel similar if that makes sense (maybe all the "he he"-ing idk).
maybe i am not a folk person. like this sounds good and at first i really liked it but i felt like it just dragged on for a half hour. i know i'm someone where i'm more of a music listener than a lyrics listener so it doesn't feel super engaging to me when an album is just a guy and his guitar (i liked the brief harmonica though). my favorite part was when there was a glitch on the spotify compilation and a random jazz track played instead of "dink's song" (the jazz track was "can't we be friends" on the complete sarah vaughn vol. 2).
liked it more as it went along (specifically "secret 77" onwards. could not believe this was made in 2019 (but i think bad brains have been around since the 80s).
felt nostalgic..like it was 2018 all over again when i kept seeing this album on instagram moodboard accounts. some essential hits of the time are in here. i'm not sure if i gave this a full listen before but also damn it's sad at points.
this album was just fun and energizing - i loved it! definitely a few songs on here that i'll be coming back to.
i really did not care for this one. like i feel like they're trying to do something interesting and unique at least with the story-like nature of the lyrics but overall this was just background noise for me.
parts of this i liked, parts of this i did not. some songs good, some not so much. i think this would be a better/more memorable album if there were less longer songs than so many short songs (but idk what the norms were in 1967).
update: i've listened to so many more albums now, specifically so many *better* albums that i've gotta bump this down to a 2.
i'm so experienced. i got excited when i saw this album since some of the songs were fire (like fire lol). it was nice to relisten to this - not my first album of choice but definitely a banger and still definitely influential.
i wish i could give this a 4.5. like i really enjoyed this i'm just not sure if it's something i'm going to listen to that often you know? teen age riot was my favorite track (i think i had heard that one before).
absolutely loved this one. sounds like something i would listen to regularly. i love the pop-synth-rock vibe. i keep saying "i'll probably come back to this" for a lot of these but i actually mean it for this one and i wouldn't feel like i'm forcing it. favorite album so far (at the time of writing this i've listened to 8 others).
holy shit there's a marimba feature. holy shit it's not just one song. no way there's some glockenspiel too. wow. aside from that this was a nice album, not much else to say though.
maybe more like a 3.5 for me. i liked this one more as it went along but definitely in the beginning i was thinking "i kinda just want to listen to take me out".
sounds like something i'd hear in a dive bar or my local bowling alley. i'm probably not returning to this tbh but it was a nice classic rock jam.
i had the thought "maybe it's a 5?" and then time came on and i decided it was a 5. favs here were aladdin sane, time, and lady grinning soul. i love how it was like classic rock but also jazzy. the piano went crazy. enchanting.
fun! idk how i'd rank this mj album compared to the others but i at least like the disco vibe of the earlier songs especially (i love disco pls let there be more albums like that).
i really really liked this. i think maybe the last song was the only one i didn't care for as much but wow. so energizing so alternative so awesome. 4.5 but leaning 5 for the rating.
see i liked parts of it (music makes you lose control!) and generally i wouldn't mind this album if it was just the intrumentals but a lot of the songs were very, very repetitive.
i want to like this but there just is not much that's interesting i fear...i actually did like the long 13 min song but nothing else stood out to me. just seemed like basic rock instrumentals.
now this is how you do interesting rock instrumentals. loved the rock + latin + jazz fusion.
i love jazz - so i definitely loved this. very charming and fun :) my favs were "just a gigolo/i ain't got nobody" and "banana split for my baby".
another album where the vocals kind of annoy me but i think it works in this instance. fun music for morning commute lmao. i was especially impressed by all the fast-paced drumming. i even liked "smash" itself despite the minutes of silence within it - apparently having tracks "hidden" at the ends of songs was a thing at the time.
they basically invented metal and creepy tiktok audios with this one. like the one monkee's album from earlier but peak. i maybe liked rubber soul more than this so i might need to edit that review.
3 for led zeppelin 3. i did really like this and i love them in general but i'll be honest i'm probably only listening to "immigrant song" and "tangerine" from this album (the ones i already knew).
i hope it was intentional for everyone on the site to get this album today :). regardless of her recent passing this is just a lovely album and the songs feel very charming, they're basically stories.
on another note, i'm really not liking that this is the first solo female artist we've gotten (to my knowledge), we're fifty albums in, and i feel like i would have had to wait longer if it weren't for her passing.
not sure if i've ever listened to a blues album before but this was fire. "bluesbreakers" felt like a very fitting title for this track since yes it was blues but it also felt very rock and almost jazzy at points with the way some tracks were swung. loved the drum and harmonica solos too.
i enjoyed this more than led zepplin 3. some tracks i already knew, but there also were some new standouts for me here (in my time of dying, boogie with stu). loved the drums on this. very rock n' roll.
very enjoyable, i've always liked samba every now and then and this was especially nice while cleaning today.
i was really excited to get this album - i already liked a couple of the tracks off of it. i'm not sure if it's a five but it's definitely something i really enjoy. i love when paul gets more whimsical with songs after the beatles breakup.
i really liked this. fun classic rock and roll! very energizing, good for commute to/from work.
had an interesting experience with this one. i already knew some of the songs, but besides "baba o'riley" i couldn't remember a *single* other song from my morning commute on this album. this made me want to rate it lower, but i didn't realize "behind blue eyes" and "won't get fooled again" were also on this album. i also thought the drums/piano were crazy on "getting in tune". overall i think the who have a very distinct sound that i actually quite enjoy.
this one was nice. i was listening as i was doing computer work so this was another one that felt like background music to me but like it wasn't bad background music.
again, more of the kind of classic rock i really enjoy. i probably wasn't the most attentive to this album since i was working while listening but i knew there were songs on here i already liked and i found some new ones i enjoyed as well (like "shine a light"). i like how there's sometimes unexpected elements (like the trumpets in "rocks off").
i really liked this. it could be a 5? it was so cool to hear the fusion of jazz and afrobeat - i've never heard anything like it. my favorite part was the organ in "mistake" - it felt like funky phantom of the opera.
i feel like the beach boys are really good at executing this style of music. like normally i might find it pretty boring but i just love the vocals especially all the different harmonies. i even liked the random conversation at the end of the album.
once again, i think hair metal is just not for me. this isn't a bad album by any means i just can't rate my enjoyment higher than a 3. i really appreciate how this project is actually helping me determine my music preferences!
similar to my last review, this project is making me realize i really like funk music! i love how so many moving parts can come together to make something really groovy. i always feel energized and productive listening to this kind of music.
interesting and experimental, but a lot of this album sounds similar in a way that leaves me feeling bored near the end. i think i could maybe give it a 3 if it was a bit shorter or if there was more variety throughout the album. i wish there was more music like the last song "wonderful world" throughout the album.
this album just kind of bored me? like it sounds like how classic rock sounded to me when i was little (i didn't like it). i tried listening to this once already but i think i was just rocked out from listening to so many other rock albums. i actually like "i was a teenage hand model" until all the beeping at the end, and maybe i even like "regular john", but overall this album just felt so generic and repetitive (i was especially annoyed by the repetition on "walkin on the sidewalks").
really liked this. very unique sound - i love how there's classical elements like flute and strings while there's also some folk(?) elements with lots of guitar and other acoustic percussion. generally this album was just fun!
thanks to this project i'll say i'm an emerging nick drake fan. i saved four songs from this album onto my playlist of the month, and like the last nick drake, i really like how his work feels both like folk and orchestral music.
i'm really torn between a 2 and a 3 on this, like i think it's exactly a 2.5. pretty much background noise, but it at least felt more interesting than the queens of the stone age album. some of the lyrics felt cringy, and i'm probably not listening to anything on here again, but it wasn't like the worst thing which is why i'm torn.
i see why this album's considered a classic. to me it really invokes a specific vibe - like i've pulled off at a love's truck stop as the sun sets in the middle of nowhere while i'm on a road trip to get a slushie. i loved the synth on this too. favs were "cover me", "i'm on fire", and "dancing in the dark".
this is alright. i like the psychadelic vibes and all the guitar - this is a kind of rock i like, i'm just not sure if if this particular album stands out a ton to me.
did not expect this out of bee gees - i didn't even know they made music like this! a lot of the reviews seem to me negative but i didn't hate this - it kind of reminded me of the moody blues who i love.
experimental at times but i didn't hate it. favs were "on some faraway beach" and "some of them are old"
i skipped ahead to listen to this since i needed to listen to another album made by women so badly. this album is *good*. it feels very cohesive and just goes hard - i love the very grunge vibe of the whole thing.
when i saw that i'd finally be listening to an electronic album, i thought i'd be listening to more like edm or rave stuff for whatever reason lol. i surprisingly really liked this - on the drive home this album didn't feel promising but i think the vibes have to be really right for me to enjoy what i'm calling "soft" electronic music. this was great to listen to while i was updating dnd character stuff - it felt like a mix of some studio ghibli music and synthwave beats to chill/game to.
i'm ngl this album is kinda fun. i agree with what someone else said - terrible lyrics, good sound. "next" is kind of a terrible song but other than that the album was alright. i was expecting another mid rock album but it's weird enough that it stands out.
i didn't want to this album to be over. notice how every album by a woman on this list is peak. it's jazzy but unique and amy's vocals are insane. rip amy winehouse you will always be famous <3.
i had to relisten to this one since i was too locked out the first time. i think that's because i was working and this is the kind of music i've really been loving lately, so somehow ig that helped me focus? anyways this is very good - i enjoyed how this album opened with "let's get it on" and it felt like that theme was continued in "keep gettin' it on". i also really liked "distant lover".
i enjoyed this one! never heard of these guys before, but i really liked this kind of indie music - it just felt pleasant. i particularly liked "driftwood" and "why does it always rain on me".
i love bossa nova i was so happy to hear this. not only is it great working music but it's very *enjoyable* working music that actually makes me feel so relaxed so peaceful so lovely.
I LOVE STEELY DAN
i really liked this. like it was hip hop but also jazzy at times and it was very energetic but also pretty mellow at points. i also loved how experimental this got at times - particularly with "water". if i listen to this more there's a chance it could bump up to 5 stars, i found it very enjoyable.
i actually really liked this? i saw most people gave it a 3, and maybe it objectively is that, but i really liked how it felt like a mix of genres was used to make soothing, mellow music. some songs felt jazzy, some felt western, and all of them kind of generally felt romantic. this album kind of also reminded me of this band i used to listen to called mustard service - cool stuff!
i don't think this type of indie rock is for me. genuinely none of this music is bad but NONE of it stands out to me. it all just kind of blends together and really doesn't command my attention. "sprawl 1 (flatland)" is the only song i really didn't like. there's a chance this moves down to 2 stars.
hip hop might be my top rated genre on here so far, but every hip hop album on here so far has been *very* good. this album is another instance of hip-hop where it's also kinda calm and sometimes jazzy, which i just love. both parts of "it's your world" were the best parts of the album - i was especially a sucker for when the kids talked about their dreams on that track. that track alone could maybe push this to 5 stars.
i like what they're doing with this album enough, but we get it...you went to california. some of their songs also felt kind of repetitive, but liked "old friends, new lovers".
another instance of classic rock i kind of like! not the most memorable thing to me (i listened to this a day ago not today), but i remember at least thinking it was better than some of my other 3 stars. might need a relisten.
4 or 5 4 or 5....i can't believe this is from 1969. it's like funk but acoustic. kind of unrelated but i also really dig this album cover. i think i will go 5 since you know what? i enjoyed it more than some of the 4s. everyone's saying this album was really influential too so i need to do some research, there's a chance i change the rating.
i think i've decided that anything i'm rating 5 stars is an album where while i'm listening, i feel like i don't want it to be over. this is one of those - i listened to a little simz album the last time i tried doing a challenge like this and both times it was just so so good. i could listen to her all day - her hip hop is smart and unique and everything.
i fear this is too long, and i feel like i can't appreciate this unless like i'm a diehard bob dylan fan, since i don't really know what his songs are supposed to sound like, and i know he changes them up when playing. it's not bad but i just can't rate it highly either. at least the album gets significantly better on the b-side once there's more instruments than just the acoustic guitar and harmonica.
nice solid jazz stuff. those cats were cooking.
another solid hip-hop album. it doesn't hit as hard for me as the other ones i've listened to recently, but i'll take this any day over the tens of mediocre rock albums that are generated. my only other critique is that it's a bit long, and i think it could have packed more punch if it was shorter...that alone could bump this down to a 3 but we'll see.
omg. a total surprise for me. i thought i was going to hate this after "charlie big potato" (which honestly wasn't that bad), and then this album felt so fire all of a sudden. i think "we don't need who you think you are" is the best track on here. generally i don't listen to metal, but sometimes some albums stand out - this being one of them.
i listened to this album this morning and now i'm reviewing it tonight and can't remember a thing from it. i was really locked in this morning when listening to this so i wasn't the most focused. just more 60s rock, there's so many albums like this....not bad but not distinct either.
