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).
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.
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!
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".
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).
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).
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.
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.
