I know its over is alright. The queen is dead (first song) not my style. Album is short, pretty good though as it got better as it went on.
Starlight was a banger, the rest.........eh not for me. 2.5/5, bumped down to 2 since can't do half stars
3 stars for the 3 good songs on the album. Prefer druggy beatles
Not sure what I wanted out of this one but it all blended together in a bad way. Or at least in a boring way. 2/5
I like mostly instrumental guitar albums, so this one is slappy but I can understand why some might not like it. I'd give it 3.5 but since there are no halves bumping itup to a 4
I know they were revolutionary for a band back in the early 60s for this style of music. I know that other bands took what they did and built off of it. But I cannot stand the pop Beatles shit. Give me them on drugs, when their brain have been crayoned from fame and LSD. For historical meaning this is a 5/5, for listenability and enjoyment it is a 1/5. Sorry
All time classic. Ain't Nothing but a G Thang is one of the best rap songs of all time.
Dudes Hymn gets this a 2, rest of the album pretty lackluster
Album art is a 5/5. The music, bleh
I really wanted to like this more than I did. 2 stars even feels a little generous.
Druggy Beatles are my favorite Beatles, but I still don't really like the Beatles.
5/5 RIP Dolly album is a smidge slow but still tons of bangers what do you want me to say
Virtual Insanity is a banger, unfortunately it isn't on this album. This one has other stuff not as good as that song but kind of the same? What do you want me to say
Not my favorite Beastie Boys album but the rhymes and lyrics are all pretty good, what else do you want me to say
First song was a banger, last half of the album was a little slow but overall it was way more enjoyable than I thought it would be going in what else do you want me to say 3/5
I don't really care for whatever style of music is that Prince does, acknowledging that he does have a few certified bangers. Those bangers were not present on this album though, so it gets 2/5 what else do you want from me
Never heard of this dude before today, it's all mellow folksy type shit and I really enjoyed it, not sure what else you want me to say 4/5
This website should be called 1000 albums because why was this one included? No bangers, nothing worth listening to, music wasn't fun or interesting, not an ounce of editing was done as the songs just ramble, what else do you want me to say
Felt like a 90s album the Beatles would put out if they were all still alive and making music, but not in a complimentary way. In past their prime, nothing catchy or interesting but they just wanted to record. That's this album, what else do you want me to say
There's only two tracks on this one people. First track sounds like it could be played under the world's longest montage of museum art robbers getting into place. Second track starts off as whimsical wind chimes, then picks it up and you start to think "here we go" but then it jumps down into the slow jazz that I don't think anyone likes. Picks back up again a tiny bit towards the end but by that point, too little too late, what else do you want me to say
Rest of the album is enjoyable but Mr Blue Sky is the clear number 1 cut on this album, what else do you want me to say
Opens up with a banger and then the rest of the album is a cohesive, nice listen. 4/5
2/5, enjoyable enough but just not my jam.
3/5 enjoyable listen, one great banger
Enjoyed it, on board with what they were trying to do. If I could go half stars I would do 3.5, but in this case we are rounding down as it just didn't quite get all the way to being a round up candidate.
Dug this, just needed a rainy day but alas can't change the weather. 3.5 stars on a partial scale, enjoyable so we will do a little bumpity bump up to 4 stars.
Spent the whole album thinking it was a German band, apparently they are Slovenian. Regardless, I don't know what to make of this. The music and some of the rhythm sounds alright, but it is so mismatched with the heavily accented vocals that I could just never settle in. It wasn't painful to listen to but it also wasn't enjoyable. Also it's kind of weird that they have essentially two different covers of a song (Life is Life by Opus) on this album only a few years after the original came out. Or maybe that was the point, but it just didn't hit for me. 2/5
Album flows nicely, energy never lets down. 3 bangers from this album, not sure where it falls in their discography but it feels like one that probably put them on the map. 4/5
Itsari and Jasco are on an island by themselves on this album and unfortunately for the rest of the album, it's an island I'd rather be on. Jasco is a short but sweet, almost classical guitar style instrumental, while Itsari is an absolute banger built around a melodic native american chant that I could have listened to for hours. Neither sounds remotely like the scream style heavy metal surrounding them, which makes their inclusion a little baffling but very welcome.
The rest of the album is strong instrumentally, but the lyrics and singing style are just not my groove. I can appreciate the musicianship, but apparently my two favorite songs on a metal album are the ones where nobody is shrieking at me. 2 stars for the two songs I liked.
I'm torn because the two bangers on this album are really good, but the rest of the album is fine. Great if you like Stipe's register, but it sort of all kind of sounds the same to me. In between a 3 and a 4, ultimately I think a 3 because I would never really seek out a relisten to this whole album.
On a second listen I realize I liked it more than a 3, like a 3.7. So it gets a 4/5.
I was ready for some Miles Davis to blow me away and I just don't get this album at all. It feels like two hours of elevator music where every once in a while somebody remembers they're supposed to be playing jazz and makes some noise. Nothing grabbed me, nothing made me want to turn it up, and mostly I just kept checking to see how much was left. Maybe I'm just not a jazz guy, but if this is one of the greatest jazz albums ever made, we may have a problem. 1/5
A whole bunch of bangers sang live, what's not to like?
I like Kate Bush’s voice, and I like the overall sound of this album, but somehow I don’t actually like any of the songs. I’m not even sure why. They aren’t catchy, fun, interesting, or bad enough to complain about. They just sort of… exist. It’s like someone sealed the sound of the late ’80s in Tupperware, then forgot to put any songs in it. A perfectly preserved time capsule of the era, just from the lower shelf.
2/5
I imagine the CIA has used this album to get terrorists to divulge information. It’s two hours of the worst kind of British rambling rock, where every song feels like it started 10 minutes ago and forgot where it was going. And if that doesn’t pique your interest, some of the tracks are live performances that somehow sound even worse. By the end I was ready to confess to shit I didn’t even do.
Apparently this is one of the greatest rock albums ever made, and I spent 67 minutes waiting to figure out why. Nothing here is particularly bad but nothing grabbed me either. Even the supposed standouts like Tumbling Dice and Rocks Off just sound fine. I really like Gimme Shelter (not on this album), so I know the Rolling Stones are capable of making me give a shit. This album just never did.
The first part of the album is pretty straightforward guitar-driven rock, and honestly, it all starts to feel a little one-note. The bluesier second half worked better for me, especially You Shook Me, with some tickling of the ivories that is simply delightful. It’s a slow, bluesy little ditty that picks up steam at times but stays funky throughout. If the whole album sounded more like that, maybe I’d like it more or maybe I’d just complain there was too much of that instead. Either way it was by far my favorite track on an otherwise pretty forgettable album. 2/5
Newman has a strange voice. It's either really good for a bad singer or maybe really bad for a good singer. Regardless I like listening to him and his voice gives the album a milquetoast personality that somehow resonates with this dead heart. The songs themselves are pretty consistently good without ever blowing me away. It's basically an album full of 3-star songs maybe one 4 and one 2, but almost everything else lands right there. Nothing groundbreaking but an enjoyable listen throughout.
Some albums have great album covers but the music stinks (looking at you King Crimson) and some tapped out on making a nice cover, like Brothers, but the music is enjoyable. This was a pretty good listening experience, none of the tracks were 5 star level but there were enough 4 star experiences that my overall review is about the same. 4/5
There are a couple songs that are okay to listen to, but the only one I actually enjoyed was "Only God Knows Why." Weird album overall. Some songs are rock, some are country, some are rap, and somehow none of those genres seem particularly happy to be sharing an album together.
One of the rap songs (I don't remember which one, but that's neither here nor there) was just Kid Rock slowly rhyming stupid shit like he was making it up on the spot and nobody had the heart to tell him they were recording.
2/5, and that's being very, very generous.
I know The Pogues are a well-known band, but I wasn't familiar with their music before today. The opening track made me feel like I was being yelled at by a drunk pirate who had cornered me at a pub. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it did put me on edge.
Then there's a silly song about Jesse James that feels like it wandered in from an entirely different album.
But by far the star of the show is this slow little banger called "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day," which, in a stunning case of false advertising, is not sung by a man at all. I had to look up who was singing because I hadn't heard another female voice on the album. Turns out it's their bassist, Cait O'Riordan. I could listen to her velvety Irish voice sing the phone book. Easy 10/10 track and one I'm genuinely glad this album introduced me to. 4 stars baby
Didn't really care for the slow songs other than "They Won't Go When I Go," which is layered perfectly and blasts passionate soul into your bones. My other favorite two songs were "Boogie On Reggae Woman" which was an upbeat funk fest and Please Don't Go, just an overall enjoyable tune. I liked this album more than I thought I would. 3/5
I think I just am unable to appreciate most Jazz, as I wanted to like this and BB King is clearly talented but I was ultimately glad that the album was so short. I did enjoy the song "How Blue Can You Get" which has the line "I've been downhearted baby, ever since the day we met" that was sampled on Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand. 2/5
Really solid album. I dug the harmonies and the overall flow. I see why they added Neil Young the next year, though. The trio was missing something, and apparently that something was a guy I don't even like. Against all odds, Neil Young made a band better. Marrakesh Express is a banger. 4/5.
I had only heard "We Are Family" before, so I had no idea what to expect from the rest of the album. Then "He's the Greatest Dancer" opened with the part Will Smith sampled for Gettin' Jiggy wit It and suddenly I was Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the TV. That song is a banger. The up tempo songs are fun, finger snapping little ditties with grooves that make it nearly impossible to sit still, while the slow songs are surprisingly powerful and give the album just enough variety. There really wasn't a stretch where I was waiting for a song to end so I could get to the next one.
I originally had this at 4 stars, then immediately started replaying a couple of the tracks and realized that was stupid. This is exactly what I've been waiting for with this project: an album I'd never heard before that I genuinely loved from start to finish. Will Smith knew what he was doing when he robbed these ladies 20 years later. There's only four Sledge sisters but this album is 5 stars.
Wanted to like it, if their style was more in the style of the two hits then maybe I would like it more but most of it sounded like too heavy of a guitar paired with too uninteresting of a voice and lyrics. 2/5
Boy oh boy, in theory this should be right up my alley. I like folk music, I like call and response songs, I like songs with only a few instruments and I like songs with lots of singers and instruments. This album has all of that. Unfortunately, none of it is done well.
If there's a singular lead singer, which I think there is, he has a tinny, hollow voice with absolutely no depth. When he's joined by the others and the instruments, instead of a Phil Spector style Wall of Sound you get more of a shower curtain of noise. Technically there's something there, and god bless them they are trying, but it's thin, unpleasant and I can pretty much hear right through it.
Some of these songs have the production and entertainment quality of a Ren faire band playing on the fourth stage, the one you accidentally stumble upon because you were looking for a turkey leg. I'm not sure what the target audience for this was back in 1968. I wasn't born yet, but if I had been, there would have been no bullseye on my back as this wasn't for me. 1/5
I'm not sure there's enough pyschadelics that I could take where I would be in a good spot to enjoy this album. It's not that the music isn't good - don't get me wrong it isn't - it's that it isn't thought provoking or enjoyable in any way, shape or form. Most of the tracks sound like they would be looped on a DVD menu screen that just plays while its waiting for you to make a selection. I would like to meet the person who likes this album so that I could pick their drug addled brain to see what makes them tick, but I assume I will find some fungus controlling their brain. 1 star
Was just bopping my big head along to the tracks in order, and it felt like a standard folk/rock album for the time. I'd never heard of the band before and figured this was the reason why. Run of the mill, nothing special. I was pretty firmly sitting at a 2.
Then "No Time to Live" came on. The song starts off as a slow piano tickler, but just builds into this warm ballad that picks up the pace toward the end. Suddenly this was looking more like a 3. Then things started getting a little weirder, including a song about the fucking mulberry bush that I somehow enjoyed, until "Shanghai Noodle Factory," which is just a fun and funky song about what? I don't know, I assume mushrooms given the time period, but it doesn't really matter.
I really did not see a 4 coming after those first few tracks, but the second half of this album gets a little stanky, in a good way. 4/5.
Edit: I just found out Shanghai Noon is not on the original album, back down to 3. Oh well
Side 1 was upbeat and almost made me come around on ass smacking jazz, but side 2 smacked my ass back into not really liking it. I'm sure people in the moment loved it, I'm not at that moment. Two stars
I don't like the singer's tone, I don't like the music, I don't like the style, I don't like anything about it, I don't understand why anyone would need to hear this album. 1 star
First track is pretty good, but then the album kind of disappears for me. Most of it sounds like Beatles-lite, and considering I don't particularly like the Beatles, that's not exactly a winning formula. If they leaned more into the folk side of things I think I'd be on board. “Melody for an Unknown Girl” is easily my favorite track, probably because it's mostly instrumental and doesn't sound much like anything else on the album. Two stars for those two songs, nothing for the rest. 2/5.
2/5 and that's being slightly generous. the 15 minute jam session on my generation might be critical acclaimed but I found it mostly boring
I am grateful that I found this website, because it has introduced me to a lot of albums and artists I never would have listened to otherwise. I can't believe I've listened to music for 35+ years and had never even heard of Nick Drake until a few months ago.
But with the good comes the bad and I curse this website for putting this shit on here. Nobody could possibly like this album. Not on drugs, not not on drugs, not trying to sleep, not trying to stay awake. There is no appropriate state of consciousness for Shleep.
Every song is some drawn out, slow paced melody with muted lyrics that I don't even care enough to try to decipher. It just drones on and on until eventually another song starts doing basically the same thing. 1 stupid star.
Some albums are called timeless, like Abbey Road. This album is almost the exact opposite—it is firmly cemented in 1987–89. The production, the beats, and especially the rapping make it impossible to separate from that very specific moment in music.
If she had just stuck to singing, this would probably be a 4 for me. I like her voice, I like a lot of the lyrics, and I like the in your face punchiness of some of the songs. But the late 80s rapping style is featured on most of the album, and while it probably sounded fresh at the time, today it dates the music more than anything else. There's a 4 star album buried in here for me, but I can't quite get past how much of it sounds like a time capsule. 3 good stars
I'm a sucker for a female vocalist - be it solo, duo or in a band. Not sure if PJ Harvey is just a solo artist or a band and the music wasn't good enough to make me want to find out. I like it just fine, but it seemed like an album that I could hear passing by a garage band of 16 year olds who had been playing together for a year and writing their own songs. Didn't mind it, but no reason to come back to this one. 3 stars
I'm not a Cure fan but this sounds like Cure lite to me, just generic sounding early 80s bland pop that had absolutely no staying power. I did like Elegia quite a bit and Sunrise is alright, but neither can bump this up to a 3 for me. 2 stars
Listened to it while on a walk so I'm sure that bumped it up a star but I was walking with a little funk in small town Idaho late at night while enjoying this album. The lyrics didn't really hit for me on most song but they seemed to be an afterthought anyways so for the funk alone, 3 stars
Albums I just don't like but have at least one enjoyable song I give 2 stars. I couldn't find any joy from a song on this album. Maybe it was the lead singers voice (which isn't good), but probably it is just the style of music because the playing of the instruments itself seemed fine. None of the songs were fun, none were catchy, none were interesting, none got me thinking "I want to hear this again." I just wanted it to be over. 1 star
Mother Nature is a banger. Loved it. Liked most of the other songs but nothing else got above a 3, so it is alas a 3 album.
I don't know what makes this album punk or any album punk and at this point I don't care to have it explained to me. The songs aren't catchy, aren't entertaining, aren't fun, and they aren't bad. I can't imagine someone liking this stuff but I'm sure there's some freaks out there that do. 2 stars
A little before my time so while I know they were revolutionary and their beats were later sampled by so many others, I just don't have the enjoyment listening to this album that some do. The music and the rapping is pleasant but so slow and simple. 3 stars
When I don't know an artist/album, I just hit play, no prior research. After I got done with this one, I jotted down 2 stars and then tried to figure out why it is on the list. I cannot believe that this album has sold 4 million albums. I can totally believe that it was largely improvised - it seemed like it, and not in a good way. The songs were meandering, not particularly interesting, and repetitive at times. I can get down with instrumentals only, I just need to feel something, something like Keith Jarrett apparently felt making this because it sounds like he's just off mic blowing a load at several points. 2/5
I was absolutely dreading this album. I'm not a Kanye fan so the prospect of spending over an hour listening to him wasn't filling me with excitement. Joke's on me because this album absolutely slaps.
The rapping, the singing, the insane production, the guest appearances, the experimentation.... it all works. "Power" and "Runaway" are phenomenal, and "All of the lights" isn't far behind. By 2010 Kanye had enough fame to do whatever the hell he wanted & rather than play it safe, he took some enormous swings. He connected on just about all of them. Even the weird stuff kept me interested and the closing track caught me off guard but I enjoyed the message.
Are some of the lyrics questionable? Absolutely. Is Kanye a douche? Undoubtedly. Am I slightly annoyed that I now have to give him one of my rare five-star ratings? You bet.
But credit where it's due. I went into this expecting an endurance test and came out wondering if I'd just heard one of the best hip-hop albums ever made.
5/5. I hate that I loved it.
Sometimes I wonder how it's possible that I've never heard an album that's on this list because I'm so blown away. Sometimes I wonder why an album on this list even exists. This is the latter. Feels like it was put on this list just to check a box. Shit box? I don't know.
From the movie Wayne's World:
Wayne Campbell: Shitty Beatles? Are they any good?
Tiny: They suck.
Wayne Campbell: Then it's not just a clever name
The Boo Radleys had to be the inspiration for this joke, except without the clever name. This album sounds like a band that wanted to restart a late 60s psychedelic rock vibe in the 90s. Nothing felt true to the time period of the album and it seemed forced. 1 star
Real close to a 2/5, there were just enough songs that I could sort of nod my head along with, even if they were a bit silly like Unhappy Girlfriend. 3/5 stars
I'm less than 3 months into this journey of listening to an album per day and, interestingly enough, "dookie" is how I would describe about 1/3 of what I've been assigned so far. Sorry jazz fans and 60s psychadelic rock, I just can't get into you. Dookie is not how I would describe Dookie, though, since it has 4 absolute bangers on it and the rest of the album flows cohesively around them. 5 easy stars on this one.
Look I like talk rock as much as the next guy - as long as the next guy is fucking deaf. Who is this for? Regardless I was enjoying the melodies, at times, of the guitar and was wondering why they didn't just set the lead singer loose and let him belt some shit out. Well about 19 minutes into the album he started singing and a little light bulb smashed me over the head and I thought "oh that's why". His voice is weak and has no gravitas, and whomever came up with the lyrics must have been content to just submit the rough draft. I'm giving it 2 stars because I did enjoy some of the music (not the talking over it, not the singing over it) and it was only 38 minutes long, which I appreciated more than this band will ever know.
