This was a pretty good album. Great vocals, really cool guitar tone and style. I liked the covers a lot. 3/5
It grew on me a little but then I got tired of it. I knew his voice sounded familiar. I've heard the title track before but it must've been a radio edit because I don't remember it being 10 minutes long. Not bad, and I can hear how they must've influenced bands like The Strokes, but not really for me. 5/10
Nice fat bass lines, groovy guitar. Not so into the gospel stuff but it sounded nice I guess. 5/10
Kanye West is a polarizing figure. Unfortunately, he is also a very talented rapper and producer. This is a really good album full of bangers. It's sooo long though. 8/10
I didn't like this very much. Not that bad I guess, just really forgettable songs. Glad it was so short. 4/10
Sounds like a Mentos commercial. I wouldn’t listen to a whole album of that.
Not even a week in and I am being tested. I’m sure I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of the music I don’t really want to listen to. Only three more years of this
Really great guitar and good vocals too. Pretty sure I have the blues though so maybe I'm biased. 7/10
I guess I like this band more than I thought I did. Cool. 7/10
Ray Charles, Boy Genius notes
Some crazy sounds in this album. Equal parts wild/exciting and smooth/dreamy, often In the same song. Really great stuff that opened my eyes to this type of music. 8/10
Great album that kept getting better. Some really cool instrumentation all around, not to mention the vocals. Such a great voice and he does great things with it. I liked this more than I thought I would, especially for how long it is. 8/10
Killer bass guitar, multiple odd Time signature changes, key changes, and an iconic voice belting soulful lyrics. Of course I’m talking about Dolly Parton’s Coat Of Many Colors. 7/10
I didn’t like this very much. Glad it was pretty short. 4/10
Wild and crazy stuff. Made me want to assemble a crew and rob a casino for some reason. Glad I didn’t skip this one. I especially liked the keyboard. 7/10
I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. 5/10
It was pretty good. 6/10
This album rocks. I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. Some really catchy tunes with cool transitions. Not even mad that it's so long. 8/10
I really liked this one. Never listened to very much White Stripes. The songs were all over the place in a good way, from blues rock to bluegrass. 8/10
Some really cool sounds on some okay songs. I think the album could grow on me. The title track is really good. 6/10
This album is so good I don't even know where to begin. 9/10
Good album with a lot of cool songs. Really interesting harmonization and instrumentation. Worth a revisit someday I’m sure. 7/10
Strong start, strong finish, medium middle. 7/10
Longer than I would've liked. Also not as good as I would've liked. Some songs are kind of catchy I suppose but ultimately forgettable. Would be fine to put on in the background while doing other stuff. 5/10
Really really good album full of great songs. I grew up listening to Alanis Morissette so some tracks are already in regular rotation but it was nice to revisit some I don't play that often. 8.10
Decent start, pretty good middle, great finish. I like the bluesy stuff most I think. 7/10
Such a great vocalist singing about really beautiful stuff. I love how full the production sounds without being too much. I bet it's even better on a relisten. I really liked the classroom segments. They add a lot to the flow of the album. 8/10
Somehow both very early 2000s and timeless at the same time. Production is scientifically formulated to be as catchy as possible. A little cheesy at times (the cover and title for example) but it's a good cheese that has mostly aged well. Strong start but drops a bit in the second half. 7/10
Loud as fuck. I can hear how this must’ve influenced some of the more contemporary music I’ve listened to. Enjoyable stuff but it kind of all blends together after a while. 7/10
Decently pleasant sounding country interspersed with horrifying tales of murder and suicide. Old country music subjects are as varied and interesting as the time signatures they use. 6/10
Strong start but not much else other than the one big song. Never really listened to The Police other than what plays at the grocery store and probably wouldn't revisit this. 6/10
I grew up listening to this album. Mom played it often when I was little so I'm very familiar with all these songs. Many of them are in my regular rotation. I still almost cried twice listening to it today and I only kept it together because I was at work. Songs like Little Green and The Last Time I Saw Richard get me every time. Joni Mitchell has such a hauntingly beautiful voice. It's not all blues and melancholy though, with upbeat tracks like All I Want and Carey balancing things out. There's even a Christmas song sort of. 10/10
There were a couple good songs like Scare Crow but the rest was just okay. 6/10
I feel like this album would have blown my mind if I were alive at the time. It still sort of does since it sounds so ahead of its time. Ozzy's voice cuts through a thick, heavy pit of sludge delivering iconic lyrics on some of the most well known metal songs of all time. Paranoid is a very dynamic album with a lot of different styles going on often in the same song. Really well put together. It's hard to compete with the first half but the second half holds up great. The drum solo in Rat Salad was sick. 9/10
I ended up skipping this one the first time around for some reason but went back after listening to Disintegration. I didn't like it quite as much but it was still pretty good. 7/10
Not bad. If a coworker was playing this at work I mostly wouldn’t mind. Some pretty cool parts. 6/10
Kinda nice, kinda plain, kinda long. Come Pick Me Up has a laughably bad harmonica solo. The rest of the harmonica isn’t any better. I actually kinda like the stripped down sound at times but it’s hit or miss. 5/10
So many different parts and sounds all working together in such a whimsical yet mechanically precise way like a big purple Rube Goldberg machine. Kind of slowed down in the second half but there were still good songs with good moments. I've never really listened to Prince before aside from a couple basic hits so I'm glad this was the first list album chronologically. 7/10
Good stuff but I think I liked Here, My Dear more. Didn't care for the gospelish stuff so much. Last track was really great. 7/10
I like Metallica but I've never actually listened to a full album before. This was mostly good. Really long songs but they only sometimes felt like they dragged on too long. Enjoyable guitar solos. I like the progression of different sections of each song and how they transition into one another. 7/10
Better than I expected, man. A little too British but not so bad I guess. Kind of an Oasis thing going on but that’s probably a me problem. Didn’t really care for the softer songs whatsoever. 7/10
Really good from start to finish. I've never really listened to The Cure before aside from 3 or 4 songs. I knew this was their biggest album so I figured I might like it okay but it was even better than I expected. I feel like I shouldn't like Robert Smith's voice but something about it works really well with the rest of the music. There's a really full atmospheric sound from the very beginning that sets the pace for the following hour plus. Definitely worth a relisten. 9/10
"I'm not black, but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white"
"cream cheese cream cheese cream cheese cream cheese cream cheese"
Groovy, weird, and pretty catchy at times. If a coworker was playing this at work I would probably think "what the hell are we listening to" but I'd still be tapping my toes. By the time things got really weird towards the end I was already pretty much warmed up and on board for it. Probably wise not to lead with It Can't Happen Here. They have a good way of blending the bizarre with the basic. First we get normal stuff sprinkled with silly lyrics and voices, then experimental avant-garde songs interspersed with normal stuff. 7/10
I didn’t enjoy this at all. Guy’s voice is all over the place. 2/10
I knew the opening track already (who doesn't) but nothing else. I didn't like it as much as I thought I would, but it was fine. Would make okay background music but not my kind of foreground music.
Eric Clapton is a polarizing figure. Weird that I got this album a couple days after watching Antichrist (2009). Enjoyable blues rock. 7/10
So many of their best hits on this album but they kind of carry it. The ones I hadn't heard before were just pretty good. It's just that the hits are so good that we still end up with a really great album. 8/10
I don't know my music history very well (no pun intended) so I can't tell if Britney Spears sounds like Madonna or the other way around, but this album feels like she is trying to sound like Britney. Again, I don't know the exact situation but I do know a few early Britney songs and this has a eerily similar vibe in a trying too hard kind of way. I actually did sort of enjoy some of the things she was doing with vocal effects on a couple songs, and the others weren't exactly offensive to the ear either. Still found myself trying to like the album but I mostly didn't. 4/10
I knew this would be good since I liked The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill so much and I think it was even better. Really crisp mixing and layered in such a satisfying way. Great transitions. That one skit was kinda weird though. 8/10
All over the place in a good way. It's not that it doesn't know what it wants to be, it just knows that it doesn't want to be any one thing. 7/10
I understand now why the song is called Voodoo Child (Slight Return). Some really good psychedelic blues rock (and more!) on this album. Long songs with extended experimental sounding sections. A little too experimental for my taste but I think I'd enjoy it more on a second listen. 7/10
Makes me want to shop at Home Depot for some reason. Not as samey as I might’ve expected. Enough variation to keep me interested. I think I even heard some psychedelic rock elements which compliment the sort of stripped down blues rock sound they have going on. 8/10
That Primus guy must be a fan. Crazy bass. A little too much actually. Just throwing jazz at the wall and seeing what sticks. The quieter songs were nice. 5/10
Some incredibly infectious pop songs on this album. Such a strong start, and that Thriller/Beat It/Billie Jean run is crazy. Can't sleep on P.Y.T. either. Unfortunately a couple of slightly cheesy ones here and there. Still would give it a good 9/10
Reminds me of Portishead in a big way, just a little quieter. Some really cool blends of electronic and orchestral sounds. The theremin¹ makes the strings sound otherworldly and the strings make the theremin sound almost organic and natural. I liked this album but I get the feeling that they have stuff I would like more. Worth finding out, and worth a relisten in the future. 7/10
1. I later learned that the theremin is actually her voice modulated to sound like a theremin. That's really cool.
Strong start middle and end. Shrieking highs, deep diving lows, and some cool almost experimental and progressive sounding sections in the longer songs like Dazed and Confused. I can hear how influential this album must be. You Shook Me might be my favorite blues rock song. I think I liked Led Zeppelin II just a little more though. 8/10
Chill and relatively lo-fi/minimalist. Kind of trip-hopish. Strong start and stayed enjoyable throughout. 7/10
Very repetitive. Reminds me of The Triffids. Not necessarily the sound, just the experience. I really don’t like this. I actually kind of liked the last song though so I’ll give it a 3/10
Nice contrast between the vocals and production. Big Nine Inch Nails vibes. She keeps doing this thing where a song starts out sounding okay and before I know it it's gotten really good. The album itself is like that too. Not the strongest start but it grew on me fast. Several standout songs all in a row help make this a strong 7/10 and I can see it growing on me even more
Not bad. Not as good as I would've hoped but as good as I should've expected. Things really pick up at/after the hit. 6/10
The vocals took a little time to grow on me but his voice blends with the rest of the music so well that it wasn't too hard to get into it. Really enjoyable stuff that got better as the album went on. Worth a revisiting in the future. 7/10
One of the strongest starts so far with Them Bones, and an equally strong finish with Would?. Truly genre defining stuff. When I do a "grunge voice" I'm mostly channeling Layne Staley. Incredible singing and such interesting vocal layering and harmonization. I feel like I could listen to these songs over and over and still hear new harmonies I never noticed before. 9/10
