People say Oasis ripped off The Beatles, but this kind of sounds like Oasis ripping off themselves. Not necessarily in a bad way, though. I see why they're so popular in England. Thumbs up.
Worried it was going to be all downhill from Cult of Personality after the next couple songs, but it really picked up throughout the album. Public Enemy feature rocked. Geese and Black Country New Road probably don't exist without this album (I say as if I know anything)
I tried listening to the Talking Heads greatest hits album and couldn't really get into it, should've listened to this one instead, this rocks
It was fine, you can definitely tell Dave just left Nirvana. Not upset that I listened to it, but I probably wouldn't choose to just sit down and listen to it again.
Album has much more of an edge than I was expecting (because I had only ever heard We Got the Beat and Vacation) and it's really cool. Big fan of This Town, Lust to Love, and who am I kidding, We Got the Beat rocks. Kinda drags in the second half.
This album came out when I was in high school. We had to go to an assembly where my Integrated Sciences teacher and 6 students got on stage and danced to Rolling in the Deep, and then we just went back to class.
Might've given it a 5 but Rumour Has It brings it down a star
I had never heard of this album or band before, so I actually have to form my own opinion this time :0
I believe they're singing in Portuguese, so I don't understand the lyrics, but I normally don't understand lyrics when they're in English either, so that's a non-factor here. Album slaps! I feel like it can be a cop out to be weird just for the sake of being weird, but I think in this case they're being organically weird, which rocks.
Imagine if this were the soundtrack to Luigi's Mansion
If the arcade is so fire, how come we're having a funeral instead?
If you pretend that joke is funny, then it's actually pretty funny
Very listenable, exactly what you might expect
Listening to Elvis always reminds me of two things:
1. I love the blues
2. I would rather listen to anyone else besides Elvis sing the blues
Very funny to get this album the day after getting an Elvis album; just night and day how much better Little Richard is.
Here's the thing: Rivers Cuomo doesn't actually look just like Buddy Holly. They both have glasses, but otherwise it's a stretch. Third day in a row of getting an iconic blues album from the 50s/60s, and the only complaint I have for this one is it's too short
In 5th grade, we had to write a biography on a historical figure, and I chose Jimi Hendrix because I think I had just unlocked him as a playable character in Guitar Hero 3. In the second-to-last paragraph, I was supposed to practice starting a paragraph with a question, so I wrote, "Do you know where the last place Jimi Hendrix played live was? It was at the Woodstock Music Festival!" This is untrue, just a complete lie. My teacher said, "Oh, wow, I didn't know that! Is this true?" I said, "Yes!" It was not true. I just made that up.
All of this is to say - perfect album, doesn't get any better than this. I've ~heard~ that this is an amazing album to listen to while partaking in some devil's lettuce, but of course I have no way of verifying that, being the upstanding citizen that I am.
The type of album that makes you go "YEAH TEAR IT ALL DOWN" before logging off of your WFH job, ordering DoorDash, watching Netflix, and going to bed at 9 PM.
Makes me feel like Daniel Desario in that one Freaks and Geeks episode where he tries to convince everyone that he's not a poser and gets kicked in the head
I've always pretended like I listened to Prince so people would think I was cool, but in reality I've never actually listened to an album all the way through. Not sure if anybody's realized this before, but this album is really good!
Taking one star off because the only album option available on Apple Music is the Deluxe Expanded Edition that's over 3 hours long and I have no idea when the album actually ends. That's not Prince's fault, but I also don't think Prince would care about how I rate this album on 1001albumgenerator.com
Elton John trying to do reggae on a song called "Jamaica Jerk-Off" is.... something. Otherwise great album.
The overall messaging was good and interesting, but the music itself was just sorta nice, nothing wrong with it but nothing that really stood out.
I'm in a weird spot with this one - everyone says it's one of the best albums of all time, and Kids and Electric Feel are genuinely perfect pop songs, and I liked the album overall, but there just wasn't anything that blew me away, so no 5
Despite all the times I heard it covered by contestants on American Idol in the late 2000s, I think this might have been the first time I heard the original recording of Son of a Preacher Man.
Really nice album otherwise, I liked the horns on some of the tracks. I feel like I've been giving out 4s like candy recently, but this is a list of the greatest albums of all time, so I guess it makes sense that most of them are good. Ratings don't matter anyway
I read on Wikipedia that Warren Zevon was a big fan of this album, so I was expecting something Zevon-esque. Imagine my surprise when after expecting something like, "I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in its hand," I instead heard, "Lick my legs, I'm on fire."
After that initial shock, though, yeah this album is great
Banger of an album. Little English boys heard this album and said "lemme just make worse versions of these songs". Why was the dude cracking up laughing during that one song? Absolutely iconic.
When I was in high school, I thought I was a pretty big deal, musically speaking. I missed the first month of my senior year, and when I came back to school, the jazz band had been doing a unit of Duke and Basie, and we had to take a test, which was listening to various pieces and determining if they were performed by Duke or Basie.
I had missed all of the practice leading up to that point, but I didn't think it mattered, since I was so obviously beyond all of my classmates. I ended up getting every single answer wrong.
Anyway, glad this album helped me relive that, and always glad to listen to some big band jazz for a couple hours. Perfect album.
Always wondered what the deal was with Sonic Youth. Now I kind of know!
Sounds like if the Grateful Dead had a standing appointment to listen to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds every Wednesday evening
A few months ago I was in Seattle and got invited to a friend's house for a "backyard concert", which I assumed meant someone was jamming outside while we all casually drank and ate. Turns out this "backyard concert" was actually in my friend's very small living room with chairs set up facing a makeshift stage where we were told to please give the artists our undivided attention for the next 90 minutes. I accidentally sat in the front row before I knew what was going on. The band was comprised of two guys playing very sweet acoustic music with beautiful harmonies; however, they clearly wanted to sing about Joni Mitchell-esque environmental concerns while driving a diesel van and being heavily involved in the San Francisco tech scene, and, once again, I had to give them my undivided attention in the front row for 90 minutes.
All of this is to say, Simon & Garfunkel have by proxy been ruined for me for the foreseeable future.
Not a genre that I have much experience with, so I don't want to fall into the "not my genre, 1 star" trap; the whole reason I'm doing this 1001 albums challenge is to get exposed to music I haven't listened to before.
That said, compared to the other electronic/house-adjacent albums I've listened to so far on this journey, this album doesn't really do it for me. It's great music to listen to while working, which ironically means I'll rate it more poorly, since that means it just couldn't really hold my attention. The first track is an introduction in French, so maybe I'm just not sophisticated enough to enjoy it.
What do you get when you cross a talking head with some geese? An LCD sound system, apparently. Now, that joke isn't funny and doesn't actually make any sense, but you get what I'm saying, right?
Normally I disregard lyrics and textual themes when I listen to music - not because I think they don't matter, but because my brain really struggles to hear lyrics and distill meaning from them - but even I can tell that the lyrics and messaging are really important parts of this album.
In terms of instrumentation and style, I really liked how varied the album was; makes the nearly 1-hour runtime fly by.
I've heard the hits, but never the full album. Can't believe they just sing Ave Maria halfway through?
Knights of Cydonia was in Guitar Hero 3, and I could play most songs on Expert difficulty except for Knight of Cydonia, which I could only do on Hard. One time, I was at my friend's place playing Guitar Hero 3, and everyone was so impressed that I could play songs on Expert they kept asking me to play. Eventually we got to Knights of Cydonia, where I boldly proclaimed, "I'm bored of playing on Expert. I'll play this one on Hard." I was a lame kid.
