funky! did not expect the avengers jumpscare in the middle LOL
lullaby was my favorite! unfortunate that the word spiderman is not so creepy anymore though
holy shit I’m so embarrassed to report that 1) I didn’t know “Don’t you worry about a thing” was originally a Stevie Wonder song and 2) I heard “Too High” and immediately was reminded of bill wurtz. bruh.
This was nice, though is it weird to say 1) I liked Physical Graffiti better and 2) I don’t reallyyy see the appeal of “Stairway to Heaven” (other than the fact that it was the Recognizable song)? I liked “Going to California” and “When the Levee Breaks” though!
fun to listen to once, but I at least partially want interesting lyrics and these were lyrically not as interesting. “Night Train” was my favorite here!
Apparently this is the more “psychedelic” of the Beatles albums; I feel like I’ll like the earlier ones more. Still, I saved quite a few songs from this one, and I’ve always enjoyed “Yellow Submarine”!
I actually rather enjoyed the dreamy, sometimes ethereal sounds of this album, which was surprising considering that I didn’t watch the movie or know anything about it. I wonder what the (historical? contextual?) rationale behind adding this soundtrack album to this 1001 album list is.
The experience of listening to this album was really funny. I started out rather liking the instrumentals of the first few songs ("Firefly" in particular started out very promising), but the singer's voice (accent? enunciation?) was not doing it for me. Still, an overall 3-star.
Then in the more high-energy / rock-like songs like "Lonely" where he tries to throw his voice, it just sounded strained in an uncharming way ... so okay, a 2-star ....
and then finally the SLOG starting with "Bad Liquor" and *especially* "Jenny." :/
“Enter Sandman” - what a banger!! Although overall, Metallica is a bit tooo edgy for me lyrics- and soundscape-wise.
this was a surprising banger from a band I’ve never heard from before!
This is also one of those albums where I like the first few songs alot more, and it makes me wonder if I’M the problem and I just get tired of the sound near the end. And then I check out the relative popularity of the songs to find that nope, it is indeed the first few songs that are the hits haha
I can recognize that this is probably an exemplary example of experimental/noise rock, bc the musicality and lyrics are otherwise very good! Unfortunately the Noise is really not for me … at some pt of listening to this album, I reached the point where if there is a perfectly great song, I’d wonder “When is the Noise coming in? …Ah, THERE’S the Noise!”
I’m particularly fascinated by the vocal choices of the female singer where it sounds like she’s throwing up. My “favorite” track from here was actually “Shoot” which was so offputting and strange in its gagging and off-key meandering that it wrapped around to being entrancing to listen to.
I’m not going to lie, the strain and artlessness of their voice is really hard to listen to. The instrumentals sound technically complex, but as a whole it never becomes something that is memorable enough to overcome the vocals. It’s telling that the instrumental “Brendan #1” is my favorite here.
This is the easiest 1-star I’ve given so far.
This vocal style isn’t even my usual favorite, but there is such an undeniable charm to every track on this! I think I’m just particularly fond of acoustic / orchestral instrumentals too.
Also … is it just me but does he kind of sound like a proto-Hozier but Jazzier haha
omg I’m pretty sure we listened to “Bouge de la” in AP French … what a throwback!
….this was really generic. It sounds like a modern release that might get popular momentarily, but after decades, would not be considered a “classic.” For me, musically, this was…”listenable” enough…? Not Perfectly listenable; the voice is veryy slightly grating sometimes. To be fair, sometimes I still enjoy songs that are musically-mediocre like this if instead the lyrics are good, or really remind me of a story / character I like; but in this album, the lyrics don’t really speak to me either.
“Still to soon to know” stood out as a good song in this.
…also, is it just me or do some of the songs really remind me of Fall Out Boy (especially the way this singer enunciates things)
yess a nick drake album again! I’ll admit that alot of these songs sound really indistinguishable from each other, but an album full of charmingly acoustic tracks that are all similarly enjoyable isn’t THAT much of a negative.
This sounds like pretty decent party music. I’ve never intentionally tried listening to a full album of house music before. There were some exciting moments near the beginning, but toward the end it was beginning to feel like… Homework (ha!)
Despite being (deliberately) discordant in style, this grew on me faster than I expected! I think she is really suited for this kind of vocal.
