Only good country I’ve ever heard so far out of 600 or so albums that I’ve heard on my own. Good start to my 1001 album journey!
Meh, most of the songs were fine, but nothing special.
Better then when I first listened to it 2 years ago, but I’ve never liked thrash metal . 3.5/5
Not my style of rock, a few bangers but overall unimpressive
Pretty good rock, great guitar! 3.5/5
lots of great songs, but nothing that really sticks with you. there's nothing on the caliber of black dog or stairway to heaven on here.
Incredible. Prog has always been my favorite genre, and this is just another incredible album that grows my love for the genre. Great piano, incredible guitar, awesome vocals, the whole package. 4.5/5.
This album is pretty good, and most of the time, I don’t care if a song is an instrumental or something with vocals, but when it comes to something like this, a R&B and soul record, I want me some vocals on it.
So many great songs on here! This encapsulates the 2000’s indie scene perfectly, and there’s some songs on here I can call some of my favorite! I’ll have to check these guys out more on my own time sometime soon.
It just feels like a worse rage against the machine to me, like, the same sound without the anti-establishment anthems that make RATM so great. Chester is a better screamer than Zach, I’ll give him that. 2.5/5.
Eh, it’s fine. My problem with this record is the same I had with Green Onions by booker T, and also the problem I have with Deangelo’s music. Some of these songs have no vocals on them, and when it comes to R&B, vocals are always better than no vocals. No vocals brings down the songs on a lot of these. And then the songs WITH vocals usually do the same thing Deangelo did on albums like Brown Sugar, where the singer just starts saying the same sentence over and over and over again without anything in the composition changing, making it get fairly boring after a while. The first couple tracks are pretty good, but after that the album loses its spark and goes down to being just ok
I recently heard the phrase that country is the “white mans blues”. This album is a pretty good example of that being true lol. It’s fine for country music, but it’s always been one of my least favorite genres. 2.5/5.
This is some of, if not THE most fun jazz album I’ve ever heard. I love the trumpets (and all the brass instruments in general) on this album, it’s got such a fun sound, and if the whole album sounded more like the latter half of the album, this might have ended up being a 4.5, or even a 5. However, the first half is all consistent 4/5’s, but still, incredible jazz album.
I don’t like the vocals on here, and a lot of the instrumentals aren’t very interesting to me, some songs (the wrong way, dreams) have at least halfway decent instrumentals on them, though. 2.5/5.
This sounds super generic to me, and I don’t even know why. 2.5/5
This was a fun metal album. Metal’s always been a hit or miss genre with me, and this is a hit for sure. The instrumentals are hardcore, and sound creative and inspired and all that good stuff. The vocals aren’t my favorite, but that’s just how it is with metal for me. Great album, though!
This is great! The two 10+ minute songs on here are absolutely perfect, and I love his voice and guitar playing! I heard Jeff Buckleys album a little over a year ago, and I gotta say, this is better! It feels more timeless, y’know? But yeah, overall an incredible album! 4.5/5!
The hits are all great on here, every non hit is just fine. A couple mid songs, but mostly just fine. Nothing super special about the deep cuts on this, and the middle gets kinda boring, but for a 40 minute experience, it was pretty decent.
I heard this album for the first time a couple years ago. It was one of my first introductions to rap as a genre, and it’s still one of my favorite of all time, let alone rap albums. From the production to the jokes, this album is perfection.
The instrumentals are fine, and honestly? For the first couple songs I kinda enjoyed the weird vocals, but as time went on just became more annoying than anything. Not the best punk I’ve heard, but it’s still decent
I’ve never liked the Beatles music, but this is honestly better than anything I’ve heard from the band as a collective, and I’ve heard most of their albums. I’m not one of those guys that says “omg they’re sooooo overrated” or anything, they just never clicked with me. This is half decent, though. 2.5/5.
I like the sound a lot of these songs have quite a bit. Baba O’Riley is one of the most overplayed songs ever, though. But every other Song on here is pretty good. Not as unique as some of the other big 60’s and 70’s bands I’ve heard, but their guitarist is pretty great. Overall a good sound but I wish it sounded more special, like if I wanted to hear this kinda music, I’d have to listen to The Who.
