I'm only a week into the user albums, but I already think this album is a better representative of 2020's music creativity than most of what was on the list. Besides Little Simz there wasn't much that I was blown back by. This was a really fun exploration in so many genres, while maintaining a hazy mystique that made it enjoyable to listen to even with the length being 2 hours.
I'm not as crazy about shoegaze as I hoped to be at the end of the project, but this is still a very good listen, even if it drags a bit for me at times.
Knew a few Clutch songs from a friend, great killer riffs, but man are the vocals a bit cheesy at times. Fun listen still.
Came into this one blind besides knowing Redbone, and tidbits about Donald Glover/Childish Gambino. There were so many shades of funk/R&B artists from past and present. I felt Anita Baker, Parliament, Funkadelic, Stevie, but most of all, there were so many songs that just reminded me of Sly and the Family Stone. The first 5 tracks are a phenomenal run, and even though it declines a bit on the midway through, the last two songs bring it back up. One of the best user albums I've heard so far, and I'd be curious to know where this ranks among the most prolific R&B albums of the 21st century.
This one is my submission to the user project! After I got done with the project I wanted to add some albums I felt should be on here (turns out some already are) but I felt a fifth Sabbath, Zeppelin, King Crimson or whatever, maybe would be tiring for a lot of people who don't share the same love for the deeper catalog.
I ended up on Holy Diver by Dio since it was an artist that wasn't on the list, and although I don't think it's a flawless album on every track, I think it's pretty damn good. I do not think you can tell the story of Heavy Metal and it's history without Ronnie James Dio. A personal 5 for me, and I hope others enjoy it as much as I have throughout the years.
"What if we took the keyboard of ELP, the Jazz-element of Chicago, and the vocals of Jethro Tull (and sometimes Peter Gabriel)... Oh, also it's Hungarian.
All-in-all a fun Hodge-podge of progressive rock early on in the genre.
I could just not get with this album, it had an uphill battle to begin with in my mind, but listening didn’t do it any favors.
Enjoyed this one a lot! Kooky and off the wall, but innovative as well.
Lyrically absurd, I see the Waits and NiN comps, but would love to throw a “combined Mustaine/Iggy Pop as a theatre kid who aspires to sing like Waits/Wolf/Beefheart” in contention as well. Instrumentally, it’s so eclectic. Where Trout Mask Replica is so shocking it stun-locks you into a pattern of right when you feel you understand it, Nail is very easy to follow, but invokes a feeling “of what the hell am I hearing, and why is it kind of meshing” as if Foetus were asked, without zero context, to re-create Spector’s “Wall of Sound” and he interpreted it as “I should make a constant wall of pure sound at all times whether it works or not.”
Fun album overall!
This album really balanced between infuriating and enjoyable creativity. If someone asked me to give the most "white person" album of all time, this one would come forth quickly in my head. It would also be an acceptable answer to "most Tumblr sounding album."
