it’s a fine album, i’m sure if you’re into this kind of thing you’ll appreciate it more, but i’m unfortunately not. i did like add it up but after that everything merged into one
at least the riffs aren't bad. it's a shame that the rest is. not really sure i'd consider this album a MUST listen to before i die, the title track is fine but i'm not sure the rest is worth listening to honestly
short album but really sweet. i'm a big fan of neil's voice, especially loved round & round. have never been big on country type stuff but this got me somewhere deep down
i think this is great... i really like the instrumentals i think they're really really interesting, it does make the second half feel a bit weaker to me but it doesn't matter all that much. also i'm a big fan of kraftwerk so i love hearing the influences here
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velouria and all over the world have made me get the pixies. i've never been able to get into them much but i used to be really into bands like the smashing pumpkins so this album did appeal to that deep down part of my brain. big fan, think i will be listening a lot in the coming days/weeks
very cool, easy to get lost in which i really liked. inner city life is great
lost me a little bit in the middle but shining star is GREAT and even when it drops off a bit it isn't bad by any means. good album
i don't really remember a lot of the middle but i didn't hate it. probably not an album i'll be putting on a lot but there's some good stuff here... also i recommend the siouxsie and the banshees cover of this wheel's on fire, it's pretty good
this was a revisit for me and i had sort of forgotten how long the second half of this album feels, although thief of baghdad is a standout for me. i do really like this album though despite that. i think it has a really unique sound to it, the guitars are great. and although i'm not the biggest fan of julian cope, i do actually like his voice for the most part. enjoyed a lot
i feel quite bad now for actually not minding this lmao. i am not particularly fond of adam ant's voice but i do find that it works on some songs (dog eat dog, feed me to the lions, etc). i absolutely love the instruments here, i think they do save the album a bit.
i'm quite ashamed of the fact this was the best selling album of 1981 here... there's so much better from that year...
really loved this one!!! very sweet but also very melancholy, all around a great album
very impressed by this one, janet has a gorgeous voice
shocked this album came out in 1972, sounds way ahead of its time and the extended jamming parts on here are amazing. would never have thought to listen to this without it being generated but i'm really glad i did.
a fun album, thought a lot of the samples here were very cool
just really didn’t like this one, i can’t even really put into words why, guess i just don’t like tom waits’ voice here that much… although i did like the sheer anguish you can hear come through at times. also feel the need to highlight that a few hours after i listened to this, a friend of mine messaged me to ask if i was alright because he was “bedazzled” to see me listening to this. sorry tom waits i’m sure your other stuff is good.
i mean it was fine, felt quite nostalgic in a way? doesn’t really mean it was good though.
thought this was awesome. need to get on the neil grind more
not amazing, not terrible. i do like how many different inspirations you can hear on here but this also didn’t exactly blow me away
i cannot express how much both this and unknown pleasures mean to me. this album is very haunting in a way, when it comes to tracks like isolation and the eternal i feel like you can hear how truly troubled ian was. and i think decades is absolutely brilliant, it has such a hopeless tone to it. i love the synths here and i do really wonder what they could have done if they had the chance to make a third album.
actually not that bad for the most part, although a fair few songs feel like a "how similar can i sound to chris martin" contest
would have rather watched paint dry than listen to this
have to retype this since the website keeps lagging… i thought this was alright honestly. does go on slightly too long but i do think rufus has quite an interesting voice. just maybe not being used quite as well as it could be here. not bad at all in my opinion though 😆
great, i’ve only ever been a casual fan of PSB but i loved this. can you forgive her is such a tune
me and my friend were harassed in a record shop a few days ago, the owner was absolutely insistent that we buy this. i mean it's a good album but maybe not THAT good
can’t stand john lydon but my god this album just has everything going for it, love love love the bass
i loved this album a lot when i was like 14, i think it’s maybe not as good as i thought it was. but i do still like it
i’m not QUITE sure this needed to be 2hrs long. i liked some of the guitar stuff going on but i did check out about 1hr 20mins in unfortunately
this album is one of the most ridiculous things i have ever heard in my life but i loved every single second of it. i am surprised the happy mondays have any living members
i love this album so much, i can’t believe how many hits it has. the drugs don’t work is one of my favourite songs ever and it’s one i listen to a lot when i’m down. brilliant album and i had my shazam out the entire time
really enjoyed, good mix of soul influences / new wave
probably more like a 3.5, i wasn't massive on beggars banquet when we rolled it, but i quite liked this one - has a bit more going on.
had never even heard of the saints until now, wow i've been missing something great. loved this
i highly doubt i would have given this such a high score, but i'd been dealing with a lot of shit during the course of listening to the album so it seriously hit me hard. loom of the land is beautiful, i loved this album a lot
surprised this one has such a low average rating, i really liked it?? i want you was definitely the standout track but i didn't really think it was that bad
sick sick stuff, actually some of the coolest stuff i've heard in a while
please shut up. don’t make me listen to this again.
quite cool modern synth stuff, doesn't quite live up to my favourites in the genre but for what it is, it's good
i described this guy to my friend as, “a bad jeff buckley impersonator who wrote his lyrics by flipping to random pages in the dictionary”. i liked it to begin with and then felt like it wasn’t even worth listening to around 30 mins in
pretty cool considering the time it came out, but not my fave
i really like simple minds (although i prefer their earlier stuff), this was a very good listen. great use of synths without sounding too dated
some cool instrumental stuff, only knew the title track prior but this was a chill listen. slightly stale towards the end? but still different enough for me to maintain my interest
i loved this so so much, it's like a warm blanket on a cold day. absolutely beautiful album, almost cried listening to be honest.
AMAZING stuff!!! i've had suicide on my radar for a while, loved the atmosphere on here
mick hucknall's voice is extremely grating to me, i like this kind of music a lot but this didn't do anything for me. one or two songs i thought were pretty good, not exceptional though
i actually unironically really love this album. it's hilarious, but i also think it's got a really interesting mix of early rave ideas / traditional guitars or drums and the like. i think there are few out there who can compare to shawn ryder's absolute gift for lyrics.
3.5, i'm not really a fan of the who but i thought this was recorded/produced really well, some cool medleys on here too
repetitive but not bad. hot, blue, and righteous was the standout for me. i think this album works better as background noise...
very funky, really liked this one
ourrrr house is a very very very fine house
some great folky stuff here
i loved the bass on here, this is exactly my taste so it was great to hear, cool stuff
the velvet underground were one of the first bands i got into as a teenager, it's incredible how modern some of their stuff still sounds, pale blue eyes is also one of my favourite songs of all time, such a good love song.
"the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." - brian eno
third rolling stones album pulled... i like gimme shelter but i don't think the rest of the album lives up to it, still a fine listen though.
i listened to just the french version instead of both the english and the french, some cool pop stuff here but was kind of just too conventional for me to rate any higher
3.5, felt a bit all over the place at times but i thought it started off really strong, maybe this is just a grower.
i do quite like glam stuff but i've never been able to get behind alice cooper unfortunately. i like a lot of the instruments here but i can't see myself listening to this besides at a halloween party or something
am i old??? i actually really liked this, although i like most kinds of soft rock so maybe i'm just easily pleased
wasn't big on live at leeds when we pulled it, but i quite liked this. blended together a little bit for me but i did really like the ox +out in the street
had never heard of joan until now, she has such a powerful voice, not sure how much she directly inspired the later female soul sound but you can definitely hear it. very nice stuff
i don't have a problem with longer songs, i quite like the buildup in them, but nothing on here besides moon in june really piqued my interest. i'm not opposed to doing this one again sometime, i think with time it'd grow on me
i might actually be in love with brian eno what an incredible album this was
probably a 3.5 but i did think that the fact nearly this entire album is just record samples is extremely cool so i've bumped it up
sorry but i'm british i have no choice but to give this five stars it's my duty
listened to this half asleep and honestly i think that made me like it way way more, great album to chill to. also lol @ all the reviews thirsting over his voice
boring and bland metal, i liked hollow but the rest did absolutely nothing for me
i don't really know a lot about fka twigs. but what i hear from this i like, but it feels underdeveloped at times- i'm sure that her later output improves on this more. but this has a nice sound to it
very shocked at all the low reviews on here. yes there's better hardcore bands and better hardcore albums but that doesn't detract from the quality of this album. i thought this was great, i loved the sharp sort of guitars (reminded me of some early post-punk stuff in a way), loved the vocals, honestly i thought this was great all around. i think maybe this should be a 4.5 not a 5 but i'm upping it just because i thought this wasn't going to be anything special at first and was proven wrong. will definitely be listening to this again
i have unfortunately never bought into the pink floyd hype massively (probably because i haven't listened to them enough) but this is great. listened to the title track a lot years ago, i do really like how varied this album feels but also how consistently good it is
i was always under the impression king crimson were overrated as hell and that i didn't like them. are they overrated??? maybe, depends who you ask. but are they good??? yes they fucking are. this album does a lot and it does it well, i don't really know how else to word it
this is great, i love a lot of the keyboards on here but obviously the main focus is the lyrics. really is sad that this was released in 1974 and virtually nothing has changed since then...
don't have much else to say about this other than that it's fine. some nice guitar work in here but doesn't do a whole lot for me
GORGEOUS album, incredibly well written stuff, and i thought thom's feature on this mess we're in worked so well with her voice. cannot wait to relisten sometime
i just can't get behind the vocals here. i like a lot of the synth work but vocally i just really dislike it. i get the appeal but it's not for me personally
3.5. i mean it's michael jackson it's pretty solid stuff all around. maybe a bit dated but i don't really care all that much it's still nowhere near being bad in my opinion
knew all the big hits on here before listening obviously, but doing this album as a whole is such a whirlwind experience. does feel slightly padded at times imo but it's still good
just doesn’t do anything for me. i quite liked the song with bon iver but i feel like i really wasn’t missing out having not listened to this before today
kind of samey but this album was SO impactful on the punk scene i don't really care.
lol this album has such bad writing but i think it's kinda cool. would i listen to it again??? besides the nick cave song, probably not. but i actually kinda liked this
beautiful album, easy to get lost in. my favourites were longer boats and most of the end, just a lovely listen
torn between giving this a 1 or a 2, but i went through this whole album pleading with it to end so i think it's gotta be a 1. i know i'm clouded by not being particularly fond of metal but i hated the scratchy vocals, thought this was very generic, all the works really.
genuine drivel besides stan. some of the worst written lyrics ever to be penned. i'm not a puritan or anything who hates taboo subjects in music but there's only so many times i can listen to eminem rap about fucking women and ripping apart the gay and mentally disabled. just gets boring.
i never knew sonic youth could sound like this... very nice gothic-esque sound, some awesome experimental stuff too, just loved it and will be listening again very soon
kind of insane? not sure if i mean this as a compliment either, some good stuff here but some REALLY baffling stuff too
had only heard their cover of just like heaven prior, but dinosaur jr. are one of my friend's favourite bands so i had high hopes. nice rough guitars which i love, vocal style not my favourite ever but it worked here.
3.5, sorry i docked half a point because i find bjork's vocal style extremely grating. in some ways this reminds me a bit of gang of four, with it being a bit out there and the big focus on drums/guitars. very great first three tracks too. i can see myself coming back to this at some point...
really torn between 4 and 5 stars. this is a beautiful soul album and aretha has such a well-controlled and powerful voice. really isn't anyone like her. also this album starts and finishes on such a high note, it's extremely well rounded.
this may genuinely be the worst album i have ever listened to and i don't have a single good thing to say about it. cowboy was the only song i didn't absolutely despise and i still did not like it
i like a lot of the orchestral stuff here, greenman is very reminiscent of traditional folk stuff, really appeals to me. i've always felt XTC are a bit too annoying for me to properly love, but maybe not. i am surprised this album in particular is here though, i'm personally fonder of black sea
"S-H-I-T, is that how you spell "me" in your dictionary?" - lyrics of the millennium
nothing against norah or this style of jazz, i did like this, but as a lot of the reviews before mine have said this is coffee shop music. not that that alone should count against it but i did feel that this album never quite got anywhere
sorry i cheated and only listened to disc 1. and i did like it, i like ella's voice, more of the songwriting i wasn't fond of. maybe i'll come back one day to do the other discs...
1968 is crazy early to be making things like this. very interesting, feels like something you'd hear in an indie low budget horror movie..
2.32 average rating are you guys for real?? i loved this, strong early NIN / ministry vibes and i love both bands a lot, so i knew i'd like this too. the cabaret aspects are not my favourite things ever in music but the darker vocals really hooked me
whitest album of all time. jump is fun, the rest i don't particularly care for
prior to this, the only song of theirs i'd heard was i'm not in love. was very surprised to hear a less interesting version of sparks when i put this on. i unfortunately don't like sparks and the wall street shuffle was the only song on here i would probably consider listening to again. i absolutely get the appeal here, just isn't for me
amy winehouse you beautiful soul, may you rest in peace. really touching album, you can hear how hard she was fighting to keep it together
i would probably have loved this album at 14 but i am unfortunately an adult. privilege and when it comes did stand out to me, the rest was typical nu metal which i thought was fine, but nothing particularly incredible
liked this one. some great riffs, blackened is a great intro track. and yes i know the story about why the bass is mixed into nonexistence but that doesn't mean i can't miss it.
great exploration of a lot of genres, i liked paul's boutique when we got it but i like this way more. awesome guitars / awesome funk sound
i am a massive roxy music fan so this was always going to get a high rating. it's kind of funny though because i really dislike virginia plain, i think the rest of the album is much better. ladytron and 2HB have some gorgeous keyboard work going on, i think my favourite on here is if there is something, i absolutely love the sax. great album, i am surprised avalon isn't in this list...
i'm biased i don't care. the strokes were my favourite band as a teenager (i'm saying this like it was eons ago, i'm 18). i absolutely loved this album and i still do. i think the guitar work is brilliant, take it or leave it is my favourite on the album and the opening guitar is partially why, i have fond memories of sitting on a balcony in tenerife listening to this and losing myself in it.
i also thought julian was the coolest person ever when i was into them, i loved his voice and his style so much - him now is another story...
all in all this was a nice trip down memory lane for me, would have rated it highly even if this was my first time hearing it. this review is dedicated to 14 year old me who, in the words of alex turner, just wanted to be one of the strokes.
definitely not bad i just think he has better stuff
didn't expect to like this as much as i did. very stereotypically 80s, but i liked it. look at your hands was my favourite, something about the lyrics really did resonate with me
i have had an irrational hatred for ian dury for most of my life and i genuinely could not tell you why. i liked aspects of this, like the first couple of songs and the bass on if i was with a woman, but taking the album as a whole i wasn't really able to get behind it
fine. never been a massive green day fan but this was a decent listen
sick stuff, very dancey. 808 state had been on my radar for a while so this was perfect timing
this is actually one of the only radiohead albums i HADN'T listened to in full. thought the sounds on here were very interesting, first three songs especially. i imagine most of this would be sick live, wish i was around at release for it
don't have a lot to say here, very nice album, reminds me of a lazy summer. good shit
i like all the stuff this is clearly inspired by. gang of four, new order, early human league, so on and so forth. this just misses the mark for me. it's not particularly interesting, i didn't mind how do you sleep but i found the rest pretty forgettable.
