Reviews by abitfishy

This is one of those albums that I liked more and more as the album went on; I started with not liking it THAT much then moderately liked by the end. It's not crazy good nor is it a favourite of my mine, but it's different, which I like. The album seemed quite varied which I enjoyed, especially the first track, it seemed quite Radiohead-y with the beep-boop electronic sounds. It wasn't until the ninth track "Bitter Branches" when I realised this album had quite a war theme to it. I quite like the last quarter of the album, hopefully I will like the other quarters if I give it another shot.

Highlight Song/s: "The Glorious Land", "In The Dark Place" and "The Colour of the Earth"

This was a bit disappointing, to be frankly. I already knew "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight" but no new discoveries that I would listen to again. The riffs are sick and like the mid-song change ups, I believe it's the singing that puts me a bit off, which is a bit of a shame as I quite like Rob Halford's singing in the aforementioned two songs. Though I'm not fully put off of Judas Priest. So it's probably a 3.80/5.0 but I will round up to 4.0/5.0.

Highlight Song/s: "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight"

This Hole album was definitely more well received by me. My previous album by them was "Living Through This" and I thought it was absolutely abhorrent music, with it earning the one of the few 1 stars I've given out up until this point, being 276 albums deep and all it's quite impressive and was exceptional in being horrendous. But this one is a ways better than the previous one. Even though this one is poppy, it's honestly not half bad. I'd previously liked and known "Malibu" so I suspected hat the Celebrity Skin album would sound a bit like "Malibu." And the suspicion was true (to an extent.)

Highlight Song/s: "Celebrity Skin", "Awful" and "Malibu"

No clue why we need a 70 minute folk album, and it's yet another album by Crosby, Stills & Nash or rather solo album by one of them. Honestly not sure how many of those guys' albums are left for me, I swear it feels like I've listened to them a bunch here. I thought even if we needed yet another folk album can it not be 70 minutes? Like Crosby, Stills & Nash debut album was honestly fine being 30-39min range. Some of the songs seemed like complete throwaways such as "Johnny's Garden" which seems to make no sense only if you are high I suppose it makes sense. Not worthy of a re-listen, if I do want a re-listen of Stephen Stills I'd just listen to the his supergroup's debut album as that seems more promising.

Highlight Song/s: "Song of Love", "Colorado" and "How Far"

The debut album of one of my favourite bands ever aka The Only Band That Matters, aka the Clash, this one is their 2nd best album (1st being London Calling.) It's what MOST other first-wave punk debuts are like; melodic, no dilly-dallying, snottiness, incredibly catchy, with all that being combined! It's quite tight, with only the last couple songs (except Police & Thieves) being not that great, though I guess that's the price when the first handful of songs are crazy good. Solid lead playing by Mick Jones, and solid album!

Highlight Song/s: "Janie Jones", "Remote Control", "I'm So Bored..." and "Career Opportunities"

My second Sinatra album (first was Songs for Swinging Lovers.) This one seems really melancholic, which I like the idea of, and concept, and all that side of stuff, though the actual songs themselves sadly weren't great. So not great and me being so not interested, resulted in one the relatively rare times where I couldn't tell you what the previous track melody or lyrics consisted of even though I'm listening to just the very next track, though that was only for like 60-70% of the album.

Highlight Song/s: "Mood Indigo", "Ill Wind" and "Dancing on the Ceiling"

This one is The Beatles second album, it's relatively solid throughout. There's this nocturnal mood that is present that I like quite a lot, the album cover definitely helps reinforcing the mood. Because it's an early Beatles album, songs don't tend to be too unique or distinctive; like their 1966-1969 albums. Which is honestly fine sometimes, and is comparable to junk food to me, good every now and then.

Highlight Song/s: "All My Loving" and "Please Mr. Postman"

This one has some inventive guitar riffs. The lyrics are quite quirky, just like in early rock music, one example would be "Chicken Dog," sounds like something straight outta the 50s. The vocals are exceptionally goofy. Very very lo-fi and rambunctious album.

Highlight Song/s: "Love All of Me", "Chicken Dog" and "Rocketship"

This album made me feel like I was in opium den in Bombay, with a slack jaw... and not much too say, especially with the (what I believe) western equivalent of all the rapid picking and tapping on a guitar on the song "Dadra." It sounds absolutely sick. The only Indian music experience I have is from the Beatles few Indian songs, and maybe a couple other 60s songs, like "Paint it, Black" and maybe song or two from other drug-oriented groups in the 60s who had that one hit song that features a sitar, because it was the 60s that's just what they did as Paul McCartney would say.

Highlight Song/s: "Dadra"

It was quite sparse in the beginning, so a bit difficult to give an actual thought about. It has this sombre feel to it, which is a nice sound when mixed with jazz. Some of the main horn parts in the first quarter of the album kind of sounds like the main horn part to "Zombie" by Fela Kuti.

Highlight Song/s: "Part of a Whole", "Maseru" and "Nomali"

I love the hazy morning feel to this one. This album has a lot of folk and electronic elements, which is not a sound I'm not familiar with (when combined) what so ever, but it sounds great. The singing in combination with the acoustic instruments sound like something from the 60s.

Highlight Song/s: "Happiness", "Some People" and "Cologne Cerrane Houdini"

This is among one of my favourite albums of all time (within the top 15.) It just has such a perfect sound to it. The wordless vocals being one of my favourite aspects of this album, which is fairly unique, especially for the entire duration of the album. It proves to myself once again that you don't need to understand the words to understand the song, the tone of the words and how it's delivered is more than enough. This is definitely one of the best albums when it comes to atmosphere, like if I 'imagine the album,' I imagine a tundra with furious amounts of snow pouring down.

Highlight Song/s: "Cherry-coloured Funk", "Heaven or Las Vegas", "Wolf in the Breast" and "Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires"

This one has such a mystical, enchanted vibe to it, that feels not matched up to this point, being 266/1089 deep at this point in time (maybe a couple to be fair might match up.) That enchanted vibe takes me back in time hundreds and hundreds of years. I'm sure all the bandits and highwaymen from European are to sure to bop to this release. These guys definitely did too much drugs as evident by the sitar (because it's the 60s!)

Highlight Song/s: "Light Flight" and "Hunting Song"

The first two songs were leading me to believe this was going to be an album for the dance-floor, then it went in a direction I wasn't expecting, like some soft rock/stuff. The dance-floor songs did eventually return. It has a nice mix of songs be fair, but I think it would've been a bit better if some dance elements remained for non-EDM songs just so it's a bit more focused.
I've heard "Heads Will Roll" a lot of times but never knew the song was by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I knew both of the two separately (albeit the band by name only, not any of their songs.) Well now I do.

Highlight Song/s: "Zero"

This is unironically better than most Black Sabbath albums (except Master of Reality.) I find Sabbath albums are a bit bland apart from a couple songs sadly, can't get too much into the hype of Sabbath. Early Queen albums on the other hand, where I thought they'd be bland apart from the singles. But 1001 albums has taught me they aren't! They have an amazing cohesive feel, Queen II more so (which was my first album in general and on this list.) The album songs have this mix of glam, heavy metal/hard rock, and prog rock, and piano-led rock mostly on the interludes. This one along with Queen II is a strong 4.

Highlight Song/s: "Killer Queen", "Flick of the Wrist" and "Stone Cold Crazy"

This album has this nice big, theatrical, rich sound to it, It feels like a 100-person orchestra or something. It's just so powerful-sounding, one example would be the military march-like of "Leben heisst leben." Other aspects include this eerie group chanting like I've just came across some cult - that I really regret coming across - deep, deep in the forest somewhere in Eastern Europe. This music just has the perfect vibe to it, like my teeth are shivering and shattering with how frosty the instrumentals and atmosphere are.

Highlight Song/s: "Leben heisst leben" and "F.I.A.T"

Definitely not my first time listening to an Elliott Smith song or album, but first album of his on this list for me is Figure 8. Which has been an album I've been wanting to listen to because of my love of the song "L.A.", and because hearing that some other songs on there are similar to that. Funnily enough it was one of my choices for an album listening couple hours before the generator GENERATED this one. The only other Elliott Smith album I'd heard before this, was Either/Or - which I thought was pretty alright, but this one appealed to me more than Either/Or. Not sure why this one appealed to me over Either/Or, but it's all good; perhaps because there are more songs that sound like "L.A.."

Highlight Song/s: "Son of Sam", "Junk Bond Trader" and "L.A."

Never heard any of Gabriel's albums before, I did watch a documentary of an overview of his career and thought I should give the first couple records a listen, but I just never did. Melt (the unofficial name of this album) has this spectacular solemn vibe to it. It's one of those releases where the music totally reflects the album cover. This one is apparently where the former lead singer of Genesis started incorporating post-punk into his albums, and even having world elements on some. I've always really liked Peter Gabriels's experimental mentality, I am definitely should give his other stuff a good listen .

Highlight Song/s: "Intruders" and "Games Without Borders"

This my second album of theirs - White Blood Cells was first - which I quite liked, it was a strong 3, so I rated it a 4; I just rounded up. I'm not sure what they did since that album to this one but this one fell off a giant cliff after "Blue Orchid." I feel like Jack White's voice got more squeaky and fragil-sounding, which I feel impacted my listening experience. The instrumentation was quite lacking except for "Blue Orchid" and "Red Rain" which also contributed.

Highlight Song/s: "Blue Orchid"

This album has this unique electronic sound - that I never knew I liked - that I've never heard before, but I REALLY happen to like. The album contents is quite diverse, with the next song always done in a different style than the last ranging from like indie pop to this obnoxious (in a good way,) snot rock - though all of that is still done with a bit of an electronic tinge to it. I genuinely want more albums like this.

Highlight Song/s: "Deceptacon" and "Hot Topic"