Rated 10/10
A live album that breaks all the rules. Everything feels intimate and close, like they're just playing right in front of you, just for you. Yeah, the crowd is there, but they're out on the sides. Kurt is playing FOR YOU. It's beautiful. The songs feel so warm and personal.
My Rating: 5/5
Rated 4/10
Oh boy, a YES album!
This is the musical equivalent of a Bob Ross painting that's been fussed with too much. It's an album written for musicians by musicians. "Siberian Khatra" starts off with an amazing groove, and then it gets "Yes-ified" 20 seconds in. It's like they're in the studio patting each other on the back "Did you hear that bit where we switched from 15/17 to 7/9 and then back to 15/17? That was genius, right?' And they put in a harpsichord and what sounded like a theremin. I appreciate these guys are extremely talented musicians, but I didn't need to hear this album at all. AND... Spotify gave me the "Deluxe Editiion", so I got EXTRA Yes which I absolutely didn't need.
My Rating: 2/5 Not bad music, but I don't see how this is commercially viable.
Rated 6/10
Fun, twangy surf punk rock. It's ok, there's no hooks or anything that's going to pull me back to listen to it again. Utterly forgettable.
My Rating: 3/5
Rated 10/10
C'est très cool!
He has a style that most modern performers failed to achieve. You can feel the melancholy in "Caroline", and the beats throughout are head bobbing. It makes me want to push my French education further so I can understand more of what he's saying.
Rated 10/10
Loved hearing something other than britpop or 60's hippie rock. Reminded me of being in Miami. I listened to this on the way to work, and I was afraid that they were going to summon an ancient African god into the back seat of my car. Still an awesome experience, glad it's on the list.
My Rating: 5/5
Rated 4/10
NO. No, it's not. This is as far from hardcore as you could possibly get. This is the hardcore that someone produces when they're trying not to offend their lovely third grade teacher, Mrs. Silas. She always said you were a good boy with so much potential. This is hardcore made for proper polite British people. Even the song that is titled "This Is Hardcore", about hardcore sex, is as hardcore as a nursery rhyme.
It's not offensive music, it's music afraid of being offensive. This is the musical equivalence of walking into a clothing store, finding an awesome leather jacket, finding that it fits perfectly and you look GOOD in it. Stylish. Rakish. Dangerous. Then you hand it back to the salesgirl, apologize, and slink out of the store embarassed because you have NO BUSINESS wearing a cool leather jacket.
This isn't an album about someone trying to be dark and hardcore. This is an album about someone pretending to be hardcore while being afraid that someone will think poorly of him.
And that dodgy crap with "The Day After The Revolution" where it just goes on and on with the pseudo-digital static? What the hell was up with that? If you're going to "hide" a track, just do it like other people and put dead silence in there.
Come on, do better.
My rating: 2/5
Rated 10/10
Solid, non-stop rocker!
Sometimes, a band is born that sets the standard for what a rock band should be. The Cult did that with this album. Just solid energy all the way through. Even their cover of "Born To Be Wild", while different, is impressive.
My Rating: 5/5
Rated 6/10
I get that this may have been important for Bobby Womack, but it's just your average 70's R&B/Soul album. It's good music, but nothing to hold it apart from other acts.
My Rating: 3/5
Rated 2/10
A completely unnecessary album on the list. Nothing on here was worthy of listening to, and the whole thing was forgettable. It's a bunch of love songs, a boring instrumental, and a couple of car songs. gimme a break.
My Rating: 0/5
Rated 2/10
Nope. I didn't like her vocal delivery, and the whole thing feels like she thinks she's more clever than the rest of us. It's all her whispering and singing at us, like she's trying to elicit an ASMR thing.
Rated 8/10
The summer after my younger brother went away to college, the big thing he came back with was "REM sucks because the lead doesn't actually sing". But his musical taste is big on Billy Joel. Yeah, Stipe has a limited range. No big deal. The music here is awesome. Solid craftsmanship here, all the way through.
My Rating: 4/5
Rated 8/10
Man, what a crappy Metallica album... Oh wait, this is Megadeth!
It's not bad. It shoves you through each track with the pacing. I wish they'd done a ballad with "Good Mourning", but it melds into "Black Friday", leaving the light guitar work behind. They can do delicate work, but Dave Mustaine must not be held back! He must outdo James Hetfield!
For those on Spotify, Spotify does not have the original release. They have Deluxe and Deluxe Remastered. You only need the original album.
MY rating: 4/5
Rated 8/10
Awesome for Sothern Rock. Yes, it goes on a little about Lynyrd Skynyrd. And Neil Young. Mostly Skynyrd. The music was great for southern rock, but if you don't like that, you're not gonna like this. I like this better than their other work.
My Rating: 4/5
Rated 8/10
This album, while showing how JLH bridges the gap between different genres, is not completely representative of the blues delivery of JLH. The music isn't bad, but the collaborations morph into "This band covering JLH with JLH performing with them". I would have never known this album existed without the list, and I would have been fine with that. JLH works better in **House of the Blues**.
My Rating: 4/5
Good album, but I don't see why it's on the list. It matters for CeeLo's career, but not for music as a whole. The backbeats sound much like all the other "Hot-Lanta" acts of the late '90's and early aughts. The only thing making this different is CeeLo's vocal delivery.
My Rating: 4/5
Rated 10/10
Dear Lord, where has this been all my life?
Coming out like a recording of an FM radio program in the 80's. I could have listened to five hours of this. Including the 4:00 show. Amazing music, the skits made sense and were bolted into the tracks. This cannot be redone. Supremely wonderful.
My Rating: 10/5
Rated 4/10
I get that this might be historically important to punk and the band, but it was one big haze of anger all the way through.
Rated 8/10
Let's put the lesbian part aside and just talk about the music.
Opening up, I thought she was just doing genderbent cowboy country. I was ready to just pass on all of it. Then she started doing Patsy Cline styled country, which was good, and then the title track was beautiful. After that. I could forgive this entire album. It's classic country that's uniquely k.d. lang. Let's let her have this moment to shine, folks. She's an amazing vocalist, and she performs country beautifully.
My rating: 4/5.
Rated 4/10
I can't say I hated this album, and I can't say I liked it. Incubus has always been nu-metal for the dudes in therapy. The lead singer reminds me of your buddy who'll help you move, but doesn't take gas money. The safe nu-metal. The nu-metal for people who don't like the messiness of nu-metal. While there's space in music for this, it just kind of feels hollow.
My Rating: 2/5
Rated 6/10
I'm glad someone made something new, but this was missing something because we listened to it through streaming, instead of the original LP release. And it really did just turn into background music instead of being forefront.
