Rated 6/10
A perfect blend of Brazilian music, funk, hip hop , rock and electronic music. Pretty catchy.
Favorite songs: Sangue De Bairro, Enquanto O Mundo Explode, O Cidadao Do Mundo, Etnia, Maco, Maracatu Atomico
Least favorite songs: Sobremesa, O Encontro De Isaac Asimov Com Santos Dumont No Ceu
3/5
Rated 6/10
Favorite songs: Angel No, Blue Nabou, Domingo, Oh Yeah, Desire, Vicious Games
Least favorite songs: Koladi-Ola, Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)
3/5
Rated 6/10
My wife's favourite era of country music, so I am more familiar with this genre than I'd like to be. This is like all the other 90's female country hits. Sounds a lot like The Judd's, Kathy Mattea, Lee Ann Womack, Trisha Yearwood...the list goes on. This is the type of country they love to play at wedding receptions and on the radio. It is country steeped in pop. It isn't really my favourite genre of music, but I do understand why it is in the post-list. I hate country music, but it was horribly underrepresented on the original list. Robert Dimery was too busy listing off every Britpop and Shoegaze band to bother including anything that meant anything on this side of the pond.
Favorite songs: I Feel Lucky, He Thinks He'll Keep Her, Passionate Kisses
Least favorite songs: Rhythm of the Blues, Not Too Much to Ask
3/5
Rated 4/10
Very similar to the noise rock of Einsturzende Neubauten. Chaotic and horrible, but there's something about the insanity that draws you in. Plus these guys frontman, Yamantaka Eye, was quite the lad. This guy once drove a working backhoe on stage during a show with one of his prior bands, Hanatarash. Another time he strapped a running chainsaw to his back and spun it around, cutting his own leg pretty badly. One of the strangest stories is one where Eye brought a dead cat out on stage and skinned it. Insanity that matches their music perfectly.
I mean, don't get me wrong, this "music" is truly awful, but the stories and spectacle have to be weighed into the score in this case because it played such a huge role in their overall persona. As I said with Einsturzende Neubauten, I've heard worse, and would probably find a way to add this to the 1001 list and remove some generic Britpop record. At least this band has an interesting story.
Favorite songs: Acid Police, Synthesizer Guide Book on Fire, Voredoms
Least favorite songs: Chocolate Synthesizer, Tomato Synthesizer, B for Boredoms, Turn Table Boredoms, Now Dom Go Synthesizer Way (Why?)
2/5
Rated 6/10
Solid modern funk. Suffers a bit by being too long of a runtime, but otherwise solid. The bass player is insanely talented.
Favorite songs: Cory Wong, My First Car, Animal Spirits, Smile Meditation, Baby I Don't Know Oh Oh, 1612, Back Pocket
Least favorite songs: The Sweet Science, Running Away
3/5
Rated 2/10
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Favorite songs: Self Defense
Least favorite songs: Fortune, Tapped In
1/5
Thank fuck this was done in under 30 mins.
Rated 8/10
Favorite songs: .44 Caliber Love Letter, Waterwings (And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas), Pulmonary Archery, Little Girls Pointing And Laughing, Jubella
Least favorite songs: Polaroids of Polar Bears
4/5
Rated 4/10
Really not my kinda music. Trumpets especially have a tendency to give me a headache. This all sounds the same to me. Nothing wrong with it, just way out of my wheelhouse. I like my jazz to have more than just trumpets in it.
Favorite songs: It Never Entered My Mind
Least favorite songs: I can't really say.....it all sounded the same....
2/5
Rated 6/10
Pretty solid blues rock. Sounds like if Tom Waits got really into blues rock that sounded like a cross between The Animals and The Doors, and also happened to be Dutch.
Favorite songs: Spoonful, I'm a Man, The Life I Live, Mr. Pitiful, Summer Thoughts in a Field of Weed, Down at the Bottom
Least favorite songs: Just Who's in Sight, Get Out of My Life Woman, Sour Wine, Bring it On Home, World of Birds
3/5
Rated 6/10
Favorite songs: Applause, Swine, Jewels N' Drugs, Aura, Venus, Donatella
Least favorite songs: Fashion!
3/5
Rated 6/10
Favorite songs: IV. Sweatpants, I. Crawl, I. The Party, I. The Worst Guys, 3005
Least favorite songs: II. Worldstar, I. Flight of the Navigator, II. Zealots of Stockholm (Free Information)
3/5
Rated 10/10
What a treat for Christmas Day! The perfect smooth jazz album to pop on while hosting Christmas dinner. This album is fantastic.
Favorite songs: Linus and Lucy, "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing", O Tannenbaum, The Christmas Song, Greensleeves, Christmas Time is Here
Least favorite songs: What Child Is This
5/5
Favorite songs: New Noise, Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull, Tannhauser/Derive
Least favorite songs: Liberation Frequency, Bruitist Pome #5
3/5
Rated 10/10
Favorite songs: Hate Street Dialogue, Sugar Man, Inner City Blues, Like Janis, Crucify Your Mind, Only Good for Conversation, "This is Not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues"
Least favorite songs: Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme)
5/5
Rated 6/10
Favorite songs: Information Overload, Pride, New Jack Theme
Least favorite songs: History Lesson, Under Cover of Darkness
3/5
Rated 6/10
Favorite songs: Reanimation, Making Progress, As the World Turns, Cliff Hanger, The Fabulous Ones, If I May, A to G
Least favorite songs: Searching
3/5
Rated 2/10
Punk for idiots who don't know what punk is. Truly awful.
Favorite songs: Television
Least favorite songs: June, I'm Scum, Colossus, Love Song
1/5
Rated 6/10
Probably the best Talking Heads album I've listened to, but it's still 80's new wave/math rock. For a live album, the production value on the album is solid!
Favorite songs: Slippery People, Take Me to the River, Life During Wartime, Once in a Lifetime, Burning Down the House, Thank You for Sending Me an Angel, Heaven, Girlfriend is Better
Least favorite songs: Psycho Killer
3/5
Rated 10/10
I'm so happy that The Hip are getting the attention they deserve on this list finally. These lyrics are steeped in Canadian culture and heritage. The story told in the song Fifty-Mission Cap about the hockey player Bill Barilko....the mention of Jacques Cartier.....the story told in the song Wheat Kings of David Milgaard, and his wrongful conviction of murder....
Favorite songs: Wheat Kings, Locked in the Trunk of a Car, Fifty-Mission Cap, At the Hundredth Meridian, Looking for a Place to Happen, Courage (for Hugh MacLennan), Pigeon Camera, The Wherewithal, Fully Completely, Lionized, Eldorado
Least favorite songs: We'll Go Too
5/5
Rated 2/10
Yuck. Overprocessed, autotuned emo trash. Modern rap is awful.
Favorite songs: Blue World, Everybody
Least favorite songs: I Can See, Hands....and the rest of the album.
1/5
