Reviews by fruktsupp

I have listened to 'It Takes a Nation of Millions...' a ton over the years, but never this one, other than the singles. I was really impressed - this is fantastic. I wish I had found this back when it was new. Great flow, energy and beats. Powerful message. What else are you looking for?

The first couple tracks are really solid, maybe 4/5. Wow, this album falls off a cliff after that. Sluggish, wailing vocals, uninspired song writing. Sounds like a bunch of white dudes ripping off the blues. The last track, 'Mother's Lament' is in the running for worst track I've heard from any album on this list. A snippet of the lyrics: 'Oh, your baby has gone down the plug hole...Oh, your baby has gone down the plug...' Seems to be about the lighter side of drowning a baby, so that's a fun way to close out a rock album I guess?

Jerry is one of the all time weirdos in music history, but this album is great. Makes you wish you could have been in the crowd.

80s hair metal is definitely not my genre of choice, but there's some undeniably huge tracks on this one, as well as some solid musicianship.

I've heard Kick Out the Jams many times, but never listened to the whole album. The energy is great, the story is fun to read and the album has solid historical significance, but the music itself... meh.

I'd heard of this band, but never listened to it before. Really solid dreamy synth pop. Had me engaged the whole way through.

Oh man, this was great. I'd never heard it before, but I sort of felt like I had - I'm pretty sure that this version of 'Bring It On Home to Me' is covered on the soundtrack to the movie Ali, which I had when it was new. You can't help wishing you had been in the audience while listening to this one.

Really mixed feelings about this one. I saw these guys a year before this came out, opening for The Strokes. My thought then was that they were just an average opening band, and not even great for that purpose. I saw them again in 2009 at Austin City Limits and was blown away that they had improved greatly, almost to the point of being a different band. You can hear some of the seeds of what would become that better band in this album, but too much of the opening band sound to make it great. If later albums by Kings of Leon are on here, I bet I'll score them higher.

I had never heard this one before. Pretty solid album, especially considering how it was recorded. This was a pleasant surprise.

Wow, my jaw dropped when this album came up for me today. I was in college when this came out. There was a big push at that time from MTV to anoint these guys as the leaders of some kind of nu-metal revolution that would take over from grunge as the 'cool' music. Epic fail. This album was bad then, and it hasn't aged well. The only thing it did was inspire a whole bunch of guys at my college to wear white t-shirts, backwards baseball hats, puka shells and bleach their hair. And that album cover - yikes. You can just imagine Fred D crying while laughing while saying 'do you get it?? chocolate starfish??" Ridiculous.

C'mon, it's Abbey Road. Easy five stars.

Classic album. This is AC DC at the height of their powers. Massively influential album, too.

I enjoyed the band and some of the creative elements. However, the singer seems like he is trying to copy Dylan, which took me out of it.

I was not expecting to like this as much as I did. This is easily some of Bjork's best work. If the male vocalist was silenced, this might have even been better.

I had never heard of this band, but I enjoyed this all the way through. If you’re into talking heads, velvet underground, devo and the like, I bet you’ll like this too.

I love jazz from this era, but hadn’t heard this before. Hard to think of anything but positive vibes from my time with this one.

The old saying of love the art, not the artist comes to mind here. I have a huge soft spot for this one, as it was one of the first non-kid music albums I loved while growing up. It's still great. If you weren't around when this was released, it might be hard to describe how this album took over pop culture for a while. Nine singles, seven of which made the top 20 on Billboard. Don't forget about the driving force behind MJ's best albums - Quincy Jones. I think this was their final collaboration, and it shows, as the quality dropped off in MJ's later albums. Stevie Wonder makes an appearance here too, which is never a bad thing.

Classic. 80 per cent of the songs on this album were, or could have been singles. If you weren't around when this was released, it's hard to overstate how massive it was in its day.

I had never heard this before, but wasn't feeling it. Seems pretty dated. Perhaps the most interesting track, even if it is not great, is the Moog instrumental.

I’m a fan of African music, and this is a great one. If these beats don’t get you moving, you might want to get your hearing checked.