Reviews by jaileer5

This one of those things that I don't dislike at all. I also don't really like it, but it's not a bad listen for an hour. Trust me when I tell you this project has subjected me to much, much worse.

I've really only heard a couple of Lorde's songs and I thought they were pretty good, so I was looking forward to listening to this when it poipped up.

Sadly, This album isn't nearly as interesting as I thought it would be. I'm not saying it's bad, it's fine, I guess, but it's just sort of a standard pop album. To me, it doesn't really stand out as being special, or worthy of inclusion on a list that purports to be albums you NEED to hear before you die.

Would I rather hear this than another goddamned Beatles album, or a seventh Rolling Stones album? Absolutely.

This is pretty damned fantastic, actually. It's one of the rare albums that make me happy that I started this project, because the purpose was always to find awesome albums that I had missed, and this is one of them.

I've spent so much time lately complaining about the latest edition and the albums it's added and removed, that it's kind of nice for the algorithm to remind me that there have been shit albums on the list from the start.

Here's the thing - it's good. In parts, it's even VERY good. But do you *need* to listen to it before you die? no, not at all. There are other albums in their discography that I would argue yeah, they're genre-defining classics, you should hear them at least once. But this one? I mean, listen to it if you like this sort of thing because it's pretty great, but it's not breaking any new ground. So why is it here?

And here is the rub: how do I rate this? because the author/editor of the book, Robert Dimery, has lost the plot. Completely. A couple days ago, I was within 10 albums of finishing this project, and now, suddenly, I have 28 left to go. Not a huge deal, I started this thing to listen to albums, obviously, but it's the albums that were added that is the problem - and the albums deleted.

I won't go into it, because I'm exhausted with it, but a quick google will show you the bullshit added (ANOTHER Rolling Stones album? From when they're all in their 80s? Really?), and the unfathomable decisions on what albums to remove (Mars Volta? Jurassic 5?). This, of course, in addition to the unforgivable snubs (Tool, Deftones, MF DOOM, Madvillian, J Cole).

This project has, sadly, lost all legitimacy, and I will be extremely glad to be done.

Well, I don't hate it, I only intensely dislike it. That is a pleasant(?) surprise from the other Beach Boys - and Beach Boy adjacent - albums I've been forced to listen to in this project.

On one hand, it's really nice to see newer music being introduced. On the other hand - why this?

I gotta tell you - I thought this was going to be dog shit, and it really wasn't. Their OTHER album? Dogshit. This one was actually listenable.

It's fine. Should it be on this list? No.

It's fine.

I thought I would hate this when it popped up, because jazz tends to be pretty boring, but I actually don't hate it. If I ever have to be stuck in the mall because -- I don't know, a zombie apocalypse or something -- I wouldn't be that upset if this was on in the background.

I really didn't expect to like this. The Cure is decades beyond their best work, and I had no expectation that they'd be able to make something that sounded like themselves, yet also NOT sound anachronistic. I was wrong.

It's a pretty OK pop album.

Delightfully weird. There’s nothing else like System of a Down. It’s a shame they released so few albums.

There are two albums by this band, but no Tool albums. No Deftones albums. No MF DOOM albums.

You know how sometimes you want to like an album more than you actually do?

I am not a fan of pop music, generally, and I am certainly not in its core demographic, but I find it criminal that Taylor Swift is the biggest pop star in the world when a talent like Billie Eilish is producing magic in the same era.

This sounds like everything else in this stupid, overrepresented genre. It’s exhausting having to listen to essentially the same album dozens of times.

I find jazz to be extremely tedious.

This is a good 90s rock album. There are some songs that venture into very good territory. Unfortunately for Hole, that is not what anyone wanted coming off the back of Live Through This, which is one of the best rock records of the 90s. It was also their chance to prove that they could write good music without Cobain. Did they succeed? Well, it was certified platinum in the US, but the band broke up shortly after. Perhaps they had exhausted the Cobain-written songs they had in the can?