Reviews by lancia037

This album is just goofy fun. From the album cover that looks like a classic B-movie poster, to the other the top solo's and vocal delivery. The layer of irony and fun that this album brings makes it a lot more interesting than the sources it's derived from. I would rather listen to this over Queen or any number of poorly aged Hair Metal bands. I Believe In A Thing Called Love is a great song and a bunch of the others here work well as standalone singles too.

I absolutely love this album. It's such a timeless masterpiece, these songs sound like they've been around for centuries. Leonard Cohen started as a poet and it's very noticable in his songwriting. I've listened to this one more than any other album on the list and I'm still puzzled by the lyrics and what they mean. There are stories told, yet everything said here remains a sort of mystery where you never know the true meaning or intent behind the song. I think Cohen's guitar playing is also at his very best here. He went on to do more lush works as he furthered into his career, but the songs here just being accompanied with his guitar and the occassional other string instrument or voice really aids the songwriting. One of the best albums of all time.

It's a pretty fun album. It's noisy and abrasive, but it doesn't really sound as such. It took me a few listens to start enjoying Sonic Youth. This is a perfectly fine album by them, kind of in between the harshness of Evol and the sprawling beauty of Daydream Nation, both of which I prefer. Really influential band and good stuff.

I can see why this has a low rating on this site, I really enjoyed it though. I wouldn't say Nico's vocals or beautiful or that I even really like her voice. It sounds a bit robotic and there isn't a lot of range. It is incredibly mesmerising and fitting for the album though. This sounds like the birth of a very large part of alternative rock right here. It's a hypnotising and engaging experience, really pleasant album.

A bit boring, but well made and still enjoyable enough. It's like the British version of enigma. The opening track has such an unfortunate name that it makes it easy to make fun of. Still enjoyed this, a nice combination of synth-pop and, at the time up and coming genres like house and dance.

One of the weaker Hüsker Dü albums, but that says more about their great catalogue of music. It's a bit long and the songs are a bit middling at times, but it's like a final playlist. The last thing they made before they split up and there's 20 songs to enjoy. I like this band a lot and while I find this a strange inclusion, I still really really enjoy listening to it.

This may have aged horribly, but I don't think I would have enjoyed this in 1999 either. I really don't care for the edgelord theme this album brings on. The skits are insufferable and the songs may as well be skits most of the time, so those are insufferable as well. There are some good parts to this, I generally like the beats and sometimes it feels like Eminem is actually about to say something meaningful. Before he comes back to 'kiss my ass' -esque lyrics. None of it that makes me want to listen to it again, I feel emberassed for even putting this album on. The first notes of the following album in the playlist were liberating.

I really liked every song on here, should really listen to Billy Joel more often. Could by naming my favorites here but it'd end up as just naming the entire track list. Billy Joel is a brilliant songwriter and singer like many of this era, and this is probably his best album. Nice combination of hits and well known fan favorites on display. Very varied, good runtime and something that pretty much everyone can enjoy.

Great voice and some really nice songs on here. I really liked the Can't Take My Eyes Off You cover and Everything Is Everything. I found a lot of the songs to be kind of filler though. It's a long album and I didn't really care for a lot of it. Good album, but not really my thing.

Dookie straddled the line between pop and punk pretty well, this one does not whatsoever. There's hardly any Punk element to it, you can't make a pop album and a rock opera and have it fall under Punk as well. I really didn't like this. The big hits are all fine but I've heard them a million times before without ever putting it on myself. The transitions between the songs are nice but the album tracks don't do it for me. Definetely deserves to be on the list, I just don't like it.

Daunting to put up at first, being a 3 song 40 minute album, but actually very enjoyable to listen to. This album is full of memorable moments and brilliant playing. It's amazing just how fast this goes by. Easily one of the best prog albums ever made.

Halfway point in this list, and kind of a middle of the road album. Didn't like it as much as the other Nick Cave albums I've listened to so far. It's not bad, but not really the best one I've listened either. I think he's done more interesting on other albums. Wish I had more to say about the halfway more but I don't.

Questionable sonic choices here. Church bells really don't fit here lol. Kiss is a strange band, pop rock and disco but with Heavy Metal appearance. Some songs here do go quite hard, Detroit Rock City is genuinely good and God Of Thunder is one of their harder songs as well. The rest of the songs are all forgettable generic pop tunes though. Kiss is hugely influential for their appearances, stage theatrics and extreme level of selling out, but their music is never what was important about them. Perhaps their disco album or Kiss Alive would've been more fitting as a pick for this list.

Very refreshing album, I hadn't heard anything like this in the list yet. It's a really strange but effective combination of Metal, Electronic and Pop. The lyrics are really heavy for an artist that got played on mainstream pop stations. I think this would've benefitted from 1 or 2 of their big hits being on it though. It's close to a 4 but there aren't any real memorable songs off this for me.

Groove Is In The Heart is a fun song, and the only thing you really need of this album. The album has some really fun ideas, mixing disco with house and a funky aesthetic. However, the music fall kind of flat and a lot of it sounds like filler house to me. Kind of a shame, because the rest of the album drags down the power of their one hit song for me.

Bruce Springsteen at his bet. None of the trumpets and band involved, just him singing acoustic songs with a guitar. This really brings out the Americana-vibes, especially with the album title and cover. I'm 5 Bruce Springsteen albums in now, on the whole I'm more positive towards him, but I'd rather he'd made more of this and less of Born in the USA.

This was a beautiful album. I know Talk Talk went more into post rock and experimental territory as their career went on, this being somewhere in the middle of that process. This album is incredibly well made and polished, without being a cliche. I already knew Life's What You Make It, but the other tracks on here are very enjoyable as well. Mark Hollis had one of the clearest and most beautiful voices of the era. This was a really pleasant surprise I'll definitely revisit.

God this is boring. Nothing but a guitar and an hour of singing by one of the least engaging singers of this entire list. One or two songs on here were maybe fine, but the rest of it was all a borefest to get through. Headache and boredom inducing, couldn't wait for it to be over. Can't imagine the album had any real influence.

It's unmistakably a Bruce Springsteen album. 10 very typical Bruce Springsteen songs, some more famous than the others. The ballads and stories told here are pretty appealing, but I just don't really care much for Bruce Springsteen. I can't find any real fault in it, it's a perfect and well rock album by any objective measure. But Bruce was never really my thing and I doubt it will really be.

Sounds almost like it could be a Techno album in a way. Can were massively ahead of the curve and it shows today in their appreciation they get from music snobs. This is generally their highest regarded album, but I like other Can albums more than this one. This is Can at their most refined, but it loses the wacky and zany edge I notice on the likes of Monster Movie and Ege Bamyasi. I still really like Can and this album though. Seldom does a 4 song, 40 minute album go by so quick. The drums are hypnotic on this one.