Reviews by mikltabey

I had never heard of this band and really enjoyed this. I might check out more, although I know the singer leaves the band and tragically dies.

This was fine. I’ve had a complicated relationship with electronica during this project, but I think I’ve found that I’m OK with actual songs with electronica backing (Bjork).

I didn’t hate this, but it had very little impact on me. So, little in fact that I was listening to this on my earbuds while cleaning the kitchen and almost asked Alexa to play something until I remembered I already was.

This was great.

Man, this band hit when I was in college. I loved them. And I still do.

Although, I inexplicably love Fernando, it couldn’t save te rest of this for me.

I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would. It was great. I went back and forth about how I feel about the vocals, but I like them!

The Kinks are uneven through their career. But this is great. It’s not my first time listening to this, and it won’t be my last

It is, however, the first time I’ve rated it. I bounced back and forth between a four and a five on it. During Animal Farm, I was thinking it’s a 4. By the end of the same song, I was back at a 5.

I think there overall sound of this album and the strength of the songs get it a five, despite there being a few three and four star songs.

This slapped.

I listen to this album every few months. It’s an all-time favorite of mine, and not even my favorite Dylan album. I just bought this on vinyl and it sounds greeeeeeat.

I will admit, sometimes this album feels like Bob bought a harmonica right before recording and was super excited about it. So much harmonica! Despite that, this is a masterpiece.

Really great. I didn’t know this artist and enjoyed this a lot but didn’t quite reach five stars, but I’d listen to more of this guy.

This was alright. It had Good Day on it. Also, it’s pretty frustrating to hear some music from so long ago and realize how little progress we’ve made as a society since then.

I hadn’t heard this before and really liked it.

I liked this. I had never heard of the artist before.

I didn’t love it. Too much disco, but there was some funky guitar. There were some three star songs on here, but too much of the rest grated on me. Also, I had to listen to We Are Family while not at a wedding reception.

Out of 174 albums so far, this is the 15th electronica album! Last time I did the math, we were on track for 74 electronica albums. Now we are on track for 86.

I can assure the creators of this list: I do not need to hear a single. other. electronica album before I die. I get it. Please. I’m begging.

This was fine. Not as good as some other British rap we’ve listened to for this project, and pretty indicative of the tastes/geographical location of the editor of this list.

This is a big contrast to the types of albums we’ve listened to so far. I’m, of course, familiar with all the hits in this, as I was in high school when it came out.

I came in with an open mind, but once I got to Soda Pop, I knew: I do not like this. This is not surprising, but I also wouldn’t have been surprised to come out of it thinking “Actually, that’s a really good album!”

It feels a little mean to give this a 1, but the last half of this is so, so, so bad.

While, I prefer Velvet Underground, I do like some Lou Reed solo stuff. This didn’t do it for me, but was pretty good.

Another Björk, another 4

I was excited for this one, but it left me wanting.