Rated 8/10
Partying like it's 1999 sounds so quaint now.
A very 80s album, but I could vibe with it. The back half didn't do it as much for me.
Highlights: 1999, little red corvette, delirious (a goofy line but super catchy)
Rated 4/10
90s grungey alternative, it's ok but not for me. Doesn't feel like an outstanding album to be on this list. 2*
Rated 6/10
This was ok background music, surprised it's from the 70s. Nice guitars and vocals. 3*
Highlight: from the morning
Rated 6/10
Excited to get into another S&G album. Front half was ok, voices of old people really took me out of it, like old trauma of hearing old folks rant.
This one doesn't even touch bridge over troubled water.
Highlights: mrs robinson
Rated 8/10
Oh THIS is where the sexytimes movie music comes from! This was nice, a little too sexy for a Monday morning.
Rated 4/10
My expectations were low for a band called meat puppets. Their instrumentals were fun and unexpected. All was more country than expected. The singing was awful. 2*
Highlights: magic toy missing (because it involved 0 singing)
Rated 8/10
Wow, what a wikipedia entry. Never heard this album as a whole; it's wild that so many bangers are in the same album.
It's very 80s. Wanna be somethin' has that very catchy bridge.
Back in the day when I was a sucker for beatles-adjacent anything I really liked the girl is mine, but now I found that a) it clashes with the rest pretty hard and b) the talking part is cringeeee.
Thriller's "narrator" (?) really took me out and kind of ruined the song for me, maybe it was an artifact of the time/music video craze.
The back half is a snoozer, 4* because of that.
Highlights: billie jean, beat it
Rated 4/10
This list is super biased with 90s british electronic music. This is ok, but nothing that feels genre-defining to me, 2*
I stopped at disc 1 because I got it.
Rated 10/10
Love LCD soundsystem, super excited to get into this as a whole.
The first track reminded me of Blue Man Group.
It's arguably repetitive, but it's refreshing, I can vibe with this. 5*
Highlights: someone great, watch the tapes
Rated 2/10
Drunk yelling at a mic with discordant instrumentals. WTF is up with this, and why is this on here. Did not need this before dying. 1*
2.5 hours of garbage -- maybe no one should have given them access to the studio. I skipped all the bonus tracks, fuck this noise.
Rated 6/10
This was ok, made for fun background sound, but nothing I needed to listen to before dying. Went harder on the first half. 3*
Rated 10/10
Really enjoyable prog rock album. Their musicality really shines. Another reviewer mentioned that Pink Floyd is best enjoyed as a whole album, and I completely agree. This album is a vibe on a Sunday afternoon.
Highlights: shine on you crazy diamond (both), wish you were here
Rated 4/10
Don't know if I like this phase of the cure, too emo and aggravating on a Friday. 2*
This seems like it'd be an iconic American album. 4 HOURS LONG (the version in Apple Music has some Nelson Riddle pieces).
It's definitely a clear snapshot of that era.
I'd be happy to have listened to it, been exposed to it, but don't expect to be going back to it. I also hate the album cover, it creeps me out.
Just like Sinatra albums, I recognize the artistry and icons of American music Fitzgerald/Gershwins are, but this is a 3* for me.
I spent all day at work listening to this and only made it through 3/4 discs. The last disc seemed like other versions of songs I already heard, so I quit.
Highlights: let's call the whole thing off (tomato tomahto potato potahto)
Rated 6/10
This got me reading the story of the disappearance of the former member, a wild story. Never heard of this band before, a nice sound. 3*
Highlights: a design for life, no surface all feeling
Rated 8/10
Toys in the attic has a great starting guitar line. Enjoyed this one, and Tyler's voice isn't obnoxious. Also brass in big ten inch record. 4*
Highlights: walk this way, sweet emotion, toys in the attic
Rated 10/10
Stating the obvious, this was fucking cool. 5*
Rated 4/10
Never heard of this band or album before. It was ok, nothing outstanding, another one I don't understand why it's here. 2*
Someone described this as white blues and I couldn't agree more, 2*
Even the drum vamping in "what i'd say" sounded like someone with no drum skills fucking around.
I'm just not a Springsteen fan. This feels like your parents' love jams. I haven't found a song that wasn't Philadelphia that I liked. 2*
He's extra talkey/mumbley in this one.
