Rated 2/10
Sounds like a lot of late 90s alt radio female singers. Not sure why this one was special enough to land on this list. Reminds me I think of Sheryl Crowe. Pretty mid, then it got more country and more on my shit list. 1*
Rated 2/10
Sounds like a lot of late 90s alt radio female singers. Not sure why this one was special enough to land on this list. Reminds me I think of Sheryl Crowe. Pretty mid, then it got more country and more on my shit list. 1*
Rated 6/10
Very Caribbean -- love hearing different genres on here. This one sounds timeless. 3* because it doesn't surpass some other albums I've really enjoyed.
Rated 4/10
The sound mixing of this album (or maybe it's just spotify) made it so quiet on all the vocals. This is ok, 2*
Enjoyed: dreamer
Rated 6/10
Thank you fellow reviewers for making me notice the blackface on the cover, wtf.
Kind of a fun album, said ska but not what I expected.
Rated 6/10
Love maps and y control, excited to get into this whole album. I miss this era of music.
Hm, I liked it less than I thought I would.
Rated 6/10
Not sure I like this as much as S+G work. Good for him for branching out. Backing vocals in Diamonds on the soles reminded me of the Nickelodeon theme song. The songs I enjoyed the most here were the more african-influenced ones. 3*
Highlights: gumboots, homeless
Rated 2/10
I want fudge :(
Didn't enjoy the singing or music in this one, didn't do it for me, like pulling teeth to get through, 1*
Don't fade IV made me feel physically uncomfortable.
Legit couldn't wait for this to be over, I could feel the anxiety creeping.
Rated 8/10
Another one that I haven't heard as an album, only random songs here and there. It starts off so very 90s. Outside the songs I already knew and liked, the rest all sounded very similar - the start of GD's signature sound but not quite their peak. 4*
Highlights (songs I already liked): longview, she, fod, basket case, welcome to paradise
Rated 4/10
I have no idea what to make of this. Too experimental/psychedelic for me. Album was a drag. 2*
Rated 10/10
First time listening to the album as a whole.
Smells like teen spirit goes hard as an opener.
Highlights: SLTS, in bloom, lithium, on a plain... actually I give up, this album is great top to bottom, 5*. Actually did not know most of the back half of this album, but has the same Nirvana magic.
A lot of other albums from the era try to emulate this, but this album is just so good and in a league of its own.
Hard not to give this 5*, unless Nirvana is just not your genre.
Endless nameless was the one track I didn't like.
Rated 6/10
Haven't heard of the zombies before, but I really enjoyed the harmonies. Reminds me a lot of the Beach Boys. 3* because it's in the right direction but not enough.
Highlights: a rose for emily, this will be our year (I heard the ok go cover first)
Rated 8/10
A very enjoyable jazz album. Not 5* because I don't know if I'd go back to it.
Rated 6/10
Singer reminds me of Tom Petty. The weird part is the song I was thinking the first song sounded like was "red eyes" (in this album) which is actually a WOD song and not Petty's. Enjoyed the sound, but nothing super stood out to me, some of it was very aerial and understated. 3*
Highlights: red eyes (probably the most upbeat song in this album), burning (slow start but eventually gets good)
Rated 2/10
Wtf even is this? She's not a good singer, or maybe I just don't like her nasally voice -- sounds like dive bar karaoke? 1*
This was somehow a worse version of working class hero.
This album has no redeeming qualities for me.
Rated 6/10
Sounds like early 90s grunge, but still from the 80s, sounds ahead of its time. Clean, different (for its time), I didn't not enjoy it.. 3* Not higher because not a sound I super enjoy and was a little repetitive. Vocals sound whiny after a while.
Idiots rule had some brass, which was cool.
Thank you boys seemed random, but then I remembered albums used to do this, have this off track toward the end that didn't match anything else.
Highlights: mountain song, jane says
Rated 6/10
It has the CCR growl/voice. It's ok, but all songs sound very similar. 3* because it's enjoyable.
Enjoyed: bad moon rising
Rated 8/10
First Queen album here and this one has bohemian rhapsody? Excited to get into it.
All the piano is so fun and different from other rock albums at the time. Reminds me of ELO. Lazing on a sunday afternoon is so goofy. Prophet song starts out ok, but there's some cool harmonies and solos in the back half that remind me of bohemian rhapsody. Great lead in to love of my life.
Lot of good stuff in here, but not a top-to-bottom perfect album for me, so 4*.
I was trying to imagine what it would be like to hear BR for the first time in this album -- something that's worth doing with songs you've heard 100s of times -- the beginning is very similar to a lot of this album, but once the guitar kicks in at 2:40 it's a completely different ballgame. What a beast of a song.
Highlights: you're my best friend, bohemian rhapsody (duh), seaside rendezvous (very out there for what I know of Queen, but they pull it off), prophet's song, love of my life (Freddie's voice!)
Rated 4/10
I can get behind the genre, but not this. A lot sounded like noise. 2*
Rated 4/10
I went from Queen to this as I'm catching up with the weekend's albums. Some interesting instrumental things, but nothing super interesting, Enjoyed stay. 2*
Rated 4/10
This is nice, she has a nice voice, but the album just doesn't do anything for me. 2*
Enjoyed: raised on robbery