Rated 4/10
This album is a little out there for me, but seems very ahead of its time (or prime for its time because this was 1994 and things were shifting?). 2*
'The becoming' gives Doom vibes. 'I do not want this' was too much angry white man rock (not that I'm against it, but meh).
I think I'd need many listens to follow the concept, I'm too tired today.
Highlights: closer
Rated 8/10
A fun, good vibes album. Weird to see something called a "gay album." I get excited when anything not from the 60s-80s pops up on here. Mary feels like a more modern Elton John song. 4*
Highlights: take your mama
Rated 10/10
Let me get this out of the way: Kanye is a self-centered asshole. Always has been. I feel like I need to make this disclaimer every time a Kanye album comes up. But I really like this one. It's objectively full of bangers. It's also sort of nostalgic to me, based on when it was introduced to me (being 0% into hip hop prior to this). Easy 5* on the music alone.
The outro of blame game is so weird (is that chris rock?). Also bon iver is in this album?!
Highlights: dark fantasy, power, all of the lights, monster, runaway
Rated 6/10
Sing is one of my all-time favorite songs, but it's not in this one. As you are sounds a ton like Thom Yorke. This is ok, kind of meh. Enjoyable enough, but to me is proto-other-albums-I-like. Not sure why it deserved to be on this list. I want to give it a 2.5, since it's the kind of sound I enjoy but not that good.
There's a secret track at the end, which feels like something form a bygone era.
Highlights: turn
Rated 6/10
Enjoyable sound, don't know much about the dude. 3*
Highlights: the national front disco
Rated 6/10
Alright album, sounds like 3*. Enjoyed the ride but it came and went.
Highlights: walk on the wild side
I see Damon Albarn, I'm intrigued
Enjoying the sound, something very different. 3* because not sure about fave album territory.
Rated 4/10
Had to go to YT for this one. Based on the description I wasn't expecting much, but it sounds very clean and better than some other pop 60s album I've heard on here. It's ok, 2*, nothing outstanding. Just another album that is the precursor to bigger and better things.
Cuckoo came out of nowhere.
Rated 2/10
Off the bat this kind of sucks, I just have a low tolerance for mediocre vocals.
A rambling album, maybe it would be ok without the vocals. 1* because this was much longer than it needed to be, it was torture.
After a while I felt like I kept hearing the same guitar riff. 70s rock of jerking off to your guitar for several hours needs to stop.
I'm learning psychedelic rock may not be for me. If I had to listen to this live, I would need copious amounts of drugs in me. Or a sleeping pill.
I skipped the 3 alternate versions at the end. When they said "see you" in the last song, I took them up on it.
Rated 6/10
I recognize Rikki don't lose that number. Overall this is ok background dad rock you'd hear at a doctor's office. 3* (I have to give this more than the last snoozefest country album I heard -- I hate that I can't even be consistent with my own ratings).
East St Louis came out of nowhere, enjoyed it.
Rated 4/10
Country... sigh. I'll give everything here a shot, but idk.
All kinda same-y, just ok. I just haven't found country I didn't find boring and uninteresting. 2*
Rated 8/10
Off the bat, liking the sound compared to many 80s albums on here. Wait, this is late 70s, even better. I'm vibing with this on a Monday morning. Very clean, inclined to 3.5* rounded up. Love her voice, fits very well.
Highlights: one way or another (a classic), heart of glass
Rated 8/10
More Beatles! Still from their early era but getting closer to their mid-Beatles era that is my favorite. Lots of songs I love but many that are just ok to me, so 4*. Beatles will always skew higher for me.
Highlights: i should have known better, if i fell (paul's voice cracking near the end), and i love her, you can't do that (everybody's greeeeen)
Rated 6/10
I've liked some of slipknot's stuff, so looking forward to this one. It taps into my nu-metal teenage years, can't say it's something I'd seek out these days. Def have to be in the right mood to hit this now. The drums are freaking fantastic, great energy throughout. 3* (docking because scissors/eeyore was a little too rough for me).
Highlights: sic, wait and bleed
Rated 6/10
Classic early metal album, without being obnoxious dad rock from this period. 3*
Highlights: war pigs, paranoid
Rated 4/10
Oooh, something very recent. The awards confuse me because it sounds like a lot of what's on the radio these days. It's a nice sound, but nothing outstanding. 2.5*
Ok, Guitar grooves that remind me of my favorite Beatles period. Has some good moments, but the off-key vocals don't quite work for me.
Highlights: she's bought a hat, shangrila, australia
Rated 2/10
This sounds like generic 90s techno, but not as fun as euro pop. Default tracks on a yamaha keyboard. Lyrics are bad (I CAN MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN). Why is this here? I would give this 2* for not being complete garbage, but I just gave a much more decent reggae album 2*, so this gets 1.
Rated 4/10
Ok reggae album, nothing blew my mind. 2*
Rated 8/10
Didn't know what to expect. A nice musical journey, great instrumentation; what genre is this? 4*. Lots of great songs but also very long.
Highlights: chicago, they are night zombies
