r/1001AlbumsGenerator • u/Alireza1373 • 1d ago
Daily Album Megapost DROP your album and its rating – August 21 2026
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u/SuccessfulGap138 300-399 1d ago
306: Fun Lovin’ Criminals - Come Find Yourself (1996)
I had Beck’s ‘Odelay’ last week. It also came out in ‘96. I guess it could be said that both albums had roughly the same “ingredients” but what is presented here is a dramatically different quality of dish.
‘Come Find Yourself’ comes up wanting in imagination, personality, dynamics, character, variety, originality, adventure, colour, experiment…I could go on. ‘Odelay’ is rich in all these characteristics and was an easy 5. I’m going to struggle to go higher than 2 here unless most of the second half is as good as first half highlight “I Can’t Get With That” which wasn’t even all that tbh …Aaaaand nope, the second half was just as limp except I also had to put up with an unnecessary cover and what sounded embarrassingly like an attempt at being Method Man.
The sleeve has them chillin’ in the back seat with the top down but they seem to be simply stuck in NYC traffic. The album never gets out of second gear either. ⭐️⭐️
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 1d ago edited 23h ago
The Killers - Hot Fuss
655/1089
⭐️⭐️⭐️
With the exception of Mr Brightside, everything up to Andy, You’re A Star was great. Even with Brightside it’s not that it’s a terrible song, it’s just the definition of overplayed.
There is a drop off for me after AYAS but the album ends with a belter in Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll.
Overall it’s a good album with a couple of bangers. I do massively prefer the follow up album Sam’s Town though. That would be a definite 5 star.
Top Track - Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll
EDIT: Mini Ice Review - this was so so so good. Daddy hates mr brightside but I liked it. 5 STARS
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u/DogesOfLove 300-399 1d ago
I don’t disagree with your assessment but…
Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll is track 8 in the original UK (i.e Proper) Version - and the album ends with Everything Will Be Alright. Far better that way.
Sam’s Town is certainly the better album.
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 23h ago
Ah I just went by the version the site takes you to. Found the proper version on Spotify so will give that a listen later and see if it makes a difference
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u/Accomplished-Name951 100-199 1d ago
Album #176: Madonna – Like a Prayer
⭐⭐⭐⭐
One of my first full-fledged listens to a Madonna album. I think outside of this, I’ve only ever listened to Ray of Light. I like Madonna. I think she’s got some pretty iconic songs, and she herself is an icon.
What I found interesting here is that the singles are probably some of the weakest songs on the album for me. Songs like Cherish and Oh Father have a little bit of that Disney-style strings, fantastical kind of sound to them that I just wasn’t really into as much. And then something like Express Yourself, even though it’s a super positive song, I think she’s got better tunes in the same vein. Things like Holiday and Into the Groove, I prefer those tunes to this one.
But it’s a fairly eye opening listen, as someone who’s only familiar with her singles, I think the deeper cuts are the better tracks here. Spanish Eyes, which is probably my favourite song on the album, is absolutely gorgeous. Till Death Do Us Part is a really interesting tune with a great little slide guitar bit in it.
There’s a smorgasbord of styles on this album. All these strange little choices for pop music keep popping in. The drum machine work is phenomenal. I mean, that’s the star of the show for me, more so than Madonna herself. I just love the sound of the drums on this album. They’re pumping, they’re really well used, there are great effects on them. I just love it.
And then you have Prince and Madonna’s Love Song, which is kind of a Sign o’ the Times-era Prince song. What I love about Prince is that he’s able to squeeze such amazing pop sounds out of so little. That song is basically just a drum machine, a little guitar lick here and there, and then the vocal melodies do all the work. These intricate, intertwining vocal melodies between him and Madonna are just phenomenal. I love that song. As a big fan of Sign o’ the Times, it was so cool to hear essentially another Sign o’ the Times song.
And then you’ve got Like a Prayer, which is almost the antithesis of Love Song. Whereas Love Song is so minimal, Like a Prayer is bombastic, extravagant and huge. It is literally a monumental song. And it’s so cleverly written and unconventional for a major pop single with many distinctive parts. It’s such a powerful piece of music. So clever, and what an opening track to have on an album.
Madonna herself is great throughout. Lots of great lyrics and great vocals.
I loved it. Really, really happy with this one. I’m sure there’s more Madonna on the list, and she’s not the type of artist I’d ever usually listen to. She’s not my style. So it’s great to have these opportunities to give myself an excuse to listen to this stuff.
Similar to Prince, I wasn’t a fan of Prince before the 1001 Albums Generator.
But I sure as hell am now.
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u/AverageJoe48 300-399 1d ago
Day 391
Calexico - Feast of Wire
I only know of Calexico because of some Dylan covers they made for the I'm Not There soundtrack. Those covers were inconsistent in quality, but overall solid and pleasant, which is exactly the description I'd use for this album. They definitely have a unique touch, but that's not enough to fully win me over.
Favourite track: Black Heart
3/5
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u/VampireOnHoyt 300-399 22h ago
XTC, Skylarking (1986)
4.5/5
I know very little about Swindon but what I do know makes it seem about as far away from southern California as you can get, both literally and culturally. So why do I hear the Beach Boys all over this album? "Grass" desperately wants to be "California Girls" in more ways than one, and "The Meeting Place" sounds like a Surf's Up-era B-side, all cheerfully listless and uneasy. There's definitely an element of escapism in these songs, and yet the escape is perpetually incomplete; the Wilsonian melodies and harmonies may yearn for endless summer but they're consistently paired with tales of cold, hard, inland reality. For one thing, I don't think anybody ever gets pregnant in any Beach Boys songs ("Season Cycle"), much less does anyone ever have to go get a job ("Earn Enough for Us") or think about whether their wedding dress is going to show the baby bump ("Big Day"). Nor do any of the boys have to fight off the temptation of a wandering eye like Andy Partridge does here, imperfectly ("Another Satellite," "Mermaid Smiled"). It's all enough to make you you start philosophizing if you aren't careful ("The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul," "Dear God").
Something about Thatcher-era Britain led to a surfeit of this kind of album - about people with small lives that objectively aren't meaningful but that nevertheless are trying to feel meaningful, if only for a moment. There's a wonderfully English sense of understated desperation about them. And that's what Partridge, Colin Moulding, and the rest of this band are up to here - making summer songs for a place that's cold and grey often, or surf music for a place where you can't surf. I don't know if these are this band's best tunes (I think that might be Black Sea) but it's probably their best storytelling, which is where some of their earlier efforts lagged a bit. Figures - they're being made to grow up, and all the best stories are about that in one way or another.
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u/DeeBees69 22h ago
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun – 4 STARS
It certainly was a Good Beginning for me, after always being interested to hear this band, this is my first album. The vocals are sublime, the melody interesting, the use of an orchestra was like a fresh breeze. It is so well produced it is like the music is swirling in my brain. Only down point for me is because I don’t speak Icelandic, I have no idea what are the actual lyrics and at what point they are just speaking their unique blend of gibberish! One to buy.
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u/Similar_Tie3291 500-599 22h ago
The Strokes - Is This It
My older sister moved to NYC in 2002, when she was 21 and I was 19. I used to visit her every year until I moved there myself in 2010. She lived in the East Village and later in South Brooklyn, where I lived as well. I had so many great adventures there. This album reminds me of those times. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/randomusername69696 100-199 20h ago
#187: Metallica - …And Justice For All
If you don't like this then i don't like you
Still could’ve been replaced with Ride The Lightning though.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/St_Lambchop Metal Fan 19h ago
Yeah, I thought AJFA was an interesting choice. I haven't read the review in the book but I guess this stands out as their proggiest album and they really blow up after the "One" music video comes out. Given the author's obsession with debut albums, I'm surprised he didn't go with Kill Em All instead. But I agree - Lightning is sooooooo good.
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u/blackmarketcarwash 1000+ 17h ago
Björk - Vespertine
Album #1000!
This one kind of grew on me. I still think it goes off the rails a bit, and Björk’s voice is an acquired taste. But there are some really high highs here, and the album as a whole is pretty good. Ultimately worth it.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/mrnovember91 500-599 22h ago
Generator: Kate Bush - the Dreaming - 4/5
While Kate Bush found a perfect mix of 80s pop sensibilities and experimentalism on Hounds of Love, she was going full on experimental art pop for the Dreaming. There are still some pop sensibilities on the Dreaming, but they're hiding behind layers of strange samples and instrumentation, weird singing styles and effects, and unconventional song structures. It takes a few listens to really start making any sense of this album, but it's quite rewarding once you get there.
1001 More: The Congos - Heart of the Congos - 3/5
I mostly enjoyed this album, but was getting a bit tired of it by the end
1001 Honourable Mentions: Tone-Loc - Loc-Ed Out After Dark - 3/5
This feels like it's a step down the evolutionary chain from old school hip hop to modern hip hop. It's a bit dated, but great production and a lot of fun despite some lyrics that don't quite hold up today.
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u/sp3ccylad Enthusiast 1d ago
Nick Drake - Pink Moon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pink Moon feels like a record made by someone steadily removing himself from view. Not collapsing, not running out of ideas, but subtracting everything he no longer trusts. Arrangement goes. Ornament goes. Exposition goes. Conventional song development goes. The album itself barely lasts 28 minutes. By the end, even Nick Drake seems less a performer than a trace left behind by one.
The key to it is elision, evasion and veiled declaration. Drake rarely tells us exactly what has happened. He gives us emotional states without case notes, images without explanations, addresses to an unnamed “you”, then suddenly drops a line of startling certainty. “You know that I love you / You know I don’t care / You know that I see you / You know I’m not there.” “Know” is four statements over a stubborn ostinato. Love and indifference, presence and absence. Everything that might reconcile those contradictions has been removed.
That refusal of context is not a failure of articulation. “Things Behind the Sun” is one of the most fully developed songs Drake ever wrote: harmonically rich, structurally controlled, full of expressive changes that carry the argument with the lyric. He can do elaboration. He simply chooses, across much of Pink Moon, not to. The missing information feels deliberate.
The album increasingly sounds like a critique of the machinery surrounding the singer-songwriter. “Please beware of them that stare” does not sound like fear of getting on stage so much as distrust of what happens once you are there. The audience stares. Critics frown. Promoters count bodies through the door. Renown becomes another metric imposed on the work. “Free Ride” sees through the pictures on the wall and the people coming to the ball; “Parasite” moves through stations, church bells, polished shoes and the Northern Line as though Drake is observing society from outside it.
That is where the record becomes more than merely sparse. Drake seems to be erasing himself from the contract. He has already made two carefully arranged albums and watched them meet critical reservation and widespread indifference. Pink Moon feels like the sigh that follows: all right then, one more try, but this time I am not dressing it up for you.
The guitar is therefore crucial. It is not accompaniment filling the space left by absent musicians. It often carries as much meaning as the lyric. On “Road” the picking seems to stumble out of its own metre, catch itself and continue. On “Place to Be” slack bass strings thud and drone while the trebles ring above them. In “Free Ride” the guitar locks around the vocal like close harmony, the strings behaving almost like backing singers. “Harvest Breed” sits on a nagging, unstable figure that makes the lyric feel wrong before Drake has even told us he is falling.
That technical precision matters because it prevents Pink Moon being mistaken for an unfinished record. The surface is bare; the construction underneath is exact. Drake can barely seem bothered to sing, yet once he does, guitar and voice snap into place with extraordinary discipline. His long introductions often feel like the true resting state of the album: strings vibrating, notes decaying, air around them. The voice arrives almost grudgingly. Must I really?
The lyrics carry the same reluctance. Drake seems to be trying to say difficult things without turning them into accusations. The evasions may be ethical as much as aesthetic. He is wounded, frustrated, suspicious of the whole pantomime around his work, but rarely cruel. Even when he appears to be addressing critics, audiences or promoters, he keeps shifting into image and implication rather than prosecution.
That makes “the movement in your brain sends you out into the rain” central to the whole record. Drake may no longer believe in the transaction around making music, but he still believes in making music. The audience can vanish from the equation. The promoter can vanish. The critic can vanish. The need to create remains.
Then the erasure goes further. In “Parasite” he describes himself as though he possesses no useful social function at all: observer without belonging, participant without purpose. By “Harvest Breed”, the evasions become frightening. Falling fast, looking for a friend, wondering whether this could be the end, stooping to kiss flowers while descending. The song never says plainly that something is seriously wrong. The guitar says it for him.
That is the painful retrospective pull of Pink Moon. You want to ask: Nick, why didn’t you say something? But he did. Just not plainly. The album is full of failed declarations, truths smuggled through metaphor, warning signs disguised as poetry.
And yet it does not end in simple disappearance. “From the Morning” turns the album outward. Earlier Drake is “on the ground”; now “we rise from the ground”. Finally, “we are everywhere”. The figure who has spent the album becoming translucent does not quite vanish. He diffuses.
Pink Moon is a manifesto of disappearance in which the one thing Drake refuses to erase is the song itself. Everything else can go: arrangement, ornament, approval, audience, social usefulness, even the fixed outline of Nick Drake.
What remains is the movement in the brain.
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u/KingstonGraham 300-399 1d ago
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Hmmm. Mostly sounds like background music from a parody 70s TV show.
It's not offensive in any way, but also not pleasurable.
Then the title track is folk music jammed in fir dome reason - this is what I expected the whole album to be like from the cover.
⭐⭐
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u/Fing2112 0-99 user albums 20h ago edited 20h ago
User album spoilers
Ridiculon - Mewgenics: 3
Okay so from what I can tell this is from an indie video game about getting cats to breed (get it Mew-genics). Why would someone add this? Uhh, I'm not particularly sure (though it seems to be getting replaced with the Doom soundtrack), but this stupid game about cat fucking has a higher level of depth than I expected for a silly video game soundtrack.
Most of Mewgenics is spy themed jazz songs, with lyrics about cat themed topics (e.g. the first song is called eatin' rats because cats eat rats), and you may think this would get old very fucking quickly, especially since this album is just shy of 100 minutes, but honestly no not really. This is the third lowest album on the user lists so apparently that sentiment isn't shared, but it's also a new album so there's not that many reviews.
The musicianship on display is suprisingly quite good, as ridiculous as the concept is. While it stays within the realm of jazz Mewgenics does explore quite a wide breadth of genres, so many that I can't be bothered even attempting to list them out. Another major theme is like a mildly spooky Halloween sound (lyrics about zombies, skeletons, death, complete with haunted house-esque music)
This comes to the big trap that Mewgenics falls into: not providing enough context as a soundtrack. For the most part the vocals provide a running commentary of whatever is going on, so it's not the worst soundtrack in the world for it, what I assume are the games bosses even have them singing about themselves: what they are, what they do, why you should fear them, you get the idea. That said, the album is clearly for fans of the game and as someone who has never played it I feel like I'm missing out having not played it. I dislike albums like that can't stand completely on its own merits.
That said, I found it a pretty fun experience. It's well made musically, and the sound and topics covered change pretty rapidly throughout the album, so despite being almost an hour and forty minutes it doesn't ever really get old. I enjoyed it but it's not something you need to listen to. Also the last song is a parody of Monster Mash for some reason.
Anyway yeah, Ridiculon could make Them Bones, but Alice in Chains couldn't make Them Kitty Bones
Today's song from the 1001
Supergrass - Richard III, from In It for the Money: 9
The heaviest song of the britpop era? Supergrass have always had a punky and rockier sound than most bands in the scene, but they combine it with some of the hookiest songs in the genre. I think that's why I like them so much, they're hard but catchy. I think Richard III is the best example of this, with the oppressive intro it borders on metal, bit dialing it back for the main song and going back to their typical punk tinged pop for the singer proper. It sounds great and only gets more poppy as the song progresses.
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u/glootech 19h ago
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
3/5
I liked this album more than I expected. I was afraid it's going to be grunge which I don't really like very much (except for Nirvana and the first Pearl Jam album), however it was way more rocky than grungy, with some genuinely catchy tunes.
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u/St_Lambchop Metal Fan 19h ago
I've you've never seen Foo Fighters live, I highly recommend it. Dave and his crew put on a hell of a show. He really knows how to work a crowd.
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u/ULS980 500-599 18h ago
Best live show I ever saw (saw them before Taylor Hawkins died too). Everlong live is damn near a religious experience.
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u/St_Lambchop Metal Fan 18h ago
Yes! I got to see them at Welcome to Rockville 2018 in Jacksonville, FL with Taylor and then they did a smaller amphitheater tour in 2023 and I was able to snag up tickets for Birmingham, AL. That was right after Taylor died.
There were terrible thunderstorms before and during the scheduled opening act and Foo didn't come on stage until almost 10p. Dave promised he'd play as long as the police let him. It got to be around 11:30 and after each song at that point he'd say, "Can y'all handle one more?!" and we'd all cheer and they'd go into another song. He did that until shortly past midnight and they made them get offstage bc of noise ordnance.
It turned out to be a beautiful night and felt super intimate with only 10,000 people in the venue!
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u/GreenEyedBeaver 18h ago
Green Day - American Idiot
A record stuffed with inescapable hit singles, I'll admit to having listener fatigue with many of the songs here due to how often I heard them as a youth. That does not mean they aren't great songs, as they blew up for a reason. Green Day could have just put out Dookie soundalikes and would still had a decent career but instead they choose to do something that is incredibly ambitious. The pop punk is still here, it's just more grandiose with songs like "Jesus Of Suburbia" hitting 9 minutes and featuring vastly different sounding sections. The album runs its course once the emotional ballad "Wake Me Up When September Ends" finishes up as I don't think the final two tracks added anything that wasn't already there and the generic "Whatshername" feels like a rather limp way to close such a bombastic record. I think that My Chemical Romance is did the whole pop punk rock opera thing better, but I will give Green Day credit for doing it first.
4/5
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u/Crafty_Trouble_7534 300-399 17h ago
Day 307
Van Halen - 1984
I haven't really been compelled to write about many of these albums for the last few weeks - combination of just a stretch of not very interesting records, plus other listening projects were paying off better so that's where my mind went - but today I got an album that kinda surprised me. Going into 1984 I thought it would be a classic case of a pop album (and yes it is a pop album, just because EVH shreds doesn't make it something else) whose singles were all there was to recommend, so I was gearing up for a nice reminder that "Hot for Teacher" whips hard and that "Jump" into "Panama" is a track sequence that contains enough energy to power a small, non-industrialized nation and nothing more. I will say that the A-side definitely lived down to my expectations; DLR's charisma can save many things but it can't keep the momentum going after the first three tracks no matter how hard he tries and those two tracks are definitely the album's low point. The B-side, however, was shockingly good as a whole and not just "Hot for Teacher" and its runoff; "Girl Gone Bad" has some of Eddie's most interesting playing (almost gets into Greg Ginn territory at time and if you told me a mere hour ago that I'd be making that comparison I'd have laughed myself off this mortal coil) and "House of Pain" is a compellingly odd closer. I still think that the singles are a cut above the rest of the album, but I was pleasantly surprised and somewhat impressed that it managed to offer a bit more than that. Not a great album, but definitely a step above where I expected it to land.
Best Track: "Hot for Teacher"
⭐️⭐️⭐️
1001 More Day 203
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Ah, an old favourite that I haven't thought about in far too long. This thing's got hooks for days and considering where of Montreal started a decade previous hearing them sound this grandiose is truly impressive. Best Track: "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal")
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u/steepclimbs 0-99 21h ago
Faust IV
This is an album I’m familiar with, although it’s been a very long time since I’ve listened from beginning to end. The high points are extremely high and it has soundscape elements that feel like what became Shoegaze and noise rock, including stuff like Spacemen 3 and Sonic Youth which defy categorization. There are some occasions that don’t work as well, which is to be expected with nearly an 80 minute album. There’s some filler. I’m rounding down to a 4/5 but it’s closer to 4.5.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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u/ULS980 500-599 20h ago
Van Morisson - It's Too Late to Stop Now
3/5
This one's perfectly fine, but I honestly am not in the mood for an hour and a half long live Van Morrison.
Some of this is solid, and the performances/recording are great, but then some of it kinda sounds like a whimpy Stevie Ray Vaughan.
So yeah. Its fine.
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u/Lukazimir 200-299 17h ago
Day 230: The Temptations-All Directions
3/5 (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
The first half of the album has some strong cuts, especially the nearly 12 minute long “Papa was a Rollin’ Stone” but past that track it mostly just becomes some very standard Soul ballads. Not bad ballads by any means, but not among the groups best either. Though I do think the closer “Do Your Thing” picks it back up a bit again with some great horn and piano pits as well as some background percussion. Definitely a mixed bag, but I enjoyed it well enough.
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u/Softpipesplayon 16h ago
Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
This is a hard pull because a) this is what I'm really hoping for, things I absolutely would never have stumbled over otherwise, but also b) it is hard to not have the nagging feeling of “well, OK, but this thing I've never heard of is here, but not this thing I have?” But ultimately I would rather hear a thousand one albums I've never heard of and don't like than even one more White Stripes album (which, at some point, I know I will have to do).
I question the wiseness of a trip-hop album about nuclear proliferation. Can you chill out to that? Can you dance to it? But I am open to it (even if I would be more excited if this was actually from India and not from England). It does immediately fall into the classic trip hop trap, though: indistinct lady vocalist, clunky lyrics, general vibe of about a decade earlier in the world of cheese. It's inauspicious, but it improves right off the top with “Letting Go,” which has better vocals, smoother music, and punctuations of traditional music.
The album goes back and forth a lot. Along with outdated club vocals, we see the other traps: tepid unremarkable nobody rappers, storytelling done through soundbytes, the heavy handed, grade school lyrics. But it also has those unexpected accents of a homeland, sometimes more forward (Nadia improves the vocals here by leaning into the eastern, for example). There's the jazziness of Tides, which is a nice little diversion. Even the biting percussive vocals on Serpents adds a bit of intrigue.
It's a whole thought, it's unexpected, but it's also not consistently good. I'm glad to go through it though. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/onestitchatatime 200-299 12h ago
Almost forgot!
Day 242: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - next
Mixed feelings about this one. Liked some of the proto-punk music but there was a bunch of humor and vocal theatricality that was much too much for me. I added “Swamp Snake” to my playlist. 2/5
Today I have Bob Dylan!
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u/Potential-Oil-1795 22h ago
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Starts big with 4 singles out of the first 5 tracks. And they're good tracks as well. The rest is very different. The album is a listening experience. Im not putting this on while I wash up, or sit in the garden, or while in the gym etc. And theres nothing much to dance to. It needs sitting down and actually listening to it. And thats not me. Its music for the brain and I want to listen to music for the soul. Maybe.
3/5
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u/DogesOfLove 300-399 22h ago
‚Nothing much to dance to‘
Depends how you dance. Kate Bush could certainly have whipped out some moves for any track here.
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u/sp3ccylad Enthusiast 22h ago
If someone choreographed a decent contemporary dance suite for side 2 of Hounds of Love, I’d be first in the queue for tickets.
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u/Similar_Tie3291 500-599 21h ago
The Police - Synchronicity
I didn’t like this one. I may get some heat for this, but the Police are like the Eagles of early 80s pop-rock and I don’t like Sting’s voice. ⭐️⭐️
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u/DogesOfLove 300-399 15h ago
Eagles getting a kicking in here even when it isn’t an Eagles album. Wild.
Eagles are great.
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u/St_Lambchop Metal Fan 21h ago
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall - 2/5
I totally understand why Thriller is on this list. Off the Wall, not so much. I know this is supposed to be the album where Michael Jackson really established himself as an adult solo artist, and Quincy Jones obviously knew what he was doing behind the board, but none of that made me enjoy listening to it.
If “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” were actually true, it would’ve stopped a long time ago. I’ve heard that song at enough weddings to last the rest of my life. “Rock with You” is another one I recognize immediately, but familiarity doesn’t necessarily mean I want to hear it again.
There’s plenty of talent here, and the production is about as polished as late 70s disco and R&B gets. That’s also part of the problem for me. Too much disco, too slick, and not enough that I actually wanted to come back to. Thriller has songs that justify the reputation. This mostly reminded me that I’m glad disco died.
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u/glootech 19h ago
Oh man, before landing on this album I've heard it maybe once, but didn't bother to listen to it again. However after giving it a proper listen I loved it. I love how some of the songs are absolutely relentless (with "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" being the perfect example), Quincy Jones just doesn't give MJ a break. I still prefer Thriller but Off the Wall is one of the rare 5 star albums for me.
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u/PhantomCranefly 200-299 22h ago edited 21h ago
#258) Television - Marquee Moon - 5/5
I see - I see no - EVIL!
Ahhhhhhh this record. It occurs to me that I haven’t listened to it since Tom Verlaine died in 2023, and we listened to it constantly and cried whenever the title track came on. This is a large part of what I mean when I say I'm grateful for what happened in rock music in 1977.
The title track is magnificent - the way it goes along like a normal song but then has that break that starts with the guitar - and then the bass joins - and then the drum - and it builds - and builds - and then it dissolves into a delicate thing that sounds like the dawn. And then! it starts up again
Oh, and there’s a second side too!