I'm going to be honest. I didn't even try to listen to this album. I started to, but two songs in and I was done. I just couldn't bring myself to listen to a 15 song, 49 minute long long album of someone singing to me in french.
I wasn't super impressed by this album. It was a little too messy, and under produced, which I understand is probably what they were going for but I didn't like it. Even the lead singer of the band says it is his least favorite Dinosaur Jr. album.
Nina Simone is another example of an artist from the 50's and 60's just putting out a ton of albums. Between 1958 and 1974 Nina released 40 albums. Granted many of them are live albums but still that is an impressive feat.
This was very different that what I thought it was going to be like. The few beck songs I have heard in the past were definitely more dance or electronic oriented. This album had much more of a slowed down, country vibe to it. Overall I didn't mind listening to it and I don't think this is what you would get if you listened to other Beck albums.
The last of the Steely Dan albums and I can't say that I am depressed about that. There have been 4 on the list and I haven't really enjoyed any of them, mostly because they just aren't my style of music and for one of the albums at least it was really long and drawn out.
This album had none of the bands signature sound on it, and with songs about being go to your feet and what it is like to be a tree, it was just not good. Pass on this one.
This was a weird album, and my guess is that the band members did a lot of drugs while writing and recording it. Not really my style.
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The bands debut album it contains probably their most famous song, the title track of the album, which just happens to have been written by Bob Dylan. It was probably the bright spot of the album.
Album 2 of 3 from Madonna, and it wasn't that good. I say that not because I don't like her music, I think it is ok and she has had some good songs, but because the year it was recorded, 2000, was when artists were starting to dabble into using autotune on their voice. It is a practice that I really don't like and for the most part ruins a song. The album did have a couple decent songs on it but wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
There is nothing that I can say at this point about Radiohead that I haven't said before, or that is going to make someone like the band any more than they already might. If you haven't listened to this album, or the band, before I suggest you do. It is one of their best and I think you won't be disappointed.
Alright Mr. Bowie, I'm trying to understand your albums but I'm having a hard time. I have listened to a couple of your albums so far for this blog, 4 more to go, and I am always coming to the same conclusion. As a whole, in my opinion, your albums are not very good. They seem to fall apart on the second half of the album, and the really, really good songs are the singles that get released. Don't get my wrong your hits are really really good, but apart from that I haven't really enjoyed the other songs. To make matters worse for this album, is that there is no apparent "hit" on the album. The album opens with an instrumental, and then out of the 11 songs six of them are instumentals, including the last 5 songs on the album. In my mind this is a copout. Overall this album just didn't do it for me.
Much to my surprise I actually liked this album. I didn't think there was any chance of that considering that I rarely like this style of music, but it was really entertaining. The Songs were well written, Beyonce has a great voice and although some of the songs incorporate rap it was kept to a good amount, it wasn't overboard.
Do not even give a single second of your life listening to this album. It is terrible.
Wow, wow, wow. This album was awesome. I know that there are probably a ton of people out there that already know this but I had no idea. It is just really entertaining from start to finish. Absolutely worth a listen if you alt-rock.
The fifth Beatles album that I have listened to so far, and the band's seventh album released, and while it is not the band's best selling album, that title belongs to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, it is, from what I have read, in most people's opinion the band's best album. I can see why many feel that way. I still don't think it was amazing, but that has to do with biases that I have towards their music. It was good howver, maybe the best I have heard so far, It has a handful of great songs on it and really showcased the vocal capabilities of all members of the band, as they each take a turn on lead vocals for different songs.
Two albums in a row that I really liked. TV on the Radio is a relatively new band, they formed in 2001, and has released a number of albums in that time. Their sound is mostly Alt-rock, but there are a lot of different elements that the band mixes into their songs that make the album very unique. I liked a lot of the songs on the album and definitely think it is worth a listen.
I really liked this album. X is a punk band from the 80's, and while this is a punk album, it is really well produced. Instead of the normal loud, disjointed songs of a punk album, this was much tighter. That's not to say it is without it's flaws, but because it was so fun to listen to, it was easier to overlook them.
It is too bad that Terence Trent D'Arby never really had much success other than this album and really only the three singles released from the album. I have really always liked his voice and think that he is a really good singer. After listening to the album as a whole really the only good songs are the three singles. By the way D'arby still records albums but if you want to find his music he changed his name to Sananda Maitreya in 2001.
So Drive Like Jehu is in the genre of "Math Rock" which I have never heard of before. Basically the genre uses different time signatures that "normal" music, or the songs feature changing meters through out the song. The Band will also use starting and stopping through-out the song. All of this leads to more of a chaotic or broken up sound. I found it made the songs a bit hard to listen to when you are use to conventional methods of song construction. As for the album I thought it was good enough to give it a listen, but the songs were different due to the different time signatures.
A mid-60's rock band The Kinks have been around for a long time and have had some major success. They have also been very influencial to punk and rock bands that have come after them. I found the album to be good but not great. I didn't recognize any of the songs, and thought the song writting was average at best, but it has been called one of the greatest albums of all time and the most influencial and important album in their catalog, so what do I know.
Come on. Seriously this is one of the albums I Must listen to before I die. You have got to be kidding me. The music and vocals are over prduced and over sung, and if you have ever listened to a track of her vocals that have been isolated and are untouch, Spears can not sing. Just terrible.
An instrumental album that relies heavily on sampling of other sources to drive the songs, it was considered very inovative when it was recorded in 1981. Sampling was not common at the time and while Brian Eno didn't invent sampling, the is album is credited as putting it into the forefront of music making and would influence the practice in many different styles of music today.
Amy Winehouse's debut album, and only one of two that she would record before her death, it wasn't as good, in my opinion, as her second album. The style of the album is definately jazz with other influences mixed in. Once again her voice is not the most amazing ever but it does have a certain quality about it that makes it really unique.
So this is the first solo Eric Clapton album, and it was a lot more mellow that I thought it was going to be. Still great though, and the more I listen to him the more I admire his guitar ability. His voice isn't the best I have ever heard but he can really play.
I have often thought that Neil Young is a great song writer. He has written a lot of songs that I like, and has put out a lot of albums with various different bands and artists. Listening to this album, it did not disappoint. I had never heard it before, it was released in 1969, and it was really good. Great album from start to finish.
This album was much, much better than the first Rush album that I listened to. I knew 3 of the songs, one of which is one of their most popular. Even though I still don't like the band all that much, after this album I can understand why they have such a huge following.
As with most all intrumental albums I have listened to so far, I didn't really like it. Too long and it all sounds the same.
What I expected from this album was a "Hippie" vibe/sound. What I got was a "Hippie" vibe/sound. Not my favorite genre by a mile, and I didn't really like this album all that much. I did know one song off the album and it wasn't too bad, but not the type of music that I like to listen to.
I was prepared to hate this, like I do most rap, but it started out pretty strong and I thought that maybe I'd end up liking it, but then after about 4 songs it dropped off drastically, and I was back to where I started. Not really liking a rap album. I will admit, however, for the most part it was pretty mild in it's themes for a rap album. There wasn't a whole lot of misogeny, vulgarity or violent subject.
This album started out pretty strong with the first few songs, but I started to loose interest about a third of the way through, and the album, for me, ended up just being too long. On top of all that I had a hard time deciding what Adams wanted to portray as the genre for the albums sound. A number of the songs are rock or alt-rock, but then it switches to an abvious country sound and then to more of an indie or folk sound. It isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just made the album feel disjointed.
I kinda of liked this album. The songs were not great inregards to lyrics, and the singer is not great but there is something about the ska sound that is just so catchy that you forget about the faults of the album. The songs are just really fun to listen to and the addition of horns and upbeat tempos make it enjoyable.
Can you imagine an album coming out of nowhere and being bigger than this one? It was huge, and thrust a style of music, Grunge, into the forefront. I had forgotten how good it is, I hadn't listened to it for a really long time. But hearing it again I was reminded at how amazing, how in your face, how innovative and creative it was for it's time. Just masterful.
I was super captivated with this album and it's sound. It was just so original and interesting. The band uses many different instruments that I have never heard used in indie/alt-rock music. The incorporate the accordion, sousaphone, bouzouki and others and it really gives the songs that extra element that elevates them to more than your average song. At times the the songs are "western" sounding and then others have a more eastern European sound, and then there are others with a very Spanish sound to them. Add to that a great voice and and some some really good song writing and you get an album that is very engaging and entertaining. Such a good album.
This guy is a fantastic pianist. This album is a recording of a solo piano concert that he performed in Cologne, Germany in 1975. He performed the concert in four parts, with the amazing part is a lot of the performance was improvised while he was playing. If you like classical piano I recommend checking this one out.
I was not digging this album. It reminded me of a recent Rush album I listened to. It is only 3 songs, so that means the songs are really long, which I'm not fond of. I am also not super fond of the concept type album. It's a hard thing to do well. Overall I was just kind of bored with it about half way through.
Listening to this album I was thinking that it is a band that Prince would have loved, not knowing that the band is lead by George Clinton, long time friend and collaborator of Prince. It is all starting to make sense. A lot of the sounds on the album are similar in style to some of Prince's work, and although the album had a few weird elements to it, George Clinton is a pretty weird guy, it was still pretty awesome.
Some pretty standard late 70's, early 80's metal. Nothing spectacular, it follows the formula the for that time period and genre. The band is for sure, without a doubt metal royalty.
Sometimes I am baffled by an artist or a band and what they record. I assume in their mind the music that they make is great. They have a vision of what they want to create and it becomes their style. I also assume that there are times that an artist will produce something that they know is bad but they put it out anyways. Either due to contractual obligations or need for money or maybe even because they just can't come up with anything better. I am also baffled at times that there are people that consume their material and think it is the best thing ever, when it is apparent that it is crap. I understand that taste is subjective, and many times even though I don't like it I can see why others would. Other times, like this album, I can't understand how anyone would think it is good.
I really wanted to like this album. First of all because Cohen is Canadian and secondly because his song "Hallelujah" might be one of the best songs ever written. Unfortunately I didn't like it. Lyrically the songs were pretty good. You can tell that Cohen was a writer and a poet before becoming a musician. Musically it was ok, a little bit too folk for my tastes, but not bad. What I didn't like about it is his voice. He just is not that good of a singer, and it really, for me anyways, takes away from the experience.
There are a couple misconceptions about Jamiroquai until now. First, I thought Jamiroquai was the name of the person, not the name of the band. I also thought that they were pretty much a one hit wonder, with the only song I have ever heard, "Virtual Insanity" being their only hit. Turns out they have released a number of albums and have had some pretty good success, selling 26 million albums world wide.
For some of these albums I really have a hard time figuring out what to say about them. If I am stuck I try and find something interesting about the band or the album to go off of. As far as I can tell there isn't really anything interesting about either Roxy Music or the this album. It wasn't very popular when it was released and the record company didn't promote it and it had no singles released from it, and I can see why. It was just blah. Nothing special or interesting about it at all. About the only thing I can add is that it is the last album band member Brian Eno, who left after it was recorded to start a solo career, and who has a couple albums on the list himself.
The Offspring are one of a few bands that have been able to bring punk into the mainstream. The had some really big success with this album, selling 6 million copies of if and having 3 hits songs on the album drove it to number one on the charts. I remember listening to it when it came out and actually really liked it. Is it the best song writing ever? No probably not, but it is catchy and is one of the better punk albums put there.
I really dug the music element of this album. The instrumentality was really good, and a lot of it similar style to music that I would listen to. Lyrically I'm not sure what language the songs are in, the band is from Timbuktu, but again it is the weakest part of the album, but only because I can't understand the message they are trying to convey.
I actually really liked this album. The style reminded me a lot like Sufjan Stevens, of which I also really liked. The album was mellow and soulful. It really was a great easy listening album.
The first album from another punk band, The Cramps, the band actually had a pretty long, successful career, and are known for being the creators of the the genre Psychobilly - a rockabilly & punk rock fusion. That style of music must have developed on later recordings, cause this just sounded like punk to me. I did really like the song "I Was a Teenage Werewolf".
The second of only three albums from the English post-punk band, it was recorded after the lead singer was released from a 6 month jail sentence for drugs. After a couple tries at getting the album recorded, in 2004, the band broke up due to excessive drug use by Doherty. The album was eventually finished and released after they broke up. The band eventually reformed in 2010 and released their 3rd and most recent album.