Frank Ocean's debut studio album is a fantastic project, making for one of the best debuts of any artist ever. Frank was a pioneer of the R&B scene, ushering in a new era of R&B that featured trap or rock production elements that so many modern artists today continue to use. The album starts off solid with a couple of interludes and regular tracks, but we get our first great song of the record comes with Sweet Life, a song about the rich life in California and its unknown limits ... read more

ABBA's long awaited return couldn't have lived up to the hype more, as they deliver us an absolute masterpiece. This record is exactly what you would hope for in a modern ABBA record, with the group showcasing everything that they have learned in the past 40 years since their time together ended. We immediately start off with a great song that sets the tone for this record with I Still Have Faith In You, a song about the faith that the singer still has in their partner, even after ... read more

A somewhat lackluster ending (at the time) to a very good band, The Visitors is a disappointingly decent album. This project is honestly probably saved by the deluxe songs, as if they weren't there, this score would probably be a decent bit lower. As far as the project itself, it isn't necessarily a massive drop-off in quality, it's just minor details that let down several of these tracks, leading to normally decent songs being average, good songs being decent, and great songs ... read more

Following a short drop off in quality on their last project, ABBA quickly rebounds to deliver their best album yet. This is for sure their most complete project so far, with a ton of fantastic songs and a strong level of quality that carries through the entire album. The album immediately starts off strong with Super Trouper, a song about the nerves and excitement that comes with performing for a large audience. This quality continues with another great song right after with The Winner Takes ... read more

Arguably the most popular ABBA record ends up being my personal least favorite project from the group to this point, though it is still decent. Although they kind of vary up the sound a little bit throughout the record, there isn't anything that drastically different from a musicality standpoint on this project; it's still the same group that debuted 7 years before this. The problem with this record is the one and only problem that has plagued them their whole career: consistency. ... read more

The shortest project from ABBA so far is also their best to this point, with another great album. My biggest, and really only, complaint about the group has been a small lack of consistency on certain songs in their records, and on this LP it seems that they decided to fix this problem by simply putting out less songs, which is honestly a fine solution; I'll always take 8 to 9 really solid songs over 8 to 9 really solid songs plus two barely okay tracks. With that being said, there ... read more

Certainly the arrival of ABBA in the mainstream, Arrival is a great project, though it isn't their best and they still have room to grow. This is easily the best start to an ABBA album yet, as there were several great songs in the opening seven tracks of this LP, with When I Kissed The Teacher, a light hearted song about a girl kissing her teacher, Dancing Queen, an instantly recognizable song about a girl's love for dancing and her search for a partner, Knowing Me, Knowing You, a ... read more

A noticeable improvement from their last two records, ABBA breaks out from being a good group to a great group on this project. There isn't any real change to their basic sound on this record, as they just vary up how they use that sound, leading to a project that for the most part features no songs that sound the same. The group has simply just gotten better since their last two projects in every way, with overall better songs and a better quality of songs throughout the record in ... read more

A marginal improvement from their first record, Waterloo is another good record. Not much has changed as far as the sound of the group from their first record Ring Ring to this one, the only noticeable change being just that they are better at it. This record is more well rounded than the last, with less duds and higher low points, although there are still lackluster moments on this record for sure. There are a little more great songs on this record than the last, with Hasta Manana, Dance, ... read more

A solid debut project for ABBA, though it does have its flaws. The group tends go for more of a pop rock sound on this record most comparable to a group like Fleetwood Mac, a sound that I think has a lot of potential. There was a solid start to the record, featuring two great songs with Another Town, Another Train, and Disillusion, but there wouldn't be a song of this quality for the majority of the rest of the record, as the middle of the record is a pretty mixed bag. There are several ... read more

The Jackson Five improve a lot after Dancing Machine, delivering a great album here, one that I would consider the group's best. This record is the Jackson 5 getting back to what made them great in the first place, with that soul sound and background vocals that you can't get enough of, especially now that all of the Jackson's voices have matured. This album works as one of their longest projects, and it helps a lot, as one of my complaints on one of the previous records was ... read more

The Jackson 5 put more effort in on this LP, and while it isn't perfect by any means, it is certainly an improvement from the last two albums. With this project, you can tell that the Jackson 5 had more passion put in to this one than their last two, as the group doesn't sound bored with their own sound anymore here. While the album doesn't start off strong (though I Am Love and She's A Rhythm Child were pretty good), it has a really strong back end led by It All Begins ... read more

The Jackson 5 may have lost their magic touch, declining once again with this project. The best way I can describe this record is that they were trying to create something really good, but completely fell short on several aspects. I think that once again, though I do think there was more effort here, a lack of effort hurt this record a decent bit, as whether it's complacency, personal issues, or just an overall lack of care, the group sounds less interested in the songs that they're ... read more

A pretty unexpected decline in quality on this project, with this being the Jackson 5's worst record since their debut. While there are some pretty good songs off of this LP, with Touch, Corner Of The Sky, I Can't Quit Your Love, and Ooh, I'd Love To Be With You, ultimately the record feels a little bit half-assed, especially on the worse tracks on the record. One of the bigger complaints I would have is that short length of the record doesn't give much time for the songs ... read more

The Jackson now are consistently making great albums, with this one seemingly starting a future chain of them. There is a lot of great soul elements on this project here, particularly with the background vocals, as I really think the added layering done here adds a lot to the project. There were a lot of songs that I really liked off of this record with Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, where Jackson longs for his partner, Lookin' Through The Windows, where Jackson proclaims that ... read more

An incredibly strong start mostly holds throughout this project, leading to the group's best project yet. This album seems like somewhat of a shift in sound for the group, as they seem to sound more like a mix of Boz Scaags and Stevie Wonder on this project. The start to this album is absolutely incredible, with Maybe Tomorrow, a song where Jackson hopes that his girl will come back to him at some point, She's Good, a song where they sing about how much better their lives are after ... read more

The appropriately titled Third Album to this point is also their best album, as it is a great project. The Jackson 5 have almost mirrored the development of Stevie Wonder, and I hate to continue to bring up that comparison, but it just fits so well, as both started out about average and gradually developed their sounds into great, generation defining ones. The only difference is that it took Stevie a decade to figure it out, and it only took the Jackson 5 2 years, while also doing it at a ... read more

A good improvement from the group's first project together, the Jackson 5 bring a good album to us with their sophomore project. This album again has a sound seemingly reminiscent of a younger Stevie Wonder, but this time the songs are more fleshed out rather than just being the same formula reused over and over again. One of the very interesting things that I am finding as I listen to this group more is the major influence that these records have had on later artists, as with One More ... read more

The debut project for the Jackson 5 lacked the substance you would expect from a Michael Jackson project, though it's hard to blame the then 11 year old. To be honest, this album reminds me a lot of the very early Stevie Wonder era of music, where he was making a lot of songs that were pretty good at first, but a lack of diversity in sound leads to it not being consistently great throughout the record, as the sound can get annoying the longer the album goes on. While this album certainly ... read more

The Police's last album is also their strongest album, though it feels a little abrupt of an ending to a group with a lot of lost potential. This album essentially goes away from all of the Reggae influence, almost wholly focusing on the Pop Rock elements of the band, and it honestly is for the best, as it led to this great project. The album starts with a bang with Synchronicity I, essentially a song about the Synchronicity theory, and it sets the tone for the rest of the record. After ... read more