A Hard Day's Night is such an incredible song, but I couldn't really find any reason to care about the other 28 minutes on this album, they were all just pretty okay somewhat bland pop songs. I feel like on Please Please Me and With the Beatles they were at least willing to change it up a little bit, but that's completely lacking on this album.

It's like if ween made an album with the upmost sincerity and there also weren't any great songs on it

AOTY Recommended Albums #12 (1970)

Obviously this is no In the Court of the Crimson King, but I appreciate that it's not really trying to be. That album's impossible to replicate (especially with such a different lineup), and this one takes itself much less seriously. There are some great KC cuts on here, such as the title track and Cat Food which has been one of my favorite tracks of theirs for as long as I've been listening to them. Definitely lacks the sonic cohesion and ... read more

This is maybe the coolest album I've ever heard I cannot believe it took me so long to hear this

Billy Bragg has just about no sauce whatsoever but I really enjoyed just about every Jeff Tweedy song, so it all turned out alright. There are a few songs that I could see myself returning too quite a bit here and none of them have B**** B****'s name on them

Lowkey better than Depeche Mode but big synthpop would have you believe otherwise

oh my god

It definitely doesn't feel as much like a complete project as the main body of Modest Mouse's work (which makes sense given its status as a spinoff), but on a song-for-song basis it's just as good as the rest of their stuff. There are some songs on here that one could really argue is some of their best work.

man :(

First, fifth, and last tracks are so so so good my lord thank you pitchfork 😋😋

Crazy how every new Animal Collective album I listen to is somehow simultaneously better and worse than the last

Their best album since A Ghost is Born nearly 20 years prior... I suppose you could call it a comeback.

Wilco always put out quality records, and none of them were ever bad, but you can tell that as time went on their albums became more of just collections of songs than they were complete albums. This is the first time since maybe Whole Love-era Wilco where it feels like the songs are all great and very intentionally made, and the album itself has a real drive behind it. Perhaps the shift is ... read more

This is maybe the most boring album I've ever listened to

Sounds like everything I've ever heard and nothing I've ever heard at the same time

My expectations got completely subverted but I guess it wouldn't be a Velvet Underground album if they didn't

Almost all of the songs are really nice poppy songs that air more on the gentle side (except for one nine minute experimental psychedelic song of course!), and they were really able to perfect that feel-good lullaby sound and wound up writing a couple of the best love songs of all time to boot.

Mans worried about not having it figured out by 24 my guy you just wrote medicine bottle you'll be fine

This is the only album I've listened to that has legitimately scared me

Really reaches sublimity for a good 15-20 minutes but otherwise it is super noisy and scary and weird (but good!)

Now this is the shit.

On Folie à Deux, Fall Out Boy were able to carve out a unique sound within the pop-punk/alt rock sphere. Songs here feel more grandiose and complete than those from previous album, and have more interesting writing, progressions, instrumentation, and what not while still retaining the great hooks that made them popular. This really plays out like a greatest hits album at time—the stretch from Headfirst Slide to 27 is truly incredible. This also has my ... read more

Infinity on High is definitely Fall Out Boy's most cohesive work to this point in their career. While Take This to Your Grave and From Under the Cork Tree may have stronger tracklists, this one really benefits from feeling complete and really being their first album that feels like an actual album. It also has some of their best ever songs in "The Take Over, the Breaks Over," This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Races, and the electric Thnks fr th Mmrs.

While it feels ... read more

AOTY Recommended Albums #11 (1969)

The highs of this are higher than the highs of The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, but the lows are definitely lower as well. Starts off remarkably strong with Victoria (possibly the best Kinks song I've heard), and has a strong run from Brainwashed to Mr. Churchill Says but apart from that is just really not that interesting. Many songs just have no bite and just seem very uninspired. Seems like it would take a few more years for ... read more