selvy

Ten is a great album from Pearl Jam, and I'm amazed that they managed to reach so high with what is their debut album.

Some favorites of mine are Even Flow, Black, and Alive. Eddie Venner is simply a great vocalist, and the sound achieved with more basic composition like chords, for things like the intro to Black, are impressive.

It's got a great sound to it and I definitely have some good memories associated with "Once in a Lifetime." There's definitely a lot of thought and care put into the production and sound, and I like the kind of liquid, moving quality to the instruments.

Kind of disappointed by this to be honest. A$AP Rocky's mixtapes have generally been pretty great and transformative for the hip hop space, but this album is just good with nothing really special about it. The back and forth with the rollout for this album didn't really do it any good either

Meteora is just great. Probably the best of Linkin Park's work. Tracks like Faint, Somewhere I Belong, and Numb are simply classics in the Nu Metal space.

I do enjoy the sampling done for the intro to Faint, taking a musical motif from a James Bond movie and inverting it (I'll admit I only found this out through an Instagram reel). It goes to show how much effort was put into the sampling and overall production on this album.