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.
Icedancer is pretty good. I think there are problems with vocals (especially with Bladee singing off-key, especially in stuff like Mallwhore).
Despite the problems with vocals, I still think the production is solid. Surprisingly, I don't think this album has any skips, a trait I usually associate with higher rated albums.
I do like A Great Chaos, but at the same time I do feel like it's very much carried by its production.
Ken Carson just simply sings off-site sometimes, and the autotune has difficulty hiding it. This same problem does apply to some other artists I've listened to, like NBA YoungBoy and Bladee, but it serves to sink the album's quality as a whole.
I can say at least I enjoyed the beats. Fighting My Demons and Succubus are probably the best in terms of production.
I think this album was pretty transformative for the underground rap scene, for better or for worse. It laid the groundwork for artists like Destroy Lonely and Ken Carson to prosper.
Some of my favorites are Stop Breathing, Sky, Beno!, and New Tank. But some of the other tracks on this album, like JumpOutTheHouse...
I think this stands as a pretty good album overall.
Great album and definitely the best of SOAD's work. It goes heavy on the political commentary; in fact, I think much of it still applies today.
Serj's vocals are great, and I think he stands out as one of the most unique voices in music (though there are a few). The production is otherwise on point.
I don't have much to say about this album; it's one of those albums that are just good, with little introspection to be had.
I remember the hype from the fanbase about finally getting new music from Carti; his last album was in 2020 before this release. I also remember my feelings of disappointment, which seemed to be shared with the rest of the fanbase, about the mediocrity of MUSIC.
It doesn't really do anything special; it does what Carti had already done before without being as transformative as Whole Lotta Red. Furthermore, the mixing and track order definitely feels half-baked.
Some years ago, I had watched a documentary about the Apollo program. Unbeknownst to me, I was consuming this album in the background.
Now that I've gotten to listen to the album independent of the film, I do enjoy Apollo. It does a good job of establishing the wonder and whimsy of space exploration, especially regarding humanity's natural sense of wonder about space. It does have deadzones in parts, and I feel like it could've done more especially when compared to something ... read more
In describing the album, Eno once said that "Really, it's music to resign you to the possibility of death."
In line with the album title, "Music for Airports," I think Eno has done a phenomenal job conveying exactly that tone. In listening through multiple settings, whether at work killing time, out in nature, or any other scene of solitude, it brings you into mediations about the course of your life. Mediations about the current course of things, the anxieties about ... read more
This album is okay, but I feel that it's lacking in a lot of parts (especially the middle).
Most of the instrumental and vocal work is good, but not really outstanding in any transformative way. It builds on what Radiohead has already been doing, which at least means it's not a step back.
This album is alright.
For some valuable context, this album (and Foo Fighters as a whole) was really made as a way to cope with the suicide of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. The event deeply affected Dave Grohl (Drummer of Nirvana), which understandably caused a drop in creative output as a whole. The self-titled album is really Grohl's way of stepping back into music after Nirvana, and so it represents Grohl's creative output (in fact, most if not all of the tracks were entirely ... read more
While this EP is great, I do feel like it's a continuation of what made their past work, Dirt, so great. In a way, it does have a very continuous tone throughout the EP (with the exception of Swing on This), which I think hurts the EP.
Regardless of those comments, Nutshell and Rotten Apple are both iconic tracks and deserve to be remembered.
This is probably the best of Alice in Chains' work, and what places them above the rest of the Grunge genre.
Some people don't like Layne Staley's vocal work. That's okay. But for me it hits like crazy, and it's what makes this album so special to me. I think his vocal work is most prominent in Down in a Hole, Rooster, and Would? (if you've listened to their Unplugged session, Down in a Hole gets even better there).
The distortion applied to drums, guitars, etc. ... read more
I really like this album.
While I didn't pick up on it at first, the math rock elements of the album really carry its production. It works as an invisible hand, creating a foundation that makes the composition sound great. The actual peculiarities of the sound itself only add onto the production.
I also enjoy the vocal work; it complements the instruments well and remains pretty consistent in tone.
My favorite parts of the album were honestly the opening riffs in the first two songs. ... read more
This album is great but, when compared to The Dark Side of the Moon, I can't for the life of me rate it as high. I do certainly like the peaks of each song in this album, but I feel that there's much less in place to keep momentum going in the intermissions than there is in TDSOTM. It ends up turning it into a harder listen. This is all a relative comparison, however, and this album still kicks ass.
This is probably the sole album I would throw hands over.
The Dark Side of the Moon is not only one of the best musical reflections of the human condition, but is also one of the best pieces of media ever. I was already won over by Breathe (In the Air), but the constant queue of amazing tracks that follows (Time, The Great Gig in the Sky, Money, Us and Them) puts this composition at a whole different level.
Something remarkable about the production to me is how the guitar, especially in that ... read more
Hybrid Theory is one of the best of Linkin Park's works, only superseded by Meteora.
The production of the whole album is on point, and the album certainly does a few things that are unique (especially for Nu Metal). The lyricism and voice of Chester Bennington simply complement the production in such an amazing way that this album is simply worth listening to at least once.
I don't really have anything more to say. Try this album