Really? Alien is good, but The New Black is more angry to me

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=FheGLstzIcU&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

Maybe not the most aggressive album, but I haven't found any album that gets me more angry about life in general. What's make this album even more angry is the context of the beautiful songs in the middle.

Don’t talk to the band behind his back and then drop it on him - he’ll react with hostility (which is reasonable given the back-stabby, gossipy nature).

Just talk to him directly (but kindly) about your concerns, and be open to his feedback too

The 1's

Einstürzende Neubauten Kollaps

Barry Adamson Moss Side Story

Can Future Days

Queen Latifah All Hail the Queen

Blur Parklife

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Now I Got Worry

John Zorn Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

Faust Faust IV

Tom Waits Rain Dogs

Orbital Snivilisation

Julian Cope Peggy Suicide

Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers

The Band The Band

The 5's

Incubus Make Yourself

Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city

The Offspring Smash

Nirvana MTV Unplugged In New York

Billy Joel The Stranger

Taylor Swift 1989

Fugees The Score

Queen A Night At The Opera

Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication

Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon

Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West The College Dropout

Metallica Metallica

Beatles Abbey Road

Thundercat Drunk

Michael Jackson Bad

AC/DC Back In Black

Michael Kiwanuka KIWANUKA

Boston Boston

Michael Jackson Off The Wall

R.E.M. Automatic For The People

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV

Nirvana Nevermind

2Pac Me Against The World

Sly & The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On

Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus

Nirvana In Utero

The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Envoi and Seconds Away are an excellent example.

That is a good idea. I just checked and this is my break down

1 = 14

2 = 108

3 = 175

4 = 119

5 = 28

Will probably do the 1 and the 5s again when it is done. Though I do listen to some of the 5's in my day to day now.

Honestly, the vocal style is what turns me off about a lot of modern pop music. Sounds like talk-singing in a "valley girl" accent. Add in autotune and trap/EDM beats, and you've got a recipe guaranteed to make me hit the skip button. I'm not against pop music in principle, but a lot of the stuff today doesn't sound good to me even on a superficial level.

But I'm clearly not the target demographic, and people have expressed similar sentiments about basically every pop music trend ever. So I'll just stick to my oldies and alt/indie stuff, and let others enjoy the modern sounds.

I listened to an album a day for a few months a few years ago. I stopped holding myself to the goal because I found it didn't take long to more or less totally forget what my opinion of each album was. Listening through an album 1 time doesn't give it a chance to stick.

>unfortunately think it's all going to be downhill from here

But in the end it doesn't even matter.

I have a few record stores in my area. Crappy if you don't. Though I do tend to buy most of mine online these days.

Depends. Do you want him to stay on as a songwriter/lyricist? Because you could begin with that as a compliment. Then lead into saying you all would like to pursue the possibility that lead vocals might sound better with a different singer (like maybe a female lead? I say this because a lot of guys have never even considered whether or not a female lead would sound better & can't really argue against it without hearing it).

If you'd rather drop the guy, even as a songwriter, well, then just be up front about it. If the person can actually sing (as in, hits the right notes consistently) but their tone color just doesn't fit, well, there's no amount of arguing that can make that work.

I think when done I am going to relisten to the 1*s and see if I treated them too harshly on the day lol

Ruff, just the way your mother likes it Trebek.

I’ll check it out. I’m trying to gain knowledge of various genres of music and it’s history and I feel this may be the best way.

Great. Thanks for the response.

listened to the whole list twice

it is a great starting point and can teach quite a lot about 60s-90s music

I faced the same situation. Talking with honestly is the only way. The problem is when they have no criteria, are not aware if they are sucking on something, and/or are unable to understand or accept that there are some weak points they could improve. That's what happened to us, and it looks like this is the case for you too. Still, we tried talking several times as honestly as we could, to no effect. They simply wouldn't accept their shortcomings. Ultimately I figured we were meant to form a band, our tastes and criteria were way too different, so I simply quit, along with other unhappy members.
Have a non-aggressive talk and figure this key aspect out, you can tell in one talk if it is going to work or not, and if not, do not waste more time on something that has no reason to change.

The list is updated with the newer editions of the book. I've had an album from 2020.

However, it's most likely far from the best source for finding good new music, to be honest.

yup there’s been multiple new editions

their website contains the most recent version including albums that were removed

Oh shit, yeah, I got that one the other day and man, I was 14 when that came out and loved it. Apparently, it was even better than I remembered it. Every song is such a banger.

I'm going something similar with only Rock albums, as I only listened to rap growing up so everything is pretty much new to me, aside from the popular hit songs. I do 25 albums per months, which is somewhat enough time to give them all multiple listens.

So I always wondered for people who do the "1 Album A Day", how many times do you listen to it? A good amount of my favorite albums from Rock are ones that I didn't like or thought it was average on the first listen, and I personally find listening to the same album again in a short time frame burns it out for me.

Aqualung was the first thing that popped into my head.

Love this! First album was the Isley brothers 3+3 and I’m loving it. Never made the connection that “I” by Kendrick Lamar samples “That Lady” until listening to it just now.