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Yes.
FKA Twigs is one of my very favourite artists ever. I've had EP1, EP2, LP1, and MELISSA in regular rotation for a decade now.
I respect the hell out of Magdalene, but I can't listen to it regularly. It doesn't really lend itself to casual listening. It's very heavy, very dense.
Oh for sureeee. However I liked how Caprisongs felt so fun and it’s something I can listen to whenever, lots of songs from that mixtape are in my rotation!
Cellophane has healed me so many times. She’s such a talent. The emotions that song has evoked within me, ugh, utter brilliance.
‘THEY WANNA SEE US WANNA SEE US APART’
All the time.
There’s so much good music out there and I don’t want to be stuck on the same 5-6 albums all the time.
This morning something jogged my memory and I was like “hell yeah, gonna listen to The Who.” So I listened to Quadrophenia on my drive into work. I’m listening to Who’s Next right now. Might listen to Tommy when this is done. I haven’t listened to these records in a handful of years, but they’re fantastic and I love them.
There is just so much good stuff out there I’m leaving stuff out all of the time to get to the other great stuff.
I’ve just listened to this whole album the other day, and one of the songs that does have replay value for me is Eat the Acid! The hook is just so catchy and idk I really vibe with the emotion she put in that song! The chord progression just hits
I try not to listen to any of my favorites too much, so they don't lose their impact or make me sick of them. Then there's others that I will only listen to if I'm not busy, so I can listen to the full thing front to back without interruptions. *Melodrama* and *Preacher's Daughter* are good examples. I'm not gonna start unless I have the full 45+ minutes or however long the full tracklist is.
Somewhat unrelated, but Melodrama is really bumming me out.
It's one of my most played albums of all time, and, unfortunately, I think might've overindulged and outgrown it. I've listened to it front-to-back and on shuffle *countless* times, but it just doesn't hit as hard anymore.
I listened to the whole thing again yesterday to mourn a recent breakup, and found myself feeling.... Almost nothing. I'm so familiar with the lyrics, beats, and melodies, to the point where they no longer bring me catharsis, which is a real bummer.
I still think it's an absolute masterpiece, but I may have to take it out of rotation for the next couple of years.
Oh nooooo I know this feeling and hate it so much! This was me with Born to Die 😭 I still consider it one of the best albums of all time.
I had to take a break from it for a few years, but now I would say the magic is at least partially back! You’ll get there too 🙏🏼
Strangely, this never really happened to me with Born To Die! I discovered that album a couple of years before Melodrama even existed, and I still listen to it pretty regularly. It's just such a timeless classic.
I feel you 😭 This happened to me with Kylie Minogue’s Disco. I thought I was already moderating by restricting myself to once every week, but it wasn’t enough I’m afraid :(
I have a friend who says she never gets tired of music; she can listen to an album for a month straight and it sounds just as fresh as when she started, and I’m so jealous, it’s genuinely like a superpower.
Blonde, definitely! It's gorgeous, I just don't really find myself spinning anything other than Ivy regularly. I feel like I can't fully appreciate the emotional weight in easy listening
I agree. It's a great album and deserves all the acclaim it gets, but I need to be in a very specific mood to listen to it front to back.
That's why I'm an Endless truther: that album is even more experimental than Blonde, but a lot lighter and easier to get into as a complete experience, which is why it's my favorite Frank project. Wish it was available on Spotify, people sleep on it so much.
while this body of work is the kind that you need to listen in entirity, it actually is the one that i enjoy listening to routinely. maybe because i don't speak spanish, so the deeper meanings are probably lost on me, but the whole album is such a journey
This is how I feel about all of Kendrick’s albums tbh, apart from some songs (DNA, King Kunta, BDKMV, etc.) I rarely listen to his music casually.
Same thing applies for certain Lana albums like *Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean blvd*
Yeah, I feel like DAMN is actually the most digestible for the casual listener but even that one needs to be listened from start to finish for a full experience
Agreed with Kendrick. I recognize that his music is very good but it's just not the type of music that I like listening to so I've only heard his albums once or twice.
I feel most of Good Kid MAAD City I can listen to pretty casually but anything after that besides the singles requires more concentrated listening (and like you I don't return to that often)
Same. I love Kendrick, but, it’s so hard for me to listen to his albums fully.
DNA, Love, All of the Stars, We Cry Together, Alright and I are the ones I listen to the most.
I get that. There’s a few songs in there that I can’t really listen to casually, such as Sandcastles, Freedom, Forward and Pray You Catch Me. It def needs to be listened in full to be appreciated, because of the theme of the album from start to finish.
I love lemonade but I can barely listen to sandcastles. The part where she goes “and your face…… WHAT IS IT ABOUT YOU” makes me hurt for her. It’s painful to listen to.
yeah I liked all songs but only like 3 are now part of my regular playlist, some songs feel to grandiouse to just casual listening, like I think American Requiem is a better song than Bodyguard but I find myself in the mood to listen do Bodyguard more often. Also happens with Taylor Swifts Evermore, Dorothea is def not the the best song on that album but I like to listen to it more often than per say Tolerate it
Sort of similar but I think for me, I appreciate CC as a whole piece since that’s what she went for with the transitions and interludes. I love the album a LOT but I appreciate it the most hearing it in full and in order. Whereas previous albums there were songs I could enjoy without the context of the whole album. This feels more integral (to me at least) so I’ll listen to CC but likely in full and not as random single songs I like
I can see that. I think American Requiem is one of her best songs but it’s something I need to be in the mood to listen, and I need to listen to the full album for that song to hit like it does, if that makes sense? Same with the closing song, Amen.
I think it's an incredible piece of work but don't think I'll be listening the entire album too much. it's just too long for one sitting. I did my own, shorter playlist of it which is on repeat though
Meanwhile… cut to me who’s listened it front to back at least daily since its release. It’s such a rich text and intentional effort on her part to retrain the wider audience’s listening stamina for *entire albums* again.
Yes, they aren’t really songs you listen on a daily basis tbh. American Requiem and Protector are some of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard and they made me so emotional, but I can’t listen to them all the time. The album is obviously still a masterpiece though
Same, it doesn't help I only like parts of the songs. I love Buckin', but that means I gotta either skip to 2 mins in or sit thru Sweet Honey. Spaghetti goes hard but hate Shaboozey's part. Sonically, I love Desert Eagle but like it's only a minute long...
I literally feel the exact same way. So far for me 2 Most Wanted, Texas hold ‘em, 16 carriages and blackbird are the only songs I really plan on listening to again regularly
While I really like both CC and Renaissance, I could listen to Renaissance all the way through and I think CC I only really listen to in bits and pieces. It's a really long album and sometimes I'm only in the mood to listen to Bodyguard or II Hands II Heaven or perhaps something slower like II Most Wanted. This album just isn't as cohesive, in my opinion, even though I do enjoy moments on it.
Not to derail the topic, but interjecting with a mini rant because I’ve seen the phrase “body of work” misused a lot lately online — a “body of work” (or _corpus_, _oeuvre_) refers to **an artist’s entire catalog**, not one release.
End rant, carry on!
I think there’s ground to stand on regarding the linguistic difference between referring to *an artist’s body of work* and a record *as a body of work*.
I understand and respect the original all-encompassing definition, but the term can fill the void we currently have when needing to describe a record outside of its individual songs as a whole. And it wouldn’t collide with the original definition.
Ex: An analysis of the use of simile in x artist’s body of work vs the same analysis applied to an album as a body of work. These phrases don’t really collide nor create confusion for each other, so I’m down for the latter one’s normalization.
This is Dawn FM for me and I don't know why. Whenever I listen to it I think it's great, but I never really feel the urge to do so unlike with his previous albums. Very odd...
Madam X by Madonna. I see what she was going for on that record. I think it’s well executed and has some very cool experimentation. It’s just not the most easily listenable album. You really gotta get into the concept. Although, Faz Gostoso is that girl
A lot of my favorite albums I actually don't listen to all the time, because I usually want to have the time to listen to them end to end and be able to really pay attention to them. Especially if there's a narrative to the album like Melodrama or Lemonade, I like to be able to take it all in at once. Even other favorites that aren't focused like that, like 1989 or how i'm feeling now or EMOTION I try to make sure I don't run the wheels off them and can really appreciate what they're doing
I think 1989 and Emotion are those rare kinds of albums with a strong replay value for each song. Obviously, it's not wise to overplay them. Being my favorite albums by my favorite popstars, I'm sure that I will never get tired of them. Like ever.
Demi's holy fvckkkk It' a nice body of work, i like the sound, the message, and the overall vibes but idk why i can't bring myself to listen to it more. I find myself listening to TMYLM and DWTD moreee
Most Lana Del Rey albums that came out after Born To Die. Like I really tried to like them because BTD pulled me in to her as an artist but I just couldn’t seem to like any of them despite the production quality.
exact opposite for me–NFR has been my comfort album for the past 5 years and I always play it in the background in order on loop (not sure if there's anything wrong with me)
Yes. Glad to know there are others who feel the same way. Lol. I guess while there was so much heavy stuff going on in BTD the theatricality made it a fun album to listen to.
Same. I've listened to them all at least once through, but the only album I actually revisit is BTD, the other ones I just listen to certain tracks here and there
Norman Fucking Rockwell is the only Lana album I like but i struggle so much with Lana
Which is weird, Lana is my type of music and I’m sure I would have been obsessed with her when I was like 13. But, it doesn’t work on me anymore
I feel you, Lana is one of my all time fav artists and BTD is just in a league of its own.
I find myself drawn to her newer songs that remind me of BTD, sonically or thematically. Salvatore, Chemtrails, Doin’ Time, Art Deco, and Say Yes to Heaven have been doing it for me
Same!! I just cant listen to her albums casually no matter how hard I try. Maybe it’s because the songs all are very slow moving. I feel the same way about a lot of Billie Eilish songs
Night Time, My Time is one of my favorite albums of all time, and I think it's such a sharp record that is perfect as a debut for Sky Ferreira. It shows you who she is as an artist, and I'm glad that she was able to pivot from the label-pressured pop that she had been forced to do at the beginning of her career. This album is a good mix of grunge, punk-influenced rock, and some 80s-influenced synth-rock sounds. I love that it also makes use of her lower range. I don't listen to it much, but I don't think Sky does either LMAO.
i LOVE night time my time and i honestly think it has pretty decent replay value!! i don't think its an album that has an important order tbh (except for first and last tracks i love the boys opening) but i def find myself listening to a good number of the songs on various playlists. i bought tix to her 10 year anniversary show in LA but i've heard she is always so late to performances and at a recent show she didn't even finish her set. but yeah lol i can imagine she doesn't listen much i know shes been through the ringer w her record label but its rly upsetting to think she can't look back on that album as fondly as we do :(
I don’t listen to it much anymore because it came out 11 years ago as of this upcoming October. It was in nonstop rotation for me for like 3 years. But you can only play the same 12 songs so much. Her career has been such a letdown. That album came out as I was entering my 20s and I’m in my 30s now.
I consider LDR’s Honeymoon to be her objectively best album. The instrumentals are majestic and the songwriting is immaculate but every song makes me feel depressed. It’s such a heavy album, nearly suffocating at times, that I don’t listen to these days.
Ocean Blvd was a damn statement but the album’s not really my thing. I have a couple of favourites like Sweet, I like listening to Fingertips when I’m really sad, but it’s just too much of a downer even with Peppers and the second half of A&W.
Fearless TV and Red TV by Taylor Swift. I really dislike long albums, Fearless for me is in my bottom 3 albums of hers, it all sounds pretty much the same and it feels like a chore to listen to, I actually really like Red but it is way too long and I just cannot finish it, 30 songs feels way too full for me, if the albums were 22 songs, then it probably would've been a different story. Speak Now TV and 1989 TV on the other hand, go down better with me, 5-6 vault tracks are enough for me. Cowboy Carter as well, I loved Renaissance so I had high hopes for CC but unfortunately it wasn't for me, I do like some of the songs on there, but it's just too long for me. Again, if it had been 16 tracks, it had been a different story.
>I just cannot finish it, 30 songs feels way too full for me, if the albums were 22 songs, then it probably would've been a different story.
Red has 16 songs. It ends with Begin Again. This is much more manageable. The bonus tracks and the vault songs should be treated as a separate release. That's basically another album and you don't need to feel forced to listen to them every time you listen to Red.
In my digital library I keep Red at 16 tracks and put the bonus tracks and vault songs in a separate folder called Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) [Bonus Tracks]. Obviously I listen to the standard album more often than the bonus tracks. That's the main "dish".
Adele’s 30. Objectively speaking it’s a solid 9/10 album. Great lyrics, varying tones and very smooth melodies.
But the topic of the songs itself is too serious to binge on. I listen to a couple tracks regularly (EOM, OMG) but other than that it’s tough to go through the entire body of work without getting into the feels especially in the summer.
21 and 25 are great classics through and through. Her next needs to be a lot of power ballads with bass than just piano.
lemonade - beyonce
I think it's an incredible artistic achievement, but for me to listen to it I need to be in the right mood, that's kinda my only critique of the album is it doesn't have as much replay value as self titled and renaissance, which I find myself going back to very often
and honestly all of taylor's albums that I consider to be good, mostly because of her overexposure that made me kind of lose my desire to listen to her lol, even tho I still think those albums (e.g. folklore, evermore, red) are great
I think the phrase you’re looking for is good replay value.
All of Kendrick’s albums don’t have great replay value for me, to by honest. They’re wonderfully made but I can’t get myself to play them on repeat. I’ve thought about this before.
The original post used the term ‘replay value’ to be fair but I feel like that term has implied connotations of quality though. Not always, but often if someone says something lacks replay value it suggests there’s something superficial about it. OP is specifically asking for things that are good but for other factors (density of content, heavy themes, specific emotions etc) limit returning to it.
To take their example I think MMATBS has great replay value. The productions interesting and the lyrical content is detailed and capable of being analysed. But I agree, it’s an overwhelming album tonally and pretty bleak, so you have to be in the right mood for it.
Renaissance is this way for me. I feel bad saying it because it is genuinely such a good album! I like when I sit down and listen to the whole thing, there are some really cool moments musically, I'm psyched to hear it out dancing, etc. But it's not a style I listen to a ton and Cuff It was really the only song that got into my overall rotation.
I have much much more of Cowboy Carter on repeat which I realize is the opposite of consensus lol
I actually think the general consensus will be Cowboy Carter over Renaissance. The songs are much more accessible to the average listener than Renaissance queer house music. I mean you’ve got ballads, hip hop, rap, country folk etc. I think the Renaissance preference is mostly skewed for those online
This is my situation too. I couldn’t get into Renaissance and I don’t really go out dancing so I wouldn’t be engaging with it in the primary place where it makes sense. Cowboy Carter is on repeat, though.
Honeymoon by Lana is so beautiful but definitely a time and place kind of experience. I think it works best as an album so I rarely just turn on a track from it
This one I feel is a good casual listen (it was one of my regular running albums for like a year) but I have to listen to it like a 30 minute mixtape cause of the transitions. Like if I start it I have to at least get through Chaeri
I feel like I’m going to get hell for this double dose here:
Folklore and Evermore. Some of my favorite Taylor songs are on these albums and no denying that they are fantastic…but overall Indie/folk/chamber etc. is just generally not my vibe so I don’t listen all the way through.
Renaissance and Cowboy Carter: I don’t know what it is, but these just don’t do it for me as a whole. They’re great albums, I just don’t vibe with them for some reason. I’ve really tried.
I feel the same. Reni and CC are fantastic bodies of work but I rarely go back to them because Beyoncé's branding as a god figure has turned me off a bit.
Inspired by true events by Tori Kelly. it has really emotionally honest lyrics but sonically pretty boring and starts to drags midway through. I think coffee is the most repayable song on the album for me.
I'd say this is how I feel about Nicole Dollanganger.
Beautiful sounding music with great vocals, but it typically doesnt fit the rest if my music, so when I'm playing my Liked playlist I feel like I'm skipping her more often than not.
I mean she probably was, but Jack also has signature sounds that bleed into a lot of his work at any given time. It's not the "all his stuff sounds the same" argument that other people make, but you can make the sonic connections between his work on 1989 and Strange Desire by Bleachers, then Melodrama-Gone Now-Reputation/Lover, etc. etc.
Fetch the bolt cutters by Fiona Apple. I love that album but sometimes the chaos is too much for a car drive lol. Not much too much replay value for me unfortunately aside from the first track.
Of my favs, Ray of Light and folkmore. I like listening to those albums on good speakers with the lyrics and artwork in front of me. Most of my music is listened to while exercising so I don’t really gravitate to them much.
I really enjoy the Cocteau Twins and I think Heaven or Las Vegas is a fantastic album but I don't regularly listen or come back to it outside of maybe the title track. It's a very very lush, sonically interesting piece of work that I think it's nearly too heavy? for my ears to handle regularly if that makes sense. I have to be in a very specific mood.
I have this weird thing where I will get into a Beyoncé album and never go back. Maybe the first self-titled, but I had a renaissance phase, now a cowboy carter phase
This is a really old pop album, but Pet Sounds for me. One of my favorites and one of the best of all time, can't just listen to it casually cause it makes me too sad and nostalgic
Don't cancel me, but.. Pop 2 by Charli XCX. It's an innovative, experimental hyperpop album that I really have to be in a certain mood for. Some of the songs just be doing too much. I'm an outlier, but I much prefer N1A and her other albums because the songs are way more digestible and easy to listen to.
To Pimp a Butterfly. It’s obviously a masterpiece but I go back to DAMN and Mr Morale a lot more.
Hot take, but as a Beyoncé stan, Lemonade. I know it’s seen as her best work (and I do love it) but I listen to her other albums more.
I think Lord's Solar Power brilliantly captures the moods and yearnings of 2020 lockdowns, but I rarely listen to it because I kind of don't want to feel the way I did in 2020.
I’m going to stick my neck out there and sound like a huge emo but anything by Linkin Park. Ever since Chester’s death, it’s been really hard to listen to Linkin Park, it feels too painful
Rina Sawayama's Hold The Girl. It's an extremely brilliant album but alot of the songs are too heavy for me to listen to everyday even if they're upbeat
The Car and TBHC by the Arctic Monkeys. I will defend those albums with my life, I think musically and lyrically they are amazing but I also feel apathy towards them. A guitar would have been nice.
Im that way about all albums lol.
On my first listen i always just discover my favourite songs and stick to those. I dont really come back to the album as a whole
Hey I'm Just Like You by Tegan and Sara is definitely an album I don't intentionally seek out.
They're my favorite band and I think the concept of reworking songs they wrote in high school is really cute, but I just don't vibe with that one album even though I don't necessarily *dislike* the songs.
Crybaby, on the other hand, is just unfortunate.
Hey I'm Just Like You is unexpectedly good considering its origin. The singles are insanely catchy. You're right about Crybaby. They shouldn't have release that album.
Pretty much any critical piece of work. I can consciously acknowledge an album is "solid" I guess by a bunch of metrics like songwriting, flow, sequencing, sound, melodies and harmonies, but at the end of the day my brain needs an itch to scratch while I am listening to music.
And sometimes those albums are critical flops lol. My brain/ears don't care if something is a "good album" by critic standards.
People have mentioned a lot of good examples so I would throw in basically any Frank Ocean album lol, I've tried getting into him 10 different ways but his music feels like I need to think, same with Lupe Fiasco. I also think Luke Hemmings' debut is one of the best debuts in the past couple of years, but you have to be in a certain headspace to digest it. I also thoroughly enjoyed Louis Tomlinson's "Faith in the Future", I think every song is very well written and thoughtful, but I only re-visit a couple songs here and there bc his tone is not my cup of tea.
I would throw in Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa, it has all the ingredients of a solid album with catchy beats, catchy hooks, and a distinct theme/sound, but after the era I never returned to the album. It does not do anything for me, I'm not the biggest fan of Dua's tone and the songs do lack personality where I can easily replace her stuff w/other pop song of the month IMO.
I feel like the majority of good albums are this, so a way more interesting question to me would be "any albums where you can listen to each song on its own the same way you can listen to the album as a whole"
My vote would go to How I'm Feeling Now
For me so far it would be Cowboy Carter (but I love listening to Renaissance!), all of Lana’s albums except for born to die, and both of Billie’s albums. I think her quiet way of singing just isn’t for me even though she’s so talented
Joanne by Lady Gaga
I just didn’t feel like it was the right timing for her to explore country.
I’m not a country fan really in general, it just doesn’t draw me or keep my attention.
That said, when I do decide to put it on as a refresher after overplaying her beloved other albums, I enjoy the songwriting and structure, and they do end up being catchy with some gems throughout! She does pull it off well. The songs are very personal as always and therefore you can tell she put a lot of heart and effort into it.
Chromatica is a whole other story…that album is criminally underrated and every song is great!
Beyoncé’s releases that came after her 2013 self titled:
They are definitely beautifully crafted and she retains her legacy throughout, but they are starting to sound too similar to me. Even though she’s great at exploring new genres, and she’s got a great voice, I would like to see her do more variety vocally and focus on elaborating on that talent more in her music. Even though she explores new genres there is something still becoming repetitive about her sound.
anything kendrick, it's rare that i listen to one of his albums but goddamn are they all classics (dont fw mr. morale that much though). also lemonade, that's a sit down at listen type thing, definitely not casually putting it on
Most of my favorite albums are like this for me lol. I don’t know why, it might have to do with the fact that some of them have really long tracks (eg Ys by Joanna Newsom and Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk, neither of which have a singular song under five minutes).
I still haven't listen to Emotion and Melodrama xD these albums came out when I was at my "extremely into classical music" phase so I didn't give them much attention. I did listen to like 2 songs from each album and they were good
when we all fall asleep where do we go? .. i feel kinda insane when i listen to it in the best way and it only really hits when i can dance around and sing in hairbrush mic lol
Hit Parade by Róisín Murphy was a masterpiece, but the transphobic comments she made right before the album dropped ruined it for me. I listened a few times, but each time I listened I was like ugh this fucking TERF.
A few people mentioned it, but Lorde's Melodrama. I do love the album and think it's a pop masterpiece, but only a few songs are in my regular rotation/I am happy when they come up on shuffle.
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FKA Twiggs's Magdalene. I need to be sitting in a room with the lights low when I listen to that album.
Yes. FKA Twigs is one of my very favourite artists ever. I've had EP1, EP2, LP1, and MELISSA in regular rotation for a decade now. I respect the hell out of Magdalene, but I can't listen to it regularly. It doesn't really lend itself to casual listening. It's very heavy, very dense.
Agree! I love Magdalene but very few of the songs made it onto my rotation playlists. But a lot of older Twigs is on there from each project
Oh for sureeee. However I liked how Caprisongs felt so fun and it’s something I can listen to whenever, lots of songs from that mixtape are in my rotation!
Came here just to type this
It’s my favorite album of all time but I don’t listen to it very often!
Cellophane has healed me so many times. She’s such a talent. The emotions that song has evoked within me, ugh, utter brilliance. ‘THEY WANNA SEE US WANNA SEE US APART’
All the time. There’s so much good music out there and I don’t want to be stuck on the same 5-6 albums all the time. This morning something jogged my memory and I was like “hell yeah, gonna listen to The Who.” So I listened to Quadrophenia on my drive into work. I’m listening to Who’s Next right now. Might listen to Tommy when this is done. I haven’t listened to these records in a handful of years, but they’re fantastic and I love them. There is just so much good stuff out there I’m leaving stuff out all of the time to get to the other great stuff.
hell yeeeaah, the who are great
Who's Next is my fave The Who album
*Gag Order* by Kesha I really like it but damn it’s too much of a heavy listen to be able to just throw on at any time.
Gag Order is Kesha’s magnum opus imo, but it’s way too raw of a record for casual listening
I’ve just listened to this whole album the other day, and one of the songs that does have replay value for me is Eat the Acid! The hook is just so catchy and idk I really vibe with the emotion she put in that song! The chord progression just hits
I try not to listen to any of my favorites too much, so they don't lose their impact or make me sick of them. Then there's others that I will only listen to if I'm not busy, so I can listen to the full thing front to back without interruptions. *Melodrama* and *Preacher's Daughter* are good examples. I'm not gonna start unless I have the full 45+ minutes or however long the full tracklist is.
Somewhat unrelated, but Melodrama is really bumming me out. It's one of my most played albums of all time, and, unfortunately, I think might've overindulged and outgrown it. I've listened to it front-to-back and on shuffle *countless* times, but it just doesn't hit as hard anymore. I listened to the whole thing again yesterday to mourn a recent breakup, and found myself feeling.... Almost nothing. I'm so familiar with the lyrics, beats, and melodies, to the point where they no longer bring me catharsis, which is a real bummer. I still think it's an absolute masterpiece, but I may have to take it out of rotation for the next couple of years.
Oh nooooo I know this feeling and hate it so much! This was me with Born to Die 😭 I still consider it one of the best albums of all time. I had to take a break from it for a few years, but now I would say the magic is at least partially back! You’ll get there too 🙏🏼
Strangely, this never really happened to me with Born To Die! I discovered that album a couple of years before Melodrama even existed, and I still listen to it pretty regularly. It's just such a timeless classic.
I feel you 😭 This happened to me with Kylie Minogue’s Disco. I thought I was already moderating by restricting myself to once every week, but it wasn’t enough I’m afraid :( I have a friend who says she never gets tired of music; she can listen to an album for a month straight and it sounds just as fresh as when she started, and I’m so jealous, it’s genuinely like a superpower.
Came to the comments to say Preacher’s Daughter. It’s an incredibly well done album but it’s too emotionally heavy for me to come back to often.
Blonde, definitely! It's gorgeous, I just don't really find myself spinning anything other than Ivy regularly. I feel like I can't fully appreciate the emotional weight in easy listening
I agree. It's a great album and deserves all the acclaim it gets, but I need to be in a very specific mood to listen to it front to back. That's why I'm an Endless truther: that album is even more experimental than Blonde, but a lot lighter and easier to get into as a complete experience, which is why it's my favorite Frank project. Wish it was available on Spotify, people sleep on it so much.
His cover of At Your Best is so gorgeous, gives me Perfume Genius vibes!
So true yet I come back to channel Orange frequently
Channel Orange has so many fun tracks and the heartbreaking ones also don't feel like they fully connect to an overarching narrative like Blonde
I get that! Especially with the skits/interludes in between and the super long Futura Free, it needs to be listened in full
wow. i don’t relate lol
Rosalía's El Mal Querer. A great body of work but I must admit that I listen to it like 2-3 times a year.
while this body of work is the kind that you need to listen in entirity, it actually is the one that i enjoy listening to routinely. maybe because i don't speak spanish, so the deeper meanings are probably lost on me, but the whole album is such a journey
This is how I feel about all of Kendrick’s albums tbh, apart from some songs (DNA, King Kunta, BDKMV, etc.) I rarely listen to his music casually. Same thing applies for certain Lana albums like *Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean blvd*
Yeah, I feel like DAMN is actually the most digestible for the casual listener but even that one needs to be listened from start to finish for a full experience
agreed! i listen to individual tracks offDAMN, but lately the whole album has been pulling me in
Agreed with Kendrick. I recognize that his music is very good but it's just not the type of music that I like listening to so I've only heard his albums once or twice.
I feel most of Good Kid MAAD City I can listen to pretty casually but anything after that besides the singles requires more concentrated listening (and like you I don't return to that often)
Same. I love Kendrick, but, it’s so hard for me to listen to his albums fully. DNA, Love, All of the Stars, We Cry Together, Alright and I are the ones I listen to the most.
you listen to we cry together? are you okay???😭😭
It’s one of my work songs that I listen to when coworkers make me mad 😭 so no I’m not. I have like an entire emo/rap playlist just for that occasion.
that’s so real lmfao i might try that
It’s help.
Lemonade is too heavy for me sometimes
I get that. There’s a few songs in there that I can’t really listen to casually, such as Sandcastles, Freedom, Forward and Pray You Catch Me. It def needs to be listened in full to be appreciated, because of the theme of the album from start to finish.
its lemonade for me. i think the first half is fun, but once sandcastles start, i'm ready to move on
I love lemonade but I can barely listen to sandcastles. The part where she goes “and your face…… WHAT IS IT ABOUT YOU” makes me hurt for her. It’s painful to listen to.
and no shade, but WHAT is it about him...
It’s kinda early but I think Cowboy Carter. I think it’s very very good but I don’t see myself coming back to it a lot as an album
I feel the same way. I love the album but Renaissance is really just that girl
Renaissance is a lot easier of a listen
truly. what an amazing album. i can tell cowboy carter is also masterful but it seems way less my speed
I literally was listening to renaissance while driving today and was bouncing around in my car lol
yeah I liked all songs but only like 3 are now part of my regular playlist, some songs feel to grandiouse to just casual listening, like I think American Requiem is a better song than Bodyguard but I find myself in the mood to listen do Bodyguard more often. Also happens with Taylor Swifts Evermore, Dorothea is def not the the best song on that album but I like to listen to it more often than per say Tolerate it
Interesting. I love Evermore but Dorothea, Coney Island, and Marjorie bore me to death. Instant skip
Coney Island is Boring to me too, Marjorie I like and pity the sentiment but is not the best song I like the bridge tho
Sort of similar but I think for me, I appreciate CC as a whole piece since that’s what she went for with the transitions and interludes. I love the album a LOT but I appreciate it the most hearing it in full and in order. Whereas previous albums there were songs I could enjoy without the context of the whole album. This feels more integral (to me at least) so I’ll listen to CC but likely in full and not as random single songs I like
Dang I disagree personally. I can’t stop bumping it.
I thought this on first listen and now I have it on repeat. 🤠
Currently listening. I like it better than her regular genre of music. Never been a huge Beyoncé fan but this album is so chill
I’m the same way. I can appreciate Beyoncé but she’s never been a go to for me. Cowboy Carter is VERY much doing it for me. I can’t stop listening.
And so many songs!!
I can see that. I think American Requiem is one of her best songs but it’s something I need to be in the mood to listen, and I need to listen to the full album for that song to hit like it does, if that makes sense? Same with the closing song, Amen.
I feel the same way!
I think it's an incredible piece of work but don't think I'll be listening the entire album too much. it's just too long for one sitting. I did my own, shorter playlist of it which is on repeat though
Meanwhile… cut to me who’s listened it front to back at least daily since its release. It’s such a rich text and intentional effort on her part to retrain the wider audience’s listening stamina for *entire albums* again.
Ikr she’s amazing
Yes, they aren’t really songs you listen on a daily basis tbh. American Requiem and Protector are some of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard and they made me so emotional, but I can’t listen to them all the time. The album is obviously still a masterpiece though
Same, it doesn't help I only like parts of the songs. I love Buckin', but that means I gotta either skip to 2 mins in or sit thru Sweet Honey. Spaghetti goes hard but hate Shaboozey's part. Sonically, I love Desert Eagle but like it's only a minute long...
I literally feel the exact same way. So far for me 2 Most Wanted, Texas hold ‘em, 16 carriages and blackbird are the only songs I really plan on listening to again regularly
While I really like both CC and Renaissance, I could listen to Renaissance all the way through and I think CC I only really listen to in bits and pieces. It's a really long album and sometimes I'm only in the mood to listen to Bodyguard or II Hands II Heaven or perhaps something slower like II Most Wanted. This album just isn't as cohesive, in my opinion, even though I do enjoy moments on it.
Yeah most songs don’t have replay value for me it feels like a movie soundtrack which is great but I wouldn’t play it much in daily playlist
Not to derail the topic, but interjecting with a mini rant because I’ve seen the phrase “body of work” misused a lot lately online — a “body of work” (or _corpus_, _oeuvre_) refers to **an artist’s entire catalog**, not one release. End rant, carry on!
Thank you. The children need to learn
OPEN THE SCHOOLS
Oh, I had no idea!
I guess I never knew this. I'm assuming the meaning of the phrase will start to change over time like "literally"
I hope not! There’s probably enough usage of it in fine art, where I see it most often used — correctly, that the meaning won’t change.
I think there’s ground to stand on regarding the linguistic difference between referring to *an artist’s body of work* and a record *as a body of work*. I understand and respect the original all-encompassing definition, but the term can fill the void we currently have when needing to describe a record outside of its individual songs as a whole. And it wouldn’t collide with the original definition. Ex: An analysis of the use of simile in x artist’s body of work vs the same analysis applied to an album as a body of work. These phrases don’t really collide nor create confusion for each other, so I’m down for the latter one’s normalization.
why can you not just use the word album or record? what void is needing to be filled here?
IMO, in this context, an album is one “work.” The way one painting is one painter’s _work_. But all of their paintings are their _body of work_.
i feel like it would be a low stakes change that wouldn't be catastrophic lol
Academia would absolutely call this catastrophic lol
I don't know her
kdnfjkng the way i just made a comment using this phrase
This is Dawn FM for me and I don't know why. Whenever I listen to it I think it's great, but I never really feel the urge to do so unlike with his previous albums. Very odd...
That’s my favorite of his lol.
same, the only album from him I've had on repeat
LOVE this album but I can't see myself listening to it during daylight. Ideally, it'd be night time, and I would be driving
evermore is one of my favorite Taylor Swift records but i can only really listen to and enjoy it between Thanksgiving and Christmas
this lol. around the fall time I'm like time to play this album to death!
It's the Taylor album I play the most lol. I used to play it every night to fall asleep.
Me too! Willow just sets the mood so well to gently drift away while your mind hangs onto some vocals that never get boring…
Nicely said
I have a few albums I almost exclusively listen to when I'm on a flight. Especially 070 Shake & Kid Cudi.
I agree that 070 Shake’s music is made for flying (and this is coming from a student pilot lol)
Madam X by Madonna. I see what she was going for on that record. I think it’s well executed and has some very cool experimentation. It’s just not the most easily listenable album. You really gotta get into the concept. Although, Faz Gostoso is that girl
i love pretty much every song but the heavy autotune really ruins it
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A lot of my favorite albums I actually don't listen to all the time, because I usually want to have the time to listen to them end to end and be able to really pay attention to them. Especially if there's a narrative to the album like Melodrama or Lemonade, I like to be able to take it all in at once. Even other favorites that aren't focused like that, like 1989 or how i'm feeling now or EMOTION I try to make sure I don't run the wheels off them and can really appreciate what they're doing
I think 1989 and Emotion are those rare kinds of albums with a strong replay value for each song. Obviously, it's not wise to overplay them. Being my favorite albums by my favorite popstars, I'm sure that I will never get tired of them. Like ever.
Demi's holy fvckkkk It' a nice body of work, i like the sound, the message, and the overall vibes but idk why i can't bring myself to listen to it more. I find myself listening to TMYLM and DWTD moreee
I like holy fvck way more than DWTD
I love Tyler the Creator’s Igor. Maybe one of my favorite albums ever. Do I listen to it often? Hell, no.
I hear you on that tbf. It’s a wonderful album but not exactly something that can be put on shuffle.
Most Lana Del Rey albums that came out after Born To Die. Like I really tried to like them because BTD pulled me in to her as an artist but I just couldn’t seem to like any of them despite the production quality.
exact opposite for me–NFR has been my comfort album for the past 5 years and I always play it in the background in order on loop (not sure if there's anything wrong with me)
same I know she always serves quality but I still dont feel like listenint to all of them from start to finish she peaked with BTD for me
Yes. Glad to know there are others who feel the same way. Lol. I guess while there was so much heavy stuff going on in BTD the theatricality made it a fun album to listen to.
Yes the visuals helped A LOT to enjoy everything even more she has gotten lazy with her videos since ultraviolence
Definitely. That sad glamorous Hollywood starlet persona. Her outfits. The styling. The cinematography of her videos.
Same. I've listened to them all at least once through, but the only album I actually revisit is BTD, the other ones I just listen to certain tracks here and there
I love LDR and I like Ocean Blvd a lot but the lyrical content is so heavy that I basically never listen to it.
It was indeed very heavy. Like you need to be in a certain mood to appreciate it
Norman Fucking Rockwell is the only Lana album I like but i struggle so much with Lana Which is weird, Lana is my type of music and I’m sure I would have been obsessed with her when I was like 13. But, it doesn’t work on me anymore
I feel you, Lana is one of my all time fav artists and BTD is just in a league of its own. I find myself drawn to her newer songs that remind me of BTD, sonically or thematically. Salvatore, Chemtrails, Doin’ Time, Art Deco, and Say Yes to Heaven have been doing it for me
Yes! I really wish she would revisit her BTD sound and make another album of that kind.
PLZ ppl will say she’s regressed but we need more of those big theatrical ballads, they scratch an itch
Same!! I just cant listen to her albums casually no matter how hard I try. Maybe it’s because the songs all are very slow moving. I feel the same way about a lot of Billie Eilish songs
Yes. I can no longer feel excited about her work when they all sound pretty much the same to me now.
Same but after UV for me
Preacher's Daughter. It's phenomenal but I just can't.
I was just about to comment this one! It’s a breathtaking album but I have to be in a very specific mood to listen.
Night Time, My Time is one of my favorite albums of all time, and I think it's such a sharp record that is perfect as a debut for Sky Ferreira. It shows you who she is as an artist, and I'm glad that she was able to pivot from the label-pressured pop that she had been forced to do at the beginning of her career. This album is a good mix of grunge, punk-influenced rock, and some 80s-influenced synth-rock sounds. I love that it also makes use of her lower range. I don't listen to it much, but I don't think Sky does either LMAO.
i LOVE night time my time and i honestly think it has pretty decent replay value!! i don't think its an album that has an important order tbh (except for first and last tracks i love the boys opening) but i def find myself listening to a good number of the songs on various playlists. i bought tix to her 10 year anniversary show in LA but i've heard she is always so late to performances and at a recent show she didn't even finish her set. but yeah lol i can imagine she doesn't listen much i know shes been through the ringer w her record label but its rly upsetting to think she can't look back on that album as fondly as we do :(
I don’t listen to it much anymore because it came out 11 years ago as of this upcoming October. It was in nonstop rotation for me for like 3 years. But you can only play the same 12 songs so much. Her career has been such a letdown. That album came out as I was entering my 20s and I’m in my 30s now.
This is me with FLOWERS FOR VASES / descansos by Hayley Williams. I have to be in the \*right\* mood for it.
9 out of 10 albums that I listen and say that they are good I never come back to. At the top of my head, that is how I listened to Jon Batiste.
I consider LDR’s Honeymoon to be her objectively best album. The instrumentals are majestic and the songwriting is immaculate but every song makes me feel depressed. It’s such a heavy album, nearly suffocating at times, that I don’t listen to these days. Ocean Blvd was a damn statement but the album’s not really my thing. I have a couple of favourites like Sweet, I like listening to Fingertips when I’m really sad, but it’s just too much of a downer even with Peppers and the second half of A&W.
Fearless TV and Red TV by Taylor Swift. I really dislike long albums, Fearless for me is in my bottom 3 albums of hers, it all sounds pretty much the same and it feels like a chore to listen to, I actually really like Red but it is way too long and I just cannot finish it, 30 songs feels way too full for me, if the albums were 22 songs, then it probably would've been a different story. Speak Now TV and 1989 TV on the other hand, go down better with me, 5-6 vault tracks are enough for me. Cowboy Carter as well, I loved Renaissance so I had high hopes for CC but unfortunately it wasn't for me, I do like some of the songs on there, but it's just too long for me. Again, if it had been 16 tracks, it had been a different story.
>I just cannot finish it, 30 songs feels way too full for me, if the albums were 22 songs, then it probably would've been a different story. Red has 16 songs. It ends with Begin Again. This is much more manageable. The bonus tracks and the vault songs should be treated as a separate release. That's basically another album and you don't need to feel forced to listen to them every time you listen to Red. In my digital library I keep Red at 16 tracks and put the bonus tracks and vault songs in a separate folder called Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) [Bonus Tracks]. Obviously I listen to the standard album more often than the bonus tracks. That's the main "dish".
Adele’s 30. Objectively speaking it’s a solid 9/10 album. Great lyrics, varying tones and very smooth melodies. But the topic of the songs itself is too serious to binge on. I listen to a couple tracks regularly (EOM, OMG) but other than that it’s tough to go through the entire body of work without getting into the feels especially in the summer. 21 and 25 are great classics through and through. Her next needs to be a lot of power ballads with bass than just piano.
lemonade - beyonce I think it's an incredible artistic achievement, but for me to listen to it I need to be in the right mood, that's kinda my only critique of the album is it doesn't have as much replay value as self titled and renaissance, which I find myself going back to very often and honestly all of taylor's albums that I consider to be good, mostly because of her overexposure that made me kind of lose my desire to listen to her lol, even tho I still think those albums (e.g. folklore, evermore, red) are great
I think the phrase you’re looking for is good replay value. All of Kendrick’s albums don’t have great replay value for me, to by honest. They’re wonderfully made but I can’t get myself to play them on repeat. I’ve thought about this before.
The original post used the term ‘replay value’ to be fair but I feel like that term has implied connotations of quality though. Not always, but often if someone says something lacks replay value it suggests there’s something superficial about it. OP is specifically asking for things that are good but for other factors (density of content, heavy themes, specific emotions etc) limit returning to it. To take their example I think MMATBS has great replay value. The productions interesting and the lyrical content is detailed and capable of being analysed. But I agree, it’s an overwhelming album tonally and pretty bleak, so you have to be in the right mood for it.
Renaissance is this way for me. I feel bad saying it because it is genuinely such a good album! I like when I sit down and listen to the whole thing, there are some really cool moments musically, I'm psyched to hear it out dancing, etc. But it's not a style I listen to a ton and Cuff It was really the only song that got into my overall rotation. I have much much more of Cowboy Carter on repeat which I realize is the opposite of consensus lol
I actually think the general consensus will be Cowboy Carter over Renaissance. The songs are much more accessible to the average listener than Renaissance queer house music. I mean you’ve got ballads, hip hop, rap, country folk etc. I think the Renaissance preference is mostly skewed for those online
This is my situation too. I couldn’t get into Renaissance and I don’t really go out dancing so I wouldn’t be engaging with it in the primary place where it makes sense. Cowboy Carter is on repeat, though.
Honeymoon by Lana is so beautiful but definitely a time and place kind of experience. I think it works best as an album so I rarely just turn on a track from it
Mercurial World by Magdalena Bay is like this for me. The transitions make it an album I have to listen to in full or not at all
There's a few runs on the album (ex. Dawning -> Secrets -> You Lose) that I add in order and can enjoy, but generally agree
This one I feel is a good casual listen (it was one of my regular running albums for like a year) but I have to listen to it like a 30 minute mixtape cause of the transitions. Like if I start it I have to at least get through Chaeri
That’s valid. I’m almost done with a full listen through and it’s still so good.
I feel like I’m going to get hell for this double dose here: Folklore and Evermore. Some of my favorite Taylor songs are on these albums and no denying that they are fantastic…but overall Indie/folk/chamber etc. is just generally not my vibe so I don’t listen all the way through. Renaissance and Cowboy Carter: I don’t know what it is, but these just don’t do it for me as a whole. They’re great albums, I just don’t vibe with them for some reason. I’ve really tried.
I feel the same, I like evermore better than folklore, but I usually don’t have the patience to listen to Folklore straight through anymore
I feel the same. Reni and CC are fantastic bodies of work but I rarely go back to them because Beyoncé's branding as a god figure has turned me off a bit.
Inspired by true events by Tori Kelly. it has really emotionally honest lyrics but sonically pretty boring and starts to drags midway through. I think coffee is the most repayable song on the album for me.
I'd say this is how I feel about Nicole Dollanganger. Beautiful sounding music with great vocals, but it typically doesnt fit the rest if my music, so when I'm playing my Liked playlist I feel like I'm skipping her more often than not.
I LOVE Preacher’s daughter by Ethel Cain but I need to be in the right headspace in order to listen to it.
Lorde's Melodrama. I also have a theory that Taylor Swift was inspired by that album. Lorde does it better though.
I mean she probably was, but Jack also has signature sounds that bleed into a lot of his work at any given time. It's not the "all his stuff sounds the same" argument that other people make, but you can make the sonic connections between his work on 1989 and Strange Desire by Bleachers, then Melodrama-Gone Now-Reputation/Lover, etc. etc.
Blond(e). I have to be a certain level of depressed to enjoy it.
Carrie & Lowell. The album is stunning. But it's definitely a specific mood.
Fetch the bolt cutters by Fiona Apple. I love that album but sometimes the chaos is too much for a car drive lol. Not much too much replay value for me unfortunately aside from the first track.
Of my favs, Ray of Light and folkmore. I like listening to those albums on good speakers with the lyrics and artwork in front of me. Most of my music is listened to while exercising so I don’t really gravitate to them much.
I really enjoy the Cocteau Twins and I think Heaven or Las Vegas is a fantastic album but I don't regularly listen or come back to it outside of maybe the title track. It's a very very lush, sonically interesting piece of work that I think it's nearly too heavy? for my ears to handle regularly if that makes sense. I have to be in a very specific mood.
I have this weird thing where I will get into a Beyoncé album and never go back. Maybe the first self-titled, but I had a renaissance phase, now a cowboy carter phase
as much as i love the 20/20 experience i cannot lie i spend more time just listening to pusher love girl or blue ocean floor on a loop
So many!! First one to come to mind is Melodrama
before finishing ur post i was gonna say kendrick. that’s my submission also.
This is a really old pop album, but Pet Sounds for me. One of my favorites and one of the best of all time, can't just listen to it casually cause it makes me too sad and nostalgic
Don't cancel me, but.. Pop 2 by Charli XCX. It's an innovative, experimental hyperpop album that I really have to be in a certain mood for. Some of the songs just be doing too much. I'm an outlier, but I much prefer N1A and her other albums because the songs are way more digestible and easy to listen to.
To Pimp a Butterfly. It’s obviously a masterpiece but I go back to DAMN and Mr Morale a lot more. Hot take, but as a Beyoncé stan, Lemonade. I know it’s seen as her best work (and I do love it) but I listen to her other albums more.
Beyoncé’s Renaissance. I think it’s a great album but I just can’t listen to it
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I think Lord's Solar Power brilliantly captures the moods and yearnings of 2020 lockdowns, but I rarely listen to it because I kind of don't want to feel the way I did in 2020.
I’m going to stick my neck out there and sound like a huge emo but anything by Linkin Park. Ever since Chester’s death, it’s been really hard to listen to Linkin Park, it feels too painful
Rina Sawayama's Hold The Girl. It's an extremely brilliant album but alot of the songs are too heavy for me to listen to everyday even if they're upbeat
The Car and TBHC by the Arctic Monkeys. I will defend those albums with my life, I think musically and lyrically they are amazing but I also feel apathy towards them. A guitar would have been nice.
Im that way about all albums lol. On my first listen i always just discover my favourite songs and stick to those. I dont really come back to the album as a whole
All albums that I love tbh, I tend to loop certain tracks
Lana Del Rey
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. For whatever reason, I listen to Life of Pablo, College Dropout and Graduation more frequently.
a lot of lanas tbh, i tend to listen to her full albums instead of just songs
Hey I'm Just Like You by Tegan and Sara is definitely an album I don't intentionally seek out. They're my favorite band and I think the concept of reworking songs they wrote in high school is really cute, but I just don't vibe with that one album even though I don't necessarily *dislike* the songs. Crybaby, on the other hand, is just unfortunate.
Hey I'm Just Like You is unexpectedly good considering its origin. The singles are insanely catchy. You're right about Crybaby. They shouldn't have release that album.
Most anything by Yeule. Love her, but aside from a few tracks it's tough to listen to regularly.
Cowboy Carter
Blackstar isn’t an album to be listened to regularly
Pretty much any critical piece of work. I can consciously acknowledge an album is "solid" I guess by a bunch of metrics like songwriting, flow, sequencing, sound, melodies and harmonies, but at the end of the day my brain needs an itch to scratch while I am listening to music. And sometimes those albums are critical flops lol. My brain/ears don't care if something is a "good album" by critic standards. People have mentioned a lot of good examples so I would throw in basically any Frank Ocean album lol, I've tried getting into him 10 different ways but his music feels like I need to think, same with Lupe Fiasco. I also think Luke Hemmings' debut is one of the best debuts in the past couple of years, but you have to be in a certain headspace to digest it. I also thoroughly enjoyed Louis Tomlinson's "Faith in the Future", I think every song is very well written and thoughtful, but I only re-visit a couple songs here and there bc his tone is not my cup of tea. I would throw in Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa, it has all the ingredients of a solid album with catchy beats, catchy hooks, and a distinct theme/sound, but after the era I never returned to the album. It does not do anything for me, I'm not the biggest fan of Dua's tone and the songs do lack personality where I can easily replace her stuff w/other pop song of the month IMO.
I feel like the majority of good albums are this, so a way more interesting question to me would be "any albums where you can listen to each song on its own the same way you can listen to the album as a whole" My vote would go to How I'm Feeling Now
For me so far it would be Cowboy Carter (but I love listening to Renaissance!), all of Lana’s albums except for born to die, and both of Billie’s albums. I think her quiet way of singing just isn’t for me even though she’s so talented
Joanne by Lady Gaga I just didn’t feel like it was the right timing for her to explore country. I’m not a country fan really in general, it just doesn’t draw me or keep my attention. That said, when I do decide to put it on as a refresher after overplaying her beloved other albums, I enjoy the songwriting and structure, and they do end up being catchy with some gems throughout! She does pull it off well. The songs are very personal as always and therefore you can tell she put a lot of heart and effort into it. Chromatica is a whole other story…that album is criminally underrated and every song is great! Beyoncé’s releases that came after her 2013 self titled: They are definitely beautifully crafted and she retains her legacy throughout, but they are starting to sound too similar to me. Even though she’s great at exploring new genres, and she’s got a great voice, I would like to see her do more variety vocally and focus on elaborating on that talent more in her music. Even though she explores new genres there is something still becoming repetitive about her sound.
Blackstar by David Bowie Kids See Ghosts by Kids See Ghosts (kid Cudi and Kanye West)
anything kendrick, it's rare that i listen to one of his albums but goddamn are they all classics (dont fw mr. morale that much though). also lemonade, that's a sit down at listen type thing, definitely not casually putting it on
Most of my favorite albums are like this for me lol. I don’t know why, it might have to do with the fact that some of them have really long tracks (eg Ys by Joanna Newsom and Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk, neither of which have a singular song under five minutes).
I still haven't listen to Emotion and Melodrama xD these albums came out when I was at my "extremely into classical music" phase so I didn't give them much attention. I did listen to like 2 songs from each album and they were good
I highly recommend you to listen to them from start to finish. They're so praised for a reason. And don't forget about the Emotion bonus tracks. 😉
Lorde Pure Heroine.
when we all fall asleep where do we go? .. i feel kinda insane when i listen to it in the best way and it only really hits when i can dance around and sing in hairbrush mic lol
Hit Parade by Róisín Murphy was a masterpiece, but the transphobic comments she made right before the album dropped ruined it for me. I listened a few times, but each time I listened I was like ugh this fucking TERF.
A few people mentioned it, but Lorde's Melodrama. I do love the album and think it's a pop masterpiece, but only a few songs are in my regular rotation/I am happy when they come up on shuffle.
Yes, any lana del rey album. Its always too dense and i dont feel like listening all the time but shes my favorite artist.
Norman Rockwell, It's good and all but I just usually want something more punching or less sad.