Reviews by angrybizkitz

Good music, easy to listen to, but gets into self-indulgent drum solos and songs that carry on for too long because they're playing for a club and not an album listener. I wouldn't listen to this again without impairment.

This is an amazing album with wonderful music! You can't really listen to this passively, because the political message gets missed. And the songs go on WAY too long to hold your attention. It is interesting, and very deserving of being on the list.

Listened through Spotify, so I got a 30th Anniversary version.

The music is simply beautiful, but because it's in a foreign language, it's hard to pick out where one song stops and the next one starts. I'm not hooked, but it's good background music. As long as the Xhosa clicks don't throw you off, because you're going to hear them.

Does it belong on the list: Maybe not. I could have lived my life not hearing it.
Am I glad it's on the list: Absolutely.

My Rating: 3/5

Hauntingly beautiful. I'm not a big folkie person, but this was really good. Opened up strong, kept that vibe going for an hour. Even with the two added tracks for the remaster/Spotift version, it's good.

My Rating: 4/5

Interesting album. Fun music, lots of talent, very cheeky. It's like listening to a guy who stumbled out of the bar and got on a mic. Good tunes.

My rating: 4/5

For someone who hates jazz, this is an awesome album. Front to back, all the way, I was hooked by every song. Layered, transcendental, wonderful. I got lost in the songs and was left wanting more.

My Rating: 5/5

Generic, overly theatrical 80's crap. I didn't need to hear this.

Lovely jazz/country soulful songs. This feels like a warm bourbon drunk on a rainy night. All y'all haters can stick it.

I get how this would have felt revolutionary. I don't need this catharsis telling me how to feel or validating my feelings or helping me purge my feelings so I can move past being alone of heartbreak or whatever, gimme a good bop. This album fails to deliver a single hook or remarkable song.

I can only hope there's not another Steely Dan album on the list. There are hits here, but the whole thing sounds horribly dated. Great if you want rock-disco. Horrible if you don't.

My rating: 2/5

The harmony! My god, how these guys harmonize! The music itself is really good, but these three are just amazing to hear together. Too bad they had to let Neil Young hop in later.

I'm not the target demo here. I get that Taylor and the producers massively changed the pop sound for years with this album. After the fact, this album sounds like every single other pop-princess.

I did not know what to expect here.
I am over the moon happy this album exists and is on the list. This is what the list is about. I likely would not have heard about this band through other discovery systems. Amazing album, soup to nuts. I'll be diving deep into their catalog, face first and full depth. The right amount of anger and soul. Calling them "clit-rock" feels a bit reductionist, though. They're a rock band. Full stop.

My rating: 5/5

Lovely. More britpop. No thank you.

It felt like he wanted to expose how alienated he felt having to be in British social strata but not feeling like being part of it, but he also felt like he needed to apologize to the rest of proper British society for exposing the flaws. Just be angry and expose the cracks and tell us how much you think the whole business is bullshit.

No. Do Better.

I can’t say Herbie Hancock isn’t talented. The man clearly has more musical vocabulary in one hand than most people have in their entire bodies. Head Hunters is very much a “musicians having fun” album. It’s jazz-funk built around long grooves and open space, and if you’re wired for improvisation, I’m sure it’s a feast. I’m not wired that way. To me, a lot of this plays like extended jazz noodling with occasional landmarks to remind you you’re still on the same track.

That said, I get why this one is historically important. It’s one of the first times synths weren’t just sprinkled into jazz but treated as the main structural material. You can hear the shift happening in real time. The basslines, the textures, the whole rhythmic engine leaning into electronics in a way that would ripple through funk, pop, and eventually hip-hop. I even caught flashes of the rhythmic DNA that later shows up in “Take Me to the Mardi Gras,” which was a fun little lineage surprise.

I’m glad I finally listened to it, but I don’t see myself coming back. It’s a landmark, just not one that lines up with how I like music to think. A solid 3.5/5 for influence, innovation, and the occasional groove that pulled me in before wandering off again.

Fuzzy Logic is one of those albums where I kept waiting for something to click: some melodic hook, some emotional contour, some internal logic that would give me a handhold. After three full listens, I can confidently say: nothing stuck. Not in a “this is bad” way, but in a “my brain has nothing to file this under” way.
It’s weird, sure. But it’s a kind of weird that evaporates as soon as the track ends. The songs feel like sketches from a very clever band who hadn’t yet decided what they wanted to be. There’s personality here, but not much architecture. Ideas fly past, collide, dissolve, and never resolve into anything with shape or weight.
I don’t dislike it. I just can’t remember it.
The album has charm, and I can see why it’s historically important for the band’s evolution, but as a listening experience it’s all surface-level eccentricity with no emotional or structural anchor. It’s playful, but not purposeful. Inventive, but not intentional. A collage of moments rather than a set of songs.
A solid three: not unpleasant, not compelling, and not something I’ll return to unless someone asks me to explain why it didn’t stick.

College rock at it's semi-finest. Falls just short of punk, but not dirty enough to be grunge. Fun, easy to listen to, quirky.

You can't have a more quintessential rock album than Dire Straits. Clean guitars, honest song writing, just amazing all the way through.

It's not Rock Rebel Elvis, it's like Lounge Country Elvis. The couple of hits are hits for a reason, but the rest of it just falls flat. I don't really need that much schmaltz in 60 minutes.

Eh.

I wish I could say there was a standout hit, but I can't. They're solid musicians, but I was bored through it.

2/5