Reviews by beamer4444

Again, I wish we had a more granular way of rating these albums. Song 2 is an all-timer and I did like a lot of the rest of this album. It's pretty unique but overall too long. I'm falling right between a 3 and a 4, but if I give it a 4 I'm saying it's the same as Californication, and if I give it a 3 I'm saying it's the same as all the other generic stuff we get on this list. Doesn't feel fair either way.

I think I came into this album with my expectations set a little too high. I was expecting a little more with such a well known artist (at least to me). "All I Wanna Do" is a classic, and there were a few others that I did enjoy. Overall I liked it, but her voice isn't as good as I was expecting and the lyrics did nothing for me.

I like the early pop punk kind of sound this band has, but I can't stand the ridiculous vibrato that makes it sound like this guy's trying to start a dead lawn mower.

This is a pretty good live album recording for a jam band if that's what you're into. The unfortunate thing is I don't really care for jam bands (especially live recordings) unless I'm sitting on a lawn and drinking a beer as the sun is setting.

I like this a lot. Has a Norah Jones kinda vibe but 35 years earlier. I didn't pay attention to the lyrics, but I really liked the vibe

With how intensely these lyrics are being sung I feel like I should be moved more. It's one of those things where I know it's supposed to be emotional, but I'm feeling nothing.

I am all over the place with this album. I absolutely love some songs, and others I hate. Overall, it's a positive experience, and definitely had me engaged and interested the whole time. This probably would have been a 4 if it wasn't almost an hour long.

It's really cool to know that Linkin Park are a gateway band for people who get into rap as well as those who get into metal. They have a really unique sound that just hits every time. There are four all time songs on here with "Papercut", "One Step Closer", "Crawling", and "In the End". The rest of the songs are all pretty similar, so my only real complaint for the album is lack of variation. I feel very similar when it comes to rating this album a 4 or 5 as I did with RHCP - Californication. I gave Californication a 4 due to it's length, and I think I'm going to give Hybrid Theory a 5 due to it's brevity.

Boring spa music

As good to any other country western album I've listened to. I think western music is to me, as jazz is to most people. It just all sounds the same.

It's U2 with only one of their hits. They're definitely a greatest hits band for me. I get tired of their sound pretty fast.

It was perfectly fine. I bet if I listened to this album a bunch I would really start to like it and learn the lyrics. For a one time listen it was enjoyable, but not really memorable.

After the first song "Pretty Hurts" I thought that this album would be a deep message about the female experience in a world that that puts so much emphasis on looks. Instead, this is one of the most sexual albums I have ever heard. It goes from saying that living up to others beauty standards is painful and that you should just be happy with yourself to I'm the sexiest person in the world. Not upset by that. Just not what I expected after that start.

I got really luck with the timing of this album. Monday morning with a bunch of work that I needed to get done. I put this on and cranked out most of my days work. Perfect background music. Crazy that this came out in the early 90's. It feels like it could fit in perfectly with the 2010's lo-fi boom.

I like this album, but I'm all over the place with the review. Some songs like "Over and Over" and "The Warning" have me thinking about 5 stars, but then others are hard drop-offs (sometimes in the middle of the song) for me. It is making me think about the album and I keep coming back to parts of it. It's interesting for sure. That's way more than I can say for a lot of boring and forgettable albums on this list.

This is the kind of album I would expect to come on the radio while I'm riding with my dad in his truck for 6 hours in the dry arid region of Southern Colorado.

I loved this album! It's not that deep or technically impressive. It's just has a great indie rock sound. It's like eating a good burger. I'm not going to tell people that they have to get it, but I'll order it any day of the week.

Not bad. I always like hearing "Pretty in Pink", but it feels weird not hearing it in the context of the movie soundtrack. An easily enjoyable album.

I didn't realize that I like Devo! Some songs got irritating (I can totally see why someone wouldn't like them) but I was jamming with this album overall. It being nice and short helped with some of the annoyance that could develop from their sound.

A really good psychedelic rock album. There's a few songs that are kind of oddly placed and boring, but for the most part I really liked it. 3.5/5