Reviews by bee-york

Really good album, though being their debut feels really formative and like a lead up to bigger and better albums to come in the future

I think I sorta 'get' that I will never fully enjoy Dylan but this album got pretty close, the genre itself is just not something I think lends itself to my musical interests or how I like to listen to music, but it might actually be my favourite album of Dylan's acoustic work. I once again didn't have much of a problem with the notorious Harmonica here either

I initially wanted to make a joke about the 'seldom seen' part of this albums title to be quite apt but apparently there are over a million people who were miserable enough to tune into this sleeping aid of a band monthly?

I can only assume this albums inclusion was once again born from the desire to shove as much British drollery onto a list already bursting at the seams with it. I'm not a huge radiohead fan but Elbows style is so derivative of the parts I dislike about Radiohead the most that I was really just wanting to go put something from In Rainbows on instead.

Another album where the backstory and production are more interesting than the music itself. Grohl pretty much single-handedly creating this is very impressive and admirable on a technical level even if I find most of the music quite dull and it was the inception behind what would eventually become an incredibly overplayed and only occasionally entertaining music group.
I think that's another tough part, it's really hard to have too much of a strong reaction to something like the Foo Fighters other than exhaustion with how much air time they get.
While this was only 45 minutes I felt like it stretched every last second out of that runtime, with a fairly monotonous style of sound permeating the whole album. Alongside some very repetitive lyrics to compliment it.

I'm starting to think that while writing this list the author must have committed some horrible atrocity and the only witnesses he could bribe were a convention next door for incredibly boring and mediocre artists.

At least we know their appreciation for the mundane stretches from the United Kingdom to the United States now

I think Neil Young might be the best artist on this list so far who I just don't get too much out of their music on a personal level. I don't find him irritating or overrated in any way. And can certainly see why people love his work if they do. But I just can't see myself listening to him outside of obligations to this list

While I think there are a few odd or repetitive tracks on here that drag the overall rating down a tad for me, on the tracks where everything comes together it has to be one of my favourite combinations of style and skill. plenty of grit but also not afraid to be cheeky

A really great singing voice that really elevated what I feel would otherwise be a fairly straightforward album consisting mostly of different cover songs

Wow, who would have thought I could enjoy ELP when they don't muddy their tracks by having the synthesizer blow out the rest of the audio with ridiculous space invader noises.
Structurally similar to 2112 as an album, though I think the areas I appreciate the two vary from one another. I liked a majority of the title song here and was able to vibe a lot more with the absurdity on display compared to our previous ELP album.
I'd say that definitely puts me in the camp of actually enjoying this stuff. That part referencing the holocaust was a bit out there

In a bit of a perplexed spot for this album. It sounds fairly good but was also just very dull, I found myself let it wander off from what I was focusing on quite a bit. Some of the really outspoken reviews for this would have you think Frank Ocean shot their dog, I can't see myself getting that worked up over this album one way or another. Chalk it up to me being a socially stunted weirdo but the strongest reaction I had to this whole thing was wondering why the fuck someone would play Street Fighter II on the PS1

Perhaps listening to this in a vacuum after two soul albums that I gave a 5 had left me feeling a bit harsh here, but I just thought this was consistently a good album, nothing that really blew me away but a quick and easy listen that I wouldn't mind listening to again in the future

In terms of the music itself I was leaning closer to a 4 but given how much I have ragged on a lot of live albums on this list for their poor quality and feeling antithetical to the point of a live recording by cutting out certain parts. I have to applaud this album for doing basically everything I have asked for from other live albums. How the fuck did they get it so right back in the 60s but we still have dolts messing this stuff up from albums listed here from the 90s

The negative reviews on this one have me bewildered, not only are the non-superstition tracks on here not that extreme of a departure from the hit song of this album, They're not even worse than said song. Just incredibly smooth listening throughout without a dip in quality anywhere to be seen.

I feel like electronic albums from around the turn of the century are often the coolest, They often feel as though they are looking to create something that has come from the future. Even in cases such as this where everything has actually come from the past.

Genuinely the only time I had concerns about this album not landing for me was right at the beginning, the opening track was nice but hearing that some of the samples had bled into the next track had me worried that these samples were going to be frankensteined together for another hour. Thankfully I was just overreacting and it was instead another reason I appreciated this album. the way everything blends from one track to the next seamlessly makes this feel so comprehensive as a full album experience.
This isn't to say that the individual tracks are weak either, they're all incredibly varied and satisfying listens, constantly shifting the tone of the album in fresh ways. The seamless transitions actually help each track stand out more in my opinion, as the natural shift from one track to the next really highlights the differences in one another, and having them dynamically adjust while you're listening almost makes it feel like you are window shopping different attractions, each with their own theme or style.

10 pending copyright lawsuits / 10. This list seems to do a lot better at picking their electronic albums than with some genres, where it feels as though they'll include any british wanker with a guitar and a set of drums in his garage

I could feel my enjoyment for Prog Rock being tested for a good majority of this albums runtime. Every time I could feel myself coming around to enjoying something on this album it would start to overindulge in some way that left me scampering, only for it to lull me back into enjoyment later down the line.
The potential ratings I was tossing around in my mind initially were very mixed, but I was considering being a bit generous with my score until around the middle/later portions of Blues Variation where it started to just feel a little too gratuitous, The Baba Yaga stretch towards the end did win me back a bit but good god those synthesizers really are a fucking blight on a lot of this album. Promenade and The Sage was my favourite stretch of the whole thing overall though. Still probably never listening to this again, I'm also really starting to fucking loathe any album I see on here that is credited to a super group

A mostly more consistent album than Figure 8. Similar that former album though I felt like the middle was a bit of a lull compared to the strength of its opening tracks as well as landing on its feet with some great ones to close on too. His music (especially in its quieter parts) reminds me more of a jam session/stream of consciousness performed from ones dorm room. An oddly warm feeling for someone who obviously went through a lot of coldness in his life

It's hard to have too strong of an opinion on Adele which confuses me as to why some of the reviews here are so polarizing. It's very competently made albeit pretty sterile pop with a few smatterings of soulful slowness. Very easy to listen to just not really much to consider a favourite

Has a few really good songs (particularly the opening Roundabout) but is kinda lopsided with a few pieces that are mostly these instrumental bits that lean into more folk stylings. While I'm not a bit fan of Folk these songs just like they would have been better as full-bodied songs at best or unfinished jam sessions at worst. Seriously Roundabout does a lot of heavy lifting
『TO BE CONTINUED』

Yup, that was a fucking chore alright

Criminally low global score (not supposed to be a Fugitive joke). Just pleasant and inoffensive classic Country. Haggard has an incredible voice that is an incredible match for the more somber tunes on this Album