Reviews by blakestewart

I just can't get myself to enjoy Radiohead. It isn't that it isn't good but I can't fall into an album. I literally can't enjoy it. Individual moments sure. I think that's a me thing. It's a fine album.

Great rhymes and production. Common makes good music and knows how to build a good album.

I guess I expected, by name, album title, and cover art, something more punk? Still, it was fun and interesting enough.

Cute and darker than the label.

Felt oddly unengaged with this one. Had trouble interfacing with it. It's good enough I suppose. Probably just was not in a space for it.

I really don't understand the popularity of this band. I understand the technical prowess of the guitar and bass players. They're interesting enough. I guess I just feel like the particular brand of self-aggrandizing lyricism is pretty juvenile...also Anthony can't sing and Faith No More/ Mr. Bungle is better and should have won the war.

It's fun.

Another album where I love the sum of parts more than the whole...maybe I'm just bad at math?

The best protest album of all time. Sadly still relevant.

Fun weird album. It isn't pet sounds but it's still magical on its own terms.

So avant garde it's almost not music at points? Still, I find it compelling and enjoyable as a detour. Glad they exist.

This band has always felt like filler music to me? Like, this sort of thing was popular in this era and so this group was shoved in the spotlight. Whether it was their time or they were milked by the machine or both I cannot say that I enjoy what they make.

Solid smiths album.

This is a rare case where I really like several songs on the album a bit more than I like listening to the whole album.

Personal favorite from my youth. Sadly, it is still relevant tonally if not always topically.

I've been lukewarm on his music though I appreciate him as both a cultural force and and as an advocate of music production. This album was pretty solid. When Jack makes music, it sort of feels like a very careful graduate student showing you that he knows exactly how to do it. I guess that's my complaint?

Probably giving this more than it deserves on the whole but my day was spent in mad dash work mode and this is a. Incredible soundtrack for crossing items off of a list.

Fun and short little ep that contains the magical sample for one of my favorite rap songs ever.

A well known Bowie album and a seismic departure in concept but, aside from a few tracks, it feels like a drone to me.

Fine album. Kind of punk in folks and blues clothing or the other way around. Hard to tell.