Reviews by blakestewart

Great early Peter Gabriel album. I feel like it is actually maybe a good point that he hadn't really sunk into a signature sound by this point. The album has good variance and, while it isn't perfect, it has about five really strong tracks on it. Games Without Frontiers is always a treat.

I do like several of their songs but this album was a bad recording and didn't really grab me.

Classic album that maybe doesn't have as many hits as subsequent U2 albums but also doesn't feel like it is delivering on a promise. Just feels like a band making a good album. If I'd never heard of U2 as an almost cultural phenomenon I think I might even be more charitable to this venture. I've always kind of resented their twee "we care a lot" corporate nonsense. I'm sure they genuinely do as people but they are a commodity form of caring. This album was prior to all of that postulated "radicalism" that wasn't ever radical. It's just a pretty solid 4 for me.

What an odd little album.

It's probably the best Irish punk album.

I didn't dislike the core album but I never cared for remixes...or the remix ends up way better and I feel cheated by the original. Either way this was ok and I felt like I was listening to God Lives Underwater plus weed and reggae dancehall.

I was never a Pantera fan. It just seem like angry redneck music. That said, there's a few tracks on here that are incredible. The opener and This Love are surprisingly catchy. The entire album was better than I would have thought. I don't know that I have a place in my life where I I need this to soundtrack. I don't know that I want a place in my life where this is a fitting soundtrack. I like it for what it is though. I'm glad Pantera doesn't serve my needs. How lucky am I to not be this fucking angry anymore.

This was my introduction to Bill Callahan as an entire album. I think it's damn near perfect as an album. Maybe it is t for everyone but it sets out to be the finest representation of it's ilk. Great pacing, reasonable length, lyrics are top-notch, and the playing is tasty. You might not like it for *what* it is, but it's *very* good at being that thing.

The first and last track were exceptional. The rest of it seemed a bit too twee but was still pretty nice to listen to.

Somehow this felt like a 2000's album aping a new wave album in places. I'm not sure that's to it's credit?

Pretty decent early punk album but maybe I just wasn't in the mood? It felt pretty samey even given the timing and genre.

I have never really enjoyed nor understood. Marilyn Manson as a touchstone in Rock. I went to see nine inch nails in 94 and he was an opener along with Jim Rose circus. I loved both the other acts but I just sort of felt like his brand of music was shocked for the sake of shock? He himself seems quite contemplative. I think for him this sort of expression is a means to a paycheck. I don't think there's anything wrong with that and clearly people enjoy it. It's well made. It's a product. I don't particularly enjoy it.

There's stuff like Mr. Bungle Out there in the world. That occupies the same territory, but does it in a way that is truly challenging and creative and sort of mind-boggling. Same statements made. More musical complexity. Probably more edgy if that's what you're trying to buy. Definitely more poetic.

If you like this album, go try Mr. Bungle's California as a soft on-ramp to that weird world.

Oingo boingo with worse mastering and less interesting lyrical topics. I didn't hate listening to it. This was my 600th album of this series. I guess I was hoping for something more auspicious.

Has some standout tracks on it. I enjoyed their take on Everbody's Talkin'. I thought that was a Harry Nilsson tune. Turns out that was a cover too of the original by Fred Neil. This is a great folk album. Not a genre I love on the whole but Crosby, in every group he's in, seems to be a master of choral harmony. He himself isn't a great singer but he may pan out to be, sneakily, one of the best accompanists to do it.

The album is fine. I just couldn't engage with it. It felt really disjointed. There's certainly some classic songs here but I've personally never had much of a reaction to them.

Twangy and a bit bothersome. The broadest variance comes from the topics but the songs are just pretty flatly recorded and similarly composed.

It's a progenitor heavy metal album with some classics on it.

It's is a Beatles album.

I enjoyed the clever lyricism. Liz can write a song.

Even if you're not in the metal, this is one of the most roundly well constructed elbows of its year. Incredible! Used Harmony. Great production excellent pacing. I used to listen to this album over and over again when I was 12 or so. I would run through Walkman batteries. The screen of my parents. It's equal parts power fantasy and encouragement. Just what a troubled youth would be attractive to. Probably why when Platinum. In either case, I love this album. I listened to the whole thing and thought about going back for a second lap. Perhaps later this afternoon.