Reviews by brndnnll

Another Blur album, was hoping that after their last one, I'd be done with it, but no such luck. Just like all other Blur albums, this is fine, and totally unremarkable and not at all essential.

I remember this album being a big deal when it was released, and I remember the music video for the title track also being huge. I have not thought about it much since then, and didn't have super high expectations.

I had no idea this was going to be so electronica and techno heavy. I didn't realize Madonna ever went that way. It's a vibe for sure, and her voice sounds great. More interesting than I was expecting just because that aspect was so unexpected, but still not for me by any means.

I was not expecting there to be something as bad as Steely Dan on this list, but this succeeded in being much worse.

Jack White sure does love playing blues music it seems.

My ninth and (hopefully) last David Bowie album on this list. It's wild nearly 1% of the albums of the albums on this list are from David Bowie. I get it I guess, but come on.

I find this to be a pretty uneven album, bookended by a couple fantastic and well known songs.

One of those singular albums that exists in its own time and space. Everything about this album rips and was way ahead of it's time. It's still has incredible to me now as it was the first time I heard it 20 years ago. Incredible artifact from a time and place when a band like this had no constraints to make whatever they wanted.

This is not for me. I guess I'll give it props because it is certainly unique and he is doing some interesting things, but the fusion folk scene is not my thing.

ABBA is without question always a delight.

I listened to this album a couple times and I don't really know what to make of it. Not super familiar with The Fall by any means but I was not expecting this to be as electronic as it was. Anyway, I had repeated listens to try to get it more and more so that's probably a good sign.

I was not thrilled to get this--I will not miss the electronic album aspect of this list once I finish this--but this was more enjoyable than I was expecting it to be. Not for me though.

I definitely listened to this a decent amount when it came out and even saw them on this tour. I was in high school and my girlfriend at the time was very in to this album. I have not listened to this in a really long time, and it sounded so much more flat and boring than I was expecting. About half way through I had to check to make sure one of my speaker channels was not out, it just seemed like there was nothing in the mix, but nope everything was working as expected. Found this incredibly boring.

Obviously very soulful and heartfelt folk roots rock music. A great voice for sure, I just find it pretty boring.

This is the 6th Radiohead album I have received on this, and I thought 5 seems incredibly excessive. This is the only Radiohead album I ever got in to and ever listened to with any regularity, and on top of it, it's been a really long time since I listened to this. It hit the nostalgia dopamine reservoirs pretty hard in a good way. Listened to this a few times today and loved it. Don't really care for this band much, but I will give this album props.

Both this band name and album art work seemed vaguely familiar to me and I see it was released while I was at university, so I was curious to see if I recognized any of it at all.

I did not at all, and this is entirely not what I was expecting. I have no idea what this is supposed to be. Was there some period of time where the Brits were super in to weird jangly pop dance music? This sounds like someone doing their best Jack White impression trying to make jangly dance revival music. It's not bad, it's just more "What?"

I have never done a deep dive in to Björk before, but have every expectation that she's interesting and relevant. This album was just that, still 30+ years later.

This was not quite what I was expecting based on seeing this was "alt-country." This feels more like old timey gospel and folk ballads to me than anything subverting the country genre. It reminds me a lot of Low.

That being said this was great and I really enjoyed it.

This was a slog. A very long record full of self-indulgent studio wankery. Get this out of there.

This seems like it's just a standard pop record. Nothing incredible by any means.

I already had another M.I.A. album on this list and liked it a lot more than I was expecting. M.I.A. is sweet. This album is great, always excellent lyrics, and love the dancehall and punk vibe she brings to everything. Maybe not as great as Kala, but still really enjoyed this record.

I have listened to this album hundreds of times, and it's one of my favorites and one of the all time greats. An easy 5 stars.