Reviews by brndnnll

I mean yeah, this is about as basic as it gets on an "Albums you need to hear" list. A classic, everyone knows it, everyone loves it.

I just do not care about this wankery.

This is my second Dinosaur Jr. album in the last couple weeks. "Bug" served as a reminder to a great band I hadn't listened to in far too long. This record is undeniably their best record and I love it so much, even the Lou Barlow bits to the close the record. It's a classic and an easy 5 stars for me.

I don't know about this. Obviously, I remember when this album hit and the singles hit you with a sense of nostalgia, some of these songs are absolute bangers if not cheesy for sure. Oasis is maybe the easiest band to goof on, those Gallagher brothers are corny as hell and take themselves so seriously to the point of parody. I wasn't stoked to listen to this, but it was fine, but Oasis is not for me.

This is so bad. I had never listened to this band and didn't know anything about them, but obviously have been aware of a band called The Killers for a long time. I have heard one of the songs on this album before, it feels like it's probably just ubiquitous in culture at this point. But man this band sucks--it sounds like they just took some elements of The Strokes that were undeniably popular at the time and applied it to super shitty packaged for consumerism pop music. Get this off this list.

I had not heard of Barry Adamson until doing this project when I got another one of his records, "Moss Side Story,"early on in this thing, and I'm stoked he has another record here. It's weird and out there in the way I want. Didn't hit as hard as that first one because of actually having expectations this time, but still a great record.

Yeah I just don't care about Cream. Ginger Baker is a maniac, but definitely is pretty great. The other two blokes I couldn't care less about. This was fine I guess, just not for me.

Had not ever listened to this particular Lou Reed album. Enjoyed it quite a bit, which is not surprising.

The first time I ever listened to this record was also the first time I was ever stoned, so I have a lot of strong associations with it. At the time as a teenager I had a know idea about the background and circumstances around it. I still think it's a great album and it hits in the right ways, but problematic for sure.

I just had a different Pet Shop Boys album within the last two weeks and thought it was fine, pretty boring, felt like elevator/lounge muzak to me. This feels a lot more like Eurotrash dancy music, and I'm more in to it. Not great by any means, and am surprised that this band has any albums on this list.

It's sweet that this album is on this list. I have not listened to it in a long time, but holy hell it rocks. Had a blast listening to this a couple times today.

This seems like a fine Neil Young record. Not great by any means. In general I am pretty meh on Neil.

An incredibly sharp and smart hip-hop. Seems like a great storytelling. This album was great.

This is pretty middle of the road and meh. Just don't care about James Taylor at all. It's fine, but man it's not something I would want to listen to while floating in space.

This was a lot better than I thought it would be. I have seen JSBX (and other Jon Spencer projects) live a decent number of times, and they have an appeal as a live act with a blazing force. However, I've never been interested in their recorded material because I'm not sure how it would translate. Turns out pretty well! And that is to say that I don't think many people will appreciate listening to this. It's as jarring as a recorded piece just as it is as a live performance which is awesome.

Obviously a classic debut album from someone who is now ubiquitous culturally. Tough to listen to this objectively, it's obviously great and seminal.

The late 90s and early 2000s was such a weird time. Including popular music from that era on this list seems odd to me. Yeah the singles were huge and are instantly recognizable, but these CD era album lengths are too drawn out. The albums themselves are bloated and overstuffed, especially the backends. There is a track on this featuring Redman? Crazy! Anyway this was fine. Yesterday I had Incubus and it was horrible. I'll take 77 minutes of Christina Aguilera over 48 minutes of Incubus every time.

This was absolute garbage. I already wasted 48 minutes listening to this, I'm not going to spend any more time talking about it here.

Love this band, love this album. Listened to it maybe 5 times today. 5 stars.

This is a genre I don't care for, is not on any streaming services, and is overly long, so it already had 3 strikes going against it before I even listened to it. You can find it on YouTube, though I guess it's not complete as some tracks are missing because of copyright issues as far as I understand, but it was still close to 100 minutes and I think I got the gist and the missing tracks probably don't matter. This has no business being on this list.