Reviews by brndnnll

Surprised and thrilled that Liars are on this list. I would not expect that based on a lot of the stuff included on here. Not my favorite album from them (Drums Not Dead!!), but an excellent album, and a nice change of pace from the norm here with something challenging.

Classic early east coast underground hip-hop album. Holds up for sure.

I think this is a very underrated and overlooked album from The Kinks and was honestly pretty surprised to see it on this list. I think it's one of their best and nearly perfect.

This was fine, I didn't like it anywhere close to as much as an earlier album from The Byrds on this list that had some heavy Gram Parsons, but this was fine.

This list has so many headscratchers on it. I can't for the life of me even begin to understand what kind of argument can be made for this album's inclusion. But it's not the first of it's kind. Seems like they are just a poor man's Oasis. Pretty meh.

An excellent catchy punk record. Loved this.

No notes. An easy 5 stars.

Obviously I know The White Stripes were huge and I knew that at the time, but I never got in to them and don't think I ever consciously listened to one of their records. I figured I'd recognize a handful of these songs for sure, but was not expecting to recognize pretty much every song on the album as instantly being recognizable. I guess I didn't realize how truly ubiquitous they were. They always leaned a bit more bluesy than garage for me, but clearly this is a great rock record from a great band.

This is obviously a classic record with some very well known tracks--one might even argue they are overplayed. I never got super in to Tom Tom Club but this is good enough and I get why it's here. Doesn't really do it for me the way you'd think it would.

I keep wanting to give this guy a chance, but man I find this so boring and inconsequential, almost grating. I just can't. Too many of his records on this list, I hope this is the last one.

This album was fun and interesting enough and I get why it's on the list being one of the first rock operas. It's got enough 60s British weirdness in it to keep me engaged. Fun enough for sure.

Pretty classic Simon and Garfunkel. It has it's place and I always find myself enjoying it more than I expect I will. You'd think I'd learn. Enjoyable listen this morning.

This band and album is ridiculous. Very whimsical seemingly just for the sake of being whimsy. I feel it's inclusion on this list is completely unnecessary and unwarranted. I guess it's fine, but who cares?

The trip-hop faux reggae is about as far from my wheelhouse as you can get. I guess this is probably fine, but couldn't be any less interested in this kind of music.

The peak of mambo from the master himself. Just a great all around record. Very enjoyable listen this morning.

I have never listened to this before, and it was about what I was expecting. A nice short record with good quality songwriting and harmonies. Totally reasonable.

That was incredibly tough to get through. Overly long and a bit pompous. Not for me at all.

This was an absolute delight. I think my days would be a lot better if everyone of them started off spinning an excellent jazz record while quietly drinking my morning espresso. Can't recommend enough. 5 stars.

I will also try to give the expanded/full version of this a listen at some point as well, but this is great as it is.

Had no idea what to expect with this, as I've never heard of him. But this was great, seems like a blend of hip-hop with the avant-garde and just found the vibe and sound of this record to be really great.

Objectively speaking, this is one of the most ridiculous albums from one of the most ridiculous bands ever. I can't even imagine. A classic for sure.