Reviews by brndnnll

I had not heard of this band or this record, and am on a bit of a stretch where I've been getting a lot of records I have never heard of. More often than not they are not the best, but I was pleasantly surprised with this. Very cool early industrial music. I'm sure Trent Reznor was inspired by this band. Definitely dug it!

I am about as indifferent as I possibly could be to this music. It's fine, it doesn't do anything to me. But totally inoffensive and fine to listen to.

Not doing a ton for me. Clearly well produced. It's too long for sure, but it's a product of the too long CD era albums. I was just ready for it to be over after about an hour when there was still almost 20 minutes left.

This is an undeniable masterpiece. The songs, the arrangement, the production. Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones together mad the best pop-funk album of all time.

This album and this band seem pretty inconsequential to me. This is some real folky almost proto jam band stuff, and just doesn't do anything for me. I guess I can get how people would like it though.

I am not sure there is an album more vital and crucial to influential on musical tastes than this one. From the moment I heard this when I was 16, it totally altered the trajectory of what I was interested in. It's absolutely part of my DNA at this point.

Tom Waits is a singular artist who brings beauty to everything. This album is fantastic, and though not my favorite is a critical one in his transition from Asylum to the Island. This is without question an excellent record.

Short and sweet. This is a succinct and truly enjoyable folk record. I had never heard of this band or this album before, but it's super enjoyable.

This was a bit of a journey to search out for it, and was able to find it on YouTube. But this was a rewarding listen. Very weird and out there music at a time brimming with political turmoil and change in Germany. I really enjoyed this, and if it was easier to find these, I'd probably listen to the German version as well.

This album is undeniably excellent. Recording and production is perfect, the harmonies are beautiful. It's a perfect length. They breathe their own life into the cover songs they included on this album. It's nearly flawless.

I just do not care about Elvis Costello. There is nothing here for me to get in to.

Didn't really know what to expect with this, and am pretty nonplussed. I know this band and album is somewhat well known, though after listening to it nothing on it is familiar to me. And it also seems touted for blending and borrowing from so many different styles of music, and to me it just kind of sounds simplistic and boring, which is probably why it has such wide appeal. It's fine enough.

Incredible first solo outing after the breakup of N.W.A. I forget how hard the early west coast hip hop hits. Great record.

This album has a lot more to it than I thought it would as a follow-up to Rumours. Definitely a much more experimental and sparser sounding album stretched over a way too long 79 minutes. Enjoyed this way more than I was expecting.

This album is 41 minutes long, and there are 3 different versions of it on iTunes of varying lengths. Always fun to deal with that. This was fine, about what I was expecting for a post-punk synth band from the early 80s. Definitely do recognize their well known song on this album. This music in general is not for me. Enjoyable enough though.

This album is a lot, stylistically, production, and length. No one ever tell Christina Aguilera that less is more. It's honestly pretty bonkers and feels very bloated. It was a wild ride, and one I don't expect to take again.

I had always understood Alice in Chains to be a grunge band, but listening to this it seems like they have one foot more firmly in the 80s hair metal hard rock and sludgy sounds and are just barely dipping their toes in what I would consider to be grunge. The vocalist honestly sounds like Axl Rose to me. Very ridiculous to say the least. This band definitely rocks, it would be foolheartedly to try to claim that it doesn't rock. People seem in to it and maybe you had to be there, nothing bad by any means, but not really speaking to me.

This is fine, nothing about it seems particularly interesting to me, and I'm unfamiliar with their arena sized sound. Just sounds like an early 2000s indie record I guess.

I have never listened to Hendrix much more than the hits and the occasional same live footage that gets played a lot. Listening to a whole album is interesting, particularly a double album. Hendrix is obviously working on a level above most of his contemporaries. This album is a bit all over the place, but everything absolutely has it's own merit even if it doesn't mesh well together. Fun record to listen to, if overly long and meandering.

The inclusion of something that was originally released as a 5xLP + 7” as an album seems a bit dubious to me. That being said this was an absolute delight to listen to, all of it. Ella Fitzgerald is obviously amazing and the Gershwin Songbook is ingrained in our culture at this point as standards. It’s a beautiful recording of beautiful versions of all of these. I still wouldn’t call this an “album” but it’s kind of hard to give it anything less than 5 stars.