Reviews by brndnnll

One of the all time greats. Love this album. Pleasant surprise to pull this today.

Another Ween album on the user list, and one of their best. What a joy to see something so familiar and so excellent pop up today. I listened to it multiple times throughout the day and enjoyed every second of it. As far as I'm concerned every Ween album could be on this list. Easy 5 stars.

This album is so over the top and ridiculous. Everything about it. Obviously had a lot of fun listening to it.

Funny enough I was just at a festival last week where Richard Dawson played but I did not check him out. My impression was that he seemed interesting enough and was worth checking out, but things didn't align. Serendipitous to get this so soon afterwards. Very raw folk album. Has a weird renaissance vibe to it. Enjoyed it a lot more than I initially thought I would. Cool stuff.

This album was awesome. An interesting collab between two interesting artists occupying different genre spaces. These are the types of albums that I really value discovering from participating in this exercise. Loved it.

I am not sure I had a good idea of what The Moody Blues sounded like, even though I definitely recognized a couple of these songs, but I guess they are just culturally ubiquitous songs that I had never associated with an artist. All of that being said, this was much better than I was expecting. A bit more subdued and artful than your typical prog rock.

This is super cheesy and was a lot. It was fine, but too long and too much.

Pretty straight and unremarkable 90s alt rock. The only think it had going for it was that it was not from the US/UK, though otherwise it sounded pretty boring.

Seems like a pretty quintessential 70s soft prog rock album. Produced by Alan Parsons to boot. It has a very swaying vibe to it. I knew the title track for sure.

Unfamiliar with Crash Test Dummies aside from their hit that was parodied by the great "Weird Al" Yankovic. This sounded the way I expected but had more to it than I expected. Cool to hear a more balanced and representative output from a band I just knew as a one-hit wonder.

Timeless and instantly recognizable. This should absolutely be on the original list. A perfect record for what it is.

This is very Australian. Not at all what I expected. Short and fun with a great sense of humor. Enjoyed this for sure.

This is some really unapologetically 1980s pop. Fun enough.

What a pivot from the excellent and highly sampled "Paul's Boutique" to a more flowing instrumental marriage between hip-hop and alt rock. This record is excellent as all Beastie Boys records are. The bass line on "Gratitude" is one of the best ever.

This album is long enough for you to definitely get the vibe. The vibe is not really for me and it's long length really draws that out.

This isn't for me. Basic alt rock with big guitar riffs. Some post hard rock stuff for sure. Not bad, just kind of boring to me.

Mariah Carey can certainly hit that upper register. That's about the only positive thing I can say about this. I cannot even begin to try to understand what about this is appealing to people.

You know it's wild that there isn't a Chuck Berry album on the original list. I am not super familiar with his albums at all, I really only know him in the vaguest sense of one of the pioneers of popularizing using rhythm and blues to create the early rock n roll sound. Given all of that I was interested in listening to this album. "Promised Land" is a song I know from the very excellent album of Harry Dean Stanton covering old musical numbers. And I honestly had no idea that "You Never Can Tell" was a Chuck Berry song. That song is pretty culturally ubiquitous because of Pulp Fiction. I thought this was great and a very worthy inclusion for one of rock n roll's earliest innovators.

A truly eclectic mix of different genre's here. I had never heard of Alabama 3, but I thought this album was excellent, a truly singular sound. Really enjoyed it.

This took me a few weeks to get to. Just absolutely been dreading the 2.5 slog of listening to this. I have never had any interest in anything related to Hamilton. I don't want to see it, I don't want to hear any songs from it, and I'd love for it to just disappear from the cultural zeitgeist. This was so incredibly, just about as boring and one-note faux-rap as it gets. Totally pedestrian and too on the nose obnoxious, BUT it also goes on for 2.5 hours. This shouldn't be allowed on here, no one should be subjected to this, and no one should listen to music from a musical without seeing it performed with the full musical. This is the easiest 1 star rating I've ever given.