Reviews by cunningtarantula

The hours are great but the rest of it is kinda meh

I don't know this band at all. I feel like it's a mix of (wanna be) Kiss and... New York Dolls? Also, this cover of I Got You Babe is not really working. I mean, this just feels like it's not quite making the cut for me. There's so much other great punk from this era, I don't know why one would ever spin this when there's so much better stuff to pick from. It's a no for me dawg

It's mega fans of The Doors and Jim Morrison that have ruined much of this for me. I'm trying really hard to listen to this and not think of the fans. But good grief the "Alabama Song" is terrible, it sounds like shitty circus music.

I really liked this album, would likely spin this again. However, that album cover is so edge lord

It's good but spotty at times

I've listened to this so much that I feel like it's embedded in my brain at this point. It's hard to listen to with fresh ears. But it's also so familiar that it's really comforting. Your can see the clear through line to Exile here. Overall great stuff

Country music rarely sounds like this nowadays.

Totally missed this when it first came out. It feels very of the time, that early to mid aughts garage rock sound. My brain somehow conflates them with Imagine Dragons and 21 Pilots and I really don't know why. That's pretty unfair to them. And honestly, pretty unfair to me, I don't wanna even think of that other bands.

Love this, only minor complain is that there's a bit of a lull mid album. But on the whole, great stuff.

Uummm... I'm not super into the animal noises on Barnyard. It's weird but like, I'm not fucking with it kind of weird. Also, this rendition of You Are a my Sunshine night be the most depressing version I have ever heard.

Ok, this is super well recorded, and he can definitely write a hook but this is overall not great. I'm not gonna listen to this again.

Funny, I already had the second track, Building Steam With a Grain of Salt, on my liked songs. I know this song from somewhere but I'm not sure where. This album suffer from the same thing so many other 90s albums suffer from which is their length. It's like every artist in the 90s felt they had to fill the length of a CD, which routinely made for albums that are an hour plus. Given this length, it can make it hard to parse out what's good and what's just filler. So on the whole, this album is fine but would be better if it were more streamlined. It's truly a 2.5 stars for me but I'm feeling generous this morning and rounding up to 3 instead of rounding down to 2.

I mean, I get it, he's a poet and not necessarily a musician. I sometimes struggle with music from the 60s. It just sounds so dated. Some of this is good, like The Partisan, but I'm just overall not fucking with this album. I like his later stuff but this album is just not something I'm likely to return to.

Bobby boy isn't always my thing but if there were any I was going to pick to listen to, it'd be this. I love Subterranean Homesick Blues and Maggie's Farm.

Will forever and always make me think of Andrew. Makes me feel all the good feels.

I won't be able to listen to this. My father loved The Everly Brothers and it's just too painful even though it isn't very good.

I love fallout music and this is basically that. But I would prefer actual music from fallout like Uranium Fever, I don’t want to set the world on fire, crawl out through the fallout...

I don't hate this but I don't love it.

About time for some female artists. I mean, I love all of these women on their own and together, I'm sure it's a straight banger. I was looking at other reviews for this album and someone said the following and you know what, I agree:

"This turned me into an atheist. Or alchemist. Or whatever the term is that means I'd really like to fuck Linda Ronstadt. Or Emmylou Harris, which I believe some comic referred to as Gram Parsons disease. "

Oh, I'm kinda excited to give this one a go. I mean, I was excited because it's nice to close a musical knowledge gap. and this was fine and I get why people like it but it's just not for me.

This is kinda bland and boring. I feel like it's not doing anything, like it's directionless. I'm not sure why this is an album one would have to hear before the die. While I tried to listen to this, I couldn't help but keep skipping songs. Maybe this is good but my untrained electronic ears just couldn't parse it out. But that's fine. Not gonna spin this one again.

Someone else in our group said that it's the kind of album you would put on while playing cards with your parents and I hard agree with that. The lady has got a set of pipes on her and I get the appeal. It's just not something I would return to very often, even though I know it's good.