Reviews by dburke

I don't know why, but I've never really listened to PJ Harvey, but I do enjoy this a fair bit. I might listen to this again.

YES

Completely unaware of this band. I suppose they might deserve to be on this list because they're making this type of music 5-10 years or more before everyone else who sounds like this. But I don't really enjoy this.

I don't like Radiohead, and I don't have to. And it's mostly because I don't like Thom Yorke as a singer.

Once again, on this album, he's just not singing well, and I don't like it. It makes the music hard for me to listen to. I like plenty of experimental music, but when it comes to Radiohead they just seem to ignore giving the audience anything to hold onto which bears any resemblance to non-experimental music. What do I mean by that? Radiohead are described as being a rock band, at least at some level. But where's the rock? This is so far outside rock, and everything else for that matter, that it's just tough to find a way into understanding it. Any other band that cites Radiohead as an influence often has much more of a rock underpinning, with experimental elements, and the results are much more enjoyable. With Radiohead, their albums regularly feel almost completely forgettable as result. Even when they come close to something more enjoyable as normal music, that's when Thom's singing is even worse. I don't see a point in listening to this again.

These songs are all pretty solid, though the hits are a little overplayed. My biggest problem is that Dexter Holland has no dynamics to his singing, and it just doesn't sound great.

While I'm certainly aware of this album, I'd never actually listened to it.. It's interesting, and I think I might listen listen to it again.

Absolutely foundational for punk. Great music, and one of those cases of "there's nothing extra in the way." You can't strip anything more out of these songs.

This isn't my thing, and it just doesn't do anything for me.

I don't know. It's not bad, but this seems to have been _really_ highly rated when it came out. It just doesn't really seem like anything special.

I'm just not a fan of Radiohead. And usually it's mostly because I don't like Thom Yorke's singing.

But with this album, the music is just so formless. Like what exactly is this? Don't get me wrong, I like plenty of experimental music, but it feels like there's no entry point to get into these songs. They just sort of start, then there's some meandering, and eventually it ends. There's frequently not much of a groove, there's no hooks, nothing to grab onto. It's almost like each song is a prelude for a song which doesn't exist.

I don't see any reason to listen to this again.

YES.

Meh? Which also kinda looks like the appropriate caption to the album cover.

Bob Dylan should not be allowed to perform his own songs. He's a great songwriter, but such a horrible singer that it practically nullifies it.

This album is mostly songs that aren't particularly special. Just sort of meh. The only exception is "Make You Feel My Love." That one's a real star.

ugh. I don't like The Cure. There are a bunch of other musicians I do like who have done covers of songs by The Cure. Invariably, I find the cover to be so much better than the original. A bunch of those songs which have been covered by other artists are on this album in particular.

I knew nothing about this and went in completely blind. I really enjoyed this. It feels like a soundtrack to a bank heist movie.

ugh.

She really is an undeniably talented singer.

I'm not a huge fan of reggae, but this album is pretty undeniably good.

If I'm being really real, I prefer the Ryan Adams full-album cover of this album.

Sonic Youth just aren't my thing. I like other noise projects, but somehow Sonic Youth just doesn't strike me. It's just kind of frustrating how they always sound like they don't know how to tune their instruments nor even really play them properly at all, even after all these years.

At least they named one of the songs right: "Total Trash" is total trash. I'm not getting those 7 and a half minutes back, and I have no desire to listen to it again.