Reviews by deepee

Such boring electronic music, about a step up from Muzak, occasionally accompanied by inane and/or repetitive speaking. The music is at best two stars but that talking is annoying enough for me to drop a star.

Sincerely hope this gets replaced in future editions.

Simple, sounds like Texas on a warm slow-moving day. No frills just good honest music.

Fantastic album and show. Not many of this length can keep my attention. Didn’t really need the third disk of the super deluxe version, but it didn’t take away from anything.

Impressive that this was composed by PT when he was only 23 years old! And it still holds up today.

I just couldn’t get excited by this. I was expecting more energy, or maybe more blues funk. Disappointed.

I’m on a great run this week of albums/bands I’ve never heard of that really stop me in my tracks and make me listen.
This is moody in a great way. Wikipedia says it’s dream pop, which describes it better than I could have.
Count me in as a new fan.

Sometimes an album will grab my fancy for reasons I can’t fully explain.
Am excited to dig deeper into The Fall catalogue.
It kinda feels like smart punk? I’m intrigued.

French people make good electronic dance music. It’s not particularly a genre I want to sit and listen to for half an hour, but if I have to, this is quality.

I mean… how to rate this?
I love the Stones and I love the blues…so clearly I enjoy the heck out of this album… but these songs don’t really belong to them.

This should not be on the list.
Where the heck is Some Girls???!

Pap. Absolutely nothing original or exceptional about it. Her debut album is MUCH better.

It’s not my favorite Stones album because of the sameness of the songs and it being a double album set at that. But it’s a vibe that resonates with me so as boring as it gets it’s not unenjoyable to me.

I love Roadhouse Blues just because it’s a great driving song and I love to drive. Otherwise this albums was kind of blah. I don’t really get the hype about the Doors generally to be honest.

As much as I am digging the funk, the lyrics are truly off-putting. Rappers spit words, so don’t they realize lyrics are important? Most of the lyrics on this album are either juvenile level dumb, or misogynistically offensive.
It’s a shame because the rhythmic vibe is dope.

Both not to my taste and not particularly well-executed.

The backing music is really good, but his voice is so thin and monotone, it’s a shame. The guest star appearances are by far the best parts of this album. Thank you Norah Jones and D’Angelo, may you RIP.

Maggie May is a great song, and Reason to Believe is a good one, but the rest of this is pretty basic. I’d give it a 3.5, but don’t think I can get up to 4.
Footloose and Fancy Free is a better Rod Stewart album, but I don’t think it made the list.

What the actual f*€#?!

I can’t believe how bad this is. I think the musicians were pulling a prank.

I can’t believe this band has any, let alone two, albums on this list. This is the second time I am giving them one star. Although I will say this album is better than the other one. I probably would give the other one zero if possible.

I really dislike most of the songs on this one. Which is a shame because I want to sort women-fronted bands. But much of the instrumentation sounds like they are banging metal trash can lids together. And the lead vocals often remind me unpleasantly of cats yowling. That said there are a couple of songs I enjoyed- Maps, Modern Romance, Poor Song. Unfortunately I don’t think those are enough to elevate the whole up to 3 stars.

Babylon was a lovely hit single. Actually several of the tracks are very pretty. But on the whole this album is so so so boring.

I admit I expected an album full of extended guitar solos, so I was surprised when this album started out with a bunch of standard issue pop rock songs. The guitar solos showed up eventually, but overall I was surprised that the reality of a Todd Rundgren album didn’t match up at all to what his reputation was in my brain.
All that to say I liked this more than I thought I would. However, I still didn’t love it. I’m trying to remind myself it’s from 1972, and that I might have liked it more then. Today it’s a 3.5. I need to decide which way the rounding is going to go.
Just got to the last song which decided the rounding will go down. Also not helped by the insane conversation bits left on between the last few songs.