Reviews by deepee

Oddly enough I had Syd Barrett’s solo album earlier this week and now this one. Neither is anything I want to listen to a second time. But I now know a little bit of music history in learning about his sad story.

Rough start for me, but by No Good I was ready to dance. Industrial/electronic/dance it doesn’t let up much. Really not the kind of music I know anything about, I’m way too old to be part of this scene. But I don’t hate it!

Good 90s indie music. Enjoyable but not especially creative.

This slaps!

My third album by this pretentious dude. Can’t believe there are FIVE Tom Waits albums on this list! They truly haven’t been that different from each other, which is ironic given how impressed he seems to be with his own “uniqueness”. Johnson Illinois is playing as I write this review. Ouch on some of those attempts at the high notes there Tom. Maybe stick to the talking-singing.

Syd Barrett channeling the Beatles.
Apparently recorded during a time of mental decline, which makes a boring album slightly disturbing.

Some pretty music, with overly emotional delivery of vacuous pretentious lyrics. It’s a shame.

Also, Jane Curtin deserves better.

Americana/bluegrass. Definitely has a place on this list as it is a lengthy demonstration of this style of music, with a large group of musicians. Isn’t going to be everybody’s cup of tea, but very representative of the genre.

Where has this band been all my life? I have never heard of them and to be honest, the name Elbow did not inspire great expectations. This album is GORGEOUS! The lead singers voice is so warm, the arrangements are soothing. It’s atmospheric. What a treat. This is what I hoped for when starting this project. Finally a British discovery that I am really very grateful to know. This music strikes a chord within.

I have no idea how this easy-listening dude got not one but TWO albums on this list. It is vaguely amusing that he is a crooner singing about depressing things like getting gonorrhea. Maybe that’s the “edginess” that makes primer like him? After listening to it a few times In willing to give him an extra star for the lyrics.

It’s fine. It’s jazz, which i don’t care for, but I’ve listened to worse.

Weakens a bit at the end but the first half of this album at least is one good bop after another. Great debut!

I like my hip hop to be more banging than most of this I guess. Much of it didn’t keep my attention. The two big hits are hits for a reason. I do love 19-2000 though.

This band. I always feel like I want to like their music more than I actually do. It just doesn’t get me moving the way hip-hop should in my opinion. Maybe they are more about the lyrics. I listened to this enough times today for it to climb up to three stars from the original two, but really feel it’s 2.5.

It’s just so bland. I might give it three stars just because it didn’t necessarily annoy me. Three stars is my equivalent of “meh”, and this is definitely a “meh” album. Not sure how it got on this list

I started out enjoying the funk of it all. Was less into the “acid jazz” (per Wikipedia) it veered off into towards the end. The messages in the lyrics were thoughtful but a bit clunky.

They came out of the gate strong! Great debut album. The music is exactly what you would expect from that album cover. Great energy, punk tude without screaming, the more I listen to it the more I like it.

I don’t hear anything on this album that makes it stand apart from many other electronic albums. It was hard to stay awake for the whole thing as it felt very repetitive both within itself and within the genre.

Straightforward early rock and roll. Nothing particularly inspired, but also pretty inoffensive.

Oh dear lord I’m not sure what this is supposed to be, but what it ISN’T is BORING!
Mix of blues, cacophony, chanting, what seems to be off-the-cuff ramblings of an institutional escapee… there HAD to be copious amounts of drugs involved in the making of this.
I listened to the entire thing. The lyrics did make me laugh at times.
I would never give anything this bodacious only one star, but it also isn’t going to get more than two!