Reviews by deepee

I really hate everything about this sonically.
There may be some valid social commentary within? Alot of it is joking around.
The vocals hurt too much to closely listen.
Yuck.

This sounds like basic 90’s pop music. It is fine but there is nothing that jumps out at me as special. Could be confused for several other bands. Not a must listen in my book but not a bad listen either.

Man I love me some early Elton John, when his bluesy piano playing was at the forefront. This one is a little bit country. The album that he released right after this one, Honky Chateau, is my favorite EJ album but didn’t make this list.
Listening to this era of Elton always makes me SO upset about the Disney crap he did later on. Pre-1976 Elton John is one masterpiece after another.

Pleasant electronic pop music. Pretty slick. Good debut album but lacking any real feeling.

This is a double album that has two distinct parts. I really loved the first disc, Abattoir Blues, would give it a solid 4.5. Good rock.
The second disc, Lyre if Orpheus, gets a bit more moody. Energy drops. Didn’t match the level of the first.

A trip to the Ren Faire was not what I was expecting today…

Pulp had their moment right when I was busy starting a family. Too busy changing diapers and listening to Dan Zane’s (fun kid’s music fyi) to keep up with the trends.
I probably would have been into this band had I been paying attention. Some good pop with a little bit of an edge. I do recognize “Common People”, which is the clear highlight of the album.
Very representative of the early 90’s. Drum machine detected!

There are some classics on here. Every Breath You Take is such a creepy song but darn if it doesn’t feel like summer 1983 from the very first chords.

A new band to me. First song my reaction was “wow that sounds just like some other band”… finally decided that one was like the Goo Goo dolls. A later song sounded like a Paul McCartney tune. In other words, the music is not groundbreaking. There are some really weak rhyming schemes in the lyrics which were cringeworthy. Unfortunately the lyrics got more smarmy in the later tracks.

Despite all that it wasn’t painful to listen to. The music was generic but ok. Would give the music a 3 and the lyrics a 2.

When I’m in old person mode and want to complain to my kids about new music, Led Zeppelin is my go-to band for “they don’t write em like that anymore”. So many layers, nothing formulaic about them. So much talent.

Mad Men-era Latin nightclub dance music. Mix up a cocktail and enjoy!

It’s Johnny Cash. His voice is so special. But honestly all the time spent with Johnny kissing up to, I mean talking to, the inmates is annoying. And the pandering San Quentin song he wrote for them is played and needlessly included twice in a row. It’s a little like a show-off bad boy frat party. Of course he plays some hits, which are always good to hear. Because it’s Johnny Cash. So never a total waste of time.

The vocals on the first track turned me off a bit, but things quickly improved after that one. Before I knew it I was longing for a crowd I could mosh with! Good energy for pogo-ing around the house. Fiction Romance is the highlight track for me.

Laid back sixties campfire rock. I always think of these guys as Grateful Dead lite. The songs sound like Dead songs but without all the extended jamming solos. Which makes The Band way more enjoyable for me.

Very monotone and not much musical variety on this one. Throughout his career he has managed to write several what I would consider classic long-lasting songs. The only one on this album is “Radio Radio”. Ok and maybe “Pump It Up”. But there are several clunkers (“Night Rally” and “Hand in Hand”). And lots of forgettables. Not his best work. Apparently there are four Elvis Costello albums on this list. This one could be removed to make room for somebody unrepresented.

Latin dance music, conga drum focus. Would be good background music for a summer pool party.

Great energy on this one!
Pop, a little bit bluesy at times. Mixes things up, loads of layers, the album flies by. Very enjoyable.

Weak 60s folk music, sung in an annoying whiny voice.
Somebody’s picker is off to think that I had to listen to this one.

A 1.5 but I can’t stretch it to two starts.

According to Wikipedia the dude that made this album was looking for work in making film soundtracks so made this as proof he could do it. I’m less mad at the album than I am at the person who put it on this list!
It’s a freaking demo album and a LOOONGG one. Honestly one track isn’t that much different than the next. Not that they are bad, but by the half hour mark I had gotten the point and was well ready for it to be over.
Each track is too well composed musically to give it only one star, but it’s so dragged out and repetitive that it is almost getting me annoyed enough to go there.

I know he’s got a cult-like following, but I’m not in danger of joining. These songs have no groove, his vocals go out of their way to be tortured. It’s just all so melodramatic. I wonder if I would have liked it at age thirteen. I like to imagine that even then I would have been unimpressed.