Reviews by digitalredpanda

This happens to be my favourite AC-DC album. Back in Black is good but I always preferred Bonn Scott to Brian Johnson who most of the time likes to belt out his vocals at a high pitch most of the time while Bonn Scott's vocal style stays varied between high and low, while still maintaining consistent energy throughout most albums of his era. This album is no exception. I can't really think of another album that perfectly encapsulates classic rock and includes so many memorable guitar riffs, while channelling the classic sounds of Blues rock but not having the style of music overshadow the whole album. Touch too much is my favourite song from it.

This is the album that defined 90s hip hop. At the time it was considered, challenging, thought provoking and dangerous. The messages it got across are still somewhat relevant today, where it had a lot to say about racial bias in hollywood, interracial relationships, division, sexism, cultural appropriation and right wing style criticism. What I love about this album is how meticulously every sound bite, sample and track has been placed throughout this entire album in order to strengthen the sociopolitical messages it gets across. I heard that this one of the most sample heavy albums ever made, which is no wonder why they reduced the amount of sampling in later albums.

Never heard of this band before but this was an alright album. It is another folk rock album that seems to be a popular thing in the 60s. It does have some elements of blues rock as well but with a more upbeat sound.

It has been a while since I had a metal album appear on here. This is a pretty good album even though thrash metal isn't my favourite genre. In fact I find megadeth to be weaker than slayer and metallica in terms of the big four of thrash metal. That's not to say that this isn't a good album though, quite the opposite. there are some damn good songs on here such as Peace sells and The Conjuring. And Dave Mustaine is a pretty damn good guitarist, although his vocal style is not as good as James Hetfield's. He kinda sounds like he is pretending to be frustrated while holding it back at the same time. It works sometimes but not all the time. Still though, I will listen to it on occasion but I still prefer metallica.

A decent album by an all female punk rock band. However it doesn't provide as much of a kick as other bands like blondie or the pretenders do.

here is a band who was America's answer to The Beatles. To be honest I don't hear much of a difference between the two bands. but this was better than the Beatles album I listened to a couple of weeks ago. It has more of a 60s rock element to it, the songs are quick and doesn't overstay its welcome.

Not a bad album. This feels like the transition from post punk/new wave to britpop, while calling back to The Beatles era

once again another electronic music band that just seems too minimalist for me. I could barely get through the first track

couldnt get into this one at all. nowhere near as many memorable songs as Ok Computer, so I gave up half way through

Its noisy, the guitars are distorted, the recording is amateurish, The vocals sound cheap and all over the place, and many of the songs have barely any structure to them. But it works so goddamn well. I forgot how good this album was. It is clear that these guys liked to avoid sounding too commercialised and like to cater to a specific audience that enjoy the alt rock scene of the 80s and 90s, much like other bands like sonic youth and smashing pumpkins, but they somehow manage to get the song Where is My Mind plenty of radio airtime as well as featuring on the David Fincher film Fight Club. Hopefully I will see Tromp Le Monde and Bossanova on this website as well.

A pretty good album, even though Their Substance compilation has kinda ruined it for me since I heard the more refined and remixed versions of some of their songs, which have ended up sounding a lot better than the original versions. Still though, it is nice to hear songs I hadn't heard before. I did kinda need to explore other albums of New Order, and this was a good one, definitely satisfying my love of new wave electronica music.

Never really listened to much of talking heads except for their live album Stop Making Sense, which I think is considered to be their best work. Despite this, I did enjoy their debut album quite a bit. I do how satisfying the percussive elements are and Tina Weymouth puts out some very memorable basslines. I will definitely listen to their other albums in future

This album kinds feels unfocused. one song has an alternative rock sound, the one goes into blues rock, then one goes into indie rock and next another one sounds more like garage rock. There are a couple of good songs here but that's about it

Not a bad album. kinda reminds me of Public Image but with a more garage rocky sound to it.

This is an album that not only contributed to the revival of the garage rock genre in the early 2000s, but also popularised blues rock around this time as well, all thanks to the modern guitar hero Jack White, who manages to blend these two genres together to create some of the most unique and recognisable riffs of the 21st century, while standing on the shoulders of giants such as jimmy page, jimi hendrix and brian may. and you can't dismiss meg whites simple yet highly effective percussive style that manages to carry 50% of the whole band throughout their entire catalogue. It is no wonder that she was not a fan of having the spotlight on her.

I have only listened to four David Bowie albums but i know for a fact that this is his best one. It is not a long album, easy to listen to and is structurally uncomplicated (in comparison to most prog rock albums around this era), but it perfectly delivers a loose narrative about a bisexual alien rockstar caught up in a web of drugs, sex, politics and the threat of impending doom against the earth.

This is his breakthrough album that shows him at his most creative, despite some critics having a lukewarm opinion at the time, but that just shows how how ahead of his time he was. This would later inspire other artists to explore similar themes about music, hedonism and political corruption, such as The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails (David Bowie was one of trent reznor's biggest inspirations and were good friends in real life) and Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson.

Its an ok album but would have preferred to listen to their first album as it has more recognisable songs. either way, this still feels a bit too bluesy for me

I have listened to this album before and it is a good one. Paranoid Android and Karma Police are definitely the most iconic songs in their library. I don't really have much to say about this album, but I do appreciate that its melancholic tone is not off-putting for my taste in music. Think Nine inch nails without the the harshness of their industrial metal sound

simple but part of their history. That is the best way to describe this album. I knew I would have to listen to The Beatles at some point since I was expecting to see Sergeant peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band to appear. This album is from a very early part of their career and it is only on here because it (alongside Please Please me) just about marks the beginning of a career that would influence music for the rest of the 20th century.

I was not expecting a slipknot album on here, especially when its one of their weakest albums. This must mean that other albums like their self titled debut and iowa would likely be on here as well. It is a good album but there are a few things that bring it down a bit. A lot of the songs feel a bit too commercialised in comparison to their early stuff, where there are a few tracks in their first two albums that sound like the definition of pure insanity and torment. with the exception of a few songs like psychosocial and sulfur, some of them don't have much of a memorable hook to them, and there is one that feels like they are trying to capture the same progressive nature of Vermillion from their previous album. like I said it is still a good album, just not their best in comparison.