Reviews by dobrien2399

Lots of interesting choices here to create noisy sounds. Perhaps I'm a philistine, but I don't find the sounds interesting enough on their own to be good and I don't think it really comes together.

Drive is fine, the rest is pretty bad. Did they run out of albums?

Some really excellent music that is too lo fi for its own good. Worth a listen, lots of good ideas, though mostly unfinished.

Not the first Bob Marley album I've gotten on here, but definitely my favorite so far. I didn't dislike any of them, but this is the first that's clicked for me. Maybe its the bass.

My prior exposure to The Smiths is effectively just hearing about Morrissey being an asshole, but I quite enjoyed this. Energetic and enjoyably layered arrangements, and to my surprise and in contrast to most other reviews I've seen, I quite like his voice. A small window into why people tolerate him at all today.

Historically not a huge fan of Dylan, but I really enjoyed this.

This is the first time I've listened to this full record, not because I didn't know about it, but because the people that I knew liked it in when I was younger were angry people who were cruel to me. I have obviously interacted with conversations online about it and I understand now that the anger, vitriol, and vulgarity expressed in the record is not a sincere statement of belief or intention. In other contexts, I even enjoy such transgressive elements. Maybe its just been too long or maybe I can never truly understand this record from outside myself, but I still can't get past the lyrics. Despite its intense and impressive introspection and musicality, this album will probably just never hit me right. I know he aims to provoke, and it I guess it landed. I feel like I "get it" now more than ever, and I still don't enjoy listening to it. If I do have a more serious critique to level beyond how it makes me feel, its that while the album is intentionally revolting, in both senses of the word, against popular culture, it misfires in many cases by expressing what were, or are, simply majority opinions in coarse language. While calling someone the f slur was gauche in polite society, a majority of Americans in 2000 thought that being gay was immoral. Eminem's misogyny on the record is uncomfortably violent for most, but it doesn't mean the sentiments behind it weren't broadly approved of. Too often on this record he sloppily picks easy targets, despite proving that he is capable of more on other tracks. Whether or not he meant what he said, the violent, bigoted, and hateful language present was extremely popular, and not just among people who understood that it was intentionally provocative.

A good enough album that is very 80s. Unclear why its on the list.

Unusual 4 with no saved songs for me. Really good album with excellent vocals and production, but none of the songs really grabbed me.

I did not enjoy a single song on here, and every song felt miserable. This is only a 2 and not a 1 because I get the impression that that's the point. For what reason? No clue.

Some real bright spots in here, but its over an hour long and mostly very repetitive. The beats are almost universally excellent, but the songs are constructed in a way that makes me get tired of each of them by the end.

This album is fine, nothing remarkable either way. I am perhaps poisoned by the passage of time, but it sounds like a bar band doing a pretty good job singing songs I'm not familiar with. Not sure why its on the list.

This isn't a good album, but the interesting bits are really good. Shame there's at least an album of very boring and not very well put together material here.

Unimpeachable, 10/10.

This album has some real highs, but it simply does not have 69 songs worth of good material. Love is Like Jazz is trash, but that was the only song I actively disliked, so in the end I think this is surprisingly close to fulfilling the promise of its length (not quite there though).

This album is way too long and half the songs sound the same. The music is otherwise fine, but nothing stands out as great to me. Cut five tracks at random from this and its probably a 3.

Pretty great album. I was very excited to see Sledgehammer, which slaps, on this, but I think it is pretty clearly the best song.

Really great. I know nothing about Salsa but found this very enjoyable. Bass lines were so good I looked up who played on it. RIP Sal Cuevas.

This album is fine. Maybe I just don't have an ear for it, but most songs on this sound the same to me. That said, I can imagine why this was so important to people, but unfortunately I think my taste in punk is perhaps too modern. Hate & War was the standout tack for me.