Reviews by ellesnayr

You ever notice that nobody asks what ever happened to The Vines? Because even when the garage rock revival was a big deal The Vines were mediocre and bland. This album is a great example of that. This album sounds like a sophomore slump but it’s their debut album. The ballads are dull and the “rock” songs are also dull. If this came out today people would wonder if it’s an AI band because it sounds soulless and generic.

This is one of my favorite albums. It’s one of the best hip hop albums of all time, and one of the best concept albums of all time. Kendrick Lamar is destined to go down as one of the greatest to ever do it.

This was bad. It was bottom of the barrel 80’s synth pop. The singer has the generic 80’s synth pop voice that every band had at the time. It’s a voice I hate and find very annoying. The songs were hard to listen to. There’s one song on here that has a synth “solo” at the beginning that straight up sounds like a toddler mashing around on a keyboard. I don’t know why anyone would listen to this, let alone enjoy it.

This album was way too long. It also was not fun, like if I’m listening to pop music I want to have fun. This is not fun music, it’s all either message songs that are dumb, or it’s songs that should be fun but musically are aggressive. The production is great though.

This was all over the place. Not a cohesive album, they couldn’t even decide on a sound. I’m not against changing your sound but you have to establish a sound to begin with. A talented group but I found the album to be disjointed and a bit overproduced.

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

I want to rate this a 4 just for that song, but it’s a solid 3 for me. I feel like this makes for a good companion album to the Violent Femmes debut album. It has similar themes but from a person with a different perspective, more hopeless romantic than bitter. It’s a good album but not one I put on ever, save for Pablo Picasso and a couple other songs.

Willie Nelson makes the chillest country music.

Pretty enjoyable. It wasn’t amazing but I didn’t mind it.

Never listened to this one all the way through. I knew the hits and it makes sense that they were the hits. That being said I enjoyed the majority of this album. Planet Caravan was interesting but I wouldn’t listen to it again. Otherwise it was a great album. Rest easy prince of darkness.

Based on the band name and the art work I was expecting a hard rock band. I was expecting to be unimpressed. I was very wrong about the first part but I was still unimpressed..

For the most part this really felt like a movie soundtrack. As in, it is meant to be background to the action happening on screen. Most of this is not that interesting. There’s a couple tracks that work on their own but for the most part it was boring and repetitive. Do you thing was cool.

Great album, almost prefect, but I don’t think she’s leaving home fits. It feels shoehorned in.

I can appreciate the stutter step drum beats. It’s more unique than a lot of dance music. However, I didn’t find it all that danceable and it was boring and way too long.

Eminem really stepped it up on this one compared to the slim shady lp. He still has a lot of shock rap verging on horrorcore, but there’s also some sincerity that he ventures more into on future albums.

Some great songs on here. Some mid songs on here. And then there’s Jamaican Jerk-off.

This album was a snooze.

Cube was the best rapper in NWA, but I’ve never loved his solo stuff. It’s not that he got bad at rapping, it’s just a bit much I guess. It’s a bit samey throughout the record. It kind of felt like getting yelled at for an hour. The exception of course being Good Day, if he mixed in a few more like that to give the audience a break it would’ve made the album flow better. I would like to know more about what was going on at the time of recording because I felt like I wasn’t understanding some of the things he was talking about. Is he like super antisemitic? That’s how it came off to me.

A landmark hip hop album, there will never be another quite like it. I know the Beasties can be a divisive group but regardless of how you feel this album is important to understand hip hop history.

+1 for horns. I liked the songs with horns, the non horn songs were pretty bad.

That song about the Chinese buffet was alright. Other than that, I like some of what the banshees did when they played with dissonance. As for Siouxsie, she ruined every song with her singing that sounds like a whale dying.