Reviews by ellesnayr

LET THE GIRL SING!
If not for White Rabbit and Somebody to Love this album would be forgotten by almost everyone. It’s a mediocre blues/folk/rock album save for a couple of songs. The other singer/singers, I’m not gonna look it up but it sounds like there might be two male singers, are not that good and their songs are boring. How a band that mostly plays stale blues rock came up with white rabbit is a mystery. That song has no chorus, and hardly any song structure, it just builds and builds till it explodes, but it works so well. And Somebody to Love has a sound of its own, wholly unique to the rest of the album. Everything else on here is forgettable, I did like the instrumental track though.

I love that Rush’s drug song is mostly just a geography lesson. These guys are nerds to the end. But these nerds can rock! The title track is one of the greatest songs of all time. The second half of the album, while not on theme with the first half, is still chock full of great tunes. In my opinion, they should have made 2112 its own album, or an EP, but it’s basically two albums. The first side is one long song that tells a story, and the second is other songs not related to the first. The only misstep for me is Tears. It doesn’t fit the flow of the second half and is kind of a snoozer. Other than that it’s a perfect album.

The way this started out I did not expect to enjoy it. The first two songs are not great, but it gets way better after that. The rest of the album is surprising and funny and just a good time. Pleasantly surprised by this.

It’s fine, nothing to write home about. I don’t think I’ll ever listen to this again, it was just kind of bland pop rock. Plus one for horns.

I’ve never understood the draw of Elliott Smith. His music is fine but he has a cult status that eludes me. I have nothing against his music, it’s not bad, I guess it’s just not for me.

This should be called Dusty sings karaoke. This is just white washed versions of Motown songs. Do yourself a favor and seek out who originally performed these songs and listen to the superior recordings.

Maybe Neu! Shouldn’t have gotten back together. Their first two albums were innovative, and the influence they had can still be seen. This was just ok.

That guitar solo on Allergies was a trip! This album was great, Paul Simon is great.

This was mostly incredibly boring. It was talk singing over piano noodling. The two songs where there was actually structure and other instruments were fine but nothing special. Watergate blues was interesting, it made me realize the US has been through shitty stuff before and came out okay, so it gave me hope for the future.

Even though she’s a pop culture icon who I’ve always known about I never actually listened to Dolly’s music until now. It’s really good!

Perfect music for like a dinner party or a date night. She has a lovely voice and the music is chill.

This was great.

Pavement Rules! This album rules and it’s not even their best one.

Shakespeare once said Brevity is the soul of wit. If that’s true, Napalm Death is the wittiest band of all time. If it takes you more than 58 seconds to get your point across you need to go back to songwriting school.

I really liked a few of the songs on here. The rest were fine but I wouldn’t go back and listen to them again.

Good stuff, makes me want to dance while I’m cooking dinner.

This is a decent album. I didn’t care for a lot of it when I heard it years ago, but it’s grown on me. I think there’s still some just ok songs, but Brothersport is probably my favorite album closer of all time.

After the first song I wasn’t super stoked to hear the rest. It was very disco, and I’m not anti disco, but I didn’t think I’d enjoy an entire album of it. However, aside from that track, and the title song, which has been played to death at this point, the rest of the album was lovely. I would gladly listen to this again.

Not into it. I was bored. Not terrible, I just found it monotonous.

This was nice. I wasn’t a huge fan of the Neil Young led songs, and some of it was corny, but it was enjoyable to listen to.