Reviews by ellesnayr

Thought I only knew one song on here, but I knew three! Who knew Cyndi Lauper had more than one hit? And Time After Time is a cool song, I just didn’t know it was her. I didn’t mind this album. I probably won’t listen to it in full again, but I will listen to some songs from now on a while so it’s a three for me.

I remember when this album came out I was initially disappointed in it upon listening. I was a huge White Stripes fan and this was Jack’s first solo album. To me it just didn’t have the same magic that the Stripes had, it was too polished. I haven’t listened to it since then. Until now, and I can honestly say I was wrong. This is a great album, it is a little too clean sounding but the songs are there. It’ll never beat what the White Stripes did, but I will definitely listen to this again.

To call this album bloated would be an understatement. Okay technically it’s two solo albums under the Outkast moniker, but still. This thing is two hours and fifteen minutes long! I am an Outkast fan but even for me it was too much. Don’t get me wrong there’s a lot of great stuff on here, Hey Ya is one of my all time favorite songs. There’s also a thousand skits, and a lot of songs that could’ve gone on some sort of special edition rerelease. What I’m saying is a lot of these songs should have been B-Sides and outtakes. If they cut a lot of it, got it don to an hour of the best songs this could be a classic five star album. As it is I’m giving it three, there are songs I’ll return to but I don’t see myself listening to it in full ever again.

It sounds like they had a lot of fun making this album. That being said I don't think it was all that good.

Wow man the B-52’s were way more surf rock-y than I imagined they’d be. Rock Lobster is a fun song. Overall though this was very same-y throughout and I got bored of it.

Insanely influential album. There’s some classic songs on here, some are still fun to listen to. It gets a bit old listening to a whole album of this because it’s pretty primitive when it comes to rhyme schemes. If I was eating based on cultural impact it’d be an easy five. But my ratings are based on personal enjoyment so it’s a solid three for me.

This album is definitely an experience. It’s not one I listen to often, it’s been 10+ years since I last listened to it in full. In my opinion the best way to experience this album is at a laser show, but at least listen to it in the car or on headphones. The studio trickery needs stereo sound to get the full effect. I honestly don’t know how to rate this album. It is a classic and it is awesome. However, it is bloated, and there’s a lot of filler songs that, while they somewhat contribute to the album as a whole, are not good songs on their own. I still think it’s a great album that I won’t listen to again for another 10 years, save for some of the hits that stand on their own.

This was great, I know a few Kinks songs but have only listened to one other full album of theirs. I knew Sunny Afternoon and it’s still my favorite track on here. Every song was concise, there was no filler on here. Just a fun album full of story songs.

I’ve never actually listened to Frampton Comes Alive. It’s probably one of the more well known live albums. Although it’s strange because outside of this album you don’t hear much talk about Peter Frampton any more. This was enjoyable, a bit on the long side but I never got tired of it. I didn’t really love the music either. It was good, the band is talented and Frampton is good at the guitar, it’s just most of the songs were okay at best. Penny for your thoughts was sick though, too bad it’s the shortest song on the album.

Well that was awful. At one point I thought this things gotta be over pretty soon, only to find out I had just finished the second song. For a relatively short album there was a lot of fat that could’ve been trimmed. Every song should’ve been 3 minutes shorter than it was and even then they would be shit songs, but at least they’d be shorter.

This rocks. I couldn’t fully follow the story the first listen through, but I will be returning to this one.

I think the story about the making of this album is far more entertaining than this album. For the Turnstiles was a cool song.

I can appreciate the influence JLL had but I don’t like his music. I like the energy he brings, but I don’t really get anything from the music itself. Honestly, did he just rip off Little Richard? At least it was only 22 minutes long.

Not much to say about this one. It was fine, decent background music for a department store.

I like maybe 4 songs by ZZ Top. La Grange is one of those songs, so this album has that going for it. The rest of the songs are forgettable. They’re not bad, just nothing special. I’m sure some people probably really dig this, I just find it kind of boring.

If it’s not 6+ minutes is it even a song? Not according to Metallica. At least until they made their radio record that is. There’s two songs on here that clock under six minutes and they’re both over five minutes. It’s not always a bad thing, I’m in no way against long songs. In fact I’ve said in the past that if a song is over 8 minutes it’s probably a good song. The thought is that if a song is that long it’s probably for a good reason and if you’re patient it will probably be rewarding. This is not a set in stone rule. I don’t think any of the 9+ minutes songs on here absolutely needed to be that long, but I don’t think they necessarily suffered from the length either. Some songs on here could definitely have been made better if they trimmed them down a tad. Still there’s some awesome stuff on here, even if you can’t hear the bass in the final mix. Blackened may be my favorite Metallica song, although Creeping Death is up there too. This is definitely the weakest of their big three albums. Puppets is number one, followed by Lightning. That being said, the weakest of those three is better than a lot of bands best. I think this is the last great Metallica album. After the 80s they really went for a more alt rock sound that is not what drew me to them in the first place. So even if some of the songs are too long it’s because they are ambitious, and I applaud them for that. After this one it seems like they were just trying to get on the radio and the music suffered for people like me who love the hard, fast, and complex Metallica of the 80s.

Seven Seas of Rhye is the stand out on this album, a terrific closer to a just ok album. The loser in the end is a true testament to not letting your drummer have a song. It’s a real dud, and kills the flow of the rest of the album. The rest of the album flows together pretty well, a lot of fantasy themes and a proggy sound. It’s just that the songs themselves are meandering and uninteresting. Queen has a lot of great songs, and most of them are on the greatest hits albums. There’s a reason most of the songs on this one did not make the cut.

I liked the guitar on Til Death Do Us Part. The rest of the album was nothing special for me. I recognized a few songs but there’s nothing on here that I would return to. It was fine, definitely of it’s time, it sounds very 80s.

Punk as fuck. Media blitz and lexicon devil are the stand outs. The 9 minute closing song was unnecessary.

How have I never heard this album? It must have been influential to a lot of the music I listen to now. I just can’t believe this isn’t talked about more. I’ve heard of Liz Phair and I’ve heard this album title before but I never listened to her/it. This album rules. I honestly think a ton of indie music owes a lot to this album and Liz Phair.