Reviews by emmabeans

god only knows best pop song ever period

i've been dreading this album coming up because i know chapman is a singularly talented songwriter and singer and that this album is deserved of reapppraisal and it's too bad fast car is so overplayed and the songs are all very heartfelt... but i just don't dig it

i love this album i love her hair and makeup and shirt on the cover i love singing ray of light in the car. i used to put this on and mute the tv and play mario 64 <3

brilliantly synthesizes a bunch of influences i dont care for into something i really dont cate for

never heard of this, but read the wiki... highly offended by this goth sellout situation. i was making my coworker listen to haruomi hosono yesterday and needed some normal person context so was like "harry styles says this is an influence but i dont hear it" she was like i havent listened to him either. my point is why dress weird to make music this boring

love the tension in this album, with this band, they've got cold pop production and earnest soulful songs, an enigmatic vibe and a totally dorky look. relatable though. the album is so worth listening to even if youre just in it for the hits, the way head over heels sits between the track before mixing in its key melody and leads out the rest of the album is muahhh. dont get that listening to the donnie darko soundtrack. love the chest voice/head voice choices on that song, actually love the vocals on all this. ive dug this album for a long time but not being british or alive for most od the 80s didnt really appreciate how great a pop band tears for fears is until i watched the trash culture vid, so like, check that out i guess. if you consider this random review on 10001albumsdotcom a sign. to get into tears for fears

there's a track on this album called "sex on fire" where the lead guitar sounds impotent

high highs and low lows

i was automatically gonna give this 2 stars (nice but will never listen to it again) but then i was like what do i hate fun? this can be stupid and worthy of an extra star at the same time. i would like this better if it were just an instrumental tbh

you know when you have a really high IQ child nephew and he loves monty python and is maybe a little hyperactive and you have to politely watch him play his keyboard and nod politely

it ain't no laughing stock but in this desperate shuffle of slop i'll take it!

this album seemed so important when it came out to me and so boring now, but also like the klf isn't the point of the virtual band to have the pop formula perfected, its universal appeal smoothing everything perfectly? shouldn't a cartoon band make slop? i still love the gorillaz as a project and take some comfort knowing the albums did get much better. very funny that kids these days don't know who damon albarn is, maybe that helps

competently crafted an inane. wes anderson soundtrack music. and why so mean to women honestly

love when cool stuff like this comes up and i get to read the top reviews, it's like looking up ulysses on amazon. it seems like the artist is just trying to be weird. the artist is just trying to unmoor me from the mundanity of the world i've come to expect and see the possibilities of a different one. the artist is just trying to display an interiority that is at odds with the one that has been shaped for me by extant powers. surely people are just pretending to like this for attention. as opposed to me who must enforce acceptable parameters of form in the public space and have the narowness of my own perception reinforced by the exclusion of anything else from the public sphere. in seriousness the album art for this is so bad, and the music is good. is this an influence on the "fourth world" or "cd era ambient" output? the mix of byrne's africanesques and eno's tech virtuosity are the same qualities that make me dig yasuaki shimizu and the like. it's jammy and chill and has lightly driving drums to keep your feet on the ground while your head's in the reverby and soundscapey clounds. added to the library

this isn't even the best american recordings album, that would be american iii, some of the pops on this are such a bad match for cash, they should have cut personal jesus, people just like this one because it has hurt, which is beautiful, but also it's so funny that people love to talk about how trent reznor said the song belonged to cash like he was giving it over in reverence when like no what he said was he felt like the song had become someone else's and he was then alienated from the song, anyway this album is perfect (if not as perfect as american iii), the ballads are great, when the man comes around is an all timer (but speaking of covers have you heard the jarvis cocker version?)

new to me, very cool. still a fail on the 1001 albums book acklowledge a detroit house artist challenge (impossible), but cool

i can't believe this is the fela kuti album the book guy picked, fela is so important and i could not give a fuck about ginger bakers long ass boring solos

when i heard the amen break i was like !!! and then the song started for real and i was like ??? i can never get into this "alt" thing where the guitars are heavy metal but the melody is drawn out operatic vocals. i like the moments when it gets more chill hop and adult, the track tracy's flaw is a standout. good album art and cool band name doesn't hurt. im neutral on the riot grrl lyrics

for the 1001 albums meta, just happy to listen to something i haven't heard in a thousand southern bars or bbc shows and that isn't painfully milquetoast

my dad grew up in a small farm community and paul revere and the raiders played his prom and that's all i can think about with them

this was one of the first cds i owned an i was always a little bummed by how the energy drops off through the album and adult me still feels that way. the bad lyrics bother me more now than then but i still like the really good ones. the production made me nostalgic, i dont think it's dated just of its time. still has too many skips to keep revisiting imo