Reviews by emmabeans

in this house we stand for silly music

oh look more u2

oh look more white stripes

oh look some more elvis costello

lyrics good. music idk. probably nice but i got so sick of this sound in the last decades. i've had a photo of woody guthrie taken in mc sorley's on my lock screen for a while lately, he's been on my mind. sitting at a table in the back, next to the furnace, holding up his guitar, mid song. i don't imagine it sounded like wilco. all the men in the ale house wearing their hats. i watched a doc about him and steinbeck on pbs over the summer, their paths crossing, splitting ways in hollywood etc. i've never read the grapes of wrath but i got it at the library and haven't cracked it yet. i think about the history of this country a lot, both the depression and the turn of the 20th century, how art fits into it all. wondering how people felt those other times and how we feel now. anyway i couldn't really connect to this album

i hate to hate an album with cover art this good

it's the 1970s. my dad's hair is kind of long. the bartender at the airport asks him and his friend if they're famous from something. they say they're the rolling stones. they sign autographs. it's the 2010s. my bestie's hair is getting kind of long. some girls in the french quarter ask him if he's famous from something. his brother says he's in the fleet foxes.

this collection is long, but if you get stuck behind an accident in a long slowdown on the interstate on your way home from a weekend trip, there's plenty of time to get into it. this really is an astounding amount of technical perfection on ella's end and iconic writing on gershwin's. i think live in berlin is more of the quintessential fitzgerald, if you had to pick one for a top albums list, but wow! i'm the gershwin songbook by ella fitzgerald pilled now

you know the genres feature on this site is a neat idea, it'd be cool to look at how you like a bunch of music and how you rate that music reflects your preference in different styles and movements. it could be a better metric than listening time, like the streaming services use, since that's just an engagement measurement and doesn't reflect appreciation or enjoyment. but then the problem of sampling method arises. you may be measuring based on a list written by some british guy who decided eminem and kanye west should represent hip hop.

you need to take off one accessory before you leave the house. you smell like shit. your haircut sucks. your fit sucks. you got dandruff. be kind to yourself, but remember this.

doesnt get much better than eye know

somehow my cringe hipster gorillaz and danger-misc loving ass missed this, tho 2007 seems kinda late in that whole era for this. i know its millenial slop but at least theres no hint of the coming stomp clap storm

no way i pulled dolly the day after she died...

remember that part in first reformed where the evil oil guy is like "you attended a funeral where they sang an environmental protest song by neil young??"

hmmm probably my fave cure. not too pop, not too punk. tres soundscapisme. that cold wave guitar petal the kids these days all wanna use (im not a real head but u know what i mean). the image of this in my mind if i dont recall any songs is like wind in the trees. i also like how it just ends when it ends, like a kung fu movie after the bad guy dies. whooshh, pow pow

very nice but again its inclusion points to the glaring omission of black american electronic artists from this list

i didn't know the story about how jimi hated the album art... "im not that kind of indian"... fucked up

*points to sign*
[NO Stairway to Heaven]

like how its a little weirder and rougher than hounds of love. the borderline goofy synths are so sick and i like whar they do with kate's operatic vocals. i feel like maybe jun togawa was influenced by this? added to the streaming library, gonna vibe more on these cow toy percussion sounds

mom has this cd in her saturn when i was a kid (some time after totalling the ford which had a tape deck). never connected to it. liked a few tracks this listen around, maybe your baby. so i listened again in the car and was like ahh ok this is car music. i think the album art is actually really good though

i feel like there was some jam song i like but its not on here? i though they were an original era punk band but i cant do this melodic british 80s rock anymore 1000 albums list please....