Reviews by emmabeans

yuck

if geese's publicity company ran a psyop then this list is a misinformation campaign

- you who wish to conquer pain you must learn what makes me kind
- the skylight is like skin for a drum i'll never mend
- there's a funeral in the mirror and it's stopping at your face
- the river is swollen up with rust cans and the trees are burning in your promised land
- shouldering your loneliness like a gun you will not learn to aim
- you're living for nothing now, i hope you keep a record
- she will learn to touch herself so well as all the ship sails burn down like paper
- i long for love and light but must it come so cruel and oh so bright?

fave track last year's men

kanye west is the artist of our time (deragatory). a middling talent with good commercial instincts and a much better investment portfolio, who can claim ownership of taste where creativity fails, who can always find a way to leverage spectacle in their favor with an ever flattened output of rage bait. the subject of this album is the self--west's own melancholia, and a struggle to make sense of the world without the framework needed to do so, the same impulse that drives the following albums in west's ouvre, that ties a corroded thread from "power" to "heil hitler." it's not a fantasy, it doesnt reach the expanses of the imagination, it's an emo rumination on the here and now, the emptiness of money and success, that gets dangerously close to the point considering how far it misses. the broken clock is right twice a day--the cover art is great. "put the pussy in the sarcophagus" is an all timer. some beats are great, some tracks are skips. i will always be fascinated by ye without being a defender. ultimately this album gets the nazi punks fuck off rating.

this is so much cooler than anything this list has given me so far lol i wish there was more shit like this on here. i like the composition a lot as it is and sidnt nevessarily need to hear it as rock to appreciate it more, but the band does more than just play a switched on version so the project seems justified. something about that specific prog rock organ sound makes me feel insane tho (derogatory). i dont love it but i respect the vision

its angry, simple, and raw. some evil spirit possessed that acoustic guitar and was recorded as proof. these guys were really like how do we punch up this track and brought in a xylophone. captures that feeling of being so horny you want to actually be dead but also youre just a a silly little guy, a really core part of the human experience. ive loved this album for a long time but also i just saw the jackass movie last night so i was really primed for anything that does a lot with very little resources and a lot of energy this morning. i guess im just a teenage boy in spirit. fave tracks day after day, add it up, promise

idk this is like to sincere for me or something. i know this is objectively good but im i guess cynical or something. it just doesnt take me anywhere, which is probably a flaw of my own psyche that this cant dind purchase to probe. never liked this in my classic rock era but knew boys that did. now i can only think of joe pera trying to get his church to join in acapella. actually fuck this why do i have to justify not liking this to myself

woke up ar 3 and couldnt fall back asleep, listened to this, nodded off in the last track. feel like i gotta get into nu metal, was listening to a chat pile interview where they were talking abt korn... my new favorite band and one of my oldest favorite bands tied by a golden thread... anyway this is cool idk what else to say i get why all those guys in my high school had the shirts. its almost like ambient and math rocky while still being something korn can do guest vocals on no problem. fave tracks breed apart, born stubborn, canyon jam

i think my earliest memory of someone telling me a record is good and me not getting it is of a friend burning me a cd of this album. i think it may be good i just cant get into it, had to skip a few tracks. another case of theres too much anglophone 80s rock on this list imo

stop aruing about the mix you fucking nerds grandpa punk is on

so glad mid ass indie has some representation on the list

idk why this album art is so funny to me. its like he's the ghost of young love looking down on the happy couple. there's lots of songs to like in here but the whole album was too much frank for me. i like frank on kkjz on sundays broken up with stories and weird bsides. i liked frank when he came up in my grandpa's oldsmobile's radio. hut for me this is too much frank for one sitting. i also noticed that a lot of standards i like, pennies from heaven and how about you especially, i just really didnt go for this version. liked his anything goes tho. fave track old devil moon

me opening 1001albumsgenerator.com today "is that peter fucking frmpton?"

just unbelievably cool. im not musical enough to even comprehend brian wilson, but i laughed and cried and jammed through this. not as weird as beach boys love you, will return to this. fave track surf's up

sabbath rules. my favorite 60s album from the 70s. what metal should be, political and fantastic at the same time. the whole iron man is kinda glam tbh. fave track other than war pigs hand of doom

definitely OD'd on loveless in college but i liked the more stripped back feel in this one, would love to listen in one of them record bars with big speakers and coffee. versus at the weights, mixed in with the guy next to me trying to max out the row machine. nice slow big sounds. really lovely songwriting. fave track all i need

did i invoke this by singing "fuck you" at karaoke the night before?? didnt hate it. charitably it feels dated. will add this to the "oh you want to be nostalgic about actual early 2000s culture??" list when i have the chance to culturally reform zoomers by making them read tao lin and watch the most boring vh1 celebrity reality shows, preferrably one with andy dick. i like cee los vocals, i like the gospel choir moments. fave track my kind of people

felt the need to browse the reviews for this one because of the circumstances of its release, my memory of its reception when it came out, wondering if i can say anything avoiding the most used words... one being "swan" from "swansong" like lol... but it is not unlike a ballet so ok. listened to this a lot in 2016-17 and havent since and i think a lot of tracks from "heathen" had gotten mixed up with this in my mind even tho theyre obvi very different... all to say to me the characteristics of this album are classic bowie songwriting and lyricism and orchestration with a clean electronic production style that is very of the time, which is to say shows an artist adapting innovations and contemporaneity to their personal expression (like what people like to call "genius"). the musical qualities of the album match the cosmic themes, which are of course a throughline of bowie's spaceman body of work, but have a particular depth of meaning from an established artist looking back on life and forward at the unknown. so as a listener i really get everything i could want from this, just kind of a big and swift glimpse at the experience of being a person with a body and soul and heart and head and all that junk. title track, i cant give everything faves

i like american folk music very much. fave tracks boll weevil and dink's song

this is one of those things where you learn about it and youre like well that was a weird blind spot anyway, but then it keeps coming up everywhere for some reason? my understanding of this project is it's a prank on the music industry made with contempt for consumers. that it's itentionally low effort and bad, but apparenly enjoyable (?). i love the klf project conceptually but hated listening to this album so not sure where to rate.