Reviews by forestfly2009

I had no idea that Janis Joplin had a band before going out solo! This is that band...and they are fantastic!!! It's like psychedelic/blues rock...with Janis' raspy howl. Fucking awesome!! I knew the song Piece of My Heart, but always assumed it was just a piece of Janis' solo work, never knew it was a band. Pleasant surprise today!! Phenomenal!!

Favorite songs: Piece of My Heart, I Need a Man to Love, Turtle Blues, Magic of Love, Ball and Chain, Roadblock

Least favorite songs: "Oh, Sweet Mary"

5/5

Dollar store prog.

Favorite songs: Roundabout, Long Distance Runaround

Least favorite songs: We Have Heaven

3/5

I've had an album by these knobs before. They're Scottish (which is synonymous with terrible fucking music I've learned), and shoegaze (one of the worst and most unnecessary genres in music). One of their songs, In a Hole, made me literally take my earbud out and check to see if it had blown. It was just distortion and noise. Why the fuck would someone consider this music?!? And why do these idiots have 2 albums on this list?

Favorite songs: Cut Dead, The Hardest Walk

Least favorite songs: Taste the Floor, In a Hole, It's So Hard....and the rest of this shitty album

1/5.....just......NO......

Favorite songs: Archives of Pain, She Is Suffering, Revol, P.C.P., Yes, Of Walking Abortion

Least favorite songs: 4st 7lb, The Intense Humming of Evil

4/5

This album is like if the Beatles played a set at a Renaissance Fair. Folk pop with a touch of country. Nothing spectacular

Favorite songs: Old Kentucky Home, The Keeper of Time

Least favorite songs: It Won't Get Better

3/5

The album kind of fell off after the first record, and overstayed it's welcome a bit, but not a bad album all in all. Ironically, Genesis was better without Peter Gabriel, and Peter Gabriel was better without Genesis.

Favourite songs: Counting Out Time, Broadway Melody of 1974, Fly on a Windshield, Hairless Heart

Least favourite songs: The Waiting Room

3/5

Overrated.

Favourite songs: Crippled Inside, It's So Hard, Oh Yoko!, Imagine

Least favourite songs: I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama

3/5

A Scottish post punk/pop band......fuck... It's so strange to me how you can 100% guarantee that if a band is Scottish, their music is going to be absolute dogshit.

This may be one of the worst records I've been forced to listen to .It's awful. Dudes voice sounds like David Byrne from Talking Heads.

The music is everything that was wrong with 80s pop. So much of this absolute garbage on this list.....fuck Scotland's shitty music. Where are all the bagpipes? At least back then, when bagpipes were being used in traditional celtic songs, you could make good music. Where did it all go so horribly wrong?

Favourite songs: Arrogance Gave Him Up, simply because the lead singer shuts the fuck up, and this song is fully instrumental.

Least favourite songs: No, Bap De La Bap, Skipping, Nude Spoons, Gloomy Sunday....and the rest of this album. I don't care....I've lost interest.....

1/5.....0/5 if I could. Nothing about this album is remotely "necessary listening". Fuck the writers of this shitty britpop enthusiasts book. It certainly isn't an essential listening book as advertised. Robert Dimery is obviously some form of moron.

I'm not sure what to think of this album. The front man of the band, Jah Wobble, was bassist for the band Public Image Ltd. before starting this band. They are like World fusion....has touches of reggae, traditional Indian music, and African bongo work throughout.

Apparently Jah Wobble's real name is John Wardle. Dude grew up with Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious of The Sex Pistols, and was good friends with them. One night, Sid Vicious was drunk and tried to say John Wardle, but it came out Jah Wobble, so he kept it as his stage name.

This album was really hard to find a copy of. No one made a complete compilation of the songs on YouTube, and the album isn't on Spotify. I resorted to looking up the track listing on Wikipedia, and searching for the individual tracks on YouTube.

I really liked the strong bass work throughout this record, and there was definitely some experimentation on this one. Some of it worked, some didn't. There was so much experimentation, that the album almost felt like a mixed album of a bunch of different artists. They would change up their sound so much between tracks that there wasn't much cohesion to the flow of the record. With a bit more direction, this album had the potential to be great, but as is, it suffers a bit.

Favourite songs: Everyman's An Island, Visions of You, Erzulie, Bomba, Ungodly Kingdom

Least favourite songs: Rising Above Bedlam, Sweet Divinity

3/5

This is like lo fi indie country rock verging on noise rock. Complete with a singer who can't carry a tune in a bucket. The lyrics are simplistic and nonsensical. The singer, David Berman, gathered up a few members of the band Pavement to create this band. I've reviewed a few of Pavement's records on this generator, and really disliked those. I don't really know what the hell this is, but it's not great. There are fleeting glimpses of cohesion, but then the singer opens his mouth again...

Favourite songs: I Remember Me, Friday Night Fever, Tennessee

Least favourite songs: Time Will Break the World

2/5

Apparently for this record,Simon and Garfunkel wrote a lot of these songs together, planning for another group album, but they got in an argument, Garfunkel walked out on the recording sessions, Paul Simon removed Art's vocal tracks from the songs, and released it as his own album. Kinda a dick move. Through listening to a few Paul Simon records, and reading up on the history surrounding the records, it has become evident that Paul is a bit of a douche canoe.

As far as this album is concerned, it doesn't hold a candle to Graceland, but it isn't a bad folk pop album all in all. Solid music to listen to in a coffee shop on a rainy day with an old book. Nothing remarkable about the album, but not bad. You can tell through listening to the album that Paul was grasping at straws trying to find topics to sing about....such as cars (dumb song), allergies, and the moon...

Favourite songs: Allergies, Think Too Much (a), Hearts and Bones, Song About the Moon, Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War, Train in the Distance

Least favourite songs: Think Too Much (b), The Late Great Johnny Ace, Shelter of Your Arms

3/5

The second Yeah Yeah Yeahs album I've reviewed on this generator (the first being It's Blitz!). This album is worse than that one. Sounds like Queens of the Stone Age with a female singer...that indie rock/garage rock sound.

Favourite songs: Date With the Night, Maps

Least favourite songs: Man, Tick, No No No, Poor Song

3/5

Favourite songs: Takeover, Renegade, Izzo (H.O.V.A.), The Ruler's Back, Jigga That Nigga, Song Cry, Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)

Least favourite songs: "Girls, Girls, Girls" (Parts 1 & 2), U Don't Know

4/5

Not a bad album, but it's another instance of how one fucking phenomenal song does not a good album make. This album has Freedom! '90 on it, which is a certified banger, but the rest of the album is fine, but nothing to write home about.

Favourite songs: Freedom! '90, Soul Free, Heal the World, They Won't Go When I Go

Least favourite songs: Praying for Time

3/5

Probably the best techno/electronica album I've had on this generator. I mean.... It's still techno.... But it would be good background music to work to, which is what I did today.

Favourite songs: Air Towel, Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love, Confusion the Waitress, Pearl's Girl

Least favourite songs: Stagger

4/5

There seems to be a disconnect between Rod Stewart's lyrics and the music. Almost like the two were recorded completely separate from each other, without hearing how it sounded when mixed together. The album is definately back loaded. Once You Shook Me comes on, the rest of the album is so much better.

Favourite songs: Rock My Plimsoul, Greensleeves, You Shook Me, Beck's Bolero

Least favourite songs: Shapes of Things

3/5

A very different, stripped down version of the ABBA that I know. Lower energy, but still maintaining those beautiful harmonies. Interesting listen today to hear a departure from the norm.

Favourite songs: One of Us, The Visitors, Cassandra, Two For the Price of One, Head Over Heels, Soldiers, Slipping Through My Fingers

Least favourite songs: Like an Angel Passing Through My Room

4/5

This album gets top marks simply for the song California Dreamin'. Solid 60's hippie pop.

Favourite songs: California Dreamin', Straight Shooter, Somebody Groovy, Do You Wanna Dance, Go Where You Wanna Go, Spanish Harlem

Least favourite songs: Got a Feelin'

4/5

The album that Cohen wrote on his deathbed, in which he reflects on life, religion, mortality, etc. I was afraid that this was going to be a super downer, but it is so full of hope. This is an absolutely beautiful album!

Favourite songs: On the Level, Steer Your Way, You Want It Darker, Treaty, Leaving the Table, If I Didn't Have Your Love

Least favourite songs: none, this is a masterpiece

4/5

More fucking lackluster indie garbage from the 00s. I just don't care.... I'm so tired of these fucking mid albums on this list.... There are so many of them. This album is so fucking lame. There's 52 fucking minutes I will never get back..... I'm starting to think that the morons who made this list have fucking brain damage...

Favourite songs: Junk Bond Trader, Somebody That I Used to Know

Least favourite songs: Everything Reminds Me of Her, Everything Means Nothing to Me, Pretty Mary Kay, Bye.... And others..... I just..... Don't care......

1/5