Reviews by forestfly2009

Favourite songs: Big Money, Stinking Drunk, Kerosene

Least favourite songs: Fists of Love, Cables, Passing Complexion

2/5

Interesting tidbit if information about Spirit.... Listen to their song Taurus, then listen to the opening of Stairway to Heaven by Zeppelin. There are definately some similarities there. Randy California, the guitarist of Spirit, never sued during his lifetime, but his estate later did after he died. They lost the case, but Jimmy Page definately drew inspiration from that song for his riff in Stairway I'd say. Also, Spirit toured quite a bit with Zeppelin I guess, but never really broke through to the mainstream.

Favourite songs: Morning Will Come, Street Worm, Nature's Way, When I Touch You, Rougher Road, Mr. Skin, Prelude-Nothing to Hide, Red Light Roll On

Least favourite songs: Love Has Found a Way

3/5

This band is like Dollar Store Beck. This is the kind of blues rock pseudo hip hop music that could be found on every university radio station ever in the 90's/00's. That's not to say that it is necessarily bad, just mediocre at best. Do I need to listen to this album before I croak.... No. Has this sound been done hundreds of times before by more qualified acts.... Yes. Am I angry that I listened to this... Not necessarily, but it doesn't belong on this list, that's for sure

G. Love should have stopped the record around the 40 minute mark.... The last three songs on the record aren't great, but the rest of the album isn't terrible.

Favourite songs: Cold Beverage, Garbage Man, Fatman, Blues Music, This Ain't Living, Eyes Have Miles, Shooting Hoops, Baby's Got Sauce

Least favourite songs: Some Peoples Like That, Town to Town, I Love You

4/5

Prog Rock Icon!!!

Favourite songs: 21st Century Schizoid Man, Epitaph, The Court of the Crimson King

Least favourite songs: Moonchild

4/5

Favourite songs: Superstition, Maybe Your Baby, I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever), Big Brother, Tuesday Heartbreak

Least favourite songs: You And I

3/5

This one surprised the hell out of me. Never heard of John Grant, so had no idea what to expect. He is an indie folk artist or maybe synth pop... And his super weird lyrics mixed with his baritone voice and atmospheric music style made for some really interesting listening. I quite enjoyed it!

Favourite songs: Sigourney Weaver, Outer Space, It's Easier, TC & Honeybear, Marz, Silver Platter Club, Where the Dreams Go to Die, Queen of Denmark, Leopard and Lamb

Least favourite songs: JC Hates Faggots

5/5

ZIGGY PLAYED GUITAR!!!

Favourite songs: Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Starman, Moonage Daydream, Star, Lady Stardust, It Ain't Easy, Five Years

Least favourite songs: Soul Love

5/5

Favourite songs: Take Me to the River, The Good Thing, With Our Love, Artists Only, Stay Hungry, Thank You for Sending Me an Angel

Least favourite songs: Warning Sign

3/5

This is a folk/blues/country album. Kind of reminds me of Gene Clark.

This album is definately back loaded (once the song Everybody's Talkin' comes on the album gets so much better). This is not bad, but nothing to get too excited about.

I never knew that Fred Neil wrote the original version of Everybody's Talkin'. I remember Harry Nilsson's version being used in Midnight Cowboy, and Hangover 3. Solid song.

Favourite songs: Everybody's Talkin', Sweet Cocaine, Everything Happens, Green Rocky Road, That's the Bag I'm In

Least favourite songs: The Dolphins

3/5

This is Costello's debut album. Very strong for a debut, and possibly his best album yet that I've heard on this generator. This was before his downward spiral into fucking new wave and shit. On this album, he has bits of country, rockabilly, 50's rock and roll, pub rock, and punk. A pretty solid power pop record. I'm impressed. Typically I hate Costello, but I can get behind this album.

Favourite songs: Waiting for the End of the World, Mystery Dance, Pay It Back, Blame it on Cain, I'm Not Angry, Alison, Sneaky Feelings, Miracle Man

Least favourite songs: Less Than Zero

4/5

Why the fuck is this album on this list? And why does Fiona Apple have 2 albums on this list? Modern day Kate Bush. This album is made up predominantly of garbage. The album cover is dumb as fuck to match the album.

Favourite songs: Heavy Balloon, Under the Table

Least favourite songs: I Want You to Love Me (a perfectly good song that for some reason has a chicken getting railed for the last 30 seconds of the song), Fetch the Bolt Cutters (1 minute of dogs barking to finish this song off..... Wtf), Newspaper, Ladies, For Her, On I Go

2/5

Favourite songs: Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen, Mother's Daughter, Hope You're Feeling Better, Oy Como Va, Se a Cabo

Least favourite songs: Incident at Neshabur

4/5

FLUTES!!!!

Favourite songs: Locomotive Breath, Aqualung, Hymn 43, Cross-Eyed Mary, Wind-Up, My God, Lick Your Fingers Clean, Up to Me

Least favourite songs: Cheap Day Return

4/5

Another instance of "why the fuck do these morons have multiple albums on this list?"

Favourite songs: No Bones, Freak Scene, Pond Song

Least favourite songs: Don't (listen as the vocalist ingests the microphone while simultaneously pulling off his own fingernails.... Seriously, wtf was that?!?)

2/5

Oh no, k.d. lang has 2 albums on this list?!? Fml. This one is better than the other one I had to suffer through (Ingenue).

Favourite songs: Honky Tonk Angels Medley, (Waltz Me) Once Again Around the Dance Floor, I Wish I Didn't Love You So, Sugar Moon, Busy Being Blue

Least favourite songs: Shadowland, Tears Don't Care Who Cries Them

3/5

It is insane how much this sounds like Bowie. I read that Mott the Hoople was offered the rights to Suffregate City and turned it down, so then Bowie took it. Solid album!

Favourite songs: Drivin' Sister, Whizz Kid, All the Way From Memphis, I'm a Cadillac/El Camino Dolo Roso, I Wish I Was Your Mother, Honaloochie Boogie, Ballad of Mott the Hoople

Least favourite songs: Hymn for the Dudes

4/5

Robbie is like a modern day George Michael... Or he trys to be anyways. Like a more upbeat James Blunt.... Or a shittier Oasis.

Here are my favourite lyrics from the album:

From the song Ego Agogo...

"Hide away in your ivory tower
And cover me in your golden shower"

He wants someone to piss on him, lol.

Favourite songs: Angels, Let Me Entertain You, South of the Border, Ego Agogo, Life Thru a Lens

Least favourite songs: Clean, Baby Girl Window

3/5

This album has deep rooted nostalgia for me. I remember one summer in the late 90's I stayed at my aunt and uncle's place in the city for a few days in the summer and my cousin was a few years older than me. He introduced me to this album, which was so different from the hillbilly backwoods shit I had been privvy to my whole childhood, coming from a little rural town. This would have been my first introduction to music that wasn't country or like commercial classic rock or radio hits. Smashing Pumpkins were kind of an underground, unknown genre of music at the time for me. I remember hearing how overdriven and fuzzy their guitars were and thinking "holy balls, wtf is this"... That led me to explore heavier shit, and the rest is history. But this album is largely responsible for me getting into alt rock/metal in the 00's.

I also remember in the song Zero when Billy sings "Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness, and cleanliness is godliness, and God is empty just like me"... That was the darkest shit I had ever heard up to that point coming from a strong Christian family. Just hearing that I felt like I was gonna be struck down by lightning or some shit. Thinking back now, that isn't even that hard of a lyric, but at the time it was crazy.

Now I'm not saying that this is the most amazing album ever... It does have its drawbacks. Mainly, it kind of overstays its welcome, with the 2hr runtime, but this album is so deep rooted in nostalgia for me that it is impossible for me not to give this high marks. I'll always be greatful to my cousin for opening my mind to new types of music, and really starting me down the road to exploring new and different sounds.

Favourite songs: Zero, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Jellybelly, 1979, X.Y.U., Here Is No Why, An Ode to No Ode, Tales of a Scorched Earth, "Tonight, Tonight", Bodies, Thirty-Three

Least favourite songs: Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Take Me Down

4/5

Unlike yesterday's "faux French electronica", this is actual French electronica, or perhaps dream pop. Super down tempo, kinda chill music. I had their album "The Virgin Suicides" before, which was a score they wrote for the movie of the same name. As electronica goes it's fine. Nothing too spectacular, but much better than most electronica acts.

Favourite songs: Sexy Boy, La Femme D'Argent, Ce Matin-la, You Make It Easy

Least favourite songs: Le Voyage De Penelope

3/5

This album is like elementary school skill level electronica. It is actually classed as faux French electronica because dude isn't even French, he was born in England. Why is this a genre. Is there really that many people who want to pretend to be French ffs??? This album blows. Why the fuck is this on this list...

Favourite songs: Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat, Music Makes You Lose Control

Least favourite songs: Damaged People, Sometimes, Disco II Disco, Soft Machine, Hypnotise

1/5