Reviews by forestfly2009

Today's album is a pop rock/modern day disco record by Scissor Sisters. This is a very unique genre which I haven't really heard before. It sounds like it would be awful, but surprisingly it works.

The band have hints of Bee Gees, ABBA, and Queen in their delivery, and are apparently staples of the LGBTQ community, having got their start in the "NYC Gay Nightlife" scene. Some of their music is quite comical, such as Tits on the Radio, which is loosely a song about beating off because you can't see tits on a radio. The only other band that I can think of who are close to this sound is Ultraviolet Sound.

Overall, a surprisingly great album today. This music makes you want to get up and move. Especially Filthy/Gorgeous. I enjoyed the album so much today that I listened to it twice. Very different and interesting.

Favourite songs: Filthy/Gorgeous, Take Your Mama, Tits on the Radio, The Skins, Music is the Victim, Laura

Least favourite songs: Comfortably Numb

4/5

I am quite familiar with George Michael's stuff from his time with Wham! but never delved into his solo stuff much. Of course, I know the hits, like Faith and Father Figure, I just never took the time to go any further into his catalog.

This album drips 80's pop, from the synth heavy sound, to the in your face sexuality, even to the cover photo. The large crucifix earring and leather jacket screams 80's sex icon! Even just by listening to this album I feel like I've been banged by George Michael. I may have ear herpes. None of this is to say that this album is terrible, actually quite the opposite! This was a fantastic record!! It has a very Prince/Michael Jackson feel to it, and I think maybe it kind of got out shined by those heavy hitters a bit, but it is still great.

Overall, I was happy to delve a little deeper into George Michael's catalog of music today, and will definately add some of his stuff to my more frequent listening playlists.

Favourite songs: Faith, Monkey, Look at Your Hands, Hard Day, I Want Your Sex, Hand to Mouth, Father Figure

Least favourite songs: One More Try, Kissing a Fool

4/5

I've heard Blondie's hits before, but have never listened to an album cover to cover, so this should be an interesting day. Blondie are a pop rock band from USA. They are a female led group, and they influenced so many female led groups that came later such as: Madonna, Paramore, and Garbage.

This album is their third studio album, and is apparently the album in which they changed from a new wave band to a more pop oriented band. This album still has a few rock forward songs (One Way or Another, and Hanging on the Telephone), but the bulk of the album is closer to the pop side of the spectrum.

Debbie Harry had a very interesting vocal style that is instantly recognizable. She has done some living too! Apparently she was a go-go dancer, and a playboy bunny for a short period of time, she was an actress (leading role in the movie Videodrome as well as other movies), she almost got kidnapped by serial killer Ted Bundy, and she was a self proclaimed New York Dolls groupie.

For this album, the band worked with record producer, Mike Chapman. Chapman saw the band as sloppy, and spent a lot of time trying to hone the skills of each individual. This didn't sit well with some of them, causing bassist Nigel Harrison to throw a synthesizer at Chapman.

Overall, a fairly average album today. Nothing really caught me by surprise or jumped out at me. Just a normal run of the mill female led pop band. I probably won't listen again, but can certainly see how big of an influence they were on pop music today.

Favourite songs: One Way or Another, Heart of Glass, I'm Gonna Love You Too, Bang a Gong (Get It On) - Live, 11:59, I Know But I Don't Know, Pretty Baby, Hanging on the Telephone

Least favourite songs: Fade Away and Radiate

3/5

Before today, the only exposure to Dead Kennedys I had was hearing Police Truck on Tony Hawk Pro Skater, and Holiday in Cambodia on Guitar Hero 3.

For the purposes of this review, I enjoyed the album so much that I listened to the extended edition of it.

Dead Kennedys have a really unique sound, mixing surfer rock with hardcore punk, and lacing in their political views (which are sadly still relevant today). Jello Biafra's vocal delivery sounds like the B-52's. Their version of Viva Las Vegas may be better than Elvis'! All of the members of the band are super talented! These guys pushed their message unapologetically, and largely without representation. I Kill Children, and Funland at the Beach both have roots in Alice Cooper style shock rock, really taking the listener by surprise when they start into them.

Overall, a phenomenal punk record. The fact that this is a debut album is insane! I thoroughly enjoyed this deeper dive into their back catalog. I will definately listen again!

Favourite songs: Police Truck, Too Drunk to Fuck, In-Sight, When Ya Get Drafted, Holiday in Cambodia, California Uber Alles, Chemical Warfare, Let's Lynch the Landlord, Forward to Death, Kill the Poor

Least favourite songs: The Prey, Drug Me, Ill in the Head

4/5

This is the second Nick Drake album I've reviewed so far on this generator. The first of his albums (Bryter Layter) was dark, brooding, and depressing as hell. This album came after that one, and, unlike that one, is just Nick and his guitar. There is no backing band or other artists collaborations.

Apparently, the album before this one, because it was so slow and depressing, sold like shit, and radio stations stopped playing his music. Nick slipped further into depression, and got really heavy into pot and pills. This album is a product of that. Like his other record, the lyrics on this album are largely nonsense.

Apparently, Nick rented a recording studio for two late night sessions. Half the songs on this record he cut the first night, and half the second night. No fiddling around with layering or overdubbing or anything, just sat down, pressed record, and hammered this record out. That shows insane talent!

A few years after this album was released, Nick was found dead of an overdose of depression meds. An unfortunate end for a hell of an artist. The way that Nick played guitar was amazing. He managed to do double duty in that he could achieve a bass note, and his guitar riffs all at once, basically eliminating the need for a bassist.

Overall, I enjoyed this album much more than the first of his that I reviewed. This one felt more balanced. Even though it was also super dark and melancholic, there was a rawness and beauty to it that was absent on Bryter Layter. I'm not sure if I will ever listen again, but I'm glad it was on this list.

Favourite songs: Which Will, Free Ride, From the Morning, Know, Road, Pink Moon, Harvest Breed

Least favourite songs: Horn, Parasite

4/5

Today's album is by Jerry Lee Lewis, a rock and roll pioneer from way back in the 50's in the time of Elvis.

Before we delve into this album review, here is a hilarious story about Jerry: So he's in a bar, driving liquor into himself after he unsuccessfully tried to get his dad out of jail for drunk driving. Elvis calls him up and tells him to come over. Jerry grabs a bottle of champagne, gets into his brand new Lincoln Continental, drives to Elvis's place drunk as fuck, and slams into the gates of Graceland. Elvis watches on closed circuit TV as Jerry finishes his bottle of champagne, and tries to throw the empty out the window but the window was up so he ends up covering himself in broken glass. Elvis's security guard was apparently also his cousin, so he calls up to Elvis after all this horseshit goes down, and Elvis tells him to call the police. The police come and arrest Jerry Lee and put him in jail with his dad.

Now, onto the album review. It is well documented that Jerry Lee may not have been the nicest human being, having married his 13 year old cousin, shot his bass player while drunkenly shooting at a door on his birthday, and being a huge racist, but we are here to listen to the music.

This album is phenomenal! Jerry enters the performance hall, seemingly strung out on pills, and puts on a non stop white knuckle performance! He played the shit out of that piano, so much so that they probably needed to re-tune it afterwards. Jerry's belted lyrics, and fast paced playing style were amazing, and this was some of the earliest signs of what was to come with future rock bands of the 60's and 70's.

Overall, just a pleasure to listen to! His performance was so captivating! Easy music to swing to. Imagine being there, that would have been crazy!! I will 100% listen again!! Oddly, Spotify only has 8 of the 13 songs on this record. I did, however, find a full album playlist on YouTube. Do yourself a favor, and listen to the full album as intended. It's all gold!!

Favourite songs: Hound Dog, "Good Golly, Miss Molly", Great Balls of Fire, "Long, Tall Sally", Matchbox, Mean Woman Blues, Money (That's What I Want), Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, High School Confidential, What'd I Say (Parts 1&2), Lewis' Boogie

Least favorite songs: Your Cheating Heart

5/5

I am not too excited for today's album; I've been known to traditionally not like U2's music. I have never, however, sat down and listened to a full album of theirs either, so we will see how this goes.

Right off the bat, three of their "hits" play back to back: Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, and With or Without You. I am familiar with these songs, and don't particularly like any of them. It may be because radio stations have literally played them to death, or it may be the ethereal, slow, elevator music-esque atmosphere that all of their songs have, but I just don't like the music, I don't have a reason why. Also, a minute passes before anything happens in Where the Streets Have No Name for some reason. Bono's try-hard, angst filled vocal delivery is just grating.

Leave it to Bono to not look at the camera for the album cover photo. He probably saw a koala in distress. What a tool. I think my favourite story about Bono is that one time, Shane McGowan (lead singer of the Pogues) was crashing with Bono for a time. Bono's house was quite handy to a busy railroad. Droves of people went by on the train every day to see Shane flapping his cock at them in the window of Bono's home, unbeknownst to Bono. Bono got the blame, and promptly kicked Shane out.

Overall, this is bland Walmart rock. I just don't like U2. I will never listen again if I can help it.

Favorite songs: Bullet the Blue Sky, Trip Through Your Wires (the little bit of energy this album has is during these two songs)

Least favorite songs: the whole beige, bland album.

2/5

I've never really listened to anything by the Pixies before, although I have heard of them. I listen to a podcast called The Ongoing History of New Music, and in a series of episodes they did on the start of Alt Rock, the Pixies and Sonic Youth were named a few key bands in the genres creation. None of this made me feel like I would enjoy Pixies, though, because a lot of people say in the early 90's you either liked Sonic Youth or Pixies. I reviewed an album by Sonic Youth a month or so ago, and I really didn't like Sonic Youth. If Pixies are anything like that noisy horseshit, it was going to be a poor review today.

What I heard, however, although founded in the same ideals, was a much more polished sound. Sonic Youth were noisy for the sake of being noisy. The Pixies, although noisy, had a distinct direction and structure to their music. Also, the lead singer of the Pixies can actually sing. The first song on the record, Cecilia Ann, sounds like a thrashy, hardcore rock version of surfer rock; almost like if Kurt Cobain was in the Beach Boys. There is some great songs on this record, and these guys influenced so many groups that came after them like: Nirvana, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, and others.

Overall, a surprisingly good record today. I will definately listen again!

Favorite songs: Hang Wire, Down to the Well, Cecilia Ann, Velouria, Rock Music

Least favorite songs: Havalina, All Over the World

4/5

Before today, the only Derek & the Dominos song I was familiar with was the epic, Layla, so this will be an interesting listen today.

An interesting story about the theme of this record. It is mostly a series of love songs, as the title states, which are written for George Harrison's then wife, Patti Boyd, who Clapton eventually manages to marry.

Duane Allman's spectacular slide guitar playing techniques, and Clapton's canoodling guitar solos mesh together beautifully on this album. Each and every song had at least one guitar solo thrown in. Without the solos, this album could have been done in like 40 minutes instead of the 1 hour, 16 minute runtime that this ended up being, but there is a lot of creativity to all those solos. The cover of the song Little Wing is good, but not as good as Jimi Hendrix's original. The first song on the album, I Looked Away, starts with a real country blues sounding riff to start off the record, and they kept the hits coming throughout. Although the runtime is long with this album, it doesn't feel it.

Overall, a really good blues rock record. Maybe a bit too much showboating from Clapton, but who cares, it's great! Will definately listen again. I'm impressed there was a song that topped Layla for me!

Favorite songs: Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?, Have You Ever Loved a Woman?, Key to the Highway, Layla, Bell Bottom Blues, It's Too Late, Keep On Growing, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, I Looked Away

Least favorite songs: Thorn Tree in the Garden

5/5

I've been known to traditionally not be a huge Sting or The Police fan. I mean, their music isn't terrible, and it is quite catchy, but I just never really jived with any of their stuff much. Message in a Bottle is a jam though!

Actually, the only song I knew on today's record was Message in a Bottle. The Police sound a lot like UB40 (reggae mixed with pop rock). Actually, today's album cover (Reggatta de Blanc) translates to "white reggae" which is basically what this is. Maybe that is part of why I don't really care for The Police. The fact that reggae should be left to the Jamaicans (Bob Marley and Peter Tosh for example are both amazing artists). I just feel like Sting is trying too hard to be Jamaican (even mimicing their accent). Sting's larger than life ego isn't lost there either. On the album cover, for example, Sting's head has to be the biggest. Sonically, the band is tight. The drum work on this record is phenomenal, and the bass grooves are funky as hell! Amid the feel good reggae beats, there is some darkness though. In an interview one time, Sting said that The Bed's too Big Without You is a song about his ex girlfriend who killed herself.

Overall, not a bad listen, but not something I gravitate towards. Listening to a full album did nothing to change my mind on the band. If anything, it introduced me to some of their quirkier songs (On Any Other Day for example).

Favourite songs: Message in a Bottle, Bring on the Night, It's Alright for You

Least favorite songs: Does Everyone Stare, On Any Other Day, Contact

3/5

Another random obscure British post punk band today.....yay!?! I've never heard of The Jam before, so I am unsure what I am in for.

These guys sound like a shittier version of Happy Mondays or Dexy's Midnight Runners. The bass grooves and drumming on this record were solid. The spoken harmonies were weird, but worked with the musical stylings. The song Music for the Last Couple spent a minute and a half following a house fly around before any music started at all. That was kind of annoying.

Overall, not a bad album. Nothing of note really happened, it's just another post punk band. I've already mostly forgot what I listened to. Nothing really jumps out at you sonically. Perfectly average. Not something I would rush out to buy, but not something I would turn off if it was playing either.

Favourite songs: Set the House Ablaze, Man in the Corner Shop, Start!, But I'm Different Now, Pretty Green

Least favorite songs: Music For the Last Couple, Monday

3/5

Today's album is another synth-pop album from some obscure British band. Apparently members of The Human League broke off to form this band.

There is some highly repetitive stuff on this album, especially on the song Penthouse and Pavement; it really didn't need to be 6 minutes long. There's also some experimentation with different sounds....like the fucking repeated whistle in the song The Height of the Fighting. The bass groove that is played for the first half of the record is it's only real display of talent. These guys sound like a Walmart brand of Talking Heads. And Talking Heads are shitty enough, so imagine how cheesy these guys are.

Overall, not my style of music at all. Not horrible, but not great. The album cover looks like you are going to be listening to business meetings on tape.

Favourite songs: (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang, Penthouse and Pavement

Least favorite songs: Soul Warfare, Geisha Boys and Temple Girls, Song With No Name

2/5

Today's album was a slog for sure. Firstly, it is a double album. Secondly, it is very heavy lyrically as the whole album is about Marvin Gaye's divorce. It flopped upon release, because more than being an album, it was Marvin laying everything he was going through (the rollercoaster of emotions) out on tape. If you purchased this hoping for some more typically upbeat Marvin vibes, this isn't it.

Marvin's telltale recording style of doubling his voice so he can harmonize with himself is spectacular. This record still has that silky smoothe slow, funky soul feel to it, that I can only describe as "bedroom music". It is soothing to listen to.

There are a few more lighthearted tracks on this record, notable A Funky Space Reincarnation. The lyrics of this song are hilarious, and so typical of Marvin...

2073, 2084, 2093 Light years ahead,
You and me gonna be getting down on a space bed,
We gonna get married in June,
We gonna be getting down on the moon.

Or, another gem from the same song:

Let's razzmattazz and all that jazz,
Let's feel each other's ass

Overall, a great listen today. Marvin's music is always good. This album is so long though, and the topic so heavy, that it just doesn't hit like the rest of his stuff does. Don't get me wrong, the album is great, it's just not something that I would put on again. It is perfectly average.

Favorite songs: A Funky Space Reincarnation, Time to Get It Together, I Met A Little Girl, Anger, Everybody Needs Love, Is That Enough

Least favorite songs: Sparrow

4/5

This is my first time hearing about Beach House. They are a dream pop/indie pop group from Baltimore. This is their third studio album.

The first thing I noticed was the shitty album cover. At first I thought that the album generator website was having issues drawing the album cover image, then realized there was something there....zebra stripes in an eggshell color over a white background....wtf. Negative points for the unoriginal, bland album cover.

Moving on to the music, this screams 2010's. This was a time when everyone was doing the "dream pop" thing. This sounds like bands such as Fleet Foxes or Hozier without the folk sound, and more of a bland pop sound. The lyrics are heavy with reverb and sound like they were recorded in a church or a large empty space. The harmonies reached by the male and female voices are beautiful. There is so much harmony and reverb though, that the lyrics get buried by layers of echo, making it hard to understand. It doesn't matter though, because the lyrics are just nonsense. Couple this with the organ/guitar work, and you are left with a coffee house staple. Kind of bland background music. I find myself constantly loosing focus while listening to this record. Hipsters would love this music, hence its success. One song blends into another, and all of a sudden I've been daydreaming through 3 songs. I go back and try to focus, but again, I drift off. I don't know if it is the ethereal nature of this record, but it is super hard to digest. It isn't necessarily bad, it's just super bland. This pairs well with the bland album cover. This album is perfectly beige.

Overall, not bad. I probably won't listen again, but I didn't hate it. It's going to be hard to highlight the best and worst songs from this one because everything blended together.

Favorite songs: Silver Soul, Norway, Zebra, 10 Mile Stereo

Least favorite songs: Real Love, Walk in the Park

2/5 (would have been 3 but what a dumb album cover. -1 for that)

Jacques Brel is a popular chanson artist from the '60s. His style of music delivery is like a French Randy Newman or Leonard Cohen in that his grasp on the language, and his ability to paint a picture are breathtaking. Most of his music on this album starts as a whisper, and through the song lyrics and musical accompaniment, he slowly ramps up the intensity, culminating at an amazing crescendo near the end of the song. The musical accompaniment on this record has a real french bistro feel to it, with the heavy accordion work and beautiful guitar playing throughout.

Since I don't speak French, but I understand bits and pieces, I'm left with a fragmented picture of what Jacques is singing about. Given what my research and translation apps have told me, Jacques is painting beautiful artistic pictures on the stage both through his lyrics, and his acting. I wish I spoke the language so that I could experience what the audience experienced on those two nights in '64. Something of note here: both of Jacques parents died in '64 prior to this live recording, so the themes of darkness and pain are coming from a very real, very fresh place.

Another interesting fact, the album opener, Amsterdam, was covered by David Bowie.

Overall, a really great album. I wouldn't actively seek it out, but am also glad to have heard it.

Favorite songs: Amsterdam, Les Jardins Du Casino, Les Timides, Le Dernier Repas, Les Toros Avec Final

Least favorite songs: Le Plat Pays

3/5

When I saw that today's album was yet another electronica album, I didn't have much hope for it. When I read that it is kind of like shoegaze meets electronica, I had even less hope for it.

What I heard, however, was a rock forward style of electronica, in that a lot of the songs on this record have pretty heavy distorted guitars and bass, with underpinnings of electronica (sampling, screeches/scratches and beeps/boops). Actually, they sound a bit like the Prodigy or Primal Scream (their good album, Screamadelica, not that other shitty album of theirs we were given by this generator). The shoegaze categorization, I believe, is coming not from the musical stylings, but more from the lyrical delivery. It can be noticed in one of the only songs with lyrics, Soul Auctioneer. In this song, the singer's vocals are sang in a style similar to Bob Dylan (nasally, and with a care free attitude).

Overall, a surprisingly ok album. Most electronica albums with me fetch a 1 or 2 star rating, however, this album I will rate a 3. I didn't hate it immediately, so that's a plus. And I can hear some musical talent in most of the songs, so that's way more than I can say for any other album of that genre that I've gotten yet.

Favorite songs: Soul Auctioneer, Aisha, Dirge

Least favorite songs: Death Threat, Lever Street

3/5

Another helping of Alice Cooper today. Most of what is to be said about Alice, I said in my review of his album Billion Dollar Babies. This album was better than that one. School's Out is a staple of summer vacation for students everywhere!! Every time I hear that song I think of the movie Dazed and Confused.

There is a lot going on in this album. The first two songs are good rockin' hits, then Alice throws in a curve balls in the form of a song that has a show tune feel to it (Gutter Cat VS the Jets sounds like it could be in West Side Story), this is immediately followed by a short track that features the bassist canoodling while shit is smashed and broken in the background. Blue Turk is a jazzy blues number, and sounds like something Frank Zappa would put out. After this hiatus from rock, he comes back strong to round out the record.

Overall, a great album. Would be a welcome addition to my record collection. It's neat to hear the range of Alice Cooper's musical exploration. They are always stuck in the shock rock genre, but they are so much more than that!

Favorite songs: School's Out, Luney Tune, Blue Turk, Public Animal #9, My Stars, Alma Mater

Least favorite songs: Street Fight

4/5

The only Paul McCartney and Wings song I was familiar with before today was Band on the Run, which is great, so I figured that today's album would be pretty good as well. Plus, Paul McCartney was a well known name internationally due to his previous gig as a member of the Beatles. Truthfully, Paul's solo stuff is much more enjoyable to me than his stuff with the Beatles.

Upon doing some research about this album I learned some interesting stories about the recording of it. For some reason, Paul decided that they would record this album in Nigeria.
The studio was in disrepair, and the end of town that it was in was quite the slum. Paul got robbed of his demo tapes and song lyrics at knife point at one point during the trip. Apparently Paul and Fela Kuti got into an argument while Paul was down in Nigeria as well. Fela thought that, since Paul opted to record in Nigeria, he would "rob" some of the local musical influences, and inject it into his music. Apparently Paul invited him over to the recording studio, Fela listened to what they were laying down, and was like "oh, ok. This is just regurgitated Beatles music, never mind." Also, Ginger Baker offered them his studio to record in, but Paul being Paul said "No, I want to do it myself." Apparently right before they headed to Nigeria, the drummer and guitarist from Wings quit, so Paul recorded the bass, guitar, vocals, and drums parts himself. It was just him, and the two remaining Wings members, his wife on keyboard, and a rhythm guitarist. It would have been great if Ginger had done the drum bits for the album. The drums were ok on the record, but you could tell that they weren't really studio quality.

Overall, this album endured all those hardships and still managed to go triple platinum. It was a great album, and is very easy to listen to. I may not seek it out, but it had more hits than duds, and if it was playing in the background, I wouldn't be inclined to turn it off. I went into this exercise today assuming Band on the Run would be my favourite song, but Let Me Roll It ended up surprising me, and claimed the top spot.

Favorite songs: Let Me Roll It, Band on the Run, Mrs Vandebelt, Jet, Bluebird

Least favorite songs: Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)

4/5

Before today, the only songs by War that I knew were the hits (Low Rider, The Cisco Kid, and Why Can't We Be Friends?). These guys were a hit in the 60's - 70's, and actually, this album was named Album of the Year in '72, so I am excited to hear more of their catalog today!

This album is a slow, funky masterpiece. Songs such as "City, Country, City", although being 13 minutes long, were excellent. Instead of being a long song with half a dozen solos mixed in, it was one huge groove, in which each member of the band could solo, and show their skills while the rest of the band kept time. There are some amazing artists in this band! The inclusion of a harmonica in "City, Country, City" surprised the hell out of me, in a good way.

The opening song, The Cisco Kid is such a fantastic funky song! This band is a melding of soul, jazz, funk, Latin, blues, and rock into one hell of a laid back sound. They sound a lot like Sly and the Family Stone, but their musical themes are never negative. It is always "peace and love", which is refreshing to listen to. You would think, with a title like "The World is a Ghetto" you'd be in for a political, negative album, but this album is full of positive vibes. The long drawn out grooves have a way of pulling you into a trance, and making all your worries disappear.

Overall, an excellent album today. Not something I would always be in the mood for, but it helped make yard work a hell of a lot more enjoyable today!!

Favorite songs: The Cisco Kid, Where Was You At, The World Is A Ghetto, Four Cornered Room

Least favorite songs: "City, Country, City"

4/5

Run-D.M.C. were single handedly responsible for smashing down the walls that separated rock from hip-hop in the early 80's. I believe this harder sound (which is the earliest signs of future genres such as gangsta rap and hardcore rap) is why they were so prominently featured on MTV, allowing them to sell the most records of any hip-hop group up to that point. They were actually the first hip-hop group featured on MTV, and were also the first hip-hop group featured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.

These guys took sounds that MC's like Grandmaster Flash were making, stripped them down, simplified them, and cut them with rock instead of the usual funk sensibilities. Also, one thing that I love about these early days of hip hop is the clean songwriting. As I stated in an earlier review if an album by Jungle Brothers, these guys didn't rap about hoes, getting their birds sucked, and killing people. They sang about real issues, like racism, poverty, and world peace. The song Sucker M.C.'s is considered to be the first "diss track" ever. Run-D.M.C.'s lyrical delivery of finishing each other's sentences would become a trend in hip hop as well, being utilized by future bands such as Beastie Boys.

Overall, a historic record today, and an excellent one at that!! I will absolutely listen to this again!!

Favorite songs: Rock Box, It's Like That, Jam-Master Jay, Sucker M.C.'s (Krush-Groove 1), Hollis Crew (Krush-Groove 2), 30 Days

Least favorite songs: if forced to pick, Hard Times

5/5