Rated 6/10
This is basically France's version of Madonna. More electro pop though. Not bad.
Favourite songs: Desenchantee, Psychiatric, Beyond My Control, Je T'aime Melancolie
Least favourite songs: Nous Souviendrons Nous
3/5
Rated 6/10
This dude is like Jack Johnston crossed with Passenger. That super depressing acoustic singer songwriter folk. Super pretty, but so depressing.
Favourite songs: Cannonball, Older Chests, Delicate, The Blower's Daughter
Least favourite songs: Cheers Darlin'
3/5
Rated 8/10
This album reminds me a bit of Bo Burnham in that it's comedic pop rock from a dude that made it big through viral videos on the internet. Lemon Demon were the band responsible for that viral video "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" in 2005. The whole album is like that. Kinda catchy pop music that doesn't take itself too seriously. Full of NES sounds and electronica, but not so much as to be annoying. It's not bad.
Favourite songs: Angelfire, Touch-Tone Telephone, Cabinet Man, Pizza Heroes, Sweet Bod, When He Died, I Earn My Life, Reaganomics, Angry People, Crisis Actors, Geocities
Least favourite songs: Spiral of Ants
4/5
Rated 6/10
Favourite songs: Meant to Live, Dare You to Move, Ammunition, Adding to the Noise
Least favourite songs: Monday Comes Around
3/5
Rated 10/10
Absolutely stellar album. I'd never heard of Gang of Youths before today. Thanks OP for the recommendation!!
Favourite songs: Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane, Persevere, Let Me Down Easy, The Heart is a Muscle, Achilles Come Down, What Can I Do If The Fire Goes Out?, "The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows", Le Symbolique, Fear and Trembling, Keep Me In The Open, L'imaginaire, Say Yes to Life
Least favourite songs: none, the album is perfect
5/5
Rated 6/10
I'm not afraid to say I don't understand this.... But I'm glad you like it. It has its moments, but is way too out there and ambling for me. I don't deny that they are stellar artists, it's just not for me.
Favourite songs: The Dead Flag Blues (the poem in this song is stellar. The Machine is, indeed, hemorrhaging)
Least favourite songs: East Hastings
3/5
Rated 10/10
Remember COVID? Lol
I've loved Bo since he got his start on YouTube. Dude is a wordsmith, and is hilarious. Never thought one of his albums would be on this list, but I'm glad it's here. Thanks OP
Favourite songs: Bezos I, Problematic, Welcome to the Internet, How the World Works, White Woman's Instagram, Inside, Sexting, Unpaid Intern, That Funny Feeling, All Eyes on Me
Least favourite songs: Look Who's Inside Again
5/5
Rated 10/10
My God this man is a fucking stellar bassist! This album slaps (literally lol). What I love is the fact that on this album, they took the bass.... Usually an instrument that gets buried.... And made it front and center of this album, and really showed what the instrument can do. So cool!
Favourite songs: "Come On, Come Over", (Used to Be A) Cha-Cha, Kuru/Speak Like a Child, Donna Lee, Okonkole y Trompa
Least favourite songs: Opus Pocus
5/5
Rated 2/10
Since OP seems to feel his opinion is the only one that matters, I have this to say.
Instead of publishing a biography, I can sum up my feelings on this album in one word......NO.
I will offer one piece of advice. Stick to your music reviews. I feel your career is in the music industry somewhere and do actually enjoy reading your album reviews. Maybe leave the deep dives into OP's psyche to an actual psychiatrist. A public forum is not the place for you to spew your assumptions about where people's recommendations are coming from. Most of the time nostalgia plays a huge factor in our recommendations. It doesn't always come down to how talented the musician is or isn't. Maybe the albums we throw into the mix came into our lives at the right time and just kinda stuck; something I feel you miss the mark on. Here's a free piece of advice: Don't assume things: All assumptions do is make an ass out of you and me. Get it.... Ass... U.... Me..... Assume....lol
I recommended the wrong Tragically Hip album according to you so you felt it necessary to rake my nostalgic tale of sitting around a campfire through the coals to prove to yourself that you were right and I was wrong. I fully understand that The Tragically Hip isn't for everyone, and if you don't like them, that is your opinion, and you're entitled to it. You seem to take offense to my language at times and the fact that I hate what I hate and love what I love. It makes no sense to you because, you are right, I am not in the music industry, but that doesn't make me ignorant to what some of these artists are doing. I've been playing musical instruments for 30 years. Doesn't make me an expert, but I'm also not totally ignorant as you allude to. I, similar to a lot of people, started this journey to expose myself to new music which is outside my comfort zone. It has been successful in making me appreciate genres such as jazz, world music, pop, and trip hop. It has also showed me genres that I really hate such as shoegaze, britpop, and noise rock. I may hate them because I don't understand them, but here's the rub: I don't WANT to understand them. Nothing about them is sonically appealing to me. That's ok, but the fact that I fucking despise Radiohead has you trying to figure out what's happening between my eyes, and the easiest answer in your mind is ignorance.
As you pointed out, my flaw is that I wear my heart on my sleeve; a trait that I am quite aware of. I love things absolutely, and hate things with all of my being. Perhaps you read that hatred as ignorance, and perhaps I voiced my hatred with too much gusto. That's on me. But that doesn't give you the right to demean everything I hold dear to try and drag me through the dirt to make yourself feel better.
I'll tell you this: you can take your Radiohead, and Bjork, and every other pretentious artist that you seem to love, and go sit in your car (your words... ) and listen to it. You may have a car full of like minded individuals, but I'll have just as many out sitting around the campfire with me. Do me a favor. Don't just sit in the car. Put it in gear and drive away. Don't try to insult me into suckling off of the teat of Thom Yorke. I'm good here thanks.
Favourite songs: Joga, Bachelorette
Least favourite songs: Pluto.... So you thought the sound of cats being actively murdered would suffice at a campfire? It's clear that you aren't Canadian.
1/5
*I apologize, my 1 word album summary did in fact turn into a biography, but I felt I had to say something. You need to be brought down a peg or two, as you said that I did.*
Rated 4/10
Favourite songs: Do You Remember the First Time?, Babies, Lipgloss
Least favourite songs: Acrylic Afternoons, Someone Like the Moon
2/5
Rated 8/10
Favourite songs: "Outta Me, Onto You, Adam and Eve, Superhero, Untouchable Face, Shameless
Least favourite songs: Amazing Grace
4/5
Rated 10/10
Favourite songs: No Particular Place to Go, Go Bobby Soxer, Promised Land, You Never Can Tell, Our Little Rendezvous
Least favourite songs: You Two
5/5
Rated 6/10
Favourite songs: 156, Snow Brigade, Comforting Sounds, "Am I Wry? No"
Least favourite songs: Symmetry
3/5
Rated 6/10
I liked this album more than their other album featured on the post list (Six).
Favourite songs: She Makes My Nose Bleed, Wide Open Space, The Chad Who Loved Me, "Take it Easy, Chicken", Taxloss, Egg Shaped Fred
Least favourite songs: Mansun's Only Love Song
3/5
Favourite songs: From Under the Covers, Oh Blackpool, Girlfriend, You Keep It All In, Song for Whoever, Woman in the Wall
Least favourite songs: I Love You (But You're Boring)
3/5
Rated 8/10
Favourite songs: Strife, No Face, Hit Me, I Am Here, Husbands, Shut Up, City's Full
Least favourite songs: Dead Nature
4/5
Rated 8/10
This is actually pretty solid!! Usually Beyoncé overstays her welcome with her albums, but this is a respectable 45 min runtime. The theme of the album is heartbreak, woman empowerment, Infidelity, and marital stresses. This album is a direct "fuck you" to Jay-Z. She wrote the album directly after discovering Jay-Z was cheating on her. Full of real anger and emotion.
Favourite songs: Daddy Lessons, Freedom, Don't Hurt Yourself, Sandcastles
Least favourite songs: 6 Inch, Love Drought
4/5
Rated 8/10
Favourite songs: The Bitter Suite IV and V: The Congregation and the Sermon in the Silt, A Night on the Town, Waves, The Old Haunt, King of Swords, If All Goes Well, Is There Anybody Here?, Wait
Least favourite songs:Ouroboros
4/5
Rated 6/10
These guys are really good instrumentalists, and also the inclusion of a trumpet in emo music isn't something I would have considered, but it works. Pretty solid album, especially given these guys were a college band that initially had a really short run. I'm glad to have heard this, even though emo isn't really in my regular rotation for listening, I still appreciate their talent.
Favourite songs: Honestly?, You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon, The Summer Ends, For Sure
Least favourite songs: The One With the Wurlitzer
3/5
Rated 10/10
Unreal that this isn't included on the original list. Killer album!
Favourite songs: Feel Good Inc., November Has Come, Dirty Harry, O Green World, Kids With Guns, Every Planet We Reach is Dead, Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head
Least favourite songs: El Manana
5/5
