Pretty fun album. Makes you wish you could have been there.
Reviews by fruktsupp
Rated 4/10
Hey You what’s that sound was fun, but the rest feels repetitive and pretty dated. Hard to imagine this was all that interesting even in 1999.
Rated 8/10
No doubt this has some fun moments, but it's still pretty rough. I think a solid producer could have bumped this material up a notch, as there are some great moments dulled by some poor production choices. For instance, there is no song here that should have been over 4 min. Some good foreshadowing of what was to come for this band though.
Rated 6/10
Sonic Youth is just not my taste. Not bad, not great.
Rated 8/10
I had never heard this before, other than 'No More Mr Nice Guy', which is a classic. I was pleasantly surprised. Not a classic album by any stretch, but competent and fun.
Rated 6/10
Deserves a star for the album title alone. Otherwise, not great, not bad.
Rated 8/10
I was pleasantly surprised with this one. Lots of interesting work with a diverse set of influences. Some of it might have been good theme music for a Bond film.
Rated 10/10
Great new wave groove. I was drumming the steering wheel of my car all day to this.
Rated 10/10
Most of Neil's albums on this list are around a 4 for me, but this is one that I'll round up to a 5. The best of his catalog, to my ear. The couple questionable tracks are more than covered by the absolute classics on this one.
Rated 4/10
Man, tough for this album to come out in 1992, given what was released that year or the year before it. I don't think it even makes the top 20 most significant albums of 1992, in my book anyway.
Rated 6/10
I know 'Get it on' all too well from my days playing trumpet in my high school pep band. I had never heard the rest of this album before. Nothing grabbed me - it was fine, just pretty average.
Rated 8/10
I was definitely not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. It’s not my style, but there's clearly some great songwriting work on this one.
Rated 10/10
Beautiful, haunting album.
Rated 10/10
Some classics on this one. Great overall sound.
Rated 10/10
Prince at the height of his powers. 10/5.
Neil's albums always seem to land in the 3-4 star range for me. Good-great, but not all-time. Cinnamon Girl is a favorite of mine.
Rated 10/10
Loved this when it was new and again now. Wonderful atmospheric album. Electronic beats, surf guitar, whispered vocals - I don't know why it works, but it does.
Rated 4/10
This was tough. It seems like it couldn't pick a lane - not jazz, not psychedelic rock, not folk rock, but trying to be everything at once while succeeding at none of them.
Rated 10/10
Wonderfully weird, varied, fuzzy and a bit inaccurate. All of that adds up to an album that is right in my wheelhouse.
Rated 8/10
I enjoyed this quite a bit. Seems ahead of its time for 1980. Some of it gets repetitive at times, but I never wanted to skip a track. It had me engaged the whole way.