Reviews by gbeggig

Favorite track(s): Couldn't Love You More, Certain Surprise, Small Hours, Dealer, One World

Favorite track(s): Inspiration/Information, Island Letter, Sparkle City, Aht Uh Mi Head, Pling!,

The dude played bass on a Frank Zappa album at 15 fucking years old. Of course he can write good music.

Favorite track(s): Alone, And Nothing Is Forever, A Fragile Thing, Warsong, Endsong

You did it. You crazy sons of bitches, you did it.

Favorite track(s): Ace of Spades, Stay Clean, The Hammer, Iron Horse, Overkill, (We Are) The Road Crew, Capricorn, Bomber

Here, class, we see an early recorded instance of dudes going "beast mode".

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Previous rating: 9/10

Favorite track(s): Shiver, Satellite

I'll blame the White Stripes album I listened to right before this for frying my attention span. I mostly recall a vocalist who sounded like Lou Reed in the style of Billie Eilish.

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Three strikes (technically four for Jack) and they're out. The usual obnoxious sound of the band is made intolerable by an influx of millennial piano and mushy pitch percussion. The only white stripe I respect is the sideline that these two should stand on while the game goes on.

Favorite track(s): Coyote, Amelia, Furry Sings the Blues, A Strange Boy, Hejira, Song for Sharon, Black Crow, Blue Motel Room, Refuge of the Roads

Top priority on my bucket list is now to take a cross-country road trip listening to only this album. I dare say it's better than Blue; Blue doesn't have Jaco Pastorius.

Favorite track(s): Red Rain, Sledgehammer, Don't Give Up, That Voice Again, In Your Eyes, Mercy Street, Big Time

Unlike Phil Collins's bullshit, Peter Gabriel was actually out there putting out generational music after Genesis. The only thing more legendary than Gabriel's songwriting is Tony Levin's bass work.

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Previous rating: 9/10

Favorite track(s): Astronomy Dominé, Lucifer Sam, Matilda Mother, Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk, Interstellar Overdrive, Chapter 24

Not that the album needs any help but adding See Emily Play and Arnold Layne at the end really brings everything together.

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Previous rating: 8/10

Favorite track(s): I Zimbra, Paper, Cities, Life During Wartime, Memories Can't Wait, Heaven, Electric Guitar, Drugs

The only thing holding this album back is the fact that this band locked in so insanely hard in the following years that they outdid all of these studio recordings with live performances.

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Previous rating: 8/10

Favorite track(s): First We Take Manhattan, Everybody Knows, I'm Your Man, Take This Waltz, Jazz Police, Tower of Song

If Dylan made an album like this, there'd be riots in the streets. Somehow when Cohen does it, I'm not fazed. I would even dare to call it good.

Favorite track(s): We've Only Just Begun, Maybe It's You, (They Long to Be) Close to You, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Crescent Noon, Another Song

This album really shaped up in the back half. Karen is an iconic drummer/vocalist.

Favorite track(s): Five Years, Soul Love, Moonage Daydream, Starman, It Ain't Easy, Lady Stardust, Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

A defining album for every music fan that I know. A defining album for one of the best songwriters of all time. A defining album for the ideas of pop and rock music.

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Previous rating: 9/10

Favorite track(s): Singing Winds, Crying Beasts, Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen, Oye como va, Incident at Neshabur, Mother's Daughter, Samba pa ti, Hope You're Feeling Better

People don't like this, I'm like "no mames güey..."

Favorite track(s): Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, Tales of Brave Ulysses, SWLABR

An epitome of the "singles + bullshit" album archetype, but at least they made the B-sides fire too.

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Previous rating: 7/10

Favorite track(s): Sex on Fire, Use Somebody

I am unfortunately overcome by nostalgia for the two big hits on this album but the rest is about as bad as I expected.

Favorite track(s): Willow Weep for Me, Be Anything But Darling Be Mine

Favorite track(s): Revolution 909, Da Funk, Around the World, Rollin' & Scratchin'

It's a fine album, but there's pretty much no reason for it to take the spot from Discovery. Everything on here is done better in Alive 2007.

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Previous rating: 6/10

Favorite track(s): Heartattack and Vine, Downtown, Jersey Girl, On the Nickel, Mr. Siegal, Ruby's Arms

Favorite track(s): What's Going On, What's Happening Brother, Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky), Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Right On, Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Of course it stands up on relisten, but I couldn't help thinking of There's a Riot Goin' On the whole time. Hopefully I see it someday soon.

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Previous rating: 9/10