Reviews by georgehart1122

Love this album! While Running Up That Hill (Deal With God) is the single, I honestly think the title track is the better song. That bass sound on Big Sky. Cloudbusting is such a killer song. The back half of the album is where this puppy gets weird. lots of ebbs and flows. The back half of this album is where the real meat is, it just takes concentration and a dedicated listen to in order to parse it, which I just can't do in the context of this challenge. Will need to come back to. The Morning Fog is like a minute too short.

Right into Message In A Bottle eh? The title track makes for a cool 1-2 though, I would have flipped their order. Does Everyone Stare stinks. Some good tracks, some bad.

a cool white boy reggae/soul/heavy rock album. But its also totally a ska record? Bonin' In The Boneyard was a good track.

1984Van Halen

Rated 8/10

Jump, Panama, AND Hot For Teacher!? there is enough stadium rock in just those three singles for at least a decade. Top Jimmy has these wild almost country licks.

Off to a real interesting start on this RNB record. Sweet Life is good. A really good record that I have no idea what to do with or how to rate it.

Sneaking this in while waiting for an inspector. Personal Jesus is a great single. The vibe is also pretty fucking stellar on this. Enjoy The Silence is another killer track.

MetallicaMetallica

Rated 10/10

This was like my first album and I've listened to this thing a billion times. Enter Sandman's intro is permanently ingrained in my brain. That Hollywood style slow build, the floor tom sound. Metallica grabbed the world by the throat with this album with a more honed production that focused more on a vocal forward approach. The songs were constructed to be more than just shredding. They were meant to evoke something in the listeners. Which they succeeded at. Holier Than Thou was always a sleeper track for me.

The first half of this is really bluesy and not for me. The more straightahead soul funk grooves are more my speed, like I've Been Working. Best live album ever recorded? not on your life. Have you heard Vulfpeck's Live at Madison Square Garden? Even Live at the Budokan.

YES I knew I had encountered this album before! A fucking monster of a solo piano record. With all the vamping that occurs, this feels very close to a funk record, basically stripped right down to the studs.

Abbey RoadThe Beatles

Rated 10/10

Perfection. The sound of The Beatles going out on fucking top. I Want You (She's So Heavy) such a great side A ender.