Reviews by giddy

Not even MF DOOM's best project and it's STILL a five star. Madlib creates some utterly insane beats that seem like they'd be impossible to rap over, and yet DOOM handles them with eaze. Fantastic wordplay, great storytelling, and just plain intoxicating, this album isn't even DOOM's best project (IMO) but it deserves all the praise in the world.

This is very generic power pop/pop punk that's about a decade too late. I'm glad you can love this, OP, but this was not an album I needed to listen to before I died.

Suprisingly good when it wanted to be, it just had some downtime that made it feel a little weaker than it could've been, but I can certainly see why this was a missing link between hard rock and progressive rock on the main list.

Had nearly zero expectations going into this, and have little thoughts coming out of it, but it is certainly one of those albums you can tell I could've pulled more from if I could understand more than a small pledge to the drummer Mike Clark.

Not as bad as I expected, dare I say it's good at parts. But making me listen to this is arguably criminal, especially when there was already "better" jam band represented on the list. Phish is fine, but not in one large dose like this. It's not even one of the ones with a neat Talking Heads cover.

Very Gen X, very R.E.M. inspired, but there are certainly worse things to be. Just fails to have its own identity. Like, at all.

Probably deserves to be something I listened to before I died, but I still don't really care...

Proto-Twenty One Pilots (Derogatory and complimentary)

Always found this album disappointing compared to Awaken, My Love, but it still has its moments and charm. I suppose it's not really fair to compare them, any way.

Pleasant with bits that are pretty good, but too long winded and a bit meandering at points.

I only know Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) by name because of the soundtrack for the movie Her, which he did with Arcade Fire. Because of that, I was worried this would sound like Arcade Fire, a band I don't really get the hype for. However, this is really simple but pleasant chamber pop, and has some really fantastic pop tunes near the end to keep the energy going throughout. I think if that variation was more consistently woven into this album this could be really great, but it is still very good nonetheless.

I'm so happy that this album makes so many people out there happy and uplifted. I've been familiar with Robinson's work for a bit now, and I remember liking it, so I was hopeful for this album, but... this kinda not good? I mean, instrumentation can be solid at times, but the whole thing comes off like Owl City but louder and more daring, and starting from Owl City and working your way up only gets you so far. This isn't an album I can really hate on, I just actively disliked listening to parts of it, and too many of those parts (because the album should have ended three different times) makes the whole experience sour. I think this album is something really special for lots of folks, but I'm not one of them.

Very pleasant slice of 80s pop, although I can't shake the feeling the whole album is overly... familiar? You'll catch samples of other song's melodies, and just the general tones of a lot of these tracks feel like already established big artists. Now, I'm not saying they copied those artists, the chances of that are unlikely, but it makes it so this album doesn't really have its own identity, y'know? It's 80s pop rock, and that could've been a lot worse than this was, so I'll take this experience away as a net positive.

This is one of the only times I think I've ever said "this isn't what I expected" and meant it negatively. The album cover screams 90s, but the genres and general vibes told me this may be something fun to dive in to, despite its length. However, after the first few tracks the rock influences started to wear on me, just being cheesy, and by the end, despite a couple tracks almost grabbing me, I was ready to be done with the singer's frankly annoying voice and the general repetitiveness of the whole project, despite the small variations between tracks. Maybe if it was a shorter album I would be nicer, but I come away from this just feeling like I wasted my time, but maybe I should've expected that would happen the whole time.

Weener

Shockingly pleasant and perfectly epic in its execution and production. Just a couple more tracks like the opener to replace the less exciting stuff and this could truly be an all time great, but it's still very good and explains why I see it in every record store in America.

Kind of funny considering their first album in twenty-six years just released a couple weeks ago. Cardiacs certainly has some good songs, some of them are on this very album, but man if they are not too much for me. After a while of their music my eyes start glazing over and I just get bored. Talented musically, and always creative, but only sometimes my cup of tea.

Some of you are acting like this is naptime-worthy, but compared to the likes of Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, etc, etc, this is metal.

Pretty nice, I like a lot of parts of this, I just think some of the tracks got too long for the contents within. I can jam with a long track, but not these, for some reason. Still, pleasant enough.

Kind of just incredibly plain. It never feels like it's going for anything, and when it does "pick up" it still is far behind the competition. I suppose it feels a couple years ahead sound wise, but still far too safe, and therefore, boring.

Suprisingly solid for a two hour, Bruce Springsteen live album. That is to say, a two star.