Reviews by gingerninja155

It’s been one hell of a week on the site for me. 4/5 days this week have been Jazz albums. Jazz is a genre I find to be astoundingly average and generally not something I ever seek out due to the lack of planning out the songs (Something directly inherent to what makes Jazz what it is) and coordination. It often just doesn’t interest me that much, often to the point of boredom. This, however, was pretty damn good. Perhaps that's because there's also a lot of Blues in here, and it all feels very planned out and not like one constant freestyle. Maybe it's because of his outstanding voice. Of the 4 Jazz albums I heard this week, I would go back to 2 of them. This is one of those 2. When Jazz is planned out and clearly coordinated like this and makes a semblance of sense musically, it’s generally pretty good. Plus, all I can imagine in my head when listening to this album is a funny Orangutan singing, and that just makes me happy. Look at the album art, look at that goofy guy. He’s having the time of his life. My favorite song on this album was the opener, the absolute classic “Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody - Medley”. Obviously this is very dated, as it’s one of the oldest albums in the book, but it’s still very easy and fun to listen to today and I’m glad I got to spend some time with it. I'm going to give it a high 3. Bonus, having never heard of Louis Prima before this outside of The Jungle Book, I later got to identify his music by sheer coincidence outside of this project, and immediately recognized that it was him. Getting to learn about new artists and then being able to identify them later on is one of the coolest parts of this entire project!! This was a very fun record by King Louie. 🦧❤️

Mini tangent: Thought my app was glitching for a second. This entire album only has 2 songs on it, huh?? Well, that’s a new one. I wonder how many albums are only going to have 2 songs for this project. Can you really call this an album with just 2 songs?? Surely none of them have just 1, right?? Now that would be comedy. Ok, tangent over, let’s start the review. This is my second Miles Davis album, following Birth Of The Cool, which I enjoyed but don’t really remember any of really, because it’s Jazz. You’ll never believe it, but this is also just Jazz. I don’t love it, but I for sure don’t hate it. It is competently made, and it’s easy to listen to. You’d think having just 2 songs would make it easy for me to pick a favorite, but I really just can’t tell them apart enough to make a decision here. It’s literally a coin flip. Going to go with “Shhh/Peaceful” as whatever is going on towards the middle of the song is pretty good. As far as Jazz albums go on the site, this is one of them. That is my review. Thank you.

World music is always a mixed bag. I almost guarantee I’ve already stated that during one or multiple of these reviews so far. The ratings are generally always very low, and I can generally always understand why. It’s music from a different culture that often speaks an entirely different language. Unfairly, a lot of people are immediately going to not vibe with that. I’ve had multiple of these albums at this point, including some notably of Spanish, African, French, Hindi and Indian origins. Not all of them are bangers, but to be honest, this one was pretty good. High energy, energetic vocals that aren’t overbearing, and a good usage of some very prominent traditional South Asian instruments. While thematically similar, the songs on this album all have a unique feel to them, and even if I can’t understand them, I can kind of pick up what it is they’re trying to say and appreciate it for what it is. My favorite of the bunch this time was “Ali Maula Ali Maula Ali Dam Dam”. Never in a million lifetimes would I have bothered seeking this album out, but thanks to the site, I was able to enjoy this today, and it surprised me with how good it was. A pretty solid 3.6/5 stars. No skips here, just a fairly consistently good blend of catchy World music. Right on.

Listen, I know some of these albums are going to be dated and are very much products of their time. I get it, times were different, it was a different world and all that nonsense. That being said, man, this entire album just feels kinda… well, overtly rapey. Makes it kind of hard to enjoy. Not to mention it’s just not really my thing in general, so that’s a double whammy. I have no idea how Frank Sinatra was as a person, but it’s not relevant to the album. I kind of got the impression that he was one of the most well respected artists in general, but man is he getting absolutely RAILED in these reviews. There aren’t many, but there are enough albums on the website that reading the reviews for are a substantially more fun time than listening to the actual album they’re reviewing. This is one of those times. I expected to like this album a lot more than I actually did. I mean, it’s Frank Sinatra. From what I had initially understood, he’s some kind of music royalty. And yes, again, dated, product of its time, etc etc. I’m sure this was probably absolutely groundbreaking at the time. But now, all I hear is “Please cheat on your husband” or “I’m stalking this unsuspecting woman”, or “I’m going to buy the old washing machine some jewelry. Broads love shiny things.” I don’t know. It’s pretty boring, and I didn’t manage to get through the day just listening to it. This is also not my favorite rendition of “The Girl From Ipanema”. But, a positive note, he’s got a hell of a good voice. Conflicted, if this one’s not a 3.0, it’s a 2.9. The least rapey song I enjoyed the most was probably “Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)”. In case you couldn’t tell, I wasn’t really all that much of a fan of this one. A pretty rough outing by one Frank Sinatra. That’s all folks.

Oh look, it’s another tragic artist that just so happened to blow me away with how good they were. Why do the most talented people have to die so early? It’s such a depressing reality of life. Admittedly, the only thing I knew about Amy Winehouse going into this album was that she died, and it was a huge story at the time. No idea how she sounded before listening to this, as I’d never really sat down and listened to an Amy Winehouse song before. When I saw the genres listed as Soul, Jazz and Rock, I really didn’t have a clue what I was going to be in for here. What a unique and catchy style of music this was. After listening to it, yeah, I can clearly hear elements of all 3. Her singing style is very reminiscent of Soul, the instruments are very Jazzy, and most of the songs on the album clearly have some Rock focus as well. That just about covers all 3. The only thing keeping this album from a 5 star rating is one of the most common issues I have with albums, the filler. It’s NEVER an issue here, but some of the songs are just here to extend the album a bit and end up being a little forgettable. Now, I ended up adding 4 songs to my playlist from this album, which was also way more than I expected. My favorites here are “Intro / Stronger Than Me”, “In My Bed”, “ What Is It About Men”, and my personal favorite, “Amy Amy Amy”. This was an album that immediately hooked me during the first listen. Holy shit her voice was on fire on this album, which also happened to be her debut. It was catchy, smooth, sexy, and easily replayable from top to bottom, filler included. This one is a solid 4.8/5. Notably, this album does not include any of her Top 10 songs on Spotify. A grand majority of them, including her Top 6 songs, are on her next album, Back To Black. That album is also on the list. If it’s as good as the listen count implies, we’re looking at a very solid chance that one gets a 5 star rating from me. I’m going to specifically refrain listening to it so whenever it gets rolled I can get excited about it popping up here. What else can I say? Amy, Amy, Amy, I’m a new fan of yours.

Before I begin this review, I want to mention that the only song I knew of Peter Gabriel going into this was “Sledgehammer”. Luckily, it happens to be on this album. This is the first of 3 Peter Gabriel albums on the list I’ve rolled, and the highest rated by the users on the site by a pretty good bit. I wonder if it’s because of the inclusion of that song. While undeniably the highlight of this album, I’m also obsessed with “Big Time” now as well. Listen, as a whole, I’m not in love with this album. It’s 9 songs, 46 minutes, which is a good length, and has 6 very light and slow songs, and 3 which are faster paced, better, and more to my personal taste and liking. The third song I really liked was “This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)”. Undeniably, Peter Gabriel has an amazing voice I could listen to for a long time. The drummer beats the hell out of whatever he’s using. You get a lot of noticeable, heavy steel drum noises all throughout this album which are pretty awesome. If I was in to the more slow paced and pretty 6 songs, this would absolutely be a 5 star album. If those 6 songs were even remotely like the 3 I enjoyed, this would probably be a 10 star album. As it stands, I’m going to give it a 3.7/5. “Sledgehammer” happens to be my favorite music video of all time, and I recommend anyone that enjoys that song, or anyone who simply enjoys good art to go watch it!! Also humorously enough, but more off topic, Stranger Things finally just came back this week for a final season. I rolled a Kate Bush album earlier this week, and I’m ending the week with a song featuring her on this album. Anyone who has seen the show would know why that’s funny, and if I didn’t know any better I would say the owner of this website may just have a great sense of humor.

This was my Thanksgiving album today, so it didn’t get the love or time I usually give to the other albums. I was spending some quality time with the family. Stuffing is the best Thanksgiving food btw, fight me if you disagree. Luckily, this album doesn’t seem to be all that great or memorable. Ok voice, fine instrumentation, just another album I’m going to forget about shortly. Maybe I’ll spend more time with it and see if it hits me differently when I’m not so busy. It was fine, but at the moment I don’t really have much to say about it. Too light for my liking and I was kind of falling asleep listening to it a few times. It’s very passable. Just one of seemingly a thousand of these middle of the road English Rock albums that get progressively harder to write a unique review for. I’m well over 150 albums in now, and it’s already getting rather difficult at times to be unique for these. I don’t know if that says more about me or the rather generic, unremarkable but still passable nature of the album as a whole. It’s almost an hour long, which is a little on the long side for what it is. Plenty of filler here. Most of the songs are forgettable after a single listen and some, especially “All By Myself”, are at times a little hard to get through and outstay their welcome. This is probably a band that falls in the “Hey, remember that band??” category, noting that they only ever made this single album. A few songs were pretty good, I particularly liked “I Can’t Sleep”, and “Doledrum”. There’s just enough variation between the songs here that it’s at least not a chore to get through for the most part, but I don’t think I’ll be keeping this one in the usual rotation or returning to it any time soon. After about a minute, it just fades into background noise. Again, it’s fine for what it is. But only just fine. A 3.3/5.

Going to start off by mentioning the album art. Few are as iconic as the angel baby smoking. Permanently engrained in my mind, and always will be. I’ve got some very fond memories of playing “Hot for Teacher” on Guitar Hero. Imagine that song coming out today though. It could never happen. Probably for good reason, but as it stands it’s one of the catchiest songs on the album, and I can’t stop singing it, lol. This album is so tight. It’s over in the blink of an eye. It would be easier to tell you the tracks that I didn’t recognize on the album. Having not heard this from top to bottom before, I knew all but 2 of them. That is to say, with songs like “Jump” and “Panama”, and the lesser known, but maybe my favorite song on the album “I’ll Wait”, this is a pretty damn good collection of hair metal jams. You’re either going to love it or not. I think most people are going to love it, personally. I know this came out in the 80’s, but for some reason I was kind of surprised just how psychedelic and funky this album was. Always going to be a fan of “future noises”, especially when it’s contextually relevant to when the album came out and not just a throwback, although those can be cool as well. I was going to say that this is Van Halen at its absolute best, but holy shit their first album is also pretty good. Going to be fun trying to determine which one I like more when I roll that one. As it stands right now, I’m on the border of giving this a 3 or 4. While I enjoy most of the songs, none of them absolutely blow me away. But it’s iconic, very tight, and I knew pretty much every song going in. So I don’t know man. Damn, this one is hard to rate. I’ll be nice and let the cool album art have a place on my profile.

Man, this is a WEIRD album with a capital WEIRD. The first listen through was one of the most miserable experiences of my entire life. I could not wait to turn this off. This is the second Kate Bush album I’ve rolled for this project, and I gotta be honest and say she’s 0/2 on personal enjoyment. Here’s why this album is so weird. Kate has a great voice, but the ways she chooses to use it range from caterwauling like a mad woman with plenty of voice cracks left in the final product, using way too much unnecessary grumph, or as another reviewer mentioned, literally making animal noises. It’s not only off-putting, but it takes me out of the songs completely. A cardinal sin when I’m trying to get lost in the music or work with it in the background. Even the songs that I actually do like have these random interjections that I just don’t vibe with. Bad vibes on this album all around. Yet, I managed to spend the day listening to it. Have I sort of found a weird level of understanding with Kate that makes listening to this easier, or have I just lost my mind completely?? I don’t know. When it’s good, it’s a 3. When it’s bad, it’s a 1. Therefore, I think I’m going to give Kate Bush a second 2 star review, even though some of the noises she makes on this album are actually offensive to my ears. My favorite songs on this album, when she’s not being annoying, are “Leave It Open” and “Night Of The Swallow”. To my astonishment, I found something to actually enjoy with both of those songs. One more try at an average rating for Kate Bush. I don’t like her odds honestly. If anything can be said about Kate Bush, it’s that she’s unique and clearly having a lot of genuine fun here. That should at least be celebrated, even if I don’t enjoy it personally.

Wow. Talk about an album that really surprised the hell out of me. I have no idea who Janelle Monáe is, but now I want to hear more of her. My first listen through and I thought it was a lot. Fast paced, sounded like an upbeat women’s haircare commercial, and insisted heavily upon itself. Kind of gave me anxiety. Wasn’t bad, just a long album that didn’t really do anything for me. On the second listen, I was absolutely hooked harder than I could possibly have imagined. Janelle is an incredible singer, and she brings a certain energy to these songs that I haven’t heard a lot of for this project. Now, this is a long album, and not every song is perfect, but god damn does it sure feel like it ends quickly, even at 1 hour and 8 minutes of runtime. Every song does a great job of blending into each other, and there is a good bit of variety in the songs. Occasionally, there’s even a killer breakdown, like on “Cold War”. The filler on this album is mostly just short intermission tracks that are still actual, real songs and not annoying skits. Picking a favorite song is actually really hard. The hit is “Tightrope”, and that’s probably the song I’m going to pick, otherwise it would take me hours to decide on what my favorite song on the album is. The feature is very good, and it’s definitely the catchiest song on the album. Man, this might literally be another contender for a 5. It’s close. The production is just insanely well done. I think by the time you hit a certain point, you kinda get the point. I don’t have many aspects to fault this one on, length included. Not only would I come back to this one, but it might fall into my usual rotation. A huge compliment for someone I’d never heard of before. It’s a very, very very very high 4 for me. I didn’t add any one specific song to my playlist, but god damn it’s all so good as a whole. This was catchy.

As a guy with Irish heritage, I’m surprisingly not the most familiar with U2. When I was a kid, we had a single U2 CD my parents would play in the car. Whatever record had “Elevation”, that’s the only track that stuck with me all these years later. I suppose I could easily just look that up on Spotify and see if I remember the other tracks, but I’ve never really cared to do so. It wasn’t really all that impactful of a memory, just a very old one I have. Anyway, I didn’t recognize any of the tracks on this album, hits included. I know about the reputation this album has though, and I know about the reputation Bono has nowadays. His portrayal on South Park as well as the whole forced album on Apple phones thing really fucked the band as a whole in the public eye, didn’t it?? All that being said, I guess I’m a fan of U2 now. This was nowhere even remotely close to what I remember them sounding like. This album is damn near a 5 for me. The electronic elements are stellar, as are the guitar playing and Bono’s iconic singing. I enjoyed just about every song here. The only thing keeping it from being a 5 is that, despite all the ways I enjoyed this album, I still don’t think anything stood out as truly incredible. Fantastic, yes. But not incredible. The closest song to true perfection I thought was “Even Better Than The Real Thing”. This is a really good album and it’s currently first place on the list of albums I may go back and change to a 5 if I feel like reranking a bit. I know this is considered by many to be their magnum opus, so I’m curious to see what I think of their other albums on this list. Really good first impression with this one.

I’m having a generationally good run on music this week again. 2 5’s in a row is always a good omen. “Feel Good Inc.” and the Gorillaz were my first big love in music. I’ve been listening to these guys my entire life. I’ve grown up with them and seen every stage of their evolution with great interest. While I’d rather have preferred Demon Days over this if I had to pick only 1 Gorillaz album, this is still undeniably a 5 star album. Me labeling it as anything other than that would be directly antithetical to my entire being. This is the band that introduced me to Deltron and MF DOOM, 2 of my all time favorite rappers. While only the former is present on this album, he’s also responsible for what I believe are the 2 best songs on the album, “Clint Eastwood” and “Rock the House”. Both of those songs are worth the price of admission alone. That isn’t to say 2D doesn’t absolutely kill it on vocals though, he’s another absolutely iconic part of the band. They must have had so much fun on this project. Every song sounds completely distinct from the last, and they’re all absolute ear candy. When this came out, it was unavoidable. You either loved it or hated it. After that, it took on a life of its own and the rest was history. What a great first album by one of my favorite bands of all time. Bonus, I’ve never heard this version of “Clint Eastwood” before either with Ed Case, but it’s fantastic. There’s a 3rd version on the album G-Sides with Phi Life Cypher, and even that’s good. I guess they just have a million different versions of that song, and it makes sense. The song is fantastic!! They’ve even sang it live with MF DOOM himself, which was legendary as well btw. I could talk about this band all day in a positive light. Listing my favorite songs on this album would simply be me copy and pasting the entire set list. And the album art!! Gotta love the classic Gorillaz geep with the graffiti of the bands name. It even manages to capture their unique personalities as well. Love this album. Love the Gorillaz. If the book gets another update, it would be a crime not to include Demon Days or Plastic Beach. Further more, since they were frequent collaborators, this may be one of the few moments where I get to request they add MF DOOM as well.

Jethro Tull beat out Metallica in 1989 at the Grammy’s in the category of “Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental” with the album Crest of a Knave, an album most Jethro Tull fans wouldn’t have in their Top 5. It was the first and only time the Grammy’s held that category. Did you know that?? It’s one of the funniest things to ever happen in music. Not only did it paint the awards show as a total joke (which it absolutely is), but it also confused the shit out of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull, who are not, and have never been a Metal band. By Ian’s own words, he doesn’t even consider it Hard Rock. Now, jump to the year 2025. Jack White is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, extraordinarily deservingly so. If the laws of nature abided, I would have that man’s babies. He thanks over 30 bands not already in the hall. Notably among them, a bunch of Prog artists, including Jethro Tull. This has all been a long winded way to say that not only is the Rock Hall committee an absolute joke as well, but Jethro Tull and his signature flautistry are absolutely iconic among bands. Ian isn't the first person to play the flute, but he's definitely one of the most notable to do so in the field of music. This album is so good from top to bottom, and it's going to surprise a lot of people with just how good it is. Every hit is incredible, and could all be considered my favorites. "Aqualung", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "Up To Me", "Hymn 43", "Locomotive Breath" and "Wind-Up" are my favorite songs on this album. Which one is my favorite favorite? Man, I can't even tell you. Even the interview at the end of the album is interesting, a cool insight on how the album was made. My all time favorite genres continue to be Prog and Grunge. High chance they're all going to get a 5, and this is for sure no exception. I wish we had more Jethro Tull albums on the list, but this is the most famous and most accessible of all of them, so I'm more than ok with this being what they went with.

I’m learning. When I rolled a “Country, Singer Songwriter” album with a somewhat low rating this morning, I decided not to just write it off before listening to it. For that, I was rewarded with an album that more or less surprised me a ton. It was a dark, gross, and very rainy day outside today. Somehow, listening to this peaceful album with the rain pouring outside was just the vibe I needed to get through the day. The rain actually added to the experience, which was cool and unexpected. Listening to Gillian and her soothing voice made the rain feel more serene, peaceful and less chaotic, if that makes any sense. This album is a fairly mixed bag of genres and tone shifts at random points, so it also gets bonus points for feeling unique and interesting. It will shift between a soft spoken Singer Songwriter piece, more traditional Modern Country, or sometimes even some Country Rock, that last one of course being my favorite. Every song stands out from the last for both better and worse, which as I’m finding out over the course of this project, is actually pretty hard to do. The more Modern Country drawl ditty songs like “Elvis Presley Blues” don’t really do it for me, but even those I don’t straight up dislike. The opener, “Revelator”, was so good that I added it to my playlist. It’s got a killer riff at the end, and is both peaceful and also kicks ass. The song builds on itself and culminates in a song that ends up just being fantastic from start to finish. So, yeah. I’m learning. Never judge a book by its cover, go in with an open mind, and you might just end up being very surprised. Great album you have here Gillian!!

This is one of those albums I appreciated listening to, and would not have seeked out if it wasn’t for the site. Obviously I have heard of the legendary Muddy Waters. Truly a revolutionary, and one of the best to ever do it. What I didn’t expect was to enjoy his music as much as I did. So, it’s very dated, obviously, but it is so incredibly easy to listen to that it really doesn’t matter. The repetitive nature makes it just the slightest bit less enjoyable, but I would take this any day of the week over something like Jazz. Muddy has a great voice and can play the guitar very well to boot. His charming and confident nature radiate with each song on the album. While this isn’t something I would often return to, I don’t believe this album has a single song I would skip on it. My favorite song on the album was the all time classic “I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man”. Very glad I got to spend the day with Muddy Waters. This is absolutely foundational music for so many reasons, and still holds up well today.

“Oh, good, these guys again.” - Me, said sarcastically after rolling my second Arcade Fire album for this project. I really don’t know what it is about this band specifically, none of this is bad and the background aspects are very well done, I just find it all so pretentious, by the books, generic and boring. If someone were to play any of this, I wouldn’t object listening to it, but I would absolutely skip it 100% of the time if it was just me in the car. This is a prime example of the kind of generic indie rock that I can tolerate listening to, but do not prefer or recommend to anyone I know. They for sure aren’t the first band I’ve heard that just sound disingenuous, and they won’t be the last, but they just come off sounding kind of fake and phoned in. Damn, I’m being kind of rude to this album. It’s not as bad as I’m making it out to be, I promise. It’s fine. Passable at best, and more good then bad, but it’s very easy to critique as well for its faults, and hard to praise when every song sounds the exact same as the one before it. Not sure if I liked this or Neon Bible more. Probably the ladder, as it had 1 song I really loved. This one, not so much. I think the opener was probably the best song, “The Suburbs”.

The review that links to the Onion Article about this album may just be the greatest review on this entire website. Dave Mustaine has a unique, iconic voice, and I will absolutely accept no slandering of his vocal performance on this album. He really adds something special to it. This is EXACTLY my tempo for an album. When I want to play true Metal, this is the kind of thing I’m talking about. Same reason why Metallica is going to get a bunch of 5’s. This is one of those albums where you can just take your pick for favorites, and it might change daily. There’s so much to love between all of the songs, but god damn are the hits amazing. The riffs on this album are some of the juiciest pieces of ear candy I’ve experienced with this project so far. This is one of those albums I have actually heard 1000 times before, which always have a bit of favoritism when I’m ranking these. That being said, I love this band, so it’s easily getting a 5 from me. Favorite songs are “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due”, “Hangar 18”, “Five Magics” and “Tornado of Souls.” This album is Metal as hell, it’s extremely goofy, and most importantly it just kicks so much ass. I haven’t even mentioned the album art yet. This might make the podium for best album art with all the funny political figures rallying around Vic Rattlehead messing around with an alien and some kind of glowing artifact thing. Uranium maybe?? Don’t know. Regardless, goated album. I even have another one to look forward to at some point.

2/2 Temptations Albums down. Having listened to the album All Directions previously, I had extremely high expectations for Cloud Nine. I added virtually the entire album after listening to it last time. So, how does this one compare? Well, in my honest opinion… This one isn’t nearly as good, sadly. The good news is that all the singers sound amazing, especially the guy with the immensely deep voice. Love that guy especially. The bad news is that as a whole, these songs are all just barely passable, maybe slightly boring, and I didn’t love the rendition of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” nearly as much as the CCR Version, so that kind of disappointed me even more. I think what held this album back compared to the other one is the level of Funk. It was easier getting down with All Directions because every song made me want to get down and dance, but this one felt like more traditional Motown and did not make me want to get down and dance. Not a bad thing, just not as good. It was a high pedestal to put the album on admittedly, and it did not pass my expectations. All that being said, it’s a slightly above middle of the road 3. Let’s go with a 3.68/5. My favorite song on this album was the opener, “Cloud Nine”. It teased me right away with a banger of a song and then went downhill rather quickly after that. Still, now that I’m done with these guys as far as this project is concerned, I’m free to check out their entire discography, which I absolutely will. That’s a huge compliment.

“Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?” You know, I’ve always been interested in checking out this movie, and now I’ve heard the entirety of the soundtrack to it. This is the third movie soundtrack I’ve rolled so far for this project, and for the third time I think it would have been better had I already seen the movie going in. Listen, I love Isaac Hayes as much as the next guy, but this is not the best representation of his work. He barely even sings at all here, and his voice is the most notable thing about him. None of these songs, besides “Theme From Shaft” and “Do Your Thing” really stand on their own legs without whatever scene they are supposed to accompany. Without that very important added context, this is like 99% background music and 1% gold when he’s actually singing. The good news is that even the instrumentals are at the bare minimum good, even if some of them go on way too long. I’m an absolute sucker for some Funk/Soul, so it was at least enjoyable for the most part. It’s a tad boring in places, but with background music to a movie, that feels inevitable really. Another strange inclusion to this list to have a musician beloved for his voice, and inexplicably have him not sing for the majority of the album. Thank God for the fact that Hot Buttered Soul is on this list, that’s one I expect to enjoy substantially more. Important to note that I didn’t not enjoy this one, it just wasn’t what I was hoping it would be.

It's The Wall. Be real here. It's musical perfection. I may not enjoy this as much as Wish You Were Here, but it's still one of many in a list of perfect or near perfect Pink Floyd albums. Noted, it's my least favorite of them, but it's nonetheless still perfect. Hilariously enough, I actually rolled Wish You Were Here yesterday, so there is a non zero chance I get 3 Pink Floyd albums in a row. Now that would be insane. Anyway, if Wish You Were Here is a Prog Opera, this is an entire Prog Movie. It's long, it's sad, it's intense, it's a lot of things that have already been said better than I ever possibly could. The filler adds to the experience, and there is plenty of it. That is the only reason why it can never be my favorite Floyd album. That being said, the hits absolutely rule. "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1-3", "Comfortably Numb", "Hey You", "Young Lust" and "Run Like Hell" are all God-Tier songs littered throughout the album, and when you get to them, it's definitely worth the wait. The rising and falling actions on this album are just one of many brilliant aspects to an album that deservedly gets a ton of praise. Another 5/5. I could listen to this on repeat for the rest of my life and find something new to enjoy and appreciate.