Reviews by gregorsmith

Music, if all humanity was stripped away from the music. But without Gary, we'd never have the likes of Thomas Dolby, so....

Improves upon the CSN debut in nearly every way, and the addition of Neil Young is inspired, and "Our House" never fails to make me tear up

The soundtrack to a movie that was shown once, at noon, at some local indie movie theater, in one auditorium rented by the producers for tax and distribution purposes. Weird and delightful...

Honestly, its got solid beats, solid flow, solid bars. And it sounds very much like hip hop in 1989 and feels like Fresh Prince with a tinge of Public Enemy.

Probably the peak of 80s metal excess, an album that took 3 years to make, produced more hit singles than some bands can claim in a career, and the drummer lost an arm and still played on while one of the guitarists was slowly drinking himself to death....

Before Iggy Pop and David Bowie went to Berlin to clean up their heroin and cocaine habits, Lou Reed produced this, a story of a prostitute and a smackhead (not autobiographical was it Lou?) in Berlin getting fucked up and doing all the fucked up things that ends in ones suicide.

Fun for all the family....

Starts out with a bonkers psychedelic sitar cover of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and doesn't let you go from there, It even throws in another cover, this time The Doors' "Light My Fire" and you're all like, "WHAT THE FUCK Y'ALL?!?!?", properly questioning which timeline you slipped into...

The bridge between 80s rock excess and 90s alternative, what was and what would come. "Jane Says" gets all the attention, but "Mountain Song" is the real one here.

Not fair, I had IV 5 days ago and going back in time only makes it look weak by comparison, don't get me wrong, on a regular day this would be stellar but... But we got "Whole Lotta Love", "Moby Dick" and "Ramble On" here. so that's Robert Plant sex noises, John Bonham's drums, and dirty rock and roll covered top to bottom.

Like listening to Post Punk merging into Indie Rock before your very ears

I didn't want to cry today, but here we are. The literal end of the line for Bowie, his star finally waned, and this album is bittersweet to the end. It's not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but it's moving, deeply moving.

I don't care what you say, "Block Rocking Beats" still hits hard. Their next album would eclipse this but mid 90s Glastonbury dance tent music still gets me going.

Good stuff if you like that Scandinavian beat ala The Knife (of which Karin is half of) and Royksopp and Bjork. Just wild out there sounds and lyrics but it all gels together nicely...

One of the greatest albums ever committed to tape, easiest 5, there's zero argument to be had...

But "Stairway to Heaven" is a glorified fingering exercise, and you all know it!

ABBA goes dark, moody synths are the order of the day here. Breaking free of the hyper pop 70s era, they're firmly in the 80s gloom here, and it would be their last album for a while.

Shoegazing from approximately 250 miles above the Earth.

The Mekon was the arch-enemy of Dan Dare, The Mekons are the arch enemy of people with musical taste.

This is bad, not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good...

Nice start to a monday morning, even if its closing in on me. Charming, but not overly so. Someone described it as sounding like Neutral Milk Hotel and that's spot on, just the instrumental choices and the cadence are very Jeff Mangum.

All time classics, how many times has songs like "That Lady" been sampled? I can think of Beastie Boys and Kendrick Lamar just off the top of my head. And that not even getting into "Listen To The Music" and their cover of "Summer Breeze"