Reviews by jacobepugh

This is as Johnny Cash as Johnny Cash can get.

This album is very obviously so pro-Jamaica in ways I really wish I knew. The lyrical matter sounds incredibly important but unfortunately I'm to ignorant to understand, but not that ignorant because I am a black man. The only reggae I truly know is Bob Marley, one of my favorite artists of all time, but this album sounds very similar and makes me more interested in more reggae especially if it sounds like this. Tradition is my fav song by far.

A solid debut from a great band. I've heard a few people say that this debut is just a debut; it's good but nothing special compared to their later work. As I agree, I disagree that it's just a debut. If their debut wasn't good, I don't think this band would amount to anything, and I'm so happy it is and I'm so happy they did.

Short, sweet, and catchy. If you want to do e into the England punk scene I guess this could be included. There ain't much to say I guess lmao....

I can't explain this album other than saying it's one of the best albums I've ever heard. Maybe it's because it is my favorite genre so it's easy for me to find an album in that genre that's critically acclaimed and I'll automate like it, or maybe the lyrical matter and the writing is so good that I can push away my bias to enjoy what I think is beautifully written music. I've heard this album a handful of times. Jesus, Etc. and Heavy Metal Drummer are on my main playlist so I listen to those songs often enough, but since I haven't heard it in a while I genuinely forgot how great this album is.

White boys need to make music like this again

This album is great, like really great. But my God is it long. But all the songs are good and different from each other and kinda sounds different from other Fleetwood Mac songs, at least to me it does. But all the songs are good so the album being **20 SONGS AND 74 MINUTES LONG** can be a little excusable. I'll most likely listen to this album many times again.

It's an album I've listened to many times in the past, an album I like a lot so much I own it on CD, but it's been such a long time since I've listened. So getting this I was kinda worried I wasn't gonna like it as much as I first fully heard it around 10ish years ago. But I was wrong. It's pretty fucking good. It's very unique and Beck at his best is when he is interestingly unique. It's an album that's a hodgepodge of different genres, sounds, and feelings. It shouldn't work and honestly it doesn't a few times, but it's the uniqueness that kinda pulls you in a little bit. I don't think this album is for everyone because of that, but I still recommend it just to hear the unique sound of Beck.

I think people are scared to realize that The Smiths did what the Beatles did for indie rock, as in not invent the genre but redefined what a band could do in said genre to shape the future of it forever. And this album is a perfect example. It's one of my favorite albums of all time, an album I've listened to front and back time after time again. An album that makes me think "Man I was a depressed little bastard in high school in the year 2015" and makes me feel "Man many people were depressed little bastards since at least the 1980s." And album that makes me feel that I wasn't alone feeling like this and people will always feel like this and music helps to find and connect.
I truly believe that Morrissey and Johnny Marr are the alt-rock/indie version of Lennon/McCartney. Many songs, including most of not this entire album, are perfect examples. In my honest opinion, it is a near, if not, perfect album for the genre. Now, if Morrissey wasn't such a raging cunt......

I just cannot believe this is their debut

If Oasis and Blue had a baby and it wasn't that good. Mediocre britpop.

For a movie soundtrack to be great, in my opinions, it doesn't need the movie to be attached for it, but also makes you appreciate the music more. I feel like Saturday Night Fever, Scott Pilgrim, Black Panther's and a few other soundtracks/"songs inspired by" doesn't need the movies attached to them. You can still visualize the scene or the characters in general from the movie but also you don't have to see the movie to enjoy the music. I want to say this soundtrack does that because I have not seen the movie, but the music is good. I liked Indian and Indian-inspired music, I dunno why I kinda always did. Honestly maybe if I seen the movie, which I probably never will, I can have a better appreciation for the songs

First time in a long time listening to this album, maybe even the first time I fully listened to it, and boy this album is long but it makes up for it, cuz it's pretty damn good. You could argue that a lot of the songs sound the same, and that's a solid point, but a lot of the subject matter in the lyrics are exactly the same. Is it a concept album? Or is there some story that goes a long with it? I honestly don't know what Arcade Fire was insinuating with this album, but whatever they were thinking really paid off for them. This album is pretty damn good.

I mean it's Queen so it's going to be good obviously, but how good? Honestly it's pretty good. So many people, including myself, truly only know their biggest hits, which isn't a bad thing because they have so many, so listening to a full album can make you hear their deep cuts, and the deep cuts on this album, most of them are pretty good, much better than I expected honestly. Long story short, the album is good and it's nice to have a deep dive on a good band to learn their deep cuts and it's rewarding their deep cuts are good too

Honestly...this shit bussin. It reminds me a lot of New Order, one of my favorite bands, but more gay (not that there's anything wrong with that.) I have little to no complaints about this album. It's so good I listened to it twice before I wrote this and I see myself listening to it more. Also I find it funny that one of the members hate this album cover to this day, but I really love it.

I mean it's alright I guess. I don't know much about jazz other than the gigantic influence on, not just black music, but black culture as a whole, but jazz isn't my cup of tea. If I or someone else wanted to start listening, Miles Davis is one of the small handful of jazz artists I would start with, and this album in general is a good starting point. Not my style, but I dig it.

I don't know much about Norah Jones, I don't think most people do. This won Album of the Year and she won a few others including Best New Artist at the Grammys but the "curse" behind that win *kinda* got to her. It's always interesting to see the amount of people who win Best New Artist never win a Grammy ever again or just fall into obscurity, but she won 5 out of her 10 total Grammys in one night thanks to this album, but she won 5 more throughout the next 20 years after this album so that's why I say *kinda*

Anyway, was this album "5 Grammys worth" good? Compared who was nominated in 2003, I guess maybe yeah. The songs are fine. Not my style but I always liked Don't Know Why, I kinda remember it as a child, I must've been 3-4 when the song came out and the following years still playing here and there. Plus some other songs were just as good like Come Away With Me and Got To See You Again, but I don't think I'll listen to this album again, it's just not my style.

It's decent I guess. If you love folk music you'll like this. If you like folk music, you'll think it's decent. If you think folk music is decent, I don't think you'll like this.

So I know like two songs from this band (none of those songs are on this album) but their story is interesting. They had little to no commercial success, to the point where this band was basically nothing, however years later, to the mid 80s to 90s, a lot of alternative bands like REM and The Replacements were very influenced by them and that made this band finally get a cult following. With that cult following came retrospective reviews of their catalog and made them realize that Big Star is much better than once received.
But imma be honest, I have mix reviews for this album. It's not bad, but I don't think it's that good. The songs I thought were good come once in every 3-5 okay and "not the best" songs. Maybe #1 Record and Radio City are better, but this album is definitely something.
Also, there's like 6 different versions of this album for whatever bullshit reason, only one version was available and it wasn't this one. Maybe if I had this or one of the other fucking 5 I would think differently.

I always liked the Police. I'd definitely say Message In A Bottle is one of my favorite songs if I think super hard about it. But I truly can't think of I've heard a Police album in full before? Anyway, this album was alright. I never heard a non-"greatest hit" Police song and....eh it's alright I guess. One Any Other Day did not age well and I find it very funny. Bring On The Night is such a huge highlight for me I could listen to it for multiple times a day. I feel like a majority of the album switch between those two feelings. I liked it, it was alright.