Reviews by jaileer5

It sounds extremely early-00s. Also, it's extremely hypocritical. In Survivor, they sing about never talking shit about people on the internet because "my mama taught me better than that," and, "I'm not got' blast you on the radio (I'm better than that), and there are several references to being christian in multiple songs.

Then there's a song called "Nasty Girl" where they admonish women for dressing scantily, with the lyric "Don't walk out your house without your clothes on," while Beyonce is on the cover of the album with her tits out.

Then there are the "independent women," female empowerment songs, yet the aforementioned "Nasty Girl" has the lyric "These men don't want no hot female that's been around the block female." Well, which one is it? Should women dress with the singular focus of male approval, or should they dress in whatever way makes them feel confident and comfortable? Which option has Beyonce with her tits out on the cover of the album?

There are bigger problems in the world, but hypocrisy is annoying. 2 stars.

It sounds like Carol King, whom I was subjected to in large qualities because my wife introduced my children to Really Rosie.

People have gotten divorced for less.

I hope like hell this is better than the similarly idiotically named Nilsson Schmilsson.

It is better. I don't know if that's to say it's any good, but it's certainly interesting. I peeked at the Wikipedia page and it says that this was conceived as the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, and that triggered a memory that I thought I had listened to ANOTHER album with the same conceit. So I scrolled back through my history and yes, almost two years ago I got an album that was a soundtrack to an imaginary soundtrack...by the same guy.

One time is cool and unique, two times is just a thing the guy does. The album is perfectly good background music, but two albums by the same guy that do the same thing is ridiculous when so many other stellar albums are left out.

True story - this album is the only thing I ever stole in my life. I walked into a Walmart in Warrenton, Missouri, stuffed the CD down my pants and walked out. Was terrified for weeks the cops would come knocking on my door at any moment.

Anyway, the album is pretty good. It's a lot slower than I remember, it's not really anywhere near other rock band songs at the time. It hits pretty hard with Cherub Rock, but never really gets to that level again. Even the slower songs are good, though, and I think they hold up really well. 3.5 stars.

Temu The Strokes.

I've never heard of this, but my wife assured me that it's "a very famous album" when I texted it to her. When I expressed skepticism (by texting GTFO), she clarified, "In England."

Now, I have never lived in England so I cannot say if this is true, but -- and this may be important -- neither has she.

So I don't know, man. It was fine background music while I was working. How do I rate something like that? I'll give it three stars because why not.

Is ti the best rap album of all time? Probably not, but there's an argument to be made that it's the most influential rap album of all time.

For the most part, this album doesn't sound nearly as dated as other albums from this era. That speaks both to how forward-thinking this album was at the time, and how influential it was, since the next 30+ years of rap has its fingerprints all over it.

There are a couple songs that don't hold up, but overall, this is probably the album most responsible for catapulting rap into the mainstream. 4.5 stars.

I just didn’t feel it. It’s OK? But Sepultura are supposed to be this genre-bending influential metal band, and I just didn’t ever feel like I was listening to something transcendent. It was fine, but forgettable.

Dime store Oasis.

I know that context is key, but this is just kind of OK. Why does Elvis Costello get so much love from hipsters? and why the FUCK does he warrant SIX albums in this stupid-ass project? His voice is fine, the music is fine, the album is fine. So much good music left off this list but we've got six albums of this donut to slog through.

Honestly, better than I thought. I thought it was going to be real country-ish -- and it strayed a little too close a couple times -- but overall it ws a perfectly pleasant little album.

I accidentally listened to it twice, but I'm not mad. I think it's really good. I'm not entirely sure I'll seek out their other work, but I might if I'm in a certain mood. I'd never heard of them before and I really enjoyed this, so I'm glad it popped up today. 3.5 stars.

It’s ok. One banger and a bunch of fillers. Did not age well.

Dollar Tree Sheryl Crow.

Bad. Not good. Rating sure to be propped up by septuagenarians who pretended to be part of the hippie movement but grew up to vote for Trump.

This is probably the best Tim Buckley album, but can someone please explain to me why we needed three Tim Buckley albums on this list?

It's better than I expected, but I'm not sure it's special.

HOLY SHIT - they selected this album but there is no Lemonade by Beyonce? No Blonde by Frank Ocean? That is extremely wild. Those albums were released the same year. Blonde is a masterpiece that resonates over culture and music to this day, and Lemonade was an extremely massive hit that moved mountains when it was released.

They selected 3 albums from 2016 and while Blackstar absolutely deserves to be here, they easily could have dropped their FIFTH Leonard Cohen album and included Blonde - an album you absolutely need to hear before you die.

Even though I'm almost 850 albums in, I'm considering just stopping. This project has lost all legitimacy.

I don't get it. This is the kind of album which simultaneously makes me want to buy the book so I can understand exactly why this particular boring ass album is included, but also makes me pissed off enough that this is included over scores of better albums to refuse to give them my money. It's a conundrum.

A dreary, country-adjacent mess.

It's very fine. Early hip hop is always so wholesome sounding and quaint. Rap is such a young genre that 80s rap gives the same vibes as 50s rock to me, just a very distinct window to a different time. I respect it, and there are a couple songs that really show what a force Queen Latifah was on the mic. It's not going into my rotation, but 3 stars to respect the elders.