Reviews by jaileer5

Even though the album is only 37 minutes, every song seems like it's ten minutes long. The thing is, the songs are (mostly) pretty catchy, but they take a 45 second clip and repeat it over and over and over, so every song is so repetitive and the album seems to last forever. It's not country music bad, but it's not good.

So, Method Man and Rza may be the most famous, but Hip Hop heads know that Ghostface might just be the most talented Wu Tang MC. This is an excellent album, if a little overlong. I do not like skits, but they were the scourge of 90s hip hop, so I'm not going to ding it too much. It's probably a 3.5 album, but most of the people in this project are old white dudes that think music peaked in 1964, so I'm bumping it to 4 stars because I'm sure its global rating is a full star lower than it should be.

Fairly underwhelming with some decent highlights. I've gotten three Peter Gabriel albums during this project and I feel like I've liked each one slightly worse. SO was 4 stars, Peter Gabriel 3 was 3 stars that should have been a 3.5, and this one is a 3 star that should be a 3 star.

Pretty OK? I wish we had half stars so I could feel better about giving this 3 stars.

Please, God, no more Rolling Stones. Please. I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll stop cheating on my taxes, I'll give more money in the offering plate so the preacher can buy another Cadillac in your name. I'll stop drinking, FFS! Just please, please, PLEASE no more Rolling Stones albums. 😭

The man is wearing silk pajamas, with a very pronounced gut, his beard mostly gray and his hair mostly gone. The woman is wearing the teddy she received for her birthday 15 years and 20 lbs ago. She lights a candle.

"Alexa, play Anita Baker."

4 minutes and 27 seconds later the man, out of breath, softly strokes the woman's back and mutters, "Goddamn, girl, you still got it!"

The woman smiles.

In the late 90s I met a girl from Oregon. She would go on to become my girlfriend, and at one point she was “the one who got away.” I loved her, but I was young, and I wasn’t ready. We used to argue about politics and music, as one does when young, and she loved Sleater-Kinney and tried to convince me that they were great. I was having none of it; I thought it was screechy and unlistenable. Politically, she always leaned more to the right than I did, and we would have raucous debates where she would try to convince me that conservatives were good people.

About Sleater-Kinney, at least, she was right.

I didn’t have high hopes for this album, and it still underperformed.

As someone who hadn't been born while Wings were active, I had always thought Wings was just a weird footnote in musical history as the band Paul McCartney used to get his feet under him post-Beatles. So when this popped up I was afraid it would be shit.

I was right.

You'll be totally fine if you don't listen to this before you die. You're not missing anything at all.

To call it "uneven" would be kind. It starts off pretty great - unique and invoking an emotional response. Then it gets a little weirdly euro-pop. But then it comes back! but then it gets boring again. Then it recovers a bit and - guess what comes next? 57 minutes of it is too long. I cannot believe this project doesn't have half stars, but even if it did, I think 3 starsis probably about right.

Every time I get a jazz album I say the same thing - I just don't get it. Like, I understand people think it's masterful, and Miles Davis is the GOAT, and blah blah blah, but it's just not for me.

Well, this IS for me. I couldn't possibly tell you the difference, except this shit sounds like someone is about to do something dark, and most jazz sounds like background music while you peruse handbags at Macy's.

3.5 stars. better than I expected it to be.

I understand that music, and all art, is subjective. leaving aside that this album doesn't appeal to me, why is it included in a book about albums you must listen to before you die? because there's nothing unique or interesting about this album. And shit like this makes me very mad that There's neither a Tool nor a Deftones album on this stupid list. I cannot wait until I finish this and I get to the music selected by people who actually listen to music instead of picking shit based on reputation and a weird sense of responsibility to...I don't even know what. Just because a band was popular sixty - SIXTY - years ago does not mean that modern humans need to be subjected to it. We still had polio when this album was released. ffs.

I don't mind it, for the most part. 13 minutes for The Ocean is too goddamned long, and makes the whole thing start to feel very repetitive. I think it's interesting, but I also think that there's one sound - you know the one - that is just so prominent in every song that it starts to get old. I'd give it 2.5 if I could. I'm going to give it 3 stars because I don't think it's *bad* per se, but I don't really ever want to listen to it again.

I have a tendency to overrate things that surprise me, and goddammit, the fact that this ISN'T actually country and western music get a full star or happiness and relief.

Kinda crap.

Decent. This is their first album and the bones of what they become are definitely there, but it’s much more raw than future albums. There are also songs that remind me of like, Jet and The Strokes in that sort of generic early aughts alt rock k sound. It’s not bad, I just think of Kings of Leon as a bit more unique than those bands, which I think they grow into.

The thing is, this is my second Kings of Leon, and neither one is their best album, which suggests there are at least three Kings of Leon albums, but no Deftones and no Tool. That’s outrageous.

That’s not the fault of the band or album though. I’d give it 3.5 if I could because I enjoyed it, but there are too many songs that are sloppy or annoying to bump it to 4 stars.

It’s fine. I like Peter Gabriel in theory. He’s kinda weird, he’s got a pleasant voice, he does some unusual things with his music. The problem is he somehow makes all of that sound a bit generic.

You know, it makes me feel sad to give 90s music bad scores because I love 90s music, it's the best decade for music. But I didn't like ALL 90s music in the 90s, and some of it hasn't aged well so I'm certainly not going to like all of it now.

It reminds me a little of Arcade Fire. I do not like Arcade Fire.