Reviews by jkegz

4/5 - Fleet Foxes at the Chicago Theatre was a transcendent sonic experience. I thought I was floating in air on the harmonies. I love this album.

5/5 - You should hear this before you die. What else am I gonna say?

5/5 - We've established that Dylan is divisive in a way that your mind is made up early on how you feel about his voice/music/lyrics/cultural standing, and you're not gonna change it. I know what side of the divide I'm on.

5/5 - I guess we learn something about ourselves with this list every once in a while. I learned I like Jethro Tull far more than I thought I liked Jethro Tull. Maybe it's just the incredible production of the recent remaster/remix, but this sounds very good, and I was into it the whole time. Aqualung, Cross-eyed Mary, Locomotive Breath, Hymn 43, Mother Goose.

4/5 - Mrs Robinson and America are two of the best songs of this era. The rest is solid except for Voices of Old People. The songwriting here is really, really good.

3/5 - Pretty tiresome, to be honest. Panama is a great riff, and Jump was the first song I ever recorded to cassette off the radio on my boombox. I feel like I’ve outgrown the rest of this.

2/5 - It was better than a 1. He has a good voice, but I'm just not interested.

5/5 - This is a great time -- tons of vocal hooks and catchy guitar riffs. This has aged really well for me.

4/5 - Good funk

4/5 - Hard to separate my nostalgia for side A from my opinion on a fresh listen. I truly understand why I liked this when I was 16, but how do you listen to the cheese of Tom Sawyer today and not still love it while also recognizing it's pretty dreadful? Red Barchetta, YYZ, and Limelight are all so good. Even so, I have to give this a 4, but I can't tell you why, other than it's just not a 3 or a 5.

3/5 - I want to give this a 4, because this list should have more hidden gems than it does. That said, this started off pretty strong for me, but then didn't end up being all that much of a gem. Not entirely sure what this genre is, but I could probably favorite a track of it here and there.

2/5 - Music used to be so much more performative. Ol' Blue Eyes as a sad bastard? Riiight. This just puts me to sleep.

5/5 - A masterpiece of interlocking samples - https://www.whosampled.com/album/Beastie-Boys/Paul%27S-Boutique/ Best tracks for me are Egg Man and Shake Your Rump, but it's a joyride almost the whole way through. Shout out for rhymes with Sadaharu Oh, Maggie's Farm, Fred Flintstone, and JD Salinger.

3/5 - Hit or miss, honestly. For a short album, the % of aimless drone is too much. Gets an extra point for influence, but this isn't one I'm going to come back to.

3/5 - I kinda floated along on this for most of the day. I imagine this is what people who browse glossy art mags sit around and listen to in their galleries, which probably isn't true, but your sorta get the idea. That's an aspirational thing for me, even though working in an art gallery sounds super boring.

3/5 - I really like Bodysnatchers, but I really lost the thread on Radiohead post-Kid A and never recovered it. This band is like an optical illusion for me with the faces/vases. If I listen one way, it's brilliant, experimental-sounding music. If I listen another way, it's sniveling, whiny garbage. I can never hear both at the same time, but I'm aware it is actually both at the same time.

3/5 - Much prefer The Queen is Dead. Has a few hits and generally listenable for me.

4/5 - This was really great (except for I Love the Dead, which sucked). Dated, sure, but much better than a lot of the early 70s stuff on this list. Solid riffs.

4/5 - if you’re gonna listen to disco, might as well be disco from one of the coolest MFers on the planet. I’m less into the slower tunes, but when Nile Rodgers hits the groove, I’m there. The production sound on this is superb.

5/5 - I love the whole sweep and theme of this album. Sprawl II is likely my favorite Arcade Fire song among many. Happy to put this album on repeat for the entire morning.