Reviews by jollyra475

Wilco is always good, some of the collaborations work well, some not as much. Not my favorite Wilco endeavor but still very good.

Sometimes you get an album to listen to that you haven't heard the whole album before (that's me with this one) but by the time you're done you realize you know 3/4 of the album because it got so much airplay.

This album is full of great songs from beginning to end. Staight up rock, done extreemly well. Good stuff here, will listen to again and again.

I liked this quite a bit. Really great guitar work, of course, and Stewart's vocals just work with it. Strong album.

Was listening to this in the car with my kids. And at first they both didn't like it. By about the 3rd or 4th song they were both talking about how it started making their toes tap. And a half hour in, they were all in.

The album is just flat out fun!

I actually enjoyed this one a lot more than I thought I would. Could do without Flavor Flav, but I like the messages, Chuck D is very engaging, and I really enjoyed some of the experiments they did with the stereo mix. Not something I’ll listen to a lot, but much better than most hiphop I’ve been exposed to.

This is another easy 5 star. Picking a favorite Beatles album is like picking a favorite child. You just can’t do it. But this might be my favorite.

For this review I listened to both the 2009 Mono and Stereo remaster. Like most early to mid Beatles albums, I much prefer the Mono, but this is the first one where it’s close. They don’t always pan the vocals all the way to one side, and actually play with the stereo mix sometimes in interesting ways. The mono is still my preference though. I’m really looking forward to listening to Giles Martin’s new stereo mix when it’s released.

Would be more than 5 stars if I could. This album is on my list of top 10 personally influential albums of all time.

I agree that both Joy Division albums are amazing. Unknown Pleasures is better, but this one is also excellent. Curtis voice and lyrics are dark, and sound almost like his suicide note. It’s a challenging record, for sure, but it doesn’t make it any less brilliant.

It's at the top or near the top of the list of best hardcore albums of all time. And rightfully so! I completely get people who don't like this type of music (my wife being one of them, she was NOT happy with me when we listened to this one in the car) but for those of us who do, it's a classic album.

Although as I'm now in my 40s and sitting down and watching TV with a beer in hand is my idea of a good time, TV Party isn't the anthem it was when I was in my teens.

I found this to be super dated, especially compared to "Raising Hell"

There's nothing bad about it, but it's not great either. Some albums you listen to and you can't believe what time period they were made in. This one, there is no way it was made anytime other than when it was.

It's a little poppy, sure, but that's what I like about it. Super easy listening, very pretty, and engaging. Not for every day, but in the right situations, its the album you want to put on.

A very good live album, with crowd energy helping it out. Lots of fun listening to this one.

A band I was not familiar with at all. Really good stuff, will be listening to it again. Lots of comparisons to The Rolling Stones, but I think the Groovies did it better.

It was strange, and I didn't dislike it. Not sure I liked it a lot either. I'm guessing if I heard it a bunch more times I would end up liking or not liking it a lot more than I did on the first listen.

It's a good album. Much better than I expected, and I liked it more than Achtung Baby. But as good as it is, I just don't see putting it on very often.

If you like Blues (and I do) this album is amazing. Not much more needs to be said.

This is the album is where it all comes together and works for both Morrissey as a singer/songwriter and the Smiths as a whole. It's mostly sad, a little bit funny, and the title track really starts out the album with a bang. I hadn't listened to it in a few years, and I liked it even more than I remembered.

It's fine electronic/dance music. It gets repetitive, but I think that just goes with the genre. Didn't hate it.

Good singer/songwriter album. One that would probably get a much higher rating if my parents played it more and I was more familiar with it. But overall I liked it, and will probably revisit again in the future.

I was trying to find a way to rate this higher than a 1. It has two singles that topped the charts, so it can't be THAT bad, can it. Yes, yes it can. It's terribly dated, way overproduced, bland, AND infuriating at the same time. It's really not good, and I'm glad it was removed from future versions of the book.

Gasp - jazz I actually "like?" Well, I did like this one, a lot more than I expected to. I think the funk beats helped me get into the "grove" and stay with it.