Reviews by kingboyd13

I should listen to some random album he did that sucks because so far it’s just bangers. I do think having back to back the same okay song is pretty fucking dumb lol

Incubus was a band I knew best as the band my alt rock radio station always had tickets for. But I also never remember them getting any actual airtime. Incubus kinda sounds like a distillation of nu metal and the rest of the alt landscape. I really should hate this. But I also kinda like it? It’s like a shitty pizza. It’s still pizza.

I was dating a woman who loved eclectic weird shit and this cd was at the store and she was like Robert Wyatt he’s great, and I thought the cover was fun and it was critically acclaimed. But then I got home and listened to it and it fucking sucks and I sold it after we broke up.

As an older more refined man (lol) I think this is a little better than I thought on my first go round. Certainly it’s strange and a little…discordant? But it kind of works. I certainly get why this is rated what it’s rated, and it does kinda suck still, but not the 1 star I was certain of.

Evan Dando’s voice always worked better in slower more understated stuff for me. So when you’ve got this upbeat power pop he just kind of overwhelms it with his voice. It sort of belongs to the same sound a lot of the chiller bands had. Spin Doctors. Del Amitri. Gin Blossoms. It’s definitely better than those artists, these guys can write decent hooks

It’s certainly better than I expected because I expected a disaster. Songs like Dirty kinda save it.

This is pretty good. I never got sick of it.

I finally understand what my high school teachers must have felt when dealing with the class dullard. Instead of applying himself, accomplishing his best, he shits out the worst essay ever about like. Why crunchy peanut butter makes the best taco filling.

Sonic Youth are that to me. They always have songs I really enjoy and are impressed with, luring me in, the sirens. And then oh fuck it’s bad spoken word! Noooo not not that interesting noise!!!

I fucking hate Def Leppard so much. They’re stupid brain dead approach to music. Meatheaded idiots who harmonize by yelling. Whose lead singer sounds like an amalgamation of every rock singer’s worst sides. I remember seeing their drummer on VH1. He seems nice. And he does fine in spite of his one arm. Anyway.

Occasionally the production almost makes this album work. Photograph is very good in spite of everything else. It’s just the everything else is so bad.

Two great tastes that just don’t mix at all. It’s also pointless as half of these songs have already been performed definitively by one half of this duo.

If you’d like a better album that features the Symbionese Liberation Army logo I recommend the album Pop Heiress by the Chainsaw Kittens. It’s self aware and actually funny unlike this Eurotrash singing about pizza. Fucking abysmal

It really is a treat hearing such a pioneering album. I think it’s biggest problem is it’s VERY German so it’s sort of funny and strange in an unappealing way

Yet another 1960s album that sounds like all the others. This could be any nameless act from then. How would you know?

I think I get what they were going for, and I think it works about half the time. I wish it was more over the top. It feels too safe

I never heard of this or them before but I loved it!

This is, unfortunately, something I really enjoy. Should it be on this list? Probably not? Do I kinda love it? Yeah. This is exactly the kind of music I’d expect someone from Wilkes-Barre to make after hanging out in the desert for too long.

When I was a kid I had delusions that memorizing all of American Pie would make me so cool. It didn’t. But I still remember every word which is funny. Anyway. I’ve never actually listened to the rest of the album.

It’s good. It really doesn’t ever match the sheer bombast of American Pie, but American Pie is sort of a once in a lifetime song. The rest is nice and pretty. He’s a good writer. I think his voice is the biggest let down but even then it’s pleasant enough

I think 90s alt bands have a fascinating ability to have a hit song that sounds absolutely nothing like the rest of their catalog, thereby rendering their album worse than intended. The La’s might be one of the first victims of this because Jesus is this a real confusing album. How come none of the other albums have the vocal effect and falsetto that There She Goes has? Why do the rest of the songs almost feel like bad reggae. What happened

I fucking hate Morrissey. Track 1 being a critique of the US while he’s from the UK a country equally culpable of crimes including the Iraq war which was happening at the same time.

The next song…kinda addresses this? By being like damn the British really fucked the Irish. But it’s all personal because Morrissey has no self awareness.

This album feels like a parody of himself. It’s lazy and slow and boring.

When I was in high school, there was a new supergroup, Josh Homme? Dave Grohl? John Paul Jones? How could it fail. Them Crooked Vultures had one song that was fine and the whole rest of the album kinda sucked. I like to think of my British counterpart who got excited for this, heard it and went. Well whatever.

Damn good for a prof album