Reviews by kingboyd13

One of those albums where everything is perfection? The venue the crowd the artist the performance

Sort of exhausting but hey at least it’s fun.

I really like it. Suzanne made me cry and I don’t even know why. I think it’s biggest flaw is not every song hits that high for me. Master Song is just awful. Winter Lady is tragically beautiful. And on it goes with those peaks and valleys.

I bet this would rule if it wasn’t for the awful mixing and production. I love the idea of fuzzed out noise, but why is it mixed quieter than the vocals which suck. The drums are barely there. Fuck this.

Sometimes everyone else is spot on. The guitar is incredible, the rest is boiler plate.

I kinda like the way this album starts with a Bo Diddley cover that then proceeds to spin out of control to dominate the first side. The rest of the album is much less good.

Peaks early and never comes close to it again. Some tracks are good but Mr. Soul is incredible.

That 3 stars on Allmusic is a fucking death sentence. If you don’t have someone fighting for you in there you might as well not have bothered. This is an affront to all the other electronic music on here because at least I can sorta get most of those. This has no real reason for being on here

Things I love about this album:

It sounds like it could have come out last year, it’s crazy this was a 2007 release.

North American Scum is actually brilliant because I often think they are British for some reason.

This is one of the few albums I owned that my mom actually enjoyed and didn’t think was just annoying noise.

All My Friends is pretty much a perfect song, it’s a triumph.

New York I Love You, but You’re Bringing Me Down will forever remind me of a passive aggressive post my ex made featuring this song because I said the White Stripes were overrated and she took it as a personal attack. I was New York in that context. That’s so funny in hindsight.

Woof this sucks. Even the songs that are okay just sort of feel like a generic 60s song imitating other generic 60s songs. I hate this shit

Sure

Gee whiz, they actually sound better this go round. Which is to say I could kinda stand the singers voice this time. He’s still terrible and makes the whole album a slog. But I actually had to admit to kinda liking a few songs.

This is an album I should love. It’s so in my wheelhouse it might as well be the house itself. But I just don’t like it. I can’t tell if it’s the samey instrumentation or just the lack of any melody that’s pleasant on more than half the songs. Corona, the only song I actually love from this album, is probably in that status for Jackass nostalgia.

Sort of what you see on the tin. I prefer Superfuzz because it’s grosser, sounds more unpleasant in a good way. This album just sorta drags on and on

I thought this was the weakest of the Waits albums I’ve heard on here so far. Not that many compelling stories. And then Jersey Girl hit me on the side of the head as one of his best songs. Him being so in love with a woman that he isn’t even considering a whore is peak Tom Waits. Beauty and ruin.

It’s like the smelliest guy at the Ren Faire keeps telling you about his band and you just want to get away. But he keeps talking.

Really need two Spiritualized albums on here huh. I can at least understand it in that I can see how this album would really resonate with people. It doesn’t do that with me but I get it. It’s completely acceptable music. It sort of sounds like Stone Roses but more boring, which is not what Stone Roses needed. It’s just kind of another distillation of Brit pop.

The shear number of fucking CSNY linked albums on here is absurd. It’s like the inflection point for like 30 albums on the list, and I think half of them are trash. At least the Byrds are good. Why are there two Stephen Stills albums on the list. No one has ever told me, “Man you gotta check out his solo stuff”

This album is fine. It’s another 70s singer songwriter album where the singer is okay and the songwriter is fine. But then I hear baffling choices like Black Queen and Cherokee, both of which make me deeply uncomfortable. Gross

Brian Eno’s hands are all over this lol. It’s great in a so fun it doesn’t matter kind of way. I hate the Sayisfaction cover with a passion though.

Sorta confused by this album’s inclusion. Not that it’s bad but more it’s sort of. Generic? Dime a dozen? There are several Brazilian albums I can think of that are more fun and innovative and include samba songs like the ones on here.