Reviews by kingboyd13

It’s good but doesn’t do anything to make it stand apart from a lot of other jazz I can think of.

Tom Waits walked so Nick Cave could also try and walk but fall flat on his face and be boring. That might be the worst version of Stagger Lee I’ve ever heard.

A 4 of its own making. Right around Cupid de Locke my brain just can’t take it anymore. I’ve tried listening to this album in full 4 times and every time my interest dies there and stays dead until Bodies? I guess? Which is a shame because everything surrounding that pit of despair rocks. Tonight Tonight is close to perfect, XYU is a great song to destroy yourself to. 1979 and Bullet? Iconic. But it’s TOO LONG

It’s a lot better when it’s sleezy and the synth is all crunchy and gross, some of the slower songs sorta feel like all the other songs at the time. Sex Dwarf really is an insane name for a song that sounds that good.

Hey. Why the fuck is this guy here again? I’ll give this album this. It’s not as abysmal as the other one. But Jesus here’s this awful crooner ruining a Tim Hardin classic.

Sounds like shit. How could Brian Eno do this. Imagine the worst of 2000 production with Bono’s dog ass warbling voice singing what amounts to self help book jacket blurbs. Fuck this I hate U2

Between Lola and wondering if the girl on the phone is a man I think their kink is chasing. Anyway. This is mostly good. There’s a couple of big lulls that really slow the momentum. I like the kinks fun and goofy, less painful.

Really awesome. I think it’s hindered by the songs that aren’t hard rock. The vocalist really pairs with that sound well. Righteous anger. The other songs just feel weaker.

A real masterpiece. It’s so much more than the sum of its parts. The biggest flaw is Frontier Psychiatrist which is such an unbelievably awesome song that it sort of makes the rest of the album seem lesser.

It’s sort of like a band saying, hey, look at all the stuff these other bands are doing. We can do it! And they do. And it’s fine. And then no one remembers it at all

The songs where Ian McKay sings are good and when the other guy sings I just get secondhand embarrassment.

I think the biggest issue is several of the songs sound like Radio Free Europe. And I kept humming that song during the choruses of other songs. Luckily it’s a good song

Sort of torn on this one. On the one hand I love really pretentious fart sniffing post rock. It hasn’t come up yet but that Tortoise album is getting 5 stars. But then there’s also the annoying shitty sneering Brit pop aspect of it that just takes away from the bombast. I love the fucking audacity of the first song having an Elvis interpolation, the last song is a John Prine send up! But then songs like I Think I’m in Love just hang like a fart in the air. The singer doing an Oasis impression that goes on for 8 interminable minutes

I wish it was more over the top. Part of it feels tied to old sounds and styles. Comfortably Numb cover is much closer to what I wanted. It also made me think of a Wall made by idiot conservatives who see Pink performing on stage as a drag queen to prove some kind of shitty homophobic point but instead it becomes iconic.

Sort of reminds me of a lot of 70s power pop that didn’t make the list because it just isn’t as good as this. I like it! I think on the whole it’s missing something.

I agree with the sentiment. As I’ve listened to more reggae I realize it really is the most okay genre for me. I’ve never loved it but I also have never hated it. Which probably means it’s great when you’re stoned

I think one of the most devastating moments of my life was learning that a majority of Stevie Wonder’s songs aren’t cool and fun like Superstitious but incredibly lame and boring

It’s fine? I like the atmosphere but that’s all it really offers. I get it’s sad but I wouldn’t say it enveloped me in that feeling as much as it could

Went into this thinking I didn’t like reggae. I think I don’t like BAD reggae. This was really great just on in the background.

One of the examples of an album that absolutely belongs on the list. Britney Spears is one of the first aspects of pop culture I remember. I was 3 when this album came out and it was such a gigantic phenomenon I was aware of it despite barely knowing how to talk. Mind you in hindsight that’s just because the media desperately wanted to know if this poor girl was banging people. And then her life got ruined by that and her crazy dad. Anyway.

This album is really just the singles which are nostalgic as hell, but also really good outside that. The rest of the album? Ehhhhh. I think this era of ballad is automatically repellent to me. They sound like ass. Soda Pop? More like, uh, Soda Poop.

I think my favorite song on here is E-mail My Heart, mostly because it’s this beautiful relic. It’s the You’ve Got Mail of music. And that’s great.