Reviews by kingboyd13

Bigger fan of the instrumentals on this than I am the parts with vocals. But the whole thing is really fun to listen to.

One of the big albums I’ve never listened to on this list.
Blegh. It’s like if you had a boring Irish Bruce Springsteen who sucked

A jazz album is good when the songs capture you. It’s iconic when you literally know the songs already without having knowingly listened to it before

Pretty good hip hop album, especially the beats and music. Ghostface is a pretty good MC just. Just doesn’t really have a lasting impact? And the topics are pretty generic and boring. Tricky to rate

Was that Wikipedia intro written by AI, what the fuck kind of editorializing are we doing about São Paulo. Anyway, this is interesting on paper, boring in practice.

*sigh* Hi Neil…nice to see you for like the ninth time. I guess. I actually know some songs off of this and they’re good. So this ranks higher than a lot of your other albums. But like. Damn imagine if it was just this album and let’s go with your weird proto -grunge one that’s all. Fuck you know maybe the one you did in the 90s with Harvest Moon. That’s it! That’s all we needed! AHHHHHHH

This album suffers from what a lot of classic 60s albums suffer from. The hits are the best part and the other tracks are basically the same boring psych rock. This album benefits by having those hits be fucking awesome. Tales of Brave Ulysses might be a perfect song

Tom Waits manages to sound horrible and amazing in ways I’ll never comprehend.

Cowards hear the bass on Uh Uh and declare this music is too weird and off putting despite that being the tightest shit I’ve ever heard.

I’m glad Rat Fink could show up. I like this. Not ironically I actually legitimately like this. It’s messy and chaotic but it’s still clearly done with musicality. Like Dead Joe, that song rules, it also has the most Nick Cave ass section where he starts talking about Christmas halfway through.

I mean. It’s nice?

I liked the covers which is uhhhh, not a good sign. This is one of the most ok punk albums. It’s like they chose the most ok sound every time. They tell jokes that aren’t funny. It mostly songs ok.

I’ve had several dalliances with Morrisey on this list and I always dread them. And the. I listen and come away thinking this is fine. The same thing happened here, I just wish it sounded a little better? Something about this album wasn’t as good as the others. I think it’s too much of a bummer?

Sort of a tricky one and one of the difficulties (and joys!) of exploring world music. This music exists entirely in a context that is foreign to me. Sufi devotional music? In a language I can’t even pretend to begin to comprehend? Oof.

So what I like is that, I could probably tell this is devotional music if I went into this blind, there is a joy radiating the whole thing, and Khan has an amazing voice, he really has some amazing solo parts where he’s clearly flexing, it’s great.

Nothing baffles me more than the sheer number of people who wanted to explore 1000 albums across all genres but are also like RACE DIDNT MATTER 15 YEARS AGO, YOU CANT BE WHITE ANYMORE. As if there isn’t a Gil-Scott Heron album on here, as if Common’s Be doesn’t literally start with him wishing to be like Malcom X. It’s almost like the history of music explored in this FUCKING PROJECT disputes the points you make, and you and everyone who upvoted you are just fucking racists who wish this was whiter than wonder bread and never made you uncomfortable.

Anyway. This album is good. It’s a fun listen, I just don’t know that it has a staying power to be an all time great. I think in the nightmare year that was 2020 this album was comforting and affirming, but I wish the music was more bombastic.

Hey man, I’ve really shit on a lot of the electronica on here, so when I say I liked this? I dunno what to tell you. I dunno why. It sounded nice. It had a semblance of a message and a point t which is pretty fucking ground breaking for the genre. Idk I liked it.

This is one of those albums I’ve always seen and knew existed but have never listened to. It’s good. It’s definitely important because I can point to about a dozen bands that don’t exist without being influenced by this.

Sometimes this album sounds like a showcase of what New Wave can be. Other times they cover Born to Run for no good reason

The whiplash you get from two of the best opening tracks on this list to My Best Friend, a song that’s uhhhhh awful is pretty amazing.

A real, guys let’s take it down a few notches, I want people to hear our sensitive side! And the sensitive side sucks ass, Jesus.

One of my dumbest life choices has been failing to listen to Belle and Sebastian more before this