Reviews by kingboyd13

Kind of agree with the consensus here, it’s annoying and amazing in equal parts. I think I can tolerate annoying a lot more than most though.

This album has a really big problem. Which is that he keeps talking and it sucks. It’s like a bad hip hop skit that keeps interrupting an otherwise good album. Except this album is only okay. Which is a bummer since I liked the other album of his I got on this list

Skip kinda looks like a D tier Dana Carvey character no one remembers from SNL.

You ever flip through records at a record store, and you see all the familiar faces, and then you hit a record you’ve never seen before, and it always looks and sounds like this one. It even smells. I can smell the mildew that developed in this record because no one played it. Because it sucks.

I kind of wish it was weirder, like this album really could have benefited from some Frank Zappa vocals. I think it’s a thing where the whole is greater than the sum of its part, but a lot of the parts fucking suck. The drummer is just bad. I can’t tell if his drums just sound bad or if he’s not technically skilled.

Also Garden of Earthly Delight is such a great example of a shitty ass 1960s song. Like it’s the best song on the album, but SOMEONE went to art school and needs to flex their nerd knowledge. Ergot, lemonous, choleric, and carrion are all words that don’t need to be in the same song you dork.

Anyway, this is fine. Every now and then they do something I enjoy.

Wowza, I loved this so much. It sounds amazing, the drums on this album are superb. Parts of this album feel comforting, others feel terrifying, a weighted blanket that suffocates. Unreal.

Kinda sorta disappointing. The Kinks are really good this album just feels really samey throughout.

What if we made a dance album but we didn’t make it fun

Fucking hell. Even on the best day Van Morrison feels like a novelty act to me. That dreadful voice, just a mumbling nightmare of an artist. Inarticulate and annoying. Here an hour and a half asshole. No thank you

I own this album and I don’t know that I’ve ever sat and listened to it in full which is usually a bad sign. It’s an album of infinite potential and limited execution. I think it was the cover of Femme Fatale that really sealed it for me. All I wanted to do was listen to the original. A real damning indictment for a cover

Sort of a tricky one I have mixed feelings on. It sounds great in a lot of places. It also sounds kinda generic? But there’s an undercurrent of rage that bubbles under the surface but never seems to take over

PJ Harvey has managed something on this album I’ve never felt before. I like is all the songs sound, Steve Albini is great as is PJ’s voice. But uh. I don’t remember any of those songs. I don’t actually like any of the songs on this album. None of them have a hook. They just sort of exist in this nice sounding cloud of anger.

Nah

Shocked at how good this is. Just a solid pop punk album. New Wave condensed and perfected here

That sure is an album from the 60s. The songs I liked from it I knew because of covers that I think are better than the originals.

C’mon

It’s a technical masterpiece I just wished I enjoyed listening to it more than I do. There are a lot of lulls in this thing that just make it less than it should be

I feel like 60s garage rock would best be served on a list like this with a greatest hits compilation. Just get it over with. This is done, but it’s the same thing throughout. Revolutionary in a sense, but also boring

Baffling and not in a good way. The second track could just be a song by a Latin boy band. It stinks!

Starts unbelievably great and descends into a spiral of nothing much

God Mike Love sucks