Reviews by kingboyd13

If the only song I know from you is a horrifically boring and sad dirge it doesn’t bode well for the album as a whole

People who dislike the Monkees for reasons other than “it just isn’t for me” are so fucking lame. Waaah it’s too poppy or any variation of DID YOU KNOW THEY’RE NOT THE BEATLES??????

Have you ever experienced joy? Do you know what love is? On a summer Thursday do you stop and listen to birds sing, and realize you’ve never learned their names, simply because you were too busy with life to stop and realize all around you, the world moves on, and doesn’t care about you. Or your fucking tired shitty Monkees ta mi e, the Monkees rule. Fuck you.

I got this album when I was on a road trip through south Jersey. Guess what. 5 stars

Really an excellent concept album. There are a few low spots but that’s just because the rest of the album is so good. Loved it.

The shocking part is I’d never in a million years guess this was the guy from the Jam. Other than that this is so generic. It’s inoffensive and occasionally something comes up that shines but. Nah. Nothing doing in this

I really wanna like this more than I do. It’s iconic and important but it’s just missing something. It reminds me of the worst of the 70s. Nothing speaks to me.

I wish this album was worse because then my review could be, Rock Bottom? It certainly is. Instead it’s just bad. It’s interesting and I could see how it might be someone’s cup of tea. It sure ain’t mine though

Having absolutely no attachment to the Beatles or Paul this album is hilarious. THIS is what he wanted to do instead of the Beatles? He couldn’t talk to John and be like okay we can do some political stuff if you’ll let me do my not very good nursery rhymes. Okay

I know Shining Star and September. I also know September will not be appearing since fun fact it was only ever a single and never on an album.

Fuck me this sounds awful. You can pinpoint the exact year this was made just by the overbearing production. I have no idea what those vaguely Peruvian flute sounding instruments are but that’s how you know you’re in the late 80s early 90s adult contemporary production hell. And the blues needs that sound like how a grease fire needs a gallon of water. It just makes everything worse.

Anyways, every song on here is a collab. It’s all bad. I hate this.

Ugh. UGH. The worst thing about the advent of CDs is bands being like, well we gotta make hour long bore fests instead of tight cohesive albums. This sucks. It sounds like 5 other better bands.

This is good for the electronica that’s on this list but it manages to over correct, so instead of being boring and tedious it’s exhausting and tedious.

This is my 3rd Steely Dan on the list. I think I feel bad for them because every album so far has had some of the greatest songs I’ve heard in the list mixed with stuff I just couldn’t vibe with. Deacon Blues is still in the top 10 of songs I’ve discovered this project. This album is a little different. I knew Rikki already but other than that song nothing on this album really stands out as something I’d want to listen to over and over again. But it’s also the most consistent listen of there’s I’ve heard

Anytime an album explores how another culture blends their traditional sound with a modern western genre I’m all for it. It always fuckin rules

The cool part about this project is learning about artists I never gave a fair shake. In this case, all I knew from Jay-Z was Empire Stare of Mind. Now I know. Jay-Z fucking sucks. The beats are so boring. His rapping is awful. That tired often wrong critique that rapping is just talking actually fucking applies here. There’s no flow. It’s so boring. Shut up.

Baffled they have 3 albums. And I really like Ocean Rain. This is more of the same, just a little less bombastic. As far as New Wave goes you can do so, SO much worse.

When Elvis belts on this it’s awesome. His voice really sounds great on here. When he’s mad and miserable sounding it’s fantastic. The problem is all the other bland typical crooner stuff

Hey! This was pretty nice. Again wouldn’t mind hearing more world music but hey, gotta make room for TWO BETA BAND ALBUMS

Gross another one of these. I really didn’t like in the Court. So fine. Let’s try again. You know you’re in for some prog bullshit when the first sound you hear on a rock album is a kalimba.

Nothing fucking works on the first song. None of the sections flow into each other. It’s just a series of disconnected ideas. What if we hit a bunch of metal and shit. It just sounds like a bunch of dudes fucking around in their garage. Hell the TITLE doesn’t even make sense. If I can give it praise it’s chaotic and a little disconcerting all over, but what does that have to do with a tiny birds tongue in Jello???? I feel like my biggest issue with prog rock is it’s not nearly weird enough to be interesting, but also not catchy enough to be listenable. And then the very end of the song sounds so good god damn it. It’s loud and strange and sounds amazing.

Then, a lot like in the Court, the rest of the songs are just…here’s some soft rock. Okay I actually really like Book of Saturday.

Easy Money is a baffling decision. “Guys I just stepped in some mud outside how can we incorporate that sound?”

I always hate rating world albums low because what the fuck do I know, I’m a white dude from the Midwest. But I just can’t vibe with this. I hate the main dudes voice. I hate how it’s just a bunch of drums. Even the album on this list about bongos had more than just bongos man. I like Afro-Cuban by Kenny Dorham. That’s my weak defense. I’m sorry y’all