Reviews by kingboyd13

I would have preferred Less Specials

Fuck me, 7 in a year huh. I think my favorite part is that every Neil Young album is the exact same. You could tell me this was from that 1990 or that one on the beach and I’d buy it. No innovation. No evolution. Fuck off. 2 more to go.

If you like that sort of thing it’s the sort of thing you’d like. I have a pretty high tolerance for experimental bullshit. But Jesus is it intolerably long. It’s just jazz!!! Like I guess it’s rock because…there’s electric guitars? It’s jazz. And not particularly engaging or fun jazz at that

Were a lot of people vibing with the Byrds? Here’s our one guitar tone we’re sticking to. Uh. Here’s the same song and mediocre production. I just don’t get it.

This is an album that exists

When I first heard this album years ago I think I hated it except for Cut Your Hair and Unfair. And now I think it’s a masterpiece.

Sorta…nothing…Gene Clark’s No Other is way better I think because he had like…a band. And production, this is just sorta fine?

Loved this, it presages Riot Grrl and New Wave at the same time while still being its own thing

Truly 2 songs and then a bunch of filler. I want to fuck the bass though.

Instrumental hip hop always makes leaves me wanting something more. It’s all appetizers no main course. It just music for vibes, and that’s fine but am I about to seek this out? No.

Fuck me sideways. Not one but TWO Beta Band albums. Arbitrary award winner, worst album covers for a band featured more than once on this list. Jesus Christ. Is it better than the other album? Maybe. I don’t remember that one. I don’t really remember this one either. It’s trying to be smug and carefree in a real 2001 way that just doesn’t happen anymore. I just can’t be asked. Parts of it are fine, there are moments of shine but like. There are times when I’ve had diarrhea twice in a month and there were parts that were bearable there. But I’m not gonna give it more than one star. Fuck you.

Every time I hear The Doors two things happen. I hear a song I’m familiar with and am blown away by how good it sounds. Truly hard hitting face melting stuff especially for the time.

And then a deep cut like Blue Sunday shows up and it’s some of the worst shit I’ve ever heard in my whole life. This is music some smelly hippy played for some smelly hippy lady so they could have smelly hippy sex. It’s awful.

This feels like it should be the music for like, the tourism board of a Disney World knock off in like. Mississippi. Like it feels familiar, but it’s not the same. In fact it fucking sucks.

I had no idea Cyndi Lauper ruled this hard

Jesus Christ this is my sixth album with Neil Young on it in less than a year. Nearly 2 percent of my year has been Neil Young. He’s just fine! I like him fine but my god could we get a crumb of representation from ANYONE else. Is there a single Japanese artist on this list? Is there any classic Mexican music? Anyway here’s Neil Young again.

Did you know there are NINE Neil Young albums on here. That’s the same as Lennon and McCartney and David Bowie. Three of the most influential and groundbreaking artists. It’s more than Brian Eno a dude who has done unbelievable stuff and innovated whole genres. Frank Zappa? Fuck that guy this is NEIL YOUNG MOTHERFUCKER. What you think John Cale and Lou Reed should be on here more? You stupid fucking bitch, here’s NEIL MOTHERFUCKING YOUNG. Marvel at his ability to perform the same songs with different people harmonizing! Sometimes it’s acoustic, other times it’s ELECTRIC!!! I’m sorry I’m just so fucking bored. And like this time it’s more of the same, GARAGE EDITION!!!!!!! Marvel as Neil does his same schtick but this time it’s on CD so we can make it an hour long and have it sound like shit. Fucking AHHH. It’s not even that bad In just sick of this dude. And I have to hear him THREE MORE TIMES

One of those rare albums that without a doubt needs to be on this last that I can’t really stand. I dunno I’m not in the mood for this. Maybe in 10 years when I’m depressed that the world is ending or something and some new Tower of Babel-esque disaster occurred that led to all language being lost I can do it. I dunno whatever

I finally get it. This must be what folk sounds like to people who hate folk. This is so…nothing. It’s like a dry musty fart in an attic. And then the smell of Steam Roller Blues hits in what might be the most embarrassing song I’ve heard on this list yet. Truly a triumph in sucking.

Probably the most frustrating album on the list. I loved it, I thought it was beautiful and fun and playful. It’s truly of its time in a way that’s hard to explain. It’s like the culmination of 20th century British music with production techniques that make it feel more at home in the new millennium. Problem, the thing is inaccessible. I doubt I’ll ever log into YouTube to listen to just this album. So like. It exists in a fleeting forgettable way.

Probably the best Neil album I’ve heard on the list so far. God knows I’ve had a bunch.

This is some soft twee bullshit that sucks. I fucking love it.