Reviews by kingboyd13

The songs on here that are good are really good, but then every know and then there’s like a showtune that kinda sucks. Lou is much better away from the Velvet Underground

If the 1960s jazz album has some random piece of abstract modern art on it you know you’re in for a treat. Bossa Nova might be the most accessible form of world music, because I’ve never met anyone who hates it. It’s easy it’s cool it’s nice. I just wish it was MORE, I tend to like my Brazilian music more exciting and angry. Hey Gilberto Gil isn’t on this list, that’s a shame, Marginalia II is one of the greatest songs ever written.

The Cowboy Junkies are the most, I should like this band but I don’t, I can think of. It just never feels like the songs start. I do think the cover of I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry is the best version of that song though. It benefits from the glacial tempo all their songs are at

Liking Is This It is like saying you enjoy breathing. It’s a cold take that no one cares about. I really like Is This It

Love this so much! It’s lush and elegant and just perfection. This might be THE new wave album. Crisp and incredibly produced, over the top and melodramatic, but never boring, never uninteresting. Killing Moon is an all timer.

I’ll be real with you, REM deep cuts all sound the same on every album. There’s always those one or two bright spots and then literally the same song over and over

I’ve never listened to Calexico because they always struck me as a flash in the pan that a lot of people liked at the moment and quickly wrote off. I got this impression because in my record store’s indie section, there were always Calexico albums that NEVER sold. They were there forever. So to me? That said there was no point.

Now. What is to be made of this album now that I’ve heard it? That feels about right to me. This doesn’t really do much. It doesn’t lean far enough into something interesting. Hey does anyone else like Murder by Death? They give me more of a weird desperate lost in a desert vibe. That’s not even fair.

The only reason this soft shit is on here is because the Primal Scream guy liked it. This is like a worse Barry Manilow. Except I get why people wanna fuck Barry Manilow. This makes me wanna die

The early 2000s is a veritable who’s who of rock bands that every publication said would be the next big thing. This is like Gogol Bordello for people who thought it was too ethnic. It’s this thing where for some reason every reviewer became reactionary and felt the next big thing HAD to be a throw back. They all suck and are so mid. This is probably a 2.5 star album but fuck this it’s so NOTHING

Uh. Sure whatever. I really want to like this, but there’s never a point that feels…impressive? Bombastic? Worthwhile? I dunno. I think her voice is let down by the instrumental, which I can only describe as “mid nineties jazzy piano beats to sleep to” it all melds into this singular mass that never gets good. It never gets bad either. A 2.5 all around

I’m never sure what to do with the Buzzcocks. They’re not BAD, but they’re so generic and don’t really do enough to set themselves apart from the standard punk band. It’s like they were made in a lab to be fine.

Hey I just heard Here Come the Warm Jets for the first time recently and I loved it. This really feels like the predecessor to it. Fun and experimental while also being listenable music

Am I supposed to be fucking to this? Because this would be the most soulless uninteresting sex imaginable. The voice is pleasant though

Hey this is pretty good. It’s too long. It also kinda lacks a bite I’m looking for? Like the production almost feels too nice. I want some more sludge and ugly. This feels A LOT like the precursor to what would become Foo Fighters which makes sense. I dunno Spoonman and Blackhole Sun are still all time greats.

I like how White Light/White Heat is a pretty good song for the most part. And then they follow it up with the worst use of stereo I’ve ever heard in my life as John Cale tells me a story I don’t fucking care about that sucks. And then it’s followed by a song that’s pretty good for the most part. Then there’s a song I like right after that. Then there’s a song that’s only okay. And then there’s Sister Ray, the only part I knew was “she’s sucking on my ding dong” I didn’t like this very much

Metal is so much better when it’s fucking stupid. It’s the dumbest genre, and Judas Priest knows that. Which makes this way better than a lot of other metal albums. Also Rob Halford seems like a nice guy. But the albums also doesn’t reach the absolutely stupid heights the later ones do when they almost become a parody of themselves. Look at the album cover for Defender of the Faith. It’s amazing. But uh. 3.5 I guess

I bet whoever came up with that riff in delirious ran and showed it to everyone because my god is it CRISP. Uh everyone is right, this album is way too long. But it really has some incredible highs on it. The first three tracks are so good.

I like Praise You and that’s it really

It’s like if someone kept rapping mildly obscure references that educated people would get like Porgy and Bess and Colecovision and Paralax over backing tracks made entirely of songs from Pure Moods. It’s hip hop for the most annoying liberal you know! Jesus

I really like a lot of Silver Jews songs but I’ve never listened to a single song on this album. This albums biggest issue is it never gets out of first gear, a thing this group is capable of doing. I really like the song Honk if You’re Lonely, that’s a sad song but it’s fun and catchy. Hell, American Water the album that track is on is both better AND more critically acclaimed…so like, why not that one? I dunno if you listened to this and liked it a little I’d say give them more chances, they might surprise you. Sadly I’m gonna have to give this a 3.