Reviews by kingboyd13

Blegh, I like Nick Cave at his most bombastic, like on My Beautiful World. But the rest is so boring and just blegh.

Love Brazilian music. Never really given Jorge Ben Jor a chance though. Always been more of a Gilberto Gil fan. (Side note check out his self titled 1968 album, it should be on this list damn it!) But this album makes me wish I’d have checked his stuff out before! It’s great, funky fun, great hooks, instrumentation and percussion that adds that unmistakable Brazilian fun. Wonderful!

You Oughta Know suffers from being too overplayed because Jesus that song is amazing. Is there an angrier mainstream song? It rules. As for the whole album, it basically is the most 1990s album on here. Hand In My Pocket feels like the most 90s teen comedy/drama song ever. It’s fun.

I like this more than I dislike this. It’s kinda like the Pogues but a little toned down. Which makes it less good, they should have leaned into it more. I dunno. Some of the songs were very catchy and I’d listen to them again

I like that on the surface, a soundtrack to an album that doesn’t exist kinda sounds interesting, almost obvious, why isn’t this done more?! But then you remember that like…any concept album might as well be that? Like. It’s music telling a story. But this is all instrumental! Okay sure but like, what about the vocal samples? Are they part of the sound track in the film or are they like. TVs playing in the background? Like we still have plot details and stuff dropped, at least a character and something about a West Indies gang or something? Okay so now it’s…more than just a soundtrack. Someone should make a game that’s an adaptation of a movie that doesn’t exist! Except no that’s dumb. Also this movie sounds cliche and not very interesting. And some of the songs sound like they’d be too overbearing in a film? Is that the point? It’s over the top because there isn’t really a film! But why frame it like that. Blegh

The Jesus song was a little much. I liked it overall. Better than some other 70s soul that would just be full of 70s cheese that reeks.

This is such a great album! Ugh

Did this thing just open with a Modern Lovers reference. This thing rules so much. It’s sonically varied and interesting and catchy and chaotic in all the best ways. I don’t know if I would have had the song with Australian kids rapping, but, hey I dunno. Jimmy is one of the craziest songs ever. When those 70s disco strings came in a fucking cheered.

This is one of those, yeah, sure, the political part is good, it’s interesting, you ever read Nixonland? It’s like that. But uh. The music? The fun of listening to this? Not really. It’s just not an enjoyable album.

Very good, no idea how to talk about jazz. I love some of the motifs, like Blue Turk and Take Five. The other songs are good but don’t jump out as much.

This is frustrating because I really love the idea and what they stand for, I just hate the actual product. There is weird challenging stuff out there that still sounds good. This just doesn’t. I don’t like listening to this at all

Me and the Velvet Underground never vibed. I like John Cale and Lou Reed by themselves (or together on that Andy Warhol album, that should be on here it’s cute) but something about this album feels hollow. It’s good, I like it, but a lot of the songs kinda drag. I like Sunday Morning! I like Heroin! That’s kinda all that stuck with me though. The rest is almost like…there. It faded in the background very quick.

This album is very good, for some reason it doesn’t hit me as much as some of his others. It does have some absolute bangers, but none of them stand out as much as some of the songs on other albums

My first Elvis Costello on here. Spoilers his first three albums will be 5 stars. But I’ve never really listened beyond those three. What I’ve heard was always mixed. So giving this a fair shot is fun! It’s! Mixed! I like the opener and Blue Chair a lot. The album sounds great. But. BUT. Tokyo Storm Warning and I Want are INTERMINABLY LONG. Nothing changes with them, at least nothing interesting and they’re just these slogs I keep begging to end. I think I like Elvis when he’s doing fun energetic stuff, not a bunch of slower LONG songs. A very disappointing 3.

I think I like ZZ Top a lot more than a lot of the legacy hard rock acts because they get the joke. There’s posturing, there’s a lot of BS. No one is as cool as they seem. Which makes them so much cooler, because they know that. Here’s a song about waiting for the bus. Fuck yes. That’s exactly what I want. Jesus is leaving Chicago. Perfect thank you. Even a song like Sheik, a song title that raised my hackles, is just about this dude who wants a burrito. Love it. It never reaches the highs to propel it to 5 stars but hey man. At least they’re consistent

This is one of my favorite albums! It was one of the first CDs I bought and was incredibly formative for me. An album about being a working class nerd who’s bizarrely sexy? What’s not to love? It’s wonderful. The songs range from pop greats like Common People and Disco 2000, to the sort of James Bond-y themed I Spy. Honestly I like something about every song on the album. It’s wonderful.

I bet this album hits way harder if you’re depressed

Groove is in the Heart is the only highlight. The rest seems like a parody of house music. It sucks

I don’t even know where to start. I went into this with essentially negative expectations. I knew Maggie May? I knew Young Turks? And I knew Da Ya Think I’m Sexy. That last one is the real kicker, I had this view of Rod Stewart as a guy who had talent but understandably sold out to make music that only appealed to horny old women. Nothing wrong with that, but nothing I have to respect. And then. I listen to this album. Which is good. It’s very good. It’s folksy, it’s rocking. It’s got some…mixed lyrics (some are very good some are dated and weird, the 1970s.) There’s a weird Amazing Grace cover tacked onto the end of a song, that’s at least interesting.

Tomorrow is a Long Time is this beautiful country song (what a world if that’s the direction he went in!!!)

Mandolin Wind made me cry. I’m not joking. It’s a beautiful tragic thing. It’s so good. This album is so good what the fuck

I fucking loved this album. It’s the biggest
surprise I’ve had now 150 albums in. Just wow.

Ahhh the Black Keys remind me so much of high school. This was when I started to take more notice of contemporary music, and this album stood out, it’s bluesy, and mostly good. In hindsight this album still holds up okay, I think it suffers from cultural rot. Like I associate the Black Keys with previews for an AMC show that no one remembers. Something about crime and sex, as like Gold on the Ceiling plays on the background. I also think they kinda wind up poisoning what would become later mainstream indie rock. Dan Auerbach producing Cage the Elephant being my favorite example, what a fucking nightmare. This album is good. It sounds good, I remember a lot of the songs. It’s good. Do I think a better singer would have helped? By god yes. But still