Reviews by kingboyd13

Went into this with no expectations. Actually based on the album cover I had LOW expectations. But man this was such a fun time. The whole thing flows so well, it’s fun, there’s variety of sounds, languages, energies. Is this 5 stars? It’s certainly close. He has a new album next month and I think I’ll actually seek it out, so that’s probably all the praise this album needs. Its actually made me wanna look further into this dude.

Sure. Whatever. This could be literally any band from the 60s. It’s like you hit every generic topic and plugged it into a machine and this is the result. This is frustrating because like…who cares?

Wow, this album is special to me, it’s one of the first albums I listened to that wasn’t something one of my parents owned, so it’s sort of formative in that way. White Winter Hymnal is a song I sing all the time. This will probably be an incredibly subjective rating. I will say Helplessness Blues is better but still.

Eugh, this has aged unbelievably poorly. I think of the place that violence and rage have in music. For example, a lot of gangster rap that came before this is LOADED with violent lyrics, including homophobic and misogynistic ones. Some times I can look past those, understanding the time and place etc. This album though…it’s never ending, it’s crass in the way that only 1999 could be. 97’ Bonnie and Clyde is fucked up. Not because it offends me. Because I think it’s a legitimately evil thing to do. It isn’t funny. It isn’t cute.

What is there to say. It’s fucking AC/DC. It’s not high art and it’s not pretending to be. I wish there was more, but that’s like wishing my air conditioning also served ice cream. What did you expect?

I liked this a lot more than I thought I would! I think I listened to the clash when I was younger and it never really hit me. This album though! Really good high energy. White Riot is a bit weird, like I get the idea but you’re allowed to riot with the black people, probably be more effective that way. Anyway that’s a nitpick. It DOES get a little tiring toward the end…

What a fucking piece of shit. This is one of the most amazing live albums I’ve ever heard. The energy is insane. The playing is great. He sounds like a madman. Why’d he have to make every song make me feel sick because I think he’s singing about his child bride. Fuck him. 4 stars

This is like if I went to a restaurant. And someone was like, man you gotta try their chicken. And I show up, and it’s this beautifully plate, all kinds of sauces and garnishes, really beautiful, and there’s fucking dinosaur chicken nuggets, still slightly too cold, sat in the middle. What am I supposed to do with this? It might be fucking delicious. But I don’t care. I don’t want this. I don’t know what this is. I take a bite. It’s fine. It’s a guy playing guitar who can’t sing. This would have been a way better instrumental album. I think the American equivalent is that Joe Satriani album with the Silver Surfer on it. I just can’t be made to care about whatever THIS genre is.

Beautiful, lovely, sexy, incredibly European. Really liked this, I knew about Love Fool and their amazing cover of Iron Man. I think the only thing lacking here is a change up, I wish there was a little more variety on here. But over all it’s very solid

Ahhhhhh shoot. I love Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, they’re some of my favorite albums ever. I’ve never listened to this one before and ugh it’s just missing something, or rather it’s been tainted by too much. It’s over produced, it just doesn’t sound as raw, but worse it doesn’t sound as fun. The drum machine makes everything feel hollow. Imagining a song like Bone Machine with it really shows just how important it is. Some of the songs on here really are good, which shows they still have that it factor.

I literally was reading about the Cass ham sandwich myth the day before so this feels like providence. Pretty fucked up that one of the few famous large women of the time gets that kind of treatment post mortem. I digress. This is a pretty good pop album! I don’t know why people were like WOW HOW TRANSGRESSIVE AND PROGRESSIVE! It’s uh. It’s a pop album. A great one! It sort of suffers from being so influential and good that it almost sounds generic. Suffering from success. Anyway. Hey don’t read what Papa John is accused of. It’s fucked up. Arguably the worst human being included on this list? Anyway. 4 stars, I’d listen to some of these songs again

A lot of the songs on here are interesting but boring, nothing really hooked me, it’s a lot of style no substance. It’s definitely got more care than a lot of new wave fluff but it just isn’t…fun?

God I love Creedence. This album is incredible, EVERY song is good, but it’s anchored with such massive hits. They’re easily one of the best bands of the era just based on the sheer number of hits they pumped out on basically 3 years. Unbelievable band.

Never seen or heard of this. It’s definitely more interesting than a lot of stuff. Kind of like a 60s throwback. It’s okay but I don’t think I’ll ever listen to it again. I rarely have time or patience for this kind of slow vibe unless the music is really inventive and interesting. This didn’t have that unfortunately.

There’s a perception among my peers that Led Zeppelin fucking sucks. Theres a few reasons. For one they are thieves. For two, they don’t evolve, all their music sounds the same, it’s all white man’s blues with occasional hard rock. I tend to like their hard rock songs. I tend to like their hits. So when I got Physical Graffiti I was optimistic. I am no longer optimistic.

Imagine it’s 1975, you sit down to listen to the new album from one of your favorite bands. You drop the needle on Custard Pie. My god. It’s the same shit again. It’s another fucking Led Zeppelin song. It sounds like all the others. It’s incredibly mid. Oh no.

The Rover starts. More of the same. Except it just keeps going oh no.

Then, fucking In My Time of Dying, it’s 11 fucking minutes of uninspired blues riffs, Robert Plant is doing what I can only call a pastiche of spiritual music and blues. It’s like the suffering of gospel music, if that suffering was dying cats. I swear he’s usually better than this. Or is he.

Greta Van Fleet is a band whose whole existence is preying on boomer nostalgia for Led Zeppelin. The edgy kids who said today’s music sucks also love them. They are bad. I feel like their music and some tracks on here are, essentially, the same. This is a death knell.

Trampled Under Foot. Thank God. What a good song. It’s awesome. Funk is such a refreshing change of pace. There’s energy here. It’s such a forward looking song. I bet the Chili Peppers love this song. The whole album could have been this direction and it would be so much better for it.

Even the cynic in me can’t deny, Kashmir is a fucking triumph, it’s sort of baffling that they…don’t do more like this? Clearly they’re talented enough to explore prog and funk, they’re the best songs on here. Did they stick with the old formula because they didn’t want to alienate fans? They should have.

This albums too long, the few stand outs don’t save it. Blegh.

This album cover is great. Peter Gabriel is one of those dudes I know nothing about despite knowing how important and influential he is. I only knew Games Without Frontiers and I Don’t Remember. This sure is Peter Gabriel. I don’t know what it is, I know this is good and he’s talented but it just never resonates with me. Maybe it’s too low tempo? I dunno.

Arguably a flawless album, talk about a debut.

What is this. At first I thought this was going to be like a German dance pop album no one talks about. Instead it’s an album by a Congolese sex pest. The good, it’s kinda fun, kinda gross reading the comments from people who are like “teehee this is just for white people” like it seems like this is a pretty formative artist and album in the DRC. But whatever. I dunno man, it’s fine, I think I enjoyed reading about the history of Congolese music on Wikipedia more than I did listening to this album.

This album cover suggests this will either be so fucking amazing or an unmitigated trash fire.

Bad news! It’s way closer to the latter. Hoo boy. If you want some Louisiana fun just listen to some zydeco or something. This is just a masturbatory exercise to see how weird we can make voodoo seem to the hippies that would have been high as a kite listening to this. Shut the fuck up. It falling 200 fucking places in 20 years on Rolling Stones list tells you once boomers are gone this shit will be irrelevant. Terrible

An album I’ve only heard massive positives about that I’ve never actually listened to. It’s good! Artsy, some songs are great, but some really drag on which is a big bummer. Still like it a lot.