Reviews by kingboyd13

IS THAT A MOTHER FUCKING JOJO REFERENCE?!

Hey, this albums not very good. Every song is either bizarrely too short or frustratingly too long. 3 separate times I was like okay that songs over only for it to keep going.

Well. It was better than Neon Bible. Not by much though

Oh look the best Radiohead album by FAR! Is it the most creative? No. Is it the most artsy or bold? No. Is it just an album with solid bangers throughout? Fuck yes.

The keyboard that comes in about a minute and a half into part 2 is so good. What’s crazy about such a pioneering album is hearing all the influences that come from it. I hear other electronic artists, I hear pop songs, I hear video game music. But even stand alone it’s really beautiful, in sort of an idealized future that never came way. Really enjoyed this

Some of the songs on this are really great, fast, hard, really great listens. And then there’s songs like Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed that are so lame and boring. Still better than I thought, I was let down when I listened to some of their studio albums.

Love the Pogues, there’s some really great songs on here, only held back by the fact that Rum Sodomy is better. Just a perfect blend of the Celtic instruments with the chaotic vigor of punk. I love it so much

Interesting! Only heard good things about this but never listened.

Great the first song has a trans panic verse, Jesus Christ. Say what you want about hip hop, the hardest part with this era is getting over the homophobia, which is never easy, it fucking sucks and I’m glad we’ve mostly gotten past this

It’s fine, the songs are pretty catchy but then a real cringey edgy lyric happens and it’s embarrassing which is the worst emotion an album can elicit. 2

The whole reason I started this experiment was because I realized I’d never listened to a Rolling Stones album which sent me down a rabbit hole to here. So this is my first one! Hopefully I like it!!

This fucking rips so hard I love it.

Shake Your Hips, or as I like to call it, Not La Grange, does suffer from “British band attempting blues” but this one is way less embarrassing than others I’ve heard so far

Jesus. This is probably the hardest to listen to album on here. It’s honest but in a way that feels mean and is painful in a way that just cuts too deep. I dunno I like it when Marvin is talking about fucking. Not when he’s really sad telling me he hates his ex wife

This might legitimately be the most impossible album to review. I know literally nothing about Indian music. So like how should I know if this is good. It is important. I dunno 2.5

This is so 2001, which isn’t bad. It’s not good either. Hey why is there a compilation on here? That’s…dumb. This doesn’t really stand out from most of the garage music that came out at the time. The Dirtbombs are pretty good. Listen to them instead.

God the second half is good. Feels like the underground skate punk that was happening around the time, which is good stuff. Kind of a bummer because that half is better and it’s from their EP…hmmmmmmm now I get why this comp is on here

Fuuuuuck. Confession time, I like the second album way more. The one everyone hates. The one that killed the band. It’s more interesting, there’s even songs on there that are really good. This…this sounds so dime a dozen and boring oh god.

I fucking hate how this album is mixed. The vocals are so far and quiet.

BUT the album still has some good tracks…

Oh JEEZ, this is…a lot. So first off, is this appropriation? On one hand he’s collaborating with a lot of African artists…but on the other…he’s Paul Simon. Plus the allegations he stole ideas from people…what else did he steal in his “I’m violating a boycott of apartheid but I promise it’s fine because look black and white artists are working together!” Well how many of those African artists benefited, and who won the Grammy and critical acclaim and a classic album. I dunno this really feels like Paul jumping on a trend that sold like hotcakes to a new liberal class too scared to take real action to stop apartheid but boy howdy we do love this African sound. Yuck. Theres this genre today in South Africa called Shangaan electro, it’s great, and if Noah Kahan made an album inspired by it everyone would rightfully PLASTER him.

What the fuck is Under African Skies. First, weird writing in general, stars in the southern hemisphere is clunky and like, yeah it’s Africa I know it’s in the southern hemisphere. But also like…Paul people in Africa aren’t all these tribal people guided by stars, people work office jobs and have cars, it’s the same “noble savage” shit that was going on with native cultures at the time. It’s insulting and infantile. God damn it Paul.

I liked the Ladysmith Black Mambazo song until Paul showed up.

Also the album sounds like ass. Except the bassist, the bass rules.

I dunno if it’s my place to condemn this album, but I know how it made me feel, and it made me feel kinda gross. Which is worse than most albums I’ve disliked on this list. Ugh.

Something tells me the writer who included this album heard it on holiday in Ibiza and was totally zooted on ecstasy with the Scooby Doo logo stamped on it. And then years later they heard Missy Elliot’s Lose Control and their fried synapses said I remember this album, it was like when I was on holiday. And then they included this album because they thought it was good. Even though it kinda sucks.

Eh? It doesn’t really stand out in anyway from other electronic music of the time

Really enjoyed this. I think it’s biggest issue is completely unfair in my part, I hear the influence this has on so many later artists, and I think those artists expand on the ideas here better, meaning this suffers because of it. Still really good.

The songs that are good are good but my sweet lord is this too long

God what a beautiful album. If someone sang some of these songs to me I’d fall in love on the spot.

This album is good but it’s not Summerteeth or YHF so. That’s a bummer. But it is still good. Long, but good. It’s honestly like a 4.75

Too long