Reviews by lancia037

This is Classic Country in every way possible. 12 songs, 6 a side and all related to Rural life troubles. Loretta Lynn has a classic Country voice as well. I love this era of Country, this one was a nice discovery. Simple album but it's all in the delivery and the songwriting. Great if you're into stuff like Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton and an essential woman to the history of Country music.

This was a pretty interesting listen. It's certainly politically charged so that's pretty neat. There are some greta beats throughout the album. It's classified as Afrobeat here but I'm not sure how much that really tracks. The interludes here kind of ruin the flow though. They all say the same thing as well. It's an interesting and fun listen but not the best album I ever had.

Hell yeah, one of the best 80's Rock albums. The first few songs here are some of the best Alternative Rock songs ever made, and the album generally stays strong after that. It's noisy, but there is a melody here to the madness. My favorite Dinosaur Jr album, even though it's the most popular one as well.

Bit of a low average rating for how much of a bop this was. Good beats that make an hour fly by really fast. More of a background listen than anything to actively engage with, but it does well at what it sets out to do. The strong Indian accent that sometimes appears in the album is a funny touch. It goes hard at times as well. Pretty good.

There is nobody like Meat Loaf. He really carved out his own niche for himself in the late 70's. This incredibly silly over the top persona that made goofball epics somehow churned out records that topped charts and sold millions of records. Bizarre guy, but a fun listen. It's kind of ridiculous and cheesy but that is part of the charm. The album cover helps too. Good if you don't expect the world from it.

This is the type of weird shit I signed up for. German interbellum songs sung by someone out of the weirdest of weird Prog Rock bands. It's unlike anything else and I really like that about it. The songs can be a bit of a slog at times, but a lot of other times they really pulled me in and were interesting to listen. The instrumentation manages to be updated without making it sound corny and still has that 20's and 30's angst to it. Bizarre thing, not sure I'd quickly listen relisten but I found it fascinating. Like listening to some 80 year old radio play.

The 60's taught us that Pop artists could make long songs, the 70's taught us that they could be more than just a jam and Dexys Midnight Runners taught us that we really should be making songs shorter again. It's not bad but none of these songs have any reason being over 3 or 4 minutes long. I also just don't like Kevin Rowlands high voice I've figured. There is enough 80's music in the world and on this list and this could've stayed 4 decades in the past. Pretty cool they covered Kid Rock though.

A classic, no doubt. Perhaps one of the best Live albums ever made. Blues lends itself to being a great springboard for jamming out and it is used as such here as well. I really like anything they do and this is their magnus opus. Everything just comes together here to be great. My favorites are the side long jams where they just go ham and do everything. Explaining why you enjoy an album is harder than explaining why you don't like something so that's all I can say haha.

His most popular work for sure, not necessarily my favorite of his. I do like Lou Reed, but I am never overly convinced by listening to him. There's some good songs but I don't think the entire album is that strong. There's mainly a few big hits here like Vicious and Perfect Day that make this a good album.

Byrds are always nice to hear. This is their somewhat softer and more Country-tinged album. Not the most revered when it came out but probably their most influential Album. Responsible for a lot of stuff I like and a lot of stuff I find boring. luckily the Byrds know how to ride a song and always manage to stay on the interesting side of this. Nice harmonies, guitar playing and songs that fly by. Byrds albums are just a treat.

Always cool to listen to solo projects from people involved in bands and groups you really like. Q-Tip already proved himself in the past on A Tribe Called Quest and this album has quite a bunch of similarities to that work. I like some of the samples on here a bunch. It’s an alright album, but I wish it wowed me a bit more than it actually did. Decent as it stands, but not that amazing compared to A Tribe.

First song builds suspense and makes you wonder where this album could be going. Good build up for what is otherwise something I really don't get any enjoyment out of. It all sounds so mopey and sad. I really don't like the way Rufus Wainwright is communicating anything to me. The almost Classical-esque presentation in which the album cover and some songs are brought to me doesn't do it for me either. This shit really isn't for me and I have another album of exactly this to go.

It's influential, it's one of the very first Industrial albums and it deserves a spot on the list. It's also completely shit to listen to. Barely anything noteworthy happening, like a sound collage more than a piece of music. It's interesting on its own, but just not something I would actually wanna listen to. I find a lot of Industrial to be just garbled noise and this is no different. Someone else can defend it and give it a higher rating because of its influence blablabla, I'm not gonna be the one to do that.

The last song is such an anthem, really like that one. It's a classic run-of-the-mill Country album with all the upsides and downsides of one. It's very short with less than half an hour runtime and only 11 shorter songs on it. It's one or two hits with a bunch of filler because they had to pump out like 5 Country albums a year. I think it's good and George Jones is a worthwile inclusion, but circumstances like that don't really allow for many albums of this genre to rise up to GOAT album territory. Doesn't really need to be, listening to this once or twice and remembering the best songs is good enough.

What a weird and wacky album, in a good way. The samples clash really hard with the songs they are put in, almost funny at times. The other soundscapes Kanye creates are really bizarre too, from Lion roars to whatever random skeet sound there is. It was always a surprise to hear what the next track was going to be, really couldn't predict it. I like this over his generic and more Pop Rap-esque albums. Can hear that a lot of artists took inspiration from it. Still not entirely my thing though, wouldn't really revisit it more than once.

I do like these goofball inclusions that really don't merit much of a place on the list. Hanoi Rocks didn't move the needle much and didn't make unique music and their most famous achievement is one of their members dying next to someone who should've been included instead. The album isn't that special. Not bad enough to dislike but only really interesting if you listened to all the other more famous Hair Metal acts beforehand. I don't even like Hair Metal. Godspeed to Robert Dimery for being the only person to think of Hanoi Rocks since the 1980's.

You can really hear that all the money here went into the cool Synth work and production, they couldn't even afford clothes for the girls on the cover. I really should listen to this Roxy Music album more, because it might just be my new favorite after listening to it. It has all the energy of my favorite songs of their early work, but even more of it and done even better. I can't really find flaw with it, just really up my alley.

Another album in this weird crossover phase where every Prog artist transitioned into Pop. This is at the early crossroads of it and thus one of the best to do it. However, I still don't really like the combination. It's Prog Rock but without all the crazyness, just some insanely well built and polished Pop that is still Pop. Good, but not something I would've put back on the record player all that quickly if it wasn't for the generator. I guess any excuse to listen to the albums you have isn't a bad one.

Hell yeah, good old regular 90's Alternative Rock. There's a ton of albums like this on here but I don't really mind. Alternative from this era just seems to blend everything together, from Shoegaze to Grunge to Noise Rock. It's been a few hours and I can't really remember any song, but I liked this nonetheless. Starts off powerful from the getgo.

Today years old when I found out that I left the CD for this one in my sold car. RIP to Music for the Jilted Generation and hope the next owner likes the Prodigy. Always a good one to put one. It's more rave-ish than their other work which I like. Songs are perhaps a bit needlessly long at times and it makes the runtime of the album quite a chunky one too. Not every one here is a rave classic, but the good moments on here are just so damn good.