Reviews by lett_music

Deltron 3030 is the future I would rather go back to.

Did an immediate relisten of this album after I finished it (first time in near 500 albums I've listened to so far on this list).

I noticed the wailing harmonica at the end of the album pretty much connects right back to the very beginning harmonica sound on the first track.

Nothing on the album sticks out as much as recognizable hits or anything, but as an album, it is very easy to get lost in front to back as a cohesive project. Maybe Supertramp doesn't live up to Pink Floyd or Electric Light Orchestra or their contemporaries to others, but this album impressed me enough to stand shoulder to shoulder as one of the great projects.

We all have to sit through 7 Bob Dylan albums with screeching harmonica on this list. Stop pretending this is torture because it's not conventional vocals.

This is a solid album for the 1960s. The arrangements of guitar, strings and flute make for a generally pleasant album.

The album drones on a bit, but that's the main flaw. 5/5 for an opium den, but 3/5 for me.

Smooth as butter on a skillet. Would dine at this chicken shack again.

Did not have high expectations, but was pleasantly surprised at getting mostly chill trip hop vibes for about half of the album.

"Who Is it" is a 5/5 amazing song that will add to my future rotation, but the album as a whole is mostly a miss for me, and does not seem to hold up as well to her other albums.

Hard to understate what Tom Scholz achieved on this album for its time. He was the Tame Impala of the 70s. A near perfect debut rock album that is mixed better than most albums ever made.

As much as I enjoy how much most of the album shreds, the only drawback for me is some of the tracks feel a little too 50s rock and roll derivative.

I cooked bacon and eggs on a Sunday to this. Album was smooth as a motherfucker.

Beautiful soundscapes and soulful songwriting. I could bask in these sounds many times over. I rarely give anything a 5, but this is about as perfect as an album can get. Every song transitions smoothly to the next giving a cohesive front-to-back experience. Angelic production from Danger Mouse and Inflo.

Now to suffer another 100 British proto-punk albums to find the next gem like this.

Aside from Johnny sounding like Donkey Kong arcade music, it's a fitting album for Guantanamo Bay.

Blinded by the Lights was ahead of its time, and the last half of Empty Cans is pretty beautiful.

Unfortunately, it's just musically not enjoyable for most of it, and the kind of homebrew mixing quality sounds more suitable for a website like Newgrounds than standing among the best 1001 albums.

Their Violator album didn't really click for me at all and I didn't care for it, but this album did and made me a fan. This is the 80s I want. It may be the tropes that pisses some people off, but I'm here for the gated reverbs on snares, the rolling synth basslines and melancholic atmospheres.

Eddie Hazel was one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and the titular Maggot Brain song is a testament to that.

As great as the band is, part of the psychadelic exploration will eventually lead you to fart noises and explosions.

Overall, can't knock the album as a whole or the songwriting, it's very well done. His vocals are even pretty enjoyable throughout this album.

But then the harmonica moments happen.

One of the earliest albums I remember from my childhood. Like many Eminem albums, it's a mixed bag of highly serious with highly immature. There's no denying the impact this album had, but there are some painful tracks to get through that do not hold up to the quality of other songs. So my faults for this are not "this did not age well", but rather song to song the album suffers quality consistency when it released and as it stands today.

As an album in Eminem's greater catalog, musically this one is a bit overrated, and think he came through a lot more consistency overall with the follow-up, The Eminem Show.

I still appreciate a few lesser known gems on this one though like Amityville and Bitch Please II.

I could take more instrumental synth tracks like Elegia. There's some good groovy synth work across, but the vocals are rough for most of the project.

Banger opening tune, great use of woodwinds on the following track, and then it just kind of meanders from there.

Another album tanking the 80s for me.

The blueprint for most modern Taylor Swift albums.

Much better than 'More Specials' but still not very special.