Reviews by lprox777

COLOR. ENERGY. YELPING. SHRIEKING. NEW WAVE.
Yeah man I don’t hate it, some songs on here are too catchy to deny. “Antmusic” is super fun with its to the point message of trying something fucking new for once. Then “Jolly Roger” also had me swinging my arms while I walked, while yapping threats about taking your money. Maybe it’s an anticapitalist sentiment and you know I can always get behind those.

I think it’s worthy of being on the list: not a very popular album, it holds its weight with some catchy hooks and very colorful moments, it keeps you guessing about its next move, and it might inspire you to abandon that shit that has lost its taste…so try another flavor.

okay trip hop from the dude from massive attack. I've never really endulged a trip hop album front to back so this is my first time

ehhhh it's super UK. I can hear it. The trip hop influences that spawned out of that island are always talked about, and it's evident that this is their shit. Like a punk rebellion flinging it's fists around, trip hop is an answer to electronic pop, new wave pop, UK pop, and it's very subdued and colorful in it's colorlessness. It's very intoxicating, with vocals here and vocals there, sonic loops and snares everywhere. Simple bass grooves and simple synth manipulations. I think this is a great starting point for me, but I'm looking forward to what the best of trip hop has to offer. For now, I'll give this a respectable 3/5. It's great for locking in, but it doesn't make me want to go running back to it. RESPECT.

ABSOLUTELY COLORLESS.

British pop vocalist music really hit a high with television didn't it? It was TV programs that birthed these british pop stars that are still making money today. Adele definitely has the voice to back it. For that reason I respect her work. I never loved the singles on this album, and I was busy listening to music that animated and inspired me more than stuff like this: Pop singer songwriter stuff with majority Slow tempo, minimalist instrumentation that opens the center for the vocals to do what they want.

Back to those instrumentations - 2015 onward prior to covid was fiiiiilled with shitty pop minimalism, or is it just me? Some 808 hits, guitar plucks, and not much else? Claps and fucking trap beats lmao. Send My Love commits this trap beat crime very blatantly...and I hate it. It was like watching real life cultural appropriation in full force LMAO.

There are some moments where Adele is not really making the best artistic choices. On "I Miss You" there are some really rough shrieky and frantic background vocals that I think the producers should've left on the cutting room floor.

Also, the human body can only take so much piano...piano fucking ballad after piano fucking ballad and then a little trap type shit.

A special "fuck you" type shout out to "River Lea". Wow, I hate that song. That fucking chorus sucks donkey cock. It sounds like she's saying Rirer Leaaa Rirer Leaaa Rirer Leaaaaa. Fuck.

Man I'm torn because this is not hot dog shit, this doesn't deserve a 1, this is somewhere around a 3/10 and I will be rounding to a 2/5. I don't think you have to go running to hear the shittiest instrumentation pop had to offer in the 2010s. The most colorless shit I've ever heard.

Am I being too harsh on this? I just didn't really like it. There's a lot of talk behind it that this album is very political, that it was groundbreaking...but it really lyrically pales today. Today's political isn't the 80's version of "political". Today it means much more, and maybe through rose tinted glasses you can point and this and say, "you're wrong dude! look at these specific lyrics"...nothing made me turn my head, nothing made me double check the lyric I just heard. A lot of the 2nd disc is about love and relationships. Idk man...it's not enough. I have to be consistent and I don't think this one was enough.

Instrumentally, I also found myself bored at times. I thought Prince was through and through a dense creative, but honestly, this is what probably happens when you pump a fucking 1 hour album out every year. 40 or so albums under his belt right? Cmon man...quality over quantity always.

Anywho, some of the singing on this is not it either. It's somewhere between the 4-6 range, but for now, I have to be consistent. I did not enjoy this joint.

Great start, the first four songs are great, and then it kind of just devolves into a mess of electronic passages with very melancholic and nostalgia bait melodies behind some whiny 2000s white lead singer vocals. It's okay. I don't hate it but I don't want to hear it again. I think the Do You Realize song was like made popular by Guardians of the Galaxy or something? I don't like that song either. This is fine and I don't think it should be on the list but it's not absolute basura.

I don't think I can take much away from this one. I think it's a fun pop album from the 80s. However, I think bar for bar and toe for toe this thing falls short against many heavy hitters of the 80s. I think you can totally skip this in a quest to narrow down the albums that you absolutely have to listen to before you die. Was he part of an iconic folk group with Garfunkel? Yeah, sure...but that alone shouldn't merit every one of your albums being labeled necessary listening lol. I was going to give it a 1 but I don't hate it. Some of these songs are really tacky, in the sense that they don't really say much. They're a collection of mundane observations and weak analogies (allergies for heartache? holy fuck lmao....and Cars are cars?...bro...)
The more I type the stronger the urge to give this a 1 gets, because sooooo much iconic shit dropped in the 80s that this is almost insulting. This is an incorrect inclusion. Fuck it...1.8/10 or something like that. Rounding down for the sake of consistency.

WATCH CONSERVATIVE CUCKS RATE THIS LOWER THAN A 5 LMAO

Poignant lyrics that still resonate in fucking 2026 and beyond. Stinging passages of remarks and observations that point fingers at the machine and it's fucking horrible skeletons.

Fast, blasting guitar riffs, DIY aesthetics through and through from NINETEEN FUCKING EIGHTY. This eye cutting and thought provoking album was put together while Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Queen, Paul McCartney, Devo, AC/DC, the forever fucking flaccid Neil Diamond, sanitized Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, and other corporate puppets danced and distracted the masses.

Crispy drums, thick and bubbling bass, harsh and knife like guitars crashed and mashed under anti war, anti capitalist, anti landlord, ANTI BIG GOVERNMENT (THE REAL VERSION, YOU MAGA CUCK) sentiments.

Open your fucking eyes. It's still resonating today because nothing has changed.

5/5, no complaints. Anything less and honestly, I picture you as one of the choking morons on "Chemical Warfare". Did you even hear the album? You heard it but did you fucking HEAR IT?

One of the most important west coast hip hop albums of the 90s. However, I think there are a lot of moments on this album that take away from the album. I don't think the album is perfect, and I'm not against it being on the list due to the strength of the singles, I'm not going to defend it like a lot of other classics that have made it's way on here.

There are some great songs, where Dr. Dre really flexed his production muscles, but I was always of the camp that snoop dogg was really good at establishing a vibe, but not really rapping bar for bar. I think he is a bit elementary at times on here, and a lot of the features do the heavy lifting on the singles.

The album starts really strong, but we get into tracks 4-9 and we're just meandering through some story telling type bars on relatively safe dre beats...with some bad hooks in there as well.

It's an interesting listen. There are high highs and really low lows. Maybe it lies somewhere around a 3.6, but I think based on how I've been rating albums, this one will be around a 3/5. I gotta start being more cutthroat with the 4s and 5s.

A quick side note, on ain't no fun...you can really hear where Snoop feels like he has to be more present on this song. The guest verses come in swinging so he provides a great performance to be on par. I point it out because it doesn't feel the same on other songs. GZ UP tho

No complaints from the Long Beach funk collective that poses as a great representative of LA funk, Chicano funk and Black funk. It's a very down in the mud and mundane album about the realities of war, capitalism's faults, poverty and isolation. It's funky and colorful while being real and down to earth. The direct lyrics contrast the funky color palette, so I gotta give it it's props. Somewhere around an 8 for me, so I'll hand it 4 stars. Nice.

I can't lie, this album was pretty awesome. A smooth and genuine representation of reggae and the associated themes of empowerment, unity and love put together masterfully. It has a very human made feel, nothing synthetic or digital, and for that reason I think that it deserves it's perfect rating. I think that a 5/5 is exactly what this calls for. Something that you point to and say, hey, you should definitely listen to this before you die, because as a representative of reggae, it's up there. Some of the most iconic songs land on here as well...Jamming, Three Little Birds, One Love...yeah it's deserving of it's praise. It's somewhere around a 9.5 / 10

can your little fuckin squirrel brain fathom the amount of BETTER SHIT that dropped in 2023 that has been excluded from this list? From Paramore's This is Why, to Chappelle Roan's debut, to Angel Du$t, to Caroline Polachek, to Narrowhead to a grip of a whole bunch of better stuff than this BOOMER SLOP. So many artists dropped dense and meaningful albums that had so much to say about the mid 2020s and you add this fuck ass say-nothing garbage to the list.

FUCK YOU.

This is so horrifically shite for the Stones, let alone for rock in general. The vocals are tacky and have like fuckin elements of pitch correction on them? Holy fuck Bite my head off is so ass. That shouting with the autotune is so fucked. It's fucked. The pianos and guitars are so tiresome and compressed, the songs themselves are so middle of the road and subpar for Stones standards. I'm done man I'll leave it at that
"Don't get angry with me". I'm fuming lmao, it's the worst thing to see a spot taken on this list by actual slop.

Welcome to Interlude city. I think that the album is a celebration of black culture to a certain extent. It's honestly full of platitudes and surface level remarks. I don't think it goes deep enough for me to give it the flowers some might think it deserves. I think this type of music is important, for sure... that this album holds a significant space in the context of black culture is up to debate. It's a mediocre version of something that had already been perfected around this time, in my opinion, and for that reason I don't think it needs to be listened to before you die. I think my rating is a protest rating, and that the album falls somewhere around a 3/5 stars. I think the instrumentation gave Solange's middle of the road vocalizations too much space, to be honest. The bland trap beats and bland synth pads didn't dress her up enough to need warrant eyes on her in a similar vein as eyes are placed on her sister. Idk man. It's tough, but I think I gotta stand with myself on this one. Albums like these are needed, but GOOD albums are needed as well. MEMORABLE songs are needed as well. LESS INTERLUDES are needed. I don't think this was memorable enough to warrant a spot on here.

This jazz record feels whimsical (?) that's a word I keep seeing more and more lately...but it does feel very carefree, and loose, and like hashed around and mixed around and swept together then pulled apart and put back together again. It's not a distorted or "experimental" mess, like a lot of avant-garde digital stuff that we can find today, or even avant-garde jazz for a more strict comparison, but it feels very colorful. There are different time signatures, on the first half, then you have Take Five, which is a jazz standard that I've heard before. It's neat. I dig it. I don't know where I would rank this since I'm not an avid Jazz listener, but maybe this belongs in the 5/5 category due to sheer instrumentation and musicianship. I enjoyed it for locking in and getting some stuff done. It's good. It's probably a 8.5-9.5/10 somewhere in there.

a super one dimensional album, but with very nice grooves and soundscapes. My bro said this was yacht rock, and i could totally see why. I think that the opening song (and it's main hit) is super iconic, and it sets a good tone for the rest of the 30 something minutes. Chill bass grooves with mellow drum patterns, some soft electric guitar tones, ez going lyrics and vocals, all layered under some piano and organ grooves. I think that I can't go wrong with this being a 4/5, somewhere around an 8.2-8.6/10, but it does feel like a quintessential 70s "chill" album. Good shit. I think they lyrics are also more standout than usual, upon closer inspection. And I honestly would've missed it if i hadn't looked into it. It worthy of that 5/5 score, even if it's really hovering around a 8.9ish...I'm not sure how many stars I'll give it but I'm torn.

on first look this album cover is ugly lol and the font is ugly too but when you think about it, it's kind of influential. I feel that a lot of 2010s albums used that font and had a similar type of exposure and shot composition. anyWHO....
The album has some iconic songs on it. No doubt that they put together a cohesive and well thought out album. Great production too. I think it’s up there as a 4.5-5 so I’ll round up. Probably their best work.

it honestly was fun while it lasted! I've never heard of her and she really did come out swinging with very good melodies and vocal harmonies. It was soothing at times, and funky at times. The guitars are very front and center with her vocals, and everything else falls nicely into place to support her act. She puts together some really somber and direct lyricism regarding love and heartbreak and longing. I am pleasantly surprised and can say that I would recommend this to people who love pop, singer songwriter music that haven't heard of her yet. A very nice inclusion to the list. I think somewhere around a 7.5-8.5 is fair, so I'll rate it 4 stars. Very sick, let's include more albums in this vein...too much slop on here.

While Smoke on the Water is a genuinely fun song, with a very cool use of storytelling to put forth a sick, legendary riff, (that's been so played that it's genuinely morphed into a guitar meme at this point...) the rest of the album feels very cut and dry 70s heavy-ish, faster tempo'd rock. Heavy Metal? I mean it's part of the foundation of it, but you can look at Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin as more realistic influences for heavy metal's earliest beginnings. With that in mind, I think this is fine to have on here. I have no complaints, as it comes in at around 30 minutes and never really lets off the gas pedal. It starts great, it has a great hit on it and it wraps up really well. A good album...not something I would rush to have people listen to before they die, though...somewhere around 6-7/10...not quite that 4 star mark

I'm rounding up on this one. This is a great representation of the south, it's very 2000s coded and the feel and the energy and the power that is felt in the lyrics and the production of this album is very noticeable and recognizable. It's extremely unique in it's placement on this list and for that reason it could be a 5/5. There will not be another album like this one on this list. The South's greatest rap representatives (in my humble opinion) pack some extremely rough and tough tracks alongside some very though provoking burners and some of the catchiest pop rap tracks ever made. I think that recognition is owed to this and I don't see anything other than a 4 or 5. For me it's somewhere between a 8.5 - 9.5 based on how I'm feeling that day, but it is super deserving to be on this list. I'm rounding up

I think my bro said it best when he said, "she's a supernova"...quickly burned out like a star on a fire, undefeated and unstoppable. Her album was great, it was funky, fresh, of the 2000s through and through. Well put together doesn't even begin...with serious themes of addiction and distress, under a veil of r&b that I haven't really heard before. I think that there could be some arguments against her album being a 5/5, and I honestly think it's somewhere around a 9.3/10, but still, I gotta give her the credit. She really did take the pop sphere by storm and this album really doesn't have a single miss. I think that my only critique of the album isn't even her fault. The loudness wars that were going on at the time led to some moments on here where there's audible clipping and fizzing due to compression and limiting.

If I had to pick a Beatles album, it would probably be this one? I mean 30 songs, most of them are really good, there's no denying it, honestly. There are some legendary tracks on this album, and some of the most well put together Beatles moments. I can't argue with that. It's probably a 5/5, it's somewhere around a 9.5/10 for me, but I can't deny that I didn't have fun listening to it. Moreso than some of their earlier stuff.