Reviews by magsmusic

Don't judge an album by its cover. This is an album I would have never listened to and never been interested in learning more about based on the cover but it has a much better sound then I expected. It was like a harder rock REM, we are not just sad but we are angry and sad. I enjoyed it but the similarity is just a little to high for me to think it is amazing. Also it just feels long, and none were bad but none were amazing.

I would say this is pretty classic and Shirley is a bad a$$ is the best possible way. Their sound is hard and rough but in ways that make it great. Do I want to listen to this everyday, no. But when a day is tough or I am angry at the world I can turn this on love every minute of it.

Its hard sometimes when you feel like you already knew what to expect and what was coming, but you like it. I was familiar with this album and like it a lot. It is a little rougher than I always expect from Petty but that's not bad. It does start to feel a little repetitive but not enough that I still don't enjoy it.

Some songs I love, some grated a little. I like that their sound is original and different. They have a modern post apocalyptic sound. Taking a little club music fusing with a Bjork vocal sound. I don't think I need to come back to the album as a whole but i will enjoy some of the songs individually.

I liked it, it was good rap, good rhymes, good spins. It is a little rough for me to listen to regularly but I don't mind it .

While I don't love this, I love that it had spunk and something different. It wasn't as amazing as I thought it could be. There was energy maybe not as much as I want but it is a start. Maybe it is just the slog that has been coming out lately but I appreciate they have a point of view that is a little different and a good early alterrock sound. Do I love it, no but I don't want to immediately turn it off either.

I don't know where I go with this one exactly because I think time has probably not done it favors. Also at the time it did support Black artists but also didn't focus any thoughts or lyrics on the apartheid laws of South Africa I love the mixture of different cultures and beats and it makes some really beautiful musical sounds. However, it is a little appropriation and sad (as always) that it takes a white man to make these beautiful traditional sounds popular. But also at the time that was somewhat needed to bring these sounds and musicians to a global stage. So I don't know, I liked it and honestly found the African musical influences the best parts. Paul's voice just didn't hold up to the beautiful chanting, drums and zydeco sounds.

For me this was just lifeless background music. Nothing pulled me in, nothing to connect to, like background music in a store I realize is not at all for me. I wonder around aimlessly for a while because someone else wanted to go in but I don't actually look at anything

On the surface I like the music, it is catchy and pretty. Then Kanye raps over it and in some ways really ruins it. He no doubt has smart references in his raps, but its all about how amazing he is and really over the top sexual lyrics. I am find with kinky but the way he talks about it is so disrespectful. This is such much of rap music I don't like, I am God and bitch's be crazy. You are talented Kanye I think by this point you could write songs about something a little deeper.
Also I fully know there is a lot of racial and cultural context in this music that I don't understand and don't connect with. But I also see so much of it as hypocritical...New Slaves, he talks about corporations taking advantage of Black people to make money...what was his clothing line doing????? Blood on the Leaves....being a celebrity and fame and money ruining relationships...you married Kim Kardashian and now control your new woman with money???? I am God....Jesus called and I told him I was counting my millions and he said cool, but you are a godly man...Have you read the bible?
He is such a hypocrite and maybe that is why him and MAGA and Trump get along, he can say and do whatever he wants but is above it all and better than it all because it is him doing it.

Was this supposed to be pedestrian and bad on purpose or were they just not great? This is one of those albums I don't hate, but I am not sure how they ever became something more than a local bar band. I like ants they are amazing creates, but I am not sure I like their music.

This was interesting to hear early vs old Bob Dylan or folk vs. rock. The second album was better and had more energy, but honestly that was the biggest thing that I enjoyed. Otherwise it didn't really give me anything new or different from Bob. I liked the harmonica but other than that it sort of slogged through, and the live aspect didn't really add much. What was happing with Like a Rolling Stone...was drunk, just being obnoxious, or like did he really think that it sounded good. It was so off beat by the end that it was painful. Sorry Bob, I like you but this was just too much

This album had a juvenile pedestrian vibe that sort of reminded me of Huey Lewis and the News with Jack Johnson of the 80's. It started off making sense and being like a nice summer day moving through the seasons. But then I got a little confused as we entered a spy movie and then focused on death so hard. I didn't mind 1000 umbrellas and Earn Enough for Us. But nothing is sticking out as amazing.

I forgot to write my review for this album after listening and then when I went back I had forgotten the album....so I will take that somewhat as a sign. I scrolled through and remembered it slightly, but mostly I remember not being impressed and being underwhelmed. I liked the music of You Shook Me and Greensleeves, but Rod Stewarts vocals just didn't do it for me on this one.

Nope, I am done with this guy...
Somehow you made me hate a protest song. Sentiment I agree with but your lyrics are so grating. Then seriously....lesbians are created because their husbands aren't good to them...STFU.
His music drips with self righteous pretentiousness but his lyrics are so pedestrian and the music is nothing amazing, just something you could find on any 80's album. Morrissey, I know big words too and I cannot help but observe that your habitual prioritization of your own perceived brilliance, combined with a resolute resistance to cognitive expansion, renders your music (and likely your personality) profoundly and exhaustingly objectionable.

This is a band I don't get the hype about. They aren't awful but it is so electronic and distorted I can't really hear what they are saying. Its got its own sound and is a little different but I don't really enjoy it. Sorry Cure, you are just meh to me.

I mean meh...they were okay, but it felt like simple bland punk. Nothing life changing or really pushing the envelope that much.

It sort of sounds like the Beach Boys and Elvis had a baby.
This time frame really mastered the short song. They are almost all under 3 minutes but they still all work and feel like full thought out songs. I don't hate the short little diddies, get to the point and don't try to be overblown and something they aren't. They are clean cut and fun, its hard to really compare them to today because they are just simple pop songs. They do hold up though and are still bops even when they are just simple pop songs.

For Joni this wasn't my favorite. The lyrics were great and it was the most commercial feeling, but that is almost what made me like it less. It was still good and I enjoyed it but it didn't hit me with the same level of emotion as other albums. This felt very surface level and not deep.

Overall it was good, it was just a lot for someone that is not a complete bluegrass fan. It is all very similar in sound, which isn't bad but 2 hours was a lot. I really liked Nashville Blues and the banjo. Avalanche had a good fiddle and harmonica. The banjo came back and was special in Flint Hill Special (they are special!). It was a lot of classical bluegrass songs and it was nice to hear a different interpretation but they didn't do anything that pushed it over into amazing.

This felt like I was the only drunk/sober one at a party. First it started off fun and making sense (White Light/White Heat). Then we got a little paranoid and crazy. Then went off on tangents and telling stories that people can't really follow and finally we got a little angry and started fighting over something that nobody really understands. And here I am the sober person that just wants to go home and have this party be over.