Reviews by magsmusic

Bob Marley, I love the ease of his music and how he pulls so much meaning and depth to what seem like such simple laid back songs.

So this was Live and I think they were pretty drunk or something. It sounds like it would have been a good time and a fun concert, leading me to a vibe for the band. But I don't think I was able to really listen and connect with their music like you can when it is a little more perfected for an album. I think I could get into them a little more if I had heard it in an album format first.

I really enjoy R.E.M. and appreciate that they have a certain mellow vibe to everything. But for me the mellow vibe was just too the same the entire time. I was hoping for some difference and to really connect but instead I just felt it was very surface level and never gave me anything that really pulled me in.

These were bops and so much fun! I could listen to this over and over.

Reading about it really tracks with what it was. He just played for a while and they recorded it. It wasn't polished and it was a little random. It wasn't bad, but more just random as it went on. It feels like maybe they could have edited it some to make it more of an album, especially since he was still alive when this was released.

This was a good merge from punk into grunge. It was raw and rough so it wasn't completely mainstream but it was moving in that direction. There were a couple of songs I really enjoyed. It also was a sound that was a little different and how it influenced some major bands of the 90's grunge era.

Pretty, a little more new wavey 80's electronic. But also nothing made it different then bands like Depeche Mode

This felt like ABBA if they came out in the late 80s. After a while it all messed together and the background sounds all started to feel similar. It gave very psychedelic techno world floating in a weird astro plane.

It was definitely 80's but also a nice deep for the 80s. Relax will forever remind me of Zoolander.

Purely quality, speed and ability to make a nice dark flow is really good. Good beats and mixing. But I also honestly don't get half of what he is saying (not because I can't hear the exact words he is saying), it seems like he is just bragging about himself, calling other people really disgusting names and singing about drugs. Looking up different critiques talking about how awesome he is and how socially conscious he is, I might be missing a lot of meaning and context because I lack the life experiences to understand. Not all music is made for me and my experience, and I highly respect that but for today I just don't know how I feel about this one.

Could they all be like Hollow?!? That song actually seems unique, different and still in the metal genre. I can appreciate the guitar work and the singers actual voice. The rest of the album is so much screaming and yelling. Then the rough guitar over and over.
The part that really frustrates me about metal is they all do the same exact thing, making it all sound exactly the same to me. I even chuckled at one point because all of the songs were marked as explicit but he screams so much you can't even tell he is saying explicit things! I am sure a real metal head would be able to show me the little differences that make Pantera and this album unique and different but to me it all sounds the same. I don't really like metal and I don't see anything super unique about this album (except Hollow).

Based on the album name and cover I was a little worried about this one. Turns out it was pretty good, punk but different. It felt a lot like organized chaos. The guitar in Drug Me rocked. I don't really love violence as an answer so some were a little harsh but then again so are roaches up to your knees and water pouring through the ceiling. This is another album that makes me happy for this project, somebody new and different I would not have been exposed to otherwise.

My only major connection to this band is I remember this time my sister and my cousin were fighting over one of their songs being used in movie they wrote while holding an inflatable hammer :)
I had in my mind they would have a major 80's vibe but instead it was much jazzier then I expected. Not bad, but at times it was just more like guys hanging out having fun then an album.

Nice reggae vibes. I love reggae in how laid back it seems on the surface but how deep the lyrics cut, making these seemingly chill songs so much deeper and meaningful.

It was a good jam

It just felt like a lot of long whinyness. The sounds weren't painful to the ears, just a lot of metal undertones that didn't really add anything just made them seem sad or creepy.

I really liked some songs like Blues in Bob Minor and Free Will and Testament. But then others just felt meh and somewhat disjointed.

Its pretty, it is interesting at times but overall just music that is there. This isn't the first album we have that has followed a format I find a bit confusing. What is with one really really long song, that has multiple parts that could be broken down into multiple songs that are then followed by multiple shortish songs. I get that there needs to be a certain length to a typical album but if you like long songs do two long songs or focus on short songs. To me I automatically assume the long one is your Opus and the rest is just filler.

I don't mind the beats, they are coherent and somewhat build. But they also stay pretty mellow, feels like the soundtrack for the store Express.
I think where it really falls apart for me are the weird stories at the beginning. I thought wow this guy is from the streets in Brooklyn and sampling life in a different way. No! He is a white guy from Belfast. Nothing against white guys from Belfast, but for me it just really feels off that you are creating these really stereotypical exaggerated stories of a world you are not a part of.
So for me it falls short

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, I knew it was long but this was the first time really listening and it felt like a record needle got stuck and nobody got up to change it. It might be cool with an immerse visual experience but just song wise it goes on way way to long. The rest is just okay psychadelic rock. The first song it seemed like it was trying to make his voice sound way deeper then it was, making it come off as really forced. The others weren't bad, just nothing I added to my liked list.