Reviews by magsmusic

It wasn't bad...it was just 80's

I liked Love Dog and Family Tree, but didn't love anything. Overall it was a different vibe, but good. I won't go back to it, but I could appreciate that this has a lot of musical difference that is beautiful.

Jack hammers are music now...Steh auf Berlin was just awful
Negativ Nein and U-Haft-Muzak were at least palatable
Schmerzen horen just stops in the middle of nowhere and moves into an awful grating sound of Jet'm
I don't think I could listen at home because my dog would not be able to handle that.
Super repetitive and not in a good way
Kollaps wasn't so bad but then the weird metaillic wind
The screaming at the beginning of Schiess Euch Ins Blut is what I am feeling the whole song!

Just good stuff...

I know they are mostly covers or rerecorded...but dang he is good. His voice envokes such emotions. I know Hurt isn't his song but his version is better hands down and makes me cry every time. Knowing his life and they way he carried himself when he aged just brings so much more depth to his music. Nothing was pretentious or overdone, it was just him and the way he does music, which is beauty in sadness and pain.

Liked Stereo Sanctity. Hard but grunge, this would have been perfect for high school me but I'm not quite so angry now so I'll go with a three.

You Don't Own Me is one of the best songs ever but then we go into Wishin' and Hopin' and I lose all of the feminist touch. I love it over all and her voice is quite beautiful. However, some of the songs are so 1950's it is frustrating, but I can look past it because of the time frame.

So its palatable and doesn't hurt my ears but I have absolutely no idea what the purpose of the album is. It is really all over the place and goes from one end of the musical spectrum to another, but with very little purpose or plan.

I have never listened to an entire Police album and the beginning of this album was not what I was expecting at all! Mother...ummm seems like YOU have some issues and need to work through those. Synchronicity II started what I expected from this album. Overall the beginning of the album was a little more synthesizer then I expected. It really felt like two albums (songs 1-5 and songs 6-11). I did not like the first half, but enjoyed the second half for the most part. Tea in the Sahara was a little too slow for me.

Hard Coming Love wasn't bad (had a weird falling down a rabbit hole sound). The second half just became a little too much, and for me their message got muddled into all the weird sounds and musical tangents. Their message and meaning was good and I appreciate the lefty lyrics, but it just gets so mixed into a circusy acid trip that I am no longer paying attention to what they are saying.

Was not a big fan of the beginning but it got better. I enjoyed Someone Great, All My Friends and Us vs Them. Singers voice reminded me of others so it wasn't super unique.

Why are people grudgeful and Service were good. Good chill, electronic punk vibe. Some songs seemed long and were a little too punk for my liking. But overall a decent album.

There was a lot I liked about this one at first. I liked the horns in the first song and I liked that it was almost electronic, but still very indie and alt. It seemed like it would almost fit betters in the 90's. The other problem is it kind of drug and just went on and on. I would prefer to listen to this band with one or two songs at a time, but not the whole album. I enjoyed pretty much all of the songs but just too much of one thing.

At first it seemed sweet, but then I stayed wondering what kind of guy are you, Al, that you can't keep the lady! Not bad but nothing I still come back to.

Nothing was amazing or grabbed me but it wasn't bad, just simple folk music

Saxophone and punk is way funner then I thought it would be! Punk sometimes is too punk for me and pushes it to a place that is not enjoyable. But this is the right amount of punk and then the addition of the saxophone gives it a fun and different sound. It almost becomes punk mixed with 50's bop music (clapping and talking part in I Can't Do Anything). Let's Submerge and I Can't Do Anything are my favorites.

It felt at times more classical and Indian influenced then electronic. Overall it didn't get me extreme electronic vibes. It also had a lot of instrument sounds that were pure and not electronic. So it was not what I was expecting (dance/rave vibes), but it was also refreshing to see a different way electronic music could be used.
I liked pieces individually, but sometimes they were just so on the nose (Immigrants) that the lyrics didn't have as much depth. I also don't think it was super cohesive as an album. It was really all over the place in terms of the style of song. Each piece alone wasn't bad, but together I didn't always get it.

This was pretty and I enjoyed it, and I love getting album like this one. I never would have heard of this band or experienced their music and protest over being exiled from their country. I couldn't understand it but I didn't have to, to feel the passion and emotions in their voices. There was a good mix of traditional African sounds, with modern Blues. Mali brought a tear to my eye thinking of the sadness and love they have for their homeland.

Van Halen is a band I always think it going to be so much harder than they are, and for me that is good. To me there is something fantasy or mystical to their music, its like you are always in the clouds and everyone is dressed in silver or gold flowing gowns. Yet they can rock a guitar and write a catchy song that makes you dance and sing along.

I might be sick after this album, beause its an hour I won't get back.
Brief moments on Spit It Out, but then it went weird. Tattered & Torn, had a sort of interesting dissonance but again it went too far.
So beyond the loud noise and screaming, its so repetitive. They just scream the same lines over and over. There is just so much anger and hate in this album, that it feels like a little bit on my inside dies, when I think there are people this angry out there.