Reviews by mark-bionix

Bought this with the came out and usually stopped listening after the first two songs. And none of the rest of the album is actually as well crafted as those two... but it's a solid record, with some pretty creative stuff on side two that I never gave a chance before. Not Blur's best, but I like it.

The stage banter is a lot of fun, but the performances really aren't anything to write home about. Also, apologies to Shel Silverstein, but "A Boy Named Sue" is fucking stupid.

This was great. Gonna be my jumping off point whenever I want to hear some salsa in the future.

I bought this on vinyl in high school mostly to be cool (it has one of the great album covers of all time). In 2026, it's a really good listen but hard to see what all the hype was about.

This was pretty cool.

I suppose I prefer this to an actual napalm death, but not by much. Track 12 made me honestly laugh out loud, though.

Never heard of this band or this project, but this shit ruled.

It sounds so much like a straight up Bowie album. The singles are great, the rest of it is solid.

It's a lovely record ("River" might be the best song Joni ever wrote), but it doesn't emotionally connect with me as much as I always expect it to. Really close to a five but not quite there.

Tribe's sound is infectious. Not as good an album as The Low End Theory, but it has a few classics on it.

Kind of wild that almost all the classic Violent Femmes songs are on their debut album. It's good.

A really pretty record by Nick Cave. Who knew?

Hey, here are a bunch of Buddy Holly's best songs, and then here are a bunch of other ones we need to pad out (checks notes).... 25 minutes.

A double album full of deep cuts from my fourth favorite Traveling Wilbury? Sign me up!

I love how you get a sense of each of their individual songwriting and performing styles as you traverse the album.

Did I just listen to Bat Out of Hell and Repeater back to back and give them both five stars? Fuck yeah I did. I contain multitudes.

It's a musical theater pastiche of Born to Run, as if Born to Run wasn't already plenty theatrical. This record has been deep in my bones since I was a kid, but I haven't really spent any significant time with it as an adult. I respect the hell out of Jim Steinman (dude's track record on the charts is incredibly impressive). On this album, he takes a million big swings, and just keeps Socking. Fucking. Dingers. Every time. I am definitely not too cool to give this five stars.

This was fine. "Buffalo Stance" is great but I didn't really dig most of the songs. I do wish someone, someday would refer to me as an Outre Risque Locomotive.

It's perfect. Looking forward to checking out the dumb one-star reviews on this one.

I love Elvis and the songs are great, but this man needs The Attractions not the fucking News.