Reviews by mark-bionix

I think it goes without saying that JT is a shithead. I love Britney's anecdote about the time he embarrassed himself trying to buddy up to Ginuwine, he's very petty about that whole relationship on this record (and elsewhere), and of course it's complete bullshit the way he skated away from the whole Janet Jackson thing while she got vilified for it. As for the music, this is a pretty solid pop record. It's got a handful of bangers and a whole lot that CD-era filler. Just because you know you have 75 minutes to play with doesn't mean you have to use every idea the Neptunes come up with for you. With a little editing, I could maaaaybe see pushing this up to four stars, but it ain't there.

This album felt really familiar even though I'm pretty sure I've never listened to it before. It's almost really good, but (and this is probably not an original opinion) I just really don't care for dude's voice.

So you show up at Woodstock on Friday afternoon. Richie Havens kicks it off. Nice. Joan Baez is headlining tonight. Fuck yeah. But the rest of the lineup is full of this absolute dogshit. I don't care enough to read up on these guys, but I do hope they had a nice little career on the ren faire circuit. Side note: After the album ended, the song "Painting Box" came on and it was worlds better than anything on here. Do more like that, you weirdos.

So the song "After the Gold Rush" is maybe an all time top 10 favorite for me, but I always found myself skipping a lot of stuff on the album. In fact, I came into this thinking that I might not give five stars to ANY Neil Young album, despite how much a love a lot of his work. Now I'm thinking maybe all of the NY albums on here might be five stars? This was such a great listen. I'm kind of a dumbshit for thinking this shouldn't be on my 5-star wall.

So I knew a few a few Style Council songs, and they all made me think "ok so Paul Weller broke up The Jam and then went blue eyed soul." Which is kind of a natural evolution, honestly. I was not prepared for how fucking all over the place this album was gonna be (like I'm sure the rapper you recruited was top of his trade as far as early-80s British white guys go, but what bar are we setting here?). Quite a bit disappointed with it. Still love "Your the Best Thing" and "My Ever Changing Moods," which are right up there with the best Jam tunes. But I have genre whiplash and I'm not ok.

First deep dive with Syd Barrett-era Floyd, and let's just say I admire it more than I actually enjoy it. Kind of amazing they went from this to writing a stone cold rock classic (that everyone on earth likes) within six years.

Jeez, I forgot they sing the "snot" line twice. Some good riffs on here (like "Locomotive Breath," which rips), but I find most of the songwriting tedious.

Was very wary when I saw that this guy was in Public Image Ltd. but this is better than anything PiL ever put out. I was a bit higher on it in the beginning but the best songs are a bit front loaded. It's fine and it gets a mid score.

Not even my favorite B&S record but it was a joy to listen to this today.

Only song I knew on here was "Dreamer," and I don't like it. Still don't like it, but I like all the other ones!

Good shit.

Really liked this back in high school, and it's still kinda fun but it hasn't aged that well (and I'm not just talking about "Kung Fu").

I could be snarky about how this is the fifth best Beatle album or whatever, but it's an automatic five stars. (Listened to the 2017 Giles Martin remix which I consider the definitive stereo version. It rips so much harder because the mix has actual nuance to it and also a real fucking bass sound you couldn't get in 1967.)

I generally like Bryan Ferry's music, but hadn't heard this record before. Was pretty surprised and disappointed by how little I vibed with it. Just kind of dull all around.

I mean, not my thing. Trying not to trash albums just because they're not my thing. This is really quite solid at doing what it's trying to do. It's not nearly as hard to listen to as a lot of other albums of its type. The playing is really solid. Very good metal guitar and some solid melodies here and there (I can't connect with the rapid kick drum shit and never will). So, not my thing, but it had some surprises and it's good for what it is.

Surprised how many of these songs I knew already. Really liked the whole record.

On an album full of fuck songs, "You Sure Love to Ball" is a fuuuuuuuck song. Glad I got to hear that one for the first time. It's a short album and there's no real need to have the title track on here basically twice. Overall, this is a really entertaining record, but definitely not Marvin at his peak. Still really good, though!

I mean, this thing is just fucking perfect, right? I have a vinyl copy, but I streamed the remastered version this time around. It might be the most impeccably produced recording I've ever heard. It's almost 50 years old, but it feels like it could have been made in a modern studio, like, yesterday. The songs are great, the playing is great, the message is great, and it's just an absolute pleasure to hear. Six fucking stars out of five idgaf.

It's good. Really like the vibe of the songs without percussion. A folk album that doesn't sound too folky.

They had "Clint Eastwood" and one other Del track, and then a whole bunch of boring shit. A lot of talent in here, and yet they don't know what they want this thing to be. Kind of explains what the cartoon characters were for. Thought this would be at least a 2 based on CE alone, but there's so many songs on here that are so, so bad.