Reviews by mark-bionix

I don't think I'll ever be a Tom Waits guy, but I like this ok. Bruce Springsteen stole the best song on this album and made it his own, though.

Never heard of her before but this shit is dope.

I thought this was kind of a run of the mill, not very good album. But then it kept going and I got very very bored.

A masterpiece. Of music, not spelling.

Deep Purple have a couple good tunes, but none of them are on here.

RIP Guru. Good shit.

Shit fuckin' rocks.

This is a tough one. I thought I'd have to give it a decent score because there are a lot of interesting musical choices in the first couple songs (Kanye has always made some unique and cool production decisions). But the lyrical content is oppressively bad on this one, and you can really tie that to exactly the time period where this motherfucker really revealed himself. I think this is worth about two stars on the merits, but I'm going lower because seriously, fuck this guy.

John Lydon is a shit human and a shit musician. Absolutely don't get this at all. (I admit Jah Wobble's bass playing is pretty fucking good.)

This album is still great, and for the life of me I'll never understand why Courtney decided she never wanted to fucking rock this hard again.

I've gone from an Eagles hater to an Eagles apologist. But holy shit outside of the three megahits there's not a damn song on here worth listening to a second time. But it does have the three megahits.

I love the Bee Gees. This is a super chill record.

The Doors have great hits but they're also very mid. Unlike many other groups from their era, they don't appear to have influenced anyone except for maybe Glen Danzig. Things I like more than The Doors' music: the Oliver Stone movie about The Doors, and the Bruce McCullough bit about The Doors. (This is getting bumped up from a two because the full version of Light My Fire fucking rules.)

"How Do You Sleep" makes me deeply uncomfortable, but I have to admit it fucking rocks. Some really great songs on here. A big step up from the Plastic Ono Band record.

This is a thing I didn't know I needed.

Lovely stuff.

If there are gonna be three VU albums on here (and there should be), you need to add Loaded and ditch this one. Like I know it has "Sister Ray" on it and everything, but it's really their worst work.

One of the greats. If you don't get it, I don't know what to tell you.

This is very much my shit.

There's absolutely no reason this band needs three albums on this list. I've said before that I like their sound, generally, but I can stand the singer. But this one pushed me over the edge. I really hated this album, probably because the vocals are more front and center here but also because the songs are just bad. I don't hate you Kings, but holy god just keep the fire sex album and ditch the rest. This album is actively bad, and worse yet, inessential.