Reviews by mcthrasher

Electronic music will never click with me. It’s interesting as a tech demo, but it is just painful to actually listen to. I can’t fathom anyone sitting down and putting this on and having a good time.

Generic and cheesy. The worst of 80s production combined with the worst of country. Featuring maybe the worst song I’ve ever heard “Little Rock n Roller”. At least we get to hear some pedal steel guitar.

Some interesting sounds, but way too much jamming. Might be fun to play, but not listen to on an album.

Laughable to think that people were listening to this thinking it was hard or heavy when Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All was released the same year. Just terrible stuff.

Much better than the other Portishead album we listened to on this project. Some interesting sounds. Wish the vocals weren’t so breathy though.

Pretty generic “rock”, with some little flourishes that make it stand out from the crowd a bit. Very thin sound though.

Every song is so repetitive. Just kinda boring.

A couple decent songs, but mostly just that thin, echoey, terrible 80s sound.

Middle-of-the-road Obama-era indie. Not much to say about it.

Do people really prefer Pet Sounds over this? Genuinely great songs with some crisp production.

Didn’t think I’d be rating any instrumental albums as 5 stars, but this album is just incredible. The layers of percussion keep the energy up continuously. The layers of brass sound so bright that they just cut through everything, right into your soul.

Terrible all around. Over-distorted guitars, whiny, incomprehensible vocals. Everything is so repetitive.

Very surprised by this! I’ve heard about Cohen for years, but was never interested in his music. This album is so nice and folksy, with deep and interesting lyrics. Some unique sound choices.

Can definitely see the influence this had on tons of other 90s stuff. Too bad it’s the worst of the 90s stuff that they influenced. The songs are all homogenized. They pick one riff and just roll with it for the whole duration of the song.

Patti Smith really influenced a lot of trash.

Some of the worst shit I’ve ever heard. Dude can’t sing to save his life. He just talks the words, not even in key. Absolute trash.

Every song is a legit masterpiece (except George’s).

Pretty middle-of-the-road classic rap. There was one real funky song that I loved.

I can hear the influence this had on a ton of stuff that came after, but it’s not very exciting itself. I appreciate that they tried to stray from pentatonic rock riffing, but the result just doesn’t do it for me.

Why does every rap album, no matter how serious, always have a cringe-inducing song about sex that totally undercuts the message of the work as a whole? Such a silly trope. A couple decent songs tho.