Reviews by meowmeow

Funk blended with soul. Genre mashups like this are challenging if you're someone who happens to appreciate one of the component genres way more than the other one.

It's me. I like funk, but apparently I'm too white to even have a soul and all the smoothness just leaves me feeling flat and bored.

"Visions" is the one track that I just could not handle. Too slow too smooth not enough dopamine inside my head. Stevie Wonder is definitely an incredible talent, but that one track. Man. If you need to make me go away from somewhere, start playing "Visions" and that should do the trick.

Overall, decent experience... am I going to listen again? No. But I have listened once before I die, that's good enough.

Does it sound like it's from 1987? Definitely.

Depeche Mode making that shift from new wave to the darker sound that they do so, so we'll. Yeah, take the auditory time machine back 38 years. It's worth it.

Ten years ago today, I was four months into having Clint Eastwood stuck in my head nonstop - it didn't get dislodged until CHVRCHES released their alarm Every Open Eye that September, and replaced the earworm with Make Them Gold.

I would have been a lot more upset to get this album in 2015 than I am in 2025, when the 6 month earworm is just a funny story from the past.

Anyway. Pretty good, but Gorillaz did improve with subsequent albums, and this feels like the warmup for the really good stuff.

This is definitely a challenging listen! I prefer challenging to boring - however, my husband disagrees, so this is a headphones only album.

This may not be a favorite, long term, but I do appreciate the opportunity to listen to it.

*yawn*

Rikki Don't Lose That Number aside, this is incredibly forgettable. Too pop to be rock, too mellow to hold an edge.

Side A: COCAINE!!!! Five stars.
Side B: cocaine wearing off :( Three stars.

Cocaine helps boost a lot of normal people into a zone that my ADHD appreciates, it seems.

I would like to thank the 1001 Albums Generator for helping me discover that I love funk.

Ozzy's demise led to me getting two Black Sabbath albums a mere two days apart. As soon as I heard the news, I knew I'd be getting Paranoid.

Fan-fucking-tastic album - not just for honoring Ozzy's legacy, but in general. If I made my own list of 1001 albums to listen to before you die, Paranoid would be on the first page of the list as I was coming up with ideas. Absolutely outstanding. A legend.

🤘😭🤘

Billy Bragg is one of those artists I can only take in small doses. One or two songs? Great! This album? Tedious as hell!

Not bad for a movie soundtrack, but there's some inherent cheesiness that goes with fitting a bunch of songs to a single film's overall theme.

Not something I'll be listening to again.

Uneven. Inconsistent. Peaks and valleys aplenty.

"Highly Evolved" indicates a lifeform that's undergone a substantial amount of mutation, and that seems about right for this mess.

I say yes to Yes.

Wreckers of civilization, transgressive performing artists exposing the dark side of human civilization, Throbbing Gristle.

This album is supposed to make people uncomfortable. Mission successful, well done!

The musical equivalent of cotton candy at the state fair that's been sitting around for a while, getting a strange texture from the humidity in the air, and you just know that anything that touches it is getting stained pink.

I don't fault Britney Spears for essentially doing as she was told. I fault the greedy adults around her who valued mainstream appeal and sales numbers over anything with artistic integrity.

Maudlin queer county, not as bad as modern pop country (which is way better than dudebro country) but still doesn't really do anything for me.

My cat dies AND I get stuck with this pointless turd of an album? What a shit day.

This isn't the first time in this project that I've been pleasantly surprised by how much I vibed with an album. This is FANTASTIC for helping me focus! I got shit done!

Active listening? Naaaaaah. I shall accept this gift from the ADHD gods.

💤

So I've got a history of finding R&B painfully dull, but I'll give this a shot.

NOPE this hurts. Ouch. Back To Life is just good enough to rescue it from the one star pit of despair, but I DO. NOT. ENJOY. R&B.