Reviews by meowmeow

I don't hate the Beatles. I don't LIKE them, but I don't hate them, either.

Yeah this ain't my thing. Sorry, small army of furiously masturbating pretentious music "connoisseurs".

This precedes all the Kings of Leon songs I've actually heard before by two albums. I'm dubious, especially since the songs I'm familiar with fall on my husband's side of our music taste Venn diagram, but okay.

Oh. This is worse than I thought it would be going in. Why? Why was this deemed a necessity to hear?

Not bad for modern music, but the energy is off and there's too many skit bits.

Yeah, I'm already a White Stripes fan. This five star rating is, naturally, biased as hell.

Honestly, this just sounds silly. I kept picturing Animal from The Muppets while listening.

It's not actually all that bad, it's just waaaaaay over the top. I'll keep this album in mind the next time I need to make myself laugh.

edit 10/28/25: it's grown on me, it really has. I've added Scum to my library and bumped up my star rating accordingly.

Meh.

You can tell that this was written at a tumultuous time in Bowie's life, this definitely isn't his best work.

Pro-Bowie bias showing: I'd still rather listen to this album than ANYTHING by The Beatles, and they're just... kinda meh, not even bad.

I rate these albums based on the vibes, the energy.

A+. The energy is undeniable.

Supertramp! Heck yeah!

I haven't given many "this was already in my music library" five star ratings yet, so this is a special occasion! 🥳

(Supertramp are in my top 50 all time artists on last.fm, at #39, so this was a foregone conclusion. Just wait until the one album from my number one most listened artist turns up!)

200? I've reached 200 albums generated? Neat.

Hey, look, it's an album I'm familiar with! Last played on January 24, so it's been a few months, but it's not a novelty.

For music that doesn't hype me up, this is damn good stuff. Yeah, it's more of an evening "wind down for bed" kind of listen. For what it is, it does an excellent job.

Sometimes, with material that has been very influential on subsequent music... I'd rather just listen to the subsequent music, as it feels more refined. Like this was the raw sonic ore that was melted down to form the much sturdier hip-hop of later musicians.

Also it's very, VERY difficult to force myself to consume the artistic output of any individual who seemingly spent decades repeatedly committing one of the most heinous crimes imaginable. Yikes.

Welp. This certainly fills a niche.

The title track is outstanding, the rest of the album is pretty good but doesn't grab me, you know? I wound up listening while watching a mandatory Excel chart-making tutorial for work, knitting a sock, and eating mac and cheese. Maybe it was just the mandatory dull video kicking the ol' ADHD into high gear, but this is pretty good at being the fourth simultaneous task I'm engaged in, not great on its own.

wheee dopamine

Thanks, I hate it.

You know an album has issues when "You Can Call Me Al" is the best track on it. Auditory mid life crisis with a generous helping of cultural appropriation and a side of screwing over collaborating musicians.

Fantastic! It's not often I find a new-to-me album that helps my insomnia.

This isn't an insult to Tubular Bells - sleep music, for me, needs to be interesting enough to capture my attention and evocative enough to get my imagination going with imagery that has nothing to do with the stresses of daily life.

A++ soothing of my jumpy nervous system. Adding to my library.

distilled essence of 1994

Huh. I've never heard anything quite like that before.

(insert GIF of a cat retching here)

Another "good music for someone other than me" three-star review.