Reviews by meowmeow

Bahaha, the cheesy 80s synth made Leonard Cohen sound interesting for once. Usually he's too slow and mellow, and I wander off to find something that'll actually grab my attention.

Achievement finally unlocked: listen to an entire Leonard Cohen album!

Now, having read some of the other reviews, I know at least one other person doing this project is going to be running away from me really fast:

This is my favorite Leonard Cohen album.

The contrast between dreary vocals and cheery synth made my day. Instant mood boost!

Legendary. The album that started metal.

... and I'd probably be giving it five stars if it didn't sound like the band warming up in preparation for Paranoid. Great, absolutely significant, it merits its place on the list, but it's not Black Sabbath at their best.

Perfectly good music that doesn't suit my tastes.

Weird music for weird people.

I'm weird.

🥳

Good instrumentals, it's a shame that Perry Farrell is the vocalist.

It's new wave, it sounds very much like 1982, and yet it's also incredibly gorgeous. 1982 at its finest.

Tremendous ninth grade art class energy from this cover.

... and the eager, earnest, adolescent energy continues in the actual music!

Meh.

This is one of those albums that requires active listening, as the witty lyrics are far and away the best part. Or you could just read the lyrics on Genius, that works too. The country-folk sound isn't my favorite, but the poetry! Man oh man. Four stars just for that.

In the world of cheesy music, this is a package of Kraft singles.

Experimental music with glam rock elements and a good beat? I'm in love. How have I never listened to this pure delight before? I'm only a decade younger than this album, we should have crossed paths before now.

People with mainstream taste are going to bounce right off of this, and that's okay. I bounce right off of a lot of the really popular music. Life would be so boring without us weirdos!

It's good, but something about The Pixies has always failed to captivate my interest. I can hear the influence on later music, but I'd rather be listening to that later music, you know?

I'm glad this exists, but it's not going into my library.

Superb. This album was released when I was a mere embryo, but it sounds more like my childhood. Also A+ xylophone use.

Excellent music for establishing an atmosphere. Mumbling, heavy instrumentals, kinda monotonous and gloomy. If you're running an RPG set in the mid-ninties, play this to establish the mood!

I found it dull, yet inoffensive.

I've been repulsed by every single Kendrick Lamar song I've ever had the misfortune of hearing, and this is no exception.

Sweet fuck, ambient electronica? I envy the dopamine content of the brains of anyone who can treat this as an active listening exercise.

Alas, I have a dopamine-starved ADHD brain. The only way I can review ambient is by putting it on while I do chores - it's actually an effective focus enhancer for tedious tasks. My rating is going to be based on how well I manage to get through the mountain of clean laundry I've been needing to put away for a couple days now. Yaaaaaay.

Okay! I was pretty productive until it reached Aquarius, now I'm distracted. 4/5.

The top five star review on this album is by some misogynistic Republican Boomer who seems to adore the sort of "white guys do the blues" thing that drives me up the wall... and has several of my favorite albums in his one star collection. Based on the quality of that reviewer's taste alone, I suspect I'll be giving this two, maybe three stars. Three would be a stretch.

Cover art: juvenile, tacky.

I already know "Brown Sugar" is an atrocity going in - I'd give it one star by itself - so I'll just skip that and see what the rest of this album is like.

... yeah, it's full of that white guy blues crap. Not a single track on here I could actually enjoy. Nothing else as grotesque as "Brown Sugar" and I'm not angry about listening, so it's two stars. I reserve one star reviews for the albums I'm mad about having in my streaming history.

Anyway, I'm off to listen to one of the top reviewer's one star albums to clean out my ears. Fever Ray's self-titled album appeals to me today. 🎶

I made it all of three seconds into this album before I recognized the agonizing waiting room/elevator staple "Don't Know Why" and noped out HARD. New record for shortest time spent listening!

This is certainly a Bob Dylan album.

Haha, I had to turn to YouTube for this album: it's not on Tidal!

I can definitely tell why enjoyers of conventional music are hating this experience... this is some weird shit.

I like weird shit. This was fun, and now my YouTube recs are going to be a little bit weirder, which is also fun. What a good time.