Reviews by microtonalpanic

Ozzy Rules!!!!

....nahhhhh.

I wanted to give this a fair shot since I have a soft spot for 90s alternative pop, but this is really a huge nothing-burger of an album. Unfortunately this is inoffensive background music, which I doubt is something Crow was going for.

"All I wanna Do" is an absolute banger though. Love that track.

The album is a scattered mess, so much so that their produced quit halfway through recording.

And that's what makes this album a good one!

It's fine. It's a good soul (or Proto-Soul?) album from 64. It has a lot of the "sameness" throughout the album as a lot of these early releases did.

I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it didn't really grab me as much as Sam Cooke's live album, or Isaac Hayes' debut did.

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I always thought James Taylor was just a soft-singing folk artist.

Boy this album turned that opinion around. There really isn't a bad track on this thing. Love it.

Struggling with this one. This album came out right when I was starting to discover my own music in middle school. This reminds me of all-night WoW leveling sessions, or CS 1.6 Games with this in the background.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure it's actually all that good of an album. The lyrics are really cringe, the angst is too manufactured. despite it being the soundtrack to a lot of my memories, I never latched on to this band, going more for System of a Down and other Nu-Metal bands that were less angsty.

it's great. Can't explain why, but it just clicked right from when the drums came in on breadcrumb trail. The lyrics are fantastic, the atmosphere is fantastic. Slow burn, melancholy.

A whole song about Nosferatu? that deserves it's own star added to the album.

Perhaps a star removed for being very "young-person" angsty?

Yeah, I'm into this one. You can hear the remnants of the early punk movement in the lyrics, while exploring psych and proto-80s electronic tones in the music.

There also seems to be a big switch-up in theme/mood from the A-side to the B-side of the album.

A band, that based on this album, some would consider underrated, deserving the popularity the Banshees or Gang of Four got. Perhaps they're perfectly rated.

Good album.

Hard to believe this came out in 1974. Seems ahead of its time are various points.

"Falling in Love with Myself Again" is a very annoying song.

This whole album just sounds like i'm in a haunted circus.

Overall, this album clearly was an influence on many artists to come after, but I just think this is an incredibly obnoxious album.

Preemo and Guru perfectly compliment each other on this record, the beats are amazing and Guru just flows so smooth over them.

Guru and Gang Starr as a whole are a very underrated force in rap, nothing but some of the cleanest beats and the cleanest rhymes you'll ever hear. Step in the Arena may not be their very best or most experimental album, but you can hear them finding their way as a group with something to say.

I enjoyed this album a lot! Classic tracks, well produced. Been getting a few soul records in a row this week, and I think Isaac Haye's Hot Buttered Soul is a better overall album, but Marvin is always great

Flawless.

Really enjoyed this album, more so than I was expecting to! I went in thinking, "OK, The Boss is an American institution, but I never really jived with his big hits! Born in the USA (song) kind of sucks."

Listening to one of his albums start to finish really helped understand the appeal. It's well paced, diverse, and carries an overall common vibe.

I honestly had to come back and edit this. I gave it a 5. and it's just not a 5. I got distracted by the band name and the cover art on a day I couldn't listen.

It was a 5 when I was getting into music. It's a 3 now.

MEAT LOAF IS FUN

pretty same-ish 90s alternative.

decent but pretty monotonous

Hell Yeah, Brother

"This is Mr. New Vegas, and I feel something magic in the air tonight, and I'm not just talking about the gamma radiation.".

Classic. Hit after hit after hit