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Music both wild and stormy yet soothing and wistful. It somehow sounds very of-the-time for the 60s and yet decades ahead of its time, as any good experimental album should. It’s obviously weird, but I’m pretty impressed and plan to return.

Lmao who is working on this list that they’re putting geriatric era Stones albums on the latest revision?

Loud and raucous. It’s certainly got energy, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.

What a strange album to deal with, and a strange artist. Parts of this (Kim?!?!) do make me genuinely shocked this guy was once one of the biggest artists in America. Other parts are just juvenile and idiotic rather than intimidating as he intended. Parts of this force me to respect his massive chops as a rapper, while others make me suspect he’s always been wildly overrated as the Great White Hope of hip-hop.

And then there is Stan, which I do genuinely believe is one of the greatest songs of all time. The ironic thing about it is that the song doesn’t really work at all without the surrounding album, which I like much less. How can Eminem’s confrontation with his own image and negative influence have any impact if the rest of the album isn’t full of his signature murder fantasies and petty dickery? So tl;dr: I don’t know how to feel about Eminem. He’s a clear talent who I think has spent 90%+ of his career wasting that talent, but who am I to say what’s a waste and what’s not? Either way, this album will almost certainly be his lasting monument through music history.

A pop star’s take on nu metal/metalcore. I have mixed feelings about both of those genres, and this whole project feels a bit too commercial, electronic, and influenced by nu metal’s artificial revival, but there are some great riffs and grooves here.