Reviews by mikltabey

Fucking Can! I, of course, was comparing this to Tago Mago. Tago Mago had the half that blew me away, and then the half that was very noisy and I did not like.

This didn’t have the second half to it, so I just compared it to the first half of Tago Mago. The first half of that album was 5+ stars. This wasn’t as good, but I still enjoyed it as good. As I listened, I was between 4 and 5 stars…but Moonshake and Bel Air got it the 5. I listened to this two times in a row.

Yo, album generator, Led Zeppelin is a 3 band for me. How many times do I have to tell you?

This guy recorded this when he was 19? Pretty impressive.

This was fine. Pretty familiar, even the songs I hadn’t heard. Carlos is a good guitar player, but there’s always been something about Santana that I’ve been unexcited by. Maybe Supernatural ruined it for me.

I’ve long stood by the opinion that there a lot of songs in here that are better than Smells Like Teen Spirit, including tracks 2 and 3. But, this is a no doubt five star album no matter how you rank the songs. Da doi.

I loved Pannonica. The rest was pretty good too.

I did NOT need to hear that. I hated it.

This is the type of album that makes me happy about doing this project. I had never heard of this musician, want excited about it, and was pleasantly surprised.

This has always been a favorite of mine and this listen was great.

Whatever, list generator. No way this was random. Anyway…this album is really good.

Bert Janch, you sneaky SOB. You did it. Here’s your four stars.

I was fully expecting this to be a three, but it had enough very good songs on it, and I liked the musicians enough.

Perhaps it’s just the dim aftermath of the events of yesterday that have left me with a disconnected inability to enjoy things, but the numbness I felt while listening to this gave me a pretty “meh” reaction to it. It’s fine.

As those of you reading this may be unsurprised to hear: I really liked this. It’s not my first listen, it won’t be my last.

Whelp, I just listened to this a couple weeks ago and even thought to myself, “You know if you listen to this it’s going to come up on that album generator real fast.”

I was right. I wouldn’t mind so much, if this weren’t so long. But I listened again.

I’ve heard of this album as the one that George made with all the songs John and Paul wouldn’t let him do. And isn’t it a shame? Look at all these great songs!

This is a great album. There is a sentiment that it’d be five stars if you trim the fat. There’s a lot of filler, but the filler is all REALLY good. The peaks of this are amazing. Before I listened to this the second time, I thought it’d be a four. But a second listen after a couple of weeks and I’m over here like, “I meeeeeaaaan….. it’s a 5!”

I’ve always liked Tom Petty just fine and I agree there probably should be at least an album of his on here. But shouldn’t that album be Wildflowers? (I bet that’s on here too)

Listening to this album, I thought to myself. “Are there 1001 albums I’d rather listen to than this?”

That hard to actually answer, but this is a three album if I ever heard one.

I thought we were done with electronica.

This might have just caught me in the right mood, but this was great.

Sometimes I feel like if you’ve heard one not very well know folk artist from the London scene or the Greenwich Village scene in the 60s, you've heard them all.

Another live album where it would have been cool to be there.

I overall like The Who. I bet I could make a one or two hour playlist of their songs and have a blast listening to it. Some of their stuff, though, is not for me.

This was fine, but I didn’t need to hear it.

Historically, rap and hip hop has been a big gap in my musical consumption. This is a shame, because I know there’s a lot of worthwhile art in those genres.

I do consciously try to rectify that, including listening to albums by this group, as they are so well regarded.

I had not lost to this one yet. It’s fantastic! An easy 5.