Reviews by oldmancthc

Less familiar with this later '80s Prince. Still solid though. Lots of nods to '70s era soul. Did this gut have any misses?

While I do enjoy their more experimental work, I love this album for it's straight-forward approach. Rock, blues, and ballads galore here with very little of the weirdo stuff they are more known for. Solid release.

It's fun and upbeat. First track was very interesting; pop influence with a bit of a 70's soul or disco feel to it as well. As usual, when this becomes just beats I sort of lose interest. Not Paid Enough/Paid In Full being a perfect example of how great this stuff works with an MC.

Opens up pretty nicely, Novocaine For The Soul hits all the classic tropes for '90s alt-rock nostalgia. Really slides downhill after that though and proceeds to just be really boring.

Knew I would hate this before I made it to the 2 second mark. Dirt-mall bootleg Depeche Mode here, complete with a Dave Gahan impersonator for a singer. No, thank you.

Fun trip back to the mid-'90s for me. This is a solid album with a few really outstanding tracks. Only downside was closing on what is arguably the weakest song of the album. Forgot how many of these got radio play when it was new!

Opens up with an ass kicking! Nice blend of post-punk, garage, and Britpop going on here. Really seems to take the best from each and just rocks out with it.

Right out of the gate this is insipid pop industry garbage. Canned beats, fake instrumentation, and Mariah's signature melismatic singing style that she forces into every fucking song, just to hide the fact that she's actually NOT that talented. This is the epitome of everything I hate in music.

Always wrote this band off as "goth I'm not interested in", but it's not bad. I love the completely obliterated guitar tone and its juxtaposition to the deep and clean bass lines. Not wild about the droney almost monotone vocals, but it works with the music I guess. I defiantly prefer the faster and noisier tracks like Inside Me, but on the whole this is a pretty good album.

Thankfully a short album. I assume this is fine if you're into this sort of thing... I'm not.

'50s country is so much more palatable than a lot of what will come later. Not something I will ever love, but this is pleasant and well-preformed. Reminds me more of hornless mariachi than what I think of as "country", but I also know the relationship between the two is pretty tight, so it makes sense.

Not my favorite style of jazz. It's nice in a club atmosphere, but a little too smooth for my usually listening tastes. Still inarguably a great and talented performance by all.

Interesting to listen to something so lyrically based, that's in a language I do not understand at all. That being said, this is hip-hop that is right up my alley. Late '80s to early '90s is my sweet-spot for rap. Hip hop in this era was focused on the MC delivery, with the production being more sample, bass, and drum heavy. I find modern production too distracting; overshadowing the MC with too many changes and too much instrumentation. Solaar has a great voice and shows off multiple types of flow throughout. It sounds a little dated now, but for the era it was released, I think this was probably pretty groundbreaking.

Opened up with a banger! Lost me with white guy reggae meets The Smiths on track 2 though. Rest of the album seems to ping pong between "Hey, this is sort of interesting" to "What the fuck is happening here?" Hard to get onboard with this.

This rocks! Only thing keeping it from a 5 is the flagrant overuse of horns.

I don't hate it, but I'm really not into it either. It's just too repetitive and "dancey" for lack of a better (real?) term. I think I just don't like beats unless someone is rhyming over them.

Man, this is a tough one. On the one hand, this album was something a very cool, guitar-playing uncle introduced me to when I was 6 or 7 years old. I spent YEARS listening to this, analyzing it, and thinking it was just the coolest thing ever. On the other hand, I've come away from it for even longer at this point in my life and it has somewhat lost its shine. I still know every song intimately, right down to knowing nearly every lyric. As an adult, listening to this currently, the subject matter just seems... off, especially after the light was shown on Pete Townsend's propensity toward child porn (yeah, I know it was "just research"). Ignoring that, I just find it to be very middle of the road; some great music on here, but a lot of campy/cringy filler too. It's simply does not live up to the status I assigned it as a pre-teen.

I distinctly remember falling in love with Coldsweat from my early days of watching 120 Minutes on MTV but for some reason that never inspired me to buy and listen to the whole album. Blame my discovery of hardcore and my narrowing of tastes at that age I guess. Really nice post-punk here with an almost futuristic (for the time) approach to new wave. Björk's voice is as outstanding as it is unique here and it's no surprise that in a few years she will be propelled into being a successful solo artist.

Sounds like showtunes. Not my thing. Vocals and instrumentation is performed quite well though.

No frills, straight forward rock and blues. Exactly what I expected from this era of the Stones.