Reviews by olio19

Honestly I think the only song I actually like is "I wanna be your dog" I think it was in that Cruella movie. I'm amazed at how they managed to make a 10 minute long song and that not a second of it is even remotely interesting to listen to. I saw that the stooges came up for my next album and I was like COME ON AGAIN? because I just had them the other day. I believe I had "Fun House". I hope this is the last album that I have from them. I'm just not the biggest fan of the stooges.

YUMMY first song! There's certain albums that feel like spring to me and this is one of them. It's packed full of springtime joy. I wish that this list had more music from other countries rather than just a majority of UK and US. I guess that's just the nature of the list and the person who made the list. Maybe I will be able to find one from someone who is not from the US or UK. It's just annoying that the album will be labeled "Other country" rather than Brasil. My favorite songs were probably "Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser", "Cais", "Saidas e Bandeiras N 1", and"Um Girassol Da Cor Do Seu Cabelo".

I started listening to this album on my way to school, but forgot I still had somethings in the queue. I was like "Oh wow, I didn't know Coldplay was this good" and then I went back and looked at the songs I had just listened to and realized it wasn't Coldplay. I had thought the voice kind of sounded like Coldplay, but then once I actually started listening to Coldplay, I was like OHHHH yeah this is definitely them. Going into this album I think I only know Sparks and Shivers. It's decent. Good background music.

I liked "No man can find the war", "Carnival song", "Hallucinations", "I never asked to be your mountain", "once I was", "Phantasmagoria in two", and "knight errant". It's pretty awesome that both Tim and his son Jeff had such successful careers and were such good musicians. They had different styles than eachother which is interesting because you'd expect maybe the son to follow in his father's footsteps. I guess he still did by choosing to do music. Also, maybe you wouldn't expect the son to follow in his father's footsteps because of the whole "I don't wanna be like my parents" thing. I dunno. This album is pretty sick and I've been meaning to listen to it for a while.

This feels very similar to Men at Work. Honestly I like his solo work a lot better than his work in "Elvis Costello and the Attractions". I like "Welcome to the working week" and "miracle man". Apparently there could have been harmonica on this album, which always makes an album better. God I love the harmonica. I wonder if the movie watching the detectives is based on this song. I didn't really like the movie because it talks about a man who is desperately in love with this girl who keeps treating him badly and he keeps telling her he doesn't like it but she keeps doing it. I keep seeing videos of the one scene where he's trying to flirt with her and it's like "Oh is that my cut? Is that my cut, baby?" and the captions are like "OMGGG GIVE ME A MAN LIKE THIS" or "If he isn't like this, I don't want him". It just annoys me because it's an unhealthy relationship to me? He's obsessed with her and it brings him a lot of pain (albeit the pain is kind of funny sometimes, i.e. him running around the baseball track crying). Anyways at the end of the movie he gives in and I HATE THAT HE DOES. I found something on reddit that said the title is likely from the Elvis Costello song. They thought it was because they kind of have the same story.

Fear of music is pretty good. I liked "I zimbra", "mind", "air", "heaven", and "drugs". It has a cool sound that I don't really think of when I think of the talking heads. They have a lot of different sounds under their belt, which is cool. Their albums are very different from eachother I feel like. I mean I guess a lot of artists are like that as their music tastes or styles evolve, but in my mind theirs is very different. I dunno I guess I haven't listened to a FULL album of theirs, but I know a lot of songs on their other albums. Also, "heaven" sounds like David Bowie.

I've heard people say that this album is the best Beatles album. I feel like that a lot of Beatles songs I listen to, I like the intro and then they start singing... and I don't like it anymore. The songs I liked were "Eleanor Rigby", "Here, there, and everywhere", "yellow submarine", "good day sunshine", "I want to tell you" and "tomorrow never knows". I thought it was okay. There are some classics on it, but it kind of felt like there was a lot of filler tracks that were really boring. I guess I'll give it a 4 because it has so many classics

I'm really excited to finally get a rap album! I want to listen to hip hop, but I have no idea how to get into. Whenever getting into a new genre is always super intimidating, but maybe this is a good way to introduce myself to parts of the hip hip genre. Anyways... getting into the album. There's obviously some outdated lyrics like 'Frisco dyke. The second song is just dr dre and snoop dog talking about how they want to stick their dicks in some guy, which is certainly interesting. The chorus of "let me ride" or the third song has really nice layering. I really like fourth song, I think the beat is really cool. I saw some of the reviews saying that he's not really contributing any meaning to the significance of the LA riots and just saying it's for looting. I can see that point of view when listening to this song. I don't think that it's completely devoid of meaning. The reporter or interview interludes are sick. Nuthin' but a g thang is really fun. "its like that and like this and like that and a-" YUMMMMMMMM. The skit at the beginning of deeez nuuuts is funny. I didn't know what to expect of a song with its name, but i love the intro. Calling your thang a "ding-a-ling" is shameful. It doesn't even rhyme with anything. I really like this song, they're some nice vocal things going on and I like the producing. It's interesting looking through the reviews because it's either "omg best album, this changed my life and the music scene of the 90s" or its "guys.... they said the n-word a lot :(((( guys.... they said motherfucker a lot too.... i hate rap music guys (with no reason, i'm just ill-informed)" I think that the second kind of person has a stick up their ass and need to get over themselves. Anyways! I get people not enjoying outdated lyrics with misogyny and homophobia, but if you can't handle hearing motherfucker you are cooked! I feel like I need to listen to this album one more time and on another day to know if I really like a song or not because right now I'm like "wow! nice beat and flow!" and maybe I'm just feeling it right now. Who knows, we shall see. I'm liking this flute. I'm always a big fan of the flute. Holy shitttttttttt the intro of "n**** with a gun"... GAHHH. The return of the flute. In "Rat-tat-tat-tat" I think it might be snoop dogg I'm hearing, but he sounds like daveed diggs in Hamilton when he's Jefferson.

It's okay.... he's loose... good to know, I guess. T.V. eye is pretty good. It reminds me a little bit of Sonic Youth's more energetic stuff. And don't come at me, I know Sonic Youth was started after The Stooges were a thing, so if anything THEIR music sounds like The Stooges rather than the other way around. I just like Sonic Youth a lot and a great deal more than I like The Stooges. Maybe I just can't get the image out of head of Iggy Pop rolling around on glass. I looked at the Wikipedia and it said he used to perform acts of self-mutilation on stage and that in itself was terrifying, but yes, apparently he used to roll around in glass! Maybe it was the adrenaline from being on stage or something. No amount of adrenaline could convince me to do that though. Anyways it just makes me feel nasty. I like "Dirt" as well. I like dirt? Well I like dirt I like dirt. I like the bass line and I don't care it basically continues through the entire track being practically the same, but imagine that bassist... Oh I forgot to mention this at the beginning when I meant to, but the cover is SICK! I love love love it. It's so yummy.

The title American Gothic reminds me of Appalachia and the cover does as well. It does have a sort of melancholy in some of the songs that seems to have a foothold in Appalachian music. Sadly it is not what I thought. I like how he doesn't repeat a lot of lines in songs, they are more like ballads. Apparently Elton John is a big fan of this guy and he was signed to Columbia Records for his fourth album. I dunno how he didn't gain any fame or anything. I can see why Elton John likes his music because isn't his whole thing musical theatre-ish? I feel like I definitely want to listen to this album again because I think I'll appreciate it even more the second time. "Montana song" is easily my favorite on this album.
* American gothic: "they suffer least who suffer what they choose" is a really cool line. I really liked how he built the story of how the husband and wife were separately suffering and then brought them together in the song.
* Love's enough: this felt like a very comforting song
* Ballad of the ship of state: horns! I REALLYYYY like the melody on this one
* One night stand: I just watched the movie "The spook who sat by the door" and this reminds me of the scene where Dan sleeps with the prostitute and he tells her she looks like a queen.
* Oh, California!: Pete Seeger talks about this better. The orchestra at the end is gorgeous though.
* Another friday night: A little country funk sprinkled in. Oh and soul? This song feels like a Broadway level production.
* Family band: Jesus music? This sounds like the song that everyone sings at the end of a Sunday in church with all their hands linked together.
* Midnight carousel: I really like how dramatic it is.
* Waiting for the moving van: ya
* Blues for Billy Whitecloud: Billy likes those peanuts. This feels like a song I would hear in Princess and the Frog. Beautiful and clear piano! I really like the story and the way his voice sounds, he sounds kind of cute.
* Montana song: This melody and orchestra in the background makes me feel like I'm strolling through the countryside or that I'm in an old Disney movie like Fox and the Hound. "I found what I came looking for". I love how he starts the song and ends it with the same lines. Perf. "Taught his sons as he knew how, but could not make them stay".

EDIT:
I have been listening to this album over and over lowkey... I realllyyyy like it. I like it except for Family Band I think because that's a little to christian-y for me. But I LOVE all the other songs.

It was interesting to say the least. When I first clicked on their artist profile the top image was an AI-generated image of guys in suits with eyeballs for heads. I understand the latter is a part of their image, but the AI slope was kind of distasteful. Their newest album also has an AI-generated cover. Greaaaaat. As for the music... It was certainly something. There were a couple songs I actually liked. I appreciate them for being so odd and really locking into being odd. I liked "Sinister exaggerator" because the vocals sounded alien-ish and I liked "Blue rosebuds". I also kindddddd of liked "Constantinople" even though they just repeated the same line over and over. Anyways, that's really all I have to say. I don't think I will return to this album, but I do appreciate it in its own way.

I've heard the name Leonard Cohen before, but I don't think I've ever listened to any of his music or can remember anything ever said about him, negative or positive. At first when I saw that the album was called "Songs of Leonard Cohen" I was little annoyed... 'cause yeah no shit dude. It felt a little pretentious, but now I don't care because it's so good. As I'm reading more and trying to understand who Leonard Cohen is, I'm understanding a lot of people view his music as highly intellectual and think of him as almost a musical Shakespeare. Some people even feel as if his music is unreachable because of how intellectual it feels. I'm getting a little bit of that sense, especially when I tried to understand "Master song". I clicked on one reddit post who was analyzing the song, ready for a quick, easy explanation, but was met by a longgggggggg, extensive one backed by a COLLEGE PROFESSOR. I did not know it went that deep. Maybe one day I'll be ready to go that deep into the lyricism, but today is not the day. I can appreciate it without understanding it completely. Towards the end of this album I got tired of looking into songs too deeply and my note taking faded off...

* Susanne: a breathtaking song. it's beautifully melancholy and melancholy in its beauty. It's supposedly based off of a poem in a book of his. It certainly feels like a poem.
* Master song: this one feels a little sinister in its tune. I like how it guides the listener through the story. I've read a little bit about it because I wasn't quite understanding it as I was listening. I'm pretty sure it's a love triangle between the master, the narrator, and the lady he is singing to. I'm also pretty sure this has connections with the father, son, and holy spirit, but I'm not going to delve into that today.
* Winter lady: lovely, also similarly melancholy, "I know I'm not your lover"
* The stranger song: the comparing a dealer to a lover is interesting. I think he's trying to say that he completely controls the lovers he takes on and is the sole decider whether they continue on the next day. He's always looking for the "best card" or true lover/soulmate. Another religious reference (joseph and the manger). It's a song of someone who is being tossed from person to person, while the narrator watches from a distance wishing they could love them because they know they'd love them right.
* Sisters of mercy: this feels like a diss on someone. Is that the sound of velcro in the background? Whatever it is, I'm not a fan. "We were lovers like that and besides it would still be alright"
* So long, Marianne: this song has a jaunty, sea-tune feel to it. "I forget to pray for the angels so the angels forget to pray for us". I was walking around when the woman's voice joined in and I got spooked because I thought it was a sound coming behind me...
* Hey, that's no way to say goodbye: it's okayyyy
* Stories of the street: I really like the melody of this one
* Teachers: "teachers of my heart" is fun
* One of us cannot be wrong: it okay

I don't think that this album is as boring as people seem to be saying it is? I thought it was pretty peaceful. Not my favorite type of music, but I enjoy it. I think my favorite songs are "(They long to be) close to you" (obviously and reason to believe. I find it a little annoying how some of the songs are named, but what can you do. I thought that "I'll never fall in love again" was kinda funny.

I really liked this album. The cover is super awesome. As soon as I saw it was new wave I knew that I would probably like it. I liked every song in it. The songs were very fun and unique. I think my favorite song was "You can't walk in your sleep (if you can't sleep)"

I've gone through this album before and boy is it a long one. Stephen Merritt is a really impressive artist. He's been in several musical projects including The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, The Gothic Archies, and The 6ths. He's said in an interview with my local radio station that he likes albums like the sort that Frank Sinatra puts out with titles that explain what all the songs are. He likes to know what's going to happen for the second half hour to hour. He sees himself as doing the same thing, but he'll do parodies of it. He says he rarely has any idea what he's doing. Some songs, like "Punk Love" and "Plant White Roses", he has written in less time that it takes to sing them. Other songs, like "Ethan Frome" and "At the Pyramid" have taken 30 years to write. It's interesting how differing his process has been for different artists. This album isn't just about the usual form of love, the lovely, heartwrenching kind. It is rather all form of love, including the kind that isn't really love and is just a husband murdering his wife. It's said that while sitting in a gay bar, inspiration struck him to create 100 songs introducing himself to the world. That number soon turned to 69 as a much lower, more manageable one. He decided he'd have a revue with four drag queens and whichever songs they liked best, would make it onto the album. I think there is beauty in the fact of something being brief like these songs. Brief things don't take excessive time explaining things in extraneous detail, they just let what they are speak for themselves. The fact that there's so many complex, fun, beautiful songs on this album is crazy. I think I like all the songs honestly. I like the idea of the process of writing just a ton of songs. This certainly is a concept album, but a different kind than usual.
My favorites are as follows:
-A chicken with its head cut off
-the luckiest guy on the lower east side
-i think i need a new heart
-the book of love
-nothing matters when we're dancing
-papa was a rodeo
-yeah! oh yeah!
-washington dc

This is so far sounding very Beatles-like. Also I'm listening on headphones and "Bracelets of Fingers" is making me go a little crazy because the sound keeps switching between my left and right ear. Honestly the Beatles are cool and they have a lot of good songs, but I'm not the biggggggest fan of their sound, so it follows I'm not the biggest fan of this sound. Some of the songs are really good though, when they diverge from that Brit-pop sound. The distortions are kinda cool sometimes, but can be a bit much other times, like on I see you. The audio through my headphones is weird in this album, halfway through it kicked in with a really full sound and then backed off and kind of cut out for a second. I have a feeling that maybe this isn't a song to listen to on headphones. The constant back and forth of sound is kind of giving me mental whiplash if that's possible. I genuinely wish I could give half stars on this thing because I wish I could give this one a 2.5, but I feel like I should round up because there are some songs that are quite pleasant on here. The ones I actually liked were "Private sorrow", "Death", and "Loneliest person".

There was a time when I had a huge Bowie obsession. That has passed, but I know his music quite well still. Station to Station was never one of my favorite albums, but that doesn't mean I didn't like it. My favorite song on this album used to be "Golden Years". If any song could be called possibly "commercial" it would be that one, but nevertheless it's definitely still one of my favorites. The return of the thin white duke! I remember as I watched album reviews of Bowie, many people said that this was a period of his life when he was really into cocaine. There seems like there's a lot of loneliness and desolation haunting this album. I think a lot of people like it, but feel guilty for doing so because it was made out of a dark and lowly time. I don't think one needs to feel bad for liking this album, or even considering it ones favorite. This is because not only is art made out of joy, it is made out of despair. Sometimes despair creates the best art. It's a good outlet of emotion, whether negative or positive. I think that Bowie has also said he doesn't really like this album because of the memories he has of when it was created. These are interesting things to think about. I really like short albums like this. I really like the beginning of "Word on a Wing" because it sounds clunky almost like a child playing piano, not in a bad way. TVC15 is a really fun, funky song. I don't know if I can pick a favorite, everything is so good.

It's pretty generic late 90s, early 2000s indie I feel like. I'm not hating but most
of it is just what I hear when I think of that era of 'indie'. However, "Captain's table" and "Streets of Kenny" are really something special, especially with headphones on, which I had. I liked this well enough but especially liked those two songs. They were very floaty and whimsical and fun. Honestly this was another album I had a hard time listening to because the first time I tried playing it in my car and I've found that sometimes an album can't be really heard and understood by myself without headphones and actual focus. Given this, I think I just passed it off as some really boring album that I was gonna have to struggle through. In the end, it really wasn't that bad, although some songs albeit were quite boring, a lot of them were quite fun.

I didn't know that I knew this many songs on this album!! I think that Van Morrison might play a lot on the Spotify at my job so maybe that's where I'm hearing it. I don't know if I'd listen to this album as a whole, but rather put a few of these songs on a playlist or just select a few of the songs to listen to at a time. My favorites are "Into the Mystic" and "Glad Tidings".
- And it stoned me: This is a very beautiful song that perfectly captures how I feel about nature too
- Moondance: very jazzy, it feels like a city, nighttime scene in an old movie
- Crazy Love: very chill song, it kind of reminds me of Bob Marley's "One love" for some reason?
- Caravan: this one is okay, very laurel canyon, doesn't really stick out
- Into the Mystic: I've heard this one a million times but have yet to grow tired of it. This is such a GORGEOUS song, I love the "foghorn", lyrics, bass, guitar, I love it all.
- Come Running: meh
- These Dreams of You: harmonica!!!
- Brand New Day: okay chorus, okay soul
- Everyone: funky, little melody at the beginning, what instrument was that? i like the woodwind too!
- Glad Tidings: ooh I f with this song, the guitar is so yummy, it's very fun to listen to because there are so many elements but they all work together so stinkin' well! The bass, chorus, lead vocals, blah blah blah... all yum.

Agh....... Is the sound I made when I saw I was given another Nick Cave album. I REALLY did not like the previous one, "Murder Ballads", for reasons. I don't care how "historically important" people say his music is, I do not find it compelling. I just think that he should have chosen another path in his life. I think that when he was getting started someone should have sat him down and told him he just doesn't have a very nice singing voice. But hey what do I know, I love Bob Dylan and some people can't stand his voice. However, Bob Dylan CAN actually sing and I don't think Nick Cave can. His lyrics too aren't my favorite. As I'm listening to it, the same trend is appearing of crude, nasty lyrics that I do not find appealing at all. Also, there is a lot of repetition, a LOT. A lot of times repetition can be good, however that's only if the lyrics and melody are actually good! So he didn't quite hit either one of those marks there. Agh... Just WHY does this guy have 5 whole albums on this list and someone like Gillian Welch only has one. She could easily have at least 3!!!! His music just feels a little cringey like he's trying to be edgy or something. "I am the captain of my fate"... okay affirmations? Keep those to your mirror, buddy. Yeah, that's enough of all that. Again I am hearing him being offkey again? I think? It just feels like he's not exactly hitting those notes. "Christina the astonishing was the most astonishing of all"... Wow nice one! The only song I can stand to listen to is "Straight to You".