Reviews by prometheus

I remember hearing Last Nite a lot thee apparatus of mass communication, television, back in the day and finding it somewhat intriguing, but being a young metal teen just about to dive into the world of black metal more deeply at the time, I couldn't really let myself like or look into it too much back then. I've never come across this band ever since until now and this album's pretty alright actually. I guess they were going for a natural, "dirty" production with the album but listening to it today, it still sounds very Pro Toolsy, even though I get what they're after. This makes the album sound somewhat flat though, which sadly was a bit of a curse of all albums at the time. Had this been an actual analog recording with some proper dynamics, it would've only benefitted the album. Now it's just an alright album to me.

Well, it's perfectly fine electronic whatever. But that's the whole issue; this is just about as lukewarmly okay 90s electronic music as possible. Apparently not even influential in any way, since I'm not the only who's never heard even the name before. Therefore, I'll say it's a perfectly okay album that shouldn't be on this list.

It’s very basic punk rock with nothing special or fancy to it. It’s been done to absolute death since then but this of course was when it was still new and fresh so I do quite like this actually. Obviously the production is far better than anything most modern bands do for this style of music. At first I also thought they sounded surprisingly good for an American band just to realise halfway through that they’re actually Australians, which explains everything.

In short, nothing special, just some basic punk rock, but done just the way it should be done.

Rap opera sounded somewhat interesting as a concept so I was ready to give this a chance. But fucking hell, this really is on a different level of terrible. All the worst things about the early noughties on one single album.

Edit: have to come back several hours after listening to this just to say that I still cannot fathom such an album exists and is on this list of all things. I'm genuinely baffled.

So far this list has proven that I haven’t lost much avoiding The Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin for most of my life. On the contrary, it does seem I’ve missed quite a bit by neglecting Brian Eno. The one with David Byrne and his albums with Roxy Music have all surprised me rather positively and this one is no exception. Absolutely love the title track and Baby’s on Fire particularly. I’ve always felt Robert Fripp was bit of a pompous brick but his solo on the latter definitely makes me think I might have to reconsider my thoughts about him. Fantastic record.

Far more into his later, wilder and more experimental material, but this, of course, is still good all the same.

I always thought that Madonna’s cover was actually really good.

Right from the get-go I expected this to be one of those albums that are quite okay when I listen to them and then forgot everything about completely the very next day. And it definitely seems that my prediction was correct. It's lukewarmly good, as in there's absolutely nothing to remember or go back to afterwards.

Still a bit traumatised due having to watch approximately a thousand shitty teenager bands trying to sounds like Guns n' Roses on youth centre gigs during the glamrock revival boom back in the mid-00s. Luckily I'm mostly over it and can say that this is one bloody good rock'n'roll record. Being a non-native speaker you don't really care all that much what the lyrics actually say, particularly when it's music like this but fucking hell, are they awful at times now that I actually listened to them. Oh well, that's part of the thing, I reckon. Three stars feels a bit too low so I guess I'll have to go with four.

Wikipedia's genre listing made this sound far more interesting than it actually is.

Perhaps leaning a tad too much to the indie side of things to my taste but eh, I know they love their krautrock and that they do very well. Enjoyed this album greatly in any case and think I couldn't give it anything but full five stars, especially in the context of this list. Brilliant.

Well-produced but extremely generic early-00s R'n'B that has absolutely zero reasons to be on this list.

I was going to give this two stars for being, you know, quite okay music, particularly by today's standards but once I got to Only the Good Die Young, my noticing sense started tickling and was convinced this guy HAS to be jewish. And what do you know, after a brief peek at the early life section, I was entirely right. So sadly I have to drop it down to just one star.

Not quite as country as I was fearing. Just the most inoffensive, blandest, marketable American pop music targeted for teenage girls one could possibly imagine. But, you know what, the songs really weren't all THAT bad. And for a 2018 album, this somehow made me feel very nostalgic about all the early-00s pop music of this kind that I had to listen to because my family didn't have a computer nor internet yet back then and I had to watch every possible music programme on the telly in hopes of seeing and hearing something decent. So it a surprisingly nice experience in the end. Odd, but nice.

I'd want to give it three stars, but let's be honest, all that nonsense above aside, this album is pretty shite and has no reason to be on this list. I can't possibly give it more than two actual stars, but I'll give it a spiritual third star for that lovely little experience I described.

Fucking hell, that's one fat bass drum you got there mate.

Jokes aside, I liked this a lot more than I was expecting. Lots of great grooves, wild percussions that I always like and some cool polyrhythmic stuff happening as well. Very interesting, indeed.

This must've hit you so hard if you were on the "right side" of things during the peak woke.

Okay, provocations aside, it's not really that bad of an album but I feel it's destined to be forgotten simply due to having nothing that special besides the then-current commentary.

I quite like the Barrett-era Floyd albums and have given these solo albums a go several times throughout the years but they just... don't really do anything for me.

I saw someone mention that this is way too 80s or something and that’s just nonsense. Just because there’s some crappy VSTs of old synths here and there doesn’t make it 80s yet. More than anything this sounds like that certain type of quiet and minimalistic pop with whispered vocals that was vastly popular in 2010s, which I've never been much of a fan of.

Regardless, it wasn’t too bad. I listened to the French version, of course, because I always prefer, if not the non-English version, at least the version with the singer's native language. And that worked quite nicely here. Pretty for the type of music it is. Won't listen to it again, but I'll give it a good three stars; one extra for not being (solely) in English.

I don’t really get the hate. This was a perfectly fine pop-rock album. Nothing spectacular, but like said, perfectly fine.

Well, it's entertaining for sure. Sometimes, with albums like these, I wonder whether there are people who actually take this stuff seriously or is it all just overexaggerated nonsense for everyone else too?