Reviews by prometheus

Such a lovely and promising looking cover and then you realise it's country. Bummer.

Luckily, it's not too bad. This kind of "alt-country", as they call it, I can somewhat tolerate. Couple of rather good songs here, even. Most of it doesn't really do much for me though. Shame.

The concept and the album cover were better than the actual music.

Was expecting some proper goth rock or post-punk, but this turned out to just be the most generic, bland and lazy hard rock imaginable. Having a dirty, actual rock’n’roll-like production might’ve done a lot, now it just sounds far too sterile for the kind of music it tries to be.

I was going to give this two stars at first but frankly, listening to it pissed me off so much that in the end I decided to drop it down to one.

I have no idea why people complain about the production of this album. It's nasty, dirty and filthy, just how I'd expect a proper punk and rock album to sound like. If anything, I wish it'd be even noisier, more similar to Fun House. That's really the only reason why I'm dropping one point from a perfect score.

I've never really knew all that many Depeche Mode songs outside of the biggest hits but they've been on my get-familiar-with list for aeons at this point. Well, now was the time and fucking hell, this was one of those albums I immediately knew I just had to give a whole five stars to. Played it a total of three times today and yeah, seems like I have a lot of work to do, going through their whole catalogue now.

Not only has this list made me realise that The Rolling Stones most certainly aren't for me, it seems like I have to say the same about The Beatles. This sounds interesting to me on paper but in actuality just does very little for me.

Saw the cover and the logo and knew instantly this has to be at least a three-star record.

I wasn't wrong.

I've never like The Wall all that much compared to ANY of their previous albums, which I like all of and I've never been able to quite figure out why that is. For a long time I thought maybe it's just Waters' megalomania, but he was always a crucial composer for the band and Animals is, similarly to this album, almost all his work too, so I don't think it's that. Now that I listened to it again, I actually think it's the shorter songs that might be reason for it. I like them whenever they focus on longer songs. That, and the style in general moving further away from the styles they were doing before. Three stars.

This is a tad too American for me. Absolutely cannot stand the singer's voice.

Gave it a whole three listens today. Wild, kosmiche-esque music, that's not quite too proggy or jazzy, but does both just the right amount. Brilliant album. Have to give it five stars, no way about it.

Nyt tiedän myös, että Notkea Rotta on näemmä sämplännyt Moon in Junea Mielenterveyden timpuri -biisiinsä. Kaikkea sitä.

I talk to a somewhat mentally unstable lady online occasionally and mentioned I got this album for today and she said I ”triggered” her ’cause there’s a song about rape or something on it.

Anyway, I listened to it while working out at the gym (leg day) and didn’t really remember anything about it afterwards. But nothing really irritated me either, so I guess that’s a basic two stars.

Absolutely zero reasons for me to ever listen to this again.

Fucking hell, that caught me by surprise. Mistook the album name for the artist and the cover definitely looked a tad misleading as well. But how glad am I to be wrong! One of those albums on the list I had no idea about beforehand that turned out to be a five-star one right on the first listen. Giving it a second listen, just to make sure but yeah, this was absolutely brilliant.

Like how hypnotic and repetitive (in a good way) this is but wish it had a less polished production and would just generally get even wilder and into more psychedelic territories. Either way, this is, again, the type of albums I wish this list had more of.

Might be the best album cover so far. And the music itself isn't bad either. Nothing special, but very decent new wave or whatever yee call it.

I've only ever really heard nothing but the most overplayed hits from Queen, but people have said their albums as a whole are a lot better. Well, there's a couple of pretty good songs here but otherwise... eh, it's still mostly just what I expected and that's not for me at all.

Biisien puolesta en varmaankaan antaisi kahta tähteä enempää, mutta tällä livellä on niin käsinkoskesteltavan kova meno, että kyllä siitä irtoaa vielä yksi ylimääräkinenkin pinna.

For a brief second, after seeing the cover, I was hopeful this might be prog or – even better – some early 70s synth ambient. Then I checked Wikipedia and saw "country". What an absolute letdown, fucking hell.

…and to no one’s surprise, it’s shite. Well, not actual shite; I can tell it’s probably perfectly fine country but since this list – like all criticism in general, in the end – is subjective, I have to give it a mere one star simply because it doesn’t do anything for me and I have very, very low tolerance for country in general.

One thing this list has proven is that I seem to have never missed anything by not giving The Rolling Stones a listen. Their third album I’ve had to listen to so far and this still does absolutely nothing for me.

At least the guitar tone is great, as you’d expect from an album with a name like this. Too bad the music itself doesn’t do me much and I absolutely can’t stand the singer’s voice.