Reviews by prometheus

Faust aren't even among my favourite bands in the krautrock-sphere, but I'd say this is their best album and still better than 95% of the music on this list, so I can't help but give it a solid 5/5.

Impressive playing but sounds way too American for me.

I think calling this merely proto-punk or punk at all doesn't really do it justice, since particularly the latter side of the album goes way beyond what I'd call punk personally. Either way, I went through the album twice today and it's an easy 5/5 for me.

Never had that certain urge to get familiar with The Doors nor had I ever read or heard anything that would've gotten me interested enough. Well, looks like I haven't missed much since this album doesn't really do anything for me. Riders on the Storm is decent.

My first intuition about this album was that it looks like the most 3/5 album ever. And what do you know, the rating for it was 3.01, so I was spot on. And it really is a pretty good 3/5 album too. Some very nice tracks here, some underwhelming ones, you know how it goes. Really liking how 90s it sounds and feels.

I can tell this is a fantastic live album. The energy is crazy and you can almost touch the atmosphere.

...but it's still blues. And blues, for me, is boring, no way around it. A brilliant live album that does nothing to me musically? yeah, it's certainly possible.

I'll give it an extra point just for being a non-English album on an extremely anglobiased list.

I've given this band a chance a number of times back in the day, since on paper they should be something I'd enjoy a fair bit. Never "clicked" for me though but since that HAS happened with some bands in the past, I was excited to see if I'd finally "get" this band this time around.

Sadly, it still didn't happen. I don't really know what it is. No melodies that'd give me the chills, no grooves or rhythms that'd get me going, singing and lyrics feeling bland too. I'd almost want to like it more, but that just... didn't happen. Such a shame.

Very likely the best album nu-metal ever spawn. Far too long though and as such, it feels more like a collection of songs rather than a coherent album. Which sadly is the case with way too many 90s albums.

One point for Born To Make You Happy being a bänger despite the extremely corny lyrics.

Somehow I feel very dirty listening to this as a 38 years old man. Don’t really know why that is.

Nothing too interesting music-wise but I appreciate the antisemitism and misogyny.

At least the singer let’s his accent shine. Only thing making this even worse would’ve been a yank singing.

This list has made me dislike country more than ever before.

Nothing really wrong with it, but will I ever listen to this again? No. Will I even remember that I listened to this album a couple of days from now? No. So in a way an "okay" album that's thoroughly forgettable and unremarkable is a lot worse than an album that's genuinely bad but at least leaves a memory and a mark with its awfulness. This is just lukewarm and irrelevant.

I had to listen to his debut earlier and it was basically shite all around, while this one's actually got a lot of genuinely great stuff in it, musicwise. Shame that the lyrical content is still mostly about how he's got a big dick and fucks sluts.

Vitun AWESOME ajaa autoo täysii ja kuunnella Motörheadii!

Perhaps the best album the nu-metal craze ever spawned (this, Korn's debut or Sepultura's Roots). So that's a solid 3/5.

Oh wow, another American folk-rock album.

While I might not give this album a full five stars in general, I'll be doing it here not only as a counter for this being (currently) second to lowest rated album on the whole site, but also because I think this is the kind of album that truly defines what SHOULD be on a "1001 albums you must hear before you die" type of a playlist. It might not be – in a big picture – commercially relevant, but it's a albums like these that truly define a marginal but overly passionate genre of music and is culturally far more relevant than any random mainstream one-hit-wonder or otherwise meaningless trendy thing from a short period of time in the past this list also has. It's albums like these you SHOULD hear at least once in your life to know just what kind of music people in the underground, in the shadows of the mainstream are overly passionate about. I completely understand why people might not like this, as it's clearly not for everyone (and then again what even is?) but I hope it makes at least a couple of people think what might be the idea and inspiration behind something like this.

Oh, and it's still a great and pioneering record in its genre regardless, don't forget that.