Reviews by repub

"I'm The Man Who Loves You" was interesting, with a unique guitar part. If only the rest of the album was. I'm starting to think "indie" is a label that just means the music isn't very good.

Pretty boring. Definitely preferred "The Suburbs" from these Montréal warriors

Enjoyable classic rock. I liked "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?". Layla's electric guitar part sounds so much like the Russian song "Белая ночь" by Forum. Seriously, listen... did they plagiarize!? Its from 1985, so some Western music may have gotten into the USSR. CAPTIVATING MYSTERY

I would do a better job than the vocalist and I do not know how to sing. At least the other instruments were good.

The first bit of the album is great. Not a fan of the second half.

People glaze this band so hard, so I had high expectations. Turns out its just a guy with a strange accent scream-talking leftist things through a hard-core band. The album sounds 90% the same as the two Limp Bizkit songs I've heard, and people hate them! What am I missing?

On the topic of the lyrics, of course they are going to be relevant "30 years later". Lyrics that boil down to "da goberment sux" are going to be relevant 300 years later. It isn't exactly some sort of amazing predictive power that a civilization still has flaws however many years after you write lyrics criticizing it. I say all this as a bonafide leftoid.

Good stuff. Exciting after receiving 300 (hyperbole) soul albums off this list.

Nice fun rock. I liked it more than the singer's solo album.

Good punk tunes, and enjoyed the mixing with jazz. I will admit, I was a little bit tired of it by the end.

I've never met an open U2 fan.

The song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" begins so promisingly, with exciting 360 sound, but immediately devolves into lame nonsense. The rest of the album doesn't have an ounce of fascinating stuff in it. Tired of this.

The album is mixed so well, too. Wasted on this junk!

The top review which says that a zoomer wouldn't believe that these guys sell out stadiums is correct. I know who U2 are and I don't understand. There are so many amazing bands, especially in the 80s, which aren't tripe. Maybe they're like the Irish Tragically Hip, another lousy band which people love for some reason unknown to anyone but the Lord.

For art to be worth seeing, something must happen, or it must be beautiful. An action movie has something happen, but isn't beautiful. Alice Munro's stories are beautiful, but nothing happens. Rzewski's variations on Pueblo Unido are beautiful and have things occur in it. This album fulfills neither requirement. Fortunately, it doesn't sound actively bad and thus it gets a 2.

I've always felt like I ought to like Talking Heads, but I just can't get into them.
The album was alright. None of the song stuck out to me and the outtakes were awfully repetitive, but I enjoyed listening to it.

Some reviewers are acting like this is the worst album in the West. It's not; it's okay. I didn't hate listening to it, and some of the parts were neat.

I think this album was made in a lab to be as boring as possible.

Saw that this was ska. Thought "oh, I'll probably like this"

I did!

The mixing is great. The drums really popped, especially in the album's first half.

I can see why this is so influential. Still didn't capture me much.

I quite like some of the songs on this album, but I have no clue as to why it's on the list.

Enjoyed it, though I don't remember a single song. Liked the lower power singing.

Didn't really enjoy this, but I don't think it's bad at all

Solid punk rock. Kind of curious why it's on the list - is this one of the first of this type of punk? It doesn't sound super exciting to me as a hard-core punk fan who somehow has never listened to Minor Threat - did they invent this type of stuff?