Reviews by rfried25

RumoursFleetwood Mac

Rated 10/10

Oh, only one of the top selling albums of all time and the definition of a no-Skip. The album that made Fleetwood Mac.

MaskBauhaus

Rated 6/10

Solid post punk but nothing that screams super unique. All songs pretty much ran into one another, sounded like one long post punk song?

The ability for this list to have both some of the greatest hip hop ever created and the worst all at the same time is impressive.It really is a spoken word album not a hip-hop album.

I’ll give the album credit through- If you give it a listen the storytelling is well done. That’s the only redemption.

Beats are great - but man those lyrics and vocals are rough. As others said here…is it house, hip hop…maybe both but neither really well.

The reggae vibes and sampling for the time is excellent though. Unfinished Symphony earns its stripes though

This is the album where you get to truly u stand Cobain as a vocalist and lyricist. The covers show the creative possibility of the band if they had more time.

The cultural significance of this album would make it a 5…only hard piece is the repetitive one trick of his music…means every song of his is the same.

The covers more than make up for it.

25Adele

Rated 6/10

Not meant for me, but for 5 years you couldn’t escape Hello and Send My Love- and maybe there is a good reason why.

When we were young makes me want to gouge my ears out though. First half way way stronger than 2nd.

The album that was on the forefront of it all. So many emcees all owe it to the native tounge/zulu. The perfection of socially conscious rap, the perfection of boom bap.

They might of walked so Tribe could run but this album never gets old. De La Soul to laugh Tribe to be political.

Maybe Willie Nelson just inst meant to do covers...of soul classics? Kinda bland - odd how you can take the Ray Price album and has a lot of soul and feeling and this feels cheap?

Pink MoonNick Drake

Rated 10/10

An absolute timeless classic of poetry- both stunningly beautiful and haunting.

No Elliot smith or Phoebe Bridgers without Nick Drake and this album.

Night LifeRay Price

Rated 8/10

Back when country spoke about real
Human emotions and not weird ass faux nationalism.

A little jazzy, a little bluesy, a little rockabilly. Slow, sad and oddly beautiful.

Pretty repetitive though.

Some other reviewer noted, there is absolutely great Radiohead and then there is unlistenable falsetto draining on Radiohead

You know when modern artist painters take a white canvass and throw three squiggles of paint on it - and try (and often do) sell it for millions.

Yea, not buying it...the difference between schizophrenic and creative might be pretty thin....but i know which one this one lines up on.

Surfer RosaPixies

Rated 8/10

Innovative indie punk - those lyrics though…oooof brutal…sound has B-52s with distortion?

Where is my mind onward in the album though is where this album thrives.