Reviews by rhymingnonsensically

Not sure if it meets the definition of the Mandela Effect but I went a number of years thinking Adventure Time used After Hours in one of the Marceline episodes. The feedback guitar solos on this and the Banana album are up there with Bob Dylan harmonica solos for destroying your family's ear drums in the car. I think this is my favorite Velvet Underground album. It’s certainly the most listenable of their first three albums, the Murder Mystery notwithstanding.

The rare album I wanted to be twice as long. I've always been a sucker for the jangling guitars and outside of Ticket to Ride this is the best version I've come across. I can't believe how catchy these songs are, this is the rare straight five that I'd never listened to until the generator sent it our way. I probably listened to She Bangs the Drums twenty times this weekend.

Strong Bob Dylan vibes which makes sense since this guy had a stint with the Byrds. A solid album and the lyrics are good enough but this kind of music has been done better in different places enough times.

This feels like a software update on the 1950s/1960s instrumental lounge music you can find for fifty cents in the back of really bad bookstores and I am here to embrace it with arms open wide

Full Throttle and Voodoo Music are absolutely in my wheelhouse, I would have had a great time listening to that at Movement. The whole thing is just all over the place in a way that, Poison and the Howard Dean screaming aside, gets more enjoyable as the album progresses. The Narcotic Suite coming out of the bullpen to shut it down is great fun.

Solid. The man can sing like nobody's business and there is some fun guitar work on a handful of the songs.

Wanted to roll the eyes at yet another 90s alternative rock album but As Heave Is Wide made me sit up in my seat. Also loved the use of the Train in Van drums on Stupid Girl. Wikipedia says they wanted to make unpalatable sounds palatable and they mostly succeed at it. Solid 3.5, this era of rock inexplicably continues to grow on me.

Not sure if I buy this being on a shortlist for greatest album ever but it goes hard and actually has a guitar-forward sound and actual guitar solos which appears to be unusual for the era.

It's obviously a moody album but it doesn't sink into being a terrible listening experience which is a mistake a lot of American bands from this time seem to be making (see: Nine Inch Nails). Pain for the sake of pain means an auditory nightmare and that its time to take your meds; pain as a means to a greater end for your art means critical acclaim and $$$

Parklife was an awesome find and has the inside track to runner-up on the list of best album find of the year. This was rather disappointing by comparison. Too much distortion by more than a wee bit--be Blur of Parklife, not Radiohead knockoffs. I think Blur and I have some fruitful listening years ahead of us but this is a tough listen for the time being.

This is exactly what I want from my extremely 1980s synth bands and what I thought Violator would bring. Couple of moments on side two that were a touch too weird for me but overall a Good Album.

What if we married Phil Spector girl groups to 1970s urban hellscapes

There's more variation here than on Catch a Fire and Exodus but it's also a lot limper than those two albums.

This is a paradox in that it's a slog to get through yet I'm intrigued enough to consider exploring some of their other stuff.

The second side might be a drop off but I don't think it's that it's as bad as some do---the first side is just that good. This is the best album we've gotten that I haven't previously listened to since the Cocteau Twins graced us with their presence. The first side really caught the better impulses of King Crimson, the weirder tendencies of Led Zeppelin, and probably other English bands at the time that I'm unaware of. Great fun. Shoutout to the Day Tripper bass lick immediately followed by Wagnerian Valkyries.

Not the biggest reggae guy but it always plays and has a very high floor. This of course is no different.

First couple songs are heaters and my guess is Without You inspires a lot of strong opinions both ways. Doesn't feel like there is a lot of substance to this album as a whole, however.

Greta Van Fleet is to Led Zeppelin as these guys are to Stevie Wonder. Right in my Q Zone so I can excuse some of the other issues. 3.5

The only songs worth a salt that Neil Young recorded are on this album, and if you ever questioned Joni Mitchell's songwriting chops Woodstock will correct your bad opinion. Man alive what an album. Straight gas until the last couple songs and even those are excellent.

A psychedelic rock album with the proper amount of crawling up one's own anus (electric jug) but not to the point of 27 minute noise odysseys that half the bands were "experimenting" with at the time. I will be taking the elevator to the 13th floor.

I am appointing Misfire song of the summer. However I can't help thinking through most of these tracks that I'd rather be listening to ELO or Boston