Reviews by rhymingnonsensically

I'm contractually obligated to like this album as a resident of Southeast Michigan

Sometimes something really gets under your skin and you can't tell why you really hate it.

My predecessors are right he does go for a whimsical Scott Walker but doesn't quite get there.

It's listenable enough but stuck in a weird middle ground. Other than a handful of songs (Steppin' Out, It Ain't Right) it completely loses the vim of the old blues masters and doesn't offer any interesting new interpretations of the blues like Cream or Led Zeppelin would later. I see it's a historically important album. Thank God history progressed fast enough to leave this behind. Leave it to a British band to turn our SACRED American blues into dry toast on beans or whatever these people call food. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This is about as perfect as an album can be, Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones are truly a match made in heaven. The closest thing to a clunker still features SIR Paul McCartney.

Yeah I hate the Who

Randy Newman built a pretty great career by wrapping some pretty dark and terrible lyrical material with some wonderful melodies. For example, Rednecks being that catchy is fucking diabolical. It’s a good thing history came to an end thirty years ago and none of this has any continuing relevance anymore. Very much a cultural artifact that has no bearing on anything anymore, like VHS tapes and the telegraph. Presumably the people saying this hasn't aged well must not live in the United States or are in a headspace of the cultural salad days of the Obama years. Look around dingus, the Good Old Boys are running the WAR and Justice Department and the Kingfish is President.

Side note: what’s a more surprising career move, Randy Newman becoming Pixar Guy or George Carlin becoming the conductor and narrator for Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends?

Like the Samba album I have no idea how to compare the quality of this with other albums like it. That said I do love a good hammered dulcimer. I don't know if enjoy is the right word but I could talk myself into handing out pamphlets at the airport like the Hare Krishnas with this playing in the back of my head.

I expected this to be a horny album and it did not disappoint. Don't know if the sound has aged particularly well but it's definitely a toe tapper. Pleasantly surprised.

Best listened to in a big group of sweaty twenty-somethings slightly crossfaded instead of blasting through excel spreadsheets in an office setting. Graded on a curve accordingly. Kind of amazing how little dance music has changed in the last 30-35 years. Other than the big hit, Good Beat and ESP really stand out as toe tappers for the abandoned warehouse. Shoutout to the Morricone cowboy whistle on ESP too. 3.5.

I'm old enough to admit that I just don't really like hip hop. I appreciate that according to the hip hop historians that this sits in a special place in the hip hop canon, but it's just not to my tastes. And that's fine.

I expected to be very bored by this but was pleasantly surprised. Run time is a titch long but I would definitely put it on again if I was trying to set a certain mood on a sleepy summer evening.

I have no way of knowing if this is good for its genre or just slop but I do know I nodded my head for 40 minutes so that's an advantage it has over many of the albums here. Never would've come across this album if it wasn't for this generator so that's a bonus.

This isn't the best Beatles album (Abbey Road) but some of their most beautiful melodies are here--Michelle, In My Life, Norwegian Wood are timeless inner circle pop songs. I understand the appeal of being needlessly contrarian but I really can't imagine genuinely not liking the Beatles.

Meant to be listened to at eleven, make the neighbors call the cops complaining about the noise. I don't know how many bands can make the same fucking album five times in a row with a sixth double album at the end of it and have them all be five stars.

Is Papa Was A Rolling Stone the best song to come out of Detroit in the 60s and 70s? I Ain't Got Nothin and Love Woke Me Up This Morning are also excellent standouts. Just like Marvin Gaye the luscious strings and raw funkiness are a elite combination.

I guess you had to be there with Oasis. They're a pleasant enough band and I tap my toe to enough of these songs that it makes for a decent listening experience but none of these songs strike me as particularly memorable 30 years on.

We've gotten bands previously that I wished I had discovered when I was a teenager (Rage Against the Machine, Megadeth) but this is definitely one I'm glad I dodged. Great music but the Smiths are just smallpox blankets into the tribes of teenage malaise and angst. It's a tight band, I've always loved their jangly guitars, and you truly never really know where Morissey is taking you with his lyrics.

I don't know if Snoop is giving us many insights into the human condition but holy moly will this make you chuckle and tap a toe.

The rare album that seems to float outside the time they made it. Wanted to offer something contrarian but sometimes classics are classics for a reason.