Reviews by ron_penis

this is totally fine but I'm kind of baffled by the idea that it's on the list, we get like 7 reggae albums, and we're gonna have one of them be this?

D'Angelo is indisputably very talented and this is basically objectively amazing, and his music has many of the pieces of something that should appeal to me, so every time i give him a shot i feel like i should like him more than i do

musically there is of course a lot to like, but the whole thing is just too consistently down tempo for my tastes, and this R&B vocal style has never been to my tastes in the slightest. and of course you get the strong feeling that the keyword he always has in mind is "sexy" which is simply not something i look for in music. a great album that i gotta give it up for, but not for me

beautiful and inventive compositions and playing (especially the strings) a voice packed with emotion, some damn pathos! another album i had listened to in previous years and left unimpressed but revisiting it i agree wholeheartedly with all the praise it's received

oh boy! echoey vocals, cheesy synths, no bottom or weight to the sound at all, corny lyrics! all the beautiful sounds of the 80s, and they come complete with george michael's vacuous, bland voice! maybe I'm just not the right kind of gay to like this (I'm the kind with good taste)

sorry, Yellow Magic Orchestra, we know you were very influential in the field of electronic music and you made lots of good music, but we REALLY had to make room for our 300,000th album of English electronic drivel, and we just really strongly felt it was important we include a second Fatboy Slim album that most people haven't heard of and doesn't even seem to be particularly well regarded. it truly is regrettable that you aren't from a western country and didn't appear in NME when Robert Dimery was a teenager but we're sure you can make it into the next edition if you simply become English and get a lobotomy!

lots of funky and mind bending sounds and grooves, and the early use of sampling is both very cool and very modern sounding, regrettably Czukay took a look at stereotypical prog-rock vocals and said "these aren't annoying enough"

what if david bowie was born in 1973 and had zero sense of subtlety?

a truly delightful weirdo

undoubtedly influential but johnny rotten's nauseatingly english voice is like nails on a chalkboard, although it's fun imagining how much better the band could have been if malcolm mclaren hadn't bonked his head really hard the day he decided to recruit johnny

this is probably her worst album but it's still too scientifically engineered to be enjoyable to call it "bad" per se. a 1/5 as a taylor album but perfectly acceptable in the grand scheme of things

i was more than prepared to leave this album with a simple "this is my last tom waits album on the list, rest in peace you dumb bitch" but i find i have to give this one its due: this isn't just *any* tom waits album, it's also an excruciating 73 minutes, takes his pretentious shtick to heights i was simply not prepared for, and finally manages to be vaguely racist with Tommy's put-on stereotypical "jazzman" voice. the other musicians are pretty good, especially the bass player who is putting in some serious overtime, so it's a damn shame that it's in service of this pig brained mother fucker

rest in peace you dumb bitch

I'd probably really like Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart if it had less Jah Wobble

still think (pre-covid) M.I.A. is very cool, still think her music has a lot of abrasive (and not in a way that appeals to me) and frankly annoying sounds

Jimmy is the first song here that i don't find grating and then you get a good 3 song run of that, Hussel and Mango Pickle, but following that it sort of meanders on its way to Paper Planes before fizzling out with Come Around. a fine album that's elevated by Paper Planes being a generational banger

pretty tiresome

grunge from neil yunge

it's good but at the end of the day it's kinda just more bowie, eh?

björk just not 4 me

i can imagine how this hits if you're a huge fan of the beatles etc but as a begrudging respecter rather of the beatles, this feels like a needless detour. something to dig into for the real 60s psychedelic rock head, but not something that everyone should be listening to before they die (old man going does kind of rock though)

yet another monotonous and teeth grinding 90s electronica album that its self indulgent artist decided simply had to be an hour long. what a waste of a very funny album title

countryfied desert rat Pavement (i know this pre-dates pavement bear with me)