Reviews by ron_penis

this is overall pretty good, but i find it to be much more uneven and unfocused than Things Fall Apart, and i can't really fathom the rationale behind including this over that album

this is the last peter gabriel album i have on this list, and let's just say that if i have my way it'll be the last i ever hear of peter gabriel

totally generic and forgettable. it's certainly not bad and if i had gotten it anywhere in the first 100 albums it might have gotten a 3, but now, almost 800 in, I'm just absolutely sick of listening to all these totally milquetoast 80s and 90s english bands; on no planet is this an album everyone should hear before they die, there are plenty of better, more interesting and more influential albums of very similar stripes on this very list. we get it, Robert dimery, these were your formative years, maybe next time let some other people pick out a few albums

this would definitely merit inclusion if the title of the book was "The Rise and Fall of The Doors." limp blues facsimiles with a jim morrison who sounds like he has an inordinate amount of phlegm stuck in his throat

1001 Interminably Long English Electronic Albums to Make You Wish You Were Dead

objectively a really good execution of this sort of thing, unfortunately i despise this sort of thing

i just had Van Halen's 1984 and I thought it completely failed the premise of this list: the only things on there that you could even potentially argue deserved to be heard before you die were the singles that almost every english speaker has probably already heard a billion times. this album is basically the complete opposite. yes, there are huge singles we've all heard over and over, but it turns out they come with a whole album of no skips! basically every song on here could have been a single for a lesser artist, which really highlights how good the big hits here are, for them to have risen to the top of this selection

the bangers you know and some fine songs you're perfectly okay not hearing

pretty solid but he's definitely still finding his footing post NWA. a lot of the content also feels more objectionable than on the predator (although I'm probably fooling myself there, considering the "Hitler without an oven" lyric) i think this is a decent album that's significant enough to recommend to someone who's immersing themselves in hip hop given the political content and as kind of a herald of the slow transition away from rap crews and towards solo acts. but as an album everyone should listen to before they die? nah, just listen to the predator

i was pretty flabbergasted to see a second Doves album on the list; fortunately this one at least was deservedly ditched in a later edition

this is nothing to me

it's corny and kind of bad but also pretty fun (yes i listened to this a lot between the ages of 9 and 12 why do you ask)

is morrissey a gigantic prick? well, yes, but you have to forgive him for it because he also made a lot of really average music

what a shame that this was their only concept album, they certainly had a very "interesting" take on the idea

kind of baffling to call this an "album" you must hear considering the only things even arguably worth hearing here are the singles, which almost every english speaker (ie the primary audience for this book) has probably already heard. no one's gonna get anything out of these album tracks, and even the singles are big dumb meatballs that aren't remotely appealing to me after a first listen and at this point I've heard them all about 300,000 times. bonus points for the cover art being just laughably stupid

i just love the kinks now i guess

can is really cool and this is a very interesting album but I don't think i would call it "enjoyable," at the very least i definitely prefer the likes of ege bamyasi (which is not on this list) or tago mago (which thankfully is)

annoying, distasteful and not in a fun way, and a downright unlistenable singing voice. kind of amazed that this seems to be considered some great classic

surprisingly bad! i knew I didn't like modern Common but I figured there must have been some good era of Common, that does not seem to be the case though. leads off with a weird down tempo jazzy interlude that's both aggravating to listen to and insultingly labeled as "a tribute to Fela" (big swing and a miss from Femi) and pretty much continues along those lines

it's kind of crazy this is from 1990, you can hear a lot of what will come in the late 90s and early 2000s, which is generally my least favorite era of hip hop, but this is much more varied sonically and with a lot more of the humor and playfulness later mainstream rap lost and never quite regained. it is overly long though, especially considering there are some (in my opinion) obvious stinkers that break up the album flow and could have been cut with no loss whatsoever