Reviews by ron_penis

blood sugar sex magik was a pleasant surprise, suffice to say this was much much more in line with my preconceived notions of rhcp's whole "deal"

on the one hand, this is infinitely less annoying and repetitive than its ilk; on the other hand, we may be looking at patient zero for electro swing, which is basically unforgivable

dopey so-2010s-it-hurts lion king electronic junk. 2 stars but minus 1 for having the gall to talk shit on Zappa when they're making MGMT music for guys who spend all their time at concerts trying to talk to girls aged 18 and lower

this comes in hot with a voice tailor made for me to hate, but the history it's drawing on, the whole aura around it, the arrangments and music, it all builds up together until i realize the voice is not really bothering me at all

I'm not a Peter gabriel fan at all but Solsbury Hill, Down The Dolce Vita and Here Comes The Flood kind of go, whereas the rest of the album is middling to bad. very uneven, the phrase that keeps coming to mind, sensical or not, is "mud album"

kind of kept forgetting i was listening to this but when i would tune back in i was certainly not unhappy

I'm running out of ways to creatively express the strength of my disdain for this kind of mind numbing, irritating, insipid electronic slop, but that doesn't mean I'll stop trying!

feels kind of weightless compared to other central african music I'm familiar with but it's pleasant enough

A Mercifully Short Album About Love

pretty unremarkable and occasionally annoying

absolutely dreadful, incessant and grating. the kind of music you put on to teach someone a lesson. mylo should have seen jail time for sunworshipper

well, you can't accuse joe of false advertising with the album title

mischievous sexy clown music

it's funny, because i actually follow arrested development's very good contemporary releases, but I've never really listened to their earlier stuff, and i now feel like that was probably the correct course of action; the very rare act that has actually gotten better in their later career, it seems. this is not bad but it's very very much of its time. at times it even dips into the kind of sound you always hear in parodies of old school hip hop. again, it's good, but you're better off going and giving For The FKN Love and Bullets In The Chamber a shot

hmmm idk it's pretty good but it might be a little on the long side

I'm not usually a fan of electronic music, but i do enjoy daft punk for the most part (whether that's because they made a more palatable version of electronic music or because they're good enough to transcend that prejudice is up to the scholars). like the other reviews ironically note over and over and over, it can be a bit repetitive, but i think they're overstating it. there's plenty of lows here, but also more than enough highs

the integration of reggae sounds keeps this more interesting than a lot of its ilk and i am on the record as a fan of Mezzanine but overall it's kind of in one ear, out the other for me. not bad, but a little droney and, perhaps only to my untrained ear, a little monotonous.

side note just because it made me realize but: why does the book have two massive attack albums to this day, but gorillaz only had their self titled album make it in, and even that eventually got removed?

i was hoping today to listen to an excruciating 2 hours of a man doing a parody of singing! you really gotta hand it to billy for being that rare combination of insufferable prick and talentless hack! at least if you drop the "mellon collie" bit the album would have an accurate name!

some flashes of annoyance but overall much more enjoyable than i was expecting

it's got some classic 2005 weightless production and corniness, but i still enjoyed it thoroughly (although naturally i get my first latin album in like 300 days and it's still an LA band)