Reviews by ron_penis

killer queen is of course a banger. there were some other songs too, i think

after years of cultivating a vaguely continental European vibe, bowie boldly declared "actually I'm just a german guy now"

the pinnacle of steely dan's career: recording Peg so that De La Soul could sample it in Eye Know

now this is my shit: i love desert blues, i love the guitar tone, i love how hypnotic and groovy and by turns lively and relaxing it is

it's definitely good but i don't know if it really warrants a spot on the list, i feel like this is one for a nirvana fan, not the general public. thinking of the list as a broad liberal arts education (which i feel is the basic premise) this feels sort of like an advanced chemistry class. like sure it's valuable, but it's something you pursue further as an individual, not something that should be part of the foundation

actually ended up liking this much more than their later albums! sure, you could say it's a little derivative for the time but it's much more fun and wat less overwrought than tommy or who's next. you either die the good who or live long enough to see yourself become the bad who

it's not very pretty or even particularly good but there is something affecting and tragic about the whole thing, both in the story behind its recording and musically. octopus does actually kind of slap though

like every other elvis costello album this hits me absolutely nowhere, no real strong feelings about this, although i did find it to be about 15% more grating than his other albums

i dig it but compared to their first two albums it feels a lot weaker. less raw emotion and vitriol in Iggy's voice, the groove i love so much in the first two is gone. still great and its influence is pretty clear to see though

i think i just missed the boat on the white stripes. if i had listened contemporaneously, I'd probably be able to appreciate it more or at least have some nostalgia, but coming to them fresh in the 2020s, having already listened to plenty of blues, 70s garage rock and proto punk, I don't hear anything from them i wouldn't rather get somewhere else. not bad but just doesn't do anything for me. minus 1 point for jack white's nasally voice that feels even more untempered than on later albums (and not in a good way)

slick, gaudy and utterly vacuous

no thanks. really, the only purpose of this project is to broaden my own horizons and i heard this back when it came out, i remember it, no reason to give him even the tiny useless amount of money from streaming it. it was fine back then. I'm sure it holds up fine, but I'll never be listening again of my own volition

john lydon's shtick is as always very tiresome, but Fodderstompf deserves some recognition as perhaps the worst album closer of all time

kind of a novelty but also i listened to it back to back 3 times so it was doing something right

i love music created only for licensing!

coming from someone that would usually say this as a compliment: this is just a whole bunch of noise, however.... she do be busy sucking on my ding dong 🤷🏻

kind of a blessing in disguise that Spotify only has the shitty version, because for someone like me who doesn't have a ton of exposure to straight ahead Indian music (despite its relatively outsized influence on music in the anglophone world) it actually helps you appreciate the real thing more when you first accidentally get exposed to the same music only executed much more poorly

this is fine for what it is but for me personally i can't imagine a scenario where I'd put this on over a grateful dead set. simply a matter of taste, i think everyone only has room for one jam band in their life!

there's something very funny about Bowie bringing a band back from the brink of death so that they can continue on as a two-bit imitation of him

pretty good but not particularly noteworthy