Reviews by ron_penis

generally just quite tiresome. he's got a good flow and the beats are fine if not anything to write home about, but the lyrics are just completely lacking in any artfulness or subtlety. i tried to be on bored at first but it really just wears on you. the beats and music start to blend together, the lyrics just get lamer and stupider

beautifully realized and fulfilling piece of art; that being said I don't love what she's doing with her voice here as a big time Rid of Me fan, and there are some stretches that are definitely on the grating side. have to give it up and give it a 5 for the excellent realization of a vision, but this is not something I'd ever have going on repeat

I've heard this recently enough to feel comfortable providing my thoughts without giving this gigantic asshole any more streams: like probably many other white people my age, Kanye was a big entry point for me into rap, and was essentially the only hip hop i listened to for a good while (very embarrassed to have been a "everything but rap and country" kid in middle school). now, I've exposed myself to much more rap & hip hop and i just find my tastes have changed.

the actual quality of production is pretty unimpeachable but the style of it just does nothing for me. a lot of it is weirdly weightless and the sounds just don't wow me the way they did back in 2010. and of course many of the actual lyrics are eye rolling

how much of this is just a subconscious response to what Kanye has become? probably a lot, i dunno. i try to listen unbiased but there's just an inescapable level of slime over all of it now. i want to say my diminished view is honestly come by, but truly i can't say how much my opinion of the man is causing me to be less generous than i otherwise would be. but, hey, I'm not a professional critic, i can afford to be biased

do i like it? not really. but it's definitely interesting, bracing, and quite obviously very ahead of its time. I can't really say i hated it, although i do hope I'm able to go the rest of my life never hearing "Girl" again

pretty funky tunes

there is just something about Pink Moon and I that is fundamentally incompatible. i have never been able to come remotely close to wrapping my head around what the appeal is. it's just so dreary and boring to me, no matter how many shots I've given it over the years. i like bryter layter but this just drives me crazy

happy for everybody that loves and appreciates Nick Drake, but that will never be me

it's bad, it's good, it's aggressively not music as well as very musical. comes closer to 'art' than many many albums on the list. really there's nothing i can say that hasn't been said already, but i gotta slap a 5 on it just for the novelty, influence and vision (if you can call untreated schizophrenia vision). there really are many snatches of genuinely catchy and enjoyable music here, but i think only someone interested in developing some schizophrenia of their own would want to listen to this front to back on anything approaching a regular basis. as they say, fast and bulbous

somehow my first time listening to nine inch nails; enjoyed it quite a bit, but probably will never seek it out on my own again

not the most mindless house or big beat album I've been saddled with by this list, so there's that. I'll throw it a +1 for the KLF also being very bonkers and interesting

what is there to say that you can't read in the other reviews? as we all know, he's very technically proficient, and the production is fantastic, but the lyrical content is just abysmal. clearly, he's being intentionally outrageous and provocative and trying desperately to be funny, but it all falls flat, to put it mildly. this sort of peurile 90s outrage is just endlessly tiring. and to top it off, hey, he can't help it, but i just really dislike his voice

is it good? hey, sure, but when I'm getting this a few days after blood on the tracks i gotta make some kind of differentiation to indicate how great blood on the tracks is

absolutely serviceable

beautiful and mesmerizing. probably a 4 on a lot of days, but Cybele's Reverie and Emperor Tomato Ketchup, among other tracks, just hit me perfectly tonight

untouchable

really boggles the mind that people try to argue the stones are better than the Beatles. annoying, misogynist, repetitive. at least the beatles paired their misogyny with good music

the contrarian part of me always wants to not like bob dylan but there's really just no helping it

do i even have to explain?

the reduction of bob marley/reggae generally to a brand and a punchline by many parts of white America is impossible to not be infuriated by after you actually listen to him

lana is the modern standard bearer of what i often refer to, somewhar derisively, as "weepy music." like, it's fine, but it is extremely not for me, and i have a hard time imagining anybody not critically depressed wanting to listen to this front to back on any kind of regular basis

also tolkien should get a songwriting credit on "not all who wander are lost"

are some of the songs embarrassingly weird and bad? sure. do i still like it? of course