Reviews by ron_penis

i hate Bohemian Rhapsody so much

kate Bush does it again with this one

heart wrenching and beautiful and just a pleasure to listen to, faithfull is so cool and, not to diminish or glorify her struggles, inspiring. hard to believe she ever even gave Mick Jagger the time of day

a lot of the stuff orbiting john reis and rftc is cool and i definitely respect him/them but that being said i do hate the vocal style here, and maybe it's just ex-ska kid PTSD but i truly hate this style of wind instrument playing: just kind of blaring and honking on that thing, very little artistry or variation in volume, tone etc. i love a band that can successfully incorporate any instruments besides guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, but i would not consider this a successful incorporation

i can only imagine how exciting it would have been to be a huge Bob Dylan fan and be suddenly treated to a good album in 1997, but as a casual Dylan fan who was 3 years old when it came out, it's just fine

great perfomances and writing all around but a little too bombastic and theatrical for my taste, to put it mildly

when I say I don't like most electronic music, kraftwerk is one of the bands I'm leaving space for with that "most," but this is pretty different from their stuff that i'm familiar with and like. i do still like this when it's a little more melodic but a lot of this feels very drone/ambient and while i can appreciate how innovative that was and how influential it has been, that's also flat out my least favorite kind of music. big ups to the boys and this isn't a bad album by any stretch of the imagination, and undoubtedly influential, but at the end of the day not for me

overlong and uninteresting, but at least it's Welsh rather than English

all the English guys who insist on playing the blues are annoying and embarrassing, but i think clapton may be my least favorite. the weird racist vibes are much stronger with him (for easily verified reasons) and songs like I Can't Hold Out just make my fuckin skin crawl, this little twerp trying to do whatever the fuck he's doing with his voice. he's basically inarguably a good guitar player, but his whole deal inescapably gives me the creeps, i hate listening to his voice, and i think his guitar skills would be much better served in about a million other settings

i don't know if this is the worst album on the list, but it's probably pretty close to my worst experience. you'll spend a good chunk of time just tracking it down, and once you do, no sources can agree on the titles of the songs, the names of the artists, which is muddied even further by subsequent versions of the compilation over the years. and once you've finally less-than-legally acquired it, and settled for something resembling accurate track information, your reward is over 2 hours of the most monotonous, torturous electronic music that would be more at home at a CIA blacksite. and to cap it all off, as if there wasn't enough representation for this god awful kind of music on the list, this is, as previously mentioned, a fucking COMPILATION! it shouldn't even be eligible! this was a horrible waste of time in multiple dimensions, it makes me want to let a semi crush my head like a grape, and if i see LTJ Bukem on the street, i think i should be allowed to shoot him

you can't really argue with the riffs and grooves here, especially for the time period (this is why i like non-American and British bands, they don't feel as beholden to the trends etc of the anglo world) but the juvenile lyrics definitely hold it back for me. and while i think the music is well executed, it's not exactly to my taste in the first place. glad i heard it though!

is depeche mode one of the best new wave bands? almost certainly true. does that mean all that much to me? nope

very brave of Paul McCartney to do a Paul McCartney parody

maybe the best Roxy Music album on the list but your worldview has to be narrow indeed to think that 3 out of the 1001 most important albums ever are by Roxy Music

the byrds are definitely a band i should like more than i do. i blame david crosby

thank god they brought in Rick Rubin, or else they never would have been able to land on their true sound: hard rock that sounds like it should be in a royalty free music library

neil young never gets old

i certainly see the appeal, and i like to lynch landlords as much as the next guy, but musically there's other punk, etc that speaks to me more. inarguably correct inclusion for the list though of course

i would probably love this if it had been made 10 years earlier or even 10 years later, but there's too much 80s stink on it. Anita's voice and performance is fantastic but that can only go so far when accompanied by this limp, weightless faux jazzy soft-rock. imagine if this had been made in the 70s with some real funk and jazz backing her up and some decent production; now that's an album. my main takeaway here is that there's perhaps an Anita Baker album out there for me but it ain't this one

a great album that becomes fantastic with the almost unassailable run of My Uncle/Wheels/Juanita