Reviews by ron_penis

far out

you'd have to be a "The Idiot" to not like this one!

there's nothing left to say about this kind of dull vacuous electronic music so instead I'll give my review for The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014): not very good, a lot of the dialogue is very poorly written but there's some decent spooky images and you could probably do worse for a group horror movie watch but you could certainly do a lot better

some genuine cool freak shit, weird punk blues hip hop noise rock. reminded me in spaces a lot of Beck and the Beastie Boys (so no surprise to learn they've worked together). had never heard of them and based on the reviews here i was expecting something much more avant garde and experimental, but the music has a really good shape to it, lots of cool grooves and riffs

merely mind numbing rather than aggravating. wow!

as an ex-ska kid who has spent many years in my friend circles presenting myself essentially as deprogrammed cult member, complete with sober expert analysis and regretful memories, it gives me no pleasure to report that this is still pretty good. I'm skanking and tears are streaming down my face.

this band is made up of tulpas inadvertently formed by our collective unconscious and they are inflicting their psychological revenge on us for burdening them with the pain of existence.

the idea that this nauseating indie pop bullshit with perhaps one of the worst vocal performances on the entire list could have ever been considered an album you have to hear before you die is laughable. truly shocking that it was removed after only one edition

if i was in a dive bar and this band was playing, I'd have the time of my life, but outside of that specific context I'll pass

i do like earth, wind & fire, but as I've gotten older and more into funk and soul, it's hard to not hear them as the more commercial and slick version of many of their contemporaries. it's fun, but there's just not a lot for me to latch on to, no crags or rough surfaces, to stretch an analogy. plus, i would say that this album doesn't even particularly stick out compared to other ew&f I'm familiar with. it's fine, but I'm not gonna get up in a lather about it

[AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT] did you know that there's a unique edit of the title track that appears only in the climax of Manhunter (1986) and on its soundtrack?

[joke about the jokes about the album cover t-shirts]

loud, dumb, cheesy, self indulgent, and all the album tracks are just worse versions of the singles. but it doesn't outstay its welcome and those singles are fairly fun

kind of like a slightly less lively version of peak fela, it's probably a little too derivative, but i like it a lot more than femi's later work and i love afrobeat soooo

fun enough and utterly unremarkable

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Interminable & Forgettable Music Machine

Childz Play is astonishingly bad, i think George Clinton should have the legal right to kill Cee Lo for Glockappella, the rest of the songs are varying levels of forgettable to bad. Cee Lo's voice is annoying and weirdly badly engineered here, and the music isn't half-bad sometimes but is mostly the sort of glossy, overly bombastic and repetitive slop you typically get with 2000s mainstream hip hop. the idea that this had to be a soul crushing 65 minutes truly shocks the conscience

i can easily see the alternate reality where i have boatloads of nostalgia for this album, but in this reality, having never gone out of my way to listen to incubus, this is just a bucket of melodramatic, vaguely funk inflected nu metal slop that's about 20 minutes longer than it has any right to be. it is kind of fun in a cheesy 90s way but I'd never willingly listen to it again

Deep Sleep

sicky sweet music for people who i love but would never give an aux cord to listen to while looking out of train windows

i respect pet shop boys but i cannot say that i like them