Rated 8/10
a solid little pop album that i do have some nostalgia for, but there are little breaks in it i dislike (i internally groan every time at the "still the louvre" or generally every time she drops the singing for a spoken line) and the sort of romanticization you get in songs like Writer in the Dark will never not be annoying to me, but overall very good
amazing album from an amazing artist. i love Hugh masekela and south african jazz and it's a real delight to see him on the list. a beautiful, expressive album that i could listen to on repeat. if you liked this i encourage you to check out Pops Mohamed, Allen Kwela, Bheki Mseleku or really just any of the amazing reissues labels like Matsuli Music and As-Shams Records are putting out
Rated 10/10
this album rocks so hard, what a pleasant surprise to see it on the list
Rated 4/10
what if you took jimi hendrix, removed most of the talent and emotion, and stirred in a heaping helping of U2?
ah well, someone had to make music for moms in the 90s to half listen to while they drove their kids to school
Rated 6/10
easily one of the best albums of this stripe on the list; not for me but probably great if you're into this sort of thing
Rated 10/10
this rocks, I've been hearing mike ladd feature on stuff for years but I've never listened to his actual albums. lots of cool/funky/weird beats, star trek references, what's not to love?
Rated 4/10
pleasant enough on its face, but its inclusion in the book is frankly insulting considering the complete omission of Louis Armstrong when Prima is more or less an Armstrong knockoff
Rated 6/10
a triumphant return at the time, and now an utterly unremarkable piece of Bowie's discography
Rated 2/10
uniquely insufferable, initially I would have been tempted to call it grocery store music but that's way too unkind to grocery store music. Caleb folowill's horrible, histrionic vocal performance at least lets the album substitute for ipecac. vocals aside, all the music is limp and uninspired, but the exact right blend of inoffensive and generic rock subgenres to guarantee success in the dire 2008 radio landscape while instantly vanishing from the minds of anyone who hears it. Use Somebody is a grating, saccharine slog only made worse by how overplayed it is, which is proof that we are in fact in hell. the absolutely superfluous and eyerolling fade in/out on Cold Desert is the final nail in the coffin for an album that's already been rightfully forgotten by the general public
love it in theory, in practice it's just never quite hit me right I suppose
thom yorke jump scare
Rated 8/10
dig it but it can't even begin to compare to No Other (my first real revelation from this generator)
Rated 4/10
I'll concede the point about this being influential blah blah blah but at the end of the day i just don't find it enjoyable to listen to
Rated 8/10
of course it's good but it just doesn't really hold up against purple rain or sign o the times so it's hard for me to accept that it deserves a spot on the list when so many deserving albums have been excluded
Rated 4/10
snoooooooze fest, give me sex funk tim buckley over this any day of the week
Rated 2/10
i "Want Two" of this guy's albums to be removed from this list
Rated 10/10
gotta be one of my top ten favorite uncle/nephew bands
Rated 10/10
[downtroddenly] yeehaw
Rated 6/10
there's some twanginess here that appeals to me but at the end of the day it's still so much like many of the other mediocre new wave albums on the list and he's still doing new-wave-guy voice
Rated 8/10
i do like this sort of 90s indie noise rock bullshit but at the end of the day I'm having a hard time imagining picking this over one of many superior and comparable albums
