Reviews by sbferen

Fun fact, fogerty is actually saying “born on the bay, ooh” referencing the fact that the band is from the SF bay area. there’s no way they’re trying to pretend they’re from louisiana, that would just be silly

If you had never heard of meat loaf before and you looked at this album cover you would have a very specific idea of what you think this album would sound like, and then you would be very surprised when you listen to it and it’s billy joel if he were a theater kid that got bullied a lot in high school

The Joshua TreeU2

Rated 8/10

I’m mostly pro-U2, and I do think this is a good album, but I’m pretty sure half the tracks on this album are the exact same song just with slightly different delay setting on the edge’s guitar

One of those albums that spawned an entire genre of people trying to copy it and nobody else even came close.

Look it's objectively one of his best, but personally there's only so much of these "actually it's really hard being famous and successful" albums that I can take

Probably the weakest of the first 4 albums, but definitely one of their more interesting ones. Feels like a transition, figuring out a new style that they would do a great job incorporating back into their blues rock sound in IV.

With the caveat that I’ll have to re-visit this and re-evaluate in the future. HoLV didn’t really hit for me the first time either