Reviews by scribeben

Didn’t need more than one Def Leppard record on this lost and this one isn’t as good as the other.

This started out not great and for the most part got worse from there. The best parts sound like an electro-pop take on The Cure, but there are only glimmers of that. Most of it is uninspired hipster-indy claptrap.

Aerosmith are like the Bud light of hard rock. I’d never choose it for myself but I’ll take it if that’s all that’s available. This is one of their better records. It’s got some funky, almost Bowiesque grooves and fun guitar work. I had a tape of it as a kid that I think I bought at a gas station convenience store, which strikes me as appropriate.

I think this band sounds to me like Bob Dylan supposedly sounded to the 60s generation. This isn’t the record I’m most familiar with but it has the same level of literary profundity and understated melancholy as the others.

Somewhat perplexed by all the glowing reviews. The playing is fine, but it’s just so toothless and bland. Feels like psychedelic music by people who’ve never actually done drugs. I guess it’s better than Dave Matthews at least.

This has a strong case for being the greatest work of recorded music in the history of the human species. So 5 stars I guess.

Super chill 60s Brazilian pop music. Perhaps an influence on later crooners like Seu Jorge.

Tubular!

40 years after its release this record remains the gold standard for flawlessly tight metal composition and execution. Conceptually and aesthetically it is Metallica’s greatest triumph and the defining statement of the metal genre.

Extremely fun. Makes me want to see the film.

This is not uninteresting but also not particularly enjoyable.

This may be the most 80s record I’ve ever heard and not really in a good way.

Another by these guys. I think I prefer the other one, Worf sample notwithstanding.

His madness fits in nicely with my own.

Amazing how music can be simultaneously blissfully ethereal and darkly foreboding. Perhaps the most beautiful and delicately composed electronic music I’ve ever heard.

I’m not generally crazy about big bad. But this is undeniably awesome!

Gorgeous voice. Most of the songs and general musical style not really for me.

Chill desi-infused trip-hop r&b. I dig it.

A thrashing good time. Not quite at the level of Rust In Peace without Friedman’s leads.

Chill, desert blues guitar music. I love this stuff.