Reviews by scribeben

Not unpleasant lounge/country. She has a nice voice but there’s nothing really special about the music.

Two Gene Clark albums in a row! Makes me hopeful there are multiple Tupac albums on here (over 1,001 in and haven’t gotten one yet.) He’s doing is best Dylan impression for much of this one, but it’s a pretty solid one!

This is like Neil Young with more country but just as much rock and roll. I really dig the songwriting and chill laid back groove. The whole time I was thinking “I bet Mark Lanegan listened to this” and sure enough “Some Misunderstanding” popped up. Check out the Soulsavers cover of it featuring Lanegan!

Glad they ended up including all of the great Radiohead records on this lost. This one is the culmination of their development through the four records that preceded it and goes even beyond those in terms of inventive, quixotic yet emotionally compelling musicality and social critique. Radiohead is the true music nerd’s favorite band and this record is the nerdiest of them all.

Folk so gentle I could barely tell it was playing half the time. “Needle of Death” is heavy as hell though and the guitar playing is generally really cool.

Fairly stimulating background music for my paper-grading session.

I like this way better than their later, kitschier stuff. Some very cool guitar work and vocals. I can see why this was a big influence on bands like QOTSA and Monster Magnet

Another fun Kinks album, though I feel that in this one the satire kind of overwhelms the music except for a few tracks such as “Rainy Day in June” and the contrasting “Sunny Afternoon”.

I’ve recently come to dislike Damon Albarn as a person (justice for Uncle Acid!) but this album is pretty cool, primarily thanks to the production and rhythm section.

Damn, finally a Jeff Beck record on here, but it features Rod Stewart?!? Smfh. This is tough to rate because I love Beck’s playing and Stewart even has his moments here, but in general he substantially detracted from my enjoyment of this to the point where I probably won’t ever revisit it.

Just bubbling over with creativity and joy. Did not expect to like Big Boi’s disc almost as much as André 3000’s!

Ohio transplants bringing their bleak Midwestern nihilistic despair to New York. No thank you it’s not sad or angry. It’s just nothing.

Was expecting/hoping for Dragnet, but this one is closer to The Fall that I really dig than the other records from them on this list. Wonderfully understated, sardonic punk rock.

Way cooler than I expected! Though I’ve loved “Pusherman” since my sister put it on a mixtape for me when I was a kid.

When he was first getting big , I spotted him getting ready for some MTV spot in Times Square and I thought he was Bono before my friend corrected me. It’s no wonder he ended up maga as here he appropriated as many aspects of Black music and culture as possible while treating Black people as merely something to be dominated (as evidenced by the title of the final track). The music itself does rock at times, but his flow becomes increasingly obnoxious as the album goes on. It is a perfect encapsulation of the white trash sleaze of the late 90s/early 2000s which foreshadowed the horrors of our current age.

When I was a kid and had only seen images of Alice Cooper, I was disappointed to learn that his music was lukewarm rock n’ roll. At least this record has a bit of his theatricality in some of the tracks. “I Love The Dead” is particularly compelling.

This is kinda fun but occasionally gets irritating.

She has a nice voice but this is not my vibe.

If it weren’t for Cobain, most of us would never have heard their unique brand of PNW folk punk which would have been a shame. Only a handful pf tracks are really great (mostly the ones Nirvana covered) but they’re way worth the listen.

The best the Dead ever got which is still only okay. For superior vocal renditions of “Turn on Your Light” and “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” check out Bobby Bland and Mark Lanegan, respectively.