Reviews by scribeben

I wasn’t really feeling this one but “Train In The Distance” and “…Johnny Ace” are both pretty interesting and cool.

Highly creative songwriting and production.

Some of Clapton’s best playing outside of Cream. Tasty licks abound.

Not really my thing but I can see why some people would really like it. That song about zombies is definitely a banger.

I’ve always preferred Prodigy and to a lesser extent Chemical Brothers as far as late 90s electronic hit acts go. This one is cool too, but the repetition of the samples does wear on one eventually.

Meh. Not quite as good as The Smiths.

I probably wouldn’t listen to this by choice but I enjoyed parts of it at least. Now I know what ODB was making fun of.

Yes this is the record where Metallica first “sold out” and many of its tunes are way overplayed. But any metal fan who denies that this is a great record is fooling themselves. Metallica masterpiece the art of writing equally heavy and catchy songs on this album in a way which has never been duplicated. “Sad But True” has one of the coolest, heaviest riffs ever. “Unforgiven” and “Nothing Else Matters” are both gorgeous ballads. “Wherever I May Roam” is epic. Most of the album tracks are also really strong. “Through The Never” and “The God That Failed” are ones I hadn’t remembered that are excellent. Even “Enter Sandman” has its charm despite having taught the world that Metallica was now for children.

This is cool. Rawer and less developed than their later work. It doesn’t grab me quite as much.

Over an hour of jangly mumbling white man bs blues. Blegh.

The worst Beatle by far.

Certifiably dad rock but exquisitely smooth.

Incredible voice and wonderful songwriting. Did not expect to love this so much.

I’m pretty sure I like this one as much as I’m gonna like any Dylan record.

There’s enough artistry to this that I may have rated it much higher if Adams wasn’t an awful individual which comes across in the lyrics and sucks most of my enjoyment out of this. I song telling a “girl” she’s nobody followed by how he wants his own personal Sylvia Plath to bathe him? No thank you.

Ah the 90s. What a 90s 90s band from the 90s.

It’s crazy how much more I like Lou Reed’s solo records above Velvet Underground. This one isn’t quite Transformer though.

This was an unexpected pleasure. Wild frenetic guitar playing with harmonic surprises around ever corner. Vocals did irritate me after awhile though.

80s country has gotta be one of least favorite eras/genres. This is maybe better than most? At least it’s short.

Yeah these guys are pretty much the best brit pop band, besides that one Blur album. Or am I conflating them with The Stone Roses? In any acse they’re both pretty good.