Reviews by scribeben

Not the best Doors record.

Uniquely brilliant. Waits at his best!

Does anyone else find the album cover extremely unsettling? What’s the deal with it?

It took me a little while to get into but this is actually really awesome.

This album is heavy and rules.

1,000 bands have a similar sound but none come even close to doing it this well. I prefer Violator but this record is great too.

Wonderfully inventive. Amazing how modern the sounds are for the time. Beautiful composition and chill vibe. Aphex Twin walked so that 21st century music could run.

The unsurpassable ur punk-bop.

Weird hearing this right after Sparks because it’s kind of the same thing except obnoxious and lame. “Your Dictionary” is worth listening to just for the cringe. Some of the harmonic arrangements are nice though.

This is way more fun than your typical blues record and the guitar technique is exquisite.

This is some of their best stuff.

Genius

This is an extremely fun record that was clearly very influential on subsequent post-punk.

This is comparable to Bowie’s Lodger record, released the same year in its unhinged eclectic zaniness. Lodger is my favorite Bowie record. This isn’t quite as good as that but is still great.

I like this one even better than Songs in the Key of Life!

I had a whole story about seeing Napalm Death play at CBGB’s but am gonna skip it after reading that top review. I didn’t hate listening to this as much as I expected. “Siege of Power” kinda rules.

This has some really cool elements but something about the vocals and some cheeesiness keeps me from really loving it.

Fun poppy punk. Something like The Ramones but with its own flavor.

In high school I went to a taping of Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Wynona Rider was the main guest so Wilco, being her favorite band, was the musical guest. I thought they were terrible. This album isn’t quite as bad as that.

A uniquely fun slice out of time.