Rated 10/10
When I was a kid, I didn’t get AIC at first. Then one night freshman year of high school I got drunk drinking 40s in Riverside Park. My parents picked me up and as I lay out wasted in the backseat, “Down in a Hole” came on the radio and I finally understood. I was worried AIC wasn’t gonna make it on this list which would have been a travesty. Every track on this one is a legendary banger.
Rated 6/10
“Gotta Get Up” was cool as the Russian Doll theme. It’s clear that he’s a talented singer and instrumentalist, but his style doesn’t really jive with me.
Rated 6/10
Ultimate bs girlboss energy. The singing does go hard tho.
Rated 6/10
Not entirely uninteresting 90s alt rock.
More zany Zappa brilliance
Rated 6/10
This is alright. Cool production props up rather unremarkable songwriting.
Rated 6/10
Just a puddle of melted cheese… but Jaco! And “Havona” is a jam.
Rated 6/10
This actually goes kinda hard sometimes. That Volk bass playing/sound is really something else. Some of the guitar and keyboard playing is cool too. Kind of a witchy twist on the psychedelic rock sound of the time. The songs are of inconsistent quality though and I dislike generally creepy patronizing vocal tone though.
Rated 8/10
Definitely Paul’s best solo work. The title track is a pretty wild composition, as is Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five.
Rated 6/10
The one song is an all time jam. The rest is okay, silly and fun.
Some of this is very beautiful but I wasn’t enthralled the whole way through.
Rated 2/10
Wait, getting through this list requires listening to not one but two Coldplay records? Sonofabitch
Rated 10/10
Consider my head hunted
Rated 6/10
Was prepared not to like this one from the description but I recognized the first song as one we used to sing in Summer camp when I was a kid so that changed my sentiments a bit from the outset. From there on I was less than enthralled, but didn’t hate it. I like Parsons’ voice. And I kinda like that they pissed off both the country purists and the teeny boppers.
Rated 6/10
This is my favorite Elvis record on here. Way less cocky and more genuinely soulful than his earlier stuff.
Rated 8/10
Kraut nicht sauer
Rated 8/10
More jaunty weirdness from these guys. Kind of a ln unhinged Talking Heads vibe on this one.
Rated 8/10
They are the robots
Rated 8/10
Anarchist new wave. I kinda dig it.
Penguins doing penguin things.
