Reviews by shankss

He's got such a great voice. Somewhere in between Paul McCartney and Elton John, but man some of those lyrics are so creepy. Even when he's trying to be nice comes off so condescending. I'll split the difference

I can't decide if purposely grating noise bands or uninspired guitar pop is worse in this list. Just because you can play a guitar and we're on indie radio doesn't mean it's good. The fact that they are ripping off other better bands doesn't help. Highway 5 is the only song I'd ever want to hear again, and that's only if nothing else was available.

Elvis on Zoloft.

This is better than I remember as a silly one hit band, but I still think other bands were better at this type of hipster rock. The faint comes to mind. I'd be really interested if this band is remembered in 25 years. Still pleasantly surprised

I really loved this album when it came out and listening to this again really dates me. Their newer stuff is so much darker, and listening back it really feels like an experiment that got away from Damon albarn. I think the blur albums after this album were so much better because of this as well as the rest of the Gorillaz albums became way more nuanced, but this now sounds like a guy noodling with some musical toys. Still really good, but not as good as I remember

I hate live albums and I hate unplugged albums because 99% of the time it's just a shitty greatest hits album. I'm also not really a fan of Nirvana. But they really tried to manipulate the medium into something really unique. Even the songs that they already recorded feels different and this could easily be considered an album of theirs and not just another live album. Still hate live albums though so it gets a 4

Is this better than Odessa? Probably. It's tighter and there's some mediocre Beatles rip-offs? Sure. But the maudlin songs are so bad. And it just feels like a contract fulfilling album. Don't understand how this gets on this list

One of those albums that always coexisted in my life but I never really listened to it because of the people that liked it. Honestly not what I was expecting, way more musical than I thought, which makes way more sense that they are making a musical of it, but still not really my jam. For a certain set of geriatric millennials this encapsules a very specific type of hipster and for that it should be on this list. Will I listen to it again? Probably not.

Flavorless and artificially held together. Sounds like a good title.

I didn't absolutely hate this like I thought I would, but there is a lot of cultural baggage here that I'm not sure I can disengage from that. It seems like my 3 rating is my o can't decide what to do with them rating.

I can definitely see why he had crossover success. It's very much of his genre, but it is also good enough to stand on its own. It's a good listen

I feel like chemical brothers do a better job of being interesting without it feeling repetitive. But the repetition might the point?

That first song is one of the best songs I've ever heard. The rest of the album feels like it's daring you to say it's garbage. where is the line between genius and trash? I don't know but this threads that needle very carefully. A pop album that lacks populism. 2000's were a weird time.

They are really trying to be an international hit band at this point. And when it hits it's increased, but the rest of the album? Middle of the road slog fests. If they had three songs on a best singles I'd rate them 5 in a second, but the whole album? Not so much.

There's so many musical references I get now. And did Annie Lennox just straight up steal her voice for much of the 90's? This needs to be on the list, I just personally like the people referencing her better.

There are so many reasons why this album should be on this list, but at the end of the day it's just a great album

There's a lot to unpack here, and I'm not the person to do that. I found myself moving to the music, but the politics of Marcus Garvey and rastafari in general is really off putting in a lot of their stances.

Generic soul. I guess it's fine. Not what I would search out. But generally inoffensive. Can't say that is the picture of things I need to listen to before I die though.

Maybe there was a time that this didn't feel dated and cliche, but all I can think is that any of these songs could have been on a surge soft drink commercial.

I realize when I listen to music I don't really listen to lyrics and it's really to my detriment when listening to this type of music. I think I need to listen to it again.