Reviews by shankss

I REALLY want to like R.E.M. because they were cool before I ever knew what cool meant. and some of their songs are so great, but most of them I don't think I'll ever really get, and at this point in my life I don't care anymore. I'm giving them a 4 for nostalgia sake.

Should it be on the list? I don't know. Probably. Nice little groove though.

International musicians playing the bare minimum to make an album. It's bad when the remixes at the end are more creative than the actual songs...

I have the same conflict with this album I do with hotel California by the eagles. This is one of my favorite albums but I hate everyone and everything that is associated with this. I must say I know a lot less about this band outside of this album but the fans and the pretentious non political political lyrics of their more recent albums leave me a little annoyed. But that last song is as close to a perfect song I've ever heard on my life. Just for that song I'm giving this a 5. They also tried to stretch into different genres on here that they really don't in any of their other albums as well as most bands of this genre don't either. Its a solid album for a terrible arena rock band.

It's a good groove. Should it be in this list? Of course. Will I listen to it again? Eh. Probably not.

It's wild that most of my cultural history starts with this era of music and all it really is is country western with a dancable drum beat behind it. Seems like it's kind of bridging those two genres in a way that I found the first Britney spears album did... Poorly.

Man this is produced so well. I think it should be on this list for that alone. It feels so intimate, but the style evolves depending on what the song's vibe calls for. But it is too long and gets a little tedious. There are some wild creative things going on here, but some of the songs get overly repetitive. generally I like the vibe. It would be good to have in a background of a hip dinner as long as some of the offensive lyrics aren't understood..

not for me. It's a little too grating. that Simba song felt like an Ice Pic into my brain

Just. No.

Do I like goofy Jethro Tull? Sure. A lunatic playing a flute fronting a rock band. What's not to like. Is this an essential album? Probably not.

An American band pretending to be a British band pretending to be an American band. I'm exhausted. I feel like I've heard all of these songs over the years but I've never really been interested enough to seek out this band or this album.

As an American this sounds so derivative and uninspired. It's not a bad album, but I feel like I've already listened to this album a few times already on this list. Not essential at all.

+1 for Kylie minogue
-1 for O'Malleys bar

Well. It sure is a lot. I can here a lot of people who I can only assume was influenced by it. I love good prog rock but this really veers into jazz which I'm not a huge fan of. If it wasn't for the rhythm section this would have gone completely off the rails...

But some parts of this album I was getting into. If they could have trimmed ten minutes off of each of these songs I'd listen to it a lot more...

I'd say this is probably the top 10 culturally significant albums of the last 50 years. It has to be on this list. That being said it is so juvenile and just mostly rapping about rapping. Way less bitches and cop killing than I thought (although there is a lot). It's just a bunch of kids who were given the opportunity to speak and they were a bit overwhelmed I think. That being said what they did say became a complete institution. Glad I listened to it once. 2 for personal enjoyment, 5 for cultural relavencyy

Initial thought: ugh a live album by another British band that only made it to America with one mid level single.

By the scream on the second song: of shit its Jesus from Jesus Christ Superstar! The best musical ever! Definitely get to 3 stars on that alone.

Otherwise pretty good. Hate live albums, but this isn't the worst.

I don't know. this is a "culturally relevant" band for a certain group of people so I guess it should be on this list, but the only thing I thought of was angry white boys don't really make bands anymore they just sit on the internet and crap on people.

Just a little boring for my 2024 ears.

It's clearly an album on a learning curve. Creating a pop album on a machine that was only starting to gain prominence is wild to me, but the album is kind of a clunker until you get to that massive hit. And that song is so well done it just makes the rest of the album sound even worse.

That being said the album works solely on attitude and the "idea" of this album tickles me in the exact same way that people are down voting it. I think they understand its pretentious. That's the whole point. If they didn't have attitude what is left? a bunch of nerds plunking on computers?

Anyway it gets a 4 just on attitude alone. And that banger of a last song.

Finally an 80's album that is actually good.

I really wanted to like this. I love over the top stupid vanity projects. Melancholy and the infinite sadness is my favorite album, but man this goes hard. What a rough listen. It's like listening to someone trying to find a point of view and going nowhere.

Doesn't help that I hear Jimmy Fallon singing half of this.

Only gets 2 stars because I think it's hilarious that everyone was expecting a disco album.