Reviews by shankss

I don't know why I love her voice and hate bob Dylans. I think it's the lived experience of this voice. Truly an icon. I prefer her later stuff because some of these songs feel a bit dated but when this album hits it hits HARD.

Thought it would be more junkies and less cowboys. I was wrong

For pure nostalgia this is a 5 for me. It gets a bit washed out with too much sounds in the middle but man. Wonderwall? Champagne Supernova? 5 on those alone

It might just because I've been listening to such garbage on this list but this feels like a breath of fresh air. It almost feels like a response and condemnation of the post punk that existed before it. Everything feels calculated. Everything from the rhythm to the vocals are dense and layered with nuance that is completely at odds with the mind numbingly simplicity of the alternative that exists before it. I was never a fan of this band but I think I understand the context of what they came from, how they influenced some of my favorite bands and just the nuance of the music to create music with noise. I think I found my new favorite album.

Never knew the difference between pixies and Sonic youth. Now with the help of this list I realized sonic youth is the good one and pixies is just terrible talking heads if they were screamers. Gigantic is ok.

The fact that there are two albums by this band tells me all I need to know about this stupid list. That said this is more refined and more well produced. And longer. They clearly have their own sound now. But I don't think any of that actually makes for a better album. Another meh for me

Sigh.

Wilco is on this list aren't they.

This was different. British psychedelic folk? Seems so pastiche and niche but whatever.

Well. Not my thing but coming at the heels of bob Dylan this is like a breath of fresh air. Will I listen to this again? Nah. Not the worst thing on this list though.

ABBA really was a singles band weren't they. You can clearly hear them making a move to musicals but man when those singles hit they hit HARD. Probably the only band that I would prefer a greatest hits on this list. Beautiful wy to end an era, just wish the songs that weren't meant to be singles had more care.

Kind of the typical mid 2000's Indy band. Their visuals and the way they are hyped is better than the actual music. Mid tempo folk made with sampling. I guess.

Rem makes me so frustrated. How can a band that makes the song orange crush surround it with the dullest songs? They do this on every one of their stupid albums. Two or three absolute bangers and then jangly mumbly boring the rest of the album. My once a decade romantic idea that rem is good actually after listening to losing my religion one too many times always ends in heartbreak.

The ramones meet Blondie. And the combination somehow becomes worse than the sun of the parts. Not interested.

When the same elements react a very specific way his songs are magic, but when they don't it just feels like a bad imitation of Elliot Smith. There's more of the later on this album. Don't know how that works, every one of his songs have the same basic format.

This is so stupid. It's perfect. Pissed off at nothing and having a blast. This is what being 23 with no job and nothing better to do then getting fucked up feels like. Punk at it's purest. Any longer and I would have hated it.

I'm really beginning to hate this list. What the hell was this? I don't know the metrics of what makes this a good album. It's definitely not good. It's not culturally relavent and there's better versions of this type of rap. Just terrible in every sense. I used to think 1000 albums is a lot of slots to fill there's going to be some that has a lapse of judgement but man. I'm beginning to think it's just a crappy list...

There is some interesting sounds but I'd basically the beach boys on acid. Which sounds way better than this album actually is.

I got this right after imagine and this is so much darker and more raw. I think because of that it's a more cohesive album. There is a through line of searching and exposure. This feels like an emotional post-punk album ten years before post-punk. And so much better done. I always cry with his lilting singing of I just believe in me in God. It's so emotionally laid bare. It's incredible how that song is read by so many people on this comments as literal. The comments generally are so black and white. It's exhausting. This album is good and depressing and dark and exploitive and insular all at once.

After about listening to about 500 of these albums I come to the conclusion that if they are British and unknown to me it is of a genre I like to call aggressively mid. They have no defining qualities other than it's a genre the author doesn't really understand and picked a British band that has those qualities and just signed off on it. Is this bad? No. Should this be on the list? Also no. Does anyone ever need to listen to this album the whole way through in one sitting? If you want to get angry about being bored then sure.

I was avoiding this album becasue of what I thought this would sound like, and I started listening to it and was relieved that it wasn't that. But as the music wore on, I realized it still wasn't my taste. just a different genre. I don't know. It's a darker smiths? just not what I would sit down and listen to. Probably culturally relevant though?