Reviews by shankss

It's fine. You can tell they really want this album to suceed and for the most part it does. It just gets a little repetitive and it tries to be more serious than it is. They can say faggot because they are identifying as one. The rest of the slurs really date this.

Fucking Elvis Costello. Not the worst Elvis Costello, but the fact I have a reference point to that comment just makes me very upset with this list

Now this is an album. I love this. And I also realized she is my age when she made this album. Doesn't seem so old anymore...

The reviews of this are so lopsided hes either the most brilliant musician ever, or a rapist wife beater. I think this album and the one before it is him literally grappling with those two dynamics in his life. How do you declare a flawed human a geneous and how do you demonize someone who is trying to be a better person, albeit someone who will inevitably slip back into his old habits once the drugs get to be too much? I don't know the answer. His first few albums with the beatles, his songs are unlistenable because of how shitty he is to his love interests, and I think Yoko is very much his inspiration to get better. I don't know if he would have lived as long as he did if it wasn't for her. especially after listening to this album. This album is very up and down. He is trying to be a lot more raw, but is a lot more subtle than the last album. It doesn't quite work. A good but ultimately flawed album. much like the creator.

Couldn't figure out why this is so low. Then I listened to it. Clearly it was picked based on the cultural impact and not the musical quality. There's much better ravi Shankar albums. But this isn't one of them. This is on the level of a children's instructional album.

Is it an important album? Probably. Is it good? No. Is it better than the pixies. Oh yeah. Made me realize how similar this is to smashing pumpkins first album. What a weird intersection.

I was always under the impression this band went harder than it actually does? It's such a bad ass name, I guess it just doesn't live up to the image I had in my head.

I feel like there really doesn't need to be two johnny cash albums in prison on this list, but this is barely music. It's pure attitude. It's good but not really an album of music per se.

Unnecessary.

Its not that I don't like it. I'm mostly indifferent to the mid singing and the random style of the music. But I know who listen d to this type of music in the early 2000's and it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I didn't want to turn it off and it didn't make me want to pass out so that's better than 50% of this list. I'll probably never listen to it again though. Guess it's a perfect 3.

I think it's consistently ok. I wouldn't want to turn it off it was on in the background of a party, but I wouldn't search it out.

Good. Not great. I always think they are hyped as this amazing thing, and there are about 5 songs of theirs that I love and meet that hype. Not sure they are on here. I'll probably give the actual food album of there's a 4 when it comes up on my queue.

I have long ago stopped listening to these songs as singles and only listen to this as a whole album, usually the second one, but I realized while the songs are great, the truly magical thing about this album is how they are arranged. Like he wrote a greatest hits just for a single album and this is the perfect live set list. The high points and low points all seem so expertly interwoven. I could listen to the end of Where boys fear to tread and the beginning of bodies forever just for that anticipation. He really hit a high point with this, and if it makes the people that hate him feel any better I'm pretty sure he resents this album as much as you do. He can't out do this for a million different reasons, and I think there is a part of him that is destroyed by that.

These guys were clearly fucked up the whole time they were recording this.

Before I started this list this band was the beginning and end of what I thought post-punk was. Some punk dude screaming over a band that was heavily influenced by dance music. And now that I've heard every post punk band England had to offer from the late 70's to the mid 80's.. nothing has changed. Put this album on the list and get rid of all the rest. Its the exact same shit. Wire can stay too.

I didn't understand Ryan Adams when he was cool and listening to this now I understand it less. Its basically American David Gray? How is this guy hip and David Gray a joke. I don't get music.

Well that was unexpected. The sound is very much middle of the road rock from 1999, but the vocals are amazing. I wish she fronted a better band. Good. Not great. Funny how something like this never translated to America

I used to think I liked 80's music but now that I've listened to every garbage post-punk album britian has ever produced I have my douo. Everyone is worse than the one before. This one is so full up their ass i seriously considered not listening to it. The first time that's happened on this list. At least with Neil Young he has a humor to his shittiness

The first side of this album will always be a 5 for me. I don't even care about the other side. It is better than I remember, but I've been obsessed with the first side since I was in my teens. I think it was the album art that drew me in and the lyrics about existential dread is what keeps me going back.