Reviews by shankss

Its just so one note. Loud and abrasive it kind of had the opposite effect. Because there was no real variation it became white noise quite quickly. The only real jolt was the start of the last album when the drum style changed slightly. Basically noise music to study to.

As a former consumer of this type of music (as in I would get fucked up and go to clubs that would play drum and bass) I feel like this is a bit academic. Too many musical references and not enough just grooving. Probably why a music nerd who probably never went out dancing put this on his list.

I love TV on the radio. I realized I love the NEXT album though and had to play that right after listening to this. I think there's a lot of good things happening here, but they really coalesced in the next album. Good nor great

REM for incels.

Did they give every guy that could play a guitar in England a record contract in the 90's? Its just pulp if they discovered a distortion pedal. Its not bad, but doesn't really tread in any sort of new territory.

Probably way out in left field for their typical album, but I liked it. Kept the melodies but jazzed up a bit.

So this is the definition of college radio. Having growing up in the 90's this music always felt so dated to me. The Primus the ween etc played this trope to death. The stoner dick joke music. I will say these guys have a bit more diversity in music, but it's just nothing I can listen to.

Yeah. Its elo. Beatles without any social awareness. I can definitely hear how most of the British bands co-opted a lot of these sounds too. Its good but too long and too overproduced, but that's kinda the point?

Wow. So much better than I was anticipating. There are some truly interesting sounds coming out of this album. I hear nin, Moby, and most of the electronic scene. It's just really annoying how they fight so hard against their pop inclination. Just be pop guys. You don't have to be obtuse all the time.

Hip hop is hard to rate generally because it feels out of date almost as soon as it comes out. Add that this is on French I don't even really know if he has a good flow as French generally has a good flow spoken. There are places where the music wouldn't sound out of place in sesame street, but I think it's pretty sexual so I don't know. For 1992 this is pretty advanced. Its good until you hit that reggae song. It was so so very bad.

I've avoided this band because of the gimmicky name but it's honestly better than I thought they would be. Sort of a white stripes vibe. Not reinventing the wheel, but not terrible

Surprisingly better than I remember. I think the key is not giving myself permission to turn it off. Its obviously a key album to the digital my music I like, but I think it took more talent and I think there was more cultural relevance at least in America through switched on bach and the BBC composers that did the Dr who theme for mainlining digital music to the masses. This seems a bit dull and more by the books sequencing then actual music.

This would be a 2.5 at the most if it wasn't for the completely unhinged lyrics. This guy's nuts. Love it.

Hot dog bun.

They said they would deliver the funk and delivered as advertised. Its clearly a live band and this album just lays the groundwork for their shows.

I can't imagine a word where someone hears this the first time stone sober and think this is a good album. This is on the level of Neil Young in terms of unlistenable boomer nostalgia bs. I wanted to turn this off more than the noise albums designed to be unlistenable.

Oh my God. Just because you can put 90 minutes on a cd doesn't mean you should. If this was edited down to 10-12 songs I think this would have been really tight and they could have gotten some decent hits from what is here. But there is another editing and everything just feels spread too thin.

I think the word is tedious. This album absolutely needs to be on this list. Part of the reason I'm going through this list is to force myself to listen to these "important" albums, and I'm glad I did because there is some interesting aspects of this album. But man. Its a lot. That last song especially. Ugh.

I like this. And I'm pretty shocked I've never heard of him before..he's a gay father John Misty it seems? With some beck thrown in? Its very good, but his sort of aloof delivery which works to a devastating affect with father John Misty doesn't quite hot which is wild because I think John Grant actually has experience and has more to be devastated by. I am interested to hear his other albums now and see where he went with this.

Its got a good beat and the lyrics... Are ok. But man these songs are so long and go nowhere. I get it, it's for doing coke on a dance floor, but it makes for a sober listening on my way to work a bit tedious.

At least it's not a British post punk? Its much more how American punk evolved, but there is one song that sounds exactly like the music on handyman hal and my two year old has destroyed me from that sound. Plus how many punk bands from 1975-81 are needed on this stupid list? Disco exists?