Reviews by shankss

Man I still love spiders but the rest of the album is so dated. The further I go down this list the more I realize how crappy some of these albums were recorded. I also find the lyrics feel a lot less tongue in cheek and more just bitter and angry then when I listened to this in my teens. The musicianship is superb, but it's just a bit one note and unhinged. Probably one of the best of the genre though...

Do kids still go to clubs with techno music blaring? I feel this is of a specific time and place I cherish, but in a vacuum the music gets boring and repetitive. They do seem to jump genres in interesting ways, but just because a cd fits 90 minutes of music, doesn't mean you need 15 songs.

This has always been my least favorite mj album, and relistening to it it feels a bit rushed in a lot of places. Its a very sparce album which seems like a crazy word to use for Michael Jackson the perfectionist, but he clearly understands pop music of the era. The good songs work. Its funny to listen to dirty Diana and it feels so much like a sequel to Billie Jean and it just ended up a bit flat coming from him...

I don't know. Its a good album but not a great one like thriller or the one after this. Plus the added drama of his life, just left me a bit unfulfilled.

What a weird album. They went through so many different genres and then just ended on a very competent Coldplay album? It was wild. Interesting but not necessarily great? I don't know how to take it.

This was good. In the same way most white British women pretending to be black woman from the Mississippi Delta are. Its one of those albums where I know I've heard the name and the music is good then the single hits and I'm like ooohhh. This is why it's on here.

I do not get this guys appeal. If disco was too gay but actual rock and roll was too complicated. If you didn't get punk but the carpenters where too wholesome? I think the music is so devoid of any emotion and his voice is so grating. Was hoping there was something on the first album that was lost in his actual hits. But nope. Just terrible rod Stewart without anything I could sing along to.

Ugh. I LOOVED hounds of love, but this album seems to be rehashing a lot of the sound on that album without the immediacy of that album. The last two songs are perfection, but it was a bit of a slog to get there.

There's some interesting sounds in this album. Especially in 1989? Its very industrial. But does an album exist solely to manifest a career in soundtracks count as an actual album? I mean I understand it's an album to visualize, but it only feels like a half idea.

If it wasn't for the singles and a killer video this would have gone nowhere. What a dull album. Except those three singles. I always thought of them as Radiohead lite, but it's not even that. Its college dude in a corner playing acoustic guitar. When they hit, it's incredible, but man the rest of their stuff is so boring.

Honestly, much better than I anticipated. The music itself is quite contemporary. has a dance beat. The singing is how johnny rotten wanted to sing in the sex pistols. It's a good mash of punk vocals with an actually decent backing band. I still hate punk, and about 99% of the British music called "post-punk" but now this will be the metric I judge them by. Plus the art is incredible.

Almost made it through a rap album in the 90's without using faggot. Almost. I assume this was the thinking man's rap? He calls women bitches but only the "bad ones". Ugh. I've been getting a lot of early 90's rap and it's a little exhausting. Beats are fine. Got a bit jazzy. That's about it.

Great album but they really did her dirty recording this in a tin can

Ugh. That homophobic asshole starting and ending the album really rubs me the wrong way. And it's hilarious how cliche the timbaland beats sound now. That being said there are some incredible songs on this. SOME.

WOW. I hate this. It feels like they are speeding up the record faster and faster as the album continues and his voice gets shriller and shriller. Yeah I get that's the point of punk. I still hate this so much.

Is it better than I remember? Sure. Is it a terrible uninspired led Zeppelin rip off? Seems like it. Guitarist knows what he's doing and it's got a decent rhythm section. But that falsetto scream throughout the entire album just grates. I can see why they become popular, but man. After two songs I was over it.

Now that's a groove. I kinda wish the songs were even longer.

This is such a weird album that shouldn't work an american band that was influenced by eurotrash electro bands. I played this album to death when it came out. and when I came out. Andy your a star has such a place in my heart. I burnt out of listening to this eventually but listening again I now know why I listened to it so much. its one great song after another. and what a well conceived album from start to finish sonically. It's a perfect album in its time and place. Everything that people don't like about the album is why it works. its just so off kilter but that's the point. of course its a five.

Is it well produced? Yes. Musically it could have been produced today. But these songs go absolutely nowhere. Clearly music to do cocaine to. And the vocal arrangements are pure 1970s over the top.

The beats and the samples are deep and well done. Lots of references to the past and what was happening in Europe at the time. But man. 18 songs of a pothead trying to be hard. Its a lot.

Two things. This record has been out way longer than I thought and 2 I've played the hell out of this album and didn't even realize it. It's such a great point in her career. She still is conscious of a pop sensibility but the album is personal and her own. I think this album allowed her to do anything she wanted after this. It's storytelling and music at it's best. Blue ivy is a teenager??