Reviews by similartie

The hottest of hot garbage.

Not as cool and louche as the Stones, not as finely-crafted as the Beatles. Pretty pedestrian affair aside from Sunny Afternoon.

The first track is very enjoyable, but the returns seem to diminish as the album goes on.

Not much to say about this, but after a second listen I felt I appreciated it more.

One of my first favorite albums ever. I've loved it since I was 11 years old.

I love the album If You're Feeling Sinister and for years I tried to like anything else by them and it never happens.

On this record, the vibe is very poppy but it doesn't have the requisite hooks to pull it off.

NGL, I forgot I was listening to music for a minute there. And I had headphones on.

It's a little strange that anyone thinks this has anything to do with folk music. Just because there is a soft acoustic guitar in there somewhere does not make it folk!

The first track was kind of interesting but it shifted gears after that. The sixth track was more like the first, but by that time I had kinda lost interest and didn't really pay attention to the rest of it.

CCR is kind of a greatest hits band for me. Their most popular songs are all great, but none of their albums are really essential, IMO. Here we have 3 or 4 great songs and the rest is somewhat unremarkable.

I enjoyed this album. Psychedelic but not overwrought or abrasive, experimental but not demanding.

Back when I was still discovering "legendary" albums from the past, I listened to this album with high expectations. I thought it was garbage. Now, listening again probably 20 years later (with much lower expectations), I don't think it's that bad. Still not my kind of music, but not unlistenable. Anarchy in the UK is a great track.

Pure shit. Normally I could just sit here in silence but I actually have to listen to something good now to cleanse my brain.

In one ear and out the other. I get what they were trying to do; it's not unartful necessarily, but it comes out lukewarm and gummy.

Imagine spending all that time learning an instrument, forming a band, writing, practicing, going to the studio, agonizing over every effect, each mic placement, every slider on the mixing board, etc. and then you play the album for someone and they just nod their head and shrug and say: "sounds nice."

Quite the power trio.

Crap from start to finish.

Byrne's silly vocals spoil the party.

They were no Stabbing Westward.

Beck had a nice arc going. He initially became known for "Loser" which was a radio-foisted throwaway song, a house made of straw. Then came Odelay (I have a soft spot for this album as part of my teenage years), which was well-received critically but also cemented his status as an aloof self-styled witticist type. A couple albums later we were given Sea Change, which was truly brilliant and was marketed as his transformation into a mature, serious artist— but! He immediately pivoted back to this kind of stuff, which, in retrospect, makes Sea Change feel insincere. I suppose Morning Phase was his attempt to relegitimize that persona, but... whatever, I can't be bothered with all this.

Pretty generic rock music with really shitty vocals.