Reviews by similartie

This is a tough one. I don't like it. I haven't really found any hip-hop that I like. But I recognize that this album and a few others launched an almost-entirely-new genre that is still pretty dominant in the popular music of today. For me, the best I can do is nod my head to the beat.

I liked the little solo acoustic guitar bit. I'd have listened to an entire album of that.

Big nostalgia trip. I was 14 when this came out and it sounds EXACTLY like 1995 to me.

I don't think I ever owned this album, and I lost track of the Foo Fighters after The Color and the Shape, but I knew most of these songs. I have not heard them in 25 years and I probably won't hear them again for another 25, but this album just rips. It's great. Great job guys.

This is okay from a pop music perspective. The songwriting and vocals are there.

But rock music requires more than that. We need big drums. We need better guitar parts. We need a little swagger.

After the first two tracks, I'm thinking this is going to be a hot mess. By the end of track five I'm starting to dig the groove at least. By about track eight I'm ready for this to start wrapping up... and then it just keeps going... and going... for 30 more minutes.

It's a decent vibe overall though; three stars.

It's not bad. Cohen's voice sounds great, the songs are fine. The whole album is a mood, but there’s nothing on here that screams “Masterpiece” or even “Remember Me Twenty Years From Now.”

Pretty cool album. A few absolute stunners in there, including maybe the most powerful 2:33 in 60s rock history in White Rabbit. You want to hear more from these guys (and gal) but unfortunately this is really their only good album.

Back when I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s and I was first becoming aware of music, this was type of this is just what I thought all adults listened to and that some day I would probably also listen to it and like, wear a shirt with blocks of different colors on it. Well, thankfully that never happened because this blows.

Kind of intense, like being given sketchy stimulants at a party and then later you can’t tell if you’re having acid reflux or you’re about to blow a coronary.

Pretty much crushing it on every level.

Rock music had been struggling a little bit when this album came out and breathed new life into the genre. It's raw and unapologetic and leaves you wanting more.

I don't really have any strong feelings on this one way or the other.

Pretty middle-of-the-road stuff. It's well made but nothing really blows my hair back.

It sounds like some dudes were sitting around and decided to form a corporation in order to manufacture tubes of overly-saccharine rock-music goo to feed into the hot, grubby maw of the radio-listening public.

This one didn't do much for me. I can sort of appreciate the guitar parts, but I don't like the shouty vocals and there's just no way around that. You have to like shouty vocals to like this album. Still, this is better than most punk and punk-adjacent stuff I've heard.

I don't reach for this album as often as OK Computer or In Rainbows, but it is of the same caliber.

This is interesting to listen to as a document from the time between the height of 80s punk/hardcore and the emergence of 90s grunge/alternative. I don't particularly care for the actual music.

Where Is My Mind? is a great song, though.

Huh? I don’t understand the rave reviews. Did we listen to the same album?

Cookie Monster throws a bag of pennies down the garbage disposal.

I find this fairly interesting as a work of conceptual sonic art, but it's not doing anything for me in the context of music.

In a way, it kinda sounds like Jacob Collier if he were an Icelandic hipster.