Reviews by similartie

She has a great voice, but that vibrato is too much.

No thoughts on this one really.

Not bad, mostly unremarkable.

Didn't care for this at all. Very muscular singing though!

It's a bold album. I've always been kind of intimidated by it. It's like a mashup of Fellini, Picasso, and Joyce. There are times when it's a five in one ear and a two in the other. Mind boggling record. Great fit for the list.

I'm not crazy about the typical 80s sound with the chorus effect on the guitars, gated snares, synths, etc. Also I don't really like dance music. Other than that, it's not a bad album. The vocals could have been better maybe.

Not even sure what to say about this. I'm sure it's great if you're in the scene or whatever, at the time. But from an outsider's perspective, just sitting at home listening to music on headphones, with my cat and my knitting needles; it's just not appealing.

Definitely preferable to the other two records of hers that I've heard from the generator. The production is better and songcraft is better on this one. Like a hand and glove.

Not my usual cup of tea, but I quite enjoyed that. It's what? Mushroom tea? Oh.

This wasn't bad. By the time I started to get sick of it, there were only 3 minutes left.

The first half was dreadful. I have a low tolerance for maximalist pop. The second half is pretty good, as it mellows out a bit and minds its own business.

It's like The Doors if The Doors were a bunch of sickos.

I generally like the songs, but I think it could have been recorded and produced better. The bass, in particular, is often distractingly distorted. The guitar sometimes sounds thin. The vocals are pretty rough. I get that these aspects are DIY/punk hallmarks, but I don't find them aesthetically pleasing.

No, no, no. I don't like this at all. Puke emoji.

The star system is failing me here. I don't really care for this; there is only one song I thought was good. But I don't know if this is truly as bad as all of the albums I have rated two stars.

I get why people would like this— but it's a crime to throw it in with some albums that I thought were actually good.

I saw this band in concert a long time ago. I also have this album in my library but apparently I only listened to it twice and (clearly) didn't really absorb it. It's excellent. It grooves in such an off-kilter way. The vocals are immaculately arranged. The songs are penetrating and often beautiful.

I kept waiting for the moment they were going to lose me and it never happened.

So, the rapping and songwriting, maybe hasn't aged that well. A couple risks were taken that don't pay off. But, the music part of it is not that bad. Real instruments, who woulda thunk?

I saw this band open for U2(!) in a football stadium. The 90s were a weird time.

When Hag passes on
To the great unknown
They'll find written on the front
Of his headstone
"Here lies a man
Who had a hell-of-a-band
And who would never had made it alone."

While I do like the White Stripes, this one falls a little flat for me. Their other albums are driven by the iconic, brash, feisty singles. This album is mostly potatoes and no meat.

Very nice album, especially the latter half. It feels like all the songs could have been one long song, like it would feel weird if you went to a live show and they just started playing things out of order or like, playing songs from other albums. I don't know how you would tell them apart, tbh, but hey, who's counting? Whatever it is, it's good.

I don't really understand the creative decision to make 28 very short tracks. Especially when so much of it just blends together anyway. The music itself is fine— lo-fi garage rock pretty much sums it up.