Reviews by sloppysteak

This record is like a circle-jerk where nobody can get hard.

As the follow up to Talking Book, this album is both stronger and weaker in places than its predecessor. Don’t get me wrong, this album 💿 is great, you won’t find a lot of early 70s R&B as well written, performed and produced as this record. This is a solid 4 with its eye on 5 among albums in general, but among Wonder’s other offerings during this, his “golden era” which culminates in the masterwork Songs in the Key of Life, this is most accurately a 3.5, but I’ll round it up to 4 since I love Stevie.

This is a good album, but it’s not my favorite Zeppelin record. It’s not quite the record Zeppelin II is, but they more than make up for it in Zeppelin IV.

I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised by this record, not being a fan of Joni Mitchell. I was absolutely surprised at how much I loathed this record. Her voice and lyrics are insufferable. I was so relieved when the last song was over. This just isn’t music made for me. My gut reaction was so strong that I can’t pretend to rate this one objectively.

My first time listening to Elliott Smith despite his ubiquitous proximity to me for over 20 years through my friends who were into him. I was pleasantly surprised. Each track is so interesting, especially the vocal harmonies. The lyrics are interesting and penetrating. And the arrangements were nice and organic sounding. A solid album that I’ll be listening to again.

Never heard of Magazine before. They made me a pretty good album here chock full of New Wave/Post Punk goodness. Kept me interested the whole listen. Will absolutely listen to again.

I’m not a rap fan, but I’d like to understand the genre better and find some rap I can enjoy. Illmatic is a rap album that I honestly enjoyed. The beats are minimalistic in a good way, and Nas’s rapping is impressive to me. This is a good album, but it still suffers frequently frustrating m one aspect of a lot of rap that turns me off—the glorification of the gangster lifestyle. But, although that’s not something I understand, I still feel this is a really solid, well produced album full of diverse and interesting tracks.

An absolute celebration of all the very worst aspects of 80 music production.

My first real listen to Kate Bush. I’ve always been aware her, and her reputation for being a little “weird” has always made me curious about her music, but I never got around to exploring it. Hounds of Love was an impressive introduction. It has just the right amount a quirkiness and experimentation to suit my tastes. All the songs are pretty solid and interesting, I even liked some of the longer outros. I’ll definitely be listening to this record again, and I look forward to hearing more of her work.

It’s no secret I don’t care for rap, but I do appreciate when rappists have real and interesting music beneath their litanies of vulgarity and racial slurs. This album kept my attention. There are creative beats and sounds here, and yes, real melodic and harmonic content—and it’s pretty good. I even dug some of the actual rapping. For that alone I’d like to give this record a 3.5 but I can’t.

My first Fleetwood Mac album. Not bad. Some tracks seemed out of place. I may try to listen to this again someday.

This music isn’t bad, it’s just unremarkable and generic. Americana, I think it’s called. If someone told me this was an AI generated album I would be in no position to disagree.

I was ready to hate this, but it wasn’t that bad. The lyrics and their delivery are silly, but sometimes the guitars were cool. It would suck to be in a metal band and have to write metal songs all the time. I’d like to give this 2.5 stars but I can’t.

Heaven knelt and caressed the earth.

A great little UK rock album I knew nothing about.

The guy on piano is pretty good.

The antidote to Taylor Swift. Great songs with creativity and genuine edge.

Classic Young album. Instead the f recording his new material in the studio, he performed it live and released that as his album. Favorite song—Pocahontas. Second side is a little weaker than the first, but overall a great album.

There is some good music underlying some of the songs on this album. Unfortunately, most of the songs are of standard rap themes = casual obscenities and vulgarities seasoned with enough autotune to make me lose my mind. There was some notably good drum programming on some tracks.

A funky, dense, polyrhythmic good time. I really enjoyed this record and look forward to revisiting it and exploring more Jorge Ben Jor.