Reviews by sloppysteak

Wonderful ambient/instrumental record with lots of character and interesting sounds. A pleasant listening experience. I’m looking forward to more Tortoise.

I wasn’t sure what to do with this record. The songs all melt together into a mess of distorted guitars, and they all sounded the same. I was relieved when the album was over.

A great surprise. Buckley’s voice is superb and the songs are varied and interesting. A solid cohesive album.

Prince’s magnum opus. There’s nothing I can say about this album that hadn’t already been said. IYKYK.

A collection of well produced tracks with JT singing over them. I don’t love JT’s voice, but he can sing well. I feel like this is more of a “party album” or something than any sort of contribution to the musical arts.

This Radiohead album will always have a special place in my heart. It was released during a time of my life that was both joyous and dark. As a follow-up to Kid A and Amnesiac, I feel that HTTT goes to the only logical place Radiohead could have gone. The result is a great collection of songs that somehow feel a tiny bit less cohesive as other Radiohead albums.

Not as bad as I was expecting. Not really my thing, but a pretty decent record nonetheless. And excellent production for 1970.

I am aware of some excellent Allman Brotherds songs; unfortunately, none are on this live album. It’s mostly long blues meanderings with moments of fusion sprinkled here and there.

Started off kind of weird, stayed kind of weird, but not bad. Overall, a nice listen. The band incorporates an interesting mashup of genres that mostly works.

Stevie’s magnum opus. The sheer amount of great songs on this record is a bit overwhelming. One of the very best records of the 70s. Five bags of popcorn and a clavinet.

A pleasant surprise. An interesting album full of interesting tracks. Would listen again.

I was fully expecting to hate this album because, historically, I can’t stand Morrissey. But this was a slightly pleasant surprise. Morrissey “stays out of the way,” so to speak, of these tracks and his voice is totally tolerable. Not a terrible listening experience.

Not for me.

A very brief record filled with old school bass lines, rhythm guitar, and horn arrangements. Franklin’s voice, I guess, is a matter of taste, and there were many times when it was just too much.

My first time listening to Cocteau Twins. Interesting album with a lot of ethereal vocals and interesting instrumentation. It’s really a 3.5, but in this rating system I have to give it a 3.

Just a meandering wannabe art-rock album, that’s equally pretentious and boring. The vocals are generic and the lyrics are predictable.

Somehow I’ve never really listened to The Clash. I’ve seen this album’s cover all my life and assumed this was a raucous, edgy, punk band or something. It is not. It’s just a bunch of pop songs sung by a vocalist that I imagine as having Down syndrome. Many of the arrangements are cheesy as hell, but I do like the late 70s production. This was also a very long album—I was relieved when it was over.

Equal parts self-indulgence and bullshit, this record wants to be prog so badly, and may even come close in places, but it’s just such a meandering mess that none of the songs really work. There are some very good technical performances here, but they fail to complement their tracks.

Exceptionally unlistenable.

A celebration of mediocrity with some nice production here and there. I enjoyed moments of this album, but the band doesn’t have anything new to say musically or lyrically.