Reviews by smith__2112

Listening to this made me angry about A Complete Unknown all over again

Sticky Fingers feels pretty weak compared to the Stones’ other big albums. There’s a few good songs but all the deep cuts are pretty forgettable

Much better than expected. The title didn’t lie, there were some bongos

The Ramones learned how to play one song and decided that was good enough. And you know what? They were right

I guess I have this out of the way now at least. Also given this album’s reputation, I figured there’d be at least a few other good songs besides Free Bird

It’s a psychedelic band whose singer was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was treated to electroshock therapy. Pretty good stuff

Why pretend to be French if you aren’t going to try even a little bit to make your music good?

Somedays we are all just moody teenagers who like the darkness

This feels a bit more involved than just ambient music actually. More interesting than most of the electronic music I’ve heard on the list so far

I can pull out my hipster card again and say that I did know about this album before going through this list. It’s an odd little psychedelic indie rock album. Fun but probably doesn’t need to be included here

Lorde doesn’t deserve to be hurt, but, as evidenced by her follow up album to Melodrama, she’s not going to make great music unless she’s sad in some way. A real catch 22

Black Sabbath ended up being almost like a parody of rock music’s excesses with the mountains of cocaine they’d consume, but first the had to make some actually pretty great music to afford their mountains of cocaine and Paranoid is the best showcase of how they were once great

There’s more interesting background music out there

I don’t remember why but I bought a used cd of this album. It probably appeared on some best of list somewhere (in fact I double checked and it was ranked the 3rd best album of the first half of the 2010s by Pitchfork). Definitely an underwhelming album at first, but it reveals itself slowly. Quite beautiful and moving once you really get into it

I like David Bowie. I like the Next Day. It was his first new album after I started listening to him so it felt special in a way. All that said, it does not need to be on the list. It doesn’t really represent a significant era or change in style or anything for him. It’s not going to be a particularly influential album, at least not compared to many of his other albums. I’ll happily relisten to it though

I get why this is one of the most acclaimed rap albums ever. It is great but I still feel like I can’t fully appreciate it like others. There’s some rap that has clicked with me but it’s been rare, and this album almost got there. Maybe if I give it a relisten or two then I’ll fully get it

You know when Wikipedia describes a group as an “art collective” rather than an actual band that you are in for an interesting time. It’s weird. It’s meant to be weird. It succeeds on that front. The album did kind of win me over at some point. I don’t think this is music I would ever regularly listen to, but I kind of enjoyed the experience. It is more an art piece than like regular songs or anything

You could take the best songs from the White Album and pare it down to a single album, and the result could easily be argued to be the greatest album of all time. The rest of the songs are still good though.

And maybe I’ve listened to a lot of bullshit in the last few years, but Revolution 9 was nowhere near annoying or unlistenable as I remembered

I’m just not a metal guy. The influence from some other genres helped make this more listenable, but it’s still not my thing

You think there’d be at least mention of bananas in Gorillaz by Gorillaz.

I had this CD as a kid and listened to it repeatedly so the entire thing is basically seared into my brain. Possibly the best thing Damon Albarn ever made