Reviews by somelocalloser

Chelsea GirlNico

Rated 10/10

I can imagine that Nico is polarizing. You’re either into her voice or it’s like nails on a chalkboard.

Personally I love it. Chelsea Girl is a stone cold classic.

Pavement is a band I don’t want to like - based solely on a college acquaintance who was obsessed with them and let you know how much cooler they were for it.

The only problem is that I like them more and more every listen.

It’s hard not to like Lemmy and company. They knew how to rock.

This record did send me down a Motörhead wormhole and I found out there is a Motörhead video game from the early 90s which just looks fantastic!

I still remember sharing a room with my younger brother and constantly hearing Everybody Hurts on the radio alarm and getting lost in Michael Stipe's voice.

Anyways, decades later I was riding the D train and Michael Stipe was on it and no one paid him any attention, except for this weirdo who was secretly fanboying and wishing I had the balls to go up to him and ask - "what's the frequency, Kenneth?"

I did not and he got off the train at Grand Street to head to what I can only hope was a delicious meal of soup dumplings.

I'd love to meet someone who's favorite band is Kraftwerk - like its fine, but it just drones and I go in and out. And then suddenly I traveling in the TARDIS and then I'm laughing about the Big Lebowski joke about Kraftwerk and then I'm back to listening to KrautRock and I'm exhausted.

Very Black Power 2020. This is angry, hopeful, fun, artistic, challenging in a way that really captures the summer of 2020.

Unfortunately the reaction to that summer really sucks and Trump and his ICE goons can gag on some cocks.

Beyond the Neil Young cover this is not very good. Every time I think - that song wasn’t bad, maybe this is getting better - the next song blows chunks.