Reviews by somelocalloser

If you can get past the first track that features Santana it’s a perfectly fine record. Nothing amazing here.

I can’t tell if I like Todd Rundgren or not. This record felt like someone distilled 70s AM Gold and fucked with it enough to make it rock-n-roll. Yeah it’s a weird one. I will say the Motown Covers medley was pretty fun.

Steely Dan by any other name is still Steely Dan.

Still not into Sonic Youth. Maybe if Kim Gordon sang every song I’d be more into them?

Just a dang pretty record. It’s all pretty mellow - more Emmylou than Dolly vibe.

I got as far as the Imagine cover and then decided none of this was for me.

I was into the first song that had the Arabic sounds to it. But then it turned to boring soft rock.

Lost Cause still hits. Very mellow Beck record. Gives you the feels.

This did not age well.

The whole album wasn’t on Spotify so I went over to YouTube. Honestly - this wasn’t worth sitting through ads to hear. Ho-hum late 60s rock.

This felt like a badly earnest musical. Unlike say, Bat Out of Hell, there is no campiness or humor. Just self serious trash.

Monday was definitely blue when Robert Smith wrote this.

Just a solid record. I feel like Fugazi got boiled down to a meme Hot Topic tshirt when I would have gotten into them as a angsty young buck.

My mistake for taking another 2 decades to actually sit down and listen to them.

I liked this. Mellow vibe.

Way better than the album art would lead you to believe. This might be more of a Phil Spector record than a Dion one.

This would get a 5 for Superstition alone, but the rest of the record is great as well.

Turns out he’s not the man for me.

Apparently I don’t mind a rockabilly song or two. But a whole album? Pass.

This is the kind of Punk record that makes an elder millennial like me understand what the 90s/00s punk revival got wrong. Which was pretty much everything.

This was a fun surprise. I really dug it. Except for the last track which I’ve heard too many times.

Plus it has the best Beach Boys song about your love getting out of prison that Brian Wilson never wrote.

Tim is the inferior Buckley.