Reviews by somelocalloser

The covers that John and George sing are the highlight here. The early Lennon/McCartney songs are pretty laughable. This is the Beatles closer to the cover band they were in Hamburg then what they became.

Not a bad UK punk record. I don’t know if I’ve knowingly heard the Adverts before. Better than the Sex Pistols not as interesting as the Clash.

Talk about a meh album. Nothing here to write home about - inoffensive pseudo grunge-folk.

I liked how garage-y this sounded. The opening track is a classic. As others noted the electric jug is hard to unhear once you know to listen for it.

This might be a perfect record and one of my favorite debuts of all time. The Clash come out snarling and are relentless for the next 35 minutes. There are so many great tracks on this my sleeper favorite is probably Police and Thieves.

I don’t know what to make of this one. The prog rock elements in the songs are just not my thing. But then there’s these math metal interludes and gothic rock sections which I didn’t hate.

Let me bring you back to 2005. That’s me with the greasy hair and unkempt beard looking just on the respectable side of homeless. I was working a horrible job but reconnecting with my college friends a year after graduation.

One of the people I started hanging around with was this girl who was in my 8am French class and who I shared a night of watching Eddie Izzard clips as opposed to writing papers in the computer lab. I didn’t know her too well and thought she was way too cool for me.

Turns out this woman had a crush on the greasy haired yours truly - I know, I’m still shocked myself. We started spending more time together, watching movies, record shopping, bar hopping, etc. One night she kisses me and next thing you know we’re making out like 8th graders every chance we get AND what was the soundtrack to that? Yes dear reader - it was Loveless.

Now almost 20 years on every time I hear the opening guitar riff I’m transported back, smile and think about my now wife and how everything i have in my life is because she made a move I was too scared to make.

After a bunch of crap in a row this was refreshing. Funky psychedelica. Need to buy this on vinyl.

What a crap album. How a band takes the already shitty Born to Be Wild and makes it worse is beyond me.

Two hours and five minutes is too long to listen to Smashing Pumpkins. This record is bloated and beyond the singles there’s not much to write home about.

Two stars but one star is for nostalgia.

Pedestrian 70s rock at its blandest.

Honestly - 2 Stars just for the title track. The rest of the debut is pretty disjointed. This is the Who looking for a sound and recording tracks that the Kinks or the Stones would do better.

Nice summer music. Would be great to have on in the background and just relax. Wouldn’t be on my constant rotation.

I made it through 3 tracks - which all sounded the same. This feels like a band that is trying to sound like Black Sabbath or Zeppelin and just fails miserably.

Metallica is the Wonder Bread of Metal.

As someone who loves artists with unique voices - I hate Geddy Lee. Also not a big fan of Prog Rock. So those together is not a great combo.

This felt like an hour and five minutes of Tracey Morgan making unfunny sex jokes. Beats were ok.

This was fine. Dad rock from the late 60s.

Oh look another crappy 90s Brit pop record. This felt like it was smack dab in the shit between Oasis and Coldplay.

I didn’t like this as much as Autobahn. I guess this was more concept-y comparatively.

Mostly unsuccessful mash up of Prince and Hendrix. If he didn’t wear his influences so obviously on his shoulders it would most likely be a better record. As it stands every song is jammed packed with references to past songs to tell you how cool he is.