Reviews by somelocalloser

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.

Certainly 90s R&B. Smooth and not as icky feeling as the Maxwell record on the list. A bit too long for me to keep my interest the whole time.

This was a fun one. Now I know why Wu-Tang is for the children. Great beats and samples, rhymes off the hook. Just a great 90s rap album.

I find pop records to be such a strange thing. The singles tend to be listenable and then you wonder why they bothered to record anything else.
In this case I’m pretty baffled as to why this is 2 discs and well over an hour.

There’s a procession of late 90s-early aughts female pop singers whose voices all sort of blur together for me - file Xtina in that bucket. Her voice is good but I would have a hard time pulling it out of a lineup.

Anyways an hour plus of meh pop tunes isn’t for me.

I want to like Sonic Youth so bad - but they just make it so goddamned difficult.

Overall this wasn’t terrible and was short. Still not something I would return to.

Meh. I’ve gotten most of the Bowie records on the list and this is my least favorite so far. Felt like he was trying to call back to his glam era and it fell flat.

This one brought me back to the post 9/11 world. In college being concerned about wars and terrorism - all while the radio was playing butt rock and new metal.

Along comes these greasy hipsters from New York to bring rock-n-roll back and suddenly life made a bit of sense again.

Listening now the album feels pretty derivative - but it’s easy to forget that it ushered in a new sound and banished Limp Bizkit, Korn and Staind into the dust bin of history.

This is not going to be for everyone. Alternates between psychedelic punk and drone. Had some Velvet Underground vibes. I didn’t hate it!

This aged better than some of the 90s rap records - no problematic skits throughout. However I really didn’t care for Method Man’s style. But the beats were great - so 3/5.

Enough of the euro trash electronica records.

So boring. There’s nothing interesting about this record at all.

I prefer Sound of Silver. It wasn’t a bad listen.

Surprised by this one. A bit campy in the vein of the Meatloaf record on the list. Riffs from West Side Story. Title track is still fun.

An hour and seventeen minutes is too much Thin Lizzy.

Replaceable mid-aughts pop rock.

I really have enjoyed the 2 Tribe records I’ve gotten so far. Funky, jazzy, Afrocentric beautiful rap. None of it feels too aged.

My favorite Bowie album. Life on Mars and Kooks are for me the highlights on a great album.

Underwhelming. The songs are pretty one note. Limited hints of Latin beats. Would be fine background music - but I wouldn’t search it out.

This will not be for everyone - but I really enjoyed it. The singer gives some David Byrne sounding vibes but over a mishmash of post-punk noise.

Probably the best Creedence record. Loaded with hits. I love this version of Grapevine.