Reviews by somelocalloser

Tribe is just so smooth. From the beats to the rhymes everything is great on this record. It also doesn’t suffer from skits that haven’t aged well unlike some of the other hip hop records from this time on the list.

It’s Monk - what’s not to love?

Coldplay is the fucking worst. It’s like a band made up of the worst instincts of all the huge pop bands rolled up into one giant kaiju of shit.

Automatic star deduction for Paul McCartney and pedophilia.

Honestly 3/4 of Thriller is amazing. 2 songs I would skip. Quincy Jones’ production is great and MJ is at the height of his talent.

Bowie all glammed up which tends to be my favorite Bowie.

I love his version of Let’s Spend the Night Together.

Not great like most of Johnny Rotten’s work. Felt like the kind of album a 19 year old would create and think was deep and then be embarrassed by it 5 years later.

I can’t believe I’m rating this a 3. But for electronica to zone out to or to pretend that you are the protagonist in a Steven Soderbergh flick then this record is made for you.

It runs a tad long and the interstitials are a waste of space. But you can apparently turn it on and roam the streets of downtown Minneapolis and not quite hate it.

Reggae for white people with dreads.

Felt at times more like a jazz record than a Bowie record. Somber and mournful it’s very much a record about life and death.

This is a weird one - I will say if Townes Van Zandt was singing some of these songs I’d give it 5 stars. But he doesn’t, so I won’t.

Ely’s voice works for the more trivial songs, but to my ears lacks the grit for the more pleading country tunes.

The singles brought me back to high school and driving aimlessly around smoking cigarettes. The rest of it - meh. Lots of a filler for a record that probably could have been 35 minutes and a good listen.

Epitome of boomer rock and another in the long line of White Brits playing the “blues”.

I can’t say I found anything good about this record. Sure the music I guess is good from a purely technical standard but it just hides an empty vessel of a band.

This was a fun half hour. Brel’s singing was smooth as butter. I have no idea what he was saying but it didn’t matter. The album exudes charm and sophistication - probably because it’s all in French.

I thought I liked Blur - then I listened to this and it’s not my favorite. Boys and Girls is still fun. The rest of the album is boring Britpop.

This record was pretty bad. What is it about the late 80s that gave us such overproduced nonsense?

Fair warning - You have to like Janis Joplin’s voice. Personally I do, especially backed by Big Brother & The Holding Company. Piece of My Heart and Summertime are stand outs.

Album feels raw and rough around the edges. It also runs on a bit.

Another day, another electronica album. The one positive for me on this is that there is a vocalist over all of the songs, which seems to help with my usual strong dislike of the genre.

Honestly this dragged on so long I just stopped listening. It was fine as a passive listen, but not as an active one.

Really 4.5 for record 1 and 3 for record 2.

First one is a banger and such fun to listen to. Second not so much.

What do you do after you put out THE quintessential boomer record?

Release an overstuffed double album where you’re searching for a new sound.

Tusk is a glorious mess. Lindsay Buckingham is just throwing things at the wall to see what will stick - meanwhile Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie are just doing Rumours.

It’s all kinda crazy listenable. 3.5/5 rounded up to a 4.