Reviews by sterry2289

Tom Waits is a smug, uninteresting charlatan that uses a gravely voice and back alley imagery to make himself appear to be a TRUE artist. A man of the people. The REAL people. The ones you wouldn’t dare spend time with. But Tom Waits will! He’ll get fucked up with a one armed go-go dancer. He’ll knife fight with a junkie!! It reminds me of Joe Rogan using psychedelics as a personality. It’s more interesting than my 9-5, but it’s also not that interesting.

He’s Jim Morrison without the charisma, talent or good looks.

Cant lie though the second half of this album had moments. He was also good in Licorice Pizza.

So put together. Makes we want to class up my life. Clean house, nice watch, classic car and on and on. Could not feel farther from the truth, but nice to throw this on and feel classy for a min.

Thoughtful and talented but not for me and a pretty big bummer.

I think the only time i have heard The Libertines mentioned was from Frank when we were 13, maybe a few times since. He was a big Libertines guy, maybe still is?! This time through I was sort of shocked at who I thought they were and the reality. A lot more accessible than they appeared in my early teens. Reaction after one time through is they have an awesome sound but the songs themselves didn't grab me. Will leave the door open for the Libertines.

I really hated this, mostly because of the vocals. Stunned anyone would voluntarily listen to this, also that Rolling Stone would say there are fewer than 200 better albums ever recorded.

Sounds like the music from Team America.

Way better than it should be. Smack My Bitch Up gets me too jacked up. I’ve had that, Climbatize and Breathe on the gym Rodri on lately. The rest of the album is fine.

This is 100% pure, Grade A classic rock. As good as it gets. This has always been a favorite of mine.

A lot to call out.

The production is insane. Not only does it sound good but all kinds of unique sounds and even closes with an orchestra. The guitar sounds in particular stand out. The solo on Walk This Way sounds fucking gigantic.

The individual performances are tremendous. Drums are sick and driving grooves everywhere, see Walk This Way. Guitar solos all impeccable and again, sound fucking great. Tyler’s voice has a ton of rhythm, dynamics and more importantly charisma. The horns and strings here and there are great too.

There’s a lot of variety, opening with a head spinning riff and immediately hitting the brakes on Uncle Salty. Fun grooves, straight forward rock, emotional ballad, weird joke about Tyler’s 10? inch piece.

Weird and interesting decisions. I played the solo from Mama Kin (not on this album) and it was really fucking hard. Very strange. Opened my eyes to how interesting and talented these guys were.

This and “Rocks” rule. High high quality rock, fun as fuck.

I’ve heard the Aerosmith hate and I think we just saw what they became and it poisoned our minds to what they were. You did a hero or live long enough to become an alcoholic guy that looks like a grandmother.

Small chance there is some Boston bias in this review.

Only one listen so shooting from the hip but I really liked this. M.E. stands out, that deep synth throughout sounds great.

Torn between 3 and 4 but rounding up. The highs are high af. Please Stay was a highlight. Drums sound amazing. Agree it’s a bit one note and repetitive, but if this was the only Marvin album in existence I’d listen to it 1000 times. Sounds a lot like What’s Going On but less interesting musically and lyrically. Fuck might go 3 now. Sorry Marv.

I don’t have time to reflect on why, all I know is I like it.

Album I grew up with and love, really wanted to go 5. The concept on most of these songs is really dumb. GZA is a ninja, but instead of swords he’s using rhymes to kill whack MC’s. The world they have created and all the aesthetics are awesome, but when you zoom in on the absurdity of the foundation of this universe, it’s embarrassing. It does bring back fond memories, especially of the feeling that you and your friends were cooler and better in every way than the other crew. We referred to these rival factions as “brosefs”

Probably my favorite Wu Tang production. Highlight here was the intro to Gold, kinda love everything but Cold World.

…4th Metallica album. Least favorite maybe. Starting to think Metallica may be wildly overrated.

I’ve been battling through this 120 min album… just read the wiki that the real track listing is 23 minutes! I’m done early! God is good!

Way behind but will catch up. Listened to this several times and a bit gun shy. I can’t stop thinking “Ziggy Stardust B-Sides”. I hear the more raw American influence, some hints of what’s to come in Young Americans, and overall great songs, but not near his best. I may give this several more listens and change my mind.

Just realized Bowie looks a lot like Chris Martin.

Would not have guessed that Black Sabbath would sound so fresh on the re-listen/in this exercise. They straight up rock. I have stated that I've grown to love "Black Sabbath grooves" and this album has fewer of those (Hand of Doom), but they make up for that with a lot of variety and start to finish solid performances. Osbourne sounds GREAT.

Tried many times, giving up. Brazilian Nu Metal. Ain’t gonna do it.

Just read Franks Ozzy > Plant take... blasphemy! Spicy but blasphemous. As for Bob, cant really say a bad thing about him other than maybe im too dumb to follow his riddles. Here's my hot take. Bob Dylan has a great voice! Fuck the haters.

Shout out The Band. The second half of this sounds fucking great.

First time hearing of these guys and they're not bad. I read "I should coco" is slang? for "I should hope so". I like that. The music is fine, could be 4/5 but for personally going 3.

Possibly underrated rebirth by Grohl here. Never really been a FF fan, but i think i was turned off by the more emo tunes like Everlong or Hero. This album is awesome (very Queens OTSA) and I don't think i've heard any of these songs. Yet another, wtf is wrong with me for not seeking this out.

I have a theory about George Harrison and All Things Must Pass being the being solo album of anyone post Beatles because he had been banking songs John and Paul wouldn't let him record. Same thing applies to stand up comics killing with first special then fading. Can't say Grohl faded, but he was probably writing these songs for many years and unloaded the clip (no pun intended) when Kurt passed. Dave Grohl rocks.