Reviews by sterry2289

I've been going over this for a few days now. When i see these song titles I'm impressed - tracks we've all heard and know and my initial impression was this will be another 5/5

The good: Most of these songs are good/great by normal person standards. Classic tunes like Just Like a Woman, Stuck Inside Mobile, pill box hat etc. Couple too many blues romps.

But when i dig into this I really don't enjoy it. This feels like Dylan at his most annoying, particularrly as a romantic partner. If you were a woman and got mixed up with this fella, thats on you, but god damn. He's either stalking/worshipping you or throwing you out like a piece of trash and blaming you for it. He's also playing up the signature Dylan vocal affect, which can also be annoying.

Last thing in the instrumentation. Prettyyyy loose. I think on Visions of Johanna I heard a straight up miss on a chord change. Robbie Robertson giving it his all on a couple tracks, but low key stinks at playing guitar.

This feels like a more hastily made and less grounded version of Blood on the Tracks. Last last thing is I'm not a huge fan of cryptic lyrics that can be interpreted multiple ways. More of a math/science guy.

Final thought - do not get romantically involed with Bob Dylan, regardless of the number of times he tells you hes outside your window beating his trumpet.

Sounds awesome, particularly for ‘66. Pretty fun trying to figure out exactly what Zappa is on about. At times the satire feels a little lazy maybe. The class clown shouting from the back of the room without standing for anything himself. “Trouble Everyday” finally feels like Zappa saying something and leaves me wishing we had more of that version, a little less silly. After that tune the tracks get more interesting sonically, though maybe a little too self indulgent.

Placing this record historically is putting my mind in a pretzel. I feel like he’s doing parody of records that haven’t come out yet. Way ahead of his time, always an interesting perspective and mostly sounds great.

Gun to my head, this sounds like a lizard person pretending to be a human with strong Dylan influences. He's wildly popular so this is something wrong in my brain. May have been poisoned by the Mandy stuff, but some evidence for my point is the opening Morrisey argument. See!!! we're not lizards, lizards don't argue about records! I'm like you (wink wink)

I've been shrugging off the recent nepotism in the arts as par for the course, but then saw Will Ferrells son is a musician and performing at The Garden... Good for him and anyone else who plays music etc. It's hard to believe billionaires kids have lived a life anything like ours. My point is that Iggy has lived which makes him engaging.

This feels like the most complete Iggy project we've had.

Also, I'm feeling guilty about saying Stevie Wonder is over-rated. Not ready to walk that back but considering walking it back.

Mother fucking Nick Cave

It's cool. She's cool. Just didn't really do much for me.

Thought I was gonna like this until the vocals hit. Reminded me a lot of Nick Cave, the very affected style which I really dislike. Arrangements were cool.

I'm overreacting because I thought Kings of Leon were bad and this is pretty damn good. Vocals stand out. Reminded me of this classic rock revival trend from the early 2000's, JET had their big hit this same year. This one though doesn't sound really derivative - more like a great bar band or something. Rockin. Sorry KoL, I did not know you had this in the tank.

Very impressed by this but I can't put my finger on why. Need more time but I'm also trying to keep up with the relentless LIST. First spin left me wanting more and definitely sounds ahead of its time. The first track sounds so good. Super clean and a pretty subtle but sick organ. What is that accent? Who are Belle and Sebastian? Do I need to know? Remins me of Vampire Weekend.

I bet they great live. Throughout I was thinking “music is hard” they have all the tools, giving it 100% and it’s a pretty mediocre outcome.

Ecstasy arrives 4 minutes and 7 seconds when the final solo of Bodhisattva hits and holy fuck is it good. The guitar playing on Steely Dan albums is insane, fun reading Rick Derringer played on Show Biz Kids.

Steely Dan might be the best American "band". So many good records. What a follow up to Can't Buy a Thrill.

Reminds me of Armed Forces a little but, in that Bowie is reaching for a new sound and coming up a little short. Some cool moments but overall incomplete ideas and a lot of window dressing. Sound and Vision and Low were highlights.

I’ve always wanted to do a FO full listen. Knew the name and a couple songs but did not understand. Now I think I have a clearer picture. It’s boring AF and reminds me of a phony yet glossy instagram photo. I enjoyed the Crack song.

Some cool moments. Interesting progression from their first record which is the high velocity straight forward punk.

When his schtick works it works but sometimes it incredibly annoying. This record felt over produced, chaotic and annoying.

I enjoyed this but can’t help thinking they aren’t doing enough to separate from all their contemporaries. If I didn’t spend my entire life listening to those bands this would probably be rated much higher, but my knee jerk reaction is I’d rather listen to the stones, chuck berry, Elvis, Neil young etc.

The original Eminem? Not very good.

I have been wondering if anyone pre-rock had that “fuck yea” feeling you get listening to great rock songs, like what would have to happen in 1700 for someone to get that amped that quickly. Discussed this with Frank and we discussed how that’s sort of what rock is, whereas other music makes you feel other things. Cypress Hill can make you feel you could confidently kill someone if need be. Which leads me to Sonic Youth, I don’t know what they want me to feel but I don’t particularly like it.

I can see ONE of these tracks working in a very specific context. You'd hear it and think "wow this is retro and underground but upbeat...these people must be cool" but an extended listen is an entirely different experience. Cheap and hollow.

RIP. Sounded like a lovely lady.