Reviews by sterry2289

On the spectrum of love and hate for the Dead I lean love, relative to the general population. I think this album is a good microcosm of their music. Some great and some really bad stuff. Lately I’ve been listening to this Live at Cornell album and I think generally the live albums I enjoy are later on, mid to late 70’s. Dark Star here really tests patience but they right the ship immediately afterwards. I’ve learned to enjoy the nonsense, but I can see how this would be insufferable to someone. Check out the Live in Europe, the new years Winterland show and Cornell. Much better than this IMO. Probably deserving of 3 but I’m going 4 because I’m a Jerry simp.

Good album. Awesome cover.

I love Bossa Nova but a little secret of mine is…I don’t like Frank. Don’t really like anything of his stuff and he seems like a cocky prick with a dumb voice! Jobim sings this entire thing and it’s 4-5.

Most of this sounded like versions of Led Zeppelin, Chicago, Spinal Tap and maybe some glam rock like T Rex. I did not really enjoy it but they were doing a lot of shit for 1970. I think they should have leaned on the horns/glam rock angle instead of Pink Floyd and Zep. 2.5 and rounding up.

Not into this

Loved this but remember hating the other one. Will revisit. This is weird, interesting and fun.

I do not understand it. The music is obviously awful and I don't enjoy listening to it. BUT I enjoyed the experience and after the full listen I had a strange sensation of have just experienced great art. It might be an unintended side effect of the full listen. Definitely a one of one experience.

With music it's usually immediately clear whether you like it or not, but some of the challenging albums can have this kind of delayed gratification. "Arthur" by the Kinks probably falls somewhere in the middle - doesn't smack you in the face but about halfway through it sinks in.

Incredibly engaging abum for pretty unique reasons. Many many questions throughout. If I were tasked with making the most unlistenable album ever, my first thought would be playing out of tune - which they are not doing. They're leaning heavily on clashing time signatures, but if you zoom out for a second the drums are keeping the wheels on, stitching it together and the effect is insane. It sounds like a musical monster.

As for the rating i think it's binary. You either think its garbage and unlistenable (which it is) or you see value, and if you see value then its an incredible accomplishment and deserves 5 stars. It's SO bad that if you/I see any good in it then it's a miracle. They also went so far over the edge it needs to be acknowledged. I went back to Kollaps and this is far stranger. My argument here is flawed but i gotta pull the trigger. Looking forward to your reviews.

I hated most of it but kinda came around at the end, the infant song was cool. It’s 2 now but I feel it might be better than I’m giving it credit for.

It’s listenable. That singing style was quite trendy and I do not like it. Bass lines are solid.

Tried several times. Throwing in the towel.

I wonder if people truly enjoyed listening to PE or they were just into the idea and the general message. A couple cool tracks, my favorite was lost at birth. This manic production style is difficult to listen to. Reminds me of the JPEG Mafia album scaring the hoes.

Bond music X Artic monkeys. Don’t particularly like either so this wasn’t working for me.

Jeez Ice Cube, chill out man!

Pretty neat. The last track the wheel kind of fell off. Definitely interested in hearing more rock/jazz fusion. Similar to some Zappa.

Frank shared a book "The Art Thief" about a prolific art thief who stole, not for profit, but purely because he was obsessed with art. In the book they described a condition "Stendhal Syndrome—a psychosomatic condition where intense exposure to beautiful art causes physical and psychological symptoms." Basically these sickos see art and NEED to have it and start to foam at the mouth until they either walk away or steal the thing. Since reading that I've thought, somewhat humorously, about that for music. If certain songs were only available for consumption in museums and which ones I would steal.

I think I would NEED to have the 25 seconds in SCHOOL, starting at 1:45. I've listened to it 20+ times and can't understand why that breakdown is so short. They definitely unlocked something there and it's a good example of the highs that Supertramp can reach. Goodbye Stranger and The Logical Song reach those heights, but are not on this record. The rest of this album is pretty good, but when you think its about to breakthrough it just doesn't. Thinking about the climax of Goodbye Stranger for an example of when it actually does.

Here I'm hearing a lot of Pink Floyd, especially out of the dates with School and the children audio and The Wall, which this predates by 5 years? May need more time with this one, but overall probably somewhere in the 3.5 range and rounding up. Supertramp may be underrated, or more likely they never realized their full potential.

Clapton has made a lot of good music (Cream, Blind Faith, stuff on Abbey Road, Derek and the Dominoes) but this is not it. I read this was groundbreaking blues guitar work but I kind of have a hard time believing it. It sounds like every other blues song but with distortion.

The original psychedelic slop. I liked the LBJ song.

Pretty cool. Reminds me of a lot of modern bands, heard some of The Strokes. Lead singer impressed me. Favorite track was No, Your Product.

so far behind. Will catch up this week. First of all, i think BOSTON has been the most detached I've been from the group. A bit stunned! I will give it another chance, but I'm starting to wonder if I had some traumatic event in those car rides to the Cape...

As for Eric. I was pleasantly surprised by the full listen here. Just like everything Clapton does, it's very tight. We've listened to so many rock albums and a lot of blues rock and 90%, while nice, are often interchangeable. This I think stands above a lot of the others. Frank said the key is being 1/16th better and I think it's a little more than that. Clapton idolized BB King, and I think they're pretty similar. Not going to shred your face off, but pretty thoughtful and methodical in their playing. Frank may be right that he's not the most original artist, possibly one of the more lopsided originality to praise rockers out there. He and THE KING, but Elvis had a shit load of charisma. He also stole Georges girl and wrote a lot of songs about it. Doesn't get enough shit for that. In the end, landed on 4. I'm a Clapton simp.

Like a worse U2 mixed with Arcade fire. Well produced nothingness.