Reviews by sushirrito89

GB yellow brick road has had a chokehold on me ever since I saw the Rocketman movie on my way back from Taiwan last year. Adore that song. I really appreciate Elton now. This album just has so many bangers it's hard to give it anything less than 5*. I knew the hits would be highlights for me, but I also really enjoyed many other tracks. Even Jamaica jerk-off, if you forget for a sec that this is Elton John, is a really enjoyable song.
Album dips a little in the middle, and I didn't love the country-ish tracks (roy rogers and social disease).

Highlights: goodbye yellow brick road, candle in the wind, bennie and the jets, funeral for a friend/love lies bleeding, saturday night's alright for fighting, grey seal

This is ok. Didn't hate, didn't blow my mind. Wanted to understand the hype, but didn't see it. Very long album.

Enjoyable but sounded kinda quiet, not sure how to explain. Reminiscent of many bands I enjoy but not sure why this is on here. I could hear some proto-SOAD, proto-Incubus, stone temple pilots.

Very smooth, I don't get all the hate in the other reviews. This is my first album after a two-week hiatus, and I'm not upset.

This is ok, this singer-songwriter stuff is not necessarily my jam. 2*
Too dull. I fail to see how this is different from the female songwriter stuff (Nico) I got a week or so ago.
I enjoyed So long, Marianne because we actually had other voices than just LC+guitar.

Damn, the description is foreboding, this is not gonna be a good time.
In this 1001-album process I look forward to the 5* gems I find about once every two weeks, but there's also atrocious garbage that is **unique** that I endure. 1 minute into this album and I know this is the latter. Solid 1*
I think musical talent is somewhere in here, but it's put together in a completely unappealing way.
Pena was atrocious.

Second Bjork in the same week? I respect her being out there and enjoyed the instrumentation (harp?!), but this wasn't for me. 2*

This is like solid 90s basic electronic tracks - like the stuff you'd layer under other stuff. It's ok but now sounds dated. Not sure why it's on here. The talking also didn't help. Radio 7 started with potential (seemed like a cool Bond remix incoming), but then went back and defaulted to the same patterns. 2*

First full Police album. It's different and not at all what I thought they would sound like based on their greatest hits. Mother was weird. 3*
Highlights: every breath you take, synchronicity 2

Dreading the connotation this band has and their use of the confederate flag because fuck hate and racism. But just like I did for Kanye, I will rate this on musical merit. This is very much dad rock, a couple of decent songs, but I'm getting tired of this genre. 3*.
Highlights: free bird, tuesday's gone

First exposure to Bjork. It's different but not as weird as I expected, it's ok. Ended abruptly. 3*
Her legs in the album cover creep me out.

Oh I know le freak! Fun, makes me think of disco even though it's R&B. Or is that what disco was? White people discovering rhythm?
Overall a fun little album but I'm not sure why it's on this list. 3*
Highlights: le freak, savoir faire

I first started liking U2 around this album, lots of songs I enjoy in this one. The sound solidly brings me to the early 2000s. Some goofy lyrics but very catchy songs. The back half may not slap as hard but is still enjoyable. 4*.
Highlights: beautiful day, walk on, stuck in a moment, elevation

Immigrant song as an opener goes HARD. The rest was nice but did not blow my mind like other LZ albums here. 3*
Highlights: immigrant song,

A chill, funky album. 3*
Enjoyed: rainy day

This album felt like a trip, I didn't know where it was going at any point in time, but I enjoyed the sound overall. 4*
Highlights: plug tunin, me myself and i

Oh fuck yes, GOOD Coldplay. Yes, I'm one of those people, I don't like the direction they took musically after 2007ish; it's just not for me. I love this era, and this album has many of my all-around favorite songs. I'd say the rest of the album is too mopey for me though.
Highlights: shiver, yellow, everything is not lost

High energy album. I feel like Aerosmith sounds one way and that's kind of it. I tend to not pay attention to lyrics on first listen, rating based on vibes only, so I'm not deducting points for horny lyrics.
Highlights: love in an elevator (sadly because of Disney Hollywood Studios), Janie's got a gun

Woaaah, bittersweet symphony has been popping up a lot in my life these past couple of weeks, crazy! Let's see if the rest of the album holds up as well. Very Oasis reminiscent. Catching the butterfly sounds proto-Muse.
Overall enjoyable album, 3*.
It's interesting that this is such a high selling album; I think that is all an artifact of an era where you had to buy the whole album for just one song,, you couldn't pick and choose like we do with streaming. This means these guys had one amazing banger and that's that. A la tubthumping.
The hidden track was weird.
Highlights: bittersweet symphony

Nice instrumentals, and I can get behind a lady with a deeper voice, especially from this era. However, it was very samey after a while, 2*.