Reviews by suspiciousnumber

Just a really solid alternative rock album from a band with a lot of pedigree. It's too bad that the Pixies weren't able to make it work with two great songwriters, but it's a great consolation that we got the Breeders instead. You hear more of a shoegaze influence here than on Pixies albums, which complements Kim Deal's style well

4/5

I've always had sort of a weird relationship with Rocky Horror Picture Show, since I didn't really understand the concept of camp when I was younger. The songs are fun, though this drags a bit as an album towards the end. However, all things considered, this album is well executed for what it is, and I think I have to give it a 4 for its influence on the sexuality of multiple generations of misfits either way

4/5

This was another album that won me over slowly, despite not thinking much of it at first. It has a super 1980s sound, but it doesn't feel cheap or lazy, and he keeps it consistent and interesting enough through the whole album. I can't say that I'm going to come back to this one, but I gotta give the guy credit for committing to the bit and executing it well

4/5

Reviewed this, then lost it somehow. I liked the sound of the first album better. This one is cool, Living Colour is still an incredible band after all, but it just doesn't grab me the way the first one did

4/5

This album took a little while to hook me, but the longer I listened, the more interesting I found it. It definitely feels very interested by the contemporary work of the Beatles, but it does its own thing, and the band makes things interesting. Really cool psychedelic album that tries some stuff and makes a lot of it work

4/5

I didn't really get this one. I like synthpop, but this didn't really do it for me. Also, dude seems like he's doing a David Bowie impression a lot of the time

3/5

This fuckin band. Every time I get one of their albums, I think it's going to be the one that I don't like very much, but they fuckin win me over every time. They are just so weird, but they know how to bring it musically and make everything work

4/5

This album was a pleasant surprise, since I felt like the main album was sorely lacking in Coltrane and other jazz giants. I've never been a huge fan of the crooning singing style that Hartman employs, but that's more of a personal preference issue. He has a beautiful voice, and Coltrane is sublime as always

4/5

This is another one of those albums that is not particularly my thing, but I can see why people like it. He has a beautiful voice, and he uses it really effectively. The music doesn't do a lot for me, but it's there to accompany him anyway

3/5

It's definitely easy to see how this band was a critical ingredient in the stew that became Krautrock. This is certainly much more of a psychedelic band, but there are clear elements of Krautrock here as well. Honestly, it helps put where Krautrock started in a lot of context, since this album's influences don't seem as mysterious as those of the genre it helped spawn. Lots of heavy ass distorted guitar, which is always a nice feature in such an early album

4/5 Clearly a very influential album that is fun to listen to in its own right

The music is pretty fun on this album, but the lyrics are not great and really start to grate on me from time to time. I don't think this album is bad, but if the lead songwriter dug a bit deeper with the lyrics, I think this album could be really cool

3/5

I'm sure the lingering nostalgia from Ozzy's death is having a bit of an effect here, but the older I get, the more I appreciate what a titanic talent Ozzy Ozbourne was, and how good he was at surrounding himself with similar talent. This album is another example. Just a powerhouse from soup to nuts. A great listen, and something I really need to add to my personal collection

4/5

This one just didn't speak to me. I didn't like the lead singer's voice, which is always a killer. The music progressed slowly. I don't think it's bad, but I didn't find myself enjoying it much either

3/5

What the fuck even is this? There's no wikipedia page, which I wanted to look at just to see what you call this genre. I'm calling this Epic Folk.

It's cool. Not at all what I was expecting from the cover art, but it's very well executed. Their duets are well-constructed, and they each really hold up their end. The music is really stirring and goes on these great slow builds.

4/5, someone make a wikipedia page for this band so I know what the fuck they are

I found this album to be a pleasant surprise. I liked Garbage okay when I was younger, but I wasn't terribly impressed with the other Garbage album that I got on this list. This one, however, felt really fresh and interesting with all the techno elements mixed in.

4/5 Really fun listen

Well, I've listened to this album twice now, only for it to leave next to no impression on me. It's not bad, but I prefer the previous Jimmy Eat World album I got on this list. Overall, this is just not my subgenre of rock, but I think they write good songs and get a lot out of their production

3/5

Deltron has such a distinctive flow, and his skill is on full display here. Dan the Automator's production is excellent and fits perfectly with what Del is doing. This album doesn't feel like it's 25 years old at all

4/5

This album is pretty fun overall. It's solid pop punk with good production and solid songwriting. This type of pop punk has never been my thing, so it's hard to give it too high of a rating, but I also don't really have any criticisms of it. It's just not really my thing

3/5

I fucking love this album. I don't have any idea how to describe it. I've seen GYBE live before, and I know how to describe that even less. It's just so much more than the sum of its parts. It's so slow and deliberate, yet it's free and never feels stilted. It just builds and builds and builds, and what's even better is that it feels so meaningful despite the fact that very few words are said anywhere on the album. It touches on something deeper than words

5/5

It's hard to rate ambient music, since it's very hard to know from moment to moment if it's meaningful or even enjoyable, but I know that bad ambient would wear on me relatively fast, whereas this just played pleasantly in the background and I thought it was cool

4/5