Reviews by suspiciousnumber

It's always fun to find out that basically all of the songs that you know by an artist come from one album. I wasn't too excited about this one, but it's a fucking solid album with a ton of great songs. After the hits are exhausted, it's still pretty good

4/5

Overall really cool. I don't know that this would have piqued my interest if I heard any individual song, but the fuckers won me over eventually

4/5

Man, this kind of shit is why I keep going with this list. I've never heard of this album or Anais Mitchell, but this is such a cool idea and it's so well executed. The music is super solid throughout, and the vocals so incredible I don't know what to say about them. The fucking star power on this album alone is unbelievable, but everyone is used so well. So many familiar voices slotted in exactly where they fit.

5/5 I successfully fought off the urge to buy this album before I'd finished listening to it, but my daughter will probably get this one for christmas, and she will like it, goddamnit (unironically, she will love this fucking album, and we can probably catch the tour of the musical for her birthday)

I try not to be too shitty about the user submitted albums, since someone took the time to select this because it was important to them, but

This sounds like if Creed started taking estrogen supplements. I had it playing in my office and left to get something, and I was disappointed that it was still playing when I got back

2/5 The music is reasonably palatable, but it's just so sensitive

This is one of those albums where there's nothing specifically that I dislike about it, but it really just feels like its not for me. I think perhaps the music took too much of a background to the singing for my taste. Their voices are great, and they harmonize well, but it just never drew me in

3/5

This album really tended oscillate between being something I was really enjoying and something I found pretty grating. I couldn't even really tell you what it was, but sometimes I found myself wanting to be done with the album, and then it would draw me back in. It's fine overall, especially for 2008, but at the same time it's hard to give it more than 3 stars

3/5

I liked this album at first, but it started to feel a little samey after a while. I don't love the dude's voice (or the lyrics, or something about the singing, idk), but I think the music is good overall. It's not bad, but I wasn't that far into the album before I was ready for it to be done

3/5

Usually, this brand of southern rock isn't my thing. Dude has a beautiful voice, though, and he does a good job of mixing in soul and gospel into the music. Nice amount of variety in the music too. I thought this album was a really pleasant surprise

4/5

I had a false start with this one because I got a YouTube version that didn't have any of the popular songs. I own this album, so you'd think I would have figured that out faster, but my wife is more into Lady Gaga. Y'all don't need me to tell you about his album, you've heard most of the songs on it. It's really solid throughout. Great, buzzy-ass synths pumping out techno. Her lyrics are super fun to sing along to. Fuck it. This is the second pop album I'm giving 5 stars to this week (I got Lemonade earlier this week)

5/5

I don't know about this one, fam. It's not bad, but I was also ready for it to end about 20 seconds into the second song (the first is a banger, of course). Her voice is good, and there is a decent variety in the songs, but the music felt uninspired overall

3/5

What a fun, eccentric metal album. It's filled with folk music and symphonic overtones, with plenty of double kick pedal to dance to. I don't always love the vocals, but that's not unusual for me with metal. This is one I want to spend more time with

4/5

I've been listening to this album for close to 30 years, so I don't need to hear it again to rate it, but I'll certainly take the opportunity.

I love this album. Tool is one of those bands that I want to like more than I do, but I was never able to get into their other albums like this one. This album, though, is incredible. It just grabs you and drags you along on this incredible journey. The music, the production, the lyrics, Maynard's voice, everything about it works. It doesn't come together like this for any of Tool's other albums, but that's okay. This is the Tool album for me

5/5

I've listened to this album multiple times across multiple days, and still haven't thought of anything to write down about it, but it's great. The music is fun and well put together. I would definitely buy this album if I saw it for $30

4/5

Fuck, that album went by really fast. I thought it was good overall, but it did feel a little generic 90s at times. Bob Mould is someone that I love, and Zen Arcade is one of the albums that showed me how deep punk music could go, but this one just didn't speak to me that much, and that's okay

3/5

For some reason, my brain always wants Boards of Canada to sound like a modern version of Grand Funk Railroad, and it always takes a while to adjust my brain to their pleasantly ambient brand of electronica. Also they're Scottish, which is probably why this is so good, since Scottish musicians are somehow superior to all other nationalities, at least in the English-speaking world.

This album is great. It's slow paced and relaxing, but it holds my interest. I think this is an album I'd like to own in the future

4/5

This shit is dope as hell. I want this album

4/5

Man, I really thought from the band name and the first track that this was going to be an psychedelic album. It's a much more straightforward folk album. I'm not a huge folk guy, but it's some good, solid modern folk. The lead singer has a very pleasant voice that brings a lot of life to the simplicity of the music

4/5

The individual songs on this album are really fun, but it started to wear thin after awhile. I don't particularly enjoy his voice, and most of the songs seem to be about substance abuse, which is fine, but again it gets boring after a while

3/5

Weirdly enough, I found this album in a drawer the other day. My wife has it, and doesn't really have an organizational system for her CDs at this point. I was wondering what it sounded like, and now I know. It's not particularly my kind of thing, since this era of rock largely passed me by. However, the harmonies are great, and it leads to the album having a bunch of fun little longs that are well crafted and well produced.

4/5

Phish is one of those bands that I struggle with as someone who had a lot of them and Grateful Dead forcibly shoved down my throat at an impressionable age. I like some of what they do, they've put out at least one good album, and I saw Trey live and really enjoyed it.

However.

I don't like live albums, so being asked to appreciate a live Phish album is a tall order for me. One thing this album has going for it is that I've always loved this version of Bouncing Round the Room, and didn't know this was the source until now. Then the second song lasted for what felt like the length of an entire album. That's about what I thought this would be. It's not bad at all, in fact it's good for a live album, but it doesn't particularly speak to me either

3/5