Reviews by suspiciousnumber

God fucking damn it, Kanye.

All you had to do was not become a nazi.

This album is another example of his magical touch as a producer. Kanye the producer is good enough that he makes Kanye the rapper seem passable. This album has tons of variation in the sound, but it always hits hard. However, it's hard to sit here and think of ways to praise this album because Kanye decided to go around telling everyone how much he loves Hitler. Honestly, fuck this dude. Great musician, but I wouldn't ever want to be seen buying one of his albums

4/5. Fucker.

This album sounds good overall, though it also comes across as very heavily inspired by Animal Collective as well. Setting that aside, it's a really well-made album. The harmonies are excellent, and the music supports the vocals really well. The production brings everything together into an album that's easy to listen to without being forgetable

4/5

This album really has a timeless quality about it. It could have been made in the last 10 years, and I wouldn't have thought it out of place. A lot of her lyrical subject matter feels more modern than 1992 as well. Just a really beautiful album that balances the soft moments and the intense ones really well.

4/5

Fuck, man, how is this album already 10 years old? Setting my suddenly impending mortality aside, I found this album kinda disappointing. Her voice sounds great, and the production on the album is good overall, but the songs really start to sound samey pretty fast. I think a little more variety in the songs would have gone a long way here. It's not bad overall, but it was hard to stay interested while the album went along

3/5

This album is pleasant to listen to, but it's the older style of folk that I don't particularly care for. Her voice is nice, and I think they made some interesting decisions with their mix of older English folk songs and unreleased Bob Dylan songs. It's just ultimately not for me, and it was hard to get myself to listen to enough of it to rate it

3/5

This is a super cool album, especially for the period in which it was made. They manage to bring a lot of the genres that were popular in EDM at the time together and make something that flows seamlessly. It's not easy to keep my attention all the way to the end of an album like this, but this one really is good to the last drop

4/5

Today I learned about the chamber pop subgenre. I'm not sure that it's ever going to be one of my favorites, but I like the level of care that goes into the works of this genre, and this album is no exception. The music is beautiful the whole way through, and produced with a lot of attention to detail. Not one I'm probably going to come back to, but still very much worth listening to

4/5

I'm never excited to get an Elvis Costello album on this list, but then I always enjoy the albums I get from him. I don't know why I'm never excited to hear him, but he crafts a hell of a song, and I really like this era from him

4/5

Well, it's certainly as weird as advertised. I didn't hate it, but I tend to find the experimental stuff more charming than this. This grates on me the same way that Captain Beefheart does. It's not bad, it's just not for me

3/5

This is just a fun album, and it's earlier in the 80s than I always thought of Duran Duran being. It's easy to see why this album was such a success. It's such a perfect blend of synth pop and rock, and there's all these other fun elements that come together to make it work so well. If only pop music could always have been this good

4/5

This is a solid-ass Buzzcocks album. There aren't too many of my favorite songs of theirs on here, but it's still the great smutty pop-punk that we've come to know from the Buzzcocks. It also shows that they weren't afraid to experiment a bit, as with the long instrumental section of the last track

4/5

This was a fun album. I'm not sure how significant it is, but it's pleasant dad rock for us dads that refuse to admit we're not cool and while away our days telling everyone how great Steeley Dan is

3/5

You know, usually I get one of these pop albums and I'm not too excited about it, but it ends up being much better than I thought it would be. Not so with this album. The hit songs are still good, but everything else feels super generic. Even the production of this album feels uninspired. In retrospect, I feel justified in not giving a crap about this album in 1999

2/5

This was a really cool album that seemed like it was way ahead of its time. I could see how folks see this as an early or proto-punk album, though I don't really see it that way, especially when you compare it to what the Stooges were doing. Judged on it's own merits, though, it's a really solid rock album that took a lot of chances and executed them well

4/5

I legit thought that this was the Presidents of the United States of America for a hot second, and I went through a weird mix of excitement and sadness as I prepared myself to critically listen to songs like Lump and Peaches. This is a different band from that.

My old man confusion set aside, this is a really cool experimental album. The music is really variable, but comes together really well with the vocals. Excellent harmonies in places. It's rare to hear an experimental album that is this pleasant to listen to. Also, if I didn't know when this album was made, I'm not sure I would have been able to guess within a decade, apart from some of the effects that they use that are pretty restricted to the late 60s/early 70s

4/5

This is a fucking fun album. I don't have a huge amount to say about it, but Sly and the Family Stone brought some excellent early funk to the 70s scene

4/5

Fuck this is such a good album. I listen to it pretty often as I have for years, but it never gets old. There's a really perfect balance here to the chaos of VU's style and the restraint of the production that negatively impacted some of their later albums. Nico was someone that I had to learn to like, but I couldn't see this album without her now.

5/5 One of the most important albums of last century, and it fucking still kicks ass

I didn't really get this album. It seemed fun at first, but then it just kept going, and I was left wondering why it needed to be on this list

3/5

This is a really cool album that shows what Still brought to CSNY. He creates a very distinctive sound that is present across the CSNY albums and is present in its unfiltered form here. Just a really solid album with great music and lyrics all the way through

4/5

I think I would have hated a cover album of pop songs if it were put out by most artists. However, Willie Nelson is not most artists, and his fucking voice makes this shit work so well that I never question it while listening. Just exquisite

4/5