Reviews by suspiciousnumber

Well, this isn't my favorite Rush album, but it's still a very good Rush album, which means that it's a good album overall. Really big sound for a three piece, with excellent production. Starts off slow, but I was into it by the end

4/5

I mean, it's a Kate Bush album. Not that all of her albums sound the same, but you know going in that it's going to be pretty and sweet and weird and epic. She does her thing and she's fucking great at it

4/5

Fuck, I don't know what to say. It's a ZZ Top album, perhaps their best. You get exactly what you expect from a ZZ Top album, and if that's your jam then you are probably having a great time with this one

4/5

This album is fucking beautiful and delivers everything that you'd think it could, given the fact that it's three great artists coming together

4/5

This album seems a lot less fun once you know that Boy George imprisoned and beat a male escort. If we focus just on the music, it's fun overall but it gets pretty samey fast. Like, really samey

However, the doo-wap influences are fun.

3/5

I've listened to this album like three times but not written a review, so let's just say that it's a very enjoyable metal album and move on

4/5

This isn't my least favorite Morrissey album by any means, but it sounds a lot like most of his albums, which is to say that it's filled with whiny, self-indulgent, on-the-nose lyrics. Still, his voice sounds good and some of the music is interesting, so there's that, I guess

3/5

The music and vocals for this album are good overall. I'm not sure that it would be on this list if the story of the album and how it fits into Faithfull's life weren't so compelling, but it's worth a listen. The production is really good. It feels weirdly influenced by the 70s NYC punk movement, though this is definitely not a punk album

3/5

I wasn't super excited to get a Bob Marley album this morning, but I gotta say that this album was a jam overall. There were times when I felt like they could show more restraint with the combination of wah pedals and delay effects, but this album went by in a flash and there wasn't a single song that felt like it wasn't contributing

4/5

God, I have so much to say about this album. It's one that's hard to separate from its legacy, especially since the Sex Pistols did very little as a band other than this one album. It's certainly revolutionary as an album, being one of the first punk albums recorded. I don't think this holds up as well as the Ramones, but at the same time, my feelings about the Ramones are far less affected by what they did after their debut that my feelings about the Sex Pistols are.

Still, credit where credit is due: these little fuckers put together a hell of an influential album here

4/5

I'd never heard of this artist before, despite the fact that I knew at least one of the songs. It's a really solid folk album with great production. The songs are very well-crafted, and the lyrics are easy to digest without being simple or pandering

4/5

This is a good album overall, but it suffers by comparison with the other Black Sabbath albums on this list. The production is much cleaner here, but in a way that doesn't really help their sound. They should be gritty, Black Sabbath is better when it sounds like they're crawling out of the grave. Still, there's very little else to criticize here. The elements that make their other albums great are here as well, it just doesn't feel as inspiring as on the other albums

3/5

I don't know, I can't seem to find enough interest in this album to actually review it. The music is fine, and it's well produced. I don't really care for the vocals, but they aren't horrible. I think my issue is that everything seems to develop slowly, so I just end up getting bored every time I put on a song.

Nevermind, the longer I listen to this, the more I dislike the vocals. Somewhere between crooning and rapping is crapping, and that's what he is doing with his vocals

3/5 This album would be better as an instrumental

I've listened to this album twice, but still don't have anything to say about it. It's a nice country album, and Jones has a great voice. Both the songs and the lyrics are well done, but country really isn't my genre, and it's been a tough week, and I just don't know what else to say

4/5

Big Star is a group that I've been looking to check out for a while. I'm actually glad that I came back to this one to listen to it again after yesterday, since I enjoyed the album more on the second listen. I really can't think of much that this album sounds like that came before it. There's lots of stuff that it resembles if you squint a bit, but it feels really fresh and new for 1978. It was certainly influential on a lot of the alt-country bands that would come along in the late 80s and 90s.

4/5 Definitely one of those albums that not a lot of people bought, but that really stuck with the musicians who heard it

Well, whatever I was expecting when Malcolm McLaren popped up on my album list today, it wasn't this.

Nevermind, this is exactly what I was expecting. It's a deeply cynical series of half-baked musical ideas that only manage to sound okay because Malcolm surrounded himself with talented artists. I guess I just thought it would be more of a punk album. The hip-hop DJ interstitials are a huge waste of time.

3/5 There were certainly parts of this album that I enjoyed, but this album is also really incoherent and feels like Malcolm got a bunch of artists to do his homework for him

Honestly, this is a really great album, with the exception of the cover of Imagine, which sounds nice enough, but I can never get over how vacuous that sound is. Overall, it's a really solid album. Great production. The dueling male/female voices sound great together. The music ranges a lot, but it all fits together well

4/5

Well, I've now reviewed the first 4 Led Zeppelin albums in addition to Physical Grafitti. I don't know that there's much to say here that I haven't covered elsewhere. It's a great album, big and powerful, but with well-crafted songs and reasonably good lyrics. It's not the best Zeppelin album, or even top 3 for me, but like all of the other albums I've gotten by them, it's its own thing and it's really well done

4/5

It is an ironclad fact of music that French people occasionally make great music. Chris/Christine falls into that pantheon. The vocals are beautiful, and the understated synth music gives it an 80s/early 90s feel while still being recognizably modern. Really fun listen

4/5

I think I've reached the point where I'm ready to say that there is too much psychedelic rock on this list. I've really enjoyed most of it up to this point, but this feels very similar to other things that I've heard. It's not particularly early, having been made in 1967. None if it is bad, it's a fun listen overall, but it really doesn't feel terribly significant

3/5