Reviews by suspiciousnumber

Of the things that I really care about, folk music continues to not be one of them. This album is fine, like most of the folk albums on this list, but it's ultimately not for me

3/5

This was kind of a fun, quirky album. The music is good overall. I don't know that I would consider it significant enough to put on this list, but it's a pleasant listen

3/5

It's some kind of wild coincidence that I bought this album less than a week ago and now here I am reviewing it. For anyone who finds this album interesting, I'd recommend checking out the series on Can that the No Dogs In Space Podcast did, since I provides a LOT of interesting background to these songs. This band and the things they do make zero sense and yet it fucking works perfectly. The drumming is the absolute key to this band, even though ever member is great in their own right. The songs just keep driving and driving with the drums pulling them forward. The lyrics make no sense are and frequently inaudible and are perfect. The guitars are searing. There's a bass player not getting in anyone's way. This album fucking fucks

I wish the cover art was better, but at least I like the fonts that they used

5/5

The Kinks really mastered the art of writing cutesy songs that ultimately end up working because they are well crafted and the music is fucking great. It's hard to know what to compare this album to from the same time period because the Kinks really had their own thing going, but I really like this album

4/5

Well, at least Maybe I'm Amazed is a pretty good song. Otherwise, this album is pretty unexceptional. However, he would go on to do much cooler things with Wings, so we can forgive the fact that I don't love this album

3/5

This album is a pretty fun listen overall, but I don't really get why it's on this list. It's a solid 80s pop album, but that's also exactly what it sounds like. Perhaps this was influential in its time, but to my ears it sound very much of its time without pushing music forward in any way I can detect. Still, its some solid 80s pop

3/5

This is a much more subdued Beta Band album than the last one I got on this list. It's just as good in many ways, but less fun to listen to overall. Still, the band manages to produce a really original sound that really works for them

4/5

What a strange and wonderful album. So far, I'm five songs in and have enjoyed each one so far, despite the fact that most of these songs seem to come from different genres. Everything is well executed despite the massive diversity in sounds. Love the music, love the harmonies, love how I can never seem to wrap my mind around exactly what this album is

4/5

This is a beautiful album, and it really shows off the quality of Jennings's voice. It wasn't particularly what I was in the mood for this morning, and I would definitely say that this is the type of album that you need to be in the mood for, but it is undeniably a very good album

4/5

I think life might have been a bit better if I hadn't gone back and listened to this album in my mid-40s. I saw this band on the tour for this album, and it was incredible (the Foo Fighters were on the same tour). The older I get, the less I like RHCP. The lyrics are...I guess stupid is the word. The music is fun, but I've heard enough of RHCP's influences to know that their sound is not particularly original, nor were they the best to do it. With that being said, I do like Scar Tissue. I don't think this is a bad album, but it is the type of album whose flaws are obvious to me when I'm asked to review it critically. The crazy thing is that a ton of these songs were successful singles, but I don't want to listen to any of them

3/5 It's not bad, but Anthony Kiedis should feel bad about how stupid his lyrics are

The sound quality on this album leaves a bit to be desired, but she has a beautiful voice, and it's showcased well here. Son of a Preacher Man doesn't sound like the other sounds on this album, since most of the songs have more of an orchestra sadness to them

3/5

This was a pretty fun album, though I can't say that it grabbed my attention all that much. But, for the hellscape that was music in the early 2000s, it achieves the lofty heights of "pretty good"

3/5

This might be my favorite Neu! album (Neu! 2 is the other potential option). It's pretty consistent with the other work that the band was doing during the first half of the 70s. It's fucking great. Just solid toe-tapping jams propelled forth by the driving drum beat. I think you could easily make a case that other Krautrock bands were better than Neu, but Neu remains a very accessible way to get into the genre and provides a ton of useful context for what other German bands were doing in this period

5/5

I liked this album, but I'll say that this is not the album to review for the first time while you have a migraine. The vocals aren't amazing, but the music is good overall, and they do a lot of different things, from noise rock to synth pop

3/5

This is one of those albums that I'm glad is great musically, because both the album title and the artwork are fucking awesome, and it would be a huge bummer if the music was mediocre. No worries here, this is a spectacular thrash metal album from soup to nuts

4/5

I like this album fine, but I have no idea why it's here. It just doesn't seem significant in any way, other than that it is an album from the early 2000s that isn't terrible

3/5

God I was worried when I saw the album art. I'll say that it's still not great, but within the realm of 1974 media, it barely even rates as racist. The music, though, is really cool. It's a fun, fast-paced pop album with great female vocals (I'm sorry, I'm now being told that the vocals are done by a dude, and I don't even know what's going on anymore). Really enjoyable album that I might seek out on vinyl

4/5

It's a cool album, definitely a highlight from Bowie's later career. However, it's not as good as Blackstar, nor does it rise to the heights of his earlier career from the 70s and 80s. It's an issue that Bowie's lesser albums suffer from comparison with his incredible body of work, but I don't know how else to rate this except by comparing it to his other works

3/5

I'm not sure what it is about thrash metal that I appreciate so much more than ever other type of metal, but every time I find a metal band that I like, they are almost inevitably a thrash metal band. Sepultura is one of the metal bands that I've been introduced to on this list that I've really enjoyed. I liked Roots better than this album, but I can also see how this album led to that one. They are definitely starting to incorporate influences from other genres here

4/5

This album had some cool stuff on it, but much like the other Love album I got on this list, I ultimately found it uninspiring overall

3/5