Reviews by suspiciousnumber

This is an album that I've been aware of since I was a child, but I've never actually sat down and listened to, despite it's reputation as one of the crowning achievements of West Coast hip-hop. Looking through the track list, it makes sense. I know almost all of these songs, and all the ones I know are bangers.

One of the most noticeable thing about this album is that the skits are short and integrated into the intro of the songs. I think this is before skits became the most obnoxious part of every rap album, but it's still nice to see it done tastefully. Dre's production on the album is stellar, just track after track of classic era G-funk. Snoop has a lot more narrative structure to his songs than most rap artists (e.g. Lodi Dodi, Murder Was the Case). He likes to tell a story with a chronology to it, which is cool

4/5 There are some times when this album starts to sag a little bit, partially because Dre's production style gets a little samey at times. It's always good, but listening to several tracks in a row causes them to start to blend together

This is a strange album, which makes sense as it was made by someone who had lost his mind in the preceding years. It's an interesting album to be sure. It's somewhat uneven, but there's lots of neat stuff in here. I do not love his voice, which counts for some of the unevenness in my opinion.

3/5

This album feels really uneven to me, which has been true of the other Public Image albums that I've heard. Some songs are great, and some songs feel boring and self-indulgent. Much like Johnny Rotten himself, it's a real mixed bag

3/5

I've been interested in sitting down and listening to this album for a while. It's one of the most highly regarded pop albums of this era, but this is not a particularly good era for pop (or perhaps this is just what all crusty old guys start to think when they get older and the world of music has passed them by). The production on the album is excellent. It sounds great without being too clean. Her voice is great, and the songs are really good overall. I started to feel a bit bored of it by the end, but that's also pretty par for the course on pop albums.

4/5 I was really torn on this one, but I think it's actually a good album

I didn't enjoy this as much as a lot of the goth music that I've gotten on this list. It wasn't unpleasant in anyway, but it was more subdued than a lot of the goth music I've enjoyed. I want to dance while I'm sad, goddamn it!

3/5

This is one of those albums that feels like it's always been with me. It really shows Nirvana's range as artists. It's just sad and beautiful and powerful the whole way through. Having the Meat Puppets do some of the songs off their second album was a stroke of genius (as well as being the best those songs have ever sounded). Finishing the set with Where Did You Sleep Last Night was perfect

5/5

This album is fine, but it's also not for me. It just never really grabbed me and made me take interest in it

3/5

One time I was hitting on a girl at a bar, and she told me that she like Ryan Adams, and I said that I also liked Ryan Adams. That was the only time I have ever spoken about or thought of Ryan Adams. Having now listened to Ryan Adams for the first time, I can say that I do not, in fact, like Ryan Adams. I don't particularly dislike this, I just don't find it very interesting or meaningful. It just feels like he's doing a Springsteen/Mellencamp type thing, but like 15 years too late. He has a nice voice, and everything is pleasant enough, but it doesn't belong on this list. Also, I've been listening to this album for what feels like two hours now, and I'm only on the fifth song

Also, I didn't end up going home with that girl. I think she could sense that I didn't really like Ryan Adams

2/5

Having gotten several Led Zeppelin albums on this list, I'm getting more and more convinced that they never made a bad album. All of the albums I've gotten so far (Zep III, Zep IV, and Physical Graffiti) were great and each innovative in its own way. This album is a great example of white boys doing the blues and actually making something meaningful and interesting out of it. Every song is good, and they balance each other out well. The album starts out with a fairly traditional blues rock feel, but gets psychedelic with Dazed and Confused. From there, it keeps changing. Sometimes a slow, sweet song, sometimes a wailing guitar solo. The musicianship and production really shine through on this album. Also, the cover fucking kicks ass

5/5

I don't have a lot of thoughts on this albums, but I like this album

4/5

Well, I can certainly say that the production on this album sounds like absolute shit. That's not particularly unusual on early punk music albums, particularly ones that were produced by the band themselves. However, under the hood of this album is a lot of neat stuff. I love that they included horns in a lot of these tracks. That was a really innovative idea for early punk music. The vocals sound good, given the overall quality of the album. Really cool early punk album

4/5

This album was dull at times, weird and interesting at times. It also has an interesting background story, not that such things should be terribly important to my rating of the album. It was really hard to know what to think about this, but overall I think it's really good

4/5

This album has been getting it's due much more over the past couple of decades, but I think it's a strong candidate for the most underrated album of all time. It's hard to overstate its importance on the history of rock n' roll starting in the 1970s. Every early punk band lists them as a major influence, and it's very likely that the punk music and all of its subsequent genres would look incredibly different without the Stooges

In terms of the music itself, this album fucking kicks ass. It's gritty and sexy and doesn't sound like anything that came before it. It's like what The Doors could have been if Jim Morrison was really into acid instead of the smell of his own farts

5/5

I was surprised that I was not more aware of this album upon hearing it. Just a super enjoyable early pop punk album from a bunch of weird-looking British dudes. Lots of great, late 70s punk fun

4/5

It's a funkadelic album. Not my favorite, but it still has that creamy funk sound that I keep coming back for

4/5

I remember the anticipation of this album well. After Kurt Cobain died, the fact that Dave Grohl put together this album by himself in relatively short order seemed like such a blessing. It ended up being a much more light-hearted album than I was imagining as a Nirvana fan. However, the album was great then, and it remains great today. Each song is good in it's own way, and there's a lot of variation in the album

4/5

This album is pretty cool. I don't have a ton of context for conga music, but it's neat to listen to. The polyrhythms and call-and-response are familiar from other types of Afro-cuban influenced genres. The sound production could be better, but that's not unusual for the time it was made

4/5

I don't always understand prog rock, and the thing I don't understand most about prog rock is King Crimson, but this album is pretty cool most of the time

3/5

I don't have a lot to say about this, but much like the first Orbital album that I got on here, this is really good 90s techno. It manages to be repetitive dance music without feeling repetitive

4/5

Fuck this dude. Calling him a dollar store Eminem would be an insult both to Eminem and to dollar stores. I'm listening to this album at work, and I have to put my headphones in so that no one thinks that I'm doing so on purpose.

The funny thing is that I could return to this album with a bit of ironic enjoyment under different circumstances. His rhymes are passable (at least for a white dude). The music is good enough. He wrote some fun songs. Then he decided that everyone needed to hear his fucking political opinions. Being this generation's Ted Nugent is nothing to brag about, Kid, and neither is your career trajectory.

What surprised me most about this is that essentially every song I know by Kid Rock is on this album. Dude fell off HARD after this, although you have to give him credit for using up every last bit of his talent on this album. However, the quality of this album is far from enough to justify me having to watch a video of him shooting a bunch of cases of bud light with an AR to illustrate how much he hates trans women. I don't need to know what Kid Rock is up to. I deserve to know about what happened to Rednex after their hit Cotton Eye Joe (I paused this album to listen to Cotton Eye Joe, and I might just leave this song on repeat and pretend it's the rest of the kid rock album. It's a much more pleasant experience)

Edit: I take back what I said about this album being okay. Once you get a few songs it, it turns to garbage. He used up all of his good lines on the first couple of songs

2/5 Somehow still not as bad as that Limp Bizkit album that also inexplicably made it on this list.