Reviews by suspiciousnumber

This album is fun overall. It's not particularly my style, as these folk/country inspired solo vocalists usually doing inspire me much, but I believe it's a good album for folks who are into this sort of thing. The music keeps it pretty interesting, and what I caught of the lyrics didn't ruin it for me, which is all I ask. Definitely worth a listen, even if I'm unlikely to come back to it

3/5 but very close to being a 4

What a bizarre blast from my past. When my family first got a CD player when I was young, my mom bought three CDs. Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox, Ropin the Wind by Garth Brooks, and this Mary Chapin Carpenter album. I'd completely forgotten that this album existed until today, but I listened to it a good bit. Not as much as I listened to my first CD, which was Hard or Smooth by Wreckx-n-Effect. My mom hated that one and, frankly, most of my youthful musical choices. Well guess what, mom? I think your taste in music is pedestrian and dull. No offense to the person who posted this album, it's perfectly fine. It's just that at one point, I think the only two tapes my mom actually owned were by Mike and the Mechanics and Air Supply. At another point, the only music that my dad owned on any physical media was a compilation of early heavy metal songs from the 70s, which I always kind of assumed he found on the ground somewhere. What does any of this have to do with anything? No idea, but it is weird that I'm so obsessed with music while neither of my progenitors seem to care much about it. I just wish I could have known them in the living years (that's a Mike and the Mechanics reference, both of my parents are still alive as of the time of this writing)

2/5 I tried to like this album, but the only song I liked on it previously was I Feel Lucky, and I didn't even enjoy that one. Also Passionate Kisses, but that's a whole lot of album for two songs that I almost like

This album was cool, but didn't really grab my attention. Very competent, it just didn't speak to me specifically

3/5

Punk music has a long and storied tradition of great bands with extremely unfortunate and ill-conceived names, and Prolapse is proud to stand on the shoulders of bands like the Dead Kennedys, Suicide, and the Butthole Surfers. What a weird and magical combination of hardcore british punk and shoegaze. An angry man rants Britishly in the filthy streets as a siren wails a haunted dirge behind him. I can't understand what anyone is saying, despite all of us sharing English as our mother tongue. A distorted guitar cuts through the night chased by drums banging out a krautrock beat. Too bad these mad geniuses named their fucking band Prolapse!

5/5

This album was neat. No idea what they were saying, but the music was good, and the vocal worked really well within the world of the music

4/5

Eh, I was kinda hoping for more from this. Parts of it are interesting, but overall I felt like there was very little for me to latch onto. It's experimental hip-hop, but I don't feel like the experiments are taking me anywhere.

3/5

I think I like the other Porcupine Tree album I got on here a little better, despite hating the title (Fear of a Blank Planet). This one was still good, but didn't grab me the way that album did. This one came out a lot earlier in their career, and I think they grew a lot in a direction that was more favorable to my tastes

3/5

I just bought this album for my wife a couple of weeks ago, so this one had already been on my mind and in regular rotation. This album has aged very well compared to a lot of its contemporaries, though it has also grown sadder as a work as a result of the death of Dolores O'Riordan. Her voice was singular: beautiful and completely her own. The music complements perfectly and always gives her a platform to shine

4/5

One difference between myself now and before I began this list is the level of excitement I feel at the words Scottish Post-Rock. Scotland always brings the heat, post rock is a really fuckin cool genre, and this album proves that the two can come together and be fucking great

4/5 and I'm definitely coming back to this album in the future

I found this album kind of disappointing. I really liked the previous two Gaga albums, whereas this one felt a bit more generic. I think she was trying a bunch of stuff on this album, and ultimately I don't feel like it worked coherently as an idea. I don't blame her for trying, though. Each song is fine on its own, but I don't see the bangers that made her previous albums so engaging.

3/5 A very solid album, but unspectacular for an artist who can absolutely be spectacular

I liked this album overall, but I wasn't really wowwed by it at any point. Just another one of those "good, but not for me" type of albums

3/5

I enjoyed this one a lot. Explosions in the Sky is one of those bands that I can never remember what they sound like, but I always dig them when I'm listening

4/5

I'm sorry to all the Ryan Adams fans out there, but I really don't see why we needed another Ryan Adams album on this list. He's a perfectly competent musician, solid singer, I just don't care and don't want to keep evaluating the work of an artist that I have no affinity for

3/5

You know what, I've been rocking out to Van Halen's first album lately, and I was just thinking this morning how I want to listen to more old school melodic metal. I'm not going to compare this album to the Van Halen album, since that's not fair to this album, or frankly to the vast majority of metal albums, but this one is solid. Very much an homage to a style that had already come and gone, but with plenty of new life breathed into it. Or at least they added double kick drums. Whatever

4/5

At first I felt like this was pretty standard modern pop, but she fuckin won me over with Get Him Back. That shit bangs. Really solid album overall and she makes good use of harmony. I bet she'd be fun to see in concert if I wasn't a middle aged man

4/5

This was cool overall, and I'm always down for some ambient when I'm working. However, it's not substantially different from a lot of ambient I've heard before. Like, you could have put this on and told me it was an old Brian Eno album, and I would completely believe you. That's kinda the problem with ambient, but also kinda what's cool about it

3/5 I am lost in an endless sea of synthesizer chords. It is nameless but also timeless

This album was cool. Don't have a lot to say about it, which is typical of folk music for me, but it's definitely a solid modern take on folk, and they have very nice voices

4/5

I really enjoy this one. It takes just the right soup to make a good noise album for me, but this one has it. It just works, I don't know why, and I don't know why other things don't work. Fuck yeah

4/5

This album is cool. Lots of different moods, and it is definitely a surprise when it turns into a prog album from time to time. However, it feels really natural. It has a very unusual mix of influences, but he manages to bring it all together in a way that makes sense. Some fucking epic guitar solos as well

4/5

This is a cool rap album. It's not mind blowing in any particular way, but it is super solid, both in terms of the music and the vocals. Not a bad song on the album, and it goes by super fast and doesn't wear out its welcome

4/5