Reviews by suspiciousnumber

This is kinda a weird one for me. I like this album a lot, it's one of my work albums that I put on when I'm writing shit and can't have lyrics to distract me. It's also part of the Tron series of movies that don't quite live up to their VFX and soundtrack. It's also not one of the Daft Punk albums that I would pick for this list. Still, it's a very well executed album that I enjoy enough that I have it on vinyl, so it's not like I can give it a bad score

4/5 It's not bad, because it's good. Why do I feel weird?

Having gotten some Joy Division and some later New Order on this list, I was really kinda surprised of what a mix of the two this was. I don't know why I was surprised, but I expected this to be less Joy Division and more New Order. Anyway, it's certainly a significant album for the influence it had and how innovative it was. I didn't love it at first, but it grew on me as it went

4/5

This shit is dope as hell. I wanna buy this album. It reminds me of Japanese Breakfast, but several years earlier. Really fun synth pop with great harmonies. Fuck yeah

5/5 I might just be really high right now, but this shit is immaculate

Post script: You have cursed me. I want to own this album, but I cannot purchase it. It is largely unavailable. It's like all those Greek plays

This one grew on me after not feeling terribly exciting at the start. It's a versatile album, but one song still fits in with the next. Great production also helps make this one

4/5

I wasn't particularly excited about getting a Yoko Ono album today. I don't think that she broke up the Beatles or anything, I'm just not particularly interested in her. Once I listened to this, she struck me as a kind of proto-Bjork, and that really helped contextualize her for me. There were parts that got annoying, but overall I was really impressed. I might like post-Beatles Yoko Ono more than I like post-Beatles John Lennon. Who knew?

4/5

This album was cool. I don't have a lot to say about it, but pretty neat

3/5

Honestly, I didn't like this album as much as I remember liking it. It's still good overall and notable for it's contributions to the genre, but I think being exposed to a broader array of metal actually gave me less of an appreciation for this band. Still, when this album hits, it fucking hits, and I don't want to criticize it too harshly. It just feels way more repetitive in some places than I remember

3/5

I thought this album was really fun, and it sounds so advanced for 1982. I know all the elements for this type of hardcore punk album were around in 1982, but the way they put it together sounds so much more like a late 80s band. Incredibly well crafted songs that still feel effortless

4/5

I can't believe that this silly album goes all the way back to 2022. I like Pat Finnerty's stuff, and I'd recommend checking out his YouTube channel if you're not familiar. Not a lot o f videos, but he's a funny and engaging guy who seems really down to earth. This album isn't great, but it is a joke album, so it's hard to fault it for that

3/5? I guess?

Overall I thought this was a fun album. I don't know how notable it is in the punk/garage rock genres, but it's a good time and the sound is very good for a live punk album. I will say that the sound of the bass was horrible in my speakers, but I'm guessing that's a me issue and not a production issue. It just constantly sounded like my phone was vibrating. Anyway, this was an enjoyable album

3/5

I don't get this one. If this was an early punk album, I would dig it a bit more, but for 1992 this was a well-established sound that isn't really being innovated here. I don't speak French, so it's possible that the lyrics add something to this that I'm missing, but I don't see why this album is significant

2/5

I just didn't connect with this one. It's all fine, but there's no part of it I actively enjoyed.

2/5

I generally like the metal that I get on here, but this one felt a bit generic. The low, atonal screaming really didn't help anything, though I often thought the music was reasonably good

3/5

I lost myself listening to this, and totally forgot that I wasn't listening to an Elvis Costello album. I wouldn't call this a ripoff or anything like that, there were plenty of artists putting together a similar sound at this time. This one actually has kinda a weird mix of Elvis Costello, The Cars, and Bob Seger (somehow, I don't know how to explain it). I like all that shit, and I like this. It's like punky yacht rock, and I fucking dig it. I want this shit on vinyl

4/5

I think maybe I've been doing this too long. I keep running into albums that I listen to twice, but still don't have much of an impression of them afterwards. I thought this was good enough, but not that interesting, but I'm also concerned doing this for 5 years has just made it hard for me to keep generating opinions. That, combined with the fact that I've been getting recommended a lot of newer rock that starts to blend together after a while just makes it hard to have much to say, so I fill in time by filibustering about the process of reviewing rather than the content of the album itself, and no one seems to notice

3/5

This album was a fine listen, but I didn't really get its significance. This stripe of metal isn't particularly my genre, but it sounded like other things I've heard that came before it. Still, like I said, it was a fine listen. Also the cover art is dope

3/5

You know, this type of male signer-focused album usually doesn't work well for me, but this guy won me over. The songs are solid, his voice is good, and his rhyme schemes were often very satisfying

4/5

I was not expecting a reggae album today, but overall I really enjoyed it. Just super chill, playing in the background, but I felt like it kept my attention. Also, my theory about me liking an album based on how obnoxiously they use delay pedals continues to bear out. The delay pedals are kinda obnoxious here, and I kinda like this album. Crank those pedals up to a Butthole Surfers level of obnoxious, and I'm all in.

4/5

I thought this album was very competently made, but was ultimately not my thing. Like, there's really not a thing that I can identify that's wrong with it other than that I generally don't go in for this type of blues rock. Still, I think it's notable for when it was made, and perhaps some of my lack of reaction to the album is from having heard several similar things that came afterwards.

3/5

I have no idea what to think about this, since sometimes it's a competent if somewhat generic pop album, but there are also weird covers that are a lot of fun. Overall, I've got to say that I like it, though I don't know if I would feel the same if it didn't have a cover of an Eddie Murphy song

4/5