Reviews by thelastbaron

27 minutes of pure class.

4.5/5.0: Excellent

Some of the slow songs aren't great, but even the worst tracks on this run an infinite number of laps around the garbage produced by Luke Bryan, Morgan Wallen, and their ilk. If this was the majority of country music, I might enjoy the genre.

4.0/5.0: Great

This album was hard to find (confusingly, the Spotify link is actually to a different album with the same name by the same band, but with a totally different group of songs). I was able to find the right album on YouTube.

As for the music, there's a ton of variety and great lyrics. One of the more well-put together post-punk albums on this list.

4.0/5.0: Great

I didn’t even notice the pink giraffe on the cover until I read a review that mentioned it. Anyway, significantly better than Manassas even if the slow folk songs are aural torture.

Extra points for “Old Times Good Times”, which features Jimi Hendrix and (more importantly) name drops the river that flows through the town in which I grew up.

3.5/5.0: Very Good

This album could've been ten minutes long. It's the same jangly song 20 times over 68 minutes and I can't stand his voice.

1.5/5.0: Bad

Southern white American culture might be the worst culture of all time, and the music it produces tracks completely. The last thing I need is 90 minutes of retreaded Skynyrd,

0.5/5.0: Unlistenable

Well made, but really drags in places.

2.5/5.0: Mixed

Possibly the best sounding album production-wise on the list. Great mix of beautiful, jazzy melodies and general bizarreness.

5.0/5.0: Iconic

The hits are great, and the melodies and production are nice, but not quite interesting enough to warrant the runtime.

3.5/5.0: Very Good

Fun album and definitely ahead of its time, but weirdly (presumably) not influential given how few listeners they have. I'll usually bump an album up a star if it's hugely influential, but this album just foreshadowed punk, rather than influenced it.

3.5/5.0: Very Good

Some good moments, but a ton of super annoying ones.

2.0/5.0: Disappointing

Great for the time and very experimental, but pales in comparison to later Floyd releases.

4.0/5.0: Great

Well done album and not too long.

3.0/5.0: Good

These guys were clearly influenced by 70s rock, but there's a bunch of other sounds incorporated here (grunge, punk, even some prog). The variety is nice and nicely done, even if it isn't 100% original.

4.0/5.0: Great

This was a fun album and a nice change of pace for the list. Points lost for the five minutes of silence in the middle of the last track. Don't play with me.

3.5/5.0: Very Good

Too cutesy for my taste. Banjo Beach Boys is a novel idea though.

2.0/5.0: Disappointing

I'd never listened to a full Kiss album before, but this is surprisingly bad. It's not heavy, and there's not a single good riff. The poppy stuff is eye-roll inducing, and the musicality is basic. The lyrics are also incredibly stupid.

1.5/5.0: Bad

Morrissey is a divisive figure, and some of the things he's said are terrible, but I very much agree with Margaret on the Guillotine. The music is also pretty good on this.

3.0/5.0: Good

Very well done, with a great bass tone. A little too on the nose at times though.

3.5/5.0: Very Good

Very interesting and varied album that has some very good songs. However, the slow folk songs and country tracks are unequivocally terrible.

2.5/5.0: Mixed