Reviews by uhhhellurr

not for me. the singing here felt off beat a lot of the time and disjointed. the rapping felt like it was from a 5th grader. it seems this album is held in high regard but I'm not seeing the vision. a lot of times it sounded like how my anxiety dreams feel. sorry!

i wish i liked this one more. i think it's an interesting concept. a fusion of many different musics from all around the world, in a handful of different languages. unfortunately for me, most of the songs were kind of boring at best, and annoying to me at worst. manu chao's voice is a bit nasally and starts to be grating sometimes for me. also some of these sounds sound like weird carnival music, at times, which is not my vibe! i really do wish i liked this one better, as i think the concept is cool. but unfortunately, not my thing.

from the first notes of this one, i didn't know if i was going to like it. i'm not really a fan of the production on this one (it's very 1988 and clean). but as i listened to this, i kind of fell in love with k.d. lang's voice? her voice is GORGEOUS. this album reminds me of something like patsy cline reincarnated or something. i love the 50s style backing vocals on this (she even got the jordanaires???). like i said, i still have qualms with the production, but i was pleasantly surprised by this one.

wasn't very familiar with cowboy junkies but had heard their name. it's tough because i think their influences are a lot of music that i like a lot. they cover a velvet underground song, they cover a patsy cline song, they cover a hank williams song. that's neat. what's not neat to me is that this album is so godawfully boring. my god. it was a bit of a chore to get through this one. i don't mind subdued music, but this is a bit much for even me. i didn't really find this haunting or beautiful, i mostly found it dull and droning. i wish i liked it better because i can see their similarities with my own taste in music, but man this one wasn't for me.

look, mariah carey is undoubtedly an extremely talented vocalist and this is on full display here. the problem is that i find a lot of mariah carey's music to be incredibly dull. the more uptempo stuff here is fine enough, but the ballads kill it. maybe i'm not a love-making romantic enough to appreciate the subtleties of her whispery voice over sensual backing tracks, but it's just not for me. there are some decent tracks here ('honey,' 'the roof (back in time)' and 'babydoll') but it does not outweigh the majority of this album being mind-numbingly boring ballads. sorry, not really for me.

pretty decent album. definitely takes the glammy stuff they did with bowie and runs with it. there's not anything here that is particularly mindblowing, but it is a pretty fun glam record all in all.

i am pretty lightly positive towards elvis costello but i had never listened to this one before. it was pretty decent. it's not as fun to listen to as some of his other albums and nothing really stood out to me as great, but still i felt it was solidly good. is it an album i had to listen to before i died? i dunno, probably not. was it solid? yeah, i think so.

going to be honest, I don't really get this one. nick cave is dark and brooding and kinda droney. a bit much for me. it's not low quality but it was a bit of a slog for me to get through. not really for me.

solid album. moody, kind of aggressive, fun to listen to. definitely on the metal side of grunge but still enjoyable to me, although i'm not huge into metal or grunge.

steve earle's debut is an album i grew up on, and so i perhaps have some disproportionate feelings for it. for me, it's one of my favorite country albums from this era. this album lives somewhere in the middle of early 80s springsteen, john cougar, dwight yoakam, and marshall crenshaw. the one thing that always strikes me is how catchy all these songs are. steve earle has a knack for writing a great hook. the one thing i will knock it for is that the production is a little too mid-80s for my liking, but the songwriting and earle's performance are good enough to outweigh it for me.

i have a real love-hate relationship with david crosby.

the love: he had a phenomenal knack for vocal harmonies. some of the greatest vocal harmonies put to tape were under his direction. some of them are even on this album!

the hate: my god, his pompous ass writes some of the most droning, boring shit i've ever heard. it's not bad, i guess. it's not unlistenable. it's just so goddamn boring. this is no exception.

really what you're getting a lot of is CSNY lite. a lot of the characteristics of great music with not a lot of the payoff. unfortunately, david needs a bit of help and guidance to make interesting music. for a guy who loaded his entire body with drugs for 25 straight years, you would think his music would be a little more interesting.

it's not oasis' best, but it's pretty great in its own right. lots of good stuff on here, but my favorite may be 'shakermaker.' it's bold, it's brash, oasis don't give a shit what you think. it's exactly them.

definitely a good entry point, 'hounds of love' is one of the more accessible kate bush records, in my opinion. but even with a more poppier approach, this album isn't any less brilliant. there is some truly excellent stuff on here, and all uniquely her. nothing sounds like her music, and nothing ever will. of course, 'running up that hill (a deal with god)' is fantastic, but i also adore the title track and 'cloudbusting' as well. but really, there's nothing bad here. it's all excellent.

gonna guess this is not everyone's cup of tea, but i particularly adore this sort of genre of music. very orchestral singer-songwriter stuff. it reminds me of a lot of van dyke parks' work from years prior, a bit artsy and heady, but also reminds me of procol harum, which makes sense, considering their producer produced this! there's a lot of great stuff on here, but the highlight to me is the title track, which is wonderful! glad i got to listen to this one.

yeah this is a great record! everything i've heard from sabbath has been really great. it's a wonder i never got into them ever, and i'm really sad i hadn't until this project! the guitars are fuzzy and loud as ever, ozzy's vocals are great. there's even some variety on this one with the great piano ballad 'changes.' now that being said, it's not my favorite sabbath, BUT i still had an absolute blast listening to this one!

pretty decent album. definitely in the vein of steely dan, but I think i prefer fagen's output with steely dan over this. this album feels less traditional rock-y than his band's output. pretty jazzy, very "yacht rock." it's an interesting album, but it feels like it's lacking something to me. if it was an album by an unrelated artist, i maybe have less to compare it to, but as it stands, i can't help but compare it to steely dan, and this would be towards the bottom of steely dan's albums for me. that being said, i love a lot of steely dan, so despite all that, i still had a good time listening to this one.

man i really don't know what to do with this one. sometimes the tracks are really mediocre. sounds amateurish. sometimes it is genuinely unlistenable. awful to listen to. and then, there are moments where it hits pretty well (my favorite moment is 'red eye to jupiter' which is really great production-wise and flow wise). just a really confusing album when the vast majority of it is really not great at best, and genuinely awful to listen to at worst.

neat album. it is very crooner-ish and i appreciate that about it. very atypical for a "pop star" of the time period to go in such a direction. scott walker's voice is so great. it's got a nice huskiness that i adore. there's some good stuff on here and the arrangements are pretty lush. my only complaint is that in terms of the song quality, there's not a lot here that i would say is above "good" - it's not bad, just wish it was a bit more. either way, i enjoyed listening to it!

not my favorite Jimi but still a great album. obviously, he's a great guitarist, and the songs are pretty good. there are some all timers here. underrated are the drums and bass here - really the ensemble of the three of them together were incredible and groundbreaking. it's pretty great!

part auditory hell, part kitchy goofy european rock. sometimes it's too corny sounding for words, sometimes it's really difficult to listen to. a challenging listen but not in the right way for me. i don't know how to describe it really but it's not challenging in a fun way, the harder to listen to parts are just really ugly and dissonant and the easier to listen to parts are kind of dorky and annoying. i dunno. it sounds like a marching band had a baby with a bunch of mechanical noise. not my thing.