Reviews by uhhhellurr

i think it's really easy to hate bjork because her music is unconventional. i actually think it's quite fascinating. her production is always top notch, and this album is no exception. her voice is as faeish and haunting as usual. i think out of all of her albums i've heard so far, this one feels maybe the most accessible? all that said, a continuing problem i have with bjork is the replayability. i think her music is quite interesting, but also i don't know that i would ever go out of my way to actively listen to this stuff on my own time.

solid indie album. sounds a lot like stuff i would have listened to at the time, but i was not familiar with this one. this was also an album that was recommended to me by a friend and i liked it! for me, it's not quite my thing, but i still enjoyed it a decent amount.

there are some neat moments on here, some stuff that i liked, but ultimately, i found this to be a bit boring. it's not that there's anything bad here, it's just that it feels like this album doesn't go anywhere. there are interesting ideas, nice moments, cool production, but quite frankly, it feels a bit stagnant most of the time. i wished i liked it more, because i feel like it is up my alley.

good album. it's got pretty much all you would ever want from skynyrd. there's a handful of good-to-great songs on here which is what you need. the more album cuts off of here don't really do a whole lot for me. side a is way more loaded than side b (free bird notwithstanding). but ultimately, it's a fun enough listen. good, not great.

i'm a big kinks fan but although i think this is a good album, i don't think it's a great one. it's nearly there and they would get to that level with their next large handful of albums, but this one has always been a bit below the other "classic" kinks albums. that's not to say that there aren't songs i love on here - particularly 'sunny afternoon' but also i really like 'rainy day in june,' 'dandy,' and 'rosie won't you please come home' - but the album cuts here don't get to the highest level. it's not a bad album! i just know it gets better than this.

i'm a pretty big csny fan. unfortunately, stephen stills might be 4th out of 4 on my CSNY power rankings. it's not that this album is bad. it's just that, quite frankly, it's kind of nothing. there's one song on it (the one stephen stills solo song anyone knows) and the rest of it is... fine. it's not great. it's not bad. just fine. in the direct aftermath of 'deja vu,' all of his bandmates were doing more interesting, compelling things. this has almost no flavor. the styrofoam of albums.

nice stuff. definitely one of the better albums that i've gotten under the genre of "sophisti-pop" in this saga. the songs were nice and i found the production to be very pleasing. it's obviously very "new wave-ish" but has some more funk inspired notes, mainly from the rhythm section. it's not mind-blowing by any stretch, but it was still pretty fun, all in all.

i wish i liked this album more. it was definitely up my alley and i liked the sound of the record, but the songwriting was good-at-best and often times didn't get to that level, and i wasn't all that fond of the vocalist and his singing style, which felt a bit weak at times.

this one was really great! mc solaar's flow is really great and and the production and beats were energetic and fun to listen to. i wish i could understand french better than i do (minimal) but i don't think that even necessarily matters. it's an enjoyable album even if you don't understand the lyrics.

i'm a big rolling stones fan but i hadn't listened to this one in full for a while so it was nice to listen to it again. i really like this album. it's not my favorite of theirs, but it's really great. obviously, the big song is batting lead-off here, and yeah, there's a reason it gets played all the time on the radio still, almost 60 years later. the other big song here is maybe my favorite which is 'street fighting man' which i think is a great bridge between the first 'era' of the stones and this new era they were entering. you can really see the dawn of the new era in full force in the album cuts - a bluesier, rootsier, back to basics sound that they would evolve and grow with over the next few years. for that reason, it's not my favorite of their albums, because where they are headed is a terrific peak, but it's still an album i hold near and dear to my heart.

i love getting albums like this because it means i get to be nitpicky for nitpicky's sake. i love the monkees and am very familiar with their albums. this one is not my favorite of theirs. there's some good, even great stuff on here ('randy scouse git,' 'for pete's sake,' and i really adore the mike nesmith track 'you just may be the one') but it's a really uneven album. there's some psychedelic goofiness here (a product of its time) which is kinda whatever and doesn't add to the album ('zilch,' 'band 6') and there are songs that are, quite frankly, just kinda not great ('forget that girl,' and 'mr. webster'). i love the monkees when they are at their best - fun and bubblegum - but this is not really that.

this album is considered an all-timer for a reason. kendrick's flow is unmatched and the production here is so great. it's got influence from all over the place, from jazz to boom bap to funk. there is not a dull moment on here. from the jump, it's firing on all cylinders. so creative, so fascinating, just really, truly great.

some parts of this album are kind of neat. some parts are unlistenable. the instrumentation is pretty cool but the vocals are really hit or miss. i gather that's sort of the point. obviously john lydon doesn't give a shit whether or not something is listenable. it was definitely interesting, but not something i'm particularly keen on listening to again. a one and done type of deal.

not a bad album, but not anything that blew me away. often times the vocalist here sounds like robert plant, which is a compliment. in terms of the time period it was released, i think there are more novel and more interesting albums.

no matter how much classic rock radio wants me to like dire straits, i will never find them interesting. the instrumentation is good, the production sounds nice. the songs are so MOR. quite frankly, it's a bit boring of an album. there's one song on here worth listening to, and it's the song they overplay on the radio. not for me

decent enough album. sza has a nice voice and the production is nice. i'm not going to be a boomer and complain about the content, it doesn't offend me. that being said, it's not really an album for me. it's alright, but a lot of the songs here don't really interest me a whole lot. it's not bad, it's just not really my thing.

this is a springsteen album that i've always heard raved about but historically i couldn't quite get it. hadn't listened to it in a long time, so i was excited to give it another spin. maybe i am older, a bit wiser, a bit more amenable to the sparse sound here, but i really liked it this time. it is very sparse. just bruce and his guitar. the spotlight is entirely on the songwriting. luckily, he is a great songwriter. the highlight to me is always going to be 'atlantic city' but i also have to give a shoutout to the title track, 'state trooper,' 'open all night,' and 'reason to believe' as highlights here. although i don't think there's a bad song on here. it's raw, it's sparse. it stands alone in bruce springsteen's discography as its own thing.

kind of blown away by this one. common's flow is terrific and he is lifted even further up here from the production of kanye west and j dilla here. every song on here is great and common's sensibility really lands with me. it's a shame that a lot of the people involved here have subsequently fallen out of peoples' good graces (kanye, john mayer, a random appearance from dave chappelle) because this is a truly great record!

i'd heard a lot of people rave about this album over the years, but never got around to it myself until now. i can see why people like this album. i also don't know that i really get it fully. it's good, at points. there's some cool stuff here, but there's also a lot of carnival music. i wish there was more of the cool stuff and less of the carnival music. it does feel ahead of its time, but also i don't know if i think it's all that great ultimately.

man i truly do not get this one. it's not that i don't like madonna. it's not that i can't appreciate electronic music. i just feel like this album is so flat and uninteresting. quite frankly, it's boring! the highs here are so mid and the lows are low. who the hell is going to madonna for eastern influenced music anyways? not only that, the production sounds so lifeless and dated in a bad way. madonna's vocals are not great and do not stand out at all. this could have been anyone singing these songs. if you played me most of this album out of context, i don't even think i would recognize that this is madonna's voice. i genuinely do not know what i'm missing. maybe you just had to be there. i'm glad she tried to branch out. it doesn't work for me. a lot of this album feels like it should be played at a clothing store circa 2002. the gap chic