Reviews by uhhhellurr

yeah, this album is really funky and great. really fun and groovy, and there's never a dull moment. i love the improvisation on here. fela kuti strikes again!

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but in all seriousness, i do love this album. this era of garage rock is near and dear to my heart and this is a classic of the genre. looking through the reviews here though, you wouldn't know it! contextless, there's not a lot here. there's harder and more interesting music on this list and in general. but in 1965, this was pretty damn aggressive. and to me, what's important about this album is not the covers, but the originals. between 'the witch,' 'psycho,' and 'strychnine,' this is sort of rock music's first baby steps into a darker sort of vibe - taking the goofy paranormal vibe of 'love potion number nine' and taking it a little darker. there are some pretty decent, even good covers on here, but they are definitely not what is notable about this album.

this album is really goofy but i really love the concept. and really it was one of the first concept albums in rock music. if you can ignore (or enjoy!) the goofy mid-60s style ads interspersed between all the tracks here, there are some gems. this is a real turning point for the who and you can definitely feel them rounding that corner towards 'tommy' on this one (sometimes even literally). pretty much every song on here is catchy as all hell and has a goofy sense of humor (songs about stinky girls and getting abused by your parents for a tattoo) but you could tell that from the cover, now couldn't you?

fun enough album. not anything bad on here, but not anything super stellar either. the highlight for me was 'take your mama' which is a fun elton john style romp. the rest of it was alright, but did not elevate to the level of a favorite.

i'm pretty new to sabbath but the two albums i've experienced have been great! this one is obviously no exception. metal in the purest form, just loud guitars, moody riffs and ozzy's iconic vocals. the only song that lacked for me here was 'planet caravan' but other than that, this album is pretty much perfect. and now i'm bummed i never got into black sabbath until now!

i love 60s psych music and of course know country joe and the fish from their iconic performance at woodstock, but i had never actually sat down and listened to this album. there is some very cool, very 1967 psych rock here. in particular, 'not so sweet martha lorraine' is a classic of the genre and still sounds great. unfortunately with the good is a whole lot of very uninteresting, more sparce psychedelic 'jams' that really drag this album down. what could be a fun psych album just gets too in the weeds with tracks like 'section 43' and 'grace.' still, there's nothing here that i would call bad, it's just i think it could be better.

i hate to say it, but this was one of the most bland electronic albums i've ever heard. there was not really anything here that enticed me or i found interesting. it just sort of went on for almost an hour. sort of the epitome of background music in a bad clothing store.

after listening to this album, i was a bit surprised to find that it seems to be pretty unliked. not just here but on other websites, etc. i was a percussionist in a past life, so i am not afraid of a drum-forward and rhythm-forward album. this was pretty cool. the conga playing was top notch and the songs here were very fun. it felt like a party at times. the one gripe i think i have with this album is that there wasn't anything that really gripped me. there was a lot of cool stuff, but not really anything i think i would come back for more than this listen. still, i appreciated this album - this is the kind of stuff i love this project for!

yeah not really my thing at all. the more hip-hop-esque sections were not very stellar and the jazz-ier, lounge-ier sections were also not stellar. maybe it's because the album i had generated before this one was Coltrane, but the jazzy stuff on here feels so stale. in fact, the whole album kind of feels stale. it's like i'm listening to the soundtrack of a d-tier movie. it sounds dated in a very not charming way. and there are some unlistenable and oddly horny stretches here. but the worst sin of all is that, quite frankly, it's pretty boring.

look, i mean there is a reason why this album is regarded as the greatest work in jazz. the musicianship is off the chain, the music is stunningly recorded and is downright beautiful and epic (in the classical sense of the word). it is jazz at its final form. expertly sculpted, crafted, performed. complex but extremely listenable. it gets a lot of hype, and it truly deserves it.

to me, this is THE byrds album. i know 'mr. tambourine man' gets all the attention, justifiably so, for its groundbreaking, but this album to me is the most authentically byrdsy. chris hillman has stepped into the void that was left by gene clark's depature and has stepped up brilliantly - providing some of the best songs on this record, but really what may be my favorite byrds song of all time, 'have you seen her face.' roger (jim?) mcguinn sort of takes the backseat here and it feels mostly like a david crosby and chris hillman record. and gary usher's production holds up really well in terms of albums that came out this year - a surprisingly important and underrated producer of the era. really what this album is is the byrds at a crossroads, halfway between folk rock bob dylan cover band and country rock. it's an album i adore and have adored and this listen was no exception.

this is one of the coolest sounding albums of all time. like the sound is just so cool. it oozes cool. the beats here are infectious, the verses are great. listening to this genuinely makes me sad that the roots are just jimmy fallon's house band now. we could have had it all.

really good 90s rap album. i really liked the production here and jeru's flow is pretty good. it's a bit dated, but it is a 30 year old album. is it the best rap album i've heard of this era ever? no. is it pretty decent and a great example of 90s rap from new york? i think so

what i found interesting is that almost every song i started off thinking "wow, this one seems a bit underwhelming" but once the chorus hit, i was a bit blown away. great catchy choruses. really clean, pleasant production. vocals are pretty great. just a really nice sounding piece of music. it doesn't approach the level of a favorite, but i still enjoyed the twists and turns and the stellar production.

part of the reason i love this project is listening to albums i ordinarily would never have. a lot of the electronic music i've run into is just that. i always go into them with an open mind, even though it's not my favorite type of music. i'm still waiting to find the album that will sway me. this was not that album. i actually enjoyed the first track, but the rest of the album did nothing for me at best, and at worst, was monotonous and annoying. i appreciate cool sampling and there were some neat samples here, but none that i felt were used in a mindblowing way. really just wasn't for me, unfortunately.

i can't say anything bad about this album. it's one of my favorites of all time. the songwriting and production are very late 60's which is maybe my favorite time period of music of all time. every song on here is catchy and lovely. of course, there's one big song on here that is a classic - 'time of the season' but i think most of these songs should be held as classics in the same vein. in particular, i adore 'this will be our year' which i think is one of the best songs of the decade. there's no world i would give this one under a 5.

my third foray into kings of leon during this project and i still do not really get it. every once in a while there is a song i enjoy, like the first track, 'red morning light' but mostly i am nonplussed by their music. i think out of the three i've listened to so far, this one is the most consistent and the one i like the best. felt more garage rock than the other ones, which is more up my alley than the more generic 00s rock they got into. still, not really my thing.

a fun enough listen but a bit rough around the edges for my liking. the instrumentals here are great and i particularly liked them, but the vocals left me a bit cold at times. a bit too nonchalant for my taste. the big example for me was 'i'm going to spain' where the track itself i loved, and the vocals with the voice cracking and meandering really killed it for me. still, despite that, i enjoyed the album. just think i would have liked it a bit more if the vocal performance was a bit different.

i've known about aimee mann for a while now but i've never sat down and listened to any of her albums, so this was a nice treat for me. i've often found her music to be nice and pleasant to listen to and i really like her voice so i expected to enjoy this one. and i was right. i got exactly what i wished for. a pleasant, well-sung album. perhaps my only complaint is that i'm not sure i found this one quite so memorable. it was nice, for sure, but i don't know if it had enough for me to come back to it.

my second sinatra in 3 days. coincidentally I listened to this album outside of this project earlier this year so i'm giving it a re-evaluation. although i like both sinatra and jobim's work in general, the combination of them is a little lackluster. sinatra is great but his voice doesn't really work with bossa nova. it's not bad, but it's not great either. very middle of the road.