Reviews by uhhhellurr

pretty solid album. i like the pixies well enough but haven't explored their music beyond listening to doolittle. i enjoyed the evolution shown here but i felt like although the songs were pretty consistent, they were a little bit of a step down from doolittle. but overall, a good album with great production.

i really do try to go into every album with an open mind but man, i am so sorry, this was like mind-numbingly boring to me. overly long electronic tracks that don't really go anywhere. it's just tedious. it's like i'm trapped in the menus of a playstation 1 racing game. help me! get me out!

very pleasant album. bill evans was a terrific jazz pianist, and it is highlighted here. his phrasing and chord structure is second to none - i would say, even, iconic. when you're listening to a jazz record, you know when bill evans is playing piano. the rhythm section here does its part and never gets in the way of the star of the show here (the piano). that being said, although it was good and pleasant, it never got truly incredible for me. the highs were not high and the lows were not low, it was just good. musicianship is pretty good, songs are fine.

i am a metal newbie, but i enjoyed my time with this one. it's aggressive, bombastic, and pretty listenable. the musicianship here is pretty great and the lyrics i enjoyed. pretty cool!

i'm a big elliott smith fan, and this album is no exception. he shares a lot of influences with music that i adore, and also i love his songwriting. often i find even though his music is laced with sadness, i find it quite comforting. i don't think there's a bad tune in the bunch here, but my favorites are 'son of sam,' 'somebody that i used to know,' 'stupidity tries,' and, 'easy way out.' just a great album from a great songwriter.

really enjoyed my time with this one. obviously amy winehouse was a terrific vocalist and she is putting on quite the performance here. i really loved the throwback soul sound that the production employs here - one of the songs even interpolates marvin gaye and tammi terrell's 'ain't no mountain high enough.' for me, i think what keeps this album in the good-not-great territory is the crop of songs here. there are two songs i think i would consider great - 'rehab' and the title track. the rest of the songs are somewhere between fine enough and good. nothing really stands out from the pack. that isn't to say the songs are bad, i just didn't find them interesting enough to bump them up to the great territory.

i've never listened to black sabbath in full, and am really only familiar with the staples they play on classic rock radio. i am pretty blown away by this one! i was a led zeppelin kid and listening to this, it is shocking how i never got into this. all the stuff i love about early led zeppelin is here and is even bigger and darker. the attitude and the sinister feel is great, mixed with the rock production of an era that i adore. this is one i will definitely come back to. i sort of always wrote off black sabbath as something i would never be into, and i was sorely wrong!

i've never been the hugest rush fan, but i had a good time listening to this one. the big songs on here are the highlights to me 'tom sawyer' 'yyz' and 'limelight.' the more album cuts were fine but i felt they were nothing to write home about. as i said before, rush has never been my favorite flavor of prog, but it's serviceable enough. not great, not bad. good.

a pretty good album. my second foray into ms. harvey's music, and i definitely would like to hear more. her songwriting is great - i just wish this album was a little more abrasive and less slow and ballady. I didn't really care that much for the two songs with thom yorke (hot take?) but nothing here is bad at all. just felt like it could have been more for me. still a good album!

i've never listened to wu-tang before but i wish i had sooner! this album was great. i am finding myself a big fan of this era of rap and this is one of the best complete albums i have heard. the production and beats on this one are so great and the verses here are witty, fun, and their flow is excellent. obviously wu-tang gets a lot of hype (we've all seen the t-shirts from hot topic and the posters in college dorms) which, i think steered me away, thinking they were somehow overrated. nope. this is great stuff!

a pretty decent country and western album from the early sixties. this one starts off with a goofy introduction from mr. price thanking everyone for how much they loved their last record and how much he hopes they will love this one - should more records start off with a personal plea to fans? maybe, maybe not. it is kind of an awkward way to start the album. sir, i just met you.

anyways, i enjoyed myself with this one. a lot of songs about honky tonks and falling in love and drinking, fairly common tropes for the time period, but i don't think there's a bum song here. mr. price's voice isn't the best country voice i've ever heard but it is charming and the musicianship here is pretty good. it's not an album i see myself coming back to, really, but it's one that i was pleasantly surprised by.

A pretty solid 60s garage rock album heavily lifted by the two singles off of it - 'i had too much to dream (last night)' and 'get me to the world on time.' i'm a fan of this era of music so i enjoyed myself, but really in the grand scheme of things this is a pretty forgettable album. still, it's not bad and is one of the more solid, less hit-or-miss garage band albums of the era.

another doors album, another real mixed bag here. there are great songs on this record that i like a lot, 'roadhouse blues' and 'queen of the highway,' there are some decent, pretty good songs here as well, 'waiting for the sun' and 'peace frog,' and there are songs that are, quite frankly, kind of dull, 'indian summer' and 'ship of fools.' just imo a pretty uneven album from a band i can never decide where i stand on them. sometimes they are great, sometimes they are not. as always, the musicianship here is great. the songwriting and the vocals have the biggest sway in quality. the more i listen to the doors, the more i land in the middle on them, which is where i feel this one lands as well.

solid album with a great soundscape. the production was cool and you can tell a lot of craft went into creating it. on the other hand, i felt like a lot of the songs dragged on and some of them had the tendency to drift into dull territory. that being said, i can see myself relistening in the future and having this one grow on me. as it stands right now, i felt it was good, but not great.

i am pretty new to motorhead, but what i appreciate about this live album is that their sound, their energy translates INCREDIBLY WELL to a live setting. in the studio they are great, but live they are HUGE. this is just a balls to the wall live album, no holds barred. the playing is aggressive yet incredibly well done. and lemmy's vocals are iconic. just a great example of motorhead in their purest form.

man i love this album front to back. not only is it, in my mind, basically a perfect debut album, it still holds up. i have to echo what my parents and people of my parents' generation said about this album, which is, "it's basically a cars greatest hits!" which... it is. the whole album is great and i have not gotten sick of it yet. it's got some of their iconic songs and the album cuts are pretty great too. great stuff!

cool album. beck is an artist that i've obviously heard about for years but haven't delved into, so this was an interesting experience. i loved how eclectic the influences of this album was. a touch of hip hop, 60s rock, even some fun noise here and there. song-wise, i enjoyed the entire tracklist, but nothing here totally stood out as incredible. just a really solid, well made album.

i am always a little bit on the hesitant side when an album shows up on one of these lists that was made in the last 5-10 years because i feel like it's not fair to the new albums as they have not had as many years of esteem as the other ones. a lot of them seem like they are "hot takes." i didn't know what to expect from this one, but i was pleasantly surprised. a really fun modern rap album, but the star for me here was the production. feels modern but is definitely heavily influenced by old soul music. i think it's a great pairing between old school and new school. lil simz' verses are pretty great and there are some highlights here for sure - 'offence' and 'flowers' being my favorites of the bunch, but it's all really solid and sounds great.

a really fun, off kilter, energetic romp of an album. this is definitely not everyone's bag, but if you know 'whip it' you may have an idea of what you are in store for. it's an album that definitely goes against the grain, and that's kind of what i love it for. 'uncontrollable urge' is one of the best album openers of all time, and i also adore 'jocko homo' and 'gut feeling/(slap your mammy)' - not to mention their odd cover of the rolling stones' 'satisfaction.' the production is great and it sounds as bombastic today as it probably did in 1978.

honestly i think this one is my favorite album of his. it's not as bloated and i think all the songs here are, at a minimum, really good. really every song here is great, my least favorite being the final track. what boggles my mind about stevie wonder in this period is that he is 1) 23 years old and 2) playing the majority of the instruments on this album. so not only is he writing, singing, but he is almost the entirety of the album. it is all him. at age 23. insane. guaranteed you were not pulling off anything this great at age 23.