Reviews by uhhhellurr

i know slade from a handful of their hits, so i vaguely knew what i was in for here. pretty fun glammy stuff here. it's not super mindblowing, but it's fun. their janis joplin cover on here is kind of rad? it almost verges on punk. the second side of this album goes kind of crazy. super fun. but yeah, you've got big power chords and shrieking vocals. exactly what you'd want from slade.

decent enough country album. i'm not averse to country music at all, but this one felt a little lacking in both the song department and also for a first experience of waylon jennings, i kind of wanted more from his vocal performance. on the more upbeat tracks, it works well, but on the country ballads, i find his voice to be a little weak. not a bad album, but ultimately felt a little underwhelming.

with ray charles, you're getting iconic singing, and fantastic musicianship from him and his band. this album is no exception. it's got that classic sound from yesteryear. i just wish i liked the selection of songs better. they're not bad, but i find i tend to like ray charles' stuff when it's more r&b and this is way more standards focused. like i said, it's not bad, just not totally my thing. still, it's a solid listen.

enjoyable album. i really liked the quirkier moments on this. there's some rockin stuff here too, which i enjoyed. the full package is a little off kilter, but not so much so that it's inaccessible. i had a good time listening to this one.

decent enough r&b album. reminds me a lot of her contemporaries, similarly to the janet jacksons and paula abduls of the world. not anything here that's particularly awful, but also nothing here that's mindblowing. decent. middle of the road.

i'm finding i'm not really a sonic youth fan. it's not that i can't appreciate harsh or rough around the edges music, it's just that somehow i find their music just that hard to listen to and just that boring. there's a sparseness here that i am just not fond of that made this a little bit of a chore to listen to. i just wish this had more energy. i guess, just chalk it up to them not being for me.

interesting album and definitely has its moments, but ultimately it's a light like for me, and not a love. i was more enamored with the heavier moments on here than the more ambient stuff, which i found a bit dull in comparison. it's definitely a mixed bag of an album, but i found i didn't really appreciate the full mix.

some interesting beats here, and it's certainly well produced, but an hour of this very much overstays its welcome. i'm not particularly fond of this brand of music, but it's fine in normal quantities. had this had... two? three? more tracks left on the cutting room floor, this might've been up a star for me.

fun album. kinda psych-y (i would hope, based on the band name), kinda punk-y, kinda new wave-y. the highlight for me was 'pretty in pink' but i did enjoy the rest and think i will come back to this one in the future.

have you ever wanted to listen to the bloke at the end of the bar sing-rap over some 70s pub rock? yeah, me neither.

feeling like i am becoming a well seasoned tom waits listener. i liked this one! i feel like it strikes a good balance between the really demented, zany tom waits and the more jazzy sultry tom waits. is it weird i kind of wish it was more off kilter?

nice album. it's a pretty good listen and never gets dull. i wish the production was a little more lively, as is more my style. pet shop boys tend to be a bit subdued for my liking a lot of the time. but a pretty solid album nonetheless

i've always wanted to listen to this album ever since i fell in love with 'everybody's talkin' as performed by harry nilsson, but never got around to it until now. it's a nice folky album. fred neil's voice is very unique in the space, it's quite low but kind of beautiful, in a way. not all the songs here are my favorite, but it's still a pretty solid album.

i've found i kind of fall all over the place with metallica. this album falls somewhere in the middle. i find i tend to like their earlier more energetic stuff, and this is kind of not that. of course, they're metallica, but this album does feel a bit more subdued and melodic, with ballads such as 'nothing else matters.' of course, 'enter sandman' is a classic and there's nothing on here that's truly bad or unlistenable, but i'm not sure i really vibed with it outside of maybe a handful of tracks.

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solid album. i particularly liked the track, 'just.' radiohead tends to not really be my bag and this album didn't totally bowl me over but it was still an overall enjoyable album.

maybe my least favorite of the three "canonical" experience albums, but it's still a great album. the highs are so high and the lows are still pretty good. of course, jimi's guitar playing is incredible, as is noel redding's and mitch mitchell's. just a great ensemble album with transcendent guitar.

the vocalist has a very nice voice. at times it verges on tina turner, particularly on the slower stuff. I liked the slower stuff on here better than the harder stuff, but ultimately found this pretty middling.

a bit avant-garde and strange in places, but ultimately, a kind of boring synthpop album. not as bad as people are making it out to be, but also not really remarkable at all. weird, but not enjoyably so.

not a huge pink floyd fan but i was holding out hope that maybe this one would land better for me because i am a huge 60s psych guy. unfortunately, this album didn't really land for me. the pure psych stuff here didn't really excite me (i would've much preferred a lot of stuff along the lines of 'see emily play' than most of the stuff on here) and it had a lot of whimsical gobbledygook that i now know to expect from british psych music (gnomes and such). unfortunately not really for me.