Reviews by uls980

Have listened to it before, but couldn't remember much from it other than the big singles that bookend the record. Kinda understanding why I didn't remember them. Never was a huge Stones fan, and especially am not a fan of their slow blues tracks. Not that they were bad, just they don't do anything for me (and honestly, time is starting to get to them). I like when the Stones are more rock than blues, and this album is heavy on the blues.

This record for me gets propped up on the strength of Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want.

Really good, but nothing particularly stood out to me aside from Broken Hands.

Just not my thing, honestly. Part of it is, it's just really dated sounding (the raps are that really simplistic 80's style which just have not aged well IMO), and partly I just don't really care for it.

What really turned me off was the 6 minute long African Dance which was basically one beat the whole song with (an admittedly good) flute solo. But 6 minutes of it was way too much. Then they followed up with the track Dance, which had the same exact beat, just with a dude telling me I should move to the music and how great it is. Did not need 3 more minutes of that beat drilled into my head. Unfortunately put it down there.

It gets the 2 because while it's not for me and I wouldn't in a million years go back to it, I can understand why someone would like it, and despite my complaints, it's competently made.

Listened before, knew beforehand would be a 5/5, but good excuse to relisten. Don't think it's perfect, not a fan of "For Free? (Interlude)" and the album version of "i" is not as good as the pre-release demo version IMO, but this is a modern classic. Can't get anymore 5/5 than this. Absolute masterpiece.

I've listened to this album before. Great album with some classics. Has the classic Foo Fighters sound that just hits.

But I imagine everyone else mentions this, why put this album on the list and not The Colour and the Shape? Everlong alone puts that album above any other Foos album.

Really feels like a "We know Foo Fighters belongs on the list, but don't know them well enough to pick an album, so we'll pick the debut" pick. Which is insane to me because Foo Fighters seems like an inescapable band.

Was going to give this a 4/5 based on the first half (despite not being thrilled to listen to it when it came up. Mariah is very much not in my wheelhouse as far as artists go, and I'm not too well versed in R&B to be able to accurately rate it), but the second half hit, and while not bad, the songs tended to drag a bit and could have used some cutting down. No reason for The Beautiful Ones to be 7 mins long. Lots of stuff getting close to 5 mins too.

The more hip-hop, darker vibe songs (The Roof) are the better tracks. The more stereotypical, 90's slow ballad R&B songs are the more forgettable ones IMO.
Honey also, despite doing everything in its power to be as repetitive and annoying as possible also managed to be a standout. Definitely grew on me. Very much a song that sounds ahead of its time and not trapped in the 90's like a lot of the rest of the album.

Surprising album to me. Better than I was expecting.

This one kinda gets screwed by the fact that I'm American who doesn't really listen to foreign folk music (aside from some European folk music when its involved in black metal), and when it does come up, it's used as a novelty or as soundtrack music in a movie to convey a specific culture, so that is (unfortunately) the association I immediately get listening to it.
Basically a me issue, and not a fault of the music itself.

That said, it's really good music (or at least, as best I can tell. I don't have anywhere near enough experience with bossanova to be able to tell if this is exceptional or run-of-the-mill as far as the genre goes), just something I can't ever see myself going back to listen to. If it came up sometime randomly, I wouldn't turn it off though and would chill to it.

So yeah. Default 3/5 because I don't know how to rate it, but it was a fine listen.

Good album. Doesnt hit me like the rest of Radiohead's discography, but thats not saying much. Best 3/5 you'll ever listen to.

Good album. Not a huge TFF fan, but when they sound more Depeche Mode, it's great.

Still a fantastic listen, but I will put it half a step below Axis: Bold as Love. Its a little more psychedelic and the production is a little more thin in keeping with the style at the time, which I'm liking a bit less than Axis.

But still, this album is just a hit machine, similar to Axis. Purple Haze, Manic Depression, Hey Joe, Fire, Foxey Lady. And everything inbetween is great too.

Maps is always great, and the rest of the album slaps.

Going back and adding reviews for the couple albums that I didn't early on. But re-listening to the album first to collect my thoughts.

Kinda understanding why I didn't write a review previously. Just don't got a ton to say about it. It's not as good as Doolittle which was basically my memory of why I rated it the way I did.

Will say, it does explore different sounds throughout that Doolittle doesn't, for example the very first song Cecilia Ann being a kinda western sounding surf rock song, and I appreciate that.

This album is also produced a lot dirtier and noisier than I remember Doolittle being, which I like (Rock Music being a good example of that).

Overall, re-listening to this album has allowed me to appreciate it more, and am gonna bump my rating up from a 3 to a 4.

Very Bowie in singing. This is the Day is playlist material.

The first album I ever got for the project! But yeah, still liking this one as much as I did before. I'm a huge fan of their song Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (one of my favorite songs to sing at karaoke), so appreciating this album has more of that vibe vs american dream (which I remember being more vibey vs the dance punk of LCDs other stuff).

Love the bleep bloopiness of Someone Great. The dance punk vibe of North American Scum. The Charlie Brown-esque piano that goes through All My Friends. This whole album is just positive vibes, and its nice to get something like that every once in a while.