Reviews by ultraclear

nondescript, but I could maybe see how somebody like 30 years older than me could feel about these guys the way that I do about a band like franz ferdinand

Foo Fighters

Clean W for team continental. Twenty years later a bunch of brits who grew up with this kind of music would start making a lot of drum & bass techno albums, then 30 years after that, I would get very bored by most of those while listening for this project. For some reason, the French and the Germans are just extremely good at making this kind of thing.

Contains the DNA of like the next 25 years of indie rock. Two bone songs in a row feels like a sequencing mistake but they’re allowed to do that.

Don’t like them on their home turf, and I don’t like them doing this kind of thing either

Excellent album, and underrated stand battle

Cute, but trying too hard

Got her most recent album served up to me a while ago for this, which I didn't like very much, but I think probably that listening order did her dirty. Would have been much better to have heard this first for context on what her deal is

Not just dad rock, but like cargo cult dad rock. stuff that came out late enough in the (boomer) dads' lives that it can't be dismissed as a nostalgia thing

drifting into HEALTH territory

Never heard of them, and I went on a real journey with this one.
Felt mildly positive at first, real chill

then "Lovefool" really perked me up, caught myself bouncing my knee while it was going. That one's an absolute bop, which, there's a part of me the often gets self-conscious when I learn my clear favorite songs off an album were the big mainstream radio hit singles. That happened to me with Jefferson Airplane, for instance. I'd never heard anything from these guys, though, so I think I can be less worried that I'm a secret lazy osmosis listener who just gets told what to like. In this case at least.

Then, uh, hm that "Iron Man" cover, huh. I don't think I liked it, but I threw it on the highlights playlist anyway because goddamn that kind of lunatic decision deserves respect.

More like Asstral Weaks

wanted to give this a 1 just to send a message. Duran Duran had already showed the world how to go big with this stuff, so no excuse for these guys just piddling around being cowards

Tempted to call them "mid", but that'd be a cowardly way to avoid saying they suck. Aggressively, insultingly boring.

Listened to it in the wrong context. This is horrible cooking music, but would have been great for going for a walk on a lightly rainy night

This is like a perfect 4.5-star album for me, where I so rarely want to listen to the whole thing that I forget how good the good tracks are.

lmao I'd somehow made it this far without hearing "Freak On A Leash" before. The album hits you in the face with fun insane decisions like that up front, but then drags on so long that it all wears out its welcome extremely hard. Probably my least favorite nu-metal act I've listened to for the project--SOAD was a great time, and even Linkin Park was mostly cute.

Apparently Lewis was a nightmare of a person, and I'm consistently not a fan of this era of rock & roll acts just being endless covers of genre staples. Makes it easy for me to dismiss this one, so I will.

Extremely influential music stylings import for the USA. Really enjoyed listening to this, perfect for a hot weekend afternoon, but I will say I mostly really dislike what Americans went on to do with Bossa Nova. That Sinatra album was a chore.

Thank you P-funk, god bless you every one