Reviews by ultraclear

I would not have asked them to contribute music to the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack based on this, and that would have been a mistake on my part. Didn't care for this one, though.

Pretty interesting, post-punk in the 80s is kind of a cool experimental time in musicmaking

Divine Comedy aside, real stacked crew of collaborators on here that did not end up making an album that I liked whatsoever. Glad Tom Waits and Nick Cave had fun I guess.

Buddy, I’m frowning.

Yesssss hell yea! really really loved it. Surprisingly accessible compared to the Mothers of Invention album that came up earlier

First miss from a Madonna album on the list for me, and it’s a *big* miss. The other ones I heard from her were kind of taking the musical waters of their era and doing them really big and really well, but unfortunately this particular era was real real bad waters

One of a handful of albums on here where the wikipedia production story entry is the main thing making the pitch for why it's included. I'm not enough of a lyrics man to get past how rough the production quality is on this one.

Liked it less than Destiny's Child, but more interesting than most other 90s R&B acts that I know about (admittedly not many of them)

good lord the number of shit early/mid 60s albums on this list that were just nothing but rock & roll staple covers. It's bad! same goes for Rolling Stones' debut album!

'es split 'is noggin in twain, 'e 'as, 'e 'as. Blimey

Our House in the Middle of the Street band. That song's the only thing you've heard from them for a reason, the rest is whatever

Ain't no Herbie Hancock, but pretty good for cooking or moving through the world

The best song on here turned out to be a Neil Young cover, but otherwise pretty decent trip hop stuff

B-side slumps a bit, but i’m feeling generous today

I feel crass for wanting to talk about his influence on Talking Heads after learning that this was a big deal protest album that resulted in serious violence being done to him. Then I kept reading the wikipedia article, which itself felt the need to bring up:

"Kuti and his band then took residence in Crossroads Hotel as the Shrine had been destroyed along with his commune. In 1978 Kuti married 27 women, many of whom were his dancers, composers, and singers to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Kalakuta Republic. Later, he was to adopt a rotation system of keeping only twelve simultaneous wives."

Like I dunno wiki editors, I feel like maybe musical impact and influences are maybe more relevant to the article about the album itself, and some of this other stuff belongs in the **Personal Life** section on the musician page.

Big time stupid 80s band, and I only have room in my heart for ACDC when it comes to big time stupid 80s bands.

Yeah see even though punk’s not a natural fit for me, a big advantage they have over metal is the punk bands get in and do their thing fast before wearing out their welcome.

This album's pretty fun, but tbh I almost have more fun reading people getting into comment section arguments about the Sex Pistols and there influence on punk as a genre space

General Metallica take: miles ahead of slayer and megadeth, but they have a problem where their stuff always goes on too long.

As for this album specifically, “Enter Sandman” is an all-timer, even despite being such a planet fitness playlist staple, and it's such a good album opener that it took several more songs than usual to decide I was getting bored

was worried I was in for a snoozefest, and then they started throwing instrumentals in! with interesting arrangements & jamming!

Abrasive in a mostly unfun way, but very interesting checking in on what jazz looks like as the 90s are approaching. Miles Davis had given us prog-infused jazz, but art moves on and now we’re firmly in the world of what punk does to the thing