Reviews by ultraclear

Definitely was born wrong era for Clapton obsession to have gotten its hooks in me, but passes the smell test of like "Ok it makes sense that older people have so much affection for his music".

Or like unlike morrissey, the music here's good enough that I feel kinder about people loudly having a complicated relationship with listening to & enjoying the scumbag artist

GOD BLESS CAN AND CAN ALUMS. RIP SUZUKI.

this one's a little less memorable/earwormy than *Tago Mago*, but extremely good, and Can remains consistently top-tier among the bands featured on this list

Outstanding work, which is rare for me to get that kind of enthusiasm for punk

God bless Can and Can alums

abrasive (compliment)

One of the last things through the door from Big Band era, and probably some of the best of the genre

lmao the top reviews fucking *haaaaate* this, and even the overall global score's pretty mediocre.

Meanwhile I'm like "eh pretty good, but not quite as layered as Phish songs tend to get"

Between this, Radiohead, and all the Todd Rundgren from last couple rounds, it feels like I've been on an intense-audio-production kick with these lately. I've listened to this one before, it's excellent stuff

jesus christ, I'm not capable of being normal about the fact that I liked this, I really really liked this a lot fucking hell.

Confusion about why people like this band *and this album in particular* had been such a cornerstone of my music taste, and I've fully turned my back to it basically thanks to this project. Literally a 20+ year process for them to finally click

Definitely to her benefit that I put this on as cooking music rather than working or walking, but May It Please The Court, I enjoyed this a lot

A huge anchor point for the cultural memory of 80s music. Had a nice time, turns out most of the issue with "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "Time After Time" is just that they're overplayed

PJ Harvey's someone I should just dive into her music, listen to some things all in a row, bc she's been rock solid whenever she's come up on the list, but I feel like I'd benefit from like a closer career look. Thom Yorke showing up on one of this album's songs made something click in terms of, like, genre space mental sorting

Just like Sister Ray Said

some of the better techno to cross this thing in a minute

Sidebar, there's a million techno releases from the 90s, but afaict *nothing at all* from that EDM boom in the early '10s on here. Like sure I don't think fuckin skrillex really did "albums" as such at the time he hit the mainstream, but like there was a whole era of stuff that lasted *years*, that was a big enough deal that pop artists started biting from it en masse, that’s being completely glossed over. And fuck knows I’m not itching to hear dubstep again for a good long while, but the double standard is glaring

Oh my god this rules. Runs the gamut of rock, ska, funk, gets real close to like sega genesis-sounding music sometimes, just all over the place, having fun every step of the way

Well, got my wish for some U2 songs that I haven't heard a bunch of times, but idk if the proclivities of the y2k era did them a whole lot of favors lol.

Maybe this is stupid of me, but I think I need bono to be more unrestrained, like the stuff I tend to like from them it sounds like he's hollering at large birds from atop a mountain, and for this one he's using his inside voice

Other comments pointing out that this kind of lo-fi fuzz effect was basically Not Done when this released. Which is pretty cool, but there's stuff around these days that executes better on that vision I think

Literally never heard of these guys in my life, but it’s like… very *very* good type of indie, got some good alt rock flavor of the time

MJ's also a sometimes food for me. Wrote in a different one of these that a lot of the good 80s music (which definitely includes his output) drew a lot of influence from funk, and this one’s even funkier than his big 80s hits

Neil Young's a sometimes food for me, but when I'm in the mood, it's really good to have his stuff around