Reviews by ultraclear

not quite as interesting and fun as *A Wizard/A True Star*, but it's pretty good. Enjoying Todd’s entries on this list so far, but in terms of “Producer guys’ projects where they’re composing the music” Brian Eno’s easily tops for me, and I’d probably even put Alan Parsons over Todd a lot of the time.

eh, it's country rock but her voice is nice. Na-Na Song was sung with a real Beck-type delivery, but I like Beck's production a lot more

for doing a related thing (aggressively acoustic, folky to the point of medieval), blows Incredible String Band out of the water. Still would prefer something more along the lines of Renaissance, get a little more ambitious with the arrangements, y'know,

wait I thought people were like somehow embarrassed by Garbage, but this actually owns

I liked it, but not as much as self-titled & Parklife

4/5 music, 7/5 album art

Turns out I like it alright when american country music decides to use the wah wah pedal more

Strictly worse than The Fall, but credit where it's due for doing The Fall type stuff this early on

It's not nearly as exciting as what Miles Davis or Charles Mingus were doing around this time, but I'm certainly not gonna say no to calming jazz

More like electric prune 'em from this list heyooo

tbh though, this isn't the first example on here where there was a band contemporary to The Doors, doing very similar things to The Doors, that was also outclassed by The Doors on most levels

All Ballads is usually a pretty big ask for me, but man *Murder Ballads* really unlocked these guys for me, I enjoyed this

I literally listened to this only one day before writing this, and I don't remember it at all. Slid directly off my brain.

Not quite Supertramp levels of winning me over, but it's a fun experimental thing from somebody where my only prior familiarity was that he made the bang on my drum all day song, and knowing he was the person who got "Bat Out Of Hell" made when no other producers were willing to touch it

Having crossed into the 70s proper, it's harder to levy the "ahead of their time" praise I like to use for them, but it's pretty much impossible for me to come up with anything bad to say about this one, it's a great time

Great to have this come on after their progeny, The Prodigy. Undefeated by their successors, they infuse so much sentimentality into the kind of soundfront that goes on to be associated so much with dehumanization, industriousness, etc

Techno techno techno, it's fine, and I love that crab on the album art. Very fun to me that it wouldn't be until about 15 years later the trajectories of stuff like this and mainstream pop would overlap, like i have to remind myself this probably would've had a more niche audience than I'd expect nowadays. I wasn't musically checked in at all during the 90s (being younger than 10 years old the whole way through) (sorry to older millennials for mentioning that), but I'd have probably been drawn more to this kinda thing than Smashing Pumpkins

I never would have guessed in a million years that music doing so much disco referencing had come out in 2004 (compliment)

Music by and for poison type pokemon

Gotta revisit this one some time

Seen enough of his range by now to come down hard on preferring the piano-banging *Born to Run* sound