Reviews by ultraclear

Best flavor of Punk stuff imo. Gimme weird girl chants and a saxophone wailing in the background, it's more interesting than tough guy posturing!

Life’s too short

shoutout to all the guys in college that were like "duude you gotta listen to sigur rós! They're so trippy and relaxing!" because they were mostly right about this. I'm not always in the right mood for this sorta thing, but when I am, it's good to put on.

Would this be considered emo? I never had a great grasp on what counted, but I figure if like Fall Out Boy or Green Day qualify, then this one might be on the board. Any case, hated it.
I'd missed out on most of the Angry Disaffected White Guy 90s/00s groups, and while they're all annoying to some degree, some of them are incredibly fun for kind of exactly that reason, and I'd like to figure out what's the alchemy that causes that. Like Eels here never had a chance, too mopey, but NiN was alright!

Wild decisions in this, going big, going weird, I liked it a lot! "Sensual World" hadn't really sold me, but knowing she had *this* in her makes people's praise of her make way more sense

Angry gym music for the sad man with no taste. idk nirvanna's kinda unimpeachable but them aside I think I'm not super into grungy

First and I think only Bob Dylan on the list that I actually properly enjoyed, rather than tolerated

Very funny to get this one while everyone was relitigating "We Didn't Start The Fire" after that cover from panic at the disco or whoever. Good news is that this was from long enough back, I don't need to make excuses for enjoying it.

Angry gym music for the thinking man

sucks

Their general schtick's mostly done better by The Doors or The Stranglers, but that title track's an all-timer.

I've been on a journey with New Wave, from not really understanding it beyond liking Talking Heads, to learning that most groups in that umbrella are actually the "80s synth music" I'd hear from radio play & not very much like talking heads... to listening to a *bunch*, *way too many* on the generator and realizing that Depeche Mode is maybe the only one of that crowd that actually had chops beyond the radio hits. Pretty good stuff! shame about their peers

In middle school I knew a guy who was obsessed with his idea that you couldn't be both a fan of Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers. I don't think he was even trying to make a temperature pun. Didn't appreciate his brain enough back then.

Really sneaky newcomer to my pantheon of favorites! I thought it was pretty good on first listen, but then I've kept coming back to it

I'd heard of Django Django a *while* ago, and never checked them out.

story time, fall 2012, 20 years old, visiting Portland OR with classmates, become obsessed with the idea of going into a music store and buying some indie music, really live out my vague understanding of how to behave like these hipsters I've heard so much about. I pick up Yeasayer's "Fragrant World," guy at the counter is like,

"hey if you like Yeasayer you should check out Django Django"
"Django Django?"
"yeah Django Django"
"cool, will do"

anyway I never got around to checking out Django Django. Now that I've listened, turns out I wasn't missing much, like "Django Django" is fine, pleasingly eclectic. Wasn't interested in checking out the rest of the Django Django catalogue based on "Django Django," though. Yeasayer had at least 3 albums that would deserve the slot more than Django Django's "Django Django," but there's probably also at least a couple hundred albums on this stupid thing that should get out of the way before Django Django should have to. Django.

no.

not my kind of downer album

Big shoes. big, big shoes. Huge cultural shadow, the good songs on it are classics... and there's other songs on there too I guess. idk on the whole I might actually like Bad more

It's bad, but still very charming

I'd genuinely never heard of *Rubber Soul* even though it's like right in the middle of their other stuff that I like. It's good!

I know this is sacrilege, but I think I really do not like Janis Joplin's vocal style. I don't mind raspy or gravely, and her baseline is totally fine! But it's specifically when she goes for high notes, her voice gets really *breathy* in addition to all that and it hits my ears badly. Like there's having a singing style, and then there's "this sounds like these notes are out of your range and you keep trying to go for them anyway"