Reviews by ultraclear

Slow maudlin Indie, extremely not to my taste

Like this came out same year as Freewheelin' Dylan's thing, and I am *way* more interested in the musical ambition of this. Late jazz in general goes to really interesting places!

[Trump Voice] "Freewheelin' Bob"

This one has been my favorite Bob Dylan to come across the list so far, still leaves me cold

Obligatory Lebowski

She's great, and I really regret that I wasn't listening to this in ideal circumstances--slow dancing in a dimly-lit room

Black Keys are generally pretty fun, kinda wear down over the course of a whole album. 2010's kind of the tail end for this sort of sound being fashionable, the bass is mixed more heavily, we're not quite to the point historically of dubstep being shoved in everyone's faces for half a decade, but it's hard not to think about that coming as this starts to die off

It's not a perfect heuristic, plenty of exceptions etc, but I'm finding something that separates a lot of good 80s pop music from bad is that the good acts really, *really* took a lot of influence from funk. This is great stuff!

I'll admit to having a soft spot for "Karma Chameleon," but the rest of this is fucking awful, just the blandest stereotype of bad 80s pop

This one really won me over as it went. At first I thought I was going to be in for 60s nostalgia masturbation, but as the thing went on it was incorporating more contemporary sensibilities that fused really well

Cultural touchpoint filled in, basically. I love the idea of these guys more than I actually enjoyed listening

*Supernatural* soundtrack-type music, lol. Classics of Dad Rock. "Peace of Mind" is the only worthwhile song on here, but it unironically rules, basically single-handedly elevating the whole album

Ok here we finally have a gothy entry that I'm more neutral on. Mellower than I was hoping for. Release date surprised me a bit, it released further back than I would've expected

Classics of 60s music, nothing really revelatory here

This was cozy, kinda reminiscent of mid-period Jethro Tull on a good day

I've listened to enough Radiohead by now that I actually am getting the appeal of them and appreciating them more, so the new nemesis of my generator project is Bob Dylan. Like it's just been what I understand to be his good shit on the list so far, and I have really, *really* not been enjoying him. I have to assume the problem is I'm just not getting something, but for now I'm not grasping the source or intensity of his appeal to people.

Like with "Desolation Row," which I understand to be a very well-regarded song, he's clearly going hard w/ the lyrics, but it was such a chore musically? 11 minutes of the same structure and strumming going on endlessly, so by like Verse 138 it's like god DAMN shut up I can't take any more! put in a bridge section or something!

Song for song, it's got like a 2.5 for 5 hit rate for me ("21st Century Schizoid Man" & "Epitaph" are great, title song kinda depends on my mood), also historically this album was almost singularly responsible for inventing prog rock as a genre (compliment), even if I enjoy its successors more

I understand Fugazi to be really influential for what would become grunge, but it and most of its descendants aren't really my kind of thing

*Sheer Heart Attack* is good, *Night At The Opera* is great, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is genuinely good but wildly overrated and overplayed, not even the best one on that album (which would be "Prophet's Song", tyvm)

Prince is kind of unrivaled among artists for me listening to his full albums and counting the number of songs I recognize from radio play, that I had no idea where from him. Incredible talent, RIP

Hey this was extremely good! I don't think I could have survived school years if I'd been checked into gothy stuff, but their music continues to be fantastic