Reviews by valueram

EVOLSonic Youth

Rated 4/10

I thought this was going to be better for some reason. There were definitely some interesting and good moments, but most of it was just hard to listen to. 2/5

This was actually pretty good and quite enjoyable. I'd revisit this more if it was available on my streaming platform of choice. 4/5

Actually not terrible for a Bob Dylan album. He still can't sing for the life of him, but it was bearable and there wasn't too much harmonica. 3/5

Dog Man StarSuede

Rated 2/10

The singer tried way too hard to mimic Bowie with little success--it actually made it hard to listen to. I didn't finish this. I got away from it and saw little reason to come back to finish it. 1.5/5

The best thing on here was the first track, everything else was either boring or just not my thing. The first track was at least kind of groovy. 1.5/5

This had an older country feel to it and since I am not really a fan of country, this really wasn't my thing. It wasn't necessarily bad though and there were a few decent songs, I just couldn't get into it. 2/5

3+3The Isley Brothers

Rated 10/10

I really liked this. He's got a good voice and the instrumentals are fantastic in my opinion. This was a very unexpected 5/5

Better than the last Elvis Costello album on this list. There were some enjoyable tracks on here; enough in fact to give this a 3/5

This was something... not good. The first half was complete saxophone nonsense, but starting with Ecars, it became something somewhat listenable. It still wasn't great, but still beats out some things on this list. A hard 1 for the first half, but the second half is redeeming enough to get this to a low 2/5