Reviews by willprater

This guy actually wrote a blues rock song about a gang bang?!? Who the hell is this guy? The album was kind of all over the place with the subjects of each song, but the songs were fully committed and well written. I don't think I would play the album for guests.

The first couple songs of the album, in my opinion don't quite warm you up for the awesomeness of the rest of it. Traveling band, Lookin' Out My Backdoor, Run Through the Jungle, should I just list all of the rest of the tracks because there's more bangers than not.

It wasn't bad, but I was super distracted while trying to listen to it.

Such a great album with like 3 epic bangers on it. The rest of the album isn't bad either. The 80s was such a golden era for hard rock.

Is this the original ska band?? It sure sounds like it, and I don't mind it.

I gotta be honest, it was kind of all over the place. I can see the uniquity of it. But it felt goofy.

I was skeptical at the start... but they indeed played a hell of a concert. This is an album that should be listened to as an album, of course. Let it get you into its groove.

I like blur, weird that they came up for the first and second time in such quick succession, but okay. This album doesn't hit nearly as well for me though. It does establish a 'signature sound' for the band. But the content just hasn't blown me away at 2/3rds through the album. This is a Low was a good song though.

I really like how this album flows together and how the artist has layered in the harmonies so well. I realized at the midway point, San Vicente that it had been building towards a crescendo for a while. It's hard for me to say "this song is a hit" when it comes to world music. It's more about the vibe and the aesthetic when I listen to it. So by that metric, this hits quite well. It feels like a movie score. It has such ups and downs, moments that feel like anticipation and moments that feel like a celebration. I found the album overall to be very good. Totally pleasant.

Halfway through the album, it sounds pretty good. The vocals remind me of Matt Bellamy or Thom Yorke. But at the end of the album, I'd say this is an okay melodramatic singer song-writer ballads album. Nothing stood out to me. Well except for the abrupt switch to a reggae finale.

I sure do love this album. Is it the most popular album of all time? Idk maybe, probably close to it. Every other track is an iconic song.

Of course I knew Song 2 was a banger. I first got introduced to Damon Albarn through his other project Gorillaz. He's incredibly talented, and I love how Gorillaz let him try new things out that didn't necessarily fit Blur. So it's cool to finally circle back to actually hear what the band was that didn't match the sound of the newer work he wanted to release as Gorillaz.

But M.O.R. was pretty great too. On Your Own is too. A few songs in, and it's clear that Blur has a distinct vibe from Gorillaz, but yeah it's still unconventional. Some of the songs just felt like they were another genre just for the sake of it, despite that they weren't bad songs. The songs weren't bad at all. The album however didn't flow, didn't have a theme. So that kind of holds it back, but it IS new/unique and well made. I would listen again but probably wouldn't recommend it except to fans of Damon Albarn.

It was pretty good, very psychedelic flower rock. I could totally dig it and have listened to and enjoyed similar sounds from more recent artists.

It was aight

The pioneers of industrial music did not perfect industrial music. I would argue that it's not even good industrial music. It was bearable, but just barely. Once again, the algorithmic generated playlist that started after the album ended was better than the album, haha. This is the point though, I am doing this project to improve my algorithm.

It's a really solid rap album. Kick push was a huge hit. Daydreamin' was an amazing cover. I would recommend it for fans of conscious rap.

For me, this album doesn't really begin until High and Dry. The mood is set by that song, and it makes the rest of the album better. It leads in well to Fake Plastic Trees and I feel its similarity in (Nice Dream). Although, I don't love this album as much as the other two that I've had so far, it was still very solid.

The Pogues don't really do it for me. But this author is totally down with 'em. They're not bad. I do wonder if the author intended this list to be all 5 star albums in their opinion. For all I know, this could be the absolute undeniable best album of the Celtic Punk genre, and to be fair, it probably is. Nothing stood out to me though, actually I take that back. They said an offensive word in Fairy Tale from New York. Different times and all that, but... it certainly detracts from any 'cool punk vibes' they may have been going for.

This album hit the ground running. It's so iconic, several huge hits, great skits, and incredible talent.

Not a bad album, I could forget it, but I certainly would like having any of it appear again out in the wild. April Skies does hit the mood of that era and genre so well. It's got this hazy 80s ambiguous rock vibe that would be fitting for a movie soundtrack. It did make me wonder... when will Guns N Roses be coming up... because it MUST be on the list. Turns out Appetite for Destruction was released the same year as Darklands.