Reviews by willprater

Much better than the first Bruce Springsteen album that I listened to.

This is one of the greatest albums of all time. In high school, Metallica was probably my favorite band. It's still incredible.

I was feeling the album, and digging the vibe and then Damaged Goods came on and I was like, oh heck yeah I know this hit. Super solid British Punk album.

It didn't really do anything for me

What a beautiful voice, and it's so clear too. There's nothing novel about it musically, but she was definitely gifted. There's a lot of covers of classic songs, unless she was the original writer of them in which case holy shit, she wrote some widely covered songs. Okay, so I looked it up, and there's 13 covers of traditional folk songs... so yeah no wonder haha.

Not a lot to say about this album. It was surprisingly musically deep/well composed for how relaxed it was.

Old Man isn't just a classic song, it's timeless. I think Neil Young's voice pairs perfectly with the content of this song. Whereas Heart of Gold has been covered well by other artists, ie Charles Bradley. Overall, this is another album that's so short, only 37 minutes long. But it does flow together decently and has some hits.

I wasn't sure until I got to the bones of you, this is dope. The voice and general sounds is kind of dreamy, and calming. Lots of harmonic sounds in the songs. How appropriate that the last song is an actual lullaby.

That was a bit of a flash in the pan album, only lasted for 33 minutes. I don't know, certainly not as good as a full temptations album.

This sounds like the beach boys, *looks up Brian Wilson*, ah because it is. I don't know why, but his specific sound doesn't hook me very well. Despite that, I can't deny the musical complexity and impressiveness of his work. This album goes easily, with an air of silliness, but it's not bad at all.

This was pretty dope, really classic Cubano music. Excellently performed. I enjoyed it so much that it made me want to rewatch one of my favorite feel good movies, Chef.

This album didn't catch me nearly as well as Hounds of Love does. It's kind of hard to listen to. I do enjoy Kate Bush, and as far as difficult albums go so far in this endeavor, this was certainly not the hardest. I just didn't get anything out of it from two listens.

I really liked Sweetness Follows. The album is good, very chill 90s alt rock. I don't really know what genre R.E.M. is, to be honest. But they're iconic of the era. I can see why, but I can't exactly say why. They have this approachability, catchiness without crossing into pop. Melancholy, but not sad sound.

It's pretty chill, ambient electronic music. Makes me think of Moby, but a lot more vocals. It's also its own thing, kind of pop-y. Young Offender, what video game did they sample for this song??

It's fine, not a particularly exciting live show. But that's also their reputation, as the original jam band.

I did not realize until the end of the first track, that it had been one continuous track-26 minutes long! So yeah, this is a piano concert album, it's not bad. It was a beautiful album, very peaceful. I enjoyed it. Yesterday's album and today's album both generated AMAZING algorithm based playlists after they finished playing on Spotify. That's the goal of this whole endeavor, to escape the algorithm dead-end.

This was actually a very good electronic album. It's not even lo-fi, it's just lower fidelity because of it's age, and I dig it. I couldn't name any tracks off of it a few hours after listening to it, but I would listen to it again. It doesn't really hit a pleasant groove until Duke of Earlsfield, though.

I've listened to this album before, can't say that I'm the most familiar with it though. It's good, it has some hits. Despite not flowing super well, it hits flows between a few songs at a time and then segues with skits. I like conscious rap, but I know it's not for everyone. I think "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" is a better album, so hopefully it's coming on the list.

This album crawled so that other indie rock albums could walk and run. It was mostly fine, but not particularly catchy in my opinion. Which is a little surprising, because I love indie rock. I just didn't love this indie rock.

Good album, it flows together, it has a track that was a hit. But it also has some moments that kind of take you out of the album such as in Neukoln. It made it hard to come back in on The Secret Life of Arabia. Heroes and Sons of the Silent Age though are awesome.