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Reviews by z_e_q

The Who Sell OutThe Who

8/10

minus half a star for silas stingy. minus half a star for abandoning the concept around silas stingy. could have been their best album.

VeryPet Shop Boys

6/10

this is somebody’s shit. like when they hear it, they scream like ET and scamper to the dance floor. not my shit, but someone’s. probably a lot of folks. respect. go west was my fave. it’s funny sometimes. the song about the queen.

TommyThe Who

10/10

etched into my brain at 16. the stupidest masterpiece in the history of rock music? these boys stuck to the concept.

PlayMoby

6/10

sometimes a four, sometimes a two

Johnny Cash at San QuentinJohnny Cash

8/10

-he’s a master of stage banter and knowing his audience
-wanted man rules
-the train sounds he makes on old 97
-his voice is so haggard. cough after every song.
-boy named sue is perfect. shel silverstein’s words, johnny’s delivery, and carl perkins’ lead guitar lines
-we’re lucky to have documents like this and folsom.
-4 because the one verse version of folsom blues at the end is bogus and always leaves me unfulfilled.

xxThe xx

4/10

robert christgau, on whom i depend to reliably and smugly shit on lame music, wrote about this album that “it’s hard to imagine their music getting much better.”

so not only did i have to sit through another xx album of royalty-free tracks for AI-generated travel videos, i also lost faith in one of my favorite haters.