Reviews by z_e_q

thank you for bravely fighting this necessary and specific war against the insane clown posse, marshall.

i’ll take the nine pound hammer. you keep the rest, Beau.

these guys made generic AI music the hard way: hours and hours of studio time spent on riffless, shapeless power chord slop and vague, opaque lyrics about "Los Angeles and the state of California" (their words). the title track is at least memorable because it has an actual riff.

there have been some duds on this list, but none of them have been as anonymous as this.

neil

yuck!

it's good and doesn't care if it’s good.

is good and is bad.

goodness me, marvin.

less honkin, more tonkin, Emmy.

missing persons duran duran

v jazzy

sounds like radiohead fronted by peter gabriel pretending like he’s in coldplay.

sounds like a 2008 i remember avoiding.

black, white, whatever. if I was alive in 1956, I would have gobbled this up. sure, maybe chuck was better (and put out "maybellene" in 1955, maybe the best song ever), and maybe little richard was better ("tutti frutti": 1955), but I'd have needed as much rock and roll as I could get to drown out, I don't know, the fucking rat pack and my parents' ragtime jazz or whatever.

rock and roll is a perfectly fucked up righteous synthesis of sounds and sources. don't fight it or fight over it. let it consume you.

"blue moon" rules.

it has its moments. when it veers closer to moody blues/sgt pepper/kinks and away from orchestral pomposity.

boring blowhard stuff

i’ve always found the devotion to dylan, right down to the title, odd and a little lame. but the sound is there, no doubt, even if i like bob’s versions better than theirs. gene’s originals were good, boys. should have filled this up with more of those. he’s always been my favorite byrd.

it’s fine, the guitar is funky, and i’ll likely never return to it.

oh no no no. no thank you. just dreadful.

better than murmur, and better for the inclusion of the two big singles, which are undeniable. always liked "end of the world." my favorite thing about them is still peter buck, but michael stipe isn't my least favorite thing on at least those two tracks. something about their sound still goes through me though.

neil.