beautiful album! otis redding’s butter-smooth voice had me hanging on to every word.

my favourite talking heads album <3 mind is a masterpiece

it feels like i’m ignorant of some of the sins this record commits because i’m not well-versed in the beatles. it’s a decent pop record with a few catchy standouts.

i was so ready to love this album but the second half of it dragged on and got samey

you could get any information you wanted out of me by using this album. i’d probably fold during the first track.

i was not expecting tom waits to sound like cookie monster

feels pretty apt to be reviewing this the day before the u.s. election….There’s No Place Like America Tomorrow

filed under “albums that probably would’ve changed my life if i’d discovered them as a teenager”

a good funk will change your life

this album came out a week after my seventeenth birthday, so it’s total nostalgia-bait for me. it soundtracked some of the best nights of my life, driving home at dawn to perfect places, and some of the worst ones too, pining in my bedroom to liability. easiest five stars i could ever give.

men’s humour be like “rape 🤣🤣🤣”: The Album

dr. dre is in the house, yeeeah a hell of a debut album - probably closer to a 4.5 for me. some of the tracks are a bit too repetitive to justify their lengths, and musique should definitely be on here, but otherwise, homework ticks all of my boxes. fun, catchy, and makes me wanna move. i think it’s really tragic that daft punk’s true masterpiece (imo), discovery, didn’t make the cut for this list. daft punk is dead. long live daft punk.

ella fitzgerald has a gorgeous voice, but it’s not enough to justify the sheer length of this thing. 6 whole discs??

love this one! i do prefer talking heads’ later albums, where their production choices get funkier, but the songs on here are so damn earnest that it’s impossible for me not to like. i also love that if anyone unfamiliar with their discography were to check out this album based on psycho killer, they’d find it sandwiched between songs about reading books and loving your friends.

i don’t really get it, but i wish i did, and that must be worth something

2 scott 2 furious

fucking awesome. warszawa was oddly captivating to me - it sounds like it wouldn’t be out of place on a dune soundtrack.

what the hell sure

i think that part of the reason i enjoyed this album is because bob looks like fran lebowitz on the cover

help! i’m being held hostage by a jam band!

taking some time out of my christmas to review my least favourite LCD soundsystem album. it’s what james murphy would have wanted. this album really suffers from the lore surrounding it, i think. LCD soundsystem breaks up, films a documentary about their final show, and returns seven years later with an album that re-hashes the sound that made them blow up. i spent all 7 minutes of other voices thinking “this really sounds like pow pow…doesn’t it?” fortunately (for me, at least), i will eat anything this band does up, and they can pose as old dogs re-learning old tricks forever and ever. i don’t care. i’ll be in the audience.

happy/embarrassed to report that wouldn’t it be nice still makes me teary

pop perfection! i can’t believe there’s an of montreal feature on this thing.

i was expecting to go easier on this than most because kings of leon was big when i first started really listening to music….but i just can’t! the singers’ voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me - pretty much an early iteration of the indie voice, with heavy emphasis on stretching the vowel O as far as possible. get it away from me!!! 2 stars for the mainstream bangers and i want you, which is a song i loved as a moody teenager.

i have nothing nice to say about eric clapton. rip ray liotta.

i was so excited to hear the lead singer say “goodnight”…..and then it just kept going. i’m starting to think that live albums do not belong on this list. if you’re not a fan of the band they’re like being in purgatory.

it’s good and i’m sorry

fabulous album if you like the way that elmo sounds

in the past couple of weeks, two notable things have happened to me: 1. i had a leak in my apartment that lasted for 10 days 2. i had 2 public image ltd. albums generated for me the public image ltd albums were worse! if there’s another one of these on the list i WILL [redacted].