I have a personal leaning against country... Or at least that's what I keep telling myself. My slowcore preference and my love of Wilco says otherwise...
Either way, this was really fun! The back-and-forth between Johnny Cash and the prisoners is fun as hell. Pretty much all good songs, both really dark and very funny at times.
RYM was at 4/5.
Second album (1/2/25) is Led Zeppelin III. To this day all I really know about Led Zeppelin is the shit I know from playing guitar for like a decade. Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song, etc. The hits, yknow?
That, and it's one of those kinda... lughead hard rock albums that seemed to define the 70s. Never was big on it growing up but half of doing this is trying to broaded my horizons!
Roxy — Today at 6:02 PM
Listening to Since I've Been Loving You, it's just a remember that I've always had a weird relationship with blues. As a guitarist and bassist I have this massive respect for the genre, but actually listening to it... Feels like homework, I guess. This isn't much different, unfortunately; it's technically good, but I don't enjoy it lmao
Roxy — Today at 6:15 PM
Of course, then the rest of the album is much folkier... Which you would think I would like, considering my alt-country preferences, but like... This just feels very RenFair (derogatory).
Louis Prima... Thank you for making Prima Strategy Guides
Roxy — Today at 12:21 PM
Okay wait this goes hard
"I Ain't Got Nobody" just has so much energy to it, and it using the first song as more of an intro to the vibe of it is stellar. The end pops spectacularly, just the blaring sax and the vocals and just.... Good Shit Good Shit Right There
the follow-up song may lean into vibes of "I hit my spouse" but it is what it is.
Roxy — Today at 12:30 PM
And there's even a little "In Hall of the Mountain King" riff on the instrumental early on...
This might be my guy.
All my life I was convinced I hated U2 -- the whole "we're forcing an album on you and it's weirdly hard to get rid of" thing didn't help. I'm unfortunately realizing I might have been wrong... I'm sort of liking this lmao
If it drops the ball though I'm finding Bono.
Nevermind "Even Better Than the Real Thing" makes me want to take a nap
Roxy — Yesterday at 8:24 PM
Heartbreaking: The Coolest Girl You Know Things U2's "One" is a wonderful song
Roxy — Yesterday at 8:38 PM
There's actually this interesting thing going on; it's really like an on-and-off switch between the songs I love, and then the stuff that just sounds like the stereotypical image of U2 in my head. Literally, every song my opinion flip flops. Like, to look at my pre-emptive ratings:
It's really just slingshotting between two extremes, lol
Bumped So Cruel up to a 2.5 (high praise for sure), but my point still stands
Finally listening to it - This is so good lmao
I'm realizing that, at the right time, in the right place, I may be a country mark... I grew up listening to Neil Young in the background (and my dad singing way worse then Neil Young ever did) ((AND demanding I learn how to play The Needle and the Damage Done)) but actually sitting down to listen to it, this album is really beautiful [barring like, Are You Ready for the Countryand A Man Needs a Maid]
Heart of Gold alone makes this an all-timer, but Old Man and, of course, The Needle just seal the deal. Amazing album.
God, I love Heart of Gold
okay....... There's a World is... a song. But otherwise wall to wall bangers.
Ladies, gentlemen, and friends of all sorts! We've found our first Bad Album! Very boring; incredibly standard 80s-synth lounge music with a soulless drum machine! It's hold muzak, baybee!!
Lead singer is nice, though!
More punky britpop, but britpop nonetheless. First handful of songs are fun, but I never liked their song Alright, it's like budget The Strokes. Kinda started blurring together... but not bad, yknow?
maybe the most boring album i've ever listened to.
Beautiful album. The fact this has like, a 2.5 is a sign of the narrow vision of a lot of people doing this -- Music extends beyond your limited perspective, past The Beatles and Rolling Stones. Allow music to wash over you on its own terms. The world of music is an ocean and you limit yourself to a puddle.
Also, "oughhh it's too loud" "it's so loud" "ooh my ears" you're 18-39 and you don't know how to adjust the volume on your phone? C'mon now. Am I being disingenous? No more than the people throwing a 1 at this cause a guy yells a bit.
