The intro is fine, not for me but I can see why people like it. Fun breakdown(?) hot ladies is a boring subject matter remember tomorrow would've worked better as an instrumental. the bass fucks hard and every time the vocals stop I start enjoying it. Sorry vocal guy. running free: wow you'll never guess how I feel about the vocals fun song I like the relentless beat going on I dunno it's annoying because he can make his voice sound nice but I really hate the "IM RUNNING FREE" screeched in my ears every 5 seconds Phantom of the Opera: cool intro tolerable vocals when they're more mixed into the back a bit probably would be a fun guitar hero song cute beat switch (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧ once again the song is pretty good when the vocalist isnt vocaling Transylvania: oh so he can be quiet pretty good it lost my attention however Strange world: cool intro I love whatever the bassist is doing the vocals arent grating here Charlotte the hArlot: cringe name, cringe lyrics, lmfao, i hate this. tip sex workers generously <3 iron maiden: kinda glad this is nearly over bangin drums kinda meh it occurred to me that I am a bit surprised this album is considered influential. It's fine, maybe I'm missing context or maybe it's not my taste. 2

this fucks hard, I grew up with this album and watching the film. Like it's an all time favourite for me and lodged in my soul. [5]

context: I dunno really who Johnny Cash is and I'm not American. definitely not my usual genre but it's pretty good so far at the first track. I was surprised to read Fiona Apple did backing vocals! neato I like the storytelling vibe. If this guy was still alive I'd sit by a campfire and listen to him sing. I really prefer the Trent Reznor version of Hurt. However this is still great and I could see myself preferring this version when I relate to the vibe more. I see why people like it SO much. Time moves really fucking slow when I listen to this guy. Am I trying to convince myself that I like it? I dunno loll we'll see 3 songs in and it feels like I've been here for an hour. Perhaps it's the genre aaaa i'm BORED!!!!!! maybe I could use that to my advantage though. Can I slow down time using Johnny Cash's studio album: American IV: The Man Comes Around? am I a mage? is he a mage? Bridge Over Troubled Water is really bleh to me. If he whipped this out at the campfire I'd either leave orrrr I'd stay around and try to get as much stuff done as possible because of the time slowing down thing. Fiona's vocals are pretty but I think she's incapable of sounding bad. wait that song was less than FOUR MINUTES? LMAO i'm gonna crawl up the walls. I take it back, I don't see why people like it. I will be fascinated to read the rym reviews after this. PLEASE DO SOMETHING INTERESTING WITH THE MUSIC MAN. PLEASE BRO do I just not understand the appeal? Maybe I needed to know the original songs before they were covered? I'm currently at song number 6, "First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" It just feels like cliches set to guitar strumming. It's kinda funny how torturous this album is becoming to me. I dunno there's nothing offensive. There's a little jazzy piano in Personal Jesus that could've been cool if it was leaned into. But it wasn't. God damn it 8 songs still left. I'm on In My Life. zzz I keep zoning out Maybe the appeal is parasociality? I grew up with a kid called Sam Hall and he was a cunt lol he bullied me for not shaving my legs slightly better song than the others previous? at least it was a tad interesting oh he's whipping out all the names of guys i wanna *** **** **, Danny Boy. Pretty boring song. The church organ sound is really nice. I just wish the album was more confident in what it was doing instrumentally. Song wasn't worth the slight ptsd trigger lol desperado oh boy more old man with guitar in my ear this album could've been an ep with hurt and a few others, it's way too fucking long. also just remembered it's a posthumous album. I feel weird about them just by principle. i still can't see the appeal i'm so lonesome etc: predictable full of cliches etc guitar sad old guy. you know the drill. omfg i'm so excited only 3 songs left. tear stained letter: you'll never guess the dominant emotion in this song cute piano bit stweets of lawedo: penultimate song yipeee yo gay cowboys? gay dying cowboys? fine song LAST SONG WOOOOOOOOO we'll meet again: sorry man I wouldn't mind if we didn't meet again after this album. cute song though. If this was an ep and much shorter, this could've made it to 3 stars, but it was wayy toooo long for the lack of interesting anything. Not 4 me at all. If I could do half stars I would do 1.5 but I will round it to 2.