Tears Dry On Their Own with the Aint No Mountain High Enough backing is nice and new to my ears. Unless I'm mixing that up with some other sort of jingle.
Not quite sure how this saved wrong. The homegrown Method Man version was a lot of fun. And his rant is insane. And so many classic lines/samples!
What samples "Patterns" ? It's something hip-hop.
But also the song ofc reminds me of the What We Do In The Shadows title sequence.
It's all sooooo famous and also almost too fey.
This one hits for my adolescence. Impressive how much this album has permeated into my brain over time, because I've only rarely listened it from tip to tail.
Is that real lightning on the album cover? Two songs in and I already knew Tuesday's Gone was a shredder, but the first track was fun too--reverse drums kickin in. Also are there 7 dudes in the band?
Booming. Ethereal. This thing ate my last review even though I saved it, I thought. Listened to this like 5 times through. Very good Easter music.
They're shredding a bit, it's funky. I'm fine with it. Sultry, almost beachy? I can see 80s strutting to this. Glad Chrissie Hynde is still around.
Gone too fast, a little jangly, but man some funny corkers here. Girlfriend In A Coma and Unhappy Birthday. Legendary. What's a Strangeway?
Crazy that I already knew this one in full! I'm a fan.
Shreds. I like the barking ruff ruffery of the vocals here.
Driving grinding charging. Is it the drums? And good heavens Craig Finn owes his career so hard.
Dreamy, but not captivating exactly. Some weird unnerving ones too, which is funky. Some rock, some orchestra, a bit of the psyche of the times.
Great fun throughout. Sweeping and cool. Sensual!
Looking Through You whips pretty hard. Drive My Car. How is "In My Life" the most-listened on Spotify?! I mean the keys solo near the end sounds like Daft Punk or Porter Robinson could've done it, so that was cool, but I don't feel like that song is the standout here. "Run For Your Life" is an upsetting weird ending!
It does indeed shred. No complaints. Quick blast.
Whips. So glad I got to hear "The Chauffeur" -- seems to be a bit of a cult classic. Who did the cover art? Why is it SO nail salon? How is it PEAK NAIL SALON
Horny-ass album! I dig it. Makes me want to revisit. Think it made the GF uncomfortable. But I love the normie horn stories!
For the entirety of my life until now, I've thought she was singing "Change change chaaaaange... Change in you" or something like that. And then I saw the song's title and realized what was going on. Being a human is amazing.
"Ain't No Way" had an organ, not a theramin, right? What's that high pitch? Is that singing? Is that a voice? Is that a human voice?
Faint reminiscence here.... Funky. Feels multi-genre'd. But it's not. Wonder if my dad played it around the house. Not going to make an impression on me.
Turns out he wrote and performed like 5 songs on this album to which I've known the chorus lyrics for most of my life, so that's nice to discover. Good stuff, Harry! Funny but serious! Sooooo pop!
Stellar, powerful, sensual. Yes.
Jangly and gothic, a little bit of The Cure, a little punk, a lot of groaning sweetly, I went to refer to the "China stylings" of a song and then saw it was titled "China Girl," so it's all making sense to me now.
BRUUUUUUUUUUUCE doin his Bruce thing. Doesn't get me fist-pumping. But I dig it well enough.
Shreds, own this CD, but had only really listened to IBIATCL, the classic single. I'm into Makin Out and Givin' Up, those are actually two of my fave activities anyway.
Yeah I mean... Not doing too much. It's nice. The title song begins with cows mooing. That's cool. Maybe I should give it my first two stars? That it's not exceeding any expectations and is instead blending into the background?
I think I dig High Tide Low Tide, that's a new one to me. Otherwise this just kinda washes over. It's kind, it's chill, it's warm, it's lilting.
Cutely bizarre. Catchy enough. Never really broke through.
Fun enough. Sweeping. A little samey throughout. Hard to believe this is coke music.
It was weird. It was weird to hear that song near the beginning, about the girl or the lady. Not Ladyland and not Voodoo Chile. Little Miss Strange! It sounds like a Beatles song. And Jimi's bandmates were British. Did some learning here. I like how it's 75min long! Not many people doing that back then.
Yeah, I mean. Millennial classic. So sad, so wild, so parade-y, so fey. Horns and orchestra. Andrew Bird always wanted but could never. Just a fun time all the way through.
This is totally new to me and it's fun. I dig the big hit, "This Is The Day," but I'm not really sure why. I just knew when I heard that it was the big one from this album, before I even looked at the stream counts. Early 80s is cool for this.
This one is worse than their debut. There's no funk or hard edge. Consider me disappointed, I guess I missed this one when it released. But Jamie xx does better music than this solo. I don't dislike it! But I was excited and find myself bummed.
Did nothing in particular for me. Was funky and calm. I'm probably not in a good headspace. Cat died on Saturday. But I did listen to it all the way through!
R&B disco, pretty standard, it was nice to hear the We Are Family remixes. Not blowing me away but happy to have had the chance. Helped me focus a bit.
A little bit of funk from the 70s, kinda jazzy, sounded maybe a bit more ahead of its time than I expected. Very clean sounding.
God this was such a way for white middle schoolers and black middle schoolers to bond. The mark of a new era in hip hop. That's not meant to diminish this album. Once I first heard when my dad played it for me.
Well it's the soundtrack of my childhood. Big Bobby Z fans in our household. These are all nice enough. I can't be blown away. I regret that so many of these albums just wash over me!
What fun! The whole way through. And it even bends around genres a bit. There's one track that sorta sounded like Hava Nagila, all that chaos and the sort of polka beat? I dunno, but def enjoyed.
Her voice is so deep! Whoa! Cool! That's enlightening. Didn't recognize any of these songs.
This had multiple songs about being horny? Like I feel as though there was bawdy stuff here. Not blown away, of course. And maybe they aren't blown. :o
So quick, so samey, but there's a rollicking funk to it. It presses onward without annoying.
Pretty silly, bluesy, not gonna last with me but man did it feel like rock and roll from the year 1989. That's for sure.
The screaming was screamy. He got primal on it. He was working through some stuff. So it's intriguing to consider that he was one of the first artists publicly "working through stuff." I enjoyed but--per usual--not blown away.
I don't know what his purpose was here. I'm not mad. It just didn't feel too deliberate or artistic. Maybe that's a reflection of me, huh?
Why didn't it save my damn review? I gave a good one! This was a fun, cool album! New to me. I liked how it started more shreddy and pumped up and aggressive, and then it moved into something more jazzy and lounge-y and R&B. Enjoyed! Thank you!
This was fine. Nothing caught my ears. I heard some stuff that I must've heard before. I guess it was nice and well-made. Claire recognized her vocals like as soon as she entered the room.
This has grown. It's so sensual and pleading and warm. And fun and jangly. And the party keeps going on! Glad to see these guys are still out there playing.
Great choons. Yearning and longing and bopping. One track sounds like it has the fun steel drum hits.
I had some notes here that may or may not be related to Melodrama by Lorde. Now they're gone. I listened to this two times through. "Green Light" shows up on New Girl and I had no real idea it was Lorde. Maybe I knew at some point. The brain is mush. I wish I still cared!
Ayy at least it introduced me to Tango and had me consider it a bit more. That's a good listening experience in my book.
I don't really care. Freaky folky chanting hippie gang sorta stuff. Not painful. Not too exciting. A little "Eastern" sounding. Eh. Inoffensive. Think I'm especially bitter today.
I don't think this is the first time I'll reflect on this during the project, I've thought about it with preceding albums and maybe even mentioned it, but holy wow did rock sound so much bluesier. These days it's all zip, and punch, and precision, and it seems mostly informed (rightfully so) by hip-hop and EDM (where for decades it was the other way around). I'm not complaining! Just... Wow at where rock has been and where it's going, and what sounded aggressive and even "scary" to preceding generations now sounds... Quaint? Not in a toothless way. But like yeah this is so woven into our musical DNA, it's no longer transgressive, and the only thing left is that it's good and fun and enjoyable and Ozzy. But it's normal! The "new" normal.
It's nice! I see Paul Weller's name involved. I didn't recognize The Jam but I did recognize him. Similar to Black Sabbath, which I just reviewed yesterday, I find it funny how all this punk and rock and metal is so delicate 40-50 years on. But these tunes are catchy and cute and quick; none are hooking me.
Tom Waits. He's just a bluesman. That's all he's doing here. That's fine. His reputation is a carnival gruff goat raspy roar from him, and this is simply blues. Great! No complaints! And the inspiration is on his sleeve. Swaying, smoking, drinking, clinking. I can picture it all.
Right in my teens! Some of the songs sound too samey, but "Cure for the Itch" stands out as a funky instrumental that would've been lost on angsty ol' me. There was something more melodic and techy to LP's rap-rock than their contemporaries' tunes.
This isn't insightful by now, but the line connecting Kate Bush and Lorde is drawn bold. And I like that! Our music should be self-referential and iterating. Kate feels more genre-breaking than many of the delicate rock-pop albums from the 60s-80s here. But I can't pretend that I'm wholly captivated either!
Too fun, too cool. "He's So Unusual" is a fun, surprise interlude. Love that "Time After Time" and "GJWHF" came from the same album. Both legends of the era but both totally different feels and purposes to my ears.
I'm sorry, Tim. I just don't care too much. Fay and spindly. And nice. Guess I'm just feeling mean. Wish I could process any lyrics.
Cool and funky and reminds me of music played by my dad in evenings and on weekends. Chill. Glad I listened.
Rockin and boppin and protopunk and a little twangy. Some catchiness. Nice discovery for me!
"Living For The City" is where Spelunky stole like... All of its saxophone. Any sax in the Spelunky OST would seem to come right from that, if not Stevie's wider catalog. Sufficiently funking!
I wrote damn notes! And my damn notes are gone! It doesn't save! I need to like refresh the damn page or something. I enjoyed this album, I had more to say, it reminded me of the kind of world music my dad loves.
