fourteen year old me who took a picture of joan jett to the hair dresser before my mother vetoed me loved this. i appreciated more of the garagey vibes in my earlier listens, but this time i find myself enjoying the moments of clarity in the noise- the guitar doing it's thing in 'break my body's stands out as a little thing i'll be humming to myself for a while, and the intro to 'broken face'. give me kim deal solo album tho tbh.
liked: gigantic, vamos, oh golly,
am i crazy or did i spy have a little tom waits vibes? anyway. maybe it's me but the naughty vibes were fun, toxic/intense love isn't Good but it makes for great music. not my assigned britpop band at birth but i might dare to say pulp comes in second for me.
liked: common people (obviously), sorted for e's & wizz, underwear
greatest breakup album of all time? i might consider it! i'm familiar enough with this album that none of the songs were a first time listen but that didn't change the surprises from showing up! buckets of rain is probably my top aside from The Song from this album- I love when a guitar sounds like it's part of the conversation.
liked: tangled up in blue, idiot wind, if you see her say hello, buckets of rain
this guy + album would have been a problem for me if i had been aware of them a decade+ ago. extremely perfect for looking out the rainy bus window from 2010-2012 imo.
liked: la, pretty mary kay
pink floyd was a big feature of my highschool era of listening to music. never fully got invested in them for the problem that this album has too- for me, the songs are too damn long. though i can acknowledge that's a me problem. it gave the who sell out meets sgt pepper's.
i remember my mum really vibing with this album. it feels like the 90s and that kind of foggy fuzzy whimigoth filter of the era. extremely vibey, not bothersome- almost enya-like in quality where it could just be playing in the background and i would not mind in the slightest.
liked: cherry-coloured funk, fifty-fifty clown, heaven or las vegas, wolf in the breast
every single song immediately transported me to the end credits of every superhero movie in the early 2000s. i genuinely don't enjoy the wall of guitar vibes of this album, but there were a few moments worry of bobbing my head.
i will say the vibes were off from the start for me unfortunately! the second song of the album was personally much better.
janis joplin is one of the 65% of my listening taste that i genetically inherited from my grandpa. despite this, i had really only properly heard me and bobby mcgee. this was very fun, her voice alone can take you all the way but the music is another perfect layer. it feels wrong to give an iconic album like this anything less than a four.
liked: a woman left lonely, half moon, buried alive in the blues, me and bobby mcgee,
i mean it's a beatles album without the beatles refinement. i have to confess, jealous guy still fucks as a song.
liked: jealous guy, it's really hard, oh my love.
i feel like every review i give begins with this family member introduced me to xyz but. my mum adored the foo fighters, they were on constantly in the early 2000s in our home. this album was Not part of the rotation and i'm a little glad it wasn't? maybe it's because i didn't grab the remastered version or something but the opening song felt very flat for me and it just continued.
liked: big me, and that's about it.
you did nothing wrong but frankly you did nothing right. i don't know that i enjoyed much.
there is nothing i could say about rumours that hasn't been said before. this shit fucks. every song is a like.
man knows how to play a damn piano, i'll give him that.
no bc hearing the piano solo for the first time today? a day when i woke up and felt evil? maybe i fucked with it a little. can't help but enjoy anything with a brass/wind instrument. the drama of time was enjoyable- love a jaunty little piano moment and it felt like it could have fit into pink floyd's the wall. kind of crazy to me that of all these songs jean genie strikes me as the most boring of the bunch? it's very the sound i imagine to be bowie, but there are other songs that are more fun!
liked: drive-in saturday, time, the prettiest star, jean genie
if i had found this during my ramones era, i am certain i would have gone crazy for this. as it is, a few songs definitely made it to my liked. reports of the nasally voice are over exaggerated imo. that's just a british guy singing.
liked: another girl another planet, the beast,
the baby voice during 97 bonnie & clyde was surely enough provocation to throw him in jail but here we are. i now understand why my parents were so horrifically embarrassed that me and my siblings enjoyed the songs that we did. despite the parental warning this is just for 13 year old boys, which i imagine is about the mental age that buddy is working with.
liked: my name is, and imagine this is being said with a gun to my head.
pet shop boys never really hit for me- why did parts of 'i wouldn't normally do this kind of thing' sound like the music that tv channels use to play when they're telling you what's coming on tv later. all of this should be playing in one of those 90s international market cafés with a purple and yellow theme.
i didn't like any songs, sorry lads.
in the most deeply complimentary way; portions of this sound like the background music to an old point and click video game where you're playing a gumshoe and slowly cracking a case in the middle of a long summer in your city. (in shades in particular)
i actually really enjoyed this album and would come back to it but i suffer from can't handle listening to slow music disease.
okay perfect soundtrack for a vampire the masquerade game is what i walked away with. confirmed for me that goth music is not my vein! strikes me as no surprise that the faster paced songs were the ones i enjoyed. I dislike the kind of "cloud" of noise that makes up the majority of this album.
liked: the hanging garden
this was very funky, very chill. felt a little donovan (complimentary). i love bosso nova as a background noise for work and this was a nice morning coffee and puttering around listen.
liked: alegria alegria, paisagem útil
this is music to cook to for me. calm, easy to tune in and out to. the lyrics are good and the melodies stick. even when the voice can become grating, the instrumentals are what are really enjoyable to me about this album.
liked: candy says, some kinda love, pale blue eyes,
