This Year's Model: an angry, eloquent punk-pop tunesmith with a hell of a band to drive the bangers. Favorite track: Radio, Radio (which also contains the best lyric: "And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anesthetize the way that you feel"). Honorable mention: Lipstick Vogue (madman drummer), Pump It Up.
I may have listened to this album more than any other in my life...it's one of rock 'n' roll's goats. It's a miracle that this rag tag band of drunk and high degenerates were able to take a break from their LA sleazeball lifestyle to capture the level of focus and clarity on this record. Slash and Izzy with all-time guitar interplay. Nobody with the range or power dynamics of Axl here.
Favorite track: They throw the molotov with the opening guitar notes of Jungle, immediately followed by Axl letting the world know that his is the one that says bad MF on it. This one still rules from start to finish every time it comes on.
Slash isn't quite in the top level of the rock 'n' roll soloist Hall of Fame pyramid with Hendrix, Page, and EVH...but he's in the tier right below with Angus, Joe Perry, etc. In the immortal words of my daughter when she was six years old about the Paradise City outro: "Slash doesn't wanna slow down."
Dropping the horny-ass rock n roll sledgehammer, as they always do. Bon's a beast. Malcolm's the riffmeister general. Tight rhythm section for Angus to go apeshit over.
"[She had] the body of Venus with arms."
Very scattered
I’m just not a gangsta. Or a hustla. Or a bitch or hoe. Or…
Dre’s beats tho….
Didn’t think id love it like I did
Meh, but Papa Was a Rolling Stone is undeniably great.
Gah. This is not fun.
Force more words into that line.
Oh boy. Hoping the album title isn’t forecasting my opinion.
This dude says “me” more than Beaker.
WTF do I really need to hear this before I die?
Ohh shit. Not what I expected.
Kinda dug it.
See notes on Snoop, as predicted by Mr. Miller.
Five if it were shorter
The ultimate hook record
I feel like I’ll be eviscerated for this score.
Appreciate it. Millions of French can’t be wrong.
Compelling, some good grooves. But Aisha is too much to shake.
As was said, “hippy dippy” but I always appreciate a good LBJ shoutout.
Tunic hit hard.
Couldn’t get through it. One maybe two songs? Not sure the theater of it and the message quite lands for me.
Under My Thumb is very cringe, as the kids say.
Never heard of them until I heard that goddess song pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty good
VERY GOOD sad girl background music.
I’m not going to make it thru. I’m going to use this album to express how frustrating it is to have a list that comprises albums that are objectively shit just cuz someone in it went on to do other things that are, if not great, at least influential. These are not albums that I need to hear before I die.
“The War on Drugs are this century’s great rock ’n’ roll synthesists, obviating the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the abstruse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present. The War on Drugs have never done that so well as they do with I Don’t Live Here Anymore, their fifth studio album and their most compulsive and bold set of songs to date.”
-posted by the band
I mean…I’m my own biggest fan, too, but Jesus, this is a lot of hot air. First song was pretty good, but it was meh from there. Jackson Browne might have made this record.
Homie’s voice is just grating to me. Undeniably good musicians, but not my cup of tea.
Never has the vibe of a band music matched the vibe of their name. I thought this album was a field of flowers, cause I skipped through it.
Not wholly unpleasant mush
Bill, get all the frogs out of my voice. I see a deca man standing in there.
Love the production this album will always stir up something. But the lyrics are so cheesy on many of the tracks that I can’t bring myself to give it more.
Hard to say… All-time talent plus Gershwin. Yeah, the Gershwin’s I don’t know.
Was going to give a four, but then the last song derailed it for me.
I love this record. NEVERMIND will likely be remembered more fondly, but the musical growth shown here is pretty amazing. It seems more refined and grown up while retaining the sneering punk sensibilities along with some slyly inane heart-wrenching lyrics and visceral imagery.
Less yakking more music
A very high three
Mehhhhhhh
Funky motha(shut yo mouth)!
Too short!
Same song over and over and over. But a good one.
Rock your body and cry me a river and a bunch of crap
Intriguing, but inaccessible. Not going to want to revisit this one.
Now that’s how you make violence against women sound good.
Aside from a couple bangers, this is pretty boring.
Now that’s what I call musíca!
Groovy hippie music
I thought I was watching the longest John Woo movie ever
I hate the fucking eagles, man!
Pretty good psychedelic rock.
I do like the line in Vincent “snowy linen land” cuz of the double meaning/descriptor. Painting on linen, but linen isn’t a perfect white, as most folks who write sappy songs about snow will describe it.
So hard…TH>everybody, but TH>TH??!! On repeat, for sure.
Good songs. Sad. In many ways.
Amazing voice.
I kind of feel like Dead Kennedys had a huge influence on the political outlook of today’s alt-right.
Groovy but French
I try, I really do try. I just find his music so grating and annoying.
How do I know some of these songs but never heard of the dude? I dig it though.
I think the shame is that Christina Aguilera is so much better than her career has turned out to be. This album kind of turned her into a cartoon character, and I’m not sure she ever came back from that. It’s a shame she can fucking sing.
