I think my friend Peter would love this.

The country songs are the best ones here - Ramshackle, Lord Only Knows. This album is still super fun, but the nonsense lyrics aren't as interesting as I thought they were in high school.

The production sounds really fresh and powerful. We're pretty far from a lot of the lyrical content about mermaids and g*spies, etc, but his music fuckin rips. Hell yeah brother.

An important step in their transition into their Weird Shit Phase. I get it and appreciate more than I did at the time. Some incredible arrangements and structures here, inside some admittedly hard to deal with noise and vocals. You're rewarded with some all-timers in Pyramid Song, I Might Be Wrong, Knives Out. Life in a Glass House is goofy but I like it. You can also see Jonny Greenwood's path into film scores.

Feels incredibly American. The concept is powerful, and the sound (the reverb, the interruptions, the crowd noise, the banter) reinforces it at every step. I've heard a lot of these songs before, but listening all together nearly brought me to tears.

Whoo boy. Maybe it's the result 40 years of soundtracking generic rom-coms and Toy Stories, but I Do Not Need This. These songs do not tickle anything in my spirit.

This is the best post-Beatles project, and it stands up incredibly well today. It sounds like so much of the contemporary indie music I love. Even the twang on I Live for You. This one belongs in the Saturday morning rotation.

It's pretty theatrical. Hard to believe how seriously people took the gangster rap panic. Also a reminder of how much G-Funk changed things a couple of years later. It's fine, but Public Enemy exists.

This is good. Sounds fresh. Would've changed my whole personality if I was the age for it upon release.

What a time to be alive. These songs are pretty good, and one of the sounds of the era, but they're way too long.

Hell yeah. I could listen to this everyday. Constant Craving still slaps so hard. A foundation for so much contemporary music I love. LIYL: Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee, Brandi Carlisle, Sturgill Simpson, more recent Billie Eilish

So self-assured and confident. Creates a great vibe. Love this one.

There are seasons in a person's life. Seasons where you deeply relate to lyrics about the world not understanding you, and seasons where that feels silly. Seasons where RIFFS have you pumping your fist, and seasons where you're looking for more subtlety. "Disarm" seasons and times for Geek U.S.A. Today, right now, 30 years after hearing this for the first time, it fucken RIPS. Hell yeah, brother. Riffs all day.

Love this. The blueprint for sad girl music I listen to on repeat.

I know these songs. Fun pop-style punk. Very hard to distinguish one song from another.