May 16 2025
4
Great pop/rock album by a artist I thought I never heard of. After reading his wiki page I now know he is one of the Tuesday Music Club (Sheryl Crow) members and co-wrote the songs on that album and played guitar on it. The album cover and lyrics are more depressing and confronting than the music. I get a bit of "Somewhere Down the Crazy Riverβ (Robbie Robertson) vibes, because of spoken word parts and the underlying unease. I like the strange political atmosphere and the tension you can feel in a lot of the lyrics. And as other reviewers also state: it keeps getting better if you listen to it multiple times.
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May 19 2025
3
This properly alternates between exciting and forward thinking stuff and dry bluesy cruft. It's simultaneously a 1 and a 4 or 5.
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May 23 2025
3
Never heard this album before abd Iβd say it was a unique add. The first song had me enticed early but then as it continued down the path of a bad political thriller, I started to lose interest. It definitely toes the line of enjoyable music mixed with lyricism that requires a specific mindset to enjoy. Overall itβs ok. 5.9/10
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May 17 2025
4
I actually bought this album on CD back in the day and listened to it a fair amount for a short period of time. But then I kind of forgot about it. I liked it, but I guess it didn't age very well for me. But it was great hearing it again. It's actually a really ambitious album, reminds me a bit of Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons. 4 stars.
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May 19 2025
4
This had a few cool moments, some blues, some rock. Got a bit strange here and there but still a fun listen. 4/5.
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Jun 16 2025
4
I'd never heard of this guy, but it's a good album. Interesting and inventive.
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May 16 2025
3
1992 pop rock that will play while you listen
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May 17 2025
3
Hard to listen to.
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May 18 2025
3
Rock, pop rock. Ni fu ni fa.
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May 19 2025
3
Hmmmm⦠this had some good moments but never really caught fire with me⦠still decent music that might get better with more listens.
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May 20 2025
3
Good find
3
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May 20 2025
3
Not bad. Doesn't have much too special
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May 21 2025
3
Every time I thought I had this LP pinned down, it found a new combination of influences to keep me guessing. Don't know if I'll be returning to Baerwald's world here, but the listening experience was novel and lively enough to keep me entertained and that's all a solid album needs to do in my book
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May 22 2025
3
Something completely new to me. Generally I'd say I liked it, but was on the fence about how much throughout. A little too clever, or maybe the word is sophisticated. I generally agreed with the sentiments but a lot of it was fairly preachy and heavy handed - the whole bloody hands imagery on the cover art was apt. Musically very competent, not really innovative.
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May 22 2025
3
Rating: 6/10
Best songs: Aids and Armageddon
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May 22 2025
3
Blah
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May 23 2025
3
Ok, but not very exciting
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May 24 2025
3
It sounded like background coffee shop music.
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Jun 01 2025
3
This is the kinda bland stuff the original list had tons of. It's fine but it's not anything special and it's a sound you've heard before.
My personal rating: 3/5
My rating relative to the list: 3/5
Should this have been included on the original list? No
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Jun 11 2025
3
I feel this one may grow on me with more listens.
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Jul 03 2025
3
The first half of it sounds like something from Miami Vice. The last half is like Wilco meets The Traveling Wilburys. Itβs not bad but not my thing.
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Jul 03 2025
3
A political pop-rock smorgasbord thatβs just not as revolutionary as it seems to think it is. The album cover is quite striking and there are a couple of quite incendiary tracks, especially the opener and AIDS & Armageddon which has the spirit of a Saul Williams anthem. Unfortunately theyβre interspersed with some really dry arena rock-style ballads, with The Postman in particular sounding like a late U2 B-side, and a couple of forgettable, emotionally flat blues numbers
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Jul 23 2025
3
Didn't like the opening track and it kind of spikes up and down for me. Some songs a good, others are mediocre and some are just not to my taste.
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Jul 24 2025
3
Where are some of you guys finding these albums lol. I wish every submission came with a little blurb written by the submitter since it seems I got here before they wrote their review.
Don't get me wrong, this is surprisingly pretty good and I'm happy to listen to some more obscure music, but like.. What even is this. Who the fuck is David Baerwald. Fitting this is an album about conspiracy theories, since I'm choosing to believe that this was retroactively added into our timeline last week by an evil time warlock.
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May 16 2025
2
A little too Bruce Springsteeny and a little to U2y for my tastes
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May 17 2025
2
This is an odd album. Didn't hate it, but I'm sure I won't remember it either. Musically this is fine, but stylistically unfocused and frequently bland. I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you're going to make an album with such a striking cover image, you really need to go bigger than whatever is going on here.
Fave Songs: The Postman, A Secret Silken World
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May 19 2025
2
I appreciated the groove on some of these tracks but the Bruce Springsteen kinda vibe was not for me in this moment.
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May 22 2025
2
I feel like i've listened to a bunch of these average sounding pop records and given them a passing grade. This one doesn't do anything for me and a lot of the delivery starts to get irritating. A Brand New Morning attempts to save the album a bit, but its too little, too late.
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May 23 2025
2
There's nothing special about Triage, some generic pop rock sounds and some basic bluesy notes and then a bit slowly meandering towards the end. Only really got interesting in The Got No Shotgun... track, 2/5, nothing here to excite.
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May 26 2025
2
Only listened once, which felt like plenty, but fragments of the songs stayed with me the rest of the day. I'll definitely come back to this, if only to listen a couple more times (and without distractions) - and I'll come back to edit this review when I do.
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Jun 16 2025
2
I enjoyed the first song but the rest was very hit or miss
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Jun 21 2025
2
I donβt think the music lives up to the
Album cover.
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Jul 11 2025
2
Another album where the artwork goes against the content.
It was ok but couldnβt really recall it the next day.
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Jul 08 2025
1
Yet another irrelevant album.
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