Gemstones

Yes, as others have noticed this is poor. Sorry- it's corny and simplistic.

Sounds like a comedian trying his hand at singing songs. Musically speaking, it's rubbish. And lyrically, Adam Green is not even "too smart for his own good", he just uses a lot of ornate and "literary" words to say very dumb things, generally speaking. And he's a quite bad singer, to boot. Not "bad" in an endearing and unwittingly touching fashion. Just "bad bad", in a cringe-worthy, amateurish, self-conscious way. I have a hard time imagining how playing that sort of thing makes you wake up in the morning and think, "yeah, I need the world to hear all my songs, there's a flame in me that pushes me to do so, and I have something distinctive and personal to bring to the table". Not when you play such goofy muzak. Apologies to Alex Turner, that I roasted in my scathing and admittedly overlong review of *Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino*. At least the leader of Arctic Monkeys understands the concept of "artistry", even if I subjectively believe he comes off as pretentious and suddenly clueless about the ingredients of a good song. Conversely, you could state that Adam Green is humble in his ambitions, and is just having a bit of fun here. The thing is, I'm neither laughing nor finding his music worth the precious time of most people. A "dreamy, kind-of-cheesy companion piece" to my lowest-rated albums section indeed. I don't know, maybe Adam Green would be funnier if he decided to stop playing music and become a full-blown comedian. I've just read that he's also into film-making -- and also art -- but does he make "funny" films? As of now, I'm not interested enough to find out... On that line of thought, I'm wondering if some musicians whose career I follow could be good at comedy. I would bet on Andy "Falco" Falkous, of Mclusky, or Pavement's Stephen Malkmus. But I guess we'll never know the sort of... "gemstones" those guys could utter onstage on a comedy night. *Rimshot!* 0.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 1 5.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 0.5). Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 5 Albums from the users list I *might* include in mine later on: 9 Albums from the users list I won't include in mine: 17 (including this one)

Woof. Scott Walker vibes are strong with this one. Cabaret style music (my least favorite), and obnoxiously navel-gazey lyrical exercises. I liked one track enough to keep, the rest were mostly skips. People really like this stuff? Takes all types, I guess.

This is what it would sound like if Cake turned out for the worse. This dude is obnoxious, which is a shame since the clear focus is on him and his lyrics above all.

Fékk fljótt leið á þessu.

There's a guy like this playing in a coffee shop in a college town near you. He's not as clever as he thinks he is either.

There are boring albums and...this one. It seems like a great half-hour song with the same rhythms and arrangements of a singer who seems to be talking to his guitar.

Holy crap.....I don't say this often but this was really aweful! On many levels, aweful. The music is boring and bland. The singing is boring and bland. But the icing on this rotten cake is the corniness of the lyrics. This is the guy at a party who thinks he is being funny and clever. Who thinks everyone loves him. The shining center of the gathering. While actually everyone is just trying to get away from him, running to the fridge for another beer. Unbearable.

What? No Moldy Peaches? He needs Kimya Dawson to temper him. A bit too clever for me. Short album, but each song felt unbearably long.

Nope.