It's a single riff played for 44 minutes, á la Sleep, and apparently Stereolab, which I wasn't familiar with. Anyways, the singular, chugging riff represents the flat circle of time and how events repeat themselves indefinitely or something like that. When you get that that's the point, you're free to stop listening, you're not missing much more than a very candid, brooding self-interview. It's obvious Phil made this album for himself.

At any rate, it's conceptually and lyrically ... read more

Probably the most underrated album in Kanye's discography. It's insanely replayable, compelling, and well-structured, especially when factoring in the album's supposed scattershot direction. The people that sleep on it really should just go back and listen to the songs outside the handful of favorites they picked out from it.

This album might have the nicest, catchiest, warmest vibe of any Kanye album. It just exudes happiness, triumph, and pop giddiness. Sans Barry Bonds and Drunk and Hot Girls and plus Bittersweet Poetry, this could've been a Top 5 Kanye album. Still, it very much has a soft spot in my heart, partially being the soundscape of growing up in the late 2000's.

I wish every album was like this. Not just pretty, well-written, and phenomenally produced, but also incredibly atmospheric. So much so, in fact, that listening to it feels like going on an epic adventure. It feels as vibrant, nostalgic, and exciting as its album art suggests, and pretty much never fails at its lofty goals. I'll have to spend more time with it, but I could see myself adding this to my 100s.

Better than everybody says, but not by much.

One of the most definitive songs of ever.

I think this is not only Metallica's best song, but their song with the broadest appeal. It just has this heart-wrenching but very pretty quality to it. Seriously, the first half of the song with the moody, plaintive acoustic and the second half of serious thrash metal just come together so beautifully and majestically. As well, the lyrics are poetic and haunting, with one of the strongest and yet most sympathetic, humanizing anti-war sentiments ever. This would make my top 50 songs ever, ... read more

This is like watching a bunch of Stanley Kubrick scenes in random order.

Whoever said time heals all wounds was a damn, filthy liar.

Just as Twin Fantasy served as the ultimate, definitive statement of Car Seat Headrest's lo-fi era, the band's more straightforward indie-rock era culminated in, uh, Twin Fantasy, again. And yes, though they are in most respects the exact same album as each other, they seem to serve entirely different purposes. 2011's Twin Fantasy sounds raw, like its subject was pulled right out the battlefield and into a recording studio. By ... read more

This is peak Death Grips. It's their most well-rounded, engaging, and well-executed album. I would compare it to The Money Store in that regard, only far more brutal and dissonant than the former album, and no less catchy.

I don't know if I'm supposed to be "above" Muse or what, but there's nothing anyone can say to convince me that this isn't one of the most badass songs ever written.

The music equivalent of /r/imgoingothellforthis.

Let me say some nice things about St. Anger:

- Rather than take the path of least resistance, Metallica warmly embraced the advent of nu-metal and alternative metal, and in doing so, invited more vulnerable and introspective lyricism.
- Frantic is a pretty good song.

These are all of the good things I have to say about St. Anger.

Brian Wilson's first attempt at writing the kind of harmonies and lush, heavenly melodies that he would employ from Today! onward. And yet, it stands among giants like Surf's Up and Don't Talk in its profound ability to display its subject's vulnerability, romantic sensitivity, and passionate longing through moody minor keys and harmonies that exist just close enough to Heaven to feel absent of its redeeming graces.