LONG SEASON is a brilliant, 35 minute album that is absolutely enchanting and magical. The only problem is during Part 3, the water sound effects take me out of the magic a little, and if there was a version of this album performed live on the 28th of December in 1998 without that part, I'd find an already magnificent album to be improved to be an absolute masterpiece.

Some of the songs on here are one of the most fun rappers giving us A-game level material over some very nice low-fi beats, and I love it for that. My problem with this albums is it feels more of a proof of concept than a whole album. You could easily shorten this down to 10 or so tracks and it would be one of DOOM's best, as it is it is a little bloated.

This is a great album that oozes personality, has some fantastic instrumentals, and shows that rock in the current day is alive, if only for one album. My problems are as simple as two tracks, those being Big Man Little Dignity and Liar, don't really click with me. However, that's more a problem with my subjective opinion of the album than the album itself, as is all music criticism.

In Rainbows stands in stark contrast to Radiohead's previous five albums. The Bends, as an album, is angsty and anxious, and to some extent that feeling of anxiety is present in the next four Radiohead albums. OK Computer and Kid A take that anxiety and add a more depressive mood to it, and those albums are brilliant for it. Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief also use the feeling of anxiety, but similar to The Bends, they're angsty albums.

In Rainbows feels different. The band feels free, the ... read more

Currents is modern psychadelic rock done to near perfection. From the multiple part absolute ascension in Let it Happen, to me resisting my primal urge to sing along to The Moment, to Yes I'm Changing and Eventually hitting me in the feels, to Gossip and Nangs before that serving as perfect interludes, to The Less I Know The Better once again needing me to sing along, and the last 4 tracks hitting me with the vibes again in the middle 2 and being bookended by the feels.

SCORE ADJUST: 95 ... read more

I feel that good kid, m.a.a.d city is almost a perfect album. The story of the album, while not the most impactful of Kendrick's career, I feel better suits an album as unlike To Pimp a Butterfly, I don't feel the middle of the album makes perfect sense but I have no urge to ever go back to. So it's a better album, no complaints, right?

What makes this album imperfect in my opinion is that just like To Pimp a Butterfly, I downright hate one song. In To Pimp a Butterfly's case, that track is ... read more

To Pimp A Butterfly as a whole is magnificent. This album has what is quite possibly the greatest 6 track run to open an album, and an equally as crazy 6 track run to close the album. I understand why this album is loved like it is, and to some extent, I share that with everyone else, but there's that small issue of the middle tracks just not doing it for me. Alright is fitting for a title because that's all I find it, it feels like a decline in quality from the masterwork the album is before ... read more

Reranking the Apple Music Top 100 Albums: Never heard this one before despite how iconic it is, and surprise surprise it’s a magnificent album.

FAVORITES: Let’s Go Crazy, Darling Nikki, When Doves Cry, Baby I’m A Star, Purple Rain

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REREVIEW:
A bit better than I originally thought. My only problem is the 4 seconds of silence at the start of every single song.

I think this album has weird sequencing, like Lover You Should Have Come Over could've been the greatest closer of all time, but no, instead it's the 3 quarters mark of the album.

I have never heard a Beyoncé album so marriage troubles was not what I was expecting, it's great though.

Kanye went modern rap... and it's really boring

SCORE ADJUST: 50 -> 6: What was I thinking when this album came out? This is one OK song and 15 of Kanye's worst.

I don't even know how or why they thought an Animal Farm-style critique of capitalism was a good album idea, but goddamn, it worked.

Not as good as This Is Why, but still a very solid pop-punk album, though I would've liked the album to have a bit more variation.

The finale to DOOM's untouchable run from 1999 to 2005, I was a huge fan of the Adult Swim cartoon production, and of course DOOM's bars are phenominal as always.

The synth-heavy sound mixed in with a more traditional bass was a sound I enjoyed a lot. However, I felt the album would have a run of 3 good songs, then a mediocre song, although the mediocre song comes first the 3rd time around.

I enjoyed this album. The dream pop sound was a type of sound I think the band nailed, especially on the songs BABY BLUE and Nightcruising. However, I was not as much of a fan of the more experimental songs which closed the album.

The passion in the performance is unreal, sucking you in for a phenominal 2 hours.

Daft Punk. I mean that's all I have to say.