A surprisingly good album. I wasn't expecting to be impressed too much with this project after seeing how little attention Touchline has actually gotten, but I ended up being quite surprised. Despite some obvious flaws, this is actually a pretty good hip-hop record.

I have to admit that I haven't heard his first mixtape, but just by judging off of this one I can definitely say that Touchline has already come really close to perfecting his sound. Honestly, the production on this album is pretty ... read more

Really? This is what everyone gets so worked up over? Well, it certainly isn't good, and it's definitely a shocking drop in quality after four albums of nonstop greatness, but this is far from the "abomination" everyone makes it out to be.

I feel like acting like this album is awful is giving this album too much credit. This album is bad, but for reasons outside of what everyone always brings up. Everyone acts like the only possible reason this is bad is because Lou Reed and every ... read more

The Velvet Underground finally succumb to the mainstream, losing all sense of experimentation and making nothing but radio-friendly hits, and they somehow still manage to make something truly amazing.

When you think about a group like The Velvet Underground going completely mainstream, you might think that it's going to end up being a complete disaster. For a group who built themselves up as being some of the most experimental for their time, and even when they started going with a more ... read more

Welp, at least it's an improvement on Bananas. That isn't saying too much, but it's definitely better than that atrocity. Still has a bunch of problems of its own, though.

This is yet another album that shows that this band is completely incompetent at making anything worthwhile when they're missing one of their key members. Hell, at this point they're missing two, with both Blackmore and Lord being long gone from the group. So far they've made nothing but a bunch of shit since Blackmore left, ... read more

My first time listening to a straight up fucking noise album, and I'm actually really impressed. I might actually end up liking this genre that I originally wrote off due to it literally being called 'harsh noise'.

I still remember vividly my thoughts when I first tried to listen to this album a few weeks ago. I pressed play not really expecting anything, thinking that if anything I'd just end up laughing at the ridiculousness of the whole thing, but only a few seconds into Woodpecker No. 1 I ... read more

The Velvet Underground ditch the experimental elements that made their previous records so great, and instead make a pretty standard '60s rock album, and they're still able to make one that stands out as one of the best the '60s had to offer.

I do have to admit that, coming off of two wildly experimental and crazy albums in Velvet Underground & Nico and White Light, I thought that this sudden change in sound was a bit jarring. They went from being one of the most unique groups of the ... read more

The fact that their second album is equally as impressive as their debut is unbelievable. I've only heard two of their albums so far, and already I think they're one of my favourite '60s rock groups.

White Light builds up on everything that they established in their collaboration with Nico. In only a year's time, they've already improved their sound quite a bit, and that's saying something. Each of these six tracks are highly engaging and do nothing but keep hold of your attention. Not once in ... read more

I tried listening to this last night, but only got half-way through the first song before stopping it because of how awful it was. Now that I've powered through the entire thing, I can say that I regret ever finding out about this album's existence. This is easily one of the worst albums I've ever sat through.

This album has so much bad inside it that it actually shocks me. Awful cover art aside, this entire project is just lazy, boring, and painful. A tired vocal performance from Gillan, lazy ... read more

Oh god, this is such a painful and depressing listen. I don't even want to listen to this more times, once was more than enough for me to come to the conclusion that this is the worst that I've heard from Deep Purple so far. This is such a miserable fucking album.

Seeing as this was the final album founding member, Jon Lord ever worked on with Deep Purple, I just knew that there must have been something really wrong before I even got into this record. Deep Purple are one of those bands who ... read more

With Blackmore gone for good, it seems that Deep Purple have completely lost all direction. While this is their best release since the early '80s, it is still far from a good album. In fact, now that Blackmore is gone, I'd say this sounds the least like a Deep Purple album, perhaps even less so than the previous album he didn't appear on, Come Taste The Band. At this point, it just sounds like The Gillan And Lord Band as opposed to Deep Purple.

This is the first album released by Deep Purples ... read more

This Deep Purple record, it's not good.

The Mark II lineup return once more for their final ever release with the band. With Ritchie Blackmore leaving in the middle of the tour for this album and refusing to return, and Jon Lord eventually dying in 2012, it would be stupid to think that it's even possible for any return from this formation at any point in the future, and I really think that's a shame. This particular lineup of Deep Purple is the classic one. The one you think of when you think ... read more

Deep Purple's Mark V lineup make their mark on the band's history and leave before they can get any worse. This is the only album released by the Mark V lineup, and I'm so, so glad that they didn't go any further, because this album... it's bad.

So, for some stupid reason, the Mark II lineup decided to briefly replace vocalist Ian Gillan with Joe Lynn Turner, most famous for being the replacement singer for Rainbow after Dio decided to leave that band. Honestly, it didn't surprise me at all to ... read more

Why the hell are the classic lineup for Deep Purple the most inconsistent formation in this band's history? One year they can release an incredibly fun albeit unimpressive album, the next they release the most boring, generic, predictable, basic, bare-bones record in their entire discography. Say what you will about the other lineups, at least the Mark I lineup was at least fun through all three of their records and the Mark III and IV lineups were consistently underwhelming. The Mark II lineup ... read more

The final Deep Purple album to be considered a classic. After a nine year hiatus, Deep Purple return, this time with the Mark II lineup coming back for the first time since 1973's Who Do We Think We Are, and they give us a pretty good performance. I do think that this record in particular isn't nearly as interesting or influential as, say, Machine Head, but I can definitely see why it would be considered a classic.

The thing that separates this from other Deep Purple albums, but at the same ... read more

This album... what in the actual fuck was that?

This is one of those albums that I think words can't do justice on explaining why it's great. There's just so much here that this is a record that you really need to hear in order to understand why it is known as being as great as it is. This whole sound, this weird experimental sound combined with jazz and psychedelic rock, with certain choises made to make it sound dated even by '60s standards, it just has a certain charm to it that makes me ... read more

Obligatory "Wow, this was so ahead of its time" comment. But really, holy fucking shit. I usually roll my eyes whenever someone says something like that because usually the album in question isn't all that techincally impressive and is only really seen as such because of its influence, and it usually makes me wonder whether or not the person writing that is actually thinking for themselves or if they read someone else's review and are just reiterating what they've seen. But when it ... read more

Ugh. Please, just stop it. We don't need more grunge from you, Alice In Chains. You had an amazing run, but at this point it's just tainting what could have been a flawless discography.

Rainier Fog isn't necessarily a bad album. In fact, I'd say it's a pretty competent album with all-round decent tunes and good performances from all the members that shows that even this late in their career Cantrell is a good songwriter and musician. But it commits the worst possible sin that music could ever ... read more

Yeah, this album is a disappointment. The second album from the second lineup of Alice In Chains is still a good album, but it's a significant drop in quality from anything else that has come from this band before.

The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is a definite mess. Honestly, at this point in their career, they're stuck somewhere between grunge and pop rock. They have the basic grunge sound, but it's also a lot cleaner, a lot more polished than any of their records before. Hell, even their ... read more

Alice In Chains' first record in fourteen years after the release of their 1995 self-titled album, and their first album to be released without former lead singer Layne Staley after his death in 2002. This is also the first record to include future lead singer William DuVall who, on this record, actually focuses primarily on rhythm guitar and only has lead vocal duties on one of the tracks.

I really didn't know what to expect from modern Alice In Chains. I think it's safe to say that, just ... read more

Stevie Ray Vaughan's first posthumous release and the final ever LP released by Double Trouble is a collection of previously scrapped recordings, and after the past few posthumous releases I've heard being straight-up garbage, it's relieving actually hearing a competent one that stands just as tall in the artist's discography as any other of their albums.

I think it's really fitting that I decided to review this album today considering the disastrous posthumous album I reviewed only a couple ... read more