Yes, I do actually think this is a 0/10, and it's not just because the label's actions are disgusting. And yes, this is my third 0/10 given to an XXXtentacion album, and the second of his posthumous albums to be given a 0. Yes, I do genuinely think this and the other posthumous album that came out in January are 0s, and it's not just because I hate that everyone who personally knew X are exploiting him after his death. The music on this album genuinely sucks, easily some of the worst tracks ... read more
Even when The Beach Boys just throw together all of their outtakes, creating a big, messy experience, they still manage to make a really pleasant listen with fantastic production.
Like Friends, this is another underappreciated gem in The Beach Boys' catalog. If you were to ask fans of the group about this album, you would likely get nothing but positive responses, but it's unfortunately tossed to the side when compared to other outings like Smiley Smile, Today, and, of course, Pet Sounds. It ... read more
After the departure of one of the original members, Ritchie Blackmore, the group hire Tommy Bolin to replace him and make the only album released by the Mark IV lineup. Come Taste The Band is known as the Deep Purple album to sound the least like a Deep Purple album. This whole album just sounds like your generic funk-orientated hard rock album, and it's actually surprisingly enjoyable.
Bolin actually proves his worth here. While he is not anywhere close to being as good as Blackmore, and he ... read more
Whenever an artist releases an album with a really generic gimmick, you can bet on it being one of the worst things that artist ever released. Unfortunately, Stevie Ray Vaughan is no exception to that rule. His album that he decided to make with his brother, basing the entire album on being brothers, is unsurprisingly a bad album.
So, Stevie Ray Vaughan teamed up with his brother, Jimmie Vaughan, who is also a guitarist, known for The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Although I knew that I would not ... read more
After their most recent release, Hidden History Of The Human Race left me really impressed, I decided to check out Blood Incantation's other full-length studio LP, and I surprisingly found myself just as pleased with this one as their latest effort.
Despite its short run time, being just under 35 minutes, there is more than enough for any death fan to appreciate. I honestly think that in some ways this is better than their much more popular recent release, but at the same time there are ... read more
Alice In Chains' self-titled album is their final studio release with lead singer Layne Staley before his death in 2002. And what a depressing but great way to send off one of the best vocalists in grunge history.
Like all of Alice In Chains' previous albums, this record deals with a lot of dark and depressing topics. Honestly, although Dirt may be a lot grittier and much more sad in hindsight with Staley's death, this is by far the most heartbreaking of their discography. It feels a lot more ... read more
Stevie Ray Vaughan's final release with Double Trouble before his death is known as one of his main classics. Other than the much more successful Texas Flood, In Step is by far his most critically and financially successful release, and with so many great tracks proving that he has perfected his sound and his songwriting abilities, it's not hard to see why.
I feel like this is about as good as you're gonna get with Stevie Ray Vaughan. He has always been someone who was always held back with ... read more
The Mark III lineup decide to make a live album of their own to live up to the 'tradition' of the tour of their successful album becoming its own release, and while this compilation of live performances is good, it pales in comparison to the amazing Mark II live album, Made In Japan.
The tour of their two huge albums, Burn and Stormbringer was one of the most important moments for Deep Purple. The end of this tour marked the end of long-time member, Ritchie Blackmore's tenure with the group... ... read more
When you think of grunge artists going acoustic, one of two albums comes to mind: Nirvana's Unplugged live album, or Alice In Chains' Jar Of Flies EP. Both are amazing albums that stand tall as some of the best in the genre, and honestly, Jar Of Flies may be my favourite Alice In Chains album.
Despite this being one of the shortest outings from the band up to this point, only being thirty minutes with seven tracks, it houses some of their all-time best songs. There are three classics that ... read more
One of the few genuinely good Beach Boys albums that is unfortunately very overlooked and underappreciated. While at this point it's pretty safe to say that they are unlikely to return to their more experimental sound that they were trying out in Pet Sounds and Smiley Smile, this is, just like Wild Honey, an album that is very fun and very sonically pleasing.
Friends is a record that feels very relaxing and very meditative, and is definitely a unique addition to their lengthy discography. Up ... read more
On a site where most of the users only focus on hip-hop and pop, it's really cool to see a death metal album being one of the most popular of the month and even make it into the best albums of the year tab. Too bad the love for this record seems to be completely overblown.
So, this new Blood Incantation album is great. It's freakin' amazing at times! This is a definite contender for death metal album of the year for me, really only being beaten out by that Fuming Mouth record that came out ... read more
Only a couple of months after the widely beloved Smiley Smile, The Beach Boys come back with another album that is also surprisingly seen as one of the strongest in their long discography, and I certainly don't disagree.
While Wild Honey doesn't have as many widely known classics as the previous two albums, it's still known as one of the best albums The Beach Boys ever released. In my personal opinion, it's actually better than Smiley Smile, and the reason behind this is that it's just simple. ... read more
Since today is the final day of Slayer's farewell tour, I figured I'd review what will likely be their last release. This live album that came out earlier this month in support of some movie that the band are somehow connected to but I can't be bothered to actually watch or do any research on because apparently it sucks is the only official release from the band since 2015's Repentless, which is likely going to be their final studio effort. Honestly, this live album is just okay. For a live ... read more
Five years after the three remaining members of The Doors decided to disband, they reunite so that they can dig up the last few unreleased recordings of Jim Morrison, piss on them and release them so that they can squeeze even more money out of their old friend.
A little background for those who don't know, these voice lines that Morrison recorded were not in anyway intended to be used for anything related to The Doors. He recorded a bunch of spoken word pieces of his own poetry back in 1969 ... read more
People seriously see this as the worst album to be released by The Doors after Morrison's death? Sure, this album isn't anywhere close to being as good as everything they released while he was still around, but this album is a hell of a lot better than Other Voices and is actually an all-round good album. Nothing amazing, but it's at least good.
After listening to the first post-Morrison album released by the remaining members of The Doors, I really wasn't going into this with the highest of ... read more
The Beach Boys make a cover album with the illusion of it being played live at a party. It's about as good as you would expect when looking at that description.
So, this album, it's quite boring. I mean, this is pretty much just a filler album. It's undoubtedly the most inessential moment in their career up to this point. Where every single album up to this point showed their slow progress into what they would become in the record released after this one, Party is just another pointless ... read more
After their amazing album Today didn't sell as well as expected, The Beach Boys reverted back to their old ways of singing about girls and summer and youth. Instead of continuing the mature themes covered in their previous album that is arguably one of their greatest ever efforts, they decided to go back to making songs for the sake of them becoming hits. Knowing this, you would expect this to be a failure, but with them incorporating Brian Wilson's production and sound which made the previous ... read more
The Doors without Jim Morrison is like pizza without cheese: it's just fine, it's passable, but it's extremely obvious that it's missing one very important ingredient. Without this ingredient, it's just bland, it's just boring and unexciting. It may be okay, but you're going to find yourself increasingly more tired of it as it goes on and you're just going to wonder what the hell the makers of such a stupid thing were thinking.
After the death of Morrison, the remaining members of The Doors ... read more
Silencer have been on my radar since I heard the only other project Nattramn ever worked on, Transformalin under the name Diagnose: Lebensgefahr, which was a really cool dark ambient album. When I saw that the guy who made that album was also the lead singer for a depressive black metal group who only ever released one album, I became really curious. Doing some research into Nattramn, finding out that there is literally no official information on the guy, only really, really fucked up rumours, ... read more
I have come to the realization that I am Morrison's bitch and I will like anything he puts out. Too bad this is the final thing he ever put out and I won't ever hear his best work for the first time again.
This is one of The Doors' main albums, one of their main classics that they're known for, and seeing as it is their final album with the help of Jim Morrison, they really sent him off with a bang. This entire album is home to some of the best tracks in the history of their amazing career. ... read more
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On Doja Cat - Demons
"Damn, forgot about this certified banger of a review.
Demons is still my pick for best Dostoevsky btw"
On Boris - Performing "PINK" in Its Entirety - Live at Shindaita Fever 20160924
"@DevGPluto I heard. It really is the best time to be a Boris fan"
On Boris - Performing "PINK" in Its Entirety - Live at Shindaita Fever 20160924
"@roundcircle unlikely to happen unfortunately. there's just too many recced songs for me to sift through at this point"
On Les Rallizes Dénudés - Wilderness of false flowers_1976
"@Eomann it is a certified banger for sure"
On Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
"@FeendishlyJam I believe I meant that Meat Loaf is grating and that people who dislike Queen generally make the argument that Freddie is grating"
On System of a Down - Hypnotize
"@ClayDJs03 "hate" was waaay too strong a word for me to have used back then. Honestly quite surprised I did lol. The only SOAD song I ever really "hated" was Old School Hollywood. But anyway, as far as some of the tracks I used to dislike, I guess I sorta just lightened up. She's Like Heroin is still probably bottom 5 SOAD, and Kill Rock 'n Roll is a bop even if it's silly. The others I listed as least favs I honestly don't really know why I did. Two of them are some of the most memorable on the album, and Stealing Society, though one of the most forgettable in their discog, is a banger.
The album itself is still my least fav SOAD. Too many tracks that are just blatantly forgettable or simply filler, and it's such a drop from Mezmerize."
On Whitehouse - Quality Time.
"@EpicenterofCool yeah, they added my reviews to their bandcamp albums a few years ago. It was really cool of them"
On Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop
"@BMS unfortunately Samurai Champloo is one of the classic anime I haven't yet seen, but I hope it's as good as I've heard"
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"And Helaena being a dreamer was one of the worst decisions in this show so far lol. It's blatantly them making an "out" so they can do whatever with her character and have it make sense, i.e. her not grieving her son, and eventually killing herself, "because I saw it in a dream.""
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"@ClayDJs03 I think (unfortunately) you hit the nail on the head with the writers wanting to double down on the misogyny, which is a shame considering George generally does a great job of tackling the subject in his books, even in the Dance of Dragons. All this whitewashing has ironically done the opposite of their intention; removing the agency of literal Queens, having the men in their lives make the hard decisions that come with war and having the women fight against it and act like they had no say in the matter, to me, that's way more misogynistic than, y'know, having your women characters actually make impulsive, emotional, even catastrophic decisions. Rhaenyra especially is so pathetic this season after that final shot in S1."
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"And yeah, that was the very moment in the finale I noped out lmao. Them meeting not once, but TWICE is such a tumblr fanfic moment that I can't believe made it past LITERAL PROFESSIONAL SCREENWRITERS. "Yeah, just have disputing Queens sail across the sea during wartime, not face any troubles along the way, and safely face their adversary and make their way back home in the span of a single day. That makes perfect sense." And Alicent selling out her son... Jesus fuck, idk how they managed to butcher such incredible characters in such a short time. They did NOT care and it shows."
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"@ClayDJs03 Yeah, liking it as a book fan is sheer lunacy lmao. Of course the brutality is toned down, but also distancing Rhaenyra's participation. It gets hard to view her as the grief-stricken mother and LITERAL QUEEN that she's supposed to be when the impulsive decisions that make her so compelling in the books are trivialized down to "actually it was the men in her life who made those decisions. She's rational actually." And like you mention, the horrors inflicted on Helaena are so minimalized, but then after the fact they don't even give her a storyline dealing with the grief. I legitimately believe B&C was handled awfully, not just the event itself, but the entire lead-up and stream of consequences afterwards no longer making sense."
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"@ClayDJs03 That blog was so vindicating, the contents and HBO's response so bemusing. Helaena killing herself for the lols will certainly be a choice. (I was also so glad he spent the whole post trashing Blood & Cheese. I felt crazy, being the only person I know (even fellow book fans) legitimately thinking that was executed well and not a bastardization on the level of GOT's S5 and 6 portrayal of Dorne and the Iron Islands.)"
On Andrei's review of Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
"it's moments like these that make me wonder if Andrei has ever drank Powerade Zero"
On XXXTENTACION - Bad Vibes Forever
"@Archerycraft18 i don't really have any sort of justification. a 0.5/10 is still a 0 to me"
On Eomann's review of Les Rallizes Dénudés - Double Heads: Legendary Live Yaneura Shibuya, Tokyo 1980-1981
"Beautiful review! A banger of a write-up for a banger of a record"
On Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy
"@molochthagod lol. lmao even."
On XXXTENTACION - The Fall
"@zzile "point out that its your opinion" - you're on a music reviewing site. Any takes had pertaining music is implied to be the opinion of the take haver. If you need every single criticism to be prefaced with "this is just MY opinion," that says more about your insecurity of your own takes than it does the reviewer.
"state what you consider the obvious, get likes and peace out" - fat load of good that did me. 4 likes in 5 years!
"your ass knows nothing about the way i review albums" - the irony. Let me point out once more; this is a 5 year old review you're seething on. If you wanna give constructive criticism, at least look at what else the reviewer has posted since (never mind the fact you should learn to be a bit more respectful)"
On XXXTENTACION - The Fall
"@zzile I know next to nothing about X the person, all I know is he made dogshit music. This is one of the most straightforward reviews I've ever written, and I still get Mr. Armchair Psychoanalyst out here trying to find some deep rooted bias I have to explain why I dislike the album"
On XXXTENTACION - The Fall
"@zzile bro's seething over a 5 year old review"
On 파란노을 [Parannoul] - After the Night
"@Eomann bro needs to get on those Swans lives and Dark Magus ASAP"
On Eminem - Music to Be Murdered By
"every time i get a comment on this review, i'm reminded by how sensitive the average nemnem fan is"
On Opeth - Blackwater Park
"@ScottShelby I return to Still Life more often nowadays so there's that; Death's later albums are a no brainer, some of my fav metal records of all time; I'm also a sucker for Atheist's Unquestionable Presence. I've been slacking on metal a lot recently tho, so there's prob a few more that just haven't sprung to mind atm."
On Green Day - American Idiot
"oooooooh, I see. It completely flew over my head that this is a concept album. This changes everything! So THAT'S why half the songs are mediocre! OK, now I can enjoy these outstanding concept album lyrics!
She's an extraordinary girl in an ordinary world ♫"
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