if we're rating punk albums in terms of what you shout while thrashing and shaking your fist, LOBOTOMY is pretty awesome

LOBOTOMY!!!! LOBOTOMY!!!!!!

what I have always appreciated about Bad Bunny (especially since before the latest album which is much more original in how it throws it back) is going to sound like an insult, which it's not. he's not an especially original reggaton artist, he's not really a singer, he's not some GOAT level rapper, and he's not some hearththrob skating by on good looks alone. he has landed at the absolute TOP OF THE TOP on PURE RIZZ ALONE

find it interesting that so many are declaring Paul got crazy with this one. yeah, sure, he played with some synths like everyone else did in 1980, but most of it is the same classic blues-influnced stuff he's always made

gorgeous and melancholy, full of lullabies and elegies

David Byrne is one of my favorite guys of all time. music heads are obsessed with genre and honestly reading all the genres and subgenres for this album makes me lolllllllllllllll bruh this is uncategorizable, there isn't anything in the world like Once in a Lifetime and there never will be.

I love that you can hear all of The Clash's influences on this album, from dub/reggae to something almost proto pop-punk, I also feel like there's think pieces to be written about how punk is a form of folk music. salute to the goats.

at a local record store this is filed under "cool country" and I think that's apt. Fruits of my Labor cover from the +3 version is a special special song, wish it was on vinyl

khruangbin is enchanting. "background music" feels like an insult but when you need it, you know where to go, and you can never get enough of it, and you find yourself trying to search "bands like khruangbin" but nothing ever hits quite the same.

needed something after pavement and this filled my need. sometimes you need to break shit and music is there for you

was pissed about work and this cured me

love how this builds

hahahahahaha lmao AOTY you really got me with this one. look tom waits, it takes one to know one, and I know a theater kid when I see one. this is like a Captain Tom Waits the Bluesey Pirate King concept album. you friggin weirdo. very cool.

funny how this is less weird and more accessible than some of Erykah Badu's later stuff, it's really just a traditional 90's R&B album with a little Badu weird spice added on. love her!

yas king. sometimes female vocalists are just so STUNNING in every way that the only thing you can say about an album is wow amazing beautiful voice

Less epically beautiful than its post-rock brothers, darker and sadder. Honestly, file this one under "emo music that no one calls emo music that actual emos were listening to back in the day"

indie sleaze classic. the electronic elements are fun. it actually made me think a lot about the concepts of "quirky" and "pretentious" that were so heavily attached to the hipster subculture back in the day and where those concepts came from. like, listening to how innovative this album was, I can see people using those terms reflexively in the face of something they don't understand. especially as the idea of "rock" is evolving (like, this and a bunch of ... read more

the diversity of Yo La Tengo's repetoire is impressive. this is a lot of album in one. it's all pretty trippy and yet pop-ish accessible and mostly good chill fun.

Feel like Jane's Addiction gets a kind of hardcore reputation, but a lot of these tracks are pretty chill, even the big hit Stop isn't as rockin as a lot of their grunge/alternative contemporaries. They're fun though.

Any other examples of music nepo babies who take what their GOAT parent did and instead of just imitating it, transform it and modernize it like this? I can't think of any.

ok ok yes it's Dylan, the songwriting is PEAK but why does he have to sing like that though. explain it.