I lost my girlfriend because I was crying to this album!!! THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR HAS DROPPED!!! 🔥🔥🔥💀

It must be heard to be believed. The album that changed it all is here. I changed because I heard this album and I cried because it affected me so much with its deep meaning. If Fantano doesn't give this a 10 there is no God 💀

Before God is a mysterious lost media artist who made this in 2013, and this is a lifechanging work that needs to get Must Hear status (the mark of ... read more

...where to even begin?

“They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you.”
-U2, “Peace on Earth”, 2000

Drake. Drake Drake Drake. Drake Drake Drake Drake Drake Drake. Fine. I'll stop writing the words "Drake" over and over again. I don't know. I don't know if Drake is really even fun anymore. The world doesn't feel fun anymore. There's too much shit going on for innocent ... read more

I've never played a game that made me fucking sob the amount of times this game has. The music is a massive part of that. Not just one of the best video game soundtracks ever made, but one of the best albums I've ever heard.

Toby Fox has to be one of the most talented people in the world, man

EDIT: cw suicide and possible undertale spoilers

I bumped this up to a 100. I've always had a policy that anything that gets that score has had to have had a profound emotional impact on ... read more

god this is so brilliant. kinda liked this a long time ago, but i'm getting back into it and it's one of the most gorgeous albums i've ever heard. yeah it's a style change from their shoegazey stuff but i love how minimal and quiet and ambient it is, so so much.

so underrated, i gotta get more into slowdive again. rating it this high and i feel like it still has room to grow on me.

These have to be the worst vocals I've ever heard on anything in my life. I feel like I'm ending up counting the seconds before the vocals kick in on every song just because they inevitably ruin every single one. Good fucking God I don't know who's singing here but these vocals are so incredibly obnoxious. I hate to hand it to Pitchfork here but this is pretty fucking unlistenable. I guess White Traffic is okay maybe. I guess.

Also "Her Moods" is a pretty nice ... read more

I kind of took a break from listening to new music for a while...

Underscores' new album U is a nice welcome back for me. This is some good stuff!

This has to be THE ultimate grower album of all time. It's such a left turn after Fully Completely that it's hard to take in at first, but once you do it truly reveals its brilliance over repeated listens. There's so much lyrical depth here and incredible performances by the band. Day for Night probably has to be my favorite Hip record at this point and I initially gave it a 65. Some music you really have to live with and... AAAAAA I love this album. Legitimate classic.

This is actually not the worst thing ever! My expectations were nonexistent so playing this I was rather shocked at how not crap this was, especially after Songs of Experience and the rather disappointingly generic and mid singles that followed for years. The first two songs are some of the best material U2 has released in a very, very long time. Like. Maybe in 20+ years. Bono's lyricism is the most incisive it's been for a very long time and the band actually sounds fresh. Like. ... read more

When armed National Guards opened fire on Vietnam War protesters and murdered them at Kent State University in 1970, and much of the American public thought it should have been worse, students Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh could never see the world the same way again. Maybe things couldn't get better. Maybe humanity was devolving - or never really was evolved in the first place.

Devo's 1978 debut album remains as one of the most important punk albums of all time, and one of ... read more

The average here sucks lol. I mean it's not as good of a Devo synthpop record as Oh No, but it's still pretty good. There's some great stuff here. The "Morning Dew" cover is legitimately one of their best songs and "A Change is Gonna Cum" slaps too. Not the greatest album ever but I do find myself listening to this and Total quite often for some reason. I dunno, they're just oddly addicting.

This obviously isn't the most original album of all time, but I've had a soft spot for this album ever since I was a kid getting into Oasis and this album was brand new. The way Different Gear, Still Speeding genuinely sticks to a very 60s aesthetic in terms of both production and songwriting is great and honestly it's held up really well to my ears. For some reason it's kind of nostalgic to me at this point, lol. Better times.

It doesn't hold a candle to the first ... read more

I mean, it's Thriller.

THRILLER.

To describe the impact Michael Jackson has had on my life and the lives of so many others is impossible. There is nothing else that comes close to the impact of his music, his creativity, his persona, and his life story. There will never be another Michael Jackson, and that's probably a good thing. Nobody on this Earth was meant to go through the struggles that Michael Jackson faced while he was alive, yet nobody else had the same raw talent he ... read more

Maybe this is a hot take as a MJ stan, but Bad is one of my least favorite of his albums. There's obviously some classics here ("Man in the Mirror" and "Smooth Criminal" are two of the best songs Michael Jackson ever recorded), but songs like "Speed Demon" and "Just Good Friends", while noble failures, don't really work. It's not bad (unless you're talking about the title), but it's probably his weakest ahead of Invincible imo.

I actually own a physical copy of this on CD and I haven't taken it out of my car since somehow finding it at Goodwill. I am terrified that my car's infotainment may one day break and any other method of listening to music other than listening to my CD of Mike Love, Bruce Johnston & David Marks of the Beach Boys Salute NASCAR is impossible. I have other CDs in my car, but you never know. Maybe the CD player won't recognize any other disc except this album, and it'll ... read more

It's not the worst thing ever, and I respect the effort. There's actually a few solid tracks here! ...but it just sounds incredibly phoned in. Kiss needed a break at this point and it shows.

For a really long time I had this album pretty lowly rated, but it's always stuck with me - oddly enough, the exact reason I didn't like it for in the first place. Both Sides is mostly a really slow album full of very contemplative, almost ambient tracks. I never really understood it for a long time and mostly just found it boring, but I kept coming back to a lot of these songs over the years and over time they grew on me. A lot of these songs are on my sleep playlist, and for some ... read more

This is such a weird album that it's almost impossible to take it all in at once. I don't even know what to write about this, or what score to give it yet... and that's a good thing. Getting Killed is an album that rewards repeated listens... and as such I don't think I can adequately review it after just this one.

The first half isn't actually too bad, I actually like the production a fair bit and "Ophelia", "Elizabeth Taylor," and "Eldest Daughter" (I mean that) are all good songs. But oh god this album falls off hard on the second half. "Actually Romantic" is an incredibly weird diss toward Charli XCX, which maybe would have worked if she didn't come off so petty and intentionally misunderstanding of what Charli even said on "Sympathy is a ... read more

Perhaps this is Pink Floyd's most divisive work. Yes, it definitely feels like a Roger Waters solo record, but I don't care. You may have to sit with it a bit, but The Final Cut is an incredible work of art that grapples with the horrors of war - and the trauma that results from it - with precision, sadness, and dignity. Other Pink Floyd albums might have been more innovative or accessible, but The Final Cut is unlike any other in terms of how intimate and personal it is: it's ... read more

Actually feeling this one quite a bit even if its length kind of gets to me. Who knows? It might end up being a grower. There's a piece of me that's rooted in zoomer nostalgia for that endless summer of 2016 that's always going to make me root for this guy, and Chance manages to find a way through here to chart a new beginning. And fuck it, I think "Tree" is a whole lot of fun, and "Letters" might be one of the most important songs of a year when the ... read more