Put this album on while I was writing something and it felt so appropriate that I couldn’t find anything else to listen to so I just put it on again. Good shit.
This album isn’t perfect and it’s obviously not as good as the big four, but it’s easily the best Pumpkins album since Oceania. It’s great to hear a new Smashing Pumpkins album where I feel it’ll probably grow on me with more listens. I miss that.
BEST TRACKS: Eden, Pentecost, Sicarius
Honestly an underrated album with some great songs, but I’m sorry… a lot of my liking for Pink Floyd has to do with Roger Waters, and losing him was a big loss for Pink Floyd no matter if you liked The Final Cut or not.
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is a good effort and showcases what David Gilmour’s idea of Pink Floyd was, but while I love The Final Cut for being a very autobiographical, personal album for Roger, AMLOR just sorta feels like a lesser recreation of Pink ... read more
"Being Boring" is my favorite song of all time, and honestly my pick for the absolute best, most heartbreaking, most important pop song ever written - so if the Pet Shop Boys wrote 9 more songs which were that good for this album, it'd probably be the most mind-blowing thing I'd ever listened to. They don't really manage to do that... but even then, what you get is another great Pet Shop Boys album, one that feels a lot more desolate than their previous ... read more
Yeah we know Pitchfork gave it a 0, but Pitchfork’s dying a slow death due to media consolidation and Travistan is still here, so… for the album, yeah it’s really goofy and kind of like if neoliberal Twitter were an album but it’s a fun listen with some actually really good and catchy songs. If you like the Dismemberment Plan but wish there were more TMBG in there somewhere, this album’s for you.
So funny people hate this album so much. I don’t know what post-Change Travis Morrison did that made people so pressed lol. It’s not like another masterpiece or anything but it’s basically Dismemberment Plan from the lens of Travis as a goofy father who likes making dad jokes. What’s to hate about that?
This has to honestly be one of the most underrated albums of the 2010s. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' debut certainly beats any Oasis album post-Be Here Now and makes me wonder if this might be at least the most consistent collection of tunes Noel ever wrote. If you like the 90s' Oasis albums, please give this one a try, it's so worth it.
How was this album even made??? How is something this brilliant, this emotional... this jawdropping even fucking -real-??? One of the greatest debut albums of all time. Just outstanding in every way. Masterpiece.
Actually pretty solid! I know a lot of people online are going to hate this no matter what, though, but this is probably his best work since MMLP2. "Guilty Conscience 2" is amazing.
On first listen, this album’s been great but it didn’t truly click until So I. One of the best songs of the decade so far, holy shit. Probably going to rewrite this review once I live with this album some more but fuck this is good.
In Rainbows might legitimately be my personal least favorite Radiohead album. I love Radiohead. I have seen them in concert. They are one of my favorite bands! Yet I just cannot see In Rainbows as the masterpiece everybody proclaims it to be. I just... can't. It's not -bad- or anything. It's good. It's really good.
It's kind of -too- good, if that makes sense.
My favorite Beatles album is the White Album, and it's a double album full of weird, experimental, goofy and even divisive works of ... read more
This album is really nostalgic for me. Yeah, I basically spent my entire summer of 2015 listening to an album made by Weezer’s drummer… but honestly, The Special Goodness’ Land Air Sea is possibly the best kept secret in the Weezer canon. There’s so many great songs here - this album is full of fun, simple and breezy power pop that honestly goes toe to toe with the best of Weezer’s 2000s output. Maybe the lyrics are too on the nose at times, particularly on ... read more
Is this the end of an era?
It seems like, every year, Taylor Swift releases new music without fail - whether it be a new album or a re-recording of one of her old albums. She is, without question, the biggest artist - scratch that - celebrity in the world right now. I don't have to describe how inescapable Taylor Swift is because you already know. Taylor Swift is so big that, for the first time since maybe Adele's imperial period, she is getting perhaps everybody to listen to her new album. ... read more
I have this rated as an 84. I think The Black Parade deserves its spot as one of the defining rock albums of the 2000s. I even think "Famous Last Words" is one of the best songs of the 2000s. I think MCR is great and I've even seen them live, but I'm a bit shocked that this album has an 89 average. Sure, I like this album a lot and it's actually grown on me quite a bit over the years, but it hasn't stuck to me on a personal level the same way that albums that have much lower averages ... read more
This album fucks, actually. Love how unapologetic it is and the retrofuturistic atmosphere it creates is pretty cool as well. Really don't understand the negativity towards this.
After the underrated, yet perhaps rightly despised Songs of Innocence, U2 try the absolute hardest they’ve ever tried in their whole careers to do what they did for 20 years: U2 would become the zeitgeist. They hired the OneRepublic guy to produce. They manage to feature Kendrick Lamar, one of the greatest rappers of all time, on their lead single.
(side note: this particular lead single, “Get Out of Your Own Way”, leads into “American Soul”, a song that is ... read more
If the release of Songs of Innocence wasn’t so horribly mangled, it would be considered the best U2 album since All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Which it is. Songs of Innocence serves as perhaps the purest embodiment of U2’s early post-punk sound since War, 31 years earlier. Even if the production feels cleaner and more digital than some of U2’s best works from the 1980s, Songs of Innocence remains one of their most personal and immediate works lyrically - one of the ... read more
A confession I have to make: I used to be a massive Kanye fan. In 2013, Yeezus dropped and subsequently changed the way I listened to music forever. Maybe this is weird to admit now, but, like a lot of sheltered suburban kids growing up in that era, I basically only really listened to Eminem. To a lot of people I knew then, Kanye was still a joke, the guy who interrupted Taylor Swift on stage and who got made fun of on South Park. But somehow, I heard Yeezus and I absolutely loved it. Around ... read more
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