Venice

Besides for the unheard of concept, an album that you have to pay for 4 CD/record players to listen to the damn album, there's nothing really that outlandish or anything slightly interesting album. Just your average pretentious neo-psychedelia you get from The Flaming Lips. Two good pros that don't count as points in my rating system are (1) it makes you feel numb and exhausted after all that work and (2) it makes you think how shitty your life has gotten that you spent your whole entire night ... read more

It's a complete embarrassment that this is not only considered one of the greatest rap albums of all time, but one of the greatest albums of all time. For every chilling and hauntingly written story on this album (Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst), you get these generic pop rap tunes that make you question the validity of all these reviews giving it perfect scores and what not. This is filled to the brim with overproduction and way too much sonic and lyrical ambition it turns into a colossal ... read more

An abhorrent mess that tries to mix the anarchic punk rock from the 70s and 80s with some mind-warping ambients that lead to a poorly-executed piece that is the equivalent of an nihilistic English major having an identity crisis.