|
I mean, I can find the time and effort to sample five or so albums across the first couple days of my week, but presumably this would require me doing that many albums every day for two weeks and that ain't gonna happen. But if you want me to rate them based on even less information than usual, slot Springsteen below Love Deluxe (the singles on that album are fine, except I don't like "Glory Days" much), Nine Inch Nails below Electric Warrior (they've always seemed interesting, even though I never am actually in the mood to try them), Wayne Shorter just below them (he gets points for working a lot with Joni Mitchell, even if I can't recall particularly liking his contributions there), and Mastodon second-last (I know I tried Leviathan back in the day and didn't like it).
The electronics on "Won't Get Fooled Again" are nice, but the actual song is pretty dull. "Baba", aside from having a better melody, is set apart by the great riff and a lot of weird little touches (the mood shift of the "don't cry..." bit, the fact that the riff repeats five times before it instead of the expected four, the one-time-only chorus, the rhythm change at "they're all wasted!", the violin outro). And it does all that in half the time.
I don't think I've ever liked skits on a hip hop album, but the ones on De La Soul Is Dead are at least thematically related to the rest of the album.
|