Ipod044 Reviews

Them Crooked Vultures ( Them Crooked Vultures is the first, and so far only, album by rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, released on November 16, 2009)     If you were to ask rock fans who one of the best rock bands of the 70s were, the answer would probably be unanimous: Led Zeppelin. If you were to ask them who was one of the biggest artists to come out of the grunge scene, most would probably answer Nirvana. Finally, if you were to ask them who one of the most influential alt rock bands of the early 2000s were, many would probably answer Queens of the Stone Age. So when it came out that former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, along with Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters fame on drums and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age on guitar and vocals, were working on an album, a lot of people had high hopes. Of course they did. Dave is one of the greatest musicians of the past twenty years, and he and Josh, an amazing artist in his own right, had alre...

The year 2018 was a very interesting one for music. From Kanye West producing and releasing five 7-track 20 minute albums, including Pusha T’s Daytona , Kids See Ghosts’ self-titled debut and his own album Ye , all in the timespan of five weeks, to the rise of trap in the mainstream, and many huge releases by famous artists. Because of this, there were a lot of good tracks and a lot of bad tracks, but because I don’t seek out bad music, I thought I’d talk about my favorite tracks of the year. Now, I want to say this before I start the list: I haven't listened to a lot of releases from this year. This was the first year I got really invested in music, so I went back and listened to a wide variety of stuff, mainly things from the grunge scene of the 90s and the alt rock scene of the 2000s. I’m also limiting this list to one song per artist, so I can include more artists and because if I didn’t, there would be a total of about three artists. Oh, and most importantly: this is my op...

A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (“A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships” is the third studio album by British band The 1975, released November 30, 2018)     The 1975 have always been a hit-or-miss band for me. They had some great songs, such as the funk rock track “Love Me,” and some decent songs, like the simple yet fun pop rock track “The City” and the synthpop infused “The Sound.” But the rest was, well, mediocre at best. They had yet to do anything groundbreaking for me. Even “Love Me,” my favorite track by them, was just a simple funk rock track with some electronic tendencies, and it wasn’t even that much of a departure from their normal sound. I also wasn’t a fan of the band’s pretentiousness. Lead vocalist Matty Healy seemed to lack self-awareness, which wasn’t helped by his apparent drug abuse, and their last release was titled “I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It,” which might win the award for “most obno...