Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic describes Parsons as " enormously influential " for both country and rock, " blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other.

Steve Huey in Allmusic describes the band as " one of the most unusual cult bands of the 1990s ... driven by frontman Mike Doughty's stream-of-consciousness poetry, Soul Coughing's sound was a willfully idiosyncratic mix of improvisational jazz grooves, oddball samples, hip-hop, electronics, and noisy experimentalism ( described by Doughty as ' deep slacker jazz ').

Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic describes this as " possibly the first true example " of Viking metal.

Keith Johnson of Allmusic describes a " Modern Creative " genre, in which " musicians may incorporate free playing into structured modes -- or play just about anything.

" Ned Raggett of Allmusic describes it as surf-inspired power pop with a New Wave edge: " Not quite Devo if they grew up on the coast, but there's something to that comparison.

Awarding the soundtrack CD release a rating of four stars out of five, Bruce Eder of the Allmusic website describes the collection of theme and incidental music as " a strange mix of otherworldly ' music of the spheres ', late-50s / early-60s ' space-age pop ', ' British Invasion ' beat, Scottish folk-inspired tunes, kids-style ' Mickey Mouse ' scoring, marital music, light jazz, and light classical ", and singles out both " Cocktail Music ", from " Model Spy ", and the piano track, performed by Gray, from " The Inquisition ", for particular praise.

), which was more lighthearted and cheerful, Allmusic describes the songs in We're Not Happy ' Til You're Not Happy as " angry " and " embittered ", but also deemed the album as " super catchy ".

The prominent fusion guitarist John McLaughlin, for example, had played what Allmusic describes as a " blend of jazz and American R & B " with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames as early as 1962 and continued with The Graham Bond Organisation ( with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker ) whose style Allmusic calls " rhythm & blues with a strong jazzy flavor ".

Allmusic states that the term jazz-rock " may refer to the loudest, wildest, most electrified fusion bands from the jazz camp, but most often it describes performers coming from the rock side of the equation.

Reviewing the album for Allmusic, Ned Raggett describes the album as " not only demonstrating Primus ' undeniable live flair for art / prog rock / funk of its own devising, but capturing an already rabid fan base getting off on it big-time ", with " its tempo-shifting riffing and Funkadelic-meets-Rush rhythm explosions benefiting from a fairly crisp recording.

In its review of Nothing, Allmusic describes Meshuggah as " masterminds of cosmic calculus metal — call it Einstein metal if you want ".

Allmusic describes the style as " weaving hardcore-style shouts amongst deceptively ( and deviously ) simple staccato guitar riffs and insanely precise drumming — often with all three components acting in different time signatures ".

Allmusic describes Destroy Erase Improve < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > lyrical focus as " the integration of machines with organisms as humanity's next logical evolutionary step ".

More recently, Allmusic views All Things Must Pass as " his best ... a very moving work ", while MusicHound describes the set as " epic and audacious ".

Nine Bells ( 1983, India Navigation ) is a conceptual album in which Johnson performs on 9 bells, evenly-spaced and hanging from the ceiling .< REF > Allmusic entry Greg Sandow ( 2003 ) describes Nine Bells, " in which he walked, at a steady rhythmic pace ( and, if I remember correctly, for more than an hour ), among nine suspended burglar alarm bells, systematically exploring all the possible paths among them.

Allmusic describes the sound of the album as " part Van Morrison, part U2 ".

Allmusic describes the style of Cephalic Carnage as " crazy concoction of truly experimental grindcore, death metal, and jazz ".

Allmusic says, “ his best material ranks among the finest hip-hop of its era, and his sex-drenched persona was enormously influential on countless future would-be players ”, and describes him as, “ an enormously talented battle MC ”, “ one of rap's major talents ”, refers to his, “ near-peerless technique ” ” and “ first-rate technique and rhyming skills ” and says he “ had the sheer verbal facility and razor-clean dexterity to ambush any MC and exhilarate anyone who witnessed or heard him perform ”.

Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic describes the album as " brimming with attitude and dangerous swagger ", and Thin Lizzy's " first sonically satisfying album ", with " The Rocker " their " first bona fide classic ".

Allmusic describes rap metal as having " big, lurching beats and heavy, heavy riffs " that " occasionally [...] as if the riffs were merely overdubbed over scratching and beat box beats ", and described rap rock as having a more organic sound, characterizing many songs in the genre as rock songs in which the vocals were rapped rather than sung.

James Christopher Monger of Allmusic describes Mastodon as " one of the more notable New Wave of American Heavy Metal acts, a genre spawned in the mid -' 90s by bands like Pantera, Biohazard, and Machine Head, Mastodon's innovative, lyrically astute blend of progressive metal, grindcore, and hardcore helped position the band as one of the preeminent metal acts of the early 21st century.

Allmusic describes their style as " simple structures formed out of monolithic rhythm guitars " with " guitar solos that come and go and vibrate weirdly on the way.

Allmusic describes Bardo Pond as having " lengthy, deliberate sound explorations filled with all the hallmarks of modern-day space rock: droning guitars, thick distortion, feedback, reverb, and washes of white noise.

The trio's 2000 studio recording, entitled " Don't Be Scared Anymore ", received reviews of " This album is like the soundtrack to the world's coolest vacation " from All About Jazz and " Jazz-rock in the truest sense " from Allmusic.

The soundtrack received stronger reviews from critics than the film itself, including a four-star rating from Allmusic.

Allmusic said the soundtrack, like the film, is " much smarter than the standard teen fare of the era.

Heather Phares, from Allmusic said: " Though the film is technically a Miramax offering ," but " the soundtrack is downright Disney, gathering songs from the studio's stable of prefab teen pop singers.

It featured three songs by the Wu-Tang Clan and nine songs by old school hip hop artists, including The Cold Crush Brothers, Whodini, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five .< ref name =" Witt "> Allmusic editor Chris Witt gave the soundtrack album four-and-a-half out of five stars and noted its old school tracks as the highlights, writing that " The contrast between the life and color of the old school tracks and the unrelenting gloom of the Wu-Tang cuts, produced over ten years later, suggests that hip-hop may have lost something in the intervening years.

The Allmusic review by Marc Gilman awarded the album 4½ stars noting that " While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz.

Allmusic critic Greg Prato notes that the album demarcates the boundary between the band's early years and the next era of their music.

William Ruhlmann of Allmusic gave the album a star rating of five stars out of five and described it as the " definitive version of the Horror score.

Wire's debut album, Pink Flag ( 1977 ) – " perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk ", according to Allmusic – contains songs which are diverse in mood and style, but most use a minimalist punk approach, unorthodox structures, " Field Day For The Sundays ", for example, is only 28 seconds long.

Allmusic has described the album as a favourite among the band's hardcore fans, and it is the first of three Queen albums to feature in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Allmusic gives the album a favorable review, calling it a " sweetly endearing country-tinged middle of the road pop record ".

" Steve Huey from Allmusic said that the album is " raw as Megadeth gets, and that can be both good and bad -- Megadeth's later precise, complex riffing and composition aren't completely developed, but the music is performed with a great deal of energy, while Mustaine's vocals ( never his strong point ) are amateurish at best.

Richie Unterberger of Allmusic called the album " blues – rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk – rock influences than he would employ on his more avant garde outings ".

Stewart Mason in his Allmusic review of the album described it as a " terrific album " and a " fascinating, underrated release ", " every bit the equal of Safe as Milk and Trout Mask Replica ".

" Huey of Allmusic cited the Doc at the Radar Station as being " generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica ", " even if the Captain's voice isn't quite what it once was, Doc at the Radar Station is an excellent, focused consolidation of Beefheart's past and then-present ".

Raggett of Allmusic called the album a " last entertaining blast of wigginess from one of the few truly independent artists in late 20th century pop music, with humor, skill, and style all still intact "; with the Magic Band " turning out more choppy rhythms, unexpected guitar lines, and outré arrangements, Captain Beefheart lets everything run wild as always, with successful results ".

Skyclad began as a thrash metal band but added violins from session musician Mike Evans on several tracks from their debut album, The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth, an effort described by Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic as " ambitious " and " groundbreaking.

This opening sequence set the sombre overall mood of the album, revisited in another Lennon tune, " I Don't Want to Spoil the Party ", which, " consistent in tone with ‘ No Reply ’, ‘ I'm a Loser ’, and ‘ Baby's in Black ’", according to Allmusic, " finds the singer showing up at a party only to find that the girl he expected to find isn't there ".

However, even in a somewhat weakened state The Beatles created an album some critics, such as Allmusic, found to be a stepping stone " from Merseybeat to the sophisticated pop / rock they developed in mid-career.

The album reached number 62 on the British charts and received poor reviews, with Allmusic calling it " pristine but dull.

However, it received mixed reviews: Pitchfork Media called it " flat and dead ", while Allmusic called it " a refreshingly retro rock & roll album "

Allmusic determined it to be " far and away the best selling album of his career.

Allmusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine noticed that the song is " a tongue-in-cheek, neo-house cover " and picked it as one of the best tracks on the album, alongside the title track and " Have You Ever Been in Love ".

Pure Prairie League, formed in Ohio in 1969 by Craig Fuller, had both critical and commercial success with 5 straight Top 40 LP releases, including Bustin ' Out ( 1972 ), acclaimed by Allmusic critic Richard Foss as " an album that is unequaled in country-rock " and Two Lane Highway, described by Rolling Stone Magazine as " a worthy companion to the likes of The Byrds ' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo and other gems of the genre ".

The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the second album by Bruce Springsteen and the as-yet-unnamed E Street Band, and is described by Allmusic as " one of the greatest albums in the history of rock & roll.

Allmusic rated the album with 5 stars pointing to the second side of the album as a " flawless piece of music " and of the album as a whole as " one of the greatest albums in the history of rock & roll ".