Delightful album. one of the few live albums that really captures a sense of audience and interplay there. Dark and cheeky, solemn and wisened. Gave me a whole new respect for country music.
An unexpected range in tone from piano ballads to driving doom riffs. As someone put off by later Black Sabbath with Master Of Reality I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of vocals and all around musicianship. Not quite as innovative as earlier Black Sabbath but it's hard to reinvent the wheel.
A few good tracks, with nice use of old prog rock ideas in a folk setting. Otherwise, approaches coldplay a little too close for an American group.
Very very fun and so deeply in the 90s! Feels like a heist movie and a car chase simultaneously on some tracks. And yet, such hypnotising alluring beats and gorgeous drums cut through the cheese to leave me with the best breakbeat album I've ever heard.
DRUGS!! very lovely album, interesting psychedelic ideas. just generally very pleasant. And yet, so rich with sadness and frustration. Very beatles inspired but with a sorrow all of its own.
Kind of bland, nasal funk rock. Some inspired, mostly not.
Bright, vibrant, romantic but decontextualised from the cinema it comes from it can come across as bland in places
OMGOMGOMG
All I'm saying, pretty baby... la la love you, don't mean maybe...
This album is gold dust back to front, its gorgeous, it's raw, its fun, its everything. it's just a masterpiece.
Much more interesting and rich for sit down listening than most funk. lots of fun jazz ideas and less poppy than some other earth wind and fire.
Fun and bubbly, heartwarming and true. Not exceptionally special but does what it does well.
Really gorgeous vocals. Don't feel like listening to it once did it justice and so its an album I'll definitely revisit.
Bright and shiny, fun and psychedelic. lots of new wave influences on a beautifully melodic and symphonic backdrop. Weaves guitar into symphonic music in a way that is often missing from progressive rock ideas. That being said, it lacks a certain willingness to be creative of inventive in a bold manner.
The title says it all. AROo
Very cool pre alt sound, very special. Didn't stick in my brain a lot melodically but i don't think it's trying to. The contrasts hold a place in me though.
A very pessimistic album. Somewhat lacking the romanticism of other blur records to leave a catchy but bitter taste in the mouth. Still some bangers and i do love the britcore vox
I actually think this album kinda rules and is surely not good but retains the essence of punk: youthful stompy and a little uncreative
GUHHH GHH GUHHHHH HGHHHH KYAHHHHHH
Bit shit and boring, shite vocals and some decent guitar x bass melodiez
Excellent beeps n boops. ze Germans win again
Its fun garbage eh? I have a special place in my heart for the darkness and while i prefer one way ticket this album still holds pleasant in my soul. wouldn't go out of my way to listen tho
You can really hear that this was released when Reagan was president
Vroooom kapow liberty rock n roll
sent from my 1978 Dodge Magnum
Better than i remembered. Last four tracks bang. Delightfully youthful. Still a lot of tracks that i don't enjoy, probably due to bejng overplayed rather than any deep fault of the music:just tunes that dont lend themselves to massive relistening imo.
George...
You were fruity, you were fun. This album is missing some of that fruit juice. Too straight! But the first track rules. And the album cover is so sexy it's awesome. Good for you and rest in peace big man
I feel like I could listen to this album forever. its got this fascinating contrast between these somewhat bland lyrics and a structurearound them that makes them feel so very very honest. George really wants to love. It also just sounds unlike anything else I've heard. Realy yum.
Pleasant but bland
This album frikkin rules. it's so yum. it's sleasy and grimy and more musical than i remembered. and i can really relate to it because they're 21 soon turning 22
And i thought AM was as arctic monkeys at a karaoke as you could get 😃
astonishingly bland
Interesting things that happened while listening to this album: getting chased down by a dog for being a skater which was a pleasant reprise for my soul
I liked this album and its shtinkin words and grooves
YEAAAA BOIIIIII
eezzz like uhhh a nothing album. goez nowhere waffles extensively. i really want to be cool and like this but its kind of nothing
I liked it :) a lot
very sweet and sincere
Cute lil album
If it was just don't you want me on loop i wouldnt have been able to tell
Way worse than expected lol
Heck yea now THATS some good punk! i think i actually prefer this to london calling, which was recommended to me greatly by a friend who loves punk a whole lot. so i guess this album made me feel happier with being opinionated about punk. i compare it to the dead Kennedys because they covered i fought the law, and i think where the dead Kennedys are edgy and witty the clash instead presents this very honest, cincere plea to class solidarity. its just delightful. Not all tunes but mostly !
Zappacore with enough falsettos that you know without a doubt that this man sired Jeff Buckley. Unfortunately less directional than his son's music. Truly heroin music. Kinda bad production asw. and despite all this i liked it! very fun and bright, nice basslines. sits itself as of its time so intensely.
Huh... album that i listened to a few times hoping i just didnt get it yet but it has just started grating. i like that its in Spanish and some of the bass is nice. some nice jazz elements as well. maybe if i was dancing i would enjoy it more.
This was really fantastic , funky and catchy hip hop, with so many iconic and legendary tracks. but goddam there is so much misogyny in here. like such a crazy amount. like whole tracks just dedicated to the bitches being untrustworthy.
Really cute and catchy, chill and pleasant. Unique uses of synths and samplings even within the context of othwr massive attack stuff. Really enjoyed
This album is WAY TOOO LONG but i really enjoyed it regardless! Floaty and atmospheric without being directionless. Really pretty songs. Just very pleasantly beautiful.
Serious surprise in how good this was. Corny as hell in places but really tight flow, fun parody. Sometimes it's corny to the point of unpleasant but like 70% of the tracks i would say are good. this is an album to be listened to shamefully, alone, but listened to nonetheless
What a fuckin snoozefest
Woooo
The allegations are true, i am a rock organ enjoyer. and enjoy i did. gorgeous wee album, best in the first half but full of lovely tunes.
Oh to have hit a blunt before listening to this
I thought this was ok but like thoroughly underwhelming and forgettable.
First Certainly sounds like it's from the 90s. Very boring and bland pop rock with some country influences. The start of the first track before we go into the dirtbag guitar makes one hope for something interesting to happen. no cigar.
I wrote out a massive paragraph and accidentally hit the back button and I can't be bothered to rewrite most of it. but I will write about my favourite song on the album; rain when I die. This song ties the closest their later self titled album in its foray into sludge/doom ideas. It uses this to invoke so clearly the feeling of confusion, delirium and fear accompanying Layne's addiction. While these ideas are explored in other ways in other parts of the album, through different lenses, this track for me has stuck in my mind for many years. The return from fadeout at the end invokes so strongly this overwhelmingness that is still unlike anything else I've really heard. There's many other excellent tracks on this album, but Rain When I die really encapsulates the overarching themes. The only real exception to this in my opinion is Rooster, which has always felt like Jerry's song to me. I could honestly go through this album and stop every 10 seconds to talk about why I think every bit is masterful and gorgeous but I've tried to write this review twice now and been shafted by not finishing it and losing it, so I will just close out and say that this album, while less in my rotation now than it was as a teen, still remains one of my favourite albums of all time.
Ok to be entirely honest, youtube music didn't have this album so i listened to like half of it before getting bored of restarting it in my browser. The stuff i heard was good! Its bob dylan what can i say. the more i listen the more I enjoy. its freewheeling and sad. But he would do well to have his sinuses checked. Doesn't dtop him thinking up good little tunes though! 3 stars because ay oh you deserve it lil guy
U know i enjoyed this! Some really nice funk progressions and she's a talented vocalist. Nice songwriting. The collabs and being a double album didnt seem to really add much though. I do have a soft spot for jazz progressions without solos. I will say i prefer my suites a little more deliberate but i have the utmost respect for hitting lots of ideas without committing fully to any of them when a good 50% of the explorations are meaningful.
Its like if The mountain goats lost he soul in a deal with a violin player
WHOAAA what a torturous nistake it was listening to this on the bus. I could feel my heart beat rising qith thrill and excitement. I wanted to get up and dance so bad. this album was incredible! What intense vocals. So raw, so energising. Thrilling and boisterous. Little Richard explains so much to me about bridging the gap between 12 bar blues rock n' roll and rock. RIP
The first track doesn't sell me but there's some such pretty, serene progressions. serene but not in a sense of boring background noise, but a sweeps one away kind of serene. one of few albums where it ends before I'd like it to. Very romantically sad, surprised its a rob no on that front but i understand the lack of melodic definition being offputting.
I do think nick drake is growing on me
I really like this album.. . mm yes very yum...
morrisey needs a tissue but so do i because its now allergy season and so i am snotting my way to work rn having relistened to morriseys insights such as some girls are bigger than their mothers
i still like the album becoz he dujnks on the queen. and its true, the queen IS dead
nice groovy basslines melded with the drums to make a great driving upbeatness contrasting pleasantly , with a good bit of tongue in cheek ,with morriseys woes
i like the non focus on virtuosity but it can leave some parts of the album quite samey; though this atmosphere feelz cultivated
Tragically boring
Ooooh this hit close!! Listened to this on an evil feeling work day and it was like agh. very good. RAW
Synthy basses and sparkly expressive vocals. Very fun and pretty, joyous to listen to. The kind of album I'm grateful to have been on this list. I prefer this album to their later stuff. It speaks much more to a playfulness. I do think it's a little embarrassing that they're doing brit voice and dont have the excuse of being british.
Hmm.
I lile the nostalgia of the production and some of the tracks like in the end have fantastic flow. its almost like a begrudging acceptance that his flow is interesting. but generally it's pretty good. Its just v white and v nu metal and its hard to seperate that mentally from limp bizkit lol. The lyrics are angsty in quite an unapologetic way. its an interesting album for sure, and presenting the album as a thoery that nu metal can be a medium forBenninghams self expression, coherence of issues in combination with the frustration of what has been is one of the most meaningful things that nu metal as a genre can be seen to represent.
This is my least favourite rush album off the top of my head, with my core memory being "what's this I've found.. a guitar... i can play it... and make muuuuuusiyiiic"
and yeah it mostly sucks
theres some nice guitar solos and i like the leaning into hamster geddy lee in the priest of the temple of seres that rules
Rush has so many better records though!!!
Fame is fun and funky, lots of nothing tracks. Interesting production. nice use of reverb and chorusing, not just on vox but on saxophones in particular asw. he sucked at singing so bad on this album
I've listened to this quite a few times to try and get it. Lyrically it's bland and uninspiring, tales of remarkably impersonal intimacy. The production, use of noise and synthesisers are the main appeal of the piece. The noise complements well with the use of jarringly placed tuplets and percussion cutting into pop choruses. The combination of this with the spacey production and unfamiliar timbres make this a very effective psychadelic piece but the lyrics and choruses still feel like such a drawback on the piece as a whole.
AGHHHH augh thos albums so good i love it so bad.. the first 5 tracks are just incredible vocal mastery. crashing falsetto on brighton rock. joyous. excellent guitar and lovely reverb... mmmmmm yummy awooo
i grew up with this album a wee bit so its dear to my heart. its sweet and fun, if bland in places. most of these tracks are very familiar and cosy for me. I acknowledge that its generally quite samey and Jeff Lynn is not a particularly great vocalist. but the orchestral elements are used in delightful ways.
Better than other Coldplay I've heard without doubt! I don't think I'd go out of my way to listen to it. But its the kind ogfmusic that makes me happy that people get to make music. Its nice and shiny, this sweet wee intersection of brit pop and shoe gaze. I particularly like shiver. Cute little waltz. Nice interweaving of mathsy riffs with a pop song. But the lyrics certainly leave something to he desired. My mum told me that Coldplay weren't that bad and I should listen to this album when i was like 14 or 15 and I never got around to it so I'm happy I did.
fun.primus punk. or more accurately primus is 90s this i guess. very unnerving mixes of tonality between bass and guitar. Big up these guys
sososososso goddam boring
I liked the chill of thsi album. Some of the satire went over my head but i blame that on not alwaysbeing able to decipher bobs proclamations. I like the mellow, the melancholy. the songs that i could see bob smiling to as he sang. I really like dont think twice its all right as this in between of the comic and the mellow. Fine chappy that bob. Inspiring that it's a one man album. playing guitar like that while singing seems a headache and yet it seems a given. The interspacing of silence hamonica and vocals feels very deeply natural and a core part of.the tonality of the tunes. I don't know the difference between country and folk if this is folk. I dont give it 5 stars because it doesnt quite compel the body how i want it to in its lacking melodicism, but it does compel the heart. I know music doesn't have to do both but i sense it can
fun epic sweet creative youthful delightful a little vapid but qite endearingly. rock n roll punk executed with perfect sincerity. the Scandinavians are mental
