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VenomSounds like me doing bad screamy karaoke. Awful. I understand it is a genre, but nothing here for me.
Sounds like me doing bad screamy karaoke. Awful. I understand it is a genre, but nothing here for me.
Not enough quality for a single album put into a double album. Not my favourite you may guess.
Nicely understated and surprisingly enjoyable. Of it's time great vocals and musicianship.
Of its time but a good listen and will give it another go.
Neil evolving and good to hear an album from the period between the early CSNY years and the later sound.
Some good old time music with a great proper band behind him
Not enough quality for a single album put into a double album. Not my favourite you may guess.
Nicely understated and surprisingly enjoyable. Of it's time great vocals and musicianship.
Sorry not my cup of tea
Curate's egg. But production's good.
Doesn't do much for me, but nevertheless a half decent attempt at being a singer- songwriter. It lacks much in the way of edge and grit which you get with others you may want to compare against.
Nope. Not for me. I'll leave it to others to provide the plaudits. I guess this one is a matter of taste so not fair to review. I can sort of appreciate some of the later stuff but not this.
Sleepy jazz club stuff.
These days it’s refreshingly simple with good ol’ boy vocals and unadulterated honest guitar work. Some nice tunes and musical compared to most of the tripe produced today.
One good track, twelve not my type of stuff.
Wouldn’t be my choice but for a 1971 album this contains a surprising blend of influences and musicianship. Probably a good band to have seen live.
I wonder how many modern day soulless streaming stars will compare against this in another 58 years? Great voice, great songs and musicality to match. This is what music is about - songs you can sing and that stay with you. Just brilliant.
Some great tracks - makes you wonder what could have been. What hasn't been said. Ed Sheeran eat your heart out.
A couple of great tracks but for me the rest is struggling to meet Bruce’s high standards - better before and better to come.
A band in transition but some great tracks for 1970 and not what everyone expected.
If I keep getting albums like this I’ll give up.
Sounds like me doing bad screamy karaoke. Awful. I understand it is a genre, but nothing here for me.
Really? Can’t think even the band would think this was what they were put on this earth to do.
A difficult third album. I like Roxy Music but this recording is not them at their creative best.
Innovative but really everything leads up to the model and then goes downhill.
Awful. As my son would say - just awful.
Odd one. Not enough musicality in it for me.
Got to accept this is 1972 but it all feels like a jam session with little direction. Mediocrity defined - I guess they are all accomplished musicians but the total is less than the sum of the parts.
Great album that really works as a whole. Not listened to Radiohead much before as often put off by the vocals. But this is good stuff.
Awful
Excellent pop album with some great songs throughout. Of it’s type rarely beaten.
Offensive from the start. Plain terrible pretentious rubbish. -5
Not a great album but interesting to see a number of the tracks produced by Dave Gilmour. You can hear early PF but this has regressed rather than progressed. But nonetheless part of rock history.
Always wondered why I'd not listened to this all the way through before. Same this time. Sort of lacking.
I prefer Enigma who were similarly experimental. This was tedious but then again it’s not for serious listening - mainly wallpaper.
Headache stuff.
Great name for the album
Some great stuff and then some other stuff
Willie Nelson’s voice is distinctive and engaging. Love the pace of the album and the pared back nature.
Can ye be bothered - no!!!
Three or four well known great songs but for me the rest is a bloke singing and a choir in the background.
This all seems a bit limited and expressionless.
Maybe without Little Richard there wouldn’t have been the Beatles.
A bit ponderous but still great song writing and playing.
Not fair to rate in any objective way as it’s not a form of music I take to.
My sort of era and DB has produced some great stuff. Band is good but mostly it’s not something I would add to any playlist.
Utter tripe - how does this ever get into anyone’s top 1001. Shows how subjective this whole exercise is. Scraping the barrel.
Music sort of fine but the vocals annoy throughout. Sounds like a bunch of lads trying to be a bit indie different.
Sorry, this sounds like someone who got decks for Christmas and was working out how to annoy everyone. Not my thing - maybe I’m missing something, though whatever it is I can live without, thank you.
I like some DP but this too repetitive for me. Good in its day
Never an oasis fan but this is surprisingly good throughout with a few stand out tracks. Shame sibling rivalry caused it to end as the sum of the parts is definitely (maybe) greater than the individual components.
Not an album I would listen to. More a collection of short punky songs. Still learning their trade.
Great performer but tedious album.
Nice background.
Great opener but for me downhill from there.
Not for me
Just a great album. Clapton found his voice and musicianship is superb.
Some decent songs but a fair bit of filler for my taste
Excellent album. What’s not to like about the writing, the melodies. Strong stuff and just compare it with the tripe produced today with no quality whatsoever.
Manufactured, repetitive and over-produced. These are the sorts of tracks that make me turn off the radio. Sadly fits in well with most current artificial producer pop.
Not great, no Boris the Spider, but signs of what they could produce and shows they were in a state of transition
Seeds of things to come. Of its time.
His Bobness. You either like him or you don’t. I do. Rating the albums serves little purpose as they all form part of a journey.
Give someone a keyboard for Christmas and this is what you get
Oh, for goodness sake.
Maybe I’m just getting old but this is when mediocrity became mainstream.
Easy listening
No thank you. Awful, but then again I’m a fifties child.
Bit whiny for my liking but production is good
Awful
Gave it another listen just to be sure. At that time I seem to remember Pete Townsend was one of the first to use the newly invented synthesiser and it wasn’t easy like with all the digital wizardry the producers have today and who are creating music soup.
Grim
Too much screamy stuff for my liking. But some decent playing hidden in between. My son likes it.
Maybe one for the teenagers amongst us
Ugh
Pretty awful - tedious monotonous voice. No saving graces that I can hear.
Great background - and that’s in a positive way
Lovely album with great production, brilliant songs, great voices. One of my favourites
A bit formulaic for my liking. Generic light country rock stuff.
Of it’s time with a couple of great tracks, but then …
Awful.
I like something quiet and melodic. 5 stars compared to the average rap album but overall best left to the perpetual teenagers.
Great anarchic album. Neil expressing his true self.
Excellent melancholic album. Some really lovely tuneful and melodic with great acoustic playing.
Well, sultans of swing is a great tune with outstanding lyrics. The rest sort of doesn’t measure up to that. But the boys had to start somewhere as a band.
Of it’s time and a cover of a Jim Reeves song says it all. My parents may have liked because there wasn’t’t much else around prior to the Beatles explosion.
No
You can hear how this was at the start of a bigger movement and whether they led or followed is probably irrelevant. Overall not my cup tea and glad similarly sounding bands moved on, some to become great. But not this lot.
Just limp for my liking and all one tempo. But given when it was ….
Difficult to rate as some very good songs and a few duds.
Classic album
Never a fan apart from odd bits - same here
Thoughtful, well produced, good musicianship and in their own way sticking to their guns and doing what they do best - avoiding the pitfalls of pop. Guy Garvey’s voice is full of real northern (UK) soul.
Just such an average album that seems to lack any real spark.
Sounds a bit like Jim Reeves doing Elvis impersonations. Never quite understood why he morphed into this sugary soppy ballad singer - the rest of the world moved on.
Oh dear. Nothing original here. A follow on band.
Utter tripe. Best bit is start to sergeant pepper then all downhill.
Great voice and musicianship. Thoughtful songs and a bit of a classic.
Great background
Excellent first groundbreaking album. One of the best beginnings to an album I know. And Ossie’s voice is great for someone of such tender years.
Great pop album with occasionally a bit more to it. Favourite tracks Hungry Like The Wolf and Hold Back The Rain. Great production.
Oh dear, really, rather not.
Not that smashing. Best track is the opener before any vocals. A generous 2.
Not my cup of tea I’m afraid.
Not sure what to make of this. It is what it is and sort of nothing special. Why is it even here?
Took me back a few years to a time before crude and non-musical music took over the world. A joy to behold.
Not his finest hour. Tedious to the extreme. Why did he think anyone would want to listen to this.
Not really a doors fan but love the bluesy feel of this album.
Excellent album that I’d not heard before. Got me listening to more of their work. Don’t know how I missed them.
Er no.
Of it’s time, not my cup of tea and repetitive. But ok if you like that sort of thing.
Er no.
Not a great album and too many short poppy songs and a lack of rock credentials.
For it’s time this was an excellent album. A much underrated band
A difficult listen. Not interested I’m sorry to say. Sort of thing that makes me turn off the radio.
A bit dismal for my liking and all trying to sound like Lou Reed while being a bit punky.
Classic album with some great songs, good tunes and some fine playing.
Nope. No depth to it and the generic vocalisations drive me bonkers. Bit embarrassing really for grown men.
French avant-garde. Too avant-garde for me though.
Can’t think of anything interesting to say about this mess of noise. Jumps around into all sorts, none of which I like. School kids will like it because it’s dares to be different - but that’s it.
Saw Dr John not long before he passed and what an excellent show. The groundwork is here in this album which at times is just great.
One of a kind and a bit of a laugh
Surprisingly entertaining. Not a particular country fan but this live feel album was a great listen.
I think I’d turn the lights out before the end of the second track. Not my cup of cocoa.
Never properly listened to this album all the way through before. It is really a complete pleasure to listen to. Some great stuff.
Always waiting for another True Faith but it never happened.
Her fans like it.
Nope. Just screaming nonsense mostly. Given 2 as it’s slightly better than most rap.
Excellent thoughtful and intelligently entertaining. One of my all time favourites. Tangled up in blue and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts are great in every respect.
Some nice stuff but dire straits do get a bit samey after a while. Always think they should do better.
Something my son would like.
One long track with gaps. Couple of songs rise above the rest but overall, for me, just missing spark.
Great music for an art gallery or son et lumiere experience. Meditative.