User Albums Summary

The Wikipedia entry did not enthuse me. And I was right. Honestly …

Not bad at all. I’m a bit of a fan and this is very good. Must listen? Not sure. Bad listen? No. An excellent listen.

Hipsters. Think they’re clever. Sometimes they are. This was not unlistenable. But not compelling. Dull is the word I’m grasping for. 2

Jeff Beck raises this album to a 3. Otherwise a 2. Actually. I had another listen. And I’m raising to a four from a 3. I’d rather have Jeff’s ‘loudhailer’ from 2016. But this is not bad.

I understand what they're doing, I can appreciate how well they're doing it, and I can imagine myself working in much the same territory. But the result doesn't reveal anything especially new to me. 3.5

As we’re into readers choices I’ll become a lot less harsh. I don’t want to destroy someone’s favourite album even if it’s terrible. This one isn’t but I’m not rapt in it.

I’m not sure this is the one but the sports have a niche in Australian rock history. Cummings a great composer. . The sports were a Melbourne band - the Sydney bands tended to be less smooth (though exceptions exist but even icehouse sounds Sydney in a way that hunters and collectors don’t.) the sports are st Kilda and Collins street. This isn’t a negative. 4 stars.

3 stars.

Enjoyable enough. 2.5. Rounded up

Kind of important. Maybe should be on the original list?

Zzzzzz Wake me up after it’s gone gone.

Suggesting again that music in the 2000s was not good. It was. But like every era there was transcendent, excellent, good, not good, bad and awful. This is not good.

Ooh. So edgy. Ooh so arty. Ooh so pointless

Before I say anything I’m an Anglophile. I like the English people as a whole. I like the culture as a whole. Many of my favourite musicians, authors and other creatives are English. Apropos of nothing, there’s a certain type of pretentious wanky whingy English who are emotionally draining, half-witted dullards.

That was that deeply self indulgent song about … the birth of his nephew? Something. It was a big hit but it’s not on this. And as that was the only song worth listening to …

Terrible cover. Is the band called depression cherry? Or the album? Bad choice either way. Listening to it doesn’t improve my experience. I can’t see the point of this. It’s derivative. It’s dull. It’s repetitive. Sometimes repetition is powerful. Here it reeks of ‘we’ve run out of ideas so let’s keep banging this one synth till it works. Ah fuck it. That’s nine tracks. We don’t have time for a cover. Just put something on a crimson background. Perfect. The fans will lap this up.’ *Ron Howard: the fans did not lap this up. Neither did the non fans.

Hmmm. *sigh*.