Unlistenable junk. Definitely made sure to keep a careful eye on YouTube so I wouldn't actually listen to the remixes and bullshit rom the Extended Edition.
Shit goes hard.
I despise jazz, but this isn't too terrible, really.
It's alright. Has its place. Ska's not really my bag.
Seems like the sort of thing I'd have been into but this one slipped right past me at the time.
Nah. This ain't for me.
Not for me. Kind of twee (derogatory), I guess?
I am pre-disposed to dislike prog but this is just unlistenable.
I'd give it 3.5 if I could. It's too noodly, tbh.
I'd give it 3.5 if I could. It's too noodly, tbh.
Not for me, but I get its historical place.
One of the single hardest album openings of all time. A long-time karaoke standard for me.
Just not my kind of music, but this is less grating than most.
Not really my jam, but a few of the tracks are OK; British hip hop just doesn't land for me.
Good God no. I hate Jazz.
An absolute classic. Non-stop bangers. He was taken from us much too soon.
He's an absolute fucking wank but his early solo stuff like this was quite good, albeit not as good as The Smiths. Would never listen to his solo stuff voluntarily nowadays, though.
I'd give it 3.5 if I could. Pretty decent versions of these songs but the underlying ickiness of Phil Spector takes the shine off it.
I'd give it 3.5 if I could. I need to listen to it a few more times. It doesn't seem to quite land for me, but I thnk I need to know the songs a bit more.
An incredible album and a delight to listen to at anytime. BY FAR the best of all "Britpop" type albums.
Not for me. Trying too hard. Liked it at the time.
A stone cold classic. I prefer angry electric Neil to contemplative acoustic Neil, but both are great.
This goes hard, actually. A nice little discovery. Gonna listen to it twice.
A classic. Somehow a band both in transition and at their peak. Probably the album with the most Keith.
Absolutely tremendous and probably the coda of P-Funk's prime, more or less.
4.5 stars. Loses 12 a star for Morrisey being an utterly repulsive human being.
Nah. Not for me. This is music for happy people who don't hate their existence every single day.
This album goes so hard it actually managed to cut through my anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation for a few minutes.
Unlistenable junk. Definitely made sure to keep a careful eye on YouTube so I wouldn't actually listen to the remixes and bullshit rom the Extended Edition.
It's OK, but I kind of want it to go harder. Whole album just has kind of a depressed nostalgia vibe.
Probably really 2.5 stars, but: (1) this thing doesn't let me give 1/2 stars; and (2) it deserves an extra star for managing to get me all the way to "this isn't that bad" and thus somewhat overcome my lifelong anti-Willie bias derived from my Dad hating him and call him "The Bedbug."
Enjoyed it and like a lot of stuff in this genre, but probably requires a bit more of a sit down and listen than a "have it playing while you're at work. Four stars because I automatically support any attempt at reviving the rock opera format with gusto.
I have tremendous respect for the historical significance of these particular bleeps and bloops but it really just doesn't fuck at all, does it?
Really, it's 2.5 stars. Not for me but a few of these songs at least sound like a blander version of CHVRCHES.
Goes pretty hard, tbh. It's utterly mindless and pretty derivative but a good time nonetheless.
Oh fuck yes! I have had a lifelong antipathy to country music (largely due to the racist fake cowboys I went to high school with) but this album absolutely fucks and is a big part of what got me to give some country music a chance.
Some of these songs go a little bit, actually, especially the title track but it felt very derivative/bandwagony at the time and it's not something I'd ever listen to of my own volition.
Not a big Elvis guy, really, but it cannot be denied that In the Ghetto/Suspicious Minds back-to-back absolutely slaps. It's really 3.5, not 4, but I'm rounding up on principle because Memphis is one of my very favourite places.
I actually like Doolittle better but this is just such a great album. Too bad some of the videos on YouTube are age-restricted because I simply will not log into YouTube.
Ass. Noodly ass. Mark Knopfler's got to be the most over-rated guitarist of all time.
This album gives me an instant erection. Too bad the girl who had this CD in her purse at all times and insisted on me putting it on every time we fucked turned out to be an absolute nutter. Good while it lasted, though. Six stars, really.
This is some novelty song garbage. Unlistenable dreck, but with naughty words. It will get one listen ever and that's it.
I just don't really jibe with early 80s R&B that isn't straight-up funk, really. It just sounds way too smoothed out and over-produced. Very sterile.
I can't review this noodly bullshit because I died of boredom listening to it.
Oh. No thank you. I couldn't possibly. (Just not much of a fan of the half-mumbly/whispery acoustic singer-songwriter type thing, really.)
I loved this when I was made up almost entirely of teenage angst. Now it seems like it's made up almost entirely of teenage angst and much too juvenile.
It's alright. Some good tracks but it's a bit . . . whiny isn't quite the right word but the tone is a bit off or something.
Has some good tracks but can't stand up to The Black Album at all. Really 3.5 stars but you don't gimme my granularities!
Pretty good 70s grooves. Made me listen to the Dan the rest of the day.
The two-and-a-half singles are great; all-time classics. The album tracks are dreck; unlistenable garbage. Gets you three stars - smack in the middle of the bell curve.
Never realized that this album had a different (and very off-putting) cover in the UK. Regardless, I loved the Big Beat scene at the time and although this has aged poorly it still puts one in a pretty good mood.
Peace Frog absolutely slaps and there are a few other decent tracks here. The bluesy tone kind of balances out Morrison's performative weirdness a bit more here than on other albums