Ananda Shankar
Ananda ShankarWas alright, don't mind a bit of something different but not sure I'd rush back to this.
Was alright, don't mind a bit of something different but not sure I'd rush back to this.
Love it, have loved it for a loooong time.
One of my favourites, contains my wedding song Nightswimming.
What to say? Some say the greatest album ever. One of a handful on this list with a genuine claim.
I really only know Rumours that well, this has a similar split personality thing going on, but it doesn't feel like the sum of its parts adds up to quite as much. Hard going to be judged by that album I guess, but inevitable in hindsight.
I liked this when it first came out and listening again I remembered why.
Enjoyable. Surprisingly the lesser known songs in the second half of the album were the ones I enjoyed the most.
It somehow sounds both distinctively unique and all over the place at once.
Never listened to sabbath before, but I actually enjoyed this. Thought it would be "heavy metal" as i understood it, but it's more like prog/rock ala king crimson or similar.
After the first song I thought I would hate this. But I didn't in the end.
Better than I expected. I was into the Parquet Courts for a little bit without ever having listened to Sonic Youth, but now I know where they got that sound from.
Started off well, bit too much of that organ or whatever for my liking.
I've always considered this to be a tightly orchestrated masterpiece. My opinion has not changed.
Thought I'd like this more than I actually did.
1994 brit pop is an era I lived through and haven't spent much time revisiting. Some of the songs on this album are national consciousness level, which doesn't always bode well for a sit down album listening experience. In the end I'd say this is a mixed bag.
I was literally singing Dirty Work in my head when this came up! I think because of One Battle After Another. Not a hard album to love if you like this sort of thing, and my word do I like THIS sort of thing.
Enjoyable bit of prog on a Monday morning. As a child it seemed like Rick Wakeman was a formiddable presence on the TV. He seemed to be part of every panel show, quiz game on the box. And he was a bit annoying. For most of my early years I assumed that was his job. Only later on did I learn he was in a band called Yes, which I assumed based on his TV appearances, would be crap. So it was a pleasant surprised when I later learned that they were not crap at all.
Rock is the right expression for this. I'm not sure I understood who PJ Harvey was, but this is not really what I expected. Pearl Jam, Led Zepellin, quite heavy going in spots. Not in a bad way really just surprising.